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Muir's Gambit: A Spy Game Novel

by Michael Frost Beckner

Prequel to Beckner’s classic film Spy Game, Muir's Gambit opens with the assassination of CIA hero Charlie March. Mentor to Nathan Muir, March’s murder presents Langley the opportunity to rid themselves of Cold War dinosaur Muir. Muir's Gambit introduces hard-luck CIA lawyer Russell Aiken dispatched to force Muir’s confession. The protégé Muir cast aside for Tom Bishop, Aiken thirsts for payback. As the two spies play a cat-and-mouse interrogation, Muir's Gambit examines the lives of two men san... more

The Last Spy

by Bryan Mooney

China has been stealing America’s most treasured secrets for the past thirty years. The Chinese communists have stolen military, biomedical, computer, agricultural, and technology secrets – targeting anything representing American excellence. Thousands of incessant cyberattacks and hundreds of thousands of Chinese spies wage war daily against America and its allies. They had to be stopped. In 2016, when the latest in advanced American technology turned out to be a tremendously expensive failure... more

Terror Strikes at Dawn (The Blackwell Files Book 14)

by Steven Freeman

An Egyptian hieroglyph…a Celtic shield…a secret Gutenberg book…an English mariner’s log…an eminent scientist’s lab notes…and the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. At dawn, the fanatical Fist of God cult plans to unleash a plague that will render all non-believers sterile. A series of ancient clues scattered across the globe may hold the key to mankind’s survival…but only if pathologist Sebastian Cole—with help from NSA operatives Alton and Mallory Blackwell—can piece together the cr... more

Staccato Passage

by Joslyn Chase

While training to go undercover at a secret spy school in the heart of Bavaria, an American concert pianist must decide whom to trust when her best ally is killed, a mole infiltrates the school, and a terrorist plot to attack a nearby international peace summit unfolds around her.

Old Sins

by Lynne Handy

Battered by her archeologist lover’s betrayal, poet Maria Pell flees to an Irish village to study prehistoric people and write her next volume of poetry, but her sanctuary is invaded first by her moody cousin and then by her Togolese lover who unexpectedly show up on her doorstep. When the discovery of a girl’s body on a rocky shore reawakens Maria’s devastating childhood memory of finding a dead baby floating in a stream, her days become haunted by this child’s death. As teenage girls disappear... more

The Many Angles of Milestoneville (Milestoneville Book Series)

by Golden November

Milestoneville is an incredibly fascinating town. It’s an open world where the character roams freely, and their daily lives move alongside the fast pace of the action and drama. This novel can be considered an entry point into the Milestoneville Book Series or an advanced view of the characters. The Milestoneville book series may be read in any order; there are many angles of Milestoneville. This novel is full of action, comedy, and drama; it’s a page-turner.

BIRTHDAYS ARE MURDER

by Cindy Sample

After Sierra Sullivan is furloughed from her cruise director position, she moves to Spindrift Cove, Washington, to be closer to her married daughter. She soon discovers gigs for middle-aged entertainers are scarcer than good hair days. With her bank account sliding toward zero, she dons a ten-pound wig and elaborate costume to perform at a child’s birthday party. Little does Sierra know she’ll soon be upstaged by a corpse and become the leading-lady suspect. As the bodies pile up, the entertai... more

Purgatory, A Progeny's Quest

by T. M. Brown

Theo is knee deep in mystery—again. And it all began with a trip to an auction to help Zeb purchase a classic limo to use in the Miss Shiloh parade. Faster than you can say “come and get it”, an orphaned teenager is dropped at his door, a mobster hits town intent on making that limo his own, and a dead body is found floating in Shiloh Creek. But when Pepper and Woogie are kidnapped, Theo, Mitch, John, Hank, Camille, and more show the bad guy a thing or two about messing with folks in a small tow... more

Franco's Lost Gold

by Johan Rosenlind

In a clandestine commando raid during the Spanish civil war, over $5 billion in gold is stolen to assure Franco’s fascist victory, but the gold vanishes without a trace. More than 80 years later, Will McLaren leaves his life as dive instructor in Belize to follow a trace after his unknown father. It takes him to southern Spain, only to get caught up in a web of family secrets leading back to the heist that should have brought a swift victory to Franco. The family he finds is a southern Spanis... more

Ways to Die in Tokyo

by Thomas Ran Garver

Still reeling from his divorce two years ago and with his career on the rocks, journeyman MMA fighter Hank Fisher is over the hill and struggling to make ends meet in Tokyo. When a friend with yakuza connections offers him the opportunity to make some quick cash, Fisher hesitates at first. The job sounds too good to be true: two gangs are going to have a meeting to resolve a dispute over a wayward stripper, and one of the groups wants a big foreigner to accompany them to the meeting. They'll pay... more

Water to Bind: A Jackson Flint mystery, Yellow Springs, Ohio (Jackson Flint mysteries)

by Scott Geisel

Book #2 in the Jackson Flint mystery series Jackson Flint returns for another adventure in the funky village of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The case is not what it seems. Is there a secret to the old cabin in the woods, or is Jackson wasting his time? The stakes go higher when bikers demand an unnamed bounty and the woman who hired Jackson shoots one of them in self-defense. Jackson gets help from his ex-Marine friend Brick and tech specialist J’Leah to follow the trail of the bikers and ... more

THE POINT OF MURDER

by Lorne Kent

A gripping crime thriller about murder, bomb plots, an egotistical hero disobeying orders and an equally egotistical serial killer.

Detective Inspector Brian Golding of the Ottawa Police Service Homicide Unit uses his wits, his team of Detective Sergeants and Constables and a plethora of modern technologies to solve a baffling case of murder on his patch.

A Russian airliner is forced down over Poland due to terrorists targeting it with SAM missiles. And ... more

A Day for Bones

by Dale E. Lehman

A catastrophic flood scatters a human skeleton along Main street. As Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller investigates, the dark secrets of a successful family emerge, until someone lurking in the shadows resorts to murder to keep them hidden.

The Velvet Badge

by Bob Mantel

A tasteless night club run by a failed JFK assassination co-conspirator brings out the worst in 1970s New York. Songbird Sadasia Trayne runs into a disco-era buzz saw of wine, women, and murder when she hooks up with the Brooklyn-based creator of a notorious TV sitcom. Her frantic SOS to a long-lost love, the Big Apple’s closeted lesbian Chief of Police Detectives, drives this tale of memory and regret, compromise and topiary, politics and a corrupt press, Kris Kringle and twisted acts of lo... more

The Rain City Hustle

by M.D. Grayson

Wedding bells are about to ring for Seattle Private Iinvestigators Danny Logan and Toni Blair. The date’s four weeks out and this time there will be no more delays, no more postponements, no more excuses. Nothing will stop them. But then . . . . . Danny bumps into an old army buddy at Starbucks one morning. Her father’s prize French Impressionist painting has been stolen off the living room wall of his Bellevue condo by her conniving boyfriend, who had the bright idea to use it as collat... more

Murder by the Numbers

by Steve Leshin

Joshua Oates is back! It is 1921 and private investigator Joshua Oates moves his operations from Boston to New York City. He receives a mysterious note with an envelope full of cash from a new client to meet at the Brooklyn Bridge. The client never shows up. When he returns to his new office, Oates finds it ransacked. Shortly afterward, a young woman hires him to find who murdered her husband, a newspaper reporter with a sordid past. The hard drinking, two fisted PI must deal with mob bosses, th... more

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