Cozy Mysteries and Amateur Sleuths

Getting Rid of Gary

Noah Chinn

ASIN B0947JVLNB

Author statement: “It’s August, 1985, and private investigator James Cote has a problem. Someone has kidnapped his uncle Gary and shipped him off to Peru. Getting Rid of Gary was loosely inspired by some of the family drama that happened after my grandmother passed away, but it was mostly a way to revisit the 1980s through the lens of a cozy mystery.”

Misty Manor

Linda Rawlins

ISBN 978-0-9914230-1-9

Author statement: “Three years have passed since Hurricane Sandy devastated the New Jersey Shore, as Megan Stanford returns to her childhood home to find her elderly grandmother and the family grand Victorian in a state of shocking neglect. When the town threatens to sue to ensure demolition of the guest cottages behind Misty Manor, mystery unfolds in the once quiet town of Misty Point.”

Morgan’s Landing

Linda Griffin

ASIN B0DZY1YR6V

Author statement: “Julie Morgan is 14, living in comfort with her parents and twin sister, when she disappears. Detective Jim Brady identifies a few suspects—including his own teenage son. I was less interested in the answer than in how a small-town cop would go about searching for it and how other townspeople would react and speculate.”

Political and International Thrillers

Black Swan Impact

Helen Vettori

ASIN B0CVLHYHBV

Author statement: “I didn’t know I would write Black Swan Impact when I retired from the Department of Homeland Security in 2018. However, when Covid-19 emerged, I was appalled by official actions or lack thereof, so I imagined a future scenario and created this sci-fi political thriller.”

Deep Freeze

Anne Louise O’Connell

ISBN 978-1-989833-45-2

Author statement: “Susan Morris is relishing the artificial cold of Ski Dubai with fellow expat Pat Thornton when she sees the chairlift carrying Pat’s husband detach from its cable. Susan begins to suspect the chairlift crash was no accident. I first started writing fiction when I was living in the United Arab Emirates. The experiences I had were such great fodder for storytelling.”