Oconee Spirit Press Books by Title
Ash Wednesday by Harold Eppley
Gerald Weiss is a pastor in crisis. His wife abandoned him for a lesbian relationship, his parishioners are defecting to a megachurch where the sacrament of Holy Communion has been replaced by an All-U-Can-Eat Communion Brunch Buffet, and his job is about to be handed over to a graduate of Armageddon Bible College. As the members of Abiding Truth battle over everything from the time for Sunday services to the color of the sign out front, Gerald struggles to hold on to his sanity and his faith.
Filled with flawed yet endearing characters, Ash Wednesday presents an unsentimental comedic look at small town life, sexual mores, and the decline of mainline religion in contemporary America.
Watch the trailer for Ash Wednesday on YouTube.
Ebook $9.95 - 268 pages
Gerald Weiss is a pastor in crisis. His wife abandoned him for a lesbian relationship, his parishioners are defecting to a megachurch where the sacrament of Holy Communion has been replaced by an All-U-Can-Eat Communion Brunch Buffet, and his job is about to be handed over to a graduate of Armageddon Bible College. As the members of Abiding Truth battle over everything from the time for Sunday services to the color of the sign out front, Gerald struggles to hold on to his sanity and his faith.
Filled with flawed yet endearing characters, Ash Wednesday presents an unsentimental comedic look at small town life, sexual mores, and the decline of mainline religion in contemporary America.
Watch the trailer for Ash Wednesday on YouTube.
Ebook $9.95 - 268 pages
Baby Doll Games by Margaret Maron
FIFTH IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
When a Greenwich Village dancer is brutally murdered in front of an audience of horrified children, Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD must sort through the backstage passions to discover who wanted Emmy Mion dead and why. Complicating her investigation are her housemate, who wrote the scenario for the death scene; a children's therapist with her own agenda; and a world-famous artist whose on-again/off-again attentions have left an emotionally Sigrid bewildered and insecure. Only by concentrating on the murder can she maintain her equilibrium.
Paperback, 216 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN:978-9859107-2-3
$12.99
FIFTH IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
When a Greenwich Village dancer is brutally murdered in front of an audience of horrified children, Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD must sort through the backstage passions to discover who wanted Emmy Mion dead and why. Complicating her investigation are her housemate, who wrote the scenario for the death scene; a children's therapist with her own agenda; and a world-famous artist whose on-again/off-again attentions have left an emotionally Sigrid bewildered and insecure. Only by concentrating on the murder can she maintain her equilibrium.
Paperback, 216 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN:978-9859107-2-3
$12.99
Bloody Kin by Margaret Maron
After three critically acclaimed mysteries set against the art world of New York, this briskly paced, atmospheric thriller about a murderous web of conspiracy and greed in a quiet rural commumity was Margaret Maron's first use of her North Carolina setting. Considered a prequel to her Judge Deborah Knott series, it introduces many of the "Colleton County" characters that readers came to know and love in the later books. Readers familiar with the series will be amused to meet Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant before his life became irrevocably entangled with the judge's. The Indianapolis News said, "More than just a mystery; it is a portrait of a place," and the Houston Chronicle agreed: "Dramatic and satisfying . . . So rich in detail and description of the new South that you can almost hear the North Carolina twang and taste the barbecue."
When Jake Honeycutt is killed in a hunting accident, his pregnant wife, Kate, decides to return to the North Carolina farm where Jake grew up to have his baby. A successful fabric designer, she leaves behind the fast-paced life of Manhattan and a comfortable apartment on the Upper West Side for the idyllic world of cotton and tobacco fields, of piney woods and quiet starlit nights. But Kate's arrival at the farm is far from peaceful: on her first day, she stumbles across the body of one of Jake's Vietnam war buddies and discovers that her husband's hunting accident was no accident but premeditated murder.
Paperback, 200 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN:978-0-9859107-6-1
$11.95
After three critically acclaimed mysteries set against the art world of New York, this briskly paced, atmospheric thriller about a murderous web of conspiracy and greed in a quiet rural commumity was Margaret Maron's first use of her North Carolina setting. Considered a prequel to her Judge Deborah Knott series, it introduces many of the "Colleton County" characters that readers came to know and love in the later books. Readers familiar with the series will be amused to meet Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant before his life became irrevocably entangled with the judge's. The Indianapolis News said, "More than just a mystery; it is a portrait of a place," and the Houston Chronicle agreed: "Dramatic and satisfying . . . So rich in detail and description of the new South that you can almost hear the North Carolina twang and taste the barbecue."
When Jake Honeycutt is killed in a hunting accident, his pregnant wife, Kate, decides to return to the North Carolina farm where Jake grew up to have his baby. A successful fabric designer, she leaves behind the fast-paced life of Manhattan and a comfortable apartment on the Upper West Side for the idyllic world of cotton and tobacco fields, of piney woods and quiet starlit nights. But Kate's arrival at the farm is far from peaceful: on her first day, she stumbles across the body of one of Jake's Vietnam war buddies and discovers that her husband's hunting accident was no accident but premeditated murder.
Paperback, 200 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN:978-0-9859107-6-1
$11.95
The Bones and the Book by Jane Isenberg
WILLA LITERARY AWARD winner
In 1890, Aliza Rudinsk, a young Orthodox Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine, came to Seattle via New York’s Lower East Side expecting to build a good life for herself. When Aliza’s bones turn up in Seattle’s underground streets in 1965 along with a book written in Yiddish, recently widowed empty nester Rachel Mazursky offers to translate the book. Aliza’s surprising and poignant story compels Rachel to search for clues to the identity of the young woman’s murderer, but her quest for the truth unearths disturbing secrets about her own past as well as Aliza’s. The Bones and the Book carries the reader back to a far-flung outpost of the Jewish diaspora where gold, good table manners, and assimilating often trump Torah, tribe, and tradition.
“Isenberg’s story pulled me in right from the startling prologue. The twin historical stories of Aliza and Rachel are compelling and poignant. The lives of these women in 1900 and 1965 are beautifully woven together, the strands balancing each other as each discovers her strengths and revises her own identity as a woman and a Jew.” – Sharan Newman, author of The Shanghai Tunnel
Trade Paperback, 262 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9840109-2-9
$14.95
October 2012
WILLA LITERARY AWARD winner
In 1890, Aliza Rudinsk, a young Orthodox Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine, came to Seattle via New York’s Lower East Side expecting to build a good life for herself. When Aliza’s bones turn up in Seattle’s underground streets in 1965 along with a book written in Yiddish, recently widowed empty nester Rachel Mazursky offers to translate the book. Aliza’s surprising and poignant story compels Rachel to search for clues to the identity of the young woman’s murderer, but her quest for the truth unearths disturbing secrets about her own past as well as Aliza’s. The Bones and the Book carries the reader back to a far-flung outpost of the Jewish diaspora where gold, good table manners, and assimilating often trump Torah, tribe, and tradition.
“Isenberg’s story pulled me in right from the startling prologue. The twin historical stories of Aliza and Rachel are compelling and poignant. The lives of these women in 1900 and 1965 are beautifully woven together, the strands balancing each other as each discovers her strengths and revises her own identity as a woman and a Jew.” – Sharan Newman, author of The Shanghai Tunnel
Trade Paperback, 262 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9840109-2-9
$14.95
October 2012
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
Deborah Knott was expected to be a conventional little girl and eventually a conventional woman, worshipped on a pedestal by a conventional husband.
Instead, she became an attorney, infiltrating the old boy network that still rules the tobacco country of Colleton County, North Carolina. Some say her success is a sign of the New South, but no one knows better than she the power of the past—her family’s long history in the area is a major asset in her campaign for district judge. Then again, as the strong-willed daughter of Kezzie Knott—notorious bootlegger, ex-con, and political string-puller—history is also one of her greatest problems.
Deborah Knott was expected to be a conventional little girl and eventually a conventional woman, worshipped on a pedestal by a conventional husband.
Instead, she became an attorney, infiltrating the old boy network that still rules the tobacco country of Colleton County, North Carolina. Some say her success is a sign of the New South, but no one knows better than she the power of the past—her family’s long history in the area is a major asset in her campaign for district judge. Then again, as the strong-willed daughter of Kezzie Knott—notorious bootlegger, ex-con, and political string-puller—history is also one of her greatest problems.
Burned
by Julie Herman
Sophie would be the happiest girl in the world if she could spend every day hanging out with her friends Yasmine and Tanner, and riding her beloved horse, Cricket. But she stands to lose all of that and more when her mom is accused of theft and arson. As the evidence piles up and friends turn away, Sophie scrambles to clear her mother's name--and soon finds herself in the middle of a hot mess.
Trade Paperback, 138 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-3-7
$9.95
June 2017
by Julie Herman
Sophie would be the happiest girl in the world if she could spend every day hanging out with her friends Yasmine and Tanner, and riding her beloved horse, Cricket. But she stands to lose all of that and more when her mom is accused of theft and arson. As the evidence piles up and friends turn away, Sophie scrambles to clear her mother's name--and soon finds herself in the middle of a hot mess.
Trade Paperback, 138 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-3-7
$9.95
June 2017
Cliff’s Edge
Love and Treachery in First Century Rome
by Carolyn Hart
Married at fifteen to a man chosen by her father, Camilla has long since resigned herself to the role of dutiful and respectable wife. Hers is a loveless union, however; her husband, Decimus, has no interest in Camilla beyond the money, possessions, and social station she provides him.
And then Camilla meets the good and gentle Marcus Julius Paulus and learns for the first time what it means to be cherished by a man.
Despite her feelings for Marcus, Camilla would rather give up her true love and lasting happiness than bring scandal on her family. But when she learns of ambitious Decimus’s despicable plan to gain favor with the emperor Caligula, Camilla knows she must free herself from her husband’s clutches.
Now she has become a liability and Decimus is determined to rid himself of the wife he has never loved without giving up either her money or family connections.
Trade Paper 198 pp, 6x9
ISBN: 978-0984010998
$11.95
Ebook $4.99
Love and Treachery in First Century Rome
by Carolyn Hart
Married at fifteen to a man chosen by her father, Camilla has long since resigned herself to the role of dutiful and respectable wife. Hers is a loveless union, however; her husband, Decimus, has no interest in Camilla beyond the money, possessions, and social station she provides him.
And then Camilla meets the good and gentle Marcus Julius Paulus and learns for the first time what it means to be cherished by a man.
Despite her feelings for Marcus, Camilla would rather give up her true love and lasting happiness than bring scandal on her family. But when she learns of ambitious Decimus’s despicable plan to gain favor with the emperor Caligula, Camilla knows she must free herself from her husband’s clutches.
Now she has become a liability and Decimus is determined to rid himself of the wife he has never loved without giving up either her money or family connections.
Trade Paper 198 pp, 6x9
ISBN: 978-0984010998
$11.95
Ebook $4.99
Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron
SIXTH IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House is home to an idiosyncratic collection of art. For over sixty years it has managed on donations from the visiting public and its dwindling trust fund. But tastes in art do change and in trying to restore the house's faded luster, its trustees propose a major retrospective for renowned artist Oscar Nauman. A festive Christmas party in Nauman's honor ends in acrimony--and next morning one of the trustees is found in a most unfestive heap at the bottom of the basement steps. Lt. Sigrid Harald had been an unwilling guest and the party and now she must return to investigate why that trustee was so universally hated.
"Lt. Harald is certainly more interesting than any run-of-the-mill cop-novel hero." - The Wall Street Journal
Trade Paperback, 218 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9830040-9-7 - $12.99
December 2013
SIXTH IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House is home to an idiosyncratic collection of art. For over sixty years it has managed on donations from the visiting public and its dwindling trust fund. But tastes in art do change and in trying to restore the house's faded luster, its trustees propose a major retrospective for renowned artist Oscar Nauman. A festive Christmas party in Nauman's honor ends in acrimony--and next morning one of the trustees is found in a most unfestive heap at the bottom of the basement steps. Lt. Sigrid Harald had been an unwilling guest and the party and now she must return to investigate why that trustee was so universally hated.
"Lt. Harald is certainly more interesting than any run-of-the-mill cop-novel hero." - The Wall Street Journal
Trade Paperback, 218 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9830040-9-7 - $12.99
December 2013
Death of a Butterfly by Margaret Maron
SECOND IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
Lt. Harald investigates the death of Julie Redmond, a beautiful but cold, self-centered, and demanding woman. Sigrid digs into Julie Redmond's past, untangling a web of blackmail and murder and half a million dollars' worth of stolen gems, revealing a ruthless mastermind whose cruelty has finally caught up with her.
Trade Paperback, 190 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9840109-6-7 - $12.95
December 2012
SECOND IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
Lt. Harald investigates the death of Julie Redmond, a beautiful but cold, self-centered, and demanding woman. Sigrid digs into Julie Redmond's past, untangling a web of blackmail and murder and half a million dollars' worth of stolen gems, revealing a ruthless mastermind whose cruelty has finally caught up with her.
Trade Paperback, 190 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9840109-6-7 - $12.95
December 2012
Death in Blue Folders by Margaret Maron
THIRD IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
Attorney Clayton Gladwell keeps 'special' cases in blue folders that only he can access, but when Gladwell announces his impending retirement, someone decides that Blue Folder secrets aren’t safe unless everyone connected to them is dead. From a long-dead movie star, the owner of a trendy art gallery, and an Algonquin Roundtable personality to a senile resident in a nursing home and a broken-down cleaning woman, Lt. Harald must figure out who hated or feared Gladwell enough to shoot him.
Trade Paperback, 212 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-0-9 - $12.95
February 2013
THIRD IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
Attorney Clayton Gladwell keeps 'special' cases in blue folders that only he can access, but when Gladwell announces his impending retirement, someone decides that Blue Folder secrets aren’t safe unless everyone connected to them is dead. From a long-dead movie star, the owner of a trendy art gallery, and an Algonquin Roundtable personality to a senile resident in a nursing home and a broken-down cleaning woman, Lt. Harald must figure out who hated or feared Gladwell enough to shoot him.
Trade Paperback, 212 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-0-9 - $12.95
February 2013
Flee From the Past by Carolyn Hart
In 1966, Ann Severin was a carefree college student in Italy…until she disappeared without a trace.
Six years later, wife and mother Janey Hamilton is targeted by someone threatening to expose the truth about her connection to Ann and the horrible crime she committed. Janey thought she had outrun her past, but her secrets cast a long shadow.
Trade paperback, 6 x 9, 166 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9830040-6-6
$10.95
Publication date: August 15, 2012
In 1966, Ann Severin was a carefree college student in Italy…until she disappeared without a trace.
Six years later, wife and mother Janey Hamilton is targeted by someone threatening to expose the truth about her connection to Ann and the horrible crime she committed. Janey thought she had outrun her past, but her secrets cast a long shadow.
Trade paperback, 6 x 9, 166 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9830040-6-6
$10.95
Publication date: August 15, 2012
From Here To Absurdity: Pink Flamingos, Vibrators and other Comical Events by David Hunter
Have you ever looked at anything and felt like laughing out loud – while no one else around you saw the humor? Do you find it odd that there are more plastic flamingos in America than the real thing?
Does it seem strange to you that the great schism between Christianity in the East and West was nullified and they are still not together? Or that some people eat the second stomach of a cow as a delicacy? Or that the electric chair is supposed to be a humane death?
If any of these tickle your funny bone, this is the book for you. These and dozens of other absurdities are among David Hunter’s favorites.
Ebook - 314 pages - $9.95
Have you ever looked at anything and felt like laughing out loud – while no one else around you saw the humor? Do you find it odd that there are more plastic flamingos in America than the real thing?
Does it seem strange to you that the great schism between Christianity in the East and West was nullified and they are still not together? Or that some people eat the second stomach of a cow as a delicacy? Or that the electric chair is supposed to be a humane death?
If any of these tickle your funny bone, this is the book for you. These and dozens of other absurdities are among David Hunter’s favorites.
Ebook - 314 pages - $9.95
Fugitive Colors by Margaret Maron
Eighth in the Sigrid Harald series
Lt. Sigrid Harald—prickly, difficult, brilliant at solving baffling cases—returns for the eighth and final book in this series. Losing a fellow officer in a shoot-out is enough to rattle her cool, controlled demeanor, but she is also devastated by the loss of her lover, world-famous Oscar Nauman. She withdraws from her colleagues, her career, her life; but she cannot escape the art world. Nauman has left her his paintings worth millions and galleries are clamoring to sell them.
Just as time has faded the warm flesh tones early Italian masters used when painting the Madonna, time lets Sigrid begin to see through the vibrant surface of New York’s art world to the interplay of revenge and greed beneath. When a shocking homicide occurs, it hits close to home for Sigrid, implicating Oscar’s friends and fellow artists. Fugitive Colors goes beyond the simple whodunit to combine a top-notch mystery with a portrait of a woman cop indelibly changed—able to notice the background details, the subtle shades, and the feelings that ultimately damn or save us all.
“Maron adeptly establishes a coolly thematic and deceptive link among the deaths as she constructs her affecting mystery out of distinctive blend of art-world politics, past crimes and present grief.” – Publishers Weekly
Paperback, 6 x 9, 222 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-3-0
$12.99
Eighth in the Sigrid Harald series
Lt. Sigrid Harald—prickly, difficult, brilliant at solving baffling cases—returns for the eighth and final book in this series. Losing a fellow officer in a shoot-out is enough to rattle her cool, controlled demeanor, but she is also devastated by the loss of her lover, world-famous Oscar Nauman. She withdraws from her colleagues, her career, her life; but she cannot escape the art world. Nauman has left her his paintings worth millions and galleries are clamoring to sell them.
Just as time has faded the warm flesh tones early Italian masters used when painting the Madonna, time lets Sigrid begin to see through the vibrant surface of New York’s art world to the interplay of revenge and greed beneath. When a shocking homicide occurs, it hits close to home for Sigrid, implicating Oscar’s friends and fellow artists. Fugitive Colors goes beyond the simple whodunit to combine a top-notch mystery with a portrait of a woman cop indelibly changed—able to notice the background details, the subtle shades, and the feelings that ultimately damn or save us all.
“Maron adeptly establishes a coolly thematic and deceptive link among the deaths as she constructs her affecting mystery out of distinctive blend of art-world politics, past crimes and present grief.” – Publishers Weekly
Paperback, 6 x 9, 222 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-3-0
$12.99
Home Fires by Margaret Maron
One place the two Souths—black and white—meet is in Judge Deborah Knott’s courtroom. From the pretty yet aggressive D.A. who requests harsh sentences for her fellow African-Americans to the three white teens caught desecrating a family graveyard with hate slogans, racial bias still tries the soul and tests the sense of justice in Colleton County, North Carolina.
Busy with her reelection campaign and building a new house on land that has been in her family for generations, Deborah has both deep roots and a professional stake in her community. She’s shaken when her nephew A.K. is arrested with a group of vandalizing teens at a local cemetery. Torn between her duty as a judge and her loyalty to her large, close-knit family, Deborah has to decide how far she can go to protect him.
Then the first black church burns.
Determined to investigate the arson in which A.K. has become a suspect, Deborah Knott is quickly swept into the dark undercurrents of prejudice, pain,m and betrayal in this rural Southern county. Add to this the sudden arrival of a 1970s black activist-turned-public-figure, the emerging secrets of an angry young woman and the burning of two more churches, and Deborah faces a crisis that will challenge her political acumen, her detective skills, and her core beliefs.
The sins of the past return to forever change the present in Margaret Maron’s most riveting, emotionally moving novel to date, a mystery that involves color and kinship, and the unbreakable bonds of love . . .
Trade paperback, 6x9, 160 pages - $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-7-5
Publication Date: February 28, 2018
One place the two Souths—black and white—meet is in Judge Deborah Knott’s courtroom. From the pretty yet aggressive D.A. who requests harsh sentences for her fellow African-Americans to the three white teens caught desecrating a family graveyard with hate slogans, racial bias still tries the soul and tests the sense of justice in Colleton County, North Carolina.
Busy with her reelection campaign and building a new house on land that has been in her family for generations, Deborah has both deep roots and a professional stake in her community. She’s shaken when her nephew A.K. is arrested with a group of vandalizing teens at a local cemetery. Torn between her duty as a judge and her loyalty to her large, close-knit family, Deborah has to decide how far she can go to protect him.
Then the first black church burns.
Determined to investigate the arson in which A.K. has become a suspect, Deborah Knott is quickly swept into the dark undercurrents of prejudice, pain,m and betrayal in this rural Southern county. Add to this the sudden arrival of a 1970s black activist-turned-public-figure, the emerging secrets of an angry young woman and the burning of two more churches, and Deborah faces a crisis that will challenge her political acumen, her detective skills, and her core beliefs.
The sins of the past return to forever change the present in Margaret Maron’s most riveting, emotionally moving novel to date, a mystery that involves color and kinship, and the unbreakable bonds of love . . .
Trade paperback, 6x9, 160 pages - $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-7-5
Publication Date: February 28, 2018
Hiking for Fun and Pain by David Curran
You’ll find adventure, inspiration, fatigue, humor, and sometimes danger in David Curran's essays that cover a lifetime of exploration in the mountains of Tennessee, Wyoming, and New England. Hiking for Fun and Pain gives the basics of the sport and includes vivid accounts of David's experiences on the trails, all described in a humorous and joyful style.
Trade paperback, 6x9, 150 pages - $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-9-2
Ebook - $3.99
In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I by Elizabeth Foxwell
The contributions of American women to World War I often are neglected, perhaps because of a mistaken impression that as the official U.S. participation was two years in duration, its female contribution must be equally short. The few collections of World War I writings by women are composed of mostly British contributors, with only a few American women represented, and even those tend to be only the most prominent (e.g., Edith Wharton). The Department of Veterans Affairs report America’s Women Veterans states that more than 10,000 American women served in the war; of the nearly 200 listed as casualties, four occurred under combat conditions. Countless others worked in private or nongovernmental relief efforts or in initiatives connected to Allied nations. Still others reported on the war.
In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I restores American women’s role in the war through their first-person accounts, thus providing a fuller picture of their participation.
Paperback, 6 x 9, 186 pages, $11.95 - Ebook $4.99
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-7-8
Pub Date: September 2015
The contributions of American women to World War I often are neglected, perhaps because of a mistaken impression that as the official U.S. participation was two years in duration, its female contribution must be equally short. The few collections of World War I writings by women are composed of mostly British contributors, with only a few American women represented, and even those tend to be only the most prominent (e.g., Edith Wharton). The Department of Veterans Affairs report America’s Women Veterans states that more than 10,000 American women served in the war; of the nearly 200 listed as casualties, four occurred under combat conditions. Countless others worked in private or nongovernmental relief efforts or in initiatives connected to Allied nations. Still others reported on the war.
In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I restores American women’s role in the war through their first-person accounts, thus providing a fuller picture of their participation.
Paperback, 6 x 9, 186 pages, $11.95 - Ebook $4.99
ISBN: 978-0-9859107-7-8
Pub Date: September 2015
Killer Market by Margaret Maron
A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan. Deborah follows the chiffon-clad Good Samaritan through rooms of French provincial and high-tech modern when the lady suddenly vanishes, leaving a sexy hunk of manhood dead and motionless on a pricey piece of “motion” furniture.
Who is the mysterious Mrs. Jernigan and why is Deborah herself suspected of killing a furniture executive who specialized in making after-hours bedroom arrangements and cutthroat deals? To clear her name, Deborah has to table all other plans and investigate. But the knotty heart of this case is a secret well hidden behind a wall of silence about a woman’s past. It will take all Deborah’s courtroom experience and intuitive skills to strip through layers of deception to solve a whodunit that is strictly top-shelf.
A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan. Deborah follows the chiffon-clad Good Samaritan through rooms of French provincial and high-tech modern when the lady suddenly vanishes, leaving a sexy hunk of manhood dead and motionless on a pricey piece of “motion” furniture.
Who is the mysterious Mrs. Jernigan and why is Deborah herself suspected of killing a furniture executive who specialized in making after-hours bedroom arrangements and cutthroat deals? To clear her name, Deborah has to table all other plans and investigate. But the knotty heart of this case is a secret well hidden behind a wall of silence about a woman’s past. It will take all Deborah’s courtroom experience and intuitive skills to strip through layers of deception to solve a whodunit that is strictly top-shelf.
A Mouse's Tale: stories from the unhinged mind and imagination of David Hunter
Adolescents on a snipe hunt introduce themselves to Death, a corpse wakes up in the morgue, and men come under the spell of an ugly woman. Is it truth or is it fiction? Only one thing is certain - this collection of stories from the Warrior Poet is filled with koan-like insight into the souls of ordinary men.
Ebook - 186 pages - $10.95
Pub Date: November 2012
Adolescents on a snipe hunt introduce themselves to Death, a corpse wakes up in the morgue, and men come under the spell of an ugly woman. Is it truth or is it fiction? Only one thing is certain - this collection of stories from the Warrior Poet is filled with koan-like insight into the souls of ordinary men.
Ebook - 186 pages - $10.95
Pub Date: November 2012
Murder in the Melting Pot by Jane Isenberg
Miranda Breitner thinks her past is behind her when she opens the B&B that is meant to be the start of her new life, but murder and her long-ago secret threaten everything--including her life! Murder in the Melting Pot is a riveting tale from WILLA Award Winner Jane Isenberg
Paperback, 6 x 9, 218 pages, $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9984940-2-9
Pub Date: July 2018
Miranda Breitner thinks her past is behind her when she opens the B&B that is meant to be the start of her new life, but murder and her long-ago secret threaten everything--including her life! Murder in the Melting Pot is a riveting tale from WILLA Award Winner Jane Isenberg
Paperback, 6 x 9, 218 pages, $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9984940-2-9
Pub Date: July 2018
No Easy Answers by Carolyn Hart
Bart Hastings was born into a military family; his Army colonel father has devoted his life to defending his country and Bart's brother lost his life while fighting in a war that Bart is no longer sure he supports. But when his father is accused of treason, Bart finds himself entangled in a fight of his own as he tries to save his father's career and reputation. No Easy Answers is a fast-paced tale of espionage and murder set in the tumultuous and divisive years of the Vietnam War.
Paperback, 6 x 9, 164 pages, $10.95
ISBN: 978-0983004080
Pub Date: June 2013
Bart Hastings was born into a military family; his Army colonel father has devoted his life to defending his country and Bart's brother lost his life while fighting in a war that Bart is no longer sure he supports. But when his father is accused of treason, Bart finds himself entangled in a fight of his own as he tries to save his father's career and reputation. No Easy Answers is a fast-paced tale of espionage and murder set in the tumultuous and divisive years of the Vietnam War.
Paperback, 6 x 9, 164 pages, $10.95
ISBN: 978-0983004080
Pub Date: June 2013
No Man's Land & Other Stories by Elizabeth Foxwell
In this collection of stories from Agatha Award winner Elizabeth Foxwell, readers will find a broad range of entertaining puzzles ranging from murder in a Civil War hospital to murder on the Titanic, from a young Alice Roosevelt in the role of sleuth to the author’s collaboration with Dr. John Watson in recording a previously-unknown case solved by Sherlock Holmes.
OSPe ebook
$4.99
Pub date: January 30, 2013
In this collection of stories from Agatha Award winner Elizabeth Foxwell, readers will find a broad range of entertaining puzzles ranging from murder in a Civil War hospital to murder on the Titanic, from a young Alice Roosevelt in the role of sleuth to the author’s collaboration with Dr. John Watson in recording a previously-unknown case solved by Sherlock Holmes.
OSPe ebook
$4.99
Pub date: January 30, 2013
One Coffee With by Margaret Maron
FIRST IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
There was more than coffee in Professor Quinn's morning coffee. Someone in the art department office had slipped in a spoonful of poison. Among the suspects are a young secretary, an enraged Hungarian maintenance man, and a colleague who had an affair with Quin's wife. NYPD detective Sigrid Harold is called in to find the killer with an artistic temperament and an aptitude for death.
"Maron is better known for her Judge Deborah Knott series, but the Harald novels, starring a character every bit as complex as Knott, are equally entertaining.... Maron fans should jump on it while they have a chance." - Emily Melton, American Library Association.
Trade paperback, 6 x 9, 214 pages
ISBN: 978-0984010943
$12.95
Pub date: July 2012
FIRST IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
There was more than coffee in Professor Quinn's morning coffee. Someone in the art department office had slipped in a spoonful of poison. Among the suspects are a young secretary, an enraged Hungarian maintenance man, and a colleague who had an affair with Quin's wife. NYPD detective Sigrid Harold is called in to find the killer with an artistic temperament and an aptitude for death.
"Maron is better known for her Judge Deborah Knott series, but the Harald novels, starring a character every bit as complex as Knott, are equally entertaining.... Maron fans should jump on it while they have a chance." - Emily Melton, American Library Association.
Trade paperback, 6 x 9, 214 pages
ISBN: 978-0984010943
$12.95
Pub date: July 2012
Past Imperfect by Margaret Maron
SEVENTH IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
Sixty-one days before Detective Mick Cluett is due to retire, someone shoots him out in Sheepshead Bay and his murder quickly triggers the death of a young computer clerk who ran the murder gun's serial number through the data banks four years earlier.
As the investigation develops, Lt. Sigrid Harald realizes that Cluett's murder may be tied to the on-duty death of her own father and that the killer may be closer to her than she ever imagined.
"...a terse, technically expert police procedural, its hard-boiled plot undiluted by sentimentality." - Publishers Weekly
978-0-9840109-8-1
214 pages / Trade paper / $12.99
Pub date: February 2014
SEVENTH IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES
Sixty-one days before Detective Mick Cluett is due to retire, someone shoots him out in Sheepshead Bay and his murder quickly triggers the death of a young computer clerk who ran the murder gun's serial number through the data banks four years earlier.
As the investigation develops, Lt. Sigrid Harald realizes that Cluett's murder may be tied to the on-duty death of her own father and that the killer may be closer to her than she ever imagined.
"...a terse, technically expert police procedural, its hard-boiled plot undiluted by sentimentality." - Publishers Weekly
978-0-9840109-8-1
214 pages / Trade paper / $12.99
Pub date: February 2014
Peril Off Padre by Carolyn Hart
Carolyn Hart is best known for her cozy mysteries – the Death on Demand, Bailey Ruth Raeburn, and Henrie O books—but long before she captured readers with those bestsellers, she wrote stand-alone suspense novels. Peril Off Padre is the first of her thrilling suspense tales for adults.
More than one soul has been lost along with the long-forgotten treasure that hides beneath the waters off Padre Island. Whether propelled by curiosity, determination, or greed, no one – not soldier, priest, or fortune hunter-- is immune to the lure of wealth. When desire turns to obsession, murder inevitably follows.
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147 pages
PUblication Date: January 30, 2018
Carolyn Hart is best known for her cozy mysteries – the Death on Demand, Bailey Ruth Raeburn, and Henrie O books—but long before she captured readers with those bestsellers, she wrote stand-alone suspense novels. Peril Off Padre is the first of her thrilling suspense tales for adults.
More than one soul has been lost along with the long-forgotten treasure that hides beneath the waters off Padre Island. Whether propelled by curiosity, determination, or greed, no one – not soldier, priest, or fortune hunter-- is immune to the lure of wealth. When desire turns to obsession, murder inevitably follows.
Ebook 3.99
147 pages
PUblication Date: January 30, 2018
Rendezvous in Veracruz by Carolyn Hart
When feisty American college student Maura intercepts a mysterious message, she soon finds herself caught up in the middle of an international crime spree. With no idea how many of her acquaintances are involved, she doesn't dare to trust anyone! Her only option is to go on the run in order to elude the ruthless criminals who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 170 pages
ISBN: 978-0983004042
$10.95
When feisty American college student Maura intercepts a mysterious message, she soon finds herself caught up in the middle of an international crime spree. With no idea how many of her acquaintances are involved, she doesn't dare to trust anyone! Her only option is to go on the run in order to elude the ruthless criminals who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 170 pages
ISBN: 978-0983004042
$10.95
The Right Jack by Margaret Maron
Fourth in the Sigrid Harald series
When a bomb explodes at a cribbage tournament in an exclusive Manhattan hotel, Sigrid's partner is badly injured and two people are killed outright. To find the killer, Sigrid must first determine the motive for murder and figure out who was the intended victim - the "right jack."
Paperback,6 x 9, 244 pages
ISBN: 978-0985910716
$13.50
Fourth in the Sigrid Harald series
When a bomb explodes at a cribbage tournament in an exclusive Manhattan hotel, Sigrid's partner is badly injured and two people are killed outright. To find the killer, Sigrid must first determine the motive for murder and figure out who was the intended victim - the "right jack."
Paperback,6 x 9, 244 pages
ISBN: 978-0985910716
$13.50
A Settling of Accounts by Carolyn Hart
In 1966, Kay Emory is a gentle and respectable antiques dealer; not even her closest friends know about the long-ago life she tries to forget. But when a business trip to London exposes her to a ruthless killer that only she can identify, Kay must call upon the deadly skills gained in her secret past to save herself and those she loves.
Paperback,6x9, 190 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9830040-7-3
$10.95 March 2013
In 1966, Kay Emory is a gentle and respectable antiques dealer; not even her closest friends know about the long-ago life she tries to forget. But when a business trip to London exposes her to a ruthless killer that only she can identify, Kay must call upon the deadly skills gained in her secret past to save herself and those she loves.
Paperback,6x9, 190 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9830040-7-3
$10.95 March 2013
Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia by Sharyn McCrumb - Expanded edition
A collection of essays dealing with the Ballad novels of New York Times Best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb, examining the history, folklore and culture of the region of which she writes. The print version of this book contains additional material by Ms. McCrumb
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 74 pages
ISBN: 978-0983004028
$5.99
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Shooting at Loons
a Deborah Knott mystery by Margaret Maron Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to spend a restful week at her cousin’s nearby Harkers Island cottage; but her very first clamming expedition turns up the corpse of a well-known fisherman in the shallow waters. Discovering the body puts her right in the middle of the fight between the locals who have long made their living from the sea and the new tide of well-to-do “dingbatters”: weekenders and land developers who view the coast as their personal playground and gold mine. Deborah soon realizes that the centuries-old way of life in this isolated corner of the South is as endangered as loons and sea turtles, and the fisherman’s murder is clearly tied to the coming changes. On the bench and off, she can feel the rage and fear and greed these changes arouse. Even so, sipping her bourbon in the fresh salt air proves beneficial for Deborah’s soul, and life at the beach takes a definite upswing when she meets a game warden who’s hunting for loon poachers. Not until a second murder occurs and a lover from her past becomes a suspect does Deborah realize she’s up to her own neck in intrigue—and dangerously close to a killer… Trade paperback, 6.9, 200 pages ISBN: 978-0-9974575-4-4 $13.50 |
Southern Discomfort by Margaret Maron
Second in the Deborah Knott series: Judge Deborah Knott has barely been sworn in when murder strikes close to home.
Paperback, 6.9, 197 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-2-0
$12.95
Storm Track by Margaret Maron
Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton County, North Carolina. When they do, people remember them as events that mark an entire generation. Domestic storms, on the other hand, hit with regularity. But when the scantily clad body of a promiscuous wife is found in a motel, the killing resounds like a thunderclap through the community.
With her handsome cousin a suspect in the murder, Judge Deborah Knott gets personally involved in the case. She soon uncovers a web of secret and illicit affairs that stretches from the African-American church community to Deborah’s own family. Then the murderer strikes again, even as a real-life killer storm rages up the Carolina coast. Hurricane Fran, bearing powers that can alter the landscape forever, will deliver a revelation to Deborah Knott about those closest to her—and a justice greater than man’s own.
Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton County, North Carolina. When they do, people remember them as events that mark an entire generation. Domestic storms, on the other hand, hit with regularity. But when the scantily clad body of a promiscuous wife is found in a motel, the killing resounds like a thunderclap through the community.
With her handsome cousin a suspect in the murder, Judge Deborah Knott gets personally involved in the case. She soon uncovers a web of secret and illicit affairs that stretches from the African-American church community to Deborah’s own family. Then the murderer strikes again, even as a real-life killer storm rages up the Carolina coast. Hurricane Fran, bearing powers that can alter the landscape forever, will deliver a revelation to Deborah Knott about those closest to her—and a justice greater than man’s own.
Tempest and the Infinite Variations by David Hunter
“The back door slammed shut again and footsteps once more thudded across the floor. I braced myself, but the shots I expected were not fired. Dear God, I found myself praying silently, I don’t want to die now and I don’t want to kill this man. It had been a long time since I prayed.”
In this prequel to the popular Shiloh Tempest series, a retired and resigned Tempest is called back to duty as a consultant on an unsolved murder. A new job, a new team, a new lease on life… but crime never changes, and this time the killer may be closer than Tempest could ever imagine.
Award-winning author and former Knox County Deputy David Hunter takes readers inside the life and mind of Chief Shiloh Tempest in this suspenseful second novel in the Shiloh Tempest
series.
978-0-9859107-4-7
$8.99 Trade paper 1786 Pages
$3.99 Ebooks
December 2014
“The back door slammed shut again and footsteps once more thudded across the floor. I braced myself, but the shots I expected were not fired. Dear God, I found myself praying silently, I don’t want to die now and I don’t want to kill this man. It had been a long time since I prayed.”
In this prequel to the popular Shiloh Tempest series, a retired and resigned Tempest is called back to duty as a consultant on an unsolved murder. A new job, a new team, a new lease on life… but crime never changes, and this time the killer may be closer than Tempest could ever imagine.
Award-winning author and former Knox County Deputy David Hunter takes readers inside the life and mind of Chief Shiloh Tempest in this suspenseful second novel in the Shiloh Tempest
series.
978-0-9859107-4-7
$8.99 Trade paper 1786 Pages
$3.99 Ebooks
December 2014
Tempest at the Helm by David Hunter
When Chief of Detectives Shiloh Tempest is temporarily put in charge of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department, he is given a single, facetious instruction: Don’t arrest the mayor.
And then the mayor’s wife is shot to death in their home, with the mayor’s own gun. A dedicated cop but never a game-player, Tempest is forced to juggle politics, police procedure, the press,
and a killer gunning for him as he pursues the tricky investigation.
Award-winning author and former Knox County Deputy David Hunter takes readers inside the life and mind of Chief Shiloh Tempest in this suspenseful second novel in the Shiloh Tempest
series.
978-0-9840109-7-4
$8.99 Trade paper 176 Pages
$3.99 Ebooks
October 2013
When Chief of Detectives Shiloh Tempest is temporarily put in charge of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department, he is given a single, facetious instruction: Don’t arrest the mayor.
And then the mayor’s wife is shot to death in their home, with the mayor’s own gun. A dedicated cop but never a game-player, Tempest is forced to juggle politics, police procedure, the press,
and a killer gunning for him as he pursues the tricky investigation.
Award-winning author and former Knox County Deputy David Hunter takes readers inside the life and mind of Chief Shiloh Tempest in this suspenseful second novel in the Shiloh Tempest
series.
978-0-9840109-7-4
$8.99 Trade paper 176 Pages
$3.99 Ebooks
October 2013
Things to Do in Knoxville When You’re Dead By David Hunter
Includes the never-before-published story “The Fifty-Thousand Dollar Stratocaster”
Mystery, suspense, and David Hunter’s unique style of humor burst forth from the page in this collection of short stories set in and around Knoxville, Tennessee. A former law enforcement officer, Hunter brings life to every character, from the habitual criminal to the overworked cop, from the perpetual victim to the spiritual counselor. Readers will be entertained, educated, and enlightened along the way.
“David Hunter’s writing… goes down easy and keeps readers engaged…. Critics call Hunter's style ‘lyrical and poetic, yet tough and gritty’ and credit him for inventing a new genre: the short-short creative nonfiction cop confessional.” – KnoxNews.com
Ebook $3.99
August 2014
Includes the never-before-published story “The Fifty-Thousand Dollar Stratocaster”
Mystery, suspense, and David Hunter’s unique style of humor burst forth from the page in this collection of short stories set in and around Knoxville, Tennessee. A former law enforcement officer, Hunter brings life to every character, from the habitual criminal to the overworked cop, from the perpetual victim to the spiritual counselor. Readers will be entertained, educated, and enlightened along the way.
“David Hunter’s writing… goes down easy and keeps readers engaged…. Critics call Hunter's style ‘lyrical and poetic, yet tough and gritty’ and credit him for inventing a new genre: the short-short creative nonfiction cop confessional.” – KnoxNews.com
Ebook $3.99
August 2014
{This Tale Is True} by Deborah Adams
For eons they ruled, but modern times have been rough on the ancient deities— their temples collapsed, their worshippers wandered off, and their purposes were made redundant by industry and technology. And the Fates aren’t finished with them yet.
Mere days before the annual renewal of their immortality is to occur, the goddess of youth disappears. Without her and her restorative nectar, time and age will catch up with the goddesses. In the blink of an eye, they will shrivel and die, leaving the world to fend for itself, unless a skeptical mortal can find a way to save both worlds.
Paperback 5.5 x 8.5
$9.95
ISBN: 978-0-9984940-9-8
Ebook 4.99
October 1, 2018
For eons they ruled, but modern times have been rough on the ancient deities— their temples collapsed, their worshippers wandered off, and their purposes were made redundant by industry and technology. And the Fates aren’t finished with them yet.
Mere days before the annual renewal of their immortality is to occur, the goddess of youth disappears. Without her and her restorative nectar, time and age will catch up with the goddesses. In the blink of an eye, they will shrivel and die, leaving the world to fend for itself, unless a skeptical mortal can find a way to save both worlds.
Paperback 5.5 x 8.5
$9.95
ISBN: 978-0-9984940-9-8
Ebook 4.99
October 1, 2018
Uncommon Clay by Margaret Maron
As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans’ history together produced great artistic achievements. Much of the credit for this stellar legacy can go to Amos Nordan, James Lucas’s father and the proud clan patriarch. At the same time, old Amos is no stranger to tragedy. Two years earlier, his more talented son, Donny, apparently committed suicide . . . in a manner so scandalous that Amos still can’t bear to speak of it.
Suddenly, amid the petty bickering, an even more gruesome death strikes the Nordans again. Violence, seemingly borne out of Providence, stalks the family homestead as the sins of the past catch up with the Nordan family. Judge Knott knows she must summon all her considerable insight into the darkest entanglements of the human heart, if she is to stop a most human specter, well-crafted in the art of murder.
Paperback, 6.9 $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-9-9
August 31, 2018
As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans’ history together produced great artistic achievements. Much of the credit for this stellar legacy can go to Amos Nordan, James Lucas’s father and the proud clan patriarch. At the same time, old Amos is no stranger to tragedy. Two years earlier, his more talented son, Donny, apparently committed suicide . . . in a manner so scandalous that Amos still can’t bear to speak of it.
Suddenly, amid the petty bickering, an even more gruesome death strikes the Nordans again. Violence, seemingly borne out of Providence, stalks the family homestead as the sins of the past catch up with the Nordan family. Judge Knott knows she must summon all her considerable insight into the darkest entanglements of the human heart, if she is to stop a most human specter, well-crafted in the art of murder.
Paperback, 6.9 $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-9-9
August 31, 2018
Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron
Fourth in the Deborah Knott seires
Murder usually begins at home, and Colleton County, North Carolina, proves no exception. When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Judge Deborah Knott figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her Aunt Zell's best chicken casseroles.
Mistake Number One.
Dallas wasn't rich, but with development eating up the farms and forests of North Carolina his land is suddenly worth a fortune. His trashy, chain-smoking third wife and grown stepchildren are all too aware of its value. Opportunists--including one of Deborah's own brothers--are coming out of the woodwork. And she knows big money makes people do bad things.
Hardworking, redneck, and salt-of-the-earth, the Stancil men have lived side-by-side with Deborah's family. When the Stancils suffer another tragedy, a long-hidden skeleton rattles its bones and jumps out of what she thought was her long-dead past. She can run the culprit back out of town or maybe get him charged with murder, but ignoring him would be Mistake Number Two.
All around the changing South, Deborah sees hunting dogs, rowdy funerals, backwoods moonshine stills, and long-bed pickups clashing with BMW-driving professionals and housing tracts. With one foot in the rural past and the other in today's high-tech present, she knows her personal world is changing too. This bootlegger's daughter sits on the judicial bench and sees both sides of the law. But she also feels the tug of her roots...and the pull of her heart.
Paperback, 6.9, 194 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-5-1
$13.50
Fourth in the Deborah Knott seires
Murder usually begins at home, and Colleton County, North Carolina, proves no exception. When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Judge Deborah Knott figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her Aunt Zell's best chicken casseroles.
Mistake Number One.
Dallas wasn't rich, but with development eating up the farms and forests of North Carolina his land is suddenly worth a fortune. His trashy, chain-smoking third wife and grown stepchildren are all too aware of its value. Opportunists--including one of Deborah's own brothers--are coming out of the woodwork. And she knows big money makes people do bad things.
Hardworking, redneck, and salt-of-the-earth, the Stancil men have lived side-by-side with Deborah's family. When the Stancils suffer another tragedy, a long-hidden skeleton rattles its bones and jumps out of what she thought was her long-dead past. She can run the culprit back out of town or maybe get him charged with murder, but ignoring him would be Mistake Number Two.
All around the changing South, Deborah sees hunting dogs, rowdy funerals, backwoods moonshine stills, and long-bed pickups clashing with BMW-driving professionals and housing tracts. With one foot in the rural past and the other in today's high-tech present, she knows her personal world is changing too. This bootlegger's daughter sits on the judicial bench and sees both sides of the law. But she also feels the tug of her roots...and the pull of her heart.
Paperback, 6.9, 194 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9974575-5-1
$13.50