Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Rocky Road to Ruin
by Meri Allen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Justice will be swirled by amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes in the first in Meri Allen’s brand-new mystery series, The Rocky Road to Ruin!
Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut – land of dairy farms and covered bridges – for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Riley’s trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her father’s cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help her friend Caroline rebuild after her mother’s death, and for Riley to do a bit of her own reflecting after a botched undercover mission in Italy. After all, it’s always good to be home.
Dream Town
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits.
After a series of increasingly chilling events – mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink – Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears.
Secret of the Broken King
by Eliza Raine
Rating: 4.6 #ad
He married me, exiled me, and now he’s the only thing stopping me from saving my sister.
My sister is turning to stone. She’s been asleep for eight years – the same amount of time I’ve been the secret, exiled wife of the King of the Ocean. Poseidon is fierce, unforgiving, and terrifyingly powerful. I’m just a broken sea nymph whose magic never surfaced. But the only way to save my sister lies in his underwater palace, and I’ve got nothing else to lose.
I expected escaping exile and getting to the palace to be tough. What I didn’t anticipate was battling a torrent of unexpected desire for Poseidon when he catches me. The devastatingly beautiful ocean god has secrets. Wild waves crash through his eyes when he looks at me, and I soon realize he might be just as broken as I am.
But when a god has secrets, the consequences are deadly.
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(The Poseidon Trials)
Who Killed These Girls?
by Beverly Lowry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Gripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood…. Brilliant.” – Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling author
The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls – each one shot in the head – were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.
Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in crime and punishment.
The Dime
by Kathleen Kent
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she’s from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she’s deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit.
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(Betty Rhyzyk Mysteries)
The Girl She Wanted
by K.L. Slater
Rating: 4.2 #ad
What was my sister doing standing over Florence’s cot in the middle of the night?
I trust my sister Carrie with my daughter’s life. But then she’s accused of a terrible crime. Carrie lives under our roof, she pushes my daughter on the swings, she takes her out for ice cream. You might ask, why do I let her? Why would I risk my darling baby? How could I let my sister stay?
Because I have a dangerous secret too. One that only Carrie knows about. And if that secret gets out, I could lose my little girl…
The Marriage of Sticks
by Jonathan Carroll
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Miranda marches into her high school reunion with the confidence of a professional at the top of her field. But inside she is lost, disenchanted with her career, and as alone as a person can possibly be. As a teenager in Crane’s View, she fell in love with unrepentant bad boy James Stillman, and though they never slept together, he thrilled her as no man has since. She returns to her hometown hoping to reconnect with him, but learns at the reunion that he was killed in a car crash years ago. In the weeks that follow, Miranda is haunted by visions of the past.
Stop Toxic Thoughts
by Cody Evans
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Kick Toxic Thoughts in The Teeth –Without The Same “Happy Thoughts” Advice.
Are you tired of feeling stuck, exhausted, worried, and stressed? Perhaps you’re constantly doubting and questioning yourself: Why did I say that? Why did I do that? What will they think? What will I do now?
It’s no surprise that this constant and relentless negative self-talk makes you doubt yourself, weighs you down, and brings your ambition to a dead halt. The good news is that you CAN take back control over your mind and finally stop those annoying thoughts with simple strategies proven to work!