Welcome to A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2!A Warm Mug of Cozy was launched in October 2022 to promote the cozy mystery genre through interviews, reviews, resources, and news for readers and authors alike. Its creators, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, are established multi-genre authors themselves who love promoting books, stories, movies, shows, and art that inspire people.A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2 featuresnine tantalising tales that...

Looking back I could have handled things a little differently after Vietnam. I think I would have punched a lot of people a lot sooner. I just didn't know how to react when I got home. We came straight out of a place where the enemy was everywhere, always and all around you. That problem has continued ... And I live with constant visual alertness and wariness. It's automatic. Ingrained. You scan everybody. People in shopping centres. Always checking locks on doors. It's an ingrained reflex...

Greg Heffley has always wanted to grow up fast—but reality hits hard. In The Ugly Truth, the fifth book in Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg is facing boy-girl parties, new responsibilities, and the weird changes that come with getting older.And to make things worse, he’s doing it all without his best friend, Rowley.With relatable moments, laugh-out-loud awkwardness, and middle school growing pains, this b...

A compelling insider's view of the modern RAAF.AIR FORCE tells the action-packed, inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force, from East timor and the Bali bombings to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Ian McPhedran brings us gripping personal accounts of fighter pilots' bombing raids over Iraq, spy planes over Afghanistan, the operational nerve centre of the Middle East war and the delivery of humanitarian aid in world trou...

Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots.This newly illustrated anniversary edition of Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot reveals what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940? H...

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.This compilation contains episodes 1-3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT. Here Jack and Sarah investigate a suicide in the River Thames - or was it murder? They investigate an "accidental" fire with deadly co...

Our Lancaster raced over the perimeter track and then tore down the slope through the dispersal area... with its wheels thumping on the grass but still firmly on the ground. It now seemed that nothing could save us and that, in the next couple of moments, we would disappear in a great explosion. I could hear Bob saying "Get off the ground, you bastard, get off," while Harry just said nothing..."Into the Darkness" is the true story of a young Australian thown into the crucible of th...

Cherringham - a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems - until one morning a woman's body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to the police. But is this true? Sarah believes there must be more to it. In Jack, a former NYPD homicide detective, she finds a partner who is willing to start investigating with her. They soon find out that things are not as clear as the police want them to be ... This first - of many cases brings Sarah and Jack t...

Sit down and strap yourself in for an exhilarating ride to the sound barrier and beyond with a real life Topgun!Mac Tucker, or 'Serge' to use his callsign name, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like.Find out how it feels to be shot at by SAS snipers, to be lost in a 50 million jet over Northern Australia with nothing but ...

Do you believe in second chances?Romance Writers of America® brings together seventeen of today's hottest authors in an anthology of never-before-published tales that reveal true love always deserves a happy ending.Follow New York Times best-selling authors J. Kenner and Christina Lauren back to reader-favorite worlds.New York Times bestseller Alyssa Day sprinkles djinn magic in her humoro...

"thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' The Sun-HeraldAn eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn’t even have an officer or sergeant in charge. A rugged ex-Royal Marine stepped forward to take the lead. Jim Riddle was only an acting corporal but he knew enough of war to...

The Annual Crime Writers' Association anthology is always a thrilling read, and eagerly anticipated by readers and authors of crime and mystery fiction worldwide.Music of the Night is a new anthology of original short stories contributed by Crime Writers' Association (CWA) members and edited by Martin Edwards, with music as the connecting theme. The aim, as always, is to produce a book which is representative both of the genre and the membership of the wor...