Hemlock Lake
by Carolyn J. Rose
For generations only a few families held title to land in the isolated Catskill Mountain community of Hemlock Lake. But with the turning of the century one man, lured by easy money, sells his inheritance to a developer of luxury homes. As the contractor bulldozes farmland and forest, neighbors cry environmental rape, and someone threatens to burn what is built.
The Big Grabowski
by Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton When the body of an unscrupulous land developer washes in with the tide, there are more suspects than mourners in the quirky town of Devil’s Harbor. Vince Grabowski was infamous for creating an environmental disaster, hatching shady investment schemes, and trying to commercialize the tiny coastal community.
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The Crushed Velvet Miasma
by Mike Nettleton and Carolyn J. Rose Rock and Roll Reunions Can Be Murder! Portland’s Tie-dyed Detective Cracks Another Case. When The Velvet Miasma self-destructed on stage in the mid seventies, band members vowed they’d never perform together again. But retro is in, and a promoter smells big bucks in a reunion.
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The Hard Karma Shuffle
by Mike Nettleton and Carolyn J. Rose 30 years ago he tuned in, turned on and dropped out into a life without deadlines or documentation. But now, the aging flower child called Paladin is learning what stress is all about. The Portland cops like him for the murder of a renegade attorney.
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Driven to Death
by Carolyn J. Rose Weddings Can Be Murder! Albuquerque TV News Director Casey Brandt would like to forget her best friend’s wedding day. She missed dessert, hiked half a mile in high heels, ran her stockings, got dumped by her boyfriend, and wound up at the morgue identifying one of the guests.
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Consulted to Death
by Carolyn J. Rose Divorced, disenchanted and disgusted by a business where good news is no news, television Assignment Editor Casey Brandt admits she’s so burnt out a flame thrower couldn’t rekindle her. She has zero respect for her bottom-line boss and his decisions about which stories make it to air–and the feeling is mutual.
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The Hermit of Humbug Mountain
by Mike Nettleton and Carolyn Rose When sixteen-year-old Noah Keene runs away from his home on the Oregon coast, his quest for a sense of belonging becomes a headlong race to save his younger sister, and the world, from monsters he thought existed only in nightmares.
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