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|  | | DON'T LET THE WIND CATCH YOU: A Gus LeGarde Mystery
Book Six in the LeGarde Mystery series, actually a sequel to Tremolo: cry of the loon
When young Gus LeGarde befriends a cranky old hermit in the woods who speaks to an Oneida Indian spirit named Penaki, he wonders if the man is nuts. But when Penni rattles tin cups, draws on dusty mirrors, and flips book pages, pestering them to find evidence to avenge her past and free her from earthly bondage, things change.
What Gus doesn’t understand is why his mother hates Tully. His relentless digging reveals a hint of scandal about Tully and Gus’s maternal grandfather, Marlowe Wright. Can his natural compassion help him accept the not-so-normal facts about Tully and Marlowe?
| |  | | Double Forté - A Gus LeGarde Mystery
Double Forté is a chilling mystery set in the verdant landscape of Upstate New York's Genesee Valley. Packed with memorable characters, hair-raising chase scenes, and touching family moments, it’s a solid page-turner.
Desolate over his wife’s suicide four years earlier, small-town college professor Gus LeGarde faces bewildering emotions when he falls for Camille, the vivacious, dark-eyed daughter of his secretary. Yet troubling events in her past cause her to rebuff Gus's affections.
Romance glimmers, however, as both become embroiled in an adventure when Gus discovers a mute child shackled to a bedpost in a secluded cabin. The mystery turns deadly when the child's kidnapper escapes on a snowmobile that tumbles into the deep Letchworth Gorge.
Chapter 32
Something clattered on the porch beneath my bedroom window.
Max jumped off the bed and trotted through the hallway toward the stairs, whining softly. I sat up and pulled back the heavy down comforter, allowing chilled air to steal over my body.
Wondering if the noise had been part of a dream, I waited, listening hard in the hushed darkness. Max's toenails clicked on the stairs as he descended and whined again from the first floor – louder this time.
A muffled thud came from the porch.
Baxter. He’s back.
I leapt to my feet, crossi | |  | | Essentially Yours
Book 2 in Tall Pines Mysteries
Marcella’s first love has been MIA for eighteen years. Callie, her best friend and Sky’s sister, flips out when a mysterious package from Sky arrives on her doorstep. Inside his old backpack are bottles of precious essential oils, a memory stick, and a bag of emeralds. Are these his final effects? Or is Sky alive?
When Marcella’s husband Quinn hears about it, his jealousy spikes. He and Marcella have been married for seven years, and he’s not about to let some punk from the past mess that up.
Drug company goons want the data on the memory stick, because it links a newly discovere | |  | | FireSong: A Gus LeGarde Mystery
This is book five in the LeGarde Mystery series, but they can be read in any order.
What would you do if your country church was hit by a rogue tornado during services? What if the shrieking winds unearthed the bones of a missing parishioner in a nearby wheat field? Now add the discovery of heroin in your elderly minister’s bloodstream. When Gus LeGarde is thrown into the middle of the mess, he knows life’s finally gone berserk in East Goodland, New York.
The Genesee Valley is in chaos. Strangers drive panel vans through the countryside at weird hours of the night. A new batch of drugs is on the street, endangering local students. The salt mine collapses due to illeg | |  | | For Keeps: A Sam Moore Mystery
Book 3 in Moore Mysteries
When retired family doctor Sam Moore’s old girlfriend shows up dead in a local hotel, the police suspect his involvement. The coroner, a former med school colleague whose husband is about to desert her, reveals that she had a crush on Sam in med school. When she turns up dead the next day in her own morgue, Sam is once again in the hot seat.
Sam’s world falls apart when finds a family member dead in the laundry room, stabbed with his own garden shears. Rocketed into a world of denial and temporary insanity, he faces his worst fear, and is locked up in the very same psych ward he was i | |  | | For the Birds
Book 1 in Tall Pines Mysteries
What happens when a parakeet named Ruby gets an unexpected mind-meld with Marcella Hollister’s quarrelsome mother, Thelma? When Thelma’s kidnapped, Marcella must find her - somewhere in the tall pines of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park. With the help of her gorgeous Native American husband Quinn and bizarre “tips” from Ruby, Marcella butts heads with quirky bird psychic Earl Tiramisu, much to the chagrin of the FBI, who wants her to stay out of the investigation.
Why is Tiramisu asking all those questions about Thelma’s past and the money she’s been spending? The FBI agents hint | |  | | Healey's Cave: A Sam Moore Mystery
This is book 1 in the "green marble series," otherwise known as Moore Mysteries. Winner of multiple awards.
Sam Moore's little brother vanished fifty years ago. No body. No answers. What Sam has is a boatload of guilt, since he failed to accompany Billy on his final, fateful bike ride.
While digging in his garden, Sam discovers a green marble with a startling secret—it whisks him back to his childhood, connecting him to Billy. Thrust back and forth through time, Sam struggles to unlock the secret of his brother’s fate.
When the FBI investigates remains found nearby, Sam learns of a serial killer with a grisly fifty-year record. Sam’s certain it’s Billy’s killer. But what’s worse, | |  | | Mazurka: A Gus LeGarde Mystery
Join Gus LeGarde in this European rollercoaster ride where he unearths a scandalous family secret linked to a nineteenth century composer. When brother-in-law Siegfried is framed for a neo-Nazi's murder, they're plunged into a sizzling cat-and-mouse game where the stakes are lethal.
Music professor Gus LeGarde is about to embark on a European honeymoon with his new wife, Camille, when his socially challenged brother-in-law receives a mysterious invitation to visit an ailing relative in Germany. Siegfried can’t travel alone, but the newlyweds have no qualms over bringing him along.
Unfortunately, their idyllic vacation takes a dark turn at the first stop in Paris, when Gus and Siegfried are caught in a bloody street brawl with a group of neo-Nazis -- and a flawed news report frames Siegfried for the murder of one of their leaders, thrusting him into the deadly group’s | |  | | Terror Comes Knocking
Book 2 in Moore Mysteries
Sam’s daughter Beth has been unreachable for several days. Something is seriously wrong, and the Moores don’t know where to turn for help. No ransom note arrives, no kidnapper calls. When Beth’s roommate Zafina Azziz – a woman who slinks around like an Egyptian princess-- arrives on their doorstep worried about Beth’s whereabouts, Sam realizes it’s time to call the FBI.
The Moores unravel with worry as the green marble, a talisman connected to Sam’s dead brother Billy, thrusts Sam between past and present. When Sam’s friend, Senator Bruce MacDonald, is tapped for the Presidential nomi | |  | | Tremolo: cry of the loon
Tremolo: cry of the loon, is a coming-of-age mystery, a stirring and nostalgic trip back to the summer of 1964 when the nation mourned the assassination of JFK and American life was forever changed by the arrival of the Beatles.
Eleven-year-old Gus LeGarde is spending another glorious summer at his grandparents’ lakeside camp, along with his best friends, Elsbeth and Siegfried Marggrander. When their boat capsizes, Gus and the twins witness a drunk chasing a girl through the foggy Maine woods. She’s scared. She’s hurt. And she disappears.
On horseback and on foot, Gus, Elsbeth, and Siegfried search for Sharon Adamski, worried her brutal father will find her before they do.
During the hunt, Gus is faced with a number of personal dilemmas. He must keep secret his new friendship with “Mrs. Jones,” a woman in mourning who resides incognito. Gus also glimpses a slice of the twins’ life through their mother, who lost her family in a Nazi concentration camp. In a cruel coincidence, Gus faces the imminent loss of his own mother.
Reports of stolen religious artifacts reach the lakeside camp. New England churches have been ransacked, and missing is the church bell cast by Paul Revere, stolen from St. Stephen’s church in Boston’s North End. When Gus and his friends stumble on a scepter that may be part of the loot, they become targets. The villain turns on them, and all thoughts of a lazy summer whirl out of control.
Chapter One
Summer, 1964
North Belgrade, Maine
We're not gonna make it.
I looked nervously across the lake as the sunlight dimmed, then pulled hard on the oars in the direction of home. Cool feathers of fog slipped over the glassy water, whispering insidious moist threats.
Siegfried peeled off his sweatshirt and handed it to his sister, who shivered in the stern of the old wooden skiff. She tossed him an uneasy smile and put it on. Wispy vapor draped the boat, stroking my bare arms with cold fingers.
I took a deep breath and nodded to the ten-ye | |  | | Upstaged: A Gus LeGarde Mystery
When Gus LeGarde agrees to play piano for the local high school drama club’s production of “Spirit Me Away,” a sixties-style musical he wrote in college, he doesn’t expect to face a barrage of dangerous pranks played on his fiancée, Camille and the cast and crew of the drama club. Who’s sabotaging the show? And what do they have against Camille?
Is it sex-crazed Armand, the Latino teen infatuated with her? Something happened last year that Camille won’t talk about, and it has to do with Armand. Gus wants to know what happened, but she’s not talking.
Could it be Superintendent Marshall, whose past holds horrific secrets related to one of the worst crimes of the 20th century? And why did someone break into Camille’s home, taking her intimate undergarments and stealing her little mini-dachshund, Boris?
Gus must unravel the mystery before the backstage saboteur stakes his final, deadly claim.
Twelve
Superintendent Lou Marshall sat at the head of the table and twirled a yellow pencil between his stout fingers. His bristly white hair, shorn in the style of a 1950’s crew cut, transported me back to the fifth grade. My pals and I had carried little black combs, leftover from picture day, in the back pockets of our chinos. We’d wetted the combs under the washroom faucets, and had spiked the front of our hair straight up. Marshall, in his mid-fifties, looked as if he’d been combing his hair in the same style ever since. His bulk filled the wooden armchair as he slouched ag | |  | | Write Like the Wind, Volume 1
Book 1 in the 3 volume set of writing guides by Aaron Paul Lazar
Ever wish you could peer into the brain of a published author and learn what tips he’s absorbed over the years? How did he get where he is? How many times did he submit manuscripts before he sold his books?
Or maybe you’d like to delve into the psychology of writing, and learn what motivates him. How does he balance life with writing? How can regular tweeting help?
In volume 1 of Write Like the Wind, Lazar offers advice on “forbidden words”, “hooking your reader”, and “writing like you talk.” These hard skills are complemented by recommendations for promotion, such as “writ | |  | | Write Like the Wind, Volume 2
Volume 2 of the Write Like the Wind series by Aaron Paul Lazar
Ever wish you could peer into the brain of a published author and learn what tips he’s absorbed over the years? How often does he blog? And why? And what about those live chats. Do they really sell books?
Maybe you’d like to peer into the psychology of writing, and learn how to deal with rejection or how to write effective love scenes.
In volume 2 of Write Like the Wind, Lazar offers advice on writing the “dreaded synopsis,” “writing on the road”, and recording messages to your readers. These skills are complemented by recommendations for promotion, such as how writing column | |  | | Write Like the Wind, Volume 3
Volume three in Aaron Paul Lazar's writing guides.
Ever wish you could peer into the brain of a published author and learn what tips he’s gathered over the years? What advice would he give a newbie writer? How does he prepare for book signings?
Maybe you’d like to peer into his soul, and learn how he deals with the hard times, or how he handles saying goodbye to his beloved characters when he types “the end.”
In volume 3 of Write Like the Wind, Lazar offers examples and advice on dialog tags, including how to replace them with “beats.” You’ll learn what a preface is, and when to write it. These practical skills are complement |
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Calamity at Kryme Cottage
by Brian Kavanagh
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 Book eight in my Belinda Lawrence Classic Mysteries. Mysteries confront amateur sleuths, Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in the Somerset village of Milford.
Among the eccentrics is the shadowy Madam Malefic. |
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