Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Double Wide
by Gretchen Archer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
True or False: Bellissimo Resort and Casino Super Spy Davis Way Cole, her partner, Fantasy Erb, and a trivia queen named Mango Matisse are kidnapped. The answer is true. Stuffed in the storage compartment of a motorhome, the women are abducted from a golf course and abandoned on a ravaged barrier island somewhere in the Gulf.
Fill in the blank: Did the kidnapper get it wrong? Did he kidnap Davis thinking she was__________?
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(A Davis Way Crime Caper Mysteries)
STARBOARD EIGHT
by BRIAN CASEY
Rating: 4.9 #ad
When a violent incident proves the final straw for his parents, troubled teenager Jesse is sent away to join the Blue Water School. Here, youngsters in need of direction and guidance live and work aboard sailing ships in the Caribbean. Despite the exotic setting Jesse faces demanding physical, academic and personal challenges. Along with the colorful collection of fellow teens in ‘starboard eight’ he encounters The Bermuda Triangle, ‘St Elmo’s Fire’, pirate treasure, a devastating hurricane and a first real romance. His voyage culminates with the American bicentennial celebrations in New York City and an overdue reconciliation with his parents.
Based on the author’s experiences, this vital adventure offers a powerful evocation of another time and place and a compelling exploration of familial and fraternal relationships.
The Hostess with the Ghostess
by E. J. Copperman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Solving a murder way too close to home, Alison Kerby can’t catch a break.
If Alison Kerby really wanted peace and quiet, she never should have opened the Haunted Guesthouse. The Jersey Shore lodge’s latest polter-guest is Richard Harrison, the recently murdered brother of long-time resident ghost PI Paul Harrison.
Alas, a beyond-the-grave brotherly reunion is nowhere in the foreseeable future—phantasmal Paul left the guesthouse months ago for parts unknown, and for all her ghost-whispering prowess, Alison has no idea how to find him. And she’s going to need Paul, because Richard’s isn’t the only murder still unsolved.
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(A Haunted Guesthouse Mysteries)
In Her Eyes
by Sarah Alderson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
You’re at home with your family. You think you’re safe. You’re wrong . . .
Ava’s life is the kind other people envy: loving husband; great kids; beautiful house. Until a violent home invasion turns the dream into a nightmare and leaves her daughter fighting to survive. This wasn’t a random attack and Ava is reeling from the knowledge that someone is targeting her family. Who could hate them enough to kill?
To save those she loves from even greater danger Ava must find out what really happened that night. But when everyone around her has been lying, how will she decide who to trust? And with her own secrets threatening to come to light, can she even trust herself?
Eversion
by Alastair Reynolds
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it’s up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
The 14th Colony
by Steve Berry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States.
Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in the West, are headed overseas to Washington D.C. Noon on January 20th—Inauguration Day—is only hours away. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to disaster and Zorin intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest.
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(Cotton Malone Mysteries)
Looking Glass Cottage
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Morgan Easton Greer is forced to pick up the pieces and start over after her world is shattered by a series of tragic events including a failing marriage and losing her mother.
Shortly after her mother’s death, a mysterious letter arrives, inviting Morgan to a remote island for the reading of her mother’s will… a will she had no idea existed.
The Searcher
by Tana French
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
Family Unbroken
by Jacie Middlemann
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The villa in Espinola reveals many of Jeremy’s carefully guarded secrets…the long forgotten centuries old paintings found in the attic are just the beginning…
Family Unbroken is the second book in the Delahass Legacy series, the continuing saga of one family’s search for answers to a mystery rooted in historical events that took place generations ago in the later years of the twenty-first century.
Ann Delahass has always wanted to visit the place that her ancestor, Jeremy Delahass, had been inspired by when he built his home, Nolbeloir House. It is one of life’s many mysteries she hoped to find an answer to. She and two of her cousins, David and Paul Delahass, have decided to finally make the trip to Espinola in the hope of visiting the old school and learning what they can from it.
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(The Delahass Legacy)