April 2010 On Sale: April 19, 2010 180 pages ISBN: 1603810463 EAN: 9781603810463 Kindle: B003UBPAWE Paperback (reprint) $12.95  Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Delightful tale of an English fete, reissued in case you missed it! Mrs. Malory And The Festival Murder by Hazel Holt Writer Sheila Malory, seen before in Mrs. Malory Investigates and other mysteries, visits the annual Taviscombe Festival, which has been appropriated and aggrandized by Adrian Palgrave, a poet and biographer of little renown. Palgrave, who has been named literary executor for writer and man-of-the-world Lawrence Meredith, a leading literary figure of the 1920s and 30s, is found beaten to death during the first performance of the festival, and suspects are all around. TV documentary-maker Oliver Stevens fears disclosure of an affair. Young Robin Turner, treasurer for the festival, had been criticized frequently by the dead poet Two other deaths and an attempt to destroy Meredith’s papers lead Sheila to search for long-held secrets that bred fatal consequences. Previous Picks

July 2012 On Sale: July 17, 2012 336 pages ISBN: 0765327341 EAN: 9780765327345 Kindle: B007NJ66B8 Hardcover $25.99  Add to Wish List Thriller Buy at Amazon.com Events at festivals – in this case a pre-WWII suspense A City Of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell In Rebecca Cantrell’s A City of Broken Glass, journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews have been deported from Germany. Hannah drops everything to get the story on the refugees, and walks directly into danger. Kidnapped by the SS, and driven across the German border, Hannah is rescued by Anton and her lover, Lars Lang, who she had presumed dead two years before. Hannah doesn’t know if she can trust Lars again, with her heart or with her life, but she has little choice. Injured in the escape attempt and wanted by the Gestapo, Hannah and Anton are trapped with Lars in Berlin. While Hannah works on an exit strategy, she helps to search for Ruth, the missing toddler of her Jewish friend Paul, who was disappeared during the deportation. Trapped in Nazi Germany with her son just days before…

September 2012 On Sale: September 4, 2012 Featuring: Elizabeth Parker 304 pages ISBN: 1250007429 EAN: 9781250007421 Kindle: B008VA7ELE Hardcover $25.99  Add to Wish List Mystery, Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Time for festivals and in this case, murder Murder Most Austen by Tracy Kiely A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend, Peter. On the plane ride to England, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Richard Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. His outlandish claims that within each Austen novel there is a sordid secondary story is second only to his odious theory on the true cause of Austen’s death. When Baines is found stabbed to death in his Mr. Darcy costume during the costume ball, it appears that Baines’s theories have finally pushed one Austen fan too far. But Aunt Winnie’s friend becomes the prime suspect, so Aunt Winnie enlists Elizabeth to find the  professor’s real killer. With an ex-wife, a scheming daughter-in-law, and a trophy wife, not to mention a festival’s worth of die-hard Austen fans, there are  no shortage…

Sugar Land Mystery June 2012 On Sale: June 5, 2012 Featuring: Walker “Bear” Wells 352 pages ISBN: 0425247732 EAN: 9780425247730 Kindle: B0073XV22W Paperback $15.00  Add to Wish List Mystery Buy at Amazon.com An unlikely post-career for a football player…minister solving a murder! Faithful Unto Death by Stephanie Jaye Evans Everything looks perfect in Sugar Land, Texas. But it’s not. No one knows that better than Walker “Bear” Wells, a former college football player now serving as a minister in this upscale Texas town, where famous athletes mix with ranchers and the local parish priest wants to arm wrestle. It’s a beautiful master-planned community, but people can’t be held to neighborhood restrictions, and Bear deals daily with emotional and spiritual problems, in both his flock and his own family. But never murder. Not until a man is found dead on the nearby golf course, his skull crushed. Bear has no interest in playing detective. His job is praying for the dead, not searching for their killers. But every time he turns around, another facet of the investigation tangles with his own life…like the fact that the murdered man’s son—and a main suspect—is currently dating his own rebellious teenage daughter. He made…

February 2011 On Sale: February 1, 2011 Featuring: Alex Sinclair; Lucy 320 pages ISBN: 1595545395 EAN: 9781595545398 Kindle: B004IPPE9K Trade Size $14.99  Add to Wish List Inspirational Fiction Romance, Christian Buy at Amazon.com What does a star footballer player do when he’s retired? Become a politician. Actually a funny tale of mixed goals. Save the Date by Jenny B. Jones You are cordially invited to the wedding of the year with the most unlikely bride and groom. Save the date . . . and say your prayers. When funding for Lucy’s non-profit job is pulled, she is determined to find out why. Enter Alex Sinclair, former professional football star and heir to Sinclair Enterprises-the primary donor to Lucy’s non-profit organization. Both Lucy and Alex have something the other desperately wants. Alex has it all . . . except for the votes he needs to win his bid for Congress. Despite their mutual dislike, Alex makes Lucy a proposition: pose as his fiancee in return for the money she desperately needs. Bound to a man who isn’t quite what he seems, Lucy finds her heart-and her future-on the line. Save the Date is a spunky romance that will have readers laughing…

June 2012 On Sale: June 17, 2012 470 pages ISBN: 1455509248 EAN: 9781455509249 Kindle: B0073J66H2 Hardcover $25.99  Add to Wish List Contemporary Women’s Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Texas Friday Night Lights Football Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham Three friends from a small Texas town that thrives on Friday night football games try to move on after a fateful event colors each of their futures. Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham’s…

Play-by-Play #4 September 2012 On Sale: September 4, 2012 Featuring: Savannah Brooks; Cole Riley 320 pages ISBN: 042524783X EAN: 9780425247839 Kindle: B0072O025U Paperback $15.00  Add to Wish List Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com Football mania continues Playing To Win by Jaci Burton Football star Cole Riley is notorious for doing as he pleases-on the field and off. He parties hard and fights harder, but if he doesn’t clean up his act, his career is over-so Cole reluctantly agrees to work with image consultant Savannah Brooks. All the characteristics that have put this series high on my must read list. Excerpt She was beautiful, sure, with a face that would stop traffic. And the way she was put together screamed money or high society. Her hair was piled up on her head, she wore a pearl necklace that he knew damn well wasn’t fake, and he’d been with enough women to learn designers, and that little purse on the table cost a lot of money. Maybe she was related to the team owner. But he hadn’t seen anyone come within ten feet of the table in the past two hours. She was no wallflower, but she wasn’t giving off vibes…

Sigma Force # July 2012 On Sale: June 26, 2012 Featuring: Tucker Wayne 448 pages ISBN: 0061784796 EAN: 9780061784798 Kindle: B0070X87PA Hardcover $27.99  Add to Wish List Thriller Buy at Amazon.com A canine helpmate, great thriller Bloodline by James Rollins The next installment of the Sigma Force series involves a genetic mystery with ties to both an ancient history and modern-day government, as only New York Times bestselling author James Rollins can tell it. A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team: former army ranger Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog, Kane. But what appears to be a straightforward mission turns into a fiery ambush and betrayal—for this most valuable hostage is in fact the president’s daughter. Halfway around the world, a firebombing at a fertility clinic in the United States reveals a group of women collected from around the globe and enslaved to bear children by artificial means. One woman lives long enough to give birth…

A Breed Apart September 2012 On Sale: September 1, 2012 352 pages ISBN: 1616265949 EAN: 9781616265946 Kindle: B0082HEKKY Paperback $12.99  Add to Wish List Romance Suspense, Romance ContemporaryBuy at Amazon.com A thriller with a special animal Trinity: Military War Dog by Ronie Kendig An ex-Green Beret. His war dog. On the greatest mission of their lives. And probably their last. A year ago in Afghanistan, Green Beret Heath Daniel’s career was destroyed. Along with his faith. Now he and his military war dog, Trinity, have a chance to redeem their skills through the A Breed Apart organization. The job works. But his passion is to be back in the field. The medical discharge says it can’t happen due to the traumatic brain injury that forced Heath to the sidelines. Until. . . Military intelligence officer Darci Kintz is captured and the geological survey team she’s covertly embedded with is killed while secretly tracking the Taliban in the beautiful but brutal Hindu Kush. It’s clear only one dog can handle the extreme conditions to save her. And only one man can handle Trinity. Time is running out on the greatest—and most dangerous— mission of their lives. A fast-paced military thriller with…

April 2011 On Sale: April 12, 2011 480 pages ISBN: 0515149489 EAN: 9780515149487 Paperback (reprint) $7.99  Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Romance with animals, a book club favorite The Search by Nora Roberts To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle’s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare… Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona’s cop fiancé and his K-9 partner. On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He’s the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon’s house, and he’s at his wit’s end. To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can’t handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he’s a rugged and in-tensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture…