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Kate Flora: This month I am celebrating two new publications. First is my new political thriller, Burn the Diaries and Run, published October 23rd by Encircle Publications. Here’s a quick summary of the book:
A politician’s secret daughter. Two campaign rivals with different plans for how they can use her. A set of secret diaries and a video tape both sides want. A ruthless chase where one side wants her dead and the other wants to use her. Jenny Cates, an inexperienced college student, is forced to draw on her own resources as her mother lies in a coma and she goes on the run, trying to elude them. Reading those diaries brings her close to the idealistic young woman who became her mother and strengthens her resolve to protect them. Exhausted after a series of near escapes, captured by a politician’s henchmen, Jenny escapes once more to stage a confrontation that will destroy both men’s campaigns.
ISBN: 978-1-64599-570-8
Second, after many years of publisher’s inaction, my co-writer, Joseph Loughlin, has 
succeeded in getting Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine, produced as an audio book. You can check it out here: http://bit.ly/3YvKXBl
Richard Cass: October brought the final chapter in the Elder Darrow Jazz Mystery series: Closing Time. Find the book here.
When Elder Darrow’s friend Dan Burton, a Boston Homicide cop, dies trying to stop the robbery of a liquor store, Elder is bereft. But what appears to have been a random tragedy may have, in fact, been a contract murder. Mickey Barksdale, Boston’s chief gangster, tries to enlist Elder to find out who killed Burton, but Elder resists until events force him to investigate. In the end, the quest may cost Elder his bar, the Esposito . . . not to mention his life.
Maureen Milliken: I am thrilled to announce the release of DYING FOR NEWS, the fourth in the Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea mystery series. It comes six years after BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST, but only six months after the events in mystery fiction time. The first three Bernie O’Dea mysteries were re-released in 2024 with edits and updates under a new imprint, Nevermore Mystery Press. All four books are available on Ingram (for booksellers and libraries). For readers? If your local bookstore or library doesn’t carry the series, they can order it. They’re also available on Amazon. For information on the Bernie O’Dea mystery series, visit maureenmilliken.com.
In DYING FOR NEWS:
When newspaper owner and editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea’s house burns down on New Year’s Eve with an unidentified body in the charred rubble – who may or may not be her missing tenant – it’s clear the new year won’t be nice and quiet after all. Bernie is already navigating boyfriend and police chief Pete Novotny’s increasingly challenging struggle with PTSD, so when the arson and murder investigation narrows its focus on her, she plunges into work trying to find an oasis of normalcy. Getting to the bottom of the local college’s plans for expansion is just the ticket. Or not. What Bernie thought would be a simple story isn’t simple at all, and she begins to uncover a dark conspiracy, with tentacles that reach to every corner of Redimere, including into Pete’s troubled police department. The farther Bernie digs, the more tragic, and ultimately deadly, the consequences.
