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All Our Lies Are True

by Lisa Manterfield

For far too long, Abby Kirkpatrick has lived with survivor’s guilt. She was only six when her twin sister, Cassie, vanished without a trace from the room where they slept, an unsolved mystery that continues to haunt her family. Now, Abby is ready for a fresh start—a new town and a promising career in child psychology. Maybe if she can save just one child, it will ease her conscience about losing Cassie. But when Cassie’s remains are discovered, Abby’s family is thrust into a devastating “tri... more

The Shades Dripped Red: A Nick Montaigne Mystery

by Peter Kurtz

Blood Was Everywhere

While watching the Atlanta evening news, private eye Vern Wister learns of a shocking murder-suicide at local technical documentation firm. The gunman, just before pulling the trigger, had uttered some cryptic words. Intrigued, Wister researches and discovers a connection to a different, unsolved, execution-style double-murder in a small town in Ohio...25 years earlier. Wister informs his boss, Nick Montaigne, who has just returned from an... more

Snowfall in Virginia

by Jim Davidson

Chris Hamilton’s life was perfect….For a while. He had a beautiful home in the country, his own business, a daughter and a beautiful girlfriend in Sophia. His recent trip to Texas saw three men die and the discovery of a hidden treasure…He had returned to Virginia unscathed, before realizing the hardest part of the game was still being played out……Now, all he had to do was find a way to keep it! He soon finds the past is not only close behind him but has been watching him the entire time. Thing... more

Terror Bay

by Lisa Towles

After surviving a gunshot wound to the head, San Francisco homicide detective Kurt Farin is placed in a medically induced coma. In his unconscious state, he can't shake the vivid image of a mysterious woman – Genevieve Lucas - who appears to be summoning him. How does he know her name, and is she even real? Driven by an unshakable intuition, Kurt travels to Puget Sound to find her and uncover the truth. As he digs deeper, he realizes that his fate is inextricably tied to the enigmatic woman…a... more

The Jeremy Sparkles Show

by Javier Gombinsky

Crime thriller author Robert Keeney has a recipe for success: he daydreams about being interviewed on The Jeremy Sparkles show, and uses his questions as inspiration for stories. But when the line between fiction and reality starts to blur, Robert questions his own sanity. Could Jeremy have a mind of his own?

THE CHIEF INSPECTOR MUZAFFER

by ÖZKAN URAL

THE CHIEF INSPECTOR MUZAFFER The girl's lifeless body did not leave his eyes. AN IMMERSIVE CRIME NOVEL FULL OF SECRETS Muzaffer. He is the commissioner of the homicide bureau, who has not been able to get rid of the bad traces of the past. The justice he sought had led him into an abyss without end. Now he has returned to his beloved profession. While he was trying to get everything right, he found himself in the dark world of a serial killer who had dug deep into the human mind. E... more

Gallows of Rainbow

by Ogonna Juliet Nnamani

Uyo Ameh, a Nigerian student seeking a fresh start in Sweden, is haunted by a horrifying past. Once an innocent victim of a heinous crime, she now stands at the crossroads of vengeance and redemption. When she uncovers a hidden truth not meant for her ears, she is thrust deeper into a world of darkness and despair. Fueled by a desire for retribution, Uyo plots to avenge the wrongs done to her, even if it means taking matters into her own hands. As her plan unfolds, Uyo must confront the very... more

Her Spoke'en Dreams

by Suzanne Taylor

Fear All Evil 6:00 p.m. The shadows were deepening, and he moved back into them, his black pants and shirt melting into the dark. His face was narrow with high-cut cheekbones, his skin so burned and blackened by the sun appeared to be flayed along the edges. His eyes, deep-set and black as pitch, made folks step back and swear they'd seen the devil in them! They weren't far from wrong. This alley, was perfect for his needs. Only one entrance that looked out onto the street, no back doors... more

Deadly Sands

by Josh Zimmerman

In Deadly Sands, the black flags of ISIS are returning. Sinister and apocalyptic forces are massing in the desert wasteland. Radical soldiers are ready to die. Their goal is to take back what they believe to be theirs.

Mercenaries join the fight. A young American is torn between two worlds. A decorated Navy SEAL fights the same enemy he fought ten years ago, but this time it’s with a different set of skills in the CIA. An inexperienced intelligence analyst is led down a twist... more

Invisible Influence

by Larry Moran

While on a government-sponsored trip to Paris, Spencer Graves, a divorced midlevel government economist, has an affair with a beautiful French woman. When he returns home, the affair is used to blackmail him with the threat of a jail sentence and the loss of custody of his daughter and son. He is forced to break government rules and into unlawful activity apparently for the blackmailer financial benefit. Then the threat of physical harm to his children coerces him into contributing to an economi... more

Ripple Effect

by Amy Rivers

The thrilling conclusion to the award-winning psychological suspense series from author Amy Rivers. Psychologist Kate Medina is on a mission to dismantle the human trafficking ring that has plagued her hometown for decades. Frustrated by a lack of hard evidence, Kate focuses on community education in hopes of taking away the abusers' ability to hide in plain sight. As the investigation leads to several arrests, the traffickers become more desperate, escalating their violence and brutality.... more

Lost Colony: The Hennepin Island Murders

by Steve Berg

Nordic Noir Comes to America Thirty years after the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church’s immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church’s time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman, and his improbable partner... more

DIVISIBLE MAN - THE ELEVENTH HOURGLASS

by Howard Seaborne

ON SALE OCTOBER 10 -- Will Stewart joins ace pilot Pidge and his former boss Earl Jackson on a rescue mission that immediately collides with a scene of unimaginable violence. The obvious explanation is impossible and the clock is ticking--not just for a woman gone missing, but for Will as he feels himself drawn deeper into the sphere of billionaire Spiro Lewko. Old secrets and criminal lies push Will toward a dark and dangerous breaking point in DIVISIBLE MAN - THE ELEVENTH HOURGLASS. Author ... more

Code Name: Juggernaut

by Sherman E Ross

The novel, Code Name: Juggernaut is a political thriller set in the near future. It centers around Werewolf, a far-right wing organization and its demonic leader Howard Brennan and his murderous paramour Jacqueline Lynch. The pair hatch a bizarre plot to steal the components of a nuclear bomb to fashion it into a WMD. They intend to detonate the device in Washington, DC on the night of the State of the Union Address in order to destroy the government and foment chaos. An FBI agent, Douglas Rabso... more

Monsters of North Yellowstone

by Sae Luy

After spending five relatively peaceful years working with gangsters and building a life with his new sister, Rodney is still haunted by the evil spirit of his tragic past. And it's not merely a figure of speech. But even so, their routine in a small village, hidden from the unpredictable vagaries of the climate and the terrible creatures that were once humans, has more ups than downs. Until one day, it all changes at once because of a bizarre murder that forces Rodney to come face-to-face wi... more

Family and Other Ailments: Crime Stories Close to Home

by M.E. Proctor

Blood ties. The family we’ve been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories. The collection opens with “Spy Head,” a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In “Texas Two-Step,” brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. “Razorbills” shows a young woman seeking freedom from th... more

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