Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Copenhagen Connection
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A strange twist of fate at the Copenhagen Airport brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg. An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar’s new private assistant. But luck can go from good to bad in an instant—and less than twenty-four hours later, the great lady is kidnapped by persons unknown.
Suddenly desperate in a foreign land, Elizabeth must cast her lot with Rosenberg’s handsome, insufferable son Christian in hopes of finding her vanished benefactor.
I Remember Now
by Robert W. Kirby
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Melinda never really knew her husband. Until he died.
When Melinda’s husband, Gabriel, is murdered while walking their dog in some local fields, her world is smashed to pieces.
Melinda, who was also attacked and knocked out during the terrifying ordeal, tries to get her life back on track, but the grief is overwhelming. Then, months after the incident, she has an intense flashback. The killer said something to Gabriel in the moments before stabbing him, something that seems to indicate they knew each other.
Christmas Family Style
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
BONUS: RECIPE INCLUDED!
The Garlucci Family is reunited as they prepare to celebrate Christmas in historic Savannah, Georgia. Carlita is thrilled to have all of her children and grandchildren with her once again.
Pete treats Carlita and her family to a special surprise when he invites them to join him on board The Flying Gunner for the Merry Bay Christmas boat parade. There is dinner and dancing, and even Santa is on hand for the children.
Killing Women
by Rod Sadler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This true crime biography reveals the disturbing story of a serial killer who terrorized central Michigan—and now has a chance to go free.
As a former youth pastor who attended the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, Don Miller seemed like a decent young man. But in 1978, he was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers. Police soon connected Miller to the disappearances of four women. In exchange for a controversial plea bargain, he led police to the missing women’s bodies.
Now, thanks to the deal he was offered and changes to Michigan law, Miller is allowed to seek parole once a year. In Killing Women, author Rodney Sadler examines the crimes, the “justice” meted out, and the possibility that Miller could be unleashed on the world once again.
Search the Shadows
by Barbara Michaels
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers—and a personal history—brings Haskell to the famed Oriental Institute in Chicago, a city in which her mother lived and thrived before her strange, untimely death. But by rummaging around in the darkness, Haskell’s exposing much more than she bargained for. And now she’s racing against the clock to discover who she really is . . . and why someone is suddenly determined to kill her.
Shadow’s Secret
by Mary Stone
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Hidden secrets lead to deadly lies…
Following the incident that brought justice to her parents’ killers but ended her career, former FBI Special Agent Rebecca West needs a fresh start. Hoping to find peace, she decides to spend a few months in the sleepy beach town of Shadow Island, where she spent idyllic summers as a kid.
However, her vacation is cut short when a seventeen-year-old goes missing with no leads or clues. When the girl’s body is found in a nearby marsh with strangulation marks around her neck, Rebecca can’t say no when the overworked sheriff asks her to help investigate.
The Extinction Trials
by A.G. Riddle
Rating: 4.2 #ad
After a mysterious event, six strangers wake up in an underground bunker. They don’t know where they are. Or how much time has passed. They soon learn that they’re part of an experiment to restart the human race. What they don’t know is that this experiment hides a secret. And so does the world outside.
From the bestselling author of Departure and Winter World, comes a standalone novel with a twist you’ll never forget.
The Christmas Scorpion
by Lee Child
Rating: 3.9 #ad
On Christmas Eve, Jack Reacher stumbles into a no-name bar in the California desert, desperate to take refuge from an unexpected snowstorm. Reacher came to Barstow for a little R&R. Instead, he’s sequestered in a dark little roadhouse with a bartender, a bewildered elderly couple—and two members of Britain’s Royal Military Police. They tell Reacher they were escorting a VIP to a top-secret meeting at a U.S. military base when they became separated from their charge. That’s when the threat came in from a notorious assassin: the Christmas Scorpion. Now they need a miracle to save the day. Or maybe all they need is Jack Reacher.