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Murderes and Masterpieces - A Venetian mystery

Murderes and Masterpieces - A Venetian mystery

Venice1866, a Frenchman on his honeymoon, sees an artist sketching a scene. When he visits his workshop, he falls in love with the painting and commissions five versions: one for himself, one for his two siblings, one for his parents, and another small one as a sample to show them while waiting for the others to arrive.Venice 1950. Somebody kills an art dealer using one piece of a frame removed from one of the five versions he had in his gallery for sale. Who did it? Why did he take out one side of a frame? A few days later, somebody breaks into the warehouse of an auction house, where another of the five versions is waiting to be auctioned, and removes the left side of the frame. Who broke ...

Elena's Memory

Elena's Memory

Venice 1947. Countess Pesaro De Bonfili is searching for the legitimate heirs of Raffaele and Sylvia Mustaki, a couple who did not survive Nazi camps. Two researchers from a Venetian law firm travel to a displaced people camp in Germany to meet Leah Mustaki, a young woman who could be the couple’s daughter but has lost her memory. The countess decides to bring Leah to Venice, believing that the city holds the key to unlocking her past and revealing her true identity. As Leah arrives at Venice train station, a mysterious figure watches her arrival in disbelief. He has just seen a ghost ...A story full of characters who are not who they say they are, characters who find themselves, and a sur...

Venetian Gold

Venetian Gold

Venice 1930. Three clients contact the Venier-Zanin law firm to discuss a bizarre clause in a loan contract. Rachele is sure that the connection between a Swiss Bank and an Italian shipping company holds the key to understanding that clause.Two of her clients, Wolfgang Meyer and Rachele’s brother, Daniele Modiano, want to find out more about the shipping company.They meet the managing director, Enrico Fontana, who is found dead late the same day. Wolfgang Meyer and Daniele Modiano were the last two entries in his diary.Who killed him? What was the connection between the Swiss bank and the shipping company? Why do the Swiss police ask for her cooperation?Rachele needs to find an answer to t...

Villa Kalman's Secrets

Villa Kalman's Secrets

Venice 1925. Somebody shoots at two teenagers who jumped a fence to retrieve a ball from Villa Kalman’s garden. A couple of months later, a young man is found severely beaten and unconscious in the shed of the same villa. Who fired the shot? Who was the young man? Why was he beaten unconscious? Were those events related? Rachele Modiano Mendes is pregnant with her second child. She needs to unravel Villa Kalman’s secrets before she starts a leave of absence from work.

Reflections in the Water

Reflections in the Water

There were very few women practising law in Venice in 1921. Even fewer of them are married. A Venetian law firm hires Rachele Modiano Mendes almost as a bet. She must be better than everybody else just to be credible.She wins the confidence of her boss. However, she needs to win over a magistrate who praises her “masculine” brain but is convinced that she is just a young woman from an aristocratic family who works as a hobby to prove a point. She will have to face that magistrate in court. A civil case to protect the name of an art expert snowballs into fraud, blackmail, and suspected death. To support her client, and win over the magistrate, she needs to see through anything that m...

Mamma Mia It's Murder

Mamma Mia It's Murder

When Carmella Moretti inherits her grandfather's beloved pizzeria in the quaint coastal town of Wavecrest Cove, she trades her fast-paced New York advertising career for small-town charm and the promise of keeping her family's legacy alive. But her fresh start takes a dark turn when a rival pizzeria owner is found dead, and suspicion falls on Carmella's establishment.Teaming up with the enigmatic Detective Maddox Jones, Carmella must clear her name and uncover the truth behind the murder. As they dive deeper into Wavecrest Cove's secrets, they discover a web of lies, rivalries, and unexpected alliances that threaten to tear the community apart.With the annual Best Pizzeria Bake-off Festival ...

Harry Starke

Harry Starke

No badge. No rules. Ex-cop Harry Starke’s second act.Recommended for fans of Davenport, Hammer, and Bosch.Harry Starke was once the golden boy of law enforcement. Now, he's a formidable private eye with a chip on his shoulder and a score to settle. Forced out of the police department by the city's powerful elite, his fall from grace only fueled his determination to uncover the truth, no matter how ugly.When Tabitha Willard's body is pulled from the Tennessee River, the official verdict is suicide. But Harry was there on the bridge when she jumped, and he can't forget the terror he saw in her eyes moments before she fell. What could drive a vivacious young woman to such desperation?As Harry...

Evanish

Evanish

A young girl vanishes while playing in the forest of the Adirondack Mountain region. A reclusive writer is accused of committing the horrendous crime of murder and mayhem. Eleven years later, Troy Matthews is released from prison, and he and the girl's sister Jenna, set out to discover the real truth of her sister's disappearance. Along with an exceptional young man, they journey into the unknown within the underworld beneath the forest. Meet the Gods, Goddesses, elementals, fairies, ancestral spirits, and evil creatures that dwell in the lower Earth. Accompany the cortege as they strive to find the missing girl, and become tangled in an eternal battle between good and evil. Discover hidden ...

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Devastated by the loss of his wife to cancer, Al is looking for a way to deal with his grief. Once an advanced-level pickleball player, he hopes moving to a new town and returning to the game he loves will help him recover. With his loyal dog, Butch, along for the ride, Al heads to Rio Viejo, a small town on the Mexican border with a growing pickleball community.All is well in Al’s new life until players start dropping dead all around him. The local sheriff and his cohort, a retired homicide detective, are stymied by the sudden crime wave and quickly set their sights on the newest resident.As he tries to reclaim his life and his love for pickleball, Al must discover who is killing his new ...

All In A Day's Work

All In A Day's Work

Bob Jackson, the Consumer Champion, is a hero in Denver. Taking on dishonest contractors and businessmen, he is on a mission to protect unsuspecting consumers. His listeners love him, and shady contractors hate him. His fortune and fame have grown over the years and are now at dizzying heights. But things take a downward turn when contractors and business owners Bob has tangled with start to die. The murders—each one more gruesome than the last—are committed by a duo who leave almost no evidence for the police to go on. To further stymie and taunt the police the killers leave notes behind, calling themselves the Revengers. They tell the police and the public that the killings won’t sto...

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Devastated by the loss of his wife to cancer, Al is looking for a way to deal with his grief. Once an advanced-level pickleball player, he hopes moving to a new town and returning to the game he loves will help him recover. With his loyal dog, Butch, along for the ride, Al heads to Rio Viejo, a small town on the Mexican border with a growing pickleball community.All is well in Al’s new life until players start dropping dead all around him. The local sheriff and his cohort, a retired homicide detective, are stymied by the sudden crime wave and quickly set their sights on the newest resident.As he tries to reclaim his life and his love for pickleball, Al must discover who is killing his new ...

Flim Flam

Flim Flam

Flim Flam is the fourth novel in Carl Schmidt’s Jesse Thorpe Mystery Series, set in Maine. The story follows private investigator Jesse Thorpe as he investigates the murder of Scott Decker, a young entrepreneur from the Lewiston area, who is found dead in his home, with a trove of gold bars missing from his wall safe. Scott’s former high school sweetheart hires Jesse to uncover the truth behind his death.Witnesses suggest that Scott may have made his fortune in the opioid trade, but his family and closest friends insist that can’t be true. Suspects abound, including Scott’s ex-wife, his business partner, and several associates from a local militia. Jesse’s investigation spans six y...

Redbone

Redbone

Redbone is the third novel in Carl Schmidt’s Jesse Thorpe Mystery Series, set in Maine. The story follows private investigator Jesse Thorpe as he investigates the death of Julio Redbone, who, after serving eight years in prison for a minor offense, receives a gubernatorial pardon but dies a month later from a lethal dose of potassium cyanide.While the Portland police consider it a probable suicide, Julio’s mother, Juanita, believes otherwise and hires Jesse to uncover the truth. As Jesse delves deeper, he uncovers a network of violent criminals in high places. The novel is noted for its intricate detective work, forensic details, and witty dialogue, bringing to life the local charm of Ma...

A Priestly Affair

A Priestly Affair

A Priestly Affair is the second novel in Carl Schmidt’s Jesse Thorpe Mystery Series. Set in Maine, the story follows private investigator Jesse Thorpe as he is hired by Monsignor Francis O’Reilly to locate his three-year-old daughter, Evelyn, conceived during a one-time encounter with a parishioner, Nicole Levesque. Despite confirming his paternity through DNA testing, the monsignor has never met his daughter and has been paying annual child support without any contact.As Jesse delves into the case, he discovers that Nicole is part of an organized group of con artists who use deception and threats to maintain their schemes. The investigation takes a darker turn when another paternity vic...

One Man Down

One Man Down

The tale of a stumped policeman, a third man, and a well-placed shot. It’s 1984. Princess Diana has just given birth to her second child. The legendary comic Tommy Cooper has died on stage (quite literally). And Angus Lovejoy and Brian Finkle are gloriously oblivious to it all as they strive to enthral the nation with their television commercials for the advertising agency Gordon Deedes Rutter. But all is not as rosy as it might seem in the frenetic world of Soho. Following a disastrous presentation to a manufacturer of diarrhoea tablets, Lovejoy and Finkle let off steam by playing cricket for an old school friend - but in doing so, stumble upon a nest of vipers involving a gay v...

A Brand to Die For

WORKING IN ADVERTISING CAN BE MURDER - LITERALLY.It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has been waging war on the Argentinians in the Falkland Islands. The miners are about to wage war on Margaret Thatcher. And Angus Lovejoy, once sent down from Charterhouse for shagging the Chancellor's daughter in the cricket pavilion, has now landed himself a job as a copywriter at London adland’s creative hot shop Gordon Deedes Rutter where he is teamed up with art director Brian Finkle whose neurotic Jewish parents are the bane of his life. The two are an unlikely duo, but their mischievous and sardonic take on the world makes them a brilliant creative team. Everything goes swimmingly until a bizarre and mys...

Write To Kill

Write To Kill

MOTIVE. MONEY. MURDER. YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP.

An aspiring author, cursed with writer's block and ridden with debt, is offered a huge amount of money to commit a heinous crime.

Caught up in the machinations of the underworld and at the mercy of London gangland boss, Mad Dog Maddox, will this budding writer accept the money, commit the crime and leave his innocence behind him?

And will real life turn to fiction, as events inspire him to write what he dreams will be an international bestseller?

WARNING - GRAPHIC and POTENTIALLY DISTURBING SCENES.X

The Killer in the Mirror

The Killer in the Mirror

17 year old Margot McClain used to be witty, talented and popular, but ever since a certain incident, she’s used her smart mouth like an insect-repellent to keep boys off her. But when a lost-looking new kid enrolls at her school and Margot learns he can’t remember his own name--or anything else about his past, her resistance weakens. She offers friendship as he grapples with bad dreams and shards of painful memories. His history catches up with him when a trashy former girlfriend shows up with two thugs. They demand he help them rob the bookstore where he works or they’ll tell the cops where he lives. Why would the cops be interested, he asks? “Don’t you remember? You killed your ...