Money Mystery

CHAPPELL AND LILY WHITE LIE ARE RECIPIENTS OF COMMENDATION FROM OHIO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR LITERARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS "Simply brilliant. Descriptiveness around every turn." --The Baltimore Sun In Lily White Lie, engravings on a pocketwatch, cryptic messages, Easter lilies, and sidelined spy Bret Kilmore combine to thrust historian Wrenn Grayson into the mysterious world of symbolism. A worried Wrenn connects the messages to her longtime love Gideon and his father. Contact is impossible. Gideon deer hunts deep in the West Virginia wilderness. His father, a prominent banker, vanished ...

Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy. It's business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand's lonely Canterbury plains. But when his car breaks down, he is stranded for the night at the isolated Mount Seager Hospital, with the telephone lines down, a storm on its way and the nearby river about to burst its banks....

Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will, an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon.

James Hansone never believed in the paranormal, until a simple diversion past an abandoned cottage changed everything. As a computer data expert, James had recently moved to Lincolnshire, looking for a fresh start. But when he stumbles upon the run-down cottage, he can't resist the urge to investigate. Little does he know, this unplanned detour will lead him on a journey of mystery and suspense.

Emmanuel Ortiz holds an ancient and dark secret... His real name is Judas Iscariot. Forced to walk the earth as a cursed immortal, Judas’ disguised as Emmanuel does little to ease his eternal loneliness. Having recovered nine of his thirty blood coins, his focus is not yet on redemption for his treacherous role in the betrayal of Jesus Christ. Distractions come easily for the wealthy entrepreneur and occasional sleuth who presently resides in England, 1888. Fascinated by the spate of murders in London’s poverty-stricken Whitechapel, Emmanuel soon realizes the killings resemble others he...

The Big Haul is a thriller about a money heist. The shipment of cash is so large that a successful robbery offered the added problem of how to carry away the money. The Big Haul brings characters to the edge of their abilities and determination. Some are cold and unemotional. Others are hot-blooded and after revenge as well as money. All are tossed together in an exciting attempt to follow the money and take it.

Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins - Henrie O to her friends - receives a call for help from a former lover, who is now entangled with a wealthy and troubled family. He asks Henrie O to come along with the family on a Baltic cruise. On the voyage, she soon realizes this dysfunctional family is plunging toward destruction, and that one of the travelers has murder in mind.

Lorne Turner needs a break, so when he's offered the job of security guard and handyman at an old rectory in the Lyn Valley he takes it. He thought he'd gain a little space and perspective. A little quiet from the noise in his head, from his demons, from his beast. Sadly, The Rectory doesn't provide the haven he needs. As the rain falls, waters rise, and old graves move. When the whispering of Exmoor’s dead turns into a scream, Lorne has to act.

O’Neill Boudreaux was a highly respected Detective on the New Orleans Police Force, which had been his dream since high school. He was a hard working cop turned chief detective, who had conducted many investigations, during his time serving in the department. New Orleans had been good to O’Neill and his family, but there was never a day that went by that some fear about what he did, didn’t creep into his bones. New Orleans was a wild and tough tourist town, but he loved it and the excitement it held, along with that inner fear that fueled him and kept him going, every day! He had ...

Charles Warner Kennedy "Charlie" O'Brien is a private investigator or a private eye as some like to call him. He and his dedicated investigative team traverse the Globe looking for despot's, crooks, and criminals. They also investigate banks that are said "to be to big to fail."

J.R. Rain's Silver Lake Book Two of the Medium Mysteries by Elizabeth Basque Hollywood’s most haunted psychic is back—and this time, the ghost has a knife in her back. Pauline Ocean is used to late-night visits from the dead, but when a famous socialite appears in her living room—dripping wet and very much deceased—Pauline realizes she’s about to dive into one of her strangest cases yet. The trail leads to Silver Lake, where the glitterati sip cocktails over dark secrets and the ghosts don’t rest easy. With her gift for seeing the dead—and her talent for getting into trouble...

Bea Abbott runs a domestic agency which does not “do” murder. But the disappearance of Tomi, the star of an award-winning short film, is a different matter, especially when the charming Chris bribes Bea with a bouquet of flowers. Can Bea find time to help him, when some well-meant advice she’s given to her daughter-in-law has led to a breakdown in family relationships? Bea discovers that Tomi’s circle contains a secret so deadly that they are dying one by one, even though none of them will go to the police.

Toxic medicine, a fanatic Chicago detective, and a fatal plunge down a steep staircase embroil Val and Roddy DeVere in a dangerous quest for facts in 1899. Roddy’s fledgling business teeters as his partner begs him to free him from a detective’s “witch hunt.” The question: was the partner’s wife’s fatal free fall an accident? Or was it murder?

There's a new reality TV game show that pays contestants to hurt themselves. How much pain would you endure to make some quick cash? Would you shoot yourself with a nail gun for $10,000? There are plenty of contestants willing to go on live TV to make a quick buck. Would you watch the show? The ratings are looking good. Easy Money becomes the most talked about show on television.

A change of season is fast approaching. A new revelatory flow is going to appear, and I am letting you know so you will be aware of the change,” Heaven says. “Nevertheless, continue what you are doing, stepping into, and expanding in. “What you are creating with the Father will expand people’s understanding and give them a surfboard to surf on the wave of God that is coming into the earth for the people of God, those whom He has called. “They will need a surfboard to stand upon to surf the new wave of God that is coming. It is the new wave of the membership of the body; the new ...

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE IN DOWNEAST MAINE Each book in the Paradox Murder Series is a "Stand-Alone" story. Steve Wilson, a recently retired senior auditor at one of our nation’s largest banks travels to Downeast Maine to unwind, enjoy the coastal scenery and write a murder mystery novel. Little did he know his curiosity about a deserted lobster boat, a dead lobsterman and three missing photos would put his own life in danger.

Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it! She’s been visiting France for a couple of months, barging on the Canal du Midi with her boyfriend Jenks Jenkins. She hit the hot spots in the south of France, eating great food, drinking fine wine, and foiling a terrorist plot: all the usual stuff. Now, she’s ready to leave for Mexico and back to her yacht in the Sea of Cortez, but not so fast! At the last minute, she’s offered a mysterious and lucrative assignment by persons unknown and jumps at it.

Meet Jeff Case before his world explodes. Former soldier. Defender of the innocent. Case may have left a war zone, but he soon discovers that the streets of America are just as dangerous. It was kill or be killed in combat, but Case is ready to turn his back on his military career and start a new life with his wife, Becky. During a final interview for his first civilian job, Case steps in to help a woman in danger. It is the catalyst that kick-starts the day from hell. A day that Case and Becky may not survive.

When nineteen-year-old farmgirl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. The paper's owner, Valdene Bullark, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work. What starts as a routine assignment covering an irrigation project soon puts Adelaide on the trail of a much bigger story. Water is money in farming communities, and when Adelaide starts asking questions, it's like she's poked a bull ant's nest.

Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. Americans hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants to fix the roof or mow the lawn and vote for politicians who promise to spend billions to keep them out of the country.