Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Christmas Murder in Merrywell
by Jane Bettany
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cosy, festive murder mystery to curl up with in front of the fire, for fans of Clare Chase and Katie Gayle.
In the charming village of Merrywell, an exciting new Christmas Market is bringing festive cheer and bustling crowds. But as the stallholders celebrate in the village bookshop at the end of a successful first day, someone rushes in to announce that a body has been found.
Once again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Violet Brewster is on hand to offer the police her astute – if perhaps unwelcome – opinion on the crime…
All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event.
Creep
by Jennifer Hillier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A popular psychology professor in Seattle, Sheila works hard to keep her secrets hidden. On the surface, she’s an expert in human behavior and a well-liked educator, but nobody knows she’s a recovering sex addict in therapy—not even the love of her life, Morris. And she needs it to stay that way, or she could lose everything.
But Ethan Wolfe is impossible to resist. The graduate student is brilliant, charming, and seductive as hell. He’s also Sheila’s teaching assistant, and thirteen years her junior…
True Evil
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard’s office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse’s own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse’s bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about.
Instant Replays of the Exodus
by Christopher Gazeent
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
FOUR MISFITS. Red, a rebel and aspiring writer who’s probably too smart for his own good. Bones, who is bipolar and trying to find a place for himself in the world. Jim, a charismatic, loveable dork. And Ox, a hardcore introvert who loves music more than anything. Back in the day, they were the best of friends. Now, a decade later, Ox has lost his battle with depression, Jim has disappeared, and Bones wants nothing to do with Red.
Then there’s Kev, a young gay man who happens to be a goth and a furry, and Rich, a slacker with autism. Will wrongs ever be righted? Can they?
The London Bookshop Affair
by Louise Fein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war.
London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony…
France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sending messages back home to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.
Broken Love
by Linda Robinson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Physically mistreated by her spouse, Jennifer Tadlock changes her appearance, runs, and is hiding out in a home for abused women when she’s hired by Sheri Jenkins, owner of Serenity Cove, a bed-and-breakfast inn.
As Jennifer begins to relax in an apartment provided by Sheri and her husband Bradley, she longs to get her own identity back, but an ominous phone call from her estranged husband results in a setback of profound fear and insecurity.
Paul Mixon, a young, handsome landscaping contractor, who lost the love of his life to cancer two years before, is also employed by the inn. He’s made it through crippling grief at last and begins to think of dating, marrying, and raising a family when Jennifer catches his eye.
The Christmas Guest
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Who is he?
When handsome author, Nate, moves into Laura’s picturesque guesthouse in coastal Maine, it seems like a holiday fairy tale.
Her quiet, comfortable life takes a new direction as they get to know each other. He seems too good to be true, and she can hardly believe how everything falls into place for them. As their romance blossoms, Laura questions what Nate is hiding from her. Who is he talking to in the middle of the night? Why is he so secretive?