Blaming the Arsonist

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Mystery

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Blaming the Arsonist

Kris Nelscott

UC Berkeley, January, 1969—In the midst of turbulent student protests on campus, a cherished building suddenly bursts into flames. Pammy Griffin, an alum who owns a women’s gym nearby, heads over to check out the fire and walks straight into a troubling mystery. Who wants Berkeley to burn? Hippies? Protesters? Or someone with an even darker motive?

But as Pammy investigates, she finds herself, and her gym, embroiled in a troubling turn of events. To catch the arsonist, she and members of her gym must confront some of society’s most brutal, and most hidden, violence using whatever weapons they can.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s Readers Choice Award 2017, Fifth Place.

“Nelscott recalls the era with vivid accuracy.”

<i>—St. Petersburg Times</i>

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Kris Nelscott

Three Strong Women Protecting Their World, One Person at a Time.

A former combat nurse, a former legal secretary, and the owner of one of the first women-only gyms form an unlikely alliance in this fast-paced and riveting new work by the acclaimed historical mystery novelist Kris Nelscott.

The novel opens on the day of the Moon landing, July 20, 1969, two years after the Summer of Love changed Berkeley forever, and left lots of broken teenagers in its wake.

One of the first (if not the first) women-only gyms in the nation and the start of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement bring June “Eagle” Eagleton, Valentina “Val” Wilson, and Pamela “Pammy” Griffin together.

They never intended to face the kidnappings and murders of college students. But no one else paid attention.

An amazing trip into the experiences and lives of 1969 Berkeley told with riveting attention to detail. A read that will keep you turning pages into the late night and shock you at the same time.

Nelscott’s engrossing novel is rich in period details and goes far beyond peace signs, pot, and patchouli.
—Publisher’s Weekly

The Runabout

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Diving Universe
Science Fiction

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The Runabout

A Diving Novel

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“Engrossing. Detailed. Imaginative. I had never heard of the author’s Diving series before reading this. I should have. It is good. Really good.”
—Tangent Online

A graveyard of spaceships, abandoned by the mysterious Fleet thousands of years earlier. Boss calls it “the Boneyard.” She needs the ships inside to expand her work for Lost Souls Corporation. Yash Zarlengo thinks the Boneyard will help her discover if the Fleet still exists.

Boss and Yash, while exploring the Boneyard, discover a small ship with a powerful and dangerous problem: the ship’s active anacapa drive.

To escape the Boneyard, Boss must deal with the drive. Which means she’ll have to dive the ship on limited time and under extremely dangerous conditions. And she can’t go alone.

A heart-stopping adventure that continues the award-winning Diving Universe series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

Fiction River: Feel the Fear

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Fiction River: Feel the Fear

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Fear. The word alone evokes a powerful response. And in Feel the Fear, editor Mark Leslie takes readers on a haunting tour of the many ways fear presents itself. From genuine horror stories filled with frightening monsters to the real-life horror of losing a loved one to the terrifying idea of losing one’s own mind, these tales run not only the genre gamut but also the emotional gamut. With each fearful twist, the sixteen talented writers in this volume prove why Adventures Fantastic says “[Fiction River] is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today.”

Table of Contents

“Murmuration of a Darkening Sea” by Lee Allred
“Swimming on the Grass” by David Stier
“Get Inside” by Dayle A. Dermatis
“The Dark Queen” by J. F. Penn
“Fear in Black and White” by Dory Crowe
“A Fall of Life and Death” by Michael Kowal
“High Places” by Laura Ware
“Legs” by Steven Mohan, Jr.
“Power Outage” by Bonnie Elizabeth
“The Taste of Red” by T. Thorn Coyle
“The Playground of Lost Children” by Erik Lynd
“Tin Can Man” by Annie Reed
“Piggyback” by Robert T. Jeschonek
“The Well” by Lauryn Christopher
“Mechanical Advantage” by Eric Kent Edstrom
“The Visit” by Anthea Lawson

Smith’s Monthly #42

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Smith’s Month’y #42

Dean Wesley Smith

More than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. This 42nd volume of Smith’s Monthly also includes the first part of The Magic Bakery: A WMG Writer’s Guide; Part 2 will appear in volume 43.

Short Stories
Delightfully Dizzy: A Marble Grant Story
The Five Roads Tavern and Eatery
Through the For Sale Sign: A Bryant Street Story
Smile
Habit

Full Novel
Death Takes a Diamond, a new full-length novel in the Mary Jo Assassin series

Serialized Nonfiction
The Magic Bakery: A WMG Writer’s Guide, Part 1.