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Murder Ballad Blues: A Mystery Novel

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About Murder Ballad Blues: A Mystery Novel:

“Readers will relish this story’s superior tension.” Midwest Book Review

Laurel Falls, N.C. 2005 A mysterious death in the North Carolina mountains. Then a second. By the third, the FBI finally gets involved. Trouble is, they’re looking in all the wrong places.

Abit Bradshaw has a theory, but of course the FBI doesn’t take him seriously. When he teams up with musicologist Wallis Harding, bluegrass music becomes more than something to practice and perform. It’s key to finding the serial killer.

Della Kincaid, a former crime reporter in Washington, D.C., can’t seem to escape her past. Now living in the small town of Laurel Falls, she’s busy investigating a fraud case that gets darker at every turn. She’s about to give up when a secretive whistleblower pulls her in again—and back to D.C.

Abit and Della team up once again to convince the FBI to help them with both their crime investigations.

Will Abit and Wallis discover the killer’s pattern … before he strikes again?

Can Della make sense of the whistleblower’s clues before the fraud case is closed for good?

You’ll love this suspenseful mystery because everyone longs to find justice in this crazy world.

This is the fourth novel—a standalone novel—in the Appalachian Mountain Mysteries series. All the favorite characters return, along with the debut of several colorful new ones.

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The Girl And The Field Of Bones by A.J. Rivers

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About Featured Book: The Girl And The Field Of Bones by A.J. Rivers

There are secrets only the dead can tell.
And some of these secrets refuse to remain buried.

Since the death of her mother, FBI agent Emma Griffin has devoted her life to uncover the truth behind even the most shocking mysteries.
Now Emma must confront the dangerous, but unavoidable truth behind what she witnessed in the temple. The people behind this secret society call themselves the Order.

The Order has committed one too many atrocities to ignore.
But their vow of secrets and silence locked behind vaulted doors has made Emma’s mission of confronting the truth, almost impossible.
When another mystery resurfaces and death comes knocking close to home, Emma begins to feel entrapped by a maze. A mysterious field with the dead buried beneath.
The lives of the past and the present lay on the line. The only way to save them is to fight the terrifying monsters head on.
But what do you do when the evil you are fighting lurks in the shadows and refuse to come out?

There is no more running, and you cannot hide.
The only option is to fight like mad to survive.

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Main Street

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A year after her husband’s death, interior designer Dana Canfield is ready to move on with her life. When her studio wins the bid to renovate Providence Island’s charming Main Street district, she knows she’s found the perfect place to call home. She soon learns there are secrets in her past. Some of those secrets followed her to Providence Island. And some were waiting there for her.

Garage owner Nick Warden has his eye on the Dana’s BMW convertible, but he’s more interested in getting to know the charismatic woman who holds its keys. As their relationship kicks into high gear, Nick realizes that the series of strange—and terrifying—incidents plaguing Dana over the past year are connected to her late husband’s murder.

Nick and Dana’s relationship leaps from zero to sixty, but danger’s not far behind. Can they solve a quarter-century-old mystery before it’s too late?

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Winslow: The Yet To Be Traveler

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When Winslow Doyle’s girlfriend Shawna Edwards and nephew Adahy Redwolf find a body during a camping trip, it sets Winslow off on a mission to discover what happened. He believes the dead young woman is someone he rescued when she was lost in the wilderness many years before. What he uncovers is a con set up by a billion-dollar defense company to save its billionaire owner from ruin.

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Her Last Call by Elle Gray

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Her Last Call by Elle Gray

Shortly after detective Paxton takes on the case of Stella Hughes, he realizes this is no ordinary murder. It becomes clear very quickly that Stella, the girl Paxton had known, was the victim of another serial killer – a theory that’s quickly confirmed by a bright, quirky journalist named Marcy.

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The Seven Sisters Cottonwood Omnibus Edition by M.L. Bullock

The Seven Sisters Cottonwood Omnibus Edition by M.L. Bullock

Updated & Expanded FULL Omnibus version for Feb 2020!

The Seven Sisters Ultimate Cottonwood Saga, including two bonus stories.

When historian Carrie Jo Jardine accepted her dream job as the chief historian at Seven Sisters in Mobile, Alabama, she had no idea what she would encounter.

The moldering old plantation housed more than a few boxes of antebellum artifacts and forgotten oil paintings.

Secrets lived there–and they demanded to be set free.

When young, wealthy Ashland Stuart offered Carrie Jo the job, he had no idea that she had a secret of her own.

An unexpected accident takes Carrie Jo back in time as a witness to life at the plantation over 150 years ago.

An impassioned plea from Ashland puts Carrie Jo in a precarious position as the two work together to find young and beautiful missing heiress Calpurnia Cottonwood.

A collection of journals and a series of dreams give Carrie Jo all the clues she needs to find the missing girl, but both a present-day danger and one from the past try to stop her.

Will Carrie Jo solve the mystery of the houseor will she go missing forever herself?

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The Seven Sisters Complete Cottonwood Saga Includes:
1. Seven Sisters
2. Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters
3. Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters
4. The Stars That Fell
5. The Stars We Walked Upon
6. The Sun Rises Over Seven Sisters
7. Christmas at Seven Sisters
8. Ghost on a Swing
9. Beyond Seven Sisters

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The Finger Trap

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Tony Flaner is a malingering part-time comedian, full-time sarcastic, who’s never had it hard, and never finished a thing in his life. He’s had twelve years to prepare for his divorce and didn’t. He had his entire life to choose a career and hasn’t. Now time’s up, and he’s in a world of trouble. But it gets worse—a first date and a drunken party ends with Tony facing prison for the murder of a girl he hardly knew.

But other than that, it was a pretty great party.

To save himself, wise-cracking Tony must discover who the mysterious girl was, what she was involved in and what the hell she saw in him in the first place. Their lives are linked together at the ends of a Chinese finger trap, like life and death, friends and enemies, arugula quiche and pigs knuckles.

Winner of the League of Utah Writers Diamond Quill for Best Book of the Year.

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

The romantic mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette that will forever change his and Catherine’s life. Doug’s mysterious behavior after the find forces Catherine to seek escape at The Osprey Cove Lodge. What she finds at the lodge turns out to be far more valuable. Follow the suspense, mystery, and romance of Book 1 of this continuing series, The Osprey Cove Lodge Series.
Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The setting for The Osprey Cove Lodge series was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The beautiful and inviting description of the lodge will make you want to pack your bags and head there. The series is written in a continuing fashion; please be sure to read the books in the order written.

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THE BLUE ROSE

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A simple Christmas tree fire. An easy claim to process for Miles Fire & Casualty adjuster, Cathy Tolliver. Then a hundred-thousand-dollar necklace goes missing a week later and Cathy is suspicious. When two people are dead, Cathy wonders if she’s next.

Best-selling author, Terry Toler, brings you this exciting novel about Wanda Rose, the greatest female jazz singer of her day. How did her husband of twelve years never hear her sing?

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Emma Frost Mystery Series: Vol 7-9 by Willow Rose

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Crazy deal! Save $9.99 on three bone-chilling tales from the bestselling author Willow Rose.
Investigator Emma Frost is searching for her missing daughter when she stumbles upon a sinister cover-up. She’ll need the help of a mysterious couple to crack the case — and stay alive. A deeply dark mystery from an international bestselling author.

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Emma Frost Mystery Series: Vol 7-9 by Willow Rose

Emma Frost Mystery Series: Vol 7-9 by Willow Rose

Bone-chilling tales from the Amazon ALL-star Bestselling author Willow Rose

˃˃˃ EASY AS ONE TWO THREE:
Mads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.
Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead. But was it really an accident, or is there more to the story than they first thought? Emma believes so but can’t convince the police. To help her, Emma receives help from a couple many of Willow Rose’s readers will recognize.

˃˃˃ THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME:
What is the worst that can happen?
Maria and Jonas Boegh asked themselves that very question when deciding to sign the papers for their new house. It might be expensive. They might be in over their heads a little financially, but they were never happier than on the day they moved in. Everything was perfect. It was the house of their dreams. They had their entire life ahead of them.
They were untouchable.
When the couple’s bodies are found the very next morning by their next-door neighbor, Emma Frost, a series of strange things start to happen on the small Danish island. More people are killed, and soon, Emma is chasing a serial killer about whom she only knows one thing. He’s obsessed with the old classic movie, The Wizard of Oz.
There’s No Place Like Home is the eighth installment in Willow Rose’s popular mystery series about the author Emma Frost and her friends and family on Fanoe Island.

˃˃˃ SLENDERMAN:
Ever Heard of Slender Man?
They say he is always there. They say he is always watching. A tall guy in a suit and tie, with no face, and arms like tentacles.
Some say he is an online myth; others will go very far to prove he is real, so far that they might even kill for him.
Fanoe Island is busy with the mayoral election coming up, when suddenly, the sitting mayor is found killed. Rumors tell that a faceless man dressed in a suit and tie did it.
In Emma Frost’s house that she inherited from her grandmother, a box of letters is found that tells a story from a long time ago. A terrifying story revealing a painful chapter in the life of her own family half a century ago.
Slender Man is a spine-chilling mystery from the bestselling author Willow Rose. It is the ninth in her Emma Frost-series.

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I See You by Elle Gray

I See You by Elle Gray

I see you.

As Paxton launched into his new endeavors, he finds himself in the sights of a serial killer.
Forced to play a part in the killer’s deadly games.
Paxton enlists the help of his friend, FBI agent Blake Wilder.
But when she gets caught in the killer’s trap.
Paxton must do everything to survive, outwit the killer, and save his friend.

To win this great and deadly game Paxton will have to go down a dark path.
A path he vowed long ago to never walk again.

The game has just begun. The danger has never been higher.
To save Blake’s life as well as possibly learn the answers to questions about his wife’s death.
Paxton will have to do the unimaginable to outlast, outwit, and win.
Winning and losing will mean the difference between life and death.

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BLACK FROST (Emma Frost Book 13) by Willow Rose

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Available for $0.99 for a limited time (09/25-09/29-2020)!

From Multi-Million-Copy Bestselling author Willow Rose comes the next chapter in the #1 Bestselling Emma Frost Mystery Series.

Emma Frost is tied up in a murder mystery that seems out of this world.

When a young girl disappears one night from the park, then turns up again the next morning in a different place on the island, people start to talk about her.

Was she drunk and just doesn't remember what happened?

Did she go home with a guy and won't admit it?

What happened to her, and why is she insisting that she doesn't know?

Emma Frost is fighting for Victor's best friend, Skye.

Emma is trying to get her back from the people who took her in the night, but having no luck when a guy falls into her arms in the street and dies a few minutes later.

The autopsy shows he has frozen to death, but it doesn't seem possible. When a young boy from Victor's school turns up frozen as well, and things start to get cold around her own house, Emma begins to fear for her loved ones' lives.

Once again, Willow Rose has written a story so compelling that it leaves the reader in almost unbearable suspense until the surprise ending is revealed.

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The Guitarist

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After years of playing bars and small clubs, the rocker band, Thin Edges, heads toward the center of a new style of music: Laurel Canyon, north of L.A., an area known for the arts and a hedonistic lifestyle. They begin to experience success and savor the available drugs and women. The mounting conflicts worsen in their time at ‘the Canyon’, and while they struggle through the difficulties for the sake of their fame and resulting wealth, eventually, the incompatibility dooms the group.
A decade later and Thin Edges is long forgotten by the music industry, a movie producer considers using the band’s songs—all written by band members—for a film. But the old animosities and problems present obstacles over the authorship of the movie’s theme song and use of the band name especially between the former lead singer and a band guitarist who is murdered. The other band members are suspects and it’s a race to find the killer with the clues in the Laurel Canyon period.

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BLACK FROST (Emma Frost Book 13) by Willow Rose

BLACK FROST (Emma Frost Book 13) by Willow Rose

From Multi-Million-Copy Bestselling author Willow Rose comes the next chapter in the #1 Bestselling Emma Frost Mystery Series.

Emma Frost is tied up in a murder mystery that seems out of this world.

When a young girl disappears one night from the park, then turns up again the next morning in a different place on the island, people start to talk about her.

Was she drunk and just doesn’t remember what happened?

Did she go home with a guy and won’t admit it?

What happened to her, and why is she insisting that she doesn’t know?

Emma Frost is fighting for Victor’s best friend, Skye.

Emma is trying to get her back from the people who took her in the night, but having no luck when a guy falls into her arms in the street and dies a few minutes later.

The autopsy shows he has frozen to death, but it doesn’t seem possible. When a young boy from Victor’s school turns up frozen as well, and things start to get cold around her own house, Emma begins to fear for her loved ones’ lives.

Once again, Willow Rose has written a story so compelling that it leaves the reader in almost unbearable suspense until the surprise ending is revealed.

Buy BLACK FROST today to indulge in a engulfing mystery dripping with suspense!

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Anna’s Lullaby by Luna Rugova

About Anna’s Lullaby by Luna Rugova:

A mysterious treasure awaits. Finding it will mean trusting a ghost—and her own instincts.

Exploring scenic trails in rundown little towns is Marie and her brother’s favorite tradition. One little town in particular carries a rumor of a hidden treasure and a ghost who speaks only to children.

Marie brushes the absurd story off, until she hears the voice herself.

“Do you want to go on a treasure hunt?”

Unwilling to be ignored, the ghost continues to appear to Marie. The fifteen-year-old explorer is torn between the allure of an unknown adventure and the safety of the familiar. There is a mystery to uncover and Marie is the one the ghost has been waiting for.

Read Anna’s Lullaby today and uncover the page-turning mystery and adventure of this young adult paranormal mystery novelette.

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Truth From the Bathroom

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Scott is feeling persecuted by his wife. She bullies him. She pushes him around. Then he finds a notebook in the bathroom. He starts journaling his feelings. Along the way he discovers other issues in his life and family that were invisible to him before. Abuse, infidelity, and LBGTQ issues. A surprise discovery will change his life forever.

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The Madonna Ghost by Linda Maria Frank

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Seventeen year old, Annie Tillery, and her NYPD detective, Aunt Jill, set off for Long Island’s Fire Island for a vacation of sun, surf and sailing. Annie is happy to leave behind the stress of her relationship with her parents. Aunt Jill is mixing her vacation with a case she must keep secret from Annie, who is suspicious nevertheless. Annie finds romance and intrigue when she meets Tyler Egan, the nephew of their host on the island. Ty tell Annie the Island history surrounding an eerie ghost who still haunts the beach at night. Annie agrees to join Ty and Island historian, Alice D’Elia for a ghost sighting.
Annie becomes increasingly uneasy and the investigation into the ghost turns sinister when Aunt Jill goes missing, the ghost makes an appearance, and the troublesome neighbors next door become hostile. When one of Aunt Jill’s special earings is found in front of the neighbor’s cottage, they begin to make connections. Will they find Aunt Jill before it’s too late? In the breathless conclusion to their investigation, Annie and Ty narrowly escape death solving The Mystery of the Madonna Ghost.

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Girl with Pencil, Drawing by Linda Maria Frank

About Girl with Pencil, Drawing by Linda Maria Frank:

Seventeen-year-old Annie Tillery is at it again. After she wins a series of art lessons at a prestigious art gallery, Annie show up for her first lesson to find her instructor, Francesca Gabrielli, in a volatile argument with John Di Cristiani, the art gallery’s director, over his incessant requests for her to illegally copy art masterpieces. Unwittingly, Annie is about to be drawn into the illicit, treacherous, and unpredictable world of art forgery.
When the gallery director is found murdered in cold blood, Francesca is the natural prime suspect, and calls upon Annie to help solve the crime. As Annie and her NYPD detective aunt, Jill Tillery, brave the dangers of an international art fraud ring in an attempt top clear Francesca’s name, they soon realize that the key to solving the case revolves around a mysterious brownstone in Brooklyn whose inhabitants present tantalizing and elusive clues.
As Annie and company attempt to stay one step ahead of DiCristiani’s murderer, they manage to escape one deadly trap after another. The stakes are high in the glamorous yet dangerous world of illegal artwork trafficking.
Annie must solve the crime before it’s too late.

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Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys by Linda Maria Frank

About Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys by Linda Maria Frank:

Amateur sleuth Annie Tillery has been warned to stay away from Nevshehir, Turkey, where she is heading to meet her boyfriend, Ty Egan, and Cedric Zeeks, Ty’s best friend. Intent on helping the two excavate an archaeological site where they hope to link human remains to the ﬁrst African ancestors. Annie does her best to shake her foreboding feelings as her plane lands in Istanbul and she prepares to embark on her next adventure.But when a stranger claims he is there to pick her up and then disappears once he sees Ty, Annie is immediately thrown back into worry mode—especially after Ty tells her there is unexplained tension surrounding the dig and she receives a threatening note at the hotel.
Still, as the three head to Nevshehir, Annie is buoyed by the excitement surrounding ancient Turkey and the possibility of uncovering secrets. The dig is plagued by accidents and theft, however, and the three friends, assisted by the head archaeologist’s twins, must search the ancient city of Istanbul and the caves of fantastic Cappadocia to ﬁnd who is sabotaging their work.
In this young adult thriller, detective Annie Tillery must once again walk a dangerous path in an attempt to unravel a complicated mystery and solve the secrets in the eerie fairy chimneys.

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