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  • The Payout

    by Bryan Cassiday

    A distressed young woman falls under the spell of a homicidal maniac and becomes his partner in a murder plot to collect on his life insurance policy. Pondering suicide sitting on a Malibu dock one night after running away from home, doe-eyed young Mina Deerling meets smooth-talking Gage Catton, who is trying to load his wife’s body wrapped in a blanket onto his boat. When Catton finds out to his shock that his wife is still alive in the blanket, he talks the distraught... more

  • The Candidate

    by Jack Quinn
    Secret Service Agent JARED COUGHLIN is assigned to protect presidential candidate Senator Charles N. Robinson. When Jared inspects the senator's condo, he encounters three German-speaking burglars looking for a document. Jared kills one perpetrator, wounds another, but is shot by the third man. Lying on the floor close to death, Jared sees a picture frame with a 1939 photo of a youthful Robinson and Jared's mother. Jared is mystified that the FBI is not pursuing the murderers of the senator's dr... more

  • The Lawyer in Medellín

    by Richard Hedlund
    MI6 asks for a favour: what could possibly go wrong? Stuart Gleeman, a private and introverted lawyer, is travelling to Colombia on business. Just before he leaves, MI6 asks him for a simple favour: deliver a parcel. However, once in Medellín, Stuart finds the intended recipients dead and himself framed for their murder. Trapped in a foreign city, he goes on the run, aided by a mysterious priest and the local lawyer he was meant to meet. Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the divisive 2014 Pr... more

  • Release

    by Nina Blakeman
    The love of her life, a beautiful adopted son, a successful career in academia, Dr. Faye Davis appears to have it all. She's finally made her life into what she thinks it should be. But it came with a heavy price, a piece of her soul. Living with the things she's done to attain the perfect life has left her questioning where her ethical line lies and how far she will push it back if necessary. It all started when her relationship began with now husband, Dr. Todd Davis. Behind the scenes, there w... more

  • Outside Of Normal (Abnormal Book 1)

    by James Shay
    In Outside Of Normal, Rich Moser is making the weekly commute between his home in the Chicago area and the bank in St. Louis where he works as an attorney when he sees something along the interstate that lands him in the dark world of a killer with a grisly past. Forced to risk the safety of his family and himself, Rich enters into a desperate chase and gruesome showdown in an attempt to save the killer’s next victim.

  • The Great Game

    by D. R. Bell
    2022: a block of countries, led by China and Russia, stages an overnight financial coup to unseat the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. Fortunes are made and lost in a matter of hours. But some have more far-ranging plans than financial gain.

  • The Great Game

    by D. R. Bell
    A block of countries, led by China and Russia, stages an overnight financial coup to unseat the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. Fortunes are made and lost in a matter of hours. But some have more far-ranging plans than financial gain.

  • The Metronome

    by D. R. Bell
    Pavel Rostin has taken too many chances. Once a promising physicist, he abandoned science for finance and risked everything on a speculative venture. Careless and rogue, he gambled with his personal relationships. As Pavel tries to pick up the pieces of his life, a call from Russia informs him that his father is dead. When Pavel follows his father’s footsteps trying to solve the mystery of his death, he turns up some inexplicable clues. The investigation draws him deeper and deeper into his fami... more

  • Marshland

    by D. R. Bell
    To help his father, Ben moves back into the old neighborhood. Years ago he was a popular athlete in the local school, then a successful mid-level executive, father, husband. Now Ben is a loner, content to spend his free time in the "reality" of the internet. Ben reluctantly snaps out of his seclusion when he tries to understand why an old friend and neighbor killed himself and realizes that this is no longer the same neighborhood he grew up in. It's as if someone used resources of social media... more

  • Immortal Wounds: A Doctor Nora Kelly Mystery

    by Kate Scannell

    A doctor, struggling to recover from a devastating family trauma, is drawn back into her life during a perilous quest to solve the mystery of multiple deaths among the staff at Oakland City Hospital.

    It’s a normal workday for Dr. Nora Kelly—as normal as it can be after the traumatic loss of her family two years ago. She steps into the ER at Oakland City Hospital, wrestling with grief and self-doubt about her ability to continue practicing medicine. Early retirement incr... more

  • Nemesis

    by Cat Bruno
    Ancient gods inspire a modern crime in this intoxicating blend of myth and madness. Dandelion Jackman, a soon to be married newspaper photographer, has it all: a successful career, an ambitious and handsome fiancé, and blessings from the gods. However, a not so extraordinary day changes everything, and Dandelion discovers nothing is at it seems. Now, she will stop at nothing to even the scales of justice. Nemesis - balancer of life, daughter of Justice, and goddess of divine vengeanc... more

  • Lies She Never Told Me

    by John Ellsworth
    Lies She Never Told Me is the story of Michael Gresham's heritage, beginning with his father's father. The book features mob wars in 1920's Chicago; World War II invasions and POW camps; romance between powerful men and beautiful women; the most infamous mass murder in 1960's Chicago; and the complete growing-up story of Michael Gresham himself, from young boy to young lawyer. The book recounts the first meeting between Michael and his famous investigator Marcel in Operation Desert Shield when b... more

  • Murder in Costa Rica

    by L.D. Markham
    Divorced, overworked, and full of doubts, Laura Humphreys escapes to paradise to volunteer for a sea turtle conservation project. Her vacation is shattered when a friend is murdered. The police are understaffed, a government official may be stalling the investigation, and Laura refuses to relent. Antonio De La Torres, the lead government investigator, is determined to have an honest investigation. His attraction to Laura makes him even more committed to his goal but he may be running out of ... more

  • Ithaca's Soldier

    by Kelly Utt

    Rocket scientist. Ex-military hero. Fiercely devoted family man.

    When George Hartmann's past life as an Ancient Greek soldier catches up to his new life in Upstate New York, a violent break-in endangers his sons and brings the terrifying realization that centuries-old demons may be back to haunt them.

    Will George be able to protect the ones he loves and find lasting peace?

    Ithaca's Soldier is the first book in the twisty psychological thril... more

  • Power Void

    by Edward Vickery
    Professor Will Childress is immersed in a complicated, high-stakes quest. A large grant enables him to begin a research project to pursue new photovoltaics techniques that will bring low-cost electricity to the 1.2 billion people who now have no access to it in developing countries. He teams up with professors and students at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru and a solar panel manufacturer in India to invent a radical transformation of existing solar technology. Complexities of unive... more

  • Wide Window

    by Lauren dysim
    Nina and Max live their mother. When Nina goes to restroom something is wrong. A window is open. Mom says there was never a bathroom window. One day she walks to the same room and finds her mom lying on the floor. Is she dead? And How?

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