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Perfectly Good Crime

by Dete Meserve

When the estates of the 100 wealthiest Americans are targeted in a series of sophisticated, high tech heists, Los Angeles TV news reporter Kate Bradley must venture inside the world of the super rich to investigate the biggest story of the year. As the heists escalate, Kate's search is thwarted when the Los Angeles police detective she's been working with mysteriously disappears, her senator father demands that she stop reporting on the heists, and the billionaire victims refuse to talk to t... more

The Honorable Knight: The Fellowship of the Ancient Covenant (Volume 1)

by Patrick Donahoe

The Honorable Knight is the first book in the series The Fellowship of the Ancient Covenant. In the year 1099 AD, four young adults, Ian, Jacques, Serena, and Desiree, enter into an ancient covenant to protect mankind from evil forces for a millennium. Ian leaves a hard scrabble farm in Eire on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Ian meets Jacques, a wealthy young knight, in France, and they join the First Crusade. They meet Serena, the blacksmith’s daughter, and Desiree, a nurse serving in the H’osp... more

Plain Brown Wrapper

by Greg Lynch

Impoverished college student Allison Kerry only thought her life was complicated. On a broiling August afternoon in Dallas, it’s about to get much worse. Political blackmail leads to a political payoff gone terribly wrong and the money ends up in Allison’s hands, but she has no idea where it came from or who lost it. When those who lost the money try to take it back, Allison starts to realize she’s stumbled into something far worse than she imagined. To make it through, she’ll have to run a gaun... more

A Life Before

by Julien Ayotte

A young girl has nightmares about a violent assault. A dozen residents of a luxury condominium complex die of lung cancer. A lawyer grieves over the brutal murder of his young wife. Environmental tests are altered by a crooked construction crew. And a paralegal is almost killed in a car crash. Could a stranger's memories breathe new life into a long-closed cold case? This new thriller will keep you guessing.

BlindSight: Adams Thriller Complete

by Susan Wisnewski

The dead will speak, only if she’s willing to listen. Tisha Adams' life is upended when she witnesses a murder on her train commute. When the body disappears, she teams up with Detective Murphy, a man with mysterious abilities. But Tisha is keeping a secret of her own, a skill she’s always hated and feared. The dead speak to her. As the body count rises, and those closest to Tisha are drawn into the nightmare, Tisha’s only choice is to reach out to her estranged grandmother to learn more abou... more

As Oceans Fall: Pacifica: Volume I

by Brian M Birkland

When Andrew Gaeta is questioned in connection to a geological disaster in the Pacific Ocean, he fears that painful hallucinations and coded messages he has kept hidden since childhood may be catching up with him. Twenty years earlier, Andrew’s eleven-year-old mind is filled with tough questions about life, death, and innocence lost. He stumbles onto a series of cryptic messages by finding a clue in an old gift from his father, who was killed in action serving the Air Force when Andrew was t... more

Scarlet Crosses: The Truth Lies Within

by J. Beckham Steele

Judgement and justice turn the heart of New Orleans police detective Albert Harris inside out in Scarlet Crosses, a timely story of family, hidden identities, rejection, bullying—and poetic justice. Layered within the Crescent City's all-night bars, iconic cathedrals, cemeteries, and pastoral lands rising from the Mississippi valley are riveting mysteries of identity and consequences of actions—both innocent and criminal—ripped from today's headlines. For Harris, "just another case" in a long ca... more

Mr. Magic

by Jeff Widmer

Brinker’s back. Can the advertising world survive? Brinker has lost his magic. The agency’s CEO wants him to ace the competition. His former girlfriend wants him in detox. And as rival advertising executives disappear, an ambitious state trooper wants him in jail. If this keeps up, the PR whiz who turned a serial killer into a national brand may have to vanish himself. Throw in toxic waste, a nude car wash and a gun-toting presidential candidate and the czar of PR will have to spin some... more

The Commission Trap

by Ruth Zanger Barron

Andy Shock, a life insurance agent, unexpectedly finds himself facing an ethical conflict. Should he sell a large insurance policy to a shady character? He certainly can use the handsome commission to get himself out of a financial bind. So he gets embroiled in an insurance case that is linked to money laundering, which puts his professional future and his freedom at risk, and places him under government investigation. There are threats and bribery from criminals who emerge from unexpected place... more

The Apology

by Eric Haggman

A corrupt government, a manipulated press, a powerful creative arm, and a terrible secret could decide the fate of a country.

For Haggman’s protagonists—filmmaker Christian Lindstrom and producer Nachi Tanaka—it’s a desperate race against time to save themselves, a government and even an entire country as it teeters on the brink of destruction.

Christian Lindstrom has everything going for him including a glamorous career as a jet setting filmmaker. But when he returns to Vietnam t... more

A Man With One of Those Faces

by Caimh McDonnell

The first time somebody tried to kill him it was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together, they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history... ...or else they'll be history.

Behind The Door

by A. Gavazzoni

When Lara dies at the hands of Manhattan lawyer Mark during a sex game at her summer house in the Hamptons, Carl, Mark’s defense attorney, hires Simone, a psychiatrist, professor and author of books on sexual behavior to help him buttress his argument that Lara’s death was accidental. To help his defense, Mark has written a detailed account of his steamy, year-long relationship with Lara. Carl gives the text to Simone for analysis. While evaluating the presumed killer’s writing, Simone continues... more

Jacumba Connection

by David Charlton Taylor

Taylor's novel is a compelling, adventurous and surprisingly funny story of a middle class couple who lose their life savings and inadvertently find themselves in the the underworld of Mexican immigrant smuggling.Initially Charlie and Denice smuggle their cargo to the U.S. for money alone. However, over time they come to see this is not "cargo" but people they identify with. Their problems, dreams, and stories are important and universal in a way that Charlie and Denice never suspected. This nov... more

The Snake (Jake Wood Series Book One)

by Jonas Saul

Jake Wood has it all. He’s a homicide detective with the Ontario Provincial Police, his partner is like a brother, and he’s about to marry the girl of his dreams. Jake and his partner are investigating a serial killer who has terrorized southern Ontario for more than a decade. But when Jake assists at a routine accident, everything spirals out of control. He awakes in a hospital – eighteen months later. His job is gone. His fiancée is married and pregnant. His house was sold. His partner h... more

Physco Jihad

by Dexter Marks

Physco Jihad, is the adventure of an American innocent who blunders into the middle of an Islamist uprising in West Africa. Dizzy Banks, an American contract employee, must survey a local population in rural West Africa, in an area where increasing political instability has thrown strategic American oil rights in the region into question. Banks is only interested in completing the assignment because it will get him a better job back home in Chicago. Aggressively apolitical, Banks is naively unaw... more

Caught in the Crotchfire (A Trailer Park Princess Cozy Mystery Book 3)

by Kim Hunt Harris

Armed with Salem’s “Smart-Enuff” phone and Viv’s racing model Cadillac (with aggressive acceleration!), these two amateur super-sleuths set out to catch a gang of armed robbers terrorizing G-Ma’s neighborhood... if for no other reason than to stop G-Ma’s panic-stricken calls every time a car drives by. The only problem: they have no leads, no clues, and they accidentally got arrested for “moral crimes.” Will these bandits be the ones who got away? Or will they be Caught in the Crotchﬁre?

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