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Love, Lies and Murder

by Leslie Wolfe

Breathtaking suspense unraveling at train-wreck speed, in an unforgettable collection.

Sometimes the only way to do the right thing is to break the rules.

Love, Lies, and Murder is a collection of 19 short stories that explore the extremes of human emotion and the conflicts that result. Every story will leave you tense and breathless as the characters race to a conclusion that is as unexpected as it is satisfying.

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9-11 2.0 Fool Me Once . . .

by Rich Lagomarsino

This novel is about a man desperate to save his dying wife who gets caught in a government plot to revoke basic American freedoms. It exposes the struggles of living under a big-government/big-corporate oligarchy. “ 9-11 2.0 Fool Me Once . . .” is peppered with bits of wisdom and humor and is written to entertain and provoke an awareness in everyone.

Bullets From a Dead Man

by J. Galobich J.

Ira Cohn is a professional road manager for rock groups during the Swingin' Sixties. He travels the world serving as a kind of baby sitter for these kids who become like a family to him. He rubs shoulders with various show biz legends and not so legends. This novella details Ira's discovery of who blew up Mark's Madcaps' drummer on-stage, stole his hit song and got away with the crime till Ira exposed the musical mystery.

Trophy Kill

by R.J. Norgard

Private investigator Sidney Reed hasn’t been the same since the tragic death of his wife, Molly. Sharing a rundown apartment above an Anchorage, Alaska coffee shop with a cat named Priscilla, he dulls his bitter memories with cheap beer and sarcasm. When he’s offered a bundle of cash for a simple surveillance job, Sidney sees a chance to finally put the broken pieces of his life back together. But once the job turns deadly, he'll have to sort through a mountain of clues to solve this case - and ... more

Will to Survive: Stop the Jihadists

by Coleman Paul

Will to Survive: Stop the Jihadists by Coleman Paul is a hard-hitting short story. Four veterans returned from a tour of Afghanistan. All they have in mind is revenge. They want the jihadists quivering in their boots. They meet to plot, believing that the government is underestimating just how serious the domestic jihadist threat is. They don’t believe the government knows how to deal with the situation but they do. They don’t want radicalization in the US and the only way they can stop it is to... more

The Mourning Islands

by Douglas Wells

The danger lies not in the water.

As a veteran of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, Talmon Bonnett usually holds his PTSD at bay. When a wealthy couple hires him to spy on Rusty Wing, the man responsible for building the Mourning Island’s new resort, Talmon injects himself into Rusty’s inner circle. Lying about his intentions, Talmon gets to know Rusty’s troubled fiancée Claire, his sinister Cuban first mate Santos, and Marlene, Rusty’s alluring sis... more

Blood Is Thicker Than Wine

by Liz Eagle

fter her father's death, Lil Starling, a resourceful federal probation officer, discovers information hidden in dusty old carboard boxes that recounts the only double homicide that took place in her home town of Warsaw, NY. She is shocked to learn that her grandfather's handwritten notes seem to implicate her own father and her relatives in the double murder that is over 75 years old. She gradually goes through all the boxes that she was handed as part of her father's estate, but enlists the hel... more

The InBetween (Painter Mann Series Book 1)

by Dick Wybrow

Painter Mann has sworn to help the murder victims stuck in The InBetween by revealing their killers so they can move on. But a new case threatens everything after Painter recognizes the serial killer's face. They also murdered him. Exposing them will free dozens of ghosts but will also clear Painter, leaving no one to help the souls trapped in The InBetween. When alive, he was never really good at much. Dead? He's a hell of a PI. Will Painter risk everything to save those he's sworn to... more

Fishermen's Court

by Andrew Wolfendon

Short pitch: A fatal mistake on a drunken night in college comes back to haunt a troubled artist after eighteen years, threatening his friendships, his sanity, and his life.

Finn Carroll is a failed artist living a marginal existence in his dead parents’ home. So why would a team of killers want to murder him and frame it as a suicide? Finn survives the encounter to discover that the killers have left behind a “suicide note” detailing a dark incident from Finn’s ... more

Becoming Samantha Colt

by Ken Cressman

A nameless, homeless girl grows up on the streets of Baltimore. From a painfully young age she must learn to take care of herself, feed and clothe herself, and defend herself from those who would do her harm. When she’s arrested for shoplifting as a teenager she's recruited by a mysterious organization, where she meets David Larkin and everything changes. He becomes her teacher, her mentor, her partner and eventually her best friend. This is the fourth book in the exciting Larkin and Colt advent... more

Prelude to a Distant Future

by Sandra J. Scott

You would think for four lonely 50-something women being involuntarily recruited by The Agency for a covert mission to assassinate enemies that threaten to topple the present-day American government from inside is their greatest challenge. Traveling back in time to Nazi-Germany in order to complete the assignment …well, that’s another story.

Resurgence of the Hunt: A Global Spy Thriller (The Ahriman Legacy Book 3)

by Puja Guha

Rogue agents. Illicit arms deals. Bank heists. Island getaways. THE DOGS OF WAR meets MISSION IMPOSSIBLE on the island of Madagascar. Former spy Petra Shirazi and the Ahriman, a retired Iranian assassin, work together to bring down an illegal arms trader who has eluded international authorities for decades and propped up conflict zones around the world.

The Last Van Gogh

by Will Ottinger

"The Last Van Gogh" received the 2019 Maxy Award for Best Mystery-Detective Novel

A brilliant and troubled artist. A lost masterpiece. The desperate search for the truth.

An unknown Van Gogh painting disappears from France at the outbreak of World War Two. A notorious con man later claims he smuggled the immense painting to the U.S. where it is never seen again. Ninety years later, his two sons, Adam and Wesley Barrow, discover letters that supposedly confirm the p... more

Dark Data: Control, Alt, Delete

by Douglas Wood

August 14 and September 11 were the last two of a string of dates on Lori Torchia’s list. But nothing in the chronology seemed to correspond to them.. Then it hit reporter Rebecca Taft. ‘The dates are in the future. Lori’s telling us that there will be terrorist attacks on August 14 and September 11!’ Taft felt sick to her stomach. Paula Janković is a willing tool of Constantine Petrenko, a Russian oligarch with a penchant for world domination and insatiable greed. Using a superstorm of dark... more

Experiences in the Historical Borderlands

by Dolores M. Martinez

This is an original project about the experiences of people who lived in the borderlands of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. These individuals were of Spanish and indigenous Pueblo and Plains Indian ancestry. The reader to this book will experience the historical background of New Mexico and Colorado. If the reader is unfamiliar with the migration of the Spanish to the Southwest, they will have a better understanding of the shared ancestry many from this region share. Oral history is l... more

The Weakest Lynx

by Fiona Quinn

What she wanted was a simple life. What she got was simply terrifying

From USA Today Bestselling author Fiona Quinn a thrilling novel of uncompromising determination and courage.

A madman forces his way into Lexi's home. Her survival means she is the only one who can identify the stalker. Lexi becomes the critical witness who holds the key to stopping the serial killer, terrifying Washington families.

Striker Rheas, an ex-Navy SEAL, and his team of expert operators are c... more

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