Mystery and Murder ~ Portrait with Death

Posted on July 15, 2026March 18, 2026 by writer35_bg

It’s Mystery and Murder in 1921.

Into Death series with Isabella Newcombe

Portrait with Death continues with Isabella while introducing two new characters to the series.

Flick Sherborne, intrepid photographer. Flick is brand-new to this series, and she quite surprised me when she appeared.

DI Michael Wainwright of Scotland Yard. DI Wainwright first appeared in Christmas with Death. He has a stronger role now.

A Murderer paints with Blood.

Why would anyone kill a school master? Motives abound, and suspects increase. Fellow teaching masters. A former soldier haunted by the nightmares of the war. Three ladies were rivals for Webberly’s attentions. Their husbands may have clubbed him and cracked open his head. A photographer. Three fishermen. A medic. The pub owner and his wife. The local constable.

Who committed the murder? Can Isabella find the answer?

A tangle of motives and hidden evidence complicate the murder in Portrait with Death, an amateur sleuth mystery set in a 1920 sleepy English village.

Portrait with Death is the third novel in the series Into Death, with artist Isabella Newcombe Tarrant.

Meet Detective Inspector Michael Wainwright, sent by Scotland Yard to solve the murder … although someone else is on his mind.

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Intrigued? View the trailer here!

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Portrait with Death Celebrates its Publication Anniversary this Month.

Mystery and Murder. 1921. Enjoy your last-of-summer reading.

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Tangled Spells ~ Banished Wizard against Evil

Posted on July 5, 2026July 14, 2026 by writer35_bg

The Epic fantasy of Twisted Magic and Corrupted Goals

Tangled Spells ~ Collected books 1, 2, & 3 of the Fae Mark’d Wizard

Weave a Wizardry Web

A wyre pack hunts wizards in the Enclave. A forbidden linkage promises more power yet a dangerous enthrallment to a sorcerer. Can Alstera and Camisse survive the sharp blades of their chosen roads?

Dream a Deadly Dream

A lethal sleep-spell targets a fugitive comtesse. Wyre and wraiths pursue her. When a sorcerous plot weaves together past and present, dream and reality, can Alstera stop the nightmare that kills?

Sing a Graveyard Song

Can Alstera defeat the horrific Death-Walker before it takes yet another life? Or will wielding blood-magic against a blood-spelled creature force Alstera across the tenuous barrier that separates wizardry from foul sorcery? (Trigger Warning: suicide.)

Tangled Spells brings together the first dark fantasy novels of the epic Fae Mark’d Wizard.

Be warned. Morally ambiguous choices occur, foul sorcery is never completed defeated, and the protagonist Alstera struggles to avoid the taint of sorcery.

View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/r-6cKcuyHI4

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Seasons in Sansward ~ fantasy from Edie Roones

Posted on July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 by writer35_bg

Seasons in Sansward

Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Set in a Medieval World

A 4-book series of the classic fantasy war between good and evil.

Spring Magicks

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1,000 of 90,000 words

United to kill the oppressor. Frenc swords and mages.

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The beginning ~ Summer Sieges

For years, Beren has defended Caldew Keep. Then the Watrani horde, allied with the Gitane Witches, attacked southern Mullen and besieged the Keep. They seek the Eye, a crystal that increases a mage’s power hundredfold.

Beren and a chosen few must take the Eye to safety. Yet dangers come not only from the blood-thirsty Gitane and Watrani and the monsters of the Shadow Path. A traitor journeys with them, and not even a magical encounter with an enchanted man can defend them

And Beren discovers that the road of honor is littered with death.

Purchase ~ ebook only ~ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014OMJBFY

Autumn Spells ~ Book 2

A Green mage encounters a keep swordsman while helping a captive red wolf, one of the legendary Prica. While drawn together, Saisha returns to her forest tower. Hethan returns to Senric Keep ~ where he falls under a spell cast by the sorcerous dame Neehla.

The dame’s dark spells bring them back together. Can Saisha disentangle Hethan from the sorcery? Or will she be trapped and turned into a wraith while the dark dame inhabits her body?

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Winter Sorcery ~ Book 3

The spies Rolf and Catal spent months in a Watrani garrison, hoping to discover OverLord Summa’s plans for his invasion of Frenc. When their cover is blown, they stumble upon a greater secret: the Kaerrefiorne, a blood-fed globe that will connect every sorcerous Gitane Witch across the vale of Sansward. They steal the last orb that will complete the arc controlled by the Kaerrefiorne and escape into snow-smothered Arlas—with Watrani soldiers and a Gitane WitchMaster in close pursuit.

When Catal is severely wounded, two clerics at a Protectorate temple outpost become the Frenc spies only hope. The half-trained mage Niijai senses the evil following the two men. Legeeta has only a prophetic dread that increases.

And the Gitane Witch Keipven has found their trail.

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The Quarternary will finish with Spring Magicks.

Wild Sherwood ~ Historical Fantasy from Edie Roones

Posted on July 2, 2026July 3, 2026 by writer35_bg

Wild Sherwood

The series so Far:

One Novella and 3 Collections of Short Stories: stories with the people and outlaws sheltering in Sherwood Forest f

rom the corruption of the leaders in the town of Nottingham and across the dales.

If you wish to read the stories in order, follow the order of the collections, with The Hooded Outlaw occurring immediately after the 2nd Collection of short stories.

1st Collection ~ Into Wild Sherwood

Dangerous Faeries Lurk in the Forest

“Tod the Fox and the Faeries in the Ring”

Never enter a Faerie Ring. The Faeries like to play.

Featuring the minstrel Tod

“The Poisoner and the Faerie Huntsman”

Never reveal weakness to a Faerie.

Featuring Melly

“Three Yule Feasts for Faeries”

Will the cook become the final dish?

Featuring Ellen Best

“Friar Tuck and the Faerie at the Pool”

No one escapes from Faeries.

Featuring Friar Tuck

“Alan-a-Dale and the Harp of Elandrielle”

Who can trust a Faerie?

Featuring Alan-a-Dale

Links to Online Distributors for the Ebook.

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Paperback available.

View the trailer: https://youtu.be/O9qWTwRZgoI

2nd Collection ~ The Outlaws of Sherwood

Faeries Inhabit the Wild Forest

“A Twist of Faerie Magic”

A twist of murder. A twist of Faerie magic. And Dav the wrestler caught between.

Featuring Dav the wrestler

“A Faerie Song for a Feast”

Masks, Mummers, and a Faerie Song

Featuring Alan-a-Dale

“Mischief of a Faerie”

A Challenge with Quarterstaves

Featuring Arthur a Bland confronting Little John

“The Green Man”

A Venture with Destiny

Featuring Jack Greenleaf

“The Prize of a Golden Arrow”

By Hook or Crook or Arrow

Featuring the veteran archer Gil Whitehand

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View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/aCftiZFqq1E

Novella ~

Robin Hood is The Hooded Outlaw

When Robin Hood escapes a trap set by the Sheriff of Nottingham, he never expects to meet the love of his life, Lady Marianne d’Airsey.

Then a greedy baron and the crooked sheriff plot to steal d’Airsey Manor. How can Robin, Marianne, and his men prevent Prince John from granting the manor away from her family?

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3rd Collection ~ Out of Wild Sherwood

Beware the Vengeance of Outlaws and Faeries

Dangerous Gold ~

Strong Temptation for Two Young Thieves.

Featuring Dav the Wrestler

Keen-Edged Dagger ~

Murder needs a Tricky Vengeance

Featuring Brigit and Arthur a Bland

Silver Dreams ~ A Double Twist for a Double Theft

Featuring Finn Callum, cousin to Alan-a-Dale

Poisoned Roots ~

A Deadly Sin caused Dishonor

Featuring Much the Miller’s Son

Memory of Magic ~

A Faerie Confronts Human Evil

Featuring the Faerie Hunter Fenric

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View the Trailer https://youtu.be/ENKYL_Qi9u4

Both Edie Roones and her sometimes-collaborator M.A. Lee love to mix fantasy with history.

Enjoy A Trio of Dangers

Posted on July 1, 2026May 7, 2026 by writer35_bg

Welcome to A Trio of Dangers

hazardous mysteries blended with historical romance.

**Amateur sleuths solve Hazardous Mysteries in A Trio of Dangers,**

a collection of three novels set in Regency England.

A serial killer stalks the idyllic countryside.

A vindictive French spy-catcher seeks the double agent who escaped him a decade ago.

A past murder comes to light after a dangerous arson.

The Dangers of Secrets

A baffling murder interrupts a charming romance in The Danger of Secrets.

Maddy Whittaker encounters secrets of family, secrets of the heart, and secrets of blood and pain, all served up for Valentine’s Day. Her flirtation with Gordon, Lord Musgrove, is a pleasant distraction.

Too bad for Maddy and Gordon that secrets can kill.

The Dangers for Spies

A cunning killer hunts the spies who escaped him.

Eugenie DesChamps wants nothing more than her paintings, her friendships in a bucolic English village, and her flirtation with Charles Audley. She wants to forget her past life as a double agent working for England.

The past is never forgotten. Tor the French spy who tried to kill her discovers her when he tracks down the English cryptographer Charles Audley.

Blood will be spilled before the past is purged.

The Dangers to Hearts

Arson uncovers a baffling murder from the past.

Agatha’s lover abandoned her a decade ago. Jess Carter barely escaped arrest for smuggling. Neither expects romance.

Then hatred burns into a fire in the night. The arson reveals an old murder. The vanished fiancé didn’t leave—he was murdered.

Who is the arsonist? Who is the murderer? Are they the same person? Or two separate people poisoned by hatred?

Will Agatha and Jess be destroyed before they can find love together?

**Enjoy A Trio of Dangers.**

Available ebook and paperback.

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From Amazon: for the ebook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CTP5G7R

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