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Lawyer Chambers Elliot didn’t trust the supposed priest in his office but he had to listen to the story. According to the priest, the cops had caught the wrong man in a thirty-year-old murder. Which wouldn’t have bothered Elliot so much if he hadn’t been the lawyer defending that wrong man. When the priest turns up dead, Elliot is up to his neck in trouble, especially when the Portello Crime family involves themselves.
Author Michael Paulson launches a new mystery series with this hard-boiled page-turner.
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Charlotte Rowe has been cast in the role of medium from childhood, and studied under a clever fraud. But does she have a real vision?
Divination from the spirit world. Con artistry. Cats and mirrors. The implications of Freudian psychology. Death. Life. Birth. Murder.
And ice cream.
“If you like intelligent, complex stories of paranormal horror and disturbed psyches, you might want to take on Ice Cream Memories. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Web Fiction Guide
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Giles, my sibling, my Mephistophilis. You lie whenever it suits you, but when you lie to me, surely you can take the trouble to make it convincing?
Simon Coltraine is a professional songwriter and musician. His brother Giles - trader, rogue and amiable bully - is a crook. When Giles is killed in a car accident Simon returns to their childhood home to confront his memories and his own complicity in his brother’s schemes.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
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Craig Edmonds, a successful stockbroker, reports the disappearance of his wife, Kirsty. What starts as a typical missing person’s case soon evolves into a full-blown homicide investigation when forensics uncover blood traces and dark-blonde hairs in the boot of the missing woman’s car. Added to this, is Craig’s adulterous affair with the victim’s younger sister, Narelle Croswell, compounded further by a recently acquired $1,000,000 insurance policy on his wife’s life. He is charged with murder but, with no body and only circumstantial evidence, he walks free when two trials resulting in hung juries fail to convict him.
Ten years later, Jacinta Deller, a newspaper journalist is retrenched. Working on a freelance story about missing persons, she comes across the all but forgotten Edmonds case. When she discovers her boyfriend, Brett Rhodes, works with Narelle Croswell, who is not only the victim’s sister but is now married to the prime suspect, her sister’s husband, she thinks she has found the perfect angle for her article. Instead, her life is turned upside down, as befriending the woman, she becomes embroiled in a warped game of delusion and murder.
THIN BLOOD is a suspense-filled mystery in a contemporary Australian setting. The novel also touches on deeper themes, like family and trust: protagonist Jacinta Deller discovers that blood is not always thicker than water, and sometimes the people you should count on are not the ones who are tied to you by blood or by marriage.
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$3.97 (FREE until 15 Nov ‘09 - enter code BV68V after adding book to cart.)
237 pages
(3 votes, average: 8 out of 10)
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Personal Injury attorney Paul Newton likes his cases easy and obvious. Judith Hoople’s situation is anything but easy. Abused as a child, she developed Multiple Personality Disorder to protect her from her reality. Now, an unscrupulous counselor has broken the barriers that protected her, using her for a sex toy before cutting her loose. Newton doesn’t like this kind of case, but he can’t walk away, either.
Author Paul Nelson is, himself, an attorney and this courtroom drama/legal thriller rings true. Newton pushes the case forward despite insurance problems, an opposing council with a personal agenda, and a significant financial investment on his part. It would be worth it to get the win, though…unless Judith really is lying about everything.
$3.99 ($1.00 ’til Sept. 25, 2009)
247 pages
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To the outside world she was just Leena Duncan, a quiet woman who worked a normal job and lived a quiet life.
A few times a year she could openly use her magical gifts at celebrations within a small community of people she called friends.
Having lived through the horrors that can come from the hands of someone you thought loved you; she decided never loving again would prevent more emotional scarring.
It took one man at a rainy Beltane celebration to change everything with which she was comfortable and one killer to change her safe world.
He created worlds on and put them on paper to entertain others. After years of using his imagination he finds out his friends can do things he thought only his mind created.
For his entire adult life Owen Grey had always played it safe and kept to his own world of writing, never getting too close to anyone.
Having lived a nightmare growing up he would never take the chance of repeating history. He may write about happily-ever-after, but he knew it was pure fantasy and didn’t exist.
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(1 votes, average: 9 out of 10)
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Linda’s had a bad day. First, her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike won’t tell her what he did with her body, and she can’t find the stupid thing herself. There’s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information.
My name’s Linda. I’m dead. It sucks, OK? Especially because I’m dead for no good reason. I’m dead because my dumbarse boyfriend smacked me one and then something else smacked me one and it hurt like hell and that’s all I remember, to be honest. Until I woke up without a body. Now I know from books and movies that that’s not the way it’s supposed to happen. Well, in a way it is, right. But the ghost is always anchored by their bod, and they can’t move too far away from it. Which implies that they know WHERE THE HELL IT IS. Whereas, me? I don’t know where my body is, and I’m not limited to any location. And for some reason, this is really important to me. I need to find my body. Maybe I need closure, or some shit. I don’t know. I just need to. So I hired Trent. He’ll find my body for me. I hope. If he doesn’t, I’ll fire his arse and haunt him in between haunting my ex-beloved and hiring someone with a clue.
DEAD(ish) is a fast-paced, hilarious tale of death, lies and vengeance. It’s available for free download on Smashwords.
(5 votes, average: 6 out of 10)
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EVAN AUSTIN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
It couldn’t be simpler. All Evan Austin needed to do was find R.J. Gibson before his eighteenth birthday and the kid would inherit a huge trust fund. Everybody would go home happy: R.J. would be set for life, the mom would appease her guilt, and maybe Evan would finally be able to put a tragic case from his past behind him.
But nothing in life is ever that easy. Adding to the confusion are a young woman whose boyfriend liked to slap her around and the murder of an Assistant U.S. District Attorney, for which one of Evan’s former clients is now a suspect. Throw in his growing attraction to R.J.’s guardian, artist Roman Cavanaugh, plus the Mariners having another really bad season, and Evan’s got a bit more on his plate than he can handle.
Not that it’s ever stopped him before.
Dancing Fools Press is proud to announce the release of its inaugural title, Brushback, a romantic suspense novel by debut author Jamie Scofield. This delightful first book in the Evan Austin Mystery series was released simultaneously in multiple non-DRM ebook formats and trade paperback on July 10, 2009. For more information about the novel, and to read the first chapter, please visit dancingfoolspress.com.
Brushback by Jamie Scofield will be available July 10, 2009. Interested retailers who wish to carry the print edition should either contact the publisher directly or obtain it from Ingram Book Company. To carry the ebook editions, please contact the publisher at the address below.
Book Details
- Title: Brushback
- Author: Jamie Scofield
- Series: An Evan Austin Mystery
- Release date: July 10, 2009
- ISBN: 978-0-9823651-1-3 (ebook)
- ISBN: 978-0-9823651-0-6 (trade paperback)
- 327 pages; 114,500 words
- Publisher: Dancing Fools Press
- Ebook price: $4.99
About Dancing Fools Press
Dancing Fools Press is dedicated to bringing well-written, character-focused stories to readers with a hunger for the good stuff. For more information, review copies, or to arrange a book signing or interview, contact the publisher at the email address below. To order your copy of Brushback, visit dancingfoolspress.com.
(3 votes, average: 10 out of 10)
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It sounds like an easy job. Private detective Deacon Bishop only has to follow a beautiful woman from the airport to wherever she goes, then report her location to a lawyer. What could go wrong with that? But Bishop is known for asking too many questions. And the deeper he looks into this case, the stranger things get. Before he really knows what hit him, he’s up against his old buddies in the police homocide department, his old enemies in organized crime, and terrorists from Russia. Well, redheads always were Bishop’s weakness.
Author Michael Paulson writes a charming hard-boiled mystery
$3.99 (Introductory price of $1.00 until June 18)
200 pages
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A series of unexplained deaths shatters the serenity of a Vancouver Island girls’ school, and Tempest Ivory, child psychologist and soprano, races to solve the mystery before it claims more lives. Tempest lands a coveted lead role in Rigoletto, but as she prepares for her operatic debut, the explosive secrets lurking behind the academy walls set her on a collision course with her past.
“…draws you in compellingly from the opening page…a gripping story of death and family secrets…The characters are quirky and sympathetic.” — The Paper Chase
“…a harrowing tale of blasphemy, insanity, suicide and murder.” — Snoop Sisters Mystery Bookshoppe
“…if you enjoy psychological, twist a minute books, A Hemorrhaging of Souls is definitely for you.” — I Love A Mystery
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For more info: please visit Nicola Furlong’s website
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When Riley Quinn tees off an investigation into a suspicious death, her inquiries pitch her behind the scenes of professional women’s golf and jeopardize her new career as part-time coroner. As the tournament progresses, she finds herself sand-wedged by a villainous environmental group, a mysterious Japanese consortium and her estranged sister.
Rubbing too little sleep from my eyes, I flipped the fax’s cover sheet and stared.
Stop the killing!
You have until July 28 or you will regret it.
Golf can be dangerous!
The terse message was a shock but I have to admit, after seven years as a member of the Ladies Professional Golf Tour and almost 18 months as a teaching pro, I had no quarrel with the last line. Some of these rich yahoos may sport the latest boron graphite shafts with high kick points and modified hosels, but look out for the ubiquitous banana slice!
The cover sheet read:
Riley,
Look into this, will you? It’s the third I’ve received in the past few months. Probably some nut, but with the Classic in ten days…? See you at the ferry.
Pitts.
– Excerpt
“An outstanding effort”, The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Christchurch NZ is small and word travels quickly. Allison knows it’s too late to warn her detective. His fatal accident prompts her husband, Jack, to leave for America. Jack consults for the underworld… his process for methamphetamine is at high stakes. But someone knows. Ex-CIA agent Terry murders his way thru Antarctica and arrives at Allison’s doorstep. Will Jack or Allison be next?
Allison Brownley leaned over the warm timber railings of the old bridge and tears cascaded… flushed by the River Avon, from the misery in Fendalton Park… ebbing downstream, rippling away and disappearing around the bend, like her marriage of fourteen years.
‘Jack’s a bastard. I’m thirty five and trapped. He’s up to his neck in something.’
The brisk, southerly wind rudely tossed golden oak leaves into the sky, allowing their sad tumble into recent rain pools. Across the park she caught a glimpse of Jack’s car racing around the corner to their house. The children were at school. Why is he home now? She gripped the folds of her jacket, and ran towards the road. It was hard dodging the traffic, but once across, she’d be hidden behind the bushes that surrounded their property. She made it to the corner and up to the gate, fumbling with the rusty clasp.
She crept up the path, past the hapless roses that hung their heads in shame, up the porch stairs, and pushed back the old wooden door to the hallway. Sunlight burst in, highlighting doors on both sides of the hallway. She breathed a sigh of relief. Jack hadn’t seen her, his voice was booming out…
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(1 votes, average: 10 out of 10)
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A personal favor for an unidentified friend of his captain sends Blaine Horney, Texas Ranger with a paranormal gift, north to Morrison, Montana, to the scene of a grisly double homicide with no apparent motive.
“Well, there was a…a lady.” He trembled almost uncontrollably, his beady eyes grown big as silver dollars. Ok, quarters maybe.
“And?” Blaine shoved the man ahead of him toward the rear of the house, the back porch light leading them from the trees.
“She…she surprised me.” He gasped for breath at each reluctant step forward into dry grass. “She…she was dead, I think.”
“Oh, that’s a new one.” Blaine squinched his eyes to clear his mind of the glaring orange thread he’d trailed at a dead run over the short distance, the dotted line the color of a plastic Halloween pumpkin—a wet pumpkin. Take at least a beer or four, a few whiskey chasers to erase that color from his thoughts.
“You a cop or something?” the perp asked.
He pushed the suspect along in front of him a little faster. “Why’d you take out the window?”
“Well, she…she came after me.”
“The dead lady.”
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What happens when two professional assassins - one a Mafia hitman and the other a former German terrorist - kill at exactly the same moment in time? For Ernst Stahl and Frank Jolino the result is a psychic bond that slowly blossoms in each man’s mind, enabling them to see into the other’s world. Frank Jolino doesn’t like what he sees, especially when he realizes that Stahl is headed to his home turf of Boston to kill a scientist who may hold the key to solving the world’s deadliest diseases. But for Stahl, there’s no other option. Virtually bankrupt and with his son in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant, he’s got little choice but to take the assignment. Jolino has other ideas. On the run from his crime syndicate for refusing to kill his ex-girlfriend-turned-government-informant, Jolino sets a plan in motion that will bring the two men face-to-face and gun-to-gun…with no guarantees either will survive.
Jon F. Merz is the author of over a dozen books including the Lawson Vampire series published by Pinnacle Books in 2002-2003 and (one of the writers on) the internationally bestselling Rogue Angel adventure series as well as several standalone thrillers and two non-fiction books.
(3 votes, average: 9 out of 10)
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1539- In a remote Spanish outpost, one man holds the secret to the greatest treasure and deadliest secret in human history.
Utah, Present Day Cave paintings in a newly-discovered Indian site provide evidence that Christ visited the New World. Or do they?
Dane Maddock returns in another unforgettable adventure! When Dane rescues beautiful archaeologist Jade Ihara , he joins her on asearch for the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola. Cibola takes the reader on a journey across the American southwest, where the ruins of the mysterious Anasazi hide deadly secrets, creatures long-forgotten lie in wait, and foes lurk around every corner. Dane and his partner “Bones” Bonebrake must decipher clues from the fabled Copper Scroll, outwit their enemies, and be the first to unlock the secret of Cibola.
Jeremy Robinson, author of Kronos and Antarktos Rising, says “Cibola by David Wood is a page-turning yarn blending high action, Biblical speculation, ancient secrets, and nasty creatures. Indiana Jones better watch his back!” .
Robert Masello, author of Blood and Ice and Ritual, says “Ancient cave paintings? Cities of gold? Secret scrolls? Sign me up! Cibola is a twisty tale of adventure and intrigue that never lets up and never lets go!”-
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 10)
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An elderly clergyman tells Pat and Phillis of the strange happenings in the middle of the night in the old rectory. “I was at my wit’s end,” he told them. “I wasn’t sure if I was having a nervous breakdown or becoming senile. Then, the noises. I can still hear those dreadful noises in the dead of night.” Intrigued, they rush off to Philadelphia. They’re too late. Murder gets there before them.
“When you and I talked this afternoon, Father,” Pat began after their waiter placed drinks in front of them, “you were… well, it’s no exaggeration to say, frantic. You told me about some very strange things taking place at Saint Alban’s.”
They were seated at a table in Oscar’s Restaurant. Pat Montgomary was in his mid-thirties, deeply tanned from the past two weeks at the seashore, and visibly concerned as he stared at the priest across the table from him. Phillis Toner, Pat’s half sister, was her radiant self this evening with her equally deep tan. She was ten years younger than her brother. She too was studying the third member of their party. This latter was easily in his sixties (she guessed), his face pale and drawn. He was dressed in black with a Roman collar.
“I guess you’ll think I am foolish,” the priest began hesitantly. “You might think I’m not responsible for my actions when I tell you why I asked to meet you. And, the more I think about it, the more I begin to believe that perhaps… perhaps it was wrong of me to impose upon you. It really is nothing. If I could beg your forgiveness and let it go at that….”
“Father, something is bothering you,” Pat continued, a sternness creeping into his voice. “If ever I saw someone with a problem, it’s you. I hope you’ll pardon me for being so blunt, but frankly, Father, you look to me as though you need professional help. You look as though you have not been sleeping well. Your hands are shaking. Are you an alcoholic or been drinking heavily lately?”
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 10)
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