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Maryquest

by Norm Minor

American journalist Mary travels to Algeria to investigate the brutal death of her college roommate, also a journalist and colleague. Once there, she builds a family around her in a country unwelcoming of reporters to the point of criminal violence. When her plane explodes after leaving Algeria, it perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise. The death of her twin sister throws Janet's life in the United States into upheaval as she prepares her own trip to Algeria to find answers. She's met with sus... more

Remember, Remember: a Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery (The Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mysteries) (Volume 3)

by Anna Elliott

A lovely American actress awakens in London on a cold morning in 1897 - lying face down on the concrete pavement outside the British Museum. She has no memories. She does not even know who she is, although she has a vague recollection of the name Sherlock Holmes. What she believes is that she has may have just killed someone, and that someone is definitely trying to kill her. As she searches for clues to her true identity, she will learn that she is not the only target. Unless she can defeat her... more

Games of Mind

by Dennis Quiles

When former naval intelligence officer Jack Steele opens a letter from his aunt, he makes an immediate decision to head to Nome, Alaska. Although he hasn?t seen Marie in twenty years, he?s concerned when she tells him her husband, Uncle Jimmy, is in trouble. From the moment Jack picks up that envelope, he knows he?s about to enter a situation better left alone. But loyalty to family is stronger than a gut feeling. Jack, a private investigator with Connor, Steele & Harrison Private Investi... more

The Last Valentine (Labyrinth of Love Letters)

by Felix Alexander

The fate of two best friends and the secret love between them is known only to a mysterious figure who offers to aid one in hiding the truth from the other...lest their lives and love meet a tragic end.

When Olivia Villalobos finds a bloodstained love letter she endeavors to deliver it before Chief Inspector Sedeño finds it in her possession.

A city along the southern coast of Puerto Rico emerges in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Olivia, daughter of a drunkard p... more

Facade

by Susan Cory

Smart and gutsy architect, Iris Reid, is plunged into the dark world surrounding a missing Cambridge schoolgirl. One of the girl's last visits was to Xander DeWitt, Harvard's handsome guest starchitect, who denies that they ever met. Only Iris can provide an alibi that will allow DeWitt to keep his perfect life, but can she actually vouch for his innocence? KIRKUS says: "Cory gleefully breezes through subplots and twists with a resourceful protagonist at the helm...Supporting characters ar... more

The Quiet Type

by Summer Prescott

Tim and Susannah have ordinary lives on the surface, he’s a mortician for whom death is a serious business, and she’s a chef who really knows her way around a knife, but if the neighbors in their small Midwestern town knew of her dark hobby, they’d run for the hills.

Raised by an apathetic mother and a cruel father, Susannah was bullied and pushed to her breaking point long before she met mild-mannered Tim, and has learned to channel her murderous impulses into a stran... more

Dying for Data: Adina Donati, Accidental Sleuth (Volume 2)

by Cassidy Salem

A rival suitor and a deadly attack are enough to put a damper on any date. Just when Adina's social life is looking up, her night out is interrupted by the scream of police sirens. Afraid her bartender boyfriend might be accused of murder, Adina's neighbor enlists her assistance, and in the process exposes her to the seamier side of illegal immigration and crime in the city. Hard as she tries to limit her involvement, the more Adina learns, the more she needs to know - until a case of mistake... more

Secrets Hidden Behind Closed Doors

by Marshall Hanlon

Morris Frost has a filthy job. He takes covert illegal photographs of couples getting it on and sells the photos for top dollar to his greasy boss, Bernie. Bernie does with the photos what he wants, but Morris knows a lot of his dealings end in blackmail. Still, it?s great pay, and Morris is good at what he does, until he meets Ciara. She?s a charming waitress he talks up at the local diner, but she?s also sleeping with a high profile married man. When Morris snaps her picture, he knows he can ... more

The Corrupt Costermonger

by Joe Carr

?I might also tell them that you have threatened me with a knife.? ?You bastard.? ?You may be right. So how do you want to play this game?? This is part of a conversation between the head of the local drug squad and the trusted informant of another police department who appears to be floundering in the changing world of drugs, murder, illegal immigrants, and terrorists. Det. Sgt. Ron O?Neill, after answering a telephone call, is drawn into an enquiry that is career-changing for him.

Murder in Paradise

by Larry K. & Lorna Collins

On an early morning paddle, Agapé Jones' outrigger team finds a body in the water off Maui, thrusting him into unexpected danger. Agapé Jones, retired NYPD detective, is asked to act as special investigator in the murder of famous surfer Philip Fowler, the son of Hawaii State Senator Thomas Fowler. The assignment takes Agapé to the North Shore of Oahu where he discovers that he’s investigating more than just a murder. The young man had no enemies, and Agapé is frustrated by little evidence and f... more

Murder…They Wrote

by Larry K. & Lorna Collins

What if a retired NYPD officer is asked to investigate a mysterious death at the National Authors Conference where various attendees offer their theories and suspicions? Murder...They Wrote answers this question as Agapé Jones, retired NYPD detective, tries to determine the truth surrounding the death of Robert Dyer, noted poet and critic. Confusing and confounding him are Robert's award-winning romance novelist ex-girlfriend, current young girlfriend, ex-wife, recently discovered illegitimate d... more

Road Trip Revenge

by Susan Peterson Wisnewski

The dead will speak, but only if she is willing to listen. Escaping a kidnapping with a few cuts and a bruised ego, Tisha Adams, is on fire. She needs to stop denying her unique abilities and use them to her advantage. Teaming up with her elusive boss, security expert Sam Jones, they learn her estranged brother is missing and two of his associates are dead. Are the two events connected?‬ ‪Leaving behind career and boyfriend troubles, she travels to the Green Mountains of Vermont, the last ... more

Halfway to the Truth

by Anthony Mays

Reese Summers’ small-town reporting talents were good enough to get her noticed by the editor of the Savannah Daily. Hired as an investigative reporter to snoop around a local shipping company, she unwittingly becomes a pawn in a feud between her editor and shipping magnate Viktor Drakos. As she investigates, Reese becomes at odds with the editor and unwisely accepts a position in Viktor’s company. She soon learns some of his cargo is entangled in an international scheme to circumvent weak elect... more

Donn's Hill

by Caryn Larrinaga

After returning home from her father’s funeral to find her boyfriend in bed with another woman, Mackenzie Clair is looking for a fresh start. She thinks she’ll find it in her favorite childhood vacation spot, but returning to Donn’s Hill awakens more than nostalgia. Mac regains a lost psychic ability to talk to the dead, and the poltergeist haunting her apartment is desperate to make her use that gift to find his killer. Aided by her new roommate—a spirited Tortoiseshell cat named Striker—an... more

A Secondhand Lie (The Killer Thriller Series)

by Pamela Crane

Sometimes you know things you’re not supposed to know. Things that you can never un-know. Things that will change the course of your life…and the fate of the ones you love.

I found her in our living room, bleeding and close to death, but alive. Barely. Until morning stole her last breath. The media called her killer the “Triangle Terror” … and then forgot about her. But I never forgot—my murdered sister, and an investigation that led t... more

The Scream of Silence