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Party Wine

A party house, bad wine, and a dead villager add up to murder! When Sofi Francese heads to Italy to restore the family property, she never expects it to feature a dead relative. She runs to the nearest police station, but Cenzo Bot ignores her until he learns that the victim is also the town’s mayor. Together they follow leads, but the villagers only want to hear about Sofi’s wine cellar.

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Prizm

He’s trying to reckon with his failures. Has his determination to deliver justice painted a target on his back? Former CIA agent Andy Flint is doing his best to rebuild his life. Taking a European trip to visit a close colleague recovering from gunshot wounds, he’s surprised by an urgent request from an old connection to meet. But his catch-up over coffee in Brussels turns deadly when the man is s ...

The Music Hall Murder

London, 1909 Ruby Redlick is a young woman with a passion for reading, who yearns to break free of her constrained life in Upper Norwood and go on the stage. She dreams of playing dramatic characters like her idol Sarah Bernhardt. But the West End is full of lords, predators and courtesans. Ruby almost comes a cropper until a new friend comes to the rescue and introduces her to the ...

Bad Behavior

Be careful what you wish for. It drives Nicholas Harlow nuts that his employer, Edward Harlow, refuses to promote his Aunt Civility etiquette books to the public, instead opting to give lectures to like-minded societies. When Nicholas tricks his brother into a speaking event at a popular bookstore, the attendees include Edward’s former college English professor – a smarmy Lothario with his own ...

Of Gold & Blood Book Series Two

Poisoned Legacy Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? California, 1868: A rundown goldmine seems like singing star Graysie's golden opportunity. But bright new beginnings crumble underfoot when the townsfolk of the Sierra Nevada mining town start dropping dead of mysterious causes. Will an Aussie-born adventurer ...

Crime and Passion: Three Short Stories

Love and betrayal—the ingredients in any crime of passion. But how dangerous can desire be? For the women in these tales, falling in love may prove to be deadly.

"Readers who love strong women and terrific writing will applaud this anthology." —Barbara Nickless, Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author

Catch A Falling Star (An Eden Mystery)

When mystery novelist Kate Rawlings accepts a summer teaching position at her alma mater in the peaceful college town of Eden, Kentucky, she expects to have time with her ailing mother and time to write. But when her college boyfriend, Michael Mabry, makes a surprise appearance, trouble follows. Michael is on the run from his partners in a Chicago museum heist in which a valuable ancient Indian ar ...

Back to the Burgh and Beyond, Owl's Nest Mysteries Book 1

Meet Alexa Owl. She's returned home to Pittsburgh after a divorce to start a new life and a new business, The Owl’s Nest Couturier Shoppe. Much to her surprise, she's getting more than she ever bargained for: Detective Bobby Starr, and he's no ordinary sleuth. Bobby is an angel who's returned to Earth in hopes of earning his way into the Guardian Angel Squad. He's been sent by none other than Sain ...

Death and a Crocodile

2021 Golden Scroll Novel of the Year In first-century Rome, sensible young ladies don't investigate crimes, but Livia Aemlia doesn't let stuffy conventions stand in her way. When her father is murdered and her innocent brother blamed for the crime, Livia and her spunky maidservant pound the ancient Roman pavements in search of the killer. Can she uncover the culprit before powerful men realize wha ...

Operation Blue Sapphire

Calcutta, 1943 – Blaine Phillips, an American War Department employee, goes to dinner with a French businessman he met at his tennis club. Phillips’ body is found the next day, floating in a canal with a bullet in his skull. The British colonial police treat the murder as a random crime, but what they don’t know is that Blaine Phillips was much more than a mere supply clerk. Now a team of deadly, ...

The Great Wyoming Treasure Hunt Murders

The hunt is on! Who will find Max Rigby’s gold? Enterprising Boyd Archer decides to purchase and renovate the old ghost town of Galva, Wyoming, site of the once prosperous Galva Gold Mine. During the mine’s heyday, a strongbox filled with gold and jewelry was stolen in a stagecoach robbery by Max Rigby, the vicious Black Mountain Bandit. This treasure is rumored to be hidden somewhere on his rugge ...

Spirits on the Salish Sea: a Spirited Paranormal Cozy

Rhee Abbott is a reluctant witch with powers that never seem to do what she wants. But her new job as manager of the Drake's Rest Inn is her chance to start over with the normal life she has always yearned for--until she finds a dead body in a guest room just days before the Inn's grand opening. Even worse, she discovers that the dead have begun to talk to her when the victim's ghost begins to fol ...

Seal of Secrets: A Driftwood Mystery

Hell hath no fury like a mother whose daughter has been kidnapped by a sexual predator. Chloe Denhurst lives in the quaint coastal town of Driftwood, Oregon. Recovering from a hurtful divorce, she finally allows herself to have feelings for another man. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down by a stranger who attacks her on the street and snatches her adolescent daughter Kaitlynn. She enli ...

The Enforcers

Chloe and Caleb are two people who have been thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Chloe is a former assassin for hire who is trying to reinvent herself as an investigator in the bustling metropolis of Junction City. Her first case proves to be far more complicated than expected, she finds a deceased Samuel Adams with a wicked knife sticking out of his groin - and all fingers point to her. C ...

Human Strays

Veterinarian Jim Briggs promised his dying mother he would care for Portland, Oregon's strays—humans and dogs—as a community service. With his inheritance and a long list of wealthy clients supporting his humanitarian mission, he launched Have Paws—Will Travel, a mobile canine care service. All is going well until six homeless people mysteriously disappear without a trace, and Briggs, the owner of ...

Influencing Justice

A small town murder hides a dark secret… When online influencer Simone Baker asks Leland Munroe to defend her on a criminal charge, the small town lawyer is ready to say no. He’s not a criminal lawyer—despite what the people of Basking Rock seem to think. Social media and manslaughter are both far from his area of expertise. But with no other clients coming through his door, Leland takes the job t ...

Reality Bites Back Again

“You’ve been cancelled!” Daniel North, now the most famous man in Britain, is navigating the fickle world of celebrity. It’s a daily battle as he opens his DMs – is it another unsolicited nude, or a request for him to kill himself? There’s no grey area with the Reality TV fandom, and he’s reluctantly heading back into the Thunderdome, this time as a judge. Social Media Superstar sees a group of in ...

You Bet Your Life

Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind. Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes ...

Lethal Blossoms (Trace Conner Book 2)

A Kunoichi, a female Ninja, has begun murdering Yakuza members in Tokyo. The murders are violent and nearly impossible to believe. Trace Conner, an American Ninjutsu instructor, is asked to come to Japan and help because it is believed that he knows the Kunoichi and may be able to stop her. Once there, Conner finds that he does know her but has almost no hope of stopping the murders. Following a t ...

Pineapple Port Mysteries - Pack 1

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Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series.
After she's orphaned by her grandmother's death, Charlotte is raised by the Pineapple Port 55+ community. Finding human bones in her backy ...

The Betrayal of Lies

Feisty private eye, Emily Parker, is finally moving forward in her relationship with the hunky Paradise Valley police detective--that is, until a new friend suddenly goes missing and wedding plans are put on hold. Suspicions are flying that one of Emily's closest girlfriends may be involved, exposing Maggie's darkest secrets. Emily and Detective Andrews are locked in a desperate race to solve the ...

No Second Chances

No Second Chances is one man`s story, told from his point of view regarding his first-hand experiences in the School of Hard Knocks. If you like thrillers, you`ll probably like this book...

Although it is non-fiction, its style has none of the dry, documentary-type language. It is compelling and entertaining, all while enlightening the reader.

You`ll read about a young, 20-year- ...

The Beating Heart of a Mind

Bullied to death in the boardroom … or just the product of a damaged mind? Following her kidnapping, Nicole Veles moves to escape her past and try to rebuild her life. But when the husband of a friend commits suicide and she suspects foul play, she can no longer hide from the world. Not wanting to let her past taint her new life, she returns to St. Louis to hire PI Rebecca Marte. But as Rebecca be ...

Happy Birthday Murder

Make a wish for ... murder? When reporter Roland Bean turns the big three-oh, his wife throws him, and his fraternal twin sister Robyn, a huge birthday bash. The festive occasion is lively and fun until a fight between his sister and her boyfriend ends the night on a sour note. Beanie decides to console Robyn but almost hits a man staggering in the road as he drives to her townhouse. A man who tur ...

Karmic Conviction

Elizabeth O'Connor is an Irish-Italian stunner who has it all, intelligence, looks and drive. Her one flaw is that she is in love with bad boy Henre Pierre, a handsome loudmouth who has to have one up on the world at all times. A con artist by trade, money, power and greed are his drugs of choice. But this time, he went too far and Elizabeth becomes the victim. Her life is plummeted into an abyss ...

The Vision Chronicles Condensed, Vol I

What critics are saying: 5.0 out of 5 Stars – Could NOT put this down. This series was one of the best ones I have read in a long time. Riveting, suspenseful, passionate. Everything you could want and more. I could not put it down and I read the entire series in 6 days! LOVE LOVE LOVE Sad it ended ............ 5.0 out of 5 stars - Don't miss out! I just wanted to keep reading. You are going to wan ...

Death Takes a Detour

A murder. A mystery. A legacy to uphold. Abbie Grimshaw’s road to recovery from a traumatic experience takes her on many journeys. On a whim, she stops at St. Michael’s church and runs straight into more danger. This time, there’s a supernatural complication: she can see—and talk to—the Earl of Ashford. He died in 1816, but death doesn’t stop him from charging Abbie with the safety of two young or ...

The Death of Light (A Scolaris Mystery Book 2)

Where the light shines, death stalks her from the shadows… When the city of Scolaris’ most influential man vanishes without trace, Quill develops a serious case of déjà vu. With her dream of becoming a scholar at stake, Quill is the only one who believes a crime has been committed. While Quill searches for answers, she unravels a web of petty rivalries and political corruption. As tensions ...

Ryan Kaine (4 Book Series)

A passenger plane explodes. Eighty-three people die. One man is responsible. 

When an apparently routine operation ends in tragedy, decorated ex-Royal Marine, Ryan Kaine, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. The police want him on terrorism charges, and a sinister organisation wants him dead. 

Desperate to prove his innocence, Kaine is forced to rely on two w ...

Death Hampton

Burnt out after years of working violent cases in East Harlem, Detective Neil Jericho transfers to peaceful East Hampton. But after the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy real estate developer, Jericho is caught in a web of intrigue and lies centering around Susannah Cascadden, the missing man’s beautiful wife.

"Marks provides his intriguing principal characters with solid background ...

Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery Series (6 Book Series)

*****Voted one of 50 self-published books worth reading, 2016***** 

USA Today Bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you murder, mayhem, and a second chance at love! Mystery, food, and a Siamese cat named after Miles Davis, too. 

It's not easy doing Public Relations for Catmmando Tom, a famous cartoon cat. When they find a dead body at the foot of Catmmando ...

Stolen Memories

Madison Thompson was working a summer job in a brokerage firm to save enough money to finish her history degree the following year. Unaware that she walked into danger after closing the office, Madison carried a night deposit bag to the bank across a busy parking lot. A van suddenly blocked her path. One robber dragged her inside the van at knifepoint, and the other drove away. The next day Madiso ...

All the Devils Are Here

Zeus Cubberly, successful conspiracy author and master of all things high tech, receives a bewildering message from his high school bully, a felon recently murdered in their sleepy New Jersey hometown. A photograph of Adolf Hitler’s legal heir, a corporate magnetic room key, and a library card are among the arcane clues sent him, accompanied by a challenge Zeus cannot resist. Unlocking the d ...

Fruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets

Christmas comes with chaos—and a murder—in the fifth book in the Down South Café cozy mystery series! Amy Flowers thinks her biggest problem is going to be creating an enormous cake dummy to mount atop her car for Winter Garden’s upcoming Christmas parade. But when one of Roger's employees is murdered, making the float is the least of Amy’s worries. Her childhood friend is a prime suspect, Aunt Be ...

The Night Cometh: 20 Fantastical Short Stories


Won Gold in the Florida Authors and Publishers Association’s Annual President’s Book Awards! Won Gold in the Readers' Favorite Book Awards, and was a Finalist in the International Book Awards

The Night Cometh: 20 Fantastical Short Stories that will make you think about heaven, hell, life, death, and ...

Assassins And Angels Book 1

In the aftermath of a conflict with Russia in the arctic. Canada has fragmented. Its provinces, now on their own, live on the edge of chaos and anarchy due to rampant and violent criminal activity. The Premier of Ontario makes a bold but controversial decision. She hires professional security contractors to assist her limited police resources. Steven Grace is the leader of Sabre – a multinatio ...

Run, Run, Baby

As the chatty classroom of kindergarten children excitedly awaits the final bell to release them for the weekend, Chloe, racked with exhaustion, desperately attempts to keep her eyes open. Nervously staring at the battered wooden desk, her six-year-old mind becomes fixated on the sound of the room's ticking clock. Emaciated and sleep-deprived, she reluctantly surrenders her consciousness. The inno ...

B is for Bonnie

Bonnie’s about to take you on the ride of your life…that is, if you can convince her to let you join the club. This feisty, sultry anti-heroine, and her rebel renegades will have you falling hard, secretly rooting for the bad guys, and craving more. Join Bonnie, aka Bee, and the Boys for the biggest heist yet. Betrayal, jealousy, and emotions run rampant in this Why Choose/Reverse Harem Bonnie and ...

Yoga Can Be Fatal – A Senior Sleuthing Club Cozy Mystery – Book 3

When assistant librarian Pru takes a tough yoga class, she doesn’t think she’ll return. Neither do some of the other class members, including her friends Zoe, and Doris. But afterward, Martha (Pru’s roommate), Teddy, (Martha’s fluffy white Coton de Tulear puppy), and Pru stumble across a dead body – someone connected to the yoga session! To make matters worse, a blast from Pru’s past arrive ...

The Feet of Blue Pigeons

During a break in the pandemic, Aidan Greene gets a panicked message from an old college friend living in Luxembourg. Ethan Katz is a banking exec in Luxembourg for a bank owned by a family from the UAE. He’s discovered a money-laundering scheme which puts his life is in danger and local security can’t help him because they are stretched thin from the pandemic. Can Aidan and Liam help protect him? ...

Nite Fire: Chain Reaction (Book 2)

If anyone can tell the difference between monsters and humans, it’s Dahlia Nite. For nearly a century, she’s hunted one to protect the other; safeguarding humanity from the creatures that slip through the torn veil between the worlds—creatures like her. But the lines are blurring. As people begin mutating and combusting on the streets, Dahlia realizes a strange affliction has descended upon Sentin ...

Killer Recipe

It's always been Gina Iovino’s dream to have her own restaurant, something upscale and cosmopolitan. When she agreed to run the restaurant and tavern at her best friend’s historic inn in Vermont, Gina grossly underestimated just how rural it was. She misses bright lights and a busy social life. The place does have one advantage: hunky bad-boy-turned-law-enforcement-officer, Sheriff Shawn Johnson. ...

Pineapple Podcast

Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean, small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller. Every book in the series can be read as a standalone.

Oceanberry Blues

Gemini Reed is desperately searching for a cure for her dying husband, Leo. After finding a drug trial at Charming General Hospital in the seaside town of Charming, Oregon, she and Leo arrive to find the director of the program, Doctor Wilson, inexplicably missing. With the clock ticking, Gemini is determined to find Doctor Wilson before it's too late for Leo. But Feather Jones, the town's salon o ...

Timeless Secrets––Three Sisters Island Mysteries: Book 1

★★★★★ Casi McLean never fails to bring it in such enchanting ways, and her ability to put the reader smack in the middle of the action (and believe me, there’s plenty to be had here), puts her at the top of my to-read list every single time she releases a new title. ––A Kindle Customer ★★★★★ Timeless Secrets has all the components of a number one bestseller – fantasy, time-traveling, mystery – as ...

Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery

From Book 1: USA Today bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you an unconventional sleuth hot on the heels of high-living lowlifes in book 1 of the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery Series. Even in a desert paradise, life is full of surprises like A Dead Husband. 

"My first day as a sleuth was more Stephanie Plum than Miss Marple." Meet Jessica Huntington, an a ...

A Honky Tonk Night and Murder

Cyber consultant and best-selling author Parker Bell is lured back to Po’thole (Po Ho to the locals and Pothole by anyone north of the Florida Georgia line) by the untimely death of her childhood friend, a city commissioner who voted against a riverfront casino and boardwalk. Is the Mafia trying to take over a small, sleepy Southern town or a bunch of misfit, crazy local politicians who are plotti ...

Mirror Image

Based on a real-life tragedy, Mirror Image is a heart-stopping tale of horrific abuse. Female PI Catrina Flaherty tackles one of her most difficult cases. Cat specializes in women’s issues, infidelity, messy divorces, spousal abuse, sexual harassment, etc. But her newest client, Mandy Alcott, has an unusual problem; her abusive husband is the chief of police. What do you do when your abuser is The ...

Cookies and Murder, A Parker Bell Humorous Mystery, Book 7

A cookie factory being burned down in a small Florida town, Miss Suzie's Delicious CC (chocolate chip) Cookies that may or may not be part of a drug cartel aka the Bunny Hop Gang and then there's the unfortunate murder - let's face it, what murder is ever fortunate - of the new owner of the cookie factory. It's time for Parker Bell and the always sugar-and-caffeine infused Lady Gatorettes to solve ...

The Unknown

My name is Thomas Edward Daniels. My associates call me Professor Daniels, and my friends simply call me Tom. I am a fictional character created by the author. I teach history at an upscale university somewhere in North Carolina. I am married to the most beautiful woman on planet earth. Her name is Sara Daniels. We have been married for over twenty-years, although to me, it feels more like a centu ...

The ForEver  Project

What if you had all the all the time in the world? Would you become a better person? Or worse? And what would you do with all that power? Unexpectedly, Jason Crane goes from having his anticipated three score years and ten, to having only six months to live, then to having FOREVER as immortality beckons. Jason Crane behaves like he's God - well, he does joke that his initials are JC, but Jason's n ...

The Advocate Series (13 Book Series)

From Book 1: For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody. 
Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered ques ...

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