Jude Pittman, author and publisher
Jude lived for many years in California and Texas but now lives back home in Alberta, Canada.
Writing since she was a teenager, Jude has followed her dream throughout her lifetime, and in the process has met and worked with countless others following their own personal dreams. Jude is also publisher for BWL Publishing Inc. . A Canadian publisher of quality genre fiction and creative non-fiction.
Her published books include the following
Mystery series
Deadly Secrets, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 1
Deadly Betrayal, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 2
Deadly Consequences, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 3
Deadly Lights, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 4
Paranormal Romantic suspense
co-written with author Gail Roughton – Mother Shipton and the Sister Witches
co-written with Katherine Pym - Pillars of Avalon – Newfoundland, Canadian Historical Brides Collection, Book 5
co-written with Eileen Charbonneau – Spectral Evidence - Canadian Historical Mysteries, Book 8,
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Seventeen year-old Newfoundlander Charlotte Jaddore loves nothing more than learning sacred healing arts from the elders of her Mi’kmaq and Beothuk grandmothers. But the year is 1692 and her father needs her help. Their American cousins in Salem, Massachusetts have been accused of witchcraft. Will Charlotte help her father fight for the lives of Philip and Mary English?
When father and daughter arrive in Salem, their cousins have already been imprisoned. How can the couple survive against spectral evidence— harming their victims from afar as invisible projections? The motives of their accusing neighbors are anything but spiritual. They are after the English famiiy’s wealth.
And the sights of those accusers are now fixed on the heirs. Can Charlotte get young Mary, Philip and William to Newfoundland, without infecting her own beloved island with spectral evidence fever?
“well-paced, engaging… with likable characters.”— Goodreads Review
“Recommended for anyone who is interested in mysteries, or learning more about Native culture.”— Long and Short Reviews
David and Sara Kirke live in a time of upheaval under the reign of King Charles I who gives, then takes. He gives David the nod of approval to range up and down the French Canadian shores, burning colonies and pillaging ships that are loaded with goods meant for the French. When Louis XIII of France shouts his outrage, King Charles reneges. He takes David’s prizes and returns them to the French, putting David and his family in dire straits.
Undeterred, David and Sara will not be denied. After years, the king relents. He knights David and gives him a grant for the whole of Newfoundland and Labrador. There David and Sara build a prosperous plantation. They trade fish and fish oil with colonies down the American coast, Barbados and ports of call in the Mediterranean. They thrive while England is torn in two by the civil wars.
Soon, these troubles engulf his family. David is carried in chains back to England to stand trial for being a malignant, a follower of Laud's high church. He entreats Sara to manage the Ferryland plantation, a daunting task but with a strength that defies a stalwart man, she digs in and prospers, becoming the first entrepreneur of Newfoundland.
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Kelly McWinter is a former Fort Worth police officer who suffered a personal tragedy that caused him to quit the force and isolate himself in the community of Indian Creek, Texas. He's the type of guy who makes everyone feel safe. The characters at Indian Creek are so unique and eccentric that readers and reviewers alike have fallen in love with the regulars who frequent Cam Belcher's Hideaway Bar and Barbecue.
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Tammy from Fallen Angel reviews describes the Kelly McWinter P.I. mysteries as "A fabulous mixture of Texas humor, heart-pounding action, sexy nuances and mounting suspense. There's plenty of excitement, plenty of intrigue, a local flavor to tickle the toughest of taste buds and a good serving of hot, steamy romance to titillate the senses."regulars who frequent Cam Belcher's Hideaway Bar and Barbecue
Kelly McWinter has made the switch from narcotics cop to fulltime PI, and he’s on the trail of a tricky and resourceful killer, who could just put a permanent end to Kelly’s new career.
A friend, who readers will remember from Kelly’s adventures in Deadly Secrets, has asked Kelly to help prove her niece is innocent of murder. It doesn’t help that the niece’s fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, that she has no alibi, that she’s pregnant with the married murder victim’s child, and that the last words anyone heard her say were “I’ll kill you.”
Kelly McWinter and Gillian are keeping a promise, and taking their first vacation as a couple at Bubba’s Paradise Lodge. Of course, the fact that Cam Belcher, the owner of the Hideaway and feisty redhead Stella Davis, have picked this particular Paradise to tie the knot is the icing on the wedding cake.
Everything is perfect – the setting is gorgeous, the weather is heavenly and love is definitely in the air. At least that’s the way it seemed when Kelly and Gillian returned from the wedding of their best friends and prepared to settle in for the night in one of Bubba’s romantic little cabins.
Flash forward to the middle of the night, and the sound of Bubba Tate banging the hell out of the cabin door is enough to put a damper on any vacation, and when the reason for Bubba's late night intrusion turns out to be the murder of one of Gillian’s stable boys back at her riding stable in Fort Worth, the wedding is over and Paradise is in the rear view mirror of the 747 taking Kelly and Gillian back home to Texas. The small community of Indian Creek is rocked by the nasty doings at Eagle Mountain Lake: a dirty rotten snake peddling child porn, a psychopath killing stable hands and a monster who beat a pretty teenage girl over the head and left her for dead.
Kelly and his old partner Augustus Graham are hard pressed to discover the truth disguised by the lies and mis-directions hidden in this intricate whodunnit, and Kelly is desperate to solve these crimes before Gillian sinks in the muck that someone is dumping on her riding stable.
Texas PI, Kelly McWinter, has just landed a dream job. Nashville songstress, and family friend, Marcy Fischer has been nominated for the Academy of Country Music's female vocalist of the year award, but her husband is stuck in Russia on a special assignment for the President, and Marcy's been having trouble with a fan who tried to break into their house. Mark is determined to get his wife the best protection possible, and that means Kelly McWinter. Not only is Kelly a pal, but he once saved Marcy from a murder charge. Kelly and girlfriend Gillian are now happily married and with Mark’s promise of first class accommodations in Beverly Hills and Las Vegas, for the honeymoon the couple never managed to take it seems like a win/win situation. What’s so hard about guarding the beautiful songstress while attending a host of fabulous parties and having dinner with the likes of Blake Shelton. Life is good for the McWinter household. That is, until someone kidnaps Marcy's lovely young sister right out from under Gillian's nose while the two are shopping in Beverly Hills, and then all hell breaks loose when Marcy's erstwhile fan shows all the signs of turning into a fanatical killer. Yep, Kelly McWinter is going to need a vacation from his vacation.
The Shipton history is complicated. Some families have a guardian angel.
The Shiptons have a guardian ancestor who whizzes through the centuries and jumps right in whenever one of her girls is in trouble. All the girls have power and they’re watched over by elder sister Lillian, who takes her job as family trouble shooter seriously.
There’s no shortage of trouble to be sorted out either and even with their own powers each of the girls needs help. First Katherine's oilman fiancé disappears in the Gulf of Mexico, and then Irene's world champion saddle bronc rider fiancé is sabotaged and in danger of being trampled by a bucking bronco.
The spider-web of trouble stretching between these three modern sister witches might be too much for even a time-traveling guardian angel to handle on her own.