Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
For Whom the Book Tolls
by Laura Gail Black
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Trouble follows Jenna Quinn wherever she goes. Fleeing some unsavory doings in her hometown of Charlotte, Jenna accepts her uncle’s gracious invitation to stay with him in small-town Hokes Folly, NC. In exchange, she’ll help him out in his antiquarian bookstore. But soon after she arrives, Jenna finds her uncle’s body crumpled at the base of the staircase between his apartment and the bookstore.
Before the tragedy even sinks in, Jenna learns that she’s inherited almost everything her uncle owned: the store and apartment, as well as his not-so-meager savings and the payout from a life insurance policy…which adds up to more than a million dollars.
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(Murder by the Bookend)
Playing for the Ashes
by Elizabeth George
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing–and no one–is really what it seems. Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for the Ashes will make readers “search out the sleuthing pair’s first six adventures…a treasure,” as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review.
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(Inspector Lynley Mysteries)
The Stolen Twin
by Michele PW
Rating: 4.3 #ad
#1 Bestseller! A twisted standalone psychological thriller with an ending you’ll never guess!
On the surface, Kit Caldwell has it all. A senior in college with her future ahead of her, lots of friends, lots of parties…not to mention also having the eye of Tommy, the star quarterback of the football team.
But underneath, Kit’s life is a charade, built on a foundation of secrets and lies, including one so dark it threatens to tear her world apart: her twin sister, Cat, was kidnapped when they were both seven, never to be heard from again. That is, until one dark Halloween night.
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(Mirror Image)
A Winter Haunting
by Dan Simmons
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage — and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town — the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly “accident” back in the terrible summer of 1960 — is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes.
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(Seasons of Horror)
The Nomination
by William G. Tapply
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Nomination is a fast-paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics. Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand-picked by his friend the president to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Larrigan seems like the perfect candidate: a family man with an uncontroversial judicial record. The president’s credibility needs a sure bet. Larrigan will do anything to win the nomination, but he has some old skeletons rattling around in his closet.
Sarana and the Dark King
by Ivy Keating
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The fearsome Dark King of Bounten, with a magical creature known as a Valomere by his side, is on a quest to find the rare metal tarilium. His brutal ways incite the powerful psychic Allani. But when news of his plans to invade the kingdom of Attaveer spread, a new opponent emerges – Sarana, the daughter of a farmer…or is she?
At birth, Sarana was sentenced to death for her “cursed” white hair. The delivery nurse, Meriden, whisked the fair-haired babe to a loving home across the waters from Bounten. Her entire life she hid her appearance to avoid prejudice. Things changed when she discovered she too had a Valomere…
The time for hiding is over. Can Sarana save herself and her kingdom?
Terminally Ill
by Melissa Yi, Melissa Yuan-Innes
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Magic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic.
But when “Elvis the Escape King” chains and nails himself inside a coffin on the anniversary of Houdini’s death, in Montreal’s St. Lawrence River, he can’t break free.
Soon after Hope restarts his heart and saves his life, Elvis demands to know who sabotaged his stunt. Hope hung up her amateur detective badge to tend to cancer patients on palliative care.
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(Hope Sze Medical Mysteries)