The Saucy Lucy Murders (43 page)
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Authors: Cindy Keen Reynders
Grisly murders are rocking the small county of Bear Butte where Julie Collins has spent the last few months learning the PI biz without the guidance of her best friend and business partner, Kevin Wells. Enter dangerous, charismatic entrepreneur Tony Martinez, who convinces Julie to take a case involving a missing five-year-old Native American girl, the innocent pawn in her parents’ child custody dispute. Although skeptical about Martinez’ motives in hiring her, and confused by her strange attraction to him, Julie nevertheless sees the opportunity to hone her investigative skills outside her office.
But something about the case doesn’t ring true. The girl’s father is foreman on the controversial new Indian casino under construction at the base of the sacred Mato Paha, and the girl’s mother is secretly working for a rival casino rumored to have ties to an east coast crime family. Local ranchers — including her father — a Lakota Holy group, and casino owners from nearby Deadwood are determined to stop the gaming facility from opening.
With the body count rising, the odds are stacked against Julie to discover the truth behind these hidden agendas before the murderer buries it forever. And when Julie unwittingly attracts the attention of the killer, she realizes no place is safe … not even hallowed ground.
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Surveillance on an insurance fraud case in Bear Butte County unfolds tragically for PI Julie Collins and her partner, Kevin Wells. The reappearance of a mysterious hole—cause of the fatal accident—brings about the landowner’s unsettling confession; bones were recently uncovered on that remote ridge. Fearing repercussions from their illegal off-season hunting, the hunters reburied the remains and kept quiet.
Now the hole is back, but the bones have vanished.
Were the bones part of an ancient Indian burial ground? Connected to the unsolved disappearance of a Native American woman? The overworked, understaffed sheriff asks for Julie’s help.
But the case opens old wounds, and she finds herself at odds with the Standing Elk family, discovering they withheld information from her in the months before Ben’s death. And Julie’s relationship with Tony Martinez hits a rough spot when she agrees to go undercover in his strip club.
On the wrong side of tribal politics, family disputes, and employee rivalries, Julie continues to dig for answers … while the personal stakes climb. In a brutal fight for her life, Julie finally comes face to face with her brother’s killer … and realizes not all deceptions run deep.
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P
HOEBE
K
ASSNER
didn’t set out to be a 29-year-old virgin, but that’s how it’s worked out. And, having just been dumped by her boyfriend, she doesn’t see that situation changing anytime soon.
Meanwhile, her twin sister Madison—aspiring actress, small-time model, and queen of the short attention span—has just been eliminated on the first round of Singing Sensation.
Things aren’t looking so great for either of them. But when Phoebe receives a surprise voice mail from some guy named Jerry, victim of a fake phone number written on a cocktail napkin, she takes pity on him and calls, setting in motion a serendipitous love story neither of them ever saw coming.
And suddenly Madison’s got a romance of her own going, as one of twelve women competing for two men on a ruthless, over-the-top reality show. As Phoebe falls in love with the jilted high school English teacher who never intended to call her in the first place, Madison’s falling in love, too—after a fashion—clawing and fighting her way through a tide of adorable blondes. Could it get any crazier?
Stay tuned …
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Liz Wolfe
SOMEONE IS BREEDING SUPERHUMANS …
… beings who possess extreme psychic abilities. Now they have implanted the ultimate seed in the perfect womb. They are a heartbeat away from successfully breeding a species of meta-humans, who will be raised in laboratories and conditioned to obey the orders of their owners, governments and large multi-national corporations.
Then Shelby Parker, a former black ops agent for the government, is asked to locate a missing woman. Her quest takes her to The Center for Bio-Psychological Research. Masquerading as a computer programmer, she gets inside the Center’s inner workings. What she discovers is almost too horrible to comprehend.
Dr. Mac McRae, working for The Center, administers a lie-detector test to the perspective employee for his very cautious employers. Although she passes, the handsome Australian suspects Shelby is not what she appears. But then, neither is he. Caught up in a nightmare of unspeakable malevolence, the unlikely duo is forced to team up to save a young woman and her very special child. And destroy a program that could change the face of nations.
But first they must unmask the mole that has infiltrated Shelby’s agency and stalks their every move. They must stay alive and keep one step ahead of the pernicious forces who are intent on …
BREEDING EVIL
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SELECTION
Paige Blackwell needs a vacation. She’s been working hard as a partner in Shelby Parker’s PI agency. When she’s offered a chance to be on a survival type reality television show that takes place on a tropical island, she jumps at the opportunity.
On the island Paige meets her fellow competitors, including one it might be fun to share a sleeping bag with, should things work out. It looks like the week is going to be even more enjoyable than she had thought. And then the first shots are fired. At them.
There’s no reality TV show. Just reality. They’re being hunted. Survival takes on a whole new meaning. But Paige and her companions are not the only ones in jeopardy.
Back home, Shelby and new associate Zoe are racing against the clock to stop a plot by the shadowy and sinister Dominion Order to control the U.S. guided missile system.
Who wants the carefully selected contestants on the island dead? What do they all have in common? And why are Shelby and Zoe now targets, too?
Clearly, only the fittest will survive.
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TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF MARRIAGE HAVE GIVEN S
KYE
DONOVAN a life of structure and predictability. When she discovers some women’s underwear—not hers—however, she begins to suspect her husband is fooling around. And she’s right, he is. But she’s wrong about who the underwear belongs to. Not her husband’s girlfriend, but her husband. And then she walks in on her husband … and his boyfriend.
Skye finds herself confronting another new reality. She needs to start life over. She needs to find a job, a place to live, break the news to her teenaged daughter and—yikes—start dating again. At least she has her best friend to help her through it all.
Not.
Corpses are turning up. And her best friend is the prime suspect.
As Skye tries to prove her friend’s innocence, her own life is further complicated by a handsome detective, a sexy writer, a pagan wedding, her friend’s unexpected pregnancy, and a new career. Could it get any crazier? In a word, yes. She not only must exonerate her friend, but do so before the murderer strikes even closer to home …
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AUGUST 2008
