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Expect Betrayal

by JoAnn Smith Ainsworth

psychic team and to its team leader (a U.S. WAVES clairvoyant) while they search for her family’s grimoire, The Book of Cures. The grimoire contains spells and charms to protect their Philadelphia headquarters from further Nazi occult attacks. But the friend is the very man assigned by the Fatherland to spy on them and to put a bullet between their eyes once he gets his hands on this grimoire that Hitler covets and needs to fight the war. Tag: The US government recruits psychics to hunt down... more

Young Americans

by Peter S. Rush

Tommy Logan is a small-time pot dealer when his new girlfriend Sandy introduces him to Harry Burr, an ex-con who promises to show him how to make big money. Tommy, eager for the opportunity, figures he can stay one-step ahead of Harry, but can he? Confronted by a painful childhood memory, Tommy makes a rash decision that will alter his life and haunt him during his final million-dollar deal with Harry in Bogota, Columbia. Things don’t go as planned and Tommy is left to find his own way out – of ... more

The Long Harbor Testament (First Printing)

by Tom Minder

A mystery, suspense novel, two years in the making. A parish priest has a gambling problem, a girlfriend, and his brother just killed his bookie. A detective and mobster investigate, although for differing reasons, while the town questions if it’s a crime at all. It has everything needed in a mystery: gambling, drinking, Girl Scout cookies, a wedding with a miracle, a dead man telling a terrible joke, a canine ring bearer, restaurant scenes, fast food, spit-takes, and road rage.

Fish in a Barrel

by John Eidswick

Herculean ex-FBI James Strait has largely recovered from the many horrible injuries he experienced in the last entry in the series. In his sleepy rural hometown of Pine River, he has moved in with his pastor girlfriend Jessie Brightwater and an abused, precocious child for whom they are providing foster care. Life has never seemed more pleasantly "normal." These tranquil circumstances are smashed to bits when his long-estranged brother, a lawyer working for a refugee rights group in... more

The Agent - ISBN: 978-1-7327747-7-3

by Marsha Roberts

Victoria Clifford is the top real estate agent in affluent Marin County, California. She’s also leading a couple of secret lives. The biggest one is the elegant, high-stakes con she’s about to pull off for the sixth time. It’s the perfect crime, executed with the help of her irresistibly charming brother and her aunt, a highbrow psychic to fortune 500 executives. But this time, major slipups have Victoria questioning if she’s losing her touch. It seems her brother’s persuasive powers, too, ar... more

Chicory is Trickery

by Sheri Richey

It's springtime in Spicetown and Mayor Cora Mae Bingham discovers there may be trouble blooming along with the rhododendrons! With construction in full throttle in the new subdivisions and the income tax filing deadline looming over her head, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham is revamping the Annual Easter Eggs-Travaganza and trying to figure out who is in the Easter bunny suit this year, when a dead body has to be added to her To-Do list.

A Nickel's Worth of Road Measles

by S.L. Funk

Gerry Donahue is a down and almost out auto mechanic with a too-sharp love of alcohol and a childhood secret: a traumatic injury as a child has left him with a sixth sense - the ability to 'see' past events and 'hear' people's thoughts. It's a 'gift' he desperately doesn't want. When he climbs into a used car, his life implodes; a serial killer is on the loose...and Gerry is the only one who knows he is out there...and no one will believe him. Can he stop a killer and right a past wrong? Or will... more

Uncommon Relations

by Rosalind Minett

A two-book psychological mystery full of suspense. Poached eggs every morning and a wife side-stepping sex, Terry assumes that's the norm for a 28-year-old married man. Other people wake to find they’ve won the lottery or become famous. It’s never him. But when he spots his double on the morning commute, his predictable life-style changes forever. The identical twin he never knew he had typifies another, brighter lifestyle, Tensions with troubled wife, Gudrun, cause Terry to keep his two world... more

Enemies of Doves

by SHANESSA GLUHM

When Joel and Clancy Fitchett find themselves at the center of a murder investigation, whispers of their past start to resurface—a history they hid and buried long ago. Their decision now will change everything. A second lie, a second pact and— hopefully—a second chance. College student Garrison Stark is on a mission to find out if Clancy Fitchett is his biological grandfather. Though Clancy has been missing since 1946, Garrison plans to find him and discover the truth. But after unearthing s... more

Sister Margaret: A Tommy Keane Novel

by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

NYPD Detective Tommy Keane has spent nineteen years chasing criminals in the Bronx - investigating unimaginable crimes and solving near-impossible cases. When a punitive measure forces Keane to transfer to the relatively quiet 21st Precinct in Manhattan, he expects his last thirteen months before retirement to be painfully easy. But as the grisly murder of a celebrated nun soon proves, even the safest neighborhoods can have their secrets, and even the most seasoned detective can be surprised by ... more

A Revelation of Death

by Alexa Padgett and J. J. Cagney

The fourth installment in the Kirkus Reviews, National Indie Excellence Awards and Publishers Weekly award-winning series by USA Today Best-selling Author, J. J. Cagney: The first victim rolls out of a rain barrel. Soon, Cici Gurule dreams of other women's attacks, thanks to visions from her dead twin. The victims' watery graves torment Cici, feeding her growing fear of water. The killer targets Cici's congregants and friends, taunting her and her lover, Detective Sam Chastain. Sam part... more

The Pari and Kayal Adventures - Saved by Sid

by Maya Sara Karthik

This is an inspiring and entertaining tale that teaches kids about siblings’ love, the power of kindness and friendship, and the importance of not judging people or situations instantly. The loving sisters, Pari and Kayal , are unaware that they are going to embark on their first-ever adventure . They go camping with their parents to a beautiful campsite surrounded by a lush green forest. As they walk through the forest, they hear a lovely voice whistling softly. They are very curious and imm... more

Pincher Creek

by Scott Norman

Pincher Creek tells the story of Tom Payton, a father of two from Vancouver, BC, who comes out of a coma to discover he survived the car accident that claimed the lives of his wife and two daughters. With money from the three life insurance policies, he borrows a page from Neil Peart, the drummer of RUSH, to go in search of a new reason for existence after his past life has been erased. His journey delivers him to Babb, Montana, an hour from the Canadian border in the heart of the Blackfeet I... more

Yanter

by Bethany A. Beeler

Women are being murdered on campus. Thomas Yanter can't sleep, nor can he be certain that HE'S not the murderer. A model student with a secret, compromised past, Yanter's life is upended when the mysterious Tami of his high-school days resurfaces in his life, her presence drawing him ever closer to the epicenter of campus violence. Then, Yanter finds a pool of blood in a hidden underground passage and black pools his memory can't recover on the nights women were murdered. Is h... more

Calaveras

by Lisa Michelle

Deep in the backwoods of Calaveras County accidents happen. For gritty rancher and soon-to-be grandmother Kate Dunnigan, these deaths are mostly good old cowboy justice—until the day that justice hits home. Kate’s idyllic façade is destroyed when Emma Lee, her pregnant daughter, is wanted for murder. On the run and fighting to survive, Emma Lee is haunted by filthy family secrets but Kate will stop at nothing to save her from life in prison, even if it means using herself as bait.

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