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Kindle Daily Deal For Saturday, November 17 – Today Only! $1.99 For Leonard Pitts Historical Fiction Novel Freeman, plus Heather Haven’s 5 Star Mystery Persephone Cole and the Christmas Killings Conundrum (Today’s Sponsor)
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Persephone Cole and the Christmas Killings Conundrum, a Books We Love Holiday Mystery
by Heather Haven
In 1942, no one heard of a female private investigator. No one, but Persephone Cole, that is. She just might be New York City’s first female PI, blazing a trail for all other lady dicks to follow. What Percy has in common with gumshoes like Sam Spade, Phillip Marlow, and Dick Tracy is a hardboiled, take-no-prisoners attitude. The difference? Our sleuth has a wicked sense of humor, lives on the lower east side with her zany family, and is the mother of an eight-year old son, the child who gives her life meaning. At five foot eleven inches tall and a full-figured gal, she has a penchant for pistachio nuts, Marlene Dietrich pants suits, and tops her flaming red hair with men’s fedora hats. Using her noodle and a 1918 German Mauser pistol to get the job done, World War II’s Persephone Cole finds her holiday cheer in solving crimes of the most deadly kind – murder.
In late December, 1942, Persephone (Percy) Cole, one of Manhattan’s first female PIs, has been hired to find out who killed a Santa Land elf and left the body in the storefront window of a swank 5th Avenue jewelry store. Was it the spoiled heiress whose big buck handbag was found on the scene? Or was it the rat who broke out of the big house to settle a score? Shortly after, the corpse of the Christmas Angel is discovered stuffed in Mrs. Santa’s workshop. Will Santa Claus be next? With a penchant for Marlene Dietrich suits, pistachio nuts and fedora hats, this working mother finds diamonds to the left of her, diamonds to the right, and skullduggery aplenty. Armed with her noodle and a WW I German Mauser, Percy is determined to solve these crimes or it just might be the ‘kiss off’ for Christmas.
Someone’s out to stop the Broadway play, but Private Investigator, Persephone Cole, is bound and determined to find out who. After all, the show must go on. Ms Haven weaves a tale of suspense and humor with her new character. A must read! Roseanne Dowell, author
Don’t miss book one in this series, Persephone Cole and the Halloween Curse, now available from Books We Love
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After the Confederate surrender, Sam–a runaway slave–travels south in search of his wife, the mother of his only child. At the same time, Sam’s wife, Tilda, walks at gunpoint with her slave master, a Confederate officer. It’s a sweeping and powerful love story set in brutal, constraining times.
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Kindle Daily Deal For Friday, November 16 – Big Savings on Donnell Bell’s 5 Star Thriller The Past Came Hunting, plus Devon Pearse’s A Lighter Shade of Gray (Today’s Sponsor)
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What does it feel like to stare into the face of madness? Or to anticipate your own? Would you drive away your only love? Could you pretend it didn’t matter? How far would you go to protect a friend, or to avenge a death?
Ten years ago, Devon gave up the love of her life, fearing she would one day fall victim to the mental illness that has slowly ravaged the mind of her mother, who is now being cared for in a private facility.
Just when it seems Devon might have a chance to make up for past mistakes, her best friend Cass becomes a suspect in the murder of her sister’s drug-dealing boyfriend. Devon knows Cass is lying about the details of her involvement and the lead detective on the case, convinced that Cass is guilty, is relentless in his pursuit of justice.
When her mother’s young, emotionally disturbed roommate insinuates she knows something about the night of the murder, as well as details from Devon’s own life that no one else is privy to, Devon becomes desperate to uncover the truth before Detective Lake does. As the investigation continues, Devon is led down a path she never expected and forced to face her greatest fears of life and love.
Tangled in a web of lies, regrets and questions, can she find a way to let go of the past and start again? And, once the mystery is solved, can she live with the secrets she’s uncovered?
Join author Devon Pearse in this semi-autobiographical journey through the most heartbreakingly beautiful and deceptively mysterious events of her own life and the lives of those closest to her.
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Kindle Daily Deal: The Past Came Hunting Donnell Bell’s suspenseful and tightly plotted debut follows the fate of Melanie, who, as a teenage runaway, was briefly imprisoned for allegedly aiding a man in a violent robbery. Fifteen years later, Melanie is a widowed mother and the robber her testimony helped put in prison is hunting her down.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Thursday, November 15 – Save 85% on Deborah Crombie’s Atmospheric and Twisting Mystery No Mark Upon Her, plus … Terry Murphy’s Weekend in Weighton (Today’s Sponsor)
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Weekend in Weighton
Here’s the set-up:
First-time private investigator Eddie Greene is having a bad weekend. It’s about to get worse …
When he finds the slab-cold body of his first client, he knows something’s up – he only spoke to her fifteen minutes earlier.
Free-wheeling, swash-buckling, trash-talking Eddie is not just out of place in a humdrum northern town. He’s out of his depth on his first case, out of funds from a now deceased client and out of favour with Weighton’s big society.
As Friday night slides into Saturday morning, each twist in the case turns a bad situation worse; the police want him for murder, the local crime boss wants him dead, the mayor wants him out of town and his girlfriend wants him out of her life.
Increasingly desperate, Eddie takes on all-comers in a barnstorming bid to crack the case and clear his name. And somewhere between all the froth and fury, his affections are reclaimed by the girl who got away – but will she abide ‘til Monday?
“Great fun with some cracking jokes – ‘this femme is fatale’ being my favourite – it reminded me of the Lynne Truss serial on Radio 4.” Sue Fletcher, Deputy MD, Hodder & Stoughton
“Faultless – engaging, controlled, visual and fast-paced. Lots of action and a strong sense of tongue-in-cheek.” Caroline Smailes, Harper Collins author, ‘In Search of Adam’
“It’s like ‘Film Noir’ meets ‘Phoenix Nights’!” Mark Roman, author of ‘Ultimate Inferior Beings’ on Cogwheel Press.
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Kindle Daily Deal: No Mark upon Her
Best-selling author Deborah Crombie’s deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery is filled with deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals. When a woman’s body is found, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading a complicated investigation, for the victim was a high-ranking detective who had many admirers, and many enemies.
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