Wayne D.Dundee
West central Nebraska, late 1880s: Harriet Munro, a fiery woman lawyer, takes the case of beautiful young Roxanne — a desperate fugitive fleeing a trumped-up murder conviction and a hangman's noose. Harriet calls upon Lone McGantry, former Indian scout and tracker, to deliver Roxanne to Rainrock, a town in the northwest corner of Nebraska near the fabled Toadstool Badlands, where she will face re-trial. McGantry succeeds, however, town conspirators plot to divert justice yet again. Before it is over, trusts are betrayed, bullets fly, lives are lost, and McGantry rides again to Roxanne's rescue … until, within the stark, hauntingly empty badlands, scores are settled and a bloody reckoning is finally achieved.
You can visit his website at http://www.waynedundee.com/
Wayne's western Dismal River won the 2011 Western Fictioneers, Best Western First Novel Award !
Radine Trees Nehring
It’s October, craft fair season in the Ozarks, and Carrie and Henry are helping their friend Shirley sell her quilts and Baby Cuddlys at the War Eagle Craft Fair. After a mysterious cousin with ties to drug dealers appears, danger stalks the fair. When Carrie is abducted by killers following a breakfast at War Eagle Mill, she’s afraid she won’t escape, because—though her aim in life has always been to help others out of problems—no one who can help her knows where she is. “There is no me out there to help me.”
You can visit Radine's website at www.RadineBooks.com
G.Thomas Gill
Cornelius “Corney” Graham, part-time EMT and full time beach bum, is jarred from his insular life on Dog Island when a boat floats up on his island. The pilot is dead and the passenger, beautiful Lisa Cataldo, is wounded. Corney searches the boat for more potential victims, but finds instead a bundle of cash and a stash of cocaine. Impulsively, Corney destroys the drugs, and decides not to call the police. All is well until the drug smugglers come to Dog Island in search of their property and the woman who robbed them.
You can visit his blog at www.gthomasgill.blogspot.com
William Doonan
Nothing decays on the north coast, not even faith. Archaeologists Jila Wells and Ben Juarez reluctantly return to Peru to join Professor Beckham’s distinguished team at Santiago de Paz pyramids. Jila is still haunted by the prior dig which ended in a near-fatal ambush. But the ruins hide a document that will shock the Islamic world. Details found in an ancient diary tell of an illegal expedition to Spanish Peru, intending to bring the word of Allah to the pagan Americans. As the archaeologists brace for the ravages of El Niño, Jila and Ben hurry to complete their excavations. But they’re not the only ones interested in this project. Other forces are determined to keep the document hidden.
You can visit his website at http://www.williamdoonan.com/
Marja McGraw
LA’s only restaurateur who’s a dead ringer for silver screen tough guy Humphrey Bogart is called to divine service by the Church Ladies—three senior citizens who know Mrs. Bogey from church. The Ladies’ friend is missing. They want Bogey Man to find her. The friend turns up, and Bogey tries to close the case until he discovers the woman overheard a Murder for Hire plot which puts them all in danger. Ride along in the Bogey Man’s 1950 vintage Chevy with the Church Ladies, wife Pamela, son Mikey, and two crazy yellow Labrador retrievers while they hunt a potential killer—and the intended victim.
You can visit Marja's website at http://www.marjamcgraw.com
F.M.Meredith
Officer Gordon Butler has finally found the love he’s been seeking for a long time, but there’s one big problem, she’s the major suspect in a murder case. Fans of F. M. Meredith’s long-running Rocky Bluff Police Department mysteries will be happy to learn the newest book may be the best yet. In No Bells, Gordon Butler gets his first leading role in this clever ensemble series.Butler is like Joe Btfsplk, the cartoon character in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner, a poor sap for whom things never quite work out. Meredith’s plot – her best yet – is a perfect fit for the character. Without giving away too much, he wins but he loses. It’s a very satisfying read, and the meaning of the title is not revealed until the end. No Bells is a tightly woven story. Just when you think you know “whodunit,” something happens to change your mind. Then you go back to your first guess. Then a different hunch arises. As always, every member of the Rocky Bluff PD and their family members has a speaking part as their personal lives and police issues give us another glimpse of a town we love to visit. –Review by Michael Orenduff, author of The Pot Thief Who Studied Escoffier.
You can visit her website at www.marilynmeredith.com
Doug Danielson
When JAKE MORTENSEN and his “always ready to party” crew are sent to Mexico to retrieve a stolen 50-foot ketch called SHORE LOSER, his first venture as a repo-yacht captain places his three friends in danger and almost gets him killed in the process. He doesn’t know it, but concealed on board SHORE LOSER is a package so valuable some San Diego businessmen would resort to murder to recover it and others would be shocked to learn what it contained. While trying to protect the boat and his crew, Jack discovers the hidden goods, exposes an investment scam that rocks the San Diego yachting community, helps catch the bad guys, and learns the real reason why the Russians were unable to participate in the ’95 America’s Cup.
You can visit Doug's website at http://www.Doug-Danielson.com
Ed Draugelis
J. Mason Christopher, Viet Nam veteran and Washington D.C. patent attorney, quits his law firm and travels to Cold Water, Indiana, a church town where his daughter supposedly killed herself while investigating the town's recent rash of suicides. Christopher believes it was murder and teams up with the truck stop owner "Lady" Mcphearson to find out who killed his daughter—and why. With the aid of Christopher’s Nam buddies, he and Lady dig beneath the surface of the church’s control of the community, and learn that the corrupt Pastor Kelly Baines is exploiting the town's water system. The pastor’s professional killer rigs the murders to appear as suicides, but when Christopher’s team closes in on him, Pastor Kelly Baines, crippled in body and mind, Viet Nam veteran, counters his pursuers with increasing ruthlessness until the novel’s explosive end.
Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily
A middle-aged professor is brutally murdered by a serial killer. Now in the astral plane, she yearns to bring her killer to justice but instead is pulled into the body of a girl hundreds of miles away who has just died and whose body the professor reanimates. But as she begins to learn where and who she’s supposed to be, she finds she’s in witness protection, was stabbed by a hit-man, and is now without access to money, friends, or family. In order to stop her own serial killer, she must flee from her FBI protector and the hit-man while trying to connect with the only person whom she thinks might believe her and help her, a young man whom she might have loved in her other life—if she hadn’t been his mentor. And then the girl whose body she now controls begins to re-emerge. This metaphysical thriller will keep the reader up all night turning pages.
Jack Everett and David Coles
Debut of The Abbot and the Acolyte Series...Abbot Rutilius, for his sins against authority, is made Papal auditor of monasteries in 13th Century France. With his newly appointed Acolyte, William, he comes to St. Guilhem where money laundering in the abbey kitchens and a nasty murder await investigation. Soon, another murder claims a second monk, twin to the first victim. What is the connection? How can the disagreeable Gilbert be held accountable? Who took the Abbot’s pie? It takes an intractable goat and a near-drowning in an underground river to expose the truth. The Abbot acquires a little humility while the Acolyte gains rather more from the Comte’s daughter...
You can visit Jack Everett's page at http://www.jackleverett.me.uk/#
You can visit David Coles page at http://www.davidbcoles.co.uk/home.html
David Coles and Jack Everett
Debut of The Abbot and the Acolyte Series...Abbot Rutilius, for his sins against authority, is made Papal auditor of monasteries in 13th Century France. With his newly appointed Acolyte, William, he comes to St. Guilhem where money laundering in the abbey kitchens and a nasty murder await investigation. Soon, another murder claims a second monk, twin to the first victim. What is the connection? How can the disagreeable Gilbert be held accountable? Who took the Abbot’s pie? It takes an intractable goat and a near-drowning in an underground river to expose the truth. The Abbot acquires a little humility while the Acolyte gains rather more from the Comte’s daughter...
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C.K.Crigger
China Bohannon is a modern 1890’s career woman, but the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency hasn’t turned her loose on a case of her own just yet. China is champing at the bit and when a call for help comes in, a trip into the mountains above the St. Joe country sounds just the thing to prove her worth and assist a friend at the same time. Porter Anderson’s uncle has disappeared and a Johnny-come-lately timber baron has claimed the family homestead. What’s more, he has a bill of sale for it that Porter knows his uncle didn’t sign. The problem is proving it—or so it would seem. Porter doesn’t believe his uncle sold out and left the country without telling anybody. He’s afraid old Lionel Hooker might be dead—murdered.
Declaring the case unsuitable for a lady like China, Monk takes it on, but now no one has heard from him in days. China sets out to discover his whereabouts as the dry lightning of summer sets the woods ablaze.
What she finds is a trail of lies, theft, and murder, with her uncle Monk likely the next victim. Then, just when the problem appears solved, trouble breaks out again. This time, Gratton Doyle is the one in danger and it’s China who must bail him out.
Declaring the case unsuitable for a lady like China, Monk takes it on, but now no one has heard from him in days. China sets out to discover his whereabouts as the dry lightning of summer sets the woods ablaze.
What she finds is a trail of lies, theft, and murder, with her uncle Monk likely the next victim. Then, just when the problem appears solved, trouble breaks out again. This time, Gratton Doyle is the one in danger and it’s China who must bail him out.
you can visit her website at http://www.ckcrigger.com/
Walter Luce
Turk Donatelli, a poor, but ambitious boy from Vermont, jumped into the real estate development game in the Southeast. He made millions while still in his 20s—but not without some brushes with the Miami Beach Mob. Turk pulled out to care for his wife who’s diagnosed with a degenerative disease, but his dwindling bank balance prompts him to get back into the high stakes — high risk world when mob-connected Niko Pappas, “Porno King of the South,” recruits him to manage his Atlanta-area construction projects. Soon Turk is caught in a triple bind and must walk the razor’s edge to take care of his family, outsmart Niko’s double cross, and serve up the mobster to the feds. Is the FBI’s Witness Protection Program the next stop? Or can Turk Donatelli make his Vermont plan work?
You can visit his website at http://www.walterluce.com/
J.L.Greger
When a mysterious flu breaks out in La Bendita, an upscale gated community near the Rio Grande, the lives of its residents change radically --and instantly. The few who are fortunate enough to avoid the killer flu become virtual prisoners in their homes when a quarantine is imposed. One resident, Sara Almquist, a medical epidemiologist, is compelled by habit and training to examine the elements of the epidemic, even when it means she pries into her neighbors’ lives. Sara finds promising clues--maybe too many.
You can visit her website at http://www.jlgreger.com/
Morgan St.James
With $800 Million worth of products produced in federal prisons every year, division director Abby Hamilton had a diabolical scheme to become a very wealthy woman. In fact, she had almost reached her $35 million goal when she made the mistake of hiring three savvy women who blew the lid off Pandora’s box. Despite comical backfires, Jennifer, Kate and Cameron were determined to find out what happened to missing bonus money and managed to pull off an intensive amateur undercover investigation. What they discovered was shocking evidence of something so much bigger—Abby’s clever multimillion dollar embezzlement plot.
You can visit her website at http://www.morganstjames-author.com/
Shirley Oldridge
Margo Preistley, an award winning actress, at the peak of her career, had it all, until the day her daughter was brutally raped and murdered. Unable to face her untimely loss, she attempts suicide, only to fail miserably and end up ordered to attend a Support group for the families, of victims of violent crimes. After witnessing an attack on a young woman, Margo, unable to ignore the situation, decides to go to the rescue. She kills the assailant, but then watches helplessly as the victim, and her only witness, flees the scene. Unable to legally justify her actions, Margo, and her now accomplice, Peta, drive away before the police arrive. Luckily, her companion knows someone within the group who can help them. When yet another member is put in peril, the group decides to come together as a team to eliminate the threat. They soon realize that collectively, they have the ability, contacts, and means necessary to rectify any situation. Together, they can find, and punish, the very people responsible for securing their places, as members of The Support Group.
Mark Bouton
The FBI races to find a kidnapped baby before she’s sacrificed by a satanic cult. When the newborn daughter of a Texas state senator is snatched from the hospital, FBI agents John Ransom, a crafty veteran, and Kathy Devereaux, a striking Cajun rookie, head the pressure-filled investigation to save the infant. The agents learn a Palo mayombre cult plans a human sacrifice. But there are other suspects, and all possibilities must be checked. The agents catch the senator getting cozy with a nurse from the hospital. Evidence shows inside help in the kidnapping, adding more suspects to the list. They’re all found to belong to the cult, and they are determined to sacrifice the senator’s baby. Now the FBI must trick the bloodthirsty cultists and stop the ceremony before they do the unthinkable.
You can visit his website at http://www.mmbouton.com/
