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Featured Book: The Miss Fortune Series: The Stiletto Scandal (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Riley Blake

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Unlikely Suspects…

When a former Sinful resident turns up dead in Fortune Redding’s backyard, Deputy Carter LeBlanc springs into action, but Fortune can’t help but wonder about his motives. Is he afraid a killer will strike again and she’ll become the next victim or is he trying to keep her away from the new man in town?

Motivated Killers…

Now considered an assassin-in-hiding thanks to an unfortunate stiletto scandal, Fortune has a nice price on her head and unlikely hitmen are in the killing game. With a borrowed identity and new place to call home, Fortune soon discovers Sinful isn’t as it seems. Since her Louisiana arrival, the former agent has been involved in one murder investigation right after the next. And things are about to get a lot worse for Fortune and a few of her closest friends.

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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: Hellen Back by Vicki lee Zell (VLZ)

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Hellen-BackJennifer Luck is off to college. Finally, she’s getting away from her crazy mother and that attic room. Only now Jennifer is about to discover a world within a world, within yet another world. A world where monsters do not only hide under beds and lurk inside of closets, but monsters who dwell in the souls of the unlikeliest people.

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Featured Book: Fly by Night by Laurinda Wallace

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FLY-BY-NIGHT-CorrectedFly by Night will be .99 3/24 and 3/25 (reg. price is 3.99)

Environmental concerns and mysterious lights in the sky ignite an ugly controversy in Gracie Andersen’s hometown. It’s no wonder the folks of Deer Creek are on edge. Politicians and environmentalists, steeped in questionable motives, are converging and facing off in the small village. After violence erupts at a protest event, the local UFO fanatic discovers a body on his property. The killer can’t be an alien, but there are plenty of earthly suspects on kennel owner, Gracie Andersen’s list.
Haley, Gracie’s Labrador sniffs out some evidence that seems to lead to a dead end and Gracie’s annoying cousin unintentionally helps out in gathering up the suspect pool. What’s the real motive for murder? Is it politics? Money? Personal? Or all of the above?

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Featured Book: Vintage Whispers (A Cozy Retirement Mystery Book 1) by Riley Blake

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VINTAGE_WHISPERS_RILEY_BLAKEBest friends since childhood, Mary Louise, Opal, and Pearl enter a retirement community with plans to live out their golden years reminiscing about the good old days while embracing the new, but when rocking chair discussions reveal different versions of bygone days, investigations are in order. Soon, three blue-haired ladies are doing what they must to find suspects in an unsolved murder, but a cold case is the least of their worries when they discover the buried bodies are a little too close to home.

What ARC readers are saying:

“Mary Louise, Opal, and Pearl must’ve lived next to the Golden Girls. Loved it from start to finish!”
“One-day reading. Laughed until I cried!”
“Immediately went to Amazon to see what else the author had written. Outstanding!”
“Retailers should stamp a BEST VALUE sticker on this one. Laugh out loud at the funny moments and treasure the more serious lines. Creative, brilliant, exceptional!”
“Hilarious moments and well written dialogue.”

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Featured Book: Mai Tai One On by Jill Marie Landis

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Mai-Tai-One-On-Book-Page-200x300Six months ago, if anyone would have told Em Johnson she’d end up divorced, broke, and running the dilapidated Tiki Goddess Bar on the magical North Shore of Kauai she would have told them to shove a swizzle stick up their okole. As if all that isn’t bad enough, when an obnoxious neighbor with a grudge is found dead in the Goddess luau pit, suspicion falls on Em and the rest of the Goddess staff. With the help of a quirky dance troupe of over-the-hill Hula Maidens, Em and the cast of characters must ban together to find the killer and solve the mystery before the next pupu party.

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Crying Woman Bridge by Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton

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CryingWomanmediumHaunted bridge, crying woman, missing baby! While returning from Professor Dawson’s lecture on haunted places, the last thing Sheriff Jeff McQuede and Dawson expect to encounter is a terrified woman clinging to the railing of Mirabella’s Bridge, crying for her lost baby. It looks as if Rae Harris has thrown the infant over the bridge in a fit of despair, but she claims he has been stolen by a ghostly figure she calls Mirabella. Similar to the La Llorona legend Dawson just spoke about, Mirabella was a local pioneer woman who was rumored to have drowned her infant after being abandoned by a lover. At first McQuede believes Rae was driven by madness, but he soon finds evidence that her story may be true, and the perfectly timed kidnapping of her child may be in some way related to lecture attendee and local celebrity, Jim Royce, and his vast fortune.

Targeted Age Group:: general readership

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
We were inspired by the legend of La Llorona and other tales throughout the United States about haunted bridges. We found these stories fascinating, and created a story of our own that is a blend of these tales, yet unique in its setting.

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Featured Book: Murder in Provence by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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MurderInProvenceFree! A year spent living in the south of France is not all it’s cracked up to be—especially when you have no job, a prickly first year of marriage, and your new BFF is murdered virtually before your eyes. Atlanta expatriate Maggie Newberry is determined to help the investigations into Brigitte’s murder even if the incredibly sexy and very available French police detective on the case can only complicate her life in every possible way.
Set the ancient city of Arles, this mystery—like all in the series–showcases the sights and mouthwatering cuisine of Provence—with a healthy dash of murder.

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Featured Book: Karma Dead Ahead by D.H. Montgomery

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Karma-Dead-Ahead-Cover-Very-Small“Karma Dead Ahead” is a nicely paced detective/mystery story with appealing well-drawn characters and a plot that always keeps you guessing as it alternates between humor and suspense. On sale for 99 cents.

Two graduate students in a university paranormal research lab become accidental detectives as they go searching for a woman who fails to return from her Caribbean vacation. They get help from a group of psychics known as the “Gang of Four” and a hi-tech witchcraft practitioner. The psychics reveal that a karmic debt from two hundred years ago has put the woman on a path to danger. After some brilliant deductions and twists and turns, the two detectives come face to face with a deranged killer and his intended latest victim. Just as karma set off the chain of events in the beginning, it also determines the dramatic outcome.

“Karma Dead Ahead” is not just another Detective Mystery/Suspense novel. There are a number of incidents that take place that humorously satirize the corruption and dysfunction of modern institutions — the media, celebrity worship, the scientific establishment, business and elite protection from law enforcement — giving the novel depth and comic relief from the more suspenseful main plot.

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