Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dolphin Bay Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set 2
by Leena Clover
Rating: 4.9 #ad
A heartwarming cozy mystery series about family, friendship and a crusade for justice.
Recently widowed Anna Butler has finally realized her lifelong dream of opening a cafe. She may even have found love. But the local mayor is still on the warpath and won’t give up her vendetta against the Butlers. Anna knows the only way to shut her up is to figure out who killed John but that’s proving to be difficult. Will she ever be able to discover the truth about what happened to her husband?
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(Dolphin Bay Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set 2)
Among the Mad
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard’s elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane’s personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case. Meanwhile, Billy Beale, Maisie’s trusted assistant, is once again facing tragedy as his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their young daughter, slips further into melancholia’s abyss.
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(Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
Special Agent Maximilian
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Identical twins but different men – she loves both!
In this electrifying romantic suspense set in the steamy streets of New Orleans, Lieutenant Commander Nik Baudin, accidently meets up with an identical twin he never knew existed. When his brother Max goes missing, Nik assumes his identity as Special Agent Maximilian. This gives him access to FBI files making it easier to arrest the gangsters who attacked his brother and to stop their trafficking of underage girls. Being that Nik has specialized commando training, he’s the perfect man for the job – that’s if his PTSD doesn’t kick in and leave him cowering in a corner.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
The House Where It Happened
by Martina Devlin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It is 1711, and the Ulster-Scots community in a remote corner of Ireland is in turmoil. A pretty young newcomer is accusing one woman after another of witchcraft. But Ellen, the serving girl in the house where the visitor is staying, is loyal to the family – and over-fond of her master. Yet she knows that Knowehead is a house like no other.
And so she watches and ponders, as a seemingly normal girl claims she is bewitched. As a community turns against eight respectable woman. And as malevolent forces unleashed more than half a century earlier threaten a superstitious people beyond their understanding.
Seeing a Large Cat
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
No villain is safe in 1903 Egypt as feisty archaeologist Amelia Peabody embarks on her ninth adventure.
According to an ancient Egyptian papyrus, dreaming of a large cat means good luck. And that’s just what Amelia Peabody could use, as her growing family matures in the new century. What’s more, Amelia’s dashing husband Emerson has received a mysterious warning not to enter the Valley of the Kings. To Emerson’s annoyance, Amelia’s meddling distracts her attention as she exposes a fraudulent spiritualist, saves a marriage, and plays matchmaker.
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(Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Can’t Go Back
by Debra Webb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense. A woman and her child are dead, and though the husband says he killed them, the evidence says otherwise. Why would a man confess to unspeakable murders he didn’t commit?
What starts as an open-and-shut case explodes into a web of new leads. Devlin and Falco get to work tracking down every single one—including a disturbing connection between the murders and Falco’s dark past.
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(Devlin & Falco Mysteries)
The Last Methuselah
by Gordon Pierce
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the American South, a mystery is unfolding: Who was Nathaniel John Smith?
Two young boys hunting in the woods near their home in rural Mississippi discover the body of their neighbor, a reclusive older man named Nathaniel John Smith, who seems to have succumbed to the frigid winter weather. However, there is much more to the man’s tragic end than it first appears. In addition to the mysterious circumstances of his death, he has left detailed instructions in his will for a task to be carried out by the boys’ mother, Joleen. As a result, Joleen finds herself in possession of the manuscript of a four-part saga, The Last Methuselah, Mr. Smith’s loosely autobiographical book. In it, she begins to uncover the details of her late neighbor’s past, starting in the 1950s with his adolescence, which was composed of – among other things – farming, moonshine, Dixieland jazz, and young love.
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(The Last Methuselah Mysteries)