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THRILLER
The search for elusive goals consumes three men…
McKinney, a forensic scientist, struggles with his deep, personal need to find the truth behind the evidence he investigates, even while the system shuts him out. Can he get justice for a wrongfully accused man while juggling life with a new girlfriend and a precocious teenage daughter?
Delroy gives up the hard-scrabble life on his family’s Kentucky farm and ventures to the rough-and-tumble world of 1930s Chicago. Unable to find work, he reluctantly throws his hat in with the bank-robbing gangsters Alvin Karpis and Freddie Barker. Can he provide for his fiery young wife without risking his own life?
Gilbert is obsessed with the search for a cache of gold, hidden for nearly eighty years. As his hunt escalates he finds himself willing to use ever more extreme measures to attain his goal…including kidnapping, torture and murder. Can he find the one person still left who will lead him to the glittering treasure? And will the trail of corpses he leaves behind include McKinney?
Part contemporary thriller, part historical novel, and part love story, Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold masterfully weaves a tale of conflicted scientific ethics, economic hardship, and criminal frenzy, tempered with the redemption of family love.
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FICTION/ Thrillers
5.5″ x 8.5″
222 pages
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YOUNG ADULT HISTORICAL NOVEL
Fifteen-year-old Sarah, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, wants nothing more than to become an artist. But as she spreads her wings she must come to terms with the secrets that her family is only beginning to share with her.
Replete with historical details that vividly evoke Chicago in the 1890s, this moving coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of a vibrant, turbulent city. Sarah moves between two very different worlds—the colorful immigrant neighborhood surrounding Hull House and the sophisticated, elegant World’s Columbian Exposition.
This novel eloquently captures the struggles of a young girl as she experiences the timeless emotions of friendship, family turmoil, loss…and first love.
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Finalist for the Midwest Book Awards in the YA Fiction category
Finalist for the IBPA Ben Franklin Awards in the Teen
Fiction category
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JUVENILE FICTION/Historical/United States/19th Century
5.5″ x 8.5″
178 pages
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THRILLER
Even a good man may feel driven to sign on with the devil.
Paul Clark is a Catholic priest who’s been on the fast track to becoming a bishop. But he suddenly faces a heart-wrenching problem, when choices he made as a young man come roaring back into his life. A mysterious woman, who claims to be with “an agency of the federal government,” offers to solve his problem. But there’s a price to pay—Father Clark must undertake some very un-priestly actions.
An attack in a Chicago alley…a daring escape from a Mexican jail…and a fight to the death in a Guyanese jungle…all these, and more, must be survived in order to protect someone he loves.
This priest is about to learn how much easier it is to preach love than to live it.
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Winner of the 2013 Lovey Award for Best Thriller
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Praise for Company Orders
“A real knuckle-whitener” — Booklist
“Another powerful, character-driven tale…Every character is magnificently realized, yet Father Paul, with his soul-searching struggle couched in subtle humor throughout, is unforgettable…[Walker's] eclectic experience…helps inject realism into his prose.”
— Lawrence Kane, ForeWord Reviews
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FICTION/Thrillers
6″ x 9″
324 pages
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HISTORICAL MYSTERY
Exhausted after the tumult of the Pullman Strike of 1894, Emily Cabot is looking forward to a restful summer visit to Cape Cod. She has plans to collect “beasties” for the Marine Biological Laboratory, alongside other visiting scientists from the University of Chicago.
She also hopes to enjoy romantic clambakes with Dr. Stephen Chapman, although they must keep an important secret from their friends.
But her summer takes a dramatic turn when she finds a dead man floating in a fish tank. In order to solve his murder she must first deal with dueling scientists, a testy local sheriff, the theft of a fortune, and uncooperative weather.
The Emily Cabot Mysteries series will continue to delight history buffs and mystery lovers alike.
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Finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award in the Mystery category
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Praise for Death at Woods Hole
“McNamara, a librarian at the University of Chicago, proves, if anyone was asking, that librarians make great historical mystery writers. She captures the tension of the times between the male and female scientists, both professionally and personally…Also so accurately portrayed is that small-town-in-summer feeling, when towns are overtaken by visitors, who coexist uneasily with locals. This was my first Emily Cabot mystery, and as a fellow Chicagoan, I was initially disappointed this was set outside the city, but that feeling didn’t last long. I’d follow Emily to any location.”
— Ellen Keith, Historical Novels Review
“This is a fun, satisfying read for a summer afternoon à la hammock or back porch.”
— The Barnstable Patriot
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FICTION/Mystery & Detective /Historical
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220 pages
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Readers will also enjoy the other books in the series: Death at the Fair, Death at Hull House, and Death at Pullman.