Barracuda Bay

  

She's the first female police detective in Acapulco.

Little Blue

 

New York musician Jude Rossi's world is shattered when his 14-year-old daughter, Little Blue—a rising star in the music scene—dies unexpectedly at her record deal party.

Though the coroner’s report lists “overdose,” Jude knows that his daughter’s disdain for drugs means there’s something far more sinister at play. With no means to investigate, he spirals into a dark abyss of grief, turning his back on his once-thriving music career.

A Killer Whisky

The 1918 influenza pandemic strikes Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Great War rages overseas. While her husband fights in Europe, Katharine works in a doctor’s office to support her children and her brother, a wounded veteran. One night their neighbour suddenly takes sick and dies. The attending doctor concludes the man died from influenza, but Katharine suspects someone laced his whisky with a drug that mimics the deadly flu’s symptoms.

Katharine convinces the police to investigate. Worried about her brother’s involvement with a suspect, she delves into his secrets and comes to fear he’s connected to the murder. She grows disturbingly attracted to the investigating detective who returns her affections. He’s convinced her brother or someone else close to her is a killer and risks his career to pursue the crime. Katharine must discover the truth so she can move forward in a world that has changed forever.

A Book I'm Nervous To Read and Why

  Long and Short Reviews

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge

I had a very hard time with this weeks WWBC.

Who ever had a book they were nervous about? I've never thought about it.

Spoons

 

 

Children’s, Self-Help, Grief, Loss, Illustrated

Doing Good & Doing Well

 

 Nonfiction / Leadership

Date Published: 12/24/23

 INSPIRING HELPING PROFESSIONALS TO BECOME LEADERS IN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS

The Art To Online Dating

 

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Favorite Hobby & Why???

 Long and Short Reviews

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge

2/26 Favorite Hobby and Why  

After the Red Carpet

For fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace, After the Red Carpet is a feel-good, contemporary celebrity romance about what happens after the fairy-tale beginning as two lovers work toward their own true meaning of “happily ever after.”

After legendary Hollywood star Finn Forrester proposed to philosopher Ella Sinclair on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, the couple captivated the press and public with their real-life fairy tale...

The Unforgetting

 

 

Some buried secrets are better left unearthed.

Inn The Dead Of Winter

Welcome to Spirit Lake in the dead of a Minnesota winter, where the brutally cold temp isn't the only thing to fear.

 Andie Rose Kaczmarek, a six-year sober life coach and owner of the haunted Spirit Lake Inn, has learned the hard way that the living are far more dangerous than anything in the spirit world.

 When a controversial guest fails to return to her room on the same night a body is discovered in a fish house on Big Spirit Lake, Andie Rose teams up with her sponsor and sidekick, Sister Alice, and her emotional support red retriever, Aspen, to solve the case.

Chasing Shadows - Cover Reveal

 

Mystery/Thriller/Commercial Fiction

Date Published: April 25th, 2025

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

 

When renowned professor Dr. Aidan Ryan vanishes without explanation, he leaves behind a haunting message revealing he has a new life and can never return. His devastated daughter Sofia embarks on a global search to uncover the truth behind her father’s disappearance. What she finds is more shocking than she could have imagined—a web of family secrets and lies that challenges everything she thought she knew. 

After clues send her to Italy, Sofia reconnects with her estranged mother Ella who reveals a hidden past of trauma and deceit. When they discover Aidan’s ties to The Brotherhood, an elusive, powerful society that operates in the shadows of world affairs, Sofia and Ella become ensnared in a deadly conspiracy. Trapped in ancient catacombs beneath the Roman countryside, they must face Aidan’s mysterious captors and fight for their lives. But as they edge closer to escape, one question remains: Will Aidan choose his family or The Brotherhood?

Bad Guy

 

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Fictional Combat

 

 

Non-Fiction

Date Published: February 14, 2025

Publisher: Changeling Press

From fist fights to dragon duels: NYT bestselling author Angela Knight explores how to write fictional combat.

The 21st Minute

 

Self-Help

Date Published: November 20, 2024

Publisher: MindStir Media

Mama Dallas and Augie

 

 

Crime, True Story, Mob, Immigration, Biopic, Italian American, Fiction

Earth Orbit

 Earth Orbit: A Space Force Adventure by Merrin Slade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My review...

Earth Orbit, Book 2 of a series titled “The Skye Sci-Fi Series" begins with Cerys visiting the family of her commanding officer who is her sweetheart. She’s a Space Force Officer now, but it doesn’t make one bit of difference to Jak’s stuffy prejudiced father. He’s hateful about imperfect Wild Types like Cerys who grew up in The Refuge, and he’s convinced her “kind” is beneath Jak. But after fighting her way through the Academy and being a hero in the Space Force wars, Cerys sure isn’t going to let an old biased buffoon shake her. Or at least she’s going to try and keep her chin up.

Merrin Slade seems to put you right in the future, but her futuresque gadgets and characters, all with unusual names, are clearly pronounceable in your mind making one’s reading smooth. 

Ghosting Academy

 It’s been years since Amelie abandoned her home to become an elite agent of the Academy.

In its embrace she has found support and stability, but in return the Academy uses her gifts for destruction and control. For ten years, she has chosen to live only for the moment, neither questioning nor considering the motives of her employer. But when Amelie and her pod of fellow agents, “graduate” into becoming strategic operatives, they are spirited off to an isolated island. Here they uncover a labyrinth of deception and lies far more sinister than any they ever imagined, including Verite, a new virtual reality game, in which time has no meaning and your blood holds the keys to your soul. In the Ghosting Academy, consciousness is currency, morality is shackles and there is no death.

Ubermensch

 

 

Historical Fiction

Published: 1/15/2025

 A murdered boy. Tortoiseshell eyeglasses. A letter written by a young man to another that reads like a lover's spat. One portable Underwood typewriter. Two confessions.

Will Babe and Manny live or die?

The Owls of Wickenden Wood

 Landing in a different reality, the hero of our story is challenged by wise and mysterious owls.

Will the storyteller be able to face their doubts and fears?

Or will they forever remain in the Wickenden Wood?

An inspiring, rhythmic tale, encouraging readers to believe in themselves and to trust in their own innate talents and abilities.

These Are Not My Words

 

Echoing Chuck Palahniuk’s statement. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known,” this collection explores identity. These poems drift down rivers of old, using histories private and public and visit people that I love and loathe. Through heroes and villains, music and cartoons, literature and comics, science and wonder, and shadow and light, each poem canals the various channels of self and invention. As in the poem, “Credentials,” “I am a collage of memories and unicorn stickers…[by] those that have witnessed and been witnessed.”

The Poseidon Project

The Poseidon Project is an international suspense thriller and the first book in The Herb Society Mysteries series

Molly Halloran and her friends have a secret past. Their bucolic retirement is suddenly upended when Molly’s husband is abducted and held for a steep ransom. Now she, her friends, her tech executive son, Lukas and his Air Force pilot boyfriend must race against the clock and travel halfway around the world to meet the kidnappers’ demands. But when they learn why her husband has been abducted, they realize how high the stakes truly are. Molly and her friends now must face their past in order to save the future. But not only their futures; the world’s.

It's Not Burnout It's Betrayal

 

 

Five Tools to FUEL UP & Thrive

Business, Motivational

Date Published: January 21, 2025

Shocktober - tour and author interview

 Mays’s spectacular catch in 1954, Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off homer in 1960, and Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit blast in 1988 are just a few of the memorable moments that have dominated highlight reels. The outcome of the Series has not always been terribly surprising—especially during the late 1940s and early 1950s when the Yankees captured five consecutive championships, breaking their previous record of four straight titles from 1936 to 1939. But despite its predictability at times, the Fall Classic has taken many unexpected turns. The 1906 Cubs lost to the weak-hitting White Sox after establishing a new regular season record for

wins. The 1955 Dodgers avenged seven prior October failures with an improbable victory over the seemingly invincible Yankees. And in 1969, the Mets finally shed their image as “loveable losers,” dethroning the powerful Orioles. In more than a century of World Series plays, a number of similar scenarios have emerged; twenty-two of those stories are told in Shocktober.

Easy Investing

 

Easy Investing: A Beginner's Guide to Financial Growth (Italia's books) Kindle Edition

Nonfiction / Finance

Date Published: December 18, 2023

Sensible Shoes

 

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Double Takedown

 

 

What happens when a closed case cracks wide open?

Lethal Impulse

 

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Crimes After Hours

 Alice, a shrewish and nosy typist stays in the office after duty hours to rummage through the personal effects of her hateful colleagues, who've mocked her for years, in search of compromising material to use against them. At the same time and in the very same neighborhood, a serial killer with a split personality is lurking, intent on carrying out his cruel game, entrusting the choice of his next unsuspecting victim to chance. The solitary lives of typist Alice and Cold Hands/Warm Hands are destined to fatally intertwine in the dark and unknown underground of the Prati district of Rome. The investigations into the trail of senseless crimes that Cold Hands leaves behind are entrusted to Riccardo Rosco, a commissioner with a rough character and a disastrous private life.

Where Is Love?

 

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Broken Faces

 

 Historical Fiction

Date Published: 10-10-2024

Publisher: Books to Go Now