by admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Meet Posie ‘Nosey’ Parker: hopeless romantic, war survivor, girl about town, and now… Detective?
London, February, 1921.
Posie Parker always dreamt of becoming a Private Detective. So with nothing to lose, and the tiniest scrap of an inheritance and her haughty cat, Mr Minks, in tow, she sets up her own Detective Agency in Bloomsbury.
But clients are hard to come by, and all seems in vain, until Posie receives an urgent call from her childhood friend, Lord Rufus Cardigeon, who is up to his neck in bother. He’s been robbed of a family heirloom – the priceless Maharajah diamond – by his showgirl fiancée, Lucky Lucy Gibson, and he’s become the Number One suspect in the shooting of a mysterious man in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel. Rufus swears he’s innocent, and it’s up to Posie to investigate, all with Scotland Yard breathing down her neck.
Aided by her seriously gorgeous assistant Len Irving, and a new friend, ex-suffragette Dolly Price, Posie starts to hunt for the missing fiancée, Lucky Lucy Gibson, the key to all the mayhem. But the darkly-glamorous world of London’s theatre proves a hornet’s nest of danger.
Just who exactly was the murdered man at the Ritz Hotel? Why has Mr Minks, Posie’s cat, been stolen? And when Dolly Price suddenly vanishes, Posie has to face up to a far greater enemy than she could ever have imagined. A daring enemy who has already lined Posie up as the next victim…
Murder Offstage is the first book in the Posie Parker Mystery Series. If you love cozy golden age intrigue-packed mysteries, you won’t be able to put this down! For fans of Agatha Christie, Downton Abbey and Lee Strauss.
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by admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
When flamboyant senior sleuth Sadie Kramer learns the owner of Cioccolato, her favorite chocolate shop, is in trouble, she heads for the California wine country with a tote-bagged Yorkie and a slew of questions. The fourth generation Tremiato Winery promises answers, but not before a dead body turns up at the vintners’ scheduled Harvest Festival.
All four Tremiato siblings have possible motives, as well as a few peripheral acquaintances, but only one could be the guilty party. As Sadie juggles truffles, tips and turmoil, she’ll need to sort the grapes from the wrath in order to find the identity of the killer.
by admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Mystery |
The first book in the bestselling mystery series by R.L. Ryker.
Murder lurks in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympic Mountains.
Former major crimes detective Brandon Mattson returns to Forks, WA to take command of his hometown’s fledgling police force. Brandon’s respite from homicide is short-lived when a body washes ashore on the nearby Quileute Reservation.
Vicious fang marks and a series of ominous vampire-related graffiti point to members of a local cult. But Brandon isn’t so sure wannabe vampires are to blame, and it soon becomes evident that more than one person had reason to murder the young woman.
Balancing a homicide investigation, small-town politics, and raising a fifteen-year-old daughter, Brandon is running out of time to solve the case before the bloodthirsty killer claims another victim.
by admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Historical Fiction |
1938 – Krista is living and working in the tiny village of Metz on the French-German border. The world she has lived in all her life is changing. There is a feeling of oppression in the air. People no long stop to chat with their neighbours. Young men she grew up with are joining Hitler’s Youth – becoming disruptive bullies. Then Krista overhears a conversation that will change her life. She must escape. Without a plan and with no time to think, she hides in the back of a car driven by an Englishman – and finds herself being driven through France into Belgium and finally sailing to Great Britain. Will this new life be any better than the one she left behind?
by admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
The Nightmare if Far From Over
Rogan Sneed rots in prison for the massacre he unleashed on Portland’s Pioneer Square. The copycat is dead. The city’s wounds have healed. But then, a blip on the screen. A teenage girl vanishes without a trace, her diary hinting at a third conspirator in the heinous attack that claimed 21 lives.
Portland police veteran Wayne Deetz should be coasting toward retirement. Instead, he’s careening into a harrowing underworld, the likes of which he’s never encountered before. A local plumber emerges as a person of interest in the girl’s disappearance, but Deetz believes a far more sinister force is at work.
Still struggling to tame the demons of his anxiety, Deetz is out of time and up against an evil that hits disturbingly close to home. He races to connect the dots before another strike triggers catastrophic carnage.
From the blood-stained streets of Pioneer Square to the murkiest depths of the American underworld, join Deetz’s pulse-pounding quest to stop a mastermind intent on finishing what was started and delivering a city to its knees.
With tension on every page, Amazon #1 Best-Selling author Creston Mapes demonstrates why he is a “Top Pick” among Christian suspense fans and those who love religious mysteries.
If you enjoy books by Charles Martin, Terri Blackstock, Frank Peretti, Robert Whitlow, DiAnn Mills, and Stephen James, you will love this thriller from award-winning and bestselling author Creston Mapes.
Reader Praise for Let My Daughter Go
????? WOW! I read this book in 3 hours! I could not put it down . . . I was delighted to see that the third in the series, I Pick You, is releasing tomorrow, and I have already pre-ordered it! Definitely adding Creston Mapes to my favorite authors list.
????? This is a riveting story that had my heart pounding & on the edge of my seat, turning page after page. I had a hard time finding a good stopping point so didn’t do that much until I reached the end. This can be read as a stand-alone but it does reference the event from book 1 so reading the series from the start might make the series more enjoyable. Now I am anxious to read book 3.
????? I was on the edge of my seat reading this book. An older policeman hoping to retire in a year gets caught up in helping citizens that need him. When the cover says Christian fiction thriller, that is very true! This policeman has a special needs daughter and you will fall in love with her. She is so loving. If you are not a Christian I think you would still enjoy this book. Good characters and storyline. I recommend this book!
????? If you want to read a very intense and moving Christian work of fiction then this is the book for you.
Detective Deetz is working around the clock to find the kidnapped young woman. Things escalate when his own teenage daughter is also kidnapped. The whole PD has to act quickly to find the two kidnapped victims and to find the connection.
You won’t be disappointed if you want to read a real to life crime story.
????? I picked this up on a whim while we were on vacation . . . I had no idea it was Christian fiction when I bought it. Nevertheless, it’s a story that moves quickly and held my interest such that I finished it in a few hours. I then bought the rest of the books in the series. They are all enjoyable, and sometimes that’s all I want, is to be entertained. This book will not challenge you intellectually, but it will give you an uplifting story.
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