Tragedy in a Small Town in A Killing in the Hills

Posted by on August 15, 2012

A Killing in the Hills

On a Saturday morning three retired gentlemen were having coffee at a small town diner in Acker’s Gap, West Virginia when a man opened the door, fired a gun and killed them instantly. The gunman escaped leaving behind baffled and hysterical witnesses that were unable to describe him.

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Victorian Murder and Mystery in The Dead Witness

Posted by on July 25, 2012

The Dead Witness

Before Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes there was French detective C. Auguste Dupin who is credited as being the detective in the first mystery called “The Murders in Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. Modern mysteries have a wonderful past with detective stories tracing back to the Victorian Era…

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My Own Worst Frenemy

Posted by on July 23, 2012

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Chanti’s mom is an undercover cop, which is the worst thing to be in their rough Denver neighborhood. Everybody hates a snitch and blowing her mom’s cover would mean endangering her life, so Chanti is good at keeping secrets. I loved this urban mystery book!

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David Freed’s New Mystery Series Featuring A Flying Detective

Posted by on June 20, 2012

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Pilot and flight instructor Cordell Logan is down on his luck with his last student quitting and bills piling up, and it seems that things couldn’t get any worse until his ex-wife Savannah contacts him and wants his help. Her husband, Arlo, was murdered, but Cordell isn’t too distraught since Arlo was Cordell’s friend who broke up Cordell’s marriage.

Cordell has no intention of getting involved with the murder investigation though Savannah is convinced that the murder has something to do with Cordell’s and Arlo’s past…

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Knowing Too Much is Deadly in Hard Knocks

Posted by on May 23, 2012

Hard Knocks

PI Jack Reilly is short on cash so when Bucky, a friend of Jack’s incarcerated brother, wants to meet with the investigator Jack goes against his better judgment and agrees. Unfortunately, Jack made the wrong decision because Bucky is a blackmailer and wants Jack to be the backup for the information so the victim of the blackmail couldn’t just kill Bucky and have the information die with Bucky. Jack doesn’t want anything to do with it, but it’s too late – Bucky gets murdered and the information is on its way to Jack.

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The Gritty Purgatory Chasm

Posted by on April 11, 2012

Purgatory Chasm

Conway Sax has been a lot of things from an expert auto mechanic to a race car driver and finally an ex-con. One thing that hasn’t changed about Conway is his loyalty, especially to the Barnburners, an Alcoholics Anonymous group that saved Conway’s life. So when Barnburner member Tander Phigg needs help getting his car back from a mechanic, Conway is there. Unfortunately, before Conway can get the car back Tander is murdered.

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Fly Fishing, Noir, and Murder in The Royal Wulff Murders

Posted by on March 14, 2012

The Royal Wulff Murders

This is big sky country with its beautiful mountains, clear rivers, and murder. Newcomer Sean Stranahan has gone there to paint watercolors and fly fish, but his past experience as a private investigator puts him in the path of the mysterious singer Velvet Lafayette. She has an odd request for him that he can’t refuse, and inevitably she links him to a recent homicide.

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Laughing in the Face of Death in the Mattie Winston Mystery Series

Posted by on February 22, 2012

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Mattie was not a happy woman after she caught her doctor husband with one of the nurses. So Mattie quit her job as a nurse at the hospital and moved out of the house. Her best friend, Izzy, has come to the rescue with lodging and a job in the medical field. Unfortunately the new house is right next door to Mattie’s old house, and the job is in the medical field that deals with dead bodies as a deputy coroner.

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The Award Winning Mysteries of Reed Farrel Coleman

Posted by on February 1, 2012

Hurt Machine

Secrets can fester and grow, and Moe Prager’s secret hovers over him like death waiting to drop. He and his brother own wine shops, but in Moe’s heart he is still a cop. Though he had to leave the force, he occasionally works as a private investigator. It’s through his work as a PI that he met his wife; it’s also how he got his secret.

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Where There is Smoke There is Fire in The Burning

Posted by on January 18, 2012

The Burning

A serial killer is on the loose whose signature of burned and beaten women has left an indelible impression on the public. Everyone wants this brutal murderer found, and as women fear for their lives they react to any threat as if their life is endangered. After the killer strikes a fifth time…

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Susans beware in Stalking Susan

Posted by on January 4, 2012

Stalking Susan

Television news is a cut throat business and the competition is intense. Riley Spartz, an investigative reporter, is not quite as young or as pretty as her boss, though the worst part is that her boss thinks cute heartwarming stories are the way to go for the ratings not investigative stories especially about murder. Riley is determined…

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