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The Scent of Lies: A Paradise Valley Mystery, Book 1

A captivating and exciting story, The Scent of Lies is Book 1 in the Paradise Valley Mystery series.

Emily Parker’s world is flipped upside down when her private-eye husband is killed, and she begins to unravel clues that maybe he wasn’t who he claimed to be.

With the help of her close circle of friends and the hunky new police detective in town, Emily takes over her late husband’s business and searches for answers to his murder. When another woman’s husband turns up dead, Ms. Parker is hired to find the real killer before the wife is sent to prison, putting Emily’s own life in danger. Can she solve the case before someone else winds up dead?

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Plain Jane: The Harbinger Murder Mystery Series, Book 1

Plain Jane: Brunettes Beware

A Patterson-style thriller with a dash of Hannibal….

A city paralyzed by a serial killer stalking the night, taking a most gruesome trophy.

The only thing standing in the murderer’s way is an FBI profiler…recently released from a mental institution.

Plain Jane combines the swift action of Patterson with the macabre of Harris.

Just remember to keep the lights on when reading this one!

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Motherhood Is Murder: A Maternal Instincts Mystery, Book 2

The author of Bundle of Trouble delivers a new Maternal Instincts mystery.

Nights out are hard to come by for new mommy Kate Connelly. So when Kate and her husband are invited to a dinner cruise hosted by her new mommy club, Roo & You, they jump at it. But when the president of the club takes a deadly spill, everyone becomes suspect – and Kate’s on deck to solve the mystery.

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The Stick Game: A Montana Mystery featuring Gabriel Du Pré (Gabriel Du Pre)

Du Pré investigates a gold mining company whose pollution might be poisoning the children of a nearby reservation

Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are dying. While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré meets an accordionist who suspects that the children’s health defects and low test scores are connected to the nearby Persephone mine.

Meanwhile, Du Pré investigates the disappearance of one of the afflicted children. When the boy turns up dead, the accordionist’s theory gains credence. It wouldn’t be the first time that the rich men of Montana found wealth at the expense of the reservation’s children.

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The Mystery Box

Soccer mom Yvette Palmer lives an ordinary life in San Antonio, Texas when a box is delivered to her by mistake, and in taking it to its rightful owner – a crotchety neighbor named Mona who shares her back fence – is drawn into a strange and haunting tale.

Mona’s ratty robe, mood swings, and secretive behavior all raise red flags, and Yvette is sure someone else is living there despite Mona’s claim to live alone, but Yvette is unable to break away as she listens to how Mona transformed from a young college woman about to be married to the odd, reclusive, ghost of a woman she is now.

As Yvette listens to her neighbor’s tale, she discovers a shocking connection, but doesn’t know whether Mona’s come to help or to harm her and her family.

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Trouble at the Red Pueblo: A Spider Latham Mystery, Book 4

When deputy sheriff turned private investigator Spider Latham is sent to help the Red Pueblo Museum, he doesn’t suspect it’ll cause a rift between his wife, Laurie, and himself.

Museum Director Martin Taylor is desperate, and his son Matt is angry. Some unknown person is bent on destroying the museum financially and is about to succeed. Things turn violent. It ends with someone’s skull bashed in with an Anasazi ax, and everyone has a motive for the murder.

Can Spider untangle the web of secrecy and lies surrounding the museum before the Taylors lose it all? And, in the process, can he save his own marriage?

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Ghostly Paws: Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery Series, Book 1

Middle age can be murder…. At least that’s how it seems to former crime journalist Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect: She sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian, who insists Willa solve her murder. Luckily she has lots of help, including a quirky cast of small-town characters, the cat she’s inherited from her grandmother, and her best friend, Pepper, who claims her herbal teas can work magic.

But just when Willa thinks she’s discovered who the killer is, she finds out that things are not what they seem in Mystic Notch, and the case takes a strange turn that has Willa adding even some of her longtime friends to her suspect list. Can Willa find the real killer in time to keep the magical balance in Mystic Notch on the side of good, or will evil prevail?

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Ghostly Paws (A Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery)

Middle age can be murder…. At least that’s how it seems to former crime journalist Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect: She sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian, who insists Willa solve her murder. Luckily she has lots of help, including a quirky cast of small-town characters, the cat she’s inherited from her grandmother, and her best friend, Pepper, who claims her herbal teas can work magic.

But just when Willa thinks she’s discovered who the killer is, she finds out that things are not what they seem in Mystic Notch, and the case takes a strange turn that has Willa adding even some of her longtime friends to her suspect list. Can Willa find the real killer in time to keep the magical balance in Mystic Notch on the side of good, or will evil prevail?