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Featured Book: Mystery at Pima Point by J B Clemmens

While waiting for the wedding of his nephew, Lieutenant Eli James enjoys a mini vacation at the fabulous Pima Point Resort near Phoenix. When the bride disappears and one of her bridesmaids is murdered, he reverts to his NYPD homicide detective status and investigates some shady business at the spa and resort. But drug trafficking and illegal plastic surgery are secondary to finding the killer and his nephew’s bride-to-be before the wedding.

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Poetic Justice by Lori James

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Poetic Justice is a murder mystery with a romantic twist. It’s set on a backdrop of characters ranging from a single mom, to high powered attorneys who are sure to draw you into their lives.

When Homicide Detective Mark Stevens receives a phone call to report to a bloody crime scene, he has no idea how his life is about to change. He faces the normal challenges of solving a murder. He also faces the challenge of confronting his past. Mark’s past has closed his heart. He chooses to be alone. When his heart is opened, by an unlikely visitor, he finds himself having feelings for the murder victim’s sister. However, he’s determined to remain professional. Now that he’s found his heart; can love be far behind?

The new, ambitious prosecuting attorney John Martin can’t wait to sink his teeth into his first murder trial. Seemingly lucky for him, a murder victim’s body is found his first day on the job. Not so luckily for him, there’s a tough judge and feisty defense attorney in his future.

Targeted Age Group:: 17+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I’ve always had an interest in true crime and trial watching. When I decided to write a book, I knew it would be a murder mystery.

It Had to Be You by Delynn Royer

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New York City, 1924

Determined to pursue her dream of becoming a crime reporter, heiress Trixie Frank believes she’s off to a running start when she lands a job at the most successful tabloid in Manhattan. Unfortunately, her high hopes fade fast when she’s assigned to the rewrite desk.

Sean Costigan is a demoted homicide detective on the commissioner’s blacklist. The last thing he needs complicating his life is a perky debutante with delusions of becoming the next great American journalist. Too bad she happens to hold one of the keys to solving his latest case, the Central Park murder of a notorious gangster. The other key? Sean’s childhood sweetheart, the victim’s widow, who has gone missing.

Sean soon has more trouble with dames than any good man deserves. But that’s the least of his worries. When he suspects deadly corruption within his own department, it’s not just his and Trixie’s careers that depend on finding the killer. It’s their lives.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
My love of mystery, romance and classic cinema. I’ve been a fan of old movies since I was a teenager, and one of my favorite romantic mystery films is The Thin Man. The dialogue is top-notch and the romantic chemistry between William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles is playful and fun.

Add to that, I love Manhattan as a setting, and I’ve always been fascinated by the 1920s—the bootleggers, the flappers, the speakeasies, the post-war abandon. It was a combination of all these elements that inspired me to try my hand at creating a sleuthing couple of my own.

The Bleak by Keith Dixon @keithyd6

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Sam Dyke is back! The private investigator who never gives up until the bad guys are caught—or worse.

For Sam, taking this particular case is not promising. His client is a secretary who’s watching her boss fall apart, and she can’t bear it. The case requires subtlety and finesse and so isn’t his usual kind of job. But he likes her and takes it anyway.

And he soon discovers that it’s not the pressures of work that are getting to her boss. It’s his colleagues, a group of cultish scientists. Their leader is a hyper-intelligent seer/visionary who has a personal philosophy that is taking him towards one final act—to produce a calamitous event that will destroy the lives of hundreds of people. Or more.

Dyke sets himself on a course to prevent this madman from achieving his ends. A course that endangers him, his new partner and it seems anyone else who gets in the way of this doomsday plan …

Targeted Age Group:: 16+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The Bleak is the fourth in a series featuring my character Sam Dyke. The premise of the story came to me when reading about a Japanese cult that attempted a series of mass murders in the 1990s.

THE MACHAIR CROW by Jaycee Brown @jayceebrownbook

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The remote Isle of Lewis has only had three murders in over forty years. When Helen Riley is asked to investigate a suspicious death in Port of Ness, no-one intends to help her uncover a fourth murder. As she gets closer to the truth, Riley faces threats to herself, her client and her family. Riley is confronted by assassination drones plus a powerful international network of collusion and conspiracy that threatens her job, her family and her life. Cut adrift, she embarks on a fight for justice and revenge. The Machair Crow is a novel that features one woman’s battle against the illicit use of assassination drones and how she overcomes the conspiracy to silence her. A fine detective story and also a novel about drones, covert surveillance and the development of secret kill-lists. Riley is a kick-ass combination of Jack Reacher and Lisbeth Salander. She’s a private investigator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She’s been army trained as an undercover surveillance officer with the army’s special forces. After she left the forces, she worked as a police detective in Newcastle before turning private. She doesn’t do demure and compliant. If you like your heroines demure and compliant, this is not the book for you.

Targeted Age Group:: 16 – 90

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Jack Reacher, Lisbeth Salander, Harry Hole, and Mitch Rapp. I was inspired by Lee Child’s novel ‘Nothing to Lose.’ It was the idea of the police being in the pocket of an evil secret organization and moving Jack Reacher out of town in order to stop him asking questions that got me started. You’ll see shades of that scenario with Helen Riley – someone who refuses to take ‘No’ for an answer. Starting to write was in a moment of arrogance really. I was reading an eBook that contained a few flaws and I said to myself, ‘I’m sure I could do better than this. How hard could it be?’ Like Mark Twain said, “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” I discovered the hard way how difficult it is to write a good novel that people want to read.

Renatus by John Saunders

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The double murder of a young man and woman, with a message in blood at both scenes reawakens the memory of an identical case fifteen years earlier.
Detective Superintendent Eddie Kilminster, a junior detective in the earlier case, now leads the present investigation. He enlists the help of Sean Moses, an ex colleague from the first case, and now an investigative profiler operating outside of the force. Eddie and Sean find themselves on a journey and a race against time before the killer strikes again. Will Eddie’s mind be opened to the forces of nature that lie beneath the killings, and will Sean discover a new path in his life before events push him beyond the edge of his sanity?

Targeted Age Group:: 16+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The idea to write had been kicking around for a few years. I read a detective mystery by a very successful author and although I liked the story, it was one that I felt I could have written myself. It got me thinking as to what interests me and the nucleus of my own story started.

Permafree eBook: She Belongs to Me by Carmen DeSousa @Author_Carmen

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A tightly woven tale of love, possession, and concealed histories, ‘She Belongs to Me’ follows a man who finds his wife unconscious, clinging to life. Was it a suicide attempt, or a sinister force from her former life?

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About the Author
A romantic-suspense writer, Carmen writes novels that overflow with romance, mystery, suspense, a hint of paranormal sometimes, and of course–tragedy. After all, what would a great story be without a heartrending event setting the stage? Her sensual and gripping stories have earned bestseller status on three continents because of her ability to make readers love, laugh, cry, gasp, and hope.

Her Southern Suspense Series starts with FREE 100k-word novel ‘She Belongs to Me’ from there, all her novels have a slight connection to each other, so you can continue the journey and meet different protagonists with different issues and tragedies to overcome. Every story has a mystery, there’s always a gentle message, and above all, there’s always romance and suspense.

#1 She Belongs to Me

#2 Split Decisions

#3 Land of the Noonday Sun

#4 Entangled Dreams

#5 When Noonday Ends

Creatus Series (New Romantic-Suspense with a Paranormal Edge)

#1 Creatus Now available!

#2 Rogue Coming Christmas 2013

Mystery Series with a Ghostly Edge

The Pit Stop (FREE Short Story)

The Depot (FREE Short Story)

Follow-up Novel ‘The Library’ coming Fall 2013

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Permafree eBook: Altered Life by Keith Dixon @keithyd6

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THE No. 1 BESTSELLER IN THE FREE KINDLE STORE CRIME CATEGORY

Making a killing in business is one thing – doing it for real is another.

Private Investigator Sam Dyke turns down a job that would require skills that he doesn’t have – patience, computer-literacy, tact. Then he finds that the skills he does have – tenacity, aggression, street-smarts – are exactly the ones he needs for his next case – hunting down a cold-blooded murderer who seems to know what his every step will be.

To solve the case Sam must negotiate with his ex-wife, cement a relationship with a new love, unravel an office-based financial fraud and fight off an arrogant murderer armed only with a pen-knife.

Altered Life is fast-paced, bitterly comic and introduces a tough new English private eye who knows what he wants and, usually, how to get it.

What reviewers have said:

“Right out of the gate, this is an amazing novel for first-time author, Keith Dixon.” – Ron Peters, POD People.

“If you like private eye stories, you owe it to yourself to check out Keith Dixon’s Altered Life. I had a hard time putting it down and I bet you will too. With this book you’ll be in on the ground floor of what is sure to be a successful series of ‘Sam Dyke’ mysteries.” – Dan Marvin, The LL Book Review.

“Meet Sam Dyke, a shoot from the hip, slightly cynical, less than happy with how life has turned out private eye. A turned down job turns into a personal quest to do right by his ex-wife even if it is eighteen years too late. The plot escalates quickly and keeps going until the mystery solved with some death defying quick thinking from Dyke. The hook is baited for the second book nicely but not in such a way that you feel like you got thrown off the literary cliff wondering what happened.”

“This great read harkens back to the days of the straightforward in your face detective genre. The author does not try to be “cutsey” or politically correct. He just tells a great story with an extremely proficient hero, Sam Dyke. I usually can figure these types of tales out by the middle of the book, but not this one. It will hook you early with the deviously crafted characters. An example of this fine writer’s skill is an attempted murder by a forced car accident. When I was reading this heart stopping passage, I found myself literally holding my breath.

If you enjoy a good mystery with many surprises along the way, you’ll love this book.”

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About the Author
Keith Dixon has worked in higher education, as an advertising copywriter and as a business psychologist, and in most of these careers he was able to incorporate creative writing of one kind or another. About ten years ago he realised that he wanted to spend more time writing and less time earning a living, and since then he’s published three Sam Dyke private eye novels and a work of contemporary fiction called Actress. He’s currently working on another contemporary novel and there’s a further Sam Dyke book in the planning stage. He’s certainly spending more time writing, but he’s yet to crack the ‘earning a living’ part.

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