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Featured Book: The Only Witness by Pamela Beason

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A MISSING BABY – Seventeen-year-old Brittany Morgan dashed into the store for just a minute, leaving her sleeping baby in the car. Now Ivy’s gone and half the town believes Brittany murdered her daughter.

A HAUNTED DETECTIVE – Detective Matthew Finn, a big-city fish out of water in small-town Evansburg, Washington, struggles with his wife’s betrayal as he investigates Ivy Morgan’s disappearance. The clock is ticking and he can’t find any witnesses.

AN UNUSUAL RESEARCH SUBJECT – Imaginative, manipulative, and volatile, with the intelligence of a five-year-old child, Neema knows enough sign language to invent jokes and insults. She can also hurl a grown man across the room. Neema is a gorilla.

A DISTRESSED SCIENTIST – After a psycho murdered one of her “talking” gorillas in Seattle, Dr. Grace McKenna relocated to the Evansburg area. Now with the economy on the rocks and her funding cut, her beloved gorillas Neema and Gumu are in jeopardy. When Neema repeats a story of a crying baby, a cucumber car, and a snake, Grace realizes her gorilla is the only witness to whatever happened to baby Ivy. Does Grace dare go public with Neema’s sketchy clues? Can she afford not to?

Book #1 of The Neema Mysteries

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The Heiress in Kent by Gregory Kopp

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A royal mystery that has intrigued generations on two continents is finally revealed! Amid the turbulence of a worldwide financial cataclysm threatening the British Government, a handsome Scotland Yard detective uncovers a secret plot to topple Queen Victoria from her throne! Based on a true story, this fast-paced book is set among the glitz and glamour of 19th century London, New York City and the fledgling 1860 presidential campaign of Abraham Lincoln. Enjoy the next exciting volume in the Kopp Chronicles powerful hit series.

Targeted Age Group:: Adults 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Researching my family history I encountered many historical characters and their impact not only on my family but the entire world.

The Trivial Trials of Matt Mollster by M.D. Metro

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All Three Matt Mollster Mystery Novellas Now Collected In One Place! Plus, Exclusive To This Collection, A Never Before Seen Matt Mollster Mini Mystery!

Meet Matt Mollster: Comic book jockey, perpetual bachelor and aspiring writer in search of a big break. After an abrupt encounter with a forlorn young lady, Matt jumps at the chance to try and come to her aid. Once the young lady goes missing, however, Matt eagerly begins to unravel the mystery, but as he gets closer to the truth, Matt soon finds himself in over his head. Equipped only with his determination and his self-depreciation, Matt seeks out justice the only way he knows how… by channeling pop culture.

But what Matt first sees as a one-time, life altering experience, he quickly realizes is just the beginning, and that his life will never be the same. His quiet, solitary existence as a minimum wage clerk is replaced with random road trips and book signings, tense interviews and crime scenes, maniacal muderers and crafty kidnappers. Only Matt, with his considerable geek cred and stubbornness, can sift through the vague clues and uncover the conspiracies, unmask the truth and unveil the criminals. Doing so will challenge him in ways he never anticipated, forcing Matt to step out from a shadow of self-loathing and connect again, to family, to friends, to romance, to shape a future he dismissed as out of reach. With this new life, however, not only comes a sense of purpose but also fatal consequences if he falters.

Witness the birth of a sleuth with The Nostalgia Crypt, Four Days of PHAME, and Impostors’ Syndrome – as well as the Mini Mystery The Steward Of Solidarity – for these tales truly are The Trivial Trials Of Matt Mollster.

Targeted Age Group:: 18-45

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I’ve been a constant consumer of pop culture for as long as I can remember, and while years ago it was niche, now it’s wide spread, so I felt there was an opportunity to break some new ground and provide geek culture a real world hero they could relate to.

Mystery and Misadventure by M.D. Hall

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The first in a series of three collections of short stories (the third is ready and will be published on Amazon early in 2021). They are supernatural mysteries and all involve an old man, Samuel Prite. As the books progress, we revisit some characters and discover a story arc which is fully developed in a novel appearing on Amazon in Spring 2021. The arc is also brought to the fore in the fourth collection to be published at the end of 2021.

Targeted Age Group:: 11 and above

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Partway through a historical novel (now finished and to be published on Amazon in 2021), I was given a parking ticket. While waiting at the dentist, the idea came to me: the response of an overzealous traffic warden to receiving lots of unfairly issued parking tickets? You will spot the link in the first story.
I needed a mysterious supernatural character who is both charming and unthreatening: Samuel Prite. When I gave him free rein, he took on a life of his own.

Dwell by Miik YS

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A strong urge compels Cyn to dance a waltz in the precinct parking garage. The same compulsion at the same time forces Ali to waltz in her apartment. The impulses tailor themselves to the women. Cyn faces the overwhelming desire to torture a homicide suspect and shoot a homeless man, while Ali grapples with a yearning to shoplift and steal from a cash register. The women morph into passengers in their own bodies, aware of everything around them but incapable of manipulating events, like passengers on a bus watching the world pass by beyond the windows, while the influence nobbles them toward maiming, mayhem, and murder.

The duo subsist like most people, never questioning why they act as they do, never scrutinizing who or what sways them until an unknown influence threatens to swallow their lives. What about you? Who or what shapes your dealings? Do you even know? Does your will control you, or have you acquiesced to some other force without even realizing it?

Targeted Age Group:: Teen and Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Seeing how people are influenced by things that they may not even realize are impacting their behavior, I crafted a story to take that situation to extremes. From the point of view of the two women subjected to mind control, I show how it disrupts their lives and the lives of others in their orbit. They aren't content to become compliant victims, so they fight back.

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Featured Book: Murder in Marseille by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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When the dead body of one of Marseille’s most corrupt politicians is found in Maggie’s car trunk, it creates a bubbling stew of deception, betrayal and revenge. This heart-stopping thrill ride takes you through the menacing back streets of Marseille in Maggie’s determined trajectory toward the truth–and the real evil–behind it.
Even worse, a devastating family secret that Laurent and Maggie have spent the last twelve years hiding is shockingly revealed, putting everything they have–as well as everyone they love–in immediate jeopardy.

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The Key to Murder by Jen Pitts

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Samantha thought following a mysterious diary around the French Quarter of New Orleans would be a harmless way to learn about her new hometown until it became about murder.

As the newest resident of Thibodeaux Mansion, West Coast transplant Samantha is looking forward to starting her thirties in a new place. Drawn to New Orleans for its music, food and history, she’s excited to start her future in this unique city. But Samantha is also hopeful she’ll find her past since she was adopted from Louisiana after being orphaned in a hurricane as a toddler.

An anonymous diary, unusual key, and a distinctive doll are left in her furnished apartment and her mostly friendly neighbors all deny leaving the gifts. Samantha, now Sammy to her new friends, can’t believe any of them could be a liar. When the diary leads her to a dead body, Sammy needs to find out what these clues mean and what the murderer is trying to tell her.

Although her best friends Sissy and Andrew are happy to help her with this mystery, her other friends aren’t sure the murder and diary are about Sammy. Not wanting to lose her newfound friendships and possible love interest, Sammy decides she must uncover the answers on her own.

Sammy moved to New Orleans looking for a new future, but is it her past that found her first?

The Key to Murder is the first book in the The French Quarter Mysteries featuring West Coast transplant Samantha Richardson settling into her new hometown, New Orleans. Her neighborhood is full of music, food and history as well as interesting people. Join Sammy as she explores the Big Easy by solving the mysteries of the past and present in this new modern, cozy mystery series.

Targeted Age Group:: 25+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I love mysteries and New Orleans, but I couldn't find enough books like that to keep me happy. Toni Morrison said, "“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” I took that to heart and starting writing my French Quarter Mystery Series.

Featured Book: End of Trail by Marilyn Meredith

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Native American Deputy Sheriff, Tempe Crabtree, helps locate a missing camper. She found him in an old silver mine, and yes, he’s been murdered. She does some investigating of the man and learns he and his wife share their home in a completely self-sufficient compound with another couple. Tempe realizes the situation is complicated and digs deeper into their relationships. She learns more at the victim’s funeral, and as happens in many similar situations, there is a ghost.

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Featured Book: Reckless by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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Mia Kazmaroff is able to tell the story behind any object simply by touch, which comes in handy when her Atlanta police detective brother is murdered and reaches out to his partner to find the killer.

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Featured Book: Parlez-Vous Murder? by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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While American Jules Hooker is on vacation, a bomb explodes over the Riviera, destroying technology and leaving Jules stranded in Provence where she must make a living by solving murders the old-fashioned way—without help from DNA, databases, CSI crime labs or the police.

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