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A Sporting Murder-Greg McKenzie Mystery #5
Dec.23.2010
The Yuletide doesn’t bring a rash of good will when Greg and Jill McKenzie are hired to investigate rumors that something shady is involved in a deal to bring an NBA basketball team to Nashville. Their client is the attorney for a group of...
Cover of The Day the Music Died
Nov.10.2010
Al Pennyback is hired to be bodyguard for an up and coming singer, Cindy Caton.  She's been receiving threatening emails, and her manager also asks Al to find out who sent them.  He travels with her and her entourage to Colombia where he has to contend with a snake in the bed and an unfortunately...
In the Name of Revenge
Nov.05.2010
Russian muscle Pavel Ivanovich lends his unique talent in serving Italian mob boss Carlo Mancini. Unfortunately, Carlo’s faith and trust is misplaced with Pavel. Believing Pavel to be a prized asset, Carlo forces him to date his more than spoiled daughter Teresa with the expectation of marriage....
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Nov.05.2010
What if Truman Capote's classic true-crime book, IN COLD BLOOD, had gotten it all wrong?  That is what Queens, New York, reporter Jimmy Spacone tries to find out--not realizing that this pursuit of the truth could either sanctify or crucify him.
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Oct.06.2010
New Haven Police Detective Tommy O’Leary and his new partner, Susan Kendall, are assigned the murder investigation of a local abortion doctor. The grisly scene both shocks and horrifies the seasoned detectives. As it turns out, the killing is only the first in a string of deaths in and around the...
The Last Matryoshka
Oct.06.2010
Roped into helping her socially inept, émigré stepfather, Nikolai, escape the clutches of a blackmailer, Jo must enter a world where criminals enforce a 19th-century code of honor, threats arrive inside not-so-traditional Matryoshka (nesting) dolls, and fashion models adorn themselves with lewd...
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Sep.11.2010
As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner arrives to do a feature on mountain tourism. Steiner is accompanied by his assistant and sexy young wife, but he has another reason for the visit: to re-connect with the woman who...
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Sep.10.2010
The return of the world's first female private eye in fiction and on TV! As tough as Mike Hammer and as sultry as Marilyn Monroe! Danger lurks in Hollywood when topless piano player Mimi Malloy walks into Honey West's office. There's been a double homicide at her nightclub, and Mimi suspects she's...
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Aug.29.2010
Buster Mayweather and his wife Alma, while on vacation in West Virginia, witness what they think might be a murder.  The militia who are involved, later kidnap Alma and Sandra Winter, Al Pennyback's girl friend, to keep Buster from exposing a plan more dastardly than mere murder.  Al, who is...
Aug.16.2010