Teacher Graham Spencer writes his first novel at Hood Canal. While crafting his tale, he uncovers a cold-case murder and becomes entangled in a local homicide. The reader becomes privy to both crimes. AJ Arthur includes humor and recipes to give a flavor of characters and locale. Romance was the last thing on Graham’s mind but becomes a perk in the form of coffee house owner, Kandis McFerrin.
Bluebeard's Seventh Door by Andre Vecsei. $9.99 from Smashwords.com
Set in Montreal’s elite Westmount neighbourhood and peppered with references to classical music, this novel by author André Vecsei is a “homage” to the duality of life, as made iconic by the Greek mask of comedy and tragedy. As a narrative, it is equally entertaining and enlightening, hilarious and heartbreaking; a history of post-war revenge in the Balkans and social mores in 1970s Montreal.
Cold Cold Blood by Cole St. James. $2.99 from Smashwords.com
In a small Kansas farming community, Chief John Pope is called on to investigate a murder at a retirement home, but with his alcoholism, a jilted girlfriend, animal mutilations, and his sexual obsession with a celebrity who has suddenly returned to his bed, can he remain focused enough to catch a killer—and save himself and all that he loves? Adult content
In the middle of a Borneo rainforest a band of near-naked Penan tribesmen, encouraged by an equally clothes-challenged renegade Swiss shepherd, hesitantly blockade a logging truck, testing their commitment to protect their forest home. A comic novel set in Borneo about the environment.
Laura and Aaron Palmer’s marriage is over, but they have newly adopted daughter, Amie, to consider. If they split up now, young Amie could be taken away from them both forever. Life is complicated, but it takes a turn for the worse when Laura finds Amie’s picture listed in an ad for missing and abducted children.
In 1923, a drover rode his horse into the flooded Murrumbidge River at Gundagai and was drowned. This left his only son Albert, with one hundred and fifty seven cattle, an old wagon, two dogs and precious little else. The young man was seventeen, and then he met a girl and they married. He promised Sarah that droving would be good for them.
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