Danny McCullers was one of the people who made the music just when the Big Bands were going out of style. He loved the life that set him and his fellow musicians a bit apart from the rest of the world. His world was on the bandstand with the colored lights going around, the horns hitting it together, the laughing women dressed in beautiful clothes. It was hotel rooms and all-night cafes and long automobile rides over deserted highways, and, always, there had to be the whisky. But at only thirty-one, his world was deteriorating fast, in a haze of alcohol. At the end of summer, in a small beach town where the band was playing a one-night stand, Danny came to realize that his life might be different-that he still might make it different. He had only to make a choice. 2004 Re-issue Edition

A Time Of Music, A Time Of Magic

Terrell, Joseph L. S.

Literature & Fiction

Bella Rosa Books

DECEMBER 1944: Raleigh, North Carolina "Those were the years they learned to slow dance with girls who wore angora sweaters and smelled of perfume and a hint of promise . . ." So begins the engaging coming-of-age story of Jonathan Clayton and his family in the closing years of World War II, and the years beyond. It tells of the adventures and misadventures of Jonathan and his friends, the first tastes of romantic passion, sexual awakening, family love and devotion-and death. We experience, with Jonathan, the pain and joy of growing and maturing, and the new direction Jonathan's life will take.

Learning to Slow Dance

Contemporary

Crime writer Harrison Weaver doesn't believe in coincidences-only messages that may not be decipherable at first. That's his feeling when, as he prepares to go kayaking at Buffalo City near the Outer Banks, he discovers the body of a nude young female, hogtied and very dead. The stark scene is especially eerie to him because a month earlier he had been assigned to write about the murder of another young woman who was found nude and hogtied in the back seat of her car in the mountains of North Carolina-four hundred miles away from Weaver's home at the coastal Outer Banks area. As Weaver and his SBI Agent friend attempt to track down the killer or killers, it becomes chillingly clear to Weaver that a young woman close to him could be the next victim . . . and it's a race against time to try to save her. A Harrison Weaver Mystery (Book 3)

Not Our Kind of Killing

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

When Mary Ann Little returns to the Tracks Community Theater for the first time since her husband's untimely onstage death, she is horrified to discover the body of young Sarah Atkins backstage. Mary Ann is convinced that Sarah's death was no accident, but everyone, including the chief of police, seems reluctant to discuss the possibility that someone in small-town Camford Courthouse is a killer. Mary Ann's regrets vocalizing her suspicions when her 19-year-old son emerges as a suspect. To unravel the mystery, Mary Ann goes back to work for Thaddeus Sinclair, the editor of the local paper and a "rumpled skeptic" for whom Mary Ann becomes aware of a growing attraction. It soon becomes clear that this small town near North Carolina's Outer Banks harbors more than its share of secrets. But can Mary Ann uncover those secrets and flush out the killer while juggling her new job, her burgeoning romance, her part-time work at the local library, and the unexpected role of "third witch" in the theater's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth? And even more important, can she do it all without getting herself killed?

The Serpentine Flower

An early morning boater is horrified to find the slain body of a young man tied by his wrists to the ladder on one of the permanent channel markers leading to the Manteo Waterfront. This discovery launches a multi-pronged investigation into a network of drug dealings that leaves more bodies in the heretofore peaceful pre-Christmas December days at North Carolina's Outer Banks. Crime writer Harrison Weaver is drawn into trying to solve who is behind all of the killings. His SBI Agent friend Ballsford Twiddy tolerates Weaver's insistence on knowing what is going on, but privately appreciates having Weaver as a sounding board. The hunt for the primary villain ends up in the most unusual of places--and puts Harrison Weaver and his lady friend Elly Pedersen at risk of becoming just two more victims. A Harrison Weaver Mystery - #5

Dead Right Returning

Following a lead from a reporter, crime writer Harrison Weaver finds a man and woman executed in the Outer Banks' Nags Head Woods, their wrists tied to one another. This bizarre slaying, however, is only the start of other killings that draw Weaver and SBI Agent Ballsford Twiddy into an investigation that proves as frustrating as it is deadly, and involves a puzzling connection to a very unlikely place-a church. As efforts to nab the killer before he fulfills his promise that there will be others, Weaver finds himself and two of his friends facing a deranged murder, and Weaver must act fast to save himself and his friends-or they, too, will be added to the list of the dead. Fourth in the Harrison Weaver Mystery Series

Undertow of Vengeance

Outer Banks crime writer Harrison Weaver tackles a really cold case--disappearance of the nine-year-old sister of Chief Deputy Odell Wright. The young girl vanished twenty-two years earlier, and there seem to be no leads at all as to what happened to her. But when the "Bear Woman," who had befriended the black bears on the mainland near North Carolina's Outer Banks, is found dead in what appears to be a bear attack, Harrison and his friends SBI Agent Ballsford Twiddy and Deputy Odell Wright, unearth a connection that could shed light on the girl's fate. Now they must deal with the death of the Bear Woman, and the questions that nag them: Was she really killed by bears? Or was she killed by someone who feared she might be ready to uncover a brutal crime of decades earlier?
Book 6 in the Harrison Weaver Mystery Series.

The Last Blue Noon In May (Harrison Weaver Mystery)

Single mom Mary Ann Little, a reporter with a weekly newspaper near the Outer Banks, is horrified to learn that her friend from the library, young Becky Thurston, has been brutally murdered. As Mary Ann delves deeper into the death, she uncovers Becky's addiction to powerful prescription opioids, which began in an innocent attempt to ease her back pain. Obviously, someone has been helping her feed her addiction. While pursuing the story, Mary Ann uncovers several suspects who might be responsible for Becky's death--maybe over a drug deal gone wrong, or maybe over Becky's decision to blow the whistle on her supplier. But those who deal in the opioid black market are dangerous people with secrets to hide and no mercy for those who threaten their operation. Mary Ann realizes her investigation could lead to her own death, and that of others around her. It all comes down to a confrontation . . . a potentially deadly confrontation in which she must use all her wits and resources to avoid her friend's fate.

A Flower So Fallen (Mary Anne Little Mystery)

It was supposed to be simple. Outer Banks crime writer Harrison Weaver has been asked to find a young woman who failed to return from a party. But when her fully clothed body washes up on the beach and three other young women disappear, he realizes nothing is simple at all. Can it be human trafficking? Here on the Outer Banks? The deeper Harrison delves into the mystery, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. In his work as a crime writer, Harrison has seen the darker side of human nature, but when an informant is assassinated, it becomes clear that this is like nothing he has come across before. Tentacles of evil spread wider and wider, weaving a deadly web that threatens everyone involved. It's going to take skill--and luck--for Harrison and those close to him to escape death at the hands of those who turn dreams of summer into deadly evil. (#7 in the series)

Deadly Dreams of Summer (Harrison Weaver Mystery)

Outer Banks crime writer Harrison Weaver is being stalked by an unknown psychopath, who is leaving threatening clues--or calling cards--that prove a troubling knowledge of Harrison's past. Worse, they hint at deadly intentions toward Harrison--and to his sweetheart, Elly Pedersen. Harrison believes a vacation trip to Paris will take them beyond the stalker's reach. But he is wrong. A horrific new calling card leaves no doubt that a killer has followed them to the City of Light. With no idea why he's being targeted and no clues to the stalker's identity, Harrison and Elly find themselves on a collision course with a psycho willing to follow them halfway around the world and back again to the Outer Banks. Only boldness, skill, and luck can save them. But will that be enough?

Calling Cards of Death (Harrison Weaver Mystery)

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