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|  | | A Lethal Time and Place
Four eccentric squatters witness a murder in downtown Chicago in the late 1960s. When the killers come after them the four must depend on each other, because their past is a secret that can never be revealed.
Leo appears to be just another bum on the streets of downtown Chicago. Libby is cranky, Memnet is shy, and Roy is less than honest, but they have learned to work together to survive.
One night they witness a murder, and as a result, the killers come after them. They dare not go to the police for help. Instead they must fight to survive, depending only on their wits, their skills, and each other. | |  | | Dead for the Money
An old man who fears his fall from a cliff overlooking Lake Michigan wasn't an accident asks Seamus to investigate. To protect the old man's granddaughter, he must go to great heights--like the top of the Mackinac Bridge.
When Seamus is asked to take a detective in training along on his next investigation, he reluctantly agrees. Mildred seems nice enough, but it quickly becomes clear that she has her own way of looking at things.
William Dunbar thinks he was pushed off a cliff overlooking Lake Michigan, and he fears his beloved grandson Bud might be blamed. Delving into the secrets of family and staff, Seamus sees no one who benefits except Bud. He also detects an undercurrent between Bud and Scarlet, the tutor who works with Dunbar’s grand-daughter, Brodie. She’s done wonders with the girl but seems antago | |  | | Dead for the Show
In Book #3 of the Dead Detective Mysteries, Seamus goes to Toronto to investigate the death of a wardrobe mistress. Something weird is going on, and the dead guy feels like he's being haunted.
When newly-arrived soul Cassie Parker refuses to believe she's no longer alive, Dead Detective Seamus is sent from the Afterlife to learn what happened to her. He soon suspects it was murder, but why would someone kill the costume mistress at a small Toronto theater?
The Dead Detective Series (this is Book #3 but they can be read as stand-alones) is in the realm of Magical Realism, which means they're pretty normal murder mysteries except that some of the characters are--well, dead.
While Cassie struggles to accept that fact, Seamus tries to protect her less worldly sister Christy, who | |  | | Go Home and Die
The 1960s come alive with a shy girl, a secretive Vietnam vet, and murder in an alley in Flint, Michigan.
Carrie Walsh is almost unaware of the Women's Liberation Movement, a '60s girl too shy to speak her mind and too uptight to burn her bra.
When she witnesses a murder, Carrie's life takes a new direction. Joining the handsome, brooding Jack Porter to solve the crime, she begins to feel more like a career woman and less like the incompetent, unattractive person her mother believes her to be. But Jack brought secrets home from Vietnam, and those secrets bring disappointment in love, uncertainty at work, and the very real possibility that Carrie is targeted for murder. | |  | | Her Highness' First Murder
When headless corpses appear in London,
Elizabeth Tudor is shocked. When one of
her ladies is killed, she joins
crippled Simon Maldon and a Welsh Guardsman to find the killer.
As they narrow their search, the
murderer stalks them as well, and one, maybe even two of them, could
wind up dead.
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In London, a tavern girl is found dead, her head missing. She is the third such victim, and the beheaded women may be a message to King Henry VIII, who has a history of beheading wives.
Simon Maldon, a cripple, meets the Princess Elizabeth while assisting his physician father. Coming to visit one morning Simon finds one of her ladies now a fourth headless corpse dressed in nun’s robes.
Hugh Bellows of the Welsh Guard is put in charge of investigating and ending the crimes, and at Elizabeth’s urging, he reluctantly engages Simon’s help. They use various means to gain information, bu | |  | | Her Majesty's Mischief
Book #4, Simon & Elizabeth:Simon Maldon is sent to Scotland by the queen. While he battles Scottish outlaws, his son and wife must catch a vicious killer.
Shortly after learning his brother-inlaw, Will Clark, was murdered, Simon Maldon is called into Queen Elizabeth’s presence. Trusting her old friend’s judgment, the queen wants Simon to go with her delegation to Scotland and make an objective assessment of the character of Mary, Queen of Scots. Despite his pleas of family concerns, Elizabeth insists he must go. Reluctantly, Simon obeys his monarch’s command.After Simon sails for Scotland, his son Henry, wife Hannah, and old friend Calkin delve into the mystery of Will Clark’s murder. They soon face a killer determined to hide his crimes and wil | |  | | Killing Memories
Loser returns to her home town looking for peace and quiet, but can a loser ever escape death and danger?
Loser returns to the hills where she was raised in search of peace, but even in the lovely little town of Beulah, West Virginia, trouble manages to find her. When one of her fellow foster children, Nadine, returns to town, the secrets she carries with her lead Loser into a tangle of deception.
Nadine hasn’t got much to say about why she’s back in Beulah, and her son Eddie might be just a little too good to be true. Still, Loser’s willing to help them—at least until Nadine pulls a disappearing act.
Each time Loser learns the answer to a question, another one arises. Why did | |  | | Killing Silence
Is it possible to Be a rescuer when you live among the lost?
Killing Silence
#1 of The Loser Mysteries
Loser sleeps on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, washes up in gas station bathrooms, eats when an opportunity comes along, and spends her waking hours in front of the local drug store, watching the world pass by while speaking less than thirty words per day.
When a child is murdered and Loser finds herself in the company of the prime suspect, can she pull herself out of her own pain to help catch a killer? Her investigation is hampered by her inability to hold a normal conversation and her inner demons.
Why should anyo | |  | | Macbeth's Niece
When Tessa macFindlaech is stolen from her uncle's castle by handsome English spy Jeffrey Brixton, she struggles to overcome invading soldiers, ruthless outlaws, and the disturbing whispers of her own heart.
Scotland, Shakespeare and Romance:
an Unbeatable Combination
Macbeth’s Niece is a novel that appeals to both heart and mind. Yes, there’s romance and danger and a love-conquers-all finale, but amidst the derring-do readers glimpse of one of Shakespeare’s most interesting characters, one of history’s most maligned kings, the eleventh-century Scottish king Macbeth.
Tessa macFindlaech is sent to her uncle’s castle for training because her mother considers her too headstrong. There she becomes acquainted with Lord and Lady Macbeth, but she is soon stolen from their care by | |  | | Poison, Your Grace
When poison kills a man at the palace, Elizabeth Tudor fears two things: first, that her brother the king might have been the target, and second, that she'll be blamed. Who would she call on for help but her old friend, Simon Maldon?
(Availalbe soon for e-reader)
As England’s young king struggles with illness, one of his advisers is poisoned. Elizabeth Tudor, fearing her brother was the target, asks her old friend Simon Maldon to investigate the crime. Aided by his fiancee, Hannah, Simon, now an apothecary’s apprentice, braves the corridors of power to protect the king.
Power is all-important to the inhabitants of Whitehall Palace. Families band together to collect and keep it, from the well-known Dudley clan to lesser but no less determined members of the nobility. In the days after the first murder, a knight | |  | | Shakespeare's Blood
A trip to the British Isles turns into a chase that involves treasure, ancient secrets about Shakespeare, and deadly peril for Mercedes. Can she trust the man who offers to help, or is gold his goal?
Mercedes Maxwell finds a handwritten notebook which claims that Shakespeare had a brother named John, an agent for James I. Captured by outlaws wanting the location of Spanish gold, John died rather than tell, leaving a code pricked into a MACBETH script. Someone steals the notebook, convincing Mercedes that the story is true. She vows to find the treasure, one step ahead of a determined madman who leaves his victims arranged in Shakespearean death poses.
Mercedes is befriended by a police sergeant, an actor, and a misanthropic historian. The unraveling of the clues becomes critical as t | |  | | Somebody Doesn't Like Sarah Leigh
When a long-time friendship dies, whose fault is it?
Although she's decades past junior high, Caroline Batzer finds herself snubbed more and more often by her best friend. At first confused, she is later stunned to learn that Sarah Leigh has betrayed her in a way she would never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting, Caroline airs her anger at the woman everyone else in town considers saintly. When Sarah disappears soon afterward, it looks like Caroline murdered her. Desperately she tries to figure out who else could have done it—Sarah’s philandering husband? Her useless son?
Caroline’s nightmare is just beginning, because the people | |  | | The Dead Detective Agency
When Tori wakes up on a cruise ship she never booked, she needs help finding out what happened. Enter Seamus, Dead Detective. Winner of EPIC's best mystery of 2012.
Tori Van Camp vividly recalls being murdered in her cozy little apartment in Grand Rapids, MI. How, then, did she end up on a cruise ship?
The answers she gets are startling, but Tori wants to know even more. She wants to know exactly what happened back in Grand Rapids. Enlisting the help of the taciturn Seamus, she embarks on a journey like nothing she ever imagined: a trip that takes her back to see if someone in her circle of friends, co-workers, and acquaintances might be capable of murder. She soon learns that not only is someone she knows a killer, that person is determined to stop a | |  | | The Lady Flirts with Death
In the 3rd Simon & Elizabeth mystery, Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower, Simon finds an old friend accused of murder, and Hannah takes in a secretive pregnant girl. Danger ensues.
In the third book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Elizabeth Tudor is declared a traitor and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Visiting the princess secretly, her friend Simon Maldon discovers another cause for worry. His friend Peto the Pope has been arrested for a murder he swears he did not commit.
As Simon frets over Elizabeth’s peril and Peto’s certain execution, his wife Hannah deals with her own mystery after taking in a frightened pregnant girl who, she later learns, is not as she first seemed.
Neither Simon nor Hannah pays attention to the other’s problems, altho |
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The Mystery of the Lost Avenger
by Linda Frank
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 “Nancy Drew Meets CSI”. It’s another Annie Tillery Mystery
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by Linda Frank
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“Nancy Drew Meets CSI”. It’s another Annie Tillery Mystery
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