Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Brunch With Death
by Ellie Alexander
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fall has painted Ashland, Oregon, with a brush of jewel tones. Everyone’s favorite artistic director, Lance, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is in a sparkling mood. Things are winding down at the theater, and he’s already planning a spectacular lineup for next season. There’s only one problem–cash. Lance’s lavish productions don’t come cheap. So when the dreaded Richard Lord, owner of the Merry Windsor Hotel, approaches Lance about partnering for an upcoming brunch show, Lance can’t turn him down.
Shakespearean kitsch and stale muffins aren’t exactly Lance’s forte, but he can’t pass up an offer to fill the coffers. It’s just brunch, after all. It can’t be that bad. Can it?
Explosive Eighteen
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg’s The Heist.
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. And a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos, not to mention the FBI, are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.
Blink of an Eye
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Paranormal investigator Buck McDivit deals with murder, creatures of darkness, and romance with an American Indian archaeologist who likes cowboys and fast ponies
Buck visits Oklahoma’s remote Kiamichi Mountains, searching for an archaeological relic once used in religious ceremonies. The Black Cup of Oklahoma has gone missing, and Buck must travel back 1000 years to retrieve it.
Buck’s trek leads him into a forbidden canyon where he discovers a lost civilization, Oklahoma’s elusive Bigfoot, and a psychotic killer who likes to scalp his victims after killing them. To succeed, he seeks the help of a mysterious spiritualist and the dark magic of an immortal mountain fairy. Will Buck survive and retrieve the stolen relic, or die a gory death and his scalp added to the killer’s trophy belt?
Wasted Years
by John Harvey
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A detective’s dark past meets his violent present in “[a] rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel” (Sue Grafton).
It starts with five professional thieves. At their first robbery, they press a sawed-off shotgun against a bank manager’s head, and leave with nearly forty thousand pounds. They repeat the trick three times, raking in nearly half a million in cash. They have yet to kill, but with each raid they come closer to taking their bounty in blood. The Nottingham police department charges the brilliant but troubled Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick with stopping the crime spree…
Dark Crossings: An Anthology
by Karen Harper, Marta Perry, Patricia Davids
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Covered Bridge by Karen Harper: When Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes him with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village.
Fallen in Plain Sight by Marta Perry: Childhood friends Sarah Weaver and Jacob Mast see each other in a different light when violence shatters their peaceful society.
Outside the Circle by Patricia Davids: Isaac Bowman is an outsider, but Lena Troyer makes the widower and his daughter feel like part of the community. So when a deer-poaching ring divides the town, Isaac vows to keep this gentle woman safe from harm…
Brutal Alien
by Luna Kingsley
Rating: 4.4 #ad
I hate everyone but her.
Zuvath. It has been a year since the second transport of humans arrived and trust is in short supply. They keep to the settlement, determined to create their own community without the untrustworthy aliens who got them into this mess. All of them except for Ellen. She breaks the rules for me—sneaking out to hunt together, riding our komoth and even hiding away in secret caves where she lets me touch her secret places.
I want her but no one knows what we get up to when we’re alone. If we were discovered, it could ruin the fragile peace between our kind…
Regretting You
by Colleen Hoover
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.
Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.