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About Diane Vallere

  

  

Diane Vallere lives in a world where popcorn is a breakfast food and Doris Day movies are revered for their cultural significance. After over twenty years in the fashion industry, she now writes full time, juggling the Mad for Mod series, the Style & Error series, and the upcoming Material Witness series. She launched her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since.

About Kendel Lynn

  

  

Kendel Lynn is a Southern California native who now parks her flip-flops in Dallas, Texas. She read her first Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators at the age of seven and has loved mysteries ever since. Her debut novel,
Board Stiff
, was an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. It features Elliott Lisbon, a mostly amateur sleuth who has a slight aversion to all things germy and is only five thousand hours away from getting her PI license. Along with writing and reading, Kendel spends her time editing, designing, and figuring out ways to avoid the gym but still eat cupcakes for dinner. Catch up with her at kendellynn.com.

About Gigi Pandian

  

  

Gigi Pandian is the child of cultural anthropologists from New Mexico and the southern tip of India. After being dragged around the world during her childhood, she tried to escape her fate when she left a PhD program for art school. But adventurous academic characters wouldn't stay out of her head. Thus was born the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series. The first book in the series, Artifact, is a USA TODAY bestseller, was awarded a Malice Domestic Grant, and named a “Best of 2012” debut novel by Suspense Magazine. The follow-up is Pirate Vishnu. Gigi loves writing locked-room mystery short stories. Her latest, “The Hindi Houdini,” was an Agatha Award nominee for Best Short Story. Find Gigi online at gigipandian.com.

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Mad for Mod Mystery

PILLOW STALK

Diane Vallere

 

A Mad for Mod Mystery (#1)

 

Interior Decorator Madison Night has modeled her life after a character in a Doris Day movie, but when a killer targets women dressed like the bubbly actress, Madison's signature sixties style places her in the middle of a homicide investigation.

 

The local detective connects the new crimes to a twenty-year old cold case, and Madison's long-trusted contractor emerges as the leading suspect. As the body count piles up like a stack of plush pillows, Madison uncovers a Soviet spy, a campaign to destroy all Doris Day movies, and six minutes of film that will change her life forever.

  

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Elliott Lisbon Mystery

BOARD STIFF

Kendel Lynn

 

An Elliott Lisbon Mystery (#1)

 

As director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island, SC, Elliott Lisbon scratches her detective itch by performing discreet inquiries for Foundation donors. Usually nothing more serious than retrieving a pilfered Pomeranian. Until Jane Hatting, Ballantyne board chair, is accused of murder. The Ballantyne's reputation tanks, Jane's headed to a jail cell, and Elliott's sexy ex is the new lieutenant in town.

 

Armed with moxie and her Mini Coop, Elliott uncovers a trail of blackmail schemes, gambling debts, illicit affairs, and investment scams. But the deeper she digs to clear Jane's name, the guiltier Jane looks. The closer she gets to the truth, the more treacherous her investigation becomes. With victims piling up faster than shells at a clambake, Elliott realizes she's next on the killer's list.

  

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Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery

ARTIFACT

Gigi Pandian

 

A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery (#1)

 

Historian Jaya Jones discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend from the days of the British Raj. But she's not the only one on the trail…

 

From San Francisco to London to the Highlands of Scotland, Jaya must evade a shadowy stalker as she follows hints from the hastily scrawled note of her dead lover to a remote archaeological dig. Helping her decipher the cryptic clues are her magician best friend, a devastatingly handsome art historian with something to hide, and a charming archaeologist running for his life.

  

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Here are a few other mysteries

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HEARTACHE MOTEL

Terri L. Austin, Larissa Reinhart, LynDee Walker

 

Filled with drag queens, Rock-a-Hula cocktails, and a vibrating velveteen bed, these novellas tell the tales of three amateur sleuths who spend their holidays at Elvis's beloved home.

 

DINERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS by Terri L. Austin
:
When Rose heads to Graceland right before Christmas, she gets all shook up: the motel is a dump and an Elvis impersonator turns up dead. Will Rose be able to find the murderer and get home by Christmas day? It's now or never.

 

QUICK SKETCH by Larissa Reinhart:
Cherry Tucker pops into Memphis to help a friend who's been hustled out of his savings, and quickly finds herself in a dangerous sting that could send her to the slammer or mark her as a pigeon from cons looking for an even bigger score.

 

DATELINE MEMPHIS by LynDee Walker:
A quick stop at Graceland proves news breaks in the strangest places for crime reporter Nichelle Clarke. When the King's home gets locked down with Nichelle inside, she chases this headline into the national spotlight, and right into the thief's crosshairs.

  

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Check out this lively chick lit romp

from the Henery Press Humor Collection

 

THE BREAKUP DOCTOR

Phoebe Fox

 

The Breakup Doctor Series (#1)

 

Call Brook Ogden a matchmaker-in-reverse. Let others bring people together; Brook, licensed mental health counselor, picks up the pieces after things come apart. When her own therapy practice collapses, she maintains perfect control: landing on her feet with a weekly advice-to-the-lovelorn column and a successful consulting service as the Breakup Doctor: on call to help you shape up after you breakup.

 

Then her relationship suddenly crumbles and Brook finds herself engaging in almost every bad-breakup behavior she preaches against. And worse, she starts a rebound relationship with the most inappropriate of men: a dangerously sexy bartender with anger-management issues—who also happens to be a former patient.

 

As her increasingly out-of-control behavior lands her at rock-bottom, Brook realizes you can't always handle a messy breakup neatly—and that sometimes you can't pull yourself together until you let yourself fall apart.

  

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MACDEATH

Cindy Brown

 

An Ivy Meadows Mystery (#1)

 

Ivy Meadows, actress and part-time P.I., is thrilled when she lands her first paying theater gig: an unconventional production of
Macbeth
, set in an off-off-off Broadway theater, where the best drama happens offstage. Nothing can dampen her enthusiasm, not her carrot-spewing director, flying caldron, or too-tight leotard. After all, there are men in tights, too—including the hunky guy playing Macbeth—and friends, like Simon Black, an alcoholic who's back on the wagon with Ivy's help.

 

But when Ivy finds Simon dead of alcohol poisoning on opening night, she's crushed, and convinced his death was not due to drinking. Undeterred by a poisoned Big Gulp, a wrong-headed accusation, and the threat of being blackballed, Ivy pursues the truth at the risk of her hard-won career—and her life.

  

Available January 2015

 

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