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Featured Book: Three Weeks in Washington: A Titus Ray Thriller by Luana Ehrlich

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CIA intelligence officer, Titus Ray, jeopardizes his career to interrogate a terrorist and learn the truth about an Iranian deep cover operative living in Washington. What he learns sends Titus on an intelligence operation spanning two continents and leads to the discovery of an Iranian general obsessed with destroying America’s capital with chemical weapons.

As time runs out, Titus engages the enemy in a treacherous game of cat and mouse to save the lives of thousands and defeat the terrorists. Can his faith sustain him as he faces his greatest challenge? Is he willing to lose Nikki to save his country?

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Featured Book: Petectives: Christmas Party by Robert J. Smith

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Christmastime is here and cat detectives Yoshi and Gatsby are back in this holiday whodunnit! Someone not filled with the holiday spirit is trying to kill an obnoxious dog and the Petectives are on the case. While conducting their latest investigation, Gatsby’s also planning a Christmas Eve blowout for the neighborhood animals. Yoshi is dead set against the party but he may be able to use the festivities to unmask a would be killer and teach Gatsby what Christmas is all about. Throw in a canine love triangle and a cute orphan kitten and you’ve got the recipe for one riveting Yuletide affair. The Petectives are throwing a Christmas party and you don’t want to miss it!

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Featured Book: Mary Mills Mystery series: Book 1-3 by Willow Rose

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About Mary Mills Mystery series: Book 1-3 by Willow Rose

Grab this book free from 12/16-12/20, 2019.

Am I pretty?
Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer.
What would you answer?

Get three mystery novels from multi-million bestselling author WILLOW ROSE for FREE a limited time.

It’s fast-paced, engulfing thrillers, but also an emotionally charged series about strong friendships and never giving up on each other, no matter what. You will never guess the ending!

This Mystery book is available in these Formats: eBook

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Death Makes the Devil Dance by Michael L. Patton

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A dead congressman lives a double life, one of which leads to Dan’s past.

Dan and Wally, led by Syd, find a man hanging in a tree on a rural stretch of road. This story takes the team on a wild ride that eventually leads back to Dan’s door. Who is this guy? Why is he dead? And how the heck does it have anything to do with Dan, who swears he’s never met the man? Now, Dan finds himself under suspicion for murder once again. He learns secrets long buried, revealing a painful truth. This case will leave a lasting impact on Dan’s life.

“Death Makes the Devil Dance” is the third novel in the Dan Williams and Syd mystery series.

If you like murder mysteries in a rural setting and canine characters who often outfox humans, all mixed with a bit of humor, you’ll enjoy this novel.

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Targeted Age Group:: adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I wanted to use the area where the book takes place again in a murder and needed a plausible start for the story in a rural area.

Featured Book: A Scarcity of Condors by Suanne Laqueur

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About A Scarcity of Condors by Suanne Laqueur

Juleón “Jude” Tholet has survival in his DNA. His father, Cleón, lived through imprisonment and torture during Pinochet’s military coup in Chile. His mother, Penny, risked everything to gain her husband’s freedom and flee the country with their newborn son. But as a closeted gay teenager growing up in Vancouver, Jude is targeted by a neighborhood bully called El Cóndor, culminating in a vicious hate crime that forces the Tholets to flee their country again.

Jude cautiously rebuilds his life in Seattle, becoming an accomplished pianist, but his his wings have been clipped and he cannot seem to soar in his relationships. Only family remains a constant source of strength and joy, until a DNA test reveals something that shocks all the Tholets: Jude is not their child.

Stunned by the test results, the Tholets must dig into their painful past, re-examine their lives in 1973 Santiago and the events surrounding Jude’s birth story. It’s a tale rooted in South America’s Operation Condor. It spreads through Pinochet’s terrifying regime of detention camps, torture, disappeared civilians and stolen children. The journey forces Penny Tholet to confront the gaps in her memory while Cleón must re-live an ordeal he’s long kept hidden away in a secret world. The tale ends with Jude digging through his genetic code in a quest to find his biological parents. Are they alive? Or are they among Los Desaparecidos—the Disappeared Ones?

Suanne Laqueur’s third book in the Venery series explores the desperate acts of love made in times of war, and the many ways family can be defined.

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The Gingerbread House by Pamela Ackerson

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The Gingerbread House by Pamela Ackerson

Falling in love was not on her to-do list.

Left in debt after the tragic death of her husband, Tricia Adams struggled to keep a roof over her family’s heads. With the help of the Grandmothers Four, she’d finally gotten everything under control.She was happy and more comfortable than she’d been in years. When Carol’s son, Eric Elliott, agreed to help renovate the guest house, mysterious and things began to happen. The dashing and handsome man held a bowl full of secrets, and she was going to get to the bottom of it.What could possibly go wrong?

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Bucket’s Brigade by Gary Blackwood

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Bucket is back! Inspector Charley Field, the real-life inspiration for Dickens’ Inspector Bucket and the protagonist of “Bucket’s List,” returns in this spellbinding sequel. Charley is relishing the new-found success of his private enquiry agency. But success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Instead of the open-and-shut cases he once had, he’s attracting some very gnarly and very dangerous ones, including a bloke who claims to be the long-lost son of a railroad magnate, an acid-throwing villain who preys on prostitutes, and a theatre manager who steals playwrights’ scripts

Targeted Age Group:: Adults

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I've long been a fan of Victorian mysteries (including Sherlock Holmes' adventures, of course) and of Charles Dickens' work, particularly Bleak House. For a time, I toyed with the notion of writing a novel with Dickens' droll and dauntless Inspector Bucket as the protagonist. But when I began researching, I came across the real-life copper who was the model for Bucket–Charles Field. I discovered that, after a long career with the Bow Street Runners and the New Police, Charley struck out on his own and established a private enquiry agency. This suggested all sorts of possibilities, and I was off and running.

Prepper Mountain by Chris Bostic

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School’s getting out for the summer, and Zach has finally worked up the courage to ask Katelyn to walk home with him—only to find the Feds parked in his driveway again. His unemployed accountant father is an outspoken critic of the recent default on the crushing national debt, which brings on most of their problems with the law. But his mother is the real complication when it comes to bringing potential girlfriends over to the house. She’s a fanatical prepper.

Though Zach can’t see the imminent danger, his parents whisk his family away to the Great Smoky Mountains in case the entire country crumbles into martial law. When the drones circle like buzzards and the bombs start falling, someone has to be the resistance….

Targeted Age Group:: 13+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I like to turn family vacations into epic disaster stories, so no better place than Great Smoky Mountains National Park–especially for a Red Dawn-style adventure.

Ubiety by Grzegorz Kunowski

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If you were to find yourself at the edge of a dying world with a lingering sense of reality, would you simply fade into the nothingness or would you fight for everything you hold dear? This assertive question is at the heart of the thought-provoking book Ubiety, for this book was designed to help people emerge into reality and find the truth whilst questioning both what could and should be.

Join Adam’s journey through the gruelling world of the unforgiving future, diving into the many mysteries which will uncover bittersweet secrets to see if he can save the fate of his daughter along with that of the world, using nothing but his boldness of character, the brilliance of one’s mind and a hint of madness. However, be aware, this journey will not be easy but remember that some of the greatest fortunes lie on the darkest paths.

Book will be free to download on all amazon platforms between 23/12/2019 to the 27/12/2019.

Targeted Age Group:: 16+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
There were 2 aspects which generally brought me to write this book, first of all there have been many various problems in our world. The amount of conflict we have seen has not seen any reduction, climate change is worse than ever and it's only getting worse, political leaders seem to be declining in quality. The one thing we can really do in order to make things better is to think critically, therefore my writing was tailored to this aspect. Secondly, my writing was more in small random sections, slowly put together with additional parts of writing to build an overall story.

Featured Book: Murder in the South of France by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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When her sister dies, Atlanta copywriter Maggie Newberry flies to the south of France to find the little niece that no one in the family even knew existed. Along the way, she finds handsome sexy Frenchman Laurent Dernier to help with the search. Meanwhile, her sister’s murderer sets his sights on the little girl—and Maggie.

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