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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 Dark Oak Mystery

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

Daphne du Maurier Award Nominee ~ 2012 RWA

A Dark Oak Mystery

A Case of Infatuation

by W. S. Gager

Sugg. Retail $14.95

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 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 escape his roommates only to find they hold keys to a bizarre story of disappearances, terrorists and the perfect hamburger recipe.

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A Case of Volatile Deeds

by W.S. Gager

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Mitch finally scores a weekend dinner with a cute receptionist, but true to his reporter instincts, an explosion in a high rise office building makes him stand up his date as he runs for an exclusive.Mitch learns that much of what he knows about his date and her work aren’t what they seem.

His world continues to twist when the police captain asks for his help and a city hall informant is found floating in the river. Mitch must keep his head down or a cute dog with a knack for finding dead bodies will be sniffing out his corpse.

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A Fair to Die For

by Radine Trees Nehring

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It’s October, craft fair season in the Ozarks, and Carrie and Henry are helping their friend Shirley sell her quilts and Baby Cuddlys at the War Eagle Craft Fair. After a mysterious cousin with ties to drug dealers appears, danger stalks the fair. When Carrie is abducted by killers following a breakfast at War Eagle Mill, she’s afraid she won’t escape, because—though her aim in life has always been to help others out of problems—no one who can help her knows where she is. “There is no me out there to help me.”

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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.

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A New Leaf

by Elaine Cantrell

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Betsy McLaughlin's father is the richest man in Covington, and she’s engaged to the son of a wealthy, socially prominent family. Her future seems bright until Kyle Alexander enters the picture. Kyle is newly-paroled after serving 5 years for armed robbery. He’s free now, and he can’t keep his eyes off his boss’s beautiful daughter. Can prison really change a man for the better? Betsy’s about to find out.

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A Midsummer Night's Gunfight

Kyle William Lees saw his father and brother murdered by Confederate marauders at the close of the Civil War. The gang tried to kill him, too, but he survived. Now he carries a tattered list with thirteen names, and he is scouring the west in search of vengeance, crossing off one name at a time. When his quest takes him to Shakespeare, New Mexico, Kyle finds more than he bargained for, including the infamous Tom Brennan, one of the fastest and deadliest gunfighters around.

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A Rainbow for Christmas

by Mary Montague Sikes

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Meg, her niece and brother set out on a wagon train headed for Denver where Meg's fiancè in an arranged marriage awaits. When a senseless murder claims her brother's life, Meg determines to push on. However, when she meets handsome Cade Russell, the wagon master, her conviction to enter a loveless marriage wavers. Will Meg honor her father's wishes and marry John O'Sullivan, whose dowry will save the family farm from foreclosure? Meg has difficult choices to make.

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A Ton of Gold

Crystal Moore stands on the brink of losing everything—her only family, her self esteem and her career.

Because of a long-forgotten folktale, murders, arson, kidnapping, and firebombs besiege Crystal. And while she struggles to sort out the mystery, the man who nearly destroyed her emotionally reappears. This time, he can end her career.

Crystal will need all the help she can get from a former bull rider, her street-wise housemate and Crystal's feisty grandmother.

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ALPHA

by Stephen L. Brayton

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On a rainy October mroning, Mallory Petersen, private detective and martial artist, discovers the corpse of her boyfriend, Bobby Furillo, in front of her office in Des Moines.

Bucking police authority and continually attacked by unknown adversaries, Mallory uncovers Bobby's devastating secrets. Each new revelation puts Mallory in deeper peril from powerful and dangerous people. And just what are those enigmatic RSVP cards that keep showing up in Mallory's mail?

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American Caliphate

by William Doonan

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Archaeologists Jila Wells and Ben Juarez reluctantly return to Peru to join Professor Beckham’s distinguished team at Santiago de Paz pyramids. Jila is still haunted by the prior dig which ended in a near-fatal ambush. But the ruins hide a document that will shock the Islamic world.

Details found in an ancient diary tell of an illegal expedition to Spanish Peru, intending to bring the word of Allah to the pagan Americans.

As the archaeologists brace for the ravages of El Niño, Jila and Ben hurry to complete their excavations. But they’re not the only ones interested in this project. Other forces are determined to keep the document hidden.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

An Affinity for Murder

by Anne White

Sugg. Retail $11.95

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

by Beryl Reichenberg

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Concerned that Jack the Rabbit won't eat his vegetables, his mother tries everything she can think of to get him to eat his "greens". One day, Jack discovers the snack "ants on a log" at school. Learn how this solves his mother's problem and what happens next. Based on a true story, this children's story is for young children and their parents who face similar situations.

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Atlanta Exit

$19.95

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Perfect $12.00

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 ...

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The Back of Beyond

By David Coles and

Jack Everett

Sugg Retail $14.95

Abbot Rutilius, for his sins against authority, is made Papal auditor of monasteries in 13^th Century France. With his newly appointed Acolyte, William, he comes to St. Guilhem where money laundering in the abbey kitchens and a nasty murder await investigation. Soon, another murder claims a second monk, twin to the first victim. What is the connection? How can the disagreeable Gilbert be held accountable? Who took the Abbot’s pie? It takes an intractable goat and a near-drowning in an underground river to expose the truth. The Abbot acquires a little humility while the Acolyte gains rather more from the Comte’s daughter.

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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.

EUREKA! Award Nominiee

Left Coast Crime 2012

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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.

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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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Beyond Recognition

by Ron Corbin

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Beyond Recognition is the memoir of Ronald Corbin, a former Army combat helicopter pilot and Vietnam veteran who becomes a Los Angeles policeman, and eventually a pilot for LAPD’s Air Support Division (ASD).

Ron’s military training and unique combat flying experience as a “Slick” Huey pilot, and background as an instructor pilot is recognized by the ASD captain, but not without creating fierce jealousies.

After an accident that puts Ron in the hospital, the LAPD assembles a Board of Inquiry. Ron’s detractors seek revenge--feeding misleading statements to the Board. It evolves into a “kangaroo court,” but Ron exposes a cover-up that has the attorneys scrambling to settle.

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Perfect $11.00

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

by I.C. Enger

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What the agents discover at Three Cranes Lake

will change how you view terrorism...forever.

A much anticipated new start for Brooke Breckenridge erupts into an explosion of murder and international intrigue when she travels from Seattle to an isolated lake on the Canadian border to find seclusion and healing. Strange and dangerous things begin to happen, soon events at the lake house attract the attention of Homeland Security Special Agent Jack Strickland and she finds herself entangled in suspicion, crime and dangerous attraction.

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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?

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Bogey's Ace in the Hole

by Marja McGraw

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LA’s only restaurateur who’s a dead ringer for silver screen tough guy Humphrey Bogart is called to divine service by the Church Ladies—three senior citizens who know Mrs. Bogey from church. The Ladies’ friend is missing. They want Bogey Man to find her.

The friend turns up, and Bogey tries to close the case until he discovers the woman overheard a Murder for Hire plot which puts them all in danger.

Ride along in the Bogey Man’s 1950 vintage Chevy with the Church Ladies, wife Pamela, son Mikey, and two crazy yellow Labrador retrievers while they hunt a potential killer—and the intended victim.

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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.

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Burning Questions

by Elaine Busby

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Kelly Moran, TV feature reporter in Portland, OR, is tormented by uncertainties when she is offered her dream job in L.A. at the same time she becomes romantically involved with a candy company owner who is accused of arson.

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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.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Callie & the Dealer & A Dog Named Jake

by Wendy Howell Mills

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Callie, a restaurateur on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, knows someone is stealing from the storeroom. As a hurricane blows in, she must confront him ...or her! ... in addition to the demons from her past.

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Camouflage

by Beryl Reichenberg

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How do animals hide, camouflage and protect themselves in the wild? This interactive book, encourages young children to hunt for various animals in their native habitat and to find their hiding places.

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Close Up

By Kit Sloane

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Margot and Max know how to cope with the murderous egos, high flying aspirations, and obsessive dreams of moviedom’s biggest and most revered stars.

They understand that, for some, Hollywood is a takeout heaven—send out for what you want and it will quickly be delivered. But what happens when what is coveted doesn’t grow on trees?

In CLOSE-UP, our daring hero and heroine witness greedy players scheming to cultivate their own needs and desires—fabricating fame, fortune, and unfaithful friends.

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Code Two 'n' a Half

by William W. Wilhelm

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Wilhelm, a police officer for the great city of Los Angeles from 1953 to 1973, says, "... come along with me and share one cop’s view of one heck of an interesting career in the "City of Angels."

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Cold Water

by Ed Draguiles

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The thirst for truth can be murder… J. Mason Christopher, Vietnam veteran and Washington D.C. patent attorney, travels to Cold Water, Indiana, a church town where his daughter supposedly killed herself while investigating the town's recent rash of suicides. Christopher believes it was murder and determines to find the truth.

With the aid of his ‘Nam buddies and local businesswoman Lady McPherson, Christopher digs into the church’s control of the community, and learns that corrupt Pastor Kelly Baines is exploiting the town's water system. When Christopher’s team closes in, Pastor Baines counters his pursuers with increasing ruthlessness until the novel’s explosive end.

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Coming Flu

by J. L. Greger

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When a mysterious flu breaks out in La Bendita, an upscale gated community near the Rio Grande, the lives of its residents change radically --and instantly. The few who are lucky enough to avoid the killer flu become virtual prisoners in their homes when a quarantine is imposed.

One resident, Sara Almquist, a medical epidemiologist, is compelled by habit and training to examine the elements of the epidemic, even when it means she pries into her neighbors’ lives. Sara finds promising clues--maybe too many.

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Components of Murder

By Bob Crowley

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High-tension thriller based on a true story… In an era when there were no computers, no Internet, no “America’s Most Wanted” or “CSI” programs, Investigative Reporter Gene McLain prowled the mean streets and knew all the players. In Components of Murder, McLain knows the oddball clues, the seemingly unrelated leads WILL connect and foil the man who’s convinced he committed the perfect murder.

McLain puts his career with the Arizona Reporter on the line while he pursues the truth of what happened to two men who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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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

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Daddy's Christmas Angel

When Kathleen learns she will be an angel in the class Christmas play, the seven-year-old plots a meeting between her attractive teacher and Kathleen's daddy, a lonely widower who blames himself for his wife’s death. Angie McAllister is drawn to the subdued student and her handsome daddy, but has her own emotional scars.

Can the magic of the season clear the way for a little girl's Christmas wish to come true?

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Dance the Dream Awake

Dangerous Impulses

by F.M. Meredith

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In DANGEROUS IMPULSES, the ninth novel in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series, an attractive new-hire captivates Officer Gordon Butler, Officer Felix Zachary’s wife is befuddled by her new baby, and Ryan and Barbara Strickland receive unsettling news.

RBPD Officers investigate the bloody murder of a mother and her son, and try to locate the source of an unidentified drug that sickens teenaged partiers, but nobody is talking.

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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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Deadly Roles

by Chris Kullstroem

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Deadly Roles: Interactive Games of Murder and Mystery is a collection of interactive murder mystery games in which players take on character roles, search for clues and solve mysteries in Halloween-party settings. Games are themed on different ways death has been regarded from the Middle Ages to the present. Mysterious topics include the plague, death omens, alchemy, funerals, Underworld legends, graveyards and legends of the undead.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Death of A Flapper

by Marva Dale

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The Roaring Twenties -- decade of wealth, abundance, decadence…. Tin Pan Alley ace private eye, Carney Brogan investigates the case of missing NYC career girl, Alice Prado. Alice, Carney learns, is actually Arabella Germaine, ultimate flapper, a beautiful platinum blond who loves a good time and ingratiates herself into the right circles -- and who has just turned up dead.

From Long Island estates to the streets of the Bowery, Carney follows the clues. But after a run-in with mobsters, he wonders if he can survive long enough to discover who really wanted the gorgeous party girl dead

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A Wild Oak Novel

Dismal River

by Wayne D. Dundee

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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

by G. Thomas Gill

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Cornelius “Corney” Graham, part-time EMT and full time beach bum, is jarred from his insular life on Dog Island when a boat floats up on his island. The pilot is dead and the passenger, beautiful Lisa Cataldo, is wounded.

Corney searches the boat for more potential victims, but finds instead a bundle of cash and a stash of cocaine. Impulsively, Corney destroys the drugs, and decides not to call the police.

All is well until the drug smugglers come to Dog Island in search of their property and the woman who robbed them.

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Dragon Sutra

by Richard Marranca

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While wandering around Asia, Jason comes to Cambodia, where he’s drawn into a dangerous underworld and political violence. He and Rachany, a beautiful woman he met at the Russian Market, are pursued by a mysterious foe. They flee across Cambodia, Laos and Thailand through exotic tribes, ancient cities... and end up in Burma’s rebellion. The beauty and luster of passion and love is counterpointed by the darkness of the criminal underworld and the Cambodian holocaust. Will the fateful past destroy Jason and Rachany? Will their affections flower amidst the corruption and violence?

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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 Passenger to Paradise Novel

Eagle Rising

by Mary Montague Sikes

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Still mourning her fiance, Rachael’s editor sends her to cover a New Age novelist in Sedona, where she meets Derek, who is also coping with grief. Mystery and intrigue leads them to the desert, but a greater force shows the way forward.

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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.

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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.

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Eva Pennington: Trouble in Georgia

by Walter Luce

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While expanding her banking empire into Georgia, Eva clashes with devious Atlanta good-old-boys who think her ambitions are unseemly for a woman. But they’re desperate for Eva’s investment in their banks to avert financial calamity – a calamity created by their own poor management. Convinced they can out-smart Eva, the bankers try to secure her cash infusion without sharing control.

As Eva and her team get to work on a hostile takeover, she finds she must put her romance with Dutch on a back burner and focus on out-maneuvering the bankers and escaping the violent intentions of the Georgia boys’ pals in the Ku Klux Klan.

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The Evidence is Clear

by S. Connell Vondrak

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Three Washington, DC detectives investigate the suicide of a prominent US Congressman, only to find the Congressman’s death is linked to a twenty five year-old murder. The case frustrates the detectives with its ever changing forensic results, but when a conspiracy is uncovered that will ruin the lives of more than one public official, it forces one detective home, to face her past.

This is a sequel to No Evidence of a Crime.

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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?

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A Wild Oaks Novel

Fallen From Grace

by J. R. Lindermuth

As the 19^th century winds to a close, Sheriff Sylvester Tilghman of the small Pennsylvania town of Arahpot ponders his biggest problems: finding a new deputy and convincing his true love, Lydia, to marry him. But an early autumn day finds Arahpot’s usual tranquility shaken when a stranger is fatally stabbed.

Suddenly Sylvester is plunged into investigating two murders. As he works through an abundance of suspects, Tilghman finds himself in danger. And worse -- Lydia is pushing her obnoxious cousin as a candidate for deputy.

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The Fat Lady Sings

by Kit Sloane

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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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Felons, Flames and Ambulance Rides

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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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Ghost Writer

by Lorna Collins

When unemployed computer programmer Nan Burton inherits a California beach cottage from her great-great-aunt, she’s delighted. But she’s in for a huge surprise: The house is haunted by the ghost of famous romance writer Max Murdoch (pen name Maxine DuBois) who insists Nan complete his last novel, threatening to keep her from sleeping until she agrees. The ensuing clash pits youth against the long-dead but still egotistical author with humorous and moving results.

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Grilled, Chilled and Killed

by Lesley A. Diehl

In the second Big Lake Mystery, Emily Rhodes, retired preschool teacher and bartender turned amateur snoop, wonders if she is destined to discover dead bodies. This time she finds one of the contestants at the local barbeque cook-off dead and covered in barbeque sauce in a beer cooler. She should be used to stumbling onto corpses by now and the question of who killed the guy should pique her curiosity, but Emily decides to let Detective Lewis handle this one, at least until she figures his theory of who did the deed is wrong, wrong, wrong.

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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?

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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

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Hilltop House

An updated re-purposing of the installments in Sikes' classic HOTELS TO REMEMBER.

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Virginia artist and author Mary Montague Sikes shows landmark Harpers Ferry, WV hostelry, Hilltop House, in pastels, photographs and descriptive text. Sikes details the design conception, construction and numerous renovations including the latest proposal which is on hold at this date, and may not proceed. The panoramic beauty of the setting combined with its location as a key role many historical events have attracted guests ranging from honeymooners to world leaders. Day-trips to the Civil War Battlegrounds of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Manassas add to the popularity of the location.

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HTR A Snapshot in Time:

The Homestead

An updated re-purposing of the installments in Sikes' classic HOTELS TO REMEMBER.

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Virginia artist and author Mary Montague Sikes shows landmark Hot Springs, VA hostelry, The Homestead, in pastels, photographs and descriptive text. Sikes details the design conception, construction and numerous renovations which create the classic accommodation to attract guests ranging from honeymooners to world leaders. Located in scenic Bath County, the Homestead claims a rich history and is the site of the Jefferson Pools, one of the nation’s earliest spas. Guest offerings include the amenities of a fully equipped resort, hiking and horseback-riding along the Cascade trails, afternoon tea, golf and carriage rides.

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Hotel du Pont

Virginia artist and author Mary Montague Sikes shows landmark Wilmington, Delaware hostelry, Hotel du Pont, in pastels, photographs and descriptive text. Sikes details the design conception, construction and numerous renovations which create the classic accommodation to attract guests ranging from honeymooners to world leaders. Located in the corporate headquarters building, the du Pont is said to be the 'premier business and corporate meeting establishment in Delaware.' Learn about the du Pont's art collection, Playhouse Theatre and the discover the du Pont story at the Hagley Museum.

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Scenic James River

Virginia artist and author Mary Montague Sikes shows historic sites along the James River in Virginia, including Evelyn Plantation, Shirley Plantation and Berkeley Plantation. Sikes included photographs and descriptive text of the scenic colonial area where some of our nation's earliest citizens and Native Americans lived and worked. Decades later, the turf here saw many Civil War battles unfold. Visitors to Williamsburg, Richmond and other area cities will enjoy this lush and historic area.

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HTR A Snapshot in Time:

The Jefferson Hotel

An updated re-purposing of the installments in Sikes' classic HOTELS TO REMEMBER.

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Virginia artist and author Mary Montague Sikes shows landmark Richmond, VA hostelry, The Hotel Jefferson, in pastels, photographs and descriptive text. Sikes details the design conception, construction and numerous renovations which create the classic accommodation to attract guests ranging from honeymooners to world leaders. Learn about Old Pompey, the last alligator to live in the lobby pool, and discover whether or not the main staircase was really the inspiration for the one shown in Scarlett O'Hara's Atlanta manse.

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Hardcover

HTR: A Snapshot in Time

Williamsburg Inn

An updated re-purposing of the installments in Sikes' classic HOTELS TO REMEMBER.

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Virginia artist and author Mary Montague Sikes shows landmark Williamsburg, VA hostelry, Williamsburg Inn, in pastels, photographs and descriptive text. Sikes details the design conception, construction and numerous renovations which create the classic accommodation’s attraction to guests ranging from honeymooners to world leaders. From its vantage point at the edge of the restored area, the Inn offers elegant décor and delightful gourmet dining. Amenities include golf, tennis, luxury spa, with the sites and shopping choices of the colonial village just steps away. Jamestown and Yorktown join Williamsburg to form the three points of the Historic Triangle, and are a short drive from the Inn.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

The Hunt

by Christie Rose

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The Incredible Adventures of Doc Atlas

By Michael A. Black

Set in the era of the 1940s and 50s, this collection of pulp-style novellas follows the adventures of the mighty Doc Atlas and crew from the jungles of Central America to the frozen tundra of the North Pole. Whether they’re prowling the streets of Manhattan, investigating reports of a killer gorilla (with the purported brain of an executed criminal) or a crashed flying saucer in a small town named Roswell, New Mexico, Doc and company always see the investigation through to the end. Written with historical hindsight, these tales combine the best elements of the pulp era with actual historical figures and events.

Text Illustrations by Tim Faurote and Matthew Lovato

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Timeless Love Winner!!

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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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.

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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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Jetta's Journey

by Denise Solters

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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.

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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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The Last Casualty

by Peter Spring

When Boston Tribune reporter Chris Parsons writes a story reuniting an ex-POW with his former torturer, he uncovers a decades-old betrayal powerful men in our government will do anything – even commit murder – to keep secret.

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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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The Last Stop

By Alan Bower

Author and historian Alan Bower's The Last Stop: Lincoln and the "Mud Circuit" allows the reader to ride the Eighth Judicial Circuit with Mr. Lincoln and visit "the last stop" before heading home to Springfield. In addition, Bower provides insight into Lincoln's membership and position as chairman of the Committees on Counties during his formative years in the Illinois General Assembly. He discusses his involvement of creating over 25 counties in Illinois, including Christian County, whose citizens rejected Lincoln's choice of "Dane" for this new county.

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License to Lie

by Terry Ambrose

With $5 million and their lives on the line, can a determined criminologist and a beautiful con artist learn to trust each other? Or themselves?

Roxy Tanner lies for a living. Skip Cosgrove uncovers the lies others tell. Together, they have twelve hours to raise the ransom or her father will die. When Roxy reveals that she has the money, Skip is sure of one thing: his way-too-attractive client is lying to him. As events unfold, these two loners discover that for those living on the edge, trust is a luxury they can’t afford. There’s only one thing left for them to do.

Never trust a soul…even your own.

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Timeless Love

Lingering Spirit

by Marilyn Meredith

WINNER of 2012 EPIC AWARD FOR Spiritual/Metaphysical Romance!!!

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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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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Mann of War

Robert Mann is sick of hearing about criminals who get away with murder. He’s sick of rapists, drug dealers, and con men. He’s sick of the human trash–people who know how to use the system against itself. He’s sick of sitting idly by and doing nothing. So Robert Mann is going to fight back.

The problem—there’s a difference between wanting to kill someone and actually doing it.

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Mariachi Murder

Andy Veracruz is content with his life as the leader of a mariachi band, but when his lover is accused of murder, he has no choice but to defend her. In the process he faces the loss of his strongest loyalties as well as his entire career.

An early reader says "Set in Squid Bay, Mariachi Murder will plunge you into the smoky and seamy world of machismo, musicians, and the women who love them. Pour a cool drink, sit back and enjoy a glimpse into a world few people will experience...learn about the music and people that make it, and find out that sometimes there are no neat answers."

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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.

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Miami Exit

Mid-Life Mojo

by Robert Davis, Ph.D.

As essential to the survival of the retread bachelor as take-out, the microwave, and frozen food, Mid-life Mojo draws on research, common sense, and extensive field experience to trace the pangs of the newly single life and the pitfalls and rewards of picking up the pieces and going on in mature and productive ways.

Click to read the Author's interview on Match.com!!!

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Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight

Zyratron—“Star” of 1960s horror movies made in Japan, met with minimal success. The producers marketed figurines of the robot-like monster but, like the movies, figurine sales bombed. But now, newer audiences see them as hilariously awful and campishly enjoyable. Consequently, the few remaining Zyratrons are so coveted that someone in Boston is stealing them and killing their owners.

Adding to the confusion, imitation Zyratrons have emerged, confounding the thieves and murderers as well as photographer Ben Hudson, his Boston Banner colleagues, the Boston Police ... eventually, even the FBI.

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Murder's Last Resort

It is bad enough that a couple of deaths happen within days of each other at the Sapphire Silver Pines Resort in Orlando, FL. But it isn’t until the hotel manager, Hubert French, is arrested on suspicion of murder that his wife Maya begins her investigations.

Threats, kidnapping, and a bullet wound aren’t enough to discourage her. She won’t just stand by her man, she will save him.

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My Name is Huber

by Cindy Ladage &

Jane Aumann

My Name is Huber, A Tractor’s Story -This is the story told through the eyes of a tractor named Huber who rolled off the factory room floor in 1927. My Name is Huber follows the tractor through his working life on the farm. Huber runs a threshing machine and works hard for his farmer through the Depression into the War years. When Huber is replaced with a new faster tractor, he becomes a forgotten Huber until he is found, restored and brought back to life to tell his story!

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2011 Dark Oak Mystery Winner!!

Nice Work

by Denise Weeks

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Jacquidon Carroll has problems ... She's diagnosed with diabetes and laid off from her job the same week, but that's nothing compared to being a suspect in the murder of her ex-boss…Jacquidon is convinced her replacement—a young woman recruited from an Internet sex site—is the real killer. To clear herself, Jacquidon steals information from the boss’s computer and the young woman's diary. The clues lead through a network of local sex clubs and the seamy underside of the BDSM (S&M) lifestyle. By the time Jacquidon gathers her evidence, the murderer is on the same page—and intends to stop her.

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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

by F. M. Meredith

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Rocky Bluff reels with the news a woman’s body was found buried in a shallow grave, and the culprit of a series of home break ins leaves a peculiar and disgusting calling card. Detective Milligan develops some concern that his partner has rushed to judgment on the case they are working, and the wrong person is accused of the crime. Officer Gordon Butler has finally found the love he’s been seeking for a long time, but there’s one big problem -- she’s the major suspect in the murder case.

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No Evidence of a Crime

by S. Connell Vondrak

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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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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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Of Weeds and Views

by Frances Utterback Crain

One woman's journey...a journey covering eighty-plus years which took the author through prisons and hospitals and beyond.

With her keen eye for seeing drama and significance in everyday events, Frances Utterback Crain provides the reader with a special viewpoint on real life things that happened to real live people.

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Timeless Love

On the Rocks

by Elaine Busby

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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 writing? Or will she seek the truth, and sing those secrets into the light?

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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.

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Pope's Last Case

...and other Stories

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2010 Dark Oak Mystery Contest Winner!!

Possum Belly Queen

by Robert O'Hanneson

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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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Reckoning At Rainrock

by Wayne D. Dundee

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West central Nebraska, late 1880s: Harriet Munro, a fiery woman lawyer, takes the case of beautiful young Roxanne — a desperate fugitive fleeing a trumped-up murder conviction and a hangman's noose. Harriet calls upon Lone McGantry, former Indian scout and tracker, to deliver Roxanne to Rainrock, a town in the northwest corner of Nebraska near the fabled Toadstool Badlands, where she will face re-trial.

McGantry succeeds, however, town conspirators plot to divert justice. Before it is over, trusts are betrayed, bullets fly, lives are lost … until, within the stark, hauntingly empty badlands, scores are settled and a bloody reckoning is finally achieved.

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New Orleans before Katrina...

Red Room Rendezvous

By Paulette Crain

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"... a must for anyone who is fascinated with our Garden District elite." -- Tony Fennelly, author of Don’t Blame the Snake

"This book is a great read . . . it's provocative, entertaining and is definitely New Orleans." -- Gennifer Flowers, author, entertainer and owner of The Kelsto Club in The French Quarter

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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.

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Dark Oak Mysteries

Scrafitto

by Steve Scarborough

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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.

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Destroyer Men's Tales

Edited by Bob Cohen and Terry Miller

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Vol 1 & 2

Fifteen members of the Secret Scurvy Dog Society relate their own accounts, many humorous and some pointedly not, of life at sea on U.S. Navy destroyers during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.

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A Passenger to Paradise Novel

Secrets by the Sea

by Mary Montague Sikes

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Stunned to learn that her grandfather’s body had washed onto an Antigua beach, a victim of foul play, Dana Sinclair leaves immediately for the exotic place her grandmother had always called “Heartbreak Island.” She moves into her grandfather’s centuries-old home, Edgewood Manor which overlooks the Caribbean Sea, and begins searching for answers to the questions haunting her…

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Sarah, Darlin'

English aristocrat, Richard Moresby, seeks his fortune in the California gold fields so he can reclaim his ancestral estate. But when he meets spirited Sarah O’Malley at the Jenny Lind Theater, his thoughts of England fade.

Accustomed to rebuffing male attentions in 1850s San Francisco, Sarah is surprised to find Richard intrigues and excites her, but she knows Moresby’s rakish reputation and fears damaging hers, so she rebuffs him.

Moresby persists, and continues to pursue her, but before they can declare their love, they must deal with prejudice, a murder trial, a lynching party, a fire at the Jenny Lind and a terrible secret from Sarah’s past.

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Sea-Duction

JAKE MORTENSEN’S best friend is threatened by a mysterious assassin—and now he’s scared and can’t remember who might want him dead. Meanwhile, Jake’s boss wants him to look into the disappearance of a beautiful young woman. Jake tracks her to the ultra-secret Hedonist Society, and discovers their actual program is more blackmail than entertainment.

To make matters worse, Jake is on the outs with his exotic Chinese-American girlfriend. And at the ocean, the monster surf is up—with an undercurrent that can kill you, if you let it.

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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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Shore Loser

by Doug Danielson

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JAKE MORTENSEN’s first venture as a repo-yacht captain places him and his “always ready to party” crew in danger when they retrieve a 50-foot ketch called SHORE LOSER. They fly to Mexico, board the yacht and set sail for San Diego, unaware that concealed on board is a package so valuable some would resort to murder to recover it.

When Jake discovers the hidden goods, he exposes an investment scam that rocks the San Diego yachting community, helps catch the bad guys, and learns the real reason why the Russians couldn’t participate in the ’95 America’s Cup.

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Sooner than Gold

Spangled Star Banter

by Deb Collett

In her sophomore work, Ms Collect turns her verbal Polaroid camera outward to her community, her culture and her nation. Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, she presents here a plainspoken and uncompromisingly Midwestern view. Included here are her most requested performance pieces, "You Are More," and "Shout for the Voiceless," and, of course, Spangled Star Banter.

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Spooky Tells

The Big Squeal

by Liberty the Pig

as told to Carol Alexander

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Acclaimed Historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin says

"A rare glimpse into Abraham Lincoln's lighter side..."

A TRUE STORY ABOUT A HOMELESS PIG’S SEARCH FOR LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

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The Dead Don't Forget

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Even Silent Film Stars Sometimes Scream!

Amateur detective Billy Winnetka is back, once more reluctantly investigating a peculiarly Hollywood crime involving some anonymous death threats. Who would want to scare an old woman who hasn’t made a movie in years? As Billy discovers, there is a considerable list of suspects—from Gwendolyn’s money grubby high society relatives to her less-than-honest business manager. But simply scaring an old woman is one thing—killing her is another.

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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Birthday Cake

by Beryl Reichenberg

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Who took Freda Frog's birthday cake and how did she and her friends fine the thief? Wander through the forest with these animals as they

look for clues, as they use deductive reasoning and encourage each other to continue to hunt for the cake.

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The Sacrifice

by Mark Bouton

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When the newborn daughter of a Texas state senator is snatched from the hospital, FBI agents John Ransom, a crafty veteran, and Kathy Devereaux, a striking Cajun rookie, head the pressure-filled investigation to save the infant.

The agents learn a Palo mayombre cult plans a human sacrifice. But there are other suspects...Evidence shows inside help in the kidnapping, adding more suspects to the list.

Now the FBI must trick the bloodthirsty cultists and stop the ceremony before they do the unthinkable.

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The Support Group

by Shirley Oldridge

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Award-winning actress Margo Preistley had it all until her daughter is brutally raped and murdered. Margo attempts suicide, but fails and is ordered to attend a support group for families of violent crimes’ victims. After witnessing a random attack, Margo impulsively kills the assailant, only to watch the victim-- her only witness--flee the scene. Unable to legally justify her actions, Margo, and her now-accomplice, Peta, drive away before the police arrive. Luckily, her companion knows someone within The Support Group who can help them. Soon they realize that – collectively -- they have the means necessary to rectify any situation…

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The V V Agency

by Mike Befeler

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Imagine a dash of Philip Marlowe wrapped in an urban fantasy. The V V Agency is a paranormal mystery that spoofs the PI subgenre and introduces the transvictus—a unique shape shifter. Van and Vanna run a detective agency, but clients never see them together for a simple reason. A sexual encounter transforms one into the other, and nudity renders them invisible. This presents some interesting dilemmas for his and her love lives, but gives them a distinct advantage when doing detective work. In this, the first book in the series, Van and Vanna take the case of a woman suspected of killing her husband.

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The Zyratron Affair

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They Call Me Ace

In the latest BOGEY MAN mystery... A best-selling, but eccentric Gothic mystery writer in the 1950s had her home renovated, adding secret compartments. In her later years she told her twin daughters there was a treasure to be found, but gave them only one clue to its whereabouts.

Over 20 years after Marguerite’s death a young woman is murdered in the empty old house. While Chris’s parents are visiting, his mother, Judith, and his son, Mikey, want to solve their own mystery in true Cross family tradition. The Bogey Man and his family are soon gumshoeing their way through life again, looking for a murderer and hidden treasure.

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Three Seconds to Thunder

China Bohannonn’s on the company roster now, a modern 1890s career woman, but her Uncle Monk hasn’t turned her loose to investigate a case of her own just yet. China is champing at the bit.

Then Porter Anderson hires them, saying his uncle disappeared and a timber baron claimed the family homestead with a bill of sale Anderson is convinced is a phony. The problem is proving it.

What China finds is a trail of lies, theft, and murder--with her Uncle Monk slated as the next victim.

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A Wild Oaks Novel

Two Feet Below

by C.J. Crigger

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Smart, sassy 1890s bookkeeper turned sleuth China Bohannon is a magnet for danger. Assigned to the office in Doyle & Howe's detective agency, she lands smack in the middle of their latest murder case when a suspicious man tries to bribe her—and she takes the bribe! In an adventure destined to go downhill from there, China is thrown overboard from a steamboat into Coeur d’Alene Lake. Escaping that, and hot on the murderer's trail, she’s arrested on charges of prostitution in the wild mining town of Wallace, ID. Worse, her handsome boss, Gratton Doyle, doesn’t see eye-to-eye with her on who's 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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Glassbook

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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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A Dark Oak Mystery

Unleavened Dead

by Ilene Schneider

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Two members of Rabbi Aviva Cohen’s congregation are found dead, victims, they say, of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. But Aviva has info that leads her to doubt it was an accident. Then, police suspect Aviva’s niece’s partner in a hit-and-run death. Aviva is sure the woman is innocent, even though her SUV has a body-sized dent on the hood.

As she looks into the two disparate cases, Aviva discovers they may be connected, and her amateur sleuthing takes a sinister turn that involves sexual abuse of teenage girls, money laundering, stolen identities, and an FBI investigation. Once again, her curiosity has put her life in jeopardy.

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A Dark Oak Mystery

Vegas Vixen

by Dennis Griffin

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On Christmas Eve 2002, a 67-year-old woman is murdered in her exclusive Las Vegas home. Detective Steve Garneau learns the victim had a colorful past: In the 1960s she ran the best whorehouse in Sin City. Steve’s investigation takes him back to the days when the mob ran Vegas --an era rife with corrupt politicians, crooked cops, and Wild West justice.

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Vermont Bound

by Walter Luce

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Turk Donatelli, a poor, but ambitious boy from Vermont, jumped into the real estate development game in the Southeast. He made millions while still in his 20s—but not without some brushes with the Miami Beach Mob.

Turk tried walking away from it all, but his dwindling bank balance pulls him back into the high stakes — high risk world when mob-connected Niko Pappas recruits him for his Atlanta-area construction projects.

Soon Turk is caught in a triple bind, Can he walk the razor’s edge? Or is the FBI’s Witness Protection Program the next stop?

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Waifs of the Wasteland

By Wayne Beauvais

In 1925 Hollywood, Joe Holder, an ex-con just released from prison seeks to reclaim a lost love. But there is a hitch – while he was locked up, she became a movie star. Amid the glitter and grit of silent filmmaking, Joe soon finds he has two rivals for Rose Allen – an actor named Yancey Dix and Hollywood itself. Pooch, a pickpocket and Joe’s sidekick shows us the first golden age of tinsel-town -- a hectic world filled not only with movie folk but also with bootleggers, socialist-labor leaders, sassy flappers and newshounds. In their midst appears a genuine tough guy who reaches for a star – and nearly captures her.

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Walk-In

by Honora Finkelstein

and Susan Smily

A middle-aged professor is brutally murdered. Now in the astral plane, she yearns to bring her killer to justice but instead is pulled into the body of a girl who has just died. The professor learns she’s in witness protection, was stabbed by a hit-man, and is now without access to money, friends, or family. To stop her serial killer, she must flee her FBI protector and the hit-man while trying to connect with the only person whom she thinks might believe her and help her — a young man whom she might have loved in her other life...if she hadn’t been his mentor. And then the girl whose body she now controls begins to re-emerge...

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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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Who's Got the Money?

by Morgan St. James and

Meredith Holland

With $800 Million worth of products produced in federal prisons every year, Abby Hamilton had a diabolical scheme to become a very wealthy woman. She had almost reached her $35 million goal when she made the mistake of hiring three savvy women who blew the lid off Pandora’s box.

Despite comical backfires, Jennifer, Kate and Cameron were determined to find out what happened to missing bonus money and managed to pull off an intensive amateur undercover investigation. What they discovered was shocking evidence of something so much bigger—Abby’s clever multimillion dollar embezzlement plot.

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