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Judy Penz Sheluk - Midnight Schemers & Daydream Believers

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Desire or desperation, revenge or retribution—how far would you go to realize a dream? The twenty-two authors in this collection explore the possibilities, with predictably unpredictable results.

Featuring stories by Pam Barnsley, Linda Bennett, Clark Boyd, C.W. Blackwell, Amanda Capper, Susan Daly, James Patrick Focarile, Rand Gaynor, Gina X. Grant, Julie Hastrup, Beth Irish, Charlie Kondek, Edward Lodi, Bethany Maines, Jim McDonald, donalee Moulton, Michael Penncavage, Judy Penz Sheluk, KM Rockwood, Peggy Rothschild, Debra Bliss Saenger, and Joseph S. Walker.

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  • Judy Penz Sheluk - A Fatal Affair

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    On October 28, 1937, at a remote cabin in the Algoma District of Northern Ontario, the body of 28-year-old Helen Grier was discovered by her lover, Vernon Spencer. The cause of death was a bullet to the brain.A married father of two, Spencer, 43, was held as a material witness for 71 days before being charged with Helen’s murder. A gruelling six-day trial in Sault Ste. Marie followed. Vernon Spencer was acquitted after a scant three hours of jury deliberation.Was the jury wrong? Did Vernon Spencer, former professional baseball player and Michigan dairy farmer, get away with murder? Could it have been someone local who dropped in to visit and found the pretty young brunette alone and vulnerable? Or is it possible, as was suggested by Spencer’s defence team, that it was Helen Grier who fired the fatal bullet?You be the judge.
  • Angela Van Breemen - Revenge Not Taken Lightly

    30:44|
    A teenage girl sits in prison for the brutal murder of her parents.She swears she is innocent.And from beyond the grave, her mother is begging Emma Jackson to prove it.When Emma receives a chilling psychic message — Our daughter is innocent. Save Thelma Tang — she and her husband, David Harris, are pulled into a case that was supposed to be closed.But nothing about this case is what it seems.As they dig deeper, disturbing truths begin to surface. Evidence doesn’t add up. A secret organization thought to be destroyed may still be operating in the shadows. And someone is watching their every move.When a violent attack proves they’ve become targets, Emma and David must race against time to uncover the truth before an innocent girl loses everything — and before they become the next victims.Because this time, the darkness isn’t just haunting the past... It’s hunting them.
  • Robyn Gigl - All We Hide

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    In this twisty and poignant small-town mystery, a trans detective working for the District Attorney’s Office takes on the cold case murder of a local trans woman—and her investigation unravels the threads of a county-wide conspiracy as well as a personal mystery that’s haunted her since childhood.When Lieutenant Lauren Kelly is exiled to the Homicide Cold Case Unit at the DA’s office, she knows her superiors are sticking her there as punishment until she can quietly retire. That way, no one can claim they discriminated against the only trans detective in Donn County.Even though Lauren has enough on her plate already—a teenage daughter struggling with Lauren’s recent transition, an ex-wife Lauren hasn’t gotten over, a former detective father with Alzheimer’s—she starts looking into the murder of Sherry Darling, a trans sex worker and Lauren’s former high school classmate. As Lauren looks deeper into Sherry’s case, she finds evidence of a cover-up with far-reaching implications that may or may not be tied to the reason her mother left decades earlier.Entertaining and deeply human, All We Hide is a compelling, page-turning mystery that will resonate in the hearts and minds of readers long after the final twist.

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