Introduction by Sarah Stewart Taylor, author of The Drowning Sea, part of the Maggie D’Arcy Mystery Series set in Ireland When I’m traveling, my favorite moments—and memories—are those when I suddenly see a place in a way I couldn’t have if I’d stuck to the tourist quarter or only visited the highlights in the guidebook.…
The Tamarind Seed by international bestselling author Evelyn Anthony was made into a 1974 movie starring Julie Andrews, and is now finally hitting the e-shelves as an ebook. In this suspenseful thriller of Cold War espionage, UN assistant Judith Farrow becomes embroiled in an international plot when she’s just trying to take some time off…
Lead Me Into Danger by Daniella Bernett is a debut mystery featuring a journalist and jewel thief embroiled in international intrigue (available October 1, 2015). A journalist, a jewel thief, and a Russian spy…when their paths cross, it’s murder. Journalist Emmeline Kirby hasn’t laid eyes on her former lover Gregory Longdon, a jewel thief, in…
Jade Dragon Mountain is the debut mystery by Elsa Hart set in China in 1708 featuring the exiled librarian Li Du (available September 1, 2015). Here are some of things I know about China: Ming vases, Mao Tse Tung, calligraphy, the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and they put on a spectacular Olympic opening ceremony. Not…
spy NOUN: pl. spies An agent employed by a state to obtain secret information, especially of a military nature, concerning its potential or actual enemies. One employed by a company to obtain confidential information about its competitors. One who secretly keeps watch on another or others. (American Heritage Dictionary) Say “intelligence” and whoever hears you…
Assassins by Mukul Deva is an international thriller that jumps between London and India and follows Ravinder Singh Gill as he tries to stop a high-profile double assassination (available July 14, 2015). The Sisters of Benazir are out for revenge. The London based political activists want payback for the murder of the politician Benazir Basheer.…
The Assassins by Gayle Lynds is a thriller where six international assassins, each assembled from a dark corner of the globe, team up together to steal a fortune from the middle of a Middle Eastern war zone (available June 30, 2015). Assassins. Six of them, to be precise, get the story rolling from the blood-streaked…
Flask of the Drunken Master by Susan Spann is the 3rd historical detective mystery in the Shinobi Mystery Series, featuring a master ninja and a female samurai in feudal 16th Century Japan (available July 14, 2015). August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro's brewery, and all the evidence implicates the brewer,…
Pinnacle Event by Richard A. Clarke is a thriller where amidst the 2016 presidential election, news of five nuclear weapons recently bought on the black market leads the US to believe it will be targeted (available May 19, 2015). With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to…
Countdown to Mecca by Michael Savage is an international thriller where a Russian terrorist attack puts the world on the brink of global war (available May 12, 2015). A plane bound for Amman, Jordan goes down in the Caspian Sea. The crash yields no survivors—save the Russian mercenary who hijacked the flight—and a cask containing…
