Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Cracked to Death
by Cheryl Hollon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s the dog days of summer in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Webb’s Glass Shop proprietor Savannah Webb has an eco-friendly plan to help locals escape the heat—a recyclable bottle-crafting workshop taught by reticent store manager Amanda Blake. Turns out, the class is a bigger smash than expected, thanks in part to a pair of staggeringly old bottles brought in by snorkeler Martin Lane . . .
Linked to a storied pirate shipwreck, the relics definitely pique Savannah’s interest. But intrigue turns to shock when Martin’s lifeless body washes ashore the next morning, another glass artifact tucked in his dive bag.
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(A Webb’s Glass Shop Mysteries)
All Flesh Is Grass
by Clifford D. Simak
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Long before Under the Dome, this novel of a town trapped within an invisible force field earned a Nebula Award nomination for the author of Way Station.
Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community—until the day Brad Carter discovers he is unable to leave. And the nearly bankrupt real estate agent is not the only one being held prisoner; every resident is confined within the town’s boundaries by an invisible force field that cannot be breached. As local tensions rapidly reach breaking point, a set of bizarre circumstances leads Brad to the source of their captivity, making him humanity’s reluctant ambassador to an alien race of sentient flora, and privy to these jailers’ ultimate intentions. But some of Millville’s most powerful citizens do not take kindly to Carter’s “collaboration with the enemy,” even under the sudden threat of global apocalypse.
Nuclear Winter Armageddon
by Bobby Akart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
For decades, Nuclear Armageddon hanged over us like a mighty sword. Some said it would be the war to end all wars. They were wrong. The real battle against extinction was just beginning.
International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. “Masterful and suspenseful!”
This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with many nuclear bombs detonated around the planet. It was no longer a topic of conversation around the dinner table as in years past. Nobody was prepared, including the world’s governments. Yet the threat was always real and the devastation was predictable.
“Bobby’s uncanny ability to take a topic of what could happen and write an epic story about it is short of preternatural!”
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(Nuclear Winter Mysteries)
Into the Dread Void
by Abe Moss
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the dark woods, you see it. An emerald glow in the distance. Coming closer. Glowing brighter. There is no escape.
Something wicked roams the California wilderness. Its victims form a gruesome trail across the Sierra Nevada mountains – dead on their knees, flesh hanging off their bones, expressions of euphoria upon their faces…
Spending her first weekend with her new foster family at their summer cabin, fourteen-year-old Nell has no idea it’s heading their way. She has no idea they’ll soon be thrust into a terrifying struggle for their lives, or that the secret she keeps – a supernatural gift she’s hidden most of her childhood – might be the one thing that can save them.
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(The Dread Void Mysteries)
The Guardian
by Nicholas Sparks
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Julie Barenson’s young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died – a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who?
Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was her husband’s best friend?
Summer Camp Culprit
by C.K. Fyfe
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Camp Starfall is closing. But that doesn’t mean the past is going with it.
Despite her misgivings, Lindsey returns to the campground she last left as a broken-hearted teen. She’s determined to spend Camp Starfall’s farewell weekend focusing on the good memories she has of her time as a camper. But fate has other plans.
Lindsey’s teenage sweetheart Tyler shows up, stirring up feelings in her that had long lain dormant. Too bad she doesn’t have time to dwell on him. Someone is breaking into the cabins, and if she doesn’t find the culprit, more than her heart will be at stake.
Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly
by Adrian McKinty
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Another thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy and his most dangerous investigation yet
Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.
Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.
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(The Sean Duffy Mysteries)