Release~Criminal Kind by Mary Anne Edwards

Criminal Kind

by Mary Anne Edwards

Series: A Charlie McClung Mystery, #3

Genre: Traditional Mystery

SYNOPSIS

It’s the perfect setting for a romantic getaway at sea: Caribbean breezes, clear blue skies, passionate nights, and murder? Not exactly what Detective Charlie McClung and Marian had in mind for their honeymoon. When one of their fellow passengers is murdered on her 35th wedding anniversary, Charlie and Marian get pulled into the investigation. Who would want to kill poor Tammy Ferguson in such a brutal way? As Charlie uncovers more sordid details about Tammy and her husband, Peter, it becomes clear that someone else has found the same skeletons in the Ferguson’s closet and Tammy has paid the price. Is Peter next?

Trapped on the ship with a killer, shadows seem more ominous and even the most innocent faces seem sinister. Has Charlie inadvertently put Marian in harm’s way? How long does Charlie have before the hunter becomes the hunted?

PLAYLIST

Don’t Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty

Still the Same - Bob Seger

In My Life - The Beatles

At Last - Etta James

I’m A Believer - The Monkees

Criminal Kind - Tom Petty

My Girl - The Temptations

Endless Love - Lionel Richie & Diana Ross

I Have Dream - Matt Monro

Runnin’ Down A Dream - Tom Petty

What Could Have Been Love - Aerosmith

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MEET THE AUTHOR

Mary Anne was born in Mercedes, Texas, but has lived in Georgia most of her life.  She has had a variety of experiences in her life. Some were great and some, well let's just say Mary Anne has learned many lessons the hard way.

Mary Anne has been married for nearly 35 years to the most practically perfect man. They have a newly adopted Tuxedo cat named Gertrude. They enjoy traveling and watching mysteries on TV. Mary Anne is active in Sisters in Crime Atlanta Chapter, Mystery Writers of America and sits on the advisory board of Rockdale Cares, Inc., a non-profit advocacy group for the developmentally challenged.

Although Mary Anne began writing in high school, she didn’t get serious about it until 1999. She writes traditional mysteries that are influenced by some of her favorite authors:  Agatha Christie, Anne Perry, Caroline Graham, and Elizabeth Peters.

Her first book in the Detective Charlie McClung mysteries, “Brilliant Disguise” was released on January 21, 2014. The next book in the series, “A Good Girl”, was released on September 23, 2014. Mary Anne is currently working on the third book in the series, “Criminal Kind”; there are seven more to follow .

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Steel & Bone~A SteamPunk Anthology

STEEL AND BONE

A SteamPunk Anthology

Shovel the coal and stoke the boilers as nine steam punk authors explore islands of mystery and adventure across the seven seas.

THE STORIES INSIDE

The Clockwork Seer

by Katherine Cowley: 

On an island of oddities, a young clairvoyant struggles for normalcy, but deadly automatons have other plans.

Sindisiwe 

by Scott E. Tarbet: 

A slave girl in Zanzibar escapes a beating when a stranger in the marketplace proves her past is more than just a fairy tale.

Stand and Deliver 

by TC Phillips: 

Neither shackles, slave labor, nor the island’s deadliest inhabitants will prevent these brothers from meting out justice to their father’s murderers.

Island Walker 

by C. R. Simper: 

Kit digs her treasures out of trash heaps, but the theft of her invention leads to discoveries money can’t buy.

A Mind Prone to Wander

by Danielle E. Shipley: 

Beyond a locked door lies Rowan Charles’ death or his sanity, and the survival or extinction of his people.

Curio Cay

by Sarah E. Seeley: 

The future of humanity rests in the hands of three time-traveling scientists battling biomechanical creatures in the Jurassic past.

The Mysterious Island of Chester Morrison 

by Kin Law: 

Dodging her chaperone, a debutante stumbles into adventure and romance at the World’s Fair.

Revolutionary 

by John M. Olsen: 

A dirigible captain goes down with his ship, and wakes to find himself a captive of a sky-dwelling civilization.

The Steel Inside 

by Gail B. Williams: 

 Darkness lurks in Sarah’s forgotten past, kept hidden by those who claim to be her devoted husband and loyal servants.

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MEET THE AUTHORS

Katherine Cowley

Katherine Cowley wrote her first story at the age of five, a retelling of the Icarus myth titled “The Turtle That Got Too Close to the Sun.” She has worked as a documentary film producer, a radio producer, and a college professor. She now devotes herself to writing steampunk, fantasy, and science fiction. Cowley’s short stories and essays have been published and won awards in the Locutorium, the BYU Studies Personal Essay Contest, the Meeting of the Myths, Four Centuries of Mormon Stories, and the Mormon Lit Blitz. You can also read her stories online at katherinecowley.com.

Katherine loves European chocolate, the history of science, and steampunk fashion. She has lived in the United States, Brazil, and Finland, and currently resides in Arizona with her husband and two daughters.

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Scott E. Tarbet

Scott E. Tarbet writes what fires his imagination: the broad umbrella of speculative fiction. He is especially intrigued by how human beings react to and interact with science, technology, and other magics.

Educator, chef, professional opera singer, and Steampunk craftsman, with a long list of short stories and other works to his credit, he makes his home in the splendor of the Utah mountains with his wife and best friend, Jewels.

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TC Phillips

TC Phillips hails from tropical central Queensland in Australia, where he currently lives with his loving wife, three young children, a spoilt cat, and an overactive imagination. An avid reader from a young age, he has held a long-standing attraction for the written word and is excited to make his own contributions to the vibrant and ever shifting world of storytelling. Holding degrees in both Theatre Studies and Education, he is also currently completing his Master of Arts (writing) through Swinburne University of Technology.

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C. R. Simper

C. R. Simper is an Arizona native who graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Purchasing and Logistics Management. She married another Arizona native in 1991 and is now the stay-at-home mom of three daughters and one son. Simper has written in multiple genres over the past three decades. She has found that writing maintains a sense of order in her life. Her first published story, “The Journey of Inspector Roux” appeared in Terra Mechanica: a Steampunk Anthology (2014), another Xchyler publication.

Other hobbies that she enjoys are playing volleyball, genealogical research, and indexing obituaries. She is a member of the American Night Writers Association (ANWA).

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Danielle E. Shipley

Danielle E. Shipley's first novelettes told the everyday misadventures of wacky kids like herself. Or so she thought. Unbeknownst to them all, half of her characters were actually closeted elves, dwarves, fairies, or some combination thereof. When it all came to light, Danielle did the sensible thing: packed up and moved to Fantasy Land, where daily rent is the low, low price of her heart, soul, blood, sweat, tears, firstborn child, sanity, and words; lots of them. Shipley has also been known to spend short bursts of time in the real-life Chicago area with the parents who home-schooled her and the two little sisters who keep her humble. When she's not living the highs and lows of writing, publishing, and all that authorial jazz, she's probably blogging about it at EverOnWord.wordpress.com.

This is her third appearance in a Xchyler anthology, following the paranormal "Two Spoons" in Legends and Lore, and "Reality As We Know It" in fantasy collection The Toll of Another Bell. Other publications include Inspired (a novel), and a series of fairy-tale retelling mash-ups, The Wilderhark Tales.

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Sarah E. Seeley
Through two wonderful mentored research experiences, Sarah E. Seeley had the opportunity to work with dead sauropods and ancient odonates while acquiring her undergraduate degree in geology from Brigham Young University. She hopes to study more dead things in the future and contribute to scientific discussions about what makes life on Earth so amazing. In the meantime, she explores the bright side of being human by writing dark fiction.

Seeley's independently published works include Maladaptive Bind and Blood Oath: An Orc Love Story. Sarah's short story "Peradventure" appears in Xchyler Publishing's Legends and Lore: An Anthology of Mythic Proportions. Another short story, "Driveless," appears in Leading Edge Magazine Issue #66. You can learn more about Sarah on her writing blog at www.SlithersOfThought.com

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Kin Law

Living in the bustle of NYC, Kin is constantly reminded he is a child of two worlds. Originally from Hong Kong, he's traveled both geographically and socially, working in many professions including movie projection and line cooking. He has degrees in Media and Culinary Arts, and a great love of Philosophy. As for fiction, his favorite authors are Douglas Adams, Hemmingway, and Chuck Pahlaniuk.

Today, Kin is a culinary copywriter, intent on furthering his novelist career. He loves his fiancée, his cat Zoe, Scotch, bacon and coffee. Addressing himself in the third person makes him chuckle.

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John M. Olsen

John M. Olsen has been creating things his whole life through a mixture of technical and creative processes, whether building family, stories, art, software, woodworking or anything else. He has dreams of becoming a Renaissance man and loves to learn new things to add to his store of randomly accessible information (otherwise known as irrelevant trivia). Writing is one of his loves, inspired by having read most of his father’s extensive fantasy and science fiction collection in his teen years.

He builds high-end simulation software, and has contributed chapters to several books on computer graphics and game design, as well as publishing fiction in multiple genres.

He lives in Utah with his wife and five children, some of whom are old enough to have moved out and back in. Together they have also raised three nieces and a nephew, and are minions of their benevolent cat overlord.

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Gail B. Williams

Gail Williams lives in her own private dungeon populated with all the weird and the wonderful she can imagine. Some of it’s very weird, and the odd bits and pieces are a bit wonderful. With a vivid imagination fuelled by a near death experience at the age of three, there was really no other choice for Gail than to write, something she’s been doing for as long as she can remember. She’s tried not doing it, but it never works for long, her brain gets itchy if she hasn’t written anything for a couple of days. Gail is English by birth, but lives in Swansea, Wales, married a Welshman and they have two fantastic children. They live with the world’s most imperious and demanding cat. An asset management specialist by day, a freelance editor and keen writer of an evening and weekend, she really needs to learn to sleep. To find out more see www.gailbwilliams.com

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James Ng

James Ng (pronounced Ing) was born in Hong Kong, where he spent most of his childhood drawing monsters and robots, making his own elaborate cardboard toys, and playing soccer. Ever since, he has been on the move between Hong Kong, Vancouver, Chicago and New York. His travels have greatly influenced him, allowing him to combine Eastern and Western cultures in his artwork.

Currently James is enjoying the freedom of being a freelance concept artist and illustrator. After a sunny summer in Vancouver, and traveling to London, and then to New York for an award show and exhibition, he is back in his home of Hong Kong to continue his career.

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C. R. Simper

Favorite Things

- Quote "A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." 

Attributed to John A Shedd. Salt from my Attic. 1928. It's a good reminder that 

talents need to be shared in spite of fears. 

- TV show  My current favorite TV show is "Forever" staring Ioan Gruffudd.

- Comic book character  If I say I don't read comic books, don't take it as an affront to the genre. I am a "word" person, not an "image" person, and comic books just 

don't work for me. I did recently buy James Owen's Starchild, which seems to be a 

unique mix of both.

- Movie  Sherlock Holmes and sequel with Robert Downey Jr.; Guardians of the 

Galaxy. (Seriously, when else have you ever left the theater with a movie-crush on a 

raccoon?)

- Book  My kid-heart would break if I didn't say "The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis". 

Fortunately I read enough as a child/teen to make up for the fact that I can't really 

get into books as an adult. The last book I rather enjoyed was John Grisham's 

Playing for Pizza. Italy + Football + A little-bit-of-romance, what's not to love?

- Candy bar  Heath or Score.

- Junk food  Salsa Verde Doritos

- Place you visited San Ignacio, Belize.

- Restaurant  New Mexican Grill, Gilbert, AZ

- Island  Cay Caulker, Belize, as it is the only island I have ever visited that didn't 

require me to cross a terrifying bridge to get there. (Thanks, Coronado Island. Yes, I 

did prefer a 12-seater plane ride.)

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Things Mysterious

Genre: Romance (Mystery)

by Matthew Chabin

Publisher: Roane Publishing 

Release Date: June 22, 2015

SYNOPSIS

Dasan Garret is a disappointed man.

Recently divorced and just returned 

from a traumatic tour of duty in Iraq, 

he moves back to his hometown of Portland, Oregon

 only to find himself unexpectedly alone. 

 His old friends are all gone, 

moved away, locked up, or dead. 

 Women seem to occupy a parallel universe. 

 With no community and few prospects,

 he takes a job as a night watchman and withdraws

 ever deeper into the shadows of his mind. 

 Until one day when he meets Edenia,

 and she lights up his world like a bolt of pure energy. 

 She seems perfect: 

vibrant, gifted, kind, sexy, 

a sudden and unlooked-for reprieve from the sad ruin of his life.

 And yet there remains a nagging sense that something isn’t right.

 Could it be that he is merely slow to trust the happiness she offers him?

 Or is there something behind that waver in her laugh,

 that fleeting look of sadness in her eyes? 

The mystery deepens when one day Edenia disappears. 

 Dasan believes he must find her in order to go on living. 

 But to find her again, 

he will have to confront a devastating truth about her life, 

and his.

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TEN FAVORITE QUOTES

1) “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” –Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven

2) “God, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.” –Augustine of Hippo

3) “The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” —James Joyce

4) “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
—G.K. Chesterton

5) “Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.” –Virginia Wolfe

6) “Love is friendship set to music.” —Joseph Campbell

7) “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
—Leonard Cohen

8) “Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.”
—Margaret Atwood

9) “Honor the gods. But don’t rely on them.” —Miyamoto Musashi

10) “He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates
called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason,
man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal
or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.” —Herman Melville

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew Chabin was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and grew up in Portland, Oregon. He

served four years in the US Navy as a ship crewman, journalist and public affairs liaison. He

studied literature and philosophy at Southern Oregon University. After graduating in 2010, he

started teaching English abroad, working in the Czech Republic and volunteering with the Dalai

Lama’s affiliate organization, Tibet Charity, in Dharamsala/Mcleod Ganj, India. He currently lives in Nagano Prefecture of Japan with his wife, Marie, and cat, Futa. 

His work has appeared in Gravel: A Literary Journal, Southern Pacific Review, Piker Press, and

Black Denim. He is the author of a memoir, Equaling Heaven, which he hopes to see published

in the near future.

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Three Sisters (An Emily Castle Mystery) by Helen Smith

* I received this book in exchange for an honest review*

This book was so funny, quirky, and fast paced. Not a very long read, but it is one that you will want to finish once you get started. The first few pages were kind of slow for me, but after that it sped up and I didn't want to stop reading until the very end! Emily Castles is such a quirky little thing, that I never knew what she was going to say next. She did gripe about her dog dying a little too much in my opinion though. But, after it all, I will definitely be checking out the rest of the Emily Castle Mystery Series! I give this book a SOLID 4 STARS!!

Book Synopsis from Amazon:

Three Sisters introduces twenty-six year old amateur sleuth Emily Castles in this entertaining new mystery series from bestselling British author Helen Smith.

Emily receives an invitation to a party in a large house at the end of her street, hosted by a mysterious troupe of circus performers. She accepts, despite her misgivings, because her dog has died and she needs cheering up. But when she witnesses a murder in the midst of the surreal entertainment, no one will believe what she has seen. Is Emily befuddled with grief at the loss of her pet? Or has something wicked happened in plain sight of all the party-goers? Emily and her eccentric neighbors attempt to discover the truth in a charming story that will have you giggling at every funny line. 

This short mystery is a standalone story set in London. The Emily Castles mysteries can be read in any order.

Author Bio from Amazon:

Helen Smith is a novelist and playwright who lives in London. Her books have reached number one on Amazon's bestseller lists in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany. They have been praised in the Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guarding, Time out, and Wired.com and appeared on "best of the year" lists in For Books' sake, The Cult Den, The Independent and the Guardian. Her books have been optioned by the BBC.

Helen Smith traveled the world when her daughter was small, doing all shorts of strange jobs to support them both -- from cleaning motels to working as a magician's assistant -- before returning to live in London where she wrote her first novel. Since then, she had read at literary events and festivals in London and New York and points in between -- including, most recently, a cruise ship en route to California via the Suez Canal. Her work has been read or performed at the National Theatre, The Royal Festival Hall, the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, Amnesty International's Headquarters, The Edinburgh Festival and The University of London. She's a Literary Death Match champion and the recipient of an Arts Council of England award.

Helen Smith is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, The Crime Writers' Association and English PEN.


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Visions (The Mystical Encounter #1) by Kimberly Readnour

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This is the first book that I have read from Kimberly Readnour and I have to say that I was very impressed! I felt so bad for Heather at the start of this book at how rejected she was for having such a useful gift. Once she got involved in a very heart wrenching situation, she showed her strength. The book as a whole was awesome and all the characters were well rounded. I can't wait to find out what happens in the next one!! I give this book a solid 5 STARS!!

Book Synopsis from Amazon:

Heather Reiner is not your typical teenager. Her abilities reach far beyond the norm, and she’s just beginning to discover the possibilities.

Growing up different from her peers has not been easy. Ridiculed by classmates, Heather moves to another state, but soon realizes she can’t run from a problem that begins within.

A guy from her new school, Barry, is captivated the first time he sees her. Determined to know her better, he learns her layers of complication run deep. With persistence, he chips away at her shield until each protective layer starts unveiling itself.

Heather wants a chance to be normal, but secrets never stay hidden forever. They reveal themselves when least expected. Is normalcy obtainable, or will the mystery about herself be discovered? And if discovered, will Barry be like everyone else and turn away?

Visions is book one of a young adult mystery thriller trilogy. 

About the Author:

Kimberly Readnour from Amazon: 

I have always enjoyed reading books, but within the last five years discovered my passion for writing. Ever since childhood, I imagined writing a novel, but never took the time to pick up a pen. Oops, showing my age... I mean laptop. When my daughter reached her teenage years, I found my reason to start composing those stories.

I worked for fifteen years as a Registered Nurse before hanging-up my stethoscope. Now, I run my own business while continuing to write during any downtime.

I'm blessed with a wonderful husband and two children. The dynamics in our household changed when my oldest left for college, but I can't say it was bad. Different, but definitely not bad. Each stage of life has been amazing, as to which I'm truly grateful.

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