If you love Topper and Blithe Spirit, celebrate Christmas with It's a Wonderful Life, and live to laugh, please join the Late Bailey Ruth Raeburn, Heaven's irrepressible sleuth, on the Rescue Express October 1 In GHOST GONE WILD. Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help a scruffy but lovable 20-something-video-game inventor who has lots of money and just as many enemies. Bailey Ruth foils a shooting, but discovers her Heavenly supervisor has no idea she's on earth and this time she may never make it back to Heaven!

DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE is the 23rd in the Death on Demand series. Annie Darling insists a woman can't disappear without a trace but a sultry siren walks into the pines on the Fourth of July and no one has seen her since.

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Carolyn writes the Death on Demand series set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series featuring a lively redheaded ghost.

Carolyn is also the author of several WWII novels, including ESCAPE FROM PARIS which is mewly available this month from Seventh Street Books. Escape from Paris is the story of two sisters who defy the Gestapo to help British fliers avoid capture.

In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help someone in trouble. She moves a body, investigates a murder, saves a marriage, prevents a suicide, and--in a fiery finale--rescues a child who knows too much. In Merry, Merry Ghost, Bailey Ruth protects a little boy from danger. In Ghost in Trouble, Bailey Ruth tries to corral a wilful woman determined to play hunt-the-killer. Ghost Gone Wild puts Bailey Ruth at risk of never returning to Heaven.

Letter from Home, a WWII novel set on the home front, received the Agatha Award for Best Mystery of 2003. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman is working for the small-town newspaper during the hot summer of 1944. Murder occurs on the street where she lives, forever changing her life and the lives of those involved.

Hart was one of 10 mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC, in 2003 for Letter from Home and again in 2007 for Set Sail for Murder, 7th in the Henrie O series. In Set Sail for Murder (new in paperback March 2008), Henrie O joins a troubled family on a Baltic cruise and death is an unwelcome passenger.

Hart has been nominated 9 times for the Agatha Award for Best Novel and has won 3 times. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic. She will be the International Guest of Honor at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 6-8, 2008.

Hart is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and American Crime Writers League.

Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) sold hundreds of millions of books. He introduced iconic detective Mike Hammer to readers in 1947 with I, THE JURY, and was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1995.

Max Allan Collins is a New York Times bestselling author of original mysteries, a Shamus award winner and an experienced author of movie adaptions and tie-in novels. His graphic novel ROAD TO PERDITION was made into a major motion picture by Tom Hanks's production company, Playtone.

MARGARET MARON is the author of twenty-seven novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity), her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature and have been translated into 15 languages. She has served as president of Sisters in Crime, the American Crime Writers League, and Mystery Writers of America. Visit her at www.MargaretMaron.com.

A native Tar Heel, she still lives on her family's century farm a few miles southeast of Raleigh, the setting for Bootlegger's Daughter, which is numbered among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. In 2004, she received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for best North Carolina novel of the year; and in 2008, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the state's highest civilian honor. Her mystery novels feature District Court Judge Deborah Knott and are the pegs upon which she hangs her love and concern for the state.

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Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi, and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area in the middle of a cotton field. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she wrote plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and started writing novels a few years later.

After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched a light-hearted mystery series 'starring' Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden. The first of the eight books, Real Murders, was shortlisted for Best Novel in the 1990 Agatha Awards. In 1996, she released the first of the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses.

Charlaine Harris then wrote the first of her Southern vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse, the quirky, telepathic waitress who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Dead Until Dark won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. It also won Harris a whole new fan club of devoted readers and pushed her into the bestseller lists. The Sookie Stackhouse series, in which Sookie has to deal with vampires, werecreatures and other supernatural folk - not to mention her own complicated love life - was also instrumental in creating the urban fantasy genre.

Sookie Stackhouse also enchanted Alan Ball, creator of the smash TV show Six Feet Under, who took an option and wrote and directed the pilot episode for True Blood himself. It was an instant hit when it premiered in the US, and that success was repeated when it was first aired in Britain last year. The second season of TRUE BLOOD will start this spring.

Harris's newest series features Harper Connelly, a young woman who, after being struck by lightning, finds herself able to locate the bodies of the dead and to determine the cause of their death. There are four Harper titles (Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret).

Charlaine Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She is married, the mother of three, and lives in a small town in Southern Arkansas. When she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously!

Here are the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood novels in series order:

Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse 1

Living Dead In Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse 2

Club Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 3

Dead To The World: Sookie Stackhouse 4

Dead As A Doornail: Sookie Stackhouse 5

Definitely Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 6

All Together Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 7

From Dead To Worse: Sookie Stackhouse 8

Dead And Gone: Sookie Stackhouse 9

Dead In The Family: Sookie Stackhouse 10

A Touch Of Dead (a Sookie Stackhouse short story collection_

Here are the Harper Connelly novels in series order:

Grave Sight: Harper Connelly 1

Grave Surprise: Harper Connelly 2

An Ice Cold Grave: Harper Connelly 3

Grave Secret: Harper Connelly 4

Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of 21 novels and more than 150 short stories. His latest novel, "Storm Cell," will be published in November 2016 by Pegasus Books. He is currently working on the 11th book in the Lewis Cole series, along with other novels and short stories. His short fiction has appeared in Playboy, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Asimov's SF Magazine, The Strand, and numerous other magazines and anthologies including "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century," published in 2000 by Houghton-Mifflin and edited by Tony Hillerman and Otto Penzler.

In addition, a number of original anthologies and other works of fiction, including his three-novel Empire of the North series --- "The Noble Warrior," "The Noble Prisoner," and "The Noble Prince" --- are available on the Kindle platform.

His short stories have twice won him the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and have also earned him three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of America.

He is also a "Jeopardy!" game show champion and a co-winner on "The Chase" trivia game show.

During the past several months, he has also been working with NYT bestselling author James Patterson on several projects.

Visit his website at www.BrendanDuBois.com

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Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets started her career as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was a longtime popular media figure in St. Louis and a regular columnist for the newspaper for twenty-five years. She also hosted the local light-news television program Viets Beat, for which she won Emmy Awards in 1989 and 1990. After moving to Washington, D.C., Viets wrote a newspaper column syndicated internationally by United Feature Syndicate in New York.

Elaine left the newspaper business to become a full-time novelist. In 2004 she was nominated for three Agatha Awards. In 2005, she won awards for Best Short Story at two notable mystery conventions: an Agatha Award at Malice Domestic and an Anthony Award at Bouchercon, both for her story Wedding Knife.

In 2008 she appeared an episode of Mythbusters for the "Biscuit Bullet" story.

Elaine built a successful career as the author of four mystery series. She drew on her professional experience to produce her first four novels set in St. Louis at a newspaper, featuring hard-boiled Francesca Vierling. Francesca was a six-foot-tall St. Louis newspaper columnist who's tough and glamorous and drives an '86 Jaguar while investigating murder.

Elaine then wrote the Dead-End Job mysteries introducing Helen Hawthorne in a fun, traditional series. Helen had a high-finance job, a beautiful home, and a caring husband—or so she thought until she caught him with their neighbor. When a judge ordered Helen to pay her ex alimony, she took off to hide out in Fort Lauderdale to save her dignity – refusing to pay her ex a penny. Taking one dead-end job after another, Helen found herself embroiled in murder and mayhem.

Elaine also began writing the Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, set in Maplewood, a charming St. Louis suburb. These are sweetly cozy. The reader is introduced to mystery shopper and single mom Josie Marcus, who tries sleuthing on for size when she’s framed for murder. On her first assignment, Josie mystery-shops the stores of St. Louis’s premier handbag designer, Danessa Celedine. A stunning socialite who makes headlines with her hot Russian lover, Serge, Danessa sells exquisite purses to the rich and famous. After Josie writes a negative report, Danessa and Serge are both found murdered, she’s suddenly linked to an actual homicide—as the chief suspect! Josie Marcus is a mystery shopper with a penchant for finding murder along the way.

Because Elaine enjoys variety, she’s moved back into darker crime and forensic drama with her next series, the Angela Richman, Death Investigator mysteries. Death investigators work for the medical examiner. They take charge of the body, photographing it, documenting the wounds, and more. The police investigate the rest of the crime scene. Angela lives in mythical Chouteau County, just west of St. Louis. The rich live in the town of Chouteau Forest, a bastion of old money. The workers live in a section with the snarky name of Toonerville. But death doesn’t discriminate between the rich and the poor. Angela works cases for the super-wealthy as well as the poor. It’s her job to examine, photograph and document their bodies, so the dead can tell her how they died. The Angela Richman series is dark, but it's not as gruesome as Patricia Cornwell’s novels. It's closer to Kathy Reichs' Tempe Brennan mysteries. So far, the series has four novels, Brain Storm, Fire and Ashes, Ice Blonde, and A Star Is Dead. Death Grip, the fifth book in the series, will be published in December, 2020 in the United Kingdom and March, 2021 in United States.

Elaine’s short stories, Deal with the Devil and Thirteen Short Stories, have been published by Crippen and Landru.

She has served on the national boards of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and is currently treasurer of the Sisters in Crime Treasure Coast Chapter. She was honored to be named Toastmaster of the Left Coast Crime convention, as well as Toastmaster at Malice Domestic and also Guest of Honor at that mystery fan convention.

Today, Elaine lives in Fort Lauderdale with her husband, reviewer, Don Crinklaw.

For a complete listing of her books and a full bio please visit www.elaineviets.com.

S.W. Hubbard writes the kinds of mysteries she loves to read: twisty, believable, full of complex characters, and highlighted with sly humor. She is the author of the Palmyrton Estate Sale Mystery Series and the Frank Bennett Adirondack Mountain Mystery Series. Her short stories have also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the anthologies Crimes by Moonlight, Adirondack Mysteries, and The Mystery Box. She lives in Morristown, NJ, USA where she teaches creative writing to enthusiastic teens and adults, and expository writing to reluctant college freshmen. Readers can also get news of her upcoming books by visiting her website and joining her mailing list at http://www.swhubbard.net or "liking" her Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/SW-Hubbard-Author/178500658965464 or following her on Twitter @swhubbardauthor. Connect with S.W. Hubbard on Goodreads, BookBub, and Pinterest too.

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Parnell Hall is the Shamus Award winning, Edgar nominated author of the Stanley Hastings Private Eye novels, the Puzzle Lady crossword puzzle mysteries, and the Steve Winslow courtroom dramas. With Stuart Woods he writes the NewYork Times bestselling Teddy Fay thrillers.

Parnell has a scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Hercules in New York. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie C.H.U.D.

Please buy his books to save him from these misspent lives.

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Terrie Farley Moran is the bestselling author of the Read 'Em and Eat cozy mystery series including the Agatha Award winning Well Read, Then Dead. Along with Jessica Fletcher, she co-writes the Murder She Wrote mystery series. She also co-writes the Scrapbooking Mysteries with Laura Childs. Terrie's short mystery fiction has been published in Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly and numerous anthologies. "A Killing at the Beausoleil" was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short Story. "Inquiry and Assistance" received the Derringer Award for Best Novelette. You can find Terrie on Facebook or on her website at www.terriefarleymoran.com

Dana Cameron's novels and short stories are inspired by her career as an archaeologist. Her crime fiction has won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, and has been short-listed for the Edgar Award. Several of her Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries have been made into movies for the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel. HELLBENDER is the third urban fantasy novel set in her Fangborn 'verse. Dana lives in Massachusetts, USA; learn more at www.danacameron.com.

STEVE BREWER writes books about crooks. His latest crime novel, TROUBLE TOWN, is his 34th published book and the 10th outing for bumbling private eye Bubba Mabry. The heist novel UPSHOT came out in 2020 and COLD CUTS was published in 2018.

He also wrote the humor books TROPHY HUSBAND and RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING, which was expanded and revised in 2020.

His first Bubba book, LONELY STREET, was made into a 2009 comedy starring Robert Patrick, Jay Mohr and Joe Mantegna. Several of his other novels have been optioned by Hollywood.

Under the pen name Max Austin, Brewer wrote three hard-boiled crime stories set in Albuquerque, NM, aka Duke City. DUKE CITY SPLIT, DUKE CITY HIT and Amazon bestseller DUKE CITY DESPERADO were published in 2014-15 by the Alibi imprint at Penguin Random House.

A former journalist and humor columnist, Brewer taught for many years in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico. He and his family own Organic Books in Albuquerque's historic Nob Hill neighborhood.

More at www.stevebrewer.blogspot.com. Write him at abqbrewer@gmail.com.

Over twenty years ago, Agatha award winner Toni L.P. Kelner moved up north, and after years of being told to write-what-you-know, discovered that what she knew about was the South and murder. Well, the murder part is mostly research, but she's a born-and-bred Southerner. Soon after her move she started writing the Laura Fleming mysteries about a North Carolinian transplanted to Massachusetts. (Wonder where she got that idea....)

After eight books and a number of short in that series, she tackled writing with a northern accent to produce the three books of the Where are they now? series about Tilda Harper, a Boston-based freelance entertainment reporter.

In the midst of that, she teamed up with NY bestseller Charlaine Harris--another Southerner--to co-edit urban fantasy anthologies. They've published five and GAMES CREATURES PLAY, their sixth, is due out in April 2014.

Kelner is also a prolific short story writer, and has published over two dozen for various anthologies and magazines. They're all mysteries, but feature vampires, witches, pirates, PIs, zombies, and demonic phone calls. Her stories have been nominated multiple times for the Agatha, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer, and she won the Agatha for "Sleeping With the Plush."

After two series under her own name, Kelner added the pen name Leigh Perry, and started publishing the Family Skeleton Mysteries. A SKELETON IN THE FAMILY, the first, was released in Sept. 2013, with THE SKELETON TAKES A BOW due out in Sept. 2014.

Kelner lives north of Boston with author/husband Stephen P. Kelner, two daughters, and two guinea pigs.