Todd Borg tops today’s Buffet with his mystery thriller Tahoe Deathfall, his debut novel and the first installment in his “Owen McKenna” series. In the story, a six-year-old girl falls to her death during a hike. Eight years later, her heiress twin sister hires P.I. McKenna to investigate the death. He discovers some skeletons in the family’s closet, the likes of which he’s never encountered, not to mention some pending murder plots.

This series has won awards like the Ben Franklin prize for “Best Mystery of the Year,” and one of Library Journal’s “Top 5 Mysteries of the Year.” But the main reason to check them out is that they are fast, entertaining reads with a lot of action and intelligent stories.

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Tahoe Deathfall (An Owen McKenna Mystery Thriller Book 1)

 Mystery > Private Investigators

Tahoe Deathfall (An Owen McKenna Mystery Thriller Book 1)

When 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister’s death was not the accident that everyone says. When McKenna investigates, he uncovers a long-buried secret that is still driving a murderer to kill. McKenna is desperate to catch the killer before he strikes again because McKenna believes that Jennifer is next to die…

An Impetuous Miss

 Romantic Comedy > Regency

An Impetuous Miss

When spoiled, independent Catherine Mansard discovers she cannot maintain ownership of the family estate unless she puts herself on the “Marriage Market” interesting events ensue. Can impetuous Cat maintain the propriety at which she’s so often scoffed long enough to find an appropriate mate? Or will her true nature reveal itself and send her suitors running for the hills? Battles of will, a nefarious plot, badly behaved dogs, and a family mystery wreak havoc on the best-laid plans.

Days of Derangement

 Humor > Parenting & Families

Days of Derangement

A FLY ON YOUR WALL?

No worries. I haven’t been eavesdropping at your house. It’s just that we all seem to know the same cast of characters. That’s why the funny family stories in my books will feel so familiar…

For a limited time, the Kindle version of my newest book, Days of Derangement, is only 99 cents! You can also buy all 324 tummy-tickling pages in a paperback version.

You’ll pay more for a meal at McDonald’s, and my book won’t clog your arteries or coat your thighs with cellulite. It might be a challenge for your bladder,

“Jackie Papandrew is a genius at laughing at herself when she just can’t seem to get the motherhood thing down pat,” says Susan Heim, parenting author and Chicken Soup for the Soul editor. “If you’re a parent, you’ve really got to read Days of Derangement! These short stories can easily be squeezed into your busy day and bring a smile to your face when you’re feeling the stresses of motherhood and marriage.”

Death by Halloween (Adventures You Choose Book 1)

 Fiction > Horror > Ghosts

Death by Halloween (Adventures You Choose Book 1)

It is Halloween, a day that used to be your favourite of the year.

As a child, you counted down the days to Halloween, thrilled at the prospect of venturing out into the night in a monster’s clothing and returning with a sack stuffed full with candy.

As you grew through adolescence, your tastes gradually changed. You still lived in anticipation of Halloween, but you no longer cared much for its typical offerings. The costumes weren’t real. The candy was too sweet.

What you wanted was adventure, panic, black magic. You wanted to find yourself on a dark hilltop, shaking with fear as impossible shadows crept up the slope toward you. You wanted to see the dead sit up in their graves. You wanted to stumble through the fog trying to escape the clutches of a madman. You wanted to survive a nightmare…

Death by Halloween is a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ style interactive book for adults and mature teens. It features:

  • Masterfully executed hyperlink navigation
  • Over 100 choices
  • Over 50 endings
  • A gender-neutral protagonist
  • Ghosts
  • Ghouls
  • Murderers
  • Self-loathing
  • Cannibals
  • Demons
  • Mutilation
  • Scarecrows
  • Specters
  • Zombies
  • Pie
  • And much more!

Too Quiet In Brooklyn (A Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn Mystery Book 1)

 Mystery > Women Sleuths

Too Quiet In Brooklyn (A Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn Mystery Book 1)

Twenty-two-year-old Fina Fitzgibbons stumbles upon a throttled woman in the heart of Brooklyn Heights and discovers that the dead woman’s four-year-old grandson is also missing. She begins a wild hunt for the strangler-kidnapper, Ralph. During the chase, she resists falling in love with her boyfriend, Denny, an NYPD patrol officer, steps on the toes of Detective First Grade Jane Templeton, and uncovers secrets about her own past. In the end, Ralph has a deadly surprise for Fina.

Small Things

 Horror > Dark Fantasy

Small Things

It’s a hot June morning in a small Midwestern town when fifteen-year-old Shawn Spencer arrives at the church for his best friend Tanner’s funeral. Though his drowning was officially ruled an accident, Tanner’s sister Jenny swears she saw something rise up from the Carthage Lake to pull the struggling teenager beneath the surface.

Shawn doesn’t believe in monsters… but he will…

The real threat, however, lies in the man behind the monster, a mysterious old man who has vowed to settle an old grudge and regain something that was stolen from him decades earlier. To survive the dark days and nights ahead, Shawn must not only decipher what the man is after, he must move past his own grief, fears, and insecurities, and learn to trust in Jenny, the disgraced town sheriff, and, most importantly, in himself.

The Small Things trilogy spans forty years and three generations in a tale of murder, betrayal, corruption, sacrifice, love, redemption, faith and magic that culminates in a showdown that will pit the very forces of heaven and hell against Shawn and his family in a battle for the future of mankind and the world itself.

Angels of the Knights – Fallon (Book 1, Paranormal Series)

 Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban

Angels of the Knights - Fallon (Book 1, Paranormal Series)

When Fallon Angell died at the age of sixteen, her life changed forever.

The hallowed world of Emperica is everything she had ever hoped for as a mortal—immeasurable beauty, unconditional love and light. But, with affection for humankind still burning within her, she joins the Knight Caste to train as an angel warrior. As a Knight, she will give up her wings and return to the place that killed her to use her unique powers to search out and destroy the evil Kjin that roam the earth. As a Knight, she will stop at nothing to protect the mortals in her care.

The elders warn her that the path she chose will be a solitary one. That she will not have the same bond with humans as she once did. But, as far as she knows, the elders had never met Kade Royce.

When her duties place her in the path of the handsome former cop, emotions buried long ago rise to the surface and she is powerless to ignore the depth of her feelings for this young man. She knows instinctively that she has found what most people search their entire lives for.

Stolen Breaths (Stolen Breaths Series: Book 1)

 Romance > Contemporary

Stolen Breaths (Stolen Breaths Series: Book 1)

“I have dents, bruises, scars, and cracks so deep that it’s a wonder I’m not in a million pieces…”

Sometimes things aren’t always what they seem. Sometimes pain lies underneath, buried so deep that for a moment you let yourself forget – until you can’t.
I didn’t realize how numb I was until I started feeling again, and he made me feel – everything. Cooper Hudson came into my life when I needed him the most – twice.
This is my story. This is the story of us.

“It was funny how you never really realized how lifeless you were until someone came along and gave you that shock to the chest that forced your heart to start beating again.”

TODAY’S BARGAINS……………What’s this?

Rubber Soul: A Novel (Dust Bin Bob Book 1)

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Rubber Soul: A Novel (Dust Bin Bob Book 1)

Greg Kihn continues to pioneer the rock-thriller genre with Rubber Soul, a murder mystery and an action-packed ride through Beatlemania, featuring the Beatles themselves.

Dust Bin Bob runs a secondhand shop at the Flea Market at Penny Lane. He has an extensive rep of American R&B singles that he gets from merchant marines returning from Baltimore and New York. The action starts when he befriends some blokes by the names of John, Paul, George, and Ringo and becomes their lifelong friend sharing the vinyl that will start a revolution.

From then on, it’s a rocket ride from their earliest days in Liverpool to six shows a night in Hamburg to the Cavern Club to full-fledged Beatlemania.

Along the way, Dust Bin Bob uncovers a plot by Marcos loyalists to assassinate the Fab Four in Manila after they snub Imelda Marcos, blowing off a reception at the palace and narrowly avoiding an international incident. It all could have happened!

100 percent historically accurate and including previously unpublished information about the Beatles’ early days, Rubber Soul is inspired by Greg Kihn’s radio interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, Patti Harrison, and Yoko Ono. When he asked where the Beatles got those rare American R&B records that inspired their early music, he got his answer from merchant marines who brought them over from Baltimore to Liverpool.

Cowboy Come Home

 Romance > Contemporary

Cowboy Come Home

Champion bronc rider Jake Rollins never intended to go back to Happy, Texas and its memories of lost love. That changes when he meets Leigh and suspects she’s his daughter. Jake arrives in Happy determined to get to know her and to find out the truth. The only problem is, Anna Connor, Leigh’s mother, doesn’t want him in their lives. At first she won’t even admit he’s Leigh’s father.

Sixteen years ago, Jake left Anna with a phone call telling her he’d married another woman. Devastated and pregnant, Anna married Jake’s best friend, Carl Connor. Together they raised the daughter Jake never knew about.

But Anna’s a widow now and even more irresistible than she’d been as a girl. Will it be enough for Jake to tell Anna that leaving her was the worst mistake he ever made? Can he convince her he’s changed?

Jake and Anna fall in love again, but it’s far from smooth sailing. Leigh’s response to the news that Jake is her biological father is anything but good. Jake and Anna must decide between their love for each other and the future of the daughter they love.

To the Vanishing Point

 Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic

To the Vanishing Point

The Sonderberg family does not know it yet, but this is not going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must fight evil alongside their new alien friend, in a desperate attempt to save the world they love.
The Sonderberg family does not know it yet, but this is not going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must fight evil alongside their new alien friend, in a desperate attempt to save the world they love.

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

 Biographies & Memoirs > Philosophers

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?

This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them “essays,” meaning “attempts” or “tries.” Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog’s ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves.

This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”

The Twin’s Daughter

 Young Adult > Mysteries & Thrillers

The Twin's Daughter

Lucy Sexton is stunned when her mother’s identical twin sister shows up at the family’s front door one day. Separated at birth, the two women have had dramatically different upbringings, and Lucy’s mother, Aliese, will do anything to make it up to Helen-including taking Helen into their home and turning her into a lady that all of society will admire. Aunt Helen’s transformation is remarkable. But is it just Lucy’s imagination, or does Helen seem to enjoy being mistaken for Lucy’s mother? Then, on New Year’s Day, Lucy is horrified to find her aunt and mother tied to chairs in the parlor. One of them has been brutally murdered-but which twin has died? Surely her daughter will know…

Filled with shocking twists and turns, The Twin’s Daughter is an engrossing gothic novel of betrayals and secrets that will keep readers guessing until the end.

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