Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Knee Deep in Dough
by Catherine Bruns
Rating: 4.8 #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes a hilariously homicidal Cookies & Chance mystery!
For once, baker Sally Muccio’s life isn’t a recipe for disaster. She’s happy to be out celebrating her wedding anniversary… that is until she spies her friend Officer Brian Jenkins with a gorgeous blonde who is not his newlywed wife. The woman’s name is Kelsey Sherman, and it turns out she once dated Brian. Which doesn’t make Sal feel any better about the situation, but she decides to mind her own business and enjoy her evening.
Only before the night is over Kelsey is dead from a gunshot wound, and Brian is found standing over her body. To make matters worse, the bullet is confirmed to have come from his own gun.
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(Cookies & Chance Mysteries)
Trophy Girl
by Marlis Manley
Rating: 4.9 #ad
It’s summer 1957, and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing – along with one of her late mother’s hidden scrapbooks – Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be.
Frank Haggard, the race-car driver in those yellowing news clippings, assumes the girl claiming to be his daughter is a fan acting on a dare, until Maggie tracks them down. Memories of his annulled marriage to Maggie’s sister flood over him, and the timing couldn’t be worse…
Snap
by Belinda Bauer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Just before Jack’s mother disappeared up the road to get help, she put the eleven-year-old boy in charge of his two sister. As they wait for her on the shoulder of the road in their stifling, broken-down car, the three children bicker, whine and play I-Spy. But their mother never comes back. And after that long, hot summer’s day, nothing will ever be the same again.
At fifteen-years-old, Jack is still in charge—supporting his sisters any way he can while evading social services. Meanwhile, a young woman across town wakes to find a knife beside her bed, and a note reading I could of killed you.
The Last Stand
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a new Billy Jo McCabe mystery set on a small island town in the Pacific Northwest. On the eve of Police Chief Mark Friessen’s wedding, a fierce snowstorm blankets the island, knocking out power, and the body of a woman is discovered in the church. The only clue is the note in her hand, a list of names—all members of Mark’s family.
Mark Friessen has been counting down the days to his wedding to Billy Jo McCabe. Yet only days from Christmas, after their families arrive, a freak blizzard comes out of nowhere and knocks out power on the entire island…
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(Billy Jo McCabe Mysteries)
Judgment
by Joseph Finder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and has an unforgettable night with him—something she’d never done before. They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again.
But back home in Boston, Juliana realizes that this was no random encounter. The man from Chicago proves to have an integral role in a case she’s presiding over–a sex-discrimination case that’s received national attention…
Cribbins
by R. H. Dixon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
He belonged in Hell, but lived next door! While struggling to cope with the emotional and physical impact of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, single mother Sophie Harrington is tormented by a man from her past: her old neighbour Ronnie Cribbins.
Cribbins has been dead for the past fifteen years and Sophie is faced with the possibility that his malevolent spirit could be the cause of her autoimmunity, because she can feel him attacking her senses from within.
HOTEL OBSCURE
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a run-down neighborhood in an unnamed city, people live and die in “the Obscure.”
Whether anyone remembers the real name of the derelict establishment is a mystery. In this six-story building, most who occupy the rooms are long-term residents, though some stay for as little as an hour.
The patronage is an eclectic group: musicians, writers, addicts, hookers, lonely people, poor people, rich people, once-well-off people, and those who have reason to hide from their former lives or to escape the demands of a disapproving and punishing society.
Running Blind
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.5
Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.
Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only one thing that links the victims. Each one of the women knew Jack Reacher–and it’s got him running blind.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dolphin Bay Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set 2
by Leena Clover
Rating: 4.9 #ad
A heartwarming cozy mystery series about family, friendship and a crusade for justice.
Recently widowed Anna Butler has finally realized her lifelong dream of opening a cafe. She may even have found love. But the local mayor is still on the warpath and won’t give up her vendetta against the Butlers. Anna knows the only way to shut her up is to figure out who killed John but that’s proving to be difficult. Will she ever be able to discover the truth about what happened to her husband?
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(Dolphin Bay Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set 2)
Among the Mad
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard’s elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane’s personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case. Meanwhile, Billy Beale, Maisie’s trusted assistant, is once again facing tragedy as his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their young daughter, slips further into melancholia’s abyss.
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(Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
Special Agent Maximilian
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Identical twins but different men – she loves both!
In this electrifying romantic suspense set in the steamy streets of New Orleans, Lieutenant Commander Nik Baudin, accidently meets up with an identical twin he never knew existed. When his brother Max goes missing, Nik assumes his identity as Special Agent Maximilian. This gives him access to FBI files making it easier to arrest the gangsters who attacked his brother and to stop their trafficking of underage girls. Being that Nik has specialized commando training, he’s the perfect man for the job – that’s if his PTSD doesn’t kick in and leave him cowering in a corner.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
The House Where It Happened
by Martina Devlin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It is 1711, and the Ulster-Scots community in a remote corner of Ireland is in turmoil. A pretty young newcomer is accusing one woman after another of witchcraft. But Ellen, the serving girl in the house where the visitor is staying, is loyal to the family – and over-fond of her master. Yet she knows that Knowehead is a house like no other.
And so she watches and ponders, as a seemingly normal girl claims she is bewitched. As a community turns against eight respectable woman. And as malevolent forces unleashed more than half a century earlier threaten a superstitious people beyond their understanding.
Seeing a Large Cat
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
No villain is safe in 1903 Egypt as feisty archaeologist Amelia Peabody embarks on her ninth adventure.
According to an ancient Egyptian papyrus, dreaming of a large cat means good luck. And that’s just what Amelia Peabody could use, as her growing family matures in the new century. What’s more, Amelia’s dashing husband Emerson has received a mysterious warning not to enter the Valley of the Kings. To Emerson’s annoyance, Amelia’s meddling distracts her attention as she exposes a fraudulent spiritualist, saves a marriage, and plays matchmaker.
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(Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Can’t Go Back
by Debra Webb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense. A woman and her child are dead, and though the husband says he killed them, the evidence says otherwise. Why would a man confess to unspeakable murders he didn’t commit?
What starts as an open-and-shut case explodes into a web of new leads. Devlin and Falco get to work tracking down every single one—including a disturbing connection between the murders and Falco’s dark past.
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(Devlin & Falco Mysteries)
The Last Methuselah
by Gordon Pierce
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the American South, a mystery is unfolding: Who was Nathaniel John Smith?
Two young boys hunting in the woods near their home in rural Mississippi discover the body of their neighbor, a reclusive older man named Nathaniel John Smith, who seems to have succumbed to the frigid winter weather. However, there is much more to the man’s tragic end than it first appears. In addition to the mysterious circumstances of his death, he has left detailed instructions in his will for a task to be carried out by the boys’ mother, Joleen. As a result, Joleen finds herself in possession of the manuscript of a four-part saga, The Last Methuselah, Mr. Smith’s loosely autobiographical book. In it, she begins to uncover the details of her late neighbor’s past, starting in the 1950s with his adolescence, which was composed of – among other things – farming, moonshine, Dixieland jazz, and young love.
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(The Last Methuselah Mysteries)