Edita A. Petrick
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My writing life is not the stuff of tabloids. Like most indie writers I do triple duty - home, work, write and repeat.
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Ribbons of Death
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suspense, thriller
T.J. Carter never spared a thought on myths and legends…until he was caught in a deadly riot in Cairo, and the price of his survival became: Believe or die. 
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The Harmony Scroll
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suspense, thriller
Stella hunter’s young son carries a dormant ancient curse within him. Though she’s destroyed the amulets that activate the curse, Gabriel’s life is shadowed by the dark magic. When she learns the contents of a golden scroll can break the curse forever, Stella goes after it with a vengeance...and heaven help anyone who gets in her way!
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The Byzantine Connection
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suspense, thriller
As national newspapers report of a Fountain of Youth in Detroit’s St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Carter is only too aware that all is not as it seems—despite witnessing the so-called miracle with his own eyes. Forty-eight hours later, as he emerges from life-saving surgery, Carter realizes that this is no miracle, but a deadly force preying on hopes and dreams—with the clock ticking, there’s no time to lose.
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Arachne's Challenge
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suspense, thriller
A suicide bomber strikes at an unremarkable department store in upstate California. A week later, two teenage nerds perish in a house explosion that left a crater in the ground but otherwise did little damage beyond its perimeter. Five days after the tragedy, a dying teenage car thief whispers ‘Marseille’ to the FBI agents at her bedside. Any of the three gruesome events would have seen Senior Agent Vern Saunders summoning his crack operative, Carter, once on contract to the Justice Department. Today however, Carter, lives far removed from such events. He is planning to surprise his wife, ex-history professor, Stella Hunter, with a trip to Europe to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. He’s prepared to make it into a half-working vacation because Stella has no concept of relaxation. What he’s not prepared for is to start his vacation by finding himself threatened not only by the terrorists, car thieves and artifact smugglers, but also by something that even mythology can’t explain.
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Servant of the Skull
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historical mystery
The moment Gia’s hands touch a skull, the living history of its owner bursts inside her head. When she goes to Greece to reconstruct skulls of three victims of a plane crash, she thinks it’s just simple identification. But nothing could have prepared her for the situation she walks into. There are just as many people who want her to do her job as there are those who’ll stop at nothing to prevent it. When the skulls prove to be fake, and a woman’s body is found on the base of a cliff, Gia knows the killer would rather see her dead than let her confirm the victims’ identity.
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The Path of Silence
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crime, suspense, police procedural
When Meg Stanton walks out of a convenience store to find a dead man sprawled across the hood of her car, she thinks he’s been shot. It’s the worst assumption she’s ever made in her ten-year career as a cop. Forty-eight hours later, a hotel waiter drops dead while serving the CEO of the third largest national bank. Meg suspects that the victims are links in some kind of scheme…but she has no idea that she is its key element.
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The Path of Silence – The Anthology
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crime, police procedural, mystery
Three different stories. Three very bizarre crimes. Three very real killers...impossible to bring to justice. But a detective still must try...and not just because it's her job. Or because a few lives depend on it. Because everyone's life and the future depends on it....
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The Coffin Trader
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cozy mystery
When a bellhop at a New York hotel is found murdered in a young teacher’s tiny office at a backwoods Connecticut college, she can’t offer the police any connection between her and the dead man. A week later, she finds a canvas bag in the staff room fridge. Inside it are two scraps of brittle paper and a gold bar stamped with an eagle and swastika cross – Hitler’s logo. If the crest is real, then the ownership of the gold bar is a crime. She decides to see a friend at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, who can help determine whether the bar is authentic. Much to her surprise he focuses on the scraps of paper and then warns her that secrets tattooed into patches of human skin, far more than the gold bar, are deadly—considering who had opted to hide his secrets in such manner. Forty-eight hours later, her friend is dead and the only man she can turn to for help is the one who betrayed her ten years ago.
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Wrong Question
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mystery, suspense
Bree-Ann Carver works in a satellite office, in Idaho. Her job as an intern for the New York Times is to write a blog about fictional murders. But her very first subscriber criticizes her efforts and then aggressively moves to take over her blog via his unsolicited input into her work. She knows he wants her to use his murder scenarios, but these sound like real-case murders that the police closed as accidents. If she posts even one of these dangerous scenarios, she is exposing herself to not only the real killer's wrath, but the police who closed the case as accidental death. Each time she refuses, her cyber bully sends her a chilling one liner: There will be consequences. Ben Doublinth owns a garage and a rustic restaurant in rural Idaho. His email is identical to the blog’s first subscriber. Bree-Ann has never shied away from confrontation. She asks Ben bluntly whether he is the cyber-bully. She expects his denial but that’s not what she gets.
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Shadow Informant
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crime, suspense, police procedural
A serial killer who leaves a roadmap on his victims should be easy to track down… When Carly is roused in the middle of the night to come to work she knows she’ll be heading for a murder scene. After all, she’s a homicide detective, it’s her job, and she’s prepared for everything. Until she arrives in a suburban commuter parking lot where a young lawyer is lying on the ground, a hole in his chest, his organs vaporized, and a topographic map of a metropolitan grid tattooed on his face. A week later victim number two—same first name, same fist-sized hole in his chest, his organs vaporized and wearing another topographic map on his face—points to something more sinister that could lead to a nearby army facility.
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The Guardians of Illusion
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romantic suspense, fantasy
Ambrosia Severn went to California to go treasure hunting. What she finds when she’s there defies all logic and reason. When gifted young doctor Ambrosia Severn takes a beach vacation to upstate California to go treasure hunting, she is pleasantly surprised to see a naked man walking out of the surf. What follows will change the course of her destiny. Niven, the man whose excellent collection of limbs and musculature Ambrosia was so privileged to have seen, explains calmly that someone is trying to kill her. A descendant of a star-lord stranded on Earth thousands of years ago, he vows to protect Ambrosia, and discover who’s trying to kill her – before it’s too late. Niven has watched Ambrosia for 15 years, and it is his duty to protect her, but what happens when he discovers that the would-be assassin is someone close to him? And why do they want Ambrosia dead so badly? Worse still, how does Niven deal with a forbidden attraction to the woman he’s bound to keep safe? The Guardians of Illusion will take you through an intense journey, revealing secrets long untold and miracles you never thought possible.
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Thy Killer’s Keeper
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suspense, serial killers
Every FBI agent on the West Coast has read the material contained in the problematic “Y” folder. No one has been able to finish reading it without flinching and it’s not just because of the bizarre nature of the deaths. It’s because the FBI has no idea how to profile victims and therefore at least guess who’s next, much less how to profile the killer. Agent John Salton has an unorthodox theory about the eleven seemingly unrelated cases that the FBI believes are the work of one very eclectic serial killer. His partner, Ruby Tam, thinks that his private theory should be aired only for his shrink and no one else; that is not if he wants to stay employed. But when the serial killer strikes in yet another mundane upstate California location, leaving the local police to grapple with a road accident victim, mummified in duct tape, Salton knows his instinct is not what keeps landing him on the shrink’s couch. The stakes are raised when Salton’s autistic son is transferred to the exact same place as where he and his partner must head to help the local police investigate the killer’s latest victim. Is it just coincidence that the boy’s doctor suggested a new, experimental facility nearby or is there another, sinister connection between the research foundation and the killer’s latest victim?
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Stratton
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science fiction
They’re nothing alike. One holds the power to destroy the galaxy. The other, power to heal it. And yet they’re the best of friends. Indeed, more like sisters. Four months into Karin and Kitaya’s distant star-fields assignment on a mundane star-post Stratton, a hugely significant event is scheduled to take place. Stratton is about to be given high profile and an outstanding place in the history of the Federation. And the two young fleet officers who are hiding there, are about to find themselves in a mercilessly glaring spotlight--while all the players hiding in the shadows have their guns trained on that exact same spot...and their trigger fingers are very itchy....
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