Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Candy Corn Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s peril at the Pumpkin Fest in this Maine-set mystery by the New York Times-bestselling author…
Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes as planned.
Lucy’s getting annoyed that her husband, Bill, and his friend Evan have been working seemingly nonstop on their potentially prize-winning pumpkin catapult. But on the day of the big contest, Evan is nowhere to be found…until a catapulted pumpkin busts open the trunk of the Dodge, revealing a deceased Evan.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
Wicked Appetite
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston’s North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down—and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony.
Caught in a race against time, Diesel and Lizzie soon find out that more isn’t always better, as they battle Wulf and the first of the deadly sins.
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(Lizzy & Diesel Mysteries)
The Evermores Chronicles Complete Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Say the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran.
Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways.
Will Fran and the old lineage of Evermores be able to put a stop to it before it’s too late for both worlds?
An old prophecy thought to be a myth has surfaced. Can Fran and her friends find out what it means in time to stop what’s happening on Earth and Oriceran?
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives.
The Next Accident
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you?
These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth—and there’s only one person willing to help. Ex-cop Rainie Connor had once been paired professionally—and personally—with the brilliant FBI profiler. He helped her through the darkest days of her life.
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(FBI Profiler Mysteries)
Under Your Bed Collection
by Blair Daniels, Blair Daniels, Robert Mort
Rating: 4.2 #ad
My husband insists on keeping this one painting of a woman. I listened to a true crime podcast… about myself. I found an old childhood photo. There’s something terribly wrong with it.
UNDER YOUR BED brings you 13 terrifying tales for your darkest nights. From horrific games of hide-and-seek to sinister paintings, from tiny fairy gardens to malevolent doppelgängers, this collection is guaranteed to make you fear what goes bump in the night.
These tales are longer than those in the bestselling Don’t Scream collection by Blair Daniels.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he’d been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity’s offices.
To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn’t like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.
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(Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
A Peculiar Combination
by Ashley Weaver
Rating: 4.5 #ad
FIRST RULE: DON’T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION. Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick’s locksmith business just can’t pay the bills anymore.
SECOND RULE: DON’T MAKE MISTAKES. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in an empty house, he and Ellie can’t resist. All is going as planned—until the pair is caught red-handed. But instead of arresting them, government official Major Ramsey has an offer: either Ellie agrees to help him break into a safe and retrieve blueprints crucial to the British war effort, or he turns her over to the police.
THIRD RULE: DON’T GET CAUGHT.
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(Electra McDonnell Mysteries)