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	Jack Of harts : Mustang Blue:Love On Level 6:The Blue Mist Cruise (The sequel to Mustang Blue) Journey in a Pale Blue Chevy:Romance and Other Strangeness Or Visit The Kindle Store on Amazon :      Click the image for a larger view    "Jack Of Harts" a "Spaghetti & Rice" murder mystery  Published by Oak Tree Press "One of the most creative writers I've run across in years" - Murder She Wrote Author - Don Bain 1 - $15.95 (Signed by Michael) 2-10 $12.00 11 and over $10.00       'Jack Of Harts' a "Spaghetti & Rice Mystery" Retired Italian homicide lieutenant, Frank Borelli has started a private eye firm with his friend, retired Chinese call girl, Ming Li Chow. The firm is called, Spaghetti & Rice investigations. Frank has a wacky Italian family, and Ming Li has an 11-year-old son, Tommy, who is the off-spring of the head of the local Chinese Mafia in Boston. In this case, Tommy Chow's best friend, Jack Hart and his mother, Jean, have gotten themselves entangled in a battle with the Colombian drug lord in Boston, MA. Only Frank and Ming Li can help them out of their troubles. Assault and mayhem ensue Top     :      Click the image for a larger view      "Mustang Blue" a murder mystery  A murder mystery that travels around the country and is finally solverd where it all began in Denver Colorado. "One of the most creative writers I've run across in years" - Murder She Wrote Author - Don Bain 1 - $20.00 (Signed by Michael) 2-10 $12.00 11 and over $10.00 or $3.99 Kindle Edition buy the Kindle Edition on Amazon. Claick Here       'Mustang Blue' by Mike Corrigan Staff Writer Michael Eldridge and Bethany Beaune have been together for 12 years; he plays the piano and writes songs; she is a nurse. Together, as Michael Bethany, the two have written a vivid novel called Mustang Blue, in which -- surprise! -- songwriter-pianist and a nurse find themselves in big trouble with a rather entertaining mystery to solve. The couple have been living in Bridgton for two years. Standing out above the unusual self-published work, the novel is well-paced, well plotted, with dashes of spice; Mustang Blue is an adult mainstream novel awash in the mystery of connection (of several types). The central villain, as it happens, is a Loveman without normal connections, and it is Jeremy Collins' cold removed from normal human emotion that sets into motion a macabre series of events, culminating 30 years after the first violent incident with a fiery and most appropriate reunion of man and machine. While coincidence often plays a greater role in good fiction than it does in somewhat more mundane ordinary life, my credulity was stretched a bit by Mustang Blue. But suspending disbelief was no real strain, in the spell of such a well-paced book, undertaken by such good writers. (Several typographical errors, apparently a product of the self-publishing effort, were mildly distracting; they would have been more distracting were not the writing so well-crafted. The next Bethany book " and there should be one! " could use at least one more thorough proofreading than this one received.) The book spans 30 years, with key events set in Colorado, Ohio and Texas. The main characters' lives intertwine, with a retired cop sharing center stage with the songwriter and nurse. Friendships are well-drawn, and the major characters all have distinctive personalities and voices. Additionally, all the small character sketches are well-drawn. Scene-setters, describing rooms and outdoor scenes, are also various, apt and "accurate", in the sense that the reader gets a solid feel for each new place, with a hint of the owner's persona within the sensory details of each description. Sample this first glimpse of "good cop" Vince Barnett: "A car door slammed and an immense man blustered through the open doorway. He was at least six-foot-six and three hundred pounds, with not an ounce of fat. He wore a gray University of Colorado sweatshirt and sweat pants along with Nike shoes with a red swoosh on the sides--- His face looked like it was sculpted from chunks of clay by an artist who gave up before he had finished. All topped by a shaven head that glistened in the bright light..." A novel breathes life into characters, and the differences observed in these book people are real and convincing. A wide array of humanity is set before us, but so many of those limed are, at heart, good people that the book delights, on several levels. Since the villain is a frozen-hearted as a Popsicle, the average good people of the world are made to look even more wonderful. Jeremy Collins, the villain, is frieghtening, almost emotionless, and yet he's believable, too. His actions and fate in this novel can be read as object lessons on the hazards and pain of self-absorbtion. Anyway, if you ever have the chance to buy a vintage, silver-blue Mustang, something inside you may hesitate. And if a pretty girl in a yellow sun dress is hanging around, well I recommend that you pass up the opportunity, no matter how persuasive the salesman is!       Top         Click the image for a larger view   "Love On Level 6" Love is the answer. Author - Michael Eldridge $3.99 (Kindle Edition) Buy on Amazon Click Here       Love On Level 6 Each human being has a richly worked edifice of experience, exultation, despair, fear, and courage in his or her soul. The exciting, tragic, and revealing moments of a lifetime are woven into a structure that is what sustains us all with strength and promise; in its dreams, it's very interior of being. The most important experience of all is loving and being loved. In 1977, I had a strange dream, woke up and wrote the short story, "On To Level Number Seven". (See my short story collection, "Romance and Other Strangeness") In 2006, while I was working on a cruise ship doing one week cruises in Alaska, I had another dream, woke up and wrote "Love on Level Six". The original short story became the prologue for this story about love and loving. In the form of a fictional story, "Love on Level Six" asks some of the age old questions; What happens when we die? What is love all about? Can love be the way for good to conquer evil? What lies beyond this earthly existence? Is there really a heaven and hell, or is there much more than that? Some of the possible answers in this story are a uniquely different approach to love and the hereafter. Love is the answer.       Top         Click the image for a larger view   "The Blue Mist Cruise" (The sequel to Mustang Blue) Love is the answer. Author - Michael Eldridge $3.99 (Kindle Edition) Buy on Amazon Click Here       The Blue Mist Cruise (The sequel to Mustang Blue) The old cruise ship, "The Majestic", is on her last year of cruises. It is haunted by its sister ship from another dimension. David Sheerson is on his last music contract playing on cruise ships. Somehow, David finds himself trapped in the Majestic's mysterious sister ship. He deals with being trapped in this opposite dimension; along with a cast of other unfortunate passengers and manages to figure out a way to get out everyone back to the real Majestic. When David's friend, Tony Chapman, later goes on a cruise on "The Majestic" with his lady friend, late one night, they happen to see someone toss a body over the side into the sea. Tony, being a retired homicide cop, tries to find the man who threw the body over. Unfortunately, he comes up empty handed. After telling David about the experience, the three of them look up statistics of missing people. It seems several middle-aged women have disappeared from the Majestic over the last couple of years. David, his wife Ann and Tony find themselves chasing a serial murderer into the supernatural dimension of The Majestic's sister ship.       Top         Click the image for a larger view   "Journey In A Plae Blue Chevy" Author - Michael Eldridge $3.99 (Kindle Edition) Buy on Amazon Click Here       Journey in a Pale Blue Chevy In 1952, after eight years in the service, Jonah Finley mustered out of the Army. He bought a brand new 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air; pale blue with a black top. He then headed west to seek his fortune, with his savings tucked in a small money pouch. Along the way from Boston to Los Angeles, he stopped in five cities to work for a few weeks or a couple of months, each. Then he would travel to the next stop; finally reaching Los Angeles nearly a year later. Now, nearly sixty years later, in his mid-eighties, he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Over the years he had amassed quite a fortune. At a base near Portsmouth New Hampshire, Master Sergeant, Joe Brisco is about to retire, at age 42, from 25 years in the service. He finds a note for him on the bulletin board in the mess hall. It is from someone named Wilber Clem. It is an offer for a job, and contains a number in Rhy, New Hampshire to call. Joe has no family, and is at loose ends about what to do when he retires. He decides to make an appointment for the following weekend. Jonah Finley hires Joe to take the 52 Chevy (Jonah has kept it all these years, restoring and up-dating it a couple of times) and follow his route to Los Angeles, stopping in the cities where he had worked back in 1952. He wants Joe to find the people who befriended him on his journey, or their families and give them various cashier's checks in the amounts from $50,000 to $200,000. He provides Joe with information and the checks. Jonah keeps in touch with Joe by a private cell phone, and just before Joe reaches each city, Jonah calls and relates to him his adventures in that city in 1952. On Joe's journey, he finds some friends and adventures of his own. At the end of Joe's trip, he gets the biggest surprise of his life.       Top         Click the image for a larger view   "Romance And Other Strangeness" Author - Michael Eldridge $3.99 (Kindle Edition) Buy on Amazon Click Here       Romance & Other Strangeness This is a collection of fast-read short stories. The stories vary from the erotic, to the romantic, to the bizarre. From love to murder in one felt swoop. Each story is a unique and engrossing tale.       Top
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