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Dead in the Dirt

Amanda vs Gangsters Author: Connie Feddersen When Amanda Hazard goes for a visit to her client, Wilbur Bloom, she’s surprised to discover him dead in the dirt. Amanda’s even more surprised when she goes into his crumbling house to call the police and beyond the first two destitute rooms locates a treasure trove of high-tech equipment and good living. Something is definitely off, from the murder to Will’s falsified taxes, and Amanda has a sneaking suspicion that she’s the only one who can trace Will’s delinquency all the way back to his at-large killer. Nick Thorn, Amanda’s sometimes love interest and [...]

2025-10-27T13:21:23-07:00September 7th, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Happy Never After

60s Music, Vendettas, Girl Bands, and Murder Author: Kathy Hogan Trocheck In Happy Never After, Callahan Garrity, a retired (read failed) police investigator and owner of House Mouse cleaning service, takes on a case in her free-time. It’s not her usual side-case, but friends and family want her to find out whatever happened to the long-missing member of the 60s girl group, VelvetTeens, so that they can participate in a successful (and lucrative) reunion. When a missing person’s case becomes a murder case, however, Callahan is going to need all the help (and not-entirely-legal schemes) she can get. Will the crazed [...]

2025-05-13T03:42:44-07:00July 24th, 2021|Tags: , |

Riptide

A New Case, An Old Hurt Author: Dawn Lee McKenna I’m deeply missing my yearly family beach vacation time, so a return visit to the Forgotten Coast Series during this seemingly endless pandemic was a must. We left Maggie in Low Tide, down-and-out about her failure to save a needy woman and conflicted about the suspicious suicide of Gregory Bourdreaux, a man who once raped and nearly killed her when she was a teenager. The investigative buzz around Gregory, despite a strange apology letter, had started to slowly go away, but after a grisly new find Maggie is once again chasing a possible [...]

2025-11-01T14:31:56-07:00November 23rd, 2020|Tags: , , , , , |
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