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The complete Blue Signal Press catalog — 51 titles.

Fiction

  • Her Children's Crimes by Alexander Crown

    Behind every perfect family is a silence no one dares break.

    Marissa Hale is the perfect mother — charming, successful, and deeply feared by her own children. When Clara begins to see through the carefully constructed facade, she must choose between the family loyalty she was…

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  • The Ledger Song by Josephine Remy

    Harlem, 1924. She came for the music. She didn't know it would cost everything.

    Celestine 'Celi' Arceneaux arrives in Harlem from New Orleans with a voice that can change what a room feels like — and walks straight into a contract designed to quietly claim everything she makes. A richly drawn novel…

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  • Woven in Fire by Adam Collins

    Paris, 1793. Thread by thread, survival is stitched from ash.

    Paris, 1793. As the guillotine casts its shadow and revolution devours its own, a silk weaver named Elise fights to keep her workshop alive and her conscience intact. A richly rendered novel about courage, principle,…

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  • The Restoration of Us by Lake Holloway

    One boatyard. Two owners. One summer to decide what can be repaired.

    June Halloran inherits fifty-one percent of a failing Michigan boatyard. The other forty-nine goes to the boy she left twelve years ago — and her grandmother’s letters say they have to race the old sloop together before…

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  • The Cold Between Tides by Calla Maren

    He has watched this bay for two hundred years. He did not expect her.

    A marine scientist arrives in a fog-bound Oregon town to take readings — and meets the man who has been bound to its bay for two hundred years. A slow-burn paranormal romance, Book One of the Courts of the Drowned Shore.

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  • The Reaping Tide by Isolde Merrow

    Every October, the island gives the water one name.

    Every October, the island of Solmark gives one young person to the sea. Ten years after her sister walked into the water, acoustic scientist Maeve Tiernan returns to measure a sound in the trench offshore — and finds…

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  • The Grafting by Mathilde Varga

    It came to end pain. She is the only one who said no.

    A hospice nurse takes a living culture that quiets agony in seventy-two hours. The pain goes. Then she feels the other hosts. Literary horror about a quiet apocalypse that cures pain by making every living thing part of…

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Mystery

  • The Weight of Salt Water by Davis Arceneaux

    In the bayou, the water keeps its secrets. So does everyone else.

    At seven-fifteen on a Louisiana morning the phone rings: Remy Thibodaux's daughter has been arrested for the death of Beaumont Arceneaux III, found dead on the salon floor of his own boat. Twenty-two years with NOPD…

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  • Ghost Meridian by Rena Cole

    She executed the mission. Now the mission is coming for her.

    A black-ops contractor sent to extract a Yemeni intelligence officer discovers the mission is a cleanup — and she is the murder weapon for a crime she already committed. A propulsive military thriller about loyalty,…

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  • The Carrion Hour by Mara Slade

    The coroner's report says suicide. Cora Voss knows better.

    NOPD homicide detective Cora Voss arrives in Destrehan, Louisiana with six months of sobriety and a coroner's report she doesn't believe — her sister is dead, the official story is suicide, and Cora knows she failed to…

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  • What We Bury by Claire Merritt

    Some secrets are worth burying. Others bury you.

    A seventeen-year-old girl is found walking a Maine highway at four-thirty in the morning, barefoot, in a nightgown, saying only: "She's still down there." Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Claire Ashby is sent to the island…

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  • The Burning Kind by Cass Rourke

    She spent fifteen years running from what she was. The fires always found her.

    Her father drove that curve five thousand times. The last time, his car left the road. Della Voss came home to bury him — and stayed to find out who killed him.

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  • She Who Is Below by Liv Brekke

    She stopped counting the days. She started counting her options.

    A nurse imprisoned for two years beneath a grieving father's house. A daughter who hears her voice through the kitchen floor. A psychological thriller about guilt, a small town's silence, and the truth buried under the…

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  • The Long Bleed by K.A. Morrow

    He was left-handed his whole life. The gun was in his right hand.

    Insurance-fraud investigator Dara Lundy knows her brother didn’t kill himself — he was left-handed, and the gun was in his right hand. What he left behind points to a forty-seven-million-dollar bank fraud and a federal…

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  • The Orchard Tapes by Cate Averill

    She records the dying for a living. This one asked for her by name.

    Eden Fielding records legacy interviews with the dying. Then a retired teacher with two months to live asks for her by name — and starts telling her what really happened to Eden’s sister, missing for twenty-two years.

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  • The Revision by Anne Sefton

    Some memories were edited. Hers were rewritten.

    Dr. Imogen Vasko built a career rewriting the worst memories of her patients’ lives. Then, in a locked closet in her own practice, she finds a recording of a therapy session she has no memory of attending — her voice as…

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  • The Skip by Delfina Ponce

    Everybody’s got a number. Hers was in the trunk.

    Repo agent Mars Lucero opens the trunk of an abandoned Camry in a Fresno park and finds $312,400 in banded cash and a softball trophy engraved to the most beloved cop in the Valley. By nightfall she has seven days to…

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  • Dead Money by V.D. Krug

    The tallest tower in Tulsa stands on buried men.

    Bail recovery agent Marisol Quinn takes a dead skip’s phone from under a motel mattress and finds a three-in-the-morning photograph of men burying something on a Tulsa developer’s construction site. It leads straight…

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  • Dead Man's Float by Augustin Lacoste

    Every krewe has its secrets. This one is floating in the bayou.

    Skip tracer Josette Marez takes an easy job finding a float builder who skipped court, and by noon he is dead in Bayou Sauvage. Hidden in one of his miniature floats is proof that someone is washing millions through a…

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  • What the Tide Keeps by Vera Trask

    Some debts the water keeps. Some it gives back.

    A shrimp captain drowns nine miles off Galveston with his life vest still in his truck. Insurance investigator Dahlia Manzella expects a three-day claim, until she finds a missing-persons flyer tied to the last case her…

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  • Salt Flat by Mara Stone

    Her knife. Their county. Forty-eight hours.

    Bail recovery agent Lidia Cruz tracks her skip across West Texas and finds him dead on a motel floor, beside a knife with her initials cut into the handle. She has forty-eight hours before the murder becomes hers. A…

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  • The Kessler Dead by Nina Haldane

    She buried the truth twelve years ago. Tonight it checked into Room 414.

    Twelve years ago, detective Sloane Brandt helped her partner bury a hit-and-run, and an innocent man went to prison for it. Now she walks the night corridors of the dying Kessler hotel — and that man has just turned up…

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  • Dispatch by Nat Ballard

    She kept their secrets. Now their secrets want her dead.

    Night dispatcher Luna Rios scrolls back through the logs and finds thirty-one ambulance runs with no destination — one every third Thursday, all closed out under her own initials. The patients were the people New…

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  • Deadwater by Britt Larkin

    Nine years sober. Point-zero-nine. One witness who saw it all.

    Cal Fosse had been sober for nine years when he went over the rail at Dock Seven with a blood alcohol of point-zero-nine. Former prosecutor Lena Marek finds sixty-three photographs on his hidden phone, and one of them…

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  • The Last Honest Man by Carson Teale

    The one man who couldn't be bought was the easiest to own.

    Elias Garrity has never lost a case. When a farmer hangs himself and leaves a note naming the developer who took his land, Garrity opens the file nobody in Cutler County wants opened. A legal thriller about integrity,…

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Cozy

  • A Death Most Steep by Clara Weatherstone

    Some secrets steep longer than tea — and prove just as bitter.

    Nora Calloway arrives in Harborwick, Maine with a divorce behind her and her grandmother's Lighthouse Tearoom in front of her. Six weeks later Victor Marsh — the man who has been trying to buy the building out from…

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  • The Gilded Leaf by Margaret Quill

    She came for the lobster rolls. She stayed for the murder.

    When forensic accountant Sylvie Rowan returns to Fog Harbor, Maine for the annual Lobster Festival, she expects sea air and seafood — not a dead neighbor poisoned with foxglove in her morning Darjeeling. A delightful…

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  • A Pinch of Poison by Violet Mallow

    She inherited a spice shop. She didn't expect to inherit a murder.

    Maren Holt arrives in Saltwick-on-Sea with a ruined career and no intention of staying. Inheriting her aunt's beloved spice shop was supposed to be a temporary problem. Then the Craft Carnival opens, and a dead body…

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  • Preserving the Dead by Eliza Kettering

    Everyone trusts the jam. That was the whole idea.

    Hattie Latimer is back in Bayberry Cove, Maine, hauling jam cases for her grandmother Etta, whose strawberry balsamic is defending seventeen blue ribbons at the Harvest Festival. Then the guest judge dies at the judging…

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  • Ink and Alibis by Laurel Rook

    The ink didn’t exist. The body did.

    Briar Winslow opens her late grandmother’s letterpress shop in Hollyhock Harbor, Maine, and finds the town’s most feared wedding planner dead in the workroom, clutching an invitation printed in an ink Briar knows she…

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  • Stopped at Six by Jocelyn Brightwell

    Every clock stopped just past six. None of them by accident.

    Every clock in Teddy Alcock’s workshop stopped just past six — and at three minutes past, Teddy called Eloise Kimball’s antique shop and she let it ring. The doctor has written “heart,” but a foxglove jar, a stranger’s…

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  • Last Bloom at Blue Hollow Farm by Lucy Ambler

    In Halo, Texas, everybody knows what grows in your garden.

    Three months after inheriting her great-aunt’s lavender farm in the Texas Hill Country, Nell Kincaid finds the developer who wanted her land dead between the rows, two days before the Lavender and Honey Festival. The…

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  • The Last Batch at Lavender Lane by Kate Linden

    The bakery was hers. So was the body in the freezer.

    Greer Herrick has five days to sell the corner bakery her great-aunt left her on Lavender Lane. Then she opens the walk-in freezer and finds the developer who wanted the building dead on the floor, with her fingerprints…

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  • Short Measure by Felicity Grange

    The first slice was always his.

    Elara Loveday spent fifteen years finding money other people had hidden, then moved to a Cotswold village to run a bakery and stop. Within an hour of seeing the food festival’s charity accounts she finds the gap — and…

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