Amy Metz's Blog: A Blue Million Books, page 23

FEATURED AUTHOR: STEVE GROGAN

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He was lost, directionless, unable to find his identity. He thought he found it in her, which was good because he was teetering on the edge of madness. She had no way of knowing her actions would push him over it.

This novella is part splatterpunk, part erotica, part psychological study of an unstable mind, told in Steve's highly visual and deeply emotional prose. Some stories have protagonists/narrators for which you can feel empathy, or at the very least you can feel sorr...

CHARACTER INTERVIEW WITH TRACI ANDRIGHETTI'S FRANCESCCA LUCIA AMATO

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It’s Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, but PI Franki Amato has too many problems to celebrate. A proven Sicilian lemon tradition hasn’t landed her a proposal, so her nonna has amped up the meddling to get her married, and pronto. Franki’s also under pressure to solve the strange murder of a family friend’s nephew, Nick Pescatore, who was found on a Mississippi River steamboat rumored to be haunted. When the sinister old boat sets sail on an overnight gambling cruise, Franki goes...

FEATURED AUTHOR: PACO CHIERICI

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In the world of fighter pilots, the most alpha of the alpha, competition is everything and the stakes are impossibly high. A Top Gun for the new millennium, Lions of the Sky propels us into a realm in which friendship, loyalty, and skill are tested, battles won and lost in an instant, and lives irrevocably changed in the time it takes to plug in your afterburners.

Sam Richardson is a fighter pilot’s pilot, a reluctant legend with a gut-eating secret. He is in the last span of hi...

FEATURED AUTHOR: ANG POMPANO

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When his girlfriend dumps him and a dealer nearly rams him off a bridge, Al DeSantis quits the New Haven Police Department. Just as he plans to head for LA, he finds out the father who left when he was a kid has deeded him the Blue PalmettoDetective Agency in Georgia.

Al goes down to Savannah intending to sell fast and go west, but before he can, he discovers a strong, attractive detective named Maxine, a dead body on the dock—and his father, alive, suffering from dementia, and d...

FEATURED AUTHOR: NANCY LYNN JARVIS

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At thirty-four, Santa Cruz County Law Librarian Pat Pirard is living her perfect life. She has a job she loves, she’s just purchased her dream car, and she is almost over being dumped by her long term boyfriend. But her thirty-fifth birthday marks the end of life as she knows it, and Pat has to reinvent herself. As a birthday present, Pat’s best friend enrolls her in a glass flower making class. She learns a lot in the class, but she never expects her final lesson will be all ab...

FEATURED AUTHOR: LAURA CHILDS

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A shocking murder strikes a sour note during Jazz Fest in the latest New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.

It’s Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and the giant puppets from the Beastmaster Puppet Theatre are parading through the French Quarter. Some are very spooky and veiled, others are tall and gangly, like strange aliens.

As the parade proceeds, Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava, follow behind, down Royal Street and past the food...

FEATURED AUTHOR: BARBARA PLUM

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Hop off the fast track. Buy a boat. Write the Great American Novel.

Forty-four-year-old Susanna Walker knows the importance of taking risks and dreaming big.
Mother of two grown kids. Former CEO of a Silicon Valley PR firm. Ex-wife of a still-present, former compulsive gambler. Susanna ignores the objections to her new life and the whispers she's perimenopausal. 

As with all well-laid plans, hers quickly derail when the hunk from the boat next door drops by and invites her t...

FEATURED AUTHOR: ANDREA KON

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A Jewish family torn apart by war, divided by political boundaries, but forever connected by love. Simeon Karminsky is a slave labourer during the long siege of Leningrad in the early 1940s. Following an act of defiance against his Nazi oppressors, he leads himself to believe that the pieces of amber mosaic he possesses saved him, but will their magic be strong and enduring enough to save his family?


Book Details:
Title: The Amber Tablets
Author’s name: Andrea Kon
Genre: hist...

FEATURED AUTHOR: AMY PATRICIA MEADE

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Literary caterer Letitia ‘Tish’ Tarragon is preparing her English Secret Garden-themed luncheon for Coleton Creek’s annual garden club awards, but when she is taken on a tour of some of the top contenders with the garden club’s president, Jim Ainsley, Tish is surprised at how seriously the residents take the awards – and how desperate they are to win.

Wealthy, retired businessman Sloane Shackleford has won the coveted best garden category five years in a row, but he and his Bicho...

FEATURED AUTHOR: CY WYSS

ABOUT THE BOOKPJ Taylor, the feline shapeshifter, is back! Someone is kidnapping people’s pet cats and holding them for ransom. When PJ’s beloved niece is catnapped, the trail leads PJ to Nowhere, a tiny hamlet north of her hometown of Mayhap. What intrigues will PJ find among the inhabitants of this minuscule community? You can bet it involves at least one person up to no good and flushing this person out could be…murder!


Book Details:Title: Road to Nowhere Author: Cy WyssGenre: Cozy MysterySe...