The first eighteen years of Susan Haynes' life are a complete blank.  Finding her past is not a priority until she goes to the daycare center to pick up her four-year old son Timmy.  The center insists that Susan had already picked him up, but Susan knows better even though everyone doubts her.  Susan is then forced to search alone for her son while the world around her crumbles as her past and present interweave to reveal a shocking truth.  Sadly, Susan realizes that if she is to save her son's life, she must first answer the question: WHO'S SUSAN?

Who's Susan

Hayden, L.C.

Literature & Fiction

Top Pubns Ltd

It's the late seventies in Dallas and attorney Rich Coleman has made partner in record time. Rich specializes in probate and estate planning and also handles the firm's marketing. When one of the firm's client's asks him to be trustee over his 17-year-old daughter's trust, Rich reluctantly agrees not expecting her father to die just two week later. Rich and Erica hit it off very well--too well and soon enter into an illicity affair. When Erica's aunt discovers the affair and threatens to blow the whistle on Rich and Erica, she ends up dead.

Death Pact: A Romantic Mystery

Manchee, William L.

United States

Los Alamos, New Mexico, late November/early December 1999. The 1945 pact generates deadly fallout in the here and now -- murders, spying, blackmail and greed. A Spy Within by Lynnette Baughman tells the tale. While researching a book on the Trinity Project, Los Alamos residents Rose Hulle and Patrice Kelsey discover the "Last Man Bottle" legend and grow curious about a 1945 spy, code-named "Perseus." One night Rose and Patrice meet with one of the "Last Man Bottle" survivors, now in a nursing home. The Trinity survivor describes the "Last Man Bottle" pact and reveals crucial information about spies who sent Russia bomb-building secrets.

A Spy Within: A Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Baughman, Lynnette

Mystery

Fred Fuller is a poor but ambitious college student with dreams of a future in politics. He sees himself as being an honest and moral person but when confronted with the chance of a lifetime, not once . . . but twice he discovers the shallowness of his morality. While on his job as a messenger for Bank USA he goes into a deserted bank and is confronted by an open vault filled with millions of dollars. The first time, unprepared to take advantage of the situation, he calls his boss to report it. But when it happens again Fred's moral values are shattered as he takes the money and attempts to flee the country. Twice Tempted, Bill Manchee's first novel, was inspired by actual events that occurred to the author. Sex, greed, and moral ambiguities are the choice ingredients in this thriller set in California in the sixties. A wild ride of an adventure, for both Fred and the readers.

Twice Tempted

Manchee, William

Literary

It's the year 2001 and recent discoveries of vast off-shore oil reserves in and around Trinidad-Tobago have suddenly thrown this region into the limelight. Consequently, the United States is attempting to establish a Caribbean Free Trade Zone much like NAFTA. At an important trade conference in Dallas, Kevin Wells, an alert high school student who is participating in a ROTC color guard, foils an assassination attempt on the life of the Prime Minister of Trinidad-Tobago. As he sees the assassination attempt unfold he doesn't hesitate to throw himself in front of the Prime Minister. Immediately he feels the ruthless sting of the assassin's bullet piecing his back. He falls to the ground unconscious, near death. The assassin races to the roof where a helicopter awaits to provide his escape. 
The nation is stunned by this extraordinary act of heroism. For ten days the focus of the world is on Parkland Hospital where Kevin Wells lies in a coma. When he finally regains consciousness he's become a national hero. While in the hospital the President visits him to express the Nation's thanks. He brings with him Kiran Shah, the Prime Minister's beautiful daughter. Filled with gratitude because Kevin has saved her father's life, she honors Kevin with a kiss, reportedly the first kiss she's ever bestowed on any man. For weeks Kevin can think of nothing but Kiran as he's convinced she his perfect woman. When he goes to Trinidad to find out if she is really his soul mate he is unaware that the rebel NDC party, responsible for the assassination attempt, has a contract out on his life.

Trouble in Trinidad: An epic tale of love politics and betrayal. A Novel.

Romance

Fictional account of women pilots who served in World War II in the WAFS and the WASP.

Queen of Aces

Masters, Aaron

It‘s the sweltering summer of ‘95 and poor souls all over the country are dying from the record-breaking hot spell. Most of the public remains indoors, close to their TV sets, fascinated by the news event of the decade, the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Down South in stifling New Orleans, a literary celebrity lies dead of a mysterious rattlesnake bite in his penthouse hotel suite, while Margo Fortier, the Bourbon Street stripper-turned-society columnist deals with the heat by stretching out under a ceiling fan covered by a wet towel. Margo’s husband Julian invites her to escape the heat and join him at a mystery writers’ conference aboard the (blessedly air-conditioned) cruise ship Julep Queen. While sailing down the Mississippi, the Fortiers become acquainted with the arcane world of crime fiction publishing and the characters who populate it. Margo fends off the advances of the lecherous and conniving publisher, Harvey Gould, who soon afterward is found murdered in his cabin. And the fatal weapon appears to be another poisonous snake. Some suspects on hand are a reclusive literary star of the fifties who remains in his stateroom, naked, 24 hours a day, a former jewel thief who had bought his noble title, a plump cozy writer in search of romance, a degenerate author of gruesome best-sellers and his leather-clad dominatrix, and woebegone midlist authors who have plenty of reason to hate Harvey Gould. Other passengers include a priest traveling incognito with a handsome companion, a portly Elvis impersonator who sings the King’s repertoire in Yiddish and a "pre-published" English professor who stalks the corridors waylaying all and sundry to read his tattered thousand-page manuscript.

Don't Blame the Snake (Margo Fortier)

FENNELLY, Tony

Contemporary

At her mother's deathbed, Lisa learns a horribletruth--at birth she was the subject of an illegal adoption. Overwhelmed with this revelation, Lisa becomes obsessedwith finding her biological parents. Her search takes her into the world of one of the wealthiest men in america, James Johnson. A man with a diabolical secret which, if discovered, will destroy him. Lisa, unaware of this, continues to dig and each step brings her closer to learning the truth...and to death.

Where Secrets Lie (Harry Bronson)

On her first day in Las Vegas, Olivia Wright arrives to apply for a job writing the memoirs of fading movie star Margot Farr, famous for her carousel of husbands and her roller coaster weight. When Margot is murdered and Olivia discovers the detective is her former lover, Mace Emerick, she agrees to be the homicide department's secret witness inside the investigation. Plenty of suspects stood to gain by Margot's death, but when Olivia is exposed to the press as a witness and Mace is fired, the two of them are on their own to solve the crime.

Thin Disguise

Murder has a family tree! . . . in Deadly Pedigree, an award-winning Louisiana genealogical mystery. Nick Herald, a professional genealogist in New Orleans, searches for Louisiana relatives of an elderly man, a Holocaust survivor. Soon Nick learns that his client is actually seeking strange vengeance on a wealthy New Orleans woman, who then persuades Nick to work for her and to steal the information she fears. Genealogical curiosity turns deadly as Nick stumbles upon murderous mysteries with roots reaching far back into the past. In the course of his investigation, Nick pieces together a tangled tale of bigotry, betrayal, lust, and shame spanning two centuries. He falls into the arms of the wealthy woman's beautiful daughter, with dangerous consequences for his conscience and his heart. And as the story draws to its conclusion, he learns far more about himself than he ever wanted to know. Finally, Nick makes courageous decisions to right old wrongs and expose the guilty, while doing his best to save his own neck. Ernest J. Gaines, acclaimed titan of American letters, had high praise for Fox’s Deadly Pedigree: "This novel starts with a bang, and ends with a bang. It is a mystery, with all the characters you will find in most good mysteries--tough ones, evil ones, good ones, and in-between ones. The scenes of New Orleans (of the Quarter and the Garden District) and those of Natchitoches are brilliant. The plot takes us back into history, with a subject that is quite familiar: an older generation trying its best to keep a secret of identity from a younger generation." 
Deadly Pedigree won 1st prize at the 1995 Deep South Writers Conference and was a finalist in the 1996 St. Martin's Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Contest. Additionally, during the spring and summer of 2000, Authorlink.com recognized Jimmy Fox as a "Featured Mystery Author" for Deadly Pedigree, the first novel in his Louisiana genealogical mystery series. 
The star of Fox's mysteries is Nick Herald, an ex-college professor of English, now a Certified Genealogist, scratching out a paltry living in fascinating New Orleans, Louisiana. Undeservedly disgraced in his former profession, he has become an outsider, reluctant to trust or to love, but driven to help justice prevail. He scoffs at authority and sneers at hypocrisy. But his cynicism is tempered by an awareness that he too is a flawed human being. And his passion for genealogy is genuine, even spiritual: he believes that exploring the lives of our ancestors helps us better understand other people, other cultures, and other times. 
Assisted by Hawty Latimer, a brilliant, young, disabled African American woman, Nick uses his vast store of knowledge, his remarkable memory, and--most of all--his intuition to root out the deadly rot festering within the Louisiana family trees he investigates. He's no hard-boiled hero; yet when cornered, he will fight to win against villains who seek to obscure, control, or destroy the preserved record of the past for their own criminal purposes.

Deadly Pedigree (Nick Herald Genealogical Mystery)

Fox, Jimmy

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