Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery
Mark McNease
Narrated by Holly Palance
In Black Cat White Paws, recently widowed Maggie Dahl finds herself faced with challenges on all fronts: life alone in a new town, running a business she and her husband had dreamed of and started together, and now pursuing a killer. Her sister, Gerri, moves from Philadelphia to Lambertville, New Jersey, to support her sister and start a new life of her own. Together, the women search for a murderer, helped in critical ways by their neighbor’s cat. A black cat with white paws. A cat whose independence sets it all in motion and sees it through to the end.
Strange Company
Jean Ryan
Narrated by Nikiya Palombi
In Strange Company, a delightful collection of short essays, Jean Ryan brings us closer to the natural world. From lizards to lady bugs, from the inscrutable sloth to the resplendent quetzal, Ryan reveals some of our commonalities with earth’s creatures and hints at the lessons we might learn from them.
Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge
Mark McNease
Narrated by Daniella Acitelli
Retired homicide detective Linda Sikorsky and her wife Kirsten McClellan head to Maine for a long weekend. Bad weather alters their plans, forcing them to stop for the night at the Cliff’s Edge, a motel known for secrecy and indiscretion. Something murderous goes bump in the night, sending the women on a search for justice when a young reporter’s body is found dumped and violated on a back road.
Death in the Headlights: A Kyle Callahan Mystery Featuring Detective Linda
Mark McNease
Narrated by Daniella Acitelli
Kyle Callahan and his partner Danny Durban head to rural New Jersey for a relaxing week with their dear friend, Detective Linda Sikorsky, recently retired and newly in love. Driving back from dinner with Linda and her fiancée Kirsten, they discover the body of Abigail Creek, run off the road on a bicycle wearing only her nightgown and slippers. Come along as Linda and Kyle make their way into the shadows and enter the spider’s web, determined to find out who in this family of spiders is the deadliest one.
Death by Pride: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
Mark McNease
Narrated by K.C. Kelly
It’s Gay Pride weekend in New York City. Partygoers arrive to show the world how to have a good time while a serial killer stalks the party, claiming his victims in threes. Detective Linda Sikorsky comes to visit Kyle Callahan and his husband Danny Durban. Harmless fun turns to terror in a frantic effort to stop the killer. This time it’s personal, and this time one of them might not make it out alive.
Pride and Perilous: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
Mark McNease
Narrated by K.C. Kelly
Manhattan’s Katherine Pride Gallery becomes the center of high art and low death. Kyle Callahan Mysteries. Amateur photographer Kyle is about to have his first photo exhibit at the gallery. Bodies start to fall and Kyle realizes somebody wants this gallery closed forever. Detective Linda Sikorsky returns to join Kyle in a desperate chase to stop a killer.
Murder at Pride Lodge: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
Mark McNease
Narrated by K.C. Kelly
In the first of the Kyle Callahan Mysteries, Kyle and his partner Danny Durban head to Pride Lodge, their favorite getaway from the stresses of New York City. They expect to enjoy a festive Halloween weekend. What they find instead is a web of murder, deceit, and revenge served cold as a knife blade.
Stop the Car: A Kindle Single
Mark McNease
Narrated by Braden Wright
1977. Three teenagers driving down an Indiana back road. As the car careens along beneath a million stars, they see it, up there in the sky. Two of them demand they stop the car. The driver refuses. What happens next to them could be real or imagined, but it will never be forgotten.
Murder at the Paisley Parrot
Mark McNease
Narrated by Fred Wolinksy
Time waits for no one, including Marshall James. Now 58 and living in New York City, Marshall has outlived the expiration date he was given with a cancer diagnosis three years ago. He beat the odds, but he knows he may not beat the clock. So he’s decided to tell a story or three about some murders he was involved in back in the day.
The year was 1983. The bar was the Paisley Parrot in Hollywood, a gay, mob-run dive where people came to drink and few of them remembered the night before. Marshall loves his job as a bartender there. But one night, among the regulars, a killer arrives. Body by body, death by death, Marshall finds himself pulled into a web of murder, deceit, and crime, with a psychopath waiting at the center of it all. Marshall falls for the cop who is investigating him, not knowing if their relationship will survive or even if he’ll come out of this alive. Find out before last call comes around, in Murder at the Paisley Parrot.