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When Nora arrives at her uncle’s annual St. Patrick’s Day treasure hunt and finds he’s missing, she starts searching for answers—but she’ll need the luck of the Irish if she’s going to catch a killer.

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A photo assignment at the cemetery leads Callie Cassidy to a corpse—this one above ground. Now, her search for the killer unearths some long-buried secrets…

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Tips for dealing with older cats that could be helpful for mystery writers whose books include mature kitties.

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Fluffy has simple goals—devour catnip, drink fresh water, and avenge the murder of his human caretaker. But the killer has ambitions of his own, and woe betide the pesky cat who tries to get in a murderer’s way.

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When Janelle receives a bone transplant, she isn’t expecting its last owner to come along for the ride. He makes it clear that the only way either of them are going to get any peace is to solve his murder, but she has to wonder, just how far will the killer go to keep from getting caught?

Mike thinks nothing ruins a nice day in the woods with your wife like her stumbling over a fresh corpse—until the cops show up, they ID the victim, and it turns out you and your wife both had a motive to kill the guy.

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Seventy-five years following the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, an elderly Nisei hires Ava Rome to find out how his best friend, a Japanese-American Buddhist priest, died in the Tule Lake Internment Camp.

In the course of her investigation she uncovers another cold case, the rape and murder of a Japanese-American teenager on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. Was the same person responsible for both crimes? Ava suspects so. She travels to the Tule Lake site in Northern California where an attack on her life proves that the cold cases are deadly hot. Other people close to the case are murdered on orders from a powerful individual, whose reach stretches from Hawaii to halfway across the continental United States, and who will kill to keep the past secret.

Returning to Honolulu, Ava experiences a devastating act of betrayal before solving the murders and revealing a seven decades-long history of evil.

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P.I. Jesse Morgan is used to ghosts asking him to solve their murders, but Jesse has always played by his own rules, and they don’t include fair play—for the living or the dead.

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There’s just something about Texas … May you have as much fun with these ten tales of murder and deception as I did, and may you remember them long afterward. As Carl Sandberg said, “Texas is a blend of valor and swagger.” So are these stories.

—from the Foreword by JOHN M. FLOYD

Welcome to the second anthology by the chapter members of Sisters In Crime North Dallas. The city of Dallas and surrounding locales offer great fodder for mystery writers—and readers. These inspire the stories contained in Reckless in Texas: Metroplex Mysteries Volume II.

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Almost as soon as recent divorcee Amy Morrison begins her dream job as librarian aboard the world's most expensive luxury cruise liner, she nearly sinks it. She's tasked with hosting the debut of a painting celebrated but hidden for nearly sixty years. But the artist claims the painting isn't hers. And then, the artist goes missing. With the help of a retired academic couple lecturing aboard the ship, a dashing IT manager, and a housekeeping staff with a love of literature, Amy tries to solve the art fraud and kidnapping while rediscovering the adventurous side of herself.

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When Suzanne Cash develops psychic abilities after her near-death experience, she is haunted by images of a young woman in jeopardy. Although she strives to make sense of the disjointed and disturbing snippets, she finds no correlation until Detective Sam Metzger’s sister goes missing in Vienna, Austria, and the visions hit far too close to home.

Lewis Howard, a retired British meat-packer by trade, dies on the operating table during open-heart surgery. As he slips into the Hereafter, a deceased friend tells him that he must return to his body…and find a missing girl.

Little does Lewis know that across the pond, Suzanne Cash is receiving the same information, or that their efforts will converge into a psychic collaboration, unheard of in any crime investigation.

Detective Sam Metzger is out of his wits when he discovers his sister Audra is not merely missing—an international, billion-dollar sex trafficking ring has abducted her.

Who can Sam trust? And who is on the take? Relying on visions from an entourage of psychics, and good old-fashion detective work, Sam is determined to find and bring his sister home. Can Suzanne translate her visions into information that will help the man she loves? Will Sam be in time to save Audra?

Or…Has the whole world gone mad with its own demons?

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The only survivor of Denver’s notorious “Reaper” serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She’s neck-deep in a particularly ugly case involving the disappearance of five-year-old Emily Williams when her investigation is derailed - her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, turns up dead, floating in a nearby lake.

Devastated by the news of Gwen’s death, Kendall teams up with Denver Detective Adam Taylor to find the killer. Gwen’s fiancé, Ty Butler, is being evasive about the last time he saw Gwen, and as the evidence mounts against him, he’s arrested for the murder. With every new clue, Kendall questions how well she really knew her friend. And when Gwen’s dark secrets begin spilling out one by one, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude of the murder. The Reaper has returned to Denver - and he’s not stopping at just one victim.

As the trauma of Kendall’s past comes roaring back, she and Adam have no time to spare before more bodies start piling up. And then Kendall makes a shocking discovery that reveals the horrifying truth behind Emily Williams’ disappearance. Now, Kendall must confront her darkest fears as she and the Reaper face off one more time.

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Sparks takes her gift for nail-biting drama to a new level with a cold case of a missing girl suddenly gone red-hot. This “enthralling page-turner” (Lisa Regan) is perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh and Lisa Gardner.

The stunning landscape of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains are among our greatest natural treasures. But there are deadly secrets lurking in the craggy heights, and FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck and Denver Homicide Detective Adam Taylor team up to investigate a kidnapping. When Taylor’s niece, Frankie, suddenly vanishes at a local hockey rink, it’s clear that there’s a predator on the loose—and now, the case has turned personal.

One discovery after another leads Beck and Taylor closer to the truth, as they close in on the devastating truth about the fates of the missing girls—and the many who came before them. Will they be able to find Frankie before it’s too late? In this thrilling story, Leanne Kale Sparks weaves the threads of this harrowing drama and builds the intensity to a fever pitch.