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Chicory is Trickery

by Sheri Richey

It's springtime in Spicetown and Mayor Cora Mae Bingham discovers there may be trouble blooming along with the rhododendrons! With construction in full throttle in the new subdivisions and the income tax filing deadline looming over her head, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham is revamping the Annual Easter Eggs-Travaganza and trying to figure out who is in the Easter bunny suit this year, when a dead body has to be added to her To-Do list.

A Nickel's Worth of Road Measles

by S.L. Funk

Gerry Donahue is a down and almost out auto mechanic with a too-sharp love of alcohol and a childhood secret: a traumatic injury as a child has left him with a sixth sense - the ability to 'see' past events and 'hear' people's thoughts. It's a 'gift' he desperately doesn't want. When he climbs into a used car, his life implodes; a serial killer is on the loose...and Gerry is the only one who knows he is out there...and no one will believe him. Can he stop a killer and right a past wrong? Or will... more

Uncommon Relations

by Rosalind Minett

A two-book psychological mystery full of suspense. Poached eggs every morning and a wife side-stepping sex, Terry assumes that's the norm for a 28-year-old married man. Other people wake to find they’ve won the lottery or become famous. It’s never him. But when he spots his double on the morning commute, his predictable life-style changes forever. The identical twin he never knew he had typifies another, brighter lifestyle, Tensions with troubled wife, Gudrun, cause Terry to keep his two world... more

Enemies of Doves

by SHANESSA GLUHM

When Joel and Clancy Fitchett find themselves at the center of a murder investigation, whispers of their past start to resurface—a history they hid and buried long ago. Their decision now will change everything. A second lie, a second pact and— hopefully—a second chance. College student Garrison Stark is on a mission to find out if Clancy Fitchett is his biological grandfather. Though Clancy has been missing since 1946, Garrison plans to find him and discover the truth. But after unearthing s... more

Sister Margaret: A Tommy Keane Novel

by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

NYPD Detective Tommy Keane has spent nineteen years chasing criminals in the Bronx - investigating unimaginable crimes and solving near-impossible cases. When a punitive measure forces Keane to transfer to the relatively quiet 21st Precinct in Manhattan, he expects his last thirteen months before retirement to be painfully easy. But as the grisly murder of a celebrated nun soon proves, even the safest neighborhoods can have their secrets, and even the most seasoned detective can be surprised by ... more

A Revelation of Death

by Alexa Padgett and J. J. Cagney

The fourth installment in the Kirkus Reviews, National Indie Excellence Awards and Publishers Weekly award-winning series by USA Today Best-selling Author, J. J. Cagney: The first victim rolls out of a rain barrel. Soon, Cici Gurule dreams of other women's attacks, thanks to visions from her dead twin. The victims' watery graves torment Cici, feeding her growing fear of water. The killer targets Cici's congregants and friends, taunting her and her lover, Detective Sam Chastain. Sam part... more

Pincher Creek

by Scott Norman

Pincher Creek tells the story of Tom Payton, a father of two from Vancouver, BC, who comes out of a coma to discover he survived the car accident that claimed the lives of his wife and two daughters. With money from the three life insurance policies, he borrows a page from Neil Peart, the drummer of RUSH, to go in search of a new reason for existence after his past life has been erased. His journey delivers him to Babb, Montana, an hour from the Canadian border in the heart of the Blackfeet I... more

Yanter

by Bethany A. Beeler

Women are being murdered on campus. Thomas Yanter can't sleep, nor can he be certain that HE'S not the murderer. A model student with a secret, compromised past, Yanter's life is upended when the mysterious Tami of his high-school days resurfaces in his life, her presence drawing him ever closer to the epicenter of campus violence. Then, Yanter finds a pool of blood in a hidden underground passage and black pools his memory can't recover on the nights women were murdered. Is h... more

Calaveras

by Lisa Michelle

Deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County accidents happen. For gritty rancher and soon-to-be grandmother Kate Dunnigan, these deaths are mostly good old cowboy justice—until the day that justice hits home. Kate’s idyllic façade is destroyed when Emma Lee, her pregnant daughter, is wanted for murder. On the run and fighting to survive, Emma Lee is haunted by filthy family secrets but Kate will stop at nothing to save her from life in prison, even if it means using herself as bait.

Mountain Misery: Calaveras Love Stories

by Lisa Michelle

Mountain Misery is a collection of rural stories that remind us that love is a motley collection of emotion. Often twisted and tangled. Set deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County on the verge of the Sierra Nevada, these stories offer an intimate and authentic look at those who exist in the darkness of failure but courageously continue to seek the light of possibility.

Don't Break the Dolls: Scarlet's Story

by Simone Luxe

Everyone has demons. Some are small and convince you to take the last piece of cake. Some are bigger and convince you to lie and cheat. Some demons, like Scarlet's, can gobble up human life with no remorse. The scariest part isn't that we all have demons. It's that those demons are just primitive thoughts of our own design. There is no horned devil hiding in the shadows controlling them. We control them ourselves... and Scarlet's demons would always be her own secret playthings that roar... more

The Hidden Hand of Death (The Jack Ryder Mysteries Book 1)

by Lawrence J. Epstein

It is early in 1942. The war with Germany has just begun. Jack Ryder, who calls himself a fixer rather than a detective, wanders the darkest nights to his office in a back booth at an all-night diner. Ryder is famous for killing members of the mob who have crossed their bosses by hurting innocent people. Ryder also helps ordinary people in trouble. An enemy—a homicide detective—comes to hire Ryder to find the detective’s missing sister. Ryder also gets involved in going up against some Nazis ... more

Winter Road

by mickey mikkelson

HOLIDAY ROAD On the heels of a bad breakup, Amelia Montgomery heads home for the holidays. Her hometown is a far cry from the metropolis where she lives now, but not nearly far enough away from Jake Grayson. TERROR ROAD Amelia's family festivities turn terrifying when a distraught Jake shows up uninvited on the Montgomery's doorstep. Jake will not stop until he possesses Amelia; one way or another, she will be his. DEADLY ROAD In a chilling nightmare, one man's obsession is so evil, it'... more

The House Always Wins (First Printing)

by Tom Minder

A tale of murder, mayhem, magic, and cheesesteaks. Someone is shooting up Dirty Sam’s. Will the Long Harbor police get their man, or woman, before a casino heist, a slots player who disappears in a puff of smoke, a crossbow-toting florist, and an undercover agent who makes a mean goulash, complicate the investigation? Oh, for the simpler days of illegal gambling.

Kill Tide: A Pepper Ryan Thriller

by Timothy Fagan

A kidnapped girl. A terrified Cape Cod. And a police cadet in way over his head… It’s summertime on Cape Cod. Pepper Ryan’s biggest worries are a crummy love life and doubts about his supposedly bright future. But then a teenage girl is kidnapped, stunning her beach town. The police launch a manhunt to catch the brazen kidnapper nicknamed the Greenhead Snatcher. Pepper attempts to find the girl himself, but the only thing he finds is trouble. Then the Greenhead Snatcher strikes again. ... more

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by Joanne Carota

Kate Finn grew up on the South Boston docks idolizing her commercial fisherman father, Seamus Finn and his friends. Now she’s a marine biologist working for the FDA who still spends as much time as she can on the docks near this salty crew. That is, until one misty morning when she discovers her father’s best friend, Sammy, dead on the docks. All signs point toward Seamus.

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