Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Christmas Village Cozy Mystery Box Set
by Leighann Dobbs
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This boxset contains books 1 & 2 of the Christmas Village Cozy Mysteries set in the fictional town of Christmas Village where there is always plenty of mistletoe, magic and mayhem.
Cadaver on Candy Cane Lane: When Ember Quinn visits Christmas Village to assist her elderly great-aunt Phoebe in the holiday chocolate-making tasks, the last thing she expects is for an elf to get murdered at their back door…
Grievance in Gingerbread Alley: When Augusta (Gus) Chance takes a break from her duties as Sheriff of Mystic Notch to indulge in her hobby of playing jazz piano in Christmas Village she never imagines that a surprise from her past will cause her to become embroiled in the investigation of a suspicious death…
Voice of Fear
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A killer is looking to silence them, once and for all.
FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she’s been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semisalvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can’t imagine making a worse first impression. Especially when she’s partnered with Patrick moving forward.
Patrick’s innate ability to get inside a criminal’s head is an asset for the Krewe of Hunters. But Jordan wishes she could protect her own thoughts from her new partner.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)
Bluebonnet Ballerina
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Gracie Hofner returns, and chaos reigns—including a couple of ghosts trying to save their granddaughter.
As Gracie dances from problem to problem, she’s unaware the music has been orchestrated into a murderous symphony. When a different melody reaches Gracie’s ears from a guitar played by the new tenant living in her garage apartment, her tension vanishes. She listens unseen, cocooned in the shadows on her patio, and wonders who he’s longing for—and how it would feel for a man to crave her that much.
She can’t dwell on those thoughts, however. Problems of murder and missing prisoners abound. To say nothing of the ghosts. No one ever said being a law enforcement consultant would be easy.
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(The Amazing Gracie)
The Lighthouse Witches
by C. J. Cooke
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found–but she’s still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting.
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.
The Tree House Detectives and
The Missing Crown of Thorns
by Kristy Andrews
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Tree House Detectives are determined to rescue their church’s Easter play from disaster! Join this trio of strong girls as they go on the hunt for clues to discover the location of the lost crown of thorns! Try to guess along as the girls interrogate potential suspects.
Will the detectives be able to save the play? Pull out your magnifying glass and tag along as the girls attempt to solve their first mystery!
The Dark Wind
by Tony Hillerman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.
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(A Leaphorn and Chee Mysteries)
The Savage Day
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After surviving the war in Korea, Simon Vaughan decided the only loyalty he had was to the man in the mirror. For a while, the high-risk job of arms dealing seemed to be just the life for him. Too bad the Greek authorities didn’t see it that way when they tossed him in prison.
But now he’s gotten a reprieve from an unlikely source: the British Army. And if he wants out, he’s going to have to play their game.
It seems that the Irish Republican Army has made off with a half-million dollars in gold bullion.
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(Simon Vaughn Mysteries)
Leviathan Falls
by James S. A. Corey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.
In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself.
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(The Expanse Mysteries)
Return to Summit Falls Boxset
by Jacie Middlemann
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Return to Summit Falls is the ongoing story of four men who learned from childhood that not all family ties are those we are born to…and how life can change in a single day…a single moment. When they return to the small town of Summit Falls, they find life is also filled with second chances…in life and love.
This includes:
Going Home
Home Again
Coming Home
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Baker’s Rise Mysteries Books 1 to 4
by R. A. Hutchins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A delightfully humorous series of culinary cozy murder mysteries following amateur sleuth Flora Miller, her feathered sidekick, and the quirky residents of Baker’s Rise.
“Here Today, Scone Tomorrow” -> When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
“Pie Comes Before A Fall” -> Ray Dodds, landlord of the Baker’s Rise village pub, the aptly named Bun in The Oven, and self-confessed local Lothario, meets an untimely demise in this second book of the popular cosy mystery series.
“Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fondant”-> Fresh from her latest investigation, Lady of the Manor Flora is looking forward to a quiet Autumn, writing her children’s stories, serving customers in the tearoom, and learning how to make and decorate a traditional Christmas cake in time for the festive season.
Storykeeper
by Daniel A. Smith
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Smith writes fluidly, and the society he depicts is intriguingly complex.” – Kirkus Reviews
The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando De Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood plains of eastern Arkansas.Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition detailed a complex array of twelve different nations. Each had separate beliefs, languages, and interconnected villages with capital towns comparable in size to European cities of the time…
ODETTE’S SONG
by A. G. Russo
Rating: 4.5 #ad
What’s going to happen to six-year-old Hunter?
His parents are dead, and his grandmother is dying. He’s left with a family legacy of addiction, depression, and suicide. Hunter’s mother, Odette, wanted the husband she left for another man, to raise him, but Nico, alcoholic, depressed, and full of rage, wants no part of the child. He cannot accept that Odette, his wife and songwriting partner, left him.
During their senior year of high school, the beautiful, multiracial Odette, with an incredible voice and stage presence, joined Nico’s band. Five hard years of trying to “make it” finally paid off, but their inexperience cost them their independence, financial stability, and vultures wanting a piece of their songs, the only thing Nico, a talented guitarist, has left.
Up to Snow Good
by Beatrice Fishback
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s almost Christmas, and Daisy McFarland must leave her quaint British home for the holidays. Aunt Juliet, her last living relative, has passed away. As the sole heir, it is Daisy’s responsibility to sell the childhood home she grew up in and liquidate her aunt’s assets in Windswept Pines, North Carolina.
Unexpected surprises face Daisy once she’s back in the States.Encounters with three teaching colleagues – otherwise known as the I.C.E. Queens – whose ill treatment over the years had been a primary reason for her move to England, appear genuinely happy to see her. But is their behavior merely a ruse?
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(A Daisy McFarland Cozy Mysteries)
Darkness Unknown
by Selina A. Fenech
Rating: 4.4 #ad
They lied. Werewolves, vampires, ghosts … they aren’t what you think.
After the death of her mother, Everly goes back to her eerie hometown with a plan to get in and out as quick as possible. Step one, clear out the family home and antique store. Step two, avoid thinking about her past and the boy who broke her heart. Step three, watch him die at the hands of a nightmarish monster. Wait, what? That wasn’t the plan. But it was just a dream, wasn’t it? As the evidence mounts that what she saw was real, a broken heart is the least of her problems. Because now his body is missing, and his soul is trapped in her dreams…
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(Beshadowed Mysteries)
Bred in the Bone
by Christopher Brookmyre
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Glasgow Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has one gangster in the mortuary and another, Glen Fallan, behind bars for allegedly taking him out. But fighting for conviction isn’t going to be easy. This case may be more personal for McLeod than she’s letting on. And Fallan might not even be guilty.
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp has a stake in Fallan’s future, too. The gangland enforcer once moved in the same dangerous shadows that her mysterious father lived and died in. And the strange bond Fallan had with her mother is something no one in Sharp’s family ever dares to discuss.
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(The Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod Mysteries)
Heart of Ice
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Cursed Knight: MacKay de Bar is the only one of the siblings yet to be cursed by the evil witch, Hecuba. In an attempt to stop her, he breaks her magic mirror. When a shard gets embedded into his chest, strange things begin to happen and he realizes he, too, has been cursed after all. Hecuba banishes him to an island with a wicked queen. In this frozen land, MacKay’s curse makes all that is good look evil, and all that is evil look good.
A Cold-Hearted Queen: Lady Eira Koldottir is known as the Snow Queen. She’s been betrayed so many times in her life that her heart has hardened and she has forgotten how to love. She is used to people hating her, and she doesn’t care. But when a stranger comes to her kingdom, everything starts to change.
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(Tangled Tales Mysteries)
Dark Crime
by Christine Feehan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two strangers are bonded by a lust for revenge—and each other—in this Carpathian novella from Christine Feehan’s “erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre” (J. R. Ward).
Blaze McGuire knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback. Until a phone call from a seductive stranger pleads with her to wait. Retribution is in his blood, too. Now, he and Blaze will be united in the blood of the guilty. Tonight, vengeance is theirs.
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(The Dark Mysteries)