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A murder? In the little town of Pengower? Surely not!
Alun Hughes loves a good spreadsheet. Being a local accountant is a lot more exciting than people might think — numbers, spreadsheets, tax returns… Life is quite straightforward until a murder mystery comes knocking on his door.
When the disappearance of a local lottery winner sets off a chain of sinister events, it’s up to Alun and Rhiannon (a local news reporter, and the accountant’s former high school crush) to solve the mystery.
Their investigation takes them to all corners of this rural, Welsh town and digs up a whole host of buried secrets that might best be left well enough alone. If you like a good mystery full of twists, turns and a healthy dose of humour, then prepare for a story that will leave you ravenous for more.
Hit & Run (Dev Haskell – Private Investigator Book 32) (affiliate link)
Private Investigator Dev Haskell gets a personal invitation to high school classmate, millionaire, Arthur (Arty-Farty) Grumley’s mansion. Dev didn’t like the guy in high school and nothing’s changed since then. Still, it’s an investigation and Dev can charge Arty-Farty top dollar. There’s just one problem that suddenly turns into many problems.
Meanwhile, Dev is dating two women. What are the odds they have a common friend? Things are once again complicated.
Witches of Enchanted Bay Nine Book Set (affiliate link)
So when another murder occurs, the secret witch turned sleuth finds her life turned upside down.
This time, the case is personal when Meg finds out one of her dearest friends is the victim.
Even more, Meg’s friend has made enemies of the most influential family in town.
Somehow, Meg has to find a way to navigate her grief while cracking her hardest case yet.
Is Meg finally in over her head?
Signs of the Times (Around the Square Book 1) (affiliate link)
Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
A nation in darkness. A bitter Northern Michigan winter. The harrowing journey of survival begins.
Newly married, John and Angie Aikens are on a hunting trip in Northern Michigan when an EMP plunges the nation into darkness. They need to head back to civilization to reunite with Angie’s daughter, Sarah, but quickly discover that not only is their truck inoperable, the wild animals are acting weird…and becoming more hostile and dangerous by the hour.
Now, they must fight not only the elements on their journey back home, but avoid the growing chaos and nefarious forces that are closing in on them.
The Bounty Hunter’s Return (Grit and Glory on the Frontier) (affiliate link)
Robert has long given up his bounty hunter career to make a peaceful living by his sons’ side. Yet one night, a bleeding gunslinger appears at his doorstep begging Robert to help him find the gang that abducted a rich widow for ransom. After his sons urge him to save the poor woman, Robert must return to his outlaw roots and do what he knows best.
Will he keep his promise to return home safely?
Sheriff Quinn has always sat on the wrong side of the law. His efforts to keep his corrupted businesses hidden will soon fail after his trusted gang kidnaps a rich widow. Robert knows that Quin is not a man of trust and Quin knows that the bounty hunter’s return to look for the victim could forever destroy his name and send him straight to the hangman’s noose. But the game is not over yet…
In Over Her Head (Lauderdale series Book 1) (affiliate link)
When you venture out of your comfort zone, better be armed for trouble.
Maren North’s grandfather has lost his mind. Why else would Pops bequeath her his neglected Fort Lauderdale private investigations business—when he’s not even close to croaking—and ride off into the retirement sunset?
Never mind that a successful voice actress has exactly zero qualifications to be a P.I.
First order of business, hire someone to show her the ropes. The second man through the door arrives just in time to bodily throw the first one out on his ear. Floyd James—six-foot something of gentle giant who knows how to get tough when the situation calls for it—turns out to be just the right man for the job. Good thing, too, because her first case is a doozy.
Caturday Ginseng is looking for her ex. Okay, sounds doable. Until she makes it clear she wants Maren to do the dirty work of offing him—and that’s where things go from shady to dangerous faster than you can say murder for hire.
A Rose In The Blitz (affiliate link)
A city devastated by the Blitz, a family torn apart by war and betrayal, will the secrets of the past ever reveal themselves?
1940:When May Rose’s sisters leave home to serve the war effort, May feels abandoned. Running away from the confines of Rose Park, the family estate, she finds herself in London, working as an ambulance driver, experiencing the horrors of the Blitz first hand. But what happens to her there remains a closely guarded secret for forty years.
1980:May’s father, Hadan Rose lies dying. May and her daughter Rachel go to nurse him through his final days. Rachel is determined that the family secrets won’t die with her grandfather.
When Rachel is befriended by local journalist and musician Daniel Walters, she thinks she has found an ally in her search, but soon suspects he has his own motives for seeking her company.
But delving into the Rose family’s dark past involves exploring May’s wartime experience too. Is Rachel prepared for the devastating truths she begins to uncover, or will they blow the Rose family apart?
An Affair of Spies: A Novel (affiliate link)
Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the rest of the Jewish community, and after his uncle is arrested on Kristallnacht, he leaves Germany for New York City with only his mother’s wedding ring to sell for survival.
While attending an evening course at Columbia in 1942, Nathan notices a recruitment poster on a university wall and decides to enlist in the military and help fight the Nazi regime. To his surprise, he is quickly selected for a special assignment; he is trained as a spy, and ordered to report to the Manhattan Project. There he learns that the Allies are racing to develop a nuclear weapon before the Nazis, and a German theoretical physicist is hoping to defect. The physicist was a friend of his father’s, and Nathan’s mission is to return to Berlin via France and smuggle him out of Europe.
A Piece Of Normal (affiliate link)
Warmhearted, insightful, funny and poignant, bestselling author Maddie Dawson takes the unfathomable ways of love and family, and celebrates [the joys of] the ordinary craziness of being human.
“You know what people really need? Somebody who will listen hard and then find a way to tell them, ‘It’s not all your fault. It’s going to work out fine. Don’t give up.’” So advice columnist ‘Dear Lily’ Brown deeply believes.
But Lily could write a letter to herself, asking what to do about an ex-husband who still wants her dating advice, how to redecorate the family home she’s kept exactly the same since her parents died tragically young, and how to move on with her strangely becalmed life…And oh, yes, what to do when your wild-child estranged sister storms back into town, blowing your nicely arranged life into disarray.
Finding Love at Sunset Shore (affiliate link)
Sometimes, you have to fake it until you make it…
Ros is too busy for a boyfriend; between work and looking after her poorly father, there’s no time left for a relationship. But when she overhears her dad’s dying wish is for her to find love, Ros is determined to make it happen – or at least, make it look like it has.
Enter Cameron, a struggling mature student with a mountain of debt but a zest for life.
Ros, driven by love for her ailing dad, reluctantly agrees to the simple business transaction: paying Cameron to play the role of her boyfriend. Ros meticulously plans their fake relationship – but when Cameron decides to go off-script, chaos ensues.
As Ros and Cameron navigate the ups and downs of their faux romance, their differences drive each other crazy. But they may just need each other more than they think…
Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs (affiliate link)
Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.
On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real.
Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Edgar Award finalist Evidence of Love is the “superbly written” account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense.
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