Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Malibran Theater
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
During the restoration of the Malibran Theater in Venice, an ancient mummy of an Asian woman is discovered buried under the stage. Detective Antonio Galimberti and Professor Francesca Pavan, an expert in Chinese antiquities, are called to the scene. Two things are found on the mummy: a tiara of inestimable value and a diary. The only other lead they have is that the theater had been built on the foundation of Marco Polo’s house.
The next day, the precious tiara is stolen from the forensic department and later the suspected thief is discovered dead—without the tiara. A murderer has it now. Eventually, two people who can identify the killer are also found murdered…
The Innocent Wife
by Sally Royer-Derr
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In this house, love and betrayal sleep side by side…
Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes.
Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies. Olivia learned long ago that her husband is no saint, but he’s about to discover that neither is she…
Classic Tales of Horror
by Multiple Authors
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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!
Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities.
This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.
Big Bad Wool
by Leonie Swann
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the highly anticipated follow-up to the breakout offbeat hit Three Bags Full (now a major motion picture: The Sheep Detectives), an enterprising flock of sheep must get to the bottom of just who—or what—is leaving a trail of grisly destruction in its wake.
With one solved mystery under their wooly belts, the time has come for the sheep of Glennkill to explore Europe. Together with their new shepherdess, Rebecca, they move into their winter quarters in the shadow of a French chateau. But their new home is far from idyllic. A number of sheep from a previous flock have disappeared, and deer are dying unnatural deaths in the forest. The strange goats from the neighboring pasture have a theory: a werewolf. Could that be real, or just a fantasy?
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
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Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother.
But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
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A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.
Dear Teacher
by Ruth Harrow
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They say confronting your past can set you free. They lied.
Desperate for closure, I travel to Spain to track down the abusive teacher who shattered my childhood. But on a sun-baked vineyard run by a charming British couple, I get shivers of recognition down my spine.
One of them is chillingly familiar… I slip quietly into their lives, feigning friendship while searching for the truth. But nothing is what it seems here. Behind their welcoming smiles lurk the worst secrets. Their sprawling vineyard is home to secrets the couple would kill to protect.
Their staff behave bizarrely. Some whisper warnings. Others are too terrified to speak up. People vanish from the staff list like they were never there.
All His Pretty Girls
by Charly Cox
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Detective Alyssa Wyatt is hunting a serial killer. She doesn’t know that he’s hunting her.
A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit.
It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest plaything of a shadowy psychopath that leaves a long shadow on the streets of New Mexico an individual linked to a string of deaths but leaving no evidence…
The Sheriff’s Discovery
by Elizabeth Horst
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Sheriff Tom Hutchinson, a relatively new lawman in a sprawling county out in the Wild West, is determined to protect his precinct from the many threats of criminals no matter what it takes.
Meanwhile, in a nearby small town, Rob Jackson is facing the trials of farming and needs to take an unexpected trip for supplies. When Rob leaves his place in the capable hands of his wife Sally and the local Trapper Jones, a young and mysterious stranger named Jim shows up.
Sally is only too happy to take Jim under her wing rather than deal with the likes of the rough and grubby Trapper Jones. Yet, Jones is suspicious. Something is off about Jim, and he seems to have a story to hide.
Targeted
by M. William Phelps
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A New York Times–bestselling author’s account of a Georgia deputy accused of murder: “A gripping, no-holds-barred work of investigative journalism” (Steve Jackson, author of No Stone Unturned).
When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff’s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as New York Times–bestselling author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt.