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  Operation Cactus Blossom

  Stacy Lee

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  Get ready for another thrilling ride with the Prickly Pen Investigations team! 
  From one sticky situation to another prickly one, Jon and Lina are back at it—stronger than ever. 
  This time, Jon and Lina are tackling a mission that hits a little too close to home—the search for Alanna Foster, the last missing teen, aka “Cactus Blossom.” With undercover missions intensifying and the clock ticking, mistakes simply aren’t an option. But while they’re chasing serial wedding crashers, tracking down a friend’s cheating spouse, and racing against time, the real battle is unfolding behind the scenes. 
  Grab your popcorn, ladies and gentlemen, and take a front-row seat to Jon and Lina’s attempts to rebuild their family—and Alanna’s harrowing journey through dual perspectives of both female protagonists. What really happened during the time she was gone? As Alanna’s story of kidnapping, survival, and resilience unfolds, a silver lining emerges that just might make the nightmare worth enduring. 
  With Alanna’s fate hanging in the balance and Jon and Lina’s relationship still a work in progress, they’ll discover that love, like their investigations, is a gamble—sometimes, you have to play to win. Can they rise to the challenge, or will the weight of the past derail everything? Join our favorite private investigators for a thrilling, witty, page-turning adventure in Operation Cactus Blossom, where the stakes are sky-high, but the laughs, heart, and hope never fall short.

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  Chains

  Jan Richter

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  A brilliant murder mystery of shifting perspectives, motivations, and politics from the author of Rabbit Hole. The owner of Brookhaven Care Home has been stabbed to death in his office, and DS Ursula Pembridge is called out to investigate the murder of the prominent property developer. When Owen Caulfield, campaign staffer for the local Labour MP, arrives to find his boss’s planned visit has been cancelled due to the tragedy, he decides to stay and visit his elderly father instead. And so begins this uniquely compelling crime thriller. With each chapter told from a different point of view, Chains pulls us into the recent history of Britain and introduces us to adulterer and blackmailer, politician and private detective, environmentalist and killer—and reminds us that whether it’s about current events or criminal activities, we all see situations very differently . . .

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  The PMS Murder

  Laura Levine

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  On the frontlines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance writer Jaine Austen makes a new friend—a wannabe actress named Pam—and gets a new job: sprucing up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invites Jaine to join The PMS Club–a women's support group that meets once a week over guacamole and margaritas. 
   
   
   
  But joining the club proves to be more a curse than a blessing for Jaine. Though she is warned that Rochelle, the hostess, makes a guacamole to die for, Jaine never takes the warning literally. Until another PMS member, Marybeth, drops dead over a mouthful of the green stuff. Now instead of dishing dirt with The PMS Club, Jaine has to dig up the dirt on the surviving members . . .

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  Solitaire Series Episode 22 The:...

  Troy Lambert

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  In a shadow-drenched Los Angeles, 1968, Jack is a man caught between a deadly task and a ticking clock. As episode 22 of the gripping Solitaire Series unfolds, under the watchful eyes of unseen adversaries, Jack finds himself navigating the treacherous underbelly of the city under the pseudonym "Seven of Spades." 
  With sunset casting long shadows over the deserted Alpha Beta parking lot, Jack unearths unsettling secrets hidden within a seemingly ordinary van—an enigmatic signet ring and two decks filled only with Aces of Spades. As Jack strives to piece together the mystery under the threatening growl of his empty stomach, his reliance on experience and muscle memory is tested against the silent whispers of danger lurking at every corner. 
  Encountering a bizarre mix of fake lawmen and shadowy figures, Jack must discern ally from enemy as deception layers upon deception. A hidden bullet and a disturbing realization that his backup might not be what it seems force Jack to question the very ground he stands on. 
  Facing echoes of laughter that conceal deadly intentions and piercing eyes that hold secrets, Jack knows one misstep could silence him forever. As he immerses himself in an early morning dash for truth and survival, breakfast plans at Nick’s Cafe morph into a nerve-straining game of cat and mouse that could lead Jack deeper into the heart of darkness. 
  Prepare for a heady plunge into the noir world of trust and betrayal, where one man's quest for clarity becomes a twisted dance with fate, in *Seven of Spades - Part 2*, where nothing is as it seems and every shadow hides a story just waiting to be unmasked.

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  Murder at Merry Beggars Hall

  Kay Blythe

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  December 1922, and society dressmaker Jemima Flowerday receives a letter from Lady Hamlash of Merry Beggars Hall, requesting three new gowns for the Christmas season. Lady Hamlash does not travel, so Jemima will need to visit the Hall in deepest Suffolk to work in situ. 
   
  The commission appeals to Jemima for more than one reason. It will bring her some much-needed income. More interestingly, the remote manor house was the scene of a grisly murder earlier that year, when Lady Hamlash, inspecting her plants in the walled garden, found a man's severed head beneath a terracotta asparagus cloche. 
   
  The murder was never solved. 
   
  Jemima, addicted to mystery novels and with a proud history of solving crimes in her own world, is sure she can crack the case. That ambition becomes a little more complicated when, within hours of her arrival at Merry Beggars Hall, the household cook dies in front of her…

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  The Adventure of the Beryl...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

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