1: Morgan The key was a blackened talisman, tucked into her leather cuff. She’d gotten in the habit of keeping it there since it had become the only tangible thing she owned when, three months ago, her entire life was reduced to ash and ruin. The fire department had already come and gone by the…
Chapter 1 I was born in death. At least that’s how my father put it whenever I’d ask him about my mother. In truth, I guess he’s right, because she died during childbirth. Some people say it was her last selfless act, but I’ve been told that a mother’s love is unconditional, and no matter…
New York Times bestseller P. J. Tracy returns with Deep into the Dark (Minotaur Books, January 12, 2021), the first in a new series set in LA and featuring up-and-coming LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan and murder suspect Sam Easton. Take a first look at the striking book cover right here, and read on for a…
In a lot of ways, my dad was larger than life, a kid who was born on a farm to immigrant parents and who eventually moved to the big city where because of the Depression, he never finished high school. He joined the Marines in WWII and his many medals are now proudly displayed on…
Join author Cindy Anstey as she explores how the concept of a full-time police force evolved from the informal truncheon-swinging “Peelers” and “Bobbies.” The Hummingbird Dagger—Cindy’s new YA novel set in a turbulent 1800’s London as the police force is transforming—blends romance, danger, and mystery. Research is the lifeblood of a historical writer. Not only…
In Sophie Hénaff’s Stick Together, Anne Capestan is back with her squad of misfits. But with their status in trouble and a hopeless murder to solve, team morale is running low. I adored Sophie Hénaff’s debut novel, The Awkward Squad, a droll police procedural centered on a group of cast-offs that the national police could not fire…
An alleged meth dealer was arrested after police responded to reports of a couple of naked people running around causing an uproar in Trinity, Texas. At 6AM the Trinity Sheriff's office received a phone call regarding a naked woman who was banging on a resident's door. Responding deputies were not able find anyone when they…
One zoo visitor made it a mission to see her favorite animal up close, however, the giraffe did not share her excitement at all. The woman, Amanda Hall of San Luis Obispo, California climbed over one fence and was nearly over the second fence of the giraffe's enclosure at a Wisconsin zoo when Wally, a…
Massachusetts police arrested a homeowner for “open and gross lewdness” after he was witnessed doing weekend yard work completely naked. Sounds painful for all involved, doesn't it? 69 year old Richard Capra of Shrewsbury was using his trusty leaf blower by the curb of his house when passing cars began slowing down to photograph the…
Let’s be honest, it is certainly one thing to get caught with a smoking gun in your hand, but it is quite another to get caught with a buzzing vibrator in your baby’s stroller. That’s just what happened to South Carolina resident, Misty Ann Lee, after she attempted to steal a sex toy from the…
