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Cold-Blooded Trade

by Kerry K. Cox

When U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent Nick Tanner targets a prolific trafficker in endangered reptiles, what begins as a simple buy-and-bust operation takes a sudden, violent turn, and launches Tanner on a dangerous quest deep into the treacherous backwaters of Mississippi swampland.

JETSAM

by Tracy Grogan

Ricky Yamamoto has trust issues – if push comes to shove, she always pushes back. When a dream trip to exotic Far East waters turns into a nightmare, she struggles to regain control. What seemed like an innocent environmental research trip turns out to be anything but: her millionaire bosses had a hidden agenda, the menu turned out to be vegan, and she didn’t have a gun when she needed one.

Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer

by Michael Stockham

Battling against a Texas prison, a young lawyer fights for a fair trial in a prison-friendly town as witnesses and evidence evaporate. Scarred physically and emotionally by a botched delivery, his wife struggles to realize their dream of a healthy baby and a happy family. Trapped in solitary confinement, an immate fights for medicine to keep his failing heart pumping. Torn between career and family, with the lives of a prisoner, his wife de él, and his unborn child on the line, the youn... more

SET IN STONE

by J.A. Dayton

Resident state trooper, CLIFF ABBOTT, never dreamed terror could happen in North Meadows, a rural New England community. But, when seven stacked-stone towers mysteriously appear on farmland throughout town, Abbott knows life is about to change forever and it terrifies him. Mortal danger becomes apparent when the towers begin to move—one after another. One night, a stone tower is transported from a vacant farm onto the turnpike causing seven deaths on a curving two-lane road. Terror strikes again... more

When Last Seen

by Brenda Chapman

Ottawa is baking under a July heatwave when the Homicide and Major Crimes Unit is called to help track down missing three-year-old Charlie McGowan. This is the second missing person case in nine months — a university exchange student never made it back to her Carleton University residence from a downtown party in November. At first, the two disappearances appear unrelated, but as true crime podcaster Ella Tate and Detective Liam Hunter dig deeper into both files, unsettling relationships ... more

Cause For Elimination

by Marla A. White

Reclaiming her life after a devastating riding accident, equestrian Emily Conners' world shatters again when she discovers her friend and boss lying in a stall with a smashed skull. Now jobless and with a handsome cop underfoot investigating the case, she's torn between wanting the killer found and keeping her own secrets safe. Detective Justin Butler always gets his killer, but this victim has a stampede of enemies and few leads to go on. Stonewalled by the tight-knit equestrian world, he lo... more

THE HUNTSMAN

by Judith Sanders

The tranquility of a small New England town is shattered when a ruthless serial killer strikes. The HUNTSMAN’s calling card: the victims’ hearts, cleaved from their young bodies, and a poisoned apple. The abductions seem to pause when the prime suspect, Lincoln Raider, falls and lands in a coma at a local hospital. ICU nurse Max Mason reads nightly to the helpless patient. It is not a kindness, for Max is sharing his own murderous thoughts. When Lincoln awakens Max is drawn into a whirlpool ... more

Salt Island (E&A Investigations Thriller Series Book 2)

by Lisa Towles

In the heart-pounding international thriller Salt Island, Mari Ellwyn, a former-CIA private investigator, finds herself thrust into a perilous wold of high-stakes corporate espionage and ecoterrorism. As her newly formed partnership with Derek Abernathy is put to the ultimate test, Mari faces a daunting challenge that forces her to confront powerful ghosts from her past.

When billionaire CEO Jack Darcy's reputation and IPO deal are under threat, Mari finds herself ent... more

Death In My Reflection: A Reese Clayton and Emerson Lake Novel

by Barbara Fournier

WHEN THE WRONG PRISONER IS DISCOVERED ON THE EXECUTION TABLE OF A SOUTH DAKOTA STATE PRISON, TWO DETECTIVES FIND THEMSELVES CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BIGGEST COVER-UP IN THE STATE’S HISTORY. Detectives Reese Clayton and Emerson Lake take on one of the most complex cases of their careers. The murder of a prominent judge and an attempt on the life of South Dakota’s governor have brought in the FBI. Now Clayton and Lake are forced to partner with the feds to hunt down an escaped death row con... more

Aggressor

by FX Holden

It is April 1 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced, it can disrupt the balance of power in the region.

But what pilot would be crazy enough to run the Chinese blockade to deliver it?

AGGRESSOR is the first novel in a new series that looks at the conflict that could spark the next World War, through the eyes of soldiers, sailors, civilians and aviat... more

Wanted: Dead or Alive (Again) (Blue Bridge Mysteries Book 2)

by Michael K. Zimmerli

Jimmy Favreaux and his partner, Pepé, return in another Blue Bridge Mystery. In Wanted: Dead or Alive (Again), Jimmy uncovers not one but two murders with surprising connections 140 years apart. Pepé is seeking a doctor whose wife believes he has died. The doctor's wife is ready to move on, but is he? Meanwhile, Jimmy chases down a stolen award-winning book manuscript, trying to avoid becoming another corpse in the process. Twists, turns, history, local color, and hijinks await readers o... more

Zamboni Is Not A Pasta

by Michael K. Zimmerli

Jimmy Favreaux moved to Northeast Florida to escape the Minnesota winters – and his past. A private investigator, he’s a finder of people, places, and things. Now people from his past have landed on his doorstep, looking for his help. Every good mystery has a dead body; this one’s in a hotel. It’s Jimmy’s job to find out if the death was natural, self-inflicted, or assisted, and – if there was help – from whom? Set on the Florida/Georgia border, Zamboni Is Not Pasta is the first story in t... more

The Dying Five (A Hospice Heroes Mystery)

by Jennifer Wright-Berryman

Murder and conspiracy are exactly what the doctor ordered, if you ask The Dying Five. Who says you can't solve crime with terminal illnesses? When Eric Graham, the CEO of an Indianapolis start-up company is gunned down on his porch after a dinner party, a group of hospice heroes and their social worker go undercover to unravel the mystery. Investigating Eric's death exposes a scheme of national proportions and tangles The Dying Five in a web of greed, power, and peril. With the life clock tic... more

DEFCON

by Michele Packard

America’s top operative, Matti Baker, is launching an all out war in this fast-paced, psychological, political thriller. There is one quality that is unique to the human species…GREED. Baker is enlisting the help of the President and her team in this fight against individual and corporate conspiracies and greed as they target her for the destruction of a virus that could solve the world’s health concerns. No more cancer, no more diabetes…if she can stay alive long enough to reprodu... more

B0BTXF6C68

by Ivan Komita

Inspired by true events, this novel introduces you to the scion of one of the richest people in Eastern Europe. An exciting thriller that immerses you in the lives of the wealthy and well-known, the world of fashion and crime, revealing the hidden truth of the situation in the countries beyond the Iron Curtain. A story of the transition in a former communist republic through the prism of a human destiny. And what a destiny… The main character falls victim of kidnappers. Shortly after he... more

DIVISIBLE MAN - TEN KEYS WEST

by Howard Seaborne

In this, the tenth stand-alone novel in the DIVISIBLE MAN series, Detective Andy Stewart experiences a terrifying incident while on duty, leading her to pursue relief from an indelible nightmare. Will deals with the aftermath of his decision to tell people he can no longer vanish, and confronts the fact that he is a terrible liar. Will and Andy collide with scheme to raise a fortune, and the people behind it for whom no life has value when billions are at stake. In the end, only the help of an u... more

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