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Many of you know me as a USA Today Bestselling mystery writer, but I've also written historical fiction, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, a fantasy, and most recently, a paranormal thriller. All of my books are (or soon will be) available as e-books and most are also in print. I hope you'll enjoy my stories as they present a variety of times, places, and reading experiences from mysterious to thrilling, emotional to lightly humorous, as well as powerful tales of times long past.

Now...two new books available for your reading pleasure...

Ancient Echoes: Book One of the Ancient Powers Trilogy - Available Now in Paper or as an E-book

Over two hundred years ago, a covert expedition shadowing Lewis and Clark disappeared in the wilderness of Central Idaho. Now, seven anthropology students and their professor vanish in the same area. The key to finding them lies in an ancient secret, one that men throughout history have sought to unveil.

Michael Rempart is a brilliant archeologist with a colorful and controversial career, but he is plagued by a sense of the supernatural and a spiritual intuitiveness. Joining Michael are a CIA consultant on paranormal phenomena, a washed-up local sheriff, and a former scholar of Egyptology. All must overcome their personal demons as they attempt to save the students and learn the expedition's terrible secret....

From the Journal of Francis Masterson, 1806--

All hope is gone. Evil is victorious. Ours was to be a Secret Expedition...

Learn more about the history & science--Idaho, Lewis & Clark, alchemy, Nicolas Flamel and much more--included in ANCIENT ECHOES at AncientEchoes.info

Buy ANCIENT ECHOES in book form on Amazon

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Cooking Spirits: An Angie Amalfi Mystery
Available Now in Paper or as an E-book

Culinary queen Angie Amalfi has put aside her gourmet utensils to concentrate on planning her upcoming wedding to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith. What could possibly go wrong?

Instead of the answer to her heart's dreams, she scrambles to deal with wedding planners with bizarre ideas, wedding dresses that don't flatter, squabbling relatives with hurt feelings, a long-suffering groom, and worries over where she and Paavo will live after the wedding. But all of that pales when Angie finds the perfect house for them, except for one little problem--the house may be haunted.

Many years ago, the newlyweds who lived in the house were murdered, and the case was never solved. While Angie pursues what happened to the couple who now may be haunting the house, Paavo obsesses over his own case involving the murder of unlikely lovers. The trail leads to ghosts, murders, unhappy families, and enough obnoxious wedding buttinskis to fill a graveyard. But when eerie happenings turn deadly, Angie fears she may be spirited away for good!

Learn more about the Angie Amalfi Mysteries--Click here.

Buy COOKING SPIRITS in book form on Amazon,

or in Kindle format

E-BOOKS:

Romance: A Contemporary, a Fantasy, and a Romantic Suspense - Please click on book cover to be taken to Amazon.com for a description of the story.

Historical Fiction - Please click on book cover to be taken to Amazon.com for a description of the story. DANCE WITH A GUNFIGHTER is a Kindle Bestseller in Westerns and GOLD MOUNTAIN is a Kindle Bestseller in U.S. West Historical

Also, DANCE WITH A GUNFIGHTER now available in paperback. Please click on book cover for description.

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Historical Fiction - A Story of the West:

PAPERBACKS

The Angie Amalfi Mysteries

Gourmet cook, sometime food columnist, sometime restaurant critic, and generally "underemployed" person Angelina Amalfi burst upon the mystery scene in SOMETHING'S COOKING, in which she met San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith. Since that time she's wanted two things in life, a good job...and Paavo.

Combining mystery with humor, romance and food, in the first book in the series Angie has a food column in a small time newspaper, and when one of her recipe contributors is killed, Angie finds herself next on the murderer's menu.

"Pairing a homicide detective and a gourmet cook on a quest guarantees vast amounts of lunacy, shenanigans, murder, larceny, arms dealers, drug dealers, and people who write bad recipes. There is love, humor, romance, suspense, danger, a thrill or two, some interesting characters (including Angie's family), fodder for a richer fantasy life, and a lot of laughs in this series."

---Mysterious Women

Read about all the books in the series here.

Try some of Angie's favorite recipes

Written by Angie fan Linda Shelnutt:
A Treatise on Angie Amalfi

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