Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Pumpkin Patch
by London Lovett
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Sunni Taylor’s sisters, through their power of sisterly persuasion, have convinced her to host a Halloween costume party at Cider Ridge Inn. She’s a little reluctant about the whole event and rightly worried about the actual ghost, who will, no doubt, be in attendance, but she decides to just relax and enjoy it. Of course, you can’t have a spooky Halloween party without toothy-grinned jack-o’-lanterns.
Sunni talks Jackson into spending their day off at a local pumpkin patch. The Riggle Family Farm is famous for its sprawling pumpkin patch and mind-boggling corn maize…
Kingdom of Darkness Box Set
by Mark Goodwin
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Accused of domestic terrorism, Emilio Vega was on his way to death row when the mega-quake hit. The streets beneath his transport vehicle buckled, tossing the van in the air like a toy. He survived the crash, but the world is now in ruins. However, for a condemned man, this disaster may be just the lucky break he needed. Emilio has been left behind!
Can Emilio and Mackenzie survive the gauntlet of destruction known as the Great Tribulation?
THE MARLOW MURDERS
by BIBA PEARCE
Rating: 4.6 #ad
FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS, A HEARTSTOPPING MYSTERY FROM YOUR NEW CRIME FICTION OBSESSION: BIBA PEARCE.
Debby Morris, mother of two, goes to a Christmas party at historic Hollyhock Manor in Marlow, and never comes home.
A MISSING MOTHER. Her phone, handbag and Santa’s elf hat are found in a park near the River Thames. The police issue a nationwide search, but Debby is nowhere to be found.
Three weeks later, Debby’s body, still in her elf costume, is discovered five miles downstream from where she disappeared.
A DETECTIVE ON THE BRINK.
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Abandon
by Blake Crouch
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A century-old mystery – and a desperate battle to survive – unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.
Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her historian father have set out to explore the long-abandoned town and learn what happened. With them are two backcountry guides—along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer who are there to investigate rumors that the town is haunted.
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Rating: 4.6 #ad
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War.
To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.
Royally Whacked
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From best-selling author P.C. James and Kathryn Mykel–author of award-winning Sewing Suspicion & Quilting Calamity.
A Duchess, her trusted butler, and a nose-it-all furry sidekick.
London, 1959. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury has received an invitation to an English countryside estate for a week of summer events—a gorgeous garden tea party and a couples tennis game, what could possibly go wrong?
Will the three debutants prove their new sleuthing skills are helpful in serving up a murderer, or will Lady Mary find out that they’ve met their match?
Santa Cruise
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.3 #ad
At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael, and Nina formed a deep bond. Now, fifteen years after leaving school behind, they’re back for a reunion, laughing, reminiscing, and chatting about how much has changed—and how much hasn’t. All four are strong, successful, and somehow, still looking for the right partner. But Frankie has an idea to help solve that: a singles cruise for the holidays.
In late December, the four friends gather in Miami, ready to board their state-of-the-art cruise ship. The entertainment options are endless, the food is to die for, and the passenger list includes hundreds of eligible men.
Ranger Faith
by Lynn Shannon
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s a deadly holiday season…
Last Christmas, profiler Emilia Sanchez barely escaped the clutches of a serial killer. All she wants is to forget the incident and move on with her life, especially since the murderer is dead. But when she receives a poinsettia along with a threatening message, it triggers Emilia’s worst fears—that she’s not safe after all.
Texas Ranger Bennett Knox has steered clear of Emilia since the day he rescued her from a killer. The beautiful profiler is smart and brave, but Bennett knows his presence brings back painful memories. The case has always haunted him too. He had concerns with the way the investigation ended.
Imperfect Angel
by Christi Barth
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three days ago, all Maisy Norgate had was a stack of bills, about a gazillion jobs, and her sunny-as-hell outlook. Now, thanks to an uncle she never knew about, she’s inherited an ornate skeleton key with absolutely no idea what it’s for—or why she has it. Which is exactly when a ridiculously handsome guy claiming to be an angel shows up at her door and all hell breaks loose…
Nephilim Rhys Boyce cannot believe that Maisy is the new Keeper of the Key. Why would anyone bequeath this warm, bubbly redhead the key to Hell? And to make matters worse, she’s given the key to the first person who asked for it. A demon. Yep, Maisy is determined to make his job—not to mention some seriously inconvenient temptation—as hard as possible.
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That Time I Died
by Naomi Peled Schneider
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When healthy, athletic, 18-year-old Yair finds himself bedridden in a hospital room and is informed that he is paralyzed from the neck down and may never walk again, his whole life shatters around him. While his family and friends believe it to be the result of a terrible accident, could the truth reveal a premeditated act?
Alone, confined to his bed, Yair finds refuge in the most unexpected place. Soon, the only thing keeping him going is the one-on-one conversations he begins having with God.
When Yair fails to wake up from his last surgery, he is left suspended between two worlds – our world and the beyond. With time running short, he realizes his death is quickly approaching.