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Travel Can Be Murder: Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
Who knew a New Year’s trip to Budapest could be so deadly? The tour must go on – even with a killer in their midst…
Recent divorcee Lana Hansen needs a break. Her luck has run sour for going on a decade, ever since she got fired from her favorite job as an investigative reporter. When her fresh start in Seattle doesn’t work out as planned, Lana ends up unemployed and penniless on Christmas Eve.
Dotty Thompson, her landlord and the owner of Wanderlust Tours, is also in a tight spot after one of her tour guides ends up in the hospital, leaving her a guide short on Christmas Day. When Dotty offers her a job leading the tour group through Budapest, Hungary, Lana jumps at the chance. It’s the perfect way to ring in the new year and pay her rent!
What starts off as the adventure of a lifetime quickly turns into a nightmare when Carl, her fellow tour guide, is found floating in the Danube River. Was it murder or accidental death? Suspects abound when Lana discovers almost everyone on the tour had a bone to pick with Carl.
Murder Served Hot (Nikki Hunter Mysteries) (affiliate link)
In Murder Served Hot Nikki is hired by Brooke Evans, a woman who is considering a marriage proposal from her CPA, Stanley Godard, but is concerned about his recent behavior. While Nikki is watching Godard’s office the situation quickly evolves from a routine case involving background checks and surveillance, into a murder investigation.
Nikki is delving into the life of the victim, searching for anyone who had something to gain from his death, when she discovers that Nina Jezek, a notorious vigilante killer who targets sex offenders, has returned to California, and she’s on the rampage again.
Over a God’s Dead Body (Wrong Gods Book 1) (affiliate link)
Chaos, Comedy, and Cryptids: An Urban Fantasy Like No Other!
In “Over a God’s Dead Body,” Joel Spriggs whisks us away to a small Indiana town where the ordinary meets the extraordinary in the most hilarious ways. Esmy and her librarian brother Jake lead a mundane life until an encounter with the Norse god Loki sets off a chain of absurdly comedic events. Their quiet college town reveals a hidden world of sasquatches, vampires, and other mystical beings, turning their lives upside down.
As Loki, ensnared in his own mischievous plots, finds himself bound to an Egyptian god’s nefarious plans, Esmy and Jake discover they are more than mere mortals. In a town brimming with supernatural chaos, the siblings find themselves in the center of a high-stakes game that could determine the fate of gods and humans alike.
Not You Again (A Not You Again Novel Book 1) (affiliate link)
The last time I saw my new colleague, she was on top of me.
Literally. She’s my best friend’s sister.
It might have been a hot one-time fling at his wedding. Maybe.
And the preacher from the church might have been the one to wake me up with my pants around my ankles.
What? It was worth it.
Years later she’s pissed that we’re working together.
Personally, I like having her curvy figure around to keep things interesting.
But she’s a boss in business—and a goddess in bed.
Lucky me.
We have six months to get a job done.
Our task?
Romance and architecture.
The Advocate’s Dilemma (The Advocate Series Book 4) (affiliate link)
Attorney Sabre Brown’s day is going well until she walks into her office and finds a dead man sprawled across her desk. The shock intensifies when her best friend, Bob, becomes the prime suspect in the murder.
Caught in a perilous dilemma, Sabre must find a way to clear Bob’s name without betraying the trust of her minor client, who holds crucial information. As she races against time to uncover the truth, Sabre is forced to navigate a web of deceit and danger where the stakes are higher than ever. Can she protect her friend without compromising her duty to her client?
The Heart of an Earl (A Box of Draupnir Novel Book 1) (affiliate link)
All she wanted was to get home.
Ripped from her family years ago, all Lady Julianna lives for is to get home. Though at the moment, her life is hanging from a thin thread of lies. She needs to escape and just when her hope is nearly lost, she spies a way out. A way out in the form of one tall, fierce man that just may be her salvation—or her biggest mistake.
A long lost earl determined to stay adrift.
Desmond Phillips gave up any hope of living a normal life years ago when his wife and unborn baby died. Losing himself among the crew of a privateering ship, all in England gave him up for dead—just as he and his shattered heart preferred it.
Two lost souls meet.
Des saves Lady Julianna and inherits the duty to safely bring her home. As the journey to deliver her home unfolds, these two lost souls find unlikely kindred spirits in each other, and the cold, broken shards of Des’s heart begin to heal. But the curse of an ancient box haunts their every move—their very lives. If they manage to break the curse of the Box of Draupnir, they may just be rewarded with an undying love.
The Lost Concerto (A Maggie O’Shea Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
A woman and her young son flee to a convent on a remote island off the Breton coast of France. Generations of seafarers have named the place Ile de la Brume, or Fog Island. In a chapel high on a cliff, a tragic death occurs, and a terrified child vanishes into the mist.
The child’ s godmother, Maggie O’ Shea, haunted by the violent deaths of her husband and best friend, has withdrawn from her life as a classical pianist. But then a recording of unforgettable music and a grainy photograph surface, connecting her missing godson to a long-lost first love.
The photograph will draw Maggie inexorably into a collision course with criminal forces, decades-old secrets, stolen art and musical artifacts, and deadly terrorists. Her search will take her to the Festival de Musique, Aix-en-Provence, France, where she discovers answers to her husband’ s death, an unexpected love— and a musical masterpiece lost for centuries.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot: A Hour-by-Hour Account of What Really Happened on April 14, 1865 (affiliate link)
The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, hour-by-hour account of April fourteen, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim Bishop has fashioned an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more alive than any newspaper account.First published in 1955, The Day Lincoln Was Shot was a huge bestseller, and in 1998 it was made into a TNT movie, with Rob Morrow as Booth.
Status Update: you have 18 months left to live . . .
Jess Mount goes online and discovers that her Facebook appears to have skipped forward 18 months. Her timeline is full of shocked family and friends sharing heart-breaking tributes to her, following her death in an accident.
Is she the target of a cruel prank or is this a terrifying glimpse of her true fate? Jess is left scared and confused, even more so by the photos of a gorgeous baby – a son she has not yet conceived.
When a post from her best friend suggests her death was deliberate, Jess realises that if she changes the future to save her own life, the baby boy she has fallen in love with may never exist…
When the Cypress Whispers: A Novel (affiliate link)
The daughter of Greek immigrants, Daphne aspires to the American Dream, yet feels as if she’s been sleepwalking through life. Caught between her family’s old-world traditions and the demands of a modern career, she cannot seem to find her place.
Only her beloved grandmother on Erikousa, a magical island off the coast of Greece, knows her heart. Daphne’s fondest memories are of times spent in the kitchen with Yia-yia, cooking and learning about the ancient myths. It was the thought of Yia-yia that consoled Daphne in the wake of her husband’s unexpected death.
After years of struggling to raise her child and pay the bills, Daphne now has a successful restaurant, a growing reputation as a chef, and a wealthy fiancé—everything she’s ever wanted. But across the ocean, Yia-yia can see through the storybook perfection of Daphne’s new life— and now she is calling her back to Erikousa.
One and Only (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly Book 1) (affiliate link)
With her bridezilla friend on a DIY project rampage, bridesmaid Jane Denning will do anything to escape – even if it means babysitting the groom’s troublemaker brother before the wedding. It should be a piece of cake, except the “cake” is a sarcastic former soldier who is 100% wicked hotness and absolutely off-limits.
Cameron MacKinnon is ready to let loose after returning from his deployment. But first he’ll have to sweet talk the ultra-responsible Jane into taking a walk on the wild side. Turns out, riling her up is the best time he’s had in years. But what happens when the fun and games start to turn into something real?
The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage (affiliate link)
At the height of the Cold War, some of the nation’s most precious secrets passed through a CIA contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn’t help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free world would hang in the balance.
With the help of his best friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always drunk, stoned, or both—and were about to find themselves caught in the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB.
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