Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Christie Corinthian

Writes about a woman who travels to Greece for fun and sun, but ends up unravelling a mystery and embracing an experience that borders on the religious [“without love, I am nothing” (13:1)].
All set amongst the ancient ruins, each book in the series is a different island, and H/h.

Valerie Dovefield

Writes about the hilarious madcap and sometimes romantic adventures of Michelle Rooter, the only female plumber in her small town who has taken one too many trips to the local hardware store if you know what I mean

Jay K. Rolling

Writes the “Pig Pimples” series about two young witches, named Jeanie Veaslee and Hermione Pother, who pursue copyright infringement in a magical fanfiction site.

Petra Organist

Author of the Dancing Can Be Deadly series: “Trina Charleston and the Dance Club Murder,” “Alicia Flamenco and the Salsa Class Catastrophe,” “Lynn Stepballchange and the Square Dance Slaughter,” etc.

Highly recommended for people who live in towns like the one in Footloose.  Your children are dancing? These will put them in their place.

S.B. St. Hubbins

Writes about Jeanine Pettibone, and her search for love and a pair of comfortable shoes.

Bernadette Lourdes

Author of the Vatican Vaults series. CSI Mary Margaret St. John takes on angels and demons and she investigates the miracles of love.

Yeah. Pretty sucky but I just want to play. I already have both ARCs and they are beyond AWESOME BLOSSOM! Buy these books now if you love dark romantic suspense and don’t mind sleeping with the lights on!

Allie Liulu

She is the author of a series featuring Gabby, an angel sent from heaven in the form of a stripper to help the poor souls that end up frequenting her club, The White Dove.

Tiffany St Denis.
Inspired by her love of stained-glass windows, she writes the “Nave of Hearts” series about tortured yet beautiful young men who find love in the world’s great cathedrals.

Rachel “Roxy” Rachmanes. 

Writes the “Why Does This Sh*t Always Happen to Us?” series about a young Conservative rabbi who’s orthodox in her views towards love and marriage (she wants both), ready to reform the establishment and has an eye towards reconstructing crime scenes to help out the hunky detective, Mac G’ver*.

*It’s a Hebrew pun.  G’ver means both “Mister” and a macho guy.

O. Mygod

She is the author of a series featuring I. M. Insatiable, a paranormal detective specializing in cases featuring vampires sucking at Catholic nuns.

Martha Maria Aquinas, writes about a forties detective a la Miss Marple. Wrote the Mummy’s revenge series about resurrected undead who find the love of a lifetime… Okay, so she’s a witch as well as a detective.

Magdalene Apostle is the author of the wildly popular Song of Songs series featuring singer/songwriter Catherine St. Bernard, who, while touring with her all-female group, Solomon’s Harem, solves crimes (of hot, wicked passion) with the help of the group’s mysterious (and smoking hot) road manager Adam Suedomsa—-all the while, from the shadows, millionaire record producer Philatanus Zagan has his own itinerary for the beautiful and (mostly) pure Ms. St. Bernard.

Shoot—-this could work

Trinity Cromwell, author of the Mary Boleyn mysteries. Between being the mistress of Henry the VIII and then having her sister usurp her—and how—she solves crimes and flirts with sexy commoner, William Stafford. Often, there are supernatural themes.

Some of the titles include A Tomb of Her Own, Salisbury’s Stake, and Lady in Waiting ... for Murder. The most popular in the series is King Forsakes a Queen in which Mary races against the clock to prove her sister’s innocence.

It doesn’t go so well.

P.K. Von Neinlein

Writes the “Packet Sniffing For Fun & Profit” series, featuring the adventures of the female hacker-detective trio calling themselves “Insert, Ctrl, Esc”—a bold name that gets them into more trouble than they’d bargained, as their work brings them into contact with more heavy-hitting criminal porn outfits than they’d ever thought existed, including the deadly External Floppy Group and the vicious RAM Module cartel.  But all this is just to prepare them for their biggest task yet—to track down the stolen wetware referred to only in whispers as the “Cat5 o’ Tails”, which in the wrong hands could grant these vicious thugs “root access” to any woman’s mind!

(Don’t you just *love* how dirty computer terminology can sound??  ;)

Bobbi Fischer, author of the brain-teasing thrillers about the beautiful chess-prodigy Morra Smith and her on-again off-again romance with Russian Intelligence Agent Viktor Sokolsky (Queen’s Gambit Declined, English Opening, and Two-Knight Defense)

Here’s a suggestion from an alternate theological perspective:

Olive Y. Gevalt

A critical and popular favorite whose long-running series stars Angie Katz, who’s unexpectedly inherited her grandfather’s Jewish deli in Queens—and her grandmother’s instincts as an old-school matchmaker.  (Family folklore claims that Grandma Katz was an angel.  Family folklore is right, but only Angie knows that Grandma still pops down to the deli on occasion; apparently Grandpa hasn’t shared his chicken soup recipe with the kitchens Upstairs.)  Between the local cops for whom the deli is a favorite hangout and the matrons from the nearby synagogue who keep sending her star-crossed clients in need of true love, she’s nearly always up to her elephant ears in murder and romance.  (Recipes included, of course.)

Delilah Bethleham

Who writes the story of Eve Tantalus, a shy and conservative vet at the San Diego Zoo who discovers a sinister plot to genetically alter the animals - turning them into satanic pets for the local Hellspawn Cult. She is rescued from their clutches by the handsome Saul St. Croix, the zoo’s expert snake wrangler. Together they fight the incidious forces of evil as well as the growing temptation between them, which threatens Eve’s chastity promise.

Chastity Fairsteeple, author of the romantic comedy This is Jessie, Tell Me Your Desires chronicling the life of Jessie St. James, the radio talk show sex therapist, and the many men in her life.  Gabriel Angelo, the studly cattle rancher looking for a wife and happy homemaker who tries to mold her into his dream woman.  Michael Titebottom, body builder and bisexual nymphomaniac attempting to lure her to the seedy underground swingers clubs.  And finally Luke Hart,  handsome architect who claims to be a bachelor forever, simply enjoying his time with her. 
Who will steal her heart and satisfy that need and in the end help her find what she is really looking for ?

Noire St. Dark

Blind (they can nor longer “see” good) Angels, come to earth to hunt Daemons who are actually running a charity to end hunger.

Ezekial J. Smith

Smitt is a reclusive author, although people who have met him at conventions say he’s very unassuming and charming and asks that they call him ‘Zeke.’ Smitt’s most famous body of work is the Love-Thy-Neighbor series which Smitt has admitted, in a rare interview,  grew entirely out of the irony of a modern young man with a Puritanical slogan name and a large crush on the girl next door. From this nucleus of a young man, who always wisely introduced himself by his initials (‘Elton’) rather than his full first name, grew an extended family of relatives and friends who have to cope with faith, social and societal pressure, the problems of life, while trying to find, keep, or deal with love. Garnering particular note was the story of Michael, Elton’s cousin, whose story twists and turns through romantic trials, adventures, and misadventures before Michael concludes that he, at least, can be a truly happy, successful, and fulfilled person without having a significant other. His readers claim his dry wit to be a major attraction, as well as being able to see parts of the ‘ever-afters’ as main characters from previous novels show up as participating and valid members of another.

Wow. I try to type that up, and typo the first time I write Zeke’s first name.

And another typo.

***Zeke’s LAST name

spamword: response 99

I hope I don’t have to respond 99 times before I can sort out the typos.

Hah, had to add this…

Smitt admits that the Ezekial J. Smitt is a pseudonym he uses for a very personal reason: Many members of his own extended family are very conservative, indeed, “almost Puritanical”, and would not approve of the presence of sex in any writing, and Smitt likes being able to eat the barbecue and talk to people at the family reunions.

Benedicte Monkish writes the Clementia St. Pagan series of medieval mysteries. Clementia, daughter of a local alderman, solves mysteries in the small village of Padwhack-on-Chipping-Green-Cocksend—and must struggle with her growing attraction to both the local blacksmith and a newly-arrived junior priest.

Edie Easter is the author of the “Signs and Wonders” series. This romantic paranormal suspense series features heroine Mariah Wannaman, a music teacher in small-town Kentucky. She lives with her great-aunts (sisters Chastity, Constance, and Charity), who still attend their “up back” church of folks who handle snakes and speak in tongues. In the first book, she begins to suspect that what her aunts call “channeling the Holy Spirit” are actually messages from the recently-dead attempting to be heard. The series follows her exploits in communicating with ghosts and solving murders, aided by local deputy Goodman R. Hardtofinde.

Sindy

She only needs one more name because she just that famous and writes books that are sinfully wonderful!

Robin Communion

Death is a Messy Business series.  Chloe Morganfield is a crime scene cleaner who can communicate with the dead at crime scenes. The dead plead with her to solve their murders so in her free time she investigates their deaths and often finds herself in danger and asks for divine intervention.

Angelica Vatican researches and writes romances between
angels and demons.  Her latest publication is “Demon Dad,
Heavenly Housemother.”

Pat Cochran

Try #2:

Hollee Roller is the creator of the romatic suspense series featuring Desdemona Tripe, forensic zoologist with a steamy Las Vegas past and reluctant yet ever-ready FBI special agent Dirk Turgid.  Together, they plumb the depths to which bestiality cults may descend.

Drat—‘romantic’, not ‘romatic’

I am cracking up over these!

Magdalena Church

Author of “She Came, She Conquered”  a gripping saga of one woman’s road to discovery while hunting Vampires in downtown Ottawa.

In the first book of her bestselling “Fruitful Sisters Demon-Hunters” series, “Fruitless Passion,” Elizabeth Seton-Hall told the riveting story of Demon-Hunter Esther (Essy) Fruitful’s relentless quest to destroy Demon King Xerxes (X) Copulatus, and X’s equally relentless quest to master the irresistible little warrior.

Now, in the exciting second installment of the “Fruitful/Demon” series, “Bea Fruitful and Demonize,” Ms. Seton-Hall tells Essie’s younger sister, Bea’s story.  Theolo-geneticist Dr. Beatrice Fruitful is just days away from perfecting her anti-demon-pheromone vaccine in the lab in the Vatican DemoGenome Project.  She’s spent the last five years of her life trying to protect the population from the fate of her beloved older sister, Esther, who was seduced by the evil demon King Xerxes.  Lord Ramses (Rammer) Spermcount has been assigned by King Xerxes to destroy Bea’s research, while making sure no harm comes to the Queen’s sister.  When Rammer kidnaps Bea, passion – and pheromones – fill the air. 

The exciting conclusion of Elizabeth Seton-Hall’s “Fruitless/Demon” series, “Demon-licious,” tells youngest Fruitful sister, Trinity’s, story of passion and redemption.  Coming December 21, 2012!  Watch for it!

Martha Pewsitter, author of Young Adult novels featuring just-moved-from-the-big-city-to-the-NW-woods Stella Bucolic and her adoptive vampire family and new best friend, an extremely conflicted werewolf.

Nina James (NJ) Divine who writes stories of New Jersey celebrity chef Marla Gunard who gets entangled in a sinister mafia murder while catering the craft services table for the Real Housewives of NJ Reunion. With smoldering detective Roberto Masculinee convinced the clues are in the (organic/vegan) cavatelli Marla must get involved to save her business, her reputation and just maybe the heart of her hard-charging detective.

Jessabelle DeFenestra is most famous for her Feenie Shinn novels, which are about a jet-setting matriarch who finds herself hounded by murder and mayhem. Consumed by the need to regain control over her life, she uses her influence as a socialite to excel as a sleuth. DeFenestra’s Feenie Shinn books include HAving a Baal, The Dog Days of Summer and Made Up for Murder.

Delilah St. Sexburga Author of the BOI’s series is back again with another page turner.

The race is on to capture a serial killer. Burn-Out Inc. aka BOI has been hired to track down the killer of Tamara Agnes. Mike Gabrielle former FBI Agent gets the case file and is putting together the pieces, working along side his hard as nails yet equally beautiful boss Jezebel Adams. While tracking down a diabolical killer and dodging bullets, passions ignite. Racing against the clock, Mike and Jezebel are one step behind to finding this madman and one step closer to revealing their hearts desires.

present68 ~ That’s right, I’ll owe you one ;p

Oh, these are hysterical. And as was said before, a LOT of these could work!

Hmm, a sudden influx of Jewish inspired ones. I’ll bite.

Shprintze Christianson’s series on love, religious identity, bagels in a manger and travels through ancient Arabia, “Ayatolla Once, Ayatolla Twice, Put That Veil Away,” its sequel “The Shlamazal Tycoon’s Very Nice Cousin from New Jersey,” and the thrilling conclusion, “Shmaltz.” (cover caption - He liked her chicken soup, but would the oily broth be enough to loosen the shackles of love?)

And let us not forget, Bub E. Hilda’s “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden So Would You Shut Up Already and Grab the Maggot Killer?”

(bah, everyone else’s are funnier)

Christina Fiacre hopes to parlay her first novel about prostitute Angel Hermes into a long-running series. Angel was perfectly happy with her job working at the Bunny Ranch, introducing rich, spoiled teenagers to the concept of paying for sex, until her past came calling, and she had to run for her life. Desperate for work, she takes a job as housekeeper for widowed minister Mark Thaddeus, but she didn’t count on her attraction to the studly man of God. He seems to share the attraction, but surely he won’t want her once he knows about her past! And are the strange happenings in town because Angel’s troubles have followed her, or is there another, more sinister source?

(St. Fiacre is the patron saint of venereal disease sufferers, or so says the almighty Wikipedia)

Sue Sheff is the author of the best selling Culinary Carnage trilogy, starring America’s favorite sexy sleuth Delila Doughnaght. Delilah fights crime, and dry pastry dough, without breaking a sweet, er, sweat. No one burns Delilah, she always gets her man! wink wink

C’elle Bacey

C’elle (“Elle” to her fans) earned critical and popular acclaim with her breakout novel, “First Woman,” about an empathic consort named Eve Morningstar.

From the Publisher:
Eve is one of the most revered consorts in the land.  She is highly admired for her beauty and intellect, and frequently enlisted to turn fumbling, virginal lords into masterful lovers (hence the title.) Using her gifts as an Empath and the assistance of her Familiar, a python named Luce, Eve taps into the anxieties and desires of her clients, creating unparalleled physical and emotional experiences.  During her stay in the kingdom of e’Den Eve’s client, heir to the throne, is murdered in his bed.  Suspicion immediately falls to Eve and she must use her abilities to elicit information from other suspects and clear her own name. 

Response to “First Woman” was so favorable, fans are pre-ordering the highly anticipated second book in the “Morningstar” series: “Bitter Fruit.”

From the Publisher:
The men in the kingdom of ‘riginal Sine have fallen victim to a dark enchantment.  Eve had visited the king several months ago, and now a local cleric named Rome is blaming her for the curse.  Eve and her Familiar Luce must travel back to ‘riginal Sine and prove they didn’t eff-ing do anything.

Sue Sheff is the author of the bestselling Culinary Carnage triology, featuring America’s favorite Sweet-tart Delilah Doughnaught. She kicks ass and takes bakery orders with out breaking a sweet, er, sweat. She’s pipin’ hot and ready to roll right over the bad guys. The cute hero too!

Dee Dawning writer of erotic and sinful books is actually a man…. but he writes an awesome POV from female leads…..

Lilath Templar is the author of the erotic suspense series The Secret Daze of Knights.

The heroine of the series is the notorious ‘other woman’ who sets out to break into well know HEA’s in the attempt to re-write as much of history as possible.

E.D. Pipe penned the first novel of the ‘Nuff Said series after being bedridden from Swine Flu. The heroine, Cindy Nuff, pieces together sadistic crimes involving farm animals gone mad. The first two novels “Sneezing Cows” and “Coughing Pigs” hit the NYT bestseller list.

*lol, my spam word is “farm” LMAO!*

Lilith Eden

Author of the paranormal mystery series, “Forbidden Fruit,” featuring Eve O’Passion, who was cast out by her people centuries ago for the horrific crime of wanting to be on top while enjoying the Mighty Wang of Luuuurve and was cursed to an eternal existence wandering the Earth as an insatiable succubus.  Now she squeezes in the Netherworld Nookie between the cases she solves with the private investigation agency she and Isaac Laquedem run.

Security code is want83—I know there’s something witty I could do with that but I’m totally drawing a blank here. :B

To add some diversity to the cauldron of awesomeness:

Lakshmi Indira is the author of Tweeter and the Monkey Man, the story of Jersey girl and bounty hunter Tiffany “Tweeter” Vincerelli and Maruti Nandan—who just so happens to be the avatar of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey deity.  Maruti can’t keep his paws off Tweeter, but when a bounty gone bad threatens Tweeter’s life, and a mysterious undercover cop shows up looking for his sister named Jan, even the love of a deity may not be enough to save her.

(Tom Petty reference for those thoroughly confused)

“The Shlamazal Tycoon’s Very Nice Cousin from New Jersey,”

This one had me falling out of my chair.  LOL!  I’d definitely buy that!

I D Feelgood writes self-help sex books in the “Wango Tango” series.  The first to be called “The Big Ten Inch”.  Can you tell I’ve been listening to 70’s rock today while mowing the yard?

Angelia Priest, who writes a series about Sister Mary Margaret and her investigations into the mischief and mahem her cloister’s members get into, including the first novel detailing her bff Magdalena’s seduction away from her calling by Damon St. John.  (Don’t worry, he turns out to be a good guy - it’s a hea!)  She frequently crosses paths with Brother Luke and the incredible chemistry she has with him is series long story arc.

Angela St. John or maybe Gabriela Michaels.  Romances about angels that swoop down, in human form, upon unsuspecting women who need some special TLC and full body massages.  Heh, wishful thinking.

Camilla Effulvia-Overdone

Lady Camilla pens her famous historical romantic mystery series, Doctor I. M. Steele, in the fragrant orangery of the stately, slightly mouldering, Overdone Manor.  Famed for her historical accuracy, she incorporates many of the refined sensibilities of the Georgian period into her works, including the proper use of a fine tooth comb for the removal of head lice, the use of purgatives for good health and the proper collection, application and removal of leaches.  Lady Camilla has an extensive collection of period medical equipment.  She is president of the local chapter of the Colon Cleansing Society and a frequent speaker on the importance of enemas for the health of the colon.  Contrary to what one reviewer snarked after reading ‘The Mystery of the Shoe Buckle” , she is not full of shit.  “The Mystery of the Missing Shoe Buckle” is 72,859,203 on the Amazon bestseller list for historical medical mysteries.

Zebra59, a pseudonym for an infamous critic of her work, questions her dedication to colon cleansing, claiming she eats too many refined foods and prunes would be far healthier.  Lady Camilla rebuts this claim saying, “The scoundrel is the the pay of Professor Plum!”

Prudence Puritan, a prim & proper court reporter is accidentally caught up in a jewelry heist and is forced to sacrifice herself at the alter of buttsecks (must protect her virginity!) in order to save the life of the dark, smoldering Detective McNaughty.

Jasmine Cluck

She writes a tale of a young girl that falls in love with a chicken while dealing with her love of eating chicken. Will the love of a good chicken stop her from eating it or will the chicken have to consult a witch to have her turned into a chicken herself?

Mary-Katherine O’Conavent writes mysteries set in an all-girls’ Catholic school in South Boston.  The series follows former police detective Maggie Malone, who, after seeing too much on the hard streets, hung up her shield and took her vows.  Sister Margaret (as she is now known) now teaches PE at Saint Agnes Catholic High School and, due to her previous experience and contacts, solves any crimes that place on campus.  Surprisingly for a school full of nuns and teen-aged girls, the high school has an incredibly high crime rate as evidenced by the 10 books in the series.

Crap! I gave the heroine the religion-inspired name! How ‘bout it was written by Holly Cross?

spam word: power38 - it’ll take 38 cuppas to power up my brain!

Misty St. Givesashit brings us the newest installment in her continuing Romantic Suspense series featuring that enigmatic Miami pimp —- Manny deMann.

The Mann thinks he has found true love—- but the buxom beauty with her throat cut and her body wrapped backwards around the strippers’ pole is too dead even for this corpulent necrophiliac. 

Perhaps it is the victims’ friend—and sometimes love-muffin, Inez Innuendo, who will lead him to the murderer——or at least play dead in bed with our hero.

I can’t decide which author name above I love the most but it’s leaning toward DELILAH ST. SEXBURGA & MARTHA PEWSITTER!  So well done!

Angela St. James: she is the author of series of books taking place in the 19th century about a psychic who becomes a nun because she believes that she will go to hell if she doesn’t repent for the sin of precognition.  Not long into her second year as a nun, the pastor is murdered and she is the prime suspect because she knows things that only the murderer could possibly know.  So she must solve the case before she is sent to prison for a murder that she did not convice, all the while resisting the handsome constable, who might just send all of her good intentions straight to Hell.

Anna Domini

The Monkshood Trilogy, a series detailing the story of Marco Aracceli, a Monk who broke his vow of silence to help save his childhood sweetheart from a serial stalker, was a great success for author Anna Domini. All three books, “Under the Monkshood”, “Valerian’s Choice” and “The Eight Sacrament” spent weeks at the top of the best sellers list. Now Anna Domini announces that her upcoming release “Kicking the Habit” will be the start of a new series featuring Mary Angel,former nun turned private investigator. Mary is unprepared when Father Giorgio Venetti, the man who inspired such feelings in Mary that she chose to leave the Church, shows up at her doorstep claiming that someone may be stealing from his church. When the case turns out to be bigger and more sinister than either of them expected will Mary and Giorgio make it out alive?

Martha Goose Saint-Helsing
Author of the Tumbling After series, the trying tales of zombie-resurrectionist and private investigators Jack and Jill as they battle dominant vampire [read bloodsucking top] Humpty Dumpty – climaxing ever closer to exposing Nursery Rhymes for the bottom-feeders they are and riding them straight to hell.

Buy all three pulse-pounding volumes: La Petite Mort In The Cathedral, The Agnostic and the Ecstasy and, the triumphant finale, Requiem For An Orgasm

(you ladies bring out the silly in me)

Anna Domini

The Monkshood Trilogy, a series detailing the story of Marco Aracceli, a Monk who broke his vow of silence to help save his childhood sweetheart from a serial stalker, was a great success for author Anna Domini. All three books, Under the Monkshood, Valerian’s Choice and The Eight Sacrament spent weeks at the top of the best sellers list.

Now Anna Domini announces that her upcoming release Kicking the Habit will be the start of a new series featuring Mary Angel, a former nun turned private investigator. Mary is unprepared when Father Giorgio Venetti, the man who inspired such feelings in Mary that she chose to leave the Church, shows up at her doorstep claiming that someone may be stealing from his church. When the case turns out to be bigger and more sinister than either of them expected will Mary and Giorgio make it out alive?

((Sorry, hit the submit button instead of the notify button by mistake.))

savannah cheyenne

Anon Y. Mous is best known for her tales of Sister Hellsbells a one quarter-demon, one-eighth angel, and one hundred percent blessed crime-fighting, 12th-century nun, who finds that once you successfully fight the Powers of Darkness and embrace chastity (well, at least on Sundays) it becomes a habit!

Recent titles by Ms. Mous:

“A Hard Dazed Knight”
“Matens of a Mourning”
“Ring My Hellsbells”

Surprisingly for a school full of nuns and teen-aged girls, the high school has an incredibly high crime rate as evidenced by the 10 books in the series.

I forgot to mention (and can’t edit to add) that the UST comes in the form of the hunky groundskeeper, former Navy Seal, Dirk MacHallaran.  What started as a working relationship between Sister Margaret and Dirk during the first book, Superior Beings (when they teamed up to solve the murder of the Mother Superior), has burgeoned to a close friendship by the tenth.

Still not closed?  Damn!  

Matthew Maccabee

Author of the acclaimed mystery series starring Rabbi turned NYPD cop Micah Rosenberg from Flushing, Queens.  For ten years, Micah was a Rabbi, then his whole world came tumbling down around him when his wife and daughter were brutally murdered.  The Forsaken, the first novel in the series introduced Micah as a family man, who had lost everything, including his faith in God.  The only saving grace was his passion for justice and a taste for vengeance.  Every case is one more piece to the puzzle of who killed his family and why.  Only once he has found out the truth can he ever get his faith back.

“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” marks the debut of the alt-uni detective agency known as Les Chaussures, created by Tootsie Lafitte. Employing the deductive reasoning outlined in the old nursery rhyme, their cases usually focus on the struggle between the well-heeled Chius and the scrappy Schoels crime families. The steamy followup, “Three, Four, Shut the Door” takes the team into the world of fetish footwear.

Bathsheba Upwright

Cast the First Stone Set a year after the Salem witch trials, the people of Larkham, Mass are horrified to have an accusation of murder by witchcraft in their midst. Determined to have a proper investigation, they call in Jacob Cloverly, a brooding, tortured, investigator, determined to find the truth. However, he’s a bit too tortured for beautiful, feisty Mary Parkins, who decides to hunt for the truth on her own….

Brick Hause

Author of Paranormal Intrigue story about Devyne Extasy - a private investigator with the power to mesmerise people by showing them her cleaveage. She uses her cleaveage to solve crimes .

Mary Agnes Ofgott writes a mystery series set in a nunnery.  Her heroine, Violenta Jones is one of the students who were educated by the nuns.  She wields her ruler with brutal efficiency, and solves crimes.

Word:  series82:  apparently it’s a series with 82 books.  That’s Agatha Christie class.

Verity Jewel

Author of the ‘Geordie’s Angels’ series - a set of books about the secret female bodyguards of the Prince Regent. Coming from all walks of life, disguised as whores, servants and noblewomen, they have given up on a conventional life to devote themselves to their prince. One by one see these feisty women tamed by passion and healed by love of their unnatural desire to be autonomous.

Hmm.  As I glance upstream, I think I may not have gone far enough over the top on the first try.  Herewith an attempt to rectify this

Pseudonym: Dru Iddick

From Herne/Aphrodite Press comes a series so steamy each volume comes with its own pair of heatproof gloves.  Salem Wilder Hott is the high priestess of COPULA, the Council Of Pagans United for Loving Acceptance, an organization devoted to bringing Goddess worship and other neo-pagan faiths into the mainstream by any means necessary.  In pursuit of these goals, she travels America in pursuit of hypocritical televangelists, pleasure-seeking politicians, open-minded agnostics, and anyone else willing to be seduced onto the path of omnisexual happiness.  Against her stands NILLA, the New Inquisitors for Locking Lust Away, led by Salem’s arch-nemesis (and ex-husband) Harry “Wet Noodle” Wang.  Their ongoing battles for the nation’s bedrooms (and classrooms, and offices, and hot tubs, etc.) are guaranteed to singe your eyebrows and make other parts of your anatomy howl for mercy….

Jezebel Nave

Jezebel writes romantic suspense.  Her first book features Psyche Jensen (an appropriately named forensic psychiatrist) who is brought in by the Chicago Bureau of Investigation to help solve a series of crimes where bodies of murdered prostitues have been posed in the sacristy of local churches.  Psyche’s theory is the murder has a big madonna/whore complex….

Tobee Red Angzahyitee
(to be read anxiety)

Tobee wants to write so much romance suspense, she doesn’t know where to start!  It gives her anxiety of the books she wants to read and those she wants to write.  You’ll be taken away with her reads leaving your housework to neglect for days!  TV Dinners and take outs is the norm!

Joanna S., “A Hard Dazed Knight” is a brilliant title. And the “one quarter-demon, one-eighth angel” lineage is pretty inspired too.

John C. Bunnell‘s NILLA made me laugh. Fabulous!

Goodwina Twoshooz is the author of the Bankhouse mysteries featuring Ms Uppity Wellbourne, head of the private banking religious division working for her older brother, Cuthburt Wellbourne III, the uptight heir of the family bank and secret business partner in Black Hole, a private sex club for the wealthy fetish crowd.

In Bank On It, Uppity needs the help of of the private, but sleazy, investigator Depravid Backdorian and partner in her secret spanking fetish, when her client, Pastor Sweetie Cheeks, suspects fraud at the St John the Baptist Waterpark.  The prime suspect is Rev Elton Shrapnel of the Church of What’s Happening Now and owner/operator of the rival Nights of the Templar Mini-golf and Baptismal Ice Cream Fountain Shop, open 24 hours.  Uppity must solve the crime with Backdorian’s help, but she will learn that benches are for more than just sitting!  A Sweetie Cheeks has more than one secret she’s keeping.  Will Depravid Backdoorian get the payment he wants from Uppity while she’s wearing her Jimmy Choo’s?

Celeste St. York-Cathedral

Best-selling paranormal romance author St. York-Cathedral takes her inspiration from her own careers as a library assistant, ethnobotanist, sous-chef, and phone sex operator.

In her renowned first series, she recounted the adventures of Clerestory Smythe, accidental time-traveling librarian on a quest for true love and a way back home, her only clue a vague memory of a man with an erotic tatoo in an embarassing location .

Now, St. York-Cathedral brings you the start of a spectacular new saga. Pastry chef Perpetua Lawrence never expected to inherit a decrepit old restaurant from a long-lost aunt. She especially wasn’t expecting the demon chef bound to serve in the kitchen, or that her regular customers would include a vampire with an addiction to sweets and an ex-incubus looking for a new career.

But when a horde of undead with an appetite for dishes that are definitely not on the menu appear, Perpetua realizes that her aunt’s long-lost recipe collection holds the secret to preventing more than just a culinary catastrophe….

Goodwina Twoshooz is for my SIL who has no internet, but does have a lively imagination.

“The Shlamazal Tycoon’s Very Nice Cousin from New Jersey,”

Best. Title. Ever.

Industria Turbineheart writes humorous steampunk detective romances, featuring Lancashire Detective Sergeant Comebychance, his trainee Officer Newby, and a delightful cast of supporting characters, including the Reverend Mildly, whose passion for detective fiction often provides insights to help solve important cases.  Recent titles include A Fair Division of Labourer and Rest In Peas.  Ms. Turbineheart’s next release will be On the Grandess’ Right Secret Service, in which Comebychance goes undercover with special officer Abigail Falsework, posing as newlyweds. Will their charade be successful—perhaps TOO successful?  Look for it in 2010.

sonya madison

who writes women fiction aobut a women who is a virgin and tries to find the right man by going underocover at men’s club sports bar and other places men hang out