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Perils of a Pregnant Sleuth

by Dershie McDevitt

Ferociously independent biology professor, Callahan Banks, is thirty-two years old, six months pregnant, and happily single living in the wilds of her childhood home on Timicau Island, South Carolina. But there are complications. The baby’s father, a wealthy forty-two-year-old bachelor, Pepper Dade, owns the island and is determined to marry her and raise their child together.

When nine-year-old triplets relocate to the island and stumble upon the body of a stranger wrapped in bar... more

A Crime Story: A Mother-Daughter Cozy Mystery

by Richard E. LaMotte

Stuff happens in this Cozy Mystery... Clair is divorced, broke, and trying to get to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. Her near-teenage daughter Mindy hates the idea. When they’re almost killed in an accident and the car suffers a breakdown, they find themselves stranded in a small town. Clair and Mindy decide to use their downtime to write a make-believe crime story and inadvertently start digging into a twenty-year-old unsolved murder that still haunts the town. Townspeople take sides ... more

Hard Noir Holiday

by Kirk Alex

Hard Noir Holiday: A Doc Holiday Private Investigator Mystery (Book 4) Welcome to rattlesnake country. Where a certain desert rat type is far deadlier than a diamondback. When L.A. Private Investigator Edgar “Doc” Holiday arrives at the home of an old friend in Tucson, Arizona, instinct tells him something is wrong: the car isn’t in the driveway, fresh blood is dripping from a hand print on the doorjamb and no one appears to be in, not even the family dog. But soon Doc makes a disco... more

Mother May I?

by Teresa Phelan

Surrey, British Columbia, is the province's second-largest by population after Vancouver and is home to Lucy’s family—a tight-knit group formed by their parent’s second marriage’s and held together by Lucy’s indomitable spirit and unwavering support. After years of struggle as a single parent Lucy is devastated after she remarries and loses her son to fentanyl poisoning. Then she is devastated by the loss of her teenage grandson to suicide. Reeling from these losses and struggling with her own m... more

Hibridos

by Nihil List Christo

The novel starts off with Rick "The Hellion" Benton and El Cerebro in Arizona State Prison. As they hear of their long waiting executions for crimes that got them more than a life sentence, they decide to escape. When they escape they flee to Mexico with help of the Main 6's Motorcycle Coalition that stretches far beyond the American border. A friend of Emilia's disappears from the party the night before while the two made a pit stop in Tijuana, and rumors of a serial killer grow. The Capo w... more

Frightful Friday

by Denise Jaden

An upset at the Harvest Festival , a Fright Night fundraiser with a deadly twist, and a realtor-turned-sleuth caught in the middle of both. Tabby is finally ready to go on a casual fun date with Detective Jay Jameson at the local church’s Harvest Festival, but her witch friends are holding their Fright Night fundraiser that same night. She feels caught in the middle of a long-standing quarrel between the two groups, especially when a dead body shows up at the center of it all. As blame-shi... more

Thrilling Thursday

by Denise Jaden

A seaside town selling the supernatural, a fun-fair ride with a deadly twist, and a realtor-turned-sleuth rediscovering her purpose. Tabby is settling into Crystal Cove, Oregon, and her new home on a magic-infused houseboat when the summer fair comes to town. She and her newly inherited cat, Sherlock, operate the coffee truck while screams of excitement erupt from nearby rides. Soon the fun screams turn to shrieks of horror when a dead body is discovered on one of the rides, and Tabby may be th... more

The Last Temptation (Colorado Skies Book 3)

by Amy O. Lewis

In book three of the Colorado Skies mystery series, Kim Jackson learns she isn’t the only one trying to outrun her past. Murder has a way of finding Kim Jackson, even in the small mining town of Creede, Colorado. Forced to leave Durango behind and move on, Kim is now working in Creede’s tax accounting office, trying not to get attached. Her life is simple and quiet until the day an unusual young woman, Laurie Beltran, walks through her door with a sticky tax problem. Laurie is pious and seemi... more

Nighthawks

by Lee Adams

In the center of a three-block stretch of abandoned dirt, a diner is resurrected where it stood sixty years before. And it looks exactly like the original, but for the dead girl on the welcome mat. Julie Page, the new owner, is a writer of waning prestige and questionable talent, already haunted by personal demons in addition to the ghosts she may have just inherited. Compelled to figure out what happened the day before the door was open to the public and who killed the young woman found ... more

5th and Vanguard

by Lee Adams

5th and Vanguard is set in a seaside town called Berle and narrated by Julie Page, an ex-junkie and writer who had retired her writing (and other addictions) for a more conventional life. But inspiration pays a call one windy night in front of Bob's Liquor Palace as a glamorous, disfigured old woman emerges from the backseat of a Cadillac and offers Julie one more chance at taking chances. This darkly comic mystery explores the pock-marked inner and outer world of its heroine as she faces he... more

Three On A Match

by Anthony Cain

Fred Stiles is trying to leave San Francisco when he meets an old, disabled private investigator who needs help solving a strange crime – an apartment has been robbed of everything, literally. The shower curtain, the soap in the soap dish. There's a woman to impress, and a fee that will allow him to pay his back rent and get a moving truck out of town. Stiles embarks on a journey that leads him to a San Francisco he never knew existed with people he never wanted to meet. When his investigation d... more

A Death at the Potawatomi Club

by Stephen Timbers

Charlie Bailey becomes an amateur sleuth when suspected of the murder of a friend and client. He outinvestigates the police while exposing his family and himself to the crosshairs of the real killer.

Danger to the Throne: Kopp Chronicles

by Gregory Kopp

Uncannily similar to current political events, an impeached president makes unfounded claims of election fraud as a mob storms a government building, and challenges to voting rights increase; while a beautiful French spy and an intrepid Scotland Yard detective are thrust into tumultuous American and European capital intrigue. Enjoy the next exciting volume, based on a true story, of the powerful and epic Kopp Chronicles series.

A Death in Berlin

by David C. Dawson

Berlin 1933: When the parties stop...the dying begins The city that’s been a beacon of liberation during the 1920s is about to become a city of deadly oppression. BBC foreign correspondent Simon Sampson risks his life in a bid to save thousands of gay men from the growing Nazi threat. This is the second in the Simon Sampson mystery series. The first, A Death in Bloomsbury, was hailed as ‘a good old-fashioned John Buchan-esque mystery reworked for the twenty-first century’. Simon moves to Berl... more

The Lawyer's Angel

by Scott Allen Benkie

Attorney James Crosson is in the grips of despair, blaming himself for his wife’s death. A widow hires him to pursue a wrongful death case on behalf of her late husband who died in a seemingly ordinary car wreck. Crosson must confront his own tragic loss and gambling debts as he unravels the plot hatched by a deranged corporate tyrant who will stop at nothing to conceal the truth, take down the lawyer, and preserve his empire. With Vegas goons closing in and everything at stake, Crosson goes all... more

Bad Cop

by Peter Sarda

After putting away the head of the Albanian mafia in Hamburg, Homicide Detectives Thomas Ritter and Motz Beck are confronted with a bloody war to control the local drug trade in the mobster’s absence. First an Albanian courier is shotgunned to death at the edge of Hamburg Harbor. Then a Hells Angel gets the same treatment on the Alster River. As the bodies pile up, Ritter and Beck are forced to work with an organized crime expert, a burned-out narcotics agent with his own drug issues. B... more

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