THE BOOKHOUSE

      $11.95  B & N - 216 Pages        

Author's Website - C Q SCAFIDI                            Suspense Thriller 

 New Orleans, June 1997. The city's dying of heat and dying on its feet as the port business shrinks and the powers that be carve up a vanishing pie. Steve Gorman, an executive for the APEX courier corporation, sees his colleague Andrew Sinclair disappear, carrying a high-value package containing a stone with miraculous powers...

Steve gets the blame, quits APEX and loses his place on the city's Trade Council. Suddenly he's a "non-person", but with the aid of glamorous Creole journalist Monique Chauvin and fey historian Louis Duplantier, he unearths an astonishing conspiracy involving time travel, the Templars, Freemasonry and Voodoo. If this "Brotherhood" can forecast events like Hurricane Katrina, millions of dollars could be saved-for the elect few, of course.

C Q Scafidi's murder story is in fact a stunning exposé of globalism, greed and ritualized gangsterism. His background in journalism and business at the World Trade Center give him a unique insight into the workings of mankind... and how human nature can be corrupted overnight by the allure of power. Read Time Couriers and you'll see world events in an entirely different light.

    $11.99 - 314 Pages                    

Author Website - BILL KIRTON                                 Suspense/Drama 

The Darkness is the third in my police procedural series featuring DCI Jack Carston and his team. It’s set in the fictional town of Cairnburgh, near Aberdeen in North East Scotland. The first two were Material Evidence and Rough Justice. Reviews of Material Evidence noted its ‘intense plotting, strong characters … fine Rendellian touches and a structure and depth that is rare in a first book’ It was also called ‘a cracking page-turner’ and readers were told that ‘The denouement, when it comes, will shake you.’ Rough Justice was described as ‘a thoughtful and thought-provoking book (which) involves some very human, intelligent Scottish coppers and ought to bring Bill Kirton the attention he deserves.’

The Darkness, as its title suggests, has fairly bleak themes. Tommy Davidson is found with his throat cut. His brother Andrew, a successful GP in Cairnburgh, is driven to thoughts of revenge because he feels certain that the death is connected with a previous incident in which Tommy’s wife and two wee daughters were killed by a drunk driver. The driver escaped with a very light sentence and Andrew’s brooding sets him thinking about several other examples of killers who have evaded punishment thanks largely to the efforts of a skilled local lawyer. He speculates on what he can do, then begins to put his imaginings into practice. Some local villains begin to disappear and one dies a particularly painful death.

Simultaneously, Rhona Kirk, the victim of a rape, leaves home and sets up as an escort in Dundee. The discovery of the bodies of her rapist and someone who gave her a lift south makes DCI Jack Carston’s job even more difficult.

As he works on both cases, his mostly unspoken sympathies are with whoever is responsible for the disappearances of the villains. Secretly, he too resents the fact that they were allowed to go free and yet he must suppress his instincts and work to find them and whoever is responsible for their death and/or disappearance.

Davidson continues his daily work as a GP, aware himself of the contrast between his role as a healer and the baser thoughts he has about avenging his brother. But his regular contact with so many innocent sufferers who accept their degeneration with stoicism and dignity increases his hatred of those who think nothing of killing and maiming others. He falls more deeply into his despair and his thoughts of vigilantism.

This is a tale of inner and outer darkness, not just that of Davidson but that of Carston, too. For the first time, he begins openly to examine his own impulses and attitudes to wrongdoers and senses a capacity for cruelty and a potential disregard for the law and its rigid structures. And yet he must force those feelings back down within himself and hurry to solve the case to prevent a truly chilling outcome.

      $11.69 -  244 Pages                  

       Author's Website - ELAINE CHARTON           Murder & Magic 

 Just when she thought she was safe.

Someone is stalking Pandora Reilly, someone dark and sinister, someone who knows things only her ex-husband would know. Her dead ex-husband. Justin Andrews is hired to protect her and her children from the danger surrounding them.  Can he save Pandora and her children without sacrificing his heart? Or will his past come back to haunt him? 

  $24.50 Hardback - 228 Pages       

         Author's Website - JOHN CARGILE       Mystery/Suspense/Romance 

   .  $11.99 - 250 Pages                 

                                   $ 4.50 - Digital

      Author's Website - K. M. DAUGHTERS          Romantic/Suspense 

The Henna Housewife Killer continues to evade the police. ER Doctor Molly Jordan treats Detective Danny Sullivan when he's brought to her ER with a bullet wound. A cop's widow and single parent, Molly is fiercely averse to the life of worry loving a cop entails. And Danny isn't any cop. He's the son of a retired Police Commissioner and one of six siblings who are all law enforcers.

New York Times best Selling Author Kim Novak says: "Watch out! The Sullivan boys are a force to be reckoned with. AGAINST DOCTORS ORDERS packs a punch and keeps you turning the pages.

 Past, Present And Forever   Jewel Of The Adriatic   Beyond The Code Of Conduct

     $18.00 - 314 Pages                  

   Author's Website - MADELYN LORBER               Mystery/Suspense     

  Kate Frost is different, different strange. Not because she is over forty, unmarried, and a workaholic, but combine all that with her lash-less eyes, extraordinarily silken auburn hair, unusually pale skin, superior mathematic aptitude, advanced auditory capability, and the inability to bleed, you have different strange.

With her father CJ, wasting away at Citizens' Convalescent Home, from what doctor/friend Raskin diagnoses as Alzheimers, Kate tries to get additional funds to keep the family glove business going. When her former boyfriend Geoffrey, the bank's loan officer, suggests there will bee no new loan, that the bank may have to call the original loan, and then casts doubt on her birthright, questions invade.

Who does she turn to for answers? Her father's memory is in his youth, the woman she thought was her mother, Katherine committed suicide when Kate was six, there are no siblings. After unsuccessfully searching clues, she hires Lucas Mann of Tri Eye Investigations whose specialty is finding birth parents.

One of a set of triplets, Lucas operates the New Mexico branch, one supertwin, Ike, covers Colorado, the other, Maud, the state of Florida. Lucas is also a fledging artist, newly inspired by a Native American woman whose museum tour he recently enjoyed. This attraction is a healthy exchange for a man devastated by betrayal, divorce, and depression.

After contact with CJ's friends and co-workers, Kate and Lucas visit CJ's second wife, Silver Feather Floating. The secret Silvy reveals, forces Kate to wonder if she was the reason Katherine took her own life, or if she inherited genes of madness from Zuli, her alleged birth mother. Kate suffers fear, danger, ruin, and rejection. Lucas deals with his own unexpected bias while Kate faces the only alternative, to accept the possibility she is the hybrid outcome of an intergalactic experiment.

  $7.99 - 288 pages                         

Author's Website - CHARLOTTE HUGHES                Mystery/Suspense 

                  The Life of a psychologist is enough to drive anyone nuts...

Ever since she blew up her own office with nitroclycerin (she was sure the patient was bluffing---until the vial exploded), psychologist Kate Holly has been one step away from going off her rocker. It doesn't help that she's still in love with her firefighter  ex-husband, whom she "accidentally divorced. They both want to patch things up, but Kate has been using sex to avoid talking, and he wants to know; is there something she's not telling him?

Well yes, there is. Kate is about to get evicted from her office, and her best option is to share space with her hot tub-loving ex-boyfriend, Dr. Thad Glazer. With her oddball patients, her meddling mother, and her eccentric secretary thrown into the mix---not to mention a spate of suspicious fires- will Kate put her life back together before she ends up in a padded cell?

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      $7.99 - Paperback - 288 pages  

Author's Website - CHARLOTTE HUGHES             Mystery/Suspense

Psychologist Kate Holly's own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She's divorcing her gorgeous firefighter husband, she has an eccentric secretary, her mother and aunt have erected a vaguely sexual sculpture in her front yard, and her psychiatrist ex-boyfriend won't stop calling to find out what color panties she's wearing. Now, Kate's being bombarded with mysterious threats, and the only person who can help her is the one man who always makes her lose her mind-and heart.