Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Dreamer
by M. C. Beaton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Death of a Dreamer: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don’t last, but it looks as if Effie Garrard has come to stay. When Constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he’s amazed that she weathered the difficult winter. But Effie is quite delusional, imagining that she’s engaged to local artist Jock Fleming. Later, Effie is found in the mountains, poisoned by hemlock.
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(Hamish Macbeth Mysteries)
People Behaving Badly Collection
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.4 #ad
People Behaving Badly is a collection of thirteen short mystery stories exploring the folly of criminal behavior. Welcome to a world filled with strange and quirky characters where murder, vigilantism, jealousy, infidelity, sex, violence and people behaving badly are the norm.
These short mysteries were written as individual bite-size stories that can be devoured in one sitting. Perfect reading for your bus, train or subway commute to work, while you’re waiting at the doctor’s or dentist’s office, having your car serviced, enjoying a latte at your favorite coffee shop, or whenever you have a few minutes of free time.
Day of the Caesars
by Simon Scarrow
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Simon Scarrow’s DAY OF THE CAESARS is not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. ‘A new book in Simon Scarrow’s series about the Roman army is always a joy’ The Times
The Emperor Claudius is dead. Nero rules. His half-brother Britannicus has also laid claim to the throne. A bloody power struggle is underway.
All Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro want is a simple army life, fighting with their brave and loyal men. But Cato has caught the eye of rival factions determined to get him on their side. To survive, Cato must play a cunning game, and enlist the help of the one man in the Empire he can trust: Macro.
Killing the Ghost
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life’s hardships teach Sandy Greenmount to make lemonade from lemons—until a dead guy falls into her apartment when she opens the door and she is accused of murder.
No matter how sweet lemonade is to drink, Sandy finds herself submerged in a virtual sea of lemons: ghostly incidents at night; a hometown that ostracizes her for her father’s role in the drug-related death of three teens; ire when she refuses to paint signs for a bar owner, and ire when she does paint signs for an animal rescue organization and the signs are used at a protest at the local supermarket.
Sandy’s lemony philosophy of life gets a boost when Trig Webber sweeps into her life, but can she keep him when there’s competition from lovely red-headed Bekka, who works for Trig’s best friend?
Bones of Skeleton Creek
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Explosive action, gripping adventure, and a dynamic hero
When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires paranormal investigator. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human, and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women – or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.
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(Paranormal Cowboy Mysteries)
The Roses of May
by Dot Hutchison
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers.
Down a Dark River
by Karen Odden
Rating: 4.6 #ad
London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman’s corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan, one of the only Senior Inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous autumn left the division in ruins. Reluctantly, Corravan abandons his ongoing case, a search for the missing wife of a shipping magnate, handing it over to his young colleague, Mr. Stiles.
An Irish former bare-knuckles boxer and dockworker from London’s seedy East End, Corravan has good street sense and an inspector’s knack for digging up clues.