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Trail of Deception

by C.L. Brees

THE CORONER RULED HER DEATH A SUICIDE. UNFORTUNATELY, THINGS IN CEDAR LAKE ARE NEVER SO CLEAR-CUT. Lindsay Ross. The outspoken, hold-nothing-back school newspaper editor had dirt on everybody in the little Saskatchewan town. The girl with an endless list of invisible enemies. The girl DS Anderson and Gemma found hanging in the sawmill outside town on that May evening in 2009. Her death made front-page news for weeks, but she was just another grim case of suicide by the end of the investigatio... more

Where No Man Pursueth

by Micheal E. Jimerson

Young Ray Elliott comes of age in the South during segregation enforced by Jim Crow laws. The murder of a leading citizen presents him a series of fateful decisions, turning a hard scrabble farmer’s future like a kaleidoscope. He makes a fateful promise to protect a fugitive from lynching, whatever the cost. Meanwhile, bank president Richard Watersong uses the distraction of his father-in-law’s murder to embezzle money and abscond to Cuba with a pregnant girl named Queen. His disgra... more

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by moy roy

Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery

by Mark McNease

In the 6th book in the series, Kyle Callahan and his husband Danny Durban have decided to leave New York City to start a new life in the idyllic river town of Lambertville, New Jersey. They open a bed and breakfast, and soon discover that murder and mayhem are waiting to check in. There’s a writers conference in town, with big names and big egos heading for a clash—and a killing—of titans. No sooner has the ink dried on the guest registry than Kyle finds himself pursuing another murderer, th... more

Eye on the Prize: The Art of Deception

by KC Avalon

Tragedy strikes Marco's life and his dreams are shattered in the blink of an eye. Life gives him a second chance. His sense of entitlement allows him to believe that he deserves more than anyone else. Money, greed, and lies deceive everyone involved while Marco has his eyes on the prize.

A Lesson in Reunions and Murder

by David Unger, PhD

The seventh in the series takes place in Palm Springs, California, where the Inaugural Comedy Conference is underway and I've been asked to be a presenter. While murder is no laughing matter, plenty of people were enjoying themselves while I got tied up in trying to solve the mystery.

One London Day

by C.C. Humphreys

July 30th 2018. It’s the hottest Summer in fifty years and Joseph Severin, a respectable North London businessman, has taken on a lucrative side job. He’s doing the books, old school, (because these days the only trail you can’t trace is a paper one) for a rogue MI5 outfit, the Shadows, headed by clever, psychopathic Sebastien. When the game is rumbled, he sends their hitman, Mr Phipps, to kill Severin and get those books back.

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Faithless: A Jane Doe Thriller (Jane Doe Cycle Book 1)

by Steven Ramirez

In a secret lab, a woman awakens from a bizarre dream. She’s alone, immersed in a tank with wires and tubes. The other test subjects are dead—drowned in black water. Her only memory is dying from her wounds during a night raid in Afghanistan. Something brought her back, uninjured. Men in gray suits try to end Jane. Each time they shoot her, she heals. Leaving a trail of bodies, she runs. Now, she must discover who these men are and why they want her dead. But a debilitating fever rages inside Ja... more

Project Renaissance: White Wings

by Brian Gates

Detective Booker Vaux arrives home to discover his family has vanished without a trace. No DNA has been found by forensics, and no one witnessed the crime. Aided by an Anonymous hacker, a conspiracy emerges that points to Solis—the largest corporation in existence and creator of the AOL, a contact lens that augments reality—as the perpetrator. With questions of how and why Solis would kidnap his family wracking his brain, Booker heads west with his partner Sam to uncover the mystery. The gamb... more

A Mistake Incomplete

by Lorenzo Petruzziello

A NEO-NOIR CAPER SET IN MODERN-DAY MILAN. An incompetent thief makes another attempt at burglary. A hopeless bartender struggles to manage her last patron. The pair reluctantly work together to figure out why a man they presumed dead may have returned, while a lonely tourist inadvertently gets in the way.

The Export

by JK Kelly

Matt Christopher was an FBI Special Agent with an incredible intuition and a passion for going after abusers of any kind. Once his pursuits took him too close to the richest and most powerful in Washington he was given a choice - face a conviction and jail time for a crime he didn't commit or leave the country and work overseas. That was the day he became THE EXPORT. On a personal excursion to see Base Camp on Everest his talents are put to use when a murder is discovered but weather and an ... more

The Tenant

by Keith Veverka

For Alex Mason, the landlord of a luxury apartment complex in northwest Philadelphia, his newest tenant, a professional young woman with excellent references, is almost too good to be true -- a stroke of good luck.

But then, as a series of mysterious incidents unnerve the other residents and cause damage to the property, Alex suspects his perfect tenant is the culprit.

Hindered by the state's laws and lacking evidence for law enforcement to intervene, he undertakes his own inv... more

Hiding in Plain Sight

by Lorhainne Eckhart

A long-buried secret that was never meant to be uncovered could suddenly put a target on both Detective Mark Friessen and Billy Jo McCabe.

When the Luck Runs Dry

by Stephen Hayes

Given up for dead, Patrick Farley returns home to pay a gambling debt to the Mob, but finds he’s been framed for murder. His luck’s run dry so he makes his own, and it becomes a dangerous game filled with sex, drugs, violence and betrayal. Can he hold on to the beauty he also finds waiting for him here in the heart of this broken- down city, and follow its path back home?

The Raven Sound

by Kit Derrick

“Have you ever then woken up thirty years into your own past with a hazy memory that someone has just predicted your imminent death, but you don’t know why or how? It can have a tendency to sharpen the mind…”

Jack is sixty, scouse, irritable and an alcoholic. Those are his good points. Forced to talk to an annoyingly over-friendly and odd stranger in the pub, he receives a very surprising and unwelcome prediction that he only has sixteen hours left to live. The ... more

Birth Order

by Audrey Miller

Power. Privilege. Paparazzi. Pregnancy. Princess. Birth Order is a gripping modern tale about an ancient tradition Angela Francis is a London obstetrician/gynecologist to the wealthy and powerful. Her star patient, Clementine, Princess of Wales, is having twins. Clementine is happy to be having both a boy and a girl, and is thrilled that the girl is positioned to deliver first, making her daughter the future Queen of England. But when Angela makes a brief trip to the United States, Clementine... more

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