Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on the Poet’s Walk
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a southern gothic…
As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They’re everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling the Poet’s Walk, a series of trails named after famous authors. But the Tennyson Trail leads to a grim surprise: a woman’s corpse drifting in a rowboat on a lake, posed as if she were “The Lady of Shallot.”
Left You Dead
by Peter James
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do – with a long drive, a visit to a country house and a quick stop at the local supermarket on the way home.
But this Sunday ends differently – because while Niall waits and waits in the car park for Eden to pick up supplies, Eden never returns. She’s not waiting for him at home, and none of their family or friends have heard from her.
The Renegades
by Renata Riva
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three princes fighting for a crown. Three princesses fighting for their lives.
When Iiriniss rescues a severely wounded prince from an ambush, she fears that nothing good will come of it. She and her sisters know his father, King Jethron Bloodthorne, too well since he took everything from them—their family, their land, their freedom.
Iiriniss has sworn to avenge her father, but she can’t let Prince Terven die. She has a debt to repay to him. And the more time she spends with him, the more she realises that he is not like his father and his two brothers.
An Unfinished Murder
by Ann Granger
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this traditional mystery set in a small English village, detectives from two popular series team up to solve a two decades old missing persons case. Mitchell and Markby come out of retirement to crack a cold case . . .
As young children, Josh Browning and his sister, Dilys, stumbled across a dead body while playing on the outskirts of their Cotswold village. Terrified by what they’d seen, neither of them told a soul. Now, twenty years later, Josh finds the dead woman’s charm bracelet among his sister’s possessions.
Who better to tell than his trusted friend, the man he gardens for, retired Superintendent Alan Markby? As Markby listens to Josh’s confession, alarm bells start to ring. The dates and details tie in with a missing person case that was never solved.
American Narcos
by Brick Top
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What would you do with forty-million dollars?
Three small-time American weed dealers embark on an adventure into the Colombian jungle. They struggle in Florida to survive and turn to the only option available. It’s the beginning of the 1970s, and marijuana is already flooding the Floridian market. The first trickles of cocaine appear in places frequented by the rich and famous. The coke industry was about to explode.
The curious young Americans begin a small business smuggling marijuana from Colombia to North America, which blossoms and grows until it stretches across the globe. Rory Banks, Jack Rivers, and Will Penny embark on a journey that takes them farther than ever imagined. Chaos follows as they fly around the world, starting cocaine businesses wherever they touch down….
The World of Tiers Volume Two
by Philip José Farmer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From a multiple Hugo Award winner: Four more novels in a brilliantly imaginative series.
In the second half of the World of Tiers series, Kickaha embarks on a journey to the eternally shifting landscape of the Lavalite World of Lord Urthona—and the ultimate clash with his arch nemesis.
On Earth, Kickaha and the Lord Anana pursue a rogue Beller called Thabuuz. They thought they had wiped out the last of the biolab-generated artificial intelligences created by the Lords, but it seems one has escaped through a portal to Southern California. Thabuuz must be found before he can spawn more Bellers and revive their war against the Lords. But even though he came from Earth fifty years ago, Kickaha no longer recognizes his former home, now ruled by a hostile Lord known as the Red Orc.
Buried Angels
by Patricia Gibney
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Faye Baker discovers a fragile child’s skull behind the walls of her new home, Detective Lottie Parker is called to investigate. The house has been owned for years by the family of Faye’s boyfriend Jeff, so when Jeff starts acting suspiciously, Lottie wonders what he might be hiding…
Lottie doesn’t have long to dig deeper before a child’s bones are found by eleven-year-old Gavin on nearby railway tracks. The bones don’t match the small skull behind the walls, but Lottie can’t ignore the coincidence. Someone out there must be missing their loved ones and it’s up to her to put right a terrible wrong.