Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Pineapple Hurricane
by Amy Vansant
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean and gore-free small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller.
When a Pineapple Port resident is found dead during an approaching hurricane, Charlotte fears someone’s trying to disguise murders as storm-related accidents. The first two victims have more than the storm in common – both were hoarding valuable storm supplies like toilet paper and water.
Hm. Maybe the killer is karma!
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(Pineapple Port Mysteries)
Brazen Planet
by Gayle Katz
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean and gore-free small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller.
A government secret threatens all life on Earth. Can one scientist get off the ground to save humanity and herself before doomsday?
Charlotte Miller never backs down from a challenge. Haunted by her astronaut mother’s disappearance on a decades-old exploratory mission to Venus, the distraught scientist will do anything to find out what happened to her. When data surfaces that points to a global calamity, Charlotte is desperate to follow in her mom’s footsteps to solve both mysteries…
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(Tears of Venus Mysteries)
Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost
by Lindsay Marcott
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a modern and twisty retelling of Jane Eyre, a young woman must question everything she thinks she knows about love, loyalty, and murder.
Jane has lost everything: job, mother, relationship, even her home. A friend calls to offer an unusual deal—a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. She accepts.
But nothing is quite as it seems at the Rochester estate. Though he’s been accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, Evan Rochester insists she drowned herself. Jane is skeptical, but she still finds herself falling for the brilliant and secretive entrepreneur and growing close to his daughter.
Farm
by Sian Rosé
Rating: 4.2 #ad
5 work colleagues find themselves lost on the way to a retreat in the countryside. At a desolate pub, they are effortlessly seduced into a change of plans by three mysterious, beautiful hippies who invite them to a party at their mansion, alluring them with the promise of sex, drugs, and good times.
The following morning, Prue wakes up to find herself alone with Faith, the leader of the strange community of misfits living within the mansion’s walls. Faith says that Prue’s friends are at the farm, and will be back soon… although it doesn’t take long for Prue to realise that what sounds like an innocent day trip is something far, far more sinister, and more horrifying than she could ever imagine.
Crooked River
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A startling crime with dozens of victims. Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach—each one with a crudely severed human foot inside.
A ghastly enigma with no apparent solution. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene—and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery. With an ocean of possibilities confronting the investigation, no one is sure what happened, why, or from where the feet originated. And they desperately need to know: are the victims still alive?
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(Pendergast Mysteries)
Magic City Chronicles Complete Series Boxed Set
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Magic City is full of hustlers, con men and magicals just out for a good time. The perfect mix of glamour and gangsters. It’s a magical version of Vegas and it’s a lot more than meets the eye.
Something big is about to go down in Magic City and it’s nothing good. Can Ruby Achera, her friends and family put a stop to it before it explodes and sends chips flying everywhere?
Grab this 8-book urban fantasy boxed set to find out!
The Stalker
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dark secrets are resurrected in this new O’Connell novel. Alison Sweetgrass-O’Connell believes she’s forever a misfit and will never fit in.
After struggling to recover from a teenage crush that dealt her a crippling blow, Alison watches from the sidelines in the small town of Livingston, Montana, which hasn’t been friendly to her. Silently, she believes everyone’s seemingly perfect lives have a dark side. And soon her beliefs prove true.
Alison meets young, attractive med student Bennett Warren, new to Livingston. Suddenly, Bennett is showing up everywhere she is—and then, in her good fortune, he turns out to have rented the apartment right next door.
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
Wheels of Injustice
by Susan Louise Gabriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wheels of Injustice is a curtains-pulled-back true account of the out-of-control child protection system of the 1980s and the victims who risked everything to expose its egregiously unjust acts and reform it.
The book is a tribute to God’s faithfulness and a message of hope to others who have struggled to overcome adversity, fight injustice, or turn an upended life the right way around again.
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Garden Girls Cozy Mysteries: Box Set I
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Murder She Wrote Meets the Golden Girls in This Humorous Small Town Mystery Series!”
Treat yourself to this 3 Book Box Set with more than 700 pages of fun-filled, clean cozy mysteries and get to know Gloria and the Garden Girls as they solve mysteries in their cozy town of Belhaven.
BONUS: RECIPES INSIDE!
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(Garden Girls Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set series)
Wheels of Injustice
by Susan Louise Gabriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan’s 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
Dragged under the churning wheels of the child protection system, Susan is given a choice: cooperate in prosecuting her innocent husband or lose her daughter. When the couple doesn’t give in to pressure, Susan loses custody of her daughter, and her husband is charged with a felony that carries a 16-year prison sentence.
No one wants to hear the facts. No one wants to know the truth.
The Day after Oblivion
by Tim Washburn
Rating: 4.4 #ad
AND SO IT BEGINS… In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea . . . Iran . . . Russia . . . and soon the gates of Hell will open.
DEFCON 1—FULL SCALE NUCLEAR WAR
Humanity’s most terrifying nightmare has become reality.Bombs are detonated, missiles are launched, counterstrikes are ordered, and within minutes, untold thousands of megatons have left countless millions dead or dying. Devastation of biblical proportions has fallen over the land . . . and the USA has been hit the hardest. NOW THE SURVIVORS ARE ON THEIR OWN…
Love and Money, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.5 #ad
No one wants to believe murder can happen in their neighborhood.
Murder is nothing new for Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth, or her husband, Detective Brett McMann. Still, shots fired add a layer of tension to babysitting and being neighborly. This time the murder is too close for comfort. There are no witnesses and no verified identification of the victim, not to mention the car accident prompting Sheridan to be next door. Questions are raised about an investment company and business practices. Could a kitten have the key to the motive and killer?
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
The Girl Beneath the Sea
by Andrew Mayne
Rating: 4.3 #ad
For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.
Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family’s shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she’s the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal—a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan’s. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect. And her colleagues aren’t the only ones following every move she makes. So is the killer.
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(Underwater Investigation Unit Mysteries)
Preacher’s Fury
by William W. Johnstone
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Woman for the Winter. Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. A beautiful woman named Raven’s Wing makes the sheltering even better—once he gets things straight with a jealous brave who wants to lift Preacher’s scalp.
A Fire in the Night. Across the border is another wanderer and another tribe. Preacher’s old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with the deadliest combination possible: whisky, guns, and bullets—then directs them to try out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of devastating death, bloodshed and helpless captives. Deaver is all the more delighted when he learns Preacher is among the fallen.
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(The First Mountain Man Mysteries)
Storm’s Fury
by Mary Stone
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Some storms destroy. Others clear a path.
Military veteran Amelia Storm returns to her hometown of Chicago when her beloved police officer brother is killed in the line of duty. Now she is a special agent with the FBI. No longer a scared girl, she vows to avenge her brother and do what she can to end the city’s deep wells of corruption.
A television documentary puts a spotlight on a four-year-old kidnapping. Amelia and her colleagues in the Organized Crime Division know there’s more to the girl’s case than meets the eye.
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(Amelia Storm FBI Mysteries)