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Dead in Venice (The Bella Tyson Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
A FÊTE WORSE THAN DEATH (Jack Haldean Murder Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Meet Jack Haldean, flying ace, gentleman about town, crime-writing sensation . . . amateur sleuth.
He is the author of many a twisty plotline. Now he must use his crime-writing skills to solve a murder for real.
Discover an utterly charming historical whodunnit that conjures all the intrigue and glamour of the roaring ’20s. Filled with fabulous flappers, magnetic aristocrats and enough red herrings to keep you guessing until the final page.
Stanmore Parry, Sussex, 1922. Warm beer, an off-key band and nosy matrons. The village fête has never been Jack’s idea of a good time. But this year will be murder . . .
A body is found in Madame Zelda’s fortune-telling tent. Someone shot him and left him there for dead.
Before long, the police turn to Jack for answers. It’s no secret that he and the victim have a history. They were both pilots with the Royal Flying Corps during World War One.
Family Trust (affiliate link)
Mel’s day couldn’t get worse. Her would be assassin is dead on a hotel floor and she doesn’t know who to turn to. The only person she trusts is her ex, David—the love of her life, but he wouldn’t understand that the attempt on her life was just another chapter to add to her family’s dark past. On top of this, a wedding, decades in the making is about to occur, that will bring secrets to light and end a Family Trust that has brought her family nothing but tragedy.
Family trust is a fast paced thriller through the generations, into the tangled history of a wealthy Australian family who lives by their own rules. Readers are loving this gripping thriller, that keeps the pages turning, while weaving a story filled with mystery, drama and humor.
Perfect for thriller lovers who crave stories filled with mystery, drama, and a touch of humor, this novel promises to keep you turning pages and guessing until the very end.
Fresh Doubt (Ingrid Skyberg Book 1) (affiliate link)
Newly posted to London, Ingrid is thrown into a high-stakes investigation when an American student dies in suspicious circumstances at an elite London college. Ingrid swiftly uncovers a series of cruel psychological experiments masterminded by a charismatic professor.
Haunted by the memory of losing her own best friend, Ingrid is driven to make sure another young woman’s death doesn’t go unpunished. Her unbreakable commitment to justice encounters fierce resistance – not just from those determined to keep the truth buried, but also from her new boss, the local cops, and the college authorities.
With no backup, Ingrid must put her career – and her life – on the line to get to the truth.
Midnight Beach: A Port Stirling Mystery (affiliate link)
A brutally murdered federal agent, and distrust among his close colleagues greet Port Stirling Police Chief Matt Horning as he faces down a second homicide in his new Oregon hometown.
“I can now add Kay Jennings to my list of go to authors. Another reviewer likened her to Louise Penny, and I think it’s a fair comparison.” Amazon reviewer
Is there really an international drug ring operating in his remote coastal village where nothing ever happens? Is this what Matt Horning bargained for when he took this job last winter? As spring blooms on the Oregon coast, are there also blossoming forbidden feelings within him?
Just when his police department gets back to normal after solving its first murder in decades, along comes another dead body found in a marsh near the Pacific Ocean. And this one has ominous overtones never before seen in Port Stirling.
Madam Alana: A Marriage Auction Novella (affiliate link)
Candidates and bidders come from all over the globe hoping to change their lives.
And I deliver.
I’m in the business of bringing couples together in a mutually beneficial and legally binding marriage. The terms are three years for no less than a million dollars a year, not including my commission. Once a pair signs on the dotted line, the contract ensures there is no going back.
Most couples find over time they are a love match, but not all.
Before I took over The Marriage Auction, there wasn’t an extensive vetting process. Some candidates were subjected to horrors that haunt my every waking moment.
All They Ask Is Everything: A Novel (affiliate link)
Determined to be a better mother than her own, Hannah has devoted her life to her daughters. She ignores her increasing exhaustion and isolation as a widowed mom—until a disastrous mistake lands the girls in foster care.
Julie is single and lonely and dreams of being a mother. After infertility issues lead her to foster parenting, she falls head over heels for Hannah’s daughters. The more she bonds with these sweet, precocious girls, the more she worries about their previous home life and becomes intent on finding a way to keep them.
Recently forced into retirement, Elaine is devastated by the way her daughter, Hannah, has shut her out. When she discovers her granddaughters are in foster care, she resolves to rescue them from the system: her one chance at a parenting do-over.
Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong (affiliate link)
In this hopeful debut about the silent struggles of motherhood, three very different women want custody of the same two little girls—and learn they have more in common than the children they’re fighting for.
Determined to be a better mother than her own, Hannah has devoted her life to her daughters. She ignores her increasing exhaustion and isolation as a widowed mom—until a disastrous mistake lands the girls in foster care.
Julie is single and lonely and dreams of being a mother. After infertility issues lead her to foster parenting, she falls head over heels for Hannah’s daughters. The more she bonds with these sweet, precocious girls, the more she worries about their previous home life and becomes intent on finding a way to keep them.
The Deal of a Lifetime (affiliate link)
A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it’s too late. He tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away. She’s a smart kid—smart enough to know that she won’t beat cancer by drawing with crayons all day, but it seems to make the adults happy, so she keeps doing it.
As he talks about this plucky little girl, the father also reveals more about himself: his triumphs in business, his failures as a parent, his past regrets, his hopes for the future.
Now, on a cold winter’s night, the father has been given an unexpected chance to do something remarkable that could change the destiny of a little girl he hardly knows. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he must find out what his own life has actually been worth, and only his son can reveal that answer.
Before I’m Gone (affiliate link)
Palmer Sinclair has never needed anyone’s help. A successful loan officer, she’s all work and no play. But when splitting headaches and blurred vision begin to affect her job, she begrudgingly sees a doctor and receives a diagnosis that leaves her shaken to her core and with little time left. Facing an uncertain future, Palmer makes a bucket list, determined to do the things she’d only dreamed of before she goes.
Kent Wagner has dedicated his life to helping others. An army medic turned paramedic, he’s a regular at Palmer’s bank who makes his monthly car loan payments in person just to see her radiant smile. After responding to not one but two 911 calls involving Palmer, he learns about her bucket list. Touched by her circumstances—and needing a distraction from his own—Kent offers to take Palmer to the places on her list.
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