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When Is A Gift Not A Gift?

May 6, 2026 / / 0 Comments

When you give your girl what you think is a fairly nice necklace that turns out to be priceless.

Pursuit of the Jade Empress

Philadelphia is rocked by a high-profile murder and private detective David Blaise finds himself entangled in a dangerously personal mystery. Digging deeper, Blaise is drawn into a hunt for a 1930s jade necklace that someone is willing to kill for.

Being a young Black private detective in 1980s Philadelphia is challenging but Blaise has won the respect of both police and clients with a solid reputation for unflinching determination.

This time it’s different. The danger is too close to home. The Jade Empress is a rare and beautiful artifact that Blaise’s ruthless adversary is determined to possess at any cost.

Available in print and Kindle editions.

Extraterrestrial Farce, Coming Right Up

June 30, 2025 / / 1 Comment

Back in print after many years is Marian Allen’s FORCE OF HABIT. Jesuits in space? Yes, please.

Well, not JESUITS, per se, but a teacher trained by Jesuits, from whom she chiefly learned the fine art of splitting hairs.

The manuscript has been freshly poorfred, freshly formatted, and now contains trace ingredients of Holly Jahangiri and Genesis Selinsky from Allen’s popular Story a Day May posts.

When Bel Schuster goes off limits on the planet Llannonn, she finds herself, through no fault of her own — okay, through SOME fault of her own — enmeshed in a web of mistaken identities, local politics, intergalactic gangsterism, police stings, and multiple breeches of protocol. And just HOW does Holly Jahangiri, High Head Librarian get involved?

Available in print and for Kindle.

The Granny Woman is Back!

April 3, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Per Bastet is happy to announce that Sephronia Hill is back for PARADISE: BOOK 2 OF THE GRANNY WOMAN TALES.

Herbalist healer Sephronia Hill returns home to Dark Hollow, Tennessee, for the funeral and burial of her sister Agnesia. But is the ever-prickly Agnesia completely gone?

From beyond the grave, Agnesia invisibly — and violently — protests her sister’s life choices especially the presence of Sephie’s companion Floyd Whiteman.

Or so it seems.

IS it Agnesia? Or is it something far darker and more malevolent?

Available in print and for Kindle.

What If…?

February 11, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Events are moving too quickly for Sylver.

First, her partner is gunned down before her eyes.

Still reeling from her partner’s murder, she is abducted by the gunman. He takes her deep into rural Kentucky where she finds herself prisoner of a heavily armed band of militia with only her wits and a deck of Tarot cards to help her.

Even the Tarot can’t give her the answers she needs.

Who is the real enemy?

Who are the Draco?

And who is the Magician?

Available in print and for Kindle.

The Cat Came Back, Just in Time For The Holidays!

December 5, 2024 / / 0 Comments

T. Lee Harris has given us the gift of a new Sitehuti and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet book just in time for a last minute gift (to yourself, perhaps?).

At the end of the events surrounding the Heb Sed, all young scribe Sitehuti wanted to do was grab his cat and retreat to his family home in the Place of Truth, the workers’ village for the Great Place, the Royal necropolis. That didn’t happen. Now, with the funeral and burial of Prince Amunhotep looming, he gets his wish — sort of.

The Prince’s murder brings many changes. Among those is Sitehuti’s temporary appointment as Royal Scribe in charge of the burial. However, all is not peaceful in the necropolis. Tombs are being robbed. People are disappearing — among the vanished is one of Captain Djedmose’s Royal Medjay Guards.

Things are also amiss at Mansion of Millions of Years, Ramesses II’s sprawling funerary complex and administrative center on the west bank of the river. To the Pharaoh and Crown Prince, the solution is simple: send Sitehuti and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet to solve the mysteries.

Captain Djedmose disagrees. Magic Cat or no, he wants Sitehuti as far away from danger as possible.

But IS it possible?

Available in print and Kindle editions.

Dreams And Nightmares from J. Paul Burroughs

October 3, 2024 / / 0 Comments

The next in J. Paul Burroughs’ series about Lanyon Stevenson and Asha Christopher. The stakes are getting higher.

High school teacher Lanyon Stevenson has a gift — although he sometimes doubts “gift” is the proper term.The often terrifying dreams are flashbacks, glimpses into past lives. Times of crisis and danger. Warnings that touch people in Lan’s present day life. But now the visions are becoming ever more vivid and solid to the point of physical damage to his waking self.

Hypno-therapy psychologist Dr. Asha Christopher, once Lan’s doctor, now much, much more, is also experiencing alarming flashbacks of a different sort.

People they both care for are in danger. Can they work together to tease out the riddles and save the people they love?

Available in print and for Kindle.

Some People Just Don’t Know When To Shut Up: New Book From Marian Allen. Um, We’re Talking About The Character, Not The Author

April 17, 2024 / / 0 Comments

If you’ve read Marian Allen’s SIDESHOW IN THE CENTER RING, you know that Connie Phelan has a mouth on her. In these short stories, we see how that’s affected her life — and the lives of the people around her.

Connie Phelan was born with no money, no prospects, and no filter. Her smart mouth got her into and out of trouble until she parlayed it into entertainment stardom. But that wasn’t enough. She wanted to lord it over the kind of elites who had made her childhood hell. That led her to Marner, where people are vaguely cat-like and a form of slavery is legal. Smart mouth. Trouble. Some things never change.

Available in print and Kindle editions.

More Danger From Michael Dabney

September 2, 2023 / / 0 Comments

The former Philadelphia reporter Michael Dabney takes you back to Philly in the bad old days of the 80s with another David Blaise dive into danger.

David Blaise is a private eye with troubles. His girlfriend wants to have the Talk with him, Philly mobsters want to kill him, his brother-in-law lies to him, and a beautiful city official snubs him. On top of that, his lech of a landlord wants Blaise to prove his partner is cooking the books.

Blaise has to call on his Naval intelligence training and all of his North Philly street smarts if he’s going to survive 1984.

Available in print and for Kindle.

Cozy Up With Janie Franz

May 22, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Janie Franz is back with Book 1 of a new series!

Sephronia Hill has spent most of her 85 years in Dark Hollow, Tennessee. A herbal healer, the local Granny Woman, Sephie forages medicinal herbs in the Appalachian foothills around her home making tinctures and salves. A peaceful way of life if you don’t count her prickly widowed sister, Agnesia, who shares the house with her.

An urgent phone call from her niece, Mandy upsets the routine. Mandy and her wife, Laura, need help urgently. Their community of Riverbend, North Dakota, is under threat by what appears to be a vampire and the resources of their metaphysical shop, the North Star, are stretched to their limit.

Sephie wastes no time. She and her protege, B.D. Travers, pack everything — including a few dozen jars of Cousin Lije’s secret ingredient — into the station wagon and head north.

Once in Riverbend, Sephie finds the vampire along with a whole host of other supernatural creatures and just maybe a bit of romance.

In print and for Kindle.

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