A collection of short stories by various authors with suspense elements that are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. These stories were the top entries of the Houston Writers Guild Press mystery contest. All proceeds from these sales help HWG promote literacy in our community as the leading non profit of Houston.

Waves of Suspense (Guild Waves Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Trent, Teresa

Barbosa, Andrea

Welling, David

Lelvis, Meg

Domino, Elizabeth Ann

Flaherty Pagan, Patricia

Jo Martin, Mary

Kopp, Joyce

Murtha, Jim

Hunsacker, Rob

Mystery

Houston Writers Guild

Writing Can Be Murder When authors present their books on romance, vampires, chick lit and alien abductions at the Pecan Bayou Library, one of them gets a killer review.  Betsy Livingston, there to talk about her book on helpful hints, finds herself pointed at for the murder and must find a way to prove her innocence.    Join Betsy in her second mystery as she tries to clear her own name in this hilarious tale of small town Texas life and murder.

Overdue for Murder (Pecan Bayou Series)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A Mystery for Ghost Hunters! When Betsy's Aunt Maggie wants to drag her along on a ghost hunting excursion at the local abandoned tuberculosis hospital she isn't sure she quite believes in spirits. When she comes upon a fresh spirit in the form of a body she starts to rethink about what is really haunting the hospital.  Betsy must solve the murder in spite of her father, who is a lieutenant on the Pecan Bayou Police Force, town citizens worried about the effect of the occult on their children and handsome stranger from Dallas. How do you get blood out of a silk blouse? Betsy Livingston can tell you in the newspaper column, "The Happy Hinter". When she's not writing, or taking care of her 8 year old son she's busy solving mysteries in the tiny Texas town of Pecan Bayou.

A Dash of Murder

Burnout (Pecan Bayou)

Betsy Livingston Fitzpatrick, local helpful hints columnist for the Pecan Bayou Gazette,&nbsp;is trying&nbsp;keep her mind off of being nine months pregnant in the blistering Texas summer heat. Troubled by haunting dreams, she pursues the odd animal thefts in a case that soon turns into murder. As Betsy closes in on the killer, a hurricane is headed straight for the Gulf Coast sending spin-off storms and tornadoes to the little town of Pecan Bayou. "Hunker down" with Betsy and the&nbsp;lovable&nbsp;characters of Pecan Bayou in the latest Betsy Livingston mystery from cozy author Teresa Trent. Recipes and helpful hints included.

Murder for a Rainy Day (Pecan Bayou)

A Mystery for Ghost Hunters! When Betsy's Aunt Maggie wants to drag her along on a ghost hunting excursion at the local abandoned tuberculosis hospital she isn't sure if she quite believes in ghosts. When she comes upon a fresh spirit in the form of a body, she starts to rethink about what really is haunting the hospital. Betsy must solve the murder in spite of her father, who is a lieutenant on the Pecan Bayou Police Force, town citizens worried about the effect of the occult on their children, and handsome stranger from Dallas. How do you get blood out of a silk blouse? Betsy Livingston can tell you in her newspaper column, "The Happy Hinter". When she's not writing, or taking care of her young son, she's busy solving mysteries in the tiny Texas town of Pecan Bayou.

A Dash of Murder (Pecan Bayou Series)

Lost and Found Holiday Gifts: A Cara Mia Delgatto Novella by Joanna Campbell Slan Santa isn’t the only one who delivers presents during the holidays. Cara Mia Delgatto sets out to do a few small favors and quickly learns how a thoughtful gift can change a life. Dying for Holiday Tea: A Beach Tea Shop Novella by Linda Gordon Hengerer Sisters Danielle, Chelsea, and Alexandra Powell rejoice when Alex finds their grandmother’s old recipe book, and plan to bake her gingerbread for their upcoming holiday tea. But someone else wants the recipes and is willing to kill for them. Can the Powell sisters cook up a way to catch a murderer? Dog Forbid by Neil Plakcy A Christmas trip with friends takes reformed hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-solving golden retriever, Rochester, to Pennsylvania Dutch Country. When Steve’s friend’s golden goes missing in an area notorious for local puppy mills, can Rochester nose out the missing puppy and save the holiday? Teddy Saves Christmas by Nancy Jill Thames When Jillian Bradley finds herself alone for the holidays, her dog Teddy latches onto a homeless woman with a dangerous secret. Jillian is forced to get involved. Can she find a way to save her new friend in time for a Merry Christmas? The Neon Ornaments by Camille Minichino Physicist Gloria Lamerino meets her friend Rose in Boston for what she thinks is a girls’ getaway weekend. But Rose has other plans. She volunteers Gloria to help solve a murder. Will the chemistry between Gloria and the homicide detective get in the way of catching a killer? A Diamond Choker for Christmas by Nancy Warren In order to borrow an extremely expensive diamond and sapphire necklace to wear at Christmas party, Toni Diamond's mother Linda offers her home as collateral. But the necklace is stolen right off her neck, and Toni has to solve the crime or her mother will be homeless for the holidays! The Deadliest Christmas Pageant Ever by Teresa Trent It's Christmas time in Texas. Betsy Livingston and her boys are caught up in the Pecan Bayou Christmas Pageant to raise funds for needy children. Betsy gets tricked into replacing the absent director and quickly learns that show biz can be brutal—and this Christmas pageant is downright deadly. The Rowan Tree Branch: A Kiki Lowenstein Novella by Joanna Campbell Slan The holidays offer Kiki the perfect chance to keep a promise to her late friend, Dodie Goldfader. But this sweet thought hits a sour note when Dodie’s husband is wrongly accused of murder.

Cozy Christmas Collection of Mysteries: Happy Homicides, Volume 1

Warren, Nancy

Plakcy, Neil

Thames, Nancy Jill

Minichino, Camille

Slan, Joanna Campbell`

Hengerer, Linda Gordon

When Nora Alexander drives into Piney Woods, Texas, to fulfill her dying mother’s last wish, she has no idea what awaits her. First she is run off the road, then the sealed letter she delivers turns out to be a scathing rebuke to the town's most beloved citizen and favored candidate for Piney Woods Pioneer: Adam Brockwell. Next thing you know, Adam has been murdered in a nasty knife attack. Suspicion instantly falls on Nora, one of the last people to see him alive. After all, everyone in Piney Woods loved him. Or did they? Nora learns that her mother had a complicated past she never shared with her daughter. Told not to leave town by Tuck the flirty sheriff, Nora finds a job with Tuck's Aunt Marty trying to get the rundown Tunie Hotel back in the black. The old hotel was Piney Woods' heart and soul in its heyday as an oil boomtown. Now the secrets it harbors may be the key to getting Nora off the hook. She's going to need to solve the mystery quickly to avoid arrest, or worse: becoming the killer's next victim. Book 1 in the Piney Woods Mystery series.

Murder of a Good Man (Piney Woods Mystery)

Camel Press

Product Description In 1962, Dot Morgan was told the best thing she could do besides being a nurse or teacher was to learn to type. While attending secretarial school, she decides to rub elbows with an elite ladies' club to help her father with a struggling campaign for city council. Instead of getting the help she sought, Dot is thrown into a world of adultery, deceit, and murder when one of the town's sons is found dead. Time to put that 45 on the record player and bring out your best dance moves in The Twist and Shout Murder. About the Author Teresa Trent writes historical mysteries, cozy mysteries, romance and short stories. She lives in South Texas with her husband and son with Down syndrome and splits her time between writing and caretaking.

The Twist and Shout Murder: A Swinging Sixties Mystery

Historia

A new job, a brutal murder, and Camelot has ended.In 1963, Dot Morgan's life was changed forever. She witnessed the assassination of John F Kennedy through the lens of her boxy Kodak Instamatic camera, bringing traumatic aftereffects of the brutality that happened as they stood on the parade route in Dallas. She starts her first real secretarial job with a boss who has no sympathy for her trauma. When Dot's only work friend has a mysterious accident at a demolition site, she digs around on her own only to find very little love between two brothers and no one hammering out justice to find a murderer.The suspects are all around Dot and as she tries to sift through their motives, her cousin Ellie is going through PTSD on her own, losing interest in work, and her fiancé all the while quoting some of JFK's finest speeches.With so much change in her world, can Dot still tell the difference between good and evil?

If I Had a Hammer: A Swinging Sixties Mystery

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