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No Place Like Home [MultiFormat]
by T. A. Stone
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 It's tough to solve a dead cop's murder when there's no hard evidence; it's tougher still when the cops don't want to believe the crime ever happened. It gets even more difficult when small town politicians fight scorched earth turf wars, and when a high-priced, well-connected crime consultant sets you up to take the rap for not only that crime, but a half-dozen other homicides as well, even a former FBI profiler and "black Ops" agent can find himself backed into a deadly corner. When a respecte... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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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) EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 23756 - Reading Time: 67-95 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
Words: 51267 - Reading Time: 146-205 min.
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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) EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 49210 - Reading Time: 140-196 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, EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 76868 - Reading Time: 219-307 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) EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 89619 - Reading Time: 256-358 min.
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Tea and Witchery [Casadega Mystery Series, Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Marie Dees
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In Cassadaga, Florida, the paranormal is normal and chats with the dead are an everyday occurrence. Lynn is unaware of the town's psychic connection when she drives into town for a visit with her aunt. But strangeness turns dangerous when the president of the Psychic Society is murdered after being cursed by a coven of witches. Now Lynn has to keep her aunt from being accused of concocting a poisonous brew while discovering who the real murder is. Should she be suspicious of quiet, reserved Alex... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 86889 - Reading Time: 248-347 min.
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The Dead Sea Codex [MultiFormat]
by Sarah Wisseman
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While visiting Israel, archaeologist and museum curator Lisa Donahue finds an ancient papyrus, part of a lost first century AD codex on the teachings of Jesus' female disciples. Lisa teams up with her ex-boyfriend Gregory Manzur, racing to find the rest of the codex ahead of Christian fanatics who will kill to prevent the codex's publication. Told from multiple points of view, this mystery/suspense story is set in Israel in 1997, prior to the recent Palestinian uprisings. The characters, two Ame... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 50401 - Reading Time: 144-201 min.
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The Pangs of Prophecy [Inspector Terry Mystery Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Christine Spindler
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...Between a vision and its fulfillment lies hell ... Visions of violent death govern April Stevenson's life and she goes to extremes to prevent them from coming true. When she sees a murder in the offing, she informs the police. By the time Inspector Terry has unearthed a vital secret buried in the prospective victim's past, a lethal chain of events has already been set in motion. (Published: 2004)
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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) EPPIE Award Winner
Words: 83436 - Reading Time: 238-333 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) EPPIE Award Winner
Words: 71348 - Reading Time: 203-285 min.
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Unfriendly Persuasion [Wild Wyoming Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Diana Hart
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From her aunt's cryptic phone message, "Don't worry, dear, we have not been kidnapped by terrorists...", to the tall, dark "suit" waiting at the Yellowstone Park entrance, cop-loathing Megan Davis smells a rat and all her instincts go on red alert. After a run-in with the press nearly kills his career, F.B.I. Special Agent Ryder McCall is banished to the wild west of Wyoming. He resents having to prove himself by pursuing an elusive busload of Branson, Missouri's oldest citizens: the Daughters o... more info>> (Published: 1999) Frankfurt eBook Award Nominee
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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, EPPIE 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)
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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)
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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)
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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) EPPIE Award Winner
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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)
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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) EPPIE Award Finalist
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