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.

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  

I love to cook and rarely make the same thing twice. 

I’m a retired librarian, yet I still love reviewing books and copy editing. Both are enjoyable challenges. 

I also love music.

Can something that has been a profession still be a hobby? I’m not sure. For a great part of my life singing and performing is what I did. Now I’m retired, but I still haven’t left it behind by any means. Most of my performing is now done in a choral setting, but I still love to perform. So why do performers feel the need to be on that stage?

I’ve been married two times. This second marriage has lasted 37 years. But this husband, he didn’t know me as a musician and he isn’t a music fan other than to enjoy a few types of music now and then. It’s extremely hard to explain to a non-musician the need to perform. I’m sure at times it has seemed prima donna-ish, as if I desired or required attention, needed to show off. I could say I want to share my passion with others and make people smile. 

I could say I enjoy the immense camaraderie

that exists among a group of people working for the same purpose. A group of people trying to speak the same language and note and rhythm at precisely the same time and volume together. I could say trying to read language, rhythm, notes and dynamics and watch a director together is very good for the brain.

So, I suppose I’ve explained the what and the why, haven’t I? I can’t stop, can’t stay away, love music, love to sing?

I’d say the "why" is all of the above. I hope you enjoy music no matter the medium nor the genre.

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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?

About the Author

A.C. Adams is the nom de plume of co-authors Anthony Leigh Adams and Christina Adams, who have written, produced, and developed film and television projects for many studios, including Disney, ABC, and CBS. 

Christina is a producer of the Emmy Award-winning series, The Amazing Race and multiple programs for Oprah Winfrey. Anthony composed the music and co-wrote the book and lyrics for their most recent theatrical project, Sideways: The Musical, which is based on the Oscar-winning film and is in development as a Broadway musical. 

The Adamses also wrote and produced the original musicals Love-In: A Musical Celebration and Primal Twang: The Legacy of The Guitar. Both shows were filmed and aired nationally on PBS. Primal Twang won Best Documentary Feature at the Rome International Film Festival. 

Adams Entertainment, Anthony and Christina’s production company, is based in La Jolla, California, where they work and live with their two calico rescue cats. Chasing Shadows, their debut novel, is inspired by true events. For more information visit: www.adamsentertainment.com.

 

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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.