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McCall & Company: Workman's Complication

by Rich Leder

MCCALL & COMPANY: WORKMAN’S COMPLICATION WAY-OFF BROADWAY ACTRESS. MURDERED PI FATHER. NEW DAY JOB. Off-off-off-off Broadway actress Kate McCall inherits her father’s New York private investigation business after he’s a whole lot of murdered in a life insurance company elevator. A concrete-carrying, ballroom-dancing construction mule says he fell off the scaffolding and can never work—or dance—again, and then sues the contractor for a whole lot of money. Kate assembles the eccent... more

SIMULATION

by Tara Tyler

Our reluctant hero, detective J.L. Cooper's latest case leads him to investigate simulations - illegal clone androids. While doing his research, he winds up crossing paths with his ex, Geri Harper, and it's no coincidence. Just as he figures out they're after the same guy, Geri disappears then goes on a killing spree. Cooper knows it can't be her, it has to be a simulation. Now Cooper must find the real Geri, prove her innocence, and keep the untouchable villain from winning another election wit... more

Pop Travel

by Tara Tyler

In 2080, technology has gone too far for hard-boiled Detective J.L. Cooper. He thought he could avoid the pop travel teleportation craze, until he stumbled onto a video of a traveler who turned to dust. Cooper's discovery of the deadly flaw sparks a series of murders, attempts on his life, and threats to his brother. He’d like to pass off the evidence but knows he’s being watched and can’t trust anyone. And who would believe him? The only way he can save his brother is to fool his stalkers... more

Armchair Safari (A Cybercrime Technothriller)

by Jonathan Isaacs

A Case of the Nasties

by David Rowell Workman

Ed Wood asks his friend, a down-on-his-luck private detective Jimmy Egan, for help when he discovers someone is trying to kill him while working on his script Grave Robbers from Outer Space. Ed Wood and Jimmy Egan encounter colorful characters in this homage to Hollywood in the 1950's.

Illusion of Splendor

by J.D. Easley

Dregs of poverty, catwalk of opulence, Illusion of Splendor is an epic literary thriller taking the reader on an astonishing journey from the illusion to the heart of splendor. Characters diverse as a West African fisherman, an American college professor, and an Afghan heroin magnate interact in settings as vibrant as Nigeria and Monte-Carlo. The presentation is exotic; the scenes powerful. Driving the story is a turbulent powder-keg of vengeance. Illusion of Splendor begins with the fisherman p... more

Tourist Trap

by David Tate

In this blistering thriller - CASTAWAY meets MISERY, with a dash of THE MAGUS - the vacation of a lifetime for a young family turns into a desperate battle for survival.

Nerve Damage

by Tom Combs

An emergency doctor with a past no doctor is allowed to have. An experimental drug that treats spinal cord injury. A diabolical woman working in the shadows of the pharmaceutical industry who will stop at nothing to obtain the drug and the riches it will bring. A young attorney's startling death defies explanation - was she murdered? The doctor, his wife, and their two young children are swept into a firestorm of murder, greed, intrigue, and violence - can they survive? "Nerve Damage" mirro... more

Fatal Redemption

by Lou Kilzer

Sally Will is a young, aggressive investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune who smokes black cigars, drinks too much and suffers periodic panic attacks. Based in Denver, she catches the story of a lifetime – she is on the trail of a man who wants to become the most successful hitman in the world. In this roller-coaster mystery thriller, Sally must overcome the Russian Mafyia and its green-eyed assassin Katya, the Chicago mob and the mystery killer Mr. Wood. Sally makes mistakes, she draws w... more

Afterthoughts

by Lynn Tincher

Detective Paige Aldridge's family are prey for a serial killer. Desperate to help her sister, she is determined to find out who is behind it all. After being the victim of a kidnapping, she is traumatized by memories she does not know she has. She sees visions of the murders and believes she is being followed by someone she's only seen in the shadows. Trying to run from her dreams, she is sent spiraling down a path of self doubt, fear and betrayal. Paige finds an unlikely friend that tries to he... more

Tub of Spiders

by David Rowell Workman

Sara Doyle has become the object of Russell St. Cloud's obsession after a fateful day when they were young children, a horrible event, almost unspeakable, but one more event that scars Russ and contributes to the psychopathic behavior that ultimately makes him into the killer he is.

The Rival

by Sandra Gustafsson

Someone killed Joakim. His girlfriend Sara and his brother Tobias give radically different accounts of what happened.

Is Sara really in love with the brother or is she in fact a sociopath who won’t stop at anything, as Tobias claims?

The Rival gives us the portraits of two characters at the ends of their ropes: Tobias with his intense love-hate relationship with his family and Sara who has negated her own personality in her struggle to be ac... more

Seared

by Sandra Gustafsson

Helena is incarcerated. She has crossed the lines, but what has she done? Once a week, Helena see a psychologist and talks with him, and the truth is presented piece by piece. For several years she had a relationship with a man who gave her the courage to live, despite her dark secrets, but she was always "the other woman" and finally Helena's fragile world crashes. We meet Helena in shards: talks with the psychologist interspersed with flashbacks to her childhood and Helena's inner conversat... more

The Sinner's Eye

by Jesse Wolfe

It is said that all detectives have that one case that gets under their skin, a case that can give them nightmares even after they have solved it. Such is the case for Henry Dominic, a veteran private detective with his own practice in the heart of New York City. In an effort to inform the world around him Henry has recorded the story about how he ended up taking the strangest case of his life, a case that would chill him to his very core. You have found these records and are now preparing to he... more

Midnight of Dead Roses

by C.C. Allentini

In Midnight of Dead Roses...a string of murders-staged as death by autoerotic asphyxiation (sexual hanging), a monster paralyzes state officials by committing a horrendous massacre. Claude Callaway, Attorney at Law, struggles to help his sister gain control of her life-threatening situation while she goes through a difficult divorce. As he consults the District Attorney’s office in dissecting the profile of a serial killer, Callaway assists the Chief Investigator Renee Thomas, in a high-profile... more

Harmony, USA

by Kim Lewis

Harmony, USA, the quintessential, idyllic small town, is full of beauty and simplicity. But behind the scenes of this neatly kept town lies a killer, and once you begin to peel back the layers, Harmony has secrets upon secrets. Everything you convinced yourself is good and pure about small-town life is challenged. One by one, the secrets of Harmony are revealed. You must decide what is right, as you believed it, and what is justice. Will those who have done evil ever pull themselves away from... more

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