Series Nominated for Reader’s Choice Awards as Best Historical Mystery and Best Traditional Amateur SleuthFor Fans of Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and Gilded Age Chicago History

GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES

Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. It rivals New York as the City of the Century and the epitome of the Gilded Age. This melting pot of thieves and corrupt politicians, robber barons and immigrants, is rife with scandal and social injustice. An eccentric heiress and a star reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City.

Volume Three – The Black Widows Prey – ARKANA SERIES CROSSOVER

Consulting detectives Evangeline LeClair and Freddie Simpson face their most challenging case yet when a priceless Egyptian artifact is stolen from a Chicago museum. To make matters worse, the museums richest patron is robbed of a diamond necklace shortly afterward. Suspicion immediately falls on a wealthy widow and her scheming son. Trapped in their clutches is the widows hapless daughter, about to be forced into a marriage of convenience against her will.

The investigation is complicated by two mysterious strangers who have also taken an interest in the missing Egyptian relic. Solving both thefts will lead Freddie and Evangeline down some strange avenues of inquiry involving secret societies, international criminal masterminds, gentlemen jewel thieves, unexpected ocean voyages, and underworld kingpins. The two sleuths must either solve their case or join the ranks of fatalities numbered among THE BLACK WIDOWS PREY. $0.99 on Kindle.

Cupcake-loving croupier and private investigator Tiffany Black has a strange new case: why did the photographer go missing twenty-five years ago, and is she still alive?

Meanwhile, the mysterious Rosie insists on being her assistant, but what secrets is Rosie hiding and why are strange men following her? Free on Kindle.

An espionage thriller in the classic tradition of Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and John Le Carré, Dynamite Fishermen follows junior CIA case officer Conrad Prosser through Civil War Beirut in pursuit of an agent recruitment to revive his sagging career, exploiting friends and colleagues heedlessly along the way. At the same time, Prosser directs his Arab agents to discover who is behind a recent eruption of car bombings, setting off a retaliatory outburst that threatens his life and those of others around him. Free on Kindle.

Immerse yourself in this thrilling investigation where the sins of the past cast a long shadow.

From betrayal to blazing fires, ‘What Echoes Render’ is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Follow Jesse and David as they race against time to extinguish a killer’s trail of destruction. Free on Kindle.

Will Harper’s back at it again, as he makes a heartrending discovery: a gritty underbelly of modern-day slavery has been operating right in his own backyard. When Will’s informant, a terrified Guatemalan teenage immigrant who’s just escaped the elegant compound where she was enslaved as a maid, is forced to run from the hired goons sent to capture her, Will knows he has to investigate. With a network that includes corrupt farmers, ruthless coyotes, scheming Russian mobsters and countless henchmen, Will knows it’s only a matter of time until they catch up to his informant and silence her for good.

As he and his live-in girlfriend Callie work to expose the rampant slavery in Florida and find the girl’s missing siblings, Will stumbles on to his biggest mission yet. But will he be able to crack open this slavery ring in time or will the girls become a victim to the Deadly Traffic? $0.99 on Kindle.

Nothing good happens in the morning.

Case in point: the Turkey Trot 5K Race. For a night owl like Kenzie, the idea of dragging her bones out of bed to go running at the crack of dawn would typically be a nonstarter, especially on Thanksgiving Day. But her long-time best friend Blaise insisted, and the idea of disappointing him was even worse.

Trotting along with a bunch of cheerful folks in full-on turkey garb is bad enough. But when several runners collapse without explanation, Kenzie realizes she also has a mystery on her hands. As she and Blaise work together to track down whoever sabotaged the race, their relationship is called into question. She must uncover her true feelings for him—even if doing so ends up breaking his heart.

*A romantic cozy mystery short story* $0.99 on Kindle.

Impulsive Detective “Duke” Wayne is stuck on admin leave from the LAPD, pushing papers across a desk. He desperately wants to rejoin Robbery-Homicide. When the Captain asks him to do a Field Investigation Report on an accidental death from bee stings, he thinks open and shut, this is my ticket back to the squad.

But he is teamed with Kelso Bagley, a methodical Special Agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who specializes in the study of insects. Kelso is sure this bee-sting incident is pre-meditated murder. He drags Duke out of his comfort zone on a wild ride through the world of beekeeping, sadistic insect fetishists and robotized farming to prove it. Their investigation uncovers a larger conspiracy at play and endangers the lives of loved ones, not to mention Duke’s career. Can Duke navigate this underground world of weaponized insects and come out alive? $4.99 on Kindle.

Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop never wanted to come back to her hometown. But when a dead teenage girl is found with her tongue cut out, she must return. After all, that’s the same way Rileigh’s sister died.

Reluctantly, she joins forces with the county sheriff to solve the brutal murder. The locals maintain a strict code of silence. The narrow mountain roads winding through Appalachia are fraught with peril. As Rileigh dives deeper into the case, she not only unearths connections between this murder and her sister’s death but dark family secrets that should’ve remained buried.

When the investigation nearly ends her life, she must find her resolve to solve the crime — fast.

Because she’s the killer’s next target.

Hide Me Away is the debut novel from author Lauren Street and the first book in The Bishop Smoky Mountain Thrillers series. $0.99 on Kindle.