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  Searching for Gatsby

  Niki Danforth

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  High-society secrets, a missing first edition, and a dead cat burglar plunge a rookie midlife investigator into a glittering world of wealth in this modern detective story with a strong female lead. 
   
  A glamorous estate party. A priceless book. And a thief dead on the lawn. 
   
  Newly divorced Ronnie Lake is saying yes to life after fifty again, and getting used to her new role as a private investigator. So, when Marilyn Watson invites her to an elegant party at her Willowbrook estate, Ronnie looks forward to a night off with friends. Before dinner even starts, Marilyn pulls Ronnie aside with a quiet problem: she's convinced her husband is cheating again, this time with a rare-book dealer. Marilyn wants proof. 
   
  Then, after dinner, as coffee is being served, a crash comes from above and a man hits the lawn. But Ronnie notices what the others don't. The fall doesn't add up, and the loud crack she heard moments before makes one thing clear: this wasn't an accident. 
   
  By the end of the night a first edition of The Great Gatsby vanishes, and Ronnie is pulled into Willowbrook's wealth and lies. 
   
  Can Ronnie and her German shepherd, Warrior, expose what the rich are hiding before she becomes the next target? 
   
  Packed with twists and high-society secrets, Searching for Gatsby is book two in the Ronnie Lake Mysteries, a female sleuth series blending sharp wit, heart, and mounting suspense.

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  The Last Monument

  Michael C. Grumley

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  One small handwritten letter, sent from a distant corner of the planet and lost in the system for sixty years … is about to change the entire human race. 
    
  Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow … an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. 
    
  But this time, he can't. 
    
  The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling. 
    
  Why would a person receive an age-old letter and suddenly disappear into the thick of night … paying to be flown out of a closed airport in the worst possible weather conditions, by a pilot who hadn't had his hand on the stick in years? 
    
  With the only surviving relative insisting her grandfather would never have climbed into a small airplane in the first place, even in perfect weather. 
    
  A bizarre string of events culminating in a horrible accident unlike anything Rickards has experienced. Leaving his only hope at understanding it in the hands of the victim's sole remaining relative. Beginning with how a mysterious letter could turn up after being lost in the system for sixty years. Sent by someone who should have already been long dead. 
    
  A single letter, Joe Rickards is about to discover, with a secret that will change the entire world.

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  The Eliminator Series Books 4-6

  Mike Ryan

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  Books 4-6 of The Eliminator Series: 
  The Eliminator 
  Jacobs finds he's still not done with Mallette’s bunch. Lawrence Wiggins, Mallette’s lawyer, is found dead, leading the imprisoned crime boss to getting a new attorney appointed from New York. Roger Alexander is not only Mallette’s new lawyer, but he’s also taking over his organization. But to do that, he needs Mallette, and the rest of his men, eliminated. He calls for a truce with Jacobs. But something still isn’t right. Is Alexander really just serving up the rest of Mallette’s men, or is he luring Jacobs into a trap to try and get rid of The Eliminator once and for all? 
  The Betrayal 
  It's just another ordinary day for Brett Jacobs. He's spending it in the cemetery with his family. But his quiet morning is about to get throw for a loop. Standing in the crosshairs of a sniper, Jacobs is saved from death by a beautiful private investigator named Abbie Johnson. As the two start getting to know each other, Jacobs starts to think that she may not be what she claims she is. Is Abbie the woman Jacobs needs to finally move on? Is she really interested in helping Jacobs in his fight against the criminal element? Or is she waiting for the right opportunity to twist the knife in Jacobs' back? 
  The Comeback 
  Franks finds himself in a bind and gets Jacobs to help alleviate the problem. Barberio's Butchers, a small-time gang with big-time aspirations, is looking to put a hurting on the pawn shop owner. It's up to Jacobs to make sure that doesn't happen. While that's going on, Mallette finds himself with a new lawyer. This one has better news for him. It seems that Mallette is on the comeback and retaking control of his operation. Now, some of the holdovers from Alexander's bunch are intent on impressing their new boss and put a hit out. Someone is taking a bullet. But who?

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  One Foot in Eden - A Novel

  Ron Rash

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  "Equal parts vintage crime novel and Southern Gothic, full of aching ambivalence and hard compromises, and rounded off by bad faith and bad choices, One Foot in Eden is a veritable garden of earthly disquiet." —Los Angeles Times 
   
   
   
  Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  G K Chesterton, Edith Nesbit,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume the pens of our English authors examine murder.   This dark and evil deed is carried out with many motives.  Our authors, including G K Chesterton, A M Burrage, Amelia Edwards, Algernon Blackwood and many others are those charged with revealing each and every crime scene.  
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - The English Murder - An Introduction 
  2 - Father Brown - The Blue Cross by G K Chesterton 
  3 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit 
  4 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki 
  5 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill 
  6 - The Acquittal by A M Burrage 
  7 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  8 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 
  9 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  10 - The Green Light by Barry Pain 
  11 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards

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  The Pure and the Hated

  Richard Godwin

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  A mourning father takes a troubled man into his home only to lead a deranged lunatic to his door in this noir thriller from the author of Savage Highway.   After Shepherd Butler finds Maxwell Heed freezing in the forest in Vermont, he takes him into his home with his wife, his nieces, and his sister. They instantly take to Maxwell. He’s a sincere, religious man, seeking to understand the nature of forgiveness. He feels like just another member of the family.   Then he opens up to Shepherd and his wife about the man who killed his fiancée… Temple Jones is a dangerous psychopath who preys on women. He has escaped justice, and Maxwell fears he has followed him to Vermont. Shepherd tries to ease Maxwell’s fears, but Maxwell soon vanishes…   And Temple Jones shows up….“Godwin writes intelligent noir from a unique psychological perspective, delving deep into the nobler motives and emotions of his engaging characters while examining the darkest corners of the human heart. The faceless villain in this chiller is as real as a razor cut….Before you sit down on a cool dark night to enjoy this one, make sure the doors and windows are locked.”—Phil Bowie, author of the John Hardin series

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