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Final Kill (A Maggie Flight Book One) (affiliate link)
When homicide cases turn into serial killers, the California Bureau of Investigation turns to profiler Maggie Flight, a California native whose dark past helps her get into the minds of killers.
When a killer begins staging elaborate tributes to Hollywood’s darkest unsolved crimes, CBI Agent Maggie Flight is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. With the spotlight on her, can Maggie catch the culprit before she becomes the final act?
Ellie Dwyer’s Great Escape: Ellie Dwyer Book 1 (affiliate link)
You’re never too old to run away from home
Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in threes, and not just garden-variety, oh-well bad luck. How many people have to flee not one, but two natural disasters? And in between the wildfire and the hurricane, her husband of nearly forty years suddenly up and left her for no reason she could fathom, disappearing from her life without a clue to his whereabouts.
Determined to reinvent her life, Ellie sets out on a journey across the country. Along the way to nowhere in particular, she buys a camper, becomes friends with a remarkable octogenarian, and starts to believe that good luck might also come in threes.
Or does it? That depends on how she defines good luck.
In Over Her Head (Corporate Chaos Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Grouchy rich boss. Snarky jealous assistant. Whopper of a secret.
Designer Marly West has one reason for taking the job at Draconia Fashions…and it’s not to come up with the latest clothing trends.
But when she blurts out a good idea in a corporate meeting, she gets exactly what she didn’t want … an opportunity of a lifetime.
Too bad taking advantage of it might reveal the secret she desperately needs to keep hidden. But it’s too late to get out of it now, and she soon finds that she’s in over her head with a boardroom full of resentful executives, a hot CEO, and a jealous M&M-scarfing assistant who wants to make sure Marly doesn’t succeed.
Christmas Treats: Christmas Cookies, Cakes, Brownies, and Desserts! (affiliate link)
Inside you will find a full-color and delightful Christmas treats cookbook filled with every recipe you need to take your Christmas party or gathering to the next level. These desserts are wonderful for any party. Everything from Christmas cookies, brownies, fudge, bark, cakes, and more holiday desserts. Kid tested — Mother approved!
Here’s a few of the Christmas treats:
Santa’s Favorite Cookies
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Snowball Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies
Christmas Star Cookies
Christmas Tree Brownies
Santa Hat Brownies
Peppermint Bark
Chocolate Almond Cranberry Bark
Old Fashioned Chocolate Fudge
Candy Cane Fudge
Peanut Butter Fudge
Christmas Macarons
Cornflake Christmas Wreaths
Reindeer Pretzel Rods
Peppermint Brownie Cake Pops
Merry (affiliate link)
Merry Tremayne loves Christmas in Rivers End. Festivals, food, and family make the holiday magical—which is fantastic, as long as she’s not the one making the magic. The last time she used her Gift to improve someone’s Christmas spirit, it ended in catastrophe. So when she accidentally casts a spell on a grumpy, gorgeous Grinch, she thinks she’s ruined everything. That is, until he kisses her with enough heat to melt a snowman.
For Dillon Clarke, nothing good has ever come from Christmas. But things start looking up when he meets perky, sexy Merry, who’s determined to put the tinsel on his tree and the jingle in his… bells. Together, they might just be able to conquer their fears and begin some new Christmas traditions of their own.
The Sun Rose in Paris (Portraits in Blue Book 1) (affiliate link)
Jack has been praised all his life for his extraordinary artistic talent and is rarely seen without his sketchpad. However, in Jack’s world art is considered a hobby – men are expected to have jobs that offer security and advancement.
Future responsibilities are far from Jack’s thoughts when he travels to London to visit relatives. On the crossing, Jack’s drawings astonish a fellow artist, Margaret. Convinced of his potential, she introduces him to the Bloomsbury set, exposing him to a world where peoples lives are dictated by passions rather than social conventions and art is central to their existence.
Accepting a thrilling opportunity to study modern art in Paris, Jack’s life is forever changed. He forms a deep friendship with fellow student, Andrés and his sister, Sofia, whose dark eyes and sweet smile captivate his heart. Together, the trio explore Paris at the height of its golden age. Mentoring from Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso affirm Jack’s talent, and he has never felt so happy.
The Stolen Wizard (Joey Finch Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the gritty streets of Sydney, where magic and mayhem collide, a quick-witted wizard must take on ancient demons and creatures of legend to prevent the city from descending into chaos.
Joey Finch’s life is turned upside down when a strange encounter thrusts him into the hidden world of the supernatural. Magic, as it turns out, is real. And so are the monsters who lurk in the shadows.
When Custodian Mary Blackthorne, the protector of Sydney, offers to teach him how to wield the power of The Cascade, he agrees, because who the hell wouldn’t want to learn magic? But maybe he should have questioned her true motives before signing up. Maybe he should have asked what happened to the Custodian’s last apprentice…
Joey’s life gets madder by the day as he delves into the city’s supernatural underbelly, encountering tech-savvy elves, impeccably dressed vampires, sun-tanned witches, and demons who have crawled up from the darkest corners of the Realms Below.
Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (affiliate link)
Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour and Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour.
Happy Bloody Christmas (affiliate link)
Anna’s Christmas Eve To Do List:
1. Wrap the kids’ presents
2. Peel the potatoes
3. Get rid of the dead body?!
Hungover and exhausted after her family’s annual party, all Anna Johnson wants for Christmas is to finish her to-do list and finally sit down with the world’s biggest glass of wine.
But when she stumbles across a dead body in her larder, her plans are well and truly buggered.
A mysterious death in her home really is the last thing she needs, but with her judgemental in-laws arriving in less than twenty-four hours, turning her house into a crime scene is not an option. If she’s going to save Christmas, it’s up to Anna to find out what the hell’s gone on. Oh – and figure out what to do with the body before one of the kids finds it.
Break Her Silence (FBI Agent Merit Reid Crime Thrillers Book 1) (affiliate link)
Six human skulls in a secret room. A long-dormant serial killer flushed out of hiding. New victims being taken all over the state.
On the Cleveland waterfront, rookie FBI Agent Merit Reid is ready to prove herself among the seasoned agents on her squad. When a macabre trophy room is uncovered in the basement of a historic home in the affluent Merriman Valley, Merit gets her first taste of action.
Teaming up with her boss and reluctant mentor, Sean Everett, they’re hard at work identifying the victims from cold cases and missing persons – until a fresh body turns up. Two hours away, a decapitated woman in a vintage 1950s dress is discovered in the back yard of an abandoned home, head nowhere to be found, a note pinned to the body.
A Cryptic Clue (A Hunter and Clewe Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she’s about to discover, a retiree’s life can bring new thrills—and new dangers.
Cameron “Cam” Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something—an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts. Jane’s thrilled to be hired on by Cam and to uncover the secrets of his latest acquisition, a trove of items related to the classic mystery and detective authors. But Jane’s delight is upended when a body is discovered in Cam’s library. The victim, heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, was the last in line of Cam’s failed romances—and now he’s suspect number one.
The Pitch Queen (affiliate link)
Claire Wyld, a literary agent, is the queen of the flashy pitch and is fighting to be the number one dealmaker in debut novels. But her plan hits a snag when a long-time rival woos away a would-be client who would put her on top. To make matters worse, a problem with her late mom’s estate lands her in coastal Georgia. How is she going to find her next seven-figure superstar in Gull Island a.k.a. Dull Island?
Claire befriends Philip, a grieving widower and antiquarian book dealer, who’s found great solace in novels and holds a romanticized view of Claire’s job.. Claire loves seeing this version of herself through his soulful eyes and doesn’t disabuse him of his wildly inaccurate notion.
The longer she stays in Gull Island, the more she questions her business model. At some point, Claire must decide if the thrill of seven-figure deals is worth the toll on her relationships, her values, and her literary legacy.
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