Dr. Kate Deming has spent four brutal years working in a Chicago ER, swinging back and forth from tragedy at work to guilt for what she’s missing at home. The prescription is a new job that will allow more time with her growing daughters: an eight-year-old wannabe pirate planning to run away to the high seas, and a twelve-year old expert in eye-rolling and sarcasm who is the star of her middle school’s new Code Breaking team. 

When a sophisticated ransomware attack paralyzes the hospital’s electronic medical record, the hospital pinpoints Kate’s computer as the electronic gateway. She thinks it’s a misdiagnosis until the FBI raids their apartment and arrests her husband, whose home tech support now appears all but benign. 

Meanwhile, her daughter’s classmate overdoses to get away from a sextortion scheme that her daughter knows too much about.  

Can Kate crack the code before another child gets hurt? 

The Code, Book 3 in the Kate Deming Suspense series, will be released on October 7, 2022, and is available for pre-order now.

Cover Reveal: The First Fiancée: A Bethany Jarviss Mystery by Rita A. Popp

Rita Popp is excited to reveal the cover of her debut novel, The First Fiancée: A Bethany Jarviss Mystery, due out from The Wild Rose Press on December 14, 2022. In this classic whodunit, the discovery of human bones near a remote New Mexico mountain village sets a worried sister on a treacherous path to solve a murder. Bethany Jarviss fears her sister’s fiancé killed the long-missing young woman. He was first engaged to her and swears he thought she left him to pursue a singing career. News of the murder swirls as the newly engaged couple get set to open their bed-and-breakfast inn right before Christmas. Bethany, who once solved the murder of a college girl, gives in to her sister’s pleas to investigate this case. Soon she meets many locals besides her future brother-in-law who had motives for killing his beautiful, thieving, secretive first fiancée.

The First Fiancée will be available to order in e-book and trade paperback from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, The Wild Rose Press Bookstore, and other retailers.

For more information about Rita, visit https://ritapopp.com.

This award-winning book is on sale for $0.99 until September 26th!

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Sisters in Crime CO member, Kirsten Weiss’ new book Gingerbread Dead (A Tea and Tarot Mystery) releases September 30th.

A tearoom owner. A Tarot reader. A murder. Solving this quirky case may take a Christmas miracle.

Tea and Tarot room owner Abigail is having a hard time getting into holiday mode. She’s working her assets off to make the tearoom a premier holiday destination, searching for an appropriate Christmas gift for her new boyfriend, and trying to forget her aggravating but oh, so tempting neighbor, Brik. But when one of the Tarot readers finds a nearby business owner dead, Abigail and her Tarot-reading partner Hyperion are on the case.

Now, with a cranky cop on their tails, the duo must find a way to solve the crime and stay out of the slammer before a killer cancels their Christmas.

Gingerbread Dead is a fast-paced and funny cozy mystery, packed with oddball characters, pets, and murder. Buy the book and start this hilarious caper today!

Tearoom recipes in the back of the book! 

www.kirstenweiss.com

“The Diagnostic Demon on Skillman Avenue” by Sisters in Crime-Colorado member, Mel Lake, was published in Bizarre Bazaar by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers on September 1, 2022

“This place smelled like feet and cleaning solution. It was a ‘Save As’ version of every other waiting room I’d been to in the borough. But once you were ushered through the door of this one, you’d be possessed by a demon for a sliding scale fee.”

Meet Todd. He’ll save your life if you step into traffic and might even arrange a meet-cute with your local Starbucks barista. He’s also a demon. “The Diagnostic Demon on Skillman Avenue” is a funny-sad story about a demonic possession gone sideways and the reasons why a human might invite a demon to inhabit them in the first place.

Welcome to the Bizarre Bazaar – a collection of seventeen speculative stories that invite and beguile the reader to look at stories new and old in a fresh light. Fairy tales are reborn as science fiction romps. Silly folklore matures with the weight of tradition to approach truth. And ghost stories teach us all we need to know about love. Moving from tale to reimagined tale, these deft transformations are mirrored in our hearts as we become the change we read.

Join the bewitching bazaar as we once again celebrate the best of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Edited by Veronica R. Calisto and Sisters in Crime-Colorado member, Amy Drayer. 

The anthology is available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bizarre-Bazaar-Collection-Mountain-Anthologies/dp/1734575603/