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The Duffel Bag Murders: A Jolene Mystery, Book 3
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Jolene was worried for it had been over a month since Agent Haines had called Jolene, so she was worried they didn’t want her to help them anymore. But Agent Haines and Agent Blay showed up at her door with three different cold cases. They wanted Jolene to chose which one they would work on. She picked the Duffle Bag murders. Skeleton remains buried on empty lots and vacant homes. There was very little to go on for the murders were never investigated by the local police. She was really excited they wanted her to work with them. The FBI made her a temporary Agent with a badge.
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The extra ordinary life of an extra ordinary bear
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Richard Henry was born, raised and educated in New York City. After his service in the United States Marine Corps, which included a tour in Viet Nam, he returned to New York where he worked as a teacher and coordinator of Alternative High Schools.
In 1983, he moved to Oklahoma to serve as the Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution for four counties under the direction of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. In 1990, he moved to California and set up a training program for formally incarcerated youth. In 1992, he served as the “Economic and Business Development Coordinator” for military base closures.
He published his first book of poetry, “Beyond the Skull” in 1976. His novel, “Of Days Gone By” was first published in 1990, followed
by his second novel, “Short Timer” in 2002. His third book, “The Extraordinary Life of an Extraordinary Bear” was published in 2023.
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The Faithful and The Damned: Demon of the Swamp
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99A demon is born and the clock is ticking. The town of Clearmont, Massachusetts becomes a place of terror overnight. As disappearances and gruesome murders stack up, reports of a monstrous beast becomes the norm. Jonathan Bailey, a retired folklorist, and his estranged son, Philip, travel to a distant land in search of mythical powers to stop the demons in their quest to destroy the only defense protecting humanity from the terror devouring the town. In this contest of good vs. evil, will the residents of Clearmont find the heroic within themselves? When all seems lost, the most unassuming among them will step forward to selflessly face an enemy more powerful than any human being.
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The Fifth Day Lady: Can She Make It Work?
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Josephine goes undercover as a rich married woman in Siesta Key in Florida, where she purposely meets a dentist named Julio, suspected of having too much money as a dentist with a million-dollar polo team. A former barrel racer in rodeos at an early age, can Josephine help Julio, hurt on the field, win a Polo match in West Palm? Josephine also risks exposing her cover with military skills in a chopper attack by a Miami drug king. And Julio’s mother, Lucia, jealous and suspicious, plans to kill her.
In Buenos Aires, Josephine, at odds with her affection for Julio, convinced Julio that his mother smuggles drugs through her business. With a huge network discovered, new members join the mission to stare down death. In a final drug war, can the team destroy a smuggling system when no one else could? -
The Findog
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is more of a collection of poems from the last twenty years. Some may be thoughts or include events leading to but most like this book is the return value of being single. Or suppose, my compromise didn’t work.
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The Game
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99A terrified girl takes refuge with a stranger and pleads for her help in escaping the pursuit of the mob. Marie agrees, and takes Ann into her home and works to hide her from her pursuers. They confide in each other and become friends. They think they have evaded the mob, but when Ann is spotted again, Chicago becomes too hot for them, and they flee to London.
Once in London they relax, but all too soon they realize that their followers have found them again. Only when Marie plucks up her courage to strike back at the shadowy menace does she discover the strange twist in the story, and then the truth comes out at least.
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The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In April of 1545, a horrific massacre of more than 3,000 “heretics” in southern France occurred. In one small village, twenty-five women and children hid in a secret grotto in the hills above town. But they were betrayed. Royal and papal troops built a fire in the mouth of the grotto and murdered them all by suffocation. So much is an established historical fact.
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The Happy Harrow Murder Trilogy: Murder to Music, Murder in Marriage, Murdered Mothers
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99Murder to Music Rick Harrow, a British racehorse trainer, and his Kentucky-born wife, Happy, are thrilled when twin opera stars, Fran and Carla Purcell, enter their yard. Shortly after the twins buy horses, Carla is murdered. Three more famous artists in the music world are murdered, as Happy hones her skills as a sleuth to find the serial killer, her quest taking her to Australia, Scotland and Monaco. Murder in Marriage Rick Harrow, now the father of three, and his wife, Happy, become embroiled in a double death, which the police cannot decide is a suicide/murder, or what? While working as a horse trainer and buyer in Miami, Rick had strayed from the marital bed while Happy gave birth to their third child. Rick has had a scorching affair with Lois Blair, a wanton wife from the central-Florida town of Sunblair. On Christmas morning, Lois’s step-son arrives at the Harrow’s rented Miami cottage, and accuses Rick of having murdered his father. Had Rick killed the Senior Blair, an eminent attorney and scion of the founders of Sunblair? Had he murdered Lois as a cover-up? Happy travels to the central-Florida horse country, to Disney World, and into a swamp area to do her sleuthing. Murdered Mothers Rick Harrow, who has come up in the world of valuable racehorses thanks to winning races, particularly one in Tokyo with his Kentucky-born wife Happy in the saddle, suffers through an excruciating experience in Miami before being thrust into the throes of an horrific series of murders in Kentucky. There, in what was the peaceful town of Honeyville, the Harrows are caught up in four murders by a serial killer who targets new mothers. Meanwhile, they attend the equine Olympic events in Hong Kong, travel to Dubai, where again a femme fatale enters their lives in the shape of Mafalda, an Egyptian seductress who veers from international playgirl to Muslim Fundamentalist.
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The Haunted House Kid
$3.99Alex Connelly’s parents are getting a divorce. To make matters worse, they have refused to let him use their garage this year for the haunted house he has put on since he was very young. Fortunately for Alex, he has been temporarily allowed to live with his adoring maternal grandmother, inadvertently gaining himself a new venue for his spooky hobby, his Grandma Ruth’s near-empty garage.
When Alex’s mom acting all kinds of weird, and Grandma Ruth is away from home all the time (because she’s managed to pass her driver’s license test, after several years without a license) and he starts to notice strange things going on during the construction of his “latest and greatest spook galley” stranger than normal, that is he considers scrapping the project entirely.
Yet…something is driving Alex to finish his haunted house at all cost! All he knows is that he has to get it finished by opening night just before Halloween!
Meanwhile, Alex left with a lot of free time to work alone and undisturbed in his grandmother’s garage is worried about his little sister, Maggie, being alone with his Mom who has begun acting very strangely and is gone from home most of the time. And his heart is breaking for his dad, who is sad and living across town in a lonely apartment. But, unbeknownst to Alex and the rest of the family, Grandma Ruth is trying desperately to find a way to keep her daughter, Allison, from embracing the family roots into witchcraft a tradition Grandma Ruth herself, has spent a lifetime trying to deny and from which she has always tried to protect her daughter.
Long lost relatives come out of the woodworks. Mythical monsters are being summoned from distant quarters of the earth. Everyone is worried about Alex too because of the strange way his mother is acting toward him, a well as for the strange way Alex, is acting.
But at least new friends offer comfort along the way.
Alex just hopes that somehow his haunted house is going to save his family!
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The Hawk of Yonezawa: Historical Fiction with J.S Bach
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Hawk of Yonezawa is a short novel, or novella, about the fictional adventures of Johann Sebastian Bach who is transported to the island of Japan. Bach is on a rare trip outside his world of Leipzig, Germany, a little after the year 1742. The coach breaks down and he misses the concert that would have featured George Frederic Handel performing his own works by him. On the return trip he meets a twelve-year-old boy and his young mother.
They find that he knows how to play the organ and so they invite him to fix the one at their church. Bach refuses graciously, but once more the stage coach breaks down, and Bach is transported in a dream with the boy and his mother from him to Japan, where he is beset with adventures while trying to fix the local church organ. This novella is written for a general, religious and musically inquisitive audience. It is family fare, also suitable for high school and college readers.
Donald D. Joye is a retired professor at Villanova University. He has been enthusiastically involved in classical music since he was thirteen years old.After growing up on Long Island, New York, attending college in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he settled in Philadelphia, where he and his wife Claudia raised their three boys.
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The Helpmate
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is a well-orchestrated prose-work, fiction. Although events in the narratives are mirrored to reflect real life occurrences. It is a tragic story. A tale of struggles, hardship, fortune, survival and death. The Book has fifteen chapters in total running into 108 pages with intriguing starting ending narratives which qualifies the story as comical tragedy.
It touches on some cultural demeanors of people from certain tribes in Africa (Nigeria as a focus) where extra-marital affair is silently prevalent despite legality to engage in polygamy. The book: Helpmate muckrakes the evil of broken-homes and parental negligence on young adults. The strenuous roles of fending for self as a child and taking up the responsibility of an adult in the process of survival is pivotal incident within the pages.
Man’s love for beast is not always without the influence of what they could produce. This statement is justified by the roles the Dog: ‘Riro’ plays on Dara’s path to fulfillment. These unique roles have usually been sanctioned to be the reason why many pet-owners (especially in Africa) own their Dogs and cater for them and not really because of unaligning love for these animals. The story justifies this more with the dramatic risk of life efforts ‘Riro’ (the Dog) had to make to preserve Dara’s life whle the Dog owner-Dara could not be said to attempt similar efforts to the turn of substituting his own life to rescue the Dog when her own (the Dog’s) critical situation beckoned.
We dream, we hope, we expect with longings in life, but we do not know what tomorrow holds. This is explained by the unexpected and sudden end of Riro. For this sudden and unexpected end of Dara’s lover bring him back to a zero level of fulfillment, bruising his desires like the impact of the sun upon a fallen leave…
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The House on Becket Lane
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Lord Dashell Lonsdale is considered one of the most eligible bachelors in London, but few-even Lord Lonsdale himself-know that despite appearances, his family fortune is not as secure as he believes. When a chance encounter with an unknown lady on the street shakes his seemingly stable world, the young lord has no idea how to react. She collapses at his feet, a frightened child in her arms. She is whisked away before he can even learn her name. She is Caroline, the younger of two daughters of a family that carries a burden of secrets as well. All they know is that their mother’s tongue is silenced not by pride but by fear-and she took her secret to her grave. Now Caroline lives in a house with only her stepfather to guide her. Lord Lonsdale exploits his station to learn of her identity and where she lives. His arrival triggers an angry quarrel between Caroline and her stepfather. Horrified to have caused such tension within her family, he departs with the promise to return the next day. But duty calls him away before he can keep his promise. He learns that, thanks to the gambling debts of his brother, his family is on the brink of financial ruin. He has no choice but to turn his attention to restoring the family’s fortune and honor. Now Caroline has her own secret to share-and what she must tell him may end their love before it can begin.
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The Hunter: How It Started
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an Operator with a secret organization called the company. Justin used to be Larry Walker. Larry had a whole other life before he came to the company to be Justin.
In this book, Justin takes a trip to Ireland with Janine, his handler from the company. They have been working together for a while, but since the mission in Taiwan, when Justin found out that he had also been Larry, they had gotten closer.
After a couple pretty intense missions in Germany and Portugal, they finally were given some time off. Now they are going to find out just how much they have in common, as they spend time together, not on a mission.
Justine is determined to let Janine know there is more to his past than even she is aware of. They are both in for quite a surprise when they find out who they were before the company. It’s amazing how small a whole world can be.
There may be a short mission at the end to watch for!
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The Hunter: Portugal
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an agent with a secret organization. He, along with Janine, his handler from the organization, and John, another agent who has a group of agents who always seem to be there to help with each mission.
When Justin, Janine and John get together, you know something interesting is going to happen. Once again, the author takes them places where he’s traveled, giving the reader a chance to experience different places around the world.
So, sit back and enjoy the latest adventure of The Hunter, as he takes on a mission in Portugal.
