Monday’s Mystery eBooks
In the Market for Murder
by T E Kinsey
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case.
Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence’s mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened and why. Was it poison or just ill luck?
A Safe House
by Stuart Woods
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what—or who—he is bringing with him.
But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback—and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside to the balmy beaches of Key West, Stone is on an international mission to hide and protect those closest to him.
Shortcut
by Arnold Eslava-Grünwaldt
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It all started with a shortcut. Murder followed. Then an accidental death. Or so it seemed. But then again, nothing is as quite as it seems. Enter Detective Sergeant Hamilcar “Ham” Hitchcock and his General Assignment Squad. Fresh off the Keim case – and recovering from the loss of several key members – the Yonkers, New York-based team reinvents itself and dives headfirst into the latest investigation. And, it’s a doozy. Is the murderer a jealous high school student? A greedy caregiver? An angry homeless man? Or, someone else?
As the detectives work to unmask the killer, a bizarre, unrelated death draws their attention—and holds it. Unfortunately, the evidence in both cases is frustratingly scant…
Special Agent Murphy
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s Christmas in Washington, but not for one heartsick family. Agent Shane Murphy has a hard time believing his life could get so crazy. Because of a choice – one he’d make again – he loses his superiority in the FBI. Now he’s forced to work surveillance with a rookie female yapper. And… gets caught up in the kidnapping of a sixteen-year-old that pulls at the heartstrings he keeps hidden. Fighting the budding attraction for his new partner, he stresses his way through an escalating nightmare. How can he be so infatuated with a trouble-magnet female who drives like a granny and isn’t able to hide her sensitive reactions when on the job?
What Doesn’t Kill Her
by Christina Dodd
Rating: 4.6 #ad
One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which.
I have the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. I’m the new mother of a seven-year-old girl.
Kellen Adams suffers from a year-long gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will do that. But she’s discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self. She finds herself in the wilderness, on the run, unprepared, her enemies unknown—and she is carrying a priceless burden she must protect at all costs. The consequences of failure would break her. And Kellen Adams does not break. What doesn’t kill her . . . had better start running.
Advance to Contact: 1980
by James Rosone, Alex Aaronson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Cold War threatens to go hot…
…when American hostages are taken in Iran.
Where will this conflict lead? The Soviets invade Afghanistan, and the governments of Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev jockey for position on the international stage. CIA operative Fred Poole races against the clock to decode the pieces of a Soviet puzzle that could lead to war.
Will he be too late? US Marines and Soviet paratroopers advance to contact with the enemy on battlefields across the globe, from the jungles of Central America to the deserts of the Middle East.
Can Poole and his ragtag team untangle the Soviet plans? Or will skirmishes turn into a global nightmare?
Jack of Spades
by Diane Capri
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In Lee Child’s twenty-third Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, Reacher found his roots and a heap of trouble in Laconia, New Hampshire.
A young Canadian couple took the spoils at the end of the war. Now, the real owner will stop at nothing to get back what belongs to him.
Agent Otto bets on Reacher and puts her life on the line to save his nephew, Jake. But she’s been wrong about Reacher before. Can she count on him now?