Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Autumn Author
by Beatrice Fishback
Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s a game of Clue with a twist. Howls in the night. Excessive thievery. Suspicious neighbors, and a body discovered inside a supposedly haunted house.
Daisy McFarland, retired schoolteacher from North Carolina is fulfilling a lifelong dream of living in Great Britain. Her hope is to follow in the footsteps of Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie and become a well-known mystery writer. From her travels across the pond to moving into the village of Worlingburgh, Daisy has had ample opportunities to lend a hand in solving murders which provides plenty of material for her novels.
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(A Daisy McFarland Cozy Mysteries)
The Black Mountain
by Rex Stout
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Marko Vukcic, one of Nero Wolfe’s closest friends, is gunned down in cold blood, the great detective takes it personally, pledging to do everything in his considerable power to bring the killer to justice. But Wolfe’s reckless vow draws him to the most lethal case of his career, propelling the portly P.I. and his faithful factotum, Archie Goodwin, four thousand miles across the ocean to the hazardous mountains of Montenegro. Communist cutthroats and Albanian thugs have already disposed of Wolfe’s friend and Wolfe’s adoptive daughter . . . now they’re targeting the world-famous detective himself.
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(A Nero Wolfe Mysteries)
Judgment Calls
by Alafair Burke
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid walks into her office in Portland’s Drug and Vice Division one Monday morning to find three police officers waiting for her. A thirteen-year-old girl has been brutally attacked and left for dead on the city’s outskirts. Given the lack of evidence, most lawyers would settle for an assault charge; Samantha, unnerved by the viciousness of the crime, decides to go for attempted murder. But as she prepares for the trial, she uncovers a dangerous trail leading to a high-profile death penalty case, a prostitution ring of underage girls, and a possible serial killer. And she finds her judgment—not only in matters of the law but in her personal life—called into question.
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(Samantha Kincaid Mysteries)
Light of the Ark
by James Bonk
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“Dad. This isn’t for me…Is it?” The holy glow of an ancient artifact illuminates Matthew and his father.
In the past two months, Matthew has learned an untold secret of his father’s past and the family secret they are sworn to protect. It all started when Matthew’s best friend was approached by a figure from the past. A person with sinister motives who believes he is working for Jesus and will stop at nothing to set his plan in motion. Matthew Light is the last son in a long line of pastors that stretches back thousands of years. Follow Matthew’s journey as he discovers the secrets of his family’s past and the repercussions on those closest to him.
Billy Silver
by Daniel Volpe
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Billy Silver, a low-life, self-downtrodden junkie, needs some cash to get his next fix. After getting kicked out of his own band, Shit Fist, losing his girlfriend, and left with no other options, he decides to sell his flesh to the ink of a needle at a newly opened tattoo shop. The mysterious artist, Talia, tattoos a cryptic design he’s never seen. Shortly after getting inked, compulsions burn underneath his skin. His need to satisfy a newly arisen addiction to self-mutilation begins a descent into darker places than his miserable life never dared go.
The Seventh Sinner
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.2 #ad
At first, Jean Suttman thought she had died and gone to Heaven when she was granted the opportunity to study in Rome. But the body that’s lying in the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra—the murdered corpse of a repulsive and disliked fellow student—isn’t her idea of heavenly. Now she is truly frightened, not just because small “accidents” seem to be occurring around her with disturbing regularity. It’s the ever-increasing certainty that someone, for some unknown reason, is ruthlessly determined to do her harm. Jean’s innocent underground excursion into a sacred pagan place has trapped her in something dark and terrifying, and even the knowledge that practical, perceptive fellow American Jacqueline Kirby is on the case won’t ease her fears.
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(Jacqueline Kirby Mysteries)
Close Combat
by W.E.B. Griffin
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin’s epic sixth novel in THE CORPS series–a powerful, dramatic tribute to the courageous men and women who braved WWII.
As Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine, finding Captain Charles Galloway, Major Jake Dillon, Sergeant Thomas McCoy and China Marine Killer McCoy in dramatic arenas all over the Pacific.
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(The Corps Mysteries)
Timothy the Christmas Mouse
by Virginia Wright
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Join Timothy, a house mouse, on Christmas Eve, as he tries to survive a cold winter’s night, all alone in an old Maine farmhouse. To eat, he must venture out into a terrible snowstorm. Come along with Timothy and meet other interesting forest animals in this delightful children’s holiday story.
* Great Christmas Eve bedtime story!
* Buy Timothy the Christmas Mouse Coloring Book For Children, a holiday-themed companion to the storybook.