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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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An Affinity for Murder

A Lake George Mystery

by Anne White

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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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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 a knowledge base 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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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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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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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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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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City of Suspects

By Katy King

 

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Portland, OR PI Jane Lanier finds a notorious mobster dead in her office, then her car is fried. 

The dead client had a secret to tell before someone put a bullet in his throat.  And he was not the first to die this way. Now someone wants to silence Jane –permanently. Lanier races to find answers as a killer moves closer and the truth seems to be sliding farther and farther away.

 
   

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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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CopTales 2000

Edited by Liz DeFranco Martinez and Marilyn Olsen

 

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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Days on the Beach        
The Damned  Never Die

 

by J. McKay

 

     

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Dealing with Auto Repair Shops Coming December 2007      
         
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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Easy Money

by Norm Maher

Dick Braun is a deputy sheriff in an affluent Ohio township, fed up with his job and wife and trying to hang on to his hot girlfriend, a wannabe screenwriter who talks in movie titles and can’t decide between love and greed. 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, a former gang banger in the LA barrio who comes out with his cousin to help. They get the cash but there’s a double cross, the money’s on the loose and Dick goes scrambling after it.

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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Field of Destiny

by Patricia Sheehy

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Set against a backdrop of social and racial tension, Field of Destiny explores themes of karma and free will, taking us to those precise moments of choice where a single decision has the power to change everything.

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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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GhettoCover.jpg (83185 bytes) Ghetto Sketches

by Odie Hawkins

 

Ghetto Sketches, with its sights, sounds and smells of the “main stem”…the rat and roach infested tenements, the jazz-filled freedom of Saturday night, the soulful peace of Sunday morning, is more than a panorama of street life.  It is a powerful indictment of the existence of the inner city, that black colony sealed off from the white population of every large city, “a reservation, a Bantustan that is politely not called that…ghetto is more acceptable.” 

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Giving with Meaning

by Patricia Sheehy

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...offers hundreds of ways you can turn ordinary items into meaningful gifts using folklore, legends and traditions...the beautiful 4-color book makes a lovely gift itself.

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The Glass Rose

By Pamela Waller

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Life for Kay Williams revolved around her interior decorating career. But her world was turned upside-down with the death of her mother. She learned the identity of her real father from  special items that her mother had saved. When the shock of it settles within her, she's torn between loneliness and the harsh truth. Kay  travels to Koge, Denmark where she embraces family members she never knew, and discovers the passion of a love that was meant to be.

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Gumbo Justice Gumbo Justice

by Holli Castillo

Coming Spring  2009    

Hearts Across Forever

by Mary Montague Sikes

 

Kathryn Calder is dedicated to her New York City job until and unexpected assignment to Jamaica changes the path of her life.  From the moment she arrives on the exotic island, 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 more 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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Hotels to Remember

 

by Mary Montague Sikes

   

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The Hunt

by Christie Rose

 

       

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INfatuation        
In Franklin's House        

Intent to Defraud

By Mark Travis

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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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The Jelly Bean Principle

105 Ways to Stand Out from Competitors

By Barry Thomsen

The one that stands out from the rest will be selected...

 …that’s The Jelly Bean Principle. Author Barry Thomsen delivers hundreds of easy to implement, free or cost-efficient ways you can make your business stand out from the crowd. Build your reputation, attract new customers and cultivate their loyalty, position your business for growth and develop the skills to weather the thin times. Readers will find countless ideas and suggestions to put into immediate use – and at minimal cost.

 

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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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The Last Casualty

by Peter Spring

 

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  The Last Stop:

Lincoln and the Mud Circuit 

by Alan Bower

Coming Fall 2008

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Media Blitz

by Joe Nowlan

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Wisecracking Boston photojournalist Ben Hudson connects the dots when a serial killer targets local media personalities.

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Mid-Life Mojo

by Robert M. Davis

 

 

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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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Number Please

 by Sheree Petree

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...a tightly plotted novel with unexpected twists...You'll find yourself rooting for the feisty, independent  sleuth, Trish Malcolm, and the sisterhood of hardworking telephone operators in the male-dominated world of the 1960s..."— Margaret Coel, author of The Shadow Dancer

   

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Of Weeds & Views

 

By Frances Crain

 

     

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The Poetry of Murder

By Bernadette Steele

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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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Passage Unknown        
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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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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Roadside Wildflowers of Christian County

 

by Sue Robinson

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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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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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Spangled Star Banter      

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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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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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Veil of Illusion

by Patricia Sheehy

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What a wonderful way to be introduced to karma, past lives, and reincarnation. This fascinating contemporary love story illuminates beautifully how the power of our past influences our present lives. It is truly a transforming and compelling must-read. — Z, Astrologer, Diviner, and Metaphysical Counselor/Healer

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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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