Publication Date: February 10, 2013
[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B00BEB77R8″ locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511P-qdBFoL._SL160_.jpg” width=”100″]It’s 1890 and Hope is expected to produce children with her doctor husband, Peter. Hope has no intention of living up to the expectations of the time. The abuse that Hope suffered at the hands of her father resonates in the way she lives her life. Her father is dead….or is he? The Sapphire Brigade, an organization dedicated to victims of child abuse offer their help when strange murders start to occur.
Continue reading Vanguard of Hope: Saphhire Brigade, Book 1 by Kathy Steinemann

Vee, the reporter and Vid the problem solver—both critters—happen to stumble upon a very dead human, Johnny Beardy. Notable upon Beardy’s body is mayonnaise, which has been illegal for years on Planet 10 as it becomes a potent drug when mixed with an unnamed chemical. What develops is a deep plot of revenge that has Vid and Vee traveling the universe and landing in Colorado. Will they do the right or the easy thing?



In Death In Bagheria by Susan Russo Anderson, it’s 1870 and Serafina is a Sicilian midwife who is well known for solving crimes. Dismissive aristocrat, Sister Genoveffa, believes her mother has been murdered and hires Serafina to look into the case. Serafina travels to Sicily’s Gold Coast to investigate but will she be able to stay alive long enough to unmask the killer? Death In Bagheria (A Serafina Florio Mystery) is the third novel in the Serafina Florio series.
In The Tarot Killer by Mary Bracht, Dr. Skye Barrie’s former patients are being killed in New York so she returns to her training ground in London in an attempt to escape, thinking the killer will follow her. In London, she faces old patients, an old nemesis, and the danger of a killer not satisfied with anything less than Skye’s own vicious and bloody end.