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Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller

by L. A. Starks

The first-ever woman to lead the drilling division of TriCoast Energy, protagonist Lynn Dayton is determined to prove herself capable but finds herself facing more than just the usual water cooler backstabbing. Undercutting her at every turn is former TriCoast Executive, Henry Vandervoost, who blames her for his humiliating fall from power. Ruthlessly competing with Lynn for control of Bradshaw Energy, his own playboy son's company that has revolutionary energy technology, Vandervoost enlists th... more

Through Frozen Eyes

by Lana M. Fox

The worst snowstorm in years. The town is shut down., and a killer is on the loose. With her marriage to the sheriff in tatters because of his affair with her best friend, Detective Liz Ellisen must decide what to do with her life. Should she continue working for the man who betrayed her? When the body of her daughter's childhood friend is found frozen in the snow, Liz must put her personal life aside and do her best to find a killer who is coming after her family with a vengeance..

Totality

by Brendan Lyons

What is man, oh Lord? And what do we owe God in receipt for our body and soul? As we barrel forward in medical and scientific progress, the answer trends increasingly toward ‘nothing.’ Enter the ‘switchover,’ the process by which a human being’s mind is transferred into a genetically perfected body, cloned specifically for them. Held up as the pinnacle of medical science by its creators and embraced by the insurance industry, more and more doctors and plans are making the process a prerequisi... more

Gunbarrel Highway

by Sean Bridges

Texas trophy wife Claudia Grant dies after she causes an early morning car accident. In the other vehicle, Daniel Morrison, an attorney struggling with a pending divorce and pill addiction, panics and leaves the scene. The victim’s husband, congressional candidate Hayden Grant, is a corrupt politician who seizes the opportunity and places a million-dollar reward on Morrison’s capture. Dead or alive. Daniel is on the run. Roya Navarro, a determined San Antonio police detective is hot on hi... more

Double Threat

by Patrick Weill

In this third installment of the series, Park and Walker are given separate high-stakes assignments. Park drives up to Los Angeles, where he joins forces with the FBI and works undercover on a cruise ship in pursuit of an unidentified serial killer. Back in San Diego, Walker becomes a member of MARTAC, the Harbor Police’s SWAT team, and he tackles a case of his own involving political assassination, white supremacy, and narcotics trafficking. Alternating chapters spotlight these two heroes until... more

The Last Hunt (The Final Hunt Book 2)

by Audrey J. Cole

A missing body. A bloody bear trap. Is a serial killer back from the grave? Tok, Alaska. Cameron Prescott hopes the past stays buried. After believing her murderous husband is finally dead, the fierce survivor longs to start over with her state trooper boyfriend. But her illusion of peace shatters when she hears of a fresh killing that resembles her late husband’s grisly signature.

Entheóphage

by Drema Deòraich

Isobel, a pharmaceutical scientist, harvests the last pristine coral reef for materials to make a medicine that will save her son. Luk, a game designer who is raising his daughter alone, watches helpless while his 8-year-old daughter contracts an unknown virus that leaves her screaming in pain. When the virus strikes children around the world, CDC researcher Nadine discovers the unlikely truth. The virus is rewiring the children's brains, changing them in what appears to be an unusual evolutiona... more

Did the Frail Have a Heater?

by Larry Kahaner

This funny, suspenseful version of a much-loved genre uses familiar conventions, characters and plot points, which are then twisted, shaken and slapped around until they are transformed into material that is not only original but at the same time pays homage to an honored mystery-novel past. Washington, DC private eye, Sam Marlowe, named by his parents for their love of classic noir literature, works out of a shabby office where he gets by on the usual staples of private eye work. Into his offic... more

Torment

by Jeffrey Butler

On an early fall morning, the sleepy oceanside town of Wolf Hollow awakens to a gruesome crime. Alison Newton, an innocent young woman who was senselessly murdered six months ago, has been dug up and brutally violated. Veteran Detective Harper Jones, the lead investigator in her murder, is called upon to track down the offender, and he quickly realizes that this isn’t some random act. Instead, he discovers that a ruthless serial killer has descended upon Wolf Hollow with his own cruel mo... more

Iceapelago 3

by Peter Brennan

A decade after the Big Storm climatic conditions improved gradually in Iceapelago. The third generation of survivors faced a different set of challenges as improving temperate weather prevailed. The sea ice melted. Crops thrived. Food was plentiful. The ageing island communities were more settled and self-sufficient but isolated. Word spread abroad that Iceapelogo had recovered well unlike other less-fortunate regions affected by the extremes of Mother Nature. The leaders of the Principality of ... more

To Find a Killer

by Leah Brewer

Nothing slows Tammy Sharp down.

Until she meets a bullet.

After Detective Tammy Sharp is injured on the job, she takes a leave of absence from the Atlanta PD.

The passing of her only uncle leads her home to Pocahontas, Arkansas. She needs time to mourn and find peace. Instead, she finds her ex, Jace Eubanks.

And a killer on the loose.

With murders old and new intertwining, Tammy’s life is filled with even more mysteries. Why does she keep getting messages a... more

Double Takedown (A Mike Stoneman Mystery)

by Kevin G. Chapman

NYPD homicide detectives Mike Stoneman and Jason Dickson are preparing to testify at a high-profile murder trial. They busted the Broadway director, who poisoned his leading actor to collect the insurance money on his doomed show. Or did he? The director claims the evidence was planted to frame him and that Mike and Jason developed tunnel vision. If they did, can they live with themselves, knowing that an innocent man might be convicted . . . and someone else got away with the perfect crime? ... more

Olivia

by Michael Bowers

Allen’s daughter Olivia is a beautiful sixteen-year-old, born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. She had the whole world ahead of her. But when a family vacation gets them caught in the crossfire between the DEA and a Mexican drug cartel, Olivia’s world turns upside-down, changing the lives of everyone around her and driving Allen to commit atrocities so complex, that no one could have thought him capable. Inspired by the events of his 2022 award-winning book, Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy... more

The Girl in the Thistles

by S.K. Sandvig

Emilie, the 19-year-old daughter of a Sioux mother and a Scottish trader, finds her home destroyed when her clan is caught up in the US-Dakota War of 1862. Her mother is sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Emilie sets out to find her father, who has been missing since the beginning of the war. With help from two new and unlikely friends, Eustis and Anders, she begins a treacherous and emotional journey to track him down. Will she find him? Will her mother be set free? And will Emilie be able to ... more

The Jigsaw Effect: On the Edge of Trust

by Adele Hewett Veal

The Jigsaw Effect: On the Edge of Trust, follows the intense and emotionally charged journey of Ryan Parrish, a private investigator whose life is thrown into chaos when she decides to assist in bringing down the man who stole a military chip containing the blueprint and activation codes for a new, undisclosed experimental weapon that had the potential to shift global power dynamics. Ryan plays a crucial role in locating and apprehending Jake Williamson, the man responsible. With Jake behind b... more

Artifact

by C. A. Pack

Tray and Carey Lennox are identical twins—one a sophisticated art and antiquities appraiser searching for an obscure artifact for the FBI, the other an outgoing yet down-to-earth Nuclear Regulatory Commission engineer hot on the trail of a nuclear saboteur. Their individual investigations into ruthless power-mongers gain momentum until one fateful day in the Hamptons when one twin is gunned down and the other sacrifices his identity to find his brother’s killer.

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