Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Pen Dipped in Poison
by J.M. Hall
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Retired schoolteachers Liz, Pat and Thelma are back at their usual table at the Thirsk Garden Centre café with a brand-new mystery to solve…
Curious white envelopes have been delivered to friends and neighbours. Inside are letters revealing the deepest secrets they have tried to hide.
As one by one, careers are ended, marriages destroyed and no one is beyond suspicion, the three friends decide enough is enough. They must take matters into their own hands before more damage is done.
Burned by Her Devotion
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the second Rogue Vows novella, the town of Solitude, Oregon, will learn that good TV makes for terrible reality.
When Chase Ryan, a popular crime TV star, turns up dead, the entire town of Solitude is shaken—but the show isn’t over yet. The confessed murderer is violently abducted on the way to the county jail, and now Detective Seth Harding must find both the killer and the kidnapper.
Seth’s investigation unearths unsavory secrets from the celebrity’s life that incriminate a cast of suspects: Chase’s family, his sleazy agent, and a fanatical stalker with a troubled thirteen-year-old daughter…
Curse the Day
by Annabel Chase
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal.
The only magic Emma Hart believes in is caffeine and the power of the dryer to lose one sock per load. A public interest lawyer buried under a mound of student debt, Emma’s whole life has been one turn of bad luck after another. Her streak seems to continue when she gets lost on the way to see a client in the remote Pocono Mountains. A chance encounter with a suicidal angel lands her in Spellbound, a town where supernaturals have been cursed to remain for centuries–probably not the best time for Emma to discover that she’s actually a witch.
Immortal in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a world where technology can create beauty and youth, but passion and greed can destroy them…
She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman’s man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle.
Fear No Evil
by James Patterson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Caught in a web of assassins, Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years.
Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission.
Until they’re attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years.
Death of a Cad
by M. C. Beaton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted . . . except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla’s engagement party, has just been found murdered-shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with many titled party guests as the prime suspects, each with a reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case. When the hidden culprit strikes again, Hamish will find himself trying to save Priscilla from a miserable marriage-and catch a killer before he flies the coop.
Tracks
by Lyn I. Kelly
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“It ain’t nothin’ like you’ve ever seen before, Sheriff.”
That was when Sheriff Cotton Briggs found the body, slaughtered beyond recognition inside a random boxcar. The trains have always moved through McGregor Falls, Texas, but now they have brought something into town, something Briggs had hoped was forever in the past.
Fifteen-year-old Travis Braniff while exploring an old trainyard with a friend, encounters that same something. Both boys escape the creature’s murderous intent, but now it is after them and will stop at nothing to prevent its secret from being revealed…too soon.
You Are Home
by Rachel Warchawski
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Bring out your inner creator and learn how your passions, ideals, and desires can help design the perfect home – for you.
No matter what people say, you don’t need to be an expert designer to make your house into a cozy, comfy, stylish home. In fact, all you need to design the perfect space for your everyday life is already entirely in your hands.
With engaging prompts and rich real-life examples, expert urban architect Rachel Warchawski will teach you how to tap into your creative fountain and make any home your own – whether it’s a new two-stories cottage or a 3-bedroom apartment.
Mae’s Second Chance Series: Boxset
by Jacie Middlemann
Rating: 4.8 #ad
For the Engstrom family, the adventure of living in a ghost town with a huge mansion, saloon, jail cell, and its very own mystery is bittersweet as they struggle with inspiring determination to carry on after a tragic loss.
This includes:
Home to the Valley
Treasures Found
Valley Secrets
And…So We Walked
by Rick and Jane McKinney
Rating: 4.8 #ad
How would you respond if asked to do something you knew was impossible? Something so difficult, so crazy, so beyond your ability that it didn’t even make sense. You’d dismiss it, forget about it and act like you were never asked, right? But what if it were God asking? What if you were absolutely sure that you had just heard God speak?
This is that story. It is the story of ultimate Christian Discipleship. It is the story of life-changing Christian Evangelism. The story of two very unlikely people who were asked by God to walk across America. They were to walk from one side of the country to the other, in every conceivable kind of weather, facing what seemed like insurmountable odds, taking every step together and accomplish it in just six months.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Peril in Paris
by Rhys Bowen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, are awaiting a bundle of joy, but an unexpected trip to Paris will thrust them straight into a tangled web of international intrigue in this all-new mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series from Rhys Bowen.
What a delight it is to finally be able to enjoy a simple meal again! I have been in the throes of morning sickness for the last few months as Darcy and I prepare to welcome a brand-new addition to our little family. Now that I am feeling better, I have realized I am dreadfully bored! It seems that all my nearest and dearest are off leading their own busy lives while I sit at home and attempt to train our two adorably naughty puppies. Fun as it may be, it is hard not to long for a little adventure, a change of pace, before my true confinement begins when the baby comes.
End Game
by Logan Ryles
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A small town governed by greed and corruption. Then Mason Sharpe rolls in.
On a dark Alabama highway, army veteran Mason Sharpe witnesses a terrible accident. As he fights to rescue a woman from the burning vehicle he notices one of her eyes is bright blue, the other deep brown. Then, she vanishes. Gone without a trace.
When Mason describes her to local police, they’re stunned. His description matches one Delia Crawford, famed for her unusual eyes. But Delia disappeared as a child, eleven years prior. How could she possibly show up in a car accident now?
A World of Curiosities
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.
A Touch of Malice
by Scarlett St. Clair
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“I am not sure who you think I am,” she said. “But let me be clear—I am Persephone, future Queen of the Underworld, Lady of Your Fate—may you come to dread my presence.”
Persephone and Hades are engaged. In retaliation, Demeter summons a snowstorm that cripples New Greece, and refuses to lift the blizzard unless her daughter calls off her engagement. When the Olympians intervene, Persephone finds her future in the hands of ancient gods, and they are divided. Do they allow Persephone to marry Hades and go to war with Demeter, or prohibit their union and take up arms against the God of the Dead?
Traded
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jake Wilde has two loves, but neither is going his way.
Pro football star, Jake Wilde is the youngest of the Wilde Brothers and to anyone who doesn’t know him, he appears to be a man who as it all. Only he wears his heart on his sleeve, has been traded from a team he believes is family, and the woman he’s head over heels in love with has walked out the door.
Alone now in a new city, Jake knows no one and tells himself there is nothing to like about this new team.
But when he meets Chris Jeger, a cheerleader who overheard him outside the locker room on the phone begging the woman he’s so twisted up in knots over to give him another chance, he’s not only humiliated, but instead of ignoring him she offers him some unexpected friendly advice.
Abandoned in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: They’re dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma—a situation Eve is all too familiar with herself…
The Cliff’s Edge
by Charles Todd
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.
Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn into the fray as two once close families take sides, even as they are forced to remain in the same house until the inquest is completed.
House Beside the River
by David Burnett
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lives hang in the balance in this story of romantic suspense featuring a strong heroine, a sweet love story, and the eternal struggle between good and evil.
Running from vile rumors and merciless ridicule, thirteen-year-old Nicole Beaumont flees her home in Parsons Valley, Georgia. She leaves Chris behind, the boy who had been her best friend for life, her soul mate, the one with whom she was supposed to spend her life, and she takes refuge at a boarding school in rural Pennsylvania. Chris had betrayed her, and Nicole vows she will never trust another person as she had trusted Chris.
But when Nicole meets Richard, she finds herself unable to deny the connection between them. He accepts Nicole as she is. He keeps her secrets. When others doubt her, he stands in her defense. They begin to fall in love.
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
by William Landay
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A wonderful, well-written novel that crackles with suspense.”—Stephen King
One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot.
So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin?
The Panther and The Pearl
by Doreen Owens Malek
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The American Beauty: When an innocent excursion to Constantinople took an unexpected twist, Sarah Woolcott found herself a prisoner in the harem of young and virile Kalid Shah. Headstrong and courageous, Sarah was determined to resist the handsome foreigner whose arrogance outraged her– even as his tantalizing touch promised exotic nights of fiery sensuality.
The Turkish Prince: Never had he encountered a woman who inflamed his desire like the blonde Westerner with the independent spirit. Although she spurned his passionate overtures, Kalid vowed to tempt her with his masterful skills until she became a willing companion on their journey of exquisite ecstasy!