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Featured Book: Deadeye by Michael Smart

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About Deadeye by Michael Smart

When Superintendent of Police Jolene Johanssen is dispatched to the scene of a vehicular accident on Union Island, and discovers a body in the wreckage, she knows she’s caught a case requiring delicate handling. It’s almost Christmas, the height of the tourist season; the victim an American businessman visiting the reclusive private resort on Petit St. Vincent. The case immediately proves anything but routine, and her frustration is compounded when a second high profile case, as delicate and explosive as the first, lands in her lap, the apparent suicide of a prominent Vincentian businessman and advisor to the Government. The two cases lead her on a chase culminating in New York City, where she uncovers a chilling conspiracy which threatens to destroy St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and where she faces an adversary tasked with protecting the conspiracy at all costs. Book #2 in the Bequia Mysteries, Deadeye is a compelling tale of mystery, danger and romance, involving the characters and locale introduced in Dead Reckoning.

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Featured Book: Fateful Encounters by Vovo Verdan

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About Fateful Encounters by Vovo Verdan

As far as twenty three year old Glen Verne was concerned, the crime was committed for all the right reasons. But unfortunately, the authorities didn’t agree.
Throughout our lives we encounter people who affect us in very different ways. Sometimes the encounter leads us down a path we would rather not have traveled – sometimes, however, it’s just the path we needed.

Glen Verne is a complicated twenty three year old man. He works a dead-end job and any form of excitement is always welcome. He has had his fair share of misfortune in life, and it is this misfortune that has shaped him as a person. He has also had his fair share of good fortune, but as Glen Verne discovers, bad decisions will subjugate good fortune every single time – especially when so many fateful encounters are involved.

N.B. Contains explicit sex and adult situations.

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Featured Book: TREACHEROUS: Grifters, Ruffians and Killers by Gary Phillips

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TREACHEROUS: Grifters, Ruffians and Killers by Gary Phillips

Twenty-one short stories written by Gary Phillips are included in the eBook edition of TREACHEROUS: GRIFTERS, RUFFIANS AND KILLERS. The eBook edition includes three stories (“Masai’s Back in Town,” “Black Caesar’s Gold” and “The Calling”) not included in the TP edition and two stories (“The Thrill is Gone” and “What Shall We Call You?”) were removed.

Alan Cranis on bookgasm.com said, “Phillips obviously loves his anti-heroes, as the stories’ major characters are all, as the subtitle promises, grifters, ruffians and killers. You may not be on their side, but you can’t help but be fascinated by their escapades…Phillips unfaltering ear for contemporary urban dialogue and patois, relentless pacing that grabs you from the opening sentence—oh, and plenty of sex and violence, too.”

Publishers Weekly said of the trade paperback, “Most of the 20 highly entertaining selections in this new collection also spotlight the hip urban scene Phillips has made his own.”

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Featured Book: Empty Shell by Ashley Fontainne

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About Empty Shell by Ashley Fontainne

A pair of pink, silk underwear…

The quiet world of Melody and Jack Dickinson is about to be turned upside down. Twenty years of marriage hangs in the balance when Melody finds out about Jack’s infidelity. The betrayal is made worse when Melody discovers his lover is Serena Rowland, a young woman who works at Melody’s law firm.

A receipt from an overpriced hotel…

Harsh words are exchanged before Melody storms off to work, determined to have Serena fired. But when Melody hears Serena was murdered over the weekend, everything changes. Serena’s body is found beaten and strangled with a pair of pink, silk panties, in the same hotel that Jack had admitted staying at over the weekend. Within seconds of hearing the news, Melody’s life spins out of control when Jack calls in a panic. The police are at their home to arrest him for Serena’s murder.

Pictures of a young woman’s scantily clad torso on a cell phone…

Was she married to a monster? One who beat and strangled the young woman to death, or was Jack set up? Did Melody’s own dark secret, hidden inside her heart for years, have something to do with the nightmare they suddenly find themselves in?

Melody and Jack are about to discover that one fateful mistake will destroy many.

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Featured Book: Betrayed by Wodke Hawkinson

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About Betrayed by Wodke Hawkinson

Brooklyn is taken captive during a botched carjacking. And so her nightmare begins. Escaping her captors is the first step. Now can she survive the snowy Colorado wilderness and its resident recluse?

Lance is happy with his solitary life on the mountain. But his world is about to change.

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Featured Book: Killing The Blood Cleaner by Davis Hewitt

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About Killing The Blood Cleaner

Sex! Violence! Barbecue! KILLING THE BLOOD CLEANER (ebook) $1.99 AMAZON September 25 to October 2, 2014.

Take a ride with Dr. Jack Randolph, an Atlanta society doctor, on holiday at the Georgia coast, who finds his brief liaison with an erotic local propels him into the violent world of drug smuggling, a high tech government enclave, and a new life as prison doctor at Georgia Maximum Security Prison, where a vicious inmate, whose blood is the key to curing AIDS, challenges him for a particularly sexy nurse.

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Featured Book: Temporarily Employed by Vicki Batman

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About Temporarily Employed by Vicki Batman

New job. New love. And murder.

Hattie Cook’s dream job is down the toilet and her new SUV violated. Desperate for cash to cover the basic necessities of rent and food, she takes a temporary job at Buy Rite insurance company where she uncovers an embezzling scam tied to the death of a former employee–the very one she replaced. The last thing she wants is to clash with By-the-Book Detective Wellborn, no matter how much he makes her heart pound.

Allan Charles Wellborn has secretly adored Hattie all his life. He evolved from a pocket protector-wearing geek to a handsome police detective. When the police determine there’s more to the death of a former Buy Rite employee, he steps in to lead the investigation. Overly dedicated, always perfect, he puts his job first, even if doing so ultimately hurts the one he loves.

Can the killer be found before Hattie’s time is up?

Coming Fall 2014 from The Wild Rose Press and other e-retailers.

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Featured Book: Reap the Whirlwind by Robert Sells

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About Reap the Whirlwind by Robert Sells

Whit Emerson had a beautiful girlfriend, great friends, the respect of his peers, and more than enough money. Until he discovered his bank account has been depleted by a single check from a firm he didn’t recognize. A day later he’s fired from his job. Friends die, disappear, or disown him. Everywhere he goes, he is watched by security cameras. Something is definitely wrong with his world, but Whit doesn’t know who or why. Then he is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. After that his life got worse. Much worse.

Whit seeks help from a stuttering computer nerd, his attractive sister, a bank robber and a rogue detective all hiding from the government for different reasons. Together they search for a legendary computer expert known as Little Lion. Eleven years before Little Lion created a super computer for the military, a super computer which is now being used to take over the internet.

Little Lion mysteriously disappeared but left strange clues behind to help Whit and his friends. When the clues are unraveled, an even worse threat faces the friends. They are determined to stop a nightmare scenario if they can live long enough. Please be advised, the story is fictional, but the ‘nightmare scenario’ is inevitable, if it hasn’t already happened.

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Featured Book: Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys by Linda Maria Frank @AnnieTillery123

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The third great teen mystery book of the Annie Tillery Mysteries is now live. Award winning author, Linda Maria Frank, has created another page-turning, can’t-put-it-down mystery. “Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys” has it all. The story is set in exotic Istanbul and Cappadocia, a land of enchanted caves and rock formations. The plot involves ancient mysteries, archaeological secrets, and thieves who will commit murder rather than give up the treasures they steal. Annie acquires new friends. Cedric Zeeks is trying to find a link between his African ancestors and the inhabitants of a 9,000 year old town in Cappadocia. Yelda and Ahmet Atsut, twins with a Ouija board and awesome sleuthing talents, help Annie and boyfriend, Ty Egan, solve the mysteries, both the ancient ones and the ones that threaten them as they work the archaeological dig.

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A Model Murder by Celia Conrad

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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.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I come from a legal background and I had the idea to write a novel building upon my experiences from within the law. I was relaying to a friend one day about one of my “experiences” and he suggested that I write it down. After I left the law, through a chance meeting I was offered a modelling assignment and as a result I met several models who talked to me about their experiences and how they supplemented their income when work was in short supply. This inspired me to research the “club” world which features prominently in this book. It was an eye-opening experience for me!