Get ready to crack the case with Pink and Detective Briggs! Lacey Pinkerton is busy getting ready for spring at Pink's Flowers and at the same time Port Danby is bustling with activity as it prepares for its annual flea market in the town square. In the midst of it all, a talented group of artists has shown up with their easels to paint pictures of the Pickford Lighthouse. When one of the artists turns up missing and then dead, Lacey works alongside of her favorite detective, James Briggs, to solve the murder. What she doesn't expect is to end up on the murderer's short list of enemies. Book 5 of the Port Danby Cozy Mystery Series. Each book can be read as a standalone but they are best read in order. More in the series: 1. Marigolds and Murder 2. Carnations and Chaos 3. Mistletoe and Mayhem 4. Roses and Revenge 5. Tulips and Trouble 6. Dahlias and Death 7. Peonies and Poison 8. Hyacinths and Homicide 9. Crocuses and Crime 10. Sunflowers and Sabotage 11. Lavender and Lies 12. Freesias and Foul Play 13. Cornflowers and Corpses 14. Jasmine and Jealousy 15. Shamrocks and Shenanigans 16. TBA

Mr. Potter's given us a bold adventurous book with plenty of sharp turns at high speed, with some gestures toward Neruda and Merwin but also "Sk8," a gr8 skateboarding poem, and sonnets, and brave ventures into rhymed verse, poems for friends and relatives, "Stopping By Blogs on a Frosty Evening," and poems of passionate love with angels looking down from above. Plus tulips and Elsie. ---Garrison Keillor

Newton Jibunoh’s fourth book, “Hunger for Power” is the story of an amazingly intriguing life which begins by exploring an orphan boy’s escape from a life of deprivation to culminate at the pinnacle of corporate Nigeria. It is a business primer, detailing the fault lines that will confront the man or woman intent on making a mark on Nigeria’s business landscape. It is also the history of contemporary Nigeria from just before the civil war and right through successive military regimes to the dawn of democracy. Then it is, finally, the detailed account of environmental activism and the travels across the Sahara desert from London to Nigeria, and Nigeria to London, in the quest to stop the menace - desert encroachment and desertification. In telling his life story as a business man and building engineer, husband and father, adventurer and environmentalist, Newton Jibunoh takes us on an excursion through the alleyways of power becoming at once a full participant in Nigeria’s history through his work and friendships. This is a compelling human portrait of a larger-than-life personage.

Jack was lost when Elsie died. They had shared a lifelong bond he thought could never be broken. When an unexpected sickness took her from him, he wasn’t sure how to go on. Then the haunting began and as Jack searched for Elsie’s ghost he found himself thrown into a terrifying world he didn’t even know existed. Jack soon discovers Elsie is not what she seemed; in fact she may not even be human. Jack and Elsie go back farther than he could ever have imagined as he discovers their souls have a supernatural tie that spans throughout different lives and eras of time. They will have to battle dark forces to save, not only their love, but the human race as well.