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She Needn't Kiss the Knife

by Victoria Ifeolu

The Akintoyes want to stay in America at all costs, even if it means splitting the family into different stealing strategies. The very first accident Lola would record, exposes them all, but they land in jail only temporarily. Bimbo writes a novella that captures the Akintoye tale in a dark twisted way. The completion of Bimbo’s novella marks the starting point of Lola’s trauma, as she is forced by her parents to marry the depraved Judge, Justice Cliff, to guarantee her family&rsq... more

An Oxford Murder

by G.G. Vandagriff

After Miss Catherine Tregowyn, poet, and Dr. Harry Bascombe, her bête noire, discover a body in the Somerville College chapel, they are declared suspects in a murder inquiry. How can they prove their innocence? The pair decide they must launch their own investigation into the strangling of Oxford don, Agatha Chenowith. But working as a team will not be easy. Their relations are anything but cordial. It is not long before they uncover motives aplenty. Apparently, Dr. Chenowith was not at all wha... more

Dead Before Morning: British Detectives (Rafferty & Llewellyn Book 1)

by Geraldine Evans

18-NOVEL MYSTERY SERIES * A murder investigation… …and Joe Rafferty’s already got troubles in spades. * His first case in charge looks like being his last. * Because he suspects that the case of the 'Faceless Lady' is a poisoned chalice. Gifted by his new boss who is only waiting for Rafferty to fail, to put the boot in. He's even arranged his still newer partner—a pedant who rubs him up the wrong way from the start. * Even his Ma adds seems to add to the kicking… * Does she really ... more

Ivory Tower

by Grant Matthew Jenkins

Ivory Tower is a campus crime thriller about Margolis Santos, a charismatic film professor in her prime, who risks her career and life to uncover sexual corruption inside her university’s football program where rich boosters pay sorority girls to have sex with star recruits. Embroiled in a sex scandal of her own, Margolis’s life goes into a tail-spin. She unthinkingly sleeps with a student from another school, and when the parents find out, they threaten to sue her University. To ... more

A Certain Kind of Power

by Ryan Butta

Mike Costello operates on the edges of Argentina’s impenetrable bureaucracy, advising foreign business executives who struggle to grasp its unspoken rules. After ten years in Buenos Aries, he’s still near the bottom of the food chain. Still flummoxed or outraged daily by events that locals accept as ordinary. He fears being an eternal outsider. Mike decides to leave, but finds his assets frozen by government red tape. Capitalising on the delay, British diplomat Alex Harper persuades Mike to tak... more

To Hunt a Spy (Sins of a Spy Book 2)

by D. B. Shuster

Caught between duty and conscience. Moscow, 1985. The more time KGB agent Artur Gregorovich spends undercover in the Jewish community--and with the mysterious Sofia--the more he questions everything he thinks he knows about his country, his family, and himself. Nuclear disarmament negotiations have stalled over accusations of his country's human rights violations against Jews, and Artur faces mounting pressure to catch and stop the traitors spreading anti-Soviet stories. Even if those stor... more

The Security

by Robert J. Morrow

Benny's wife has just been kidnapped. Benny is a rich man but there won't be a ransom. Instead, Benny dispatches his mistress to a tropical island because she's the security... In case the wife comes back.

To Catch a Traitor (Sins of a Spy Book 1)

by D. B. Shuster

The Americans meets Bridge of Spies in this can't-put-down Cold War story of love and patriotism. As the Cold War escalates, the Soviet Union’s Jewish community finds itself caught in a tug of war between their allies abroad who want to open the doors to emigration and a country that hates them but won’t let them leave. A Jew in Moscow, Sofia knows better than most how high the stakes are. Her family is among the thousands who have been watched, harassed, and hunted for their defiance of ... more

Daughters of Nyx

by Diane Bonavist

428 b.c.e. Athens is roiling with intrigue about Pericles’ successor. Were it days ago, Timarcus would be at its center. But Kore has unexpectedly returned to him after seven years of separation and he is once again besotted. But as quickly as she has returned, she is gone, struck down by Apollo’s gentle arrow. Yet if it was a natural death, why can he not feel her presence as his beliefs promise? Instead he is haunted by images of Kore’s shade weeping, unable to pass to Elysium’s bright fields.... more

Turmoil in Savannah: A Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery

by Hope Callaghan

Carlita must help solve a murder to clear her friend’s name, all while managing her businesses and trying desperately to keep the Garlucci past from being exposed after a surprise visit from some “family” members.

"If you like Family Sagas and clean Mysteries, you'll love the Made in Savannah Mystery Series!"

“Turmoil in Savannah” is Book 13 in the Made in Savannah Cozy Mysteries Series

BONUS: RECIPE INCLUDED!

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The Bitter Fields: A Marty Singer Mystery

by Matthew Iden

When stable owner Ruth Colvin invites former DC homicide cop Marty Singer and his partner Julie Atwater to spend a week at her central Virginia equestrian farm, they think they’re getting a much-needed vacation in the region’s storied horse and wine country.

But when star polo player Freddie Ferrar winds up shot to death at the estate of a local billionaire, and in the midst of a rash of vandalism that threatens to bankrupt Ruth’s farm, Marty is pressed into service to... more

Murder at the Million Dollar Pier

by Gwen Mayo

"Never waste good rum on a bad night." - Teddy Lawless, February 1926.There are many bad nights ahead for Teddy. Shortly after she arrives at the newly opened Vinoy Hotel in Saint Petersburg, she comes face to face with her ex-fiancé, Ansel Stevens, in the dining room. Cue the slap that was thirty years in the making. Unfortunately, her ex-fiancé dies during a yacht race shortly thereafter. Conclusion of the authorities: poison. His family closes ranks, leaving T... more

Blue Heart

by Sang A. Lee

My mother appeared in my dream, she showed me blue sea scenery. This is the first and last sea we saw together. The sea that filled my mother's eyes remains in my heart. It is a mystery fantasy novel based on a true story.

The Euro Option

by Jeffry Weiss

5) THE EURO OPTION – 96,464 words Fact: A few days before 9/11, a number of unidentified people invested heavily in the stocks of American and Untied Airlines and Transamerica Insurance. They bought “put options” in the belief that the stocks would drop in price. After the attack, those men made 22.7 million dollars. Fast forward to the present… Fiction: A brilliant economist has been fired and disgraced by the EU. He is planning his revenge. He will buy “put options” on the... more

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Deadly Enterprise: A Mike Stoneman Thriller

by Kevin G. Chapman

THE NUDE GIRL THEY FISHED OUT OF THE EAST RIVER had a rap sheet for theft, drugs, and prostitution. Nobody gave her much attention, until Medical Examiner Michelle McNeill deemed the death suspicious and NYPD detective Mike Stoneman agreed to investigate. Meanwhile, the high-profile murder of a Bronx bodega owner has the City in a race-based fury and that case has everyone’s attention. When both investigations run into mysterious obstacles, Mike and his partner, Jason Dickson, start to wonder... more

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