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Learn about The Other People

Halloween is coming! Have a look at my Halloween bundles in my post Grab a Bookish Treat. Buy a bundle and save!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I am nearly finished The Other People by C.J. Tudor, and it has been an interesting journey! A well-built psychological mystery, with a bit of the supernatural thrown in, you’re never quite sure what is real and how much can be explained logically. And how much is just inexplicable. The characters are well-developed and will certainly pull you into the story. You won’t want to put it down until all of your questions have been answered. But I can’t guarantee that they all will be!

“You need to come home, Mr. Forman. Right away.”

C.J. Tudor, The Other People

Three years ago, Gabe’s family disappeared. Most people think they died. Some of them blame Gabe. Hardly anyone believes the truth–that Gabe saw his daughter the day she and his wife disappeared, smiling at him from the back of a rusty old car speeding down the highway. So even though it’s been three years since that day, Gabe cannot give up hope. Even though he has given up everything else. His home, his job, his old life. He spends his days travelling up and down the highway and sleeping in service stations, searching for the car that took her.

It’s hard for most people to understand. But Gabe has found some who do in an online group set up by people who have also lost loved ones–who have suffered like him. They call themselves “The Other People.” Because isn’t that what everyone thinks: bad stuff only happens to “other people.”

When the car that Gabe saw driving away that night is found in a lake with a body inside, Gabe is suddenly under suspicion–and in danger. In desperation, he turns to The Other People for help. Because they are good people. They know what loss is like. They know what pain is like. They know what death is like. There’s just one problem . . . they want other people to know it too.

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Grab a Bookish Treat for Halloween

The air is getting cooler, the leaves are falling from the treats and are beautiful shades of yellow and orange. And that means that Halloween coming! I have pulled together a couple of Halloween book packages for you!

Ghost Scale

I have tried to rate each of the books in this post with a ghost scale.
One ghost = fun/cozy mystery
Five ghosts = scary/horror — you might not sleep tonight!

eBook Bundle

First, an ebook bundle of nine books (downloaded as 9 separate eBooks, not one combined eBook) — I’ve got witches, snakes, Halloween mysteries and balls, stalkers, psychics, and all kind of creepy crawlies…

The eBook bundle contains:

What the Cat Knew Muffins Masks Murder Witch-Free Halloween Doctored Death In the Tick of Time Loose the Dogs Pursued by the Past Lion Within Those Who Believe

* Click any of the titles above for details or to buy one or more of them individually.

$19.99 for 9 books

Buy eBooksPaperback bundle

If you prefer books you can hold in your hand, you can get these three autographed paperbacks:

Loose the Dogs Pursued by the Past Lion Within

3 Signed paperbacks for $29.99

Buy PaperbacksDouble Double Toil and Trouble

Or you can get both the ebook bundle and the paperback bundle for an even greater discount:

Get both bundles for $39.99

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They say everyone is afraid of something.

For Margo Collins, it’s ghosts–though she’s never admitted that to anyone.

But this Halloween, Margo finds that ghosts are the least of her worries.

Not only has the annual Halloween party fallen into chaos, but now someone has invaded her sanctuary… the library!

As an elaborate plot starts to unfold, the only people Margo can be sure of are her two best friends. But can a trio of first-time sleuths thwart the plan of a criminal mastermind?

And if they fail, will Margo become what she fears most? A ghost!

Next Halloween, she’ll try dressing as a cat or a bunny… if she survives the party this year.

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A sheltered mother. A medically fragile child. They can’t just disappear. Or can they?

A typical day of medical appointments and errands. Elizabeth can handle it, she tells herself. She’ll do it all until her husband returns on the weekend.

But someone else has a plan – several someones, throwing Elizabeth’s orderly life into chaos and danger.
Now, she’s on her own. Neither her parents nor her husband is there to protect her. No one knows where they are. If her son is to get out of this alive, it’s up to Elizabeth.

Ordinary people, thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Read Gone, Book One of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen.

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It’s spooky season in Holiday Junction and Halloweenie Festival is a hauntingly great time. Treats aren’t just sweet and delicious, sometimes they’re also deadly.

Holiday Junction really knows how to throw holiday festivals, and it goes all out for Halloween.

The holiday celebration includes a ghost walk of haunting tales, a hay ride, carnival games, pumpkin carvings and costume party.

Violet Rhinehammer has the perfect assignment—represent the Junction Journal by attending all the fun festive activities and reporting on them.

When Violet reluctantly goes on the ghost walk, she realizes the body that fell out of the fake casket is a real one and not a prop. She knows trouble is brewing. She puts on a sleuthing costume after someone she loves becomes Chief Strickland’s number one suspect in order to catch the real monster.

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson venture into darker territory in this box set of the first three Halloween Sherlock novelettes. The set also includes a bonus exclusive short story, ‘A One-Pipe Problem’.

The Case of the Snow-White Lady

There is no such thing as a vampire … or is there?

Sherlock Holmes and the Deathly Fog

Who can fight a deathly fog?

The Case of the Curious Cabinet

A riddle with death at its heart…

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A Halloween spooktacular cozy mystery boxed set! Fall is in the air and so is murder.

A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder.

My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owner’s impending doom. 

Lottie Lemon has a brand new bakery to tend to, a budding romance with perhaps one too many suitors, and she has the supernatural ability to see the dead—which are always harbingers for ominous things to come. Throw in the occasional ghost of the human variety, a string of murders, and her insatiable thirst for justice, and you’ll have more chaos than you know what to do with.

Kindle@media screen and (min-width:768px){.stk-dc9c6d2{flex:1 1 calc(33.333% - var(--stk-column-gap,0px) * 1 / 2 ) !important}} Related posts Grab a Bookish Treat for Halloween [image error] A look back at the future in Click Here for Murder Auntie Clem’s Bakery 1-15 Back to Paranormal – Grey Dawn Get Your Halloween Reads! Cold as Ice Cream and More New Releases Auntie Clem’s Bakery 1-12 Real-life intrigue in Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill Don’t forget this one — Mr. Nobody Fair Warning — It Could Happen Trick or Treat! Get your Halloween Reads Free reads – Web of Nightmares and more Fairy Blade Unmade and other freebies Muffins Masks Murder Delusions of the Past and other freebies Delusions of the Past and other new releases The Mysteries of Christmas Excerpt from The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Happy Halloween Excerpt from The Secret Adversary Spooks and other paranormal activity They Thought He Was Safe and other new releases! Fresh new releases—Gem Himself Alone and more What the Cat Knew and other new releases




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A look back at the future in Click Here for Murder

October is my bookiversary! Hop over to my blog post for some good deals and a summary of the different series that I have on the go. If you have only read one or two series or haven’t yet ventured into any of them, now is a great time to start!

Also Halloween is coming soon, and I will have some great Halloween deals for you later on in the week. Be sure to check back!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

Click Here for Murder by Donna Andrews has been a fun and clever read so far. The main narrator (it has multiple points of view) is an AI personality that has gained sentience. I have not read book one in the Turing Hopper series, but there is enough backstory for me to understand the main points of what has happened prior to this story. I have read some of Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow series, which is quite good.

Click Here for Murder was published in 2003 and is set sometime in an imagined future where AI Personalities are used. Since it was written before 2002, the technology discussed is either obsolete now (cell phones without cameras, lower resolution first person multiplayer games (because high res would take too long to download, etc.) or have never come to fruition (the ability to examine a computer hard drive at the molecular level to see everything that was ever written to it even if it was overwritten, sentient technology, etc.)) It is interesting to look at how AI technology is used now versus how Andrews imagined it might be.

One way or another, he’d find out Monday.

Donna Andrews, Click Here for Murder

When her human colleague, Ray Santiago, is found murdered, Turing Hopper, an Artificial Intelligence Personality and ingenious sleuth, joins her human assistants, Maude and Tim, on a search for the killer and turns up dark secrets from Ray’s past that could threaten them all. By the author of You’ve Got Murder.

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Guest Post: Have You Met Anastasia?

Lois Winston has joined me to tell you about her Anastasia Pollack series:

Crafts and murder don’t normally go hand-in-hand, but normal deserted magazine crafts editor Anastasia Pollack’s world the day her husband permanently cashed in his chips in Las Vegas and her comfortable middle-class life crapped out. Anastasia knew nothing of her husband’s gambling addiction. Now she’s dealing with debt greater than the GNP of Uzbekistan. She’s also stuck with Lucille, her semi-invalid Communist mother-in-law and leader of the octogenarian Daughters of the October Revolution.

Lucille is forced to share a bedroom with Anastasia’s mother Flora, a much-married, self-proclaimed descendant of Russian nobility and member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The remainder of the occupants vying for space within Anastasia’s cramped suburban New Jersey home include her two teenage sons Alex and Nick, not named for Russian czars, although Lucille believes otherwise; Catherine the Great, her mother’s white Persian cat; Manifesto, her mother-in-law’s French bulldog; and Ralph, the Shakespeare-quoting parrot.

In Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun, the first book in the series,Anastasia returns to work after her husband’s death and discovers the body of the magazine’s fashion editor glued to her office chair. When evidence surfaces of an illicit affair between her and Anastasia’s husband, Anastasia becomes the prime suspect. Suddenly she’s not only dealing with her husband’s loan shark, but she’s also thrust into the role of reluctant amateur sleuth to clear her name.

In each book in the series, now at eleven novels and three novellas, Anastasia takes on various moonlighting jobs to pay down her debt, only to find herself constantly tripping over dead bodies, forcing her to continue sleuthing.

The latest book in the series is Guilty as Framed, which incorporates a real-life cold case into the plot.

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An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 11

When an elderly man shows up at the home of reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack, she’s drawn into the unsolved mystery of the greatest art heist in history.

Boston mob boss Cormac Murphy has recently been released from prison. He doesn’t believe Anastasia’s assertion that the man he’s looking for doesn’t live at her address and attempts to muscle his way into her home. His efforts are thwarted by Anastasia’s fiancé Zack Barnes.

A week later, a stolen SUV containing a dead body appears in Anastasia’s driveway. Anastasia believes Murphy is sending her a message. It’s only the first in a series of alarming incidents, including a mugging, a break-in, another murder, and the discovery of a cache of jewelry and an etching from the largest museum burglary in history.

But will Anastasia solve the mystery behind these shocking events before she falls victim to a couple of desperate thugs who will stop at nothing to get what they want?

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USA Today and Amazon bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and nonfiction under her own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Kirkus Reviews dubbed her critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.”

In addition, Lois is a former literary agent and an award-winning craft and needlework designer who often draws much of her source material for both her characters and plots from her experiences in the crafts industry. Learn more about Lois and her books at her website www.loiswinston.com where you can also sign up for her newsletter and follow her on various social media sites.

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October is my Bookiversary

Yes, we are coming up on the anniversary of the release of the first book I published, Looking Over Your Shoulder. Nine years ago, I waded into the independent publishing waters and launched the first of many (currently 88 released) books. It has been an interesting journey and I have learned a lot!

I thought I would feature my various series here today. If you’ve only tried one or two, maybe you would like to explore a new series. But first, I hear you asking where are the deals to mark this special occasion? So here are a couple of sales that I have running right now.

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I just released Book #11 in this series, He Drowned in Memory. Books #12 and #13 are available for preorder now: Their Walls Were Empty and They Came for Him. So why don’t I start off the introductions with the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series:

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Private Investigator Series

Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues. Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit. Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case. A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved.

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If you are a reader of the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series, you have already met Kenzie Kirsch. This series is a spinoff from Zachary Goldman Mysteries, giving Kenzie a front-and-center position in solving medical mysteries.

Book #1, Unlawful Harvest, is a prequel to both, describing events that happened before Zachary and Kenzie met.

Book #2, Doctored Death, (and 3 and 4) fall after She Was At Risk, book #10 in the Zachary Goldman Mysteries in its timeline.

So hop right in and join Kenzie as she uncovers mysteries, conspiracies, and thrills!

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Culinary and Pet Cozy Mysteries

Erin Price is a baker, not a sleuth. It’s really not her fault that mysteries keep landing in her lap while she’s trying to run Auntie Clem’s Bakery and make a living from baking gluten-free and specialty goods.

Sink your teeth into these sweet mysteries!

“I just wanted you to know how much I adore this series. I can’t wait for the next one to come out ! I told my boyfriend that this series is my “Game of Thrones” and I don’t even know how to deal with my life while I wait for the next one!”

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Paranormal Mystery and Adventure

A paranormal spin-off from the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series Reg Rawlins doesn’t believe in psychic phenomenon. Or at least, she didn’t used to. Since starting a con as a fortune teller in Black Sands, strange things have been happening. Reg is about to discover a whole new world.

Explore a world filled with magical people, cats, fairies, pixies, elves, and more!

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Police Procedural Series Set in Canada

These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a Calgary park with Parks Pat. Detective “Parks” Pat — Margie Patenaude — is a new Calgary homicide detective. Being Métis and a single mom, she has a few things on her plate. Working on a spate of murders in Calgary and area parks earns Margie her nickname.

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YA Suspense

Awareness is increasing about medical kidnap, the practice of children being apprehended from their parents due to medical conditions. It is happening far more often than you would like to think. This fiction series is about the children who fall victim to this practice, their families, and a small group of teens who are fighting back! Follow Gabriel and Renata as they fight against an unfair and corrupt system, trying to save themselves and others from doctors, social workers, and judges who are more interested in profit than justice and the safety of their charges.

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YA Contemporary Crime

Follow Tamara French as she struggles to overcome the challenges of her past and reintegrate into the normal world. It isn’t as easy as she thought it would be.

Readers will appreciate the realistic details about Tamara’s release, her issues dealing with a foster family, her emotional triggers, and the challenges facing someone trying to maintain the conditions of parole. For those teens who love books where all that can go wrong does go wrong (isn’t that almost all of them?), this is a winner.

– School Library Journal

P.D. Workman’s fictional Tattooed Teardrops and Tewhan Butler’s nonfiction title America’s Massacre: The Audacity of Despair and a Message of Hope top this year’s In the Margins (ITM) Book Awards. The selection committee, operating under Library Services for Youth in Custody, selected these winning works among books by, for, and about kids living in the margins.

– Library Services for Youth in Custody

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YA Contemporary Crime Family Saga

Follow the lives of the Simpson family, their lives torn apart by abuse and neglect. Ruby, Between the Cracks, was awarded a place in the Top Ten Books for Teens 2015. Chloe placed on the In the Margins recommended reading list 2018 and Ronnie in 2019.

If I could rate a book 10 stars outta 5, I would… This book was absolutely amazing and I would go through everything I loved about it if I could, but that’s the thing—I loved EVERYTHING. Every single last detail… Definitely one of the best books I have EVER read.

—Britt, Goodreads reviewer

I sure would love to see this book as a movie. Her stories are so believable and you can’t help but feel like you know these people. You find your self crying, laughing and feeling the characters emotions. Now if an author can make you cry and feel every emotion in a story, she is one hell of an author.

—Pamela, Goodreads reviewer

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YA Contemporary Crime

 A heartwarming, sad, intense story that will keep you turning pages until the end…”

Follow the lives of Henry, Sandy, and Bobby as they struggle to break free from the cycles of abuse, poverty, and mental illness that plague their families.

By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016, this poignant account of Henry’s descent into darkness will touch your heart and challenge you to look at youth crime in another light.

If you enjoy gritty contemporary young adult books like those by John Green and Stephen Chbosky, give P.D. Workman’s Breaking the Pattern series a try.

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Sanctuary in the Stream

by P.D. Workman


Coming Soon!
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries #9
Genres: Mystery/Suspense, Police Procedural, Suspense

eBook Price: $ 3.99 USD
Paperback Price: $ 7.95 USD


eBook Paperback RetailersBookbubBingebooks Goodreads

Coming in June 2023

Sanctuary in the StreamAboutPraise for Parks PatAuthor NotesBook Club ResourcesOn my BlogPraise for P.D. WorkmanA dam violent scene

Detective “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to an idyllic scene in the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Where the scene is marred only by the body of a man who apparently got in the way of beaver construction.

Nature can be cruel and beavers have been known to attack. This national symbol can be rabid and vicious.

Yet that does not appear to be the case this time, and Parks Pat is on the case, hoping to uncover the truth in this unexpected death.

This is another well-written, briskly-paced mystery featuring great characters, lots of interesting glimpses into Canada’s Indigenous culture, and a satisfying resolution all wrapped up in delightful quick-read police procedural by an author who could make a description of drying paint sound fascinating.

Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman take you to her favourite Calgary parks, as Métis detective Margie Patenaude investigates a murder in this fast-paced new series. 

These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a Calgary park with Parks Pat.

Explore this new mystery today!

This promises to be a wonderful series with fantastic characters, interesting locations, and fascinating glimpses into different cultures. The story is of novella length and can easily be read in one sitting if so desired, there is no offensive language, no sex, no graphic violence – just a whopping good story everyone can enjoy.
—Kim, Goodreads

The writing is excellent, the plot is nice and twisty and the the characters and situations are believable. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to seeing where she takes these new characters.
—Sandy, Goodreads

I am enjoying this new series. The first book was good and this one was even better. Love the characters and the storyline. Can’t wait to read book number three in this series.
—Kandy, Goodreads

I feel like I’m visiting Calgary, Canada and the parks where the murders are taking place in all three books so far. There are vivid descriptions of the park and the wetlands. Margie and her family are woven throughout along with their ancestry which adds a nice touch.
—Joanne, Goodreads

I love these stories. Short, exciting and not really predictable, as many short stories are. Plots are well-developed, characters are interesting, and there’s plenty of local lore and history. 
—Alice Hazelbaker, Goodreads

Author Notes may contain spoilers!

Coming soon

Questions and answers about the seriesMore coming soon Books for my Birthday How about putting these Easter treats in your basket? Get Your Halloween Reads! Get Magic Ain’t a Game and other freebies New Releases! Changing Fortune Cookies and more [image error] Trick or Treat! Get your Halloween Reads Excerpt from Killing Floor New Releases! Virtually Harmless and More An early Christmas Present – Unlawful Harvest and other new releases Her Work Was Everything and more new releases! Gem, Himself, Alone and a round-up of free goodies! June freebie round-up – Apple-achian Treasure and more Why wear odd socks? She was Dying Anyway and October freebies His Hands were Quiet and a round-up of new releases Give yourself books for Mother’s Day! New Releases! Two Teardrops is now live [image error] Books in your Stocking – A Christmas Eve Book Flood Cyber Monday Deal




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“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”

“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”

“This is one author I certainly will be looking out for, I can’t recommend her enough.”

“I’ll read anything by P. D. Workman that I can get my hands on.”

“Every book by PD Workman that I’ve read has been a gripping one, however different the genres are, going from lighter mysteries to really dark ones… this is one of my favourite, most dependable authors.”

“P.D. Workman is an incredibly versatile writer. No matter which of her books I read I am drawn into a great story and honestly, I don’t think I’ve followed another author that could go from cozy mystery to YA to a PI series dealing with mental health issues. Really enjoy her books!”

“[P.D. Workman’s] stories are so believable and you can’t help but feel like you know these people. You find yourself crying, laughing and feeling the characters emotions. Now if an author can make you cry and feel every emotion in a story, she is one hell of an author.”

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Spanning the Creek

by P.D. Workman


Coming Soon!
Series: Parks Pat Mysteries #8
Genres: Mystery/Suspense, Police Procedural, Suspense

eBook Price: $ 3.99 USD
Paperback Price: $ 7.95 USD


eBook Paperback RetailersBookbubBingebooks Goodreads

Coming in June 2023

Spanning the CreekAboutPraise for Parks PatAuthor NotesBook Club ResourcesOn my BlogPraise for P.D. WorkmanA killer bridge?

Be careful what you wish for!

City Hall wanted the death of Samuel Keller to be anything but an accident. Confederation Park had seen too many tragedies lately and did not need another added to the tally.

But Detective “Parks Pat” Patenaude had not been expecting to find evidence of murder.

Sometimes an accident is just an accident.

But sometimes it’s not.

This is another well-written, briskly-paced mystery featuring great characters, lots of interesting glimpses into Canada’s Indigenous culture, and a satisfying resolution all wrapped up in delightful quick-read police procedural by an author who could make a description of drying paint sound fascinating.

Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman take you to her favourite Calgary parks, as Métis detective Margie Patenaude investigates a murder in this fast-paced new series. 

These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a Calgary park with Parks Pat.

Wade into this new mystery today!

This promises to be a wonderful series with fantastic characters, interesting locations, and fascinating glimpses into different cultures. The story is of novella length and can easily be read in one sitting if so desired, there is no offensive language, no sex, no graphic violence – just a whopping good story everyone can enjoy.
—Kim, Goodreads

The writing is excellent, the plot is nice and twisty and the the characters and situations are believable. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to seeing where she takes these new characters.
—Sandy, Goodreads

I am enjoying this new series. The first book was good and this one was even better. Love the characters and the storyline. Can’t wait to read book number three in this series.
—Kandy, Goodreads

I feel like I’m visiting Calgary, Canada and the parks where the murders are taking place in all three books so far. There are vivid descriptions of the park and the wetlands. Margie and her family are woven throughout along with their ancestry which adds a nice touch.
—Joanne, Goodreads

I love these stories. Short, exciting and not really predictable, as many short stories are. Plots are well-developed, characters are interesting, and there’s plenty of local lore and history. 
—Alice Hazelbaker, Goodreads

Author Notes may contain spoilers!

Coming soon

Questions and answers about the seriesMore coming soon Books for my Birthday How about putting these Easter treats in your basket? Get Your Halloween Reads! Get Magic Ain’t a Game and other freebies New Releases! Changing Fortune Cookies and more [image error] Trick or Treat! Get your Halloween Reads Excerpt from Killing Floor New Releases! Virtually Harmless and More An early Christmas Present – Unlawful Harvest and other new releases Her Work Was Everything and more new releases! Gem, Himself, Alone and a round-up of free goodies! June freebie round-up – Apple-achian Treasure and more Why wear odd socks? She was Dying Anyway and October freebies His Hands were Quiet and a round-up of new releases Give yourself books for Mother’s Day! New Releases! Two Teardrops is now live [image error] Books in your Stocking – A Christmas Eve Book Flood Cyber Monday Deal




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“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”

“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”

“This is one author I certainly will be looking out for, I can’t recommend her enough.”

“I’ll read anything by P. D. Workman that I can get my hands on.”

“Every book by PD Workman that I’ve read has been a gripping one, however different the genres are, going from lighter mysteries to really dark ones… this is one of my favourite, most dependable authors.”

“P.D. Workman is an incredibly versatile writer. No matter which of her books I read I am drawn into a great story and honestly, I don’t think I’ve followed another author that could go from cozy mystery to YA to a PI series dealing with mental health issues. Really enjoy her books!”

“[P.D. Workman’s] stories are so believable and you can’t help but feel like you know these people. You find yourself crying, laughing and feeling the characters emotions. Now if an author can make you cry and feel every emotion in a story, she is one hell of an author.”

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Knows the Hills

by P.D. Workman


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Series: Parks Pat Mysteries #7
Genres: Mystery/Suspense, Police Procedural, Suspense

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Knows the HillsAboutPraise for Parks PatAuthor NotesBook Club ResourcesOn my BlogPraise for P.D. WorkmanDeath by coyote?

An accidental death like the one in Nose Hill Park is always tragic, but what can a homicide detective be expected to do about it?

Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to the gruesome scene, and despite what she can see with her own eyes, does not believe that this is an open-and-shut case of the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The more questions Margie asks, the stranger the case seems. What started off as a tragic accident turns out to be something much more.

Sometimes, a cop just has to follow her instinct.

This is another well-written, briskly-paced mystery featuring great characters, lots of interesting glimpses into Canada’s Indigenous culture, and a satisfying resolution all wrapped up in delightful quick-read police procedural by an author who could make a description of drying paint sound fascinating.

Looking for a police procedural set in picturesque Canada? Let Award-winning and Bestselling Author P.D. Workman take you to her favourite Calgary parks, as Métis detective Margie Patenaude investigates a murder in this fast-paced new series. 

These short mysteries are just right for those days when you could use a break from your busy life. Take a walk in a Calgary park with Parks Pat.

Venture into this new mystery today!

This promises to be a wonderful series with fantastic characters, interesting locations, and fascinating glimpses into different cultures. The story is of novella length and can easily be read in one sitting if so desired, there is no offensive language, no sex, no graphic violence – just a whopping good story everyone can enjoy.
—Kim, Goodreads

The writing is excellent, the plot is nice and twisty and the the characters and situations are believable. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to seeing where she takes these new characters.
—Sandy, Goodreads

I am enjoying this new series. The first book was good and this one was even better. Love the characters and the storyline. Can’t wait to read book number three in this series.
—Kandy, Goodreads

I feel like I’m visiting Calgary, Canada and the parks where the murders are taking place in all three books so far. There are vivid descriptions of the park and the wetlands. Margie and her family are woven throughout along with their ancestry which adds a nice touch.
—Joanne, Goodreads

I love these stories. Short, exciting and not really predictable, as many short stories are. Plots are well-developed, characters are interesting, and there’s plenty of local lore and history. 
—Alice Hazelbaker, Goodreads

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“Every single one of [P.D. Workman’s] books has spoken to me in ways no one or almost anything else has. And I have found strength in the books I’ve read.”

“The way that P.D. Workman writes just flows amazingly and allows the reader to get really invested in a book.”

“This is one author I certainly will be looking out for, I can’t recommend her enough.”

“I’ll read anything by P. D. Workman that I can get my hands on.”

“Every book by PD Workman that I’ve read has been a gripping one, however different the genres are, going from lighter mysteries to really dark ones… this is one of my favourite, most dependable authors.”

“P.D. Workman is an incredibly versatile writer. No matter which of her books I read I am drawn into a great story and honestly, I don’t think I’ve followed another author that could go from cozy mystery to YA to a PI series dealing with mental health issues. Really enjoy her books!”

“[P.D. Workman’s] stories are so believable and you can’t help but feel like you know these people. You find yourself crying, laughing and feeling the characters emotions. Now if an author can make you cry and feel every emotion in a story, she is one hell of an author.”

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Checking out a new series with Gone

Even though National Ice Cream Cone Day is over, I don’t see why you can’t still celebrate it with a cone and one of these cold cases! Check out my blog post for some fun mystery reads.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I am just finishing up Randall Wayne White’s Gone, the first book in his new Hannah Smith series. This is a difficult one for me to review. Although I am all for books that expose trafficking and predatory practices to the light of day and inform people in an entertaining way, I had difficulty with the characters in this first in series. Randall Wayne White’s Doc Ford series is quite popular and well-reviewed, but I think writing a woman from first person point of view was difficult for this author. Even positive reviews frequently mention the difficulty White seems to have writing from a female perspective. I am not a fan of the “beautiful swan who doesn’t know she’s no longer an ugly duckling” trope. Nor of the woman standing in front of the mirror analyzing her assets. White seems to have wanted to include LGBT diversity to his cast of characters, but they don’t come out feeling genuine, just sexually confused.

Gone is suspenseful, a satisfying PI mystery, and has a good climax in the swamp at the end. The plot and storyline are good. Lots of details about boats and the Florida keys. But I think the author “missed the boat” on characterization in this one.

Some people are like that. Unaware of their vulnerability, secure in their own illusions.

Randall Wayne White, Gone

Hannah Smith is a tall, strong, formidable Florida woman, the descendant of generations of strong Florida women. She makes her living as a fishing guide, but her friends, neighbors, and clients also know her as an uncommonly resourceful woman with a keen sense of justice, as someone who can’t be bullied—and they have taken to coming to her with their problems.

Her methods can be unorthodox, though, and those on the receiving end of them often wind up very unhappy—and sometimes very violent. When a girl goes missing, and Hannah is asked to find her, that is exactly what happens…

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A case as cold as ice cream

September 22 is National Ice Cream Cone Day, and I thought it would be a great day to feature mysteries with cold cases.

Here are a couple of mine you might be interested in:

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A cold case for Erin!

The trouble with solving murders in a little town like Bald Eagle Falls is that everybody knows about it, and then they expect you to solve their cases too. When Bella brings a new—or rather a cold—case to Erin, she protests that she is not a detective. But Bella really needs her; how could an old woman just have gone missing without anyone following up on it? How could they just accept Ezekiel’s assertion that his wife was fine and she was just off visiting. Eventually, that excuse must have worn out.

Meanwhile, a blast from Erin’s own past—a foster sister Erin would rather not see again—shows up, bringing with her another set of complications.

Like baking mysteries? Cats, dogs, and other pets? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings readers back to small town Bald Eagle Falls for another culinary cozy mystery to be solved by gluten-free baker Erin Price and her friends.

Have your gluten-free cake and eat it too. Sink your teeth into this sweet treat now!

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Then he was gone

Zachary Goldman just wants to put everything that happened to him that night at the hands of a monster behind him forever. But when Heather, his estranged sister, asks for his help in bringing her own rapist to justice, there is no way he can turn her down.

The case is cold, three decades ago. Heather never saw her attacker’s face, as he was wearing a mask. At the time, the police did everything they could, but there have been new advancements in technology and Zachary hopes to turn up something he can use to solve the case.

Somehow, he needs to find a way to finally bring Heather some peace, even when it means dealing with his own painful memories.

This is a compelling story of family misfortune, child abuse and neglect, and of the inadequacies and challenges of the foster care system. Zachary’s devotion to a sister who, in truth, is nearly a stranger to him is inspiring. His dogged determination and unrelenting resolve to help another individual, regardless of his own problems or limitations, make him a remarkable and uniquely appealing character. The engaging characters, the intricately detailed storylines involving relevant and provocative issues, and the beautifully crafted flow of narrative make the stories in this series enthralling, entertaining, and completely addictive. I am eagerly looking forward to the next one.

Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues.

Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit.

Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case.

Investigate this P.I. mystery now!

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If you’re looking for some ice cream cone recipes or mysteries featuring ice cream, be sure to check out last year’s blog post!

More Cold Cases

Here are a few more cold cases I picked up for you!

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Tea Room owner and reluctant amateur sleuth, Laney Powers, decides to enjoy some of the natural beauty of Vermont and travels to a popular nearby hiking spot. She runs into the Mayor of Iberden, Raymond Andrews, who decides to join her on the hike, and knowing that there’s safety in numbers, Laney is glad for the company.

The hike turns into a murder investigation when they make a gruesome discovery on the trail. Teaming up with her best senior gal pal, Babby, Laney is determined to get to the bottom of a case that’s been cold for decades when she finds that for Babby, it’s personal.

Suspects come out of the woodwork, and Laney learns that even in a small town not everyone is as they seem. Can the two friends solve the case and find closure for Babby?

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Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post).

Thea Janis was a literary Mozart. She published her first novel at age fourteen, shocking the upper crust of Boston with her frank depiction of blue-blooded indiscretions, and she seemed to have a magnificent career ahead of her. But before Thea could publish her follow-up novel, she mysteriously disappeared and was eventually named as a victim of a serial killer.
 
Twenty-four years later, an admirer of Thea’s comes to Carlotta claiming to have evidence that Thea is alive—and still writing. He begs Carlotta to find the onetime prodigy, but there are powerful people, including Thea’s prominent family of Boston politicians, who want Thea’s second book to stay buried. As a take-no-prisoners gubernatorial race speeds to its climax, Carlotta discovers a secret that could upend the campaign, endanger people’s lives, and rewrite literary history.

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Police Inspector Andrew Cheatham is back on the island with another murder investigation for the cold case unit. On paper, it seems as if the case should have been solved decades earlier. Craig Howard was stabbed to death in a small pub, leaving behind only four possible suspects in the case.

Elizabeth Cubbon, Bessie to her friends, finds the new case frustrating. As if that weren’t enough to worry about, her friend Maggie Shimmin is convinced that someone is trying to kill her. Maggie knows exactly who is behind what she insists are attempts on her life, but Bessie isn’t anywhere near as certain.

Can Bessie and the cold case unit find Craig’s killer? Can Bessie convince Maggie to go to the police with her suspicions? And, after eight months of working together, can Bessie and her friends actually start to get to know Charles and Harry, the other two members of the unit?

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A reporter from LA comes to town and is found strangled to death in a local motel. He’d been inquiring about a cold case: ten years ago, a boy was killed in the playground, but the murderer was never found.

Amelia thinks if they can find the reporter’s killer, they can finally catch the boy’s killer. Between creating a new lemonade cupcake recipe and a savory chili cornbread muffin, Amelia acts on her instincts to finally solve the case. But will her bold actions put her, as well as her children, in danger?

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Travis Dent has been dead twenty years when the city police decide suddenly to close his file.

The man’s father is desperate for answers. Word on the inside is that he’s better off now knowing. It’s down to Sandy to investigate.

Why are the police so keen to close the file?

Are the rumours about the dead man’s mother true?

One thing’s for sure – someone knows what happened to Travis all those years ago.

And Sandy won’t rest until she finds them.

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Magical misfit Indie Warren knows a thing or two about backstabbing in a small town, but this isn’t what she was expecting.

When the owners of the The Witch Cavern Spa are found sprawled out with knives in their backs, the search is on for their killer… and Indie wonders whether or not it might have something to do with the rumored secret treasure hidden deep within the salt caves.

But her quest for the truth isn’t the only digging she’s doing. Indie finds herself just as conflicted as ever about her love life when Julian’s true past is accidentally revealed. Will Indie be able to handle the truth about his dangerous former life?

And why can’t she shake the feeling that her own best friends are hiding something from her?

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