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A Skeleton in the Closet—Also Available for Kindle on Amazon
3rd in the Kate Lawrence mystery series
set in historic Old Wethersfield, Connecticut
ISBN 978-0-615-26899-6 trade paperback
232 pages
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Everyone has a skeleton or two in their pasts, but the one that turns up at 185 Broad Street in Old Wethersfield is all too real. Afraid that the discovery of a corpse on their property might put off potential buyers, the elderly owners of the historic Victorian house turn to Wethersfield realtor and reluctant amateur sleuth Kate Lawrence to solve their problem.
As if that weren’t enough to contend with, Kate and her longtime love Armando are moving in together. Kate’s partner Strutter has a secret that sends everyone reeling. Best friend Margo sets her cap for a local police officer. And every last one of them is being threatened by an anonymous poison pen.
Join Kate and her friends as all of the skeletons--figurative and literal--come crashing out of the closets to challenge the three women as never before.
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Maracaibo
by James A. Ciullo
ISBN 978-0-615-29012-6 trade paperback
Publication Date: September 27, 2009
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CIA operative Marialena Morales happens upon the ambush of two US Senators in Venezuela. One is killed. The other, Vermont Senator Joe LaCarta, disappears. Everyone blames Venezuela’s anti-American President. As Marialena probes, she bonds with an undercover Venezuelan national police agent. Meanwhile, Vice President Brock Randle mobilizes plans for an invasion. Running for president, he is showcasing his leadership. Only his co-conspirators, a corporate CEO and two CIA rogues, know that the ambush is to frame oil-rich Venezuela and create the rationale for takeover. Invasion frenzy builds in the US. The investigation takes Marialena into Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula, a haven for smugglers, home to a growing Muslim population, and hiding place for the right-wing paramilitary unit really responsible for the Senators’ ambush. As Marialena unravels the deception and searches for LaCarta, she must stay one step ahead or will be made to disappear forever.
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Moonlighting in Vermont
by Kate George
ISBN 978-0-615-29202-1 trade paperback
Publication Date: August 27, 2009
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Rumor has it that nothing ever happens in small-town Vermont, but for Bella Bree MacGowan, there is no shortage of excitement. She becomes the prime suspect when she finds her boss dead in a pool of blood and can’t convince the officer in charge, hunky Lt. Miles Brooks, that she isn’t capable of murder. Lt. Brooks believes two things: The first is that everyone is capable of murder, and the second is that the simplest solution is usually correct. So when it appears that Bree MacGowan has both motive and opportunity, he’s confident he’s found his killer. Meg Maverick owns the local paper, and Bree’s been her paste-up tech and friend from the beginning. She has no doubt of Bree’s innocence, but she’s worried. If her husband Tom, the captain-in-chief at the local state police barracks, insists on sticking up for Bree, he could end up ruining his reputation. Then there’s Beaux Maverick, Tom’s younger brother, who has been waiting 15 years for his chance to ask Bree MacGowan out on a date. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass if the whole town thinks Bree is guilty. He’d be the happiest guy alive—if only she’d stay out of trouble.
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Murder by Yew
by Suzanne Young
ISBN 978-0-615-29010-2 trade paperback
Publication Date: November 27, 2009
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When local handyman Tom Greene is poisoned, evidence points to Edna Davies, the last known person to serve him food and drink. Recently moved to southern Rhode Island, Edna has acquired herb and flower gardens, along with a number of hand-written journals from the house’s previous owner. While Edna admits to experimenting with various cookie recipes and tea concoctions, using ingredients from her backyard, she is certain she wouldn’t have used anything poisonous, even by accident. Convinced that the police suspect her of Tom’s death, Edna cannot just sit by and wait to be arrested. Fearing to lose her reputation and the retirement life she and her husband have worked towards for years, Edna must find the real murderer. New to the community, she doesn’t know where to begin except with the victim’s grandson, a five-year-old boy with a speech problem whom she’s forbidden to approach. Shunned by the townsfolk, questioned by the police, and threatened by thieves, Edna taps into strengths she never before realized she possessed, and her search for a killer takes her back forty years to when two of Tom’s high school classmates ran away from the town.
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Murder on Old Main Street
2nd in the Kate Lawrence mystery series
set in historic Old Wethersfield, Connecticut.
ISBN 978-0-615-27167-5 trade paperback
216 pages
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Small-town gossip can be murder—especially when a ruthless blackmailer is involved. If you enjoyed Waiting for Armando, you’re sure to like this sequel. Set entirely in historic Old Wethersfield, Connecticut, Murder on Old Main Street features the same smart, sassy heroines who abandoned their law firm jobs in Armando to launch their own real estate business.
As the annual Autumn Festival gets under way, Old Wethersfield is in an uproar over a proposed smoking ban throughout the historic district. Then a vicious murderer strikes. It’s truly a case of “speak no evil” as amateur sleuths Kate Lawrence and Margo Farnsworth race to discover the truth before a local business owner is unjustly convicted of murder, or even more unthinkably, Kate’s daughter Emma falls under suspicion.
In the background, Kate’s longtime romance hits the rocky shoals of culture shock, Margo is caught up in an unlikely romance of her own, and Emma is intrigued by a man in uniform. When Kate is forced off the road by a sinister Trans Am, she knows that she has been warned. Can she identify the murderer in time, or will someone’s indiscretion make her the next Murder on Old Main Street?
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Shot to Death
by Stephen D. Rogers
ISBN 978-0-9825899-0-8 Trade Paperback
Pub Date: February 15, 2010
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Like a thirty-one bullet magazine, Shot to Death delivers a major dose of murder and mayhem. The work of short story author Stephen D. Rogers has graced over two hundred publications. Here, collected for the first time, are 31 of his stories of murder and mayhem, strewn across the back alleys and back yards of New England. Let this veteran writer lead you through the darkness to show you where the bodies are buried. You might just make it back alive.
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Twenty-Five Years Ago Today
by Stacy Juba
ISBN 978-0-615-29011-9 trade paperback
Publication Date: October 27, 2009
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Obit writer and editorial assistant Kris Langley feels like the newsroom slave - that is, until she stumbles across an unsolved murder while compiling “25 Years Ago Today” items from the microfilm. Determined to launch her reporting career, Kris investigates the case of Diana Ferguson, an artistic young cocktail waitress obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology. Kris soon learns that old news never leaves the morgue and that yesterday's headline is tomorrow's danger, for finding out the truth about that night twenty-five years ago may shatter Kris’s present, costing her love, her career, and ultimately, her life.
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Waiting for Armando
1st in the Kate Lawrence mystery series
set in Hartford, Connecticut.
ISBN 978-0-615-27168-2 trade paperback
240 pages
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When prominent attorney Alain Girouard is found murdered, and his secretary becomes the leading suspect, Kate Lawrence and her colleagues band together to exonerate one of their own.
Possibilities include the many women Girouard discarded over the years, a horticulturist with an interest in deadly flora, the victim’s wife, who has a surprising lover of her own, and a local clairvoyant.
Each clue puts Kate closer to the truth but further into danger when the murderer decides to put an end to her meddling.
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