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  The Rebecca Mayfield Mysteries

  Readers enjoyed the interaction between Homicide Inspector Rebecca Mayfield, who works with Angie’s fiancé Paavo Smith, and Angie’s cousin, Richie Amalfi, in the Christmas novella, The Thirteenth Santa, and asked for more!

  Rebecca is a by-the-book detective, who walks the straight and narrow in her work, and in her life. Richie, on the other hand, is not at all by-the-book. But opposites can and do attract, and there are few mystery two-somes quite as opposite as Rebecca and Richie.

  ONE O’CLOCK HUSTLE – North American Book Award winner in Mystery

  TWO O’CLOCK HEIST

  THREE O’CLOCK SÉANCE

  FOUR O’CLOCK SIZZLE

  FIVE O’CLOCK TWIST

  SIX O’CLOCK SILENCE

  Plus a Christmas Novella: The Thirteenth Santa

  The Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mysteries

  Angie Amalfi and Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith are soon to be married in this latest mystery series. Crime and calories plus a new “twist” in Angie’s life in the form of a ghostly family inhabiting the house she and Paavo buy, create a mystery series with a “spirited” sense of fun and adventure.

  COOKING SPIRITS

  ADD A PINCH OF MURDER

  COOK’S BIG DAY

  MURDER BY DEVIL’S FOOD

  Plus a Christmas mystery-fantasy: COOK’S CURIOUS CHRISTMAS

  And a cookbook: COOK’S DESSERT COOKBOOK

  Supernatural Suspense

  Ancient Echoes

  Top Idaho Fiction Book Award Winner

  Over two hundred years ago, a covert expedition shadowing Lewis and Clark disappeared in the wilderness of Central Idaho. Now, seven anthropology students and their professor vanish in the same area. The key to finding them lies in an ancient secret, one that men throughout history have sought to unveil.

  Michael Rempart is a brilliant archeologist with a colorful and controversial career, but he is plagued by a sense of the supernatural and a spiritual intuitiveness. Joining Michael are a CIA consultant on paranormal phenomena, a washed-up local sheriff, and a former scholar of Egyptology. All must overcome their personal demons as they attempt to save the students and learn the expedition’s terrible secret....

  Ancient Shadows

  One by one, a horror film director, a judge, and a newspaper publisher meet brutal deaths. A link exists between them, and the deaths have only begun ....

  Archeologist Michael Rempart finds himself pitted against ancient demons and modern conspirators when a dying priest gives him a powerful artifact--a pearl said to have granted Genghis Khan the power, eight centuries ago, to lead his Mongol warriors across the steppes to the gates of Vienna.

  The artifact has set off centuries of war and destruction as it conjures demons to play upon men's strongest ambitions and cruelest desires. Michael realizes the so-called pearl is a philosopher's stone, the prime agent of alchemy. As much as he would like to ignore the artifact, when he sees horrific deaths and experiences, first-hand, diabolical possession and affliction, he has no choice but to act, to follow a path along the Old Silk Road to a land that time forgot, and to somehow find a place that may no longer exist in the world as he knows it.

  Historical, Contemporary & Fantasy Romance

  Dance with a Gunfighter

  Gabriella Devere wants vengeance. She grows up quickly when she witnesses the murder of her family by a gang of outlaws, and vows to make them pay for their crime. When the law won’t help her, she takes matters into her own hands.

  Jess McLowry left his war-torn Southern home to head West, where he hired out his gun. When he learns what happened to Gabriella’s family, and what she plans, he knows a young woman like her will have no chance against the outlaws, and vows to save her the way he couldn’t save his own family.

  But the price of vengeance is high and Gabriella’s willingness to sacrifice everything ultimately leads to the book’s deadly and startling conclusion.

  Willa Cather Literary Award finalist for Best Historical Novel.

  The Dragon’s Lady

  Turn-of-the-century San Francisco comes to life in this romance of star-crossed lovers whose love is forbidden by both society and the laws of the time.

  Ruth Greed, wealthy daughter of a shipping magnate, finds a young boy who has run away from his home in Chinatown—an area of gambling parlors, opium dens, and sing-song girls, as well as families trying to eke out a living. It is also home to the infamous and deadly “hatchet men” of Chinese lore.

  There, Ruth meets Li Han-lin, a handsome, enigmatic leader of one such tong, and discovers he is neither as frightening cruel, or wanton as reputation would have her believe. As Ruth’s fascination with the lawless area grows, she finds herself pulled deeper into its intrigue and dangers, particularly those surrounding Han-lin. But the two are from completely different worlds, and when both worlds are shattered by the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 that destroyed most of San Francisco, they face their ultimate test.

  Seems Like Old Times

  When Lee Reynolds, nationally known television news anchor, returns to the small town where she was born to sell her now-vacant childhood home, little does she expect to find that her first love has moved back to town. Nor does she expect that her feelings for him are still so strong.

  Tony Santos had been a major league baseball player, but now finds his days of glory gone. He’s gone back home to raise his young son as a single dad.

  Both Tony and Lee have changed a lot. Yet, being with him, she finds that in her heart, it seems like old times...

  The Ghost of Squire House

  For decades, the home built by reclusive artist, Paul Squire, has stood empty on a windswept cliff overlooking the ocean. Those who attempted to live in the home soon fled in terror. Jennifer Barrett knows nothing of the history of the house she inherited. All she knows is she’s glad for the chance to make a new life for herself.

  It’s Paul Squire’s duty to rid his home of intruders, but something about this latest newcomer’s vulnerable status...and resemblance of someone from his past...dulls his resolve. Jennifer would like to find a real flesh-and-blood man to liven her days and nights--someone to share her life with—but living in the artist’s house, studying his paintings, she is surprised at how close she feels to him.

  A compelling, prickly ghost with a tortured, guilt-ridden past, and a lonely heroine determined to start fresh, find themselves in a battle of wills and emotion in this ghostly fantasy of love, time, and chance.

  Dangerous Journey

  C.J. Perkins is trying to find her brother who went missing while on a Peace Corps assignment in Asia. All she knows is that the disappearance has something to do with a “White Dragon.” Darius Kane, adventurer and bounty hunter, seems to be her only hope, and she practically shanghais him into helping her.

  With a touch of the romantic adventure film Romancing the Stone, C.J. and Darius follow a trail that takes them through the narrow streets of Hong Kong, the backrooms of San Francisco’s Chinatown, and the wild jungles of Borneo as they pursue both her brother and the White Dragon. The closer C.J. gets to them, the more danger she finds herself in—and it’s not just danger of losing her life, but also of losing her heart.

  [This is a completely revised edition of novel previously published as Armed and Dangerous.]

  The Angie Amalfi Mysteries

  Gourmet cook, sometime food columnist, sometime restaurant critic, and generally “underemployed” person Angelina Amalfi burst upon the mystery scene in SOMETHING’S COOKING, in which she met San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith. Since that time she’s wanted two things in life, a good job...and Paavo.

  Here are the Angie mysteries in the order written:

  SOMETHING’S COOKING

  TOO MANY COOKS

  COOKING UP TROUBLE

  COOKI
NG MOST DEADLY

  COOK’S NIGHT OUT

  COOKS OVERBOARD

  A COOK IN TIME

  TO CATCH A COOK

  BELL, COOK, AND CANDLE

  IF COOKS COULD KILL

  TWO COOKS A-KILLING

  COURTING DISASTER

  RED HOT MURDER

  THE DA VINCI COOK

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  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, public or private institutions, corporations, towns, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution to others.

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  First Quail Hill Publishing E-book: January 2017

  First Quail Hill Print Book: January 2017

  Copyright (c) 2017 Joanne Pence

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