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"Our industry is complicated, fun, and sometimes downright corrupt! Naked DJ dares to expose what happens off the air." DELILAH, nationally syndicated radio host, Radio Hall of Fame inductee, and authorPatty “Jazmyn” Brown should be ecstatic she’s finally reached the number one radio market in America and her gypsy radio days are over. But what she’s asked to do in New York City to boost ratings and her own career has her reeling — and questioning everyone...

Alyce Donovan has a lot of nerve. After losing her low-paying job and the wealthy man she hoped to marry, she spends her severance on a total-immersion language program in the South of France. Never mind that she’s never left American soil or that her courage came from a bottle of Bordeaux she gulped down in her dismal Hoboken apartment. Once in France, Alyce unintentionally offends her local hosts. From farmers to nuns, each one sends her packing. She has only one option left: th...

A wedding gone bad. One groom is missing, the other becomes a suspicious client. Enter Russell Quant, the first and only wine-swilling, wise-cracking, world-travelling, ex-cop, ex-farm boy, gay, rookie Canadian prairie private eye. Off to France on his first big case, Quant cajoles and sleuths his way from the smudgy streets of Paris to the pastel-colored promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer and chilly shores of Pike Lake, Saskatchewan. Dealing with a cast of colorful suspects, Quant juggles his de...

Neil Gupta travelled to the Middle East to buy carpets. Instead, in a dim corner of an exotic spice market, his lifeless body is found wrapped up in one.From the glitzy, flamboyant, mega-high rises of Dubai, to the frankincense fields of Oman and scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, PI Russell Quant is on one heckuva magical carpet ride; one that skids to a deadly halt on the frozen surface of a Saskatchewan pond.Never one to shy away from a challenge, Russell prepares to ...

From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed Prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse for gay PI Russell Quant.Quant can’t be sure whether a dead man’s surprising last gift will take him on a treasure hunt or a treacherous game of life or death. With a series of clues spanning decades—from a shocking modern day murder to Saskatoon’s dark, hidden past—he revisits the harsh realities of early homesteading, investigates the blackmail of one of the literary...

Fifteen tales of the Victorian era, delightfully recounted for the amusement of a Duchess... and for ourselves.

Charity Wiser, matriarch of the Wiser clan by virtue of her wealth and power, is an indomitable provocateur…and private detective Russell Quant’s newest employer. There is more than a single rotten apple on this family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his client. To help him sleuth out the evil culprit, Charity Wiser arranges a family reunion aboard the opulent Friends of Dorothy Cruiseliner as it tours the most exotic ports of the Mediterranean. ...

Everyone has their own version of the Boogeyman. But who—or what—is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant falls into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. But what is real and what is imaginary? Quant works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of fatalities growing. Compounding Quant’s bewilderment is the disappearance of a friend who has become a ghost he simply can’t find. From siz...

She knows she shouldn’t go there. But she knows she will. Would you?Meet Kate Hadley, a smart, sexy, hard-working single mom, and Sasha, her college-bound daughter. Kate’s striving to make it in a man’s world, crashing one glass ceiling after another, all while trying to navigate an increasingly salacious love life.Can she manage her dark urges and dominant admirers while trying to protect her daughter from the exciting world of shadows? Is there a Mr. Righ...

A missing son. A mother’s pain. A million dollars. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of violence and a traumatic childhood. From a pleasant prairie city’s dangerous underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships and tinderbox safaris of Africa, Russell finds much more than he was looking for. Se...

Discover more affordable and more energy-efficient methods for preserving food—without sacrificing nutrients!—in this classic food preservation book featuring 250+ recipes.Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving food in ways that maximize fl...

Life and death of an underground legendA major and fascinating figure in the New York underground, Alan Vega, died on July 16th, 2016 in New York, marked the history of rock and roll deeply with his band Suicide, as a solo artist, as well as in the plastic arts with his light installations. From sculpture to sound experimentation, engaged political activity and horse racing, from Elvis to Jesus Christ, Spinoza and the topic of Jewishness, Alan Vega, Conversatio...