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Twisted Lies

by Robin Patchen

She thought they’d never find her. And then her daughter vanished. Marisa Vega’s life as an adoptive mom in a tiny Mexican village isn’t what she’d dreamed while growing up in New York, but as the target of a man who’s convinced she stole millions of dollars from his financial firm, Marisa believes hiding is her only way to stay alive. When her daughter is snatched and held for ransom, Marisa must discover who really stole the money in order to rescue her. Months after being kidnapped, t... more

Convenient Lies

by Robin Patchen

What happens when a woman marries her greatest enemy? When investigative journalist Reagan McAdams discovers her new husband Julien is part of a powerful international crime family, she flees Paris with their newborn, returning to her childhood home in Nutfield, New Hampshire. She plans to gather her inheritance, collect her beloved grandmother, and disappear forever. She’ll do whatever it takes to protect her son from his criminal father. But when Reagan arrives home, her heart breaks at... more

It Only Takes One Bullet

by Joseph Giuliani

Private detective Joe Caruso finds his ex-partner dead on the Wells Street Bridge and an unidentified woman floating in the Chicago River. Caruso's search for the killer takes him into the underbelly of 1960's Chicago with the Democratic National Convention as a backdrop.

Union Dues

by Joseph Giuliani

A federal appellate court judge is murdered weeks before he was to preside over a landmark collective bargaining hearing. Private detective Mathew Price is hired to investigate with the belief he will fail to find a conspiracy. What he does find is surprising.

Code Blue

by Richard L. Mabry

No Rest for the Wicked: A John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery (Book 3) (Volume 3)

by Martha Reed

When state archaeologists lift the lid on a suspicious trunk buried in Nantucket's landfill, Detective John Jarad's world explodes. DNA holds the key to the island's most notorious cold case crime, the Baby Alice Spenser kidnapping of 1921. Myriad family scandals emerge from the Spenser's privileged and gilded past. Events flare white-hot when a copycat kidnapper snatches a second child.

Paper Trail: A Kingman & Reed Novel

by Bill Zahren

Assistant Woodbury County Attorney Hillary Reed believes God controls the world and nothing is random. Her new significant other, Sioux City Sentinel-Leader reporter Tom Kingman, isn't so sure. After a corporate attorney is killed in her office in Omaha, Tom wonders how that is anything but senseless. He gets his chance to find out when the company's CEO, Tom's friend from college, makes him a proposition: come to Omaha, pose as an employee, and find the rat in the corporate cube maze. Tom co... more

Officer Involved

by Bill Zahren

When Sioux City Sentinel-Leader reporter Tom Kingman decided to drop by a domestic disturbance police call in the middle of a June swelter he had no idea it would change his life forever. A metro area of 100,000 located at the junction of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, Sioux City is fly-over country for most Americans. But Tom Kingman knows Sioux City at ground level doesn't always fit the bucolic Midwestern mold. That's especially clear after witnessing an officer-involved shooting in a ru... more

Death Hampton

by walter marks

Introducing Detective Jericho. Book 1. of the series. Burnt out after years of working violent cases in East Harlem, Detective Jericho transfers to peaceful East Hampton. But after the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy real estate developer, Jericho is caught in a web of intrigue and lies centering around Susannah Cascadden, the missing man's beautiful wife. Is Susannah a calculating black widow or an innocent victim? Jericho better find out or the Hamptons just might be the death of h... more

The Scientist's Accomplice

by Tom Ulicny

A science-based, road trip adventure in which a hard-luck pool hustler is caught up in a dangerous fight for control of a mysterious scientific discovery. As the story opens, our hero Jake Barrows is deep in debt and his wife just left him. It’s beginning to dawn on him that, at thirty-two, he’s a little old to continue on in his aimless life in Miami. He lands a job as an escort driver for a trucker hauling an oversized load to Tucson. Things go smoothly at first until, along a lonely stretch o... more

The Actor?

by lee welling

“The Actor?” is a thriller and a love story at the height of the Cold War during the Cuban missile crisis. It is about the biggest star on Broadway in the 1950’s who is recruited by the CIA to lead a cultural tour to Russia. What unfolds is a fast-paced thriller, filled with danger, mystery and state secrets.

Preordained

by David L Wallace

Art Somers is a detective in close-knit Murrells Inlet, S.C., a small-town, coastal community with deeply held spiritual and supernatural belief systems. A serial killer has shattered his peaceful existence by abducting multiple twelve-year-old boys within his county. Young thugs, backwater drug dealers and the occasional murderer are the most Art’s had to deal with, but now he must apprehend a predator FBI profilers can’t find. He discovers he has a tie by blood to the case and uncovers ... more

FRONT LINE: A Phantom Force Tactical Novel (Book 3)

by Jessica James

He promised to do “whatever it takes,” and paid with a life—but it was not his own. In the finale of the Phantom Force Tactical series, former Navy SEAL Nicholas "Colt" Colton rushes to stop a terrorist attack in Washington DC after Mexican drug smugglers unite with ISIS terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. When Colt promises his new partner he’ll do whatever it takes to stop the terror attack, he has no idea that pledge could mean killing her in the process.

Traffick Stop

by kenneth eade

Paladine, terrorism's worst enemy, is back, stopping trafficking this time, in this third episode of the hit political thriller series. From the best-selling & award winning author critics hail as "one of the strongest thriller writers on our scene" comes the continuation of the unforgettable story of an unlikely "anti-hero," Robert Garcia, a dangerous and unfeeling assassin of jihadist terrorists, exalted by social media as "Paladine", a living paladin whose mission is to rid the earth of evil... more

The Tongues of Dying Men

by Harry G. Field

Bane Kiraly has been looking for an honorable way out of life for a purgatory of time. Battered by loss and regret, at 59, bartender by trade, homeless by choice, the Vietnam era veteran is finally presented with an opportunity to die when he's stabbed rescuing a young girl from rape. Is it cruel punishment of a vengeful god that his death wish is denied by a clueless good Samaritan? Is it fate? These are question that spring from the Tongues of Dying Men. The answers in the wind, the tale is i... more

Razor's Edge (American Yakuza Book 3)

by Isabella

Luce Potter lives by a code of honor. Push her and she shoves back, harder. There’s only one problem: Luce has just found out that revenge is a knife that cuts both ways. Now that her lover Brooke has survived the attack on her life, Luce has only one thing on her mind, and his name is Frank. Unfortunately, someone walks into her life that she didn’t see coming. Brooke Erickson has survived an attack so brutal it’s left a permanent scar on her soul. All she wants to do now is go home and fini... more

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