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Gunshy [A Baltimore Historical Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Louise Titchener
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It's 1882 and Oliver Redcastle, an ex-Pinkerton detective and a former Union Army sharpshooter, has inherited a house in Baltimore and a new daughter. Oliver dreams of putting his violent past behind him. When John D. Rockefeller forces him to investigate a railway explosion Oliver finds himself plunged into mayhem once again. The plot thickens when a Civil War encampment in the city digs up old betrayals, triggers death and breeds a fresh murder plot that Oliver must foil to prevent his future ... more info>> (Published: 2004) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
Words: 58975 - Reading Time: 168-235 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime/Historical Fiction
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Never Come Down [MultiFormat]
by Michelle Black
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"There are no rules above 10,000 feet." This cryptic slogan puzzles Darcy Close when she arrives in Colorado's Tenmile Canyon. She has come to the high country to investigate the strange legacy left to her by her great aunt: A remote mountain ghost town called Leap Year and a terrible family secret. (Published: 1999) EPIC eBook Award Finalist, CIPA Book Award for Fiction
Words: 110653 - Reading Time: 316-442 min.
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The Mozart Code [MultiFormat]
by Dick Adler
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Ivan Davis, former editor turned private detective, loves opera almost as much as he loves good food and sexy sopranos. Singing in the chorus at the Opera Cafe in Santa Monica combines all of his pleasures. But when the father of his lovely young conductor disappears in Santa Fe while hunting down a previously unknown opera by Mozart and Daponte, Ivan agrees to look for him--and finds himself attacked by a ferocious tenor, chased through the streets of Venice by a deadly BMW, and fighting for hi... more info>> (Published: 1999) Frankfurt eBook Award Nominee
Words: 47000 - Reading Time: 134-188 min.
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Triple Threat [A Taylor Madison Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Elizabeth Dearl
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Triplets, a tornado, and twisted lies add up to trouble for Taylor Madison as Perdue's townfolk gather for Hank Barton's funeral. Why do the three identical sisters dislike each other so much? Why did Hank put such an odd codicil in his will? Throw in swaggering new deputy, a citizen's police academy, and an amateur tornado hunter, and Taylor find herself longing for the comparative peace of big city life! (Published: 2005) EPIC eBook Award Winner
Words: 83436 - Reading Time: 238-333 min.
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Diamondback [A Taylor Madison Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Elizabeth Dearl
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When novelist Taylor Madison discovers a mysterious letter among her late mother's effects, she heads for West Texas in search of her father's identity. But small, sleepy towns don't appreciate rude awakenings and Taylor soon finds herself up to her neck in rattlesnakes and long-kept secrets--a deadly combination. (Published: 2005) Scribes World Reviewer's Choice Award Winner, EPIC eBook Award Finalist
Words: 76868 - Reading Time: 219-307 min.
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Roan's Requiem [A Benjamin Roan Thriller] [MultiFormat]
by Robert L. Hecker
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Benjamin Roan is co-owner of a company that provides security for high-tech industry located In the high-society sunbelt of Newport Beach, California. When one of his guards, Ben's fiance, is found dead, everyone says, "accident." But Ben suspects "murder." To find proof, Ben takes over her guard duties at a high-tech Industry where, despite attempts to kill him, he discovers ruthless schemes involving pornography, espionage, and high-tech murder--and a Latina bombshell named Samantha. In an exc... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 91742 - Reading Time: 262-366 min.
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Twice Dead [A Taylor Madison Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Elizabeth Dearl
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More than thirty years ago, a minister named Ralph Posey absconded with the church funds, abandoning his wife and daughter. At least, that's what everyone in Perdue thought, until a startling discovery makes it obvious that he never left town at all--he was murdered, and all evidence implicates his wife as the killer. Bonita Posey admittedly detested her husband, but she denies taking his life. Can Taylor uncover the truth in time to keep her octogenarian friend out of prison? (Published: 2005) EPIC eBook Award Winner
Words: 71348 - Reading Time: 203-285 min.
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A Kind of Justice [MultiFormat]
by Judith R. Parker
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A KIND OF JUSTICE is an anthology of mystery, suspense and horror that takes the reader from Southern California to the Caribbean, from Tennessee to Mexico and points in between. Justice can have many faces. (Published: 2000) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
Words: 23756 - Reading Time: 67-95 min.
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Academy of the Dead [A Matt Rider Detective Thriller] [MultiFormat]
by Christopher Wright
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Matt Rider is made an offer that seems too good to miss. Go to Prague, find some priceless music manuscripts--and share in a fortune. Unfortunately, even for a confident backstreet PI, the clues are rather thin on the ground. All Matt knows is that a young Jewish girl called Hana Eisler had the manuscripts in Prague in 1942. Using old records from the Helios Music Academy in England, Matt tracks Hana's movements to a Nazi concentration camp in the Czech Republic. And there the trail seems to end... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 74449 - Reading Time: 212-297 min.
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Bad Medicine [Wild Wyoming Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Diana Hart
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Newly graduated from the Montana School of Mines, Sloan Stafford has finally realized her dream of being a ranger in Yellowstone National Park. But her worst fears are realized when angry FTO, Reno Blackwolf, thinks of women as nothing more than a nuisance, poisoning his park. After the fires of '88 left Yellowstone in ruin, Blackwolf, a full-blooded Shoshoni, had turned his back on the "old ways." When strange happenings end in murder, Reno is forced to confront his past and place his trust in ... more info>> (Published: 1999) Preditors and Editors Reader's Poll Top 10 Finalist: Best Cover Art
Words: 58748 - Reading Time: 167-234 min.
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Bagels for Tea [A Fannie Zindel Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Serita Stevens, Rayanne Moore
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Almost any sixtyish widow and grandmother would want to rest and recuperate after solving an international case of murder and intrigue (Red Sea, Dead Sea), but not Fanny Zindel. Shortly after her safe return home, she's off to Yorkshire, England, as the B'nai Brith representative to the Clifford's Tower Memorial service. The trip to York provides the perfect opportunity to visit her beloved granddaughter, horse-crazy Susan, who is attending the nearby Taddington Agricultural Boarding School. Of ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 77484 - Reading Time: 221-309 min.
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Brannon's Choice [MultiFormat]
by Richard W. Browne
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Broughton J. "Bruff" 'Brannon, IV has no experience as a private investigator when his namesake uncle dies and leaves him the Fan Detective Agency in Richmond, Virginia. The offers he receives to sell the business tempt him to cash in his inheritance and join the business of his friend, Hobie Pickett. But curiosity gets the better of Brannon and he speaks to the Mizelles, an elderly couple his uncle was enroute to visit when a truck rammed the car, killing him. Betty Ann Mizelle, the couple's da... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 92444 - Reading Time: 264-369 min.
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Bumped Off in Baltimore [A Toni Credella Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Louise Titchener
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Since the tragic day when she shot her abusive cop husband in self defense, dyslexic Toni Credella has been barely scratching out a living. To make ends meet Toni plays bodyguard to a beautiful opera singer with underworld connections and a violent boyfriend. When that boyfriend threatens Toni she knows she's in trouble again. Add a murdered activist socialite, a contract killer, a disappearing uncle, and a suspicious homicide detective to the evil mix and Toni realizes that if she's going to st... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Buried in Baltimore [A Toni Credella Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Louise Titchener
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When Toni Credella teams up with a tough private investigator in hopes of getting her own PI license, she finds herself investigating one crime too many. What's the connection between the murder of a homeless woman and a young girl who met a mysterious death decades earlier? Why has that forgotten girl's body been buried in a public place for so long? The search for answers sends Toni on a roller coaster ride of suspense, mystery and danger. To get her feet safely back on the ground, she'll have... more info>> (Published: 2001) Independent eBook Award Finalist, EPIC eBook Award Winner
Words: 67894 - Reading Time: 193-271 min.
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Burned in Baltimore [A Toni Credella Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Louise Titchener
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Toni wants a decent home of her own. Instead, she gets "Metal Men," a drive-by shooting, a puzzling death by fire, a mysterious faucet, two hunky men vying for her favor and more flack from her family. Is Toni up to the challenge? You needed to ask? [Cover art Louise Titchener] (Published: 2003)
Words: 48641 - Reading Time: 138-194 min.
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Clean Kill [A Sheriff Frank Quintana Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Al Alexander
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Frank Quintana was born into a niche between two societies and accepted by neither. His father was Hispanic, his mother Anglo, and in a socially divided town like Halliburton, he would be forever relegated to cutting grass and doing menial jobs. Then he discovered a way out: excel at football, win a scholarship, become quarterback for a professional team. Along the way, he would marry the girl of his dreams, Gina Westcott. Together, they would escape the social quagmire that enveloped Halliburto... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 103431 - Reading Time: 295-413 min.
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Deadknots, Paranormal Mystery Anthology [MultiFormat]
by C. J. Winters, Jennifer DiCamillo
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A collection of short mysteries ranging from the melancholy to the whimsical, Deadknots opens portals into the lives of the Dead, the Undead, and some who don't know the difference! A child's grim discovery is revealed eighty years later in OLD BONES... Resident ghosts manipulate their way into the local CEMETERY COMPETION... A penitent bad guy with a CAT-ITTUDE develops a yen for his psychic charge... A poignant journey via PYRAMID TRAVEL illuminates more than a decades-old disappearance... An ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 76503 - Reading Time: 218-306 min.
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Deadly Omen [Tempe Crabtree Mystery Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Marilyn Meredith
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A candidate for Princess is murdered at a Native American Pow Wow while Tempe Crabtree is working there in her capacity as deputy. Tempe's investigation takes her into the Yanduchi reservation, and her husband, Hutch, has difficulty with Tempe's growing interest in her own native heritage as she seeks the identity of the killer. (Published: 2001) Clara Award Winner
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Deadly Trail [Tempe Crabtree Mystery Series Prequel] [MultiFormat]
by Marilyn Meredith
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The tranquility of the village of Bear Creek in the Southern Sierra is disrupted by the suspicious death of the owner of the local Inn. Investigating a murder case isn't Deputy Tempe Crabtree's job, but when the detectives don't look any further than Nick Two John as the primary suspect, Tempe begins asking questions. Putting the planning for her wedding to Pastor Hutch Hutchinson on hold, it doesn't take long for her to discover there are several more people who wanted the victim dead, includin... more info>> (Published: 2001) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
Words: 49210 - Reading Time: 140-196 min.
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Death Mask of the Jaguar [A Rick Sage Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Murdoch Hughes
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Harley-riding PI, Rick Sage, follows his heart into darkness once again when he meets up with ten-year-old Pedro, a Mexican-American kid lost on the streets of Tijuana. Pedro hires Rick, with the two dollars and thirty-five cents he has left in his pocket, to find the gang of antiquities thieves who murdered his parents. Shadowed by a jaguar spirit Rick begins to believe is real, his promise to help the boy takes them on a trail leading from Tijuana to the Copper Canyon, then on to Mexico's Maya... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Death Row Defender [MultiFormat]
by Ray Dix
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A legal thriller set in Clearwater, Florida. It has been five years since Jon Clayton was convicted of the rape and execution style murder of Donella Nash. It is springtime in an election year and, as part of the Governor's war on crime, Jon Clayton is scheduled to be executed in October. Clayton still swears he is innocent, but he had a record of violence and the bullet found in Nash's head came from his pistol. Woody Thomas, an ex-Public Defender, is appointed by the court to pursue Clayton's ... more info>> (Published: 2005) EPIC eBook Award Winner
Words: 91249 - Reading Time: 260-364 min.
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Faces of Fear [Inspector Terry Mystery Book 3] [MultiFormat]
by Christine Spindler
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London's cutest detective is drawn into a world of fear and perversions. A highly intelligent, dangerously devious killer singles out the clients of renowned psychologist Dr. Joy Canova, torturing them to death with their own phobias. One of these clients is Patricia Miles. Stranded in a pointless marriage and unaware of the dark secrets held by the people closest to her, she seeks the thrill of an affair and falls for one of Joy's former lovers ... the main suspect in the case. (Published: 2004) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
Words: 89619 - Reading Time: 256-358 min.
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Framework [MultiFormat]
by M. B. Eldridge
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Who would want to frame a young rookie cop for murder? Private investigator, Dan Starrett, is hired to find the answer. When he discovers his client was videotaped having sex with the murdered woman just hours before her body was found, he realizes he has to work fast before the blackmail tape surfaces. He also begins to believe his client might possibly be telling the truth when he says he didn't kill her, but still feels he's lying about something. As Starrett gets deeper into the investigatio... more info>> (Published: 1998)
Words: 107007 - Reading Time: 305-428 min.
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Hands of the Traitor [A Matt Rider Detective Thriller] [MultiFormat]
by Christopher Wright
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Private investigator Matt Rider wants to find out if his grandfather killed Sophie Bemay, and uncovers an appalling international secret. Domestic Chemicals, a New York company owned by the Heinman dynasty, made poison gas for Nazi Germany. And now the past is back to haunt them--like the bloated corpse Frank B Heinman saw rising to the surface in the East River as a boy. Matt Rider in England and Frank Heinman in New York are on a collision course. The ex-president of Domestic Chemicals will ma... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Intervention [Tempe Crabtree Mystery Series Book 3] [MultiFormat]
by Marilyn Meredith
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Tempe and Hutch's romantic weekend at a mountain lodge is spoiled by the arrival of disgruntled guests from the movie industry and an unezpected blizzard. The loss of electricity and phone service compounds the situation when a someone is found murdered. Tempe's search for the killer puts her own life in danger. (Published: 2005) Quasar Award Finalist: Cover Art
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