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Death of an Unfortunate Woman (An Alexandra Sinclair Mystery)

Alexandra Sinclair and her new husband, Benedict Nash, Viscount Litton, are celebrating their marriage at an outdoor reception when children and their dogs discover a woman’s body in the adjacent woods. The victim is a resident of The Home for Unfortunate Women, a place for former prostitutes to learn new trades. When Alex discovers local residents now want to close the Home, she quickly joins the Home’s board, never guessing she is making a very dangerous choice.

More deaths follow, each victim connected in some way to the Home. When local constables are unable to catch the killer, Alex and two friends set out to capture the ruthless murderer.

WHERE TO FIND: Death of an Unfortunate Woman is available from Encircle Publications, Murder By the Book, and your local independent bookseller, as well as retailers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

“Stuyck has written another winning murder mystery…. This story had me guessing who the perpetrator was until the end. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good who-done it.” —Jacqueline Pelham, Under the Rose and A Promise to Die For

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A Deadly Courtship (An Alexandra Sinclair Mystery)

In 1818 England, fashionable society views Alexandra Sinclair as an outspoken bluestocking from a scandalous family. But when word gets out that she is about to receive a sizeable inheritance, Alex is besieged by eager suitors. They are less than pleased that she plans to never marry, instead intending to use her fortune to reopen the home her grandmother established for abused wives and their children. Alex’s suitors will not accept her refusals of their marriage proposals. They move on to blackmail, battery, and kidnapping to convince her to marry. Alex has to team up with her cousin and his handsome friend to fight for her independence—and her life.

WHERE TO FIND: A Deadly Courtship is available from Encircle Publications, Murder By the Book, and your local independent bookseller, as well as retailers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

A Deadly Courtship could be described as a feminist novel as it explores such themes throughout the book, but mostly it is a thrilling mystery that follows the protagonist on her journey to do good and never give up.”—Aimee Ann, Red Headed Book Lover

“What a great read! Karen Hanson Stuyck clearly knows her audience. A Deadly Courtship is a fast-paced, adventurous kind of historical romance…”—Reader’s Favorite

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Death by Dumpster (A Lauren Prescott Mystery)

Laid off from her magazine job, Lauren Prescott reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite a memoir for a woman who calls herself the Queen of Dumpster Diving. She attends a potluck dinner where guests bring food they found dumpster diving. By the end of the night one guest is dead, poisoned by toxic nuts. Days later another woman is poisoned by gifts sent to the Queen by “A Grateful Former Student.” Lauren is determined to bring the killer to justice while also keeping herself alive.

WHERE TO FIND: Death by Dumpster has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find previous print editions from Murder By the Book and your local independent bookseller, as well as retailers like Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or biblio.com.

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Cry For Help (A Liz James Mystery)

Liz James is totally shocked when her former best friend, investigative reporter Caroline Marshall, kills herself. Liz steps in to help Caroline’s newspaper colleague finish her last story concerning psychiatrists who sleep with their patients. She learns that Caroline was dangerously close to the subject, and her death starts to look very much like murder.

WHERE TO FIND: Cry For Help has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find print editions from your local used book store, or on biblio.com.

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Held Accountable (A Liz James Mystery)

Liz receives an anonymous, hand-printed note at her office: IT’S YOUR FAULT, BITCH. I HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE. She has no idea what it is she’s done. Two other mental health center employees receive similar notes. No one takes the poisoned-pen letters seriously—until one of the recipients, a therapist, is killed. Then a second employee is murdered. The pressure is on Liz to discover the murderer—because she is now the only person who received the note and isn’t dead.

WHERE TO FIND: Held Accountable has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find print editions from your local used book store, or on biblio.com.

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Lethal Lessons (A Liz James Mystery)

Liz is asked to help a charismatic colleague, Kate Quinlan, who holds Powerful Woman workshops. One of the newly empowered workshop graduates runs over her husband, and now Kate is accused of murdering her own unfaithful husband. Liz has to discover if Kate is innocent or if she has begun to practice what she preached.

WHERE TO FIND: Lethal Lessons has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find print editions from your local used book store, or on biblio.com.

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Fit To Die (A Lauren Prescott Mystery)

Lauren Prescott is an affluent, fifty-year-old wife and mother whose dentist husband abruptly leaves her, taking all their money and valuable art and furniture with him. To land a magazine job, Lauren writes a profile of a fitness guru who died while jogging—a death that looks increasingly suspicious the more she probes. Her search for her missing husband reveals criminal secrets. Lauren has to uncover the stark reality behind the two men’s public facades, unaware that her investigating has put her own life in danger.

WHERE TO FIND: Fit To Die has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find previous print editions available from your local independent book store, from Amazon, or on biblio.com.

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“Stylishly written and genuinely suspenseful. Another Lauren Prescott adventure would be most welcome.”—Booklist

“This book will keep readers guessing until the final page…. Stuyck has a winner on her hands.” —Mystery Scene

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Do You Remember Me Now?

Plastic surgeon Kate Dalton, who was the victim of bullying during high school, is a prime suspect in the murders of several members of a cruel high school school clique, known as The Six. But Kate insists she is innocent. Will the real murderer be found before the last members of The Six meet their fate at their fifteenth high school reunion?

WHERE TO FIND: Do You Remember Me Now? has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find previous print editions available from your local used book store, or on biblio.com.

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“A bullied teenager returns home to find someone killing off her former tormentors. Stuyck offers a peek back into the creepy side of high school, with an equally creepy puzzle thrown in.”—Kirkus Reviews

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A Novel Way To Die

Best-selling mystery writer Katherine March dies from an injected overdose of a potent anti-anxiety drug—a murder technique straight from one of Katherine’s novels. Katherine’s daughter, criminology professor Molly Patterson, must push aside her resentment of her secretive, workaholic mother to dispel the rumors that Katherine killed herself and discover who really murdered her.

WHERE TO FIND: A Novel Way To Die has just been re-released as an e-book! Find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Apple Books. You can also find previous print editions available from your local used book store, or on biblio.com.

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“A criminology professor puts aside her own problems to find out what killed her mystery-writer mother. Stuyck puts first things first, producing a solid mystery enlivened but not overpowered by family drama.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The mystery plot here is sufficiently involving…but the real draw is Stuyck’s compelling portrait of a lethally dysfunctional family.”—Barbara Bibel, Booklist

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“The Day of Reckoning” (An Alexandra Sinclair Short Story) – in eccentric circles: Short Stories, Vol. 1

eccentric circles: Short Stories, Vol. 1 (edited by Cynthia Brackett-Vincent) includes a story about Alexandra Sinclair’s second thoughts on her wedding day. “The Day of Reckoning” takes place after A Deadly Courtship ends and before the next Alexandra Sinclair mystery, Death of an Unfortunate Woman, begins. 

The collection features twenty-five short stories in various genres–thrillers, literary fiction, humor, historical fiction and romance–all written by authors of Encircle Publications.

WHERE TO FIND: eccentric circles is available from Murder By the Book, and your local independent bookseller, as well as retailers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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