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Beneath the Surface

by Tara Marlow

They’re on the run. Grace doesn’t know why but her father insists it's the only way.

She’s clinging to her mantra: ‘Finish high school. Turn eighteen. Freedom.’

She’s almost there but now she’s wondering if she can survive that long. Her father has never been father of the year.

Since landing in Sydney, her recurring nightmares are coming hard and fast. A red suitcase. Thorns. A phone number she can... more

Eden Sinclair leaves a broken marriage and the Blue Moon Trailer Park in Chicago to search for her missing cousin, Jess, in a Florida coastal community's fluid world of booze, sex, drugs, shady deals, and surfing. For nineteen-year-old Eden, finding answers and someone to trust are as elusive as the shadows lurking beneath the waves. When she makes a connection between Jess and another missing young woman, Eden lures a merciless killer into her arms to get the evidence she needs to avenge Jess.

Supreme Threat - A Logan Alexander Thriller

by T.L. Williams

North Korea has hatched a plan to attack the United States. Secret operatives from the North Korean Intelligence Service have infiltrated sensitive national security installations. They are awaiting final approval from North Korea's Supreme Leader. CIA operative, Logan Alexander, is on temporary assignment to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he learns of the insidious plot. He is in a race against time to foil the operation, which if successful, will change history forever.

Deadline: New York

by Jim Lester

Set in the summer of 1952, Deadline:New York centers on the emerging paperback book industry in New York City. The protagonist is a former Naval intelligence officer and best-selling writer of paperback adventure novels who is asked by a secretary at his publishing house to investigate the suicide of her boyfriend. At the heart of the investigation is a state senate hearing on obscenity in the paperback industry and a widespread conspiracy inside the United States government, law enforcement a... more

Dread Watch

by Jared Agard

A secret fear. An antique pocket watch with a tragic past. When 8th grader Caleb Meyer stumbles upon the old watch at an abandoned railroad museum, he's sure that if he has it, all his fears will vanish. But the watch is more than just spindles and gears. A twisted ghost lives within, a Dreadmonger, feeding off the fears of his victims. And Caleb, seeking to finally be rid of his secret, is walking right into the Dreadmonger's trap.

Rumpa and the Snufflewort / 978-1777734725

by Jean Paetkau

Written for readers aged 6-12, the excitement of Rumpa and the Snufflewort begins when the siblings discover magical bubbles pouring out of the taps in their house instead of water. They soon meet up with the fantastical Snufflewort who need the help of Yacob and Baley for a daring rescue mission. The children and their new friends must battle a cat that might be a dragon and face the terrors of the green vugga.

The Chameleon

by Ron McManus

Jake Palmer, investigative consultant and former US Navy SEAL, has signed on as a contractor with a top-secret US Joint Special Operations Command team in Islamabad, Pakistan. Palmer and his JSOC partner work to uncover a suspected mole and gather intelligence regarding the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapon arsenal as the country prepares for war with India over control of the disputed region of Kashmir. Fears regarding security of the weapons escalate when Pakistan decides to deploy its ars... more

Reefenue

by John Harrington

Reefer plus revenue: the endless opportunities to benefit society, arrived through an entertaining, suspenseful and poignant story.

THE GIRL FROM LONG GUYLAND

by LARA REZNIK

MEMOIR MEETS THRILLER: Set against a 1969 psychedelic love-in backdrop, The Girl From Long Guyland is shared through the eyes of Laila Levin when decades later, an unsolved murder pulls her reluctantly into her past. A dramatic collision of then and now -- entwining family, marriage, profession and ethics. Laila enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can't quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere. When her com... more

Boy Between Worlds Book Two: The Novice Collector

by Cynthia Huijgens

In Boy Between Worlds: The Cabinet of Curiosities, twelve-year-old Max Mead discovered he could travel back in time with objects from his grandfather’s cabinet of curiosities. In book two, The Novice Collector, Max spends his days learning to master the cabinet’s ancient magic, escaping at night with his new friend Youssef to explore the streets of Cairo. When the Lieutenant, leader of a local antiquities trafficking gang, resurfaces with a plan to steal treasure belonging to the ... more

Family of Killers-Memoirs of an Assassin

by Stephen W Briggs

David is pulled from his bed; he is seven. His father, freelancing for British intelligence, is identified while attempting to assassinate a terrorist. Now a wanted man, he must relocate his family from Northern Ireland to Canada. David is raised in the family’s business. A business that, eliminates those that can’t keep secrets, sells weapons around the world, and hides those that need protection. As a teen David struggles with his future in the family business and his mother’s desire to have... more

"To Live and Die In the Floating World"

by Stephen W Holgate

Kip Weston, young scion of a fabulously wealthy American family, has become a wanted fugitive. Out of money and desperate, he flees his seedy quarter of Paris one step ahead of a private detective and heads for the countryside. Here, he falls into a job with the Celeste, a small tourist barge plying the canals of Burgundy. Kip quickly finds that in running from one peril he has landed in far greater danger from another. A tale of mounting suspense, it ends in a spasm of violence that closes all ... more

FREEZE BEFORE BURNING

by Nikki Stern

Macabre Murderer Ices True Crime Devotees

What do a bartender, a priest, and a librarian have in common? They all work in New York City. They’re all true crime fans. And they’re all dead, courtesy of a predator with a chilling need for respect.

Lieutenant Sam Tate is in the Big Apple to investigate her own tragic past and reconnect with remaining family. She’s pulled onto the case of the Dry Ice Killer, as the malicious murderer is known, by an old friend, now an... more

Murder on the Golden Arrow

by Magda Alexander

What’s a bright young woman to do when her brother becomes the main suspect in a murder? Why, solve the case of course.

England. 1923. After a year away at finishing school where she learned etiquette, deportment, and the difference between a salad fork and a fish one, Kitty Worthington is eager to return home. But minutes after she and her brother Ned board the Golden Arrow, the unthinkable happens. A woman with a mysterious connection to her brother is poisoned, and the murderer... more

The Secret is Out

by Gabrielle K. Chevalier

"...this would never happen to me so there must be a logical explanation to what is going on..." All seems normal and well from the outside. But something doesn't seem quite right to this little girl, she knows there is more than what appears. A certain horror is lurking within her family, will she uncover the secret? Is the demon haunting her there for a reason?

Moves

by John Michaels

In the blink of an eye, Robert Jake’s perfect life became hell.

Jake, a radio talk show host with a pregnant wife, had the perfect life until, in a moment of “Patriotic Stupidity” he decided to stop talking for a living and start shooting to help his country.

Deployed to Iraq, he barely made it home alive, shot-up and full of shrapnel, after a fatal ambush.

Moves is a mixture of single parent meets thriller, action, and suspense in bucket loads. If you like... more

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