Happy New Year!
The first of every month we
feature releases from our Debut Authors Class. Please take a look and let’s
celebrate their success!
Colby Marshall – Chain of Command
(Stairway Press) January 8, 2013
The road to the Oval Office is
paved in blood…
The simultaneous assassinations of the President and Vice President catapults the Speaker of the House into the White House as the first female President of the United States. Evidence points to a former Navy SEAL as one of the assassins.
Relegated to writing sidebar stories instead of headlines, journalist McKenzie McClendon composes a scathing story about the Navy training killers.
Former Navy SEAL Noah Hutchins doesn’t believe his partner could have committed the heinous crime. They’d endured the horrors of Afghanistan together. His buddy was a hero, not a murderer.
The simultaneous assassinations of the President and Vice President catapults the Speaker of the House into the White House as the first female President of the United States. Evidence points to a former Navy SEAL as one of the assassins.
Relegated to writing sidebar stories instead of headlines, journalist McKenzie McClendon composes a scathing story about the Navy training killers.
Former Navy SEAL Noah Hutchins doesn’t believe his partner could have committed the heinous crime. They’d endured the horrors of Afghanistan together. His buddy was a hero, not a murderer.
No one who knows the truth is
safe…
Thrown together in a search for
the truth—and a career-making story—McKenzie and Noah must unravel a dangerous
web of lies that includes a radical foreign faction, a violent ultra-feminist
group, and corrupt politicians willing to kill to keep their secrets.
And an assassin who is still on
the loose.
His next targets are already in
his crosshairs…
Jenny
Milchman - Cover of Snow (Ballantine)
January 15, 2013
Waking up one wintry morning in her old
farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton
instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she
finds her world is suddenly, irretrievably shattered: Her husband, Brendan, has
committed suicide.
The first few hours following Nora’s
devastating discovery pass for her in a blur of numbness and disbelief. Then, a
disturbing awareness slowly settles in: Brendan left no note and gave no
indication that he was contemplating taking his own life. Why would a
rock-solid police officer with unwavering affection for his wife, job, and
quaint hometown suddenly choose to end it all? Having spent a lifetime avoiding
hard truths, Nora must now start facing them.
Unraveling her late husband’s final days, Nora searches for an explanation—but finds a bewildering resistance from Brendan’s best friend and partner, his fellow police officers, and his brittle mother. It quickly becomes clear to Nora that she is asking questions no one wants to answer. For beneath the soft cover of snow lies a powerful conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep its presence unknown ... and its darkest secrets hidden.
Unraveling her late husband’s final days, Nora searches for an explanation—but finds a bewildering resistance from Brendan’s best friend and partner, his fellow police officers, and his brittle mother. It quickly becomes clear to Nora that she is asking questions no one wants to answer. For beneath the soft cover of snow lies a powerful conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep its presence unknown ... and its darkest secrets hidden.
Lynne Raimondo – Dante’s Wood (Seventh Street Books) January
15, 2013
Psychiatrist Mark Angelotti knows that genes don’t lie. Or
do they?
Back at work after a devastating illness, Mark believes he
has put his past behind him when he is asked to examine Charlie Dickerson, a
mentally handicapped teenager whose wealthy mother insists he is a victim of
sexual abuse. Mark diagnoses a different reason for Charlie’s ills, but his
prescription turns deadly when a teacher is murdered and Charlie confesses to
the police.
Volunteering to testify on Charlie’s behalf, Mark’s worst
fears are realized when paternity tests show the victim was pregnant with Charlie’s
child. Now it’s up to Mark to prove Charlie’s innocence in a case where nothing
is as first meets the eye.
Not even genes – Mark’s or Charlie’s – can be trusted to
shine a light on the truth.
Sam Thomas – The
Midwife's Tale: A Mystery (Minotaur/St. Martin's) January 2013
It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the
King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the
rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of
rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of
murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her
friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who’s
far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save
Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous
figure from Martha’s past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing
to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes
of the city’s most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest
neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther’s murdered husband, they
discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life,
and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.
So the next time you run into your neighborhood midwife, show a little respect. She could be on her way to deliver a child, but she also may be unraveling a series of brutal murders, or trying to keep you safe from Satan’s machinations. It’s a busy job, but someone’s got to do it.