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Editorial Content for The Replacement Wife

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Rebecca Munro

Darby Kane, the bestselling author of PRETTY LITTLE WIFE, returns with THE REPLACEMENT WIFE, a domestic thriller that asks how one too many tragic coincidences can turn into a series of murders. Read More

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Elisa Wright is convinced that her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman’s safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh’s missing fiancée. Searching for clues means investigating her own family. And she doesn’t like what she finds. But when Elisa becomes friends with Josh’s new girlfriend and starts to question things she thinks are true, Elisa wonders if the memories of a horrible incident a year ago have finally pushed her over the edge and Josh is really innocent. With so much at stake, Elisa fights off panic attacks and a strange illness. Is it a breakdown or something more?

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Elisa Wright is convinced that her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée, and he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman’s safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh’s missing fiancée. Searching for clues means investigating her own family. And she doesn’t like what she finds. But when Elisa becomes friends with Josh’s new girlfriend and starts to question things she thinks are true, Elisa wonders if the memories of a horrible incident a year ago have finally pushed her over the edge and Josh is really innocent. With so much at stake, Elisa fights off panic attacks and a strange illness. Is it a breakdown or something more?

About the Book

The #1 international bestselling author of PRETTY LITTLE WIFE returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks: How many wives and girlfriends need to disappear before your family notices?

Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She’s also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fiancée. Though he grieved for them, when he starts dating someone new, Elisa fears for that woman’s safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh’s missing fiancée.

Searching for clues means investigating her own family. And she doesn’t like what she finds. A laptop filled with incriminating information. Other women.

But when Elisa becomes friends with Josh’s new girlfriend and starts to question things she thinks are true, Elisa wonders if the memories of a horrible incident a year ago have finally pushed her over the edge and Josh is really innocent. With so much at stake, Elisa fights off panic attacks and a strange illness. Is it a breakdown or something more? The race is on to get to the truth before another disappearance because there’s a killer in the family…or is there?

Audiobook available, read by Karissa Vacker

Editorial Content for Cutthroat Dogs: An Amos Walker Mystery

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Ray Palen

CUTTHROAT DOGS, Loren D. Estleman’s 29th novel featuring the incomparable Amos Walker, is a refreshing departure from your standard mystery series. Whether you want to label it hard-boiled or crime noir, these books are a throwback to the writing of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. The only difference is that Estleman’s protagonist exists in the modern day as a private investigator. All that’s missing is the trench coat and hat! Read More

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CUTTHROAT DOGS is a new Amos Walker novel from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman. Nearly 20 years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it?

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CUTTHROAT DOGS is a new Amos Walker novel from Grand Master Loren D. Estleman. Nearly 20 years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it?

About the Book

CUTTHROAT DOGS is a new Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master.

“Someone is dead who shouldn’t be, and the wrong man is in prison.”

Nearly 20 years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed.

Or is it?

Editorial Content for Treachery Times Two: A Koa Kane Hawaiian Mystery

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Ray Palen

It begins with an appreciation of Mother Nature and all its majestic beauty. In this case, it’s the landscape of Hawaii, a gorgeous state full of incredible vistas that also houses the potential for natural disaster. Ancient stories were created to give names and power to the might of nature, and were passed down from generation to generation as part of the oral history of the Hawaiian Islands. Read More

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On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery --- unearthing the body of a woman mutilated by her killer to conceal her identity. The search for her identity leads Hilo Hawaii’s Chief Detective Koa Kane to a mysterious defense contractor with a politically connected board of directors. Defying his chief of police, Koa pursues the killer, only to become entangled in an FBI espionage investigation of Deimos, a powerful secret military weapon. Is the FBI telling all it knows --- or does it, too, have a duplicitous agenda? At the same time, Koa --- a cop who 30 years earlier killed his father’s nemesis and covered up the murder --- faces exposure by the dead man’s grandson.

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On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery --- unearthing the body of a woman mutilated by her killer to conceal her identity. The search for her identity leads Hilo Hawaii’s Chief Detective Koa Kane to a mysterious defense contractor with a politically connected board of directors. Defying his chief of police, Koa pursues the killer, only to become entangled in an FBI espionage investigation of Deimos, a powerful secret military weapon. Is the FBI telling all it knows --- or does it, too, have a duplicitous agenda? At the same time, Koa --- a cop who 30 years earlier killed his father’s nemesis and covered up the murder --- faces exposure by the dead man’s grandson.

About the Book

Secret military weapons, saboteurs, a volcanic eruption --- and a probe of Chief Detective Koa Kane’s criminal past.

On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery --- unearthing the body of a woman mutilated by her killer to conceal her identity.

The search for her identity leads Hilo Hawaii’s Chief Detective Koa Kane to a mysterious defense contractor with a politically connected board of directors. Defying his chief of police, Koa pursues the killer, only to become entangled in an FBI espionage investigation of Deimos, a powerful secret military weapon. Is the FBI telling all it knows --- or does it, too, have a duplicitous agenda?

At the same time, Koa --- a cop who 30 years earlier killed his father’s nemesis and covered up the murder --- faces exposure by the dead man’s grandson. Koa is forced to investigate his own homicide, and step by step his cover-up unravels until another man is falsely accused.

Can Koa stand by and let an innocent man pay for his crime?

January 7, 2022

Happy New Year! The holiday break was lovely, but I feel like just as I relaxed, it was time to head back to my desk. Omicron definitely cast a pall over the holidays --- the second holiday season of limited celebrating. Luckily, I am easily amused here at the house.

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Miriam Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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Miriam Beard

Author Talk: Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers

Jan 6, 2022

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS is Jessamine Chan’s debut novel and this month’s “Read with Jenna” Today Show Book Club pick. It revolves around one lapse in judgment that lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. In this interview, Chan talks about how she came to tell this particular story, her writing process and the research she conducted for the book, what surprised her the most when she became a mother, the concerns she had about motherhood and the impact it would have on her ability to write, the authors who have inspired her, and what she’s working on now.

Interview: Lyndsay Faye, author of Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes

Jan 6, 2022

Lyndsay Faye’s OBSERVATIONS BY GASLIGHT is a thrilling volume of both new and previously published short stories and novellas narrated by those who knew Sherlock Holmes. In this interview conducted by Bookreporter.com reviewer Ray Palen, Faye discusses why she chose to utilize narrators other than Dr. Watson in her latest collection about the Great Detective, the lasting appeal of Holmes to authors and readers, the tremendous support she received from Otto Penzler as she was writing this book under less-than-ideal circumstances, her favorite Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and what’s next for her.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton