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Boulevard Dreams

by Artisan Book Reviews & Promotion

Down and out private eye, Joe Nails, has a problem. He endures a brief series of surrealistic dreams, in which his long-lost friend pleads for his help before turning a gun to his head and firing. Joe discovers the suicide did occur, a month before his dreams began, so he deepens his probe beneath the mystifying and smoky noir underbelly of 1958 San Francisco, and encounters rising walls of lies and heartbreak from amorous and anguished women alike, and stumbles across incomprehensible goons an... more

Mystery of the Rusty Key: Australia 2

by Janelle Diller

Wendy, Chloe, and Jacko must unravel four spooky clues: an ancient letter, a rusty key, a missing box, and a curse. The kids race against time to solve the mystery before the clock strikes midnight. 2017 Literary Classics Gold – Best Series – Young Reader 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award Silver - Best Chapter Book Series 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award Winner - Best Chapter Book Series About Pack-n-Go Girls Designed by girls for girls who love to play and travel, Pack-n-Go Girls ... more

Desolation Bluff

by Toni Pike

He can see clearly now… Blind romance author Oliver Cameron uses the pen name of Fidel Amore and thinks he has the perfect life at his country estate near Desolation Bluff. After a honeymoon in Paris, his wife Vanessa continues her work as his assistant. His friend Ray is the business manager who lives in the gatehouse and also acts as the public face of Fidel Amore, doing all those book-signing trips that Oliver never wanted to attend. Helen Dunkley is the housekeeper devoted to him s... more

Trafficked!: A Natalie McMasters Mystery

by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

Bullet wounds heal, but a broken heart is something else entirely. Natalie McMasters is twenty-one, short and blonde (OK, it’s bleached), a way cute former stripper and a pre-law student at State. Nattie also works as a private detective at her uncle’s 3M detective agency. After her last case, in which she was nearly killed, she’s faced with a new, daunting challenge. She must trace the most important person in her life – who doesn’t want to be found – through the squalid sexworld of New York Ci... more

Revenge!: A Natalie McMasters Mystery

by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it’s bleached), a way cute former stripper and a pre-law student at State. Nattie also works as a private detective at her uncle’s 3M Detective Agency. She’s deeply in love with her girlfriend Lupe, also a former stripper and undocumented immigrant, who’s now a pole-dancing instructor at a local gym. They’ve finally gotten Lupe’s eight-year-old son Eduardo into public school, and it looks like the American Dream may soon become a reality for the... more

amazing detective

by walter marks

Another Man's Freedom Fighter

by Joseph Carter

In the near future: The leaders of Europe sleepwalk into a catastrophe that sparks a new war between Russia and the West.

Warsaw falls on the first day. NATO, more divided and indecisive than ever, leaves Poland to fend for itself.

A small guerrilla army valiantly fights behind enemy lines. The covert Stay-Behind Units of the Territorial Defense Forces are determined to raise hell for the occupation troops. They evade the merciless manhunters of Spetsnaz GRU best they can.

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On Fractured Ground: Book 1 of the Shattered Lives Chronicles

by Subject BGD

There are no heroes here. Only survivors.

As a child, Tylar Daislea was abandoned at Cellar Institute. A despicable fortress with just one directive: to brainwash, train, and traffic women. Introduced to her first trainer at sixteen, she excelled through the initial two years of skills. Until one fateful afternoon, when it all fell apart.

When Tylar leads a second skill trainer to ruin, Corbin Manning receives the call. His father’s unsolved murder left him in charge of the ... more

The Saudi-Iranian War

by Ted Halstead

Iran's Supreme Leader will use three nuclear weapons, VX and two armored forces driving on Riyadh to overthrow the Saudi monarchy. Can Russian agents, Saudi tanks and American technology stop him in time?

Carved in Bone

by Michael Nava

Article 15

by M.T. Bass

Lawyers and Lovers and Guns…Oh, my.

Griffith Crowe, the "fixer" for a Chicago law firm, falls for his client, the beautiful heir of a Tech Sector venture capitalist who perished in a helicopter crash leaving her a half-billion dollars and unsavory suspicions about her father's death. As he investigates, Griff finds himself on the wrong side of an arrest warrant and wonders: Is he a player or being played by Helena?

If John Grisham, E.L. James and Tom ... more

Sweet Hope: an Appalachian Ghost Story

by Michael Easterling

Assistant professor of anthropology Parry Euphrates is ready for a change, and when her friend, guitar playing legend Adam Manly Singer, shows up, she is more than willing to lend an ear to Adam’s proposal: to dig up the grave of a man made famous in a murder ballad. Adam sweetens his bid with descriptions of the peace and beauty of Hoagland Holler, West Virginia where the man is supposedly buried; also with nights spent around a campfire, sipping moonshine and serenading the stars with their gu... more

Santa Fe Mojo (Vincent Malone Book 1)

by Ted Clifton

Chandler, Spillane and Hammett would love Vincent Malone. Lone wolf gritty Private Investigator at the end of his career, dealing with health issues and bad life decisions. He’d wanted to escape the high housing costs of Denver, looking for a place to hide on a more reasonable budget as he crawled toward Social Security, retirement, and old age. His new low-key job at a New Mexico B&B has him suddenly involved in a Santa Fe murder mystery. Entangling Vincent in a maze of intrigue, suspense a... more

A VERY DEADLY SIN: A Justin Parkes Thriller

by Denis Brookes

It describes how an innocent man through greed is drawn into an Iranian international terrorist operation which threatens the worlds democracies as well as Middle Eastern stability and, also, how he is used and deceived by a MI5 agent with whom he falls in love. \tThe novel commences by introducing the characters before becoming more sinister as it progresses. Some parts are horrific – especially the Iranian secret biological testing establishment which uses human guinea pigs. I have included ... more

Sarah Luger

by Sebastian Corbascio

Sarah Luger synopsis All content copyright 2018 by Sebastian Corbascio. All rights reserved. On the night of April 4th, 1984, Sarah Luger, 15, a volleyball star at Altamont High School is stabbed on her front doorstep. The assailant escapes. Sarah gets into her house, crawls to the kitchen to the phone and calls 911. The police and ambulance arrive, she is rushed to the hospital, but is dead on arrival. The Aurora county Sheriff and the Fidelis City Fathers kick the investigation into high ge... more

High Flying

by Kaylin McFarren

Skylar Haines has struggled with personal demons most of her life, going to dark extremes to subdue anxieties rooted in her tragic past. On a perpetual hunt for the next adrenaline hit, she discovers a passion for flying and becomes a hard-edged stunt pilot, verging on obsession. In the sky, following her most daring airshow, she encounters a mysterious storm and almost collides with another aircraft, sending her into a perilous dive. Guided by a mysterious voice, she manages a safe landing but ... more

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