Blood Paid In Full (Eve Snow Psychic P.I. Book 5)
No wonder authors have turned to self-publishing. Earlier this year, cozy mystery writers had contracts canceled and whole series dropped. Action, espionage, military thrillers and many mysteries, from humorous to noir have gone ebook. Five years ago, the first Tuesday of the month meant UPS had sacks on boxes at my door. Now a get maybe 2 books a month, 4 in the high release months. Having moved from quality packaging, Amazon now also save money using padded envelopes, except the books often arrive with creased covers and scuffing thanks to Amazon and the PO abuse. A trade paperback with a bent, creased cover?
The big downside of ebooks is the fact most authors choose a short novel length. That might be what ebook readers prefer, but it often leaves the characters and plot wanting. Same for Hammett and even Chandler. Not many authors can command a wide audience other than a handful of big names that run more on the reputation for their past works than their often mediocre, formulaic current novels. No, I have not lost my fondness for UF and paranormal, but most paranormal now seems to fall into mystery or romance genres. Pickings are lean there too. I do have a few for the next print book reviews group.
OK, this series is set in Canada and involves a cross between a spy series, near future virtual reality, and a book keeper who is mistaken for a deep cover spy. It has humor, heart, twists, turns, excitement, and some interesting takes on the James Bondish style send-up mixed with serious stuff. Each book, while part of an overarching story, is complete unto itself. Give it a try. I enjoyed the series a lot. In fact, it barely made good. With a cast of ever character you can think of — and some extras, an episodic style, and no really solid lead, it limped along in Mediocreville.
Get from the FOL sale or borrow it. Read the HC version — it was cheaper than the ebook. Call of the Wilde is a very short book. Never a good plan. Loose ends all over. The rush had predictable bad consequences.
Not as well done as the earlier books. The Preacher was a book I wanted to like. It had all the anti-hero elements. It was dull, predictable, occasionally tedious, and just blah. As sere and dusty as eastern New Mexico. I was frustrated at wasting my time on this. My score C- 2. OK, a favorite author — G. Bring the Heat was a sure bet — sort of. Binge reading has its pluses and minuses. With cozies or light mysteries, they quickly become predictable. With heavy paranormal, you hit a wall and have to stop and take a breather with something to lighten your mood.
But some flow seamlessly and have just the right balance of humor, action, paranormal events, and unfolding story arc to be great for a binge. A good friend out in CA who has a lot of overlap with my taste in books, especially paranormal, recommended the Immortal Las Vegas series by Jenn Stark.
Once I started it was worse than a bag of my favorite potato chips. I am happy to report I have no urge to bite people in the neck or drink blood and do not burst into flame in the sunlight. By the way, the only upside to cataracts is you get your near vision back for a couple of years ……. Five people I know have had or are going through cataract surgery.
Honestly, emails from friends sound like plots for some TV hospital drama. The award winner was a friend and her husband who had his prostate removed and finished radiation and took a week at the Gulf Coast before starting chemo. Well, he stepped on a stingray and got a barb in the foot. What are the odds? This is TV movie territory.
All books reviewed below were ebooks either purchased or loaned by a friend. All are available in multiple formats. Now if you are not familiar with the tarot deck it has 4 houses, just like a poker deck has 4 suits, plus what are called Major Arcana — cards that show Death, the Hanged Man, the Magician, etc. Hang in there and get through it and things improve rapidly. Sara Wilde is an artifact hunter using her tarot deck to guide her to her goals. Protecting them is her main goal in life. The man who hires her for many jobs recently is the Magician, one of the Arcane Council, its leader at the moment.
The primary problem here is the reader is instantly thrown into the deep end of the pool without a clue as to the nature of the world the book inhabits. The story is good, the pacing fast with enough humor to lighten the darker moments, and characters really good and slowly fleshed out, but the world building knocked down the rating as it gets confusing.
Her role grows bigger as the series goes on. The Kindle edition is free, so read that. The print books of this whole series are overpriced. Wilde Card picks up where book 1 left off, Sara still in with the council to act as the astral navigator for the High Priestess — an unpleasant piece of work. That also leaves her time in Vegas, the last city she wanted to be in thanks to the fact that Brody Rooks, the young cop she had a crush on when a teen helping the cops find lost kids, is now a Vegas Detective.
Too bad Brody is one of the cops sent for security. A former client, and generally bad guy, turns out to be the Emperor — Viktor Dal. Doing so begins unleashing her full potential — a theme that runs through the series. Not long, but action packed and good story telling. By the way, Death is a punked out tattoo artist that does some work on Sara that ultimately helps bind Nikki closer to Sara for their mutual protection.
Born to be Wilde has Sara back doing a job for the Magician — again. His healing has saved her life more than once, but his style of healing is very sensual and sexual in its nature and Sara wants to stay as far away from him as she can. But Viktor Dal, the Emporer and his experiments of allowing demons to inhabit children come to light. To get the demon back where they belong, Sara must travel to Atlantis to find weapons.
Which she did, only she brought them back embedded in her own body. Once again, the trip to Atlantis gives us a hint about Sara and her real role yet to be fulfilled. I give Born to be Wilde a B- 3. Wicked and Wilde is like paranormal on LSD. Sara goes to Hell. The Magician, Armaeus, who is momentarily human, is there ostensibly to bring back the Hierophant, the Archangel Michael. So human Sara is sent to haul their asses home. This choppy, episodic, trip in Hell takes way too long and Armaeus comes back even darker and less pleasant than before, setting back any budding romance thing going on and Sara faces her alternate self.
Talk about a WTF moment. Even worse, it drives her after her teen crush Brody Rooks who is now very taken with Dixie, the owner of a wedding chapel and kind of Connected network mama. I frankly found much of it just plain irritating as Sara blows hot and cold. It has a slam-bang ending that kind of made up for the acid trip to Hell — Sara has recovered the much-desired artifact belonging to the head of the House of Swords from her dead ancestor.
As she tries to return the necklace the Swords are attacked, possibly due to a traitor within, and as their leader lays dying, Sara learns she is her heir to the House. Not the best in the series, which blessedly gets better. The Hierophant is the best part of the book. Too bad the author fails to flesh that character out better over the series. Mostly she must fight all challengers to her being Head of the house. To win, she needs a magic sword. Nikki becomes an Ace in training and given her size and police background is a natural. Sara also is keeping up her work with Father Jerome.
For someone used to being a loner, these are uncomfortable adjustments and she has yet to fully recover from the emotional battering she took in Hell. Forever Wilde brings Father Jerome and the rescued children front and center. It also calls into question the involvement of the 2 Houses still hidden, Pentacles and Cups. The focus in of a series of experiments done on Connected children by Gammon and her partner.
Sara is determined to hunt down and destroy the Tehnoceutical experimental site using children as test animals. When Sara pushed Llyr back behind the veil, everyone in Vegas had a huge surge in their connected powers. Some want to keep that so badly they are resorting to the drugs — and Pentacles is helping them. Nicely woven plot with the usual slam-bang ending, where friend and foe become hard to tell apart.
Wilde Child is the most recent release. Sara finally uses her power as Head of the House of Swords to go after the technoceutical syndicate harming children. Talk about wanting to unknow something. The pacing is breakneck so it hides all the plot holes and minimal character development. The ending brought in people from nowhere who help save the day. Lyle first mystery, Deep Six , in the Jake Long series was another low-cost ebook I picked up just to try, and unlike Hard Tide , proved a worthy read.
His dad, a retired cop, and very successful PI. Entertaining, fast paced, good characters, well plotted and worth a read. And we the good, the bad, and OMG what the hell were they thinking? Gene pool lotto sucks. Still, thanks to modern surgery, getting cataracts removed is stupidly expensive, but easy. Then I have to get my driving confidence back.
So hoping you all had excellent holidays and are ready to check out what new — or at least new to me — in books! Perfect for getting back in the game with my brain still in neutral. Turbo Twenty-Three was better than her last book — which I remain convinced was written by someone else. Vaguely amusing is about it. The plot is just painfully obvious, the trip to Disney was pointless except to give Ranger and Steph a reason to climb into bed.
Frankly, a dime is about the fair price. If it takes more than 3 hours to read, try staying awake more.
Highly missable and get it from your library. Buying this is a waste of money. The new young adult Steampunk series by Shanna Swendson is a new genre for the humorous fantasy romance author. She is very well educated at 17 and gets a second class ticket to New York City to find a job as a governess. In this world, England has kept hold of the colonies and conveniences are supplied by their ruling class, magisters, magic users who are titled and act pretty must like all aristocracy.
After being turned down for every job she interviewed for, she finds she must go into the heart of the magister area. Much to her surprise, she is offered the job, complete with room and board. Magisters, as the audience is young adult, and the prose matches that. The pacing plods along at times and seems to race to cover her bald spots.
Set in , it combines some historic elements with her Steampunk NYC, but at limes seems lacking the verve that make the best book have a sense of life. I was always outside the story, never really engaged. Despite that, the best I can do is C- 2. Not as well imagined as some of the recent Dystopian books and certainly no Harry Potter. Turns out, Mr Black is just a family man trying to make a living after losing his job, house, and life savings caring for a sick wife and exceeding bright daughter. Apparently, poisoning the competition is a well-established tradition, all the while maintaining that brittle civility that masks bone-deep loathing among the rich and useless.
Another Shade — one that hates Izzy, is also on the job for another club member. Worse, her honey, the taciturn Connor, has become even more remote and she about ready to throw in the towel on him — except she needs access to his security company to help Etta and Mr Black. Altogether a fun, fast-moving story that includes the Christmas short Taste of Christmas. The author balances the 3 plots lines rather well, with a few bobbles here and there, but mostly dead on. A good entry if a solid and entertaining series, one I recommend to anyone who enjoys a light, humorous mystery with well-done characters.
Poison is the New Black gets a B- 3. I purchased the ebook online. Night School is set in and takes place mostly in Europe. Lee brings back Sgt Neagley, who has made several appearances in the Reacher books past and present. Each man in the class is briefed by members of the National Security Council.
This premise is off to a weak start and frankly, the plot is lame in many ways. The story complex, yet oddly flat and lifeless. The bad guy — yes military — is no genius yet seems to defeat all the systems. Even he is two-dimensional. Yes, there are the usual fight scenes, yes, Reacher gets laid — and not by Neagley.
Yes, the day is saved. And the whole thing was lackluster with occasional reminders of how good Child can be when he really tries. Night School gets C- 2. For fans only and borrow it from your library. One Fell Sweep is once again one of the most original books I read in months. I count it one of my top 5 series. Unlike some, there is no over-arcing plot that must be advanced.
Ilona Andrews a husband and wife team started this series online on the author website. A practice they continue. But the final published book gets rewritten and polished and occasionally changed a bit. You want to know how much I liked it? And they both soon know why. A boost bike screams down her road, turns and comes back. She hits it with EMP that kills the bike. The story that unfolds is rich, complex and has multiple plot lines involving a race near the brink of extinction, the Hiru, seeking her help and in return offering her the chance to ask the Archivarius one question about her parents — who disappeared along with their Inn.
But they bring with them another race that declared a holy war on them for no know reason generations ago. One Fell Sweep earns an A 4. Yes, it is a bad habit. The computer caught that damn keylogger again and 4 days later I finally am back up and running. So she takes a dangerous job. One person in hundreds of thousands can taste poison and poison has become the weapon of choice for assassins.
The difference is the odds of survival for these rare people are much higher thanks to their weird genetic anomaly, the same one that lets them taste and identify poisons. But she also i good at unraveling puzzles, like murders — in her own stumbling fashion. AT over pages, it stayed a fast paced, amusing read with likable and believable characters. Book 2 — Hunger Pains — has Izzy on her first real assignment as a taster for a blogger about to blow open a huge tech story — making him a target and keeping him away from heroin — the addiction he gave up 18 months ago, are as much a part of her job as tasting his food for poison and just laying around getting bored — and a tiny big plump.
He was as also agoraphobic and addicted to spicy cheese doodle from Mexico Izzy often went to buy at a local bodega. Then he sends her home to sleep and he tests his new freedom and walks to the bodega himself — and she finds him the next day, dead from an overdose. But Izzy is convinced nothing is what it seems and she once again finds herself working with Connor. The mystery here is more complex with more pieces on the board than in Eat Pray Die and a bit better done. Highly suggested reads for fans of light, but not cozy, humorous mysteries. Good characters and Izzy is fun.
With her adopted dad, a PI, as her mentor, she learned the business and looked for her birth mother only to be told to never contact her again. Her aunt tries to get her to come to the funeral, but she arrives late and refuses all overtures from family and leaves. Aunt Lucy comes to town and meets Jill for tea — and it turns out, Jill is a witch, one her mother hid among humans for years to protect her, but now she must fast-track her learning because someone is out to get her.
It all seems like such foolishness till she tries a spell from the book and finds she and her cat can talk. We get and evil witch, and icky guy friend, and cousins more irritating than my own — and trust me, that takes a LOT. Subsequent books did not encourage me to slow down. That is it, the whole 12 books that get increasing annoying with talking cats doing semaphore and naked ghosts and such. What had a decent start became a choppy mess of piecemeal life that frankly, you just stop caring about it all. Mrs V, the ever knitting secretary is sane. The rest are suspect.
Price is too high for what you get. If you want to read them, borrow them from a friend. The Christmas spirit is lacking when people start trying ti kill Gin. Estep keeps this series fresh and brings what should be a tired group of people into new and interesting stories.
The book ends with the usual showdown, with Gim once again almost dying. Not all sups are evil any more than all humans are good and Claire Connelley is just slowly learning the ropes. As an apprentice bounty hunter with Liam, they discover just a little too much and become targets of the believers. Well, once again, Leslie Langtry is hitting on most cylinders — BUT — this writer needs a damn good continuity editor. Not just any woman, Evelyn Trout. The mommies are horrified, the girls are thrilled and sit discussing poisons that can cause heart attacks. Evelyn Trout was no girl scout mom, but a rogue CIA black ops assassin working for whoever paid best.
But someone beats them to it. It has a better ending for who is the bad guy. Kelly is getting annoying, throwing a baby in the mix is weird, and suddenly Philby has 3 kittens who look different from the first two kittens — and one must assume neutering a cat is unheard of in Merry-world. Jim Laverne, widower of Joyce Laverne, died suddenly on May, just a few months after his wife of 44 years passed away.
Alas, many of their series will never wrap up now, but we have a large collection of books to enjoy in their memory. Yes, I read too much. The latest in the Novel Ideas series by Lucy Arlington, Off the Books , was a ho-hum effort that was too formula and predictable. I hate being able to write a plot in my head within pages of starting a book. Writing quality is good and characters and some depth, but nothing special. Not good, not awful, just blah. Melissa F Olsen is one of those decent, yet not exceptional, UF writers that live in the area where their books are good, but never reach rave review territory.
Her twin, Sam, died in an accident and Lex should have died in the deserts of the Mideast, but survived, much to the puzzlement of the military doctors. Not just any witch, a boundary witch that deals in death. In book 3, Boundary Born , she battles yet another problem — someone killing vamps with an ancient form of belladonna. What happens from there is part personal discovery and part action thriller. Boundry Born gets B- 3. The truck and obnoxious owner turn out to be the strangely over-qualified new head of security. The mystery that unfolds ends up centered around Mia herself.
The ending is a mix of obvious and odd — with more obvious than anything. The resolution is once again an odd mix of good and bad as the victim is revealed as a person in Witness Protection as well as a womanizer and a likable scoundrel possibly cheat who pretty much screwed everyone — ummmmm — physically and financially. Parts are very well dome and then segues into a side road that has nothing to add to the story or characters. I bought and read both as ebooks. The story of her sister Darlene.
JB Lynn writes a fast paced book that crams a lot of different stories into a fairly short novel and as usual has a neat hook at the end. Finding out the truth about Patrick was painful, but seemed inevitable for the last few books so not dramatic. Angel is taking a bigger role, but that leaves Maggie in a quandary given the fact she does work for his gangster uncle.
The Hitwoman and the Mother Load is solidly plotted, has good characters, and breakneck pace. Purchased as a Kindle ebook. The last Steph Plum book was riddled with them, so somewhere editors are not doing their jobs. She and her Great Aunt Scarlett — who is a hoot and the best part of the book — and Rosemarie try balancing a real case and special assignment as half payment for a tricked out van for surveillance. I like the surprise ending for the bad guy. Purchased as a kindle ebook. It gets more complicated when the body turnout to the older brother of her ex and she becomes suspect 1.
She and her son had a recent falling out and becomes a suspect. More importantly, her son made a major treasure find and was a very, very experienced diver, so she is convinced, despite the police claiming his pain-killer drug addiction and diving lead to an accidental death. The sheer number of characters involved make following the plot a bit of a challenge at times as she keeps introducing more and more variables with people and lies that are hard to separate from truth, an ex-wife and ex-boss who lost his fortune to Mike in a workplace accident lawsuit , now lovers, seeking a share of the treasure, partners telling different stories about what Mike owned and who had title to the treasure — and more deaths — including twice nearly dying herself.
Once again, despite the sometimes rambling plot and overuse of migraines, the culprit is a surprise. The plot unspools in a choppy fashion and is only tied together at the end, but once again, it was better than the typical cozy and the mid-Keys setting is a big draw for me. Since she has to create a whole new base of characters, I will buy book 3 and see how she manages the transition. Good reads, but not great. Far better than the typical cozy and worth the ebook price. Well, winter is drawing to a close but not without some departing drama in extreme cold, some snow, wild thunderstorms and power outages and general irritation — which kind of beats tornados any day.
Now if laryngitis would just strike all presidential candidates on both sides, I might actually begin to recover from football withdrawal ………….. We the people would be forever grateful. Disappointing, really, especially when some of the releases were long delayed. Anyway, where we go:. Still, it was such a good series I hung in there and waited OK, not really patiently for her 4th book.
I dearly wish I could say it was worth the wait. And everything goes sideways. This is not helped by the fact she can no longer trust the man — well Fae — she was falling for, Falin Andrews, a knight of the Winter Court who now is charged by his queen to live with her to convince her to become one of the court. Alex is a very rare plane weaver and all the courts want her — what she finds out is she actually NEEDS them. At her birth, her father charmed her to protect her from the courts.
A but after the near disaster at the morgue, he sends for her to explain why her powers are diminishing. She needs a line to the Fey to feed her energy. She gets an offer from the King of Shadows, but Falin drags het back to the Winter Court so she can heal and keep the queen from going mad. So for solving the mystery of the murder at the court, Alex demands a year of freedom with a line of energy to keep her alive. No major plot points resolved. She gets a year reprieve. It felt like a filler book, not an essential piece of the over-arching plot.
The story was a lethargic as Alex and the mad queen was over-played to an annoying level. It was dull — not kind of dull, mind-numbingly dull. The book, however, centers around Odette and Felicity. Here, the story loses much of its strength because of the flip-flopping and then dragging Ernst and Myfanwy back in and throwing in a rabid paranormal who is committing random acts of murder by growing pointed crystals that impale dozens of people at once.
His prose and clarity of thought was less certain and more inclined to be repetitive when trying to write Odette and Felicity. Of the two, Odette seemed to become the most complete character at the end. While fans will praise and swoon, be warned, Stiletto NOT on the same level. The stand-alone thriller by Eisler had good and bad points — but the bad outweighed the good for me.
Now the Head of the NSA has weathered the whole Snowden fiasco, but has a new problem on his hands, so the General, with his next in command, a man he saved from a burning vehicle during one of our Mideast wars, warns him that the smart analysts who caught the current problem needs to be on the team, but could prove a threat to the potential uncovering of the secret program.
Evelyn Gallagher is uncomfortable around General Remer and his ruined face, but as Director General Anders aide, he ran the office. The two guys in question both die — seemingly in accidents. OK, can everyone see where the plot goes after Anders assigns him to watch Eve? On that level, the book succeeds. The characters and plot do not. Eisler basically blew it on the characters and predictable plot, which is a shame given how well he did with all the technology aspects and their impact on just how far the government is overstepping Constitutional limits.
If you MUST read it, but or borrow the ebook. Of course, seeing demons, pixies, dragons, and trolls is not the trip they planned on. The two men …… males ……… glare and taunt right up until a human goes crazy and starts yelling about all the supernatural creatures in the restaurant. While Mac might be interested in going up in flames with Rake Danescu — maybe — a guy screaming about monsters and knocking over a Bananas Foster carts setting the place on fire was NOT what she had in mind.
And a dead guy ….. At his super posh NYC address, they find goblins and the mistress of the not so dearly departed and a portal opened by a demon or black magic — the smell of brimstone. Shearin handles her light, but interesting, plot with her usual deft humor combined with plenty of action for Mac and Ian and everyone else, including Rake.
I give The Brimstone Conspiracy a B- 3. Purchased from an online bookstore. OK all you savvy readers out there, in case you missed it, the number of books being released per month is dropping like a stone. I know there are more and more budding epubs out there even as many of the older, more established ones, like AmberQuill, are closing for good.
If this is what Graham Smith has in store for us with this new series, then consider me hooked. As the late night train from Manchester to Liverpool approaches the city, it hits the body of a man. After the police look into the case, they learn that the man was a well-known movie director - of the adult variety. As Andy Ross and his team investigate the death, they find out that the man's list of enemies is almost as long as the railway line from Manchester to Liverpool.
Is his murder personal or professional? With two disgruntled ex-wives - both with a motive for murder - thrown into the mix, Ross and his team attempt to solve the mystery of the Last Train to Lime Street. This is a standalone novel, and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read other books in the series. When the body of a prostitute is found, followed by the discovery of children locked in an attic, DI Gus McGuire is handed the case. But what at first appears to be a simple murder soon turns into an international manhunt for the members of a twisted child trafficking ring.
McGuire who is suffering with his own emotional problems, must pick his way through the web of deceit and uncover the truth in time before the body count rises. And can he trust those he is working with? It is a gripping read which keeps the reader turning the pages until an explosive finale. With plenty of twists and turns, this is a must read for all crime fiction fans. Mistry writes with natural ease. This book is better than good, it's great and deserves to be up there with the best in the business. But his hopes are dashed when a brutally mutilated body is found crucified to the bow of a fishing boat sending shockwaves through the peaceful community.
How will he cope when he is forced to choose between his family and his duty as a police officer? One warm spring morning, a police officer and his pregnant wife are found brutally murdered. A grisly message on the dead cop's phone, chills the investigating officer to the bone. Who is the perpetrator? Who is likely to be the next victim? Who is the mystery detective in the black suit? Bev Holland and her team follow up fragments of evidence, suddenly the killer gets to her son. I started making these lists for my own use in when an Amazon policy change gutted all of the web sites that listed free Kindle books.
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Defying the boundaries of her comfort zone … one murder at a time. But one taxi ride changes everything. Or will it make her the next victim? Read Cabs, Cakes, and Corpses to satisfy your craving for a quirky cast of characters to root for in this fast-paced story of mystery, humor, and discovery today!
Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see creatures of the dearly departed variety, aka dead pets. And for some reason those sweet, fluffy albeit paranormal cuties always seem to act as a not-so-great harbinger of deadly things to come for their previous owner. Personally, I was hoping for a skinned knee—what I got was a top spot in an open homicide investigation. Throw in a hot judge and an ornery detective that oozes testosterone and that pretty much sums up my life right about now. Have I mentioned how cute that detective is? Lottie Lemon has a bakery to tend to, a budding romance with perhaps one too many suitors and she has the supernatural ability to see dead pets—which are always harbingers for ominous things to come.
Living in the small town of Honey Hollow can be murder. Do you believe in magic? He suspects that the Jamaican psychic who's been "advising" his gullible wife Mabel is a phony, and he asks choir director Bertie Bigelow to do a little amateur sleuthing to help him prove it.
But Bertie's already got all the drama she can handle. The high-profile concert she's doing with The Ace Of Spades, an ageing but still sexy rap star, has Metro College in an uproar. Her on-again, off-again flirtation with attorney David Mackenzie has hit a dead end, and her best friend Ellen Simpson has been seduced and abandoned for the third time this year. When a Chicago Zoning Commissioner is rushed to the emergency room after filling up on the Soul Food Special at Charley's restaurant, Bertie is forced to take action. She doesn't need a crystal ball to know that there's trouble on the horizon.
To solve this case, she's going to need all the mojo she can get. Will Bertie get her mojo working? A romantic vacation for…five? But what kind of trouble can these three oddest of odd balls possibly get into? Bill Vokes has played Santa at the children's Christmas show for years. But with the show just hours away, he vanishes with no explanation. The whole village is baffled. Did something bad happen to loveable Bill: Jack and Sarah are on the case - and soon discover there are secrets about this Santa that no one could have imagined In this fourth instalment of the Inspector de Silva mysteries, it is monsoon season in the Hill Country.
To uncover the truth, he will have to face death and his inner demons. What Amazon reviewers say about the series: A Breath of Fresh Air "What a delightful change of pace. I really liked the characters and the location. It took place during a gentler time without all the cruelty and violence that defines far too much of the books we see being published now. There is more than enough violence surrounding us today without having our escape to the land of books filled with it.
Shanti de Silva, Nuala's police inspector, navigates the complexities of colonial society under British Imperial rule even as he unpicks the threads of a classic murder mystery. First-class entertainment, with a memorable mix of characters. I love a well-written mystery, and these don't disappoint with their frequent literary allusions, interesting characters, and realistic sets of interpersonal challenges and conflicts…. There's always a new thread to be pulled, and all kinds of insights and events result from each pulling.
These are absorbing stories, and I hope there will be more of them. She wanted a free house. She got a dead roommate. The first in the paranormal series The Ghosts of Landover Mysteries. And the dreaded chicken dance. The only downside might be that their fancy new mall kiosk is directly in front of Santa Land, the noisiest spot in the mall. Things are getting dangerous, but even with handsome detective Ross Ferguson tracking her every move, Gemma has to solve this crime before she ends up dead.
Mall Santa Murder 3. Mansions Can Be Murder 4. Leger returns from the 25th mystery in the series. This time, Leger witnesses the kidnapping of a small child and follows the child and the perpetrator onto a long-distance train. Unknown to Leger, he is followed by Annabella and Nicole who are determined to get him off the train. Leger must uncover the truth about this kidnapping and put right the wrongs, with a little help from another non-human passenger.
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What Leger doesn't realise is, he isn't the only one watching this situation closely Will Booker find the answers he needs and make it out alive? Could her sweet aunt really be involved? Or was it someone else near and dear to her? Not what she'd bargained for--but sometimes you just have to deal with what the cat dragged in. Will she figure that out before the murderer finds a way to silence her forever? Yummy recipes for Hawaiian style cooking in each book--Chicken Hekka in this one. The books in this series have minor themes that run through them all, but each story can stand on its own.
Winston Rutledge is the richest man in Copper City, Arizona, and he believes someone will soon try to kill him. The story quickly deteriorates into murder, and the ambitions of relatives in pursuit of his fortune. With Kendell and Myles safely back among the living, the task of keeping Colin in his place has fallen to Sanguine Delarosa. In order to keep an eye on him, she may have to get emotionally and physically closer than she imagined possible. With the love of Sanguine, he may yet be saved. Meanwhile, the band, Myles, and the faithful dogs once again put everything at risk to rescue Kendell from hell.
Some never did like each other very much. Since its reconstruction following the Great Chicago Fire, it has hosted world leaders, top names in entertainment, and even royalty. In the second installment in the M. As Detective John Marino of the Chicago Police Department arrives to handle the case, Robert looks to assist him in whatever way possible to solve what will become: The Case of the Linen Pressed Guest.
Sometimes weddings can be murder. Bakery owner Joy Cooke is known around town for her scrumptious cakes, flaky pastries, and her killer chocolate tart. But when Joy's client, a batty bride-to-be, learns her ex-boyfriend is dead after eating one of Joy's desserts, the bakery becomes the center of a murder investigation. With the help of a spacy assistant and a fluffy cat named Cheesecake, Joy sets out to find the murderer. Her investigation points to her number one competitor in town, but would Joy's rival Maple McWayne resort to murder to put her out of business?
After a year of murder and mayhem in Cosset Cove, Charlotte Wilde is looking forward to a tranquil Christmas. Unfortunately not everyone seems to understand this is the season of goodwill. When the local Chief of Police asks Charlotte to help identify a murder victim, all hopes for a peaceful holiday are about to be shattered. At least Amy seems to be having a good time. Her role as one of Santa's helpers at the local department store could even lead to love.
That is until another body shows up and the police suspect Amy may be involved. Despite resolving to never be drawn into the deadly world of murder ever again, Charlotte knows she has to help prove her friends innocence. Join Charlotte, along with Clara, Abigail and Barney, the huge Main Coon cat, as they race against time in an effort to discover the real killers identity.
A race that once again leads them to face the ultimate peril. Or will being on the trail of a cold blooded killer finally mean their luck has run out? Contains plenty of light witty humor and will keep you turning the pages right to the end! This time murder is the whole enchilada.
Mari Ramirez has her hands full running her family's restaurant and juggling family drama at the same time. But when she serves up a plate of steaming hot Carne Asada to her meat delivery man, a killer strikes while the plate is still hot. Mari's father becomes the number one suspect in a murder investigation, and Mari finds herself on the prowl to clear her family's name. With the help of her mischievous brothers and a bulldog named Tabasco, Mari uncovers a shocking truth. Will she unveil what really happened before she too is seared with a side of rice and beans? FBI agent Brandon Fisher and his team with the Behavioral Analysis Unit are off to Grand Forks, North Dakota, when the body of a woman is found in her bathtub, dressed in a wedding gown with her ring finger severed.
And failure is not an option. Blue Baby is a creepy psychological thriller that will have readers turning the pages to unravel every twist. It will also have readers looking differently at how they define their own happiness. Buy this international bestselling book today and hunt a serial killer alongside the FBI! Join the hundreds of thousands of readers who have already taken the plunge into a series that will take you into the minds of the most heinous and disturbing serial killers the world could ever imagine.
What readers say about Blue Baby: A book that keeps you on edge to the end. And do the answers lie closer to home than anyone ever imagined? He likes their comfortable shape and weight and size. He likes the portability of the hands once they are severed from the rest of the ponderous body. He might carry them in his coat pocket, carry them to where he works, to the cafe, the park.
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But really, The Handyman isn't a selfish sort, the hands are for someone else, someone without proper hands of their own. And besides, the "donors" never felt any pain, they barely even bled. The Handyman had worked out every detail. Chicago Police Detective Ryne Lanark figured out the handless corpse probably deserved what he got, that he had violated some sacred code. When a second handless body was found, Lanark knew there would be more, that the slaughter was just beginning.
Forensics warned him that the killer was brilliant-amazingly,the victims died of heart attack,not blood loss. As the body count rises, lunatics from all over Chicago begin confessing to the murders. Then, a woman claiming to have escaped The Handyman comes forward. Her description is too precise to be faked. She could be the key to the whole case Either way, Lanark will meet The Handyman About the Author Robert W.
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Praise for Robert W. Book Description This fast-paced action-packed mystery-thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat with suspense. After she is forced to deal with him with extreme justice, she learns that he was the second in command in a sex club, but not just any sex club, they specialize in kidnapping and sex trafficking of teenage girls for wealthy clients with twisted sexual fantasies.
She finds herself in a race against time to identify and set traps for several members of this elusive sex club, before they shut down and move elsewhere. As she peals back the many layers of the case, she uncovers heavy hitters are involved and it becomes a multi-jurisdictional investigation. Harry Winslow was a good cop, until he started drinking. Now he runs a convenience store in the seedy part of town.
Yesterday, he stopped two guys from snatching a beautiful young woman off the street. Then her friend gets murdered, and things get interesting. Mickey wants to retire.
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He has grown bored and frustrated by his life as a Secret Agent. He doesn't want any sort of new assignment, but when his old pal Terry askes him to help a friend of his, it doesn't seem like too big an ask. All Mickey has to do is delver the Chinese man to a farmhouse in Lancashire. How hard can that be?
It isn't as if someone is about to kill him, is it? No, but when the man transported pulls a gun and tries to kill someone else, well then, Mickey really is confused. In the days that follow, there are more things revealed, not least the fact that the man at the farm is just one part of a worldwide computer network, building and designing new chips. Is that why people want them dead?
Also, the elected Mayor of Greater Manchester is asking Mickey's old boss, Captain Gibson, to investigate Globalisation, which he feels is a threat to the peace and future of his county. How can one local British Mayor face down the economies of the world? Of course, there is a link. An ex-employee of the Unit is now one of the most powerful businessmen in the North West.
What is he up to now? What is his grand plan for the future, and will it impinge on local politicians? The tension builds to a cliff-hanging climax. Has Mickey finally met his match? Is he just going to be left dangling? Pattaya City , Thailand. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. It's definitely not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever. Now Richy sees a way out. A new job, one that could net him hefty coin, if only he can find a missing antique watch that's worth more than even the owner is aware.
That watch is attached to a wrist that is attached to a hand that is holding a smoking gun. Before finding out who pulled the trigger though, Rich is going to get scuffed up in a bad way. Then his friends get caught up in the act, and Detective Richy Sky is willing to die to protect his friends Pattaya Heat is a fast-paced, action-packed mystery set in an exotic locale that is dripping with sweat and humidity. It's got it all: Book 8 in the bestselling "Ghost Files" series!
Monty and Ellen head to Medellin, Columbia, to investigate a haunted castle. However, when Ellen is attacked by the spirit, things take a scary turn. Monty uses his hi-tech instruments to track the ghost while Ellen, a psychic, communicates with the dangerous spirit via a translator. When they begin to make a connection between the angry spirit and his shady history, they must trust a notorious man in order to identify the ghost—and thus, help him pass from this plane of existence to stop the hauntings.
But the past hides a grim secret—a secret that is long buried. Danger threatens them at every turn and the harder they dig for answers, the more treacherous their paranormal investigation becomes. Also available in this best-selling series: Someone's killing world-famous authors using the methods in their stories. A world-renowned novelist and his wife are found dead in their East Florida beach home -- with no apparent cause. Something outrageous has been done to the bodies.
Another best-selling author is killed on the other side of Florida. This time the cause of death is obvious. Are the two murders related? The MOs are completely different. The killers appear to be unstoppable, and to have some mad, crazy plan. They're the pop literary world's best chance to survive! Three of the best men in the world are in love with Naomi Soul. They live in different parts of the country -- she barely has the time. Naomi's busy solving cases for the FBI, and trying not to neglect her English bulldog Winston -- when along comes one of her worst cases yet!
Just back up slowly," I said in a gentle voice to the paramedic. For five years, two murders have lain unsolved and nearly forgotten in the police vault in the quiet little burg of Frederick, Maryland. Until a young lawyer turns up dead, and the familiar pattern of the Coworker killer plunges the sleepy northern town back into darkness.
As the body count begins to rise, it soon becomes chillingly obvious that this time the killer has no intention of stopping. Lacking a suspect, hounded for answers by the ravening media, the police have nowhere to turn but Nate Castle, College teacher by day, locally-renowned PI by night. The case of the faceless Coworker murders is the most demanding of his career. Somewhere out there is a predator against which Nate is the only defense, but the troubled detective has his own demons to fight. Haunted by regret, crippled by the bottle, Nate stands alone in the darkness, challenging a foe he cannot see.
Then the Coworker makes a small but critical mistake. This book contains four complete novels. The tension will keep you reading all night long. Compelling characterization by Singer makes this series a must-read, with authentic details and witty dialogue. Seems the professor's wife was found dead in the backyard of their Berkeley home, and he wants to pay Jake ten thousand dollars plus expenses to figure out whodunit.
With his good friend Rosie, and her justice-dispensing two-by-four, Samson follows a twisted trail that leads through the Bay Area's bizarre cultural labyrinth, from pop meditation ashrams to neo-Nazi rallies, to the startling but all too human truth. Someone would even kill for it. Rebecca noshes her way through the case in hilariously unorthodox style, tasting some great bread along the way, but also uncovering so many ancient jealousies, long-simmering feuds, and seething resentments that she barely escapes death by doughball. And then Gerald Meyer, a stranger he meets at the P.