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A Kidnapping or a Murder? His fate is in their hands – and the clock is ticking.
A much-loved therapist is kidnapped. The culprits soon declare an intent to kill. Detectives Roberts and Bradley must work against the clock to save him. If they fail, he will surely die. But does he deserve what’s coming to him?
Detectives Eva Roberts and Dan Bradley are hired to track down missing psychotherapist, Laurence Potts. Potts has been Eva’s therapist for years – and his sudden disappearance leaves plenty of questions. As the detectives uncover the old man’s secrets, Eva realises she may have never known Potts at all. But when a ransom letter appears in a local paper, Eva and Dan must do whatever it takes to track the kidnappers before the villains can carry out their final threat.
Carpe Demon (Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom Book 1) (affiliate link)
Nobody slays demons like Kate Connor. At least that used to be true…
She gave up her supernatural past to settle into the role of devoted wife and stay-at-home mom, and never regretted it for a single second.
But now her past has come calling.
Out of practice and pushing forty, Kate knows she can’t go this alone. But who can she trust when she’s been out of the game for over a decade?
At the end of the day, this mom will do whatever it takes to keep her family safe … including skipping PTA meetings to go head-to-head with hellspawn. Can she use her mom skills to put the demons in time out, once and for all?
Trust No One (Mac Davis Thrillers Book 1) (affiliate link)
Howard Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security. And he isn’t going to let a bunch of Marines who were in the wrong place at the wrong time stand in his way — even if one of them is now a reporter in Seattle, his home town. What are the odds?
Former Marine Mac Davis likes being a cop reporter. He gets a regular paycheck, and no one is shooting at him. What’s not to like? He’d rather be writing sports, but he took the job anyway.
Then someone tries to kill him. Roughs up his aunt. Kidnaps an old Marine buddy. And Mac is going to find out why. And then? He’ll put a stop to it. One way or another. If the tools of a reporter won’t get the job done? Well then, he’s got other tools to use.
Down Stepney Way (The East End Sagas Book 1) (affiliate link)
What will happen when the truth finally comes out?
Blackshirts march through the East End in 1930s London and the Jewish community is under threat of violence. In the midst of this, Jessie Warner discovers a family secret and turns to her mother for answers – but she is met with silence.
Over in Bethnal Green, Hannah Blake reluctantly joins the Blackshirts, forced by her cold-hearted mother to do so. Next-door neighbour Emmie Smith looks on, wishing she could tell Hannah the truth about her family and provide her with hope for a brighter future.
Meanwhile, Emmie’s son Tom, chipper and handsome, has fallen for Jessie Warner who he is desperate to bring home. Their lives intertwine and soon, so do their secrets…
Gingerbread to Die For (The Dunbarton Mysteries Book 9) (affiliate link)
Cookies and corpses, not the picture-perfect Christmas Chris and Alicia Mallory had planned.
Recipe for a Christmas Murder
Take one gingerbread competition, one mayor looking for publicity, one egocentric celebrity chef and a killer with an axe to grind. Mix thoroughly for the perfect Christmas murder.
Well, almost perfect.
It’s one month until Christmas in Dunbarton and the town is buzzing with the news that a famous celebrity chef is coming to judge and televise the gingerbread competition at the new community centre. Confident that the event will attract hordes of food-loving visitors to town, the mayor has Dunbarton decked out in all its Christmas finery and directs Alicia and the deputy mayor to make sure everything runs smoothly.
Tanya (The Trouble Sisters Saga Book 1) (affiliate link)
She’s a brash deputy. He’s an undercover agent. When sparks start to fly, a murderer might be the death of them.
Deputy Sheriff Tanya Trouble can’t help being pushy. In her dusty border town, being a polite cop could get her killed. When a fifteen-year-old girl is murdered, Tanya turns up the heat to track down the killer. She’s convinced one of the town’s white supremacists killed the girl, but when she starts lining up suspects she can’t help but be sidetracked by a sexy new ranch hand.
Ryker Thompson is smart and more than a little cocky. The FBI agent figures that’s why he’s been sent undercover as an arrogant right-wing ranch hand to investigate a sophisticated human trafficking operation. But he never could’ve anticipated that a brash deputy sheriff would name him as the prime suspect in an ugly local murder. And he’s surprised by how arousing he finds her suspicion…
When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée, Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor’s family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her family with more revelations. This wasn’t the first time she had committed cold-blooded murder, and she would eventually be tried by the “world’s deadliest prosecutor” and sentenced to death.
This book probes Velma’s stark descent into madness, her prescription drug addiction, and her effort to turn her life around through Christianity. From her harrowing childhood to the crimes that incited a national debate over the death penalty, to the final moments of her execution, Velma Barfield’s life of crime and punishment, revenge and redemption, this is crime reporting at its most gripping and profound.
Intermittent Fasting Made Easy: Next-level Hacks to Supercharge Fat Loss, Boost Energy, and Build Muscle (affiliate link)
Like any hot diet trend, intermittent fasting (IF) is surrounded by hype and misinformation. Written by nutrition and fitness expert and YouTube sensation Thomas DeLauer, Intermittent Fasting Made Easy moves you beyond how you could do IF to what you should do to get the very best results.
Known for making nutrition science cool and accessible, DeLauer gives you an action plan for maximizing results—designed with busy people juggling family, career, and everyday life in mind. It’s IF made easy and applied to real life.
Chapter by chapter, DeLauer walks you through the best practices for each of the key stages of intermittent fasting: the fasting window, breaking the fast, and the eating window. For each stage, find a checklist to confirm you’re on track as well as a troubleshooting section to make sure you are fasting in a way that supports your body and lifestyle.
The 28 Day Alcohol-Free Challenge: Sleep Better, Lose Weight, Boost Energy, Beat Anxiety (affiliate link)
An illustrated day-by-day guide packed with inspiration and practical help, The 28 Day Alcohol-Free Challenge is the only book you need to reset your drinking habits and discover a hangover-free world of quality time to achieve your goals.
Drawing on their own experiences of ditching the drink, and bringing together the collective experience of the thousands of people they have helped, Andy and Ruari bring you unparalleled insight into how you can make your break from alcohol an empowering, life-changing experience.
QBI, Queen’s Bureau of Investigation: Stories (affiliate link)
The agents of the FBI are fierce, brilliant, and brave—but nothing in their files can compare to the puzzling mysteries that have been tackled by Ellery Queen. He is a one-man crime-fighting force, whose areas of expertise range from murder and blackmail to rare books and buried treasure. At the headquarters of the Queen’s Bureau of Investigation, or QBI, there’s no crime that can’t be solved.
Whether investigating a trio of widows, a bumbling Shakespearean actor, or a blackmailed Sicilian, Queen is quick to deploy his secret weapon in the fight against crime: his brain. Each of these eighteen stories is an elegant puzzle, crafted with all the wit that has made Queen the most famous detective of his age.
Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking (affiliate link)
One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives (affiliate link)
In his modern classics One Man’s Owl and Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably about his relationships with wild ravens and a great horned owl. In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds.
There are countless books on bird behavior, but Heinrich argues that some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar of what most birds do in aggregate. Heinrich’s “passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science” lead to fascinating questions—and sometimes startling discoveries (The New York Times Book Review). A great crested flycatcher, while bringing food to the young in their nest, is attacked by the other flycatcher nearby. Why? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich’s cabin deliver the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings, and to make a related discovery about nest-cleaning. One of a clutch of redstart warbler babies fledges out of the nest from twenty feet above the ground, and lands on the grass below. It can’t fly. What will happen next?
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