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Publication Date:  May 3, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Fantasy/Occult Horror Publisher:  Tor Books Length:  308 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn’t easy. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to ment...

Publication Date:  September 19, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Historical Fantasy Publisher:  Wizard Supply Co.  Length:  ? pages Buy:    Kindle   Synopsis Helen Kent never dares to step outside her comfort zone. She lives a lonely, mundane life in the city, grinding through her uninspiring marketing job. That is, until a spontaneous online purchase brings her to the little bay town of Oban, Scotland, where a 500-year-old cottage full of secrets and stories awaits her. After Helen unearths the local legend of a 16th century witch, she discovers a set of mysterious journals in the cottage’s library. Thrust into a world of magic she does...

Publication Date:  June 7, 2022 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Urban Fantasy Publisher:  City Owl Press Length:  348  pages Buy:    Kindle Synopsis Half-succubus attorney Lily Knight has blood on her hands. Haunted by guilt, behind on her rent, and facing professional disgrace, Lily must figure out how to survive in the wreckage of her former life. To make ends meet, she accepts a contract job she never wanted but can’t refuse—hunting another demon murderer. This time, the victims are human, and a shadowy government agency will reward Lily with a way out of her dire financial straits. If Lily doesn’t solve the case before the news gets out, fear and hatred will put all demonkind at risk from the proverbial torch-carrying mob. But ...

Publication Date:  December 7, 2021 Format:  kindle Genre:   International Mystery Crime Publisher:  Nan A. Talese Length:  320 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Hardcover  Synopsis A murdered man is discovered dangling inside the tunnels of a Paris canal--the only clue, the tarot card in his pockets: the Hanged Man. When an innocent suspect is railroaded into prison for the homicide, Mazarelle sets off on the hunt for the real killer.   For the charming, hot-tempered, impulsive   Frenchman--now back from the provinces and leading his own homicide unit out of Paris’s famed Quai des Orfevres--it’s an investigation that takes him far from the comforts of Beaujolais and bouillabaisse, and plunges him into an underworld of ruthless w...

Publication Date:  May 18, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:  Mystery Publisher:  Park Row Length:  290 pages Buy:  Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis People don't just disappear without a trace…   Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.  Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find…  In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and...

  Publication Date:  June 18, 2018 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Ghost Thriller Publisher:  Atria Publisher Pages:  497 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only one searching. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child…someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake. And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring and a young boy is about to receive a call...

Feisty Julia Kent (Do-Over Series, #3) Publication date: January 28th 2020 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Romance I’m not too proud to admit that finding Mr. Right involves swiping right. Right? Welcome to dating in avocado toastland. Here I am, on my first blind date, ever, courtesy of a smartphone app and my two annoying best friends. So what is Chris “Fletch” Fletcher doing, walking across the room, looking at his phone like he’s pattern matching a picture to find a real person he’s never met before? Oh. Oh, no. The guy I drop-kicked in seventh grade cannot be my blind date. The guy who earned me this infernal nickname. That’s right. Feisty. — More from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent as Fiona “Feisty” Gaskill gets her chance at love – drop-kick included. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play / Audible / Amazon Audio Only 99¢ for a limited time! — EXCERPT: My lungs have decided that the world is too dangerous to m...

Publication Date:  February 2, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA/Thriller Publisher:  St. Martin Press Pages:  352 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis "The Unity Project saved my life." Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She's spent the last six years of her life trying—and failing—to prove it. "The Unity Project murdered my son." When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportu...

Publication Date:  May 13, 2019 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Romantic Suspense Publisher:  Harlequin Special Edition Pages:  170 Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Sara Douglas watched as Nick Tyson emerged from the heavy rain, broken and battered. She’d returned to Cape Darkwood, and the cliff side mansion that held her family’s secrets, to research her parents’ murder—and stop the nightmares. As chief of police, Sara knew Nick could help. But his mere presence had always left her breathless… Few people understood how much Nick had lost, but while Sara ran, Nick had nowhere else to go. Instead, he patrolled a divided town whose secrets lay dormant at the bottom of the cliffs. Nick wouldn’t let that be Sara’s fate, no matter how much it pained him to see her again. Their pasts linked by tragedy, the truth would...

Witch Unexpected Debbie Cassidy (The Thirteenth Sign #1) Publication date: December 29th 2020 Genres: Adult, Romance, Urban Fantasy An ancient war, a tenuous truce, a delicate balance. Sounds ominous right? It is. The tri-pack collective has existed for centuries—three dire wolf packs bound to the most powerful coven in the world through a single witch born under the thirteenth sign of the zodiac. Through this covenant they keep an ancient threat unlike any other at bay. At the next blood moon, I’ll be that witch—bound to the three leaders of the dire wolf packs. Responsible for keeping the peace. That is If I make it to the blood moon alive, because someone is trying to kill me. Now the hot-headed wolves are going to have to work together to make sure our inventive little murderer doesn’t succeed. And me? Well, I don’t take kindly to being targeted, so whoever’s gunning for me better watch out, because they just became the hunted. An Urban Fantasy Romance filled wi...

Publication Date:  January 19, 2021 Publisher:  Del Rey Format:  ebook Pages:   208 Genre:  Magical Realism Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis: The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box.   At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary.   But they didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake.   The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own.   Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house—all the while falling deeper in love?   Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned:   Just because a house is empty, doesn’t mean nobody’s h...

  Publication Date:  September 1, 2020 Publisher:  Bethany House  Format:  ebook Pages:   393 pages  Genre:  Christian Suspense Buy:   Kindle   Synopsis: 1928 The Bonaventure Circus is a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the "Watchman," she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth. As Pippa's search leads her to a man seeking justice for his murdered sister and evidence that a serial killer has been haunting the circus train, she must decide if uncovering her roots is worth putting herself directly in the path of the killer. Present Day The old circus train depot will either be torn down or preserved for historical importance, and its future rests on real estate project manager Chandler Faulk's shoulders. As she dives deep into the depot's history, she'...

  Publication Date:  May 13, 2018 Publisher:  NYLA Format:  Kindle Pages:   314     Genre:  Romantic Suspense Buy:  Kindle  |  Audiobook Synopsis: Marty Hogan was a good cop, until a shocking case sent her to the razor's edge.... A sadistic killer pushed Chicago cop Marty Hogan past her limits - and it was all caught on video. She lost her job, her sense of self, her entire world...until an open detective position in small-town Texas gave her a chance at redemption. But she's about to learn that the past always catches up.... Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows all about mistakes and second chances - he's still earning his own, so he's willing to give Marty the opportunity to prove herself. But when her ex-partner is murdered, it looks like Chicago is coming to small-town Texas with a vengeance. Review:  Marty Hogan is struggling. ...

Since I am a Kindle junkie and happen to own 3 versions of the kindle (I have yet to shell out the dough or find it even remotely necessary to buy the DX yet) I thought I would give my reviews on each. Kindle Version 1 - awkward to hold.  I was always hitting the page turn buttons on this one.  It is also very thick compared to the two latest versions which also makes it harder to deal with but with a good cover this one works fine. Kindle 1 also has a memory card which you can replace to create more space on your kindle. Uses whispernet to download books. Kindle Version 2 - much more streamlined but doesn't have the removable memory card so you can't transfer books or improve the storage.  Uses 3G whispernet to download books.  This version I found very durable.  It is thinner than version 1 but also bigger.  The buttons are in much more convenient locations and I didn't find myself accidently turning the pages. I have a silicone cover for m...