Book one in the Charlotte Diamond Mysteries seriesWhen Charlotte Diamond retired to Diamond Cottage near Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, she thought she had left her life of crime-solving it, that is-behind her, and is struggling to find a new purpose in life. But the small waterfront community of Hopewell on the Choptank, with its wealthy artistically inclined inhabitants, is hiding old crimes and dark secrets beneath its outward quiet and affluence. A surprising number of people from the community have intersecting pasts and dark secrets that Charlotte is unaware of and that become downright murderous, coming to a head when blockbuster movie actress, Brenda Brandon, arrives in the village in full retreat from a recent tragedy in her life. Brenda also brings unexpected romance into Charlotte's previously straight life. And Sam, the neglected husky who has attached himself to Charlotte, knows more about what is going on than he can tell her, even with his howling.

By the Howling (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries)

Stowe, Olivia

Literature & Fiction

Cyberworld Publishing

In the second of the Charlotte Diamond mysteries, FBI senior investigator Charlotte has retired to Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake bay only to find high-level international intrigue has sought her out when the abandoned sailboat of spy master Win Engleton washes up against her dock. Charlotte struggles with having to choose between focusing on her new-found significant other, former movie star Brenda Boynton, or a complex espionage mystery of who did what to who and why that reopens ever deeper mysteries again and again like a Matryoshka Russian nesting doll.

Retired With Prejudice (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries)

Fowler's Folly (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries)

Skyline 2016, the third in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of Central Virginia writers. There is no overarching theme for the works in this anthology, so each can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. Over half of the works found here are works by Central Virginia writers that won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests during 2014 and 2015. Also included in the anthology are other works selected from the portfolios of these contest selectees, and special contributor works by established writers in the region.

Skyline 2016: Prose and Poetry by Central Virginia Writers (Skyline Anthologies)

Prum, Deborah M.

Kessler, Gary D.

Honenberger, Sarah Collins

Kock-Sheras, Phyllis R.

Lancaster, Martha Jean

Solomon, Elizabeth Doyle

Ruggieri, Elaine

Morris, Brenda A.

Mirabella, Sigrid

United States

Skyline 2017, the fourth in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of Central Virginia writers. The title of the anthology is taken from the Skyline Drive, the parkway skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and providing centering for the region in which the authors showcased here are living and writing. Thus far the editions have followed the seasons in cover image, with this being the summer edition. Other than the Skyline Summer contest works, there is no overarching theme for the short stories, poems, and essays in this anthology, so each can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. Over half of the works found here won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests between September 2015 and September 2016.

Skyline 2017 (Skyline Anthologies)

BLACK, DAVID

Galloway, Stan A.

Krystosek, Joy Merritt

Lanterman, Susan M.

Dixon, Lori

Holden, Lois M.

Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north western most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea and on a third by Portugal. This short anthology contains writings about Galicia, including several pieces about the Ribeira Sacra, the Sacred Riverbank. Included are stories and articles about its people and its landscape, including the seasons in the vineyards. Wine is a liquid that flows throughout Spain, and in the deep valleys of the Ribeira Sacra region the grapes and their harvest hold an even more special place in the hearts of the people.Galicia is a also a land of close families and small villages that have existed almost unchanged for centuries.We hope you enjoy this brief look at an ancient land, one full of generous people and natural splendours, and agree that there is indeed a lot of good in a life in Galicia.

The Good Life in Galicia: An Anthology

Travel

Rock, Eddie

Bush, Stephen

Hillard, Robin

Vincent, J. P.

Kessel, Steve

Europe

Skyline 2018, the fifth in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of writers who live or work in Central Virginia or otherwise have writing connections to the region. The theme for this edition and this year’s Skyline writing contest is “nighttime on the mountain,” which some invited authors and poets have also adopted as the setting of their pieces. There otherwise is no overarching theme for the short stories, poems, and essays in this anthology, however, so each can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. Nearly half of the works found here won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests between September 2016 and September 2017. The anthology is made up of fifty-five works by twenty-seven authors, presented in four sections: fiction (fourteen short stories), poetry (twenty-nine poems), nonfiction (eight essays), and, since this is a writer’s anthology, a section on writing and publishing (three essays and one poem). Nearly half of the authors here are represented by more than one work and in varied media to showcase their writing skills. Each edition of Skyline has lifted a featured writer or poet for recognition in addition to the works of invited established authors and contest judges, which are placed at the top of category sections. Skyline 2018 features and celebrates three male poets: Stanley A. Galloway, David Black, and Jack Trammell.

Skyline 2018: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry by Central Virginia Writers (Skyline Anthologies)

The eleventh Charlotte Diamond mystery is one of pulling up the past to clutch at those in the present. The book finds retired FBI senior agent Charlotte Diamond and her spouse, senior movie star Brenda Boynton/Brandon, taking a long-delayed vacation on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina with Charlotte's brother, Chance Diamond, and his wife, Marilyn. Brenda is there to participate in a celebrity golf tournament and attend two film nights in nearby Charleston and Savannah. The real purpose of the "vacation," however, is that Charlotte is helping old friend and beau, Evan Worthington, track down a sex slave operation possibly using the nearby Daufuskie Island.Connections with the past abound in the book-Charlotte and Brenda with former men friends; Marilyn Diamond, in medical distress, with her own historical past; Brenda's son, the actor Tony Trice, with a former lover in the midst of current marital difficulties; and other, local characters with connections to slavery and each other going back to late eighteenth-century South Carolina low country history. As each character struggles with the enslavement of her or his own past, their histories become crossed and the mystery of the sex slave trade in the low country deepens around them and threatens their mere existence.

Slave to the Past: Book 11 in the Charlotte Diamond Mysteries Series

Retired FBI senior investigator Charlotte Diamond is cajoled into taking a Christmas market Rhine river cruise with her partner, glamorous retired queen of the movie screen Brenda Brandon/Boynton. When Brenda invites Charlotte’s doctor brother, Chance Diamond, and his minister wife, Marilyn, to join in the trip, Charlotte knows this will be no restful vacation. The “curse of Chance,” the travels of whom have always been accompanied by a death or three, does indeed embroil Charlotte and her three travel companions in a complex mix of “inconvenient” robberies and suspicious deaths against a backdrop of quaint German towns, Christmas markets, and Rhine castles.
The misadventure of the Rhine river cruise involves an international crime money-laundering Swiss banker and his Italian TV star wife; a “Jack Sprat” pair of elderly spinsters; a doll-fetish Japanese couple; a diamond-dripping, once-kidnapped heiress; a gay novelist and boyfriend; a catatonic mustard dynasty heiress; and assorted other unsavory characters. As the Rhine Maiden scenically chugs north from Nürnberg to Amsterdam over Christmas week, Charlotte and Brenda track their bet on whether the “curse of Chance” will meet its quota of mayhem, while Charlotte sinks deeper and deeper into what becomes a working vacation.
The fourth book in the Charlotte Diamond mystery series.

An Inconvenient Death (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries)

The sixth Charlotte Diamond mystery finds the retired FBI agent and her significant other, movie star Brenda Brandon, on the edge of the Florida Everglades to film a movie within a movie about an old movie. Brenda has taken a cameo role in the reprise of her first film experience, a Vietnam air war film of forty years earlier that was closed down by a brush with espionage, a murder, and the disappearance of the movie’s star, White Orchid, factors that combined to pique the interest of the FBI. Charlotte has been hired as a technical consultant to help weave a blockbuster movie script out of the earlier, failed filming. When the mysteries of the earlier film come back to haunt the new film crew and cast after the crash of a company plane in the Everglades, Charlotte finds herself deputized by the FBI to figure out not only what happened then, but what is happening now—and why. In this, she receives the help of another technical expert on the film, Ed Winslow, who always seems to know more than he is revealing and who takes an interest in Charlotte that equals that of Charlotte’s former lover and FBI contact, Evan Worthington, who wants Charlotte back in his life. As badly as Charlotte wants to unravel the mysteries of the lost White Orchid, an unknown someone seems even more determined to keep the past buried—even if it means that Charlotte needs to be buried as well.

White Orchid Found: Charlotte Diamond Mysteries 6

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