Joining together the worlds of award-winning authors Jon Black’s Bel Nemeton and M.H. Norris’ All the Petty Myths…

Throughout history, great books have been lost or are remembered only as myth and legend. Now, the mysterious Booker Foundation has announced it is willing to pay handsomely to have these lost works brought back into the light. These are the stories of those who answered the call.

Overdue: Mystery, Adventure, and the World’s Lost Books presents ten stories of brainy, resourceful, and sometimes unlikely protagonists on quests to retrieve these lost pieces of history. Tales of mystery, adventure, horror, intrigue, and even romance will carry you to every corner of the world. And reveal that there is much more to these lost books than meets the eye.

Featuring stories by Jon Black, M.H. Norris, Kara Dennison, Heidi J. Hewitt, Liam Hogan, R.C. Mulhare, Michael O’Brien, Sean Michael O’Dea, Karen Thrower, and Fio Trethewey, Overdue: Mystery, Adventure, and the World’s Lost Books will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

Set in the near future, The Whole Art of Detection is a homage to Arthur Conan Doyle’s later, science-fictional tales of Sherlock Holmes

Adelaide Baynes has a secret.

You may know her for her acclaimed commentaries on Watson’s stories. You may know her for her lectures on Sherlock Holmes. You may know her for being one of the world’s greatest private detectives, co-owner of The Whole Art of Detection.

What you do not know her for, however, is the safe in her office. It’s fireproof, it’s bolted down, and no-one would suspect it’s there. Inside is a book that shouldn’t exist, written in the clear, copperplate hand of a man long dead (if he was ever real)–Sherlock Holmes’ The Whole Art of Detection.

Dr. Baynes’ keynote speech is interrupted. A famous author has been murdered–and the crown demands she look into it. As she investigates, she descends into a world of death threats, bad writing, and obsessed fans. All this to say nothing of a fat white worm, said to be unknown to science…

Does this tie into one of Sherlock Holmes’ great unsolved cases?

A place where the tenacity and the courage of the Police force is legendary?

A town where criminals know there are still good cops they should fear?

A family that bleeds blue generation after generation?

Welcome to Badge City.

A concept created by Tommy Hancock, Badge City focuses on three generations of a familiy of police officers in a city so known for the strength and honesty of its law enforcement agencies, the world knows it as Badge City. And Author M. H. Norris introduces the world to not only the city, but to one member of the most respected police family in town- Deidre Gaye Brighton Tordano in the digest novel Badge City: Notches.

When young girls start showing up dead in family friendly locations around the city, Detective Deidre Tordano is called to solve the case. But between similarities to her daughter and the case getting close to home, does she have what it takes to find the culprit?

Badge City: Notches follows Deidre as she solves a crime full of love, loss, and unheard cries. From M. H. Norris and Pro Se Productions.

Lurking in your hometown and countless others, urban legends and folklore are all around us. To many, they exist solely as myth. But not for all. Sometimes a body is found, apparently killed by something from stories. Sometimes someone goes missing, all the clues pointing to something only spoken of around campfires. Then the police are called, or a detective, who must discover if there really is something in those stories…

Featuring M.H. Norris’ “Midnight,” which debuts her new series. Dr. Rosella Tassoni, a Forensic Mythologist, is hired by the FBI to consult on a case where seeming old world folklore is cross-contaminated by internet fauxlore. High school students are being murdered. Will the experience break her?

A detective who wishes to write his own mysteries, but can’t bring his words to life, is now trapped in a “Locked Room” mystery by Marc Sorondo. Is the killer a ghost, or a clever human?

Sherlock Holmes and his partner’s partner, Mary Watson, investigate a mad artists. He insists his doppelganger has replaced him, and that he himself is locked away in his painting. How can he see a painting which no-one else can see? James Bojaciuk answers this question in “Doppelgangers (and Other Artistic Piffle).”

A mournful soul on a lonely highway, calling for death, is the center of a murder case in D.J. Tyrer’s “Tuttle and Gretel.” What is the Vanishing Hitchhiker?

Presented by award-winning mystery author M.H. Norris, All the Petty Myths confronts folklore and urban legends with detectives, FBI agents, and private investigators.