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Time After Tyme

by Kay DiBianca

When strange, coded messages turn up in the chapel prayer box at Bellevue University, the minister suspects a recent campus death may have been murder, so he enlists the help of amateur sleuths Kathryn Frasier and Cece Goldman to decipher the codes and solve the mystery. But when a couple of young girls get wind of it, they decide to find the killer on their own. Almost everyone on campus has something to hide, and the story fluctuates between the rational search for the truth by the adults, and... more

Murders On The Ridge

by Andrea Smith

Eight bodies were found in less than four hours in Briar County, Ohio . Every significant member of the Hatfield family of Briarton, their ages ranging from 16 to 44, were shot execution-style inside of four different homes not far apart. Local, Federal and State law enforcement officers have swarmed the community, interviewing more than 50 people and combing the wooded areas surrounding the crime scenes. Sheriff Charles Ridley called the investigation one of the largest in Briar County histo... more

Deadly Declarations

by Landis Wade

It's modern day in the New South City of Charlotte, North Carolina, when three retirees at the Independence Retirement Community, a/k/a The Indie, team up to investigate two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and leave his $50 million fortune to Sue Ellen Parke... more

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by Stephen W. Hiemstra

What happens when an online date goes horribly wrong? Luke Stevens meets Abi Ling online and they meet for a quiet summer evening walking around Baltimore Harbor. When they step into a coffee shop, a terrorist team attempts to snatch Abi at gun point. Luke saves the day and pays the ultimate price, but U.S. relations with China preclude him from dying just yet—Abi is the daughter of the Chinese premier. The CIA recruits Luke’s father, the divorced Pastor Phil Stevens, to masquerade as his so... more

Iron Curtain

by Raf Beuy

The Wall is in Berlin, Gorbachev is in the Kremlin, and the gloomy American citizen Adam Hedman is trapped behind the Iron Curtain in the German East. A dangerous game begins when a coworker’s sister vanishes under mysterious circumstances, sparking Adam’s fighting spirit again. A fast-paced adventure brings our hero as far as Russia. Always at his back are the German Stasi and the Russian KGB. Who will win this high-stakes game of life and death? Iron Curtain is the first novel of the Adam Hedm... more

Mystery at Breezy Bay

by B.E. Maahs

When Emma Everett arrives in Breezy Bay on Vancouver Island, all she wants to do is forget about Hunter, the man who broke her heart, and start a new life helping her sister Amanda launch her bed and breakfast. Emma finds the best way to escape the pain of her past relationship is by hunting truffles with Amanda’s faithful German Shepherds, King and Flare. One day, while Emma is out searching for the delicate fungi on the local trail, King unearths not the hoped-for truffles but a body. When ... more

Murder at Westminster

by Magda Alexander

Amateur sleuth Kitty Worthington once more jumps into the fray to catch the wily murderer of a high-ranking member of the nobility. Can she catch the killer before her sister's beloved pays the ultimate price?

London. 1923. Much to her consternation, Kitty Worthington's debut season is a resounding success, prompting marriage proposals from lords, rogues, scoundrels, and ne'er do wells. Even as she dodges them, a new intrigue arises, and at ... more

The Lake Templeton Murders

by HS Burney

A body washes up on the shores of Lake Templeton, a small town on the coast of Vancouver Island. Sharon Reese, the victim, was a dedicated government employee. Everyone liked her, but no one knew much about her. Was she hiding something? Maybe a questionable past riddled with scandal. And did it lead to her plunge to death, in a drunken stupor, off the dock outside her secluded lakefront lodge? Was it an accident? A suicide? Or cold-blooded murder? Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, is determi... more

Quiet, Pretty Things

by Megan Stockton

Small town detectives investigate a string of puzzling local murders, and tensions rise as fatal mistakes inadvertently direct the killer's focus onto them.

Devil's Ledger: A Female Sleuth Financial Thriller with International Espionage (A Louise Moscow Novel Book 3)

by Lorraine Evanoff

Coming off the award-winning success of her first two Louise Moscow novels FOLIAGE and PINOT NOIR, author Lorraine Evanoff re-imagines her feisty sleuth in DEVIL’S LEDGER. Ten years after her last major ‘banker’s grave’ case, and now officially recruited to the CIA’s financial crimes division, Louise Moscow is ready to shed her cover as a restaurateur and lavender farmer in Burgundy, France, and get back into the game. This time, she returns to uncover devastating corruption behind the wo... more

The Obituary Page

by David Ackley

A stagnant case suddenly comes back to life when Robert Armlin’s cell phone shows up on the body of a Portland vagrant. Armlin, the missing Oregon Sentinel opinion page editor who was presumed to have met a bad end, becomes once again one of detective Galen Young’s primary assignments. The appearance of a ransom note only serves to increase the Portland Police Bureau’s suspicions that Armlin may still be alive but in danger. At the same time, Galen becomes enmeshed in complications arising fr... more

The Last of Her

by Brent Spencer

When a disgraced Army intelligence agent tries to prove her innocence, she exposes a dark conspiracy that will do anything and kill anyone to protect itself. Hella Duran was “a good piece of gear,” according to her CO. But then she was blamed for a bad drone strike that killed innocent people and almost killed her. Now, rejected by the Army, by her family, and by her hometown, she realizes the only way to win her life back is to find out what really happened that day. But her investigat... more

DOUBLEBLIND

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

With little work during the Covid pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth, Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly after her Covid booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the one-time Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon Fundamentalist. Back in Evanston, after Georgia... more

Necat

by Jos Crane

In the world of Necat, strangers are warped into a white room an instant before they die. This room prepares them for a world not too dissimilar from their own, with one key difference: there is no one except this group of people and a demon. In this world, they fight for their lives to earn points and return to their natural world after the demon is defeated as if nothing ever happened. The cycle continues until they have accumulated enough points to break it. NECAT follows the stories of ma... more

Preacher Raises the Dead (Evan Wycliff #3)

by Gerald Everett Jones

Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. Evan attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back — and claims to be converted! Shackleton’s money sustains a critical-care me... more

Jamoulks

by Roland Miranda

In the chaotic days following the stock market crash people everywhere scrambled to make a living, but behind the Steak Out life went on as usual for King and his boys. The Maestro hustled his opera talks, Manny the mouse ran errands and Charlie and Bill snatched a purse here and there. Life was good. Then Snorky made King a present and everything went to hell in a hurry, ‘Moulks were smashing bums and trashing squats and making the streets unsafe for man or beast. If the old Chinese gent had... more

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