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Dazzled Author: Maxine Nunes Published: October 1, 2013 by Cengage/Five Star Series Name: A Nikki Easton Mystery Category: Mystery/Thriller When Nikki Easton’s closest friend, actress Darla Ward, disappears, Nikki’s relentless search for the truth reveals the hidden side of her friend's life, laying bare secrets buried before Darla was born—secrets that soon threaten Nikki’s own life as she uncovers widening layers of corruption that reach far beyond Hollywood to the highest levels of political power. ____________________________________________________________ Click for more info. |
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Fathers, Sons, Ghosts, Guns (short story) Author: Gary Cahill Published: October 2, 2013 by Exter Press -- The Kennedy Curse -- short story collection from Big Pulp Category: Hardboiled crime Main Character: Mob collectors "G" and Willy, their friend Stella, and Texas oilman Win Racklin. The scions of a Texas oil company try to live up to the expectations of their family's history, while hubris, greed and violence exact their price. Click for more info. |
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Styx & Stone Author: James W. Ziskin Published: October 15, 2013 by Seventh Street Books Series Name: Ellie Stone Mysteries Category: Traditional mystery, historical, female sleuth Main Character: Ellie Stone Ellie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s' New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer. "If you were a man, you'd make a good detective." Ellie Stone is sure that Sgt. McKeever meant that as a compliment, but that identity-a girl wanting to do a man's job-has throttled her for too long. It's 1960, and Ellie doesn't want to blaze any trails for women; she just wants to be a reporter, one who doesn't need to swat hands off her behind at every turn. Click for more info. |
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THOREAU AT DEVIL'S PERCH Author: B.B. OAK Published: November 1, 2013 by KENSINGTON Series Name: THOREAU MYSTERIES Category: HISTORICAL MYSTERY Main Character: HENRY DAVID THOREAU, ADAM WALKER, JULIA BELL Henry David Thoreau's life has been well documented by himself and others but never before has this story been told: Click for more info. |
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No Stone Unturned Author: James W. Ziskin Published: June 15, 2014 by Seventh Street Books Series Name: Ellie Stone Mysteries Category: Traditional mystery, historical, female sleuth Main Character: Ellie Stone Thanksgiving 1960 A dead girl in the woods. Three little oil spots on the dirt road. A Dr. Pepper bottle cap in the shallow grave. And a young reporter, armed with nothing but a camera. Evening is falling on a wet, gray, autumn day in upstate New York. Ellie Stone, twenty-four-year-old reporter for a small local daily, stands at a crossroads in her career and in her life. Alone in the world, battling her own losses and her own demons, Ellie is ready to pack it in and return to New York a failure. Then she hears the dispatch over the police scanner. Click for more info. |
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