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When Greer O'Mally moves into a supposed quiet retirement community if was with the intent of healing. However, some things are not meant to be. Before she has even unpacked her boxes, she is up to her neck in murder. Bodies are piling up like cordwood. The local town crier is telling every one who will listen that Greer is the murderer. Help arrives in the form of Det. Friday. Yes, he has heard all the jokes. He just wants the facts. When things get really uncontrolled the three girls show up. Yep, Lola, Vicky and Penelope join the fray. Who is doing the killings? What do they all have in ...

Archelologist Jonas Biggs has been hired to do the dig at Andersonville Prison, the worst POW camp during the Civil War. He has taken along his niece, Savannah Biggs, the only child of his twin brother, John. As the past is uncovered, the Biggs family get much more than they bargained for. Savannah is the only female born since before the war.

Lala and Dante Sherman have both been released from confinment. Lala from the institution of the insanely stupid and Dante from prison because of an alleged technicality. Chuck Bennett has returned for whatever reason and there is a new woman in the shadows who looks vaguely familiar. A woman who was supposed to be dead. Once again Greer O'Malley is up to her neck with accusations of murder,madness and mayhem. Will she find out why there are bodies piling up wear nothing but thongs? Who put the thongs on the grass in a straight line? Why is Lala hellbent on making Greer the bad guy? Has ...

In the years leading up to the 1950s, there were no resources for the challenged. They were placed in asylums or back rooms and left to die. They were never talked about or acknowledged. They were the silent children. The ones no one wanted. The ones who were never given a chance to live. Yvonne Mason has given us a story of success in a time of failure for the challenged. She has given a voice to a child born in 1952 who became challenged. This young man was not put away. He was not shunned and he was not ignored. Ms. Mason tells the story of Stan, her brother, who was never supposed to ...

In the early summer of 1975 a badly decomposed female body was found on Ulrich Rd in Fort Pierce, Florida. The case was initally investigated as a Jane Doe. No one had reported her missing and the body was so badly decomposed it was hard to get an identification. She was finally identified as Pauline Metler age 33 years old. In early fall the case went cold. In 1976 it was reopened when a prisoner had a case of conscience and wanted to unburden his soul. This book is her story so that she will never be forgotten again.

The year is 1888, it is the year of Jack The Ripper. It is also the year that The Rhoades Hat Factory created a new way to make one of a kind hats. Is Rhoades the Ripper?

Robert (Bubba) Haines is a hard driving, beer drinking, tobacco chewing over the road truck driver who is running behind schedule with a load to be delivered in Miami. He is traveling late at night by the light of a full moon south on Hwy 27 which runs north from the Canadian Border to south into Miami. The stretch of Hwy that Bubba is on is known as Blood Alley because there are so many wrecks involving cars and semis on this dark two lane blacktop. As Bubba is running at a pretty fast clip he notices something that will change his life forever. Something that he will never be able to ...

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The year is 1888. The Place is the East End of London. Dead and mutilated bodies are popping up all over the east end from Stamford to Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper is making his mark in the East End in ways that puts the city on edge, so to speak. Johnathon Rhoades has been exposed to mercury since he was a boy of sixteen working in his father’s hat factory, which he now owns due to his father’s unexpected death. The hats that are created at the factory are in such demand that he almost cannot keep up with the orders.

What happens when you put two of the most irreverent women (one a bounty hunter and the other a case of mistaken identity) together for a rip-roaring, hilariously wild adventure? This time around, join bounty hunter Alex Morgan and her new friend, former mistaken suspect jumper Hope Harrington, as they head to New Orleans during Mardi Gras for the bounty of a lifetime: a descendant of the legendary Marie Laveau!

The bodies are piling up in Key West outside a famous drag bar. Is that a clue or a coincidence? Is it a serial killer? The story is seen through the eyes of the main character - and what eyes they are! Lou, the mild-mannered detective by day and a fabulous drag queen (Lola) by night, can get into all kinds of trouble! The head detective, O'Leary, and Lou (Lola) go on a case that has been haunting them since their days in the Big Apple.

It was a time of innocence, a time of hippies, flower children and the Age of Aquarius. A time when young people felt free to roam about the countryside hitchhiking without fear. A time when law enforcement was trusted by the people they were sworn to protect and serve. That time was shattered by one of law enforcements own. His name was Gerard Schaefer. He was a former Wilton Manors, Florida Police Officer who lied his way into the office of the Martin County Florida Sheriff’s Office. He used his lie to continue to perpetrate his crimes of torture and murder of young women who hitchhiked...

In the years leading up to the 1950's, there were no resources for the challenged. They were placed in asylums or back rooms and left to die. They were never talked about or acknowledged. They were the silent children. The ones no one wanted. The ones who were never given a chance to live. Yvonne Mason tells the story of Stan, her brother, who was never supposed to succeed. He was supposed to fail.

The Morgan and Herrington series revolves around a cynical, sarcastic female bounty hunter named Alex Morgan and Hope Harrington, a downtrodden, mousy secretary, who meet when Alex mistakes Hope for the "jumper" she's in hot pursuit of and slaps the cuffs on. After this zany encounter, the two collude, with the result being one of the most tongue-in-cheek and hilarious mysteries written.

A Voice from the Grave By : Yvonne Mason Best Selling Florida Author Yvonne Mason has just released her latest book A Voice from the Grave. She spent over four years researching and gathering material for this fiction murder/suspense so that the history behind Andersonville Prison would be correct. Ms. Mason has taken factual accounts of battles of the Civil War and real incidents at Andersonville to spell bind her readers. She takes her readers on a journey that will draw them into the story with abandon. Ms. Mason is the author of five other books, including her True Crime Silent Scream. ...

Tangled Minds is a masterpiece. In the fine tradition of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Yvonne Mason leads the reader through the twisted and tangled lives of Brianna Van Pelt and her son, Josh, thrusting us into a Pygmalion dilemma that has consumed scholars for decades. Is there such a thing as a "bad seed", an individual whose feet are placed upon a path of crime and evil almost from the beginning? Thwarted by her parents' tough love, seventeen-year-old, single mother, Brianna, allows herself to be drawn into a new world glittering with easy money and false promises, accepting that ...

This little book is a collection of short stories that range from the believable to the unhinged. They were part of several anthologies which are no longer in print. For instances, how many of you know a Granny Assassin? Or how about having tea with a sweet little old lady? Then there is a rougue homicide detective. This is just three of the stories in this book guareented to keep you up nights.

Off the Chain was on Blog Talk Radio for years we are now looking for a new home. This might be it. I have been a podcast host for 15 years. I am also now a publisher of books since my publisher died. I am also and artist and professional photograper. Here we will talk all things books, the industry how it has changed and what the future might bring. I would also like to promote authors, music aritsts and anyone who has a dream.

They walk among us. The narcissistic sociopaths who prey on the innocent, the weak and the vulnerable. They prey on those who have low self-esteem, who are seeking someone to love who will love them without condition. The narcissistic sociopath seeks out those they can control with intimidation, physical violence and mental abuse. They weave their web of deceit and extreme cruelty around their victims like a spider weaves a web making it stronger and stronger as the web gets larger and larger until their victim is totally dependent upon their captor. What is normal for this spider has ...

Marion Lewis Reinhart, an androgynous serial killer, has five days to live before he is put to death by lethal injection. Due to the severity and mysterious nature of his crimes, he has been given permission to tell the world his side of the story. Not the story told in court, the real story. Reinhart has his own agenda. He believes he was justified in his quest for terrible retribution and he wants to share his truth. His web of lies, twisted facts, and narcissistic story telling hides a truth more shocking than any of his murders.