Malice and personal ambition clash tragically in this thought-provoking courtroom thriller.

Bobby J

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Helms, Richard

Mystery

Mystery & Suspense Pr

Praise for M. Diane Vogt's Judge Wilhelmina Carson mysteries: 
"Anyone who has ever had cause to resent a trophy wife will identify with Willa's emotional dilemma and cheer her resolution of it."—Publishers Weekly "An extremely entertaining and crisp mystery . . ." —Midwest Book Review "Willa is one of the nicest, likable, yet believable amateur sleuths to come along in years. . ." —Harriet Klausner "When Willa returns, I'll be waiting." —Contra Costa Times "[Justice Denied] is like a really good episode of television's West Wing!" —Debbie Neckel, Book Crazy Radio Tampa's flamboyant Judge Wilhelmina Carson returns in the third installment of this well-loved series. Ron Wheaton dies in Judge Willa's home at the height of Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Fest, drawing Willa into a deepening morass of deceit as she rushes to defend her long-time secretary from accusations of murder. Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Festival provides the backdrop for jewelry theft, bank fraud, and murder. Just as Judge Willa is recovering from the shock of meeting her father's new trophy wife, Margaret Wheaton, Judge Willa's long-time friend and secretary, becomes mysteriously involved with a nefarious jeweler. When both Margaret's husband and the jeweler end up dead, Margaret is the number one suspect. But Willa's Dad could be the killer, too. Willa sets out to prove them both innocent and takes the reader on a ride through Tampa's month long pirate party, with twists and turns that keep you guessing until the very end: whodunnit?

Gasparilla Gold

Vogt, M. Diane

Catherine Deean, a Los Angeles caterer, finds trouble and danger when she begins to investigate mysterious murders which seem to be connected to a chef hired by her boss.

Chill Before Serving: A Mystery for Food Lovers

Cynthia P. Lawrence

Into the Dark

Schwartz, Richard

Even with a left leg shattered by a drug dealer's bullet and a medical retirement from the Detroit Police Force, former homicide captain Ed McAvoy feels he's too young to be put out to pasture.With the slower pace in the Catskills, being Chief of Police in Peekamoose Heights will be sort of like running a country club, or so he thinks. After all, how much crime can there be?McAvoy soon discovers that his skills as a homicide detective will not atrophy from lack of use in Peekamoose Heights. Murder, as it turns out, is an equal-opportunity crime that not only resides in large bustling cities like Detroit, but in sleepy little Catskill villages like Peekamoose Heights as well. In Hickory, Dickory, the exciting sequel to Stream of Death, McAvoy's friend Sam Douglas has bought a Queen Anne tall-case clock at auction--at a bargain price. Trading it to Kate Winthrop for her lesser-quality Massachusetts clock and then selling the Massachusetts to a third party sight unseen seems to bode well for the antique dealer--until the third party winds up dead and, in her dying breath, identifies Sam as her attacker.

Hickory, Dickory: An Ed McAvoy Mystery

Stackhouse, Bill

Even with a left leg shattered by a drug dealer's bullet and a medical retirement from the Detroit Police Force, former homicide captain Ed McAvoy feels he's too young to be put out to pasture.With the slower pace in the Catskills, being Chief of Police in Peekamoose Heights will be sort of like running a country club, or so he thinks. After all, how much crime can there be?McAvoy soon discovers that his skills as a homicide detective will not atrophy from lack of use in Peekamoose Heights. Murder, as it turns out, is an equal-opportunity crime that not only resides in large bustling cities like Detroit, but in sleepy little Catskill villages like Peekamoose Heights as well. In Encore to Murder, the suspenseful prequel to Stream of Death, a former fashion model runs her car off a cliff at the Ashokan Pass on the outskirts of Peekamoose Heights in New York's Catskills--or has it been made to look that way? What McAvoy suspects and what he can prove are two different things. But the retired big-city homicide detective, and now newly-hired village Chief of Police, has a few tricks up his sleeve that may lead him to that proof.

Encore to Murder: An Ed McAvoy Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Caitlin (Kate) O'Rourke is not your typical Irish-American lass. At six-one and one-hundred-seventy-eight pounds, with dark skin, raven-black hair, and a nose like an eagle, the former MVP setter/middle blocker on the Italian Pro Volleyball circuit is a has-been in her late 20s, prematurely retired due to a blown-out knee.Although retirement does not sit well with Kate, she soon finds herself so entangled in other peoples difficulties that she doesn't have time to dwell on her own problems.Kehough's Irish Pub in Nashville, Tennessee, with its upstairs apartment, is home to Kate, and the pub itself provides employment for her brother Seamus and his wife Mary Grace. File this first book in the series under "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished." After Kate rescues a damsel in distress from a mugger, she gets roped into babysitting the woman until the locks are changed on the woman's house. But when Kate's charge is murdered on her watch, the former Irish step dancer, former star athlete, and now owner of a Nashville Irish pub sets out to find out who did it--and why.

Black-Irish Setter

Bill Stackhouse

Terrell Newman, newly promoted to Lieutenant in the San Antonio police force, is called to investigate the death of a young woman found laid out in her bed as if she had been prepared for burial by a funeral home. As he begins to piece together the evidence, Newman realizes that this is not the first killing and won't be the last. With the help of eccentric FBI forensic psychologist Walter Selig, he builds up a profile of a man who is projecting his fear of abandonment onto the women he meets through the Internet. The novel explores the mind of the killer and opens as he prepares to kill the San Antonio victim, then follows him as he seeks out his next victims while Newman tries to track him down before he can kill again. As Selig predicts, there are radical departures from his previous pattern of killings.

The Deliverer: Book One in the Terrell Newman Detective Series

Taylor, Bernard J.

When a prominent lawyer is found ritually murdered in what appears to be a sadistic frenzy, Terrell Newman is led into the twilight world of sadomasochism in his search for the killer. He discovers that the dead lawyer was a frequent visitor to the "House of Correction"-a slave farm run by an expatriate Englishman in the hill country outside San Antonio. Among others to come under suspicion is the lawyer's daughter, who advertises herself on the Internet as "The Goddess of Darkness."

The House of Correction: Book Four in the Terrell Newman Detective Series

Natasha Chamberlain is a young, single office manager who dreams of becoming an investigator. Offered the opportunity to act as bodyguard to computer genius/multimillionaire Roger Valentine while posing as his girlfriend, she jumps at the chance, hoping she can use this as a stepping stone into her firm's investigative department.
Jonce Striker, founding partner of Investigative Services, Inc., does not know what he has let himself in for by suggesting Natasha play bodyguard to his good friend, Roger. From the first outing, when Natasha mistakes an extended lighter for a gun and creates chaos at a banquet given in Roger's honor, she causes Striker nothing but consternation and agitation. Natasha is overzealous in protecting Roger and manages to bungle three separate attempts by an extortionist to collect money from Roger while driving Striker crazy with her zaniness.
Things turn serious when Roger and Natasha are fired upon while playing golf. Who is trying to kill Roger, and why? Is it the same person trying to extort money or someone else? Laugh out loud at Natasha's antics as she stumbles her way through the investigation.

The Bodyguard

Christy Tillery French

Humor & Satire

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