Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Killer Comfort Food
by Lynn Cahoon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A soybean processing plant is trying to buy up the land around the small farm Angie’s beloved Nona left her. If Angie doesn’t sell, she’ll be surrounded by the plant and the congestion that comes with it. On the other hand, it’s Nona’s farmhouse. What is Angie supposed to do without it? Move into a condo in town with Precious, Mabel, and Dom—respectively, a goat, chicken, and dog. Worse, a troubling rumor is circulating about the lawyer who’s heading up the development: His socialite wife seems to be missing. When Barb, owner of the local bar, asks Angie to look into the woman’s disappearance, she’s hesitant—until Barb reveals her surprising connection.
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(A Farm-to-Fork Mysteries)
Saving Sara
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finalist for American Bookfest 2021 Best Book Award in the thriller/adventure category.
Sara is missing in the Cayman Islands. No one knows it. Except her abductors, of course.
Beloved CIA heroine, Jamie Austen, is sent to Tampico, Mexico, to rescue four girls, abducted on their senior class trips. Are the cases related?
All of Jamie’s skills are tested as she must overcome the powerful drug war lord, El Mata, his ruthless band of heavily armed killers, and a hurricane that’s bearing down on the Caribbean islands.
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(THE JAMIE AUSTEN THRILLERS)
Calculated
by Nova McBee
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Soon to be a major motion picture, with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, Ann Peacock, best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, to adapt the novel for screen.
Set in Shanghai and Seattle, Calculated is a gritty, modern day blend of the Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible.
She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her.
In seventeen-year-old Jo River’s complicated world of numbers, there’s no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the world’s most wanted smuggler, and forced to use her talent to shore up a criminal empire, Jo deems her gift a curse—until she meets Red.
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(Calculated Mysteries)
Pale Kings and Princes
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A hotshot reporter is dead. He’d gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.
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(The Spenser Mysteries)
The Tangled Web We Weave
by Roger Stelljes
Rating: 4. #ad
She was young and beautiful but now she was dead. How far will someone go to protect the secrets now that so many are tangled up in the lies? Or will the search for the truth get you killed? Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
An absolutely gripping, compelling and intense mystery that will keep you racing through the pages long into the night. A chart-topping bestseller, that turns fans of John Sandford and James Patterson into Stelljes addicts.
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(McRyan Mysteries)
Hint of Her Blood
by Sarah Spade
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Aleks looks at me, he sees his past. I see a future that I just can’t have…
For most of my life, being Luna-touched was a blessing. Then I met Jack “Wicked Wolf” Walker and it wasn’t long before it became a curse.
I thought I’d be trapped in my gilded cage forever—until his long-lost daughter returned to the Wolf District, handing him his first defeat in more than twenty-five years. She spared his life, but our laws are clear: an Alpha who loses a challenge is no Alpha. Our pack was forced to disband, and I finally was free.
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(Claws and Fangs Mysteries)
The Last Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Orson Scott Card’s The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender’s Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania.
One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions. Is the only answer another great Xenocide?
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(Ender Sextet Mysteries)
The Darkest Place
by Phillip Margolin
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she’s becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn’t know – what she can’t know – is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete devastation on her life and plans.
As she recovers from those consequences, Robin heads home to her small town of Elk Grove and the bosom of her family. As she tries to recuperate, a unique legal challenge presents itself—Marjorie Loman, a surrogate, is accused of kidnapping the baby she carried for another couple, and assaulting that couple in the process.
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(Robin Lockwood Mysteries)