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Missing Boy
In this fourth Spencer Manning mystery, Chicago’s famed Riverview Amusement Park becomes the backdrop for a sixteen-year-old worker who disappears after his shift. Hired to find him, Spencer’s questions make powerful enemies as the case spirals from missing person to murder. What seems like a simple search becomes a fast-growing, impossible puzzle—and a sinister plot far larger than one boy—delivering a rollercoaster of surprises for mystery fans.
A rollercoaster ride full of surprises for fans of great mysteries.
—Gary Lindberg, author of The Shekinah Legacy -
Cold Justice
In this fifth Spencer Manning mystery, a recent murder may be a brilliant frame-up—and justice arrives in unsettling ways: late, never, or for the wrong crime. P.I. Spencer Manning is offered the highest-profile case of his career by a mobster, forcing him to weigh ethics against truth. As two murders unfold, Spencer is pulled into layers of intrigue and contemporary reckoning, haunted by echoes of Capone-era Chicago and streets once slick with blood.
Wonderful weaving of plot, characters and Chicago history
—Don Hood, verified review on Amazon -
The Idea of the Demonic
This study traces how cultures and religions have imagined the demonic across history—from medieval and Reformation eras to the modern world—drawing on diverse scriptures and traditions. It also examines the demonic in art, sculpture, music, and film, showing how images of evil evolve with society. Includes a glossary of foreign terms and phrases.
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The Beechwood Flute
The Beechwood Flute is a coming-of-age tale of courage and conscience. Seventeen-year-old Kiran longs to be a warrior to avenge his father and brother, but his gift is music. When fear causes him to fail and his sister is taken by Savages, guilt drives him into the forest on a harsh quest of servitude and suffering. Along the way he uncovers truths about his fractured family and faces a choice that challenges everything he believes.
Deserves to be a classic.
—CM Kerley, author of The Hummingbird’s Tear -
Smoke Got in My Eyes
Private detective Martin McDonough survives by leaning on his cop connections—until the favors stop paying out. This noir mystery trails him from gangster-ridden 1930s St. Paul, protected by a corrupt police force, to postwar San Francisco, where jazz clubs and the mob share uneasy territory. In McDonough’s world, people get shot—just not by him, if he can help it. Trouble is, the rats won’t cooperate.
the dark tone and feel of the old Bogart noir movies
—Scott on Amazon -
Rise of the Spring Tide
In 1603, a shepherd places three mysterious orphans—Sagar, Faria, and Shikha—with a religious congregation bound for the New World. Among them is Abigail, a fire-haired young woman with extraordinary powers; the orphans are charged with protecting her and ensuring the colony survives. Four hundred years later, still inexplicably young, they search for their origins, blending modern science with ancient mythology. Part thriller, part mystery, the novel probes nature’s power and humanity’s cycles of death and rebirth.
The innovative novel is rich in plot, but also in thematic resonance
—Hayley Ann Solomon, author of Wishbinder -
Crude
Set in North Dakota’s 2014 oil boom, Crude follows a state transformed by shale wealth and outside money—Houston, Dubai, New York—colliding with prairie life. A New York hedge fund games local refiners, crude-fueled political ambition rises, and polluted real estate becomes a battlefield. Ranchers die from toxic fumes; pipelines and profit schemes crisscross the land. Amid the corruption and contamination, the real engine may be scorned love—and revenge taken with brutal precision.
Fascinating!
—Gary Lindberg, author of The Shekinah Legacy -
Mothers Hurling Bricks
After his first novel, Crude, Bill Nemmers turns to a different absurdity: the US Army’s Cold War occupation of West Germany. In Heidelberg, an expatriate Czech rock band—the Mothers Hurling Bricks—memorializes the Prague women who flung paving stones at Soviet tanks during the 1968 invasion. Narrated by a US soldier who knew the musicians, the novel becomes a darkly comic, humane tribute to mothers—including his own—driven to defy mechanized war.
a fascinating story of military intrigue and humanitarian daring
—Marge on Amazon -
Panic River
Struggling artist Corey Fischer has spent a lifetime masking his feelings—until his estranged father’s sudden death pulls him back to Pepin, Wisconsin. An inheritance of two hunting rifles and a strained reunion with his mother begin to unravel his life. Corey and his husband, Nick, retreat to the family cabin during hunting season, entering the woods with loaded guns and years of resentment. When betrayals surface while tracking a wounded buck at dusk, Corey makes panicked, life-defining choices and flees the wreckage he’s created.
Wickedly intense and psychologically riveting
—Peter Geye, author of A Lesser Light -
Change of Address
She’s only five… and her mother was killed…tracking down an unknown father involves Spencer Manning in murder and drugs as his first case leads him to a Chicagoland racetrack and the mayor’s house…where things are not all as they appear.
My new favorite mystery series!
—Rita Butler on Amazon -
Drug Affair
Spencer Manning is hired by a wealthy widow to investigate her son’s drug arrest—until the uncooperative son and three murders turn a ‘simple’ case deadly. Clues entangle a Chicago detective, FBI agent, US senator, gang leader, and a nun who insists the Lord will provide—just not as Spencer expects. With suspects multiplying and secrets surfacing, Spencer must set a risky trap that could leave him jailed—or dead—in his most challenging case yet.
Bet you can’t read just one book of this intriguing series.
—Martha Hutson, Spencer fan -
Fizz!
Wondering whether you can succeed as a consultant? This step-by-step guide shows you how—while challenging you to examine your motivation and decide if consulting truly fits. Learn how to position yourself, sell your services, collaborate effectively, and protect work-life balance. Packed with trade secrets and hard-earned lessons, it prepares you for the hardest work you’ll ever love.
will undoubtedly help the budding consultant leapfrog years of frustrating and stressful trial and error
—Mark D. Carlson, Vice Chancellor, HR (retired), Minnesota State Colleges and Universities -
Mintwood Place
Mintwood Place refreshes noir with a contemporary Casablanca set in Washington, DC. Narrated by Renaissance man Joe Green, it blends romantic suspense with sharp reflections on love, politics, and the male psyche. Running a bookstore and bistro while enduring divorce, Joe is drawn into a Senate Intelligence Committee probe over his bond with Cosmo, an ex-con tied to a disputed killing. Tender father, armed survivor.
an underrated gem
—L Short on Amazon -
The Sun Rises as Does the Moon
With disarming honesty, these quiet poems observe the natural world and our place within it, exploring presence, wonder, and grief with clarity and kindness. In three sections—“The World,” “Grief,” and “Spirit”—the collection traces spiritual growth and celebrates everyday beauty and the interconnectedness of all life.
writes with a probing eye and open heart
—Rose Ann Findlen, verified review on Amazon -
The Graveyard Gang
Fear is everywhere—real and imagined—and fourteen-year-old Donny Hansen is determined it won’t ruin his life. But in the summer of 1978, bully Swade Percival and his hulking sidekick stalk Donny and his three best friends everywhere they go. In the vein of Stranger Things and Stephen King’s The Body, The Graveyard Gang blends boyhood bonding with a mystery only kids can solve.
immersive and engaging story
—Kayeff on Amazon -
Zandros in Love
Sam Zandros is a major-league poker player from a Greek-American family in the bookmaking business. He falls for Clare Russell, a gifted photographer with no one to protect her—and he vows to be that person. But Clare’s secrets draw danger: ruthless men target her for a cut of Sam’s winnings. Love or money? Family or lover? How far will Sam go?
Sexy, romantic suspense
—Bruce Rubenstein, #1 bestselling noir author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
