Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Double Wide
by Gretchen Archer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
True or False: Bellissimo Resort and Casino Super Spy Davis Way Cole, her partner, Fantasy Erb, and a trivia queen named Mango Matisse are kidnapped. The answer is true. Stuffed in the storage compartment of a motorhome, the women are abducted from a golf course and abandoned on a ravaged barrier island somewhere in the Gulf.
Fill in the blank: Did the kidnapper get it wrong? Did he kidnap Davis thinking she was__________?
Check out:
(A Davis Way Crime Caper Mysteries)
STARBOARD EIGHT
by BRIAN CASEY
Rating: 4.9 #ad
When a violent incident proves the final straw for his parents, troubled teenager Jesse is sent away to join the Blue Water School. Here, youngsters in need of direction and guidance live and work aboard sailing ships in the Caribbean. Despite the exotic setting Jesse faces demanding physical, academic and personal challenges. Along with the colorful collection of fellow teens in ‘starboard eight’ he encounters The Bermuda Triangle, ‘St Elmo’s Fire’, pirate treasure, a devastating hurricane and a first real romance. His voyage culminates with the American bicentennial celebrations in New York City and an overdue reconciliation with his parents.
Based on the author’s experiences, this vital adventure offers a powerful evocation of another time and place and a compelling exploration of familial and fraternal relationships.
The Hostess with the Ghostess
by E. J. Copperman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Solving a murder way too close to home, Alison Kerby can’t catch a break.
If Alison Kerby really wanted peace and quiet, she never should have opened the Haunted Guesthouse. The Jersey Shore lodge’s latest polter-guest is Richard Harrison, the recently murdered brother of long-time resident ghost PI Paul Harrison.
Alas, a beyond-the-grave brotherly reunion is nowhere in the foreseeable future—phantasmal Paul left the guesthouse months ago for parts unknown, and for all her ghost-whispering prowess, Alison has no idea how to find him. And she’s going to need Paul, because Richard’s isn’t the only murder still unsolved.
Check out:
(A Haunted Guesthouse Mysteries)
In Her Eyes
by Sarah Alderson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
You’re at home with your family. You think you’re safe. You’re wrong . . .
Ava’s life is the kind other people envy: loving husband; great kids; beautiful house. Until a violent home invasion turns the dream into a nightmare and leaves her daughter fighting to survive. This wasn’t a random attack and Ava is reeling from the knowledge that someone is targeting her family. Who could hate them enough to kill?
To save those she loves from even greater danger Ava must find out what really happened that night. But when everyone around her has been lying, how will she decide who to trust? And with her own secrets threatening to come to light, can she even trust herself?
Eversion
by Alastair Reynolds
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it’s up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
The 14th Colony
by Steve Berry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States.
Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in the West, are headed overseas to Washington D.C. Noon on January 20th—Inauguration Day—is only hours away. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to disaster and Zorin intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest.
Check out:
(Cotton Malone Mysteries)
Looking Glass Cottage
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Morgan Easton Greer is forced to pick up the pieces and start over after her world is shattered by a series of tragic events including a failing marriage and losing her mother.
Shortly after her mother’s death, a mysterious letter arrives, inviting Morgan to a remote island for the reading of her mother’s will… a will she had no idea existed.
The Searcher
by Tana French
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
Family Unbroken
by Jacie Middlemann
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The villa in Espinola reveals many of Jeremy’s carefully guarded secrets…the long forgotten centuries old paintings found in the attic are just the beginning…
Family Unbroken is the second book in the Delahass Legacy series, the continuing saga of one family’s search for answers to a mystery rooted in historical events that took place generations ago in the later years of the twenty-first century.
Ann Delahass has always wanted to visit the place that her ancestor, Jeremy Delahass, had been inspired by when he built his home, Nolbeloir House. It is one of life’s many mysteries she hoped to find an answer to. She and two of her cousins, David and Paul Delahass, have decided to finally make the trip to Espinola in the hope of visiting the old school and learning what they can from it.
Check out:
(The Delahass Legacy)
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bake, Borrow, and Stea
by Ellie Alexander
Rating: 4.5 #ad
As the autumnal hues of November fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are working on their biggest event ever. They’ve been invited to create chocolate showpieces for the gala opening of a new exhibit, Shakespeare’s Lost Pages at SOMA. The museum, located on the campus of Southern Oregon University, is getting ready to unveil the Bard’s lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, which is being touted as the greatest artistic discovery of modern times. In addition to molding luscious, silky chocolate into magnificent structures, Torte will be serving an authentic Elizabethan feast straight from the pages of a sixteenth century cookbook featuring Lardy cakes, Frangipane tarts, and jellies with chestnut cream.
Check out:
(A Bakeshop Mysteries)
The Third Grave
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through Georgia. The storm does more than dislodge shutters and shingles. It leads to a grisly find in the cellar. Three graves. But only two skeletons…
For Nikki, the discovery is a gift, the perfect subject for her next crime book—though Reed has made her promise not to keep involving herself in dangerous police business. But despite the increasing tension between them, Nikki can’t stay away from this story. Rumors are widespread that the burial site is the resting place of the Duval sisters—three young girls who went to the movies with their older brother, Owen, twenty years ago, and never returned. Forensics confirms that the remains belong to Holly and Poppy Duval. But where is the youngest sister, Rose?
Check out:
(Savannah Mysteries)
The Groom Went Missing
by Jenifer Ruff
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through Georgia. The storm does more than dislodge shutters and shingles. It leads to a grisly find in the cellar. Three graves. But only two skeletons…
For Nikki, the discovery is a gift, the perfect subject for her next crime book—though Reed has made her promise not to keep involving herself in dangerous police business. But despite the increasing tension between them, Nikki can’t stay away from this story. Rumors are widespread that the burial site is the resting place of the Duval sisters—three young girls who went to the movies with their older brother, Owen, twenty years ago, and never returned. Forensics confirms that the remains belong to Holly and Poppy Duval. But where is the youngest sister, Rose?
Check out:
(Agent Victoria Heslin Mysteries)
End of Days
by Brad Taylor
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a paragliding trip over the picturesque mountains of Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mossad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. But they’ll need help to find out who was behind the attack and what they’re planning next. Luckily, Aaron and Shoshana know exactly who to call.
Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been trapped in Charleston, South Carolina during COVID-19, so when Aaron and Shoshana show up on their doorstep with Israeli passports and a new mission, they jump at the chance to assist their friends.
Check out:
(A Pike Logan Mysteries)
Lucy’s Coming for you…
by Ashley Beegan
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Summer Thomas questions her own sanity when violent patient, Lucy Clark, disappears from a locked hospital ward. Because no one else will admit that Lucy exists.
As Summer digs deeper into the disappearance, it becomes apparent that Lucy is looking for her too, but Summer should have stayed away. Now, Lucy is coming for her… And there’s no escaping someone who doesn’t exist.
The Tale Teller
by Anne Hillerman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware—witchcraft is afoot.
While the veteran detective is busy working to untangle his strange case, his former colleague Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito are collecting evidence they hope will lead to a cunning criminal behind a rash of burglaries.
Check out:
(Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Mysteries)
Bridge to Texas
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bridge to Texas offers unsurpassed comedy from start to finish as forty-something Texas Miz Mike gets involved in a “nude” photo shoot for a calendar to raise funds for a wildlife sanctuary and ends up solving a murder.
Murder by ostrich? A mule that breaks into houses and spies on women in the shower? It could only happen in Three Prongs, Texas, where the misfits fit.
Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland leaves Scotland behind in a bid to become a Texan. Is it a lost cause? He encounters fire ants, scorpions, “resurrection” animals—and the thing he hates and fears most—snakes.
City of Time and Magic
by Paula Brackston
Rating: 4.7 #ad
City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet. She must choose from three treasures that sing to her; a beautiful writing slope, a mourning brooch of heartbreaking detail, and a gorgeous gem-set hat pin. All call her, but the wrong one could take her on a mission other than that which she must address first, and the stakes could not be higher. While her earlier mission to Regency England had been a success, the journey home resulted in Liam being taken from her, spirited away to another time and place. Xanthe must follow the treasure that will take her to him if he is not to be lost forever.
The Missing Daughter
by Levi Fuller
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fly a little swallow…before the monster eats you up.
Haunted by tragedy, Julie Farlow becomes the newest FBI agent in the Baltimore office, determined to prevent other families from suffering through the hell she barely survived. When she uncovers a disturbing pattern in missing persons cases she fears a serial killer is on the loose.
She’s thrust into a partnership with the last person she wants to work with…agent Leo Finch.
Check out:
(Julie Farlow FBI Mysteries)
