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|  | | A Patchwork of Stories
Nine previously published tales from sunny side up to over hard. Includes Agatha nominated short story of 2010.This collection includes the story nominated for an Agatha in 2010, a diet spoof, a Walmart people short short, and much more. These stories originally appeared in Hard Luck Stories, Mouth Full of Bullets, Mysterical-E and others.
Review posted at a href="http://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2011/02/reviewing-patchwork-of-stories-9-tales.html">http://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2011/02/reviewing-patchwork-of-stories-9-tales.html/a>
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; ">Texas author Kaye George has put together a small and intriguing sample of her work in this collection. These nine tales were previously published online and in print and nearly all won awards. The tales are flash fiction storie | |  | | All Things Dark and Dastardly
A compilation of horror, mystery, and urban fantasy short stories by Austin authors with a distinctly dark side...with Steven Metze and Mary Ann Loesch.
| |  | | Broke: An Imogene Duckworthy Mystery (#3)
Immy, eager PI assistant, wants to be on her own. She finds a rental house where her four-year-old daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, and Drew's pet pig, Marshmallow, are allowed. The rumors are that the house is haunted. It's no rumor there's a dead man in the bathtub when she inspects the house, though.
| |  | | Choke: An Imogene Duckworthy Mystery
A total delight! Laugh-out-loud dialogue, adorable characters, and a truly original voice. Fresh, feisty and hilarious. More, please. by Hank Phillippi Ryan Anthony, Agatha and Macavity winning author
span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: left; "> Twenty-two-year-old Imogene Duckworthy is waiting tables at Huey's Hash in tiny Saltlick, TX, itching to jump out of her rut and become a detective. When Uncle Huey is found murdered in the diner, a half-frozen package of mesquite-smoked sausage stuffed down his throat, Immy gets her chance. Immy's mother, Hortense is hauled in for the crime. Unclear of the exact duties of a PI, Immy starts a fire in the bathroom wastebasket to bust Mother out of jail. On the run from the law | |  | | Death in the Time of Ice:A People of the Wind Mystery
Enga Dancing Flower knows her Neanderthal tribe is in trouble because the dark seasons are becoming longer and the mammoth herds are fleeing south. When the tribal leader is found stabbed to death, the new leader thinks Enga did it and expulsion and certain death loom.
Neanderthal Mystery set 30,000 years ago in an alternate history on the North American continent, just before the last Ice Age.
span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Enga Dancing Flower knows her Neanderthal tribe is in trouble. The dark seasons are becoming longer and the mammoth herds are fleeing south. When the tribal leader is found stabbed to death, the new leader thinks Enga did it. Expulsion and certain death looms. Enga must find the murderer to save her tribe -- and herself./span> | |  | | Death on the Trek
The Neanderthal tribe of Enga Dancing Flower must trek south to flee the approaching glacier, but the distance is long and the food is scarce. When a venerable elder drowns crossing a flooded river, Enga suspects that it was not an accident, and that a murderer travels with them.
| |  | | Eine Kleine Murder: A Cressa Carraway Musical Mystery
When aspiring conductor Cressa Carraway arrives at her grandmother's resort home, she finds Gram dead. When Gram's best friend drowns in the same place, Cressa knows something sinister is at work in this idyllic setting.
| |  | | Fish Tales
Come on in, the water’s fine. But be careful, or you might find yourself sleeping with the fishes!
span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250); ">Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, casts a wide net across the mystery genre, delivering thrills, chills, and gills. This water-themed collection features locked room puzzles, police procedurals, cozy characters and hardboiled detectives. With a pool of motivations ranging from greed and revenge to loyalty and justice, these stories will lure you in with killer hooks and fishy characters./span> | |  | | Grimm Tales
Mistreated fairy tales for e-readers from some of the top names in online crime fiction, all based on classic fairy tales.
i style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; ">Grimm Tales/i>span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; "> is a collection of stories by some of the top names in online crime fiction, all based on classic fairy tales. As novelist Ken Bruen writes in his introduction, "Ever imagined what would have come down the dark pike if The Brothers Grimm were more Brothers Coen and wrote mystery?" The collection is edited by John Kenyon, editor of /span>i style="fon | |  | | Smoke: An Imogene Duckworthy Mystery
Imogene Duckworthy, who yearns to be a PI, has landed a job assisting Mike Mallett in Wymee Falls, Texas. Bringing home a pot-bellied pig as a birthday gift for her daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, Immy discovers the body of the owner of Jerry's Jerky hanging in the smokeroom. Now she has her chance to prove her skills.
Imogene Duckworthy, who yearns to be a PI, has landed a job assisting a real PI in Wymee Falls, Texas. During a sidetrip while bringing home a pot-bellied pig as a birthday gift for her daughter, Nancy Drew Duckworthy, Immy discovers the owner of the local jerky shop dead, hanging from a meathook in his own smokehouse. The pig breeder, Amy JoBeth, is implicated, so Immy feels compelled to try to find the real killer. That gentle, somewhat depressed swineherd couldn't have killed Rusty Bucket. Could she?
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Ripoff
by MORGAN ST. JAMES
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 Who's ripping off the Federal prison system---and how?
A funny crime caper with a diabolically clever scam--Imagine Charlie's Angels starring in 9 to 5 Meets the First Wives Club |
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A Canterbury Crime
by Brian Kavanagh
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 Book Four in Belinda Lawrence mystery series. Confirming the Professor was murdered proves to be a challenge and, gradually, as they get to know those associated with the Manor House, Belinda and Hazel discover another murder and an intricate web of |
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