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Due Diligence (Jenny Parker Book 1)

by D J Harrison

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Breakin' Bad! The breathtaking Jenny Parker series features a remarkable woman who is forced to deal with organised crime and threats against her life. Described by best selling author Stephen Leather as 'fast moving and gripping', Due Diligence tells the story of Jenny Parker, a married mum who works as an accountant at a Manchester firm. Her lover Martin, a partner at the practice, is missing. When he turns up dead, Jenny thinks that keeping her secret a... more

The Admirer's Secret

by Pamela Crane

It started with a glance. And ended with a nightmare. Westfield, New York—both home and prison to Haley Montgomery, a woman crippled by the death that hovers over her. After the loss of her father and best friend, Haley grapples with the loneliness of her small-town existence. But when her solitary life is upended by the man of her fantasies—the rugged, charming Marc Vincetti—her dreams quickly twist into a nightmare. A secret admirer’s eerie love letters threaten to uncover Haley’s dark... more

The Professor (The World of Appearances)

by Tshombe Amen

What do you believe? What do you know? Do you really know anything? These are the questions at the heart of a unique and exclusive university course. This course was developed by the only person who could teach it, a man known as The Professor. This is the story of his truth, as he knew it to be, as he discovers it, and as it is revealed to us all. As a young and brilliant scientist, Adam stumbled upon a troubling truth too big to hide, and too shocking to be revealed. This discovery sets off a ... more

Initiated to Kill

by Sharlene Almond

Annabella Cordova quickly becomes embroiled in the conspiracy involving the university she studies at. When her roommate goes missing, it becomes very personal. Her ability to read facial and body language in people leads her to discover parallels from an earlier century. Two men, centuries apart, initiated for violent purposes, unmasking an organisation long-forgotten, and reviving a criminal mastermind never apprehended. In the time in which one man roams the streets of Whitechapel in the... more

Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit

by Carole Nelson Douglas

“Midnight Louie is the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet.”—JANET EVANOVICH Readers are biting their nails as Carole Nelson Douglas’s popular alphabetic Midnight Louie feline PI mystery series nears its end with the 27th entry coming Aug. 25, Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit. A final entry will follow the “Z” book: Cat in an Alphabet Endgame. Even then, Vegas’s hairiest sleuth (whose feline-noir voice has been compared to Hammett, Hammer, and Nathan Detroit) will not be hanging up h... more

Protector of Children

by David V Mammina

The Covert Alliance of Selective Termination is a secret society dedicated to silencing the most dangerous criminals in the country. For decades, this clandestine band of shadow assassins have slain thousands of suspect drug lords, terrorists, serial killers and everyone in-between. They see themselves as a noble and necessary evil, keeping the United States safe by their theory of "natural justice." But, what if one of their best succumbs to a different kind of fight, one for his own mind? ... more

A Book About a Film

by C. W. Schultz

Author C. W. Schultz’s fourth release A BOOK ABOUT A FILM is a matchless thriller focusing on a low-budget movie called THE CORNFIELD PEOPLE, which follows journalist Joe Fischer as he investigates the titular group. The Cornfield People are a secret society who know the meaning of life and what comes after death. It is essential to the Cornfield People that their knowledge remain hidden from outsiders, and they will stop at nothing to protect their secret. Schultz surveys censorship throug... more

A Taste for Death

by Don Stevens

Gerard Bellamont, a famous wine critic with French roots, is found strangled with what appeared to be trellis wire at Allenwood Vineyard, where he was one of the guests to a party the previous night. At this party, Bellamont was heard saying something odd when staring at one of the local wine bottles, “I didn’t like it the first time I laid eyes on it”. Investigator Deville, also originally from France, remembers the victim briefly. The crime scene disturbs him, triggering his memory about his o... more

Breaker of Bones (Thomas Berrington Book 2)

by David Penny

March 1483, and Spain is preparing for yet more war. Surgeon Thomas Berrington makes a reluctant journey to Qurtuba at the request of his master. He expects only to operate on a Spanish prince and return home to Moorish al-Andalus. But fate has something else in store for him and his companion, the eunuch Jorge. A warped killer has been murdering young women and creating twisted creatures from their bodies. When Thomas is tasked by Queen Isabel to hunt down the culprit he is propelled int... more

The Red Hill (Thomas Berrington Book 1)

by David Penny

A killer who can’t be stopped. A request that can’t be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom. When bodies start to turn up, each showing the marks of a savage attack, Thomas is asked to investigate. When one of the Sultan’s wives is brutally murdered, what begins as a reluctant task turns into a fight for survival. Together with the eunuch Jorge, Thom... more

Leon [Anonymous]

by Adrian Robert Abarca

LEON [ANONYMOUS] is an espionage dramatic suspense-thriller told in the first person about a young man, Leon, whose mother loses the ability to love after the drowning death of her eldest son. Riddled with guilt Leon matures into manhood and goes off to university to study law only to be entangled in a web of lies and deceit as a childhood friend is kidnapped then murdered by his government's secret police revealing Leon's friend's involvement with a subversive student led organization hell bent... more

The Profiteer: War with Iran

by Mark Williams

Former FBI agent and corporate warrior, Steve Holmes, vindicates employees accused of sabotage and finds love while battling greed and corruption in a nuclear war with Iran. Greedy corporate leaders and corrupt politicians are the obstacles Steve Holmes must overcome to vindicate the valiant men and women who served as his contractor employees at Kratos before they were soldiers and Marines. Kratos, a name taken from the winged enforcer for the Olympian God Zeus, is an appropriate symbol for the... more

Matchbook

by Desiree Prosapio

At moments tender, and others hilarious, the suspense novel, Matchbook, follows the harrowing quest of a most unlikely heroine. Driven into a deep depression by the death of her daughter, Carol Lassiter has been homeless for three years. She's working out of her self-declared homeless oasis, a perfect place for collecting money while she nods in and out of an alcohol inspired haze. As she gathers her box of "donations," she discovers a matchbook with a phone number scrawled on the inside cov... more

Stranglehold

by Katherine Jeffries

What if your local police, frustrated by laws requiring them to respect the constitutional rights of suspects, maintained a relationship with a secret group of highly trained vigilantes who could be called upon to make problems go away? AND WHAT if the leaders of such a group amassed such power and ambition that they ultimately became accountable to no one – not even their own well-intentioned foot soldiers? WELCOME to Stranglehold, a new novel by Katherine Jeffries that takes us through... more

Fishtown: A Jack Regan/Izzy Ichowitz Novel

by Neal Goldstein

It’s been six weeks since the rogue Mossad agents, Nooris and Rabinowitz, were recaptured when their attempt to discover the identity of the person who betrayed them was thwarted by the very individual they were seeking. Homicide Detective Isadore Ichowitz is recovering from the wounds he sustained in the incident when Nooris shot him to convince Vito Coratelli to tell them what they wanted to know. Even though Nooris and Rabinowitz are being detained as terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Ichowitz is... more

Ocean City Cover-up

by Kim Kash

Euro-trash collides with American gangsta in Maryland’s gleefully cheesy beach resort, in this second installment in the Jamie August novel series. Reporter Jamie August befriends a spoiled Eastern European heiress. Russian mobsters are gunning for the oil tycoon’s party-girl daughter, who has paired up with chart-topping rap star Sniper Trigga. Meanwhile, a raging crime spree is keeping investigative reporter Jamie busy—and so is a hot new boyfriend and a strict jogging and frozen custard fitne... more

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