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  IN THE SHADOW OF DIABLO - Ghosts...

  Dan Hanel

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  Wedding plans for high school teachers Harrison Barrett and Celeste Scott are put on hold after finding a murder victim’s cryptic message scrawled on a pioneer cemetery headstone. As the couple investigates the mysterious warning, Celeste becomes inescapably linked to a centuries-old legend rooted in Pythagorean philosophy and a sinister quest for power. Harrison and Celeste’s search for answers draws them into the historical accounting of Nortonville, a 19th century coal mining town set among the Mt. Diablo foothills. The untimely deaths of some townsfolk have a few prominent residents fearing the misfortunes are more than tragic accidents. What ancient secret lies hidden among the Welsh immigrants and their toil for lucrative black diamonds? Follow Harrison and Celeste on their epic and often precarious journey traversing secret societies, mystic symbols, and medieval legends. Will they discover Celeste’s connection to the profound mystery before it’s too late? The answer can only be found where past meets present, fact meets fiction, and mystery meets romance . . . in the Shadow of Diablo.

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  Pawprints Prose & Murder

  Kathy Manos Penn

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  It's time to celebrate. But a corpse just crashed the party. 
   
   
   
  Leta Parker is starting to feel comfortably at home. With life in the charming Cotswolds hills settling down and her boyfriend's book about to launch, the fifty-something American ex-pat loves seeing everything come together. But her man's publicity event ends disastrously when one of the guests is discovered dead. 
   
   
   
  With a trail of clues that don't line up and bitter rivalries causing tension, Leta and the Little Old Ladies Detective Agency struggle to find a clear path to the truth. And after a confession reveals yet more inconsistencies, the persistent woman's drive to uncover the facts could see her take a fatal fall. 
   
   
   
  Can Leta and her team discover the real reason a body was found at the bottom of the stairs? 
   
   
   
  Pawprints, Prose & Murder is the intriguing ninth volume in the Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series. If you like sharp-as-a-tack heroines, good-humored puzzles, and talking pets, then you'll adore Kathy Manos Penn's clever conundrum.

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  The Dead Hand - A man is offered...

  Wilkie Collins

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  Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.  
   
  The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him. 
   
  He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington.  Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances: the school bully would give him no peace until he had been told a bedtime story.  This ‘little brute’ helped create one of England’s greatest writers.  
   
  On leaving school, in 1841, he became a clerk at a tea merchant before, 2 years later, publishing his first short story.  However, his first novel was rejected and remained so during his lifetime.  
   
  A brief stint at Lincoln’s Inn to please his father and to acquire a steady income was halted by his father’s death.  Collins then wrote and published his fathers’ memoirs.  He then completed his legal education though he would never practice.  
   
  In March 1851, he was introduced to Charles Dickens and there now started a period of sustained literary output and a remarkable lifelong friendship.  His stories were published in Dicken’s magazines, and he toured with Dicken’s theatrical before the two of them travelled to the Continent. 
   
  By the early 1860’s worrying signs of ill-health appeared with rheumatic gout.  As it worsened, he sought respite and cures in German spa towns and gave up writing to help his recuperation. 
   
  His personal life had become very complicated.  He was living with the widowed Caroline Graves and conducting an affair with a much younger Martha Rudd.  With the serialised release of ‘The Moonstone’ and vicious attacks of gout Caroline left him and married another.  Collins was now prescribed opium and was soon its lifelong dependent.  Martha bore him two children and with the return of a now divorced Caroline Graves he now divided his time between the two women. 
   
  In 1874 he set aside writing to tour North America on a reading tour. 
   
  Throughout his later years he continued to write and publish.  In all 30 novels, 14 plays, 60 short stories and over a 100 non-fiction essays as well as many more collaborations with Dickens. 
   
  In 1884 the Society of Authors elected him as it’s Vice-President. 
   
  Wilkie Collins died from a paralytic stroke on September 23rd, 1889, in London. He was 65.

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  Broken Bond

  Kerry Barnes

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  Bonds are tested in a gripping story of betrayal, vengeance, and deadly ambition . . . 
   
  Carrie and Dottie raised Billy and Jesse Murphy to have each other’s backs, no matter what. 
   
  But on one fateful night, as Billy takes his girlfriend Willow on a date, his world takes a devastating turn. 
   
  A few days later, after a shocking revelation, the bond between the two brothers is broken – maybe forever. 
   
  At the same time, Cas Ferrier’s life is set to nosedive for a completely different reason. A long-buried heist, thought forgotten, returns with a vengeance, unleashing a ruthless killer with a thirst for bloodshed. 
   
  Family is everything to Billy, and when he witnesses a disturbing scene that can never be unseen, Dottie wonders if Billy will ever be the same again. 
   
  With revenge on their minds, will Billy and Cas uncover who is behind the series of devastating events?

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  The Jenn Herrington Wyoming...

  Pamela Fagan Hutchins

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  Nora Roberts meets Yellowstone—with the grit of C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Christine Carbo. 
  Former big-city prosecutor Jenn Herrington has reinvented herself in Big Horn, Wyoming—a rugged cowboy town tucked against the eastern slope of the Bighorn Mountains. By day, she defends the accused. By night, she writes mysteries inspired by her cases. But in Big Horn, real life is far more dangerous than anything she puts on the page. 
  BIG HORN 
  When an investment guru is found dead in the septic tank behind her husband’s newly opened Wyoming lodge, Jenn is forced to put her high-profile campaign to become Houston’s youngest-ever female district attorney on hold. The prime suspect is a hard-drinking lodge caretaker—and unless Jenn can prove his innocence, he’ll take the fall for a murder she’s convinced he didn’t commit. 
  WALKER PRAIRIE 
  Summoned to examine elite performance horses at the WP Bar Ranch, Jenn’s veterinarian husband, Aaron, instead finds the ranch’s abrasive California owner dead in his Jaguar at the bottom of an icy roadside cliff. When deputies arrest a beloved local contractor—whose tractor tire tracks lead straight to the scene—Jenn must navigate small-town loyalties, buried grudges, and dangerous secrets to uncover the truth. 
  RED GRADE 
  When the star of a championship polo team collapses and dies during a match, whispers of underground betting and drugged horses ripple through Wyoming’s wealthy elite. With the county attorney overwhelmed, Jenn is called in to help—only to discover the evidence is pointing toward the one person she never expected: her husband. As her legal career and marriage hang in the balance, Jenn must decide how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth… and whether she truly knows the man she married.

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  The Hollow Place

  Rick Mofina

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  While driving to Canada with her boyfriend to start a new life, Samantha Moore, a college student from New York City, vanishes from a lonely, low-rent motel in Vermont. 
   
   
   
  Ray Wyatt, a veteran reporter grappling with the tragic loss of his wife and son, is assigned to delve into the mystery enveloping the young woman's disappearance.

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