Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Quilt or Innocence
by Elizabeth Craig
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dapple Hills, North Carolina, she’s learning all sorts of new things—including how to solve a murder…
As the newest member of the Village Quilters Guild, Beatrice has a lot of gossip to catch up on—especially with the Patchwork Cottage quilt shop about to close. It seems that Judith, the landlord everyone loves to hate, wants to raise the rent, despite being a quilter herself…
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(A Southern Quilting Mysteries)
Stone’s Throw
by Mike Lupica, Robert B. Parker’s
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Paradise is rocked by the mayor’s untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone.
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse’s has his doubts . . . especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal.
Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to buy and develop the prime piece of real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesse’s: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow.
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(A Jesse Stone Mysteries)
Earth: Game of the Year
by Robert Carnevale
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jack, a young and jaded New Yorker, is done with life.
Its challenges are plentiful, and there’s a simple solution just a toaster and bathtub away. But everything changes when a teenager from another realm informs Jack he’s a sentient AI trapped in a video game—one that can be manipulated.
For Jack’s sake, the teen hacks the game to make it easier, forcing its cruel developers to intervene. Out of cheats and options, the digital protagonist must confront reality: If he wants a better future, he’s going to need to earn said future legitimately.
Justice for Hattie Mayfair
by Irene Onorato
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lexi Mallard saw what happened in the woods. But if she tells…
Ten years is a long time to keep a secret. Eat, sleep, work. Stay busy. A social life seems impossible until Corbin Taylor, Lexi’s policeman next-door-neighbor, reaches out in friendship that quickly becomes much more serious.
Lexi’s budding relationship with a cop doesn’t go unnoticed by her evil brother.
She Survived: Jane
by M. William Phelps, Jane Carson-Sandler
Rating: 4.1 #ad
New York Times-Bestselling Author: A woman’s terrifying story of surviving the Golden State Killer, written with “one of America’s finest true crime writers” (Vincent Bugliosi).
Jane Sandler had just kissed her husband goodbye as he left for work that morning. When he pulled out of the garage, another man walked in unnoticed. Seconds later, as her three-year-old nestled by her side, Jane heard footsteps—and then saw an intruder wearing a black ski mask. He had a rope and a knife in his hands…
This is the harrowing account of Jane’s all-too real nightmare, told in her own words as part of a compelling narrative by award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and host of Dark Minds M. William Phelps. It is also the true story of Jane’s battle and will to survive, of how she fought back and learned to share her unspeakable ordeal to empower others—even as the remorseless murderer and rapist, who came to be known as the Golden State Killer, went on to attack dozens more.
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(She Survived Mysteries)
The Haunting of Clay Manor
by Marie Wilkens
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Amara Clay’s father died, many believed it was just another tragedy to befall a cursed family line. Convinced there is something more, Amara returns to her family estate to uncover the paranormal activity that has haunted her family for generations. Amara’s twin, Peter, doesn’t believe in ghost stories. But what they find at Clay Manor will change his mind and Amara’s life forever.
A War of Gifts
by Orson Scott Card
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with A War of Gifts, a short novel set during Ender Wiggin’s first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays.
The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn’t see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn’t exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student’s shoe.
This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.
Over the Falls in a Suitcase
by Kathleen Vincenz, Daniel Vincenz
Rating: 4.2 #ad
What happens when three sisters, a dog, a hat, and a pink suitcase collide in Niagara Falls? Find out in Over the Falls in a Suitcase.
When Lindsey and her sisters visit Niagara Falls with their mom for a girl’s weekend, they expect fun, site seeing, and sisterly love. After all, it is the last weekend before their mother undergoes cancer treatment and Lindsey and her sisters are sent away to live with an aunt.
Which one? They have to choose! Choose? Lindsey can’t even decide on a color of eye shadow.
Instead of a fun girl’s weekend, Lindsey’s indecision and her sisters’ constant bickering lead them into mishaps, including hidden dogs, stolen hats, and cute boys. Finally, Lindsey learns to take charge and keep her family together.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Marriage, Malice & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Love is in the air on what should have been the perfect day for a wedding, that is, until someone offs the wedding planner.
The wedding planner had done a great job. Predictably, he did his best to jack up the price with extras to please the mother of the bride who insisted on a traditional, monochromatic wedding. Even so, the bride prevailed and Trina and Bill’s wedding burst with color.
The victim also worked as event planner at the local country club, where he was popular with the men for his organizational skills and with the ladies for other reasons.
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(A Stacie Maroni Mysteries)
A Rip Through Time
by Kelley Armstrong
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Mallory wakes up in Catriona’s body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to her new reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it’s too late.
In A Rip Through Time, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong introduces a brand-new series mixing mystery, romance, and fantasy with thrilling results.
Titus Ray Thrillers Books 1, 2, & 3
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Get acquainted with CIA covert operative Titus Ray in this three-volume set from the highly acclaimed Titus Ray Thriller Series by award-winning author, Luana Ehrlich.
From One Night in Tehran, through Two Days in Caracas, to Three Weeks in Washington, these thrillers are full of non-stop action, page-turning suspense, and touches of humor, romance, and faith. Together these novels have over 950 five-star reviews.
Book I, One Night in Tehran: When he starts searching for answers, an assassin begins his own search—for him.
Book II, Two Days in Caracas: On the hunt for an assassin, Titus Ray faces a threat he never imagined. Can he overcome the obstacles and capture Ahmed Al-Amin before it’s too late?
Book III, Three Weeks In Washington: Titus exposes a plot to attack the nation’s capital with chemical weapons.
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(Titus Ray Thrillers)
The Sentinel
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Rating: 4.3 #ad
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.
But there’s nothing pleasant about the place.
In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution.
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(A Jack Reacher Mysteries)
In the Deep
by Loreth Anne White
Rating: 4.5 #ad
I hope you don’t find him. And if you do, I hope he’s dead and that he suffered…
Real-estate mogul Martin Cresswell-Smith is the best thing that has ever happened to Ellie. After her daughter’s devastating death, a divorce, and an emotional breakdown, he’s helped her move as far as possible from the grief, the rage, and the monsters of her past. Ellie imagines her new home with Martin in an Australian coastal town will be like living a fairy tale. But behind closed doors is another story—one that ends in Martin’s brutal murder. And Ellie seems almost relieved…
Naturally, everyone thinks Mrs. Cresswell-Smith is guilty.
Still Life
by Val McDermid
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, DCI Karen Pirie is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web—involving a long-ago disappearance, art forgery, and secret identities—that seems to surround a painter who can mimic anyone from Holbein to Hockney. Meanwhile, a traffic accident leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a suburban garage. Karen has a full plate, and it only gets more stressful as the man responsible for the death of the love of her life is scheduled for release from prison, reopening old wounds just as she was getting back on her feet.
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(Karen Pirie Mysteries)
Find Her
by Sarah A. Denzil
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Three weddings at one isolated venue. Three dead bodies. Three missing brides… And one of them is a murderer.
It’s Christmas Day at Wilder House, and three magical winter weddings are set to begin. But as the tables are arranged and the food is prepared, a perfect storm hits, cutting every guest from the rest of the world.
Most little girls dream of the perfect wedding. But this bride stumbles alone into the snow, her silk train dragging through dirt, her hands bloody from the murder she just committed…
Daddy Wolves of the Wild Box Set
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Not all love stories start with sunset strolls down the beach. These powerful shifters have defended the ones they love, and picked up some painful scars along the way. But don’t let the rock-hard muscles or glowering looks fool you. Beneath the brutal exterior is a beating heart that’s just found its mate, and after such a long wait, the flames of lust will incinerate anything that gets in their way.