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Miss Riddell’s Paranormal Mystery: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

About Featured Book: Miss Riddell’s Paranormal Mystery: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

Miss Riddell’s Paranormal Mystery is 99 cents from Nov 1 to 18.
Unsolved murders. A sleuth with unexpected company. Will she deliver justice, or does grave misfortune await?

Sydney, Australia. 1978. Miss Riddell is pleased to finally secure a temporary oasis down under. But just as she settles into her new routine, ominous voices from inside the house lead her to believe she’s not alone. And when she learns of the tragic deaths of the previous owners, she’s determined to put her expert skills to work and make sure this cold case can rest in peace.

Investigating potential suspects in the decades-old crime, she’s thrown when she endures ruthless workplace pranks played by a shadowy mastermind. But when the trail of clues reveals the malicious attacks could be related, she’ll have to pull out all the stops to avoid suffering a similar deadly fate.

With an unknown enemy working to bury the truth, can Miss Riddell solve this peculiar puzzle before she joins the dearly departed?

Miss Riddell’s Paranormal Mystery is the fifth book in the lighthearted Miss Riddell’s Cozy Mysteries series. If you like empowered female protagonists, supernatural surprises, and scandals that keep you on your toes, then you’ll love P.C. James’s ghostly tale.

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A QUESTION OF CLASS by Maria Marotti

A QUESTION OF CLASS by Maria Marotti

Murder on a university campus. A highly placed administrator is found dead with a padlock bike chain around his neck. Even though circumstantial evidence points toward the victim’s antagonist, Captain Fusco, the detective assigned to the case follows a different path. His romance with an amateur sleuth provides him with information about life in academia. That helps him in discovering the systematic injustice of the academic world and helps him in finding the culprits.
A Question of Class is discounted to 0.99 until November 1. It is book 1 of Detective Captain Fusco Mystery Cases Series.

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Murder by Moccasin by Jim Riley

Murder by Moccasin by Jim Riley

Rattlesnakes interrupt the poker game at Wade’s lodge, leaving several people dead.

After one of the surviving players gets murdered at the hospital, Wade gets on the case. Suspects range from the hospital nurse to an old foe, Woody.

Wade has his hands full in this race against time to catch the killer. But who was the intended victim, and who wanted them dead?

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The Girl in the Woods by Jim Riley

The Girl in the Woods by Jim Riley

After the body of teenager Rachel Chastain is discovered in the national forest, the town of Evergreen is surprised and shocked.

What’s even more surprising are the secrets the victim left behind. Sheriff Sam Cates is called in to investigate, along with her fiancee, Wade Dalton.

Soon, connections with Rachel and people in high places come to light. Something is not right in this small town. But who could have wanted to murder the young woman, and for what reason?

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The Girl in the Woods by Jim Riley

The Girl in the Woods by Jim Riley

After the body of teenager Rachel Chastain is discovered in the national forest, the town of Evergreen is surprised and shocked.

What’s even more surprising are the secrets the victim left behind. Sheriff Sam Cates is called in to investigate, along with her fiancee, Wade Dalton.

Soon, connections with Rachel and people in high places come to light. Something is not right in this small town. But who could have wanted to murder the young woman, and for what reason?

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Murder by Moccasin by Jim Riley

Murder by Moccasin by Jim Riley

Rattlesnakes interrupt the poker game at Wade’s lodge, leaving several people dead.

After one of the surviving players gets murdered at the hospital, Wade gets on the case. Suspects range from the hospital nurse to an old foe, Woody.

Wade has his hands full in this race against time to catch the killer. But who was the intended victim, and who wanted them dead?

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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 both his and Catherine’s life. 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 Osprey Cove Lodge series setting 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 Plowman’s Plight by E. A. Rivière

About The Plowman’s Plight by E. A. Rivière:

An outlaw plowman falsely accused of murder

An alchemist’s virgin who is more than she seems

A fiendish murderer hiding in open sight

Cathar country, (now) southern France, year: 1200.

When the woodcutter’s only daughter is murdered, the bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees to a master alchemist and his professional virgin, Flowia, for help.

Bertwoin must find the brutal killer while the grieving woodcutter, the relentless bailiff, and righteous monks pursue him. His search for clues takes him to the corpse room inside an abbey, to a torture pit near the Devil’s Doorstep, and to the accursed home of a heretic priest.

When monks capture him, wily Flowia rescues Bertwoin from the Bishop’s dungeon and hides with him where no one would think to look for them.

To save his own life and another life as precious as his own, Bertwoin must outwit this sadistic killer who hunts them . . . and who knows how to find them.

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Peculiar Activities by Mark Edward Jones

About Featured Book: Peculiar Activities by Mark Edward Jones

A murder in a park, and a new detective finds an old conspiracy.

Henry Ike Pierce is a junior detective in Alexandria, Virginia, newly hired to reassess cold-case killings. On the third day of his new job, a dismembered body appears along the creekbank of a local park. The corpse’s desecration is like slayings from over two decades ago, and his boss assigns Henry to his first investigation. He must uncover the present-day killer while his boss pushes him to resolve crimes from the past. Rumors point to a killer called ‘the hooded one.’

Henry seeks a killer within a community of rival ethnic groups, refugees from the 1990s Balkan wars. The recent murder triggers the old passions, leading again to central Europe and a tangle of new intrigue. Money can smooth old hurts, manipulate feelings, and alter allegiances, but finding the guilty is a hopeless task if discoveries are unwelcome.

Distrust, betrayals, conspiracies–the young man from western Virginia’s coal country discovers that ‘trust’ has a flexible definition.

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The Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series: Book 3-5 by Willow Rose

About Featured Book: The Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series: Book 3-5 by Willow Rose

This boxed set will be 99 cents from 10/9-10/15.

Description:
Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family.

NEVER EVER:

Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. She has done things she never knew she was capable of the past month while hunting for her kidnapped daughter.

Eva Rae has risked everything,
-her career,
-her newfound love,
-her freedom.

She’s looking for the man they call the Iron Fist. The trail has led her to Miami.

Meanwhile, Miami is under attack. Hundreds of passengers in the Metrorail are exposed to a deadly nerve gas on a peaceful Monday morning.

When Eva Rae Thomas sees her daughter on the surveillance footage from the attack, she knows it is no coincidence.
But by the time she uncovers the chilling truth of how it is all connected, it might be too late.

SAY YOU LOVE ME:

What would you do if your brother was accused of a horrible crime, and you were certain he didn’t do it?

Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curveballs.

A phone call turns her life upside down – once again. The call is from her father, the man she hasn’t seen in thirty-six years, not since he kidnapped her sister in a supermarket.

Now, he is back in Florida, and he needs her help. Her younger brother – whom she didn’t know existed – has been arrested on Amelia Island. The boy is in a coma after being shot by an officer during the incident. But his father doesn’t believe the police, and he asks for Eva Rae’s help to prove it.

At the same time, a serial killer is planning one of the most horrific mass killings in history.
Will Eva Rae find it in her heart to help her father after what he did to her? Will facing him again set her free or pull her under?

LET ME GO:

What if a stranger tells you that she believes your child is about to be killed? What if that woman is an ex-FBI profiler with a disputable reputation?

Would you believe her?

Eva Rae Thomas is chasing down a vicious killer, but no one will believe he even exists. If there are no unexplained dead bodies or missing persons, then how can there be a killer on the loose?

They don’t understand that the perfect murder is the one that doesn’t look like murder.

Can Eva Rae convince local law enforcement to help her with this case before the killer strikes once more? Or will she have to take matters into her own hands – again?

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A Girl Like You by Michelle Cox

About Featured Book: A Girl Like You by Michelle Cox

Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings.

Henrietta is eventually persuaded to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall―and just when she’s beginning to enjoy herself, the floor matron turns up dead. When aloof Inspector Clive Howard appears on the scene, Henrietta agrees to go undercover for him―and is plunged into Chicago’s grittier underworld.

Meanwhile, she’s still busy playing mother hen to her younger siblings, as well as to pesky neighborhood boy Stanley, who believes himself in love with her and keeps popping up in the most unlikely places, determined to keep Henrietta safe―even from the Inspector, if need be. Despite his efforts, however, and his penchant for messing up the Inspector’s investigation, the lovely Henrietta and the impenetrable Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in most unsuitable ways.

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Knot Good: Two Love Gone Bad Mystery Novellas

About Knot Good: Two Love Gone Bad Mystery Novellas:

Between These Walls tells the story of Alana, who thought renting out rooms in her grandparents’ home was a good idea. Until she learns secrets about her new roommates. Secrets that lead her in a dangerous direction. One she’ll have to fight her way out of to survive.

In What I Deserved, a young woman finds herself torn after discovering her new boyfriend has a dangerous wife, one that wants nothing more than for him to have a fatal accident. When he proposes they work together to strike first, she has to decide if she’s willing to follow him down the dark path he’s set on traveling.

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The Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series: Book 3-5 by Willow Rose

The Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series: Book 3-5 by Willow Rose

Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family.

NEVER EVER:

Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. She has done things she never knew she was capable of the past month while hunting for her kidnapped daughter.

Eva Rae has risked everything,
-her career,
-her newfound love,
-her freedom.

She’s looking for the man they call the Iron Fist. The trail has led her to Miami.

Meanwhile, Miami is under attack. Hundreds of passengers in the Metrorail are exposed to a deadly nerve gas on a peaceful Monday morning.

When Eva Rae Thomas sees her daughter on the surveillance footage from the attack, she knows it is no coincidence.
But by the time she uncovers the chilling truth of how it is all connected, it might be too late.

SAY YOU LOVE ME:

What would you do if your brother was accused of a horrible crime, and you were certain he didn’t do it?

Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curveballs.

A phone call turns her life upside down – once again. The call is from her father, the man she hasn’t seen in thirty-six years, not since he kidnapped her sister in a supermarket.

Now, he is back in Florida, and he needs her help. Her younger brother – whom she didn’t know existed – has been arrested on Amelia Island. The boy is in a coma after being shot by an officer during the incident. But his father doesn’t believe the police, and he asks for Eva Rae’s help to prove it.

At the same time, a serial killer is planning one of the most horrific mass killings in history.
Will Eva Rae find it in her heart to help her father after what he did to her? Will facing him again set her free or pull her under?

LET ME GO:

What if a stranger tells you that she believes your child is about to be killed? What if that woman is an ex-FBI profiler with a disputable reputation?

Would you believe her?

Eva Rae Thomas is chasing down a vicious killer, but no one will believe he even exists. If there are no unexplained dead bodies or missing persons, then how can there be a killer on the loose?

They don’t understand that the perfect murder is the one that doesn’t look like murder.

Can Eva Rae convince local law enforcement to help her with this case before the killer strikes once more? Or will she have to take matters into her own hands – again?

Scroll up and grab an exhilarating, suspenseful mystery today.

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The Reoccurring

About The Reoccurring:

Stuck in an incessant mystery of psychological torture and depressed over the death of his girlfriend, Oliver Garner quickly concludes his insanity is near.
Things only grow worse when the Ghost comes along. Through suspenseful revelations the Ghost provides, Oliver concludes his girlfriend did not die accidentally.
She was murdered.
With his mind forcing him closer to insanity with each ticking second, Oliver must pull himself together to find the murderer and enact his revenge before he loses himself.
But something else is in the works. The past is coming back in a haunting thrill as one final attempt to kill Oliver for good, but he knows better than to succumb to such a disease.
It is going to be a thrilling and suspenseful ride to the death. A ride that Oliver and his investigative team must take to end a years-long murder spree still in the works. The end can only come with the death of one side. It is either the killer or Oliver.

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Vengeance, The Second Book of The Orphan’s Tale by D M Wilder

About Featured Book: Vengeance, The Second Book of The Orphan’s Tale by D M Wilder

Sale price $3.00 10/2/21 – 10/25/21

The most terrible criminals…have long memories.

Now that the threat of a war between England and France has been foiled, life can flow in peace again.
Malet and Elise are planning their Christmas wedding.

Larouche has found a place to live, where he can earn some money and, perhaps, find an occupation that will suit him. Since his employer and landlord is in no hurry to make him work, Larouche has a chance to learn about medicine while dealing with a pack of students with mayhem on their mind.

And then chaos descends as a police precinct is attacked by insurgents and its Chief Inspector is killed.

Malet’s investigation leads him to some revolutionary students and, perhaps, a would-be master criminal who views Malet as a threat to be exterminated along with anyone he values. Suddenly the people that Malet holds dear are being attacked, and it is clear that he is marked for assassination, himself.

As the situation grows more dangerous, Elise is planning for their wedding, and Malet, under protective custody, is dealing with a troupe of bodyguards apparently recruited from the Sureté.

.…And who are the Watchers in the Shadows?

It should be a hectic Christmas.

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Knocked Scentsless by Langley Gray

Knocked Scentsless by Langley Gray

My husband is now my ex, my career is at a standstill, and I’m basically squatting above my empty storefront in a tiny mountain town in Washington. The only thing getting me through is tinkering with my perfumes. I’m a “nose” whose job is to create the perfect fragrance, but I’ve been stuck working on my signature scent for months.

If that wasn’t enough, my biggest critic – Old Man Joe – just died, and a bottle of my perfume was found on his person. I can explain, I promise, but no one wants to hear me out.

Thankfully, I have some help. Joe’s old English Bulldog (it’s a long story), and a local firefighter (who is, yes, objectively handsome).

I have a list of suspects in mind, all of whom were at the annual dog Olympics and had the opportunity to kill Joe. I may be one top note short of an alibi, but I’ve got to find who knocked Joe scentsless, and fast, or I’ll be left with nothing.

You won’t stop turning the pages in this cozy small-town murder mystery with a hint of romance – and a lot of bulldog drool.

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The Rocking Horse by Gloria Zachgo

The Rocking Horse by Gloria Zachgo

Jenny Preston has been missing for twenty-two years after being taken at the age of two on the very night her mother Amanda, Aunt Ruth, and Uncle Don were brutally and senselessly murdered. While Jenny’s grandparents learn to cope with the tragedies, the sheriff, Will Barclay, must grapple with his own guilt and secrets involving the murders. The crime, which rocked the small town of Shady Creek, Kansas, has never been solved.

With the encouragement of her new friends, and a very special someone, she returns to Chicago to learn the truth of her childhood history from her father. After a gripping turn of events, Julie returns to Shady Creek to wrestle with the emotional complexities of her new life and how her past life is starting to catch up with her. An unexpected hero comes to Julie’s aid.

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Murder & Billy Bailey by Jim Riley

Murder & Billy Bailey by Jim Riley

When a high school football coach is accused of inappropriate behavior, his wife turns to Niki Dupre to clear his name and reputation. Soon, the investigation puts the strawberry blonde on a collision course with an eerie member of the Louisiana underground. It appears that the private investigator has met her match. Or has she?

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Proof the Novel

About Proof the Novel:

Did giants actually once roam the earth? College graduate student Ty Larson’s life gets turned upside down when he becomes caught up in an age-old conspiracy after stumbling onto a lost civilization only briefly mentioned in the Bible. As he uncovers mounting evidence tying these ancient inhabitants to the colossal stone structures scattered across the planet, others with more sinister goals begin to emerge whose aspirations remain a mystery. From the timeworn ruins in the high mountains of Bolivia and Peru to the massive megaliths in Baalbek, Lebanon to the Great Pyramid itself, Ty unknowingly inches ever closer to unearthing the disturbing truth of the history of mankind.

Although this novel is fiction, it’s based on factual events, Biblical scripture, texts found in the Dead Sea scrolls omitted from the Bible, and many other legends from around the world that millions believe to be true.

Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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Brushed Off by M. Lee Musgrave

Brushed Off by M. Lee Musgrave

Television videographer, James Terra and his married lover Nicole find themselves in a tangled web while searching for the killer of LAs hottest artists. What starts as a routine case for their friend homicide detective Francisco Rivas quickly turns into a tangled web of romance, intrigue and vicious jealousy against a dazzling backdrop of talent, wealth and fun in sunny schizophrenic Los Angeles. The murdered artists were found in their studios coated with paint and with a brush jammed down their throat. Cisco ask for James’ help in navigating his way through the eccentric enclaves of LAs zany art community. While sleuthing to aid Cisco, James and Nicole meet psychologist Dr. Brian Mazor and his troubled young wife Camille and all hell breaks out so Cisco wants them off the case, but big-hearted James has an overwhelming need to help his friend and find the killer.
A leading art collector is attacked and his house is set on fire. Other collectors, gallery dealers and artists are frightened. Cisco reluctantly continues to follow leads James provides. Camille is up to her pretty neck in sex and drugs within LAs outrageous studios and mansions while struggling to make sense of her life and striving to get away from the mayhem of paint, blood and brushes with death … and the sex-escapades of her youth. James continues to secretly romance Nicole, wife of one of the city’s most important art collectors, while she sleuths with him to ferret out the killer and they both aid Camille in her desire to bolt from her controlling husband so they seek guidance from an aging social maven.

Cisco discovers an exotic drug that is used by all the suspects including a stealthy porn star. The list of suspects grows as it comes into focus. While striving to nourish his desire for Nicole, James continues to host his TV program, complete paintings, secretly sleuth for Cisco, and keep everyone from knowing that his own health is precarious.

Enticing socialites, astute businessmen, and zany artists meld in this neo-noir thriller. In a world obsessed with money, fame and hype, how does an artist driven by justice and his insatiable love for a married woman find satisfaction? BRUSHED-OFF is a portrait of voracious protectiveness and resentfulness in a quintessential Los Angeles story. BRUSHED-OFF is as energetic, humorous and unapologetically straight forward as the uncompromising trio at its center.

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