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  • The Kingdom of Assassins

    by Erik Mackenzie
    In the near future, a disillusioned New York City Counter-terrorist detective investigates a terrorist cell. A beautiful Arabian Princess comes to identify one of the dead from an assault on a safe house. Later during the investigation a Saudi Diplomat is also found dead, as well as another man with no identity. Tensions rise between Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. From the concrete canyons of New York City to the searing oceans of sand in Arabia, Detective Mike Maclaymore purses the truth... more

  • The Last Will and Testament of Ernie Politics

    by Brad Grusnick

    Hands severed at the wrist. Eyes carved from his skull. Body shoved under a dumpster.

    How do you find justice when you are one of society’s forgotten?

    Ernie Politics is a schizophrenic albino who loves conspiracy theories. When he’s murdered and mutilated, the police have no interest in wasting time on the death of one homeless man, so Ray Cobb, Ernie's best friend, decides to solve the mystery for himself.

    Ray finds a c... more

  • Calla's Curse

    by Rob Polans
    An Organized Crime Detective Story: Calla's Curse by Rob Polans An action packed mystery about organized crime on Long Island, New York in the 1960s when rules didn't apply. Calla is the step daughter of a mob boss, Vin the Deck. She puts a curse on Vin, and wants to break with that life by becoming a nun. She leaves the church just before taking her final vows, to fall in love with Hank, who happens to be trailing her step father. Calla's step brother murders Hank's partner and Vin was resp... more

  • What The Town Knew

    by C.W. Farley

    Lizzie was unlike any woman the Borden men ever met. Defiant and unwilling to bend, she refused to take her husband’s name when they married. At first, Dale thought it was endearing. Until the rest of the Bordens whispered in his ear, telling him he had no control.

    Dale Borden was once a loving husband. Different from his father and two older brothers, he cared for his wife. Then he fell to the Borden curse, abusing Lizzie to the point she had to fight back or die herself.

    T... more

  • THE COPY: A Suspense Legal Thriller Novella

    by Grant Boshoff
    Ambitious geneticist Geoffrey Bartell is fighting for his life. His company is under legal and political attack while his marriage crumbles around him. Desperate to recapture his once idyllic life he comes upon the perfect solution by creating a clone of himself, and together they set about picking up the pieces. But the perfection is short-lived as the two’s priorities begin to diverge. As the jealousies and resentments build Bartell comes to realize that while living alone was difficult, l... more

  • All Good Deeds (A Lucy Kendall Thriller) (Lucy Kendall #1) (The Lucy Kendall Series)

    by Stacy Green
    Lucy Kendall doesn't believe she's a serial killer. She simply eradicates the worst of society and brings justice to the innocent–the children she failed to protect during her decade in Child Protective Services. A missing child sets off a chain of events linked to a suspect in a life-changing case in Lucy's past. Her chosen path is terrifying–but the search for the kidnapped child pulls her into web of evil and malice beyond her darkest imagination. Lucy is jaded and desperate, but will... more

  • The Bookseller

    by C. Robert Cales
    Across from Boston Common, nestled into the corner of a cobblestone mall, sits The Bookseller, a bookstore owned by a lovable rare book dealer and his wife, who runs a coffee parlor inside the store. The parlor is the morning greeting place for business people from around the mall where the complementary coffee is hot and delicious, the croissants are a quarter and the lively banter is free.

    George and Elizabeth lead a happy life surrounded by many friends. Their happiness is about to be s... more

  • Absinthe and Chocolate (Boone's File Book 1)

    by Dale Amidei

    The "intel" game is changing; international intelligence entities react to the growing influence of an emergent private sector effort. The USIC's Director of National Intelligence assigns a female case officer, empowered to take any necessary action, to safeguard the firm's growing data store. 

    Attacks, targeting key company players, force suspending operations in securing corporate infrastructure and remaining personnel. The agent responsible for covertly shepher... more

  • A Dead Red Oleander

    by RP Dahlke
    When a late in the season emergency forces Lalla Bains to accept a greenhorn ag pilot for her dad's cropdusting business, she sighs in relief . After all, he comes highly recommended, his physical is spotless, and with a name like Dewey Treat, what could possibly go wrong? Then her quirky relatives arrive from Texas and things go south in a hurry: Dewey Treat drops dead, his tearful widow claims he was murdered, clobbers Sherriff Caleb Stone with his own gun, and makes a run for it. Feds, loca... more

  • HOA Wire

    by kenneth eade
    The President of the Local Homeowners Association is Murdered, and Every Resident is a Suspect Lawyer Brent Marks defends a homeowner from foreclosure who is then accused of murdering the HOA president” The president of the Orange Grove Homeowners Association is murdered and there are plenty of suspects - in fact everyone who lives in Orange Grove. Brent Marks thinks he is dealing with a routine foreclosure defense until his client is implicated in the crime and calls upon Brent to defend he... more

  • And the Tide Turns

    by Timothy Dalton
    Wealthy business mogul Tobias Keane is dead in an apparent suicide. But Ethan Tannor, a detective on the scene and nephew of Keane, suspects something else. In his effort to prove murder, Ethan discovers hidden items in his uncle’s safe that reveal there was more to Tobias’s past than he initially thought: a strange watch that doesn’t tell time, a cryptic journal, confusing newspaper clippings from years past, a cipher that points to something ominous, a worn copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám... more

  • What Jennifer Saw (First Printing)

    by Hal Schweig

    The moral decay festering beneath the golden surface of the most beloved family in the small town of Monroeville, Missouri, leads to murder.

    The murder victim, Jim Harris, the head of the "golden" family, is a man without an enemy in the world.  His murder was witnessed by his daughter, the title character, Jennifer, but she is suffering post traumatic stress disorder and cannot recall who did it.  She is also found to be suffering Multiple Personality Disorder and i... more

  • Long Hill Home

    by Kathryn Pincus

    Kelly Malloy is a wife, a mother and a successful lawyer whose world is shattered when she is brutally attacked while running along the banks of the Brandywine River. Chad McCloskey, a lonely teenage boy from a dysfunctional home, stumbles upon Kelly Malloy’s unconscious body immediately after the assault. He is falsely accused and imprisoned with dangerous felons, only because he tries to help her. Maria Hernandez, a young woman who emigrated illegally from Mexico, is reluctantly thrus... more

  • LUNA

    by Frank Pickard
    An incredible story of mystery and raw emotion, murder and passion, all played out against the stunningly beautiful sights and sounds of Hawai’i. Brooklyn Bishop enjoys an idyllic life with a young Polynesian in a secluded plantation home nestled on the edge of a rainforest on Maui's north coast, but she’s compelled to risk everything to find and destroy four men who committed a horrible crime. Along her dangerous and clandestine journey, an ambitious, overzealous crime novelist named Parker Liv... more

  • LUNA

    by Frank Pickard
    An incredible story of mystery and raw emotion, murder and passion, all played out against the stunningly beautiful sights and sounds of Hawai’i. Brooklyn Bishop enjoys an idyllic life with a young Polynesian in a secluded plantation home nestled on the edge of a rainforest on Maui's north coast, but she’s compelled to risk everything to find and destroy four men who committed a horrible crime. Along her dangerous and clandestine journey, an ambitious, overzealous crime novelist named Parker Liv... more

  • DUE DILIGENCE

    by Owen Parr
    FICTION OR NON FICTION? Based on true events. This fictional novel will leave you wondering. DUE DILIGENCE is a fast paced romantic thriller. It will take you on a journey full of intrigue, double crosses, corporate takeovers, money laundering, assassinations and a sinful love affair. Let your imagination wander as you witness the Cuban government's attempt to launder their illicit gains of over forty years utilizing our own Wall Street. Owen has written a unique fictional novel, incorporating h... more

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