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The Hidden Hand of Death (The Jack Ryder Mysteries Book 1)

by Lawrence J. Epstein

It is early in 1942. The war with Germany has just begun. Jack Ryder, who calls himself a fixer rather than a detective, wanders the darkest nights to his office in a back booth at an all-night diner. Ryder is famous for killing members of the mob who have crossed their bosses by hurting innocent people. Ryder also helps ordinary people in trouble. An enemy—a homicide detective—comes to hire Ryder to find the detective’s missing sister. Ryder also gets involved in going up against some Nazis ... more

Winter Road

by mickey mikkelson

HOLIDAY ROAD On the heels of a bad breakup, Amelia Montgomery heads home for the holidays. Her hometown is a far cry from the metropolis where she lives now, but not nearly far enough away from Jake Grayson. TERROR ROAD Amelia's family festivities turn terrifying when a distraught Jake shows up uninvited on the Montgomery's doorstep. Jake will not stop until he possesses Amelia; one way or another, she will be his. DEADLY ROAD In a chilling nightmare, one man's obsession is so evil, it'... more

The House Always Wins (First Printing)

by Tom Minder

A tale of murder, mayhem, magic, and cheesesteaks. Someone is shooting up Dirty Sam’s. Will the Long Harbor police get their man, or woman, before a casino heist, a slots player who disappears in a puff of smoke, a crossbow-toting florist, and an undercover agent who makes a mean goulash, complicate the investigation? Oh, for the simpler days of illegal gambling.

Kill Tide: A Pepper Ryan Thriller

by Timothy Fagan

A kidnapped girl. A terrified Cape Cod. And a police cadet in way over his head… It’s summertime on Cape Cod. Pepper Ryan’s biggest worries are a crummy love life and doubts about his supposedly bright future. But then a teenage girl is kidnapped, stunning her beach town. The police launch a manhunt to catch the brazen kidnapper nicknamed the Greenhead Snatcher. Pepper attempts to find the girl himself, but the only thing he finds is trouble. Then the Greenhead Snatcher strikes again. ... more

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by Joanne Carota

Kate Finn grew up on the South Boston docks idolizing her commercial fisherman father, Seamus Finn and his friends. Now she’s a marine biologist working for the FDA who still spends as much time as she can on the docks near this salty crew. That is, until one misty morning when she discovers her father’s best friend, Sammy, dead on the docks. All signs point toward Seamus.

Death of a Zen Master

by Cornelia Feye

Private security specialist Greg Stern is a reluctant guest in a remote and inaccessible Zen monastery. His wife, Vega, sent him there after a marital transgression to ponder and improve his interaction with women. When a dead boy is found in the meditation hall, the group of eclectic guests and monastics find themselves caught in an enchanted valley with a murderer in their midst.\t

Three Graves

by Zack Kaplan

A wisecracking former LAPD Detective has his life shattered, his wife murdered, narrowly escaping the wrath of a ruthless gangster. What started off as mistaken identity becomes personal, when Colin Graves sets a plan into motion; a quest for vengeance. Fueled by booze, painkillers, acerbic wit, Colin teams up with his brother to take down the man that took away everything. With a cast of characters, running the gamut from struggling actors to albino henchman, a pedophile, a serial killer, the R... more

Falling Plaster

by Laura Jenski

Some murders are best left buried. Monica Klimek doesn’t believe her mother’s car crash was an accident. Or suicide. Her brother would think so, too, if only she could find him. He left an indelible bruise on her heart when he walked out of her life twenty-seven years earlier. An old friend of Monica’s, now a Chicago cop, offers to help find her brother and investigate the circumstances surrounding her mother’s death. In exchange, she applies her computer expertise to his clandestine polic... more

The Bayou Moon

by Jerome Mark Antil

The Bayou Moon takes the reader from the bawdy, boisterous night life of New Orleans into the dangerous world of the Louisiana bayous as it chronicles the evolution of one Boudreau Clemont (“Peck”) Finch, a poor, young, illiterate Cajun, barely surviving on the bottom rung of society, through a series of astonishing and improbable adventures—some poignant, some violent, some romantic, some hilarious—that ultimately lifts him from the depths of despair and deprivation, to a life of happiness and ... more

The Masque

by Matts Djos

New Orleans, 1970: Meet Ginny and Nathan, two lovers who disdain boundaries are thrust into a Nineteenth Century a world of terror they could never have imagined. Adult language, mature content ISBN 9798632724982

Enigma of Lake Falls

by Brittany E. Brinegar

Lake Falls, Texas 1949 – The Year Spies Invaded. Sawyer Finn, the fedora-wearing detective with a photographic memory moves back to his home town after graduating from Yale. Jenny Nicolay, the Harvard grad with a shadowy past ends up in Lake Falls, Texas to start over. Together Jenny and Sawyer become swashbuckling heroes who might just have feelings for each other. Moments after hanging the open sign, Sawyer’s Investigations hears rumors of a Soviet Spy. Jenny’s stubborn pursuit of the truth pu... more

Killer Soul Mate

by Ken Hicks

Jane Larson is back, and trouble abounds on New York’s Upper East Side!

A new client hires Jane to undo the terms of a matrimonial agreement with her ex-husband, the owner of a prosperous hedge fund who does not like to lose. At the same time, Jane’s landlord is working to evict her from the storefront law office where her mother had practiced for many years, and Jane is forced to fight to save her mother’s legacy. However, it seems there is no way she can win.

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August in D Minor

by J. Charmein Everett

Thirty years is a long time to forget why August Paciorko would have left his family for Ariel Kahn. Except, he hasn’t forgotten, he never did. That fact becomes even more apparent when they reunite at his daughter’s wedding reception. J. Charmein Everett’s August in D Minor is a fun and sophisticated page-turner that is gloriously original.

Kissed: A Cat Miranda Mystery

by C.J. Shane

Cat Miranda returns to her childhood home in Bisbee, Arizona, to take over her brother’s art gallery following his untimely death. On her first night home, an intruder breaks in. Cat quickly realizes that she is being targeted by a murderer with links to an 8-foot tall painting in the gallery titled “Kissed.” In her struggle to stay safe, Cat finds an ally in Miles Trevelyan, a charming visiting British scholar. The heat rises with more assaults on Cat and between Cat and Miles, too, as their fe... more

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by Albin Benny

cleaning is one of the most difficult daily life tasks for many people , right now style nobody gets time for legitimate cleaning especially in highly developed nations like dubai, Rak etc,everybody is in rush, yet individuals cannot maintain a strategic distance from it as everybody wish to leave in a spotless and perfect region, if there should be an occurrence of wide regions and territories in hight, for example, instructive foundations, mechanical zones , sign loads up and so on , cleaning... more

The Divided Twin

by M. Billiter

Everyone has a voice in their head. Mine is just a little louder. Identical twins Aaron and Branson Kovak are in their final year of college—Aaron’s in Ohio, while Branson remains in their home state of Wyoming. There’s also the third twin, David, who only exists in one of their minds. Despite the distance between them, Aaron and Branson are united by a turbulent childhood they survived together. As they enter adulthood, David comes out of the shadows to wreak havoc on the real world—his i... more

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