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The Watchmaker’s Daughter (Glass and Steele Book 1) (affiliate link)
India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who’ll accept her – an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he’s ill.
Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won’t tell India why any old one won’t do. Nor will he tell her what he does back home, and how he can afford to stay in a house in one of London’s best streets. So when she reads about an American outlaw known as the Dark Rider arriving in England, she suspects Mr. Glass is the fugitive. When danger comes to their door, she’s certain of it. But if she notifies the authorities, she’ll find herself unemployed and homeless again – and she will have betrayed the man who saved her life.
Up in Smoke (Glock Grannies Cozy Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
Nikki is a flirtatious six-time divorcee. Geraldine is her quirky grandmother. Mix in a bunch of gun-toting grannies, an outrageous retirement home, and an unsolved mystery and there’s bound to be some excitement. Follow along as Nikki and the cast of retirement home vigilantes work to solve the mystery before everything goes up in smoke.
Up in Smoke is part of the Glock Grannies Cozy Mystery series. If you like fun cozy mysteries and outrageous characters, you are going to love Up in Smoke.
ONE DEADLY TAKE (The Cat Caliban Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Cat Caliban is not your average grandmother . . . she has a surprisingly sharp tongue, a good supply of gin and loves to solve mysteries.
Welcome to Northside, Cincinnati — a working-class neighbourhood. It’s the new home of feisty fiftysomething Cat Caliban and her three mischievous cats.
Armed with nothing but a library card and a stack of well-thumbed mystery novels, Cat’s ready for her first case as a sleuth-in-training. . . she doesn’t have to wait long!
When the body of an elderly homeless woman is found in Cat’s apartment block, she sets out to investigate.
She soon discovers a surprising link to the Golden Age of Hollywood silent movies.
Seal of Secrets (The Driftwood Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Hell hath no fury like a mother whose daughter has been kidnapped by a sexual predator.
Chloe Denhurst lives in the quaint coastal town of Driftwood, Oregon. Recovering from a hurtful divorce, she finally allows herself to have feelings for another man. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down by a stranger who attacks her on the street and snatches her adolescent daughter Kaitlynn.
She enlists the aid of Native American policeman Charley Whitehorse, but the wheels of justice turn too slowly. Chloe realizes she must use her own courage and wits to track down the marauder and rescue her daughter, but as she does so, she discovers that the new man in her life shares a terrible secret with the kidnapper.
A Hero to Her Rescue (Brave Hearts of the Frontier) (affiliate link)
When Daisy Stoddart finds her brother robbed and killed, she is forced to leave everything behind and flee to safety. Hiding under the assumed name Sadie, she lives with the fear that her brother’s killer will come after her too. Since the main suspect is her own cousin, her worry and anguish are well-founded. Being on the run for five years and constantly looking over her shoulder, her exquisite lace-making skills will bring her to Quest Junction. There, she will meet a gruff but handsome sheriff, who will quickly capture her heart in spite of his surly attitude. At long last, could Daisy have finally found a place to call home and someone to make her feel safe and loved again?
Carrying the heavy burden of a past mistake, Mackenzie Lewis has made it his business to be the perfect sheriff. The townsfolk of Quest Junction ignore his brusque demeanor, knowing that he would do anything to keep them safe. Comfortable in his solitude, he has no room for a woman in his life, until Sadie arrives in town and changes everything.
The Devil’s Trident (The Trident Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Ten years after a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, retired NYPD Detective and Navy SEAL Michael Keough finds himself about to hit rock bottom. He’s divorced from his wife and instead married to the bottle. Then, on a cool fall evening, a volley of gunfire erupts outside his apartment. When he discovers his partner mortally wounded, it changes everything.
As the dust settles, Keough learns that three of the six people involved in the mission are dead. A fourth is missing. Keough can’t help but wonder if the rounds that cut down his partner were meant for him.
First Grade Detective and media darling Rocco Locatelli catches the case. He vows to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Locatelli, however, is ordered by department brass to stand down and close out the investigation. Having gone up against the department previously, Locatelli has been labeled a renegade – a designation he embraces.
The Dog Listener: Learn How to Communicate with Your Dog for Willing Cooperation (affiliate link)
In The Dog Listener Jan Fennell shares her revolutionary insight into the canine world and its instinctive language that has enabled her to bring even the most delinquent of dogs to heel. This easy-to-follow guide draws on Jan’s countless case histories of problem dogs—from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers—to show how you can bridge the language barrier that separates you from your dog.
This edition includes a new 30-Day Training Guide to further incorporate Jan’s powerful method into every element of pet ownership, including:
Understanding what it means to care for a dog
Choosing the right dog for you
Introducing your dog to its new home
Overcoming separation anxiety
Walking on a leash
Dealing with behavioral problems
Grooming
And much more
Ike and Kay: A Novel (affiliate link)
A historical novel based on the true story of the secret love affair at the heart of World War II amidst the Blitz in London.
In 1942, Kay Summersby’s life is changed forever when she is conscripted to drive General Eisenhower on his fact-finding visit to wartime London. Despite Eisenhower’s marriage to Mamie, the pair takes an immediate liking to each other, and he buys Kay a rare wartime luxury: a box of chocolates.
So begins a tumultuous relationship that, against all military regulation, sees Kay traveling with Eisenhower on missions to far-flung places before the final assault on Nazi Germany. The general does dangerously little to conceal his affair with the woman widely known as “Ike’s shadow,” and in letters Mamie bemoans his new obsession with “Ireland.” That does not stop him from using his influence to grant Kay citizenship and rank in the U.S. Army, drawing her closer still when he returns to America.
Beneficence: A Novel (affiliate link)
In the midst of a nearly perfect life, Doris Senter is thankful but wary. “We can’t ever know what will come,” she says. When an unimaginable tragedy turns the family of five into a family of four, everything the Senters held faith in is shattered. The family is consumed by sorrow and guilt. Slowly, the surviving family members find their way to forgiveness—of themselves and of each other.
Few writers know the human heart and the burden of grief as well as New York Times-bestselling author Meredith Hall (Without a Map). This is a radiant novel of goodness and love—both its gifts and its obligations—that will stay with readers long after the last page. With a rare tenderness and compassion, Beneficence shows broken hearts becoming whole as this family reclaims their love and peace.
Murder at St Margaret (Oxford Key Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Where centuries-old secrets and modern-day murders collide…
Natalie Payne never imagined her new role as event planner would come with a side of murder. But when the head chef turns up dead in the kitchen of St. Margaret College, Natalie is caught up in a whodunnit worthy of Oxford’s mysterious history. Determined to solve the case, she teams up with an unexpected sidekick—a magical cat with a penchant for secrets and a flair for trouble.
With the clock ticking and suspicions mounting, Natalie must navigate enchanted corridors, academic rivalries, and culinary clues to uncover the truth. Can she keep her cool—or will she be the next victim in this cozy Oxford mystery?
The Cursing Stones Murder (The Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries) (affiliate link)
The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging—but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse was tied at the ankles and weighed down with stones, it’s clear this was no accidental drowning—and now the locals are in an uproar.
The victim appears to be Cedric Levis, who had an extravagant house and a reputation for philandering. Was Levis murdered for his money—or was this a crime of passion? Under the pretext of a holiday, Chief Inspector Littlejohn is invited by his old friend Archdeacon Kinrade to unofficially assist with the murder investigation—but to separate fact from fiction, he’ll have to sort through accusations, town gossip, and mysterious stories surrounding the ancient Cursing Stones . . .
Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection (affiliate link)
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell
For the first time, Ramsay tells the full inside story of his life and how he became the world’s most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother’s heroin addiction, his failed first career as a soccer player, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona—all of the things that made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today.
In Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen Ramsay talks frankly about his tough and emotional childhood, including his father’s alcoholism and violence and their effect on his relationships with his mother and siblings. His rootless upbringing saw him moving from house to house and town to town followed by the authorities and debtors as his father lurched from one failed job to another.
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