Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on the Toy Town Express
by Barbara Early
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Liz McCall has come to love running her father’s vintage toyshop back home in East Aurora, NY, so when the Train and Toy Show comes to town, she’s all aboard for a fun toy-filled weekend. The only hitch is that her childhood bully Craig McFadden, now local business rival, has set up a booth next to hers. But the fun and games are over when Craig falls from the ceiling in a publicity stunt gone wrong.
What was initially thought to be a fatal accident proves much more sinister. Pulled into the case by her feelings for both Ken, the police chief, and Jack, her high school sweetheart whose brother is one the prime suspects, Liz dives headfirst into the investigation.
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(Vintage Toyshop Mysteries)
WHEN GODS CLASH
by ROB JAMES
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A genre-bending breakout novel from a bold, fresh voice in contemporary fiction. Think Highlander, all set in the present day.
While visiting the battlefield of Culloden, Scotland, Angus MacDonald hears a voice. A voice that connects him to his forefathers, butchered by the British in 1746. It delivers a frightening message: Fight an unworldly foe or prepare for Earth’s enslavement.
The terrors he faced in Afghanistan pale compared to this latest enemy and the toughest battle of his life begins. The voice of the Gods of mythology had told him Hades was alone in his hate, but no, and the vicious attacks are beyond his imaginings as the theater of war spreads. Can he preserve his sanity and survive?
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(WHEN GODS CLASH Mysteries)
Right Behind Her
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert’s father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm. The remains are those of a man and a woman, both murdered in the same horrible way.
When the investigation determines the murders occurred thirty years ago, Bree’s dead father becomes a suspect, forcing Bree to revisit the brutal night she’s spent most of her life trying to forget. The only other suspect is an unlikely squatter on the Taggert farm who claims to know secrets about Bree’s past. When he mysteriously disappears and Bree’s niece is kidnapped, the cold case heats up.
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(Bree Taggert Mysteries)
How to Lose Your Dragon
by Peter Glenn
Rating: 4.0 #ad
An immortal warrior. A missing dragon. A serious death wish? My name is Li Xiang, but my friends call me Damian. I’m a three hundred year old warrior from China that’s shacked up in the Pacific Northwest, living the dream. I’ve seen it all, but now I’m done. Life is so last season.
But death is hard to come by when you’ve been cursed with immortality and an insane amount of luck that somehow pulls you back from the brink. All I want is to move on to the afterlife, but my previous attempts were less than stellar. And now I have a bigger problem. My best friend in the world, Mei, has gone missing without a trace. She’s a dragon, and when she’s not serving me the world’s best Manhattan, she’s avoiding the rest of her clan.
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(The Immortality Curse Mysteries)
The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a suspect…
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.
The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past.
The Freakshow
by Bryan Smith
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Flaherty Brothers Traveling Carnivale and Freakshow has come to the quiet town of Pleasant Hills, Tennessee. But this is no ordinary sideshow and these are not the usual “freaks” on display. As the unsuspecting townsfolk gather for an evening of strange spectacle, the slaughter is set to begin…
“The Freakshow is one of the most fun reads I’ve had in a long time.” – Dread Central
“The Freakshow is a sure bet to cement Bryan Smith’s position in the forefront of the bold and shocking writers producing exceptional books within the horror genre.” – Horror World
The Fallen
by C.N. Crawford
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The angel of death wants me to be his wife. Most days, I steal from ships to earn a living. Not glamorous, admittedly, but it’s honest work. Okay, fine. It isn’t honest either, but it means I get to eat.
Until one night, a sinfully sexy angel strides into my favorite dance hall and compels me to work for him. It isn’t just work, though. He wants me to be his wife in Castle Hades. Apparently, his prophetic dreams say I’ll help him become king. Beautiful as he is, he’s also a lethal tyrant. And I could be in danger. Luckily, I know how to fight back, how to weaken an angel: I must seduce him.
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(Hades Castle Trilogy)
Ready to Die
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sheriff Dan Grayson lies near death after a shooting, and the police department of Grizzly Falls, Montana, is in shock. Detective Selena Alvarez, torn between a new relationship and her loyalty to Grayson, works with Detective Regan Pescoli to whittle down the list of suspects. The deeper they go, the more personal and dangerous the case becomes. Then a prominent judge’s body is found and the killer sends a sinister warning to the press: “Who’s Next?”
Pescoli isn’t waiting to find out. Headstrong and eager for justice, she’ll track the scant clues on her own if she has to. But her search leads her straight to a monster who has had her in his sights all along. And when hunter meets prey, both must be willing to kill—and ready to die.
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(An Alvarez & Pescoli)
Divine Wedding
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A shocking discovery threatens to tear Delta and Gary’s relationship apart, just days before their upcoming wedding. Meanwhile, Raylene gets a visitor from her troubled past.
As Delta and Gary prepare to walk down the aisle just days away from what could be Divine’s wedding of the decade, Jo offers to help Delta spruce up Gary’s old farmhouse.
While there, Jo’s hound dog runs off. She and Delta track him down where they make a shocking discovery that threatens to rip the couple apart. The discovery sets off a chain of events that cast suspicion on the groom-to-be. Is it possible that Gary isn’t the man he claims to be?
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(Divine Mysteries)