Showcase 33: Eight Indie Books For You to Check Out
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So here we go with our 33rd Showcase:
MURDER IN VOLUME by D.R.Meredith
The most dangerous happenings at the mystery discussion group, held at Time and Again Bookstore every Tuesday night, are the arguments between the members about the finer points of the mystery genre. History professor Ryan Stevens dozes happily during the loud disagreements. Being a closet reader of Westerns with no knowledge of mysteries beyond Poe and Sherlock Holmes, Ryan is only a member of the group because he is the bosom companion and very best friend of Megan Clark, board certified forensic anthropologist with a specialty in paleopathology. In other words, Megan autopsies mummies and examines human remains and other archaeological artifacts. Or rather, she would if she could find a job. There being very limited job opportunities in her field, Megan works at the Amarillo Public Library, and pursues various hobbies and sports to alleviate boredom. When Megan and Ryan stumble over the body of Lisa Heredia, spiteful and unpopular member of the discussion group, propped against the side of the bookstore with her throat slit, boredom is the least of Megan’s worries. She finds herself a person of interest in Lisa’s murder. Circumstances conspire to tighten the metaphorical knot around Megan’s neck, until she enlists the discussion group in a risky plan to catch a killer.
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AMAZING MATILDA by Bette Stevens
AMAZING MATILDA becomes discouraged when she is unable to fly during the early stages of her metamorphosis.But, this amazing Monarch never gives up on her dream.
Encouraged by her meadowland friends, MATILDA learns that if she tries long enough and hard enough, she can do anything that she really wants to do.
AMAZING MATILDA will inspire readers and listeners alike, not only to follow their own dreams, but to encourage others to do the same!
Bette A. Stevens is the author of two children’s books: A children’s activity book, The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too! and the award-winning picture book, AMAZING MATILDA: A Monarch’s Tale. PURE TRASH, The Story is her first book for the Middle-grade/YA/Adult audience.
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LIKE RAVENS IN WINTER by Brenda Stanley
When aggressive television network news producer, Elle McCord is assigned to Iraq at the beginning of the Gulf War, she feels her career is beginning to take off. But when her mother informs her that her elderly and ill aunt is about to give away the family farm, Elle takes a detour to try and stop the man who is at the heart of it all. On the rural Pennsylvania farm, Elle’s horrific childhood memories surface and what she learns about the mysterious stranger who is swindling her aunt is nothing like what she expected. Elle finally leaves for Iraq, but when she arrives, she meets Faiza, an Iraqi translator who teaches her about the sacrifices of family and love and what home really means
Brenda Stanley is a former television news anchor and investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Eastern Idaho. She has been recognized for her writing by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the Hearst Journalism Awards, The Idaho Press Club and the Society for Professional Journalists. She is a graduate of Dixie College in St. George, Utah and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is the mother of 5 children, including two sets of twins. Brenda and her husband Dave, a veterinarian, live on a small ranch near the Snake River with their horses and dogs.
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FIND THE HOLY GRAIL by Brian Grant
It seems to Garth Pilgrim, that his life has reached its end when his wife dies of cancer… her relatives blamed him for her death because of the pressures he threw upon her. He endures stress relating to his imprisonment for the killing of his colleague while investigating corrupt politicians.
Then a letter arrives from his good friend Chip, asking Pilgrim to attend a meeting with a wheel-chair bound cripple called Tobias Levy. At this meeting, the promised financial rewards offered are staggering; it is impossible to know this man is a Devil worshipping fanatic seeking the Holy Grail. The two friends are drawn along a trail where they are faced with situations beyond their wildest nightmares. Inadvertently they manage to find their true paths in life, through the arcane radiance of THE HOLY GRAIL, which carries them through this heart-stopping odyssey.
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LEON’S LAIR by Phoenix
The adventure starts with The Jakarta, an elegant cruise ship sailing the exotic seas in Indonesia with a passenger list of ninety, unsuspecting people. Jane and her best friend, Remy, are just getting know the rest of the small group of young twenty-somethings when the ship is attacked by pirates. However, Leon and his band are not your usual pirates – they want something else.
Jane and two male companions escape the horror, fleeing in a lifeboat. In their flight to escape Leon and his men, they become lost at sea for weeks, are out of water, and have nearly lost hope of ever finding rescue when they finally catch sight of land, a dangerous rain-forested island that seems deserted. However, their fight for survival has only just begun.
We are Lee and Gary Jordan and we are THE PHOENIX, a multi-genre author team. Because we are passionate readers of many genres, we don’t intend stick with one as writers. We have several novels in the works.
We enjoy getting to know readers and other authors via the Internet, love movies, and sitting outside to soak up the Southern California sun. We live in Hollywood with our crabby tomcat, Snickers. Check out another book from us below.
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A WHISPER FROM EDEN BY Phoenix
In 1827, a young writer went in search of the strange Mandan tribe in North Dakota that Louis and Clark found in their journey.
The young man finds their villages perched high upon lofty cliffs overlooking the turbulent waters of the Missouri River, like walled fortresses and ruling kings from medieval times.
He is stunned to find that the rich and powerful Mandan could wield magic, magic taught to them by one of The People from Above.
This is a unique take on real events, with magic, the supernatural, and . . . the promised return of the great god Lone Man.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
FLASHBACK by Kevin Mark Smith
He’s on the verge of making his dreams come true… Then a dream, a dead client, and a mysterious stranger shatter his world…
Kenneth Cartwright, Attorney at Law, is a success by all the world’s standards. He’s even landed the client that will earn him the law partnership he desperately craves. Yet, a simpler, happier life haunts his dreams, making him regret his life choices. Just as he begins to see hope of that life becoming reality, those connected to his wealthy client begin dying. Can Kenneth solve the murders before success destroys everyone he loves?
Kenneth’s nightly flashbacks are to a simpler life, one not nearly as successful as the one he’s living. Why does he wish the dreams were reality? More important, why do the dreams feel more real than reality itself? Will the trappings of success destroy him and everyone he loves before he discovers the truth behind his dreams?
Stacy stumbles across a sad yet successful lawyer in a coffee shop. How can someone who looks so successful be so empty? As their friendship grows they discover there’s more to life than just success, and that the love of money truly is the root of all evil. Will they survive the evil closing in? Will Ken finally discover the joy he’s been missing in his life?
Kevin Mark Smith is an evangelical criminal defense and family law attorney in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated cum laude from Regent University School of Law in 1999 where he served as Issue Planning Editor for the Regent Law Review and clerked with the American Center for Law and Justice. Kevin is a former Assistant District Attorney for Sedgwick County, Kansas, and an Allied attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. He serves on the Kansas Board of Indigent Defense Services. You can read his writings on the Constitution and home school education in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, http://thehomeschoolmagazine.com.
Also available from Amazon.co.uk
THE CHINESE SPYMASTER by Hock Tjoa
Chinese Intelligence uncovers a North Korean trying to sell a nuclear device. Then they find five other dealers trying to do the same. The buyer is the same in every case–the Pashtuns.
Is this a “Pashtun Spring”? A realignment of geopolitical power in Central Asia? A resurgence of Islamist terrorism?
In order to anticipate and confront these threats, Spymaster Wang must negotiate through bureaucratic rivalries, as well as personal ambitions, at home and abroad. He reaches for ancient insight into strategies and unorthodox alliances. But the struggle he must undertake cannot cease, and the outcome always remains in doubt.
The Spymaster must also confront a vendetta within the Party as well as the determination of his Old Friends and their wives to make him a “match.”
COMMENTS FROM EARLY READERS:
“… the rare feat of a convincing description of hand to hand combat together with a very skillful development of plot and background.” A. G. Chaudri.
“This is fascinating, a true Smiley for current times and troubles, with the added, exotic allure to Western readers of the mystique that is China. It has all the hallmarks of a literary thriller.” Kay Christine Fenton.
“A complex story … so vivid, lifelike and realistic.” Charles Knightley, Author.
Hock G. Tjoa was born in Singapore to Chinese parents. He studied history at Brandeis and Harvard and taught European history and Asian political thought at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He has published George Henry Lewes, a Victorian Mind, “The social and political ideas of Tan Cheng Lock” (in Melaka: The Transformation of a Malay Capital) and various articles in the Newsletter of the China History Forum. He is married and lives with his family in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. In 2010, he published The Battle of Chibi, selections translated from “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” (one of four traditional Chinese classics). In 2011, he adapted Lao She’s “Tea House,” Mandarin original dated 1953, publishing it as Heaven is High and the Emperor Far Away, a Play. Both are part of his goal to contribute to a wider and greater understanding of China and Asia. The Ingenious Judge Dee, A Play is forthcoming; it is a dramatization of The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, by Robert van Gulik. Two sequels to The Chinese Spymaster are in the planning stage.
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So that’s it for this Showcase. I really hope you enjoyed it and show your support for great Indie Books by buying a couple of these wonderful stories. Showcase 34 will be with you in a couple of weeks.
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