Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Pelican Cove Cozy Mystery Series Box Set
by Leena Clover
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Flour, butter … Murder! Recently divorced baker Jenny King sifts through a pound of clues and red herrings to catch the killer in this bestselling cozy mystery series thousands love.
When forty four year old Jenny King moved to a remote island for a second chance at life, she didn’t know it would involve murder. She’s working at the Boardwalk Cafe, baking sweet treats to forget the bitter pill that is her life. Then a stranger’s body washes up on the beach and her aunt is arrested. Compelled by circumstances, Jenny goes sleuthing to prove her aunt’s innocence.
But who said solving a murder was going to be easy?
The Girl and the Secret Society
by A.J. Rivers
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Evil has many faces. This one you will never see coming.
This is the bizarre and shocking case of Lakyn Monroe. In the midst of filming her show, Lakyn vanished ithout a trace. Four months have passed, and the unusual disappearance of the internet celebrity has garnered nationwide attention. With no clues to the reasoning behind her disappearance, the beautiful girl with the world at her feet would soon become just another missing face.
It has been months since the horror of Windsor Island. FBI agent Emma Griffin has fully settled back in Sherwood. Balancing her time between the Bureau, the local police, and making sense of her ex-boyfriend’s mysterious death.
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(Emma Griffin FBI Mysteries)
The Family Secret
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s never a good thing when a corpse appears when you least expect it…especially in this dark romantic crime thriller.
Just what is the mystery behind Raymond O’Connells disappearance?
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you The Family Secret, an O’Connell family novel, when a body is discovered at the edge of town, rumors, circumstantial evidence and a chance for revenge lead to one family members’s arrest, and an all out effort to take several other O’Connells down as well.
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
Tidepool
by Nicole Willson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
If ye give not willingly, the Lords will rise… In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappears while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won’t rest until she finds him. Defying her father’s orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry visited.
Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can’t quite meet Sorrow’s eyes when she questions them about Henry. When corpses wash up on shore looking as if they’ve been torn apart by something not quite human, Sorrow is ready to return to Baltimore and let her father send in the professional detectives.
The Alington Inheritance
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A family fortune may be motive for murder: “Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot” (Manchester Evening News).
Jenny has never been one to feel sorry for herself. The illegitimate child of a wealthy man and a statureless woman, she has been an orphan since before she can remember. It is a hard life made bearable only by the kindness of her guardian, an old woman named Miss Garstone, who has always treated Jenny as her own. Struck down by a motorist, “Garsty” dies, whispering to Jenny that her parents were actually married, and she is the rightful heir to the Alington fortune.
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(The Miss Silver Mysteries Mysteries)
Hades Sent
by B.Y. Simpson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Seventeen-year-old loner Ireland Grace is a demon living in an angel’s world. A hybrid, born to a demon mother and an angel father, Ireland is the ultimate symbol of betrayal among her peoples.
Rejected, Ireland yearns for the day she can prove herself. So, when she’s given a special assignment by the leader of the angels, she is eager to do whatever it takes to complete it. Even if that means becoming more like something she’s always feared-her mother.
Greve Kronos’ specialty is making hybrids more like their demon counterparts, a task he completes with ruthless efficiency. Commanded to destroy Ireland’s angelic side and mold her to become the tool her mother wants her to be, he begins the pursuit.
Mark of Steel
by Lynn Landes
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From singing to becoming the target of an unseen enemy. Marina Stephenson follows her heart and fills in at her friends bar the night her singer doesn’t show up. It was a simple gift from friend to friend, but her life is soon in turmoil. Dubbed the “secret singer” by the press, Marina’s life is turned upside down when she sings to Billionaire Axl Devereaux.
Inventor, Axl Devereaux, CEO of Devereaux Knives, Inc., is ready to present his cutting-edge design to the United States military. His work has been heralded by multiple branches of the government. Security has been a problem in the past, not this time. The new design could change the future in more ways than anyone can imagine. Well, almost anyone.
Someone is trying to steal the prototype but how far will they go to get what they want? Can he trust Marina?
Crystals
by Silvia Hill
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Secrets of Crystal Healing, Minerals, and Gemstones for Beginners. Discover the secrets of minerals, gemstones, and crystal healing.
Have you ever thought about how crystals are created? How do crystals heal? How can you master the art of crystal healing?Is crystal healing effective?
This book focuses on crystals, gemstones, and minerals that can be used for healing purposes. It provides crystal healing tips and techniques to help beginners understand everything about the topic. This book is aimed at beginners interested in crystal healing and can deepen your knowledge even if you already have experience with crystals.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in an Irish Bookshop
by Carlene O’Connor
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a new bookstore in the County Cork Irish village of Kilbane closes the book on an author’s life, it’s up to Garda Siobhán O’Sullivan to resolve the story . . .
Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán is feeling a bit overwhelmed. But an author event at the new bookstore featuring Irish writers taking up residency in Kilbane offers a welcome distraction.
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(An Irish Village Mysteries)
Layla
by Colleen Hoover
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.
Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns…
Kill Someone
by Luke Smitherd
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the author of the international best-seller The Stone Man, shortlisted for Audible UK’s Book of the Year Award 2015
Here are the rules.
Method: you can’t use a gun. You can’t use explosives. You can’t use poison. It has to be up close and personal. You don’t have to worry about leaving evidence; that will be taken care of.
Victim: no one suicidal. No one over the age of 65. No one with a terminal illness.
Utopia House Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Lolia Davenport is gifted a winning lottery ticket, she doesn’t use the money for herself. She purchases a historic mansion in Brady, Texas, and fills it with friends who have end-of-life ambitions, but lack funding to make their dreams reality. With a name like “Utopia House” and an eclectic mix of people who quickly become friends – and with plenty of money – Utopia House should be as perfect as the name.
But something dark and sinister hides within the iconic building – murder. And when murder escapes from its hiding place—no one is safe.
A POLICE DOCTOR INVESTIGATES
by Candy Denman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The first three standalone titles in a great series following part-time English GP and police medical examiner Callie Hughes:
DEAD PRETTY
BODY HEAT
GUILTY PARTY
“Thoroughly enjoyed these books, so much so that I ordered the fourth book in the series. Well worth reading” by Amazon Customer
What’s So Funny?
by Donald E. Westlake
Rating: 4.6 #ad
All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull Dortmunder into a game he never wanted to play.
With no choice, he musters his always-game gang and they set out on a perilous treasure hunt for a long-lost gold and jewel-studded chess set once intended as a birthday gift for the last Romanov czar, which unfortunately reached Russia after that party was over.
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(The Dortmunder Mysteries)
Buried Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.4 #ad
All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer.
Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She’d come to Widow’s Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month—and not a single islander has reported her missing.
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(Widow’s Island Mysteries)
The Unforgiven
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip.
When private investigator Dan Oliver is called to the scene of a gruesome crime in New Orleans, he can’t help but hear echoes of the Delaney case, the unsolved murder that made him leave law enforcement. As he digs deeper, he unearths more chilling similarities—including mysterious letters connecting the killer to a string of murders that terrorized the Big Easy in 1919.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)