Niobe's Tears - Tynan A Stone

Niobe's Tears

by Tynan A. Stone

In the throes of another dreary, cold Minnesota winter, a young prostitute is ritually murdered in a room of one of Saint Paul’s most prestigious hotels. One word is scrawled on the victim’s back, “NIOBE.” Saint Paul detectives Kelly Abner and Alan Matthews, former lovers, are struggling with the recent breakup of their romance while being confronted with one of the most bizarre murder scenes in Saint Paul history.

The murder hits a little too close to home when Detective Abner discovers her own personal connection the victim. Her partner must find the killer without her and decipher a mystery created by a serial killer bent on revenge. The contemporary myth of Niobe is played out on Saint Paul’s frozen streets, and the detectives must find the killer before one of their own is killed. Sympathy for the devil? Hardly, but the killer may just have a point.  
BIOGRAPHY

Tynan A. Stone is the pen name for Troy A. Stein. Troy Stein graduated with a BA in Human Services Administration from Metropolitan State University and currently works as a software developer with the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Originally from North Dakota, he has fallen in love with his “new” home state of Minnesota. When he’s not writing, you may find him geocaching or hiking in one of the many Minnesota State Parks. Niobe’s Tears is his first book. Whipfinish, a sequel to Niobe’s Tears is due out in June 2012.

WEBSITE

Author page: http://www.tynanastone.com
Book page:  https://www.facebook.com/NiobesTearsByTynanA.Stone

PURCHASE
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Found and Destroyed - Danelle Helget

Found and Destroyed

by Danelle Helget

Normal?  What’s that?  Sara’s life is anything but normal.

To start, her delicious, new boyfriend, Derek, needs her help. Sara was a witness to his sister’s shooting; when she uses herself as bait, all goes wrong. Now Sara’s life is in danger, and she fears Derek, may not find her in time.  And that’s just the beginning!

The fabulous, rich, and beautiful, Miss Kitty also needs her assistance.  Sara tries to tell her that she has none of the skills needed to help her, but Miss Kitty insists.  And what Miss Kitty wants-Miss Kitty gets!

When Sara’s new friend Tannya, the sassy waitress at the local diner finds out, she wants in. She lives for the excitement that seems to follow Sara.

All Sara wants is one drama free weekend.  What she gets is just another day of, criminals, drugs, guns, knives…. and hot, sexy cops.  Ya know… all the normal stuff.
  
BIOGRAPHY

Danelle Helget grew up in small town Milaca, Minnesota. In the summer she loves to spend her weekends outdoors on the lake, camping, boating, and hiking. She now resides in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota with her husband and two daughters.

WEBSITES

Author page: www.danellehelget.com
Facebook: Author Danelle Helget
Twitter: https://twitter.com/danellehelget

PURCHASE
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.

OTHER WORKS

• Lost and Found 

PUBLISHER

North Star Press of St Cloud, Inc

Entangled - Barbara Ellen Brink

Entangled

by Barbara Ellen Brink

One lost summer is time best left forgotten.

When Minneapolis divorce attorney, Billie Fredrickson, inherits her uncle's small California winery, she has no intention of actually moving to the west coast and starting a new life. Her only thought is to get it off her hands as quickly as possible. But her return to the winery after an absence of twenty years opens up more than the reading of her uncle's will. Childhood memories, long-buried, begin to surface, prompting more questions than anyone is able or willing to answer.

A late night prowler, a break-in at the winery, and an unearthed box of shocking photographs is someone's way of pulling the welcome mat out from under Billie's feet, but it only makes her dig her heels in deeper.

More secrets lie buried beneath Fredrickson Winery's innocent facade and Billie intends to get to the root. But disturbing the past lays bare the skeletons of others, including her mother's. Can she live with the consequences of full disclosure or will she run home where everyone is Minnesota Nice?

BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Ellen Brink is a freelance writer and novelist, supported financially by a loving husband who just happens to have a better paying job. Her novel, Time in a Bottle, was selected as a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writer's contest in 2006 and her novel, Sense of Danger, was a finalist in the 2007 contest. Barbara’s short stories and articles have been published in THEMA Literary Magazine, The Springhill Review, Evangel, Liguorian, and others. Entangled is her first published novel.

She grew up on a small farm in Washington State, but now lives in the mean “burbs” of Minnesota with her husband and their dogs, Rugby & Willow. With her kids now pushed out of the nest and encouraged to fly, Barbara spends much time writing, motorcycling with her husband in the summer, and hiking through the snow with the dogs in the winter.

The second book in the Fredrickson Winery Saga will be out in March.

WEBSITE
www.barbaraellenbrink.com

BLOG
www.barbarasthinline.blogspot.com

PUBLISHER
https://www.createspace.com/3483348

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John Betcher - THE 19TH ELEMENT

THE 19TH ELEMENT

by John L. Betcher

Al Qaeda plans to attack Minnesota's Prairie River Nuclear Power Plant as a means to return the down-trodden terrorist organization to international prominence.

In addition to their own devoted forces, the terrorists enlist some homegrown anarchists, and a Three Mile Island survivor with a pathological vendetta against the nuclear establishment, to assist in the assault.

James "Beck" Becker is a former elite U.S. government intelligence operative who has retired to his childhood hometown of Red Wing, Minnesota – just six miles down the Mississippi from the Prairie River nuclear facility.

Possessing wisdom born of experience, Beck suspects the terrorists' intentions as soon as the
body of a university professor turns up on the Mississippi shore – the clear victim of foul play.
He recognizes connections between seemingly unrelated incidents – the murdered agronomy
professor, a missing lab assistant, an international cell call, a stolen fertilizer truck – but can't
piece it together in enough detail to convince government authorities that a larger threat exists.
Only his American Indian friend, "Bull," will help Beck defuse the threat.

So it's Beck and Bull versus international terror.

May the better men win.

BIOGRAPHY
The author holds a Bachelor’s Degree, cum laude, in English from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis. He has practiced law for more than twenty-five years in the Mississippi River community of Red Wing, Minnesota. He has also been a long-time supporter and coach of youth volleyball there

REVIEWS

Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher

Amazon.com TOP 50 REVIEWER
This review is of: The 19th Element (Paperback).
Rating: FIVE STARS
"James "Beck" Becker and his creator are rising stars in the terrorist thriller genre; Beck is a deep thinker capable of connecting disparate and nebulous dots. He is also a man of action when the situation requires it."

READER’S CHOICE REVIEWS

The Missing Element by John L. Betcher
Reader’s Choice Rating: FIVE STARS
"The Missing Element is an Intriquing, Exciting Mystery-thriller!"

WEBSITE

www.johnbetcher.com

PURCHASE

Amazon.com