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  Golden Retriever Mysteries 16-18...

  Neil S. Plakcy

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  Three charming cozy mysteries with heart-- and fur! 
  Dog of Thieves 
  Stolen treasures, a cane-whacking elderly woman and a couple of dead bodies.  
  In Dog's Image 
  Join Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock as they navigate the treacherous waters of wedding planning-- and murder. 
  Blessing of the Dogs 
  Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock are on their way to the altar—but dognapping and murder get in the way.

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  The Citadel of Fear - Lovecraft...

  Francis Stevens, Gertrude...

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  Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s The Citadel of Fear (1918) is one of the greatest dark fantasy classics, a gorgeously written and imaginatively conceived masterpiece. In a career that spanned a mere three years, Bennett published half a dozen books under the pseudonym of Francis Stevens which came to define a number of later genres. She is most popularly known as the woman who invented dark fantasy, but along the way she also invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian sci-fi. When The Citadel of Fear first appeared in The Argosy, H.P. Lovecraft raved of its “wonderful and tragic allegory,” describing it as a “masterful” and “huge mystery” — a “gigantic tragedy.” Although set during the first world war, the story centres around the forgotten (yet active) Aztec civilisation of Talapallan, tucked away in an eerie underworld of the Mexican wilds. Among its many temples stands the black fetid shrine, where the dark god Nacoc-Yaotl is worshipped. When an Irishman and an American from modern-day United States stumble into Talapallan one falls in love, while the other is possessed by Nacoc-Yaotl. Their return to the quiet suburbs of the US is anything but, bringing in their lucid wake a world of rampaging monsters, mutated civilians, and battling gods. Romance, magic, adventure, and scrumptious writing are embedded in this lengthly, yet unavailable and often overlooked, masterwork.

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  AMSTERDAM APOCALYPSE - a...

  Matt Grimm

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  Amsterdam, Virginia — a small farming community in the midst of a suburban transformation — is decimated by the H16N1 flu pandemic. With resources scarce and law enforcement nonexistent, the normally decent citizens of the once well-to-do area turn on each other. Then the militias arrive — men once looked on as "kooks" and outsiders, but who now have the military resources to claim the area farming infrastructure as their own. And with their ranks swollen by the desperate, they don't stop there. 
   
  United against the tyranny by Reverend Jacob Craft — a local minister and veteran of the war in Afghanistan — the people of Amsterdam fight back. But with the federal, state, and local governments eerily silent, a new form of leadership is needed and The Amsterdam Directorate is born.   
   
  Today  -   Reverend Jacob Craft awakens to a brilliant flash in the Eastern sky, the sight of a fiery mushroom cloud on the horizon, and a world ensnared in darkness by the failure of a susceptible power grid. With everything he has worked to build threatened, Jacob rushes to find answers. But an old enemy waits in the darkness for a second chance. Can Jacob keep the peace and defend his friends from a madman's attack or will the fragile community be torn apart from within and consumed by forces from without?  
  ★★★★★ "Slick, well-executed!" - Steven Konkoly (author of The Jakarta Pandemic and The Perseid Collapse series)

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  Crime in the Hospital

  Catherine Moloney

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  Dr. Warr’s decayed corpse is found in the woods. He worked at the local psychiatric hospital before vanishing over a year ago without a trace. People blamed his disappearance on a mental breakdown. There have always been whispers about Newman Hospital—staff brutality, deliberate misdiagnosis. DI Gilbert Markham and his right-hand man, DS Noakes, begin asking questions. They are met with a chilling silence. It seems the people in power know more than they are letting on. Another staff member is found in the annals of the hospital, strangled to death. How many more victims will be claimed before the vengeful killer is found? DS Kate Burton will fight for her life as Markham tries to stop the bloodshed. Will the team make it out of the hospital alive? Please note this book was first published as A Mind Diseased.

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  'Twas the Night Before Murder

  Addison Moore

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  An innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premier destination for murder. 
  Includes a recipe! 
  My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds - not every mind, not every time, but most of the time, and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. 
  It’s December in Cider Cove. Christmas is afoot - and so is a killer. 
  Mackenzie’s cousin is looking to get married in a haunted house and Mack offers up the next-best thing - the Country Cottage Inn. But when a killer shows up at the rehearsal dinner, it throws a wrench in their nuptials, and in my holiday plans as well. Add Santa to the mix; a war between Georgie, my mother, and me; a couple of adorable fuzzy pups - and you’ve got enough yuletide chaos to jingle anybody’s bell. As it turns out, the holidays really can be murder. 
  Bizzy Baker runs the Country Cottage Inn, has the ability to pry into the darkest recesses of both the human and animal mind, and has just stumbled upon a body. With the help of her kitten, Fish, a mutt named Sherlock Bones, and an ornery yet dangerously good-looking homicide detective, Bizzy is determined to find the killer. 
  The Country Cottage Inn is known for its hospitality. Leaving can be murder.

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  Lost in Paris

  Betty Webb

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  Paris, 1922: Zoe Barlow knows the pain of loss. By the age of eighteen, she'd already lost her father to suicide and her reputation to an ill-fated love affair—not to mention other losses, too devastating for words. Exiled from her home and her beloved younger sister by their stepmother, she was unceremoniously dumped in Paris without a friend to help her find her way. Four years later, Zoe has forged a new life as a painter amidst fellow artists, expats, and revolutionary thinkers struggling to make sense of the world in the aftermath of war. She's adopted this Lost Generation as her new family, so when her dear friend Hadley Hemingway loses a valise containing all of her husband Ernest's writings, Zoe happily volunteers to track it down. But her search for the bag keeps leading to murder victims, and Zoe must again face hard losses—this time among her adopted tribe. If she persists in her reckless quest to find the killer, the next life lost may be her own. Pulsing with the glamour and excitement of the Jazz Age, Lost in Paris explores a young woman's journey to redeem herself from the heartaches of her past while finding her way forward in tumultuous, unprecedented times.

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