Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Basement Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.3 #ad
You’ll love Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt, a novel by Ann Hazelwood, you’ll get to know the family and friends of Anne Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs will seem so familiar you’ll identify with her right away. Anne decides to learn to quilt to help her aunt, and in the process learns family secrets. Then she uncovers a mysterious presence in her mother’s basement, or does she? Anne learns about love, too, in various forms. She and the members of the Colebridge community go through some big life changes. Are their decisions wise or does trouble lie ahead?
Dead in the Water
by Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy—and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.
In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up – and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered.
Fog City Fraud
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Why would a law-abiding citizen hold a knife to a young girl’s throat and drag her onto the ledge of a high-rise building in San Francisco?
Returned war hero, Josh Kennelly, is hiding a dark secret and knows he risks being exposed if he attempts to save her. A police bullet ends the standoff, and when the man plunges to his death, he takes the reasons for his momentary madness with him.
Devastated, his heartbroken daughter seeks Josh out and asks him to help find out why her father snapped.
Winter Chill
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 3.7 #ad
A small town is rocked by a string of suspicious accidents in this suspense thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Child.
The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian’s husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground.
Friends and colleagues in Marian’s Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents.
Have You Seen Me?
by Kate White
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he’s shocked to see her—because, he explains, she hasn’t worked there in five years.
Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the psychiatric ER, she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance journalist; she’s married to a terrific man named Hugh. More memories materialize and yet she still can’t recall anything about the previous two days.
Now That You Mention It
by Kristan Higgins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.
Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There’s only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn’t necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.
Witching the Night Away Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.7 #ad
12 witch romance novellas by New York Times, USA Today, and other bestselling authors.
I was so excited to see this wonderful anthology become available! It is filled with some of my favorite authors I have been reading for years, and here they are gathered up in this wonderful book! I highly recommend giving this Anthology a try. There are also new-to-me authors I can’t wait to “meet” here. Below is a review of one of those “favorites” to give you an idea of what you can find in this collection.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dog-Gone Dead
by Jackie Layton
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Who’d have thought mulch could cause such a stink?
Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brother’s landscaping jobs—until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark.
Worse, her brother’s landscaping tools were used to commit the murder. Once the police arrest her brother and seem happy to have “caught their man,” Andi Grace has no choice but to track down the real killer. She’ll risk everything to prove her brother’s innocence. Even if it means turning over every rock in town.
Hide
by Kiersten White
Rating: 3.9 #ad
The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win – to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that. It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.
The Last House on Needless Street
by Catriona Ward
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“The buzz…is real. I’ve read it and was blown away. It’s a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end.” – Stephen King
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel!
A World Fantasy Award Finalist!
Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.
Chronicles of Zoey Grimm Complete Series Boxed Set
by Theophilus Monroe, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.1 #ad
My brother is taking over the family business…
It was something I’d trained for my entire life. I was more suited for it than he was in almost every way. Except for the most important one… the ability he’d inherited from our father.
Why wasn’t I born with the same powers? I’m leaving the underworld. I don’t belong there anymore. Of course, I only have one marketable skill: Kicking ass and taking names. How can I use that to start a new life for myself on Earth? Unfortunately, vigilantism doesn’t pay the bills.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Badlands
by C.J. Box
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In C.J. Box’s New York Times bestseller, Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever encountered. . .
Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard dreams of getting out of Grimstad and leading a better life. Even though Kyle has been written off as a “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine. One day, while delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a mysterious bundle from the scene. Suddenly he’s in possession of a lot of money—and packets of white powder—and Kyle can’t help but wonder whether his luck has changed…for better or for worse.
Killing the Legends
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more.
Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life—until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted.
In Killing the Legends, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles.
Runaway Dragon Mates
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Six brides dressed in white—ready to say, “I do—” discover no other choice but to run away. Fate leads each woman to a hot and irresistible alpha dragon shifter—who wants to protect his one and only. But when the ex-fiancé shows up for revenge, it’s a bloody battle…in the name of love.
“The series is tied together with the thread of death and corruption. Wonderfully strong female characters and of course the passion that comes with Dragons who are beyond their human world.” by Amazon Customer
Vanished
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
‘A 2016 Readers Favorite Award Winner in Suspense’
She thought her nightmare was over
Abby has married the man of her dreams. He rescued her, and he’s the father of her child. Everything should be perfect, but she begins to relive her nightmare from when she was taken… and one night she disappears, leaving her children alone in the dead of night, her husband on a military ship halfway around the world. But when Eric arrives home and the search begins, there are two disturbing questions: Was someone in the house? And how is it possible for Abby to simply vanish?
