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Read A Time for Mercy, a Grisham Courtroom Drama

Are you looking for some spring and Easter themed books? Be sure to hop like a bunny over to my Easter blog post! And if it isn’t too wintry where you are (we’re in the middle of a “snow squall”) you might like to pick up my newest release, Cold as Ice Cream, the latest book in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series.

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I am in the midst of my latest read by John Grisham, A Time for Mercy, released in October 2020. It is the third in the Jake Brigance series. It is what Grisham does best, legal suspense and courtroom drama. The characters are well-developed, the legal challenges clear and concise, and a sixteen-year-old’s life is on the line.

…the chores and food and intimidation were nothing compared to the violence.

John Grisham, A Time for Mercy

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line.
 
In what may be the most personal and accomplished legal thriller of John Grisham’s storied career, we deepen our acquaintance with the iconic Southern town of Clanton and the vivid cast of characters that so many readers know and cherish. The result is a richly rewarding novel that is both timely and timeless, full of wit, drama, and—most of all—heart.
 
Bursting with all the courthouse scheming, small-town intrigue, and stunning plot twists that have become the hallmarks of the master of the legal thriller, A Time for Mercy is John Grisham’s most powerful courtroom drama yet.

Gentle Angel

by P.D. Workman
Work in Progress!
Series: A Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thriller #4
Genres: Mystery, Mystery/Suspense, Suspense, Thriller



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+ About Dosed to Death

A killer it out there.

A serial killer who appears to have a personal grudge against Kenzie Kirsch.

The Assistant Medical Examiner has enough on her plate dealing with a personal crisis and doesn’t need the added challenge of FBI Agent Menendez’s unrealistic expectations and trying to identify the killer herself.  

As Christmas approaches, things are getting more and more complicated and it feels like everything is coming apart.

+ Praise for Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thrillers

“P.D. Workman has done it again. she has managed to write a book that will push your buttons. If it doesn’t then you need to take another look.”

“This is a brilliant read.
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believeable.
Great suspense and action with wonderful world building that adds so much to the story.
Can’t wait to see what the author brings us next!”

“Absolutely fabulous as always.”

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+ Praise for P.D. Workman

“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!”

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About P.D. Workman

P.D. (Pamela) Workman writes riveting mystery/suspense and young adult books dealing with mental illness, addiction, abuse, and other real-life issues. For as long as she can remember, the blank page has held an incredible allure and from a very young age she was trying to write her own books.

Workman wrote her first complete novel at the age of twelve and continued to write as a hobby for many years. She started publishing in 2013. She has won several literary awards from Library Services for Youth in Custody for her young adult fiction. She made the USA Today Bestseller list in 2019. She currently has over 50 published titles and can be found at pdworkman.com.

Born and raised in Alberta, Workman has been married for over 25 years and has one son.

Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 8-10

by P.D. Workman
Bundle/Collection!
Series: Zachary Goldman Mysteries
Genres: Brozy (Broader Cozy), Mystery

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Zachary Goldman is many things. He is dysfunctional, traumatized, often depressed, and a bit neurotic, but he is also a brilliant and tenacious private investigator whose dogged determination to resolve his client’s issues guarantee that his exploits are always a pleasure to read.
Kim, Goodreads reviewer

+ About Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 8-10

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 four cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit.

A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved.

This set includes:

She Told A Lie

A missing girl. Her confused family and friends don’t know what to think about her disappearance. Zachary Goldman is on the case, and he is determined to find out what happened to Madison Miller and to bring her home safely.

He Never Forgot

When Ben Burton hired Zachary Goldman to help him to find the house he lived in before he was adopted, Zachary had no idea it would turn into a murder case. And Ben is not the only one who remembers what happened.

She Was At Risk

Zachary has done his very best to let go of ex-wife Bridget and relegate their relationship to the past and he knows this is a case that could break him.

Zachary Goldman has become one of my favorite fictional characters. He is so flawed and troubled and loyal and hardworking and, and…I want to be Zach when I grow up!

The writing is skillful, with a wonderfully complex plot and well-developed characters. Highly recommended!

Looking for a gritty PI series without foul language and gore? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings you stories that delve into some of the darkest parts of society but leave you feeling good in the end

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

Add Zachary to your bookshelf today.Goodreads reviews for She Told a Lie

Reviews from Goodreads.com

+ Praise for the Series

—I want to give more than five stars!! It’s like she pulled this out of a newspaper and personalized it!! Another nail biter to the end!!

—I read it almost straight through, but did have to sleep in there somewhere. I’ve been reading it this morning also for 3 hours straight. It is really an amazing book … As a clinical psychologist, this book was more interesting to me than many things that I read. I certainly will be looking for more books by this outstanding author.

—I purchased this book for vacation, but it didn’t get that far. I started reading and I seriously couldn’t put it down and finished it before we left.

—Wow, this story is stunning in more ways than one. The research alone had to take such a long time to make this story so real and compelling. My heart was breaking some of the time and then I was crying because of good things. I loved the story and really think this lady is one of the best authors I’ve ever had the privilege of reading!

—Zachary is not your normal, everyday detective, but because of his mental health issues he seems to have an extra sense in sorting out the reasons behind the crimes he is investigating … Ms Workman has again created characters with depth, feeling and realism… I am really looking forward to the next installment as Ms Workman has yet to disappoint me.

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+ Praise for P.D. Workman

“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!”

+ Zachary Goldman on my Blog Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 8-10 Springing into Easter Reads She Was At Risk and other Free Books Visit death row with John Grisham in The Guardians She Was At Risk and more new releases Dosed to Death Get He Never Forgot and other Free Reads Get more of the holidays with The 19th Christmas Get cozy with a brozy mystery Dive into Iron Lake Unwind the Conspiracy in All the Devils Are Here New releases – He Never Forgot, and more! She Told A Lie and Other Freebies Rick Riordan has Another Hit with Magnus Chase She Told a Lie and More New Releases Virgil Flowers is back in Bloody Genius What’s Coming Next? My new discovery – A Discovery of Witches Mickey Haller Crosses the Aisle Get into the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series for free Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 5-7 Celebrate Cozy Mystery Day with me! $0.99 Sale They Thought He Was Safe It’s Christmas in July!




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About P.D. Workman

P.D. (Pamela) Workman writes riveting mystery/suspense and young adult books dealing with mental illness, addiction, abuse, and other real-life issues. For as long as she can remember, the blank page has held an incredible allure and from a very young age she was trying to write her own books.

Workman wrote her first complete novel at the age of twelve and continued to write as a hobby for many years. She started publishing in 2013. She has won several literary awards from Library Services for Youth in Custody for her young adult fiction. She made the USA Today Bestseller list in 2019. She currently has over 50 published titles and can be found at pdworkman.com.

Born and raised in Alberta, Workman has been married for over 25 years and has one son.

Springing into Easter Reads

After some of the polar weather we experienced during February, the warmer weather in March has been very pleasant. And while Daylight Savings Time has set us back an hour, the days are definitely getting longer and the dawn earlier; where I live, anyway. I know my readers are from all over the world, but I’m sure you’re still fascinated with the changing seasons here! The weather is a very important topic of discussion in places where there is a wide variation in weather from day to day and week to week. (And sometimes minute to minute!)

All of which is to say: I am very glad for the spring! While we are not really past the danger of snow until late May, hopefully the four foot high piles of snow are behind us and we have nothing worse than spring flurries in the next couple of months.

As well as the warmer weather and longer days, spring brings with it green grass, flowers (eventually…), baby animals, and Easter. So, how about some Easter and spring themed books?

Although I have built up my repertoire of Christmas/winter themed books, I don’t have much out yet that takes place around Easter. But I do have one on preorder with an Easter/Ostara/Equinox theme. Magic Ain’t a Game is book #11 in the Reg Rawlins, Psychic Investigator series but can be read as a stand alone mystery.

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Spring equinox was supposed to be a fun time in Black Sands.

The magical Spring Games are being held in town, with all kinds of new talent and tourists pouring money into the economy. Of course, Reg wasn’t invited to participate, but she figured she’d have a good time watching the entertainment, learning more about how magic works outside of fairy tales, and maybe making some coin with psychic predictions for the tourists.

But instead of the promised state of balance the equinox was supposed to bring, a power shift within the community has disrupted everything, Reg is under investigation for magical crimes, and her footing in Black Sands is more precarious than ever.

“Tell me again how this was all supposed to be fun?”

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More Spring Settings:

The books before and After Magic Ain’t No Game, Skunk Man Swamp and Without Foresight are also set in the spring, but not with any explicit spring or Easer themes—as are recent releases She Told a Lie and He Never Forgot, from the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series and Hot on the Trail Mix, coming out soon in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series.

More books:

Scroll down to find more by some other authors.

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It’s springtime in Spicetown and Mayor Cora Mae Bingham discovers there may be trouble blooming along with the rhododendrons!

With construction in full throttle in the new subdivisions  and the income tax filing deadline looming over her head, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham is revamping the Annual Easter Eggs-Travaganza and trying to figure out who is in the Easter bunny suit this year, when a dead body has to be added to her To-Do list.

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Megan Fallon is in a pickle.

As if empty-nest syndrome wasn’t bad enough, she’s joined the ranks of the unemployed, and her fiancé’s run off with her hairdresser.

In desperate need of a change of scene, she heads back to her childhood village home for some long-overdue friends and family time.

Things are looking up until members of the community start getting bumped off at an alarming rate, and Megan finds herself at the heart of an investigation that has her suspecting everyone.

As she becomes involved in the hunt for a murderer, it’s not long before she finds out that some of the villagers are harbouring shocking secrets…

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With a harsh Maine winter finally over, Lucy Stone is excited to cover the annual Easter egg hunt for the Tinker’s Cove Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at her oceanfront estate, it’s a swanky event where the eggs are as likely to contain savings bonds as jelly beans. But when Lucy arrives at Pine Point, the gates are locked, and a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges, only to drop dead moments later…
 
The victim is Vivian’s grandson, and all is not well at Pine Point. Vivian has been skipping lunch dates, and her charitable donations have abruptly stopped. Is she going senile? Or are her heirs a little too anxious to take over her estate? As Lucy gathers a basketful of suspects, she’ll have to try not to fall down a rabbit hole as she chases a killer with a deadly case of spring fever… 

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When hairstylist Marla Vail attends an Easter egg hunt at historic Tremayne Manor, she’s only there to fix hair for a client, Bonnie “Blinky” Morris. But when she’s asked to comb the grounds for leftover goodies, Marla discovers more than just a few dyed eggs. The dead body in the bunny costume is definitely not having a good hare day. And Blinky seems to have disappeared down a rabbit hole.

When trying to solve a murder, everyone needs a friend who’s all ears. For Marla, that’s her husband, homicide detective Dalton Vail. They make an eggcellent team. Dalton isn’t the kind to leap to conclusions, but with his wife seven months pregnant, and knowing Marla finds crime-solving to be irresistible, he worries about her running off on another hare-raising adventure.

Marla’s peeps are hoping for a happy ending, but she may have found a basketful of trouble this time.

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It’s almost Easter. Time for bunnies, bonnets, and bonbons. Not bedlam. Unless you’re Lora Weaver, that is.

With the scent of spring in the air and the promise of a long weekend looming, Lora is looking forward to a few days relaxing with her beau Adam, taking long walks and short naps snuggled together in the warm glow of Easter chocolate wrappers.

Until Lora spots a bouquet of Easter lilies at the home of bff Camille Caron’s aunt and soon finds herself donning a bunny suit and slinging more than Easter eggs.

Whiskers deep in a mêlée of sparring seniors, Lora must keep herself from falling into a rabbit hole she can’t escape. All while grappling with the clamorous Caron clan, mama-to-be Tina, and Lora’s enigma of a boss, Laurent, who may be hiding more secrets than a Kinder egg.

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During an Easter egg hunt, Roland “Beanie” Bean and his two-year-old son Evan are searching for eggs when they find a woman sprawled in the dirt beneath a hibiscus bush. 

Little Evan thinks the lady is just sleeping, but Beanie knows better. 

The nasty gash on the woman’s forehead might not have killed her, but the stab wounds in her chest appear to be fatal. 

As an investigative reporter at the Palmchat Gazette, Beanie is the perfect person to cover the story, considering that he found the victim. 

Narrowing down the field of suspects, Beanie finds out the victim had plenty of enemies. Not only was she unfaithful to her husband, but she was blackmailing her lover and cheating her business partner and may have been involved in a scam with a vicious island cartel. 
As Beanie continues to investigate, he uncovers sinister secrets and devious motives among those who were closest to the victim. Racing to discover the killer, he ends up the target of a diabolical murderer who won’t hesitate to kill again.

Amazon.ugb-d92129c .ugb-button{background-color:#BE1E2D;border-radius:25px !important}.ugb-d92129c .ugb-button .ugb-button--inner,.ugb-d92129c .ugb-button svg:not(.ugb-custom-icon){color:#ffffff !important}.ugb-d92129c .ugb-button:before{border-radius:25px !important}@media screen and (min-width:768px){.ugb-d92129c .ugb-img{width:333px;height:auto !important}}The Easter Murders

A serial killer chooses Easter week to leave dead pregnant teens in front of Catholic churches in New Orleans. Homicide detective Jo Crowder doggedly pursues a trail of evidence that leads to the arrest of Miguel Diaz, a twenty-year-old Latino nursing student. However, Crowder’s instincts tell her that the evidence against Diaz was planted by the actual murderer.

Though directed by her superiors to close the investigation, Crowder keeps digging. She suspects Monsignor Rossi, whose connections to the victims are too suspicious to overlook. But can she prove that the clergyman is a cold-blooded murderer in time to save Diaz?

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Amateur sleuth (and ace baker) Claire Andersen is back! Winter melts to spring in scenic Galway, Maryland, uncovering blooming friendships new and old, a shyly budding romance, the rotten stench of organized crime, and family drama more garish than Claire’s emerging blood lilies.

Settling in just fine to her new Appalachian digs (and getting the hang of this whole proprietress of a B&B thing, too!), NYC native Claire Andersen is living a cozy small town fairy tale. There are quirky local characters and adorable little shops, not to mention a kitchen full of mouth-watering baked goodies. She’s a veritable June Cleaver—if Leave It to Beaver were nestled in the mountains and June were a recently retired empty nester, that is.

There’s just one problem. Claire can hardly say “Gee, golly” before her newly-acquainted and much-beloved neighbor winds up murdered in cold blood, right before Galway’s annual Easter parade. Hot off the heels of her last murder, Claire can’t help but get involved (much to the chagrin of the well-meaning albeit bumbling town sheriff). She can hardly help herself, after all. The murder did take place right next door… and the victim’s family is staying in her B&B… Ever the hostess, poking around is the least she could do.

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Bailey King’s in New York wrapping up a six-week shoot on her first cable TV show, Bailey’s Amish Sweets, when she gets a call from her Ohio town’s resident busybody. With Easter around the corner, Bailey’s been recruited to create a giant toffee bunny for the weeklong springtime festival that will also feature live white rabbits. But back home in Harvest, death becomes the main attraction when Stephen Raber keels over from an apparent heart attack—with Bailey and Raber’s pet bunny as witnesses.
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Except it wasn’t Raber’s heart that suddenly gave out—a lethal dose of lily of the valley was mixed into a tasty piece of toffee. Who’d want to poison a jovial rabbit farmer who reminded Bailey of an Amish Santa Claus? To solve the murder, she and her sheriff deputy boyfriend Aiden must uncover a twenty-year-old secret. She’ll need to pull a rabbit out of a hat to keep a healthy distance from toxic people, including one venomous killer… 

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In the first ever crossover episode, Zak and Zoe join forces with Hawaiian visitors Luke and Lani, to find out who killed a historian visiting Ashton Falls in order to find a treasure map left by his grandfather a hundred years earlier.

Meanwhile, Ellie and Levi move in with Zak and Zoe while the boathouse is being renovated and Alex helps Ellie prepare the nursery for baby Eli who is due to be born any day. Throw in some humor and Easter fun and you have a Zak and Zoe crossover mystery.

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A Longmire Mystery, Death Without Company

Cold as Ice Cream, #13 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series went live this past weekend. If you did not preorder it or get a chance to buy it yet, head on over to get a copy! It’s fizzy, it’s fun, it’s… murder.

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I am most of the way through Death Without Company, which is book #2 in Craig Johnson’s Longmire Mysteries series. I was not aware before I started it, but this series is the basis for a Netflix series called Longmire. I just checked, and it’s available on the Canadian version of Netflix as well as the US.

Craig Johnson takes you on a picturesque journey through Wyoming in a slow-burn mystery surrounding the death of a Basque woman in a nursing home. The former sheriff believes that her death was murder and puts Sheriff Walt Longmire onto it (rather insistently.) And of course he turns out to be right, or there wouldn’t be much of a story to tell.

If you like your mysteries fast-moving and dark, this is not the series for you, but if you enjoy the journey and meeting people along the way, you will enjoy this one.

He took a sip of his coffee and nodded along with me. “It is not like women are any fun to be around, that they are soft, that they smell good, or that they…”

Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

Johnson takes us back to the rugged landscape of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for Death Without Company. When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman’s dramatic Basque past. Aided by his friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and newcomer Santiago Saizarbitoria, Sheriff Longmire must connect the specter of the past to the present to find the killer among them.

Cold as Ice Cream and More New Releases

It is release day for Cold as Ice Cream, book #13 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series! Erin and her friends are back, whipping up some special treats. Cold as Ice cream can be read as a standalone mystery, or together with the rest of the series.

Book #1 in the series, Gluten-Free Murder, is available for free download, so if you haven’t read it, download it now!

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How could a few bubbles have gone so wrong?

It’s a CO2 cook-off! Chef Kirschoff and Vic’s friends from the Alaskan cruise are back for a carbonation contest, with Erin and Vic acting as two of the judges. It’s fizzy, it’s fun, what could possibly go wrong?

Apparently, someone did not get the memo. At first, when Beryl Batcombe is found dead in the restaurant’s cold room, everyone assumes it was a terrible accident. But as Erin and Vic are drawn into the mystery, it becomes obvious that this was not an innocent mistake.

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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 I love this series! This time Erin and Vic are reunited with friends they made on a recent Alaskan cruise. When Chef Kirschoff asks them to judge a culinary contest, they have no idea it will turn deadly. Many secrets will be unearthed before the killer is found. The plot is as twisty as a country road and the characters are well-developed and believable.

—Sandy, Goodreads Reader

More New Releases

And I have gathered together a stack of other new releases for your to be read file!

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After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos.

What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn’t seem to convince to leave, and a new family she’d never be able to live without.

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On the run. Accused of murder—with no way out.

Coroner Fenway Stevenson is accused of a homicide she didn’t commit—but all the evidence points to her. Staying one step ahead of the police, she discovers one secret after another about not only the victim, but about her mother’s secret past. With the body count rising and the killer still on the loose, can Fenway find the truth and prove her innocence before she becomes the next victim?

You can also get the first in series free

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Spring, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, explorer extraordinaire and accidental sleuth, hasn’t had a vacation since she arrived in England a year ago. Being an amateur detective can be a rather tiring business and she is determined to escape any more murder and mysteries. So she books into the Grand Hotel in the fashionable resort of Brighton for some fresh air, fish and chips and, of course, a dip in the ocean.

Eleanor is enjoying her view of the waves and trying to find her bathing suit when calamity strikes: a guest has been found dead at her beautiful hotel. The distraught manager, who can’t afford a scandal, asks Eleanor to solve the case as swiftly as possible. Thank goodness she has her partner in crime – Gladstone the bulldog – to help her sniff out the dastardly culprit.

But when Eleanor enters the dead man’s room, she receives a shock big enough to make her forget even the finest ice cream sundae. The body is that of her husband, who supposedly died six years ago on the other side of the world. Has he been alive all these years? Why does he have a copy of their wedding photograph with a cryptic message written on the back? If Eleanor can keep herself safe long enough to find her husband’s killer, she might discover that everything is not quite as it seems beside the seaside…

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Maisie Frobisher imagines her return to London will be a triumph. However, it isn’t quite as she expected. For one thing, she has more than a little explaining to do.

Inspector Hamilton is investigating the British end of the operation he and Maisie uncovered in India. Meanwhile, Maisie re-enters high society, which is much less exciting than she remembers. She isn’t the person she was when she left – and she can’t share that information with anyone.

Soon, Maisie acquires a task of her own. An assassin is preying on society victims, and Maisie is in the perfect position to keep her eyes and ears open.

Understandably, Inspector Hamilton is concerned, but Maisie throws herself into her work. The return of an old flame complicates matters, as does Maisie’s appearance in a gossip column. And then the assassin strikes again…

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Hannah’s up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother’s penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea—Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered . . . and Andrea is the prime suspect.
 
Even with his reputation for being a bully, Mayor Bascomb—or “Ricky Ticky,” as Hannah’s mother likes to call him—had been unusually testy in the days leading up to his death, leaving Hannah to wonder if he knew he was in danger. Meanwhile, folks with a motive for mayoral murder are popping up in Lake Eden. Was it a beleaguered colleague? A political rival? A jealous wife? Or a scorned mistress?
 
As orders pile up at The Cookie Jar—and children line up for Easter egg hunts—Hannah must spring into investigation mode and identify the real killer . . . before another murder happens!

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A vacation gone wrong. A magical game show. A ghost with a plan.

When Marley and her friend Annie accept tickets to a game show in the Spirit Realm, a murder catches them off guard. The show, “Twin Flames”, is all about true love… so why was an important staff member killed with such vengeance?

Marley and Annie just want to have a fun, relaxing vacation — but when the stakes are raised, they have no choice but to help track down the killer.

This is the sixth and final book in the Marley the Witch Cozy Mystery series. A light, clean, heart-warming witch cozy with a leading female sleuth.

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Every baker has their weak spot. For Poppy it’s bread. So, when The Great British Baking Contest hits bread week, she’s as fragile as an overbaked croissant. Just when she needs to keep all her focus on flour, water, yeast and salt, another ingredient enters the mix. Death.

Someone is not who they appear to be, and secrets from the past are bringing deadly consequences to the present. Poppy isn’t only a contestant in the long-running TV show, she’s also a witch and reluctant amateur sleuth. With the rest of her coven, assorted animal helpers and her ghostly sidekick Gerry, Poppy needs to solve the murder before someone else dies.

Set in the beautiful Somerset countryside, the Great Witches Baking Contest stories are all linked, but they can be read as stand alone cozy mysteries. There is no swearing, gore or sex. Just an entertaining cozy mystery with witches, ghosts, a little romance–and recipes!

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Who wouldn’t want to make a living from her favorite pastime?

Although sometimes self-doubt creeps in along the way, artist Amanda Trent has been striving to do just that, ever since her ex-husband dumped her for a younger woman and she moved to Lonesome Valley, Arizona, to start a new life. So when her friends from the Roadrunner Gallery urge her to join them and world-renown artist Ulysses Durand in a plein air paint-out, she hesitates, fearing that she might not be able to complete a painting in the four-hour time limit.

But everything goes smoothly at the public open-air event—until Ulysses’s wife goes missing and he asks Amanda for her help. Has his past come back to haunt the famous artist? With a little help from her nemesis, cranky Lieutenant Belmont, the support of her friends, and the companionship of her furry feline Mona Lisa and her lovable golden retriever Laddie, Amanda tracks a killer who’s determined to strike again unless Amanda can save the day.

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With Baby South-Brown’s arrival just around the corner, Julia joins the local book club during her maternity leave. What better way to rest, relax, and connect with a few of Peridale’s book-loving citizens? But when one of the book clubbers dies during a meeting, everyone’s a suspect.

Meanwhile, with a missing father and a murdered woman already on Barker’s plate – not to mention the poison pen letters demanding his return to novel-writing, or else, arriving with alarming frequency – Barker’s biggest case yet as a private investigator gets more complicated with each passing day.

And the Braxton Hicks contractions, baby shower drama, and “Ten Things Every Father Must Do To Prepare For Baby!!” articles aren’t helping matters. With Barker and Julia’s lives looking disturbingly like one of the novels Barker no longer writes, it will take their combined investigative skills to get to the bottom of the mysteries surrounding them.

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When cupids aren’t cuddly…

Post-Valentine’s High: A state of euphoria experienced by cupids. This state typically occurs in late February, but extreme cases can persist into March.

One euphoric cupid in March is bad enough, but three? And when they band together, no good can come of it.
But…murder?

Mallory’s been hired by a surprising client to prove that while these three cupids might have committed a caper or two, they weren’t up for murder.

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It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society, and tonight heralds the grand opening of their literary and historical themed haunted house.

Though Timothy Neville, the patriarch of the Heritage Society, is not thrilled with the fund-raising idea, it is the perfect venue for his grandniece, Willow French, to sign copies of her new book, Carolina Crimes & Creepers.

But amid a parade of characters dressed as Edgar Allan Poe, Lady Macbeth, and the Headless Horseman, Willow’s body is suddenly tossed from the third-floor tower room and left to dangle at the end of a rope. Police come screaming in and Theodosia’s boyfriend, Detective Pete Riley, is sent to Willow’s apartment to investigate. But minutes later, he is shot and wounded by a shadowy intruder.

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Wanted: Cat mum to manage a yarn store, corral two curious cats, all the while being tangled up in murderous mayhem and mystery.

A smart woman would dump her cheating ex, move from the city, and give herself a chance for a well-deserved do-over. A smarter woman—smarter than me, anyway—wouldn’t jump out of that same frying pan and return to Cape Discovery, a seaside village where her family is the nuttiest of all the nut-ball residents.

I’m a former high school counsellor, middle-child peacemaker, and current curator of lots of squishy/fuzzy goodness at my granddad’s little yarn store. Temporary assistant. Until I decide what to do with the rest my life. There’s only one knotty problem to untangle first. The knife sticking out of the most unpopular man in town, and the police detective trying to pin the murder on the donkey—otherwise known as my younger brother. With a pair mischievous cats determined to be underfoot and a craft group of Serial Knitters and Happy Hookers wanting the inside scoop, a girl could lose her mind. And if the killer has their way, maybe even my life…

Tessa Wakefield has her hands full juggling a cozy craft store, her crazy family, and two men who’d rather poke out their eyes than describe themselves as cute. Which they totally are. Cute, charismatic, and occasionally on her mind when she’s not stumbling over dead bodies and using her newfound sleuthing skills to track down murderers. Lucky she’s an excellent multi-tasker because digging beneath Cape Discovery’s surface can unearth secrets that kill.

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When a dead body is discovered lying barefoot in a restaurant parking lot, detectives Angela White and Paul Conley are called in to investigate the strange and disturbing crime. The victim turns out to be Jay Sharma, the hotshot CEO of a famed AI company and tech powerhouse. Jay’s distraught wife can’t imagine who could want to kill him. But the deeper White and Conley wade into the evidence, the longer the suspect list grows.

The detectives soon come face-to-face with the dark and sordid world that lies just under Silicon Valley’s polished and pristine exterior. From jealous ex-lovers to rival tech giants, Jay has created powerful enemies, all of whom would be happy to see him dead–and all of whom have solid alibis.

White and Conley hit dead end after dead end. And when blackmail schemes and copycat murders come into play, finding Jay’s killer becomes increasingly more urgent.

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Now that she’s accepted her psychic gifts, Aly’s determined to solve the mystery of her sister-in-law’s death.

Unfortunately, between work, starting classes, and her brother’s unwillingness to find the truth, Aly’s having trouble getting answers. Then Aly’s academic advisor and favorite professor turns up dead.

Professor Zimm was one of the school’s most beloved teachers. Who would want to kill her? The professor who could make tenure in her absence? The privileged student who hates having to retake the class? The rich girl who’s determined to get an A at all costs? There’s no shortage of suspects, but Aly’s running out of time to find the killer before they find her.

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As the owner of Sedona Bed and Breakfast, Bernadette Maxwell has always played up the rumors that her business was haunted. She’s never believed it herself, even though she can’t explain the odd odors that sometimes permeate the room or why a blast of cold air comes out of nowhere… until she has an accident and can suddenly see her resident ghost—her crazy, fun-loving, hippie grandmother, Ruby.

 When a guest is found dead, the police rule it a homicide.  It becomes apparent Bernadette is not only a suspect, but also in the crosshairs of the murderer. With no one to turn to for help, she relies on Ruby to assist her in a search for clues to bring the killer to justice.
 
Will Bernadette and Ruby find the murderer before Bernadette becomes the next victim?

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Poppy Lewis has left her past life behind—ex-husband, friends, a successful hotel business—to start anew in the charming northern California coastal village of Starry Cove. Will this be the new beginning she so desperately wants, or will the mysteries and secrets of this small town bring it all crashing down?

After Poppy unexpectedly inherits her uncle’s Victorian mansion in Starry Cove, she makes grand plans to open a bed-and-breakfast. But when the local handyman winds up dead and the bodies start to pile up, Poppy’s recent arrival in the town raises eyebrows and sets tongues wagging. To make matters worse, she soon discovers the mansion has hidden secrets of its own that threaten her very safety.

With the help of two faithful new friends, Poppy hatches a plan to track down the killer and clear her name.

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Get your thrills with Hush

Did you have a great International Women’s Day last week? If you didn’t get your fill of books, be sure to pop over to my blog post to pick up a few more books featuring women from other cultures and countries.

And don’t forget about my upcoming release this weekend! Cold as Ice Cream, book #13 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series will be out this Friday, and I will have a sampling of other new releases in my blog post as well. Check out my social media channels for a video of me doing a reading from Cold as Ice Cream. Cold as Ice Cream and my other books can be read as standalone mysteries.

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

I was afraid when I looked at my recent blog posts that I was featuring a James Patterson book two weeks in a row. Close, but not quite! I featured James Patterson’s Lost two weeks ago, and this week, it is Hush, book number four in the Harriet Blue series. I haven’t previously read any of the books in this series, I don’t think, so you can definitely read it as a standalone and understand all of what is going on. Hush is set in Australia, with an Australian narrator for the audiobook. Harriet Blue is a tough female cop who doesn’t just cross the line in her investigations, she bulldozes right through any policy or law that stands in her way.

In the opening of the book she is, in fact, in prison for her actions in the previous book in the series. I won’t give too much away because I don’t want to spoil your enjoyment.

Lots of action, good characters who have obviously developed over the last few books and have a deep history with each other. Harriet Blue is innovative, working on not only the disappearance of the Police Commissioner’s daughter and granddaughter, but also the murder of a doctor at the prison.

I was brought to the door of the interview room, but when I saw who was inside I turned and tried to walk away. 

“Nope!”

James Patterson, Hush

Top cop, devoted sister, and now Inmate 3329: even prison bars won’t stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother.

Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop — as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.

So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside.

But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing.

He’s ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom . . .

Masie Dobbs investigates the MIA in Pardonable Lies

If you didn’t get a chance to pick up a few freebies this weekend, you might still be able to get some of them. Check out She Was At Risk and others.

Or maybe you would be interested in one of the books that I gathered together in my International Women’s Day blog. I’ve got a good collection of books about women from other cultures and countries.

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

I just finished Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. I’ve read a number of books in the Maisie Dobbs series, and they are quite interesting. The audiobook I listened to (narrated by the author) had an interview with Winspear at the end of it and it was quite interesting to listen to her speak about the way that the Maisie Dobbs character and series came about.

Maisie Dobbs is a strong female lead, a psychologist and private investigator in post-WWI London. You learn in the first couple of books how she got her start as a private investigator, but there is enough backstory in this volume that you can read it alone.

“Yes. I promised to find someone who is dead.” He turned to face Maisie directly for the first time. “I am duty bound to search for him…”

Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies

In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot’s death.

A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war—one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton.

Read for International Women’s Day

March 8 is International Women’s Day. So what’s that all about? I have previously written about International Women’s Day, and you can find that blog post here.

The theme for IWD this year is #choosetochallenge:

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day.

We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.

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It’s been a tough year for women around the world. Facing illness, suddenly becoming caregivers for parents or other loved ones, working from home, having children at home remote learning or homeschooling. We didn’t foresee lengthy quarantines and limits on our social activities and communication. We didn’t know all of the people that we were going to lose. Virtual hugs go out to all of you.

I’ve seen a couple of graphics this week celebrating women’s achievements in the world.

Resources

You can find out more about IWD and what you can do to celebrate and to advance the cause of equality on these pages:

UN WomenInternationalWomensDay.comUN.orgBBC.comBooks

And how about reading about women? Books are a great way to expand your world and your perspective, even when travel and social opportunities are limited.

I have asked around for female protagonists from other cultures or countries, and here are a few books to consider. You can also check out my previous recommendations.

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Nadie is a bright, caring teen growing up Manitoba Cree growing up in abject poverty. She tries to balance school attendance, caring for her younger cousin Luyu, and spending time with handsome, impish Mouse, her best friend and confidante. Together, they strive to find the path to happiness on the reservation.

But tragedy strikes and Nadie’s is devastated by Luyu’s accidental death. Unable to find comfort in Mouse’s arms or Grandfather’s traditional mourning rites, Nadie leaves the band and strikes off on her own, searching for meaning and a new life in the outside world.

Can Nadie find happiness and a place of her own in a foreign world where she is abused and discriminated against? Completely alone for the first time in her life, it is a challenge such as Nadie has never before faced.

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Parks Pat Mysteries

My new Parks Pat Mysteries series is coming out in September, and those books are available for preorder now. Detective Margeurite “Parks Pat” Patenaude is a single Metis woman with a teen daughter and with a grandfather nearby in an independent care center who has just moved from Winnipeg to Calgary’s homicide department.

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

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There’s nothing like jumping straight into the deep end.
Margie Patenaude is new in town and wasn’t expecting to get called to a murder scene on her daughter’s first day of school.

It’s an ugly murder in a beautiful setting. How can Calgary’s park-goers feel safe with a murderer still on the streets—or pathways? Margie and the team are on the case while at the same time she and her daughter try to acclimatize to the new city.

If she wants her coworkers to believe that she’s not just a ‘diversity hire,’ she needs to show them what she’s made of and track this killer down.

Lose yourself in a new mystery today!

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And here are some books including women from other cultures or countries from a few other authors, for your reading enjoyment. Pick a few of them up today!

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Public Health Officer Rynelle MacLeod loves keeping her Caribbean island pristine for visitors. But when a visiting billionaire is struck down with food poisoning, she has to cut her own vacation short to stop a nasty crisis. And she’s sure the skin-and-bones stalker who keeps hitting on her is actually a reporter sniffing out a dirty scoop. 

NASA Astronaut Joe Johnson struggles to blend into the blue-water paradise. Secretly on an underwater mission, the ISS-stationed scientist is focused on avoiding people and pathogens and getting his gravity-laden body back into shape. But it’s the larger-than-life, germ-busting beauty he continually bumps into that’s making his heart work overtime.

In a race to prevent microbial mayhem, Rynelle slowly warms up to the scrawny man interfering with tracking down the toxin-inducing culprit. But when Joe thinks she’s about to expose his hidden research habitat, he’s forced to choose between career contamination and an out-of-this-world romance.

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If you enjoyed watching Rosemary and Thyme – the TV show where two gardeners dig up a dead body in every episode – you’ll love reading about Emily and Maggie, two quirky veterinarians, who travel around Australia treating animals and stumbling over unwelcome corpses.

When Emily and Maggie arrive at Kangaroo Downs to officiate at the opening of its new race-track, they expect to find the usual friendly ambiance characteristic of all small country towns – not the Chief Steward, their very first client, seated behind an ‘engaged’ sign in the local Diner’s restroom – deader than last week’s news.

Not everyone is happy about the new race-track in Kangaroo Downs. Unexplained accidents have been happening at the track. Like workmen falling off sabotaged ladders, the starting gates malfunctioning, an administrator getting electrocuted as he tested the two-way radio in the stewards’ room, broken glass found scattered on the track and the caretaker’s tractor up and disappearing overnight.

With a deranged murderer on the loose, all Emily and Maggie want to do is complete their assignment and hit the road again. That is – until Emily discovers her car stripped of its wheels and CANCELLED written in red paint on the windshield. Angrier than a couple of bees stuck in a vegemite jar, both Emily and Maggie are determined to unearth the identity of the saboteur.

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Shelley has never been brave. But she feels compelled to find the truth about her friend’s suspicious death. Everything points to a high-level conspiracy. Why would the Prime Minister be involved? What does a mining company have to do with it?

Can ordinary people thwart a powerful conspiracy?

Shelley Ormond’s life is about to change forever. Her friend, a young refugee, dies suddenly and the federal police have shrouded her case in secrecy. Shelley has never been bold, but she will have to break the rules and jeopardise her safe, public service career to learn the truth.

Her new friend Adrian, a medical researcher, is studying a mysterious illness in the Australian outback. Young children are becoming fatally ill, but there’s no obvious cause although suspicious mining activity in the area is worth investigating. 

Shelley delves deeper and is drawn into a sinister world of police cover-ups, organised crime, government corruption, and corporate greed. If she obeys the law, the powerful can go on breaking it. The stakes are high, and the treacherous schemers will do anything to keep their deadly secrets.
Lives don’t matter, not even hers. 

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A terrorist threat comes to Rome … the Mossad is on the hunt to thwart the attack, only to discover one of them is the bomb.

Halo moves to Rome to mentor a new agent. On a routine informant contact, Halo is ambushed and taken prisoner. The search for her lands in the lap of her rookie agent, Blackbird. With a small team, Blackbird goes on the hunt to find her partner. She soon discovers the terrorist threat wants to destroy one of the Vatican’s most cherished treasures.

What makes the search horrific is the bomb will not only be devastating, but Halo is the fuse.

Originally part of Russell Blake’s JET Amazon Kindle Worlds.

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Trouble and Laughter and Mushy Stuff.
 
A nerdy hero, a dashing villain…
and an interfering auntie.
Life’s complicated for Seema Rawat, cyberspy.

From picking pockets in the slums of Mumbai to being picked as an agent by Intelligence Bureau’s hacking unit, Seema has come a long way. For her first assignment, she has to romance the suspect and break into his systems.

The target, Adhith, isn’t the kind of criminal she’s met before.

Looks, charm, money, and power… he has it all.

Well… Seema never backed away from a challenge. There are just two problems. Her auntie keeps a very close eye on her virtue. Then there’s Vikram—Adhith’s boss and BFF—who’s nerdy and awkward and altogether adorable.

Also, he’s a tech wizard.

His specialty? Cybersecurity..

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Romance and Drama and What-Might-Have-Beens.

Mysterious exes, a nosy neighbour…
and Interpol at her door.
Anjali’s life is one hot mess.

Interpol insists the Joshi charity clinic in Goa is a front for criminal activity no matter what Dr Anjali Joshi thinks of the ridiculous idea. Her busybody neighbour makes things worse by spreading rumours about Anjali’s lack of mental marbles and her… er… questionable morals.

She goes to the beach café only for a little reprieve.

Except she stumbles into Joe.

Anjali never expected to see her brooding ex from college who vanished years ago without a single word to her. She doesn’t have time to rip his heart out and stomp on it. Or to kiss him.

Nor does she expect to see Rishi, her perfect ex.

He claims he wants her back.

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How much do you trust your doctor?

When a patient in hypnosis describes an experience of abuse at the hands of her doctor, psychologist Megan Wright starts investigating. Determined to find out the truth and stop the abuse, but bound to silence by the ethics of confidentiality, Megan enters the dark mind of a dangerously disturbed man in a deadly battle of wits and wills.

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The day her parents die in a suspicious car accident, Asha’s perfect life is shattered.

She is the lone survivor, and the authorities have no choice. She is thrust into a family she never knew existed.

Desperate and alone, all Asha wants is to belong again, but she soon discovers her new home hides dark secrets.

Nothing is what it seems.

They’re conspiring against her. So, she plots her escape. She will need all her cunning and guile to flee from her brutal fate, but every step she takes traps her into an unthinkable future.
What will Asha have to sacrifice for her freedom?

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An unconventional romance…

At eighteen, Yoko Hirano falls prey to a human trafficking organization and is forced into a lifestyle nightmares are made of. When the young Japanese girl escapes, her only focus is exacting revenge and saving other girls from the same fate by bringing down Michael Chen, the powerful mobster who destroyed her innocence.

Between two misfits…

Four years later she meets antiques dealer Mark Chandler, the only man who ever treated her with respect. Though she is torn by her unfamiliar feelings for him, Yoko’s grand scheme doesn’t involve falling in love, and a man like Mark would never want her if he discovered her past. What she doesn’t know is that he has his own dark secrets…

Brought together by love and revenge.

Mark never thought he could lose his head over a woman, but the haunted eyes of his beautiful new employee fill his soul with desire and tenderness. When he learns about what had happened to her, his vengeance knows no limits. Nor does his resolve to help her heal and discover love.

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She Was At Risk and other Free Books

Looking for some new reads to add to your ereader this weekend? You’ve come to the right place!

She Was At Risk, the tenth book in the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series is free for just a few days, so grab it while you can. She Was At Risk can be read as a stand alone mystery.

You can also download the first book in the series, She Wore Mourning, for free.

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Zachary has done his very best to let go of ex-wife Bridget and relegate their relationship to the past. So when her current partner comes to him for help, he is understandably hesitant to help.

But Gordon has always been a stand-up guy and done right by Zachary, so he reluctantly lets himself be talked once more into helping Bridget and Gordon. Zachary struggles with obsessions and self-doubt at the best of times, and this is a case that could break him.

His investigations lead him from one dark revelation to another until Zachary has no idea how he’s going to find his way back into the light.

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Blood is thicker than oil–until murder is involved.

Fenway Stevenson doesn’t want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home–and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father’s oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?

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Filled with newfound confidence, Zoe is enjoying the respect she is receiving all of a sudden from the inhabitants of the beautiful coastal village of Maratea in southern Italy. But just how far will her determination to take control of her life go? When she is discovered standing over the dead body of her bullying boss, the murder weapon in her hand, it looks as though it has gone way too far.

When the local carabinieri regard the case as solved, travel writer and part-time sleuth Giò Brando investigates further, disturbed by her sister Agnese’s distress at having sold Zoe the scent that apparently transformed her into a killer. But it appears all the other suspects have watertight alibis for the time of the killing.

With her shrewd granny’s words “A wolf is always a wolf, a lamb is always a lamb” echoing in her mind, Giò is sure that Zoe remains the gentlest of lambs. And then a chance remark in Leo’s Bar leads her to the truth – a truly heartless plan was put into action as Maratea’s clock struck two.

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Tragedy enters the quaint coastal town of New Haven, Oregon when the recently released convict,
Ross Conrad, vows to make good on a ten-year-old threat.

Private Investigators, Troy and Eva Winters take on the case when they realize their good friend, Jasmine, is the object of his delusional obsession.

When the threat becomes deadly and Jasmine turns up missing, Troy and Eva go on the hunt for Ross and his captive.

The chase leads them from the Oregon coast to the dense forest of Puget Sound, Washington. Following clues and evidence of bodies left behind, Troy and Eva must find Jasmine before her time runs out.

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Elite forensic sculptor Meg Schock is obsessed with solving cold cases and bringing justice to victims.

When the local US attorney brings her the skull of a brutally murdered young woman, Meg spots the MO immediately. She’s seen this killer’s work before.

Like most serial killers, this twisted perp is clever.

As the sisters draw closer to solving this heinous crime, the murders accelerate. Another body turns up…and another… but the killer’s modus operandi points to a convicted murderer already behind bars. A new serial killer is on the loose, more brutal than the last.

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In 1929, Helen Blackstone is forced to do the unthinkable—return to her childhood home.

A place full of secrets and lies … where her mother had gone mad.

Helen had hoped she had left those dark days behind her, but when her brother is threatened, she uncovers a shocking truth that changes everything …

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A once famous pop singer lies dead. The only clue to her murder—a bizarre disfigurement.

Only one thing to do. Call in Parker and Steele.

To avoid the hassle of a media frenzy, the local police sergeant decides contact his old mentor, Wade Parker, and ask him to consult on the case.

After nearly dying eight months ago, Miranda Steele can’t wait to get back to real detective work.

But this one isn’t so easy. If she can’t solve this case, not only will she fail her destiny, another psycho killer might get away with murder.

Meanwhile, Parker harbors secret reservations about their new venture together.

Especially when he suspects there might be more to this murder than meets the eye.

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A grieving husband shows up at Sylvia Wilcox’s private detective agency on Christmas Eve and asks her to solve his wife’s murder. The husband, Carson Stark, doesn’t know why his wife, Liza, was in one of Detroit’s worst neighborhoods, or why anyone would want to kill her.

The police suspect infidelity, but a review of the case files and information leading up to Liza’s murder fails to produce any evidence of wrongdoing on Liza’s part. As Sylvia works diligently to follow up on any and all leads, she is continuously met with roadblocks thrown up by secrets and lies from Liza’s mysterious past.

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Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer’s past. Including Shaye.

Shaye Archer’s life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name. Nine years later, she’s a licensed private investigator, with a single goal—to get answers for her clients when there aren’t supposed to be any.

And maybe someday, answers for herself.

Emma Frederick thought her nightmare was over when she killed her abusive husband, but someone is stalking her and tormenting her with mementos from her past. With no evidence to support her claims, the police dismiss her claims as post-traumatic stress, but Shaye is convinced that someone is deliberately terrorizing Emma…playing a cat and mouse game with only one goal in mind.

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Paxton Arrington had an upbringing of wealth and privilege.
Rather than live the life of a corporate CEO, Paxton chose to become one of Seattle’s finest.
He’s a man with a rigid and unyielding personality and a belief of always doing the right thing.

When he stumbles onto corruption in his own precinct, Paxton finds himself in a precarious position with no simple way out of it.
Going head to head with Detective Sergeant Radley and his
highly decorated Strike Team is career suicide. More than that, he fears that taking them on could have a ripple effect of unintended consequences.

Drawn into a web of deceit and danger.

Paxton enlists his good friend, FBI Special Agent Blake Wilder to help him get the evidence he needs to bring the Strike Team down once and for all.

With forces aligning against him, Paxton must make a decision that could cost him everything.

One that will forever change his life.

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Roark Miller protects people for a fee. A substantial one. It’s a fair exchange. His expertise in security for their money. Socialites. Diplomats. Famous athletes. He doesn’t ask questions once the check clears. No matter how screwed up the job gets, it’s still less stressful than his days as a homicide detective in Detroit. Roark had blurred the lines between right and wrong too many times to pick up his badge again. But his past won’t stay buried for long.



Demi Kay finds herself choking on a cloud of body spray in a bar crawling with college-aged kids. It was meant as a night of celebration but turns quickly to a nightmare she can’t wait to escape. The only silver lining is the attractive bodyguard who looks equally disappointed with the establishment.

Roark and Demi find they have far more in common than their mutual distain for the party scene. When Roark realizes Demi is a victim from a case he’d consulted on a decade ago, he knows trouble is just around the corner. Mysterious threats turn to violence and Roark is the only thing standing between Demi and danger. But will he be enough?

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