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"A crime thriller with the dramatic breath of a Martin Scorsese movie. Gangsters, terrorists, bikers, cops, you name it -- they're all here clashing together as goons wipe out their competition and bombers blow up parts of New York City. It'll keep you going."- H. L. Osterman, Short ChangedMilton Stone is a doctor in Brooklyn who is dealing in drugs. His partner Finn McCoole has control of several bars and strip clubs where the drugs are sold. Nick Morosco is the bag man who has been skimming some of the profits of the drugs. On the night of the wedding of Stone's daughter Karen and Herb Fishman, a body was found. The body is Nick Morosco. Stone and McCoole have a falling out that only escalates. Meanwhile, an Israeli Ari Habbib has been radicalized by ISIS and is planting bombs in New York City. Will the doctor be indicted for dealing in drugs and murder? Will the terrorist Ari Habbib be brought to justice? Overlooking the Obvious will answer these questions in the end.

"Westerners have come in all sorts - ranchers, frontiersmen, gold miners, gunfighters, even singing cowboys. John Holt gives us a poet, lamenting the passing of the West. His character's poems equal the story he tells."- Hollis George, editorial director and anthologistThe West has been celebrated with songs, words and photographs for well over 100 years. This novel is about poet John Wesley Gill, who lives in the Sweet Grass Hills, and his struggle to come to grips with the changing West as he also decides to resurrect his writing career through good deeds and very dark ones including murder. The book is a reflection of his travels. Gill's poems define his road experiences and this lyricism is reflected in the narrative that takes him along rough roads that lead to wild, out-of-the-way high plains mayhem and desolate locations.

"Walter Cronkite hosted "You Are There," a television series that made you feel like you were witnessing history. You get the same feeling reading Louis Petrone's journal about his evacuation from the island of Key West during devastating Hurricane Irma."- Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist Popular blogger Ley West Lou shares his journal that records the evacuation from Key West during the recent Hurricane Irma disaster. Along with his day-by-day diary you will find a visual record of the storm and its aftermath -- a dramatic gallery to accompany Louis Petrone's words. History told firsthand!

"Ten Key West mystery stories by ten great storytellers . . ." - H.L. Osterman, Short Changed.Key West serves as backdrop for some of the world's best mystery stories. Here is the third collection of murder and mayhem in Paradise, a keep-you-up-at-night anthology featuring ten leading writers who explore the dark side of the Southernmost point in the continental US: Bill Craig, Justin Maxwell, Shirrel Rhoades, Robert Coburn, Barthélemy Banks, Jack Mazur, Andrew Daly, Harry Schroeder, and Brewster Chamberlain, and R.K. Simpson.Stories in this volume:VendettaMr. Crane's New PaintingsFour Fingers and the Watch FobThe DuchessThe Sunset SlasherSometimes Murder, Isn't MurderMalloy's ExThe Missing MaxHow Did You Die?As the Night Went On

"Unlike all those world-weary private investigators you've read about, here's one as fresh and green as a new dollar bill. You don't have to be grizzled and gruff to walk those mean streets."- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Seattle Book JournalAs the greenest private eye at the Aalborg Detective Agency, Bick Bates gets assigned a "nuisance file," a case nobody else wants to touch. Herbie Barnwell was a skid-row bum who was still in a coma, the result of a mysterious mugging. A new hire, Bick is a "college-boy professional," low man on the totem pole amid a dozen or so agents, the majority being stogie-chomping ex-cops. His colleagues looked down on a callow youth who was there to run errands for the bosses or sit down with prospective clients uncomfortable with the living, breathing stereotypes. Little did Bick expect his nuisance case would turn into a big deal. And a dangerous one at that.

"You can't beat a great storyteller, whether he's writing the Great American Novel or a private eye adventure. Bill Craig is a great storyteller."- Edward Squires, Not Quite NovellasArnie Grossman was a wealthy man who had been investing heavily in Indianapolis, the city he had grown up in. But wealthy men make enemies. And when Arnie walks in and finds a dead woman in his living room, he knows that he is being set up. Somebody wants to frame him for murder. So he calls in Phillip Chandler, the former US Marshal turned Private Investigator. Chandler is an old friend, and the one man who he is sure can prove that he had nothing to do with murdering the young woman.

"Here's a mystery that pushes all the right buttons -- dead bodies, drug deals, dames in distress, a take-no-guff police lieutenant out to save the day -- all taking place on that nowhere-left-to-go destination, Key West..."- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics CornerKey West, April 1966. What does missing mob money from the fall of Havana have to do with the death of old family friend and fishing guide, Sam Torres? Is restaurateur and reputed mobster, Sal Donatello, really the friend he claims to be or is he chasing his own agenda? And what has driven local newspaper editor, Andy Hardy, over the edge to threaten reporter Amy Petersen? Can Key West Police Lieutenant Tom Jackson keep her safe without jeopardizing their budding romance? Before the drug filled craziness of the 70's and 80's things were already getting warm at the end of the road, and it wasn't just the temperature.

"When I read works by David Porteous in 7 Voices, a collection of short stories from the North Fork Writers Group, I wanted more. Now I have them in this new collection. Thanks for inviting us into your mind, Dave. Fascinating tales."- Hollis George, editor and anthologistA member of the North Fork Writers Group, David Porteous breaks out with a remarkable collection of short stories. As he says, "The stories are not autobiographical, but while the characters reveal facets of my views, they came to me with personalities and situations formed. They are mind-invaders because their presences prevented me from working on other projects; they refused to leave until I wrote their tales. I chose tales whose characters came in diverse styles of tale-telling, with cultural differences, and some echoing other stories to expand those themes for you. I haven't defined their settings - New York, Sydney, Shanghai or Oslo is irrelevant to people dealing with life's universal issues."

"You can almost smell the enemy in this WWII actioner ... Clary tells the adventure as if you were standing next to him."- William R. Burkett, Jr, Shadow of a SoldierA handpicked squad of men, Gunny's Marines struggle through an intensely hot and humid, Japanese infested Pacific jungle code named Boogeyman Island. After a successful mission and a harrowing departure from the island, the boys of Baker squad were on-route to their next mission when disaster struck the submarine they were traveling on. When they regained consciousness, the Marines found themselves marooned on an island smack-dab in the middle of the largest concentration of Japanese forces in a tri-island area: New Britain, New Ireland, and Bougainville. Their situation was dire, but Gunnery Sergeant Alistair Baker still had a couple of aces up his sleeve; his two scouts. Highly skilled trackers, they were also as silent as ghosts, and as invisible to the Japanese warriors as death's stalker.

"A woman's drama, a compelling story, danger, sex, the elusive search for love ... and a protective uncle who may just be connected ... what's not to like? Another piece of literature disguised as entertainment from Teresa Taylor."- Pamela Paige, Girls Who Wear GlassesLike many women, Katherine Gabrielli's problems revolve around the men in her life: the control freak, the psychopath, the rogue and the liar. All of them have led her into serious danger in one way or another. How can she trust any of them, when she can neither understand them nor escape them?

"What do you do when the money runs out? That's the challenged faced by the Whitacres, a couple who find themselves -- as the title promises -- damn near broke. Their back-and-forth story will keep you reading ... and being thankful it's not happening to you!"- Hollis George, editor and anthologistBuddy and Martha Whitacre, a blue-collar couple, celebrate early retirement with a trip to Spain. They return home to discover that they've been wiped out by the investment fund that made retirement and travel possible. Damn Near Broke is the tale of how they deal with impending poverty, each other, and especially the shame of it all. Chapters alternate between Martha and Buddy, two quite different voices.

"Get in the holiday spirit with Marjory Sorrell Rockwell's latest addition to the Quilters Club series. How good is it? I call it a Christmas miracle!"- Marcy Birdweather, Marcy's Musings"I can't get enough of those Quilters Club gals. Small-town sleuthing and lovable characters -- what more do you want in a cozy mystery?"- Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-UnionAmateur detective Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club cronies return with another cozy mystery set in Caruthers Corners, Indiana -- this time the murder of a Straw Hatter in the middle of the town's annual Christmas Parade. Maybe "return" is not the right word, in that this book is a prequel, taking place before the others in this bestselling series. Along with those four intrepid crime-solvers -- Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, and Lizzie -- you'll meet Leslie Ann Holmes, the precocious British "exchange student" who joins the sleuthing. And there is a Christmas quilt, a family heirloom stolen by Beau Madison's long-lost brother Mycroft -- a mysterious patchwork masterpiece that traces back to the 1800s and legendary political cartoonist Thomas Nast!

Readers have this to say about The River Bend Chronicles:"Take a chance on reading the River Bend Chronicles. You won't be disappointed.""Renee gets better with each book she writes.""I love this series of books. I feel like I am visiting a town I grew up in when I read another volume."The gang in River Bend find themselves dealing with aging parents and with a local nonprofit taking advantage of the elderly in the community. As Piper's father undergoes knee surgery, her mother, Glenda, is left alone at the farm seeming to suffer from a mental decline. Lynn and Dusty discover a dead man on the farm and the folks in River Bend become concerned with safety for the community's elder citizens when the investigation into the man's death leads to evidence of a local nonprofit cheating and scamming elder citizens. Strokes, surgery, scams and murder focus concern on the aging citizens and their safety with a little romance thrown in.

"From learning how to feel good about yourself to dealing with 'revirgination,' Allison Seaborn will entertain you with tales that could be those of any Lady Boomer. Yes, I identified!"- Martha Griswold, professional domestic diva"Lady Boomers" is a term for female baby boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964. Whether corporate managers, administrative assistants earning middle-class wages, stay-at-home grandmas, or international travelers, those in their 50s and 60s need - and deserve - something to lighten their lives after a long, demanding day. And here it is, a semi-fictional memoir with a lot of humor. Topics include self-esteem, dating, finances, parenting adult children, conflict, friendship and more, intertwined with feelings of being very ordinary, "just average," and past the prime. Even though the readers' experiences won't be exactly the same as Allison Seaborn's, their odysseys - "a long wandering or series of travel" - will resonate with the emotions and questions you have in common. Allison points out that fun is a personal responsibility. "It's up to you to choose to feel good about yourself," she insists. By consciously applying mental adjustments, such as changing "bad'itudes" - bad attitudes - into "glad'itudes" - positive attitudes, life can be easier and richer.

"Monica De Vargas clearly knows the ad game and she turns that insider's view into a fascinating and funny novel. I loved it."- Diane Brady, former senior vice president, Grey Advertising"Anything that makes our clients happy, makes us happy!"So say the Babes at HIP, Inc., a fictional ad agency not unlike every hot or wanna-be-hot shop in L.A. or Chicago, NYC or Seattle."Babes in Adland" is a pithy, perky, ball-busting roman à clef of life in an '80s-something advertising agency, told from the female POV. TOM (The Office Mom,) along with a receptionist, known as The Sphinx, and a host of Babes, share the unvarnished side of females in the world of (M)AD MEN.

"Like a Ferris Wheel, this noirish tale leaves the reader to grip the safety bar, ignore that hollow feeling in the stomach, and hold on for dear life as Joe Kontos's life spins in circles. Del Staecker is a master of the genre."- Hollis George, editor and anthologistThis gritty hardboiled tale unfolds on the planks of two strikingly different boardwalks - Atlantic City and Ocean City, New Jersey. After four decades on the Shore's music scene, Joe Kontos, a worn-out industry icon, finally hits his personal wall of despair. In an effort to find himself Joe downsizes his life and retires to the safest, quietest place he can imagine - the wholesome family resort of Ocean City. However, it is not tranquility that Joe finds. Instead, a cleverly disguised evil entraps Joe, luring him back to Atlantic City and the grimy side of life. While searching for a missing girl, Joe is deceived, shot, framed, and deceived again before discovering that it is not easy to be a hero.

Finn Pilar returns with his dog Crutch, taking on the bad guys in the southernmost paradise. This novel won the 2016 Whodunit Award, an annual writing competition presented at Mystery Fest Key West. A diver, sailor, and Harley owner, author Lewis C. Haskell can be found riding his bicycle around the island most mornings or with a glass of wine at Grand Vin in the evening.

"How great is this? A second book in Bill Craig's Caribe series published on the heels of the first. Couldn't wait to read it. This spy novel has the Bill Craig touch!"- Byron Rupert McCafferty, pop culture guru and noted online criticCaribe is a multinational task force created to handle a burgeoning level of espionage and counter espionage happening in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Their next assignment is a tough one. A U.S. Intelligence agent washes up on Nassau. The only problem is; the dead man was reported killed ten years earlier on a mission to Serbia. Riley and the Caribe team are assigned to find out what happened to the agent and where he had been for the past ten years. What they uncover is a deadly terrorist ...

"This collection of short stories fit for a supermarket tabloid may just be my favorite work by the talented and creative Gary Alexander. Elvis is alive and aliens landed at Roswell in this world."- Shirrel Rhoades, former publisher, Marvel ComicsHere are 17 entertaining tales from Gary Alexander with themes you might think were ripped from the pages of the Weekly International Tattler:¿ Roswell Woman Is An Alien Love Child ¿ Killer Theme Parks From Hell ¿ Satan Adapts To Times, Offers Lease-Option On Souls ¿ Midget Makes Mucho Moola For The Mob ¿ Einstein's Time-Space Continuum Is A Car Wreck ¿ Banana Republic Goes Bananas ¿ JFK Assassin Still On The Loose ¿ Reincarnated Aesop Updates Fable ¿ $$$ In Pirate Treasure Buried Off Oregon Coast ¿ Priceless Painting Purloined In Palace ¿ Cinderella's Dream Becomes A Nightmare ¿ Invisibility Ray Cloaks Fugitive's New Clothes ¿ Riding Hood Park Ripper An Endangered Species? ¿ Jack's Beanstalk Giant Win Record Signing Bonus ¿ Fairy Grants A Record 5 Wishes ¿ Russian Ghoul Raises The Dead ¿ Bugsy's Ghost Terrorizes Vegas

"I've become a big fan of this amiable mystery series that's mindful of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart of Hart To Hart. It's addictive."- Barthélemy Banks, Mumm's CurseNorm and Catterina Knoll lived in the on Sugarloaf Key in the Florida Keys. They had it made. He had a successful high-end boat dealership and they enjoyed lots of leisure time on the water. Their Friends, Will and Betsy Black often shared the good times with them. Then Catterina was kidnapped. Norm was devastated and moved heaven and earth to get the ransom money ... but everything kept going wrong. Would he ever see his wife alive again? You'll be captivated as this tale unfolds ... where everything is not as it seems and there are plot twists around every corner.

"Another satisfying cozy mystery from your favorite quiltmaking writer, Marjorie Sorrell Rockwell. I couldn't put it down." - Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist.Archeologists were thrilled when the Badger Patrol stumbled across a previously undiscovered Indian Mound near Caruthers Corners. Just one problem: The dead body of the local sheriff was sprawled atop it. Leave it to the Quilters Club - Maddy, Lizzie, Bootsie, and Cookie, along with Maddy's precocious granddaughter Aggie - to solve the murder mystery. At the same time trying to figure out who kidnapped Maddy's adopted grandson N'yen. And the key to the puzzle is a Charm quilt with no two pieces alike ... or aren't there?

"This the second collection of short stories by Long Island's North Fork Writer's Group that I've had the privilege to read ... and what a treat! Serious writing that will mesmerize you with its brilliance."-Martha Griswold, Online Critics CornerHelene Munson*J. David Porteous*Andrea Rhude*Christopher 'Kit' Storjohann*Joyce DeCordova*William Rue*Susan Rosenstreich*Gerard MeadeIn this notable anthology from a group of Long Island, New York, authors, you will find nearly thirty stories and reflections. The titles themselves are intriguing and reflect the variety and creativity of the selections - "Bad Bounce," "Slow Moving Clouds, 1957," "Freddy the Fluffer," "The Princess and the Turnip Eater," "That Silk Dress," "What Good People Do About Us," "Playground of Wraiths," "Racing Cockroaches," and "The Last Stop" ... they're all here in these delightful, thoughtful, imaginative, entertaining stories.

"Normally, I don't read cozy mysteries. I prefer hard-hitting, fist-in-the-face noirs. But I was given an advance copy of Fat Quarters ... and found I couldn't put it down. In fact, I went back and started reading the entire Quilters Club series. I fell in love with those four middle-aged girlfriends and their assorted grandchildren and wacky neighbors who inhabit a small Midwestern town. Four stars."- Edward Squires, editor of Not Quite a NovellaFlying saucers? Skydivers without parachutes? Mob hits? A wagonload of gold hidden in 1830? Here, Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals solve a murder and locate a buried treasure with the help of her precious granddaughter Aggie and brainiac grandson N'yen ... and an antique Map quilt that people are willing to kill to get. This marks the return of a weird purple-eyed UFO investigator, the appearance of a sinister new antiques dealer, and a rough landing by a pilot known as Upside Down Lou. This marks another visit to the small town of Caruthers Corners, Indiana -- home of the Quilters Club.

"The best book about fly fishing since A River Runs Through It. Makes me dream of rainbow trout and cold streams and remote wilderness landscapes ..." ¿ Edward Squires, Not Quite Novellas"It's now been more than fifty years that I've been fishing, and roaming and loving Montana and the rest of the northern high plains. Lines on maps don't mean a damn thing to good country or to me. Montana flows into Alberta and British Columbia and Wyoming. The western Dakotas are the same place as Eastern Montana only with different names. Land is connected, not defined by human limitations. I first thought of writing and compiling this book while working a stream that wound through a brushy, tall-grass valley at the base of the Pryor Mountains last summer. Wild rainbows fought for the chance to engulf the Elk Hair caddis I was using. Beautiful healthy, small, colorful fish. Early afternoon was now sunset, the hours passing in an instant. And this made me remember the first trip to Montana in the sixties and the intervening hundreds of thousands (come to think of it. maybe more than a million) of miles I've wandered checking good, bad and indifferent water hanging out in serene isolation all over the place during the past half century. That time also passing in an instant that also times seemed eternal."

"John Holt's writings make the stark beauty of wilderness lands seem as real as if you're standing there on a high plateau with him. His characters are sunburnt, wind-blistered real. The harsh reality of living off the land offers a pleasure all its own. And death is always a integral part of Holt's landscape."- Nick Teranzi, Online Critics CornerJack Graves lived off the land, hunting and fishing and making his own way in this harsh, dry country that lay well away from cities. Free. Lonesome. No rules. But then his solitude is interrupted. Dark Star helicopters hovering over Mad Woman Gulch. Fires. Dead men. What was happening to his beloved Montana wilderness? Coal mining, that was nature's enemy. Meanwhile, Dark Star went about the business of punching the line through, hopefully before the winter weather, ugly storms screaming down from the arctic, closed in sometime in November. Piles of steel railroad ties, miles of heavy steel track, powerful graders, earth hauling rigs the size of houses, lots of explosives, track-laying machinery, D-11s, all of this stuff began accumulating in the company's yard. Would his life ever be the same?

Brewster Chamberlin readily admits one of the great pieces of buona Fortuna in his life was the 14 months he spent with Lynn-Marie Smith in a small village in the South of France just northwest of the old walled city of Avignon. This sprightly memoir is the story of those deeply enriching and adventurous months in a landscape both enchanted and occasionally dangerous, filled with the wildly magical scenes Van Gogh, Lawrence Durrell and other painters and writers have so vividly captured in their Provence-inspired work. Chamberlin's narrative takes the reader from the couple's first jaunty but seemingly frivolous thoughts about living in France generated by equal amounts of wine, food and frustration with life in Washington, through the serious matter of actually moving there and living through the vicissitudes of daily life in a countryside and language with which the couple possessed only a shaky acquaintance.

"Becker adds a new female detective to America's mystery landscape ... or should we say to America's rails? A good ride!"- Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist PostA retired NYC Police Detective on her post-retirement train trip from New York to San Francisco with nothing to do for days .... until she is suddenly is thrust into suspicion, violence, and international intrigue. Add in shady characters (or are they?), natural instincts, and attention to the smallest details, and you have the next chapter in Lee Comstock's life. The chase (but who is chasing whom?) involves an AMTRAK long distance train, the communities of San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland, and people posing as other than they seem -- with the telltales just the simplest of gestures. Remember, it's always the little things that give you away.

"This is NOT the Anne of Green Gables that I remember ... but it's certainly a HOT what-if retelling. Not one for the kiddies! But bad boys will very much enjoy the ribald adventures of an alt Anne Shirley."- H.L. Osterman, Short ChangeYou may remember reading Anne of Green Gables as a child. But what if the story was much different that the one you remember? What if the orphan girl of Prince Edward Island was a sexually promiscuous tart, and her adoptive family drew her into a ménage a trois? And what if she shared her favors with not only her bosom buddy, but also the minister and her beautiful wife? Even her teachers? Titillating reading to say the least. Frank Holtzer (50 Shades of Getting Laid) has adapted L.M. Montgomery's classic story into an erotic masterpiece.