Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Double-Pointed Murder
by Ann Yost
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Cricket Koski, a barmaid from the Black Fly, is stabbed to death with a double-pointed knitting needle on New Year’s Eve and deposited in the bed of Lars Teljo, it’s up to Hatti Lehtinen to exonerate her ex-brother-in-law. It’s not that Hatti, who runs a fishing-slash-knitting supply shop, is a trained detective. It’s just that Sheriff Clump considers his collar a slam dunk because an affair between Lars and Cricket three years earlier has made him vulnerable to blackmail.
But there’s a problem…
Seven Shades of Evil
by Robert McCammon
Rating: 5.0 #ad
From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Matthew Corbett has faced enemies of all kinds, from serial killers to sorcerers. Now author Robert McCammon presents eight gripping stories featuring the professional problem solver and his associates that take place between the popular novels.
Seven Shades of Evil includes four original stories, including “Wandering Mary,” and four additional tales that previously appeared in limited form and are no longer available elsewhere. Ranging from twisting murder plots to ominous portents of the paranormal, these stories are an intriguing blend of everything that has drawn readers to the Matthew Corbett series for more than twenty years.
Special Agent Hunter
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded by tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four. Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that earn everyone’s respect.
Agent Kal Hunter remains flummoxed by the altered vision of the pony-tailed rookie he remembers as the sexy woman he sees today. Being OCD about most things in his world this unconventional female rings his bell constantly…
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Backteria: & Other Improbable Tales
by Richard Matheson
Rating: 3.6 #ad
A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of “Backteria” that causes the infected person to vanish – leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried.
A simple “Haircut” that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly.
A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in “Getting Together.”
Hollow Moon
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 4.4 #ad
There’s a dark side to every story.
Famed author William Edward Penn might be the most talked-about writer in America. He’s written a novel. A terrifying novel. The images are hauntingly vivid, and the details seem all too real, as if they’d been plucked from memory. Each page transports him to a life he once knew, a world he’d rather leave behind. He still wakes up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat. He can still picture their faces, even in his nightmares. After years of replaying the events in his head, past recollections begin to merge with fantasy. Even now, he struggles to piece it all together. And time is running out. Today marks his first television appearance. He will have to look his audience in the eye. He will have to answer for what he’s done.
Ghost Target
by Andy McDermott
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Alex Reeve – known as OPERATIVE 66 – is a former special-ops soldier and one of the UK’s most lethal weapons. Previously a member of SC9, an elite covert unit with a remit to assassinate the country’s enemies, Reeve was framed for treason and now lives a nomadic existence – as the merciless killers he once trained alongside hunt him down.
For a chance of a normal life, Reeve must expose and dismantle the sinister SC9. So when a series of brutal killings in Germany have all the hallmarks of an SC9 tactic – the murder of ‘ghost targets’, decoys to camouflage the true intended victim – Reeve finally sees opportunity for revenge.
The Red House
by Roz Watkins
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Only the killer holds the key. . . A Sunday Times Book of the Summer
IT WAS THE CRIME THAT SHOCKED A NATION. The Flowers were the perfect family. Until the day fifteen-year-old Joseph shot dead his parents and baby brother whilst his younger sister Eve hid. The family home became known as ‘The Red House’, the place where the walls were covered in blood.
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD THE KILLER. No one knows why Joseph murdered his family: the following day he crashed his car and has been in a coma for two decades. Eve’s always known he did it; she saw the crime, after all.
WHAT IF THEY WERE WRONG?
Dragon Gems: Winter 2023
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Tales to warm your imagination during the cold winter months
Featuring stories by Christina Ardizzone, Matt Bliss, Gustavo Bondoni, Micah Castle, Nestor Delfino, C. M. Fields, Andrew Giffin, Emma Kathryn, Michelle Ann King, Jason Lairamore, Eve Morton, Lena Ng, S. Park, Arlo Sharp, Mar Vincent, and Richard Zwicker