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  Hot Time - A Mystery

  W. H. Flint

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  New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. In this presidential election year, the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring, while anti-immigrant sentiment has turned virulent. At police headquarters, the gruff, politically ambitious commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has been struggling to reform his notoriously corrupt department. Meanwhile, the yellow press is ready to pounce on the peccadilloes of the Four Hundred, the city's social elite—the better to sell papers with lurid stories and gossip or perhaps profit from a little blackmail on the side. When the body of Town Topics publisher William d'Alton Mann is found at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, any number of his ink-spattered victims may have a motive. 
   
   
   
  Hot Time is an immensely entertaining, deeply researched, and richly textured historical novel set in a period that reflects our own, with cameos by figures ranging from financier J. P. Morgan to journalist Jacob Riis. Our guides through New York are Otto "Rafe" Raphael, one of the first Jewish officers in the heavily Irish force; Minnie Kelly, the department's first female stenographer; Theodore Roosevelt himself; and the plucky orphan Dutch, one of the city's thousands of newsboys, who may have seen too much.

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  Murder at the Fiesta

  Lee Strauss, Norm Strauss

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  When Rosa Reed attends a birthday party in the spring of 1957, the Mexican fiesta turns deadly. It wasn't how she wanted to celebrate with Detective Miguel Belmonte, nor how she hoped to be introduced to his large complicated family. Before long, Rosa Reed Investigations is on the case. Can Rosa and Miguel find the murderer before someone else dies? And when will Rosa have time to make wedding plans? If you love early rock & roll, poodle skirts, clever whodunits, a charming cat, and an even more charming detective, you're going to love this series set in the 1950s!

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  Journey to 2125 - One Century...

  Gary F. Bengier

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  The story of a family facing our future 
  It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience. 
  This is the story of a family facing our future. A small boy escapes war in Asia. A young woman flees catastrophe driven by climate change in Africa. Some family members build technology companies, while others deal with the trauma of jobs lost to automation. A young couple fight for privacy and democracy. Lives are positively transformed by biomedical science and threatened by it. 
  At its heart, Journey to 2125 is the story, told over a single day, of a young boy and his grandfather. Why did his parents decide to move to the Commune? What family secrets will his grandfather share? 
  Parts political drama, family saga, and hard-science speculative fiction, Journey to 2125 is the story of how humankind might collectively weather the tragedy and chaos that we can expect from accelerating change. What will it feel like to live during these next one hundred years? Take this journey with Max MacGyver and his grandson, as they reveal their family history, and the road ahead for you and yours.

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  Day in the Life A (Novella) - A...

  Andrew Masseurs

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  What would you do if everyone vanished? 
  #1 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction. #1 in Dystopian Science Fiction. 
  CLBC International Book Excellence Award Winner 
  Mystery, Suspense & Thriller Novella 'A dystopian novel for the ages.' 
  Michael awakens to a world where everyone has mysteriously disappeared. Not only must he come to grips with the sudden loss of his family, but he must also survive in a changing, overgrown, perilous earth filled with new predatory creatures while searching for his wife and missing daughter. A Day in the Life for a man on the edge surviving in a dangerous new world. 
  A gripping, suspense, thriller, apocalyptic debut novella by author Andrew Masseurs. 
  Book One in the A Day in the Life series.  
  Narrated by Andrew Masseurs. 
  What reviewers are saying: 
  David's book blurb 5/5 
  'As debuts go I can’t fault the story one bit, Impressed is an understatement.' 
  Blue Reviews 5/5 
  For those craving a literary rollercoaster that defies expectations, this book is a ticket to an unparalleled reading experience. 
  Highly recommend! 
  Midwest Book Review 5/5 
  Showcasing author Andrew Masseurs genuine flair for originality, a distinctive narrative storytelling style, and an impressive ability to engagingly entertain and compel his reader's full attention from beginning to end.

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  Live Wire (A Maggie Killian...

  Anonimo

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  A hookup turned deadly. A jealous cowboy with a temper. Can rebel Maggie Killian flip the script before she becomes the next lost cause? 
  “Hutchins’ Maggie is an irresistible train wreck—you can’t help but turn the page to see what trouble she’ll get herself into next.” 
  —Robert Dugoni, #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of My Sister’s Grave 
  Washed-up alt-country rocker turned professional screwup Maggie Killian is drawn back to Wyoming by one dangerous temptation: Hank Sibley, the former bull rider who broke her heart fifteen years ago. When Maggie stumbles into Hank’s wholesome, Sunday-school-teaching girlfriend at a saloon, she does what she does best—reaches for whiskey and bad decisions. 
  One liquor-soaked night later, Maggie wakes up tangled in the sheets of a younger man… who turns up dead minutes after leaving her bed. 
  Stranded in cowboy country with a broken-down truck, Maggie suddenly finds herself surrounded by men with secrets, motives, and grudges. As she searches for the killer, she’s fighting two equally volatile forces: her unresolved chemistry with Hank and her growing affection for local whiskey. 
  When the police start circling Maggie—despite a string of unsettling break-ins at her guest cabin—she realizes she’s on her own. To stay on the right side of the bars, she’ll have to catch the killer before the cops decide the man she suspects most is the jealous, angry cowboy she still can’t resist. 
  Live Wire is a sharp, sexy romantic mystery and the first standalone novel in the Maggie Killian trilogy—part of the addictive What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery super series. 
  Buy Live Wire to get your next fix of this addictive mystery series today!

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  If You Hear Hoofbeats - Josie...

  Catherine Sequeira

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  Dr. Josie Harjo is used to cutting up dead bodies. As a veterinary pathologist at a state diagnostic lab, it’s her job to figure out the cause of death in a never-ending parade of various non-human species. Most cases are cut-and-dried, and rarely will a carcass roll in that gets her racking her brain. When a rancher shows up with a dead horse, Josie thinks it’s going to be a typical day at the office. She quickly learns that this is the third suspicious death in as many days, and the clock is ticking to figure out what’s going on before any more lives are lost. The necropsy is frustratingly unremarkable, and Josie is forced to follow all leads no matter how implausible. Tensions rise as the rancher starts pointing a finger at a disgruntled employee and an assault charge forces the cops to start asking questions. With a hefty insurance payout on the table, Josie realizes that she can’t ignore the possibility that the rancher might be involved. As the pathologist leading the case, Josie has to wonder, is it just coincidence or is there something more nefarious killing horses at JW Ranch?

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