Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in an Irish Bookshop
by Carlene O’Connor
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a new bookstore in the County Cork Irish village of Kilbane closes the book on an author’s life, it’s up to Garda Siobhán O’Sullivan to resolve the story . . .
Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán is feeling a bit overwhelmed. But an author event at the new bookstore featuring Irish writers taking up residency in Kilbane offers a welcome distraction.
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(An Irish Village Mysteries)
Layla
by Colleen Hoover
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.
Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns…
Kill Someone
by Luke Smitherd
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the author of the international best-seller The Stone Man, shortlisted for Audible UK’s Book of the Year Award 2015
Here are the rules.
Method: you can’t use a gun. You can’t use explosives. You can’t use poison. It has to be up close and personal. You don’t have to worry about leaving evidence; that will be taken care of.
Victim: no one suicidal. No one over the age of 65. No one with a terminal illness.
Utopia House Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Lolia Davenport is gifted a winning lottery ticket, she doesn’t use the money for herself. She purchases a historic mansion in Brady, Texas, and fills it with friends who have end-of-life ambitions, but lack funding to make their dreams reality. With a name like “Utopia House” and an eclectic mix of people who quickly become friends – and with plenty of money – Utopia House should be as perfect as the name.
But something dark and sinister hides within the iconic building – murder. And when murder escapes from its hiding place—no one is safe.
A POLICE DOCTOR INVESTIGATES
by Candy Denman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The first three standalone titles in a great series following part-time English GP and police medical examiner Callie Hughes:
DEAD PRETTY
BODY HEAT
GUILTY PARTY
“Thoroughly enjoyed these books, so much so that I ordered the fourth book in the series. Well worth reading” by Amazon Customer
What’s So Funny?
by Donald E. Westlake
Rating: 4.6 #ad
All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull Dortmunder into a game he never wanted to play.
With no choice, he musters his always-game gang and they set out on a perilous treasure hunt for a long-lost gold and jewel-studded chess set once intended as a birthday gift for the last Romanov czar, which unfortunately reached Russia after that party was over.
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(The Dortmunder Mysteries)
Buried Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.4 #ad
All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer.
Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She’d come to Widow’s Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month—and not a single islander has reported her missing.
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(Widow’s Island Mysteries)
The Unforgiven
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip.
When private investigator Dan Oliver is called to the scene of a gruesome crime in New Orleans, he can’t help but hear echoes of the Delaney case, the unsolved murder that made him leave law enforcement. As he digs deeper, he unearths more chilling similarities—including mysterious letters connecting the killer to a string of murders that terrorized the Big Easy in 1919.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)