Mystery Reads

Featured Book: The Mysterious Rice Bowl by Carly Carter

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About The Mysterious Rice Bowl by Carly Carter

What do you do when one of your best girlfriend’s is convinced her house is haunted? If you’re Joy-Li Judson, Harpeth Hollow’s vintage loving sleuth, you don your ghostbusting clothes and solve the mystery.

Stephanie Tice, Joy-Li’s BFF, is recovering from a bad break up. Actually Stephanie’s boyfriend died before she could end the relationship. That makes it complicated.

Joy-Li becomes concerned when her girlfriend complains of items going missing in her home. Is her friend cracking under the stress? Or is something paranormal going on here? What’s causing the open drawers, rearranged furniture, disappearing photos? And where is Stephanie’s heirloom and favorite rice bowl?

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Featured Book: Two Egg Rolls and a Side of Murder by Carly Carter

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About Two Egg Rolls and a Side of Murder by Carly Carter

There’s nothing like a murder to kill the romance on date night. Joy-Li Judson, Harpeth Hollow’s vintage loving sleuth certainly didn’t expect to be on a murder case during dinner at The Imperial Wok. It’s mayhem and murder for personal shopper Joy-Li when the body of local podiatrist, Dr. Bai Wang is discovered at the Chinese restaurant. Dr. Wang’s death is a shock to the entire community. The kindly podiatrist hosts Harpeth Hollow’s annual Foot Ball. The proceeds from the charity ball provides shoes and foot care for underprivileged children in Tennessee. Why would anyone want to kill such a generous doctor?

Who knew date night could be so dangerous?

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Featured Book: Death by Chopsticks by Carly Carter

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About Death by Chopsticks by Carly Carter

Bloody pearls, a high society corpse and chopsticks don’t usually go together. Harpeth Hollow’s own vintage loving sleuth, Joy-Li Judson is on the case when one of her personal shopping customers is discovered murdered. Lesley Jane Cranemoore’s body is found on the eve of her posh, charity, pool party. Tonight’s party is to benefit a Chinese adoption agency.
Mrs. Cranemoore is loved by many. Who could want her dead?

Meet Joy-Li Judson, vintage obsessed, fashion blogger, and personal shopper in the first of The Cheongsam Fashion Mysteries- where murder, vintage, fashion, and Chinese food and culture combine.

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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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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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