Mistress of Charity: Sarah’s Story, by Evelyn Richardson

Sarah Martin, fiercely independent daughter of a reform-minded mill owner has grown up in a household devoted to social progress and nothing makes her more proud or is more important to her than her dedication to changing the world, until she meets Lord John Claverton.

Sarah scorns the gentry as being superficial socially competitive and vapid, until she meets Lord John, rector of London’s most fashionable church son of one of England’s most powerful dukes. For the first time she finds someone who listens to her, appreciates her, argues with her, makes her face some uncomfortable truths, and inspires tantalizing and unsettling feelings.

Lord John’s own uncomfortable truth is that family loyalty keeps him imprisoned in his society-conscious parish, unable to minister to the poor and needy as he longs to do, until Sarah Martin awakens in him a new sense of purpose, and other feelings he never knew he possessed.    

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Huckleberry I Scream, by Cindy Keen Reynders

When live gets crazy for Fran Lightfoot, she moves home to the small town of Moose Creek, Wyoming, teenage daughter in tow. It sounds good: Hometown. Family. A fresh future.

Fran and her sister Lucy open a small business, The Saucy Lucy Café, in an old Victorian home they inherited. The soups, stews, breads, and muffins they serve offer townspeople hearty, home-cooked meals.

Fran and Lucy don’t have an ounce of law enforcement training to their names. However, when their friend Eleni Andros goes missing, the sisters begin searching for her. Dismayed to find her buried in her backyard garden, they decide to lend the local police a hand.

Once their investigation begins, Lexie and Lucy manage to rattle a few old skeletons and dig up secrets that folks would rather leave hidden. When things start to cook, the sisters and Lurch, their adopted oversize canine investigator, find themselves in a heap of hot water.     

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The Dead Dance at Dawn, by J. L. Buck

England, 1814. Lucien, Viscount Ware and Lady Anne are spending their honeymoon at his country estate in Lincolnshire. While attending an outdoor play at the May fête, a single cry is heard from the woods, thought to be the sound of a fox. The next morning, the body of a young woman is discovered. The village immediately suspects the girl’s beau, the arrogant son of the local magistrate. Constable Willis asks for Lucien’s assistance, and Lady Anne urges him to agree after she meets the young man’s distraught sister who believes in her brother’s innocence.

Just as Lucien, Lady Anne and Constable Willis learn of a stolen diary and uncover age-old motives of jealousy and unrequited love, the inquiry is interrupted by the sudden appearance of armed strangers in the estate woods. One of them says he’s a Bow Street Runner after an escaped mass murderer from London.

An intensive hunt for the fugitive, another murder, a terrorized village, danger to Ware Hall itself, and the arrival of Lucien’s fellow intelligence agent with shocking news force Lucien and Lady Anne to put the honeymoon on hold while they hunt for not one but two killers.

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Samity Claus, by Frank “Fraver” Verlizzo

A Retro Broadway Christmas Carol…

…with all the warmth of Currier & KNIVES!

As the star of Saint Nick, a new holiday-themed Broadway play, Yule Von Zell is under immense pressure. His mental stability is teetering on the brink. A murder accusation is hanging over Yule’s head, and his producer is threatening to enforce the “sanity clause” in his contract.

To complicate matters, the six surviving Von Zell siblings suspect a vicious killer may be targeting their show business family!

Enter theatrical ad execs Vic Senso and Bettie Balboa, who enlist their friend, NYPD Detective Renny Clements, to help clear their famous client’s name. They once again employ the talents of high society psychic, Mizz Mitzi, along with an inner-circle of savvy theater contacts, to unravel the secrets of the Christmas-obsessed family.

Spirited holiday greetings from the Retro Broadway Mystery Series, where the drama is real and the murders are diabolically staged.    

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Killer Kayfabe, by Randee Green

Zoey Wildes’s former friend from high school, Chester Neidigh, has recently returned to Linville after a twelve-year hiatus and is working as an artist at 3 Count Tattoos. The day after a heated confrontation with another former classmate, Chester fails to show up for work. Worried about Chester’s already precarious mental state, Zoey goes by his place to check on him. She finds Chester lying in a pool of blood following a vicious assault.

Since she knew Chester years ago and currently worked with him daily, Zoey gets caught up in helping Detective Tyler Gates with the murder investigation. As she delves more into Chester’s life, Zoey finds that his homecoming was not as closely guarded of a secret as she’d previously thought. Several of their former classmates were aware that Chester was back. Because Chester knew some of their darkest secrets and wasn’t above taunting them with the knowledge, they all had motive to kill him. The question is—who was so desperate to protect their secrets that they were willing to kill? Determined to uncover the truth, Zoey puts her own life on the line as she works to pin down Chester’s killer for the three count.     

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The Three-Story Murders, by Olivia Yates

There’s tension in the small town of Dingle Point Cove on the Chesapeake Bay as the well-being of its oldest citizens is under threat. A big healthcare company wants to close all the local senior homes and uproot the residents into a new three-story mega-facility. And they’ll stop at nothing to sell the idea to the community.

But Paige Bottomley, a smart, gutsy 74-year-old, isn’t buying it, especially when what she digs up smells as fishy as the town’s beach at low tide. Someone clearly has a lot to lose if the truth comes out, and meddlesome Paige is in the way. With greed, treachery, violence and murder, the bodies begin to multiply, and the next digging Paige does might just be her own grave.      

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Doocey Half-Sees Whodunnit, by Tom McAndrew

Okay, his superiors might think him a clown, and okay, he might be secretly battling sight problems, but Shamie Doocey is determined to prove that he’s still a seriously good detective with a twenty-twenty mind’s eye by solving his first big case: the disappearance of an uptight crime writer’s wife.

“Doocey Half-Sees Whodunnit” is not just another cosy mystery with lots of intriguing twists and where you as the reader struggle alongside Doocey to see matters clearly right up to the very end. It’s the story of human courage, Irish drollness, resilience, and ultimately transformation, in the face of adversity.     

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Shining Water, by Christy J. Kendall

Lilly Weathers, a widow and retired Air Force investigative researcher, leashes up her two dogs and begins a new life as an RV volunteer for national wildlife refuges. Her first job lands her in Nevada in the middle of a murder conspiracy that involves military readiness training. When the refuge manager, Lilly’s long-time friend, is accused, she tries to clear his name. The Southern Paiute Indians have a powerful connection to these desert lands. Will Lilly experience the energy of their ancient rock writings firsthand? Or is it her imagination? While Lilly comes to terms with starting a new life alone in this vast landscape, she investigates the canyons near Area 51, befriends an unusual character who has visions of finding a portal to other worlds, and solves a cover-up on the Air Force’s Nevada Test and Training Range. Blocking her way is a rancher who hates the federal government and another who goes to great lengths to woo her.     

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One Too Many, by R. Franklin James

Hollis Morgan has accomplished her goal of regaining her status as an acceptable contributor to society. She has overcome her felony conviction for fraud, earned a judicial pardon, and has spent the last few years in climbing the ladder of success in her law firm. She is respected and admired, but when her best friend approaches her with a conspiracy workplace threat—she resorts back to old habits and advises her to fight back.

However, she too is facing a workplace tragedy, and it knocks her off balance. It takes collaboration with the Fallen Angels Book Club members and newly wedded husband, John, to help her focus and shine light in dark places.

Hollis is forced to trust again and to rely on others. It’s not easy.   

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Curiosity Kills, by Kathleen L. Asay

Sacramentan newspaper reporter Liz Cane is honored and hopeful when the paper’s respected Capitol columnist, Eugene Holland, asks her for a ride to work. When she arrives at his home in hopes of a story for the newspaper, she finds him dead. She will need to uncover what she does not know about Holland in order to find out why he is dead and who did it.  

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