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River Road by Eric Wilder

River Road by Eric Wilder

Bizarre southern death ceremony ends in murder. Book 5 of author Eric Wilder’s wildly entertaining, standalone French Quarter Mystery Series set in that “exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans.” Visit the Big Easy tonight. You’ll never want to leave.

Venom! A Natalie McMasters Mystery by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

Venom! A Natalie McMasters Mystery by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

A spooky mansion in the Georgia mountains with an outrageous cast of characters. Spiders, snakes, meth-heads and serial killers, oh my! Venom! ain’t your average gothic mystery, folks.
But who would expect it to be when Natalie McMasters is involved? She’s fallen madly in love with two people—her wife, Lupe, and Danny, her partner at the 3M Detective Agency. Rather than choose one of them as her life partner, she’s decided to have them both, and roped them into a relationship retreat in rural Georgia to learn how to live as a polyamorous family.
But Nattie finds more than she bargained for in the sleepy town of Greypeak. A methamphetamine operation. A snake-handling preacher. A retired FBI agent hunting a serial killer. And a charismatic psychologist who just might have his own agenda for his clients.
Nattie ultimately finds herself in the most dangerous situation she’s ever faced, which may well solve her relationship problems by costing her life. Is this really the last book in the Natalie McMasters series?

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change his life. It will also change Catherine’s. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.

Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in happily ever after — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home.

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 description of the lodge is so beautiful and inviting that you will 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 Mystery of Julia Episcopa

About The Mystery of Julia Episcopa:

In ancient Rome, a woman flees for her life.
Her enemies are those she once called ‘brother’. Hidden beneath her blue cloak are secrets men will kill for – forgeries that prove the newly self-appointed bishops are not followers of the way, but pretenders who have seized power and will stop at nothing to shape this new religion to their own ends.
Now, Julia – a woman who had once walked with Mary Magdalene and taught alongside Paul must preserve the legacy of the apostles in the face of terrifying danger.
Two thousand years later, classical archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone stumble across an ancient parchment buried deep in the Vatican archives, a document that has clearly been altered. They find themselves on the trail of a woman who may have been the first woman Bishop in the Catholic faith.
To reveal Julia’s legacy will put them in the cross-hairs of a venomous Vatican battle for power and supremacy; to stay silent would make them complicit in an ancient heresy and would betray the teachings that Julia sacrificed her life to defend.
‘The Mystery of Julia Episcopa’ weaves seamlessly between modern-day Rome and the politics of the Catholic church, and the times and life of a 1st-century Roman noblewoman who rose to be a dominant force in the early Christian movement.
“Three women connected by two intertwined stories of treacherous political intrigues, ancient cover-ups, and savage vengeance.”

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Cats, Cannolis and a Curious Kidnapping: An Anna Romano Mystery Series

About Cats, Cannolis and a Curious Kidnapping: An Anna Romano Mystery Series:

Critics call Book 1 of this cozy mystery series “a laugh-out-loud, whimsical adventure full of tasty Italian dishes and adorable cats!”

Anna Romano is a middle-aged, Italian woman who is also a successful published author, a cat-mama, and an excellent cook with a hankering for Italian cuisine. She lives by herself in her quaint house, in a quiet community, with a white picket fence in Central New Jersey.

In this first installment, on a typical day in Anna’s somewhat-perfect life, a book-signing event turns her world upside down. Is it a case of mistaken identity or was she just being paranoid?

After being stalked for weeks, Anna quickly finds herself literally ‘tied up’, fighting for her life, and desperate to get back home to her cats; all while unwittingly falling in love with the detective who was trying to save her. How she finds her way out of this mess is anyone’s guess!

Find out more about Anna and the dangerous cases of murder and mayhem she ‘haphazardly’ gets herself into, in the new Anna Romano Mystery Series.

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The Black Ledger by Don Allen

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“The Black Ledger” is a multi-cultural/mystery crime thriller that “Do you have any problems working with black people?”
Chicago has been a war zone for the last 50 years.
Gangs shoot up the streets, while corrupt politicians and predatory businesses get rich by stealing from the poor. In a place fraught with danger and fueled by poverty, a young white man named Ron Pickles discovers a resilient people with an indestructible spirit. But, there are sinister forces looking to create misfortune and reap profits at the expense of people that society cares little about. Ron soon learns that it isn’t the ghetto he needs to fear, but the corrupt insurance agency that recruited him in the first place.

Inspired by a true story, “The Black Ledger” is a multi-cultural/mystery crime thriller that will take you into the heart of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods and experience a life you couldn’t imagine existed in the United States.

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The Desperation of Harry by E Ryan Janz

The Desperation of Harry by E Ryan Janz

Shocks and secrets pack this dark humored story based on actual events, as twenty-three-year-old, Monty Hill, leaves his Midwestern roots for 1977 Hollywood with dreams of becoming a major screenwriter. He settles into a near fantasy existence surrounded by swimming pools and palm trees but immediately becomes challenged by money issues. He meets his new neighbor, Harry, a mysterious yet endearing man who in hopes to assist Monty financially, inadvertently entangles him with a seemingly dangerous producer of pornographic films. Meanwhile, an unidentified pedophile looms in the background, inexplicably relating his own brief narratives. While Monty weaves his way through various obstacles and relationships, at its heart, this is a tale that illustrates the enduring friendship of Monty and Harry while reinforcing Harry’s warning to Monty upon their first chance meeting – that people are not always as they seem.

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The Black Ledger by D.G. Allen

The Black Ledger by D.G. Allen

Chicago has been a war zone for the last 50 years.
Gangs shoot up the streets, while corrupt politicians and predatory businesses get rich by stealing from the poor. In a place fraught with danger and fueled by poverty, a young white man named Ron Pickles discovers a resilient people with an indestructible spirit. But, there are sinister forces looking to create misfortune and reap profits at the expense of people that society cares little about. Ron soon learns that it isn’t the ghetto he needs to fear, but the corrupt insurance agency that recruited him in the first place. Inspired by a true story, “The Black Ledger” is a multi-cultural/mystery crime thriller that will take you into the heart of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods and experience a life you couldn’t imagine existed in the United States.

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The Rosemary Labyrinth

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500 Years…20 Generations…1 Memory…
Ellen’s inheritance is centuries old. The fragmented memories of an ancestor passed through the generations. Only by solving one of the world’s most baffling mysteries, will she stop the haunted memories, and finally give her family peace.

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The Third Call by Lorhainne Eckhart

The Third Call by Lorhainne Eckhart

NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you emotional O’Connell family novel that is both “Gut-wrenching & Riveting.” When Deputy Marcus O’Connell is blindsided one night after a series of calls comes in from an unknown number, and the caller on the other end is a child. All he knows is she’s six years old, her name is Eva, and there’s someone in her house who wants to hurt her. “A new family series more suspenseful than the Friessens.” Karen L. Vine Voice

“This book masterfully interweaves several hot button topics and evokes feelings of anger, sympathy and even shock. A scared little girl and her calls for help are the catalyst to a situation that quickly spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.” Rebmay

GIRL NEXT DOOR: An edge of your seat – vicious serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

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Inspired by a true story.
He came in the morning when they were still making lunches and getting ready for school and work. He killed them all – mother, father and children. Brutally slaughtered them in the comfort of their own home.

They called him the Monday Morning Killer.

That was forty years ago, but now it is happening again. A mother and her daughter are brutally murdered in their house, on a peaceful Monday morning in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Detective Jack Ryder has enough on his plate being home alone with six kids and his wife – country superstar Shannon King – on tour. This case takes his anxiety to a new level when he realizes the crime scene matches unsolved murders from four decades prior. He worries that a deranged serial killer has returned to Cocoa Beach.

No one feels safe, especially not the girl next door, who just bought the house where the first family was killed forty years ago.

Who is capable of such cruelty? And why?

Could one person be responsible for these brutal killings of entire families so many years apart? Or is Jack dealing with a copy-cat? You’ll never guess the shocking answer.

With intense twists and nerve-wracking tension, GIRL NEXT DOOR is a chilling and horrifying look into the minds of serial killers. If you like tales based on true stories, nerve-wracking tension, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s nightmarish mystery novel. This mystery novel is precisely the type of book that earned her the nickname the Queen of Scream.

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Lady Justice and the Landlords’ Nightmare by Robert Thornhill

Lady Justice and the Landlords’ Nightmare by Robert Thornhill

Walt has his hands full battling animal abusers and a loan shark threatening to lop off a client’s pinky. But the real test comes when a landlord asks Walt to help him sue the City of Kansas City which has passed the Tenant Bill of Rights which makes people with evictions and criminal records a protected class. Due to this new ordinance, a rent-dodger with a history of evictions has moved into a client’s building. As the case progresses, Walt soon realizes that this new ordinance and the people it protects are a landlord’s worst nightmare!

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WHAT YOU DID (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 2) by Willow Rose

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Every Parent’s Worst Fear!
Three girls disappear on prom night. One of them is the prom queen.
When the body of another young girl shows up in her backyard, FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas realizes that not only is she involved in this investigation, she’s also this killer’s target.
New Mystery Series from multi-million copies bestselling author Willow Rose.

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THREE-EYED ALIEN ABDUCTS DOG GROOMER by Linda Ross

THREE-EYED ALIEN ABDUCTS DOG GROOMER by Linda Ross

Tabloid reporter Aretha Moon has a problem. And it’s not just that she’s overweight, fifty, divorced and has to make up the tabloid’s horoscope column, all of which make her a tad cranky. She’s already working on the story of a dog groomer whose husband claims was abducted by aliens when her editor, Lorenzo Mayo, wants her to cover the gruesome murder of her sister’s employee. As Aretha digs into it, she uncovers a web of sadistic high school pranks from the past, perpetrated by the Cat Pack, rich girls who tormented their classmates. Now two of them are dead, and someone is going after the others. Fueled by cheesecake and diet soda, Aretha sets out to find out who has it in for the Cat Pack. But along the way she makes herself a target for the killer. Now only a handsome detective and a poodle with a weak bladder stand between her and a grisly end.

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Out Of Time, The Dream Traveler Book One

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Out Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion. However, Sean soon discovers that changes to the past to influence the future can have unexpected and deadly consequences. The past is not the past, the future is not set and nothing in life is certain. Open your mind and join the ‘Dream Traveler’ on his journey back to the past.

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RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

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New Mystery from Multi-million copy bestselling author Willow Rose!

When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.
Everything points to a murder-suicide.
They were living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.

But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.
Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.

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RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

RUN GIRL RUN by Willow Rose

When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.
Everything points to a double suicide.
They were homeless, living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.
But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.
Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.
As Harry races to protect her, he is betrayed by someone he thought he knew, leaving him terrified of trusting anyone in a town filled with liars.

The Case of the Jade Dragon by Gene R Poschman

The Case of the Jade Dragon by Gene R Poschman

Who said Weddings Couldn’t be Dangerous?

When PI Jonas Watcher sees a Chinese couple being kidnapped; he sighs, grabs his gun, and goes to help them. This selfless act involves Jonas with the Chinese underworld. He is hired to unite two families by bringing a prospective bride from St. Louis to San Francisco for an arranged marriage. There are several factions who will kill to keep him from succeeding. His mission is complicated even more by his employer’s beautiful granddaughter. She’s the only one who knows where the bride is and she insists on going with him. A girl, his Colt 44, and diplomacy; Jonas will have to use all three if he wishes to complete the mission, end the feud, and live to tell the tale.

“The Case of the Jade Dragon” is the third novel of the Jonas Watcher Detective Adventure series. It’s the 1930s in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where old traditions conflict with the new, and Jonas gets caught up in a world of mysticism, a deadly family feud, and a potential underworld war. Author Gene Poschman brings a new slant to the noir hard-boiled detective by introducing him to a world out of his comfort zone and adding an exotic love interest.

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Whispers in the Dark by A.L. Jambor

Whispers in the Dark by A.L. Jambor

Marigold Burnside sees ghosts. She began seeing them when she went to Cape Alden, New Jersey, to investigate an unsolved murder for a TV show called “Historical Homicides.” After her car collides with Phil Curry’s during a snowstorm, Mari suffers from head trauma. When she comes out of a coma, her encounters with the deceased begin.

Mari accepts an invitation from a kindly nurse who offers Mari the use of her garage apartment until Mari gets back on her feet. Five months pass and Mari is having trouble breaking out of a depression that keeps her from reclaiming her life, but then Celia Morton comes to visit Mari.
The mystery that brought Mari to Cape Alden revolves around a young, pregnant woman named Charlotte Johnson, who was brutally murdered in 1941. Her unborn child was never found. The person accused of killing Charlotte is none other than Celia Morton, and her visits to Mari renew her interest in the investigation.

Celia is also visiting Phil Curry. His life is in a downward spiral following the accident. Celia’s presence spooks Phil, and when he finds out that Mari is seeing her, too, Phil agrees to meet with her. Mari believes that Celia is innocent of the murder and wants them to clear her name. Mari’s exuberance is overwhelming to the introverted Phil. Still, they learn to appreciate each other’s strengths and, after a rocky start, begin to work together in earnest.

Mari starts digging into Charlotte Johnson’s past to find out how the shy girl from Pennsylvania ended up on the Jersey shore. She discovers that Charlotte was an orphan who married a boy she grew up with. He took Charlotte to Cape Alden when he accepted a job working for the local railroad. When he dies, Charlotte is left alone in the little cottage on the beach supplied by the railroad for its employees.

Things turn sour for Charlotte when she becomes pregnant. She is unmarried and disliked by the people in town who think she is a slut. Mari discovers that Charlotte’s only friend is a man named Jack, a vagabond who visits the small beach town from time to time. Was he the baby’s father?

Mari’s new ability to see ghosts gives her a unique view into Charlotte’s world, but the visions are short, and the murderer remains a mystery. As Mari gets too close to the truth, a near-death experience almost sets her back, and despite Phil’s warnings to back off, Mari can’t give up until both Celia and Charlotte can rest in peace.

“Whispers in the Dark was previously published as What She Deserved.”