Maggie of the Ute Tribe
Sharon Langdale
A theft and a murder rock the tiny
Colorado town of Blue Spruce Lake.
Deputy Sheriff Maggie Hernandez, of Elk Hills, Colorado is called upon to investigate. The trail leads her to a nearby hot springs where a young botanist graduate student from Arizona State University has also died. Maggie’s suspicion of a second homicide grows. The trail of evidence leads her to the Tonto National Forest where she coaxes an orphaned five-year-old Apache girl to safety. The young girl shows unusual psychic abilities and is kidnapped. Frantic, Maggie is caught between solving the murders and her desire to find the girl before it is too late.
Miss Lila’s Place
Katherine De Lorriane
A serial killer has brought Victoria Hardy
home to her small hometown of Farmville, Virginia.
Having her deceased mother’s house broken into by such evil has motivated her that it’s time to sell. She learns the area has been riddled with heinous crimes, conflicts, and dark secrets—including a brothel. A letter from her mother reveals a secret so personal she is forced to dive into what her old friend James calls “a hornet’s nest.”In spite of the dangers, she refuses to leave until she unravels it all.
Katherine De Lorraine is an author and women’s rights advocate. She is a resident of Roanoke, Virginia, and holds an M.F.A. from Goddard College. She has taught English and creative writing in secondary schools and at Roanoke College. De Lorraine has received four fellow-ships to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the author of a prize-winning chapter book, Someone You Should Know. Also, a multi-genre book, Human Bridges. She has poems published in numerous journals and has won prizes from the poetry societies of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Miss Lila’s Place is her debut novel.
Website: KatherineDeLorraine.com
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A body has been found in Athanasius,
Kircher’s mid seventeenth century museum.
Under the backdrop of the Vatican and its many political factions, Kircher and his assistant Filippo work to find the murderer. With every intrigue uncovered the mystery grows as the body count piles up, but the duo will not be stopped. The drip, drip, drip of clues eventually leads to not only who did it, but why.
Mike Befeler is author of six novels in the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series Retirement Homes Are Murder (Living with Your Kids Is Murder, Senior Moments Are Murder, Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder, Care Homes Are Murder, Nursing Homes Are Murder), two of which
were finalist for The Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. Mike has eleven other published mystery novels: Last Gasp Motel, Old Detectives Home, Unstuff Your Stuff, Death of a Scam Artist, The V V Agency, The Back Wing, The Front Wing, The Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse, Murder on the Switzerland Trail, Court Trouble and Paradise Court; an international thriller, The Tesla Legacy; a nonfiction book, The Best Chicken Thief in All of Europe; and a novella, Coronavirus Daze. Mike is past-president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. He grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and now lives in Lakewood, California, with his wife, Wendy.