Dianne Krogh – Forgiving Olive is featured at the HBS Author's Spotlight Showcase

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The HBS Author's Spotlight SHOWCASES Dianne Krogh's New Book: Forgiving Olive.

Dianne is a self-published Contemporary Fiction Author who writes Family Sagas.

Forgiving Olive

Author: Dianne Krogh


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Threads of humor and heartbreak weave together in this captivating Strength of the Human Spirit novel…

Lizzie Cole, age 78, and her mother Olive, age 95, are living in an Iowa assisted living facility. Their rooms are separated by a hallway shorter than the aisle of the A&P where they once shopped. But they haven’t spoken to each other in decades. Anger keeps them apart as they both consider themselves the victim in their turbulent relationship.

Beginning in 1947 and spanning 74 years, Surviving Olive moves back and forth in time, between their chaotic past and their present-day ponderings at the care center. Their past is a story of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and betrayal, and their present reflections are their searches for understanding and justification of their past.

Lizzie comes to a crossroads when she is faced with Olive’s imminent death. Can she offer the forgiveness the nurses tell her Olive desperately seeks? Surviving Olive is a deeply sensitive novel that explores the conflict between justice and forgiveness, the ability of love to save a lost soul, and the painful permanence of regret.

Author: Dianne Krogh

Author Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Saga

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Author Description:
I've always loved words. Their power to elicit emotion. To tell a story. To create understanding. Or to persuade. I've used them for all those things over the years.

My novels are about contemporary life and how we cope with the pressures. Everyday is filled with mystery, fantasy and psychologically thrilling events. They entangle us when we go to work or snare us while we plant our gardens. Those are the stories I like to explore -- the stories that have become the challenges of life in the last half century of America.

My husband would tell you it took 20 years and thousands of dollars worth of coffee to get my first novel done. But that isn't quite true. Most of that time was spent thinking about it. The idea to do a novel about greed and ego took root in my mind long ago.

But those were the days of 50-hour work weeks writing corporate communications, carpools to drive, meals to prepare, and trying to stay upright in the happy chaos of a household with a husband, a teenage son, a dog, a cat, and a bossy Parrot. Erma Bombeck was my hero. Now I have the time to let my words flow in whatever direction my mind leads me. What fun!

Thank you all for reading my books. And thank you for the heartwarming reviews and comments. I live in Arizona now, but my roots are still in Nebraska where a touch of the pioneer spirit still lives and pushes us onward.




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The Yellow Belles
An unethical developer. An incompetent HOA president. And feisty retired ladies.

A late-night assault in an exclusive retirement community lands the president of the HOA in the hospital and leads to the investigation of a group of feisty residents known as the Yellow Belles. The Belles, who roam their gated community in matching yellow golf carts, are entangled in a conflict with their dysfunctional HOA.

An investigation by job-weary Deputy Farley Lancaster reveals a neighborhood in turmoil. Financial issues threaten the golf course that is the centerpiece of the gated enclave. Now on the night before a critical board vote to determine the future of the community, the key voter is incapacitated.

Suspicion falls on the Yellow Belles as the motivations of individuals in their group come to light. They become the focus of the investigation, and their bonds of friendship are threatened.

As the investigation careens through accusations of attempted murder, blackmail, fraud, and the improper wearing of a Speedo, the Yellow Belles provide readers an amusing but thoughtful look at aging, politics, purpose, and the lifestyle behind the gates of an exclusive retirement community.


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The 4:15 Express to Nowhere
The 4:15 Express to Nowhere is a twisting, emotional exploration of a family torn apart in pursuit of a pretense and brought together again in the most unexpected way.

Valerie Fairfield is 13 when she decides to become someone else. By the time she realizes it is a mistake, she is 58. And dead.

When Valerie dies suddenly one Saturday afternoon, she finds herself trapped in her past until she can confront the tragedies she set in motion with her decision so long ago.

Her sensitive son is drifting through life convinced he has no value. Her beautiful daughter is miserable even as she prepares to marry a wealthy and handsome man in the society wedding of the year. Business problems, a tragic accident, personal losses and political scandal drive the family into deeper dysfunction as Valerie fights to protect the family image. Her children struggle to prevent their own identities from being sacrificed as they are being made into the children Valerie really wanted. There is gritty reality lurking beneath the polished image of the family Valerie has created, but she refuses to acknowledge the pattern of destruction that has followed her since middle school.

Insight, imagination, and humor combine to create this deeply engaging novel about social class envy, peer pressure, individual differences and the outside influences that tear at family ties in our contemporary society.

Slowly Valerie realizes the tragedies her family endured were because of the misguided decision she made so many years before, and she begins to feel regrets. It isn’t until she looks down on her funeral, which is filled with devastating family revelations, that she finally understands that her perfect life is just a legacy of mistakes. But is it too late for forgiveness?


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Life in a Peacock Nest - Crimes of Greed and Ego are Rarely Punished
From a new storyteller comes a engaging and light-hearted novel. A powerful boss with a Stage 4 case of greed and ego. People eager to crowd into his orb. But, can anyone survive there?

Scarred from growing up in a small town where the children from a clique of wealthy families were always favored, Alan Dravel begins a vengeful search for his own wealth and power. He barges into the technology boom of 1980’s corporate America with an idea. Over his head but never in doubt, he unleashes his greed and ego in a self-serving climb to success which turns destructive.

Alan’s quick thinking, he considers it a special kind of genius, keeps him a step ahead of his failures. He shuns contact with the common herd and disregards the opinions of people who wear rubber-soled shoes, but those are the people he turns to when he needs scapegoats.

With a handsome face, a quick mind and a lack of ethical or moral considerations to restrain him, Alan drags a Kansas farm family, a country church and associates of a high-flying corporation together in his widening web of failures – all while being honored as one of the country’s top business leaders.

Those caught in the slipstream of Alan’s wild ride to power struggle to hang on for the rewards they believe association with Alan can provide. Power and ego prevail as Alan orchestrates the most unimaginable twists and turns to entangle his victims and save himself. Those who survive find justice in the last place they think to look.

Life in a Peacock Nest is a captivating saga that probes the strength and weakness of the human spirit. It is a story about the nature of people, with characters so memorable you won’t want to let them go.


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Dianne Harman – Murder in York is featured at the HBS Author's Spotlight Showcase

The Showcase is a special feature of the Author's Spotlight. It is designed to highlight Spotlight author's NEW releases and their soon to be released novels.

The HBS Author's Spotlight SHOWCASES Dianne Harman' s New Book: Murder in York

She is an Award-Winning Bestselling Cozy Mystery, Suspense and Romance author of The Teddy Saga, the Coyote Series, the High Desert Cozy Mystery Series, the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery, Cottonwood Springs Cozy Mystery, Chef Dani Rosetti Cozy Mysteries, Gabriella Hunt Cozy Mystery, and the Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery.

Murder in York

Gabriella Hunt Cozy Mystery Series Book 5

Author: Dianne Harman


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When Ella treats Fiona, her sister-in-law, to a vacation in York, England, the last thing they expect is to become involved in a murder investigation. Plus, they both saw the victim and the murderer on the very first night they were in York.

When the Head of Tourism in York is murdered, the city fathers are afraid that it will affect tourism in the city, which the city’s economy is dependent on. The police make a quick arrest in order to assure tourists that they have nothing to fear when they come to York. It looks like the murder involved bribery and a civic scandal, and had nothing to do with tourists.

When Ella meets up with an old friend of hers, who is now an investigative journalist looking into the murder, Ella becomes involved. Her involvement soon turns to fear, because she’s certain the man she saw in the bar on the night the victim was killed is the hitman who killed her husband in Belize.

Was it just a coincidence? Or is something far more sinister afoot? That’s what Ella, the investigative journalist, and Fiona have to find out. But will they discover the truth before one of them becomes the hitman’s next victim?

Author: Dianne Harman

Author Genre: Cozy Mystery, Romance and Literary Fiction

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USA Today Bestselling Author and Amazon All-Star, Dianne Harman, draws her stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. She owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years, left that industry, and opened two yoga centers where she taught yoga and certified yoga instructors.

She's traveled extensively throughout the world and loves nothing more than cooking with her husband, Tom, and playing with their boxer dog, Kelly.

Being a dog lover and having attended numerous cooking schools, she couldn't resist writing about food and dogs. She’s the author of several cozy mystery series: Cedar Bay, Liz Lucas, High Desert, Midwest, Cottonwood Springs, and Chef Dani Rosetti. Most of these books contains recipes from her travels.

She is also the author of the award-winning suspenseful Coyote Series, Midlife Journey Series, Holly Lewis Mystery Series, Miranda Riley Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series, and the Maria Rodriguez Mystery Series.

She hopes you enjoy the reads as much as she enjoyed the writes!




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The Final Farewell - Northwest Cozy Mystery Series Book 28
Is Nicole, a young college girl, alive or dead? When the police are contacted, they feel she just needed to take a little break, and that’s why she’s gone missing. But a well-known television news anchor feels there’s more to it than that, and when she hires Jake and Al, private investigators, to find the missing young woman, they fully agree.

It’s a difficult case. Her roommates have no idea what happened to her and don’t seem all that concerned, nor does her boyfriend. But when Jake and Al discover Nicole has an unknown admirer she exchanges texts with, their antenna go up. Did she meet with this person? Is that why she’s missing? Who could it be, and if she went with the person, did she go willingly or was she coerced?

What makes it even harder for Jake and Al is the fact they’ve been involved in one difficult case after another without a break. Maybe when this case is solved, the time will have come to make some changes. They’re not getting any younger, and they need to start thinking about their futures.

They decide, along with their families, Cassie, DeeDee, and little Gemma, to take a vacation in Hawaii. But what does the future hold for Al and Jake, and even Al’s little girl, Gemma? What will she grow up to be? And could DeeDee’s cookbook make her a future well-known household name? As she finds out when they’re in Hawaii, a famous model and prominent cookbook editor certainly think so.


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The Confession - Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery Series
What Father Brown hadn’t counted on was that the penitent would tell him exactly how she was going to murder Nikki Rice and when and where.

In many states, if someone is threatened or their life is in jeopardy, doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, school personnel, and others who may have knowledge of such a threat, are required by law to report it to the appropriate authorities. Not so for Catholic priests. They are required to do the exact opposite, namely, nothing.

It was a situation unlike anything the aging priest had ever faced, because he was bound by canon law never to reveal what someone told him when they were in the confessional booth. But when the person to be murdered was the godmother of a baby he would be baptizing in his church, and part of a family unit he’d been close with for over fifty years, it created an internal struggle for Father Brown, the likes of which he’d never encountered.

Kelly, the owner of Kelly’s Koffee Shop, was the grandmother of the baby who was going to be baptized. And that baptism was where the murder would be taking place.

Kelly’s husband, Sheriff Mike, heard about the impending murder from several sources, but none of them could reveal how they knew about the impending murder. Essentially, they fell into the category of anonymous tips, and often those weren’t all that reliable. Even so, he’s faced with two difficult choices. Either cancelling the baptism or doing everything in his power to make sure the murder doesn’t happen. But what if it does?


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Murder in Las Vegas - Gabriella Hunt Cozy Mystery Series Book 4
When a bride falls to her death from the 17th floor of a Las Vegas honeymoon suite, the police quickly determine that she’s been murdered.

The groom is downstairs in the bar drinking with his Army Ranger friends, but there’s fifteen minutes he can’t account for where he was.

So much for a happy ever after!

When Ella Hunt and Luke Falconer arrive at the Cosmos Hotel in Las Vegas so Ella can advise the hotel regarding some interior design work, they’re expecting to spend their time enjoying all that the fabled city has to offer, even a side trip to the Grand Canyon.

What they don’t plan on is for Luke to become an advisor to the homicide detective investigating the bride’s murder. They also never expected that the Coeur d’Alene police chief would suggest Ella become involved in the case because of her past success in solving murder cases in that city.

When Ella and Luke become involved in the murder investigation, they find they not only have to deal with a curmudgeonly detective, they have to figure out the events that led to the murder. And when those events include blackmail and affairs, they begin to wonder if the bride had a lot more secrets than her new husband knew about.

Then the bride’s sister is murdered. Strange coincidence, family vendetta, or something far more sinister?

Join Ella, Luke, and a curmudgeonly detective who has his own interesting past, as they try to find the reasons the sisters were murdered and catch the killer.


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The Backseat Mystery - Cottonwood Springs Cozy Mystery Series Book 25
A dead man is found in the backseat of his own car.
A medical emergency?
Or something far more sinister? Like murder?
And he was a recovering addict. Could he have overdosed on drugs?

That’s what Brigid and Sheriff Davis need to find out when they begin to assess the situation. Even though the dead man, Frankie, had been successful at fighting his addiction, when it comes to an ex-addict’s death, there seems to be a built-in bias that they’ve slipped, and their death was a result of that slip. As they work on the case, Brigid has to fight her own bias of thinking that way.

But as they begin to talk to the people Frankie knew, like his ex-wife, a picture evolves of an ex-addict doing everything he could possibly do to stay clean. He desperately wants to reconcile with his wife, and he knows the reason she left him was because of his drug abuse, which is all the more reason for him to stay clean.

Did someone hate Frankie enough to murder him and then put him in the backseat of his car? When the coroner’s report comes back that Frankie died of an overdose, it seems like a pretty open and shut case. But why would someone overdose in the backseat of their own car that was parked next to a gas station?

None of it makes sense, at least not to Brigid and Sheriff Davis, and so they continue to try and find out exactly what happened in the time period right before Frankie’s death.

And when they do discover the truth, it’s a very good thing that Brigid’s big Newfoundland dog and her husband decide to help!


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Voices From The Past - Northwest Cozy Mystery Series Book 27
When Cooper Hudson, a successful Seattle businessman, is suddenly investigated by the police for the death of a college friend, Javier, from many years ago, he’s forced to revisit past events and relationships.

There was a painful breakup with Juliana, who became Javier’s girlfriend, so not all of those memories were pleasant.

If the death of his friend from the past is determined to be from murder, a police detective has assured Cooper that he will be the number one suspect, because of his falling out with Javier. There were a number of witnesses to their arguments all those years ago, but some of those people had issues with Javier which might make them suspects as well.

It’s a fact. Very wealthy businessman make enemies. Is that the reason this case was opened after all those years? Is this a vendetta against Cooper? If the police decide he’s involved in Javier’s death, it could mean the end of his business empire.

Fortunately, he has Jake and former Mafia man, Al, on his side to help. They begin to investigate the case and soon find missing evidence. But will it help or hurt Cooper?

And thank heavens Jake has spent some time training Balto, his husky dog, to find scents. It sure helps when a little boy goes missing.


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Murder in Santa Monica - Gabriella Hunt Cozy Mystery Series Book 3
Lady Pemberton has a rare flower that people would kill for.
And if they had the flower, it would make them rich beyond their wildest dreams.
But that’s not the only reason people want to kill her.
If you’re one of them, you’ll probably have to stand in line and take a number.

When Dani’s contacted by Lady Ellen Pemberton to cater a dinner the night before the Dahlia Show she’s hosting in the village of Tintagal in North Cornwall, England, she’s completely put off by the woman’s imperious attitude. Dani finally agrees to do it only because her young niece, Anna, is completely enthralled by the legend of King Arthur, and the dinner is taking place very near King Arthur’s castle.

When she and Arthur, her sous-chef, who also owns an international private investigation firm, arrive in the small village where the dinner is to held, she finds out the woman is far worse than she’d imagined. Arthur regrets talking Dani into accepting the job, then he does a little investigating, and discovers that Lady Pemberton’s death is high on the priority list of a lot of people.

Fortunately, Giles, the son of one of the dahlia judges, is a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective who has flown to England to make sure his mother won’t be collateral damage if there is an incident at the dinner. Along with Arthur and Matt, Arthur’s right-hand man, they team up, hoping to keep the dinner drama free.

But that may be more difficult than they think, because Lady Pemberton carries drama with her wherever she goes, often of her own making.

Join Dani, Arthur, Matt, and Giles, as they combine their efforts to keep Lady Pemberton alive, even though privately each of them thinks the village may be far better off if she’s dead.


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Undecided - Chef Dani Rosetti Cozy Mysteries Book 9
Lady Pemberton has a rare flower that people would kill for.
And if they had the flower, it would make them rich beyond their wildest dreams.
But that’s not the only reason people want to kill her.
If you’re one of them, you’ll probably have to stand in line and take a number.

When Dani’s contacted by Lady Ellen Pemberton to cater a dinner the night before the Dahlia Show she’s hosting in the village of Tintagal in North Cornwall, England, she’s completely put off by the woman’s imperious attitude. Dani finally agrees to do it only because her young niece, Anna, is completely enthralled by the legend of King Arthur, and the dinner is taking place very near King Arthur’s castle.

When she and Arthur, her sous-chef, who also owns an international private investigation firm, arrive in the small village where the dinner is to held, she finds out the woman is far worse than she’d imagined. Arthur regrets talking Dani into accepting the job, then he does a little investigating, and discovers that Lady Pemberton’s death is high on the priority list of a lot of people.

Fortunately, Giles, the son of one of the dahlia judges, is a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective who has flown to England to make sure his mother won’t be collateral damage if there is an incident at the dinner. Along with Arthur and Matt, Arthur’s right-hand man, they team up, hoping to keep the dinner drama free.

But that may be more difficult than they think, because Lady Pemberton carries drama with her wherever she goes, often of her own making.

Join Dani, Arthur, Matt, and Giles, as they combine their efforts to keep Lady Pemberton alive, even though privately each of them thinks the village may be far better off if she’s dead.


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Murder By Design - Cottonwood Springs Cozy Mystery Series Book 24
A redecorated dream house.
A bottle of wine.
A dead designer.
But did the murderer kill the wrong person?

When the new owners arrive to meet the designer they hired in the small town they’ve just moved to for a “reveal” of what she’s done with the house, things don’t quite go as planned. Their initial excitement leads to horror when they find the body of their designer on the living room floor, clearly dead. And three glasses on the dining room table, one of which is now empty.

Sheriff Davis and Brigid encounter one false lead after another in their search for the murderer. Brigid begins to wonder if the killer got the right person. Then it becomes a search not only for the murderer, but a search to find out if someone else had been targeted, and if so, who?


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Murder on the Rooftop - Northwest Cozy Mystery Series
A police fundraiser.
An argument.
A note saying “Come to the rooftop.”
A fatal fall from the roof.
Was it suicide or murder?

A man is arrested for murder within minutes of the victim falling to his death from the rooftop of a hotel where a police fundraiser is being held. The arrest is based solely on earlier harsh words between two men, and it doesn’t add up. At least not to Jake and Al, private investigators hired to look into it by a wealthy friend of the accused.

The banquet room was full of police. After all, it was a police fundraiser, but Al and Jake think Gio La Serta’s arrest was a little too sudden and a little too convenient. Then strange things begin to happen to them. Black cars start following them, Jake is handed a thumb drive while on a ferry by a person who disappears, and the gas tank cover on Jake’s truck has obviously been tampered with.

It becomes obvious someone doesn’t want them to discover the truth about Niles Balderelli’s murder, and now Al and Jake have gone from being hunters to being the prey. But are they beginning to discover the truth a little too late?


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