April 2018
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A Dying Note
$15.95 Add to cartSummer of 1881 and Inez Stannert, still the co-owner of Leadville, Colorado’s Silver Queen saloon, is settled in San Francisco with her young ward, Antonia Gizzi. Inez has turned her business talents to managing a music store, hoping to eventually become an equal partner with the store’s owner, a celebrated local violinist. Inez’s careful planning for herself and Antonia threatens to tumble about her when the badly beaten body of a young musician washes on the banks of Mission Creek canal. The musician turns out to have ties to Leadville, ties that threaten to expose Inez’s notorious past.
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By His Own Hand
$25.99 Add to cartIt looks like suicide. The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg, dead from a close-range blast. The gun – his own – lies beside the body. Certain things don’t add up for Detective Tia Suarez. Where did the fat envelope of cash in his pocket come from? Who called the police to report the body, then disappeared before the cops arrived? The trail leads Tia to an institution for juvenile incarceration and to the leader of a local mega-church, a political and economic powerhouse in the region. Newberg’s mayor and the medical examiner keep trying to close the case. What if it’s not suicide? What if this death is covering up something that will shake the town to its foundations?
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Holmes Entangled
$15.95 Add to cartSherlock Holmes, now in his seventies, retired from investigations and peaceably disguised as a professor at Cambridge, is shaken when a modestly successful author in his late sixties named Arthur Conan Doyle calls upon him at the university. This Conan Doyle, notable for historical adventure stories, science fiction and a three-volume history of the Boer War (but no detective tales), somehow knows of the false professor’s true identity and pleads for investigative assistance. Someone is trying to kill Conan Doyle. Who? Why? Good questions but what intrigues Holmes most is how the “middling scribbler” ascertained Holmes’s identity in the first place, despite the detective’s perfect disguise. Holmes takes the case. There is great danger every step of the way and great powers want the investigation squashed. But with the help of Dr. Watson’s widow, Holmes persists, exploring seances, the esoterica of Edgar Allan Poe, the revolutionary new science of quantum mechanics and his own long-denied sense of loss and solitude.
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Pilfered Promises
$15.95 Add to cartIt is November 1880 and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant. They are looking forward to spend their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together. For Robert Livingston, the owner of San Francisco’s newest grand emporium, the holidays don’t look as promising. Not if he can’t figure out how to stop whoever is stealing from his department store, the Silver Strike Bazaar. However, when he hires the Dawsons to investigate, they discover that behind the doors of his “Palace of Plenty”, nothing is quite what it seems.
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Skyjack
$26.99 Add to cartFor Thea Paris, a kidnap and ransom specialist, kidnapping is always personal. Her brother’s life was nearly ruined when he was taken as a child. When Thea’s flight is hijacked over the Libyan Desert, her first priority is the two former child soldiers she is escorting to a new life in London. As an international kidnap specialist, Thea Paris negotiates for hostage release as part of her job. She knows one wrong move could lead to deadly consequences. After she is forcibly separated from the boys and the other passengers, Thea and her tactical team quickly regroup. And in their desperate search for the hostages that follows, unearth a conspiracy involving the CIA, the Vatican and the Sicilian Mafia, and a plot far more sinister than Thea could ever have imagined.