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Featured Book: Noughts and Crosses by Robert McNeill

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After powerful investors lose big, investigating a financial advisor’s murder won’t be child’s play for a strained detective.

DI Knox’s Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a residential street.

The detective splits the under-resourced team and follows up the murder himself, quickly establishing that there is no shortage of individuals who would have wanted the man dead.

The victim had secured private investments for NewTech, a video games company that fell foul of copyright law. A lot of serious people lost serious money.

Whilst Knox treads on eggshells and traces the finances, the rest of the team led by his real life partner, DC Yvonne Mason, focus on the rape.

They zone in on the perpetrator, but cornered and desperate, their quarry won’t go without a fight.

Ready for a quiet life, yet battered from all sides, will this be one blow too many for Knox?

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES is the fourth standalone murder mystery by Robert McNeill in the DI Jack Knox series set in Edinburgh.

The full list of books is as follows:

1. THE INNOCENT AND THE DEAD
2. MURDER AT FLOOD TIDE
3. DEAD OF NIGHT
4. NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
5. A VIEW TO MURDER
6. CONFESSION TO MURDER

All of these books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback from Amazon.

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Murder Under A Bridal Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Mystery by Abigail Keam

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CONTENDER FOR TOP MYSTERY 2022 BY KINGS RIVER LIFE MAGAZINE!

Mona Moon is planning her wedding to Robert Farley, Duke of Brynelleth, when preparations go haywire after one of the maids is found murdered. With just days before the blessed event, unwanted guests invade Moon Manor throwing a wrench into Mona’s plans and making it more difficult to seek the truth. Now Robert is a suspect in the maid’s murder. A missing gold brooch and twenty five-dollar bills are the only clues Mona has to find the murderer. She must clear Robert from suspicion or he will call off the wedding, saying he refuses to taint Mona’s good name. Can she discover the killer before the wedding, or will the murderer witness the breakup between Mona and Robert? Was that the intention all along?

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
One thing Miss Abigail loves to do as an author is to write real people and events into her stories. “I am a student of history and love to insert historical information into my mysteries. My goal is to entertain my readers, but if they learn a little something along the way—well, then we are both happy."

Featured Book: Raging Water by Marilyn Meredith

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A burglary draws resident deputy sheriff Tempe Crabtree out in the middle of the night; a crime that segues right into the murder of two elderly ladies, both killed while seated in chairs watching television. As if this isn’t enough on her plate, a gigantic rainstorm causes a mudslide, shutting the small mountain community of Bear Creek off from town. And then it rains and rains some more. Tempe, along with a recently recruited California Highway Patrolman, has the task of not only keeping residents safe from the rising waters of Bear Creek, but of investigating the murders and burglaries. The deputy has a reputation of solving murders no one else can and now she has a target on her back.

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Featured Book: Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

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The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette, changing his and Catherine’s life forever. Doug’s mysterious behavior afterward forces Catherine to escape to The Osprey Cove Lodge, where she finds something even more valuable. The series spans seven geographic locations, from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau Lakes to the shores of the Caribbean. An exciting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The description of the lodge is so inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there.

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Featured Book: The Healing by Karen E Stokes

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A rebellious, yet heartwarming ghost story about a spirit boy enters the lives of a mother and her young son following the discovery of a photograph within the pages of a book found at a local village market. The indomitable entity wreaks fear and uncertainty in its quest to uncover an abhorrent crime.

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Royally Dispatched by P.C. James and Kathryn Mykel

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Royally Dispatched by P.C. James and Kathryn Mykel

A new series from best-selling authors P.C. James, and Kathryn Mykel–author of award-winning Sewing Suspicion.

A Duchess, her trusted butler and a nose-it-all furry sidekick. Can Lady Mary uncover the secret plan before she’s dispatched like her predecessor?

London, 1958. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury has received a royal dispatch to travel to London to prepare the last of the debutants for entrance into society. News of the demise of the previous trainer has Mary on high alert–as is her sharp nosed corgi, Barkley. Add in a gaggle of teenaged debutants, a protective butler, and a spirited cook and our heroine will be embroidered in a murder mystery of generations. Will the debutants prove helpful in uncovering secret plans or will she find out that the culprit is within her ranks?
Royally Dispatched is a fun first in series, cozy mystery with a historical nod. If you like crafty sleuths, animal sidekicks and a gang of amateur detectives, then you’ll love P.C. James and Kathryn Mykel’s Duchess of Snodsbury Series.

Featured Book: Something in the Water Book One: Drowning by Dean Comyn

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Something in the Water Book One: Drowning is on sale (99¢ Kindle and $6.25 Paperback) for the holiday season!
A brilliant young scientist has disappeared, along with a deadly discovery. Was he kidnapped, or is he complicit in a plot to commit genocide? “Drowning” follows new detective Burns from London to Estonia to Iceland in real time on his first mission: find the scientist and stop an unknown organization from unleashing a weapon of mass destruction.

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Gemini Rising (Mischievous Malamute Series, Book 1) by Harley Christensen

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Gemini Rising (Mischievous Malamute Series, Book 1) by Harley Christensen

There’s a body in your alley…

Arianna Jackson—AJ to her friends—and her occasionally well-behaved Alaskan Malamute, Nicoh, live a normal, uneventful, admittedly mundane existence, where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens.

Until it does.

Early one morning, AJ stumbles upon a horrifying scene—a girl’s body lies broken in the dumpster behind her home, her face beaten and mutilated.

A secret reveals you’re living a lie…

As if that weren’t enough to upset the balance of normal, things go from bad to worse when she learns of her connection to the murdered girl. Suddenly, AJ realizes her entire life has been filled with secrets and lies.

A killer hunts for you…

Together with her trusty sidekick, Nicoh, and BFF, Leah, AJ must search for answers. But can she, when finding the truth proves to be more deadly than living the lie?

Would you search for the truth if you knew it could kill you?

Join AJ and her pals as they race to unravel the mystery of her past, where the pieces of the puzzle bring more questions than answers and the only certainty is the killer’s end game—AJ’s life.

Find your truth…

Grab your copy of Gemini Rising TODAY and join others who’ve enjoyed this suspense-filled page-turner that keeps you guessing to the end…and beyond.

Featured Book: Montbel by Angela Wren

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A bargain book for the weekend of November 25th – 27th
A clear-cut case?
A re-examination of a closed police case brings investigator, Jacques Forêt, up against an old adversary. After the murder of a key witness, Jacques finds himself, and his team, being pursued.
When a vital piece of evidence throws a completely different light on Jacques’ case, his adversary becomes more aggressive, and Investigating Magistrate Pelletier threatens to sequester all of Jacques papers and shut down the investigation.
Can Jacques find all the answers before Pelletier steps in?

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Featured Book: Shifting and Shenanigans: Magical Mystery Book Club Book 1 by Elizabeth Pantley

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Only 0.99 for a week starting Nov. 25!

Paige and her adventurous Aunt Glo inherit a country inn from eccentric GeeGee. They pack up and hit the road, arriving at the charming place they both loved since childhood. Finally! They can get into the secret room in the basement that GeeGee kept locked! They discover it’s a wonderful library filled to the brim with mystery books. But more than the room was a secret – it’s a magical place that houses enchanted books. Paige and Glo find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a murder mystery, along with a motley group of book club friends. The club will need to work together to solve the case in order to get out of the book and back to their home.

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