Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Goodnight
by Kat Martin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Kade Logan said goodbye to his estranged wife eight years ago, he never thought it would be the last time he saw her alive. Now her car has been hauled out of a nearby lake and Kade is determined to track down the man who murdered her. Enter Eleanor Bowman, a talented private investigator who’s about to stir up a hornet’s nest on his Colorado ranch.
With old scandals still buzzing about his late wife’s many affairs and new violence erupting, Kade is faced with the discovery of another beautiful woman’s body. Are the two killings linked?
Hush Little Girl
by Lisa Regan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dressed in pajamas covered with stars, the little girl’s body is perfectly still, her arms folded neatly over her chest. The wildflowers decorating her hair scatter across the grass in the sharp breeze. Her lips are parted slightly, as if to whisper goodnight for the very last time…
When twelve-year-old Holly Mitchell’s fragile little body is found on the steps of a mountainside church in the small town of Denton, a doll made from pine cones clasped tightly to her chest, Detective Josie Quinn rushes to attend the scene. She knows this little girl’s angelic face, her mother had offered Josie help when she’d needed it most.
The 4th Man
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A young woman is found strangled in the stairwell of a college library, only her sneakers missing. With no physical evidence, no signs of sexual assault, and no witnesses, all the police have to go on are the three men who were in the library with her: her boyfriend and two campus security guards…all of whom have secrets, none of whom can be proven guilty.
Five years later, ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and his wife, former police officer Rainie Conner, agree to consult on the still-unsolved case, delving into deep background to comb for any clue that will lead to the woman’s murderer.
The Girl Behind the Wall
by Mandy Robotham
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta.
Two sisters torn apart. Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime.
One impossible choice…
For Queen and Empire
by Mike Ponder
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A secret with the power to destroy the British Monarchy is used to blackmail Neville Chamberlain to sign the 1938 Munich Agreement, giving Germany the vital time it needs to prepare its war machine.
Now two years later will Churchill succumb to the same demands? The future of Britain, the Monarchy, and the Empire, hang by a thread. Churchill’s solution, is to kill the German officer who discovered the secret, and anyone else who may be privy to it.
Caught up in Churchill’s plot are three strangers, thrown together after their Paris bound train is destroyed by the advancing Germans, a Luftfwaffe fighter ace, and the French resistance.
Montana Shootists
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Present Day: Abby loved David all her life. Growing up they were inseparable. When he joined the Marines she did too. Then disaster struck. After leaving the Marines, she returns to the family ranch in Montana hoping to heal her shattered heart.
1882: Jake Barrow is a part-time gambler, full-time hired gun. His decisions are based on hunches and the turn of a card. He’s in the foothills when a young woman comes tumbling down the mountain. Unsure whether Lady Luck has dealt him a good hand or a bad, he takes one look at the beauty at his feet and doesn’t need to shuffle the deck to know she’s his destiny.
The Harvest King
by Paula Quinn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Commander Caleb Desai, leader of the famed Warriors has three goals in life, to bring God and rain back to the barren wasteland of Predaria, and to make the previous king’s usurper and the man responsible for destroying his country pay. But when the new king escapes his hands, Caleb is forced to take his daughter with him on his journey home across the plains.
Dragging a pampered princess through the arid Plains of Predaria proves to be quite a challenge, even for a man of Caleb’s patience. The woman doesn’t know of the dangers on the plains, of the Catchers, the fires, the baking sun. She’s foolish and spoiled, beautiful and innocent about God and His Son, and life without water. As she’s exposed to the dying world her father left in his wake, she lets Caleb each her how to live…
In the Family
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Those we love always come home. Christmas has always been a happy affair for the Friessens, but this year, as the family returns home, they are faced with more than a few challenges—from the crazy whirlwind of an on-again, off-again romance to a fairytale marriage now on the rocks, with more secrets than the family knows what to do with.
Can the Friessens pull together this holiday season, and will the gift of love be all they need?
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You Can’t Blame the Flower
by Ruthie Stevens
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Introverted young attorney Lilyanna Rivers knew one day she would return to Whimser—the mysterious mansion in the middle-of-nowhere, Texas, where flowers don’t grow. She didn’t know her return would be with a select group of her corporate colleagues to quarantine at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The comedy of errors of the employees coexisting intertwines with a darker backstory of how Lilyanna came to inherit Whimser from the late William Whimsergarden, her former college professor and boss.
While the guests at Whimser navigate awkward encounters, romantic interests and workplace obstacles, Lilyanna grapples with her haunting memories of William, her insecurities with intimacy and her attraction to the captivating company vice president.