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This stylish murder mystery could be called an edgy cozy or a private detective story, absent gratuitous violence. The one thing it isn’t is a predictable story of murder. One of the editors described it as a tongue-in-cheek slide into an unexpected conclusion.

P.Q. Winston Rutledge is the richest man in Copper City, Arizona, and he believes someone will soon try to kill him. The story quickly deteriorates into murder and the ambitions of relatives in pursuit of his fortune. PQ’s family is a collection of oddballs with a common bloodline. Fascinating people you’d love to have at your next dinner party...but each comes with their own set of secrets and entanglements.

Ever since moving into the "haunted house" in Devland, Georgia, Corbin has been having strange dreams. Every time he falls asleep, he finds himself drawn into a world of nightmares called the Winterland. Each night, his curiosity lures him a little farther from the safety of his own reality, but he is about to discover that sometimes, when you walk into a nightmare, it can be hard to walk out again.

It is near the end of a difficult year for Matthew Landis. After a season plagued by late frosts, drought, and mold, the farm that he inherited from his father is nearly bankrupt. The only hope that the Landis farm has of escaping bankruptcy lies in a cornfield which, eerily enough, has remained unaffected by the outbreak of mold. That hope is shaken, however, when one of Matthew’s hired hands goes into the cornfield and never returns. As friends and family members continue to go missing, Matthew learns of a terrible crime that was committed on his farm many years ago.

Sergeant Edmund Jones died saving the life of Captain Rick Carnes. His last request: “Please, Captain, help my family. They’ve got troubles.” Rick Carnes musters out of the US Army a few weeks later. Determined to keep that promise, he heads for Angels Camp, California. A town the chief of police calls Peyton Place West.

Maddie Richards finds herself in the middle of a case which starts with the sights and sounds of just another murder investigation. A woman claims her husband, a banker, was murdered. Later, Maddie learns that the woman had begun divorce proceedings the day before she claims a bullet had taken her husband from her. The murder greased her path to not only ending her marriage, but negating any need to divide their marital property. Then the wheels come off and nothing about Maddie’s case is what it seems.

Maddie Richards is an efficient and resourceful detective with a secret wish that she could handle her messy personal life as well as she handles her work life. As a homicide sergeant for the Phoenix, Arizona Police Department, she has one of the highest solve rates in America. Her success leads her chief of police to assign her a serial killer case. Some sicko the press calls the Beholder is killing beautiful women. Her chief describes the case as “a career maker or breaker, get me?”

The President of the United States assigns Ryan Testler a cloak-and-dagger mission to Europe in pursuit of support for his new doctrine dealing with the Middle East. Linda Darby accompanies Ryan to create the look of a couple of tourists. That cover story fails. Meanwhile, back in Washington, D.C., a lone terrorist, after four years as a sleeper, is activated.

An assassination is planned in Syria. An extramarital affair occurs in Washington, DC. The US president decides to run for reelection. A mother and her daughter in Oregon are threatened. Relentlessly, Linda Darby and Ryan Testler are pulled toward these seemingly disparate events until their only way out is to confront what is quickly becoming unavoidable.

Memories are funny things, the way they quietly hang around and linger, waiting for something we see or hear, or an unexpected event to slam them forward into our consciousness to strike us the way headlights assault a dark road. Some memories bring along a smile, others foreshadow danger, and there are those which cry out for resolution. All of this is true for Linda Darby. Linda wonders if she might again be lured into her first lover’s bed. As the pace quickens she does find love, along with friendship, fear, danger, and opportunity.

Amy O’Sullivan finds an invitation to a masquerade dinner party in her refrigerator, balanced atop a bottle of pinot grigio. If she accepts the invitation, Amy will be picked up by a limousine. She and four competing strangers must wear masks to the party. The winner will receive a choice of either 50,000 dollars cash or a free murder of anyone the winner designates.

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