Looking for Clues

Treachery Times Two
By Robert McCaw
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On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery β unearthing the body of a woman mutilated by her killer to conceal her identity.
The search for her identity leads Hilo Hawaiiβs Chief Detective Koa Kane to a mysterious defense contractor with a politically connected board of directors. Defying his chief of police, Koa pursues the killer, only to become entangled in an FBI espionage investigation of Deimos, a powerful secret military weapon. Is the FBI telling all it knows β or does it, too, have a duplicitous agenda?
At the same time, Koa β a cop who thirty years earlier killed his fatherβs nemesis and covered up the murder β faces exposure by the dead manβs grandson. Koa is forced to investigate his own homicide, and step by step, his cover-up unravels until another man is falsely accused.

Brownies and Broomsticks
By Bailey Cates
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EASY BAKE COVEN
Katie Lightfoot’s tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah’s quaint downtown district and ask Katie to join them, she enthusiastically agrees.
While working at the Honeybee Bakeryβnamed after Lucy’s catβKatie notices that her aunt is adding mysterious herbs to her recipes. Turns out these herbal enhancements aren’t just tastyβAunt Lucy is a witch and her recipes are actually spells!
When a curmudgeonly customer is murdered outside the Honeybee Bakery, Uncle Ben becomes the prime suspect. With the help of handsome journalist Steve Dawes, charming firefighter Declan McCarthy, and a few spells, Katie and Aunt Lucy stir up some toil and trouble to clear Ben’s name and find the real killer..