Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Dominoes, Danzón, and Death
by Raquel V. Reyes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Latina sleuth and culinary master Miriam Quiñones-Smith is cooking up a storm in the fourth installment of the Caribbean Kitchen mystery series.
It’s been three years since food anthropologist and cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith had her last brush with death. Her Spanglish culinary show, Abuela Approved, is topping the charts. Her parents are back in Miami and living with her in Coral Shores. And her kids are great. But when bones start popping up in unexpected places, Miriam’s idyllic life is threatened…
Whatever It Takes
by Alan Brenham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this gritty, pulse-pounding story of deception and loyalty, Detective Kit Hanover is forced to shed her old identity and infiltrate Las Vegas’s criminal underbelly as an exotic dancer to expose a sprawling money laundering empire. But as she becomes a pawn in a volatile turf war, the question isn’t just whether she can crack the case, but whether she can survive the fallout.
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Standing in the Shadows
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. Nick is the prime suspect. The case quickly goes cold, but Nick cannot let it go. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice’s murderer—but his obsession leads him down a dangerous path.
Decades later, in November 2019, an archaeologist unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more contemporary than the Roman remains she is seeking…
Keeler Creek Days
by Buxton Manning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
After three years, the Keeler Creek Days festival is back (though it’s just one day and there’s no antique car show this year). A group of geezers want to win the tug-of-war, just like they did fifty years ago. Fat chance? Two women, rivals in both the kitchen and the bedroom want to wear the bake-off crown. And the new event—The Battle of the Bands—has something for everyone: legendary rock, stoned-out jazz, and angst punk.
But there’s more happening: Stu and Melinda want to run away and leave their respective spouses. Lucy needs to decide between two suitors. Norman wants to depose his mother to a retirement home. The Misunderstoods just want to get a gig somewhere. There’s adolescent love, old rivals, alcohol and gambling, a recluse ex-pro linebacker, dysfunctional porta-potties, and Cory is stuck working at the Acorn Market while everyone else is at the park. Add two out-of-town hoodlums intent on robbing every home while the town is empty, and Balzar, a belligerent Roosevelt elk…it’s a helluva party.
One Last Kiss
by Michael W. Cuneo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From adultery . . . Ex-Marine and bodyguard Chris Coleman was a family man with a secret: He wanted to leave his wife for another woman, Tara Lintz. But as head of security for the world-famous Joyce Meyer Ministries—an evangelical organization that frowns on divorce—Coleman had to make other plans.
to murder . . . On May 5, 2009, Illinois police received a call from Coleman, who claimed he was unable to contact his family. When investigators arrived at his home, they found Coleman’s wife and two sons strangled in bed. Across the walls, spray-painted in red, were various obscenities—the word punished among them.
to life—or death.
The Hymn
by Graham Masterton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A rash of sacrificial deaths in California leads an investigator into a nightmare world of occultism and Nazi terror: “A master of the genre.” —Rocky Mountain News
The shocking suicide of his beautiful fiancée has left Lloyd Denman devastated. Though outwardly happy, Celia Williams chose to set herself on fire, ending her young life in the most excruciating manner imaginable. Haunted by her death, Lloyd vows to uncover the truth behind her bizarre actions. An answer may be waiting for him in the California desert, where ashes and bone are all that remain of a busload of passengers who perished in an apparent mass suicide by fire that has the police baffled.
Vexing Voss
by Gail Koger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For Voss, a Coletti Warlord, conquering the universe is a piece of cake. After all, he’s a master of psychic seduction; no one can resist him when he sets his mind to it.
Zoey Jones is determined to find her mother’s killer. Surrendering to a fierce Coletti warrior is the last thing on her mind. When Voss tries to make Zoey his mate, she unleashes her own brand of whoop-ass to discourage his pursuit. When her clever disguises, skunk perfume, stun gun, and smoke bombs fail to stop the ruthless warlord, she’s forced to negotiate her surrender: she would mate with him if he would help her find her mother’s killer.
Death’s Half Acre
by Margaret Maron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant growth. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
The Dead Play On
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Play a song for me
Musicians are being murdered in New Orleans. But Arnie Watson apparently died by his own hand. When Tyler Anderson plays the saxophone he inherited from Arnie, a soldier and musician who died soon after his return, he believes he sees visions of his friend’s lifeand death. He becomes convinced Arnie was murdered and that the instrument had something to do with whatever happened, and with whatever’s happening all over the city