Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft—not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car—well, you get the idea
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney’s younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill’s missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney’s thinking things can’t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother’s trail of broken-hearted bimbos.
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(Alexandra Barnaby Mysteries)
The Heroes of Eastbrooke Series (Books 1-4)
by Juliette Duncan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From a USA Today bestselling author comes this page-turning, faith-filled romantic suspense series that will leave you guessing. For fans of Dee Henderson.
After twenty years, mystery still surrounds the death of Police Chief Stanley Carlton. His sons believe he was murdered. And now, strange things are happening in the picturesque mountainside village of Eastbrooke.
A teen is kidnapped. A body washes up in the river outside of town. A cult takes up residence in the mountains. The mountain pass offers a perfect smuggling route to the coast. Not just for drugs, but for weapons and human trafficking.
Could these happenings all be connected to their father’s murder?
Triple Strike
by Eli Evron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Recovering from a severe injury, Mossad special agent Oren is stationed as a case officer in Italy, tasked with recruiting essential covert assets.
But when one such informant provides a glance into a dangerous alliance forming in the Middle East – a cooperation centered around a complicated drug smuggling operation and united by a joint enemy – Oren is thrown right in the middle of a global conspiracy.
As Oren investigates, the drugs soon turn out to be merely a means to an elaborate narco-terrorism operation that, if successful, will result in a horrific coordinated triple terror attack against civilian targets.
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.6 #ad
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire – the fastest fighter aircraft in the world – to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs.
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(Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
The Last Shakiri
by J. H. Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dragons? Really? Giant flying things? He thought the old man finally lost his mind. The destruction of the people and places he held dear proved otherwise.
Trained by a master in the Old Ways, he sets out with skills as sharp as the sword he wields. But no amount of training can prepare anyone for coming face to face with one of Them.
What can one boy with a sword do? Use his wits and cunning to find the sorceress who created them and kill her.
Politikill
by Timothy Gene Sojka
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Take a bribe, meet your maker.
Imagine if someone recorded politicians accepting bribes. Or, an execution squad murdered corrupt legislators on camera, then broadcast politicians’ wrongdoings. What if politicians actually feared retribution for accepting payola? Consider the seismic reverberations which would occur within the DC infrastructure if politicians feared dishonesty and graft.
Could our current government still run as our founding fathers intended?
Nine Lives
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke—until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list.
First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common?
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Our Wild and Precious Lives deals with the big questions of Life, Death, Love and Loss set against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean Conflict…it also deals with the social upheaval in families and societies caused by war, on both sides…” Amazon Review
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Diamonds in the Rough
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
What would you risk if you had nothing left to lose?
Tom Logan awakens from a drug-induced coma holding a black diamond, his only clue to finding his brother gone missing in the wilds of Arkansas. He meets Amber Armstrong, neo-pop poet turned police officer, and Mary Ann, a willowy teen, as his journey begins. Their magical adventure leads them into a cloud-cloaked valley fraught with beauty, timeless mystery, and imminent peril.
Will Tom find love, redemption, and his missing brother or die facing the two things he fears most?