Yesterday was poor little Junebug’s turn to get stung by a bee. We tell them time and time again not to eat the spicy flying raisins, but they don’t listen. I think the temptation is just too great when bees buzzy buzz right in front of them looking all fat and juicy. This time I learned my lesson and had the Benadryl handy, and a nice cozy lap to sit in ready for her. I am certainly no expert, but I think the bees are all business right now and have no time for pesky little pups, or nosy humans to be sniffing around. They are gearing up for winter and have a lot of work to get done before then. Any intruders will be met with a large amount of buzzing by the ears. That sends me running pretty quick. I am certainly the biggest chicken of a beekeeper around. I am not really sure why I chose a hobby where over time I am getting more and more jumpy to do. I started off a lot braver. I used to open up the hives in shorts and a long sleeve shirt. Now I am putting on a full bee suit just to walk by them. The more and more I work with them, I realize the less I know. I do know enough from that one time I got stung though, that I don’t want to get stung again.
Before He Sees (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 2)
by Blake Pierce
Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Thrillers
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In BEFORE HE SEES (A Mackenzie White Mystery — Book 2), FBI agent-in-training Mackenzie White struggles to make her mark in the FBI Academy in Quantico, trying to prove herself as a woman and as a transplant from Nebraska. Hoping she has what it takes to become an FBI agent and leave her life in the Midwest behind for good, Mackenzie just wants to keep a low profile and impress her superiors.
But all that changes when the body of a woman is found in a garbage dump. The murder bears shocking similarities to the Scarecrow Killer — the case that made Mackenzie famous in Nebraska — and in the frantic race against time to stop a new serial killer, the FBI decides to break protocol and give Mackenzie a chance on the case.
It is Mackenzie’s big break, her chance to impress the FBI — but the stakes have never been higher. Not everyone wants her on the case, and everything she touches seems to go wrong. As the pressure mounts and the killer strikes again, Mackenzie finds herself as a lone voice in a sea of experienced agents, and she soon realizes she is in way over heard. Her entire future with the FBI is in jeopardy.
As tough and determined as Mackenzie is, as brilliant as she is in hunting down killers, this new case proves an impossible riddle, something just beyond her reach. She may not even have time to crack it as her own life falls apart around her.
A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, BEFORE HE SEES is book #2 in a riveting new series — with a beloved new character — that will leave you turning pages late into the night.
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Black To Dust: A Quentin Black Paranormal Mystery (Quentin Black Mystery Book 7)
by JC Andrijeski
Genre: Fantasy
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“It’s good,” he pronounced. “We need one like you. You need a ghost to fight a dead man.”
Black finds himself out in the New Mexico desert, where an old war buddy of his needs his help with a rash of murders plaguing his small reservation town.
At first it appears to be a pretty cut and dried case of supernatural infestation.
When it turns out that infestation is being orchestrated by a banished and fanatical shaman, however, things start to get weird fast.
Black, who only went out there to forget his marriage problems and distract himself with some good, honest work, soon finds himself face to face with his worst fears from his past.
He needs Miri out there to help him, but when he finally convinces her to come, things only spiral even faster out of control, drawing them into an ancient, apocalyptic force that might tear them apart forever.
BLACK TO DUST is book seven in the QUENTIN BLACK MYSTERY series, a paranormal mystery series starring brilliant but dangerous psychic detective, Quentin Black, and his partner, forensic psychologist Miri Fox. It’s also a spinoff of the BRIDGE & SWORD SERIES.
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Drifter: Book Four (The 1929 Series 4)
by M.L. Gardner, The Thatchery
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Historical Fiction | Sagas
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Two lives intertwined. Will the truth set them free?
In this fourth book of The 1929 Series, we are led into the world of Richard Sloan, a Massachusetts missing person’s detective who seems to be losing his touch. After six months he hasn’t found anyone alive and becomes desperate to redeem his reputation.
Aryl Sullivan, who suffered amnesia in a boating accident, finds himself caught up in a series of events that land him in London. While in the hands of Gina, a secretive and controlling woman, and her boss, Mickey, Aryl is forever changed as he does what he has to in order to survive.
Following leads on a serial cop killer terrorizing Boston, Detective Sloan unwittingly stumbles on information that leads him to Aryl Sullivan, a man everyone in Rockport thinks is dead.
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Incomplete Works: A Novel
by Noah Goats
Genre: Humor & Satire | Literature & Fiction | Humor & Entertainment
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Incomplete Works is a comedy about a young urban snob who is forced to attend a vocational college in Wyoming.
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Dolls: A Horror Short Story Collection (3 Tales to Chill Your Bones Book 9)
by Mav Skye
Genre: Horror | Anthologies
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The scratching at your bedroom door — what is it? Why do you sometimes find your doll under the bed instead of on the shelf where you left it? And what about the doll you lost – the one you left out in the rain by the old stream where you liked to play in the summer? You went back for it, but it was already gone. Did it fall into the stream and float away? Did the neighbor girl steal it? Or was it simply buried in tall grass and weeds. What if, after all these years, while you are warm under your blankets, reading 3 Tales to Chill Your Bones by the dim moonlight, your forgotten doll is climbing the stairs, dragging an axe behind her? You won’t have to wonder long. No, no, dear readers. Snuggle deeper into your blankets, clutch them for dear life. For you will be meeting the DOLLS, very, very soon…
The China Doll — Sabel Gray has received a very special package from her daddy who is serving over seas in the Navy. She taps on the package wondering what it could be, and is concerned when something inside taps back.
Simply Wicked — It was not an evil doll, definitely, absolutely not evil; it was simply wicked. Wicked is what wicked does. Jane finds this out the hard way.
Poison Lip Gloss — The life sized doll must complete the witch’s three tasks before midnight if she wishes to become real, but when she accidentally kills the troll prince, the night takes on an unusual kind of macabre magic… “First, you must carve a face. I don’t care what or whom you carve it on. Second, you must find an eye to replace the one you lost. And third, you must prove that you want life by taking a life.”
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