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Jeffrey Westhoff
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
ISBN: 9781940758053
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 278
Young Adult Adventure & Spy Thriller

The Adventure of his dreams just became a nightmare. The Boy Who Knew Too Much is an action-charged YA adventure that blends the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock with the thrills of James Bond. While on a school trip to Europe, Milwaukee teenager Brian Parker hopes for just a taste of the glamour and excitement of his favorite spy novels. Yet Brian gets way more than a taste when he stumbles across a wounded spy in a Lucerne alley. The man's dying words catapult Brian into a desperate chase across the continent. America's latest super weapon is at stake, and everyone from a rogue CIA officer to a sadistic criminal mastermind is after it—and Brian. New enemies emerge at every turn, but Brian soon finds a welcome ally in Larissa, a beautiful French girl who loves the Ramones and is handy with a blast of pepper spray. Brian faces a deadly path, but reading all those spy novels has taught him a few tricks of the trade. They just might save his life.

About The Author

Jeffrey Westhoff has served as a film critic, feature writer, reporter, and copy editor in his career as a journalist. Jeffrey wrote his first novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, while working as a freelance writer. He was a film critic for more than 25 years. He has contributed to RogerEbert.com and also wrote book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. Visit his website at www.jeffreywesthoff.com

 

Chris Stevenson
The Girl They Sold To The Moon
ISBN: 9780989369688
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 248
Young Adult Science Fiction

Eighteen-year-old Tilly Breedlove’s father has sold her into a form of modern day slavery on Luna-the Tranquility Harbor Mining Company, 240,000 miles from home. Family Trade and Loan, an unscrupulous company, is more than willing to take her on and exploit her talent. Forced to be an exotic dancer, she performs risqué shows for the filthy, but filthy rich ore miners. The only reprieve she finds in this shop of horrors is a few close ward friends, a sympathetic dance coach/choreographer, and Buddy Gunner Bell, who just might become the love of her life. It’s just enough to stem her psychological meltdown. A tragedy on the Moon base lands Tilly back on Earth. Tilly plots a daring escape plan with her friends. Their plan requires split-second timing and a daring dash. If she can just get past the corporation’s airtight security.

C.A. Verstraete
Girl Z: My Life As A Teenage Zombie
ISBN: 9780979478895
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 232
Young Adult

Life can suck when you’re sixteen. It can suck even worse when you’re not- quite-dead. Sixteen-year-old Rebecca faces every teenager’s biggest nightmares: bad skin, bad hair, and worse…turning into one of the living dead. Becca’s life changes forever when her cousin Spence comes back to their small Wisconsin town carrying a deadly secret, he’s becoming a zombie, a fate he shares with her through an accidental scratch. The Z infection, however, has mutated, affecting young people differently. Now she must cope with weird physical changes and habits no teen wants to deal with. Then she meets Gabe, a good-looking part-Z like her, and fears falling for him. After all, how can he be interested in someone like her? But. Becca needs his help searching for her and her cousin’s missing mothers. Most of all, she needs to find something, anything, to stop this deadly transformation before it is forever too late…

B. Swangin Webster
Let Me Say This, Again
ISBN: 9781940758046
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 250
Urban Drama

While the marriage is over; Cheryl is still struggling with the effects of it. Her ex-husband is up to his old tricks and doing everything he can to make her life difficult. She is moving forward with a new love but old habits die hard. Cheryl is trying to put her and her children’s lives back together. She is moving forward with a new love and a new hope for a happy future. Can she learn to let go of her past life and learn to trust this new love. Will her children be able to accept the divorce so she can heal their family? And will her new love tell her about his own secrets before it is too late?

About The Author

B. Swangin Webster is an author, speaker and fanatic about books – currently working in a Maryland public school during the day and as an author the rest of the time. Webster is a marketing expert, radio show personality and most importantly to her a “Nina” to her seven grandchildren. She has a passion for writing and helping other authors realize their dreams of becoming an author too. “Live life with passion” is her motto and this is something that she does every day. When she isn’t writing, you can find her reading one of her 300+ novels or taking cooking classes. When she isn’t doing that, you will find her at her grandchildren’s football games or watching her favorite football team, The Dallas Cowboys.

Annie Rose Alexander
Retribution
ISBN: 9781940758008
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 261
Police Procedural, Thriller

An NFL Linebacker, Brian Williams, is found dead in the middle of the street in the nation’s capital. In the following weeks more famous athletes are found murdered, each in a different way. The police and FBI are stumped. Homicide detectives Ariel Summers and Paul Costello are brought in to investigate. Ariel’s private investigator boyfriend, Jason Steel, is hired by William’s wife to find answers and is soon clashing with Ariel over the investigation and her arrest of his new client. But as the death toll continues to rise, the citizens of DC panic. When Ariel and Jason’s close friends and family members are threatened, they are forced to work together on a plan to trap the nation’s most dangerous and cold-blooded assassin.

About The Author

Annie Rose Alexander has over fifteen years of experience litigating criminal and civil cases in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She wrote non-fiction articles for, now defunct, Washington Living Magazine serving DC, MD, and VA. She was also editor for artisticpursuit.com, an international E-magazine. She loves God, and she loves spending time with her children and grandchildren. She lives in Howard County, Maryland. Her passion is reading and writing mysteries and thrillers.

Penny Clover Petersen
Roses Are Dead My Love
ISBN: 9781940758039
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 216
Cozy mystery

Blackmail is an ugly word, but an even uglier deed. And dragging Mickey Mantle into it is just plain un-American, not to mention deadly. Things are going well for the Forrest sisters. Business is thriving. They have a handsome, slightly mysterious, new neighbor. And, best of all, they haven’t found a dead body in over six months. But under the spell of an early summer heatwave, Old Towne seems to be cursed. A dog house goes up in flames. The town has acquired an elusive jogger whose rather obscene indiscretions are frequent and obnoxious. Worst of all, there’s an extortionist at work. Suddenly, Daisy and Rose Forrest find themselves knee deep in the middle of a sinister blackmail scheme. When the post mistress turns up bludgeoned to death, Rose is attacked in her own home, and their beloved dog is brutally duct taped the sisters know they have to get to the bottom of it. With their extraordinary mother, Angela, at their side, the ladies take on the hunt for an invaluable baseball card, a malicious prankster, and a blackmailing killer.

About The Author

Penny Clover Petersen began writing her first novel at fifty-nine on a dare from her husband, Tom. In addition to writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, refurbishing old furniture, collecting stories for the ‘family cookbook’, and savoring new cocktail recipes. She loves historic homes and is a docent at Riversdale Mansion in Riverdale, MD. Penny is currently at work on her next novel.

Beyond Blue
ISBN: 9781940758909
Trade Paperback
No. of Pages: 282
Mystery & Detective/Private Investigators

Beyond Blue features a team of unique and intriguing detectives whose only purpose is to help police officers in trouble. The story follows four of the agency's cases, which overlap and intersect: An undercover officer is in danger of really being drawn into a life of crime; a crooked lawyer is destroying police careers by making arresting officers appear to have violated criminals' rights; a cop's wife accuses him of abusing their daughter; and a retired police detective could lose his job in airport security because of drugs being smuggled in through JFK International. Pursuing these cases is a team of unique and intriguing detectives. The agency's director, the enigmatic Paul Gorman, sits at the center of the action, pulling the strings to direct his team to solve their cases and cover each other.

About The Author

Austin S. Camacho is the author of the Hannibal Jones Mystery Series and the Stark and O’Brien adventure series, and the new detective novel, Beyond Blue. His short stories have been featured in four anthologies from Wolfmont Press, and he is featured in the Edgar nominated African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey. 

Death and White Diamonds
ISBN: 9781940758015
Trade Paperback 
No. of Pages: 254
Suspense, Thriller

Did you ever have one of those days? You know the kind, when nothing seems to go right? Richie's girlfriend suggests a romantic getaway, promising him a week-end he will never forget. So why can't he remember what happened, when he finds her lifeless body on the beach? Richie is fairly certain he didn't kill his girlfriend, but his memory is hazy. One thing, however, is clear. When Lorraine's body is found, he's going to be the prime suspect in a murder investigation. If her body is found. Disposing of the body turns out to be harder than Richie could have imagined. Losing it, however, is easy. Did you ever have one of those days? And we haven't even gotten to the bad part yet.

About The Author

Jeff Markowitz is the author of the darkly comic mystery, Death and White Diamonds, as well as three books in the Cassie O'Malley mystery series. He loves to write early in the morning. "You can usually find me at my computer at 5:30 in the morning plotting someone's murder." When he's not out looking for dead bodies, Jeff keeps busy as the founder and Executive Director of a network of programs and services for adults with autism. Jeff is a proud member of the International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America.

Penny Clover Petersen
Roses and Daisies and Death, Oh My!
ISBN: 9780989369619
Trade Paperback 
No. of Pages: 232
Cozy mystery

Nothing ruins a peaceful morning walk like finding a blood-spattered body. And Daisy and Rose, really need a peaceful morning walk. Christmas is right around the corner, business is brisk, and their little antiques district of Old Towne is being plagued with petty thievery and vandalism. And if finding bodies lying around walking trails isn't enough to destroy a perfectly good day, Daisy's ex-husband, shows up to investigate the murder. When Daisy and Rose start asking questions things get hairier. Daisy receives threatening letters and is brutally attacked. Their determination grows when clues lead to a missing priceless diamond and the man Daisy is dating becomes the next victim. With the help of their eccentric mother, Angela, and their hormonally-exuberant dog, Malcolm, they follow the clues to catch a killer.

D.B. Corey
Chain of Evidence
ISBN: 9780989369602
Trade Paperback 
No. of Pages: 350
Police Procedural/thriller 

Chain of Evidence is the tale of Moby Truax, an aging cop working a serial killer case. The problem is, his career is over. Financially strapped, Truax struggles with the toll the years have taken as his new captain looks to justify replacing him. Truax recognizes that the MO has changed, and recent victims are suddenly younger, prettier. He disregards his captain's orders and questions the evidence that points to a lone killer. He suspects a copycat, but to keep his job, he must convince his new commander by overcoming the only flaw in his theory--the evidence itself.

Austin S. Camacho
Blood and Bone
ISBN: 0976218100
No. of Pages: 286
Mystery/Detective

An eighteen-year-old boy lies dying of leukemia. Kyle's only hope is a bone marrow transplant, but no one in his wealthy Virginia family can safely supply it. His last chance lies in finding his father, a man who disappeared before he was born. Police and private investigators can find nothing on a trail eighteen years cold. Kyle's family has nowhere to turn until they learn of a certain troubleshooter, a self-styled knight errant in dark glasses named Hannibal Jones. He has two weeks to find the missing man, but his search turns up much more: A woman who might be Kyle's illegitimate sister, the woman who could be her mother, and the man who may have killed Kyle's father. Hannibal follows a twisting, winding path of deception, conspiracy and greed, from Washington to Mexico, pursuing the truth. But with each step closer to it he gets, the danger grows.