Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
by Benjamin Stevenson
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Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. In this dysfunctional family, some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I write guides to writing mysteries, so you can call me a reliable narrator. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that.
Don’t Let Her In
by J.M. O’Rourke
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Lesley seems like a perfectly normal woman. Until you ask her to leave.
Gillian wants to do right by her elderly Aunt Myra. A safe nursing home. Daily visits. A peaceful final chapter for the woman who has been like a mother to her.
A plan that’s derailed when a stranger turns up on the doorstep claiming to be Myra’s long-lost niece, Lesley. She says she’s here to look after Myra.
Within days, Myra’s bank accounts are being drained and Lesley has taken full control of the house. And Gillian—the woman who has always been there for Myra—isn’t allowed through the door.
The Original Adventures of Nancy Drew
by Carolyn Keene
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This volume collects the first four novels in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, before the series was heavily rewritten and toned down in the late 1950s for a cautious, television-age audience.
These mysteries, first published in 1930, feature a bolder, more headstrong version of America’s most famous girl detective—sharp-tongued, resourceful, independent, and willing to bend the rules, take real chances, and face genuine danger to get to the truth. The girl in these pages doesn’t wait for permission or rescue. She drives fast, talks back, and solves crimes on her own terms.
The Twelve
by Justin Cronin
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In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .
In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her…
Polostan
by Neal Stephenson
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The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression.
When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
Spacebar: The Complete Series
by John Walker
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Carson Flint left the Commonwealth’s wars behind for the quiet life of running a saloon on the edge of nowhere.
The Bulwark sits on Castus, the last neutral ground in a galaxy that tore itself apart. Smugglers, refugees, and war-weary soldiers drift through its doors, and Carson keeps his corner of it calm by staying out of everyone else’s business.
Then a dying man stumbles in carrying a secret worth killing for.
The stranger came out of Commonwealth service, hunted across the stars, holding something the Thortan warlords will level a settlement to reclaim. When their guns reach Castus, neutrality means nothing, and the Bulwark stands between a ruthless militia and a discovery that could reshape a galaxy.
EMP No Power No Shelter C Boxed Set
by William Stone
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She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour.
Her father’s paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left.
The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother’s money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.
Then the disaster came, the kind that proves a paranoid man was just a prophet nobody believed, and everything his obsession stole from her became the only reason she lived.
The Intrigue
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune.
He thinks he’s found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn’t expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maid and the Mansion
by Fiona Grace
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In post-World War II England, a clever, young woman named Mary Adams finds herself thrust into a world of privilege and secrets as she transitions from being a wartime factory worker to a maid in the grand estates.
As Mary begins a new position in the kitchens of a prestigious family, she finds herself in the midst of an engagement party where the air is thick with tension and secrets. When a poison-induced murder disrupts the façade of a forced union, Mary must uncover the identity of the killer before the killer destroys more than just the engagement…
Kachina Doll Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
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When she goes to pay her bill at a bed and breakfast she’s stayed at for 3 days, Jordan finds the owner murdered and becomes the chief suspect, because she was the only guest the previous night. The suspicion only gets worse when the woman’s strange will leaves the property to her, a total stranger.
Jordan prides herself in being tough, but having fled the cool, piney woods of Georgia for the hostile Arizona desert to escape her jealous ex-husband, Jordan finds herself in alien surroundings that tax her to the max. Eerily surrounded by a legion of Native American kachina dolls, and both two-legged and four-legged strangers, she is thrust into a mystery that doesn’t end with the first murder.
If Two Are Dead
by Rick Mofina
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Three girls go into the woods, but only one comes out…
Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something—or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make—and he has to make it fast.
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
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What would you do if you suddenly received a phone call from your daughter who has been missing for years? And then discovered you now have an orphaned granddaughter named Glory you never knew existed? What do you do when you realize her silence hides a dangerous secret?
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California…
Oyster Bay Boogie
by Eric Wilder
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Buckle up! The ride’s about to get bumpy.
When a claw rips through Grogan ‘Chief’ La Tortue’s teepee at midnight, he quickly realizes it isn’t an ordinary beast but a rougarou, a Cajun werewolf stalking Oyster Island, the ancestral home of the Atakapa Indians. Cajun witch Paula Mouton and her friend Odette, who lives in a tent on the beach with her dog Mud Puppy, vow to confront the ghosts in the nearby lighthouse. Their actions soon lead them to the Majestic, a Prohibition-era hotel and casino—a noir setting where they face a vampire, demons, and an avenging angel. The paranormal island is about to become even more haunted. Buckle up and enjoy the thrills, fantasy, and mystery. The ride’s fun and a little racy, but it’s about to get bumpy.
Shadow of the Solstice
by Anne Hillerman
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In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet meditation group connected to a mysterious death and a nefarious scheme targeting vulnerable indigenous people living with addiction.
The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official’s arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found in an area restricted for the disposal of radioactive uranium waste…
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Evoking Jane Austen, Emma Straub, and other masters of the literary marriage, Breathing Lessons celebrates the small miracles and magic of truly knowing someone.
Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings—and is oftern regarded as Tyler’s seminal work. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs—through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other’s faults with patience and affection.
The Country Road Murders
by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
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Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered.
He goes back to what’s left of his family and their small, struggling farm. He reunites with his best friend in the world—Taylor McCarter Webb, who is now married.
Then Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder.