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  The Last Sixty Minutes - A...

  Susan Glaspell

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  Susan Keating Glaspell was born on July 1st, 1876 in Davenport, Iowa.  
   
  Glaspell, a precocious child, was an active student at Davenport High School.  By 18 she was earning a salary at the local newspaper as a journalist, and by 20 she was the author of a weekly 'Society' column.  
   
  At 21 she enrolled for Philosophy at Drake University, in Des Moines, where she excelled in debate competitions, and represented them at the state tournament.  
   
  After graduation, Glaspell again worked as a reporter, still a rare position for a woman, and assigned to cover the state legislature and murder cases. 
   
  At 24, after covering the conviction of a woman accused of murdering her abusive husband, Glaspell abruptly resigned and returned to Davenport, and a career writing fiction.  Her stories were published by periodicals, including Harper's and Munsey's.  
   
  In 1909, moving to Chicago she wrote her debut novel, ‘The Glory of the Conquered’. It was a best-seller. So too her 2nd and 3rd and to glowing reviews. 
   
  With her husband Glaspell founded the Provincetown Playhouse for plays that reflected contemporary issues. Her first play, ‘Trifles’ (1916), was based on the murder trial she covered as a young reporter and later adapted as the short story ‘A Jury of Her Peers’.  She wrote 12 plays over 7 years for the company. By 1918 Glaspell was considered one of America's most significant new playwrights. Despite its success theatre work did not make financial sense and she continued to submit short stories in order to support her and her husband during their years with the theater.  
   
  In 1931 her play, ‘Alison's House’, received the Pulitzer Prize.  She continued to write and now with themes increasingly based on her surroundings, on family life, and on theistic questions. 
   
  Susan Keating Glaspell died of viral pneumonia in Provincetown, Massachusetts on 28th July 1948.

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  Death by Chowder

  Donna Walo Clancy

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  Jay Hallett leaves a flourishing law career in Boston to return to his hometown of Anchor Point on Cape Cod. He secretly purchases the local lighthouse and surrounding property to open The Shipwreck Cafe. 
   
   
   
  Rich in history, the lighthouse is rumored to be haunted by multiple ghosts and hiding a buried treasure worth millions. 
   
   
   
  Robbie, Jay's brother, surfs by day and tends bar at the cafe by night. He doesn't like the ghosts, but it's okay because they don't like him either. 
   
   
   
  Stormy, an abandoned golden retriever who has been living at the lighthouse, is adopted by Jay. Together, they move into the keeper's cottage. 
   
   
   
  Two murders in as many weeks transpire in Anchor Point. Who is killing the locals and why? 
   
   
   
  Jay, Robbie, and Roland Knowles, one of the ghosts, must work together to bring answers and peace back to their beloved town.

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  The Other Side of Good

  E. A. Coe

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  Theo Jackson, a reputed criminal, uncovers an international human trafficking syndicate in Cincinnati, forcing he and others to navigate the uncomfortable gray areas of life. 
  When Theo proposes a donation to the city for a new youth center, the mayor sends Theo's childhood friend, police officer Denton Jones, to negotiate the terms. Denton's efforts inexplicably make him a target for a corrupt city official. 
  Yet a dishonest bureaucrat is the least of the city's problems in the face of human trafficking. Theo, repulsed by this affront to humanity, enlists an unlikely coalition of clergy, law enforcement, and criminals to try to stop it. 
  EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a crime fiction adventure where the wrong thing sometimes seems a better choice than the right thing, and where a little bad may simply be 'The Other Side of Good.'

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  Hex

  Jenni Fagan

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  A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland's history: the North Berwick Witch Trials. 
   
   
   
  It's the 4th of December 1591. 
   
   
   
  On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh's High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor—Iris, who says she comes from a future where women are still persecuted for who they are and what they believe. 
   
   
   
  As the hours pass and dawn approaches, Geillis recounts the circumstances of her arrest, brutal torture, confession and trial, while Iris offers support, solace—and the tantalizing prospect of escape. 
   
   
   
  Hex is a visceral depiction of what happens when a society is consumed by fear and superstition, exploring how the terrible force of a king's violent crusade against ordinary women can still be felt, right up to the present day. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Canyon of Deceit

  DiAnn Mills

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  A rescue team searches for a missing young girl and suspects all is not as it seems in this high-stakes romantic suspense novel from the author of Lethal Standoff and Facing the Enemy.When wilderness survival expert Therese Palmer receives a frantic phone call from former colleague Professor Rurik Ivanov, she is shocked by the news that his young daughter, Alina, is missing―and that Rurik wants Therese’s help finding her. She’s sure Rurik hasn’t given her the whole story...especially since he refuses to report the kidnapping to the police. Yet with a child’s life hanging in the balance, Therese can’t turn down this mission. She knows the clock is ticking and she can’t do this alone.Therese reaches out to Texas Ranger Blane Gardner, whom she met seven months ago during one of her training courses in wilderness survival skills. Blane’s specialized training and background with the Crisis Negotiation Unit make him uniquely prepared for this search-and-rescue mission. He agrees to help Therese and to accept Rurik’s terms to keep Alina’s disappearance quiet, and as the two begin working together, Therese is determined the spark growing between them won’t distract from their mission to save Alina.Traversing deep into the desert of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Alina’s last known location, Therese and Blane struggle to separate truth from lies within the mix of intel they’re receiving. As they close in on answers that suggest the involvement of Russian organized crime and a high-profile international assassination attempt, they must fight to rescue Alina before she becomes an innocent casualty of a much bigger plot―no matter the risk to their own lives.A thrilling Christian contemporary novel with themes of courage and resilience from award–winning author DiAnn MillsPerfect for fans of clean, action-packed romantic suspenseIncludes discussion questions for book clubs

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  The Next One Will Kill You - An...

  Neil S. Plakcy

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  Armed with a master's degree in accounting, Angus Green faces a future filled with tax forms and spreadsheets, but his dead father's legacy to him is a desire to get out and explore the world.  
  When The Next One Will Kill You opens, he's just completed his training to become an FBI agent and been assigned to the Miami field office, where the range of cases is wild and the criminals even wilder. 
  Handsome, red-haired and sexy, twenty-something Angus is openly gay and uses his looks and his brains in his first case, which takes him from Fort Lauderdale's gay bars to the morgue on a desperate chase to catch a gang of criminals with their tentacles in everything from medical fraud to jewel theft. 
  But if Angus can't overcome his own insecurities and face down violent criminals with mayhem on their minds, he could lose everything he cares about. The street quickly teaches him that the only way to face a challenge is to assume that he'll survive this one--that it'll be the next one that will kill him. 
   

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