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All Our Yesterdays

by Forest Bowman

Living well is not always the best revenge. Sometimes getting even in grand style is better. Adam Richter, an undersized fourteen-year-old orphan is sent to live on a farm where he is mistreated by two vicious brothers who live there. He escapes, flees to his hometown, and secures an apprenticeship with a furniture mill. There he learns the trade and ultimately becomes the co-owner of the mill and a leading citizen of the town. All the while, the two brothers pester him. When they finally com... more

Open Secrets

by Jack A. Ori

The university wants to silence them. The cops want to arrest their innocent boyfriend. Can a student podcaster get a murdered classmate justice?

Five years after an adrenalin-packed escape from a dangerous pedophile, CJ Jennings longs to use their college podcast to make a difference. But a terrified child's plea for help leads the freshman to a grisly discovery, thrusting CJ into a deadly maze of lies, manipulations, and institutional coverups.

The victim, a... more

Double Blast

by Gretchen Archer

SMALL TOWN. BIG BOOM. Davis Way Cole returns to her hometown of Pine Apple, Alabama, to fill in for her police chief father during the bustling Memorial Day Celebration. It’ll be fun. Relaxing. And a no-brainer. After years of leading an elite security team at a billion-dollar casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, Davis has no doubt whatsoever she can run little ole Pine Apple in her sleep. She should think again. A blast from her past shows up. (With baggage.) Just before her casino-spy... more

The Place We All Go

by Blair Black

“Sometimes, it’s not about forgiveness—it’s about revenge.”

FOR JESLY ALLBROOK, a promising district attorney in downtown Dallas, it’s been one helluva year. Between being plagued by a malevolent voice riding shotgun in her head and burying the client she and her ex murdered, life can’t get any worse.

So when an assassin foils Jesly’s would-be-suicide by shooting her off the rooftop of Dalla... more

The Fear of Fire: Book Two in The Fear Of Series

by S. C. Sterling

As a teenager, Hannah Jacobs was excited for a sleepover with her older sister Casey, but a blizzard altered their plans. Sometime that night, an unknown killer broke into Casey’s apartment in Laramie, Wyoming, and brutally stabbed her multiple times, leaving her for dead.

Ten years later, Hannah is still haunted by the murder of her sister that fateful night, and with no viable suspects the case has long turned cold, nearly forgotten by everyone except her. Determined to uncover ... more

The Happy Month

by Marshall Thornton

In the third book of the Dom Reilly series, Dom is happy. He and his boyfriend, Ronnie, are working on the co-op they recently bought, he has good friends, and things at The Freedom Agenda are working out well. Having decided to take the Larry Wilkes case, he and attorney Lydia Gonsalez need to find a way to get their client out of prison. Meanwhile, attorney Edwin Karpinski asks Dom to look into a fifty-year-old murder. While juggling the two cases, he also deals with a nagging injury, a surpri... more

The Mountain Mystic

by Russell W. Johnson

Since succeeding her dearly departed husband, Bill, to become Jasper County’s first female sheriff, Mary Beth Cain has closed more cases than any three of her male predecessors combined. But nobody bats a thousand in the cop game. Nobody. And, ovaries aside, Mary Beth knows she’s no different. There’d been a handful of unsolveds during her tenure, victims and families denied their justice, and each and every one of them gnaws at her soul. She thinks about them late at night as she sips her whisk... more

Cost of Malice

by H. Mitchell Caldwell

Dive into a thrilling legal drama in which prosecutor Jake Clearwater navigates murder, morality, and justice. It is a must-read for mystery fans. Follow a riveting tale set in the heart of the criminal justice system, where the brutal murder of Tracie Switzer plunges seasoned prosecutor Jake Clearwater into a vortex of legal battles and ethical quandaries. As Clearwater delves into the complexities of the case, he confronts the harsh realities of law and order, challenging his beliefs a... more

The Highway Gray

by Kyle J. Brown

Forging a deep friendship with a wise and ancient raven, a young loner unwillingly leaves behind the familiar in both time and space, embarking upon the journey of a lifetime, in search for the truth.

Mine: Untold Secrets

by William Davis

Laura Martial and her two daughters, Adrienne and June receive word that her estranged aunt Katie has died under suspicious circumstances, and Laura is her sole heir. Katie’s wrecked truck had been discovered by a young man from the Farmer’s Cooperative, but it takes a small group of searchers to find her body in the woods of her remote western farm. Unknown to Laura, Lloyd, a local hunter and poacher, aids in the search and is attacked by a strange primate species none of the other searchers... more

A Lie for a Lie

by Greenleaf Book Group

Gripping—Twisting—Shocking An action-packed thriller that keeps you guessing until the end Boyfriend cheating? A bully wreaking havoc? A classmate plagiarizing? Don’t get mad. Get @Revenge. At Milford High, if you’ve got a problem, message @Revenge, and they will take care of it with an embarrassing public comeuppance. But when the school’s star basketball player falls victim to a dangerous prank orchestrated by Revenge, the consequences are life-threatening. Sabrina Richards, ambitious M... more

Farewell Performance

by Donna Huston Murray

Returning home to star in a movie about going home, Jan Fairchild stirs up old resentments galore. When the actress is found dead the morning after a nostalgic pajama party, several of her former high-school girlfriends become suspects—including Ginger Barnes. The homicide specialist the police bring in seems unusually eager for the amateur sleuth’s observations. Is that because she's his #1 suspect?

Alone Along Writers' Roads

by Tom Wood

In Chicago, Davis Quigley has grown tired of his career as a beat broadcast reporter where the story rarely changes, and lands a publishing deal for his debut novel that aims to question the ultimate purpose of justice. Meanwhile Catherine Dallas’s first novel becomes a best seller practically overnight while she is still attending college in Massachusetts– launching her into the national spotlight. Over in Connecticut, Brady Harvey writes a self-published memoir while serving a prison sentence.... more

Year of the Rippers

by Gary Genard

Jack the Ripper was the ultimate killer. Or was he? This is the shocking novel that reveals the truth about the world's most famous murders.

Doctor Lucifer

by Anthony Lee

During a global cyberattack, a computer hacker tries to kill a doctor's patients, just by remotely altering medical records. Dr. Mark Lin, a proficient but cynical and disillusioned internist, is the target of this scheme, scrambling to avert one medical crisis after another with the help of the hospital's IT specialists.

Exposure

by Jan Sayer

Nova Scotia - Canada - October 2012 'a cold place to die' One morning David Kettle finds a woman unconscious in the snow in his garden. As she is rushed to the hospital in a coma, he struggles to figure out why she was there and whether he knows her – something he must do quickly, as time is running out and evidence is mounting up against him. The focus changes abruptly when the police discover a link between David and the woman. Can David prove he is innocent before his life is shattered... more

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