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Queen of Swords

by Jerry Lambert

A young interior designer in New Orleans takes a gamble and leaves the Big Easy to revive an antebellum mansion in the Louisiana bayou. But when she discovers a nearly two century old mystery will she find a fortune in emeralds or be collateral damage in someone else's game?

9781458188991

by Gary J Byrnes

Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger Award, this story is a crazed car wreck of cocaine, sex, guns and African black magic. Russian and Irish mobsters, the IRA and missing kids. Imagine everything converging in Limerick, on the wild west coast of Ireland, where amateur private detective Charlie Doyle is hired to get proof of adultery. What starts off as an ordinary job leads Charlie into a blizzard of gang warfare, drug running, illicit sex, child murder, muti and madness. Even... more

No! I'm Just Protected

by Brandi Joi Collier

Christian Mystery/Suspense

Pastor Herbert Petterson was a great man of faith. A loving man to his family and congregation. His feels so full and happy while traveling through this journey called marriage with his beloved Silivia.

He has a successful business the world is at his feet. So why Silivia has to plan Herbert's funeral?

Who would kill one of the most love people in the city? Are you ready for what's next?

If so read No! I'm just protected a how don... more

FORCE NO ONE

by Daniel Charles Ross

Find a terrorist killer or the World Series blows up on television. Play ball. A homicide in Detroit usually doesn't raise many eyebrows, but a victim is found with a business card from a Department of Homeland Security enforcement cell no one's ever heard of. FBI Special Agent Amber "Corvette" Watson and Detroit Police homicide detective Sgt. Tracey Lexcellent catch the case. With a disgraced U.S. Army Ranger who can forget nothing and a black-budget CIA team in tow, they must solve the murder ... more

SHOCKED SILENT

by Judith Driscoll

Turbulent Chicago in 1968 is the setting for this gripping psychological thriller. A psychiatric social worker on the rebound, falls in love and marries a charming lawyer. When she discovers his true identity; the terror begins.

The Throwaways

by LS Hawker

Late one night, George Engle wakes up inside his car in unfamiliar territory, just in time to watch a house explode. On his back seat lies a bloody knife, a gas can, and a bag of cocaine. Unsure of the circumstances that led to this moment, and terrified of what’s to come, George knows he must elude the police and whoever planted the drugs and weapons. After George unites with his three best friends from high school, the group must work to prove George’s innocence before he’s locked up — or kill... more

Knight Club

by Steve Powell

Knight had been going to meetups in the backrooms of coffee shops, bars, and clubs with a group of frustrated others—venting about their monotonous lives, and ranting about fixing everything wrong with the world. Yeah right. Then he met a stranger on a train, and blacked out after accepting a pill from her to take the edge off. That's just the beginning. Things get even more complicated when a large sum of money mysteriously appears in his bank account—and then he learns that he's wanted. ... more

Die, Sweet Di

by Larion Wills

Suspense, Romantic Suspense

They told her one truth while hiding murder.

Knowing nothing more about her father than that he wasn’t the man she called Dad all her life, Diana wouldn’t have gone to claim her inheritance if her mother hadn’t insisted. To shut her up, she intended to do nothing more than to tell the lawyer to shove it. Step-siblings she never knew she had met her at the airport and misunderstood her suppressed demeanor as grief.

Telling her how... more

Ghost Next Door

by Helen Currie Foster

During nighttime fireworks at Coffee Creek's first official barbecue cook-off, deep in Texas Hill Country, lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer trips over the murdered body of a sharp-tongued food writer. The hotly competitive grill-masters all possess sharp knives and stout alibis. With local law enforcement baffled, the mystery darkens when a malevolent stalker pursues Alice and her engaging but secretive client Caswell, using arson, assault and highway terror. In her struggle to protect her client, A... more

Ghost Next Door (Alice MacDonald Greer Mystery Series) (Volume 5)

by Helen Currie Foster

During nighttime fireworks at Coffee Creek's first official barbecue cook-off, deep in Texas Hill Country, lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer trips over the murdered body of a sharp-tongued food writer. The hotly competitive grill-masters all possess sharp knives and stout alibis. With local law enforcement baffled, the mystery darkens when a malevolent stalker pursues Alice and her engaging but secretive client Caswell, using arson, assault and highway terror. In her struggle to protect her client, A... more

EVO - A Crime Thriller Novel with a mind-blowing twist: A ruthless serial killer, an evil genius and the evolution virus - A gri

by Diane May

EVO If you run, it catches you. If you hide, it finds you. If you breathe, it may kill you. NO ONE can escape it.

Uncle and Ants: A Silicon Valley Mystery (Book 1)

by Marc Jedel

Protect his sister. Solve a murder. Get his eye-rolling, pre-teen nieces to school. And that’s just how Marty Golden’s crazy week begins to unravel. Too bad he isn’t exactly hero material. Set in Silicon Valley, this quirky, fashion-backward uncle bumbles through investigating his sister’s zany HR clients to save her and get his life back to normal — before it’s too late.

MurderLand: A Crime Novel

by Joseph Mark Glazner

“A black, comic, highly suspenseful literary thriller of the mob and conspiracy-theory myths that permeate American pop culture. MurderLand is a hugely entertaining look at the dark side of the American dream, particularly through the author's invention of MurderLand—a landmark tourist trap of murder-related memorabilia set in the center of the old, tacky, Coney Island-like entertainment district overlooking Niagara Falls. Definitely one of the best books I've read in a long time. You'll never s... more

The Night is Cold

by Brandon Enns

Nearly ten years after the brutal murder of the Saskatchewan Premier's son, the man formerly accused, Eli Baker, is released from prison and replaced by another based on shocking new evidence and testimony. After the release of Baker, Jennifer Allen, a young and hungry Canadian Mountie, is introduced to a crime scene with a bloody sigil and a missing person. Desperate to pursue Baker as a suspect, Jennifer struggles to gain support from her complacent superior as more victims go missing and m... more

978-1732623705

by Dr. Alex Valentine

My Human, my sister Milly and I lived quietly in a tiny Southern town. All went swimmingly, until a Hurricane brought big water from the Atlantic and flooded our house. That's how it came about that we met FEMA. And that's how everybody found out that my Human has a Secret. My Human, the Old Lady (that's her name) is a Russian scientist. Old Lady made a big scientific discovery: found the key to my eternal youth. Or even to immortality, if we like. Old Lady made herself immortal first. I d... more

The Shoebox Mystery

by Glenn Lindsey

Billy Fender’s TV has died and he desperately needs a new one to watch the movies of his favorite detective Sherlock Holmes. Billy has read every story and watched every movie portraying his hero Sherlock solving riddles and mysteries. Although just 12 years old, he opens a detective agency called Billy Fender Private Investigations to solve cases and earn money. Miss Applebee phones Billy with a mystery. She will pay him $50 to solve it. Follow Billy and his best friends Raffi and Lisa in an ... more

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