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Unravelling

by Helen Forbes

Incarcerated in the gloom of a Highland asylum, a young mother finds illicit love. And death.

Kate Sharp’s family is a mystery. Her mother, Ellen, disappeared into the shadows of Craig Dunain psychiatric hospital when Kate was a child. When her grandmother dies, Kate is desperate for answers. What were the circumstances of her mother’s life and death? Who is her father?

Kate’s not the only one trying to uncover ... more

Lover Girl

by Stephen Kronwith

In a novel filled with comedy, romance and edge-of-your-seat suspense, a legendary, retired hitman and a younger, ambivalent assassin who has just discovered a long-buried family secret, join forces to rescue a kidnapped child, while they, themselves, are being hunted by a third, sadistic predator––with orders to kill them both.

Clarity Through Chaos

by RA Ferrell

This all-American family is about to go up in flames. In Stella’s life, everything is going along pretty well. She has a great new house, a good-looking husband, and a baseball-loving teenage son. Life is busy, but whose isn’t? She is thinking maybe her marriage is feeling a bit stale. Stella’s life is about to get exciting and not in the way she had hoped for.

The Darque Side

by Steve Burkart

When a four-man team of Iranian terrorists surreptitiously enters the US, the desecrated body of a Border patrol Agent near the Mexican Border is a harbinger of future events. The team's goal to attack 'soft' targets in the nation's capital and kill as many Americans as possible, to include the President, is thwarted by John Darque and the covert organization he heads. While investigating the incidents, Darque realized he was fighting two battles, one global and one personal, that were somehow c... more

Potager Plot

by Vikki Walton

When Anne stumbles upon a dead body, she's drawn into a deadly plot. While the death of the garden club president appears accidental, rumors and questions soon emerge. Was the death deliberate? Anne knows that the truth often hides in the smallest of details, and as she digs further, more dirt is revealed into the lives of the garden club members.

Chatelet

by joseph aragon

Now and Then Stab

by Anna Castle

London, 1593. An anonymous ballad calls for violence. The mayor offers 100 crowns for the author’s name. Thomas Clarady wants that money and drags Francis Bacon in to help. Then the authorities turn on two popular playmakers. One is tortured. Another is killed in a brawl. The official story seems plausible, but Tom doesn’t buy it. He refuses stop digging, uncovering a plot best left buried. Bacon and his team must hazard their lives to find the truth. Whether justice can be obtained is another m... more

Not Today! A Dora's Rage Mystery - Book 1

by David E. Feldman

The disguised voice on the phone claims City Hall is infested with corruption caused by a murder “that wasn’t a murder,” but when Dora’s beloved Lt. Franny Hart investigates and tragedy strikes, the enraged natural born fighter won’t let it stand … NOT TODAY - Dora’s Rage Series, Book 1. Deborah “Dora” Ellison’s job collecting garbage, usually by lifting and “tipping” the filled garbage containers with one hand, has made her freakishly strong. At her lover, Beach City Police Lieutenant France... more

Lotty Enters the Building

by Louise Embling

Lotty is a clumsy single Forensic Scientist, and there are many reasons for that; more people have seen the Holy Grail than have seen Lotty’s genitals. But that will soon be changing, as she sets out to solve the murder of a gossip columnist, all while trying to control her flatulence in the presence of a recently relocated Detective Sergeant. Not forgetting using a marital aid as a self-defence weapon...

The Hammer

by Scott Shepherd

Aiden devoted thirty years of his life to the NYPD wherein he worked aggressively as a street cop and homicide detective. Friends and colleagues affectionately dubbed him ‘The Hammer’. His retirement from the NYPD was a bittersweet turning point in his life. In 2015, Aiden decided to retire and live a quiet life with his wife, Alexis, in the fictional small town of Hill Valley, Tennessee. What began as a quiet and seemingly perfect retirement quickly turns into a world filled with rage and grief... more

The Hope Affair

by Jim Chambers

Fraud, murder, sexual exploitation and political corruption threaten the worlds of young businessman, Christopher Townsend and civil servant, Caroline Hope. Christopher’s dreams of riches are in peril whilst Caroline becomes suicidal. And government collapse seems likely. Christopher Townsend is a motivated young businessman determined to prove himself in the wake of his abusive father’s damning comments. He identifies an outlet for his ambitions and quest for success in the corporate world, whe... more

The Revenge

by Steven Bosworth

Following the aftermath of the Pearson money house robbery and the eradication of the gang members due to their betrayal, Dean Nash is now a criminal on the run and is still trying to piece together the memories from his previous life when he worked for a secret government agency that was headed by a team of powerful businessmen called the cardinals. Nash still has feeling of regret following the death of the director of intelligence John Wagstaff who had approached Dean to work for him. Unsure ... more

A Needle in the Eye

by Shawn Scuefield

A crime from the past revisited...Retired detectives Robert Raines and Dale Gamble are horrified to learn three young black girls have been kidnapped from Englewood…again! A copycat has re-created the decades old crime that scarred both men during their days with the Chicago Police Department. But unlike in the original case, this perpetrator leaves taunting clues and has made it a game with a chilling stipulation: Find the girls within 72 hours, or they die!<... more

The Mortality in Lies

by Scott Gibson

In Belle Epoque Paris, British journalist Percy Welles hires the beautiful and eccentric Georges Seigneur to help him run a news wire service. Georges draws Welles into an examination of the notorious Dreyfus Affair, the case of a French officer unmasked as a traitor and a spy. But Welles has a secret, one he cannot reveal to Georges: he has been sent to Paris by the British government to run an agent of his own. Torn between his love for Georges and his duty to his country, Welles attempts to s... more

Sideslip

by Barry Freeman

Security chief for a private airport sounded like the perfect job for Ross Coe. Washed-out fighter pilot at 24, retired military cop at 30, and Private Investigator at 40, he has a chance to begin again on the home airfield he left twenty years before. His antique airplane is without wings, his family home is torched by persons unknown and he is forced to live in a barn converted to an airplane hangar with two cats without names.

At the Wilson Airpark crimes begin on the ground an... more

Dark Justice

by James Musgrave

The supernatural curse of the tribe’s Skinwalker witches, in the form of a coyote, which allegedly can run on two legs like a man, and the strange practices of the Navaho Medicine man and his deaf assistant, cause this mystery to evolve into a much bigger conundrum than merely that of abortion. The search for truth will end on the Navaho Nation’s land, under less than ideal circumstances.

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