Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Toy With Me
by Diane Kelly
Kindle $1.00 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Ciara relocates to a quaint North Carolina mountain town shortly before Christmas and takes a job in a classic toy shop, the last thing she expects is to end up investigating a robbery. But when someone steals the rent her attractive boss Nick owes to the landlord, the two are determined to work together to bring the culprit to justice. Can they solve the crime, or will only Santa know who’s stolen the money and ended up on his naughty list?
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life is never static. Just when you think you finally have everything under control, that illusion is shattered…and the life you once knew has spun off in unimaginable directions.
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized. To help her, Kate must try to solve the mystery of what happened to both her granddaughter and her daughter but to do so she must reconnect with family and friends she hasn’t seen or wanted to see in years…
One of the Girls
by Lucy Clarke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The latest twisty psychological thriller from internationally-bestselling author Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls is the delicious story of a bachelorette trip on a stunning Greek island… that ends in murder.
It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away. Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a bachelorette trip, to celebrate Lexi’s upcoming wedding. From the glorious ocean views to the quaint tavernas and whitewashed streets, the vacation seems too good to be true. But dangerous undercurrents run beneath the sunset swims and midnight cocktails – because each of the women is hiding a secret. Someone is determined to make sure that Lexi’s marriage never happens – and that one of them doesn’t leave the island alive.
Death at the Sign of the Rook
by Kate Atkinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed.
In his sleepy Yorkshire town, ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off boredom and malaise. His only case is the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting. But Jackson soon uncovers a string of unsolved art thefts that lead him down a dizzying spiral of disguise and deceit to Burton Makepeace, a formerly magnificent estate now partially converted into a hotel hosting Murder Mystery weekends.
Rule of Extinction
by Geoff Jones
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A civilization-ending comet is headed for Earth.
Two days before impact, thousands of mysterious pods land in a swath across North America. When people touch them, the pods open. Anyone who climbs inside is carried away.
No one knows where the pods came from and no one knows where they go, but finding one is David Williams’ only chance to save his family from the end of the world.
… and escaping Earth is just the beginning.
Christmas Returns to Pottersville
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Frank Capra’s, It’s a Wonderful Life was the ultimate parallel universe story. George Bailey was shown by an angel a world in which he had never been born. A world where the cute little town of Bedford Falls no longer existed and in its place was the seedy town of Pottersville.
But imagine if Pottersville still existed in the current age, along another path of existence. Welcome to Pottersville, a town owned and operated by Peter F. Potter. A sleazy, corrupt town where Christmas was discouraged and people were miserable. What if Potter was taken to this town, in a world in which he had never been born?
Pursued
by Linda K. Rodante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The man Cristina Torres has fallen in love with kisses her, and then disappears for ten years. Now he’s back but with two detectives as shadows, and someone’s trying to kill her. Should she trust him or run for her life?
Dr. Chase Richards fled his Christian roots, but now he’s returning to his hometown in Tennessee to make amends—at what he thinks is God’s direction. Only the way is not just hard, it’s almost impossible. The girl he once loved is now a woman—and she wants nothing to do with him. In addition, the opioid study he started and left in Virginia has followed him across state lines. The police have warned him that he’s in imminent danger. His well-organized life is no longer safe or ordered—and neither is Cristina’s. Can he discover who’s trying to kill them before she becomes collateral damage?
TWO HEARTS’ AMBUSH
by Tamara Ferguson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lara Loughlin is taking a break in her hometown of Crystal Rock before returning on tour as up-and-coming rock star, Lainie Reardon. When wounded warrior Captain Zachary Nash decides to make a move because of their sizzling attraction, she decides to play along, since he has no idea who she is. But there’s a new threat to the tourism driven community – two women have been assaulted. And then Lara makes a horrific discovery – the serial rapist could have ties to her past. She could very well be the next target…