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The Count Of Baldpate/9781502340498

by Sherrie Todd-Beshore

American women got the vote in 1920, but at a great cost and a century later that cost is seeking payback...When a business card belonging to CSU History Professor Hank Rule, is found on the body of a murder victim near Baldpate In, Estes Park, Colorado - the new sheriff called wanting to know why? So did Dr. Rule. With the historical element of a skull carved from coal and a 1913 fiction classic - Dr. Rule is asked to consult temporarily. However, as the investigation progresses discovering why... more

The Resentment

by T. O. Paine

"An energetic, enthralling tale of dangerous family secrets." - Kirkus Reviews

They killed her husband. Now, they're coming for her son.

Lauren Kaine has everything she ever wanted — a fabulous home, a shiny Lexus, a bright sixteen-year-old son, and a loving husband with a lucrative internet career. Tonight, she walks hand-in-hand with William beneath the lustrous Seattle sky, celebrating twenty-two years of marriage.

But they&rs... more

Looks Are Deceiving

by Bill VanPatten

Forty-nine-year old Will Christian, ex-academic turned sleuth, stumbles across a body during a routine bicycle ride. As other murder victims turn up—all Latino, all gay—Will wonders if his town is confronted with a series of hate crimes. Driven by insatiable curiosity and the haunting memory of the unsolved murder of his best friend, he enlists the help of his new boyfriend, José Torres, to track down the killer—setting him on a search for a killer in the secretive underside of the down-low life... more

Today Tomorrow & Never

by Sherlina Idid

After a plane crash that leaves Camelia and her family in grave danger, a series of strange and mysterious occurrences begin appearing. She returns home from college one day to find her mother is missing, her home vanishes before her eyes, but then suddenly all seems fine again, and her home and mother returns, although now she seems different. Suddenly her lecturer, Professor Carlos becomes invisible, her best friend Jen disappears and she begins seeing monstrous creatures in her home. Dr Mark... more

Stunning

by Catherine Rymsha

Caroline described her life as ordinary. She and her husband, Greg, lived a comfortable life in a large house in a quaint coastal New England town north of Boston. Her two grown daughters lived nearby. To alleviate her boredom, she had her best friend, Noel, a woman still as wild as she was when they met in college, who entertained Caroline with her tales of world travels and romantic encounters. And so life went on…until one day, Caroline returned from walking her dog to find her life turned up... more

The Girl in Duluth

by Sigrid Brown

The Girl in Duluth is a literary mystery in the vein of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train. The novel won a 2023 Midwest Book Award and Mary Ann Grossman of the St. Paul Pioneer Press called the writing “gorgeous .... Why this novel wasn't snapped up by a publisher is the big mystery here."

When 18-year-old June Bergeron’s mother goes missing, June fears the disappearance could be connecte... more

The Jungle Within

by Brian Forrester

Hoping to shake up his self-centered life, a college flunk-out goes on an Amazon missions trip; but when the jungle reveals its dark side, including a violent beast with a legendary history, he must decide whether to sacrifice everything before he loses those closest to him.

The Most Gentle Kill Ever: The House on Daughtridge Drive

by Jeremy Jamaal Francis

From Amazon’s most polarizing young author in the platform’s history comes his new wintry novella “The Most Gentle Kill Ever: The House on Daughtridge Drive.” Sharon loves her husband, Zack. Sharon really loves her husband, Zack, and would do anything for him. Zack, however, is falling for his childhood friend Julia. And since Sharon would do anything for the love of her life, when the three inevitably make it into the bedroom together, Zack’s heart can’t stop pounding. This book is a fas... more

The Potrero Complex

by Amy L. Bernstein

Journalist Rags Goldner is scarred and heartbroken after covering a devastating pandemic that rages in Baltimore for five years. She leaves the city with her partner in search of a simpler life in small-town Maryland--only to discover nothing in Canary is simple. A teenager is missing, and it falls to Rags to fight the forces of apathy, paranoia, and creeping fascism to learn the shocking truth about Effie Rutter's fate--and the fate of thousands like her.

Murder in the Tea Leaves: A Blake Sisters Travel Mystery

by Carter Fielding

Whitt and Finley Blake are heading to Sri Lanka, a place they have been before and couldn’t wait to return to. But this trip, someone is killing off people wherever the sisters go. Is it a coincidence? Is someone after them like they were in Morocco? Or are they after someone the sisters know? Whitt and Finley need to find out, and quickly, before the body count gets any higher. When Finley Blake, a young travel writer, gets a choice assignment to do a story in Sri Lanka, she snaps it up. Not ... more

The Lightning Rod

by Ged Gillmore

When gunshots ring out on a respectable Sydney street, Anna Moore finds herself sharing an Uber with a dead man. Unfortunately, the dead man was part of the feared Mendoza drug cartel, and now Anna’s the only one who knows his whispered last words. Ruthless undercover cop, Charlie Hall, sees a perfect opportunity when she interviews Anna. Charlie has a secret agenda, and Anna might just be the perfect pawn for her to use to bring down Mendoza’s operation. Meanwhile, the Uber driver, Bassam, sti... more

Future Skinny

by Peter Rosch

Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.

Damaged Goods

by Dan Wasserman

Challenging conventional wisdom can be deadly. What happens when a soon to graduate PhD candidate in paleontology challenges the old guard and their long-standing interpretation of how the prehistorical world operated? A new fossil find lands Amy Brown in the middle of a deadly fight she unwittingly started that goes to the heart of how money, greed, and reputation are the prime motivators to those who control the study of paleontology. Science, love and a will to succeed create a fast-paced ac... more

Into the War

by James Rosone

Humanity stumbles into a galactic war… …a war of survival, a conflict with no end Earth has united under the banner of the Republic. Humanities brightest minds have deciphered the secrets to the alien technology and begin to reverse engineer it. An elder race takes notice of humanities strides and intervenes. Humanity is brought into the fold of a galactic alliance, and learns they are not alone in their war against the insidious Zodark empire. Humans now fight alongside friendly alien ... more

Monroe Doctrine: Volume III

by Miranda Watson

As the dragon awoke… …the world came together. Would it be enough to stop China? WWIII wasn’t what any of the analysts expected. Across the globe, battles raged. Taiwan fell. Fighting continued in the Caribbean and South America. The Russian Far East had invaders, and nobody seemed able to stop this new Red Army. With the world in chaos… …it was hard to unravel the pieces. Would one U.S. pilot give them hope? On the first day of the war, his F-22 Raptor was shot down over Cu... more

The Case of the Counterfeit Painting

by Angela D. Moss

Armed with only one clue, can a young girl beat a master criminal to a priceless painting?

Morgan Draca loves the world's uniqueness beyond her village. When her mother is sent on business to Pittsburgh, the inquisitive twelve-year-old is excited to travel too. But after she overhears a thief's nefarious plot to steal a famous painting, Morgan realizes she alone can protect the coveted masterpiece.

Unable to locate the painting in the obvious plac... more

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