Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Rum and Choke
by Sherry Harris
Rating: 4.7 #ad
LAST CALL. The Florida Panhandle Barback Games are coming up and Chloe’s been drafted to represent the Sea Glass Saloon – competing in various obstacle-course events that conclude with rolling an empty keg up a hill. The rivalries are so fierce that some of the participating bars even stoop to bringing in ringers.
Meanwhile, Chloe’s friend Ann – a descendant of the famed pirate Jean Lafitte – asks her to come along for a boat ride as Ann dives into the Gulf of Mexico.
Curse of Salem
by Kay Hooper
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The small town of Salem has been quiet for months—or so Bishop and his elite Special Crimes Unit believe. But then Hollis Templeton and Diana Hayes receive a warning in Diana’s eerie “gray time” between the world of the living and the realm of the dead that a twisted killer is stalking Salem, bent on destroying in the most bloody and horrifying way possible the five families that founded the town.
Any Shape or Form
by Elizabeth Daly
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From Agatha Christie’s favorite American author—a bookish sleuth attempts to solve the murder of a spiritual eccentric at a wealthy estate.
Just about any of the guests at Johnny Redfield’s party seems to have a good reason to have killed the guest of honor, Johnny’s Californian aunt who, with her astral name and vague pretensions of mysticism, does not exactly blend in the elegant New York atmosphere that surrounds her. And what’s more, no one has a solid alibi. It will take all of Henry Gamadge’s ingenuity to figure out this closed-room mystery.
The Garden of Promises and Lies
by Paula Brackston
Rating: 4.6 #ad
As the bustle of the winter holidays in the Little Shop of Found Things gives way to spring, Xanthe is left to reflect on the strange events of the past year. While she’s tried to keep her time-traveling talents a secret from those close to her, she is forced to take responsibility for having inadvertently transported the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time. Xanthe comes to see that she must use her skills as a Spinner if she and Flora are ever to be safe, and turns to the Spinners book for help.
It is then that a beautiful antique wedding dress sings to her. Realizing the dress and her adversary are connected in some way, she answers the call. She finds herself in Bradford-on-Avon in 1815, as if she has stepped into a Jane Austen story.
Silent Victim
by Michael Wood
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t miss the next nerve-shredding instalment in the DCI Matilda Darke Thriller series…
A CENSURED DETECTIVE WITH NO LEADS DCI Matilda Darke and her team have been restricted under special measures after a series of calamitous scandals nearly brought down the South Yorkshire police force.
A BRUTAL ATTACK WITH NO WITNESSES Now Matilda is on the trail of another murderer, an expert in avoiding detection with no obvious motive but one obvious method.
To Wake the Dead
by Richard Laymon
Rating: 4.2 #ad
An ancient beauty… Amara was once the Princess of Egypt, the beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the First. Now, 4000 years later, she and her coffin are merely prized exhibits of the Charles Ward museum. Her lovely face and strong, young body are no more. If you were to look at her today you would see only a brittle bundle of bones and dried skin. But looks can be very deceiving…
A missing mummy… Barney, the museum’s night watchman, is the first to make the shocking discovery that the mummy’s coffin has been broken open. He immediately assumes it’s the work of grave-robbers who care nothing about the sanctity of the dead. But Barney doesn’t have a chance to do anything about it.
Traced
by Samantha Wilde
Rating: 4.2 #ad
He’s deadlier than sin, and her one chance at survival.
Tessa George has three days to sell six gold bricks before Lionsgate Kinship’s men kill her father—and then her. The tall, dark, and insanely hot black-market dealer wants nothing to do with her deal. Turns out selling four million dollars’ worth of gold is too much heat for a criminal. But when the men from Lionsgate find and torture her, the scandalous thug shows up.
Dare Holmes shouldn’t want a damn thing to do with Tessa, her father, or her gold. Not his circus.
Legendary Bastards of the Crown Collection
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Complete Collection of the Legendary Bastards of the Crown
Triplet bastards born to King Edward III by his mistress are said to be bad luck and spawned by the devil. The king orders them killed as babies. Now, as grown men they are out for revenge on the father who wanted them dead.