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A Dark Oak Mystery

A Case of Accidental Intersection

by W. S. Gager

Mitch Malone hates hospitals, but when a suspicious traffic accident lands a comatose victim in the hospital, he must put that aside to find the truth. The surface looks smooth but the more the crime beat reporter looks the more bodies pop up, including a private detective and his own editor. Can he get to the truth before the surviving victim is murdered in her hospital bed and an elderly witness has a heart attack? Will he get his exclusive printed before he's the next victim?

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A Case of

Hometown Blues

by W. S. Gager

Mitch vowed he would never return to his hometown after the death of his parents. But when a favor for his editor requires him to teach a seminar for the Flatville newspaper, he must confront the memories he’s tried so hard to bury. A foolish bet with the cub reporters has him chasing down the murderer of the former Homecoming Queen and trying to keep his butt out of jail as the prime suspect. As the facts he thought he knew about his family unravel, can Mitch discover the truth that will allow his parents and cousin to rest in peace or will he be resting with them?

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Winner of PSWA

Novel Contest

A Dark Oak Mystery

A Case of Infatuation

by W. S. Gager

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Crime Beat Reporter Mitch Malone’s rules are simple: He never lets the blood and guts he covers bother him. He always works alone and he hates kids. He breaks all three when he unwittingly agrees to smuggle a potential witness out of a house with two mob-style-hit dead bodies. When the FBI accuses him of the murder, he goes into hiding with a bombshell intern who doesn’t talk and a precocious preschooler. Mitch works his contacts to regain his freedom from his roommates only to find they each hold keys to a bizarre story of disappearances, terrorists and the perfect hamburger recipe.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

A Lesson in Murder

by Augustus Cileone

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When a wealthy benefactor and alumnus of Eastern Friends School in Pennsylvania is found murdered, details at the scene prompt Lt. DiSalvo to introduce himself at a faculty meeting. There he meets Maxwell Hunter, an English teacher who likes to lecture about the mysteries of literature. At first, DiSalvo brushes off Hunter’s offer of help, but when the second EFS-connected murder is discovered, he changes his mind.

A Dark Oak Mystery

An Affinity for Murder

by Anne White

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A Lake George Mystery ~ Finalist for Malice Domestic Best First Novel

Ellen, a new resident of Lake George in upstate New York, hopes to interview a famed art critic but instead is entangled in a dangerous and confusing situation involving paintings that just might be undiscovered works of Georgia O’Keeffe.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

An Axe to Grind

by F. M. Meredith

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The Rocky Bluff PD series continues...

Set in a small So CA beach town, an imaginative stalker’s decapitation sends Detectives Milligan and Marshall on an investigation of the stalker’s family, his victim and her family. When Doug strikes out on his own to corner the murderer and no one knows where he went, Stacey frantically tries to find him. She almost comes to a dead end, when his beloved MG is found in the lagoon on the Santa Barbara college campus.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Angel Lost

by F. M. Meredith

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As plans for her perfect wedding fill her mind, Officer Stacey Wilbur is sent out to trap a flasher, the new hire realizes Rocky Bluff P.D. is not the answer to his problems, Abel Navarro’s can’t concentrate on the job because of worry about his mother, Officer Gordon Butler has his usual upsets, the sudden appearance of an angel in the window of a furniture store captures everyone’s imagination and causes problems for RBPD, and then the worst possible happens—will Stacey and Doug’s wedding take place?

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Ants on a Log

Coming This Summer!!

Auto Repair: The Customer's Crash Course

by Richard K. Mundy

Richard Mundy's "Lessons..." will de-mystify the car repair industry, help you side-step the pitfalls of auto repair processes and guide you toward a successful experience. He presents knowledge collected and polished over a 35-year career in the industry. Written clearly in easy-to-understand format, Mundy takes the reader though the entire process, from the first moment you realize a repair is needed, step-by-step through choosing a shop, authorizing the repairs, evaluating the invoice, and dealing with less-than-perfect outcomes. AUTO REPAIR will give you the info you need ...

The Back of Beyond

Coming This Fall!!

Dark Oak Mystery

The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper

by Sally Carpenter

"I'm not a detective! I just played one on television!"

In the 1970s teen idol Sandy Fairfax starred in the hit TV series Buddy Brave, Boy Sleuth.

Now he’s a 38-year-old recovering alcoholic, desperate for a comeback.

When he makes a guest appearance at a Beatles fan convention, a member of the tribute band is shot.

The police suspect Sandy and the schoolboy shamus is back in action to find the killer.

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Dark Oak Mystery

Behind the Redwood Door

by John Daniel

Guy and Carol Mallon own a used bookstore on the north coast of California, a land of rocky shores and redwood forests, with a rich history of gold, lumber, Native Americans, and hardy entrepreneurs. They are content with their small-town life until Pete Thayer, their friend and the publisher of the local alternative newspaper, is stabbed to death behind their favorite tavern. Urged on by Pete’s girlfriend, River Webster, Guy begins to poke around, uncovering a past festering with power politics, a newspaper war, a multigenerational family feud, marijuana traffic—and murder. Guy’s investigation takes him from the town square to the harbor to the forests and into the mountains, where he must confront evil in the form of a bully nearly twice his size.

Coming This Fall!!

Beyond the Flames

by Heather Smith Thomas

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Just before midnight on July 5, 2000, Heather and Lynn Thomas received the phone call that every parent dreads, the call that tells them one of their own has come to harm. "Andrea has been burned,” their neighbor said. “She’s being brought to the hospital by ambulance.”

The Thomases rushed from their ranch via Idaho’s Highway 28 toward Salmon, twelve miles away, not knowing the extent of their daughter’s injuries and unaware they were beginning a journey which would leave them, their family, friends and community forever changed.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Big Black Hole

By Wilma Kahn

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PI Gayle Fisher needs to leave town fast, so she takes on a new client who believes his sister didn't really kill herself. Gayle has her doubts, but once she arrives in the resort town on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, things begin to turn ugly.

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The Big Squeal

by Carol Alexander

Coming This Fall!!

Wild Oaks ~ Stories of the Old West

Blessings, Bullets and Bad Bad Men

by B. A. Kelly

An action-packed western following the adventures of gunfighter Jim Blessing who rides into a sleepy little town in 1870s New Mexico Territory named Las Flores. Blessing is thirsty, rich and single.

When he wakes up the next morning, he's hung over, broke and married -- and he can't remember how he got that way. Then someone starts shooting at him.

As he searches for a way out of his troubles, Blessing grows more deeply involved with Maria, his beautiful young Spanish wife, plus a young boy and his dog, and Morgan Price, the man who tried using blackmail to force Maria to marry him.

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Blue Ice

A Dark Oak Mystery

Bogey Nights

by Marja McGraw

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What would you do if you found a skeleton buried in the house you wanted to turn into a restaurant? In Bogey Nights you’ll learn how Pamela and Chris, who lost their first restaurant in a fire, take on the challenge of finding out the identity of the body they find while renovating the old house. The problem is, more bodies turn up and Pamela’s son’s fascination with the discoveries cause him problems at school. Marja McGraw has created a fascinating mystery with unusual characters, a bit of romance, plenty of twists and turns, and dogs named Watson and Sherlock. What mystery reader could ask for more?

A Dark Oak Mystery

Bottom of the Ninth

by Peter Spring

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While researching a murder, Boston Tribune reporter Chris Parsons discovers the victim was a fellow rower. As Parsons debunks the obvious explanations for the bludgeoning death of the well-heeled man, he is set on a dangerous course where the underbelly of the art and sports worlds become dangerously entwined.

Business Buyer's Handbook

by Jim Calkins

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The Business Buyer's Handbook simplifies the process of analyzing and buying an existing business. In this guide for the savvy entrepreneur, author Jim Calkins asks the question, "Why start? Be smart and buy!" Jim covers such territories as existing business analysis techniques, insider facts on where to look for a new businesses, what to buy, how to get help, and how to avoid rip-offs. Learn creative financing skills, take advantage of valuable HOT POINTS throughout the book, and even learn what to do on the first day as owner of your new enterprise. Jim lays it all out for you, step by step.

A Dark Oak Mystery

Cold Water

by Ed Draguiles

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Coming Flu

Components of Murder

By Bob Crowley

COP: A Novel

by Daniel Silver

2010 Winner of our COP TALES contest!!

Author and law enforcement officer Daniel Silver tells the story of a tattooed punk rocker turned rookie San Francisco policeman, Dougie Cohen. In his first year on the job, the stresses, horrors and frustrations Dougie encounters take their toll on his patience, health, sanity and love life. Dougie struggles with night terrors, addiction, disease and the loss of his former self to his new police persona. Dougie is on a collision course with the reality of urban law enforcement. He'll either break, or accept the fundamentals of what it means to be a real cop.

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CopTales 2000

Edited by Liz DeFranco Martinez and Marilyn Olsen

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Original fiction and non-fiction police stories from Ed Dee, Jim DeFilippi, Marlene Loos, Gina Gallo, Will Cordes, Robert Cohen, Liz Martinez DeFranco, Charles Padias, Paul Bishop, Stormy Barton Apgar, Philip Bulone, Roger Fulton, Lou Savelli, Ernie Dorling, Penny James, Keith Bettinger, Laurick Ingram, Marilyn Olsen

Days on the Beach

by John Taylor

Oakland PD Officers Bull Brewster and Tex-Mex Garcia get the job done…but on their terms. Whether it’s a madcap chase with stolen cars or a night on the town with “working girls,” the rogue officers never let threat of disciplinary action get in their way as they cement their reps as irreverent street cops—they just take their DAYS ON THE BEACH, then get back to business. Brewster and Tex-Mex aren’t the only source of action on the mean streets of Oakland, however. The city is on edge as a sociopathic pair cuts a savage swath. Rape and murder cases stack up, but law enforcement’s frantic search is stymied until some good, old-fashioned gumshoe detective work leads to a high noon face-off.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Death of A Flapper

by Marva Dale

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Devil's Kitchen

by Clark Lohr

Devil's Kitchen…Southwest noir – crime and romance in the Sonoran Desert… When a severed head shows up at a Tucson landfill, Pima County Sheriff’s Detective Manny Aguilar gets the case. He handily tracks down the dead man’s heroin-addicted friends, and Manny thinks he’s identified the killers—until someone starts killing them.

Suddenly Manny finds himself in the middle of a hellish conspiracy between a Mexican drug lord and an Arizona land developer.

Aguilar’s redheaded, butt-kicking girlfriend, Reina, along with his Yaqui grandmother help solve the mystery, but it’s Johnny Oaks, a Cherokee PI, who rides with Manny to the showdown in Arizona's remote Skeleton Canyon.

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A Wild Oak Novel

Dismal River

by Wayne D. Dundee

The Nebraska Sandhills of the 1880s are a vast, untamed expanse of treeless, rolling hills scoured by harsh wind and blistering sun. Into this rugged landscape former Indian scout Lone McGantry reluctantly agrees to lead an expedition of explorers and adventurers headed by an English lord. The hardships of the environment soon become secondary, however, when other threats—both from within and without—overtake the expedition. Deceit, betrayal, stampeding buffalo, a raging grassfire, and a band of ruthless marauders all must be dealt with. The very survival of the expedition is at stake. Lives will be lost and the banks of the Dismal River will be scorched and stained by blood before the ordeal is finished.

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Dog Island

Dragon Sutra

A Dark Oak Mystery

Dumpster Dying

by Lesley A. Diehl

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Ah, the golden years of retirement in the sunshine state. They’re more like pot metal to Emily Rhodes, who discovers the body of the county’s wealthiest rancher in the Big Lake Country Club dumpster. With her close friend accused of the murder, Emily sets aside her grief at her life partner’s death to find the real killer.

She underestimates the obstacles rural Florida can set up for a winter visitor and runs afoul of a local judge with his own version of justice, hires a lawyer who works out of a retirement home, and flees wild fires -- hand-in-hand with the man she believes to be the killer.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Easy Money

by Norm Maher

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Dick Braun, a deputy sheriff in an affluent Ohio township, is fed up with his job and wife and trying to hang on to his hot girlfriend. Desperate, Dick comes up with a plan to steal eight million dollars from an armored car and, with the money and lady, fly out of the country.

He calls on an ex-army buddy to help. They get the cash but there’s a double cross, the money’s on the loose and Dick scrambles.

Mixed up in a tangle of lies and betrayal are two former Navy seals, a Merrill Lynch broker, a bent Mexican cop, a rogue banker, a Brazilian woman to die for, government types and people out to kill. Hey, it’s eight million dollars.

The Electric Sewer: War Stories of the NYC Transit Police

by Trebor Nehoc

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Trebor Nehoc has worked all over the New York City subway. And not just as a cop, but also as a sergeant and lieutenant. He has been assigned to everything from late night solo train patrol to an academy instructor and finally as an anti-crime supervisor. As they say here in New York, he has been around the block, twice.

Trebor has taken his years on the job and transcribed them into some very funny, very touching stories. With great wit, sharp details and some brisk writing, his War Stories describe what life was like down there in the Electric Sewer.

The Evidence is Clear

Timeless Love 2001 Winner

Fairytales are Fragile

by Cindy Ladage

In 1939, when the threat of war drifts over Vienna, young Ilyana Verner sails across the Atlantic to emigrate to the US. She and her mother plan to join relatives in Chicago, but a shipboard romance changes things.

As her mother re-marries, Ilyana finds herself torn between two men—the unabashed pursuit of rough and wild Connie O’Brien, and the subdued attentions of Andy Henry, a serious-minded student at Harvard Law.

A night of passion under a San Francisco moon changes everything—and now a child must be considered. How will Ilyana choose between the man she loves and the one who laid claim to her?

The Fat Lady Sings

by Kit Sloane

In Margot and Max's latest adventure, THE FAT LADY SINGS, things aren’t what they appear to be. But since they work in the film world of make-believe, when are things ever clear-cut and unambiguous? In THE FAT LADY SINGS, the couple is caught up in a lethal scheme of connivance, complicity, and murder perpetrated behind the heavy velvet curtains of a reparatory company determined to win an international prize. Heads roll as egos, reputations, and aspirations clash against the dulcet harmonies and satiric comments of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

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Fighting Crime with "Some" Day and Lenny

by Keith Bettinger

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If you’ve ever worked in law enforcement, or if you like stories that make you laugh, you need to join Detective Lenny Birnbaum and his boss, Sergeant Robert “Some” Day, as they fight the evil-doers in that hotbed of crime, Staten Island, New York. Working in the Major Case Squad, the two wily cops battle some of the most despicable criminals on their Island.

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Fools Rush In

by Sunny Frazier

Fast-paced and riveting, FOOLS RUSH IN is a salute to good cops, an insider's view of astrology, and a grim descent into the dark world of drug dealers. -- Carolyn Hart, Agatha Award-winning author

In her debut novel, Sunny Frazier ratchets up the tension. The astrology is a bonus. ---Denise Dietz, bestselling author

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Gumbo Justice

by Holli Castillo

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New Orleans prosecutor Ryan Murphy likes her Tequila cold and her cops hot. Battling demons from her past and checking a self-destructive streak take a back seat to her ambition, and she's not above skating the line just a little to get what she wants. If she snags a detective in the process, well, that's just a little lagniappe for her trouble. Life should be good.

Enter a demented psycho, with a plan to ruin Ryan's life before he ultimately kills her. Set against the backdrop of pre-Katrina New Orleans, Gumbo Justice is first in a series that follows the tumultuous life of prosecutor Ryan Murphy.

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A Passenger to Paradise Novel!

Hearts Across Forever

by Mary Montague Sikes

Kathryn Calder's unexpected job assignment to Jamaica changes her life. From the moment she arrives, she is haunted by odd memories of a distant past. Is Flynt Kincade, the stranger she meets in an art gallery, part of that past? Kathryn senses he is, especially when dreams connecting her with Flynt grow vivid. A visit to Rose Hall Great House draws Kathryn into a scene from long ago when evil reigned in Jamaica and Annie Palmer, the white witch of Rose Hall, was part of the danger.

Can a love affair from old Jamaica reach across forever and bring Kathryn and Flynt together?

A Snapshot in Time

Hotels to Remember

by Mary Montague Sikes

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A beautiful picture book featuring twenty of the world's most memorable hotels.... text, art and photographs by Monti Sikes.

Hotels to Remember is 9X12 inches, hardcover with an elegant French Fold Dust Jacket, satin-finished pages showcase more than 200 images. For beautiful details

HTR ASnapshot in Time:

Hilltop House

HTR ASnapshot in Time:

The Homestead

HTR ASnapshot in Time:

The Jefferson Hotel

Timeless Love

In Franklin's House

by Beverly Lauderdale

In an isolated, turn-of-the-last century house on a No.California hillside, Kate steps into a deserted room that exudes a strange appeal. Based largely on her reaction, she decides to buy the Victorian and to move from Iowa with husband Dan, whose affair has rocked their marriage.

Lost and far from her home and familiar things, Kate is drawn repeatedly to the room where she finds a diary written in 1906, and a delicate rose bud necklace. The diarist describes visits from her deceased husband, Franklin, a poet. Captivated, Kate can't resist doning the necklace, which, to her amazement provides a portal though which Franklin can enter Kate's world.

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Dark Oak Mystery

Intent to Defraud

by Mark Travis

Jennifer Posey’s body is forced against a screen at the bottom of the Monticello Dam overflow drain. A deputy sheriff found the suicide note she left in her Mercedes. Jennifer’s husband has a solid alibi and the life insurance will soon pay Brian five million dollars.

Wealthy securities dealer John Dukehart does not believe his daughter killed herself. He hires PI Dan Ballantine, ex-cop, non-practicing attorney, and a specialist in insurance fraud, to prove Brian murdered Jennifer.

Dark Oak Mystery

Jambalaya Justice

by Holli Castillo

Set against the backdrop of pre-Katrina New Orleans, Jambalaya Justice is the second in the Crescent City Mystery Series.... When a dead hooker is discovered in a crackhouse, prosecutor Ryan Murphy refuses to let the case languish into yet another unsolved homicide. And if she hides her involvement from her detective boyfriend, it’s only because he’s busy working late nights on a secret case of his own.

When Ryan isn’t hounding the homicide detective for information or investigating the murder behind his back, she’s juggling her Strike Force cases, including a four-victim mob hit, a nasty domestic violence assault, and the armed robbery of a strip club.

At first, Ryan’s only concern is getting justice for her victims. By the time the weekend ends, she’ll settle for staying alive.

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Winner of PSWA

Novel Contest

A Passenger to Paradise Novel

Jungle Jeopardy

by Mary Montague Sikes

When Dana realizes Clifton is missing, she takes off for Costa Rica to find him. An apparent kidnapping turns into a jungle adventure that leads Dana and Clifton into the wilds of Guatemala where they discover an unexplored Maya cave, find pottery and walls covered with glyphs.

Tyler Hunter wants to save Dana’s sister from prison, and to do so, he must find her grandfather’s hidden treasure. An archaeologist on sabbatical, Tyler intrigues Dana with his knowledge of the Maya.

Dana has never doubted her sister’s guilt in the murder of their grandfather on the island of Antigua, but now an element of doubt begins to creep in.

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Timeless Love

Lake Meade

by Heather Mosko

What do you do when your first love returns to town after fifteen years, at the same time the remains of your high school boyfriend surface in the lake not far from your home?

And when you become the primary suspect in his murder...what do you do?

If you’re Maggie Granger, you keep running your Bed and Breakfast, take care of your son and grandfather, and try to find the real killer before you end up in jail for a murder you didn’t commit -- and maybe, just maybe, you find love all over again along the way.

Land of a Thousand Dances

by John Taylor

In 1965, medical corpsman Brian Thomas, a white paratrooper in the Vietnam bound101^st Airborne, confronts both the war and discrimination when he becomes involved in an interracial romance, and racist NCOs persecute him for violating the South’s most sacred, entrenched taboo.

In the war zone, Brian’s naive illusion of combat as a rite of passage “adventure” is shattered as he experiences firsthand the horrors of war and its traumatizing effects.

Most veterans called Vietnam, The ‘Nam. But to Brian it would always be known as, The Land of a Thousand Dances.

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CopTales Contest Winner!!

The Last of the Railroad Police

by Carl Moen

In the 1950s, Chicago was a great railroad center, and its Proviso yard was the largest in the world.

Times were hard in the Eisenhower Fifties, and I had a young family. When I heard it would pay $80 a month more, I had to take it on.

Looking back, it surprises me that I lived through it all: the fights, the gun play, arson, even a brush with the mafia. More dangerous were men so anxious to carry a gun, they’d work the job for nothing.

All of this is true. Walk with me down the tracks and I’ll show you what it was like to be the Last of the Railroad Police.

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Timeless Love

Lingering Spirit

by Marilyn Meredith

After her police officer husband is killed in the line of duty, Nicole Ainsworth struggles with the changes forced on her life. Her efforts to focus on her daughters and cope with her grief are kept off-balance by images of Steve, her deceased husband who seems to be trying to communicate with her. Eventually, Nicole finds that Steve isn't the only one watching over her, and discovers a second chance at happiness.

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Dark Oak Mystery

The Magicians

by Kit Sloane

Reality TV? Sounds like a piece of cake to Margot and Max—a guilty pleasure for viewers and a windfall to producers. What can be difficult about reality TV? But transported from the eerie confines of a seemingly haunted house in Los Angeles to the sun-drenched, volcanic beaches of Hawaii, the duo discovers that the images manipulated for television reality shows are no more real—and can be much more deadly—than the stories she and Max create for feature films.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Media Blitz

by Joe Nowlan

Media bashing? How about media killing?

Everyone likes to clobber the media. But someone in Boston is going around killing them... an obnoxious radio talk host … a too handsome TV anchor … and another talk show host all die violently. Strolling innocently into this murderous confusion is Ben Hudson, a photographer for a weekly newspaper...hardly anyone’s idea of a media celebrity. Hudson discovers two of the bloodied corpses of what the papers and TV call “The Boston Media Blitz.” He also becomes involved with TV newswoman Charlotte Kimball--beautiful, witty and set on uncovering the murderer.

A Passenger to Paradise Novel

Night Watch

by Mary Montague Sikes

From the moment Lily’s plane lands in tropical Trinidad, things go awry. She planned for rest, relaxation and photography, but instead faces mistaken identity, a gun running operation and danger.

At the airport, Kyle mistakes Lily for someone named Katherine.Later, Lily enjoys the ocean view room only to see Kyle watching men stealthily unloading cargo from a small boat.

Lily’s resemblance to Katherine puts her in danger and Kyle attempts to protect her. With her life in peril, Lily discovers a deep kinship with her doppelganger and a growing attachment to Kyle.

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No Bells

No Evidence of a Crime

by S. Connell Vondrak

As Washington, D.C. detectives investigate the murder of a beautiful, young congressional aide shot dead near the Capital Mall, subtle discrepancies with the evidence show up.

The murder weapon is listed as a Glock, but an eyewitness places the shooter too far away to have used a handgun. The slain woman was a player in high-stakes D.C. politics, yet DNA results reveal she was pregnant and the baby’s father was a gang member.

The detectives call on a forensic scientist to retest the samples, and find someone at the crime lab is altering evidence. Detectives Jarrod and Jackson must learn who is tampering with the facts…and why.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

No Sanctuary

by F. M. Meredith

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Officer Stacey Wilbur works with Detective Doug Milligan investigating the death of a popular minister’s wife, is given an undercover assignment to catch a pedophile, is offered a new job, and learns a church isn’t always a sanctuary.

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Timeless Love

On the Rocks

by Elaine Busby

Panic attacks start to plague Jade, just as this musician’s career begins escalating. An L.A. restaurant owner, Calvin Collins, helps her recover, then wines and dines his way into her heart. However, Jade’s agent warns her that Calvin has an unsavory back story.

As their romance develops, Jade starts climbing the charts with her new CD. Her panic attacks are also on the rise, and the L.A. gossip mill would love to roast Calvin; all issues she’d rather ignore than investigate.

Will Jade’s life end up “On the Rocks”, like the dark song she’s been composing? Or will she find the strength to seek the truth, and sing those secrets into the light?

Coming This Summer!!

Dark Oak Mystery

The Poetry of Murder

by Bernadette Steele

An inheritance can be a blessing or a curse! For Geneva Anderson, an aspiring African American poet, it is both. After her aunt is murdered, Geneva's life is unraveled by a mysterious inheritance and a murder charge.

Set against the backdrop of a university campus in Chicago.

2010 Dark Oak Mystery Contest Winner!!

Possum Belly Queen

by Robert O'Hanneson

The man who telephoned him implied he wants to do business with amusement ride rep, Andy Zartanian, and Andy seriously needs to do some business. He takes the meeting, but within moments it is clear the man doesn’t know Chance’s Aviator from the Log Flume.

The man hurries to explain he’s there on behalf of a wealthy Bostonian who''s offering handsome compensation for him to track down a young woman and bring her home.

Zartanian signs on, but as he fights his way through the seamy backside of sparkling midways and festive crowds, Zartanian recalls his grandfather always said carnie life was the devil’s sandbox.

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Winner ~ 2010 LEFTY!!

The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein

By J. Michael Ordenduff

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Maybe it was the $2500…or maybe it was just a slow day at his Old Town Albuquerque shop that prompted Hubie Schuze to be blindfolded and chauffeured to meet a collector looking for a confidential appraisal.

Sure, it was an odd setup, but what could possibly go wrong? Hubie’s devil-may-care attitude fades fast when he finds his own Anasazi copies among the antiquities. Worse, when the driver drops him off, what he doesn’t find are the 25 crisp hundred dollar bills the collector gave him.

Hubie is determined to recoup his cash, but the longer he pursues it, the more tangled he becomes in the collector’s shadowy life.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

The Pot Thief Who Studied Escoffier

By J. Michael Orenduff

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Old Town Albuquerque potter and merchant, Hubie Schuze agrees to create unique chargers for the settings in a soon-to-open restaurant. The fee is too enticing to pass up, although the restaurateur insists the plates be made at the restaurant in Santa Fe.Once onsite, Hubie is immersed in the politics, procedures and polemics of the restaurant business. Things spiral out of control, forcing the eatery to close its doors after the first night. Unwilling to cede defeat, Hubie rallies the troupe and they reopen with a Mexican-Austrian fusion menu.

The reviews are rave and the money rolls in, but soon Hubie is faced with that old prophecy …no good deed goes unpunished.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy

By J. Michael Orenduff

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The pot thief is back...and this time Hubert Schuze wants to recover sacred pots stolen from San Roque, the mysterious New Mexico pueblo. An easy task for Hubie the pot digger. Except these pots are not under ground – they’re above it--in the top-floor apartment of Rio Grande Lofts.

Hubie’s perfect plan is thwarted when he encounters the beautiful Stella. And when he is arrested for murder. Well, he was in the room where the body was found, and he came out with blood on his hands. Follow Hubie as he stays one step ahead of building security, one step behind Stella, and one step away from a long fall down a garbage chute.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras

By J. Michael Orenduff

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When a shady character offers him $25,000 to steal a thousand-year-old pot from the Valle del Rio Museum, Hubert Schuze knows he should turn it down. His pot digging may be illegal, but it’s a big step from that to robbery. But he figures it can’t hurt just to visit the museum and assay his chances.

He figured wrong. After deciding the museum is impregnable, he returns to his shop to find a BLM agent who accuses him of stealing the rare pot. Theft charges escalate to murder.

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Reckoning At Rainrock

NATURE/Flowers

Roadside Wildflowers of Christian County

by Sue Robinson

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In Roadside Wildflowers of Christian County, tips for identification are juxtaposed with individual portraits of 64 naturally occurring varieties. Hikers, joggers and armchair aficionados alike will appreciate artist Sue Robinson’s keen eye and delicate style in her showcase of flowers found along the highways and byways near her home. Robinson and her husband live on their working farm in the heart of Christian County.

Dark Oak Mysteries

Scrafitto

by Steve Scarborough

After fleeing the States, ex-homicide cop Mitch Sharp now has a great life in a Costa Rican resort town -- pura vida, “this is living.” His comforts are shattered when someone begins attacking women and cutting them with a razor-like knife.The Latin macho society wants to ignore the socially uncomfortable crimes against women. Mitch is also reluctant to help, thinking he left that life behind. When the attacks escalate, Mitch can't avoid being drawn in. Isolated in a foreign country, Mitch must combine an unusual team of ex-pats with his investigative and photography skills to stop the killer.

Coming This Summer!!

Sex and Death, I Suppose

By Michael Colonesse

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Pete Lombardo isn’t the kind of heroic detective you normally encounter. He’s definitely a blue-collar kind of guy, kinky, bankrupt, alcoholic, and bookish. He’ll take all the divorce work he can get.

Pete’s psychoanalyst girlfriend is unfaithful, and he has a rotten reputation with the mob, but things really get interesting when Pete runs afoul of a cadre of lesbian Islamic terrorists.

While attempting to negotiate a sweet little real estate side deal, he just might solve a fifty-year-old mystery – and discover true love.

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Dark Oak Mystery

Shore Loser

by Doug Danielson

Coming This Fall!!

A Wild Oaks Novel

Two Feet Below

by C.J. Crigger

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Smart and sassy 1890s bookkeeper turned sleuth China Bohannon is a magnet for danger. Assigned to office duties in the Doyle & Howe detective agency, she lands smack in the middle of the detective’s latest murder case when a suspicious character tries to bribe her—and she takes the bribe! In an adventure that is destined to go downhill from there, China is thrown overboard from a steamboat into Coeur d’Alene Lake to drown. Escaping that, while hot on the trail of the murderer, she’s arrested on charges of prostitution in the wild mining town of Wallace, Idaho. Worse, her handsome boss, Gratton Doyle, doesn’t see eye-to-eye with her when it comes to determining the leading suspect. Proving her point takes getting shot when, bloodied though unbowed, China wins a fight more suited to skid road loggers than a proper Victorian lady.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Tulsa Time

by Letha Albright

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Reporter Viv Powers confronts the challenge of her life when her love, Charlie, is accused of murder and will do nothing to defend himself—not even declare his innocence to her. A firm believer in logic and facts, Viv learns to face the trials of faith as she pursues the truth of what happened, who did the murder — and why Charlie isn’t talking.

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Dark Oak Mystery

Waifs of the Wasteland

By Wayne Beauvais

Coming This Fall!!

A Dark Oak Mystery

Where Angels Fear

by Sunny Frazier

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Set in the Central Valley of California, author Sunny Frazier once again explores the rich agricultural region, rural law enforcement and crimes shrouded by Tule fog in this sequel to FOOLS RUSH IN. Amateur astrologer Christy Bristol finds herself on the fringes of Kearny society and a members-only sex club as she reluctantly takes on a missing person case. A prominent business man has disappeared and his wife cannot go to the authorities. Armed with only a prescription bottle and matchbook as clues, the young woman must face the Knights of Sensani and her own sexual limitations.

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The Zyratron Affair