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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Beating the Babushka by Tim Maleeny

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Also by Tim Maleeny:

Hanging the Devil, November 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Boxing the Octopus, November 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Greasing The Pinata, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book (reprint)
Stealing the Dragon, August 2009
Paperback / e-Book
Jump, June 2009
Hardcover
Beating the Babushka, October 2007
Trade Size / e-Book

BEATING THE BABUSHKA
By: Tim Maleeny

Cape Weathers Investigation #2
Poison Pen Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Featuring: Sally; Cape Weathers
384 pages
ISBN: 0738711152
EAN: 9780738711157
Kindle: B07VPKSP6R
Trade Size / e-Book
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Suspense | Mystery Private Eye | Thriller P.I.

When a movie producer hurtles to his death from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, an apparent suicide, it shocks the film community and puts a two hundred million dollar production in jeopardy. A female colleague comes forward claiming it was murder, but the police are skeptical. Preoccupied by a sudden drug war between the tong gangs of Chinatown and the mob, they listen to her story and send her packing.

She turns to private detective Cape Weathers, who believes her just enough to let her pay his day rate. Then two Russian gangsters show up on his doorstep and tell him to drop the case or die. Cape and his partner Sally—a female assassin raised by the Triads—take on the Russian mob, a major movie studio, and a recalcitrant police department by enlisting the help of rogue cops, computer hackers, and an investigative journalist who just doesn't give a damn. But with a sniper on their trail, the challenge will be staying alive long enough to learn the truth.

Cape Weathers

Stealing the Dragon
STEALING THE DRAGON
#1.0 β€’ August 2009
Beating the Babushka
BEATING THE BABUSHKA
#2.0 β€’ October 2007
Greasing The Pinata
GREASING THE PINATA
#3.0 β€’ July 2012
Boxing the Octopus
BOXING THE OCTOPUS
#4.0 β€’ November 2019