Fed up with being tied down by twenty-five years of domestic bliss and everyone else’s expectations, Abbie Palmer, struggling to find her creative self and asserting some independence from her husband, moves into the Tiki Palms. But as Abbie finds, in Gay Degani‘s debut suspense novel “What Came Before.” breaking away isn’t so easy. Especially when it involves cops, Molotov cocktails, Hollywood starlets, lost memories – and maybe an unknown half-sister… A note left on…
What do Santa’s Sidekick, a dead lawyer and a geriatric vampire have in common? Well, let’s open Lizz Lund‘s cozy “Christmas Bizarre” and find out…. Meet Mina Kitchen, a forty-something single who finds trouble quicker than she can whip up a batch of breakfast breads. Plural. Her “catering disorder” runs neck-and-neck with her weird luck, and her cat’s weirder tendency toward gnawing elf gear. Okay, and getting kidnapped a couple of times in one week…
Fiery tornadoes cut through quiet forests. Balls of lightning burn everything in their paths. Earthquakes open chasms that swallow vehicles whole. Clement is reeling from a new onslaught of curses, and it all started the day a mysterious, giant woman arrived at Jenna’s school. In Dave Becker‘s young adult supernatural fantasy “The Apolline Sibyl,” Jenna Hamilton was just hoping for a normal sophomore year of high school. Instead she finds herself trapped in the middle…
Just when romance author Chyna Blaze decides to give up her life of fear and anxiety — and the inevitable panic attacks that ensue — she faces a new problem. Her peers are being knocked off, one at a time, and a persistent detective insists she’s high on the list. And this time it’s not the bestseller list. In “Kiss and Kill” by Lala Corriere, when Chyna’s publicist arranges for a couple of fake dates…
Even before the police in Myrtle Beach. South Carolina suspect a connection between the deaths of two pregnant women. paramedic Jodi Duncan recognizes the work of a serial killer Despite the vast differences in the two cases, Jodi urges Detective Nate Quigley to think ‘outside the box.’ But after digging deep into the separate investigations, Nate finds no evidence to support a serial killer theory, and he warns Jodi to back off police business. But…
Every time her phone rings, New York attorney Eve Petersen’s heart stops, because she knows it may be the serial rapist who’s been phoning her with grisly details of each of his crimes. And in the new mystery “Mind Me, Milady,” by Kenneth Hicks and Anne Rothman-Hicks, the Gentleman Rapist invariably hints that Eve will be next. Eve also has a new client, a sweet but troubled young woman named Susan, who is struggling to…
