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The Sacrifice Stone By Elizabeth Harris Endeavour Press Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: December 24, 2015 Review The Sacrifice Stone is an enthralling tale that alternates between 175 AD, when Arles was part of the Roman empire and the present day. Although religion plays an important role within The Sacrifice Stone, this is not a religious novel per se. It is a story about discovering and acknowledging the truth, both about the past and the present. It is a reminder that wha

The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer Grove Press Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: January 12, 2016 Review The Shut Eye is an unusual police procedural, made all the more memorable by the ways it deviates from the norm. It is a tale of loss, and a haunting reminder of how destructive not knowing can be. Five months ago, James and Anna's son Daniel disappeared without a trace. The loss has driven Anna nearly insane. Each day she scours the footprints left in cement, the last indicatio

The Soup Cleanse A Revolutionary Detox of Nourishing Soups and Healing Broths from the Founders of Soupure by Angela Blatteis, Vivienne Vella Grand Central Publishing Cooking, Health Pub Date: December 29, 2015 Description Souping is the new juicing! THE SOUP CLEANSE brings the hottest new detox trend to readers nationwide with a body-shaping program and delicious recipes from the founders of Soupure, the LA-based soup company at the forefront of this new movement that has be

Second Chance City By L A Kelley Wild Rose Press Sci Fi & Fantasy Pub Date: August 2015 DESCRIPTION Comic books can be the death of you. Police officer Nate Hammond led a well-ordered life until a chance meeting with a girl from his past drags him into an extraordinary adventure. Writer Elizabeth Parish had a plan than never included Coldwater Bay, yet why was she possessed by the sudden urge to return to her hometown? Did it have something to do with that mysterious comic bo

Desert City Diva: a noir mystery set in California By Corey Lynn Fayman Severn House Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: January 1, 2016 Description A darkly humorous noir mystery featuring laidback, guitar-playing private investigator Rolly Waters. Rolly Waters has many reasons to regret going out for Mexican food at 2.30 in the morning. Not least because then he would never have met dance-club DJ Macy Starr – possibly the most infuriatingly unpredictable and secretive client he h

Lights, Camera, Murder: A TV Pet Chef mystery By Marie Celine Severn House Pub Date: January 1, 2016 Description Gourmet Pet Chef Kitty Karlyle must draw on more than her TV presenting skills when the producer of a new cooking show is found stabbed to death. Pet chef Kitty serves gourmet meals to pampered canines, cats, birds, snakes (ugh), Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs and most any other pet belonging to her wealthy and quirky L.A. clientele. This is a town where pets have t

The Luzern Photograph: A noir thriller by William Bayer Severn House Pub Date Jan 1, 2016 Description In this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder. In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud’s Vi

Thread and Gone : A Mainely Needlepoint Mystery By Lea Wait Kensington Books Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: December 29, 2015 Description When a priceless antique is stolen, murder unravels the peaceful seaside town of Haven Harbor, Maine. . . Angie Curtis and her fellow Mainely Needlepointers know how to enjoy their holidays. But nothing grabs their attention like tying up loose threads. So when Mary Clough drops in on the group's Fourth of July supper with a question about a

Murder Most Malicious By Alyssa Maxwell Kensington Books Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: December 29, 2015 Description In post–World War I England, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, step outside of their social roles and put their lives at risk to apprehend a vicious killer. . . December 1918: As a difficult year draws to a close, there is much to celebrate for nineteen-year-old Phoebe Renshaw and her three siblings at their beloved family estate of Foxwood

Thinning the Herd by Adrian Phoenix Simon & Schuster Science Fiction & Fantasy Pub Date: January 4, 2016 Description From the New York Times bestselling author of A Rush of Wings and The Maker’s Song series, a humorous, action-packed urban fantasy about a werewolf pack and an animal control officer in way over his head! Someone is picking off fortune tellers and hippies in Oregon, snatching them out of their Birkenstocks mid-stride. And when the legend himself, Hal Rupert,