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Taking Tom Murray Home

by TJ Slee

Bankrupt dairy farmer Tom Murray decides he’d rather sell off his herd and burn down his own house rather than hand them over to the bank. But something goes tragically wrong, and Tom dies in the blaze. His wife, Dawn, doesn’t want him to have died for nothing and decides to hold a funeral procession for Tom as a protest, driving 350km from Heywood to bury him in Melbourne where he was born. To make a bigger impact she agrees with some neighbours to put his coffin on a horse and c... more

Spirit Circle: A Story of Adventure & Shamanic Revelation

by Hal Zina Bennett

Tara Fairfield, an anthropologist at a small university, receives a mysterious package in the mail, apparently from her father, who has been missing for two years. Inside are a few potsherds and a human bone. The package is postmarked Gallup, New Mexico. Moved by the prospect that her father, a journalist, might still be alive, Tara sets off on an adventure that ultimately leads her deep into the back country of New Mexico and an ancient shamanic community where dark plots unfold and the disapp... more

The Release of Jonathan Flite

by Matthew J. Beier

Jonathan Flite wants to disappear. Apart from being Rhode Island’s infamous nurse killer about to walk free, he’s also facing more public scrutiny than ever before. The FBI has begun taking his connection to the long-lost Idle County Seven seriously, drawing links between people Jonathan claims to remember and last summer’s nuclear terrorist attack in Geneva, Switzerland. Furthermore, the perpetrator from last fall’s murders at Crescent Rehabilitation Center is still a... more

The Cult Breaker

by C K Emmett

Sally thought her sister had escaped the clutches of the cult she belonged to .. but then she disappears in the night. When the police are unable to help her, Sally turns to the only person who can - a beleaguered former "deprogrammer" called Alice.

Thirst for Murder

by Debra Ison

Sam and Sarah Richards take on a new mystery in this second novel of the three book series. Sarah's new writing assignment takes her to Kentucky bourbon country. The visit takes on dark overtones, however, as the couple stumble onto a dead body during their first distillery tour. Sarah immediately goes into investigative mode and Sam strives to keep his precocious wife out of harm's way. Their friend, Mac Osborne, returns as their ally to uncover the dangerous secrets behind the murder.

The Collection

by Lance Charnes

Four years ago, what Matt Friedrich learned at work put him in prison. Yesterday, it earned him a job. Tomorrow, it may kill him.

Matt learned all the angles at his old Los Angeles gallery: how to sell stolen art, how to “enhance” a painting’s history, how to help buyers hide their purchases from their spouses or the IRS. He made a load of money doing it – money he poured into the lawyer who worked a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney. Matt’s... more

Fear the Darkness

by A.A Schenna

Amelia was struggling to remain calm, although she was sure there was something terrible going on. Soon, she would come face-to-face with the worst living nightmare.

Clock Zero

by Nawar Alsaadi

Clock Zero tells the story of Tom, a Millennial wasting his life chasing Likes on social media until he meets Daniel Drake, a mysterious man with a daring plan to free the world of its social media obsession. Tom is captivated by the premise of a new unplugged world, but is Daniel Drake the good Samaritan he claims to be? Clock Zero beautifully captures the existentialist struggle of this generation. A master stroke of wit and suspense, Clock Zero sheds light on the dark side of an always-con... more

Tale of the Tape: Two Unlikely Heroes Take Down the Dixie Mafia

by Alan Ables

By the 1980s, the Dixie Mafia was at the zenith of its power; its tentacles spread from New Orleans to State Department bureaucrats, Colombian drug cartels and around the world to the men just beginning to invent modern terrorism and trade in nuclear materials. Today’s headlines are only now exploring the depth of that corruption. Tale of the Tape takes historical events – CIA-sanctioned drugs-for-guns trade in Central America, a Soviet "sailor" returned by U.S. authorities to the ship from whic... more

Melting Steele (The Jasmine Steele Mystery Series Book 2)

by Kimberly Amato

A family brutally slaughtered. A daughter disappeared into thin air...

Still recovering from the murder attempt that nearly took her life, tough-as-nails New York homicide detective Jasmine Steele is slowly coming to grips with a world that's seemingly gone mad. She has every reason to fear death: her parents are both long gone, and she watched her brother bleed out following a drunk driving accident that left his wife dead and his son an orphan. Now Chase lives with his Aunt Jasmin... more

Soft on the Devil

by Robert Lampros

When Cindy Myran doesn’t return home one night, within days everyone in her neighborhood assumes she’s dead, but Ian Phillips isn’t so pessimistic. She shows up at his door a week later, in need of help and running for her life. What happens next draws him into a labyrinth of murder, corruption, and danger, where nothing is clear and sinister secrets lurk in the shadows. Only Ian’s courage, faith, and determination can uncover the mystery and deliver him and those he loves out of darkness and... more

Levels

by D H Richards

Talbot Singh is a small time fixer who is happy to kick around level 29 of a massive city that reaches over a mile into the sky. It's a city where the higher you go the more riches you enjoy, and the appearance of someone from a higher level can only mean one thing—trouble. So when Talbot is hired to investigate the murder of a family friend, what seems like tragic violence tied to a simple burglary turns out to be much more when the authorities from upscale level 35 get involved. Finding h... more

The Witch Some Witch: Damning Her and Damning Me

by Quleen O Queen

The author has poured forth an unforgiving story of the voiceless while reaching after the suspenseful depths of a beautiful brave world. What is the message of the work – attack apathy and instill the need for awareness. As without it, anyone can turn us into a scapegoat, a victim and even a slave! “The novel as a witty prose of Memory, Revenge, Love and CRIME is a chilling story about a murder in self-defense, dishonour of a hapless girl, a town reeling from riots and a forced sacrifice fo... more

The Lafayette Campaign: a Tale of Deception and Elections (Frank Adversego Thrillers Book 2)

by Andrew Updegrove

America is rushing headlong into another election year, but something is wrong – the polls don’t match reality. It’s up to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the Black Hats who are trying to hack the presidential election, and stop them before they do. The action begins when a nameless government agency recruits Adversego to find out who’s manipulating the polls, but he soon learns that the voting results are at risk as well. From then on, it’s a race against time to see who w... more

Forgotten Boxes

by Becki Willis

WINNER of 2016 Best Suspense Fiction by the Association of Texas Authors.

Named sole heir to her aunt's estate, Charity Gannon arrives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, hoping to find a link to her past. She's not looking for lost treasures; she is searching for a connection to the aunt she barely knew.

What she finds is a thirty-something-year-old mystery and questions with no answers. A sad, secluded cottage, all but hidden amid the vines. A man's suit of clothes,... more

When the Killing Starts (The Blackwell Files Book 8)

by Steven F. Freeman

The Winter Olympics: the perfect time for competition, sportsmanship…and mayhem Days before the Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin, host country South Korea learns of a planned attack from the north to coincide with the Games. With no details supplied by the now-dead informant, a joint U.S./South Korean team must race the clock to discover the rogue nation’s plot and prevent a potential disaster. Along the way, Alton Blackwell—leader of the U.S. team—must navigate through a landscape ... more

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