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The Blackmail Photos

by Michael P. King

Blackmail. Deceit. Revenge. The Travelers, going by the names George and Roslyn Harrison, entrap a congressional candidate with photos of his extramarital affair. But just as George is hatching a ploy to increase their ill-gotten gains, the candidate’s wife uncovers the plot. With their scheme careening sideways and the sheriff closing in, Roslyn receives news that drastically alters the scope of their plan. Is this a golden opportunity or a horrible misstep?

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Road to Redemption: A Global Spy Thriller (The Ahriman Legacy Book 2)

by Puja Guha

"Puja Guha is a writer who knows the world of international finance, politics, and intrigue in a way very few have understood it before. But it's her writing that shines above all else." - Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times Bestselling author of WHERE IT HURTS SPY GAME meets A RUSSIA HOUSE with terrorism. Former spy Petra Shirazi is forced to work with her nemesis the Ahriman, a retired Iranian assassin, to stop a terrorist plot against international commerce in Washington DC. Afte... more

Dead Low Tide

by Judith J. Dutra

Dead Low Tide, a cozy, is the second in a series set in Provincetown MA in 1938. Police Chief James Crowley is called to a beach in the east end of town where a body has washed up. The mystery leads the Chief to finding a nest of Nazi sympathizers, smugglers, and a murderer. Crowley opens his heart to love and learns that sometimes justice needs to be tempered with mercy.

Rage

by Stewart Raffill

Rage is an International Political Thriller. Jack Anderson, the newly elected, optimistic President of the United States finds his political agenda put on hold when fifteen American naval officers unexpectedly seize control of a USS-Ohio class nuclear submarine. In possession of the most formidable war machine ever created, carrying enough nuclear weapons to destroy every major city in the Middle East, the mutineers form a new terrorist organization that threatens to attack militant Islamists an... more

Bone Slice

by Bette Golden Lamb & J. J. Lamb

Back from an idyllic beach wedding and honeymoon on romantic Kauai, Gina and Harry have barely unpacked when Ridgewood Hospital sends them off on an intriguing assignment to learn about and report on surgical robotics at a Santa Cruz area hospital. Intrigue turns to fear as they’re plunged into the midst of a deadly clash between hands-on-medicine traditionalists and those eager to dive headlong into the futurist whirlpool of robotics. The newlyweds are harassed, threatened, and kidnapped as a r... more

Echo Valley

by Jennifer Vaughn

Bo Carmichael thought Echo Valley, New Hampshire, was in her rear view mirror. Circumstances lead her straight back. Now, the one-time aspiring doctor is raising a son she never planned on having and toiling away as a hairdresser to pay the bills. When her boss hands her a plum assignment--preparing the family of a leading presidential candidate for a photo shoot--Bo unwittingly stumbles into a scandalous encounter between the happily-married senator and his exquisite female staffer. She be... more

The Feel of Echoes

by Mari Labbee

Thirtysomething, unemployed, and smarting from the abrupt unraveling of her upcoming wedding, Sabrina “Bri” Hall is desperate to leave her life in New York behind. So when she sees the opportunity to buy a mysterious old house on the secluded Jackal’s Head Point on the southern coast of Maine, she jumps on it. While she may be able to run from the past, she’s haunted by a new demon: cryptic dreams of a previous occupant’s life and untimely death. On top of it all... more

Sea Girl

by Oz Carter

New York socialite Carly Hodge thinks she’s kept her infidelity secret from her husband, Preston. She’s wrong. On the pretext of celebrating her fortieth birthday, Preston takes her to the Bahamas on a sailboat. Under the night sky on the Little Bahama Bank, he serves her a romantic dinner and gives her the best sex of their nineteen-year marriage. Then he beats her, ties her to the mast of the boat, and blows the boat up while making his getaway. Carly survives the murder attempt, forcing Pre... more

Tidewater Hit

by M.Z. Thwaite

M. Z. Thwaite’s novel is a story of one determined woman’s refusal to leave well enough alone. In one a heart- stopping moment, while rowing off the coast of Georgia the summer of 1986, Abbey Taylor Bunn discovers a dazed boating hit-and-run victim. In the days following the successful rescue, Abbey becomes acquainted with a new potential real estate client, but the unidentified man she rescued worries a recently awakened side of her, the sleuth. Who is the stranger? Who left him to die and why... more

Solve by Christmas

by Amber Schamel

When sabotage threatens the Rudin Sugar Factory, Detective Jasper Hollock believes this will be his first real case. But dear Mr. Rudin—the only father Jasper has ever known—holds a different assignment for his private investigator.

“I’ve struck a deal with God, Jasper, and you’re my angel.”

Mr. Rudin charges Jasper to build a “case” of reasons for his employer to continue his life. If he fails, Mr. Rudin will end it in suicide on Ch... more

Alexandria Rising: Book 1 of the Alexandria Rising Chronicles

by Mark Wallace Maguire

Rand O'Neal, an ambition-less newspaper reporter, is given a single task upon the death of his grandfather: Destroy a mysterious map. What should be a simple errand thrusts Rand into a journey across three countries chased by unknown pursuers where he discovers humanity's biggest secret.

Tiffany

by Rob Kelley

Harry Kavanagh, a wealthy mutual funds manager, is found bludgeoned to death with a fire place poker in his living room. His beautiful, pampered, trophy wife, Tiffany, is discovered walking in a daze down by the old Moxley Covered Bridge with no recollection of the event. When the deputies search her white Mercedes sports car, they find the bloody murder weapon in the trunk. Sheriff Grady is certain he has a slam-dunk case, and charges her with first-degree murder. When a local doctor, with a y... more

Two Detective Jericho Singles

by walter marks

Two novella length books: “The Hated” explores a different side of East Hampton, rife with crimes of violence, vicious gangs and secret organizations. “A Man’s Partner” brings Jericho back to his old precinct, East Harlem, where he must investigate his partner’s death, much like the noir fiction detective, Sam Spade. As in all Jericho books, the reader should be prepared for a shocking ending.

Daingerfield Island

by John Adam Wasowicz

Daingerfield Island is a legal thriller, featuring Elmo Katz, an Alexandria, VA, defense attorney and former city prosecutor. Although he is no stranger to the twisted truths that lurk in the justice system, Katz's world is upended when he find himself entangled in a complex terrorist plot. Places he once navigated with ease are now obscured by shadows as Katz weaves his way through political intrigue, courtroom machinations, and police skulduggery to save what's left of the truth -- and himself... more

2018: (Book 1). One hundred years after the deadly Influenza pandemic of 1918, similar virus emerges again..

by S Sapkota

One Hundred years after the deadly Influenza pandemic of 1918, similar virus emerges again. In this novel S. Sapkota marvelously weaves a thrilling story chapter by chapter that leave readers biting their nail in excitement from the start to the finish. The novel drench readers with full fledged entertainment while feeding them with information on what they should expect to realistically happen during an outbreak, epidemic and pandemic caused by highly virulent influenza virus. This is book 1 of... more

Pre-Marital Murder

by Candy Justice

“Logan Magee was obviously a man in love, a man looking forward to the future. I didn’t believe for a minute all that conspiracy stuff Mrs. Magee was clinging to, but neither did I believe that Logan Magee had killed himself.” Thirty-something and single, Britt Faire is a columnist and former reporter for a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee. She doesn’t like to attract attention to herself, but that doesn’t stop trouble from finding her every chance it gets. One day she gets a phone c... more

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