Evening Street

By day, she's a tough-minded prosecutor in Raythune County, West Virginia, a region scarred by poverty and prescription drug abuse. By night, Bell Elkins takes on a softer role. She volunteers at an auxiliary intensive care unit where nurses deal with the youngest and most vulnerable victims of drug abuse: the children born to mothers addicted to painkillers.The place is known as Evening Street, and it is here Bell comes whenever she can spare the time. She rocks ailing infants to sleep, and she provides what medical science-for all of its marvels-cannot: A simple human touch.One terrifying night, the distraught father of an Evening Street baby breaks into the facility. Gun in hand, he holds the staff hostage and demands a reckoning for a family grudge—with helpless infants only inches away. And so begins a standoff at Evening Street. Bell Elkins is swept up into the crisis, as the drama escalates toward a lethal flashpoint. At the center of it all is...
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A Trio of Murders: A Perfect Match, Redemption, Death of a Dancer

Introducing the pairing of Detective Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill, A Trio of Murders contains three classic mysteries in one volume.A PERFECT MATCH: The news of a woman's body found in a boathouse rocks the town of Stansfield. The case appears simple: her last known companion, and prime suspect, is currently missing, presumed fled. But Detective Inspector Lloyd, teamed up with former colleague Sergeant Judy Hill, isn't so quick to jump to conclusions . . . in a murder enquiry, you don't rule anyone out.REDEMPTION: As deepening snow slowly isolates the village of Byford from the outside world, not all is as peaceful as it seems. A murder at the vicarage destroys the calm of the festive period . . . a domestic murder . . or so it appears. Chief Inspector Lloyd finds more than he bargained for in this complex and perplexing mystery, not least keeping control of his relationship with Sergeant Judy Hill.DEATH OF A DANCER: Lloyd and Hill find...
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High Stakes and Hazelnut Cupcakes in Las Vegas

A Cupcakes-And-Crime Caper A CEO, a nurse and a housekeeper: the only thing they have in common is murder victim, April Wilkins. When cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany Black delves into the circumstances surrounding April’s death, she uncovers a world of deceit and high stakes… stakes high enough that the killer decides to target Tiffany next. Meanwhile, Tiffany learns about her friend Stone’s past, Tiffany’s mother insists on introducing yet another persistent, bad date, and Nanna tries to “help” out on the case… "Winters will have you giggling into your book!" Note: While High Stakes and Hazelnuts Cupcakes in Las Vegas is a stand-alone novel, the Tiffany Black Mysteries are best enjoyed in order. Praise for A.R. Winters: "You fall in love with Tiffany Black from the start, and the mystery starts immediately" - Melissa Greenberg, Amazon.com Top 500 Reviewer "The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A great mystery wrapped in humor and surprises." - Amazon Customer 
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Flat Lake in Winter

Chosen as recommended summer reading by The New York Times Book Review.Deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains sits a mansion, its image reflected perfectly on the still water of Flat Lake. Inside that estate are the savagely murdered bodies of a wealthy elderly couple.All evidence points to Jonathan - their mentally handicapped twenty-eight-year-old grandson - but Matt Fielder, his appointed defense lawyer, isn't convinced. While Fielder is pretty sure Jonathan committed the killings, Jonathan's childlike understanding of the world renders it nearly impossible for him to have done it out of greed or malice. Now Fielder must fight the prosecution's campaign for the death penalty, but as he scours Jonathan's past for anything that will help their case, he uncovers a cache of dark family secrets that turn the case in a shocking and unexpected new direction.When his first novel, Felony Murder, was published, Publishers Weekly called Klempner "a writer to watch."...
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Spanish Dagger

While harvesting yucca plants to make paper, China Bayles finds a body-cause of death: unknown. It seems that the simple lives of many residents of Pecan Springs hide complex and dangerous pasts. And now, while also unraveling secrets that hit close to home, China must set the record straight- and find a killer.
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Sentenced To Wed

HOW WOULD SHE EVER GET BLOODSTAINS OUT OF HER WEDDING DRESS...? Well, Livia Kingston would have all of February to think about it while she got a second chance to take her marriage vows -- instead of a bullet for a convicted murderer! Surely it wouldn't be too hard to change places with a man who deserved his fate? Mark Everett had created a new identity, given up everything to pursue a twisted madman and reclaim his son. When his and Livia's lives intersected at the altar, they found they could only turn to each other when the killer targeted them both. But Livia couldn't let her protector be shot through the heart...not when hers had already been pierced by cupid's arrow.
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Spring Betrayal

We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the sun stained the snowcaps of the Tian Shan mountains the colour of dried blood and the spring air turned sharp and cold . . . Inspector Akyl Borubaev of Bishkek Murder Squad has been exiled to the far corner of Kyrgystan, but death still haunts him at every turn.Borubaev soon finds himself caught up in a mysterious and gruesome new case: several children's bodies have been found buried together - all tagged with name bands. In his search for the truth behind the brutal killings, Borubaev hits a wall of silence, with no one to turn to outside his sometime lover, the beautiful undercover agent Saltanat Umarova.When Borubaev himself is framed for his involvement in the production of blood-soaked child pornography, it looks as though things couldn't get any worse. With the investigation at a dangerous standstill, Borubaev sets out to save his own integrity, and to deliver his own savage justice...
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