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The sixth Charlotte Diamond mystery finds the retired FBI agent and her significant other, movie star Brenda Brandon, on the edge of the Florida Everglades to film a movie within a movie about an old movie. Brenda has taken a cameo role in the reprise of her first film experience, a Vietnam air war film of forty years earlier that was closed down by a brush with espionage, a murder, and the disappearance of the movie's star, White Orchid, factors that combined to pique the interest of the FBI. Charlotte has been hired as a technical consultant to help weave a blockbuster movie script out of the earlier, failed filming.When the mysteries of the earlier film come back to haunt the new film crew and cast after the crash of a company plane in the Everglades, Charlotte finds herself deputized by the FBI to figure out not only what happened then, but what is happening now-and why. In this, she receives the help of another technical expert on the film, Ed Winslow, who always seems to know more than he is revealing and who takes an interest in Charlotte that equals that of Charlotte's former lover and FBI contact, Evan Worthington, who wants Charlotte back in his life.As badly as Charlotte wants to unravel the mysteries of the lost White Orchid, an unknown someone seems even more determined to keep the past buried-even if it means that Charlotte needs to be buried as well.

A romantic mystery from best-selling author Olivia Stowe. The bombing of a U.S. embassy building in Amman, Jordan, has left cultural affairs officer, Ally Templeton, wounded, both physically and emotionally, and without a job and a fiance. On top of that, her eccentric, man-hater mother, Miranda, a former personal assistant to major symphony conductors, for the third time has tried to burn down the scaled-down replica of a Transylvanian castle she has been living in in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Virginia. Ally, still reeling from personal tragedy, returns to Virginia to a mother who is fading away, a mystery of disappearing men, and a rekindling of the question of who her father was. Determined to take control of her life, Ally decides to restore the castle and to do the contracting herself. Subcontracting, however, brings her a pair of men, one older and one younger, vying for her attention and affection, each of whom has issues of his own that threaten to entangle Ally ever deeper into increasingly more sinister mysteries.

In the fifth Charlotte Diamond mystery, the retired FBI investigator and her significant other, glamorous senior movie star Brenda Brandon (aka Boynton), return from a murder- and gem-theft-punctuated Christmas cruise down the Rhine River to confusion and catastrophe in their usually quiet retirement village of Hopewell on the Choptank in Maryland. The wooded lot next door to Brenda's historical mansion, a lot that Brenda thought she owned, is being bulldozed by a New York construction firm for a mystery development. All of the homes and land from Charlotte's own riverside cottage to the end of their road are being leveled as well, including Charlotte's neighbors' house, and she has no idea where their dog sitter may have gone with their beloved dogs, Rocket and Sam. The two women and their previously sleepy riverside village are propelled into a hotbed of confusion, with disappearances and murder aplenty. Only Charlotte's experience and skills from her previous life in the FBI and the appearance of an old flame Charlotte has been trying to avoid because of mixed feelings enable them to start unraveling the mystery of what is happening with spymaster Win Engleton's property.

In 1973 James's seventeen-year-old sister, Maria, disappeared while on her way home from school. Over thirty years later her remains are uncovered outside Broken Hill, 1,200 kilometers from her home. Maria's disappearance shattered her family and had strange repercussions for her ten-year-old brother, who was left to cope alone while his parents struggled to deal with his sister's disappearance. With her discovery after so long, Maria becomes real for James, a sudden violent death in the family, and he sets out to try to discover what his sister was really like and what happened to her. As he seeks answers, James meets his sister's old school friends, Jennifer and Pat, and discovers their different memories of that time long ago and of a young woman standing on the edge of adulthood, who may have been quiet and shy or who may have been spoiled and living dangerously. During his search he is reconnected with his ex-wife, Allison, and begins to learn to live without Maria's presence in his life.

Savannah Time is a story of human caring, loyalty, inevitable change, bittersweet heartbreak, and hope, set in the lovely garden that is historic Savannah. In this follow-on to Chatham Square, the eclectic collection of residents of one of Savannah's original residential squares have moved along in the almost-glacial "Savannah time" pace of this southern city, although, for some, the concern is that the pace is going too fast-that inevitable unwanted change is in the air. Samantha, the little black girl with the deformed leg of the previous book, has grown to nearly her eighteenth birthday. The residents of the square who rallied to ensure she had the reconstructive operations she needed are, for the most part, now in need of nurturing attention themselves, and Samantha is providing the "Florence Nightingale" support they need. But Samantha is at a cross-roads in her life. She has long said she wanted to become a doctor, but as the time approaches for her to leave home in pursuit of that dream, she feels the pull to remain in Chatham Square to help her friends. Conflicted between what they want and what Samantha needs, her friends on the square fight to conquer their own fear of change for Samantha's sake. The doll maker, Ginny, who is the emotional "glue" for the residents of the square and employs Samantha as her assistant; Rose, the matriarch "queen of the square"; Arnie, the irascible but kindly super of Ginny and Samantha's apartment house; and the ailing bookstore pair, Tom and Edward, all have to bow to inevitable changes if Samantha is going to be set free. Added to the mix are two young men vying for Samantha's attention and a new resident to the square, a novelist on a mysterious mission.

The Christmas season is one of seconds: searching for just another second to be able to getting everything prepared, second helpings at the holiday table, second thoughts about what it all means and about relationships-and second chances to fulfill the meaningful in gift giving and relationships. Christmas Seconds offers up a five-story inspirational novella and five separate short stories exploring the theme of "seconds." The novella titled Christmas Seconds is of unexpected opportunities and second chances-and snowballing effects-as a young couple that has been blessed with health and security-and each other-is preparing to embark on a long-delayed honeymoon cruise at Christmas time. As they prepare, they and those they are encountering around them, discover that the true meaning and gift of the season is right there at home-and is in giving yourself away. The short story "Second Helping" is one of hearing the message and quietly responding. "Second Glance" is one of not looking in the right place for the spirit of Christmas-and thus possibly overlooking a treasure. "Second Christmas" stresses that the one getting the most presents isn't necessarily the happiest one, and, similarly, "Seconds" shows that heartfelt gifts may not be the showiest versions. The concluding story, "Second Job," is a celebration of appreciation in the true Christmas spirit. "Christmas Seconds" is Olivia's second book of inspirational stories reminding us of, and celebrating, the true spirit of Christmas, "Spirit of Christmas," also from Cyberworld Publishing, is the other.

Retired FBI senior investigator Charlotte Diamond is cajoled into taking a Christmas market Rhine river cruise with her partner, glamorous retired queen of the movie screen Brenda Brandon/Boynton. When Brenda invites Charlotte's doctor brother, Chance Diamond, and his minister wife, Marilyn, to join in the trip, Charlotte knows this will be no restful vacation. The "curse of Chance," the travels of whom have always been accompanied by a death or three, does indeed embroil Charlotte and her three travel companions in a complex mix of "inconvenient" robberies and suspicious deaths against a backdrop of quaint German towns, Christmas markets, and Rhine castles.The misadventure of the Rhine river cruise involves an international crime money-laundering Swiss banker and his Italian TV star wife; a "Jack Sprat" pair of elderly spinsters; a doll-fetish Japanese couple; a diamond-dripping, once-kidnapped heiress; a gay novelist and boyfriend; a catatonic mustard dynasty heiress; and assorted other unsavory characters. As the Rhine Maiden scenically chugs north from Nürnberg to Amsterdam over Christmas week, Charlotte and Brenda track their bet on whether the "curse of Chance" will meet its quota of mayhem, while Charlotte sinks deeper and deeper into what becomes a working vacation.The fourth book in the Charlotte Diamond mystery series.

The sixth, and final, Cyprus-based espionage thriller novel in the Koniotis Mystery series is played out in the context of the race to either activate or destroy a weapon of mass destruction in the Middle East. UN undersecretary general for security Takis Koniotis and his estranged archaeologist wife, Caitlyn Spenser Koniotis, struggle to come back together through family endangerment and to counter the forces of evil in the eastern Mediterranean.As the cast of surviving characters of the Koniotis mystery series strolls across the stage for the last time in some surprising and interesting combinations and diminishing numbers, once again Cyprus is both the center of Mideast upheaval and the budding hope for regional peace. Takis Koniotis, in his UN security chief role is preparing another Cyprus-based peace conference while also becoming embroiled in a series of explosions on the island that threaten to reopen old Greek versus Turk separatist wounds, and that have deadly repercussions beyond Cyprus. As has happened before, the Koniotis's face challenges on both the regional and family security fronts. But this time they are not facing the dangers in a united front nor are all of those they once counted on for support either on their side or free enough of their own devils to be of much assistance.

The fifth Cyprus-based espionage thriller novel in the Koniotis Cyprus Mysteries series is played out in the context of a futuristic environment. There has been a peaceful political settlement on Cyprus of the long-running Greek-Turkish issue and much has changed on the now loosely unified Island. In the setting of this new Cyprus UN undersecretary general for security, Takis Koniotis, and his archaeologist wife, Caitlyn Spenser Koniotis, become embroiled in a terrorism-sponsored international counterfeiting campaign to flood the European market with counterfeit currencies.For some years the couple has been living principally in New York City, but Takis finds himself in Cyprus for consultations at the UN's international crimes investigations unit and Caitlyn is here on a lecture tour on ancient archaeology. In a Cyprus now very much under the thumb of RayGo, a corporation constructed around its ownership of a new process for storing solar heat for power generation, and of its CEO, an old friend/foe of the Koniotises, Caitlyn is beset with the counterfeiting issue the moment she steps off the hydrafoil at Limassol. Those behind the conspiracy include any number and combination of both new people entering the Koniotis's lives and old friends and nemeses-some of whom come back into Takis's and Caitlyn's lives by surprise and with a big bang.Koniotis Mysteries SeriesEach book in this series stands alone, but they are also all connected in various ways and form the different parts of one story.Laughter's EchoSalted AwayMouflon BrigadeAmathus ArmageddonBogus BillsHomewrecker

The third Charlotte Diamond MysteryRetired FBI senior investigator Charlotte Diamond finds herself jetting from murder on one coast of the United States to kidnapping on another in attempts to save both her lover and her former husband. Charlotte follows her new-found companion, the leading movie actress, Brenda Brandon, to Hollywood. Brenda had abruptly abandoned Hollywood and the movies and returned to her hometown of Hopewell on the Choptank, on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. But a cameo movie role she cannot turn down returns her to the scene of an old murder, for which she now is the leading suspect. Barely having dealt with that mystery on the West Coast, Charlotte is called back to Ocean City, Maryland, where her former husband and his new gambling casino have been targeted by the mob, and his new wife kidnapped.Torn from West Coast to East Coast and thrown into the sphere of an even older and brighter flame than her former husband just when she had thought that her life was settling down, Charlotte is finding out that retirement looks a whole lot similar to when she was working on all cylinders at the FBI

In the third of the Koniotis Mystery series, the kidnapping of the wife of the Russian intelligence chief on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, is only the beginning of a chain of horrifying kidnappings and murders to suddenly hit the usually peaceful island. An operation extending over the border between the Greek and Turkish zones reveals that a band of terrorists is operating freely-and with local assistance-on the island. The subsequent kidnapping of a UN official en route to Middle East peace talks in Beirut, Lebanon, and the murder of other prominent well-connected citizens ups the ante in the threat of the terrorist band and increases the mystery of what the band-the Mouflon Brigade-is doing and why.The kidnaps and murders are linked by the tokens the band leaves behind: Identical brochures from the Cyprus Airways, the Greek Cypriot airline, which are marked with the initials "MB" in black marker.Soon the action extends beyond Cyprus to Greece and Lebanon, as slowly, methodically, Takis Koniotis marshals the forces of the Greek Cypriot, Turkish Cypriot, foreign diplomatic community, UN, and Interpol resources to attempt to rescue Caitlyn and the other hostages and to determine what the terrorist band is doing in Cyprus, why its operations are strategic for Middle East peace-and why it always seems to be at least one step ahead of the authorities.Koniotis Mysteries SeriesEach book in this series stands alone, but they are also all connected in various ways and form the different parts of one story.Book One . . . . Laughter's EchoBook Two . . . . Salted AwayBook Three . . . Mouflon BrigadeBook Four . . . . Amathus ArmageddonBook Five . . . . Bogus BillsBook Six . . . . . Homewrecker

In the fourth espionage thriller novel in the Koniotis Mystery series, UN security official and former Cypriot police official Takis Koniotis and his American archaeologist wife, Caitlyn Koniotis, have settled into a seemingly idyllic life with a new family in a home on a mesa top overlooking the Cypriot capital city and two mountain ranges and within a short drive of Takis's new UN International Crime Investigations Service office. All seems perfect until they become embroiled once again in terrorism and intrigue on both the personal and international levels.The couple and their circle of acquaintances and friends, including some who will pay the ultimate sacrifice, are drawn into the resurfacing of mysteries they thought solved already, starting with the shocking discovery of a mysterious "cave" woman from the past. Overlaying this is Takis's responsibility to set up the security for a coming Middle East peace conference on Cyprus's Amathus resort hotel coast. If successful, the conference will bring the region closer to security and stability than it ever has been. The possibility of this is great enough that the forces promoting and feeding off instability in the region begin to retaliate. Stealing a march on the Amathus conference, they have called their own counter gathering in Malta. And as the two conferences square off against each other, national leaders are threatened and assassinated, assumed loyalties are twisted, and Takis's and Caitlyn's personal nemeses and demons begin to merge into the overall "Armageddon" of the struggle between good and evil in a coalescing spiral into a final accounting.This book is set late last century.Koniotis Cyprus Mysteries Series Each book in this series stands alone, but they are also all connected in various ways and form the different parts of one story.Laughter's EchoSalted AwayMouflon BrigadeAmathus ArmageddonBogus BillsHomewrecker

The ninth Charlotte Diamond mystery finds retired FBI senior agent Charlotte Diamond contemplating too many coincidences in what should be two separate mysteries.The mysteries start with two murders and the uncovering of a illegal drug distribution ring in what should be a bucolic, out-of-the-way place, the Curtain Call movie folks retirement community in Hopewell on the Choptank in Maryland that Charlotte owns and operates with her spouse, movie top box-office star, Brenda Brandon. The drugs are distributed in plastic packets with a green palm tree embossed on them. When the two head south for Brenda's singing appearance at the annual Spoleto arts festival in Charleston, South Carolina, the same packets turn up there. The "too many coincidences" continue as the two women find themselves landing in danger by agreeing to stay during Brenda's Spoleto gig at a coastal tea plantation owned by an actress with whom Brenda had appeared in Hollywood movies.

Ex big-city art-gallery manager, Marion Shea, and her bank manager husband, Stephen, are transferred to the regional Australian town of Ridgeway under a cloud. Leaving their home and children behind has been painful, and trying to adapt to a new life in a strange town is not easy, but Marion becomes a committee member and is persuaded to take on the task of organising the annual art show for the Ridgeway Arts and Cultural Centre committee.Because of Marion's experience the art show is a resounding success, but as soon as the doors are closed things become murderous, and the next day the committee is shocked to find that all is far from well on the financial front.Will the art show Marion put so much effort into for so little thanks be the last event the Ridgeway Arts and Culture Centre committee is ever to hold? And can Marion and her husband help to find a killer.

Skyline 2014, an annual publisher's anthology produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the juried and invited prose and poetry talent of Central Virginia writers. The title of the anthology is taken from the Skyline Drive, the parkway skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and providing centering for the region in which the authors showcased here are living and writing. There is no overarching theme for the works in this anthology, so each can be discovered as a fascinating gem of its own luster.Edited by Olivia Stowe.Includes works by: David BlackLori DixonPhyllis Anne DuncanJustin FikeCornelia Clay FulghumJody Hobbs HeslerSarah Collins HonenbergerGary D. KesslerPhyllis Koch-SherasJean LancasterSusan M. LantermanLinda LevokoveSigrid MirabellaDeborah PrumElaine RuggieriMarilou SchunterElizabeth Doyle SolomonOlivia Stowe, ed.Jack TrammellLeonard TuchynerMarvin WelbornLavonda Lynn M. YoungExcerpt: From: "Don't Iron Your Clothes While They're on Your Body No Matter How Late You Are," by Deborah M. PrumOne night years ago I'm supposed to meet my husband and his colleagues downtown at a fancy restaurant at 6:15. It's 6:00. I'm not dressed. My three little kids have not been fed. The babysitter is about to walk in the door.I'm stirring a pot of Kraft Mac and Cheese with one hand. And I'm running so late that, with the other hand, I'm ironing my black wool pants while I'm wearing them. Worse yet, I'm using a steam iron which is scalding my legs. But I'm desperate to be on time, so I keep pressing ahead.The phone rings. I try to answer the call on my cordless phone. No luck. Dead battery. So I head across the room to the wall phone in the kitchen, the one with the very short cord that I had been meaning to replace.A mellifluous voice comes on the line. She says, "I'm calling from The Ladies' Home Journal. May I speak with Deborah Prum?"Oh no, I don't have time to deal with a subscription spiel. But I had just moved to the South. People here accuse us Northerners of being rude. So, I want to prove them wrong by shedding my Yankee ways. So I say, "This is she, but I have to tell you I currently receive more magazines than I can-""I want to talk with you about an idea."With my short phone cord, I can barely reach the stove, and the orange, goopy mixture of macaroni and cheese begins to burn. "This really isn't a very good time. Could you call back next week?" Or never.The woman seems taken aback. "Well, I don't think so. We have space for your article in our next issue and the deadline is in a week. I don't think we have the time to discuss it later."My article? My heart fills with conflicting emotions-elation because I realize she's an editor-someone is finally responding positively to one of my query letters-and panic because I have no idea which query letter.

Skyline 2015, the second in a series of annual publisher's anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of Central Virginia writers. The anthology consists of thirty-nine works by nineteen authors in four sections: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and, since this is a writer's anthology, a section on writing and publishing. There is no overarching theme for the works in this anthology, so each can be discovered and appreciated for its own context and merits. Over half of the works found here are works by Central Virginia writers that ranked high in various writing contests during 2014. The foundation is the 2014 writing contest of the Blue Ridge Writers Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club. Also included in this anthology are other works selected from the portfolios of these contest selectees, special contributor works by established writers in the region, and poems from recently published works by Central Virginia writers.

Archie's Antiques Mystery Puzzles: Books 1 & 2 Archie's Antiques is a charming fictional antique shop set in a small town somewhere in Australia. And inside Archie's are a wonderful group of characters; Sam, the knowledgeable owner of Archie's, his clever friend, the retired policeman, Edward Destranger, and his young niece, Sandra. Also, you will find a surfeit of mysteries and puzzles. Archie's not only attracts all sorts of curious questions but also interesting people. It welcomes through its doors a parade of charlatans, frauds, and pranksters, who arrive with a variety of dishonest schemes and ingenious tricks. It also attracts ordinary townsfolk, and Sam's family, and friends who bring their troubles and problems through its door in search of answers. Robin Hillard's Archie's Antiques Mystery Puzzles books 1 & 2 are combined here, and this book contains fifty-six small mysteries, or puzzles, that the shop's staff, and you the reader, can investigate and solve. The mysteries in this book often include intriguing snippets of general knowledge that may entice you to look deeper into things, or they may involve exposing the type of scams that can easily take in the unwary. As Sam, Edward, Sandra, their family, friends, and Archie's customers struggle with these mysteries you can try to match your brains against theirs, in finding a way around every problem, and a solution to every mystery.

A funny Australian mystery about Adelaide and football and fishing and voodoo and wives. When down-at-heel Adelaide private detective Bruce Bilger accepts a curious but seemingly trivial case from a local Australian Rules football club, the Centralian Galahs, he has no inkling of the bizarre and perilous circumstances into which he is about to be plunged. Will his survival instinct and street wisdom make up for his lack of social graces, and will his curiosity ultimately kill him or break the case? Find out and come along for a wild ride with the wisecracking private eye as he flirts with the supernatural and dives into the seedy lower depths of the world of Adelaide sport, and the Australian Football League, in Football Mambo!

In the seventh of the Charlotte Diamond mysteries, retired FBI senior investigator Charlotte and her significant other, box office senior movie star Brenda Boynton, return from a Florida Everglades movie shoot to an economically distressed village, Hopewell on the Choptank, on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay shore. A scheme by New Jersey mobsters to build an illegal casino resort has collapsed but not before half the village has been leveled and the local business owners have committed to overexpansion.Brenda comes with a saving plan to use lottery winnings to establish a retirement community for destitute movie industry retirees in the village. While both Brenda and Charlotte bring this plan to fruition, Charlotte contends with a flurry of auto thefts, a murderess on the loose, a sixty-year old bank heist buried treasure, the return of her former husband and his acidic mother, and a group of old movie folks so ungrateful and motivated by revenge that soon someone swings from a chandelier, threatening to return the village to chaos and Brenda and Charlotte's dreams to dust.

Eight stories woven around the mystery of the Bucks Elbow Mountain, Virginia, plane crash of 1963.In the early fall of 1963 both the Shenandoah National Park Service and the fire stations on the Virginia Piedmont plain on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains are called during a nighttime thunderstorm. A small forest fire, reportedly preceded by an explosion, has been observed on the eastern slope of Bucks Elbow Mountain, ten miles north on the Skyline Drive from where highway 250 crosses the Blue Ridge at Rockfish Gap.The rain is heavy and the site of the fire is remote. By the time the park rangers have descended to the burn area from the Turk Gap parking area and the firefighters have ascended to it, the fire has essentially been doused by the rain. What the crews find is the smoldering fuselage of a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron aircraft. In the smoldering wreckage are two bodies, later determined to be that of a man and a woman, burned beyond ready identification.No one reports missing a plane-or a man or woman for that matter-and no flight plan is on file for a Beechcraft Baron in the Central Virginia airspace for that night.What could be the story behind this crash?From this real scenario, which remains unsolved to this day, Olivia Stowe has woven eight separate short stories on events that fit the facts and that could plausibly explain what brought that plane and those two people to oblivion in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Preceding these stories is an additional story, "Fire on the Mountain," giving fictional accounts of the crash from the various perspectives of those on the ground that night.

It is seemingly a coincidence that master doll maker Ginny Standler inherits a co-op apartment fronting on the Chatham Square of Savannah, Georgia, from her Aunt Marie while simultaneously being offered an interim teaching position at Savannah's College of Art and Design. Both circumstances enable and propel her to escape the Fan district of Richmond, Virginia, and its constant reminders of a romance having gone disturbingly sour and giving Ginny pause to question her value system and relationships with others. Dropped unceremoniously in the quirky charm of Savannah's park-laced historical district-and most significantly into contact with the people who live and thrive in that environment-Ginny quickly becomes entwined with a grouchy recluse; a sour, erratic, and sometimes irrational bag lady; a young girl direly in need of healing; a young waiter laughing through his tears; a bitter poet; and a possible new love interest. And she just as quickly becomes embroiled in the individual letter-signaled mysteries of this set of characters that both repels and compels them one from another-but that somehow makes them a caring community. A community that Ginny comes to suspect her Aunt Marie has purposely enfolded her into to begin the healing in her own life. This charming and inspirational story reflects perfectly what makes the beautifully designed and peopled southern city of Savannah the special place that it is.

The Christmas season reawakens the desires and encouragement to give of oneself and to help others in need. This anthology includes fifteen inspirational and contemplative stories, written over the past couple of decades to follow themes of the Christmas cards the author crafted herself to send to friends and relatives. They provide an opportunity for those conflicted in various ways or swept up in the hustle and bustle of holiday routine to pause, contemplate, grasp, and be heartened and set in motion by the true spirit of the season. These stories share an element of unexpected gifts or struggling to "catch on" to what the season is all about and are great mood lifters for those who feel overwhelmed or marginalized by the commercialism and consumptiveness of Christmas.

When the bodies of two brutally knifed foreigners are found in Northern Cyprus, the authorities are concerned. The murder of foreigners on the island is unusual, and two at almost the same time in mysterious circumstances is even more extraordinary.In the Greek area of Cyprus, resident foreigners are also suddenly dying by the knife. Meanwhile, Caitlyn, an American archeologist, is having flashbacks and visions of death and danger, as she is drawn into the center of this bizarre case. As the police scramble to discover what is going on, and why, an unpopular Canadian program to bring the police forces of the two sides of the divided island together for training in new investigation techniques sees the senior investigators from both the Turkish and Greek sides of the Island suddenly in the same room together, giving opportunity for cooperation now as never before.With a growing number of foreign residents' lives ending in bloodshed and murder, will Caitlyn's insights be conveyed in time to her new husband. And will they help the chief of investigations of foreigner crime in Greek Cyprus, or help his Turkish Cypriot counterpart? Can the murderer be stopped before Caitlyn herself becomes the next victim?Koniotis Mysteries SeriesEach book in this series stands alone, but they are also all connected in various ways and form the different parts of one story.Book One . . . . Laughter's EchoBook Two . . . . Salted AwayBook Three . . .Mouflon BrigadeBook Four . . . .Amathus ArmageddonBook Five . . . . Bogus BillsBook Six . . . . . Homewrecker

Caitlyn Spencer is a celebrated American archaeologist known for "visioning" the past and finding archaeology sites to be mined almost as if by magic and for having an unusual affinity for and understanding of the ancient worlds in which she works. When, in the early 1990s, she arrives in Mediterranean Cyprus on a Fulbright scholarship to help excavate the Chalcolithic era site at Kaliana, however, these "visions" become far more than imagination. It's almost as if she has lived there before, in past lives, and has delved into the island's historically rich and significant intrigue.Darker and more sinister even than the visions, a tragedy in her own past revisits her in Cyprus, and she becomes embroiled in drug trafficking and arms dealing. Worse, she has no idea who she can trust . . . and her innocence could cost her her life.Much more than just a mystery romance on a magnificent Mediterranean island, Laughter's Echo yields up a series of thought-provoking déjà vu snapshot visits back into history almost to the beginning of human existence, a fascinating travelogue of a culturally and historically rich civilization, and a conundrum on what to preserve as more important to history than other eras in the history of humankind.The Koniotis Cyprus Mysteries Series -Each book in this series stands alone, but they are also all connected in various ways and form the different parts of one story.Book One . . . . Laughter's EchoBook Two . . . . Salted AwayBook Three . . .The Mouflon BrigadeBook Four . . . .Amathus ArmageddonBook Five . . . . Bogus BillsBook Six . . . . . Homewrecker

When Charlotte Diamond retired to Diamond Cottage near Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, she thought she had left her life of crime-solving it, that is-behind her, and is struggling to find a new purpose in life. But the small waterfront community of Hopewell on the Choptank, with its wealthy artistically inclined inhabitants, is hiding old crimes and dark secrets beneath its outward quiet and affluence.A surprising number of people from the community have intersecting pasts and dark secrets that Charlotte is unaware of and that become downright murderous, coming to a head when blockbuster movie actress, Brenda Brandon, arrives in the village in full retreat from a recent tragedy in her life. Brenda also brings unexpected romance into Charlotte's previously straight life. And Sam, the neglected husky who has attached himself to Charlotte, knows more about what is going on than he can tell her, even with his howling.

Orlando, Count of Madelaine, Consort of the Emperor, and cokeeper of the keys to the Gates of Time, begins his story on a day when he lived as a count in a French chateau on Earth. A future Earth, much of which is a living museum, as is his region of Madelaine. His life is perfect, he is naturally promiscuous, and so are most residents of Madelaine. Then, in this perfect society, a young woman is found dead-murdered. And it's Count Orlando's job to determine how she died and who was responsible. The decisions Orlando makes when he finally discovers the truth will force him to leave Madelaine. He moves into the present real world for a while but shortly is able to live out a childhood dream and become one of those in the first group to meet with the race of intelligent aliens who have just been discovered. What Orlando, a lonely man now searching for purpose in his life, does as part of that first contact group takes him into the heart of an alien civilization and changes the fate of not only humanity, but one day will also change the future for all the inhabitants of the galaxy. In this memoir Orlando talks about only the private parts of his own life since the day the woman was murdered. As he says, he does not talk of battle fleets and the fall of powerful families, he talks about what has become of him because of decisions he made, and can never regret making-and of love and duty.

In the second of the Charlotte Diamond mysteries, FBI senior investigator Charlotte has retired to Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake bay only to find high-level international intrigue has sought her out when the abandoned sailboat of spy master Win Engleton washes up against her dock. Charlotte struggles with having to choose between focusing on her new-found significant other, former movie star Brenda Boynton, or a complex espionage mystery of who did what to who and why that reopens ever deeper mysteries again and again like a Matryoshka Russian nesting doll.