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Murder during the Antique Auction

by Denise Jaden

Some people will kill for the perfect antique. The question is… who did? When Mallory and Amber try their hand at catering their first event—an antique auction held on New Year’s Eve—they have high hopes for helping the locals ring in the new year with a little culinary decadence. But when a highly anticipated collector fails to show up and bid on a piece he’d been prattling on about for most of a year, the antique dealer is sure something is wrong. Has the collector gone missing? Or was s... more

The Sunshine Shenanigan

by John M. Whiddon

It’s the early ‘90s, and Florida’s Medicaid program is growing fast. Webb Espy, the well-loved and spirited leader of Florida’s Medicaid Regulatory Office, has inadvertently discovered that large amounts of money are being siphoned from the state’s Medicaid coffers. Those responsible are doing so for reasons far more complicated and nefarious than greed. The resulting investigation leads him and his unconventional staff into the path of a mysterious and dangerous adversary, determined to keep th... more

The DrugTech Trilogy

by Marcel Victor Sahade

Book 1: Spellbound - The Workings of DrugTech A clandestine pharmaceutical company will stop at nothing in its quest for power and profit. When Benjamin Jones, an average university science student with girl-problems, is secretly given access to the breathtaking breakthroughs of DrugTech by his parents, his life will never be the same. Meanwhile, William Hunter Barrister-at-Law has never lost a case in his 15 years of practice. But things are not as they seem as his work-experience stud... more

There's a Dead Girl in My Yard

by Angela Page and Mia Altieri

The life of Poppy, a struggling actress, is turned upside down when she witnesses the burial of an urn in her yard. Poppy gets entangled with the “dead girl,” Dalia, a Latina health guru, whose mourners show up in the yard, and whose criminal antics, ranging from Miami to New York to L.A., sent her into a witness protection program. Why does Poppy agree to mourner manage Dalia’s burial site? Dead Dalia’s fan club overwhelm Poppy with their visits, as do the dangerous signs of Dalia’s former... more

Clifford's War

by J. Denison Reed

In this page-turning suspense action novel, private investigator and military veteran Clifford Dee finds himself in deep trouble. After accepting jobs from an unrelenting local Mafia boss, Clifford is promoted from PI to hitman...without the option to refuse. His envious arch-rival will do anything to take Clifford down a peg and earn back the favor of the mob...even if it means paying the ultimate price. To find a way out of the Mafia's clutches, Clifford must make friendships and alliances in ... more

Innocent Lives

by Julie Bonn Blank

Assertive Cienna should have been able to fight off an abduction. However, even she is unable to fight two able-bodied men and the drugs that they use to get her in the back of the van. Her journey begins as she awakes, and is sold to a friendly man in a baseball hat named Mike, who promises to take her back to her family but instead ties her to a pole in his barn. Mike becomes her friend, saving her from the man who abducted her and violently took her innocence. When Jasmine awakes, she is i... more

Interstate!

by Marvin Mason

Joshua Easton and Christian Buckman are two best friends going into their senior year of college who embark upon a road trip to help Joshua's cousin, Tina, move from a college dorm to an off-campus locale. Having been friends since the second grade, they know each other’s secrets. For Christian, it is an illness he has tried to hide, specifically from Joshua's cousin who he ditched on prom night. This is Christian's first face off with her since that fateful night four years ago. For Joshua, ... more

Best Eaten Cold

by D M Fletcher

A World War 2 thriller -A fast-moving modern-day thriller with an unusual historical background Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2021 A third of a million South African servicemen, two-thirds of them white and including many Afrikaners, volunteered to fight for King and Empire in World War II. Yet at home a secret organisation, the Ossewabrandwag, was actively working to sabotage the war effort. This sinister group was made up of Afrikaners who had never been reconciled to defeat in th... more

A Screw Loose

by Cameron Wright

Investigative Journalist Leif Lacroux interviews Prison Officer turned Mass-Murderer Edward Montana, following the largest inner jail murders the country has ever seen.

Pacific Wiretap

by Patrick Downey

An engineering graduate student interns at a telecommunications firm to investigate a theft-of-service scam. His investigations lead to the discovery of a sophisticated wiretap set up on an undersea cable spanning the Pacific Ocean. The task of the intern quickly moves to how the wiretap was established, by whom, and for what purpose. He is assigned to the Company's cable station on Guam, ostensibly to fine-tune cable equipment, but quietly snoops on the technicians. When an Air Force commun... more

Ashes in Venice: A Vengeance Thriller

by Gojan Nikolich

A psychopath with size 16 shoes, nursing home hookers and an irreverent Las Vegas homicide detective with a gambling habit set the tone for this off-beat tale of revenge and retribution. Blackjack addict Frank Savic is deeply in debt and facing family problems when he's asked to delay his retirement to catch a vigilante killer who murders other murderers in a manner the veteran cop has never seen. While dead bodies stack up in quick succession, the motorcycle-riding policeman gets reluctan... more

The Doomsday Medallion - A VanOps Thriller

by Avanti Centrae

A covert operative’s first mission might be her last. Can Maddy Marshall and the VanOps team keep foreign operatives from stealing powerful secrets hidden by the prophet Nostradamus?

A rare five time award-winning series:

THE LOST POWER (VanOps #1) won:
- a Genre Grand Prize blue ribbon at the 2017 Chanticleer International Book Awards
- an Honorable Mention at the 2018 Hollywood Book Festival
- a Bronze Medal at the 2019 Wishi... more

A Message in Poison: A Dr. Lily Robinson Novel

by BJ Magnani

Sparks fly as Dr. Lily Robinson, the brilliant academic pathologist and covert assassin for the U.S. Government, investigates two seemingly unrelated deaths alongside her lover, Agent Jean Paul Marchand, and D.C. Medical Examiner Dr. Logan Pelletier. A U.S. Senator and the president of a developing nation are found dead in their beds. As governments thousands of miles apart react to the fallout and begin their investigations, no one claims responsibility, and no motives are clear. Yet, the caus... more

Mouse Trap: A Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mystery

by Matthew Cost

Summer on the coast of Maine can be an idyllic time. That is, until Wolfe and Baker are hired to find who tried to steal a mouse. What starts out as innocuous as a fireman saving a cat from a tree quickly morphs into something far deadlier. Johnson Laboratories is involved with genome editing on mice in an attempt to eradicate diseases including cancer. But it seems that somebody else has designs on the technology of altering traits within living organisms. Clay and his colorful group of cohorts... more

The Arch Emulator and the Seven Keys

by MICHAEL STEWART

In Antarctica, the cold part, Belle Vail does not know she is an emulator. Not yet. Instead this callused deep core driller is too busy falling in love in the most romantic spot on earth. They will find her here though. It is the first place they look.

A.A. McCoy was lucky enough to discover a pattern in the trees. Now he is locked up. They will kill McCoy when they get it out of him. The location of the seventh key.

They are The Smiths, a faction started 900 years ago by Saint Ma... more

MURDER AT THE OLYMPIAD

by james gilbert

Synopsis: An American tourist is murdered in a Mexican gay sauna, and Amanda Pennyworth, the American consul to Puerto Vallarta, risks her career and her life to find the culprit. Amanda Pennyworth works with a junior officer of the Tourist Police in search of suspects in the secretive underworld of a beautiful resort. When a young Mexican boy is arrested on flimsy evidence, Amanda is convinced it is a terrible mistake. But no one is willing to listen to her: not the arrogant chief of police;... more

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