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The Broken Ones
Someone was in her house. Someone who knows her.
“You will know me.” The hoarse whisper comes from a room in the house during the dead of the night. A stranger’s voice recorded by equipment Sophie set up, because Sophie is paranoid that someone is out to get her.
With few people in her life, Sophie spends all of her time either teaching at a primary school or caring for her ailing mother. Suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Sophie’s mother is a difficult patient, leaving her little time to herself.
But on the day Sophie finally decides to put herself first and go on a first date, strange things begin to happen.
Times are tough for Adeline Boo Pond, a succubus newly arrived to the human plane and unhappy with her allotted place in life.
Created to feed on sex, Adie wants more from life, and she’s devised a plan to achieve her dreams while not harming humans. She can handle working long hours, and self-preservation has given her a love of baking, so why not combine those two skills and open a bakery? Humans love dessert, and Adie’s happy to provide a service that allows her to skip the more dangerous activities of feeding in place of a more peaceful option.
When Matt Ryan was born, he slapped the doctor.
Years later, his tiny home state of New Hampshire, known mostly as a vacation state for campers and skiers, is overwhelmed by the opioid epidemic. Lives are being lost, budgets are busted, petty crime is rising, and first responders are stretched thin. Ryan gets drawn into the mêlée when his small business becomes the hiding spot of $300K in cash, stolen from one drug distributor by another.
With easy money up for grabs, cold-blooded opportunists begin prowling the sleepy postcard town of Fall River, competing for the seemingly easy score.
Werewolf. In the diner. With the frying pan.
Top chef Nora Ashcroft just died. But instead of the afterlife, she’s entered the magical town of Eastwind.
However, witches, vampires, and the grim reaper (he prefers you call him Ted) become the least of her concerns when she stumbles upon a fresh murder and all wands point to her as the prime suspect.
With a snarky hellhound familiar she doesn’t want and new psychic powers she doesn’t know how to use, can Nora exonerate herself by piecing together who killed the werewolf in the diner with the frying pan?
Nobody at work liked Bob Thomas, but who hated him enough to finally do him in? When Izzy Palmer finds her brutish manager stabbed to death in his office, she knows she’s the only one who can solve the case. Izzy is a crime fiction devotee, a life-long fan of whodunits and she’s determined to find the killer.
Okay, the police have zero interest in her help, her best friend is acting super suspicious and she might sort of, possibly be falling for one of the suspects, but she won’t let any of that get in her way. Will a detailed knowledge of every golden-age mystery be enough to work out who killed Bob or could Izzy be the next victim?
The secrets – The lies – The crimes – All driven by greed and the ruthless agenda of those who wish to exploit the sleepy tourist destination of Blue Stone for their own ends.
Local photographer, Jim Peters, captures more than just the beauty of the Pembrokeshire peninsulain his images, drawing attention from the local police investigation, and the ruthless criminals who use violence and murder as tools to achieve their goals… … and who are not afraid to spill more Blood on Blue Stone.
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