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  • Wendall's Lullaby

    by Kip Koelsch
    In a race to save hundreds of dolphins, Dr. Angela Clarke and her team clash with shadowy military men out to protect the U.S. from an imminent threat.

  • With or Without Pulp

    by Michael J. Elsey
    John Smith is laying low in West Hollywood and trying to transcend his past by following the precepts of his guru, Ahmanarshi. However, darkness has a way of shadowing the light. When his neighbor Laura goes missing, John Smith will need to tread carefully on the path of good and evil. On his journey, he discovers a dead Russian thug, a truckload of meth laced oranges and Anya, a porcelain-skinned beauty that puts the nerve in nirvana.

  • Tie Died

    by Kathryn Elizabeth Jones
    When 18-year-old Brianne James discovers a murdered young girl at Montgomery Park – a 15-year-old who has been left for dead in the icy snow – there is only one thing she can do: search for the killer. Brianne has a nose for sleuthing. She can connect with people; even scary people. She has the smarts to solve even the most underhanded crime, and she can solve it with or without the help of the police or her parents. When it comes to Conner Ryan, however, his unrelenting assistance is quit... more

  • Night Drop (Pinx Video Mysteries Book 1)

    by Marshall Thornton
    It’s 1992 and Los Angeles is burning. Noah Valentine, the owner of Pinx Video in Silver Lake, notices the fires have taken their toll on fellow shopkeeper Guy Peterson’s camera shop. After the riots end, he decides to stop by Guy’s apartment to pick up his overdue videos, only to find Guy’s family dividing up his belongings. He died in the camera store fire—or did he? Noah and his downstairs neighbors begin to suspect something else might have happened to Guy Peterson. Something truly sinister. ... more

  • The Jewish FBI Agent

    by Martin Ettlinger
    Looted Nazi art discovered The Jewish FBI Agent (Mystery Fiction) \tThe Jewish FBI Agent is a story about finding a source of precious opal, and tracing it’s trip to Harry Winston, where a very expensive piece of jewelry was created. The necklace eventually ends up the property of a digital wunderkind. The necklace, along with a painting by Sisely, that turns out to be Nazi stolen art disappears from the Plaza Hotel safe. \tTwo New York detectives, aided by agents from the Israeli secret sec... more

  • Deadly Provenance

    by Lynne Kennedy
    Mystery and murder surround a Vincent van Gogh painting confiscated by the Nazis and missing since World War II. Digital photographer Maggie Thornhill uses her talents to attempt to authenticate the painting from a 1940s photograph and, in doing so, finds herself following a trail of the lost work of art. Encountering deception within deception in the high-stakes art world, she peels the layers back to reveal not one, but two killers. Both art experts have killed for the painting. Now one is ... more

  • 9781480845572

    by Phil Bradley
    Hiding in Third Person is a story within a story. A mental patient tells a wild story of a bullied runaway who saves the life of a stranger. Together the mismatched pair hide from a vicious killer in the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The patient's story ends in a bloody showdown, with one boy missing. Doctors dismiss the man's story as a lunatic's fantasy. One order,ly though, believes the man, and is compelled to prove the tale true.

  • The Making of Herman Faust (The Checkpoint, Berlin Detective Series Book 4)

    by Michele E. Gwynn
    When the walls come tumbling down… Herman Faust is the no-nonsense Director of the LandesKriminalamt (LKA), and long-time friend of Kommissar Joseph Heinz. His career spans thirty years, and he is now on the cusp of retirement. Although usually cool and in control, a man of dry wit, it wasn't always so for Faust. With experience, came wisdom, hard won wisdom for which he paid a high price. 1988: For rookie officer Herman Faust, a routine, late night traffic stop turns into the apprehension... more

  • Twisted Doubles

    by Joanie Pariera
    TWISTED DOUBLES CHILLINGLY CRIMINAL… A young, seemingly guileless millionaire businessman, an unsuspecting, progressive, middle-class woman who meets and falls in love with him, a tortured ex-cop who gets entangled in their tragic love story, and a hardworking reporter with a never-say-die attitude - these are just some of the characters in this suspense-filled love story about what it means to hold on to everything that makes you, you. ‘Twisted Doubles’ is not just a story about double trou... more

  • The Renegade Spy (Department 89 Book 1)

    by Mark O'Neill

    A Berlin mobster has hired a ruthless assassin to murder the German chancellor Claudia Meyer. German Intelligence has been trying to catch the assassin for years without success. Now it falls to Captain Sophie Decker and Lieutenant Wolfgang Schmitz to save the life of the chancellor and finally bring down the assassin who has long eluded the German state.

  • Poisoned Palette

    by Jill Paterson
    An enthusiastic crowd gathered at Lyrebird Lodge in the Blue Mountains on that crisp autumn morning, all anxious to acquire one of Florence Fontaine’s much sought after paintings. However, the only art on one visitor’s mind is the art of murder. \t Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn, unwittingly drawn into the case, launches his investigation that reveals a web of past and present jealousy, deceit and revenge, at a time when his own life is unravelling before his eyes. Meanwhile, Claire Rey... more

  • Deadly Investment

    by Jill Paterson
    It was an accepted fact that Beatrice Maybrick, owner and operator of the Maybrick Literary Agency, accidentally fell to her death. Or did she? Esme Timmons thought not, her suspicions fuelled by a letter she received from Beatrice following the tragic incident. Faced with this dilemma, Esme takes steps to find the killer. Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn commences his investigation into the suspicious death of entrepreneur, Preston Alexander. With robbery ruled out as t... more

  • Lane's End

    by Jill Paterson
    Sydney’s Observatory on a balmy summer evening is the perfect venue for a cocktail party and, it would seem, a murder, for Peter Van Goren’s body is discovered bludgeoned to death in the grounds. The first question Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn must answer is why Van Goren was present given his name does not appear on the guest list. The second is, what was the subject of Van Goren’s vehement argument with Richard Carmichael, one of the function’s hosts. Meanwhile, Richard’s son, Ben C... more

  • Once Upon A Lie

    by Jill Paterson
    Little did, businessman and entrepreneur, Michael Rossi know that the telephone call he answered on that fateful Friday would be the catalyst for his death, and the subsequent recovery of his body from the waters of Sydney Harbour the following morning. Recalled from leave to take on the case, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn confronts the first of many puzzles; how Rossi spent the unaccountable hours before he died. This leads him on a paper-trail into a tangled web of deception, jealousy ... more

  • Murder at the Rocks

    by Jill Paterson
    When Laurence Harford, a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly. After barely starting his investigation, uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled employees, a second killing occurs. Meanwhile, Laurence’s nephew, Nicholas Harford, has his certainties in life shaken when he becomes a suspect in his uncle’s death, and receives a mysterious gold lo... more

  • The Celtic Dagger

    by Jill Paterson
    University professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study by the Post Graduate Co-coordinator, Vera Trenbath, a nosey interfering busybody. Assigned to the case is Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn. Fitzjohn is a detective from the old guard, whose methodical, painstaking methods are viewed by some as archaic. His relentless pursuit for the killer zeros in on Alex’s brother, James, as a key suspect in his investigation. Compelled to clear himself of suspicion, James starts hi... more

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