Five girls have gone missing. I am number six.

My name is Alice McCarthy. Twenty-two years ago, my sister disappeared. What should have been a fun night out at a school disco became a nightmare and Clara hasn’t been seen since.

I haven’t been back to Ireland since but when the police call and say they’ve unearthed a body, I have to go home.

It might be Clara. After all this time..

But what if someone is drawing me back to Ireland for their own reasons? What if they made a mistake all those years ago and didn’t mean to take Clara?

What if they meant to take me instead?

And what if they’re now going to correct that mistake?

Times change, but when it comes to certain genres of literature, sometimes the old ways are the best ways. There are still legions of loyal readers who long for the days of Dashiell Hammet and Mickey Spillane. Robert B. Parker, the famous modern day detective novelist knew this and successfully incorporated some of the deadpan style and film noir humor and drama of these authors into the modern day adventures of his private eye, Spencer.

Jim Hart has created a powerful rendering of the golden era of the private eye story in his new novel, A Tom Collins to Go. The work chronicles the adventures of private eye Harry Parker who works in the Big Apple back in the days when it was still Gotham City. Harry drinks too much, laments his failed marriage, longs for his ex and scratches out a living as a hardscrabble PI. Which all lends to his ‘don’t give a damn’ demeanor and what makes him so lovable.

I wasn’t in the market for a man. I definitely wasn’t looking for a man like Clay Nichols, with a dirty mind and a mouth to match. But then he walked into my life one night and he was everything I wanted.

He’s also exactly what I can’t have.

Because there’s a price tag on my head. I’m a wanted woman and I owe debts that were never mine.

The dangerous men I owe them to have threatened to hurt anyone in my life if I don’t pay up. So I work off my debts by playing cards in an underground poker ring. One so risky I shouldn’t get involved with a soul.

Private investigator Hannah Huntsford is about to win the lottery.

Not the big lottery. More like a little one. A tiny one.

Hannah is about to win her very own tiny house, nestled in a tiny community of other tiny homes.

She doesn’t know that yet, because the draw is still a week away. Hannah has no idea her streak of bad luck is about to turn around. The hard-working, recently divorced investigator is going to be a big winner, and she’ll have first pick of three adorable tiny homes.

Option 1 is a converted train caboose, with gleaming brass fittings throughout.

Option 2 is a miniature barn with a bold red and white exterior and farmhouse decorations inside.

Option 3 is the tiny home version of a grand Southern home, with a wrap-around porch perfect for entertaining.

My ex doesn’t know that he’s got twin sons… and I’m about to meet him… oops!

This reality has haunted me for the last six years.

Drew was everything I’d wanted in my life.
And in my bed.
But my dream job waited for me in London.
A huge fight later, I packed my bags and left.
But the two pink lines changed everything.
I took a deep breath and built from scratch.

And now…
I’m watching Drew talk to his sons without knowing they are his.
The sight is unreal and terrifying.
And the truth won’t stay hidden for long.
Will history repeat itself? Definitely.
But the inevitable ending might tear our entire family apart this time!

Matthew Ellersby had made a mistake – a colossal mistake. But it wasn’t right that he should die. It wasn’t even right that he called himself Matthew Ellersby.
But none of that was known on the beautiful Maine morning when his body was discovered on the beach in front of The Elusive Cat Bed and Breakfast.

When Jan Cathcart is forced out of her life by a series of unfortunate events, she lands at her sister’s popular bed and breakfast. Little does she know that her move will place her right in the middle of a murder mystery.

The local police make the wrong call about the crime, but Jan knows in her heart that the man was murdered. Can she solve the crime before the small-town rumor mill destroys her sister’s beloved business?