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Published: Mon, 11/15/21

 
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  Featured Book: Legacy of Secrets by Helen Starbuck
 

Other families pass down their stories, Kate Earnshaw’s family passes down painful riddles without answers, where secrets disappear from one generation to the next.
Kate’s father’s suicide has left many unanswered questions, including what to do with the abandoned family ranch on the eastern plains of Colorado and what to believe about Evan Hastings, a neighbor who seems to have as many secrets as her father and knows more about him than she does. But there’s something about Evan that calls her back to her father’s home. Something that threatens to unearth more than the past.

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  Featured Book: Tapas, Carrot Cake and a Corpse by Sherri Bryan
 

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St Eves is a town where residents leave their doors open all day so that neighbours can pop in for a cup of tea and a chat. No one’s ever too busy for a cup of tea and a chat in St Eves. But when a stranger is murdered, the residents of the close-knit community close ranks as the hunt for a killer gathers pace, and it’s not long before inquisitive café owner Charlotte Denver is desperate for a return to carefree, small-town life.
Determined to do whatever she can to see the killer behind bars, she starts poking around in things she shouldn’t… and discovers a secret that rocks the bustling coastal town to its core.
Grab a cuppa, get settled in your favourite reading spot, and come sleuthing as you guess whodunnit in this fun cozy.

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  Featured Book: The Coniston Curse by Joseph Allen
 

Two boys, Edward and Richard Coniston, vanish on their way home from an upper-class private school in Manhattan. Is it a kidnapping? No ransom demand shows up. Then the boys’ bodies are found in a forest area of Weschester County, having been chewed on by wild animals, including a bear and a Bigfoot.

Join Hugo, Ruth and Gabriele as they fly to Monte Carlo to check out a rich relative of the boys who might have been involved. Did the boys fall from a tower on their uncle’s estate? How did they get to Westchester from Manhattan?

It’s a tangled web based loosely on a real family tragedy from the late Middle Ages, transposed to current-day New York City. Thrills and chills aplenty.

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  Featured Book: The Disappearance of Emily: Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic Series Book 2 by Elizabeth Pantley
 

Entire series FREE in Kindle Unlimited! A magic mirror leads Hayden to an enchanted world that might have answers to the mysterious disappearance of her mother. She receives a warning and a suspicious package. Then, there is an unexplained death. Who in this odd community of strange, quirky people is responsible? With the help of a sassy cat and trouble from a hilarious witch, Hayden and her newfound community of friends and family must work together to determine the cause of the chaos and eliminate the danger to their beloved, enchanted town.

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  Featured Book: The Woman He Used to Know by Helen Starbuck
 

Detective Nick Ryan and Elizabeth Harper haven’t seen each other in five years after she married a man he despised. Her husband is dead, and she has many reasons to want him dead. Hasty decisions have brought Nick and Elizabeth to a strange and bloody crossroads. He’s worried his feelings for her will help her get away with murder, and she’s worried they’ll land her in prison. An old flame, a dead husband, and a compromised cop. What could go wrong?

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  Two Many Sleuths by MK Scott
 

Two Many Sleuths by MK Scott

Can the Brits and Yanks team up to solve a murder?

What should have been an easy week for small town detective Mark Taber and his amateur sleuth and innkeeper wife, Donna Tolllhouse Taber goes awry when a local garden club member is shot. One of the inn guests, a Scotland Yard detective’s insistence on helping could actually make things worse. Can ruffled feathers be smoothed before the killer strikes again?

Find out in Two Many Sleuths.


Targeted Age Group:: 12-99
Heat/Violence Level: Heat Level 2 – PG

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I enjoy reading both cozy mysteries and UK located mysteries, too. I thought pairing a local detective and a UK inspector would be great fun resulting in misunderstandings and mutual admiration. Add in Donna, my amatuer sleuth, the UK inspector's wife, and an aging puggle dog. They race to uncover clues to prove they're more than capable of sniffing out a murderer.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Often, the main characters are a jumble of traits from people close to me such as my mother, husband, daughter, etc. Usually, the non-main characters are completely created from imagination.


Book Sample
A week without a murder or the mention of any crime made Donna Tollhouse Taber grin. She adjusted the car window clamps on the British flags, then stepped back, resting her hands on her lower back. “I think it’s a nice touch.”

Her detective husband, Mark, ran a hand through his salt and pepper hair. “I don’t know.” His face scrunched up. “It might be over the top. Howard doesn’t strike me as the showy type. He keeps things low-key, a proper Brit.”

Typical. Her husband thought he knew all about the neighbors over the pond due to an online relationship he’d struck with Scotland Yard detective Howard Dudley, when he previously researched diamonds and jewel heists. Never mind her husband hadn’t put in the hours she had watching BBC mysteries and The Great British Baking Show. If Howard didn’t appreciate her effort to welcome them, his wife, Elizabeth, certainly would. “A proper Brit might mention they don’t go in for pomp and ceremony, but just look at the royal weddings. They go crazy about those.”

“Well, you’d know more about that than me. All I can hope for is a nice quiet time with no murders. I told the station not to call me unless it’s an emergency. A vacation is still a vacation even if I don’t leave the state.”

“The best thing to do is not answer your phone.” Donna had doubts about her husband not getting pulled into a case.


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  Featured Book: Enough to Make the Angels Weep by Ernesto Patino
 


About Featured Book: Enough to Make the Angels Weep by Ernesto Patino

Hired to investigate the murder of an 84-year-old widow, P.I. Joe Coopersmith hits one dead end after another in his search for leads. With few clues and no suspects, he nearly gives up, until he uncovers a connection to a bizarre plot to kill the descendants of Irish soldiers who fought for Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Known as San Patricios, they belonged to the St. Patrick's Battalion, an elite Mexican unit composed mostly of Irish immigrants. When a well-preserved diary of an Irish soldier turns up, Coopersmith knows he's on the right track. He digs deeper into the plot, soon learning the identity of the man behind it and his warped motive for the cold-blooded murder of the elderly widow.

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