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Featured Book: Déjà Dead by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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Claire Baskerville is a sixty-something American who finds herself alone in Paris when her husband is brutally murdered. Reeling from the devastating secrets he left behind, Claire only knows she can’t move forward until she finds out the truth behind who killed her husband. Unfortunately, the closer she gets to the truth, the more determined that killer is to make sure she never leaves Paris alive.

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War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel

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War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel

The alien wars are unending. In 2187, Earth has the Katarga trapped on the moon, refusing to allow them to escape. The Piltrak and Jurale are pending threats, which forces Global Command to recruit 15-year-olds as soldiers. Dax, low-status and a non-conformist, never imagined she’d be a soldier, yet she was hand-picked by gruff Commander Viteri, taken from her parents, never to see them again. She doesn’t want to kill aliens, and suspects there’s more to the wars than keeping the aliens at bay. The problem is, can she survive long enough to find the truth?

Featured Book: The Irish End Games, Books 1-3 by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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A fun family vacation turns into an apocalyptic nightmare when a couple and their young son find themselves trapped in the Irish countryside after an international crisis. With all contact outside the country gone, this suburban American family must reach deep within their reserve of brains and courage to survive.

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Featured Book: The Mia Kazmaroff Mysteries, Books 1-3 by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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Mia Kazmaroff is able to tell the story behind any object simply by touch.It’s a gift that comes in handy when she solves cases with her partner, ex-cop Jack Burton. Together, Mia and Jack create a partnership that breaks all the rules, skirts the law, and sparks fireworks as they attempt to ignore their undeniable mutual attraction.

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Featured Book: Murder à la Mode by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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With the wine harvest behind them, things had just started to calm down for Maggie and Laurent in their French village of Saint-Buvard when a team of food industry entrepreneurs and celebrity judges arrived to put on a contest to decide in a blind taste test which country makes the best chocolate éclairs—the Brits, the Americans, the Germans or the French.

When one of the contestants ends up stabbed to death, the suspect is Maggie’s close friend. Maggie will need to find a way past the woman’s obvious motive and the damning circumstantial evidence to help her friend—without putting herself or Laurent in the hot seat in the process.

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Featured Book: Parlez-Vous Murder? by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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While American Jules Hooker is on vacation, a bomb explodes over the Riviera, destroying technology and leaving Jules stranded in Provence where she must make a living by solving murders the old-fashioned way—without help from DNA, databases, CSI crime labs or the police.

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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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Featured Book: Croak, Monsieur! by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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When Jules goes to Marseille to run an errand for the twins, she meets an exotic new friend who offers her a day trip on a French yacht to wash away the gloom of the post-apocalyptic winter Jules has just endured.
The trip promises everything Jules has been craving for the last six months…sunshine, rosé wine, exciting company, bracing sea air…and murder.
What starts out as a pleasure cruise quickly turns into the sail of the damned as, trapped on a boat with a killer, Jules scrambles to find out who not to turn her back on.

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Collateral Carnage: Money. Politics. Big Pharma. What could go wrong? by Christine Saper

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Money. Politics. Big Pharma. What could go wrong?

As PTSD therapist Claire Wilheit is about to learn, a whole helluva lot.

A chance after-hours encounter with a fellow therapist reveals falsified patient files and thrusts Claire into a conspiracy poised to revolutionize treatment for US veterans now and for future generations, with deadly collateral damage.

Locked in a race against time to stop the release of one of most dangerous pharmaceuticals ever developed, Claire is plunged into an intrigue of corruption, runaway egos and medical hubris.

But she’s up against greed, power and a clock that’s about to run out.

Targeted Age Group:: adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Anger and fear. The anger part: Living in Phoenix, AZ, it has been impossible to miss the many scandals and horrendous treatment the veterans have experienced at the hands of the Phoenix VA – of course Phoenix isn't alone, but has been rather a ground zero for exposure. Given my background in health care administration and public health, I find Big Pharma to be a social poison in this country. The fear part: a Congress that lacks the backbone to stand up to drug companies and lobbyists of all ilk, dark money, and the threat of privatization of the wrong things.
Setting the book in the near future gave me a chance to explore these themes and leave readers with a subtle warning about things that require our engagement and vigilance as citizens.