Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mistletoe Murder Collection
by P. D. James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Throughout her illustrious career as the Queen of Crime, P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best are collected here.
Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author’s sly humor as evident as her hallmark narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex–not to say the most damning–aspects of human nature. In “The Twelve Clues of Christmas,” James’s iconic Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is, in his own words, “pure Agatha Christie.” In “A Very Commonplace Murder,” a respectable clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a terrible crime.
The Bourne Deception
by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
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Bourne is thrust into a race to prevent a new world war–but it may already be too late, from New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader.
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian missile-leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression.
One Man’s Promise
by Laura Domino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a safe haven, but still learning about love. One Man’s Promise continues Sharla’s story from book one. Read One Man’s Haven first!
Afraid for her life, Sharla flees San Francisco and hopes the rest of her family is still safe. Her life isn’t over after all, but she’s still unsettled. Staying under the radar and out of her enemy’s grasp means she must learn a new way of life away from the city. Is Sharla starting over in the right place? Hiding isn’t paradise when her enemy catches up with her. How will Sharla escape a second time?
The Broken Wings
by Kahlil Gibran
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Kahlil Gibran’s poetry novel Broken Wings was initially published in 1912 in New York by the publishing company of the periodical Meraat-ul-Gharb. It’s a tragic love story set in Beirut at the turn of the century. Selma Karamy, a young woman, is betrothed to the nephew of a renowned religious figure. This woman falls in love with the protagonist (a young man who Gibran may have based after himself). They begin meeting in secret, but are discovered, and Selma is banned from leaving her home, shattering their dreams and hearts.
The China Governess
by Margery Allingham
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Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew.
In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own—involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess—that must also be brought to light by Campion’s investigations.
Just One Evil Act
by Elizabeth George
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Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim.
Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he gets more shocking news: Hadiyyah has been kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation…
Farewell to Dreams
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun’s heart in her hand.
“Find the girl,” the nun commands – although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling directly into Angela’s brain. “Save the girl.”
Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gang leader and stumbling onto a serial killer’s lair. Her desperate quest to save the girl leads her to the one thing she least expected to find: a last chance for love.
Crestview Academy Complete Series
by Katerina Raven
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The more I uncover, the more danger I’m in.
I’m no longer safe anywhere.
Starting at Crestview Academy was supposed to be a brand-new start. A chance to grow new relationships, learn who I am and where I came from, and have a chance to do things I never could have dreamed of.
Instead, it’s a living hell.
Aquamarine & Indigo: Two Novels
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $5.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Two luminous stories of friendship, magic, and the sea — bound together in one beautiful volume — by bestselling author Alice Hoffman.
In Aquamarine, twelve-year-old best friends Hailey and Claire are enjoying their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There, among the seaweed and jellyfish that a summer storm washed in from the ocean, is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart — a mermaid named Aquamarine…
In Indigo, thirteen-year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew seven inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plies Martha’s lonely father with food and opinions about how thirteen-year-old girls should behave….