The Last Laugh

By Donna Wylie

Last Laugh - A murder of comic proportions Think murder isn't funny? Someone thinks it is. Someone with a sick sense of humor is murdering comedians one by one so they can win the competition to be the last comic standing. Join detective Fitzhugh and his beautiful partner, detective Lynn Kelly, as they try to figure out the punchline before more comedians die.

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Death of a Scam Artist

By Mike Befeler

In Death of a Scam Artist, a financial hatchet man who dislikes old people, accepts the job of turning around a failing retirement home and undergoes a life-transforming experience in the world of geezers and geezerettes. He must deal with a suspicious death, a scam, a hit man, an unexpected romance and retired magician Jerry Rhine and his five whacky sidekicks known as the Jerry-atrics. He faces the most important decision of his life when he uncovers the secret behind an unusual murder.

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May You Burn

By Jan Merete Weiss

In the Italian city of Naples, senior police officer Captain Natalia Monte is called to investigate the theft of a painting from the medieval Church of San Domenico Maggiore. No sooner is the investigation underway than the city is rocked by a much graver crime: the murder of a talented and much-loved female violinist, known across the city and beyond.

As Captain Monte and her fellow Carabinieri interview close friends and family of the victim, they sense all around them the dark forces of Naples' organised crime bosses, the Camorra. It seems that anyone could be a suspect and as Monte struggles to keep her professional and her personal dealings from becoming dangerously intertwined, the plot reaches a dramatic conclusion. This book provides a thrilling read and effectively contrasts the serene beauty of Naples and the surrounding area with its gruesome and violent underworld.

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The Great Chili Kill Off

By Livia J. Washburn

The chili in Texas is red-hot . . . and so is murder!

Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of people have descended on a sleepy little ghost town, turning it into a boomtown for chili mavens, gamblers, musicians, and media. Raucous excitement fills the air, but so does chili when a sabotaged propane cooker explodes, killing the much-hated current champion. The victim leaves behind a tangled trail of sleeping with other men’s wives, cheating at cards – and maybe at chili cooking – and deadly anger. With Sam a possible suspect in the murder, emotions run hot as a bowl of Texas red as Phyllis has to untangle these threads in order to put her finger on the killer!

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Tread Softly in My Head

By Adrian Sturgess

A woman has gone missing and the police have a suspect. They call on the services of Dr Catherine Paradine, a young psychologist, to question him. She has the singular virtue of being a telepath with a native ability to read and project emotion. It seems, therefore, that obtaining the information the police require should be fairly simple. Presumably?

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She Murdered Me With Science

By David Boop

It’s 1953 and scientist-turned P.I. Noel Glass is tortured with the guilt of an early experiment gone awry. When a rich recluse offers proof that the accident was a set-up, Glass swears to clear his name. However, a clandestine organization is trying to conquer the world using his “failed” invention, but Glass stands in their way. Who can he trust when everyone has secrets?

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Color Me Dead

By Teresa Trent

Artist Gabby Wolfe has the ability to see not only the beauty of the living but the despair of the dead. When she returns to her childhood home in Henry Park Colorado, she is forced to bring along her younger brother Mitch. He is on a “break” from college where he was majoring in wine, women, and song. If that isn’t enough they also have Mitch’s rambunctious beagle Luigi along who prefers to spend his days wallowing in junk food. When Gabby draws the death of a young woman before it happens, she knows she must tell someone and risk a new job and her professional credibility. Will she reveal her secret in time to save the woman in the water or will it be too late?

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Dead Hot

By M. K. Coker

After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. But they'd barely arrived when a man dies on their motel doorstep, the victim of radiation poisoning. Fated for a busman's holiday, Karen and Marek find themselves entangled in a case hotter than the New Mexico sun....

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The Shattered Door

By Lisa Bouchard

When publicist Kathleen Harrison is executed in her suburban home, the obvious suspect is her client and lover George Wynton, a known telepath. Boston attorney Dan Stevens is hired to defend George, but he has no use for telepaths, and so hands the investigative reins to Morrison Investigations. Fledgling private investigators Darcy and Olivia Morrison reluctantly agree to help Dan with the case.....

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Cats in the Mouse House

By Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods

Someone is killing scientists who breed medicine's "test tubes on four feet," the costly, genetically engineered laboratory mice that stand in for humans in thousands of medical research projects each year. Former FBI director turned news media magnate Nicholas Drake and confidential assistant John Konecki craft a chilling cure for the diabolical killer....

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Media Madness

By Joe Wisinski

A shocking crime . . .An alleged cover up . . .A TV newsroom in turmoil . . .

The investigation into a brutal crime plunges veteran newsman Dave Wilson into the biggest, and most personal, story of his career.

Police are convinced they have the right suspect, and Dave agrees. His colleague, beautiful but naïve TV news reporter Sarah Sanchez, thinks otherwise. She believes police are withholding facts, and may even be obstructing justice. With the approval of the station manager, and help from an anonymous source, she begins her own investigation.

Sarah’s probe into the crime uncovers new information, but Dave doesn’t trust a word she’s reporting. Furthermore, the use of an anonymous source hurts ratings and endangers newsroom jobs.

Will Dave finally believe Sarah and her source when they present him with overwhelming evidence? What will happen to the news station’s integrity and employees’ careers as Sarah continues to pursue the story?

Media Madness is more than a novel. It delivers behind-the-scenes insight into the world of television news as told through a journalist’s eyes and TV news reports.

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Carbon Copy

By Terri Talley Venters

What if someone cloned you?

Lilly Allen has brains, beauty, and a trust fund. She's living in New York City and her career as a reporter is taking off. She's hoping the love of her life, Grier, will propose soon. She has it all, or so she thinks.

Grier Garrison, Create Life executive, is running the company while his father, Dr. Michael Garrison, is in the ICU awaiting a heart transplant. Grier knows the truth about Create Life and its shady side business. He fears Lilly and her twin brother, Luke, are in danger.

While working on two unrelated stories, stolen newborns and cloning, Lilly discovers a shocking connection. Horrific things are happening, but who is behind it all?

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A Lingering Evil

By Laurie Cook

In 1934, Milton Wellar, his wife and five children disappear, leaving no trace except for blood drenched rooms. Delving into the mystery nearly eighty years later, Shannon Carlyle plans to use the story of the Wellar House as the basis for a new novel. Unfortunately, Shannon and her husband Robbie get a little more involved in the history of that cursed house than planned. It would require the help of new friends, a little humor, a whole lot of luck and even a bit of other worldly inspiration to help Shannon solve the mystery....

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Dance of the Winnebagos

By Ann Charles

When Claire's grandfather and his army buddies converge in the Arizona desert, it's her thankless job to keep them out of trouble with the opposite sex. But when she finds a human leg bone and partners with a reluctant geotechnician to dig up secrets from the past, trouble finds her. If she doesn't stop digging, she could wind up dead....

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Circle of Prey

By Marlene Mitchell

Truths turning to lies, father against son, friends becoming enemies, predator turning into prey and the circle continues. In her fifth novel, Marlene Mitchell calls upon her cynical side to create a suspenseful novel involving the world of big business and insurmountable wealth. Like quicksand, the corruption of money sucks even the innocent into its depths. Pitting man against the largest and one of the smartest animals on the planet makes for an interesting turn of events as you follow the journey of Jakuta, a bull elephant who is the ultimate prey.

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The Privileged

By Jim Daddio

Michelle Thorne Johnston, a wealthy and well known socialite, is found murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There is enough evidence and motive to arrest her husband, Clay. He proclaims his innocence and hires a well-publicized private investigator, Art Decco, to find the real killer.

Art dives into the case and quickly uncovers several suspects. As he tries to learn who is telling the truth, something else is bothering him. It appears that Clay doesn't seem too concerned. He is convinced, even if he went to trial, he never would be found guilty. He is rich and powerful and one of The Privileged.

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Joshua's Revenge

By Richard L. Wren

Joshua is a world renowned Martial Arts expert working as a Yosemite Park Ranger. He is assigned the task of finding and eliminating a Chinese gang that is killing and eviscerating Yosemite Park bears for Chinese medicine and that have killed his Ranger partner. The chase ranges from the back woods of Yosemite to the back alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown. Kidnappings, murders, gang warfare and treachery challenge Joshua's Ninja and Karate expertise as well as his mental creativity. It's one man against several gangs. Twists and turns abound as Joshua tries to solve the case and save his own hide.....

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The Desert Has No Memory

By Lane Gorden

In 1977, a group of twelve techies, from Silicon Valley, go backpacking in the Grand Canyon. But only eleven hike out. Stephen’s death was an accident. Not everyone was so sure. Thirty years later, the hiking group gathers again, some now millionaires in Palo Alto. When another accident occurs, forensic engineer, Mackenzie Cleyborn, and Santa Clara detective,Trejean Baptiste, suspect the hikers.....

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Girl With a Past

By Sherri Leigh James

Girl With A Past, a debut mystery novel by Sherri Leigh James, tells the story of two Cal co-eds separated by 40 years whose lives become murderously intertwined.

UC Berkeley in 1969 could be a murderous place for a Cal co-ed. Lexi Johnson thought tear gas on campus was all she had to fear the day she was murdered.

In 2008, Alexandra Johnson looks into the 1969 unsolved murder of her father's best friend and fellow Cal student. Her interest in Lexi's murder triggers attempts on her own life forcing her to solve the cold case homicide in order to protect herself and her family. Multiple shootings and her mother's kidnapping have Alexandra racing to find the persons threatening her and her family.

When Alexandra is shot at on campus, she realizes she may know more about the earlier serial shootings than anyone would suspect. Some clues are found in the hippie era including the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, the People's Park protests in Berkeley, and the hedonist counterculture in Big Sur.

Alexandra discovers that she has more to do with the co-ed in from 1969 than she could ever have imagined. Transcendental twists in her dangerous hunt for the serial killer reveal that she is the Girl With A Past.

Armed with her new understanding of the case, Alexandra and her brother, Steven, search from Marin to Tahoe for who wants to kill Alexandra––and why?

Alexandra and Steven's questions, and hints that they know more that they should, make their parents' old college friends, now pillars of the community, nervous that their secrets will be revealed. Not only might their successful lives be ruined––they could be ended, thanks to the Girl With A Past.

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On the Rocks

By Rebecca Marks

At forty-two, Dana Cohen has retired from her twenty-two-year career as a detective in the NYPD and moved back home to the rocky cliffs above Long Island Sound to take stock of her life. Her drinking has become problematic, and she increasingly relies on it as her life becomes more complicated. Her estranged husband, Pete Fitzgerald, surprises her at her house, armed with flowers and promises to finally be faithful. Although Dana sends him packing, when he’s later accused of murder, she jumps to his defense. He swears he’s innocent, and she wants to believe him. But with all the evidence pointing directly at him, reasonable doubt is a very scarce commodity.

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