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Featured Book: Willowtree by Mike Bove

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Bruce DelReno, a retired mail carrier, plays a lot of golf. His wife, a nurse, still works. A lot. So, Bruce frequents the Mesquite Hills Golf Club in the fictitious town of Willowtree, Arizona.
One day he finds bones near the course. This discovery begins his pursuit of the killers of three individuals whose bodies were found nearby, but 30 years apart. This mild mannered ex-postman is emboldened by the police’s slow progress, and encouragement from his wife, and best friend, an Apache Indian. Bruce’s investigating centers on a group of locals who grew up in Willowtree together.
There is murder, humor, golf, food, and local color in this tale, as well as twists and some interesting characters.

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Featured Book: Crime and Croissants by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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Jules Hooker is doing her best to adjust to the new normal of a world without electricity, electronics, cars or the chance to return home. Stranded in the charming but provincial village of Chabanel wasn’t terrible until Jules discovers Aix-en-Provence and decides that the big city lights—even when they’ve gone out in the apocalypse—are much preferable to the countryside.
Of course with a big city comes big city crimes and when a fellow American is accused of murdering a popular pastry chef in Aix, Jules knows she has to help. Unfortunately tracking a dangerous killer when you don’t know the language—or the French people themselves—soon has Jules bumbling into one dangerous situation after another.

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Featured Book: Born to Love: Keiki & Lia Thriller by Amy Shojai

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Can the past unlock the future and love preserve a life?

A puppy’s job is to learn. Keiki relishes the sights, sounds and smells of her world, but people frustrate and confuse her. Why do humans control all the good stuff?

Lia Corazon channels her energy and emotions into the dogs she trains in her North Texas kennel. She especially enjoys four-month-old Keiki’s enthusiasm, but the pup’s owner makes her uneasy. There’s something very…wrong about him.

When a vicious storm, violent flood, and scary creatures menace Keiki, her Rottweiler bravery comes through. But what can a good-dog do when a human enemy threatens? Keiki must use all she’s learned if she’s to save Lia from a killer.

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Featured Book: Murder in Murloo by Brigid George

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It has been a year since a popular young woman was strangled in her home in the seaside village of Murloo but the killer’s identity remains a mystery.

The victim’s family call in investigative journalist Dusty Kent who has an impeccable record in solving the cold cases she writes about. Dusty’s determination to investigate unresolved crime is driven by a personal connection through her own family tragedy. However, this case tests Dusty to the limit and she despairs of ever catching the callous killer who seems to be lurking nearby and yet…

A gripping mystery imbued with the ambience of Australia—from the mysterious wood carving found with the body, the captivating characters of a small town, to the coastal splendour of the Southern Ocean.

‘Murder in Murloo’ (a classic who-dun-it) is the first of the Dusty Kent murder mysteries.

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Featured Book: A Devious Mind by Bigid George

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It was a silent death. One blow to her head was all it took. The killer struck Marcia Hamilton, a sixty-year-old grandmother of slim build, from behind. Marcia’s status as a distinguished author could not save her. The killer rolled her body, ‘like a piece of discarded junk’, down into a gully where it remained for almost two weeks.

A Devious Mind is an enthralling whodunit awash with mystery and atmosphere — from the message seemingly sent by the murder victim after her death, to the intrigue of family dynamics, to the ambling lifestyle of Byron Bay: Australia’s famous beach town. If you like a good mystery, don’t miss this one!

This is Book #2 of the Dusty Kent murder mysteries following Murder in Murloo

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Featured Book: Hellen Back by VLZ Books

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Come, take a journey into the dark regions of the mind as Tricia DiSandro, narrator for VLZ’s new thriller; Hellen Back, curls your senses, heightens your smells, and gives you an old fashioned scare; bringing to life the characters in VLZ’s latest thriller: HELLEN BACK, the tale of a young girl lost between worlds inside of a nightmarish-nightmare, where nothing is real, yet everything could be. Adventure along the steepened stairwell, through a dark tunnel, and arrive in hell. Sit back and relax with narrator Tricia DiSandro as Tricia portrays, so vividly, every character in VLZ’s latest suspense novel now available on audio at Amazon.com and Audible.com and ITunes. To receive your code for a free download of this audio version, simply email justv@live.com

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Featured Book: Dead Girls Don’t Blog by Pamela Frost Dennis

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Sometimes doing the right thing can get you dead …

As Katy McKenna struggles to rebuild the successful career she suspended to chase her cheating wasband’s dreams, her life suddenly takes a dramatic turn when she stumbles upon a newspaper story about the upcoming parole hearing for the man who raped, kidnapped, and murdered her high school friend, sixteen years ago.

Fearing he could soon be set free to prey on other innocent young girls, Katy sets out to make sure this doesn’t happen, not realizing she might not survive to blog about it.

Meanwhile, Grandma Ruby is hell-bent on finding Katy a hunky transition man and her happily-married BFF is nagging her to blog about her anger issues.

Dead Girls Don’t Blog is a dramedy-mystery novel and the first book in the Murder Blog Mysteries.

Awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion for excellence in independent publishing.

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Honolulu Hottie by Terry Ambrose

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When a con man dies, no one cares…except his killer.
Apartment manager Wilson McKenna’s day tanks when the cops accuse an old friend of killing a ruthless Honolulu scammer. McKenna hates to break the “no more amateur sleuthing” promise he made to his new girlfriend, but his buddy is desperate. He’s got no alibi. Made threats against the dead man. And, his gun was the murder weapon. Talk about a guy with big trouble.
McKenna turns to his private-investigator tenant, Chance Logan, for help. Too late, McKenna discovers Chance isn’t really a PI. Now, McKenna’s stuck with an investigation he doesn’t want, is mentoring a PI-wannabe, and hiding it all from his girlfriend.
A string of shattered lives—and suspects—lie in the dead man’s wake. Can McKenna and Chance find a cagey killer who’s always one step ahead? Or, will a dead con man ruin another life?

Targeted Age Group:: 40-70

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
While reading an article in AARP, I was intrigued by the concept of veteran's benefit scams. I contacted the author of the article and learned a great deal about the various types of scams perpetrated on, and by, veterans. I was particularly upset by the willingness of con men to not only steal from those who had fought for their country, but to take away everything they had worked for during their lives.

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Featured Book: Boxes For Beds by Maryann Miller

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Who is kidnapping babies in Pine Hollow Arkansas? Is is Leslie Richards, the new woman in town and a damn Yankee? Corrupt Sheriff Bates decides maybe it is, and has her arrested, despite thin circumstantial evidence. Bates has to arrest someone before the mob bosses from Chicago come down for a big meeting in Hot Springs. The mob rules Hot Springs in 1961. And own Sheriff Bates.

Leslie has come to Pine Hollow from New York with her daughter to escape secrets from her past and a broken relationship. She soon discovers that there is little peace for her in Pine Hollow.

Set in 1961, this historical mystery explores law-enforcement corruption and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas. It’s a bargain read at only $2.99 for the e-book.

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Featured Book: Fatal Feverfew by Jennifer Barraclough

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Fatal Feverfew is set in an isolated healing retreat in the west of England. Lucia, accompanied by her husband and cat, arrives there to recuperate from a recent illness only to find that she is suspected of poisoning their hostess. Lucia reluctantly takes on the role of detective and, with the help of the local doctor, succeeds in uncovering the true course of events and winning her husband’s respect. With echoes of the old-fashioned country house murder mystery, Fatal Feverfew is one of three medically themed novels written by Jennifer Barraclough in the 1980s but not published until thirty years later. Drawing on her experience in psychiatry and general practice, it takes a gently satirical approach to the serious themes of illness, marital disharmony and unnatural death.

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