Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Bingo Hall
by Linda Pohl
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sunday night bingo at St. Angela’s Church in the little village of Kenmore, New York, can be deadly. The stakes are high and the crowd is large. Priscilla Hatfield needs just one number to win! Bursting with excitement when I 17 is called, Priscilla suddenly grabs her chest and slumps over dead with her two lucky trolls, Jasper and Seymour, and her rosary beads by her side. But her two best friends and bingo buddies have good reason to believe she’s been murdered.
Fearing the police investigation is going no-where, Ethel Dinwiddie and Nellie Pearce take matters into their own hands and vow to solve the case…
The 17th Suspect
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a mysterious killer, a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant’s tip leads Lindsay to a disturbing conclusion: something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department.
The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction and impacts her in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical symptoms, and her friends in the Women’s Murder Club warn her against taking the crimes to heart. But with lives at stake, the detective can’t help but follow the case into terrifying terrain.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
Tales from the Gas Station
by Jack Townsend
Rating: 4.8 #ad
An army of monsters walks among us. A war wages between petty gods. The end of the world draws ever closer. And worst of all, Jack can’t find anybody to help cover the night shift.
Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, Jack is once again neck-deep in the middle of a deadly nightmare-come-true. And this time around, it’s going to be a lot harder to tell who’s a friend, who’s an enemy… and who’s a monster…
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(Tales from the Gas Station)
Kaleidoscope
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.
It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye. What it triggers in Nameless is uncontrollable rage and brutal retribution. What it reveals is a clue to his forgotten past. Is it a breach on his handler’s part? Or a test? Either way, something’s not right.
A Mountain of Evidence
by Amy O. Lewis
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kim Jackson told herself to stay out of it. She didn’t listen.
All Kim Jackson wants to do is live under the radar in a town where no one knows she was once an accounting manager at a Fortune 500 company—or that she’s been framed for corporate fraud and murder. Instead, she gets involved in a homicide investigation.
High school senior Emily Riley made no secret of her desire to escape her hometown in the shadow of the San Juan Mountains. Locals thought she had left, until Emily’s murdered body is discovered at the base of Red Mountain. Kim Jackson steps in when she senses the investigation going cold.
Golden in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body—and killed him.
After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team—and undergoes testing to reassure both her and her husband that she hasn’t been exposed—it’s time to look into Dr. Abner’s past and relationships. Not every victim Eve encounters is an angel, but it seems that Abner came pretty close—though he did ruffle some feathers over the years by taking stands for the weak and defenseless.
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(In Death Mysteries)
The Sleeper
by Saul Herzog
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Narvik, Norway A remote NATO seismic array in the far north of Norway detects the largest nuclear detonation since the days of the Soviet Union.
Svalbard Archipelago, Norway The largest icebreaker in the Norwegian Navy, and one of the most high tech vessels operating in the Arctic, disappears without trace.
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia In the chaos following the explosion, the lead scientist on a top secret Russian military research program goes missing with his daughter. There are rumors of sabotage…
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(Spy Thriller)
Seventh Realm
by Michael Chatfield
Rating: 4.7 #ad
War has come to the Willful Institute. It has come to the first realm.
For years Alva has trained, developed weapons and tactics never seen in the ten realms. Now Alva moves in the background, supporting the Adventurer’s Guild. No band of fighters, no sect looking to gain individual honors.
The armies of Alva were forged together in Alva dungeon. Tempered in body, in mind, in mana. Supported by Alvan traders, crafters, they reclaimed the lost floors of their home. They captured Vuzgal and defended it in the vicious battlefield realm.
Now Alva is going to war. Their abilities, their skills tested head on.
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(In Death Mysteries)