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Jumping the Median

Green, D E

John Bekker is finally enjoying life in semi-retirement. His relationship with his daughter is better than ever after moving into their new home, his close friend Oz is on the mend from a recent minor heart attack, and Bekker's romance with Sheriff Jane Morgan is in full bloom. Bekker is called back into action when his friend and former partner Police Captain Walt Grimes, on the eve of his retirement, is unexpectedly charged and arrested with extortion and racketeering. Bekker and Sheriff Jane Morgan are allowed to visit Grimes where he is being held without bail. The evidence against Grimes is overwhelming, but Bekker and Morgan refuse to believe that someone they know as well as Grimes is guilty. Bekker organizes a 'Dream Team' of old friends to help him in the investigation: Carly Simms, a retired prosecutor; her spouse Campbell Crist, very wealthy daughter of a deceased mobster; the attorney for that deceased mobster, Frank Kagan; Sheriff Jane Morgan, of course; and even Wally Sample, the dysfunctional computer genius from the Bekker novel With Six You Get Wally. Bekker is sure that Grimes is being set up, and he is determined to find the responsible party and bring them to justice before his friend sees the inside of a prison cell.

For Better or Worse (John Bekker Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lamanda, Al

Mystery

John Bekker is finally enjoying life in semi-retirement. His relationship with his daughter is better than ever after moving into their new home, his close friend Oz is on the mend from a recent minor heart attack, and Bekker's romance with Sheriff Jane Morgan is in full bloom. Bekker is called back into action when his friend and former partner Police Captain Walt Grimes, on the eve of his retirement, is unexpectedly charged and arrested with extortion and racketeering. Bekker and Sheriff Jane Morgan are allowed to visit Grimes where he is being held without bail. The evidence against Grimes is overwhelming, but Bekker and Morgan refuse to believe that someone they know as well as Grimes is guilty. Bekker organizes a 'Dream Team' of old friends to help him in the investigation: Carly Simms, a retired prosecutor; her spouse Campbell Crist, very wealthy daughter of a deceased mobster; the attorney for that deceased mobster, Frank Kagan; Sheriff Jane Morgan, of course; and even Wally Sample, the dysfunctional computer genius from the Bekker novel With Six You Get Wally. Bekker is sure that Grimes is being set up, and he is determined to find the responsible party and bring them to justice before his friend sees the inside of a prison cell.

For Better or Worse

It's the week before Thanksgiving and history textbook writer Miranda Lewis has a deadline to meet.But when a routine check-in to her young niece ends in tears and a hang-up, Miranda hurries to Plimoth Plantation, where her niece works as an interpeter.

Murder at Plimoth Plantation

Wheeler, Leslie

Retired homicide detective Arn Anderson is drawn into suspicious deaths that occurred at VA Medical Facilities hundred of miles apart. As his investigation unfoldes, he is drawn to certain unusual patterns in the death of two veterans.Local reporter Ana Maria Villarreal researches other details and learns there are six more that have died—seemingly by natural means—in restrooms in VA centers in two states. Victims that have all been prior officers in the military.Praise for Hunting the Saturday Night Strangler:“Effectively combines lurking menace and laid-back charm…Readers will look forward to Arn’s next outing.”―Publishers WeeklyPraise for the Bitter Wind Mysteries:“A slow-burning cold case with copious clues, conscientious detection, a high body count, periodic interruptions from the killer’s viewpoint, and all the pages and pages of unraveling you’d expect from such a generously plotted mystery.”―Kirkus Reviews“Wendelboe is a skilled writer who ratchets up the suspense.”―Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Child

Hunting the VA Slayer (Bitter Wind Mystery)

Wendelboe, C. M.

Genre Fiction

Retired homicide detective Arn Anderson tracks a coldblooded killer in this riveting novel of suspense by the author of Hunting the Five Point Killer. Two innocent victims, strangled to death on consecutive Saturday nights. Even as they see the pattern emerging, retired detective Arn Anderson and TV reporter Ana Maria Villarreal can't seem to convince the Cheyenne police that the killer may strike again.Hunting a remorseless murderer leads Arn and Ana Maria down a rabbit hole of ranchers and rustlers. But the closer they come to catching the killer, the more they're met with suspicion. And when their investigation collides with a desperate act of violence, they wonder whether they're unwinding the killer's twisted thread of clues or tightening their own noose.

Hunting the Saturday Night Strangler (Bitter Wind Mystery)

United States

On the tenth anniversary of a series of unsolved murders, the Five Point Killer is back for blood&#8213;and retired cop Arn Anderson could be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth.Retired detective Arn Anderson never thought he'd be broke enough to take on a cold murder case. Or desperate enough to team up with a TV reporter. Or pathetic enough to go back to his rundown childhood home after he swore he'd left Cheyenne for good. But here he is, hunting a serial killer who also appears to have come out of retirement. On the anniversary of the Five Point Killer's crimes, Arn's only option is to survive the carnage of a murderer who may be too twisted&#8213;and too brilliant&#8213;to catch.

Hunting the Five Point Killer (Bitter Wind Mystery)

It's June in the Berkshires, a beautiful month when everything is lush and green. Bostonian Kathryn Stinson returns to see if she and New Nottingham local, Earl Barker, can rebuild their romantic relationship. She's barely arrived when New York real estate developer, Niall Corrigan, takes over the property she's been renting with plans to turn it into an upscale development.Kathryn's opposition to the development pits her against Earl, offered the job of clearing the land. Amid escalating violence, a fire breaks out in the woods and the burned body of another opponent is discovered. Did he die trying to escape a fire he set, or did someone else start the fire to cover up his murder?Other questions swirl around Corrigan's connection to Kathryn's new friend, Gwen Waite. The happily married wife of a local, Gwen is a role model for Kathryn. But is Gwen's marriage truly happy? And what was the mysterious "accident" that caused Gwen to flee New York years ago? Kathryn's search for answers puts her in grave danger.

Shuntoll Road (Berkshire Hilltown Mystery)

"In poems that are in turn part Frank O'Hara, part Woody Allen and part Frank Sinatra, George Guida gives us a book that celebrates love and New York. Unabashed and joyously unapologetic in its romanticism, New York and Other Lovers builds a cityscape of poems where we may all fall head over heels." -Gerry LaFemina, author of The Story of Ash, Vanishing Horizons and Composing Poetry: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Thinking Lyrically "New York and Other Lovers gives us what the title promises and more; it's a love letter to NYC and its residents, past and present, with all their flaws and foibles. It's a book only a New Yorker could write, someone intimate with the subways, streets, and smells. In the tradition of Ginsburg and O'Hara (there's a poem dedicated to each of them in the collection), Guida's universe is vast and varied. From unrequited and lost lovers to the collapsed Twin Towers, Guida's poems work an alchemy like Proust's madeleine to conjure all that haunts us. With empathy, imagination, and wit, he reminds us that we "once had a home." -Jennifer Franklin, author of No Small Gift and Looming "Sometimes they lurch, sometimes they bop. But George Guida's New York poems never stop moving, never give up the restless, relentless pace that is the city. Even when they find a bench, a lover to sing or talk to, the frenetic undertow is ever-present, the heart humming a love song under the bridge, the current taking it uptown and down, and crosstown, where the poet hangs with those whose lives may be lonely, too.Boro by boro, he takes us to places he loved but now is disappointed in. 'Brooklyn has lost its strut, ' he says. But this is still a place for the brokenhearted- 'I don't believe in love/I've tasted it in overnight hot bagels.' Guida makes the city complicit in these betrayals: '...to hang from a white stone ledge by fingernails/above the scene we want to call home.' Still, she's the backdrop he details with great affection, that makes heartache bearable, after all."-Mervyn Taylor, author of No Back Door and The Waving Gallery

New York and Other Lovers

Guida, George

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