Tag: Mystery

  • Book of the Day: Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery Boxed Set

    Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery Boxed Set: Books 1 - 3Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery Boxed Set
    3-Books-in-1
    by Stacey Alabaster

    By day a pastry chef, by night an accidental super sleuth.

    Rachael is a distinguished pastry chef who keeps finding herself in the middle of murder investigations. Pippa is her quirky, carefree best friend. Together, they must unravel three of Belldale’s unsolvable mysteries to save the bakery… and themselves.

    This collection of cozy mysteries includes the first three books in the Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery series. If you like fast paced mysteries full of quirky characters and unexpected twists, you’re going to love the Bakery Detectives.

    A Pie to Die For – Rachael will do anything to protect her bakery from the evil Bakermatic Baked Goods Company. Does that include murder?

    Donuts, Antiques and Murder – Rachael’s bakery is thriving and she’s looking to expand. When a murder takes place in the antique shop she’s trying to buy, she again finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.

    Death by Chocolate Cake – Rachael’s business is taking off and starring on a reality TV show will only help her business grow… unless someone winds up dead.

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  • Tuesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Happy Tuesday! Are you feeling the need to read?

    Warm yourself up with some great soup recipes, or cool yourself down with an Alaskan crime novel. Inspiration awaits if that’s more your style with the Memoir from Lu Ann Cahn. No matter your mood, Aldous Huxley is always a great read. Which books appeal to you today?

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    Soup & Comfort: A Cookbook of Homemade Recipes to Warm the Soul The answer to your dinnertime dilemma. Family-friendly soups to satisfy your soul—and stomach.

    To close the coldest, bone-chilling day or soothe the roughest afternoon, turn to Soup & Comfort for hearty classics, international favorites, and inventive updates.

    Packed with pages of nourishing, emotionally satisfying soups and stews using affordable, fresh, easy-to-find ingredients (No bouillon cubes here!), every recipe in this soup cookbook caters to a wide variety of dietary preferences and tastes, from tantalizing vegetarian versions to gluten-free options.

    Featuring full-color photos, Soup & Comfort explores the many ways that homemade soup can nourish body and soul.

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    Blurring the Lines (Men of the Zodiac) He broke all his rules… for her. Real estate development CEO Blake Whitman is an Aquarius with a philanthropic nature, but when it comes to work, he’s driven and focused, and he would never, ever mix business with pleasure. As far as he’s concerned, office romance is off the table.

    He also never backs down from a challenge, and Kira Layton just accused him of ruining the community. What better way to get her on his side than to hire her?

    But the more he tells himself to keep his hands off his new, sexy secretary, the harder it is for him to come up with reasons why office romances never work and why it’s a bad idea to cross the line…

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    Cold Storage, Alaska Clive McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to make up to his younger brother, who has been taking care of their ailing mother. But Clive doesn’t realize the trouble he’s bringing home. His vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane—lately, he’s been hearing animals talking to him.

    Will his arrival in Cold Storage be a breath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town? Or will Clive’s arrival turn the whole place upside down?

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    I Dare Me: How I Rebooted and Recharged My Life by Doing Something New Every Day Feeling stuck? Veteran journalist and cancer survivor Lu Ann Cahn was feeling angry and frustrated. The economy was tanking. Her job was changing. In a word, she felt “stuck.”

    Something had to change. Her daughter helped convince her to start a “Year of Firsts.” For the next 365 days, Cahn made a point of doing something she had never done before, every day. Before she knew it, her whole perspective on life had changed.

    In this inspiring book, Lu Ann recounts how a new “first” everyday brought excitement and wonder back into her world. And more than that, she helps readers see how they can do it too.

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    Deadly Visions A killer crosses over… Ace magician turned ace police detective Joe Bailey needs all his expertise when he’s teamed up with psychic investigator Monica Gaines to crack a string of serial murders–each involving strange voices and stranger circumstances.

    Monica senses supernatural forces at work, but whoever – or whatever – is doing the killing, the victims are real. When eerie happenings hit closer to home – to Joe’s daughter, Nikki – and then Monica herself is the victim of a grisly, near-fatal attack, Joe is more determined than ever to unmask the truth behind the phenomena.

    As he searches for answers to inexplicable questions, he discovers that politics and the paranormal make deadly bedfellows, that his escape-artist skills still come in handy – and that even a psychic can know too much.

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    Winter Study (Anna Pigeon Mysteries Book 14) After Anna joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park, the wolf packs start behaving in peculiar ways… Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced they are being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary…

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    Wife 22 Alice has been married to her husband, William, for twenty years. Though she can still remember the first time they met like it was yesterday, these days she finds herself posting things on Facebook that she used to confide to him. So when she’s invited to participate in an anonymous online survey on marriage and love, she finds that all her longings come pouring out as she dutifully answers questions under the name “Wife 22.”

    Evaluating her responses is “Researcher 101,” who seems to listen to her in a way that William hasn’t in a very long time, and before she knows it, she finds herself trying hard not to e-flirt with him.

    Meanwhile, her elderly father is chatting on Facebook, her fifteen-year-old daughter is tweeting, and everything in her life is turning upside down.

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    The Thirteenth Man A stand-alone science fiction novel for fans of David Weber, B.V. Larson, and Lois McMaster Bujold!

    When Commander Charlie Cass, the bastard son of the Duke de Maris, returns from five years in a squalid Syndonese POW camp, he finds that little has changed in the Realm. As always, the King and the nine Dukes are conspiring against each other, but now some of them are plotting with Charlie’s old enemy—and as interstellar war looms, they certainly don’t need Charlie Cass messing up their delicate plans. Unfortunately for them, that’s what he’s best at.

    Which means he’ll likely face the headsman’s axe.

    Spanning the galaxy, The Thirteenth Man blends the best traditions of space opera and military sci-fi into a non-stop adventure that’s as much Patrick O’Brien as it is John Scalzi.

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    Island Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.

    Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there.

    What Faranby doesn’t expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and – to his amazement – give him hope.

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    Captive-in-Chief President Clay Caldwell was the president that American citizens had always dreamed of. With approval ratings unlike any in decades, his re-election campaign wasn’t an “if” but a “by how much of a landslide” he would win his second term. However, none of those citizens were aware that he was no longer in control.

    As tragedy befalls his closest advisers, he finds himself with nowhere to turn when an unknown power begins to exert control over him. With his daughter’s life on the line, he looks to the only man who can save her – and save America from the unfolding chaos. He is the one man he can trust to help him uphold his oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.

    That one man, an unlikely choice, comes with his own problems, and a dog…

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    The Book of Deacon Myranda is a young woman more interested in staying alive than being a hero. Orphaned by a continent-spanning war that has gone on for decades, she has always been on the move. One can hardly blame her when she thinks that the chance discovery of a fallen soldier’s priceless cargo is the moment that will change her life. But no one could predict just how great that change would be. It will lead her through an adventure of rebels and generals, of wizards and warriors, and of beasts both noble and monstrous. Each step of the way will take her closer to the truth of her potential, of the war, and of the fate of her world.

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  • Monday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Are you ready to start the week? You might be able to delay Monday just a little bit longer if you can dive into a great fantasy world and let yourself be distracted. At least a little.

    In the face of impossible odds, can one girl stem the tides of war? Be inspired to make changes in small steps with incorporating Kaizen. Can a splintered Amish family reconcile? You can find out the answers to all of these questions in today’s Bargain Books!

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    The Guild Conspiracy: A Chroniker City Story In the face of impossible odds, can one girl stem the tides of war? It has been six months since clockwork engineer Petra Wade destroyed an automaton designed for battle, narrowly escaping with her life. But her troubles are far from over. Her partner on the project has been sent away to France, and his father is still determined that a war machine will be built.

    Forced to create a new device, Petra subtly sabotages the design in the hopes of delaying the war, but sabotage like this isn’t just risky: it’s treason. And with a soldier assigned to watch her every move, it may not be long before her actions are discovered.

    War is on the horizon, and it will take everything Petra has to stop it…

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    One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way Introducing the practical and inspirational guide to incorporating Kaizen and its powerful principles into one’s daily life. Rooted in the two thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching – Kaizen is the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady increments.

    Kaizen is the tortoise versus the hare. Kaizen is losing weight not by a crash diet but by eating one bite less at each meal–then, a month later…

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    Immortal Nights: An Argeneau Novel Abigail Forsythe’s life hasn’t been easy lately. Still, if there’s one thing guaranteed to take her mind off an empty bank account and abandoned dreams, it’s a naked man locked in a plane’s cargo hold. A very big, incredibly gorgeous naked man. And when instinct prompts her to free him, Abigail must rely on this stranger for survival… a stranger who leaves her thrumming with need every time they touch.

    Tomasso Notte knows he’s found his life mate in Abigail. Now he just has to hold on to her. They’re miles from civilization, hunted by his kidnappers. Abigail has no idea of Tomasso’s abilities, or of how intensely pleasurable their unique connection can be. But he’s about to show her, beginning with one wild, hot, immortal night…

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    The Baker's Wife Before Audrey was the baker’s wife, she was the pastor’s wife. Then a scandalous lie cost her husband a pastoral career. Now the two work side-by-side running a bakery, serving coffee, and baking fresh bread. But the hurt still pulls at Audrey.

    Driving early one morning to the bakery, Audrey’s car strikes something – or someone – at a fog-shrouded intersection. She finds a motor scooter belonging to a local teacher. Blood is everywhere, but there’s no trace of a body.

    Both the scooter and the blood belong to detective Jack Mansfield’s wife, and he’s certain that Audrey is behind Julie’s disappearance.

    But the case dead-ends and the detective spirals into madness. When he takes her family and some patrons hostage at the bakery, Audrey is left with a soul-damaged ex-con and a cynical teen to solve the mystery. And she’ll never manage that unless she taps into something she would rather leave behind – her excruciating ability to feel other’s pain.

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    With His Lady's Assistance (The Regent Mysteries Book 1) The prince regent recruits Wellington’s best spy, Captain Jack Dryden, to find out who’s trying to murder him. But in order to mix in the highest echelons of English society, the exceedingly handsome spy must feign an engagement to the prodigiously plain spinster Lady Daphne Chalmers.

    As this unlikely couple’s investigation deepens, so does their attraction to one another…

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    Moving Day Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke—they are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago.

    When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Peke’s past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps and dodging Nazi soldiers. Now, the seventy-two-year-old Peke—who survived, came to America, and succeeded—must summon his original grit and determination to track down the thieves, retrieve his things, and restore the life he made for himself…

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    Leaving Lancaster Can a splintered Amish family reconcile? More than anything else, thirty-something Holly Fisher longs for family. Growing up in Seattle without a dad or grandparents, she wonders what it would be like to have a heritage, a place of belonging.

    Holly is furious when her mother, Esther, reveals a long-kept secret: Holly’s grandmother and uncles are still alive and begging Esther to return. And Holly is shocked when she learns that the family she’s never known lives on a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, farm – as part of an Amish community her mother once abandoned.

    Guilt-ridden Esther, terrified to see her mother and siblings, begs Holly to accompany her on a visit to Esther’s mother before she dies. But can their journey to a conflicting world heal their emotional wounds and finally bring them home?

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    Quiet Time It’s when you’re too afraid to make a sound… Inside his picture-perfect home, Warren Scott runs a tight ship. He demands total respect from his family. He’ll accept nothing less.

    The Scotts are quiet, they keep to themselves — and to the neighbors, they seem like any other family. Then the Scotts’ facade shatters one sun-drenched morning in May.

    Sari Siegel is engaged to Tim Scott when his mother is found murdered. Sari barely knows the Scotts, but even she can sense the terrible secrets that seethe below the surface. Sari knows something about Peggy’s murder, but she isn’t telling… at least not yet. For if she does, her own dreams of a perfect life with Tim will shatter.

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    The Cairo Vendetta: A Sean Wyatt Thriller (Sean Wyatt Action & Adventure Thrillers Book 9) Sometimes a terrorist threat comes from the least expected place. Beyond the plains of the Serengeti, in the distant shadows of Kilimanjaro, a new new evil has risen.

    A warlord is building an army with child soldiers he abducted from Tanzanian towns. But the threat he poses isn’t just to East Africa. Somehow this rebel has acquired powerful missiles armed with enough nerve gas to wipe out entire cities…

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    Cafenova cafenova [kaf-i-NOH-vuh] n. one who charms women with coffee. see also: romance.

    Leaving her broken heart behind in Seattle, Maddy Jacobs starts a new life on the coast of Maine. Although running a Bed and Breakfast has always been her dream, restoring the sprawling Victorian inn is a massive undertaking. Her contractor, competent, handsome, and built like a Greek god, could be the answer to her prayers. If she can keep her wits about her, she might just survive the summer.

    John Fordham has his plate full, raising two young sons and running his renovation business. Restoring the waterfront property for its intriguing new owner will take all of his energy, and, if he’s not careful, it might just take his heart.

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