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The Blacker Death: A Bam Matthews Thriller

by Larry Enright

Bam Matthews, an FBI agent on his way out the door, is working the case of a drug deal gone sour when he and his partner encounter a dying man in a hotel parking garage. The man was a Belgian diplomat who it is later determined, died of Ebola. Several of the bystanders and Bam's partner are quarantined with symptoms. The Belgians send a representative to arrange for the disposition of the diplomat's remains. Bam, currently without a partner and on his higher-up’s shit list, is assigned to chauff... more

Cornero's Gold

by Greenleaf Book Group

Chasing more than treasure... Travel back to the sun-soaked streets of 1970s California in this lighthearted, slice-of-life detective novel. Thirty-five years have passed since the SS Rex, a popular gambling destination for the citizens of LA, owned by the equally popular Tony Cornero, was robbed for a million dollars, a treasure that was then lost in the Santa Monica Bay. When part-time private investigator Kit O’Banion is called in on a new case for his detective father, what should have be... more

Deceptive Calm

by Patricia Skipper

Deceptive Calm starts with declared Martial Law in South Carolina. In 1968, two American legends are felled by assassins, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, In the South, it was a tough time to be Black. Against this backdrop, Vanessa, a light-skinned beauty is raised in a Catholic Orphanage for Blacks. After the death of the nun who reared her and a back-alley abortion, Vanessa changes her race and assumes the identity of a dead White Baby. Her charmed life abruptly ends w... more

2053

by Steven F. Freeman

The perfect baby is only an appointment away… It’s the year 2053, when wealthy couples visit designer-baby companies to create the perfect child. Ex-cop Finnegan Cooper is hired to investigate the unexplained failure of one couple’s embryos at Melgen, the world’s premier designer-baby consultancy. When his client dies the next day in a suspicious car accident, Finn fears the client’s widow will be the next target. Determined to save her, Finn plunges into the shadowy world of genetic engin... more

For the Love of Maggie O'Die

by Cle Curbo

Simon Silibus is unflinchingly devoted to Ryger Deacon's comatose body, planning to give Ryger a new life, but the law and the Trackers are after Simon. After leaving Ryger at Heavenly Hospice, Simon borrows a memory pearl from old friend Maggie O’Die, head of All Bio. He catches a late evening’s flight to Arizona, intending to disappear into the desert below the Mogollon Rim, where he hopes to find the fabled old woman of the hill. Maggie sends an awakened Ryger Deacon to recover her pearl, and... more

Rattlesnakes Strike Twice

by EA Mayes

Former anthropologist Minoa Diamond is back in Santa Fe when a childhood friend, Dreema Adkins, dies of rattlesnake bite—a tragic improbable accident, or so everyone believes. Although the grieving dysfunctional family brings up memories of Minoa’s derailed adolescence, she tries to help out. Big mistake. Dreema’s violent ex- takes aim at her, the neighborhood real estate developer trades Diamondbacks in a fake ‘reptile elimination program’ and a New Age shaman hides serpent secrets behind godde... more

The House on the Lake

by Holly Hill Mangin

An island is the last place Eve Beckett ever thought she’d end up. Deathly afraid of water, she has no memory of arriving at the foreboding Lakeview Manor on the Isle of Esse. Her love for a good mystery, however, especially when it comes to strange houses and the paranormal, has her second-guessing her desire to leave. But there’s something odd going on at Lakeview. Dark and dusty rooms shift location, and there’s a mysterious woman only Eve seems able to see . . . When Eve’s mirror twin ... more

Spectral Revelations: A Karina Cardinal Mystery (The Karina Cardinal Mysteries Book 6)

by Ellen Butler

Karina’s Aunt Vera has disappeared, and Karina’s investigation turns up nothing except a messy ghost who reveals key evidence. But the clues aren’t adding up, and with the cops following faulty leads, Vera could wind up on the wrong end of an arrest warrant … if she’s found alive.

Trouble on Treasure Island

by SETH SJOSTROM

Kate Harper witnesses the prelude to a murder outside her Treasure Island, Florida beach house. Finding a key piece of evidence in the sand, she becomes a material witness to the tragic event. Unwelcomed visitors and prying eyes descend on Kate’s house following a newscast identifying her as a possible key to solving the murder. As the interest in her and her beach house escalate, Kate decides to take matters into her own hands and sets out with a reluctant partner, handyman-surfer Nick Ma... more

As Above, So Below: A Hermann Horst Mystery

by Ingram Hargrave

At twenty-eight, Hermann Horst is the youngest professor of philosophy to grace the marble corridors and richly paneled lecture halls of Austria-Hungary’s esteemed University of Vienna. The charismatic, young professor’s success has been driven in part by personal tragedy: the loss of his parents, followed shortly thereafter by the mysterious death of his only sister. Her obsession with divination and the occult has placed Hermann on a course to scientifically and logically explain the psycholog... more

A Strand of Truth

by Cinzi Lavin

Nobody would’ve imagined that a federal agent would find success helping the government in an unlikely undercover position, nor the possibility of his becoming embroiled in a cross-country adventure to escape a ruthless crime syndicate. However, that’s exactly what happened, and once a fatal chain of events was set in motion, the agent and a hapless civilian find themselves traveling from Chicago to Texas, living by their wits, and struggling to thwart a remorseless serial killer on the loose, w... more

THE SHROUD

by BRITT DAWSON

THE CHURCH HAS CLONED CHRIST, THE U.S. ISNT TOO HAPPY ABOUT WHAT HE'S DOING

The Palisades

by Gail Lynn Hanson

Dorothy Fiske, eighty-three, adores movie stars, jewelry, murder mysteries, and men. At twenty-five, inspired by Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury, she moved to Los Angeles from a religiously strict Midwestern home. Despite the glamour, Dorothy, heartbroken, was childless. She blamed her sweet, unambitious husband, Eugene, claiming his sperm was weak, but Dorothy knows the truth. Ruth, a sixty-six-year-old home health aide, fears eviction from her LA apartment due to her unusual, antisocial behav... more

Down the Well

by Joseph Blackhurst

In 2017, a town in rural Kentucky was found buried in a landslide. All of the corpses had pounds of soil in their stomachs—as if they tried to eat their way out of the ground. The police investigation uncovered a diary among the bodies that suggests the town’s destruction was an orchestrated massacre. Unfortunately, every person who reads the diary goes insane. Now the transcript of the diary is made available in book form so you can assist with the investigation. Specifically, law enforcemen... more

The Shadow Game

by Rodger Carlyle

The Hakimi family has devoted decades to regime reform in their beloved Iran, finally realizing that they alone will never have the power to achieve it. But the regime can never survive the power of the United States, and so the family goes to work to provoke the U.S. into action. When a bomb goes off in Greensboro, North Carolina and America’s extraordinary nuclear detection systems prove to be inadequate, Team Walker is activated, a group of brilliant misfits who somehow see things others d... more

The Apicide Affair: Shadows of Extinction Book 1

by Kareem J Glover

The world is on the brink of ecological disaster as the honey bee population faces extinction due to a deadly DNA disorder called Three-DNA. Driven by the urgency to save these vital pollinators, scientist Jenebah Tamba leads a team of researchers on a groundbreaking project. Amidst the chaos, unseen forces endanger the research and Jenebah's life. A gripping tale unfolds as survival becomes paramount, and Jenebah finds herself entangled in a world of secrets, intrigue, and danger.

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