by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Bestselling author and grand master Lawrence Block returns to his deadliest hitman. A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living. But when the nation’s economy tanks, taking the construction business with it, all it takes is one phone call to drag him back into the game. It may say Nicholas Edwards on his driver’s license and credit cards, but he’s back to being the man he always was: Keller. Keller’s work takes him to New York, the former home he hasn’t dared revisit, where his target is the abbot of a midtown monastery. Another call puts him on a West Indies cruise, with several interesting fellow passengers — the government witness, the incandescent young woman keeping the witness company, and, sharing Keller’s cabin, his wife, Julia. But the high drama comes in Cheyenne, where a recent widow is looking to sell her husband’s stamp collection . . . In Hit Me, legendary Edgar Grandmaster and New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns to one of his most beloved characters. Welcome back, Keller. You’ve been missed.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder.Murder in the Mix is a USA TODAY Bestselling Series! Humor with a side of homicide. From New York Times,USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Addison Moore.Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison’s books, “…easy, frothy fun!”This book can be enjoyed on its own without reading the other books in the series so dive on in! Includes Recipe!My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety, who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owner’s impending doom. It’s fall. The air is crisp, and the apples are poison. Evie is turning sixteen, my life has been upended, and then there’s that body…Honey Hollow High is having a fundraiser and it’s not only full of surprise exes, and glitzy baubles, it’s full of murder. And on top of that, I have news that has turned my world inside out. And now both Noah and Everett are forced to reckon with it. Everything has changed in my world. Nothing will ever be the same again. Lottie Lemon has a brand new bakery to tend to, a budding romance with perhaps one too many suitors, and she has the supernatural ability to see the dead—which are always harbingers for ominous things to come. Throw in the occasional ghost of the human variety, a string of murders, and her insatiable thirst for justice, and you’ll have more chaos than you know what to do with. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Travel, anyone? Here is your passport to murder – three clean cozy mysteries set in Europe’s most fascinating destinations!While traveling around the world, tour guide Lana Hansen lands in the middle of deadly mysteries. From a killer on the loose in Budapest to clients who gets snuffed out in Paris and Amsterdam, can she solve these cases before she’s the next to depart… for good?Pick up this collection of three full-length mysteries now and see if you can sleuth out the killers before Lana does!Death on the Danube: A New Year’s Murder in BudapestWho knew a New Year’s trip to Budapest could be so deadly? The tour must go on – even with a killer in their midst! Tour guide Lana Hansen must sleuth out who is killing her clients before she ends up floating in the Danube.Death by Baguette: A Valentine’s Day Murder in ParisParis—the city of love, lights … and murder? Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she escorts five couples on an unforgettable Valentine-themed vacation to France! Unfortunately it will be the last trip for one passenger… Lana must figure out who really killed her client before she has to say bonjour to prison and adieu to her freedom.Death by Windmill: A Mother’s Day Murder in AmsterdamA Mother’s Day trip to the Netherlands turns deadly when a guest plummets from a windmill. Was it an accident or a murder? For Lana Hansen, the answer will mean freedom or imprisonment for someone close to her…Praise for the Travel Can Be Murder Cozy Mystery series:”With stops in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, Christmas in Rome, and even a bachelorette party in Reykjavik, this series is certainly one for the bucket list traveler. Lana’s status as a brand new tour guide means the reader experiences the wonder of these destinations just as she does.” – Forbes, “Travel Books: 5 Cozy Mystery Series To Satisfy Your Wanderlust””Death on the Danube was a great, clean cozy mystery, featuring great characters and set in an even better location.” ~eBook addicts”A Perfect Escape: Ms. Alderson not only takes us on an outstanding virtual escape to Hungary but she gives us a fun mystery to solve as well… I loved the quick pace and the short chapters. Death on the Danube was a totally entertaining read.” ~Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book”DEATH ON THE DANUBE is a fast-paced travel mystery with beautiful sites and scenery, plus a cast of very interesting characters, whom you will come to know quite well before the book is done.” ~Here’s How It Happened”Travel anyone?? Death by Baguette will take you on a fantastic trip to Paris… a fun read full of French places we all know and love.” ~Books a Plenty Book Reviews”What a fantastic story! Absolutely Brilliant! Paris, Valentine’s week, delicious baked goodies, five bickering couples and murder – what a combination! The ending is nothing short of a nail-biting adventure! I highly recommend this book.” ~Rekha, The Book Decoder blog”Death By Baguette is a magnificent mystery. Ms. Alderson continually surprises me with motives and means of murder.” ~Baroness’ Book TroveDeath by Windmill: “This entertaining mystery is the perfect light read to transport you from your armchair to foreign parts, in this case. The city comes to life as Lana Hansen, shepherds her group of American tourists around the sights. The author writes with a light touch, but issues of family love, loyalty, and forgiveness are explored along the way.” – Harriet Steel, Inspector de Silva Mysteries
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2025 | Fantasy |
What if the ordinary family you crave finds you? Only they’re not ordinary, neither are you, and neither are the vampire neighbours raising your twin sister.An accident is all it takes to turn my mundane life in a London children’s home upside down.Power and magic lurk at the priory, my new home in the Oxfordshire countryside, and I learn fast that nothing is ordinary around here. Not my newfound family—the Penhaligons. Not my long-lost twin sister. And not the hostile new neighbours—a coven of vampires, vaewolves and demons.As I grapple with family secrets, four powerful new brothers, and latent abilities of my own, my sister and the man who raised her find themselves in mortal danger—a danger that draws me and my family into a battle to save them.Finally embracing the meaning of family, two questions burn at the back of my mind.If vampires and demons exist, what are the Penhaligons?And what am I?A Storm of Paper Starlings is the first of a complete six-book series that follows Violet as she goes from lost, gobby orphan to treasured—okay, she’s still gobby—warrior, finding the clan she would die for along the way.If sibling banter, precious friendships, bitey neighbours, and terrible goats are your jam, settle in to meet your new ride or die crew today.Due to adult language and dark themes, this book is recommended for readers aged 15+ and is ideal for upper YA/crossover readers who enjoy diverse stories. Set in the Cascade Apocrypha storyworld. The series should be read in order.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
The acclaimed true crime writer tears the mask off of the perfect father, who committed a grisly murder that Grand Junction, Colorado, will never forget. Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg’s adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators found Jennifer’s remains in a Mesa County landfill, and things took a darker turn . . . Jennifer had been shot in the head, investigators discovered, and Abby was nowhere to be found. While Michael, a respected prayer-group leader, played the part of grieving survivor, authorities became increasingly suspicious There was blood evidence in the back of the family’s van. Was Blagg a cold-blooded killer? A religious fanatic? This is the terrifying true story of what happened when Jennifer and Abby Blagg were . . . TAKEN FROM HOME
