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Double Indemnity: Richard Zappa

Rose Newland — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:46:17 +0000

Heartland Insurance, the brainchild of multimillionaire Jared Finch, has a simple business model—buy people’s life insurance policies and collect the proceeds when they die. New Orleans homicide detective Jo Crowder and FBI Special Agent Alex Hill suspect there is a sinister relationship between Finch’s company and a research laboratory that is testing an experimental serum on animals. Hill and Crowder team up to investigate why so many people connected to Finch and his company are dying. But are they willing to break the law and risk their lives to uncover the horrifying truth?

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A Date to Die For: Gaylene B Corben

Rose Newland — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:05:39 +0000

Set in contemporary Australia, Joe, a NSW police detective with a suitcase full of emotional baggage, and his partner, Tess, a tart-tongued Italian beauty, investigate a baffling series of three killings with complex connections. In order to catch the killer before he strikes again, they must match their wits against an intelligent and highly organised serial killer, who uses a gay dating site to lure his victims - all young, attractive women - into his clutches. The only clues at each of the bloody murder scenes are a cryptic note and a white rose.

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Payola: Gary L Kreigh

Rose Newland — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:30:27 +0000

A tropical storm isn’t the only thing brewing in the New Orleans’ French Quarter in 1956. When someone threatens Reverend Fountain’s singer friend Genny Duval, asking her to pay money for a song she recently recorded, and the woman who brokered the deal can’t be found, Fountain can’t help but investigate. Is it a Payola scheme gone awry? A song on the radio, a note handed to Miss Genny on stage, a DeSoto FireFlite in a garage, and the murder of a DJ in Biloxi, Mississippi puts his sleuthing skills to the test. But when a young woman is murdered, with Detective Robicheaux assigned to the case, Fountain fears that if they don’t crack the case in time, Miss Genny might be next.

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The Easter Murders: Richard Zappa

Tahlia Newland — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 04:48:37 +0000

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Masquerade of Truth: Gary L. Kreigh

Tahlia Newland — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 03:28:45 +0000

When Reverend Richard Fountain comes across a homeless person breathing his last after a vicious attack, his visit to New Orleans takes a disturbing turn. Realising the dying man may not be what he seems, Fountain makes enquiries of various colourful New Orleans’ characters. Though warned to leave the investigations to the police, the Reverend sets about uncovering the truth himself. But nothing is as it appears in New Orleans. Even dead men can hide behind a masquerade of deception and intrigue.

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Identical Misfortune: Richard Zappa

Tahlia Newland — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:24:25 +0000

Separated at birth, identical twins Ann and Veronica couldn’t be more different: Ann, a loving wife and mother; Veronica, a heartless sociopath. When Veronica learns that Ann has married into a wealthy family, she manipulates family members and the police into believing she’s Ann and then stages Ann’s suicide, making off with millions to Europe and a new life as a wealthy socialite. Identical Misfortune chronicles the thoughts and actions of a cold-blooded killer as she schemes, lies, and murders her way in and out of families on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s also the story of her pursuer, a New Orleans homicide detective, whose investigation uncovers one shocking revelation after another and whose only chance of stopping the killing is to turn her back on the law she’s sworn to uphold.

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Pool of Life: Pete Trewin

Tahlia Newland — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 01:13:41 +0000

Jack ‘Flash’ Gordon’s private investigation business in Liverpool is in trouble with staffing issues and changing technology. So when Sarah Gladwyn from an old Welsh family commissions the ex-copper to investigate a series of threats and attacks from an anonymous assailant, it seems like a lifeline. The stalker is obsessed with the family’s role in oppressing the local slate workers in Victorian times and stealing Welsh water for use in England. It’s a great opportunity for Jack so what could possibly go wrong? How about murders, discovery of skeletons in cupboards, conspiracies, bent coppers, corrupt politicians, violent gangsters and a terrorist threat to Liverpool’s water supply. Flash Gordon? He’ll need to be Jumping Jack Flash to get through this one. Publication date: April 30th. Pre-order now.

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The Missing Baronet: A Sarah Kedron Mystery by Ken Methold

Tahlia Newland — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 23:03:35 +0000

When Sir Charles Browning, a young aristocrat, apparently abandons his wife, leaving her destitute and ostracised, Sarah Kedron, a successful playwright and feminist, agrees to help the young wife by finding out what has happened. James Brewster, the editor of her father’s weekly periodical, assists Sarah in her investigation. Their search for the truth takes them from the high society of Regency England to its shady underbelly. Firmly established in the social, political and economic conditions of the time, The Missing Baronet is an enthralling read. “A meticulously researched period piece, bringing together colourful characters, conflicting aspirations and a tricky mystery to solve.” B.J Haydon

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Not Without Risk: Pete Trewin

Tahlia Newland — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 04:35:56 +0000

When Martin Bennett, the backroom brains in a regeneration company charged with bringing back Merseyside’s former prosperity, sees an ex-friend murdered on a hospital escalator and discovers that the body was too hastily cremated, he feels compelled to investigate. In order to discover the truth about the murder, he must navigate the Merseyside underworld peopled by bent solicitors and coppers, corrupt politicians and violent thugs. He forms an alliance with the mayor’s right hand woman, who is out of favour with her corrupt boss, and uncovers not only the surprising story behind the murder but also a conspiracy to carve up Merseyside’s green belt. The journey will not be without risk. For both of them.

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The Locksmith’s Secret: Tahlia Newland

Tahlia Newland — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:49:36 +0000

Ella’s boyfriend Jamie seems to be her perfect match until a death in the family calls him back to England and it becomes clear that he’s hiding something. Can their relationship survive the revelation of something so astounding that it completely changes Ella’s perception of him and his place in her world?

While Jamie struggles with family responsibilities, Ella’s steampunk murder mystery develops a life of its own, raising disturbing memories of her time as a striptease artist and a past life as a sexually abused Italian nun. She also dreams of an ephemeral city, where she seeks to unravel the locksmith’s secret and find the key that opens a door to other realities. All these, together with a lost brother, a desperate mother, a demanding cat, and a struggle to live up to Buddhist ideals, weave together in a rich tapestry that creates an extraordinary work of genre-bending transrealist fiction. Though it is the second in the Prunella Smith Series, the book can be read as a stand alone title.

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