About the Book:
The DEADLY DOZEN Book
Bundle contains 12 complete mystery/thriller novels by award-winning and
international bestselling authors: Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Catherine Astolfo,
Alison Bruce, Melodie Campbell/Cynthia St-Pierre, Gloria Ferris, Donna Galanti,
Kat Flannery, Jesse Giles Christiansen, Rosemary McCracken, Susan J. McLeod, C.
S. Lakin and Linda Merlino.
THE BRIDGEMAN by Catherine Astolfo
DEADLY LEGACY by Alison Bruce
A PURSE TO DIE FOR by Melodie Campbell & Cynthia St-Pierre
CHEAT THE HANGMAN by Gloria Ferris
A HUMAN ELEMENT by Donna Galanti
LAKOTA HONOR by Kat Flannery
SOUL AND SHADOW by Susan J. McLeod
INNOCENT LITTLE CRIMES by C. S. Lakin
ROOM OF TEARS by Linda Merlino
DIVINE INTERVENTION by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
With an individual list price total of more
than $45.00 and over 640
reviews collectively on Amazon.com, the DEADLY DOZEN Book Bundle is a
value-packed, rollercoaster thrill ride that takes you from amateur sleuth to
detective to paranormal to ancient mysteries set in intriguing worlds and so
much more.
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About the Authors:
Catherine
Astolfo retired in 2002 after a very successful 34 years in education.
Catherine received the Elementary Dufferin-Peel OECTA Award for Outstanding
Service in 1998. She was also awarded Dufferin-Peel Catholic Elementary Principal
of the Year in 2002 by the Catholic Principals Council of Ontario.
Catherine
is a past President of Crime Writers of Canada and a Derrick Murdoch Award
winner (2012). She was a Zonta Club 2012 Nominee for Women of Achievement.
Writing
is Catherine’s passion. She can recall inventing fantasy stories for her
classmates in Grade Three. Her short stories and poems have been published in a
number of literary Canadian presses. In 2005, she won a Brampton Arts Award.
Her short stories won the Bloody Words Short Story Award (second and first) in
2009 and 2010. She won the prestigious Arthur Ellis Best Short Crime Story
Award in 2012.
Catherine’s
novel series, The Emily Taylor Mysteries, are published by Imajin Books and are
optioned for film by Sisbro & Co. Inc.
Visit
Catherine at: www.catherineastolfo.com
Alison Bruce has an honours degree in history
and philosophy, which has nothing to do with any regular job she's held since.
A liberal arts education did prepare her to be a writer, however. She penned
her first novel during lectures while pretending to take notes.
Alison writes mysteries,
romance, westerns and fantasy. Her novels include Under a Texas Star, a western romantic suspense, and Deadly Legacy, a suspense thriller. Her
protagonists are marked by their strength of character, the ability to adapt
(sooner or later) to new situations and to learn from adversity.
Copywriter and editor since
1992, Alison has also been a comic book store manager, small press publisher
and web designer in the past. She currently manages publications for Crime
Writers Canada and is a volunteer with Action Read
Family Literacy
Center Guelph , Ontario
Billed as Canada Jan. 5, 2014 ), Melodie
Campbell achieved a personal best when Library
Digest compared her to Janet Evanovich.
Melodie got her start writing comedy. In 1999,
she opened the Canadian Humor Conference. She has over 200 publications,
including 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories and 6 novels. She has won 9
awards for fiction, including the 2014 Derringer Award.
In addition to writing, Melodie has been a
bank manager, hospital director, college instructor, association executive, and
possibly the worst runway model ever. She lives in Oakville Ontario
Melodie is the Executive Director of Crime
Writers of Canada.
Melodie’s
co-writer, Cynthia St-Pierre wrote promotional,
packaging and communications materials; penned articles for business
periodicals; and a chapter of How to Successfully Do Business in Canada.
Currently a member of Crime Writers of Canada, she has one award for fiction
and has been a writing contest judge. Best of all for a mystery writer, Cynthia
has received a York Regional Police Citizens Awareness Program certificate,
presented and signed by Julian Fantino, former Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial
Police.
In addition, Cynthia grows vegetables in her
backyard, makes recipes with tofu, and speaks English-accented French with
husband Yves. Visit Cynthia's blog (in the voice of character Becki Green) at www.vegetariandetective.blogspot.com
Gloria Ferris began her writing career by authoring and editing
operating procedures for a nuclear power development. It was an exciting job,
but opportunities for plot and character development were limited, so she
turned to crime fiction and found it to be a lot more fun. Cheat the Hangman was shortlisted for the 2009 Crime Writers of
Canada Unhanged Arthur contest.
Gloria recently moved back to her native Guelph , Ontario Lake
Huron , which inspired her mysteries. The stories are written in a
humorous style, but the crimes are deadly serious. A sequel to Cheat the
Hangman is in the works.
Donna
Galanti writes murder and mystery with a dash of steam as well as middle grade
adventure fiction. She is an International Thriller Writers Debut Author of the
paranormal suspense novel A Human Element,
the short story collection The Dark
Inside, and Joshua and The Lightning
Road.
She's
lived from England Hawaii
She
now lives in Pennsylvania
Website:
http://www.elementtrilogy.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/DonnaGalanti
Kat
Flannery has loved writing ever since she was a girl. She is often seen jotting
her ideas down in a little black book. When not writing or researching, Kat
enjoys snuggling on her couch with a hot chocolate and a great book.
Her
first novel, CHASING CLOVERS became
an Amazon’s bestseller in Historical and Western romance. LAKOTA HONOR, Kat’s second book and book 1 in the Branded Trilogy
became an instant success in Paranormal Historical Mystery/Romance. This was
followed by book 2, BLOOD CURSE,
which will be released October
1, 2014 . Kat is now working on the final book in the trilogy.
When
not focusing on her creative passions, Kat is busy with her three boys and
doting husband.
Jesse
Giles Christiansen is an American author who writes compelling literary fiction
that weaves the real with the surreal. He attended Florida State
University London
He
wrote his first novel, About: Journey
into the Mystic, after spending a summer in Alaska
Web
Site: www.jessegileschristiansen.com
Born and raised in Montreal Canada
Rosemary's short fiction has been published by Room of One's Own Press,
Kaleidoscope Books and Sisters in Crime Canada Britain
Rosemary lives with her husband in Toronto Ontario
Susan Jane McLeod has been writing since she was seven
years old. At age eleven, she won a countywide essay contest, and her
professional career was launched. By the time she was nineteen, her poetry had
appeared in several magazines, including American Girl and Seventeen.
She also won an honorable mention in The Writer.
Susan grew up in Rochester ,
New York
The best job she's ever had was managing a bookstore,
surrounded by her passion: literature.
Susan has published several short stories and two
novels. The first, Soul and Shadow, is an award-winning paranormal
historical romance. The second, Fire and Shadow, is classified as
paranormal suspense. Both have garnered impressive reviews.
Susan believes strongly in several causes and has
raised money for the American Cancer
Society, Foodlink, and
the House of Mercy homeless
shelter.
She still resides in Rochester
She can be contacted at www.susanjmcleod.com
and
C. S. Lakin writes novels in numerous genres, focusing
mostly on contemporary psychological mysteries and allegorical fantasy. Her
novel Someone to Blame (contemporary
fiction) won the 2009 Zondervan First Novel competition 2009 (published October
2010). Lakin's Gates of Heaven
fantasy series for adults (AMG-Living Ink Publishers) features original
full-length fairy tales in traditional style. Already in print are the first
books in the series, The Wolf of Tebron.
The Map across Time, The Land of Darkness, and The Unraveling of Wentwater, with two
more to follow.
In addition to her mysteries and fantasy series, she
has written the first book in a young adult sci-fi adventure series: Time Sniffers. Her contemporary mystery Innocent Little Crimes made the top one
hundred finalists in the 2009 Amazon Breakout Novel Award contest, earning her
a Publisher's Weekly review, which
stated her book was "a page-turning thrill-ride that will have readers
holding their breaths the whole way through."
She recently completed Intended for Harm, an epic family sage that is a contemporary
take-off on the biblical story of Jacob and Joseph and is developing a
swashbuckling dog memoir in the style of Moby
Dick entitled A Dog after God's Own
Heart. She lives in Santa Cruz ,
CA
Linda Merlino is the author of Hudson Catalina and Room of
Tears. She began writing fiction as a young mother on the sidelines of
endless soccer practices. Linda wrote anytime any place. A manuscript filled a
carton in the back seat of her car. Many years have passed since those early
beginnings, but her work continues to be inspired by her children.
The author has a fascination with heroes and writes
her fiction to honor ordinary men and women who react unselfishly in
extraordinary circumstances. She extends her gratitude to all who keep us safe
and free.
Her hometown is outside of Boston New York City Connecticut
Cheryl
Kaye Tardif is an award-winning, international bestselling Canadian suspense
author. Her novels include Divine
Sanctuary, Submerged, Divine Justice, Children of the Fog, The
River, Divine Intervention, and Whale Song, which New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice calls "a
compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart...a
beautiful, haunting novel."
She
is now working on her next thriller.
Cheryl
also enjoys writing short stories inspired mainly by her author idol Stephen
King, and this has resulted in Dream
House (short story), Skeletons in the
Closet & Other Creepy Stories (collection of shorts) and Remote Control (novelette eBook). In
2010 Cheryl detoured into the romance genre with her contemporary romantic
suspense debut, Lancelot's Lady,
written under the pen name of Cherish D'Angelo. And she even has a children’s
picture book published, The Elfling
Princess.
Booklist
raves, "Tardif, already a big hit in Canada
Cheryl's
website: www.cherylktardif.com
Official
blog: www.cherylktardif.blogspot.com
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/cherylktardif
You
can also find Cheryl Kaye Tardif on Goodreads, Shelfari and LibraryThing, plus
other social networks.
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