LOOK BEHIND YOU, LADY ; THE VENETIAN BLONDE (FLEISCHMAN, A. S.;LEWIS, STEVE)
LOOK BEHIND YOU, LADY ? What a pickup line!? Bruce Flemish is getting ready for his magic act at the Hotel China Seas in Macao when the girl sits down next to him at the bar and offers her room number. But this casual meeting is anything but. Donna Van Deerlin is looking for a hero. Her father was killed trying to get information to Hong Kong about a local opium ring. Donna has her father's notes in code. But getting them out of Macao will take courage. Bruce is sure she must have the wrong guy?he's just an itinerant magician. But before long Donna is working her magic on him, and Bruce is trying to stay one step ahead of a gang of murderers who want to get their hands on the notes as well.?? ? ? THE VENETIAN BLONDE ? Skelly stumbles into Venice with a gangster on his tail and his card dealing confidence blown to hell. He feels washed up. That's when he runs into Viola, a young blonde in a black swimsuit sitting at the end of the bar. He can't shake her. And he needs to, because Skelly is in town to hit up his old friend Rinny Jim for some quick cash. Instead he finds Rinny's beautiful wife Maggie, an
WILD TO POSSESS ; A TASTE FOR SIN (BREWER, GIL;BREWER, VERLAINE;SHEPARD, GREGORY)
WILD TO POSSESS ? Lew Brookbank is running from his grief. His wife had left him for another man, and he had discovered them together--murdered. Drowning himself in gin, one night he stumbles across a parked car where a man and a woman are plotting the kidnapping and murder of the man's wife. At first he thinks he should turn them in, but there is some real money involved here, and he makes the liquor-fueled decision to follow them and work a double-cross of his own. But Lew doesn't figure on Clarkson, brother of his dead wife's lover. Clarkson wants to bring him back to pay for the death of his brother. But there's no turning back on the plan now?Lew has got to see this one through to the end. ? A TASTE FOR SIN ? Jim Phalen is obsessed with Felice. He can't get enough of her wild ways, her wicked charms. She is hot like no woman he has ever met before. They're quite a pair. Unfortunately, Felice is married to bank manager George Anderson. But Felice has a plan?to kill her husband one night while he works at the bank and steal all the money. Jim thinks the idea is crazy. But the more he figures it, the
VIRGINIA IS FOR MYSTERIES (CRIME, VIRGINIA SISTERS IN)
Yes, Virginia may be for lovers, but to nineteen authors Virginia is for Mysteries: Volume II. This anthology of nineteen short stories, set in and around the Commonwealth, features Virginia landmarks and locations such as Virginia Wine Country, the Poe Museum, Luray Caverns, Colonial Williamsburg, the Great Dismal Swamp, Nimrod Hall, Barter Theater, and Mill Mountain, to name a few. The stories transport readers across the diverse backdrop of the Old Dominion to a unique and deadly landscape, filled with killers, crooks, and criminals.
DROOL BABY (NEWSOME, C. A.)
Who can you trust when everything you believe is wrong?Artist Lia Anderson survived the murder of her boyfriend and betrayal by a friend, emerging from trauma with a hunky new detective beau, an exciting commission, and a straight-talking therapist to help her sort everything out. When a disturbing message raises questions about Luthor's death, Detective Peter Dourson launches a clandestine investigation into the closed case. Lia copes by refusing to accept that her world is still not safe. Neither of them realize digging for the truth will place her in the crosshairs of a killer increasingly out of control. This book concludes the storyline begun in A Shot in the Bark. (75,000 words)
TROPHIES (DAVID EVANS)
When DI Colin Strong interviews a suspect on suspicion of handling stolen goods he?s convinced he?s heard their voice before. Nearly 25 years ago the tape of Wearside Jack taunted West Yorkshire Police and his suspect fits the profile. Then the body of a known burglar shows up and a mysterious metal case is discovered at the scene. Strong turns to his close friend, journalist Bob Souter, and embarks on an awkward alliance to probe areas he is unable to explore. As the murder suspects start to disappear Strong must discover just who the shadowy figure inciting fear and panic amongst those he encounters is. Strong wants to bring a murderer to justice and Souter is hungry for a story. Who will get to the truth first and can their friendship remain intact?? Trophies is part 1?of the the brilliant CWA Dagger shortlisted Wakefield Series.
ANGELA CRAY GETS REAL (AN ANGELA CRAY MYSTERY, BOOK 1) (CARR, DARA)
Unemployed ex-party girl Angela Cray is back living with her no-nonsense mother in Phoenix. After coming within air-kissing distance of a felony charge, Angela is determined to make something of her life. When a sympathetic neighbor offers her work, Angela jumps at the opportunity. She figures it won?t be hard to track down a missing fianc? last seen with two Lady Gaga lookalikes. After all, one of her superpowers is finding badly behaved men.But the trail of the runaway groom has more twists than a bride?s updo. And when Angela uncovers secrets that people will kill to keep hidden, she has to decide the price she?s willing to pay for success.Angela will need to call upon all her charm and cunning?and the deities of her ancient Samoan ancestors?to make sure this professional growth opportunity doesn?t kill her first.ANGELA CRAY GETS REAL was a finalist for a Freddie Award for Writing Excellence from the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
MURDER AT FANTASIA FAIR (DE BEAUVOIR, JEANNETTE)
Wedding coordinator Sydney Riley never thought she?d get caught up in a murder investigation, but she became an amateur sleuth when her boss was killed during Bear Week. Now she?s back, this time as the Race Point Inn hosts Provincetown?s venerable transgender event, Fantasia Fair? and murder is once again an uninvited guest! ?It?s all hands on deck at the inn as visitors arrive for the week-long event and Sydney helps coordinator Rachel Parsons organize the occasion. Guest Elizabeth Gonzalez is attending with her spouse, Bob, who?as Angela?is taking a bold first step into a whole new existence. Angela, Elizabeth, and Sydney learn the ropes and politics from other guests, some of whom have attended annually for more than forty years.?But the next day, Sydney?s detective friend summons her to one of the town beaches where Angela?s body has been found?with a knife in her back, a knife stolen from Adrienne, the Race Point Inn?s diva chef.?Fair organizers and attendees try and carry on as Provincetown is overrun with police, press, and rampant speculation. Sydney, her boyfriend Ali, her friend Mirela, her boss G
DROP DEAD RED (CARROLL, GLENDA)
What happened to Shari Grantner? One day the tall red-haired lawyer is running a successful open water swim clinic. Less than 24 hours later, her body washes up on a beach near San Francisco. Shari?s sister reaches out to Trisha Carson, an amateur sleuth, asking for her help. No need to ask twice. Trisha jumps into the investigation and soon discovers that the seemingly strait-laced barrister had a sizzling secret life.Trisha begins to untangle an ever-growing list of suspects. There is Shari?s hot-headed younger brother who badgered her for money. Her good-looking boyfriend who the dead girl was about to dump. The mysterious man who shows up in compromising photographs. And the quiet unassuming sister who is now in charge of the family?s well-endowed trust.As Trisha inches closer to the culprit and the motive, the trail circles back to a familiar location?where the killer is waiting.Drop Dead Red takes place in the exciting San Francisco Bay area, from the quiet tree-lined neighborhoods of Marin County, to fan favorite AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants to the handsome state parks with their swimma
GHOSTS & GAMBLERS (OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS;MORRISON, DANIEL PAUL;MORRISON, DANIEL PAUL)
Enter the world of romantic intrigue from the Prince of Storytellers. E. Phillips Oppenheim published over 150 books in his lifetime, and here we present one of his very rare romantic thrillers from 1896, The Modern Prometheus, coupled with another collection of previously unreprinted stories and autobiographic pieces, including six stories featuring gentleman adventurer, Andrew Thesholm. ? The Modern Prometheus is the story of two struggling artists, Francis and Marcia, thrown together by desperation and poverty in a Chelsea boardinghouse. After being forced to give up hope, Francis burns his manuscript, sells the last of his possessions and strikes out for the colonies. He cannot take Marcia and leaves her behind as he vows to find either riches or death. Ten years later, Francis returns as Sir Francis Kernham, fabulously wealthy and famous throughout England. He searches everywhere for Marcia, fearful of what she may have become, only to discover by chance that she is now Princess of Hohenmahn. Will they now find love and happiness together, or has time and truth forged bonds of a different sort? ? Th
SHAKE HIM TILL HE RATTLES ; IT’S COLD OUT THERE (BRALY, MALCOLM;GORMAN, ED)
SHAKE HIM TILL HE RATTLES ? North Beach, San Francisco: It is the early 1960's and the beat scene is changing. The Narco Squad are coming down heavy. One particular narc, Lieutenant Carver, really has it in for Lee Cabiness. All Cabiness wants to do is jam on his sax, score some weed and hang with the action. He had a thing going with Jean but that's cooled off, and now she's going with that flashy pimp, Randozza. One night Cabiness's friend Furg introduces him to Clair Hubler, a slumming rich girl who wants to hire them for a private party. She's got an anti-guy vibe but you never know. But all Furg wants to do is score some junk to find out what all the excitement's about. Naturally he thinks of Sullivan, the local junkie playwright. But Sullivan has a problem?Carver is using him to set up his friends. One summer in North Beach, they all collide. That's when things get crazy, real crazy. ? ? IT'S COLD OUT THERE ? JD Bing is out from San Quentin, just trying to get by selling encyclopedias?but he's not very good at it. In fact, he's getting desperate. Kristie has just lost her airline job and is hold
BRAIN GUY ; PLUNDER (APPEL, BENJAMIN;APPEL, CARLA)
BRAIN GUY ? It is the Depression and Hell's Kitchen rent-collector Bill Trent has just lost his job. But Bill is a smart guy. He figures right away that if he hooks up with McMann, together they can make a bundle holding up the businesses that used to pay him rent?McMann's got the muscle and Bill knows when the safes are loaded. Then his younger brother Joe comes to stay, and it's hard to keep up a respectable front for the kid, particularly when plainclothes cop Hanrahan gets wise to the heists. ?McMann calls Bill the brain guy but how smart can you be when you've got nobody to trust, no way out, and no place to go but down? ? PLUNDER ? Joe and Blacky are two awol GI's in post-WWII Manila. They've escaped the stockade and are loose in the world of pom-pom houses and sweet buy & sell deals. And Joe has plans?big plans. He's going to get a piece of this action. Posing as officers, Joe and Blacky begin to build a little financial empire for themselves. But Joe isn't satisfied with a small piece. He wants it all, whether it's black market goods or someone else's woman. And all Blacky wants is an end to th
KILLER CUPCAKES (DOBBS, LEIGHANN)
Things are going great for Lexy Baker. She's finally opened her dream bakery, gotten rid of her cheating boyfriend and settled into her grandmothers house with her perky dog Sprinkles at her side.But her blissful life doesn't last long. When her ex boyfriend is found poisoned with cupcakes from her bakery, Lexy finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation headed up by her hunky neighbor detective Jack Perillo.With the help of a gang of iPad toting, would-be detective grandmothers, Lexy decides to take it upon herself to find the real murderer in order to clear her name and get her bakery back in business.As things heat up on the murder trail, in the kitchen and between Lexy and the hunky detective, it's a race against time to put the real murderer behind bars and get back to baking.Will Lexy get her man?Includes the recipe for Lexy's famous cupcake tops!
DEVIOUS (ROSETT, SARA)
Why steal a not-so-valuable painting?Free-spirited Zoe Andrews has settled into married life and feels she has found her ideal niche working for a company that discreetly recovers lost items for elite clients, but her first assignment, which takes her to Edinburgh to recover a stolen painting, turns out to be more complicated than she expected.?Instead of simply getting in touch with contacts in the art world, Zoe finds herself tangled in a web of contradictions. Why would someone steal a not-so-valuable painting, and why was the thief attacked? Zoe?s search to find answers takes her from the ancient stone walls of Edinburgh Castle to the Baroque grandeur of Salzburg as she delves into a decades old mystery with ties to the present.
SNOW LIGHT (ZINN, DANIELLE)
When Detective Inspector Nathaniel Thomas encounters a man attacking a young woman in a local park, the DI is unable to save her. Out of guilt, Thomas quits his job at Homicide Headquarters and relocates to the tiny village of Turtleville, where he regains control of himself and begins to enjoy life again.However, a year later, all the guilt and shame of the park murder re-emerges when a local hermit, Ethan Wright, is murdered with an unusual weapon and left on display in the centre of the village.For Thomas the situation gets worse when DS Ann Collins, a colleague from his past, appears to help with the case. But things become complicated when the victim?s identity is put into question.Who is the victim? And why was he murdered?Thomas and Collins will find themselves trying to solve a highly unusual case and both may have more in common than they could have ever imagined.
DESIGNING LOVE (JOHNSON, KIMBERLY ROSE)
Someone is framing Sierra. Can Spencer discover the true criminal before he loses her? Sierra Robbins, single mother and interior design assistant, wants nothing more than to provide a stable home for her teenage son and become a successful designer. She's on her way to both goals when she agrees to house sit a home in Sunriver, Oregon. It couldn't be more perfect-she'll be close to her job at Belafonte Design while living rent-free. But things don't go as expected when a police officer responds to the alarm they set off at the house. Was the alarm a sign of trouble to come? Spencer Preston lives for his job as a police officer, but when he responds to a house alarm and finds Sierra and her son there everything changes. After someone nearly dies in a mysterious incident, Sierra is targeted as the most-likely suspect. Spencer finds himself torn between upholding the law and protecting the woman he believes must be innocent.