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Eerie Rhymes read by Ava

by Ann Deprés

A collection of rhymes written for Ann's animated YouTube series. You can check out a new rhyme every Monday @ 8 pm, on Ann’s website www.AnnDepres.com and YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/AnnDepres

The 25

by Ace Bryant

What Is the Secret of the 25?

It’s the year 2022. In Boston, Massachusetts, the FBI is battling the 25, a mysterious and deadly extremist group that’s targeting and assassinating the president’s alt-right supporters.

Young special agent Reggie Jennings is assigned to infiltrate the terror cell. But Reggie’s never been an undercover officer before, and his lack of experience shows. When sparks fly during a chance ... more

Perimeter

by M.A. Rothman

Levi is a "fixer" in a fix.

The CIA needs his help. The Russian mob wants him dead.

With enemies closing in and nowhere to turn, he learns that the one person who may hold all the answers ... is his dead wife.

Cities on Hills

by B. K. Berrell

The asset is alive, the witness is on the run, and the anomaly is on the loose. Mystics and murderers, monsters and maniacs, all collide in this stunning sequel. After the events that transpired in A Tightening Noose, readers will reunite with familiar characters, and meet fascinating new ones, as they are immersed in a reality where first world countries lie on the brink of tyranny as other nations burn. The scope and intent of the Initiative widens while a populist politician's star rises. ... more

A Tightening Noose

by B. K. Berrell

Summary Living on the fringes of contemporary american society a reclusive combat veteran and a former prize fighter, turned outlaw biker, find themselves unwittingly ensnared in a federal investigation. As ghosts from their separate and sordid pasts emerge and are examined, they are drawn, increasingly closer, towards the outlier of an intricate conspiracy with global ramifications. Uncomfortably current, darkly spiritual, socially unacceptable, and eerily familiar, a tightening noose will leav... more

High Crimes

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

How do you solve a murder when there are 42,000 suspects? That’s the task facing Chicago PI Georgia Davis, hired to hunt down those ultimately responsible for the assassination of Resistance leader Dena Baldwin at a demonstration fourteen months after the 2016 election. The gunman, on a hotel rooftop near Grant Park, dies within minutes of the shooting. As Georgia sifts through Dena’s 42,000 Facebook followers, she discovers that unknown enemies hiding behind fake profiles have infiltrated t... more

Joshua and the Shadow of Death

by Gary McPherson

Gary McPherson’s breakthrough thriller “Joshua and the Shadow of Death” tackles relevant, real world issues. National security, government contracts and greed fuel this dramatic, quick read. McPherson’s battle with Behcet’s disease, as well as his own personal adoption story, provide a unique perspective on a tale that explores suicide, separation anxiety and berserker (blind rage) syndrome. Joshua, and his journey through the shadows, encourages us to think abou... more

DESPERATE PARALLELS

by Lynda Drews

A young woman goes missing… Another is found dead… Their suffering mothers Etta and Asami fear their daughters’ grim situations, although oceans apart, could be connected. For decades, despite their love for the same man, the Chicago and Tokyo single moms have supported each other at Tripoint Technology, a male-dominated global company. That support is desperately needed now. To locate one daughter and seek revenge for the other the mothers join forces. They must race against ti... more

Harvest of a Wrathful Eye: An Outer Banks Crime Mystery

by Colin Beckett

Dare County Sheriff Marty Tate teams up with fellow law enforcement officers in Virginia in order to locate and apprehend a dangerous and highly intelligent serial killer in this second installment of Colin Beckett’s Outer Banks Crime Mystery series. What was an open missing person’s case becomes a homicide investigation when a body is discovered in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. One month later, a respected psychiatrist is killed aboard his yacht on the waters of Roanoke Island in North ... more

Hunger

by Alexander Ferrick

The Soul Inheritor

by S.E. Lennon

A spell to protect the dead. A desire for power beyond our world. Those devoid of a soul. Through a harsh, driving winter in Baltimore, a widowed father battles unseen forces to protect his son, who may have inherited the soul of a monster...only to find there are greater horrors beyond the shadows of the living. Jack Emory is trying to build a life with his son in a new city, still struggling after the mysterious death of his wife, driven off the edge of their apartment building by an ol... more

Too Late for Redemption

by Sydney Preston

When Max Berdahl, property developer and son of a prominent Jehovah’s Witness family, is found brutally murdered in a vacant home, Detective Sergeants Ray Rossini and Jimmy Tan are charged with solving the first homicide in the island community of Britannia Bay. Their investigation is stymied by the lack of forensic evidence, the failure to find the murder weapon and the reticence of the family to fully cooperate. The detectives first look to Berdahl’s housing project on the mainland for a susp... more

Aldo

by Betty Jean Craige

Aldo is a mystery/thriller/love story in which a brilliant and dangerous ideologue attempts to eliminate a university’s genetics institute by holding the university’s president hostage.

On the same day that Isabel Canto, associate director of Pembrook Atlantic University's Institute for Genome Modification, discovers she is pregnant with IGM post-doc Frank Marks's baby, Pembrook's president Mary Ellen Mackin receives a letter from "Aldo" threatening har... more

Cyber War I

by Ed Mahoney

In Cyber War I, Iran launches a six-day cyberwar against the West to level the playing field of technology powers. Cyber War I marries a high-tech thriller with a primer on computer security in this author’s debut novel. From Macau to Vegas, from Chinese prostitutes to international flight attendants, Rob Warner finds himself in the middle of the action, and in a position to stop the pending destruction. If he’s willing to sacrifice his career, jeopardize his retirement, and put his life ... more

The Himalayan Revelation

by Pankaj Misra

A gripping tale of mystery, adventure, romance and international intrigue. Today Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But around 450 years back, this capital of the magnificent Vijayanagar Empire was brutally plundered and devastated. But before it happened, its masters hid a secret. Centuries later, a young couple chance upon an object that holds a secret much more than Hampi had hidden, in a place 2000 miles far north of Hampi - the Himalayas. The Himalayas have something to tell and wh... more

Death of a Monk

by Tanmoy Bhattacharjee

Legend has it that the unexplained death of one of the five most powerful celestial monks, in full view of the others, created crippling suspicion and fear among them, finally leading to their downfall. When a real-life monk of a free-thinking Order dies of an inexplicable knife wound in front of his colleagues, the monastery is cast into an atmosphere of maniac misgivings, mutual mistrust and malignant malice. The detectives find their investigation complicated by the criminal history of the mo... more

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