Tag: Mystery

Sneak Peek: Twenty-Five Years Ago Today

Today we have a sneak peek from Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, the mystery novel by author Stacy Juba.

Kris Langley blames herself for the death of her cousin when they were kids and has let guilt invade every corner of her existence. Now a newspaper editorial assistant, Kris stumbles across a 25-year-old cold case. Determined to solve the mystery, Kris becomes obsessed with solving the murder of artist Diana Ferguson. Not only does Kris face resistance from her family and her editor, she also clashes with Diana’s nephew Eric – until they can’t deny the chemistry flaring between them. Finding out the truth about that night 25 years ago may shatter Kris’s present, costing her love, her career, and ultimately, her life.

This book is available from Amazon, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and Barnes&Noble.

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Book Brief: Twenty-Five Years Ago Today

Twenty-Five Years Ago Today
by Stacy Juba
Genre: Mystery
Word count: 60,000

Should we dig for the truth when Pandora’s Box is a coffin of buried secrets?

Kris Langley has always been obsessed with murder. She blames herself for the violent death of her cousin when they were kids and has let guilt invade every corner of her existence. Now an editorial assistant and obit writer, Kris stumbles across an unsolved murder while compiling “25 Years Ago Today” items from the microfilm. Determined to solve the case and atone for the death of her cousin, Kris immerses herself in the mystery of what happened to Diana Ferguson, a talented artist who expressed herself through haunting paintings of Greek mythology.

Not only does Kris face resistance from her family and her managing editor, she also clashes with Diana’s suspicious nephew, Eric Soares – until neither she nor Eric can deny the chemistry flaring between them. She soon learns that old news never leaves the morgue and that yesterday’s headline is tomorrow’s danger, for finding out the truth about that night twenty-five years ago may shatter Kris’s present, costing her love, her career, and ultimately, her life.

This book is available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes&Noble.

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Sneak Peek: Murder Over the Border

Today we have a sneak peek from the mystery/thriller by Richard Steinitz: Murder Over the Border.

Israeli policeman Yossi Abulafia is on army reserve duty, watching military movements on the other side of the Jordanian border. Through his telescope, he witnesses what appears to be a murder – in Jordan. While seeing this crime take place, his lookout post collapses and he is seriously injured – enough so that he is invalided out.

Taking a new job in the Prime Minister’s office, he gets sucked into the Oslo Peace Process, and uses his position to try to find the killer from over the border. Who is the ‘shooter’ and how is he connected to Yossi?

Murder Over the Border is available from Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

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Book Brief: Dead Blow Hammer

Dead Blow Hammer
by Steve George
Genre: Mystery, suspense
Word Count: 52,000

Jim Mann is a homebody. While he trades grain commodities out of his house in a western suburb of Minneapolis, he spends most of his time helping his neighbors. If they ask, he helps. If they don’t ask, he offers. Everyone on Barbosa Street calls him Handy.

It would have been a peaceful life if he hadn’t trusted his neighbors. If he hadn’t traded home repair work for Bo Stinson’s accounting expertise. If he hadn’t fallen for Gustav Olson’s long-lost daughter. If he hadn’t, with true DIY stubbornness, tried to do it all himself.

Dead Blow Hammer tells the story of how one misstep—in this case, the first step on the stairway to Angie Stinson’s bedroom—drew Handy Mann into a life-or-death struggle with evil he never imagined could be so close at hand, a struggle he will need every tool in his tool box to survive.

This book is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.

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