Targeted Age Group:: over 18
Category: Mystery/Suspense

About Getting Him Off Quickly:
Paralegal Daisy Sinclair works for a well-known successful criminal defense attorney in downtown Fort Worth. She works hard and plays even harder, but has a code to never mix business with pleasure. This code is tested when her boss hires irresistibly sexy Warren Cole, a criminal investigator, to partner with her in a case defending a prominent figure against a double murder charge.

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Targeted Age Group:: Adult
Category: Mystery/Suspense

About And Sudden Death:
The looting of $2 million, murder, and revenge…it’s going to be an interesting cruise to Honolulu

Rex McBride, LA private detective and self-proclaimed heel, needs to forget. He needs to forget his last case. But mostly he needs to forget the beautiful Sheila Mason, going on trial thanks to McBride. He needs to get away. And he needs the money that Mr. Vickers offers him…ten percent of the dough that disappeared with Nordstrom after he looted the Southern Counties Buildings & Loan.

Nordstrom himself got away clean. He had something over two million in his pants at the time.

Now, after three years, Mrs. Sibyl Nordstrom has booked passage on the Honolulu Queen to Honolulu. Vicker’s spy, a maid in Mrs. Nordstrom’s apartment, says she may be off to meet her husband.

But then the maid is found murdered, shot with a .32-caliber handgun. Could a woman, could Mrs. Sibyl Nordstrom fire such a weapon? Or is someone else responsible?

On board, McBride checks the passenger manifest. Mrs. Sibyl Nordstrom is traveling alone, under her own name. Does that make her innocent or crafty? But Fenner, Teal and O’Connor—Nordstom’s patsies—are not listed. Could they be on board under assumed names, tracking Mrs. Nordstrom to her husband, the money and revenge?

McBride wastes no time associating himself with the beautiful Mrs. Sibyl Nordstrom, meeting her officially when she is seated next to him at dinner the first night.

She was even more stunning than her pictures. Perhaps it was her gown, a black-and-silver effect that could have been painted on her. Her hair was platinum, her eyes a curious shade that might have been described as sea green. Her hips moved with a provocative sway that was just short of a challenge.

His eyes glowed warmly. “How do you do, Mrs. Nordstrom?”

Could there be more than meets the eye to this beautiful woman? Could she have fired the .32 that killed the maid, or broken the poor girl’s fingers to get information before shooting her in cold blood? If so, what would make a woman like Mrs. Sibyl Nordstrom—Beautiful— kill?

Could it be the enigmatic Japanese gentleman, Baron Ito Itsuki, seen leaving Beautiful’s lanai suite late that night? McBride’s check on the Baron reveals he is supposedly attached to the Japanese Consulate. And he’s been checking up on McBride, as well.

“I was having a little party in my suite.” Beautiful told him.

Then he got it. Not only had he seen Baron Ito Itsuki, he had been seen. This was her way of accounting for the baron’s presence.

“Itsuki is amusing, don’t you think?”

Amusing, indeed. Until he throws himself off his lanai balcony and his valet hangs himself with his own belt. Along with the missing Simmons—McBride’s steward—lost overboard, and the mysterious Englishman Fessenden—misguided defender of Miss Ford’s honor—stabbed to death on the promenade, bodies begin to stack up…McBride attached to each.

Under suspicion, McBride struggles to continue his investigation into the deaths and what connection there is between the mysterious Japanese Baron, the beautiful Mrs. Sibyl Nordstrom, and the missing two million dollars.

Can he continue to woo Mrs. Nordstrom and get her to lead him to her husband? Can he uncover the connection between Itsuki and his lovely prey? Can he unravel the mystery before more people he loves, like the lovely Miss Kay Ford, are killed?

Find out in this breath-taking mystery set against a pre-World War II scenario of international intrigue, greed, revenge and murder. Take a Look Inside, above, or download a sample to your Kindle device and find out why AND SUDDEN DEATH is still a favorite read of hardboiled murder mystery fans 75 years after it was first serialized as HOMICIDE HONOLULU BOUND in 1939.

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Targeted Age Group:: Young Adult
Category: Mystery/Suspense

Print book price range: $11.99
eBook price range: $3.99

About The Carlswick Affair:
San Francisco Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention – “Move over Nancy Drew. There’s a new teenage heroine in town, and her name is Stephanie Cooper…This page-turning novel will be devoured by young adults and mystery lovers.”

Stephanie adores the quaint English village of Carlswick where she is spending the summer, but its sunlit streets lead to two houses that hide secrets. One house belongs to her family, and one is the ancestral home of James Knox.

Can she trust him? James is a musician who has stolen her heart, but her mind is full of doubt. He is a rising rock star, who has captivated her from his first hello, but an old family feud stands between them.

Stephanie’s beautiful great-aunt Sophie died suddenly seventy years ago, on the eve of her elopement with James’ great-uncle. Village gossip about this tragic wartime romance is mingled with whispers of secretive visitors, smuggling, and perhaps – collaboration- with the Nazis.

European history reaches forward to intrude on James and Stephanie’s modern love. She is driven to find out the truth about her great-aunt, whose lost romance in many ways parallels her own.

However great the danger, she must uncover the secrets that lie hidden beneath the ancient roof of Knox Manor.

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Targeted Age Group:: Adults
Category: Mystery/Suspense

Print book price range: $13.25
eBook price range: $2.99

About Dig Two Graves: Revenge or Honor:
In war torn Greece, OSS commando, Lt. John Pantheras, stumbles onto a horrific plot.The Nazis are collecting a ransom from every Jewish Greek but they plan a double cross. They are going to deport the Jewish community despite their promises. Lt. Pantheras, a Greek resistance leader, and a rabbi turn the Nazi plot on its head when they steal the accumulated ransom. Things go well until the Nazis counterattack and John disappears with the bulk of the loot.

Nearly seventy years after WWII, while investigating his father’s murder, AJ Pantheras meets Ceres Savas. The elderly Greek shares a story reaching back to WWII Greece involving AJ’s grandfather, an immense stolen fortune, and the key to AJ’s father’s death. AJ’s grandfather, Lt John Pantheras helped Greek Jews escape the Nazis but disappeared with an immense fortune. Ceres and AJ seek this missing fortune for vastly different reasons. While AJ confronts his fears and greed, he is pulled into a decades old mystery and a duel with a pair of hired killers. With the help of the old Greek and a smart, shapely Italian PI, he tries to stay one-step ahead of death and the shadowy former Nazi officer who may be behind it all.

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Targeted Age Group:: 16 to 100
Category: Mystery/Suspense

Print book price range: $13.39 – 14.99
eBook price range: $3.68

About The C ENIGMA:
A particular brand of evil has reared its ugly head at certain points throughout history, and humanity must fight to keep it in check. This balance is sometimes managed on the scale of world wars, but it can also come down to an individual’s actions. The C ENIGMA explores the premise that one man’s courage can influence the outcome of a war on evil as large and powerful as Hitler’s Nazism.

Chance—or perhaps fate—leads Matthias Adkins up to his grandfather’s attic, where he discovers a hidden picture of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the German secret service during WWII. A few other items reveal that his grandfather has left him a set of riddles that will lead him through three time periods—1945, 1988, and 2008—on a hunt for his family’s identity and his own destiny…which turns out to be a destiny beyond his wildest dreams.

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Targeted Age Group:: Adult
Category: Mystery/Suspense

Print book price range: $18.99
eBook price range: $0.99-2.99

About A Model Murder (Alicia Allen Investigates Book 1):
A Model Murder is part 1 of the Alicia Allen Investigates crime trilogy featuring Alicia Allen, the Anglo-Italian Pringle munching lawyer with a passion for solving crime.

When an aspiring Australian model, Tamsin Brown, who lives in the apartment below Alicia’s is found raped and murdered and her body dumped in an alleyway in Soho, Tammy’s flatmate Kim begs for Alicia’s help. Alicia feels compelled to assist with the murder inquiry and having discovered that Tammy has been working in a hostess club in Piccadilly, Alicia is sucked into the sleazy world of nightclubs. Soon after, Alicia takes a new position at a firm where Kim works as a legal secretary, but it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems and nobody can be trusted. Is there some connection between the firm and Tammy’s murder? When her elderly neighbor Dorothy is brutally attacked for something she has witnessed in connection with the murder, Alicia risks everything to solve the crime thereby endangering herself and those around her in her quest to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice.

“A Model Murder by Celia Conrad is an appealing new modern crime story… Twists and turns abound as we are taken into the sleazy nightclub world and the inner workings of a law firm looking for the killer rapist.

I was hooked on page one and completely and pleasantly surprised when I reached the conclusion… Celia Conrad has jumped to the top of my favorite author list and Alicia Allen is without a doubt my favorite new fictional lawyer/investigator crime solver.”
READERS’ FAVORITE 5* Review

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Targeted Age Group:: 18+
Category: Mystery/Suspense

Print book price range: $10 – $11
eBook price range: $0.99 – $2.99

About The Orange Moon Affair (A Thomas Gunn Thriller):
Thomas Gunn and his partner Julie are running for their lives. Who are they running from? And why? It all starts when Thomas (ex-Special Forces) decides to investigate the mysterious murder of his wealthy industrialist father. Billions have been funneled into a secret project he’s sure his father would never have willfully sanctioned. But when his every move is blocked or met with deadly force, frustration turns to anger, and he goes on the attack. Using his old skills in covert operations he relentlessly pursues a tangled web of clues across the UK, USA and Europe, racing to outwit an unknown enemy with more power and influence than he or Julie could ever imagine. An enemy out to destroy them!

Joining forces with British Military Intelligence they uncover an international conspiracy that puts the freedom of the western world at grave risk. But who are these ruthless conspirators that wield such unimaginable power? How are they connected to his father? And what dark secrets from the past will Thomas uncover in his relentless quest for the truth? This “gripping”, “thought-provoking”, “hard to put down” novel by a “master storyteller” keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing to the very last page!

“…another 5-star novel by a 5-star author. If you have never read AFN Clarke, do yourself a favor and pick up this book, you won’t be disappointed.” Amazon review.

As the son of an MI6 operative, a former officer in Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment, a pilot, yachtsman, race car driver and bestselling author, AFN Clarke brings his own unique and eye-opening experiences to this first book of the Thomas Gunn thriller series that’s fast -paced, exhilarating and frighteningly real.

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