Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bake, Borrow, and Stea
by Ellie Alexander
Rating: 4.5 #ad
As the autumnal hues of November fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are working on their biggest event ever. They’ve been invited to create chocolate showpieces for the gala opening of a new exhibit, Shakespeare’s Lost Pages at SOMA. The museum, located on the campus of Southern Oregon University, is getting ready to unveil the Bard’s lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, which is being touted as the greatest artistic discovery of modern times. In addition to molding luscious, silky chocolate into magnificent structures, Torte will be serving an authentic Elizabethan feast straight from the pages of a sixteenth century cookbook featuring Lardy cakes, Frangipane tarts, and jellies with chestnut cream.
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(A Bakeshop Mysteries)
The Third Grave
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through Georgia. The storm does more than dislodge shutters and shingles. It leads to a grisly find in the cellar. Three graves. But only two skeletons…
For Nikki, the discovery is a gift, the perfect subject for her next crime book—though Reed has made her promise not to keep involving herself in dangerous police business. But despite the increasing tension between them, Nikki can’t stay away from this story. Rumors are widespread that the burial site is the resting place of the Duval sisters—three young girls who went to the movies with their older brother, Owen, twenty years ago, and never returned. Forensics confirms that the remains belong to Holly and Poppy Duval. But where is the youngest sister, Rose?
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(Savannah Mysteries)
The Groom Went Missing
by Jenifer Ruff
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through Georgia. The storm does more than dislodge shutters and shingles. It leads to a grisly find in the cellar. Three graves. But only two skeletons…
For Nikki, the discovery is a gift, the perfect subject for her next crime book—though Reed has made her promise not to keep involving herself in dangerous police business. But despite the increasing tension between them, Nikki can’t stay away from this story. Rumors are widespread that the burial site is the resting place of the Duval sisters—three young girls who went to the movies with their older brother, Owen, twenty years ago, and never returned. Forensics confirms that the remains belong to Holly and Poppy Duval. But where is the youngest sister, Rose?
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(Agent Victoria Heslin Mysteries)
End of Days
by Brad Taylor
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a paragliding trip over the picturesque mountains of Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mossad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. But they’ll need help to find out who was behind the attack and what they’re planning next. Luckily, Aaron and Shoshana know exactly who to call.
Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been trapped in Charleston, South Carolina during COVID-19, so when Aaron and Shoshana show up on their doorstep with Israeli passports and a new mission, they jump at the chance to assist their friends.
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(A Pike Logan Mysteries)
Lucy’s Coming for you…
by Ashley Beegan
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Summer Thomas questions her own sanity when violent patient, Lucy Clark, disappears from a locked hospital ward. Because no one else will admit that Lucy exists.
As Summer digs deeper into the disappearance, it becomes apparent that Lucy is looking for her too, but Summer should have stayed away. Now, Lucy is coming for her… And there’s no escaping someone who doesn’t exist.
The Tale Teller
by Anne Hillerman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware—witchcraft is afoot.
While the veteran detective is busy working to untangle his strange case, his former colleague Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito are collecting evidence they hope will lead to a cunning criminal behind a rash of burglaries.
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(Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Mysteries)
Bridge to Texas
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bridge to Texas offers unsurpassed comedy from start to finish as forty-something Texas Miz Mike gets involved in a “nude” photo shoot for a calendar to raise funds for a wildlife sanctuary and ends up solving a murder.
Murder by ostrich? A mule that breaks into houses and spies on women in the shower? It could only happen in Three Prongs, Texas, where the misfits fit.
Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland leaves Scotland behind in a bid to become a Texan. Is it a lost cause? He encounters fire ants, scorpions, “resurrection” animals—and the thing he hates and fears most—snakes.
City of Time and Magic
by Paula Brackston
Rating: 4.7 #ad
City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet. She must choose from three treasures that sing to her; a beautiful writing slope, a mourning brooch of heartbreaking detail, and a gorgeous gem-set hat pin. All call her, but the wrong one could take her on a mission other than that which she must address first, and the stakes could not be higher. While her earlier mission to Regency England had been a success, the journey home resulted in Liam being taken from her, spirited away to another time and place. Xanthe must follow the treasure that will take her to him if he is not to be lost forever.
The Missing Daughter
by Levi Fuller
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fly a little swallow…before the monster eats you up.
Haunted by tragedy, Julie Farlow becomes the newest FBI agent in the Baltimore office, determined to prevent other families from suffering through the hell she barely survived. When she uncovers a disturbing pattern in missing persons cases she fears a serial killer is on the loose.
She’s thrust into a partnership with the last person she wants to work with…agent Leo Finch.
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(Julie Farlow FBI Mysteries)
