Candlelit Smoke and Mirrors

Candlestick Historical Mysteries cozy gilded age Book 2

May 1893. The residents of the Case mansion continue to pool their knowledge and strengths to endure through difficult times. Of course, their concerns about the comfort and safety of others in the city of Candlestick go beyond that of their own. Even in their current reduced circumstances, they wish to offer whatever help they may. To that end, Mrs. Mattie Case hones her amateur sleuthing skills when the new police chief rebuffs her insights into mysterious disappearances.

Chief of police Garth Hawke embarks on an investigation into the disinterest of his police department. Compelled to prove the Case widow wrong about her suppositions, he is drawn into a magic act involving smoke and mirrors that places his own future in peril. Unable to rely on the men who work for him, he must turn elsewhere for assistance. It doesn’t escape him that the person most intent on giving aid has a mysterious past of her own. One that proves even more sensational than any he had imagined.

Series Summary: Mrs. Henry Case finds her amateur sleuthing skills are tested while searching for clues to mysteries both past and present. Unwilling to take everything she hears at face value, Mattie determinedly works to uncover the truth. Faced with several hurdles along the way, she discovers that it will require all of her intelligence to find the answers she needs. Chief of police Garth Hawke wonders if he can trust anyone around him. One thing is obvious. No one in the city of Candlestick appears to trust him. He hopes that will change over time. His plan to win them over is simple. He just needs to do a better job than his predecessor. Given the sensational circumstances under which Henry Case lost his life, it shouldn’t be that difficult.
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The Last Lies: Kate’s Story

A woman in a man’s world.
An enemy she never saw coming.

Police officer Kate Murphy thought she’d left her tumultuous past behind when she married Matt, but nothing could be further from the truth.

As problems and deceptions pile up both at home and at work, a disturbingly high number of animal deaths begin to spread in and around Boston. Kate will have to unravel a web of lies and connect the dots to solve the case and regain control over her life.

If you like dramatic police procedurals with characters who grow and become stronger as the story progresses, then you’ll love this fast-paced yet emotional mystery.

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WARNING: This book deals with sensitive subject matters that may upset some readers, such as animal cruelty, miscarriage, and abortion.
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Last of the Mountain Men

There have always been Mountain Men.
Their true identities hidden. Their real motives unknown. Until now.

For more than four centuries ‘The Mountain Men’ have changed the course of human history and, very occasionally, some of them were even quite good at it. Like most things in life, successful revolutions take a bit of practice.

The only thing Mario Peruzzi left behind following his untimely death was a plastic bag full of letters, which was disappointing to those who knew him because he was reportedly worth twelve billion dollars. The FBI were particularly irritated given their plans to seize it. The pile of letters made little sense. Addressed to individuals long since dead, at locations long since demolished. Yet they were the only clue to the missing cash and, as Mario knew full well, an even darker secret – the truth about the Mountain Men.

Dr Ally Oldfield isn’t bothered about the money or an ancient order of misogynists. She has enough on her plate with a new job, an exhibition to curate with Lance – her seemingly useless and clumsy intern, busy-body neighbours who don’t understand the phrase ‘sod off’ and a recent intruder who insists she’s on the run from the ‘FIB’. It’s just the beginning of a very bad week.

The theft of a rare and priceless Indian manuscript from the Bodleian Library triggers an international incident. It’s an event that pushes the country towards social unrest and impending crisis. The government need a scapegoat and a business card found at the crime scene implicates Ally in the theft. What’s more interesting to her are the scribbled initials on the back of the card – T.M.M. Someone is determined to frame Ally for the theft and a series of revolts against the establishment that spark up across the globe. The more she fights to prove her innocence, the more she discovers how these events are connected to her own murky past and a mysterious individual called Radu Goga.

History holds the key to cracking the Mountain Men’s code, but success will force Ally to confront her own.

Last of the Mountain Men is the second novel featuring Dr Ally Oldfield after The End of the World is Nigh. This is a standalone novel but readers who loved the first book will be further rewarded in the second.

If you love ‘who dunnits’ with bags of history and comedy, then this book is for you. Pratchett meets Dan Brown! Get stuck in.

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Mermaids’ Tears

When River Freeman gets an opportunity to live in a bargain beach home in Carmel, Caifornia, she takes it. Unfortunately, this puts her son Rusty in the position of new kid just as he’s hitting sixth grade. With his advanced vocabulary and love of books, he’s a primary target for twelve-year-old boys and their difference detectors. With a comic and slightly violent solution, Rusty manages to wriggle out, but just then their tenant, college student Autumn, suffers a terrible family tragedy that sends the household into a grief-ridden funk. It’s a long road back to the good life, but it might be marked by baseballs – and the lost young man who once told Rusty he was a natural. A heartwarming coming-of-age tale from the acclaimed author of Lavender and A Painting Called Sylvia.

Field of Love: How to Experience the Field

Powerful, Transforming and Inspiring.Thousands of people have benefited from Field of Love:Power, Love & Fortune on the Road to Enlightenment a True Story, the extraordinary memoir of Martin Birrittella and his quest for the divine. This book Field of Love: How to Experience the Field, illuminates his direct awakenings and experiences of transcendence, as well as his intimate processes, which are the catalysts to transform and catapult us into the realm of oneness. Through his knowledge, wisdom, and willingness to share, he inspires us to connect with this unified field of love, within and all around us.