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The sixteenth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series is a 27k word collection of 5 holiday short stories. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com In "Mystery in the Footlights" someone is trying to sabotage the Hope Falls Halloween production of Macbeth. Fortunately Chloe is working on constructing the sets so she is available to apprehend the villain. In "Over the River" Chloe and Alex must battle the local wildlife for their dinner when they decide to celebrate Thanksgiving in an aunt's remote cabin in the woods. In "The Dentist" Chloe ...

The eleventh book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com It's autumn in Hope Falls, the time of year that thoughts turn to family, friends, and large meals. Instead of hosting a large Thanksgiving meal at her place, Chloe opts to have a cozy dinner out with her husband, Alex. But her plans are changed for her and soon grow out of control. Meanwhile, Chloe is on the lookout for a lost boy in this delightful holiday romp. If you are a fan of Nancy Pickard or Susan Conant you are going to love the cozy ...

"Meridian" is the second dark fantasy novel in the "Book of Dreams" series. A serial killer is on the loose and Nicodemus Smith realizes that he is killing along a lay line that divides San Francisco in two. Nic wants to help the police when they come to her for guidance but she has her own difficulties. Someone abducted an entire yoga class during their meditation and left a dozen bodies in a coma. Whatever took them Dreamside was powerful enough to subdue thirteen disciplined minds and actually kill the class instructor. The victims' physical conditions are deteriorating rapidly in spite ...

What could be lovelier than Autumn in New England? Behind its old walls quaint cottages, historic Pendlebrook is charming. But dig into the crimson and gold of the fallen leaves and one finds that something dark broods, waiting for a chance to rise up and take revenge on the families of the old town. Abigail Southerns knows nothing of the dark past that haunts her husband's kin, but her innocence is no protection when vengeance comes after her son.

"A fresh new world well worth visiting." —Lynsay Sands, New York Times Bestselling Author "Metropolis" is the first novel in the dark fantasy series "Book of Dreams". What dreams may come before you shuffle off the mortal coil... Troubled by night terrors? Need someone to bodyguard your dreams? Have a loved one who has slipped into a coma and the doctors can't explain why they sleep, or offer any hope of bringing them back? Then call Hypnos Inc. and ask for Nicodemus Smith, the dream retrieval expert. Though Nic avoids publicity when she can, this time her client is a very high profile ...

Pendlebrook is besieged. Under the cover of a supernatural storm, the sisters have decided what must be done about the deodand. Kept in the dark about the sister's plans but plagued by prophetic dreams, Abigail and Michael have found someone out in the snow, a policeman from Florida who may be a possible ally against the other things that are also lurking in the dark tempest. And they desperately need a friend because Abigail no longer knows whom to trust.

The Book of Dreams is a dark fantasy anthology containing all three books in the trilogy. It includes the novels "Metropolis", "Meridian", and "Destiny". "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com The First Book of Dreams: Metropolis What dreams may come before you shuffle off the mortal coil... Troubled by night terrors? Need someone to bodyguard your dreams? Have a loved one who has slipped into a coma and the doctors can't explain why they sleep, or offer any hope of bringing them back? Then call Hypnos Inc. and ask for Nicodemus Smith, the dream retrieval expert. Though ...

Mystery thrived while the twenties roared. 1921-- The War is over, alcohol is proscribed and women have the vote. Jane Blackthorn should be happy but the holidays are looming and the young widow has no desire to spend them with her matchmaking family. An invitation from an old college friend arrives to save her. The college ski club is having a reunion at a hunting lodge in Canada and Jane decides that some clean living in the great outdoors is just what she needs. But it is apparent from the moment of her arrival that something is very wrong at the Beauvert Ski Lodge and she is shocked to ...

From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston series comes "Gone South", the third installment in the Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series. Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is it a genuine deathbed call for reconciliation or a trap? In either case, Butterscotch solicits the help of Detective Chuck Goodhead to sneak over the border to see her father. Chuck risks his career to aid her and from that point on, chaos reigns. "A light, fun read with an eccentric cast of characters who bring the village of MacIntyre's Gulch ...

"Points West" is the fifth book in Melanie Jackson's bestselling Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series. McIntyre's Gulch has had it's share of misadventure and close calls with the law, but this time disaster looms large. A corrupt Mountie has staggered to Butterscotch's doorstep and then dropped dead. Chuck Goodhead is able to identify the policeman as a traitor who is a purveyor of secrets. Dark and powerful enemies are converging on the town and Chuck and Butterscotch must work quickly to find out why a dying man used his last moments of life to come to them.

"On the Rocks" is the second book in the Kenneth Mayhew Cozy Mystery Series. Kenneth Mayhew has been summoned to the mansion of one of New York's elite to foil a cunning jewel thief. The dastard threatens to strike on New Years Eve during a costume ball. Can Kenneth, the beautiful Judith, and faithful manservant Bentley stop this audacious crime?

"Red, White and a Dog Named Blue" is the eighth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. "Red, White, and a Dog Named Blue" is a collection of short stories that fills in the gaps betwixt and between in Chloe's life. In the title story, Chloe's 4th of July turns deadly when she is called in to judge a baking competition at the county fair. In the story Batter Up!, Chloe gets talked into joining the precinct softball team to co-captain under Dale Gordon. Searching for Christmas finds Chloe applying her sleuthing skills to discovering what she's getting for Christmas. And in Lights! ...

"Viva Lost Vegas" is the sixth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. The path of true love is often rocky, but Chloe and Alex are trying to smooth the way by eloping to Las Vegas. On the way, they take a detour through a ghost town and find a body in a pink Cadillac. Someone is killing Elvis impersonators. Will they be hearing funeral bells or chapel bells on their wedding day?

"Eye of the Beholder" is the seventh installment in the Miss Henry Cozy Mystery Series. Miss Henry did not like being out where the woodbine twinethed. Especially not when a hurricane arrived, cutting short the art festival. With the airport shut down and all the hotels full, Miss Henry decided to accept the offer of the festival organizer's chauffeur and accompany him to a local plantation to wait out the storm. But she arrived only to find the house in disarray and the residents missing. Cut off from help and alone except for the man who brought her to the plantation, can she stay safe ...

Welcome to Hope Falls where there’s love in the air… "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." —WritersWrite.com It's Chloe's first Valentine's Day with Alex and someone is out to sabotage the Sweethearts Ball. Her romance may also become a casualty when Alex's parents and their cats come to town for a visit. They are not pleased with their son's engagement. Now, their simple wedding plans have gone awry. "I was delighted to find Chloe Boston and all of Melanie Jackson's series." —Connie Shelton, author of the Charlie Parker and Samantha Sweet Mystery Series The path of true love ...

"Pieces of Hate" is the fourth installment in the Wendover House Cozy Mystery Series. "Never before did I believe that the dead would truly ryse up in judgment if not layd to rest in consecrated ground. But I have seen with myne own eyes, those drowned faces and barnacled bones walking out of the surf." So wrote Nicholas Wendover (aka Halfbeard, the pirate). But the troubled ghosts did rise every decade and come looking for their stolen treasure, the specially minted coins created by an Aztecan wizard called Pieces of Hate. Unfortunately, Nicholas Wendover was no longer alive and able to ...

Concurrently being published as "Ill Wind / Raising the Dead (Butterscotch Jones Mysteries Book 12)". Two cozy Christmas shorts are included in this holiday short story collection. Raising the Dead (Miss Henry Mystery Series Book 13) In England, it is said that April is the cruelest month, but Miss Henry is finding March to be difficult enough. She has come to Guise Hall in Tickhill to assist Raphael whose work has been delayed by mysterious on-site accidents and the discovery of a vampire burial in the old herb garden. Rumors are flying about the old vampire curse which blighted the ...

She’s back! After an absence of almost a decade, Miss Henry returns in a double mystery more than worthy of a comeback. In this two-in-one mystery, Miss Henry is finding her way in the world of Bay Area haute couture where high tech meets high finance. But before she can say ‘NSA’, she finds herself summoned back to work by her old employer and stranded in an abandoned mansion in the middle of the Nevada desert with a defector, bitter rivals from the agency, and a crazed killer. Forced into finding the most desperate and final of solutions to her interrupted retirement, Juliet has ...

'But Faustus' offenses can never be pardoned: the serpent that tempted Eve may be sav'd but not Faustus'. Christopher Marlowe knew this only too well when he penned his famous play in the days when Elizabeth I was on the throne. His deal with the Dark Man to extend his life has had him wandering, rootless for centuries and has driven him away from normal society. As the millenium turned he was living in exile on an island in Maine in a fortress where the Dark Man's descendents couldn't find him. Enter Edy Chenowth, a woman with a mission. Her grandfather has recently passed away and as a ...

Welcome back to Hope Falls, home of the world's smallest but smartest detective. We've missed you so we kept a seat by the fire... Poetry is written in tears, fiction in sweat and literature in blood. —Tara Lee (Lecture to the Lit Wits from Moving Violation) Chloe Boston, meter maid and unofficial sleuth of the Hope Falls Police Department, is on the trail of the Halloween Killer and a second troublesome criminal, the Pumpkin Thief, who has robbed every pumpkin patch in town. Aided by her dog, Blue, and new boyfriend, Alex, Chloe is closing in on Hope Falls public enemies 1 and 2. "I fell...