Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Blueberry Muffin Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Preparations are under way for Lake Eden, Minnesota’s annual Winter Carnival—and Hannah Swensen will be extra busy at her shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac—a half-baked idea, in Hannah’s opinion. She suspects Connie Mac’s sweet cable-TV image is a cover for something more bitter.
Hannah’s suspicions are confirmed when Connie Mac’s limo rolls into town. Turns out America’s “Cooking Sweetheart” is bossy, bad-tempered, and downright domineering…
The Good Teacher
by Brian R. O’Rourke
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Twenty years ago, Nelly met a monster. Now he’s back.
After a difficult divorce, things seem to be looking up for teacher Nelly Peak when she takes a job at Overland Middle School. But then she’s introduced to her new colleagues…
And she’s sure she recognises one of them – Marshall Dawes, the man that assaulted her twenty years ago.
Only now he goes by a different name – Emmett Moore. And Emmett is a highly respected teacher at Overland, beloved by pupils and staff alike. There’s even talk of him becoming principal one day.
In Cahoots with the Prickly Pear Posse
by Ann Charles
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When “Crazy” Kate Morgan learns that her sisters are the next targets on a killer’s to-do list, she’s hell-bent on chasing down trouble before it rides into Jackrabbit Junction.
The problem: The darn law dogs keep nipping at her heels, tossing her in the hoosegow, and sidetracking her hunt. The solution: A posse—the pricklier the better.
If Kate can dodge this peck of pickles long enough to catch the killer, she can prove she’s not so “crazy” after all…
Five Days Lost
by Luana Ehrlich
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Mylas Grey agrees to investigate a personal matter for Senator Davis Allen. The investigation needs to be quick, thorough, and discreet.
It needs to be quick . . . Because the senator is working against a deadline. But how can it be quick when it involves a long-forgotten incident?
It needs to be thorough . . . Because the senator needs answers for his upcoming press conference. But how can it be thorough when a dead woman’s diary is all Mylas has to work with?
It needs to be discreet . . .
Killing the Witches
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches–but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.
A Killing in Amish Country
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
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At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite “bonnet” stories – romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she’d ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries – without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself “Amish Stud” and found no shortage of “English” women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church.
Red Death
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Det. Adam Russell of the Honolulu PD encounters the body of a woman in her sixties—the second in recent days to inexplicably die of what seem like natural causes—he reaches out to Karen Vail, the renowned FBI profiler, who hops on the next plane.
But even for someone as fluent in the language of murder as Vail, this case is hard to read. How were these women asphyxiated with no signs of trauma? How can she gather clues or collect evidence when the killer seems to strike during the briefest casual encounters? Is this the behavior of a male or a female perpetrator? And perhaps most terrifying of all, if the deaths appear so natural at first glance, how many victims have already been overlooked?