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Featured Book: Done Rubbed Out by Jeffery Craig

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In this first book of the Reightman & Bailey series, deceit, corruption and murder tangle together with vivid, unconventional characters in a story of unlikely new friendships and their power to change us.

Things are going well at the Time Out Spa, but the night young proprietor Toby Bailey discovers his former lover naked and dead on a massage table, more things are spoiled than just his white leather shoes. Detective Melba Reightman and partner Sam Jackson are called in to investigate and soon become embroiled in the most perplexing homicide case seen in years.

After a hunting knife engraved with Toby’s name is found in a load of wet, bloody laundry, he’s arrested for the murder of Geraldo Guzman. He enlists the aid of Madame Zhou Li, practicing attorney and owner of Green Dragon Chinese Herbs and Teas. The peculiar octogenarian seems an unlikely choice to defend him, but soon proves she has more than a few tricks up her sleeve. Toby joins forces with Reightman and Jackson and a shocking string of clues lead them closer to the killer. The bad news? Successfully solving the crime might unleash a firestorm on this southern city and come at a price none of them are prepared to pay.

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Rubble and the Wreckage by Rodd Clark

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Publication Date: January 30, 2015

Gabriel Church knows you can’t take a life without first understanding just how feeble life is, how tentative and weak it stands alone. If you desire murder, you hold a life in your hand. Whether you release it to grant life or grip tighter to end it, it is at your command and discretion. Gabriel is a serial killer with a story he wants told.

Christian Maxwell studied abnormal psychology in college but chose instead to focus on a career in writing. His background comes in handy when he thinks of writing about a serial killer. He can’t think of anyone more qualified to write the story of Gabriel Lee Church, and do so in the murderer’s own words. It’s been done before, but never with a killer who has yet to be captured or convicted.

There was never anything more than a gentleman’s understanding between the two men that Christian would record Gabriel’s life story. The killer did not ask for his complicity in any crimes, nor did he ever ask for his silence. Christian’s interest in the man, though, is fast becoming something more than academic. When the writer and his subject become unexpected friends and then lovers, the question remains: What is Gabriel’s endgame . . . and why does he want his story told?

Targeted Age Group:: 18 and up

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
A need to ask the question “What if you fell in love with someone whom you shouldn’t”.

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A Cache of Killers by Rodd Clark

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Brantley Colton never set out to be anything but normal…but with tragedy came transformation. In his search for peace he is confronted with the darker aspects of men’s souls and plagued by horrific murders at every turn. “Why does evil seem drawn to him like a wise virus contaminating his body?” In “A Cache of Killers” Colton runs across a ring of child abductors and killers and sets out to enact his own brand of justice…saving a life because his is so torn and tenuous.

Targeted Age Group:: glbt mystery and thriller

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The second in the Brantley Colton Mysteries

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No Place for the Wicked by Rodd Clark

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Brantley Colton can’t escape being drawn into another series of twisted murders after several naked bodies are unearthed, discarded like garbage. Finding the killer will be tough enough…but when he learns the culprit is a prominent State Senator from Maine, Colton realizes bringing him to justice will become his greatest challenge. He is swept into a sordid, sexual world of bondage and discipline, violence and pain only to discover that the evil in some men’s souls is incomprehensible.

Targeted Age Group:: 18 and over

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I have always wanted to create such characters as these

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A Short Ride To Hello by Rodd Clark

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For Brantley Colton, his crusade was over. There was nothing in the abyss left for him. Whatever he had once believed in had become a lie. There was no light at the end of the tunnel, just a long highway ahead, a dark road without signposts to direct him. Where would he go from here? The finality in his soul belied some joy in the closing moments. It was over, he could die now…but he couldn’t die happy. It had only been a few hours since he had put the Winter Glade Motel in his rear-view, but it seemed longer. Colton drove the desolate highway but felt tired and needed sleep. The air conditioning was on high to fend off the humid Florida evening. The air against his face was the only thing preventing him from drifting into dangerous sleep; even so he contemplated the series of events that had him traveling down 1-75 in the middle of the night…with the blood stains of the murdered man still present on his shirt. He had used an alias to register at the motel, paid in cash but feared something had been left behind which could tie him to the murder. He needed time to finish the job at hand and his sloppy second-guessing had placed him in peril. Colton had never been one for prayer, but felt like it was a good time to drop to his knees, to confess his crime and ask for forgiveness. Not that it would have done any good for him

Targeted Age Group:: 18 and over

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I have always wanted to create such characters as these

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Featured Mystery Book: The Ship by Allan Krummenacker

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About The Ship by Allan Krummenacker

Cassandra Elliott is a billionaire heiress, who has just come out of the closet. She’s also a powerful psychic who has seen incredible and terrifying things. In fact, just two weeks ago, she and her girlfriend Julie Cloudfoot, survived a horrific battle alongside their two friends Alex Hill and Veronica Ross. They faced a being from a parallel reality where evolution took a much different course than in this version of Earth.

As a result of that encounter the two of them have come to Santa Cruz to bury one of their own as well as to see if their new relationship will work out.

While taking a surfing class Cassie finds herself under attack and barely escapes with her life. But this is only the beginning. Whatever attacked her left a mark on her leg and now she is experiencing terrifying visions and senses the approach of something hiding in the fog. A legendary ghost ship is coming for her. However this is no ordinary nightmare of the sea. This vessel is alive and wants to make her a part of it, literally…

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She Overheard Murder by Jean Sheldon @penultimatepen

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A Nic & Nora Mystery Book 1
On October 29, 1945, Nicole Owen made her first appearance on the new radio show, Inez Ingalls, Private I. Her career began only weeks earlier when she was hired her to read ad copy and work as an understudy. When lead actress Carolyn Park is murdered, Nic moves into both the starring role and a top spot on the list of suspects. Cecil Park, husband of the murdered woman, wants answers. So does Nora Hahn, Carolyn’s ‘special friend’ for fourteen years.

World War II is over, and those who lived through it want life to return to ‘normal’. For homosexuals, hiding who they are, and living with insults and often-dangerous reactions when others discover their secret, is normal.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I can best answer that question with the author’s note at the beginning of the book: One of the most rewarding aspects of writing historical mysteries for me was the discovery that researching was nearly as fulfilling as writing. In a television interview after the release of my book The Woman in the Wing, also set in the 1940s, the host asked if I was a history buff. My response—“I am now.” Prior to writing that book, I had a passing interest in history. After studying Rosie the Riveters and Women Airforce Service Pilots, and the work they performed, the interest became a passion. I wanted to know the details. My desire to share those details took hold when I discovered that at the end of the WASP program, documents and files were sealed and put into storage in the Pentagon. For thirty years, people wrote about WWII without that information and the stories of the women who ferried military planes went unreported. Women’s achievements are often under-reported or ignored. Without role models, young girls grow up believing there are things they can’t do. Limiting choices and the ability to learn and grow of half the population weakens a society and hurts us all. I write mysteries, but the stories focus on the strength, resilience, and wisdom of women and men—gay and straight. In She Overheard Murder, you will meet the characters of the Nic and Nora Mystery series, a series that, I hope, will entertain, enlighten, and remind you that in all of us, there are more similarities than differences.

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