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  • Twisted

    by Kennedy Obohwemu
    A compelling, provocative, masterful thriller that will leave you spell-bound with its suspense-filled intrigue and nail-biting finishes!

  • Sea Girl

    by Oz Carter
    New York socialite Carly Hodge thinks she’s kept her infidelity secret from her husband, Preston. She’s wrong. On the pretext of celebrating her fortieth birthday, Preston takes her to the Bahamas on a sailboat. Under the night sky on the Little Bahama Bank, he serves her a romantic dinner and gives her the best sex of their nineteen-year marriage. Then he beats her, ties her to the mast of the boat, and blows the boat up while making his getaway. Carly survives the murder attempt. She allows ... more

  • Prettyboy Thugs

    by Rahiem Brooks
    When a wrongly accused man (Don Juan Jackson) gets out of prison, he focuses his attention on becoming a good example for his 6-year-old daughter who has already been terribly influenced by her mother and her many paramours. He plans to get a job and be a family man, but his plans are derailed. Get ready for action when Don Juan is drawn into a life of crime by his pal, Lex. With Lex s aid they commit several heists and with the money abundantly flowing, Don takes explosive measures to get custo... more

  • House of Cards

    by Terri Molina
    A frantic phone call from her estranged sister sends Jesse Peña rushing home to Brownsville, Texas, only to find that Alicia –seven months pregnant– has vanished. Jesse is convinced her brother-in-law, Marcus Vega, is a killer but getting the police to listen isn’t easy, especially when Marcus announces that Jesse and her sister are borderline schizophrenic. Detective Michael Cisneros is reluctant to believe Jesse's allegation. After all, Marcus Vega is a prominent citizen with a tight alibi... more

  • Patchwork Man

    by D. B. Martin
    Lawrence Juste QC finds himself tricked into taking a case defending a juvenile against a charge of manslaughter by his clever –but dead – wife. Normally he wouldn’t even have opened the folder without her around to persuade him, but she’s left something else to do that for her; a list of all the unsavoury people and events from his past. The ones he’s carefully hidden until now and didn’t even know she was aware of. Disconcertingly, the boy reminds him of himself – not only as a person but i... more

  • The Executioner's Hood (The High Country Mystery Series Book 4)

    by Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton
    An ominous black hood, a murdered judge. ..When Sheriff Jeff McQuede finds Durmont’s highly respected judge, Phil Grayson, bludgeoned to death in his study, a black executioner’s hood shoved over his head, he faces his toughest case yet. The judge has many enemies, including Darin Keefe, sentenced by Grayson and just released from prison. McQuede soon finds out that Keefe's case is linked to a city scandal that may involve Grayson. Seven years ago the judge's best friend, John Harwood, was beli... more

  • One Way Street

    by R. L. Herron

    In his debut novel, REICHOLD STREET, author R.L. Herron created a powerful coming-of-age story set in the turbulent Vietnam era that dealt with the tough issues of family dysfunction, alcoholism, suicide, madness and war. It was endorsed by Top Book Reviewers and Compulsion Reads. It received a positive review from Kirkus Reviews and became a Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner.

    In his newest novel, ONE WAY STREET, the second book in the series, Herron has constructed... more

  • One Way

    by Jeff Lane
    Barry Griffith doesn’t know it yet, but tonight is the night fate has chosen to be the night of his death… his murder. At a gas station in the middle of nowhere, late at night, his wife Jenny appears… no car… no coat and looking older than when he saw her last. That’s because this is not the woman he received a good-bye kiss from this morning. This woman has been a widow for over four years and has made an impossible journey back in time to try to stop her husband’s murder. Will they be able... more

  • This Way To Paradise

    by D. Bruce Foster
    On a horse farm in the steeplechase country of Maryland’s My Lady’s Manor, ER physician Alex Randolph and his girlfriend, Penny Murray, are recovering from injuries sustained in a hospital hostage incident that transforms them into instant but unwilling national celebrities. \tA thousand miles distant—in a parallel universe—an abused and impoverished young girl from the Everglades evolves into a stunningly beautiful sociopath of enormous wealth. \tAs a golden summer transitions to fall, dark ... more

  • Painting With Fire

    by K.B. Jensen
    Murder in the Windy City. Love without trust. Reckless justice. These are the themes in “Painting With Fire,” the story of Claudia Wilson, a woman down on her luck living with a stranger, an artist named Tom. After the two of them discover a body on the street corner, buried in a snow bank, Claudia becomes obsessed with the murder and the fact that her roommate is not telling her everything about his past. While police search for the killer in her building, she wonders if she should be searching... more

  • A FASHION TO KILL (The Manhattan Mysteries: Hard Boiled New York City Fiction Book 1)

    by Mickey Wyte
    In Mickey Wyte's gritty noir tale, Jack Centaur, an ex-combat soldier and Medal Of Honor winner and the New York City high fashion industry are worlds apart. But when his niece becomes the fourth victim of a ruthless serial killer, posing victims like models on a Vogue cover, Centaur looks for revenge and enters a world that couldn't be more alien to him.

  • CLIFF DIVER

    by Carmen Amato
    When Emilia Cruz, Acapulco’s first and only female police detective, dives into the investigation of a dirty cop’s death, she might just hit the rocks instead of the water. Forced to lead the murder investigation into the death of her shady lieutenant, Emilia faces resentment from the other detectives as well as a blood-spattered crime scene, no witnesses, and the shadow of counterfeit ransom money. The dead lieutenant led a double life in Acapulco full of illicit sex and financial manipulat... more

  • DIABLO NIGHTS

    by Carmen Amato
    The deadly combination of a religious relic and a cruise ship murder victim propel Emilia Cruz, Acapulco's first female police detective, into a maze of cartel smuggling and revenge killings in DIABLO NIGHTS, the third novel in the explosive new international mystery series. Ora Ciega, a rare heroin strain from Colombia, is found on the cruise ship body, promising more drug war violence for Acapulco's already bloody streets. At the same time, the relic points toward a gruesome kidnapping case... more

  • Hat Dance

    by Carmen Amato
    Acapulco’s first and only female police detective, Emilia Cruz, is back in HAT DANCE and risking a dance with the devil in order to catch a violent arsonist and find a missing girl. With hot nights on the beach and suspense straight out of the headlines, HAT DANCE and the Emilia Cruz mystery series go inside Mexico's drug war with a fearless style and a woman who'll be hard to forget. HAT DANCE is the second novel in the Emilia Cruz mystery series. It follows CLIFF DIVER, the novel that Kirku... more

  • The Galadima Conspiracy

    by Dan Abubakar
    When President Galadima of Nigeria goes AWOL, the entire world is curious about the situation. When a former KGB agent ‘sees’ him die, the world wants proof. When an aspiring New York based blogger reports the death he becomes the target of a nefarious assassin who would stop at nothing to see him dead. What is real, what is not and what dark secret is everyone trying to hide? From Saudi Arabia to London, New York to Nigeria, former CIA agent Leah Givens and blogger Dele Pearce m... more

  • Carpe Diem, Illinois

    by Kristin A. Oakley
    For decades, the small town of Carpe Diem, Illinois has quietly unschooled its children, eschewing tests and classrooms for real-life experiences. Now, long-smoldering political feuds and deep personal secrets threaten to explode. When her mother is hospitalized in Carpe Diem after an auto accident, teenager Tali Shaw, the daughter of a powerful state senator, finds herself at the heart of a vicious conspiracy to bring Carpe Diem down. Can prize-winning Chicago Examiner reporter Leo Townsend ove... more

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