I Remember The Feeling

There’s nothing like the peaceful rocking of a houseboat on the water to help you relax. And nothing can ruin that faster than a knife in the back!

A cozy mystery from International Bestselling Authors Danielle Collins and Susan Harper.

Regina Slim — aka Reggie — inherited a unique marina where dogs and people enjoy houseboat living. As she settles into what she hopes will be a new and peaceful life, everything gets turned upside down by a bloody murder. And Reggie has blood on her hands! With the help of her sister — a cop no less — and her fellow residents at the marina, she must solve the mystery before the marina’s reputation is permanently stained red. Can she find the killer before more bodies start piling up?

Murder at the Marina is the first story in the Dog Leg Cove Cozy Mystery series. If you like fast-paced mysteries with interesting characters, troublesome pets, and unexpected twists, you’re going to love all the action at the Gone to the Dogs Marina.

New York, September, 1945

The sign on my office door reads,

Pierce Chandler & Assoc.
Private & Paranormal Investigations

It wasn’t my real name, but the fella I’d borrowed it from wouldn’t mind. He was finished with it.

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Pierce Chandler has never bungled a case. Not once. But this one’s got teeth. Four stiffs turned up drained dry, and the only thing they had in common was the chew marks on their necks. An archaeologist in Budapest. A rare-book conservator in Paris. An Oxford don with a penchant for dead languages. And a two-bit bum who bought the farm in a Brooklyn alley.

Helping him chase the truth are the only four people crazy enough to walk into the dark with him: his protégé, Zachary “Zee” Bernstein, a skinny Jewish psychic who can fade from sight or plant ideas in a crooked copper’s head with nothing but a stare; Father Brandon O’Neil, Pierce’s big brother and New York’s top exorcist, who opens most arguments with a 12-gauge trench gun and finishes them with holy wrath; Evelyn Harrow, the medium who’s been talking to the dead since the day she was stillborn — at the exact same minute Avalon vanished for the second time; and Isyphenia “Icy” Teapenney, a flame-haired knockout who reads the blood of the recently departed like the rest of us mooks read the morning rags.

But time is running short. The final intended victim dropped off the face of the Earth seven years ago, and the killer seems determined to punch Mr. Chandler’s ticket before he can put paid to this caper.

Some cases you solve. This one, you survive.

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So begins Strange Haunts, a new ongoing urban fantasy series with authentic 1940s flavor, magic that began crawling back into the world in 1850 when the legendary island of Avalon reappeared, and populated with a chorus line of supernatural bugaboos that go bump in the night.

Six meddling butlers and a confounding lady.
Jemima Fornay, daughter of the Duke of Eddleston, has been entirely harassed in the months running up to her first season in Town. A certain Mr. Gamon and his two assistants have done their best to transform her into a gentle and refined lady. Mr. Gamon’s motto is “look modest, and if you can manage it, look abashed.”

Sadly, Mr. Gamon left the duke’s house with his head hung rather low.

Jasper Pennington, Duke of Barstow, fulfills his duties with joyless determination. He becomes convinced it is the right time to wed and produce an heir, and so he sets out to do just that. Fortunately, he is not unprepared. He has composed a list of attributes for his as yet unknown duchess. She will be, according to him, the most refined lady in London.

Mr. Martin J. Harkinson is butler to the Duke of Eddleston and proud member of The League, a secret club of six elite butlers. These gentlemen have had the pleasure of developing a friendship due to their proximity on Grosvenor Square and have set themselves the task of providing the most elevated service to their lords and ladies. Including, very recently, a bit of matchmaking.

Mr. Harkinson should not have a care in the world. After all, Lady Jemima is comely enough, is a duke’s daughter, and brings a good dowry. Unfortunately, though, he’s spent years describing her as the gentlest and most refined young woman to step her toe in England. The League has taken that into consideration and named the Duke of Barstow as the perfect match for the lady. How is Mr. Harkinson to explain himself when his fellow members discover the real Lady Jemima?

Head injuries that never were, painful entertainments nobody wishes to attend, a dress on fire, an unplanned swim in a fountain, and a house party that would have no guests at all if the queen did not attend throw two people together who could not be less suited.

Or, perhaps less suited yet.

HER NEW PARTNER IS A SERIAL KILLER.
DI Sarah Stone knows monsters.

A decorated former Army captain recruited into Britain’s most elite serial killer task force, she’s spent her career hunting the worst humanity has to offer.

Nothing could prepare her for DI Richard Flesch.

Brilliant. Focused. Relentless.

And once known as the Chester-le-Street Cannibal.

When a young girl is discovered tortured and mutilated at an abandoned train station in County Durham, Sarah is partnered with the nation’s leading expert on psychopaths.

The reason he’s so good at catching them?

He used to be one.

As the body count rises and a sadistic killer stalks the North East, Sarah must decide whether she can trust the man beside her… before she becomes the next victim.

Because some monsters never stop hunting.

And obsession runs in the blood.

It’s 1931 — the start of the Great Depression.

With jobs running sparse, David Conroy is among the lucky few who is selected to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, one of America’s most amazing and biggest engineering accomplishments.

The goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that towers sixty stories high. But is the cost too great for these desperate men who must sacrifice their safety to support their families?

From choking on gasoline fumes in 120-degree heat inside the five-stories-tall diversion tunnels, to dangling by slender cables from the thousand-foot walls of Black Canyon, building a dam in the middle of a barren desert is a matter of life and death for the workers.

Amidst the dangerous conditions, there is another battle David and his colleagues must conquer. The battle over prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry, all while overcoming family drama and the economic problems of the Great Depression.