About Needles and Pins: A sharp detective deals with a cruel murder

A female detective sails close to the wind when a murder is discovered.

Detective Veronika Pope is enjoying an idyllic holiday at a beach house on the Coral Sea, when her detective partner asks for help with a cold case.

Arthur Tetley has been missing for ten years. When his body is found wrapped in plastic and buried in the rainforest, the marks it bears are hard to misread.

The business tycoon met a horrific end at the hands of someone who clearly wanted him to suffer in death.

Detective Pope has a hunch someone close to the victim knows more than they’ve let on. Yet the past has been buried deep, and few people want it to surface.

In her quest to find answers, Pope is forced to confront memories of her own which, like the victim, might better have been kept unearthed.

This novella is the fifth title in the Cold Case Mysteries series featuring Veronika Pope by bestselling Australian author Anna Willett. The full list of books is as follows:

1. THE WOMAN BEHIND HER
2. THE FAMILY MAN
3. THE NEWLYWED
4. THE IDEAL COUPLE
5. NEEDLES AND PINS

Anna Willett is the author of several other thrillers. Look out for the bestselling DEAR NEIGHBOUR and the more recently published LOST TO THE LAKE.

All of her books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback from Amazon.

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About Postponement: A Cryo-Suspension Domestic Thriller

What if you could place your newborn into cryo-suspension until it was more convenient to bring him or her home?

Nora Collins works at the Postponement Center helping parents coordinate the controversial cryonic preservation of their newborn babies. Sometimes a choice for medical reasons, but more often because of career or educational obligations, financial aspirations, or due to parental immaturity.

Past child-bearing years herself, Nora secretly atones for past decisions by living a solitary life. She develops a questionable, borderline addictive, relationship with the frozen neonates, frequently watching them and communicating with them in their crypod units.

Routinely Nora is confronted by outraged protestors and must navigate an ethical minefield surrounding the postponement practice. She staunchly believes parents should choose for themselves when the time is right to bring their baby home—until she doesn’t.

After one mother decides to pre-maturely reanimate her son, forcing him into a life-threatening position, Nora struggles with her own dangerous choice—honor the desire of the new mother or save the innocent child.

First Place Winner in Women’s Clean Fiction — Incipere Book Award

See what readers are saying about Postponement:

“It has been a long time since I have been so moved emotionally by characters such as these.” Amazon reviewer

“The author develops her characters well so that they feel real.”Goodreads reviewer

“A must read. [It] held my interest from the first chapter to the last…I laughed and I cried. This is one book I will keep and read again.” Goodreads reviewer

“I love books that leave me still thinking a week after the fact!” Reader comment

“I liked the introspection and just the feel of the book.” Goodreads reviewer

“It’ll give you the chance to think about other things when you need a change from reality.” Goodreads reviewer

“Amazing. It’s fast paced and no filler…and it’s such an interesting subject.” Goodreads reviewer

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About What Grows From the Dead

Morris Drummond is not at his best. Well, he hasn’t been at his best for a while now. But having just suffered two crushing losses, he’s almost at rock bottom, which for him means driving ride-share in his mom’s beat up Chevy, drowning his sorrows in tacos and spray cheese, and avoiding anything related to ambition, self-care, or laundry.

Morris is about to learn that he didn’t even know what rock bottom looked like, and it’s all thanks to his mom. A secret she left behind comes to light, and that brings down a lot of unwanted attention on Morris, the kind that looks likely to send him either to prison or to the hereafter. Blood and treachery from long ago rise to the surface, and Morris has only his lawyer Annie, who’s an old high school friend, and a few unexpected allies to call on as he tries to figure out what his mom was up to and why so many people want him out of the picture.

A humorous mystery with elements of suspense and thrillers, What Grows From the Dead is set in present-day small-town North Carolina, not far from the mysterious Uwharrie Forest.

Content warnings: Coarse language throughout; some gun violence (not graphic).

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About The Nine Minute Diner

Embark on a gripping journey through a 48,000-word narrative woven from diverse threads of drama, mystery, and human connection. From a web of small-town secrets to a chaotic diner robbery, the text explores the profound impacts of choices on sixteen compelling characters. The Nine Minute Diner captures the haunting reverberations of their decisions, revealing the intricate dance between fate and human agency. Suspenseful twists and poignant reflections unravel a rich tapestry of lives colliding, creating an immersive experience that leaves readers spellbound. In this novella-length narrative, every word adds depth to a narrative that explores the profound consequences of a desperate act.

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About INTERCEPTED: A Brother’s Revenge, A Girl Gone Missing One Chance to Change Fate (Agents of Justice Series Book 1)

Nora Milton believed her calling was to help lessen the suffering in a world filled with pain.

It’s chasing that calling, on a mission to help finish the construction of an orphanage in Mexico, that Nora meets mission pilot, Anthony Goldburg. A spark is kindled between them but it’s cut short when Nora finds herself kidnapped at gunpoint.

Desperate to save the woman his heart longs for, Anthony sets out on a search for Nora on his own. All too quickly he learns just how dangerous leaving the safety of the compound can be and finds himself entrenched in the dangerous drug trade.

Hot on the heels of a notorious drug lord, DEA Agent Greg Nelson is on a mission of his own – to clear the streets of drugs. Joining forces with FBI Agent Grisham they work to close off one of the major drug pipelines from south of the border when they discover a young woman being held against her will.

Together, can these two agents help Anthony save Nora before she’s lost forever?

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About Viva Lost Vegas: A Small Town Wedding Mystery (Chloe Boston Cozy Mysteries Book 6)

“Viva Lost Vegas” is the sixth book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. The path of true love is often rocky, but Chloe and Alex are trying to smooth the way by eloping to Las Vegas. On the way, they take a detour through a ghost town and find a body in a pink Cadillac. Someone is killing Elvis impersonators. Will they be hearing funeral bells or chapel bells on their wedding day?

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About Revenge on a Cruel World

This book explores the dangerous world of weaponized finance and its destructive capabilities. Fans of Jack Slater, James Patterson, and Brad Thor won’t be able to put this book down.

Lieutenant Colonel Buffy VanderRye leads a team of misfits as they are hired by the Department of Treasury to take down a major crime cartel through cyberattacks on their banks. But when Buffy discovers the depth of corruption in our world, she’s consumed by a desire for revenge, even if it means sacrificing everything.

As she navigates the dangerous terrain of politics and betrayal, Harrison, the man she hates most, offers her a deal that could change everything. When his plan backfires and sends the world into chaos, Buffy and Harrison must work together to survive a deadly game of cat and mouse.

With factions vying for control and the government crumbling around them, can they escape their enemies and find redemption? Don’t miss out on this heart-pounding tale of intrigue, suspense, and vengeance.

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About Blood on Their Hands

Meet Hiram Garbuncle, a seasoned criminal defense attorney with an unquenchable thirst for money and liquor, supplemented by sports and sex. His life is a delicate balance between law’s hallowed halls and the bottom of a whiskey bottle.

Across town, Alec Monceau is eking out a living as a computer salesman, striving to support his daughter’s family in Trinidad. In the pivotal year of 2008, his car sport an Obama bumper sticker—a seemingly innocuous political endorsement that draws him into a terrifying ordeal of an unjust traffic stop and a savage police assault.

Garbuncle, an avowed alcoholic and cynic, finds himself torn between his miserly instincts and a compelling pro bono case. His certainty of a triumphant defense makes him reckless, leading to a mistrial. But when he unearths damning evidence against the police officers, his mission mutates: It’s no longer just about winning a case; it’s about ensuring survival for himself and his client, while a new trial looms.

Blood on Their Hands forges a mesmerizing narrative from suspense and thrills, sharp twists and comic relief, and riveting courtroom drama. Amid the intense action sequences and scenes intimating lust, humor rises like a benevolent phoenix, lightening the deep pathos of a tragic love story.

This tale teems with vibrant characters, piquant dialogue, mesmerizing twists and turns, and a wrenching moral dilemma, delivering a message that resonates in our time.

But at its heart, “Blood on Their Hands” is a transformative journey—a poignant saga of redemption against all odds. Prepare to be enthralled, amused, and deeply moved by this remarkable novel.

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