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A desperate mother begs caterer River Holloway to find her grown son, Chili Bolz, who's gone missing.Deputy Lance Hamlyn, a newcomer to Shell Island, has hit a dead-end in trying to locate the missing man. Familiar with River's reputation, he attempts to team up with her, hoping her inside track with the locals might aid his investigation. But the simple missing person case begins to boil over into something far more frightening when Chili's mother falls victim to a brutal assault. Worse, her dying words to River seem to incriminate more than one of River's friends in both kidnapping and, now, murder.While Deputy Hamlyn conducts the formal criminal investigation, River uses her time between ...
An Award-winning AuthorA Dreamwalker Mystery (Book 5)While hosting out-of-town guests at her Georgia home, Dreamwalker Baxley Powell is called to help investigate a suspicious fire. Close friend and fellow dreamwalker Deputy Sam Mayes accompanies her to the scene. A meth cook is dead, and when Baxley visits her beyond the Veil of Life, she determines that the woman was murdered. Baxley pities Mandy Patterson, a single mother with aspirations for her teenage son, Doodle. While the authorities pursue the drug-supply angle, Baxley worries about Doodle and vows to find out who killed his mother. And as the case grows more baffling, Baxley struggles against her attraction to Sam.
When veterinarian and amateur naturalist Jasmine Garr is shot in her yard, residents of Shell Island press caterer River Holloway into investigating the homicide. River dons her amateur sleuth cap and sets out to discover who killed her former catering customer.Between Jasmine's estranged cousin, a rival veterinarian, a wild animal trapper, the chicken lady, and a real estate broker, River has plenty of suspects to consider. As she peels back the layers of Jasmine's life, dangerous secrets come to light.Jasmine's orphaned kitty, Iris, along with River's cat Major, and her husband Pete help River sift through the evidence. At the same time, River recently expanded her catering business. She must service her regular catering clients, plus provide fresh baked goods for Pete's ice cream shop.The killer follows River's every move relishing the thought of another victim. Time is running out. Will River solve the murder before she becomes a cold dish?Book 3 of Maggie Toussaint's Seafood Capers Mysteries brims with action and adventure in a lush island setting. Authentic Southern recipes included.
"When a Jane Doe is found in a suitcase, amateur sleuth Baxley Powell tries to identify the woman and her killer. A local woman vanishes, and Baxley fears the kidnapped woman will end up in a suitcase. Using normal and paranormal senses, Baxley matches wits with a cunning adversary"--
“Murder, mayhem, and mystery! Every story . . . is filled with suspense, sizzle and startling twists. I loved it!” ―Lisa Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author Crime comes to the capital of country music in these all-new stories by mystery and thriller stars including Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Robert Dugoni, Donald Bain, Jefferson Bass, and many more. “Settings include backwoods hollows, late-night recording studios, seedy dives, quiet suburbs, sleek yachts, and tropical islands. Readers will meet Civil War re-enactors, college professors, song writers, spies, and the requisite lawyers and cops, as well as a being that just might be the devil. Among the highlights are Anne Pe...
In this contemporary romance, Emma wants to leave her science job and start a bed and breakfast, but she can't get the needed loan to finance the renovation. Quentin is a construction company owner with an eye for older homes and striking redheads. He volunteers to help her after hours, and romantic sparks fly. Accidents happen, but Quentin's blood heats when he finds out they weren't accidents. Who wants to hurt Emma?
Evil doesn't always have a bad smell. In fact, sometimes it's downright heavenly. When a young homeless girl is found dead in the lavender field she was hired to harvest, a friend of Laurent's is arrested for her murder. In spite of her personal misgivings, Maggie promises her husband to work with the local authorities to either clear Rochelle or find the real killer. When Maggie begins to look more closely into the business of lavender production, it soon becomes clear that much more sinister forces are at play than drawer sachets and soap. Will Maggie listen to the facts or what her gut is telling her about the crime? And when a well-guarded secret threatens to bring down everything she and Laurent have built in France, will she make the right choice—even if it goes against everything she believes in?
Caterer River Holloway cooks like a dream and is known on Shell Island as a "finder" of things. Which is why a desperate mother begs River to track down her grown son, Chili Bolz, who's vanished. Deputy Lance Hamlyn can't find the missing man, so he teams up with River. The missing person case boils over into something frightening when Chili's mother falls victim to a brutal assault. Worse, her dying words incriminate River's friends in both kidnapping and, now, murder. River soon finds herself caught in an unsavory recipe for disaster. Despite catering events and the return of her absentee boyfriend, River finds the number of suspects growing longer than her food shopping list. Along the way she befriends a black cat who becomes her crime-solving partner. River must locate Chili and discover who killed his mother before her own goose is quite literally cooked. Maggie Toussaint serves up a fun and captivating read in Seas the Day, the first in her Seafood Capers series. - - - - - - - - - - - - - SEAS THE DAY by Maggie Toussaint - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.
From a recovering addict, musician, and tattooed indie culturist: a guidebook for today’s generation of spiritual misfits who crave a dogma-free path. Brutally honest and radically unconventional, Chris Grosso’s collection of stories and musings about his meandering journey of self-inquiry, recovery, and acceptance shows what it means to live a truly authentic spiritual life. Set amongst the backdrop of Grosso’s original music (included for download via QR codes in the text), Indie Spiritualist encourages you to accept yourself just as you are, in all your humanity and imperfect perfection.
Urban high school kid Moses Middleton hoped that organizing a chess club could be a ticket out of mediocrity, but everything goes pear-shaped after a disastrous tournament. That's when he meets Viktor, a mad Russian grandmaster who agrees to coach the team by revealing the secrets of Soviet chess. Together with his crew -- charismatic psychopath P.D. Morales, gifted violinist and expert fencer Esther Toussaint, shy anime fan Maggie Wang, and the new boy, Albanian chess wizard Zamir Hoxha -- Moses vows to take the world of New York City scholastic chess by storm. But trouble's on the way, in the form of neighborhood bullies, a vengeful vice principal, racist gentrifiers, the snooty rich kids from Galton Prep, and, worst of all, a sexual predator who could destroy a young woman's life and the team's newfound solidarity.