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Peter Abrahams

The Tutor (Excerpt)

Peter E. Abresch

Bloody Bonsai (Excerpt)

Killing Thyme (Excerpt)

Painted Lady (Excerpt)

Tip a Canoe (Excerpt)

L.B. Cobb

Promises Town
Texas mystery author LB Cobb's legal thriller PROMISES TOWN, centered on the two-sided search for justice in the murder of a federal prosecutor, introduces smart and sassy Assistant District Attorney Virginia Rodriguez for the prosecution and savvy lawyer Leo Zachmann for the defense. Read a few chapters of PROMISES TOWN online.

Splendor Bay
Texas mystery author LB Cobb writes legal thriller mystery novels brimming with humor, romance, and lawyers you might actually like. Read a few chapters of debut novel SPLENDOR BAY online.

Tracy Cooper-Posey

The Case of the Reluctant Agent: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Excerpt)

Chronicles of the Lost Years: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Excerpt)

Mark E. Deloy

The Ghosts of Silence (Excerpt)
In a small Tennessee town, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman, who the papers are calling the Scarecrow, is hunting children. Sheriff John Grant, realizing that he is in over his head, calls upon the help of a friend from his days as a Chicago street cop. Dr. Benjamin "Bones" Dyer is an old black man who in his youth had a powerful gift. He was able to see the dead. In his old age, his gift has faded and nearly disappeared, but as he travels south to help his friend, his gift is returning. Just as Benjamin arrives, two more girls are taken and Benjamin begins to see the spirits of the Scarecrow's victims, even as their decapitated bodies are being left at crossroads and sitting in orchards.

Carole Nelson Douglas

Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit (Excerpt)
Midnight Louie, PI, a black alley cat detective in wild and wacky Las Vegas, meditates on the crew of four human detectives--two amateur, two pro--he helps solve cases. It's a dirty job, but some hep cat has to do it.

Anna Katherine Green

The Problem of the Golden Slipper

The Problem of the Second Bullet

The Problem of the Grotto Spectre

The Problem of the Dreaming Lady

The Problem of the Doctor and His Wife

The Problem of Page Thirteen

Violet's Own Problem

Joan Hall Hovey

Listen To The Shadows (Excerpt)

Tom Howard

Dead Lucky (Excerpt)

Hounds and Jackals (Excerpt)

The Rim of Heaven (Excerpt)

C. S. Jennings

Dead Vines (Excerpt)

Papa Kept the Knives Sharp (Excerpt)

Michael LaRocca

Vigilante Justice (Excerpt)

Ellen Larson

The Hatch and Brood of Time (Excerpt)

Unfold the Evil (Excerpt)

William Manchee

Cash Call (Excerpt)

Deadly Distractions (Excerpt)

Second Chair (Excerpt)

G. E. Nordell

Backlot Requiem (Excerpt)
Private eye Rick Walker investigates a thirty-year-old murder case that involves a dying film director and his wild daughters, a legendary film star of the Silent Era, local gangsters, and a very discreet love affair.

Desert Riff (Excerpt)
A jazz loving short order cook, a young AWOL soldier, the beautiful owner of a honky tonk saloon on Route 66, and a crazy old desert rat lead Rick into danger from a gang of murdering thieves.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Purloined Letter

Gordon Reid

Deliver Us From Evil (Excerpt)

Double or Quits (Excerpt)

T. L. Schaefer

The Summerland (Excerpt)

Maria Grazia Swan

Love Thy Sister (Excerpt)

Cara Swann

The Secret Of Cry-Baby Hollow

Barry Willis

The Lost Elvis Diaries
Reporter Jeff Parrish is hot on the trail of the legendary lost journals of the King of Rock-and-Roll in this mystery parody.

James R. Winter

Cold Cocked

 

   

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