Siegfried motioned the other folks to step back and leaned down to help me up. “Who is it, Professor?” His blue eyes flashed into mine. He steadied my arm.
I stared at the remains of the man who’d been missing from our little town since the previous fall. “I’m afraid it’s Colin Springer.”
A collective gasp went up among the small crowd gathered at the edge of the trench.
I stood rooted to the spot, staring into the trench unearthed by the most unexpected means. An electric tingle of weakness flooded my body. I moved back a few feet to take stock and replanted my feet on the wet wheat to steady myself.
The mystery surrounding Colin’s disappearance had been laced with much speculation and a good measure of spiteful comments. There had been talk of money being mishandled, and people often whispered about Colin having deserted his wife, with further gossip of him living in the Caribbean with another woman.
The only companion he lay beside now was the cold steel of his hunting rifle.
How had a day hunting in the woods turned so tragic? And who had buried him in this field?
I swiped at a buzzing horsefly that persistently tried to land on my head, and shuddered to think his body had been buried only a few hundred yards from our church the whole time .
Had it been a hunting accident? Maybe someone panicked and buried him out here at night, figuring no one would ever find him.
Until a rogue twister touched down.
I shivered, nodded to Siegfried, and we trudged back to the church.
∞∞∞
FireSong: a Gus LeGarde Mystery
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Book Series by Aaron Paul Lazar
(eBook, audiobook, and print)
LeGarde Mysteries (country mysteries set in the Finger Lakes)
Green Marble Mysteries (time travel to the fifties with a little boy ghost)
Tall Pines Mysteries (sensual mysteries set in the Adirondacks)
Paines Creek Beach Series (steamy love stories by the sea)
Bittersweet Hollow Series (romantic suspense involving kidnapping)
All Books by Aaron Paul Lazar
LEGARDE MYSTERIES
1. DOUBLE FORTÉ
2. UPSTAGED
3. MAZURKA
4. FIRESONG
5. TREMOLO: CRY OF THE LOON
6. DON’T LET THE WIND CATCH YOU
7. THE LIAR’S GALLERY
8. SPIRIT ME AWAY
9. UNDER THE ICE
10. LADY BLUES
11. VOODOO SUMMER
12 MURDER ON THE BREWSTER FLATS
THE LEGARDE MYSTERIES BOXED SET
THE YOUNG GUS LEGARDE MYSTERIES: A 1960S BOXED SET
The above is the order the books were written. If you’d like to read them in order of Gus’s age, here is the list:
LEGARDE MYSTERIES – in order of chronology
TREMOLO: CRY OF THE LOON
DON’T LET THE WIND CATCH YOU
VOODOO SUMMER
SPIRIT ME AWAY
DOUBLE FORTÉ
UPSTAGED
MAZURKA
FIRESONG
THE LIAR’S GALLERY
UNDER THE ICE
LADY BLUE S
MURDER ON THE BREWSTER FLATS
GREEN MARBLE MYSTERIES
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF BILLY MOORE (formerly Healey’s Cave)
TERROR COMES KNOCKING
FOR KEEPS
TALL PINES MYSTERIES
FOR THE BIRDS
ESSENTIALLY YOURS
SANCTUARY
BETRAYAL
TALL PINES BOOKS SET
PAINES CREEK BEACH , love stories
THE SEACREST
THE SEACROFT
THE SEADOG
BITTERSWEET HOLLOW , romantic suspense
DEVIL’S LAKE
DEVIL’S CREEK
DEVIL’S SPRING
THE ASYLUM (COMING SOON)
WRITING GUIDE S
WRITE LIKE THE WIND , volume 1
WRITE LIKE THE WIND , volume 2
WRITE LIKE THE WIND , volume 3
Aaron Lazar’s Book Awards
The Seadog
2016 Winner, Best Indie Book Award, Romance
Devil’s Lake
2015 Finalist Readers’ Favorites Awards
2015 Semi-finalist in Kindle Book Review Awards
The Seacrest
2015 Semi-finalist in Kindle Book Review Awards
2014 Best Beach Book Festival WINNER, Romance category
2013 ForeWord Book Awards, Romance, FINALIST
Double Forté
2012 ForeWord BOTYA, Mystery, FINALIST
Tremolo: cry of the loon –
2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Grand Prize Short List
2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction
2011 Global eBook Award Finalist in Historical Fiction Contemporary
2011 Preditors & Editors Readers Choice Award – 2nd place Mystery
2008 Yolanda Renée's Top Ten Books
2008 MYSHELF Top Ten Reads
For the Birds
2011 ForeWord Book Awards, FINALIST in Mystery
2012 Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Top 10 Reads
Essentially Yours
2013 EPIC Book Awards, FINALIST in Suspense
2013 Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award Finalist
Healey’s Cave
2012 EPIC Book Awards WINNER Best Paranormal
2011 Eric Hoffer Book Award, WINNER Best Book in Commercial Fiction
2011 Finalist for Allbooks Review Editor's Choice
2011 Winner of Carolyn Howard Johnson's 9th Annual Noble (not Noble!) Prize for Literatur e
2011 Finalists for Global EBook Awards
Terror Comes Knocking
2013 Global Ebook Awards, Paranormal – Bronze
For Keeps
2013 Semi Finalist in Kindle Book Review Book Awards, Mystery Category
Spirit Me Away
2014 AuthorsdB book cover contest, Silver medal.
Under the Ice
2015 Finalist in AuthorsdB Cover Award
Websites
www.lazarbooks.com
www.murderby4.blogspot.com
www.aaronlazar.blogspot.com
Contact
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