Free from Endeavor Press:
The Art of Dying by Anne Morgellyn.
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August Stockyard is the most outrageous, flamboyant figure on the London art scene.
The heir to a media and property empire, he is vain and attention-seeking - and compulsively fascinating.
But when he dies in a typically theatrical fashion, he leaves a mystery behind him.
Was his death the unfortunate consequence of a kinky sex game gone wrong as it appears at first sight?
Or was it something more sinister?
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Free from A-Argus:
It's Just One Thing After Another (Donny Weston & Abby Marshall thriller) by David O'Neil.
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Fresh from their victory over the European Mafia, Donny Weston and Abby Marshall are rewarded with an all-expense-paid trip to the United States. But, as our young couple discover, there is no free lunch and the price they will have to pay for their "free" tour may be more than they can afford to pay. Even so, with the help of a few friends and some formerl enemies, the young duo face danger once again with firm resolve and iron spirit, but will that be sufficient against the odds that are stacked against them? And is their friend actually a friend or is he on the other side? Action, adventure and romance abound, in this the latest escapades of the brave young couple'
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Free from Coffeetown Press:
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt.
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My Dear Charlotte is a British Regency mystery set in the early 1800s and infused throughout with the actual language of Jane Austen, one of the world’s great stylists and comic writers. Hazel Holt has published 19 Mrs. Malory mysteries in the tradition of Barbara Pym and has admirers around the world. My Dear Charlotte is a departure from her other work. It is a novel-in-letters written “with the assistance of Jane Austen’s letters.” From the Introduction by Jan Fergus:
"Of course, you don’t have to love Austen to love this book. If you enjoy detective novels, you will find here a completely satisfying murder mystery, coupled with a romance (or more than one, in fact). My Dear Charlotte gives you, in addition to mystery and romance, a portrait of the world of the English gentry at around 1815, immediately after the defeat of Napoleon—its manners and its moral certainty. As in Austen, Napoleon is not directly mentioned, but his shadow is there: one brother of the heroine is a sailor and the other a junior diplomat at the Congress of Vienna. It’s the social world at home that is central, however, with its balls, visits, courtships, gossip, and of course murder, underlining the tensions and rifts within that apparently civilized society.
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Free from Camel Press:
Murder Half Baked by Kathleen Delaney.
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A dead man in the cemetery, another in the bakery. Ellen McKenzie has to find the killer soon ... before another death puts a stop to her wedding. The groom is Dan Dunham, Santa Louisa’s Chief of Police. The guest list is growing and Ellen’s dreams of a small, intimate candlelight ceremony are rapidly disappearing. A major distraction is Ellen’s quest to find a new building for Grace House, a halfway house for needy women. Then she finds old Dr Sadler dead in the cemetery, his head bashed in by the arm of a marble angel. Every suspect is connected to Grace House. After it goes up in flames, all the residents, including one new-born, move in with Ellen and Dan. Will Ellen and Dan ever solve the murders and get their lives back?
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A bunch of repeat freebies from
Camel Press (mostly mysteries).