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Poori Batter: A Case For Anna Bates

by Pooja Hariharan

Annaporani Bhatt is all set to chase after her dream of becoming a detective. With her two friends Shyam and Nikita, Poorani, as she is known, dabbles with all the going-ons around her, even as she indulges in her strange interest – eating the dough meant to make pooris! Something happens at school, and the detective in Poorani must come out to help her friends and her crush find a lost record. 1

The Day and The Hour

by Presley Acuna

In the year 2020, a Christ-like figure grows in power and influence, challenging human institutions and the geo-political balance. Only a doubting priest and a secret hidden by the Vatican for millennia can stop him.

Life Lessons with Savanna

by Michael Seidel

Studs is a computer genius. Home schooled by his grandparents, he's a socially awkward person who burrows into solitude and isolation when he's upset. Savanna is his girlfriend, or was, until her death. Now, trying to dig himself out of grief, Studs sets out on a road trip to become the person she thought he could be and heads to a small town in southern Oregon. The first problem is that he finds Alice, a woo-woo girl, dead in the Y parking lot in the early morning winter hours. The second probl... more

April Cruel

by Katherine H. Burkman

Set in the 1970s at a small college in Pennsylvania, April Cruel proves T. S. Eliot right: “April is the cruellest month.” When the rigid and rather unpleasant Professor, Erica Berne, discovers that her fiancé has been murdered, she not only is grief-stricken, but she also becomes the victim of several murder attempts that misfire and kill or harm others. Two young professors in the English Department, Jim Strand and David Stein, attempt to uncover the perpetrator of the crimes, along with one o... more

The Women of Harrington Hall

by Andrew Maeda

Harrington Hall at Beaumont University might have been any other women’s residence hall at an institution of higher learning. The women who lived in Harrington Hall might have been any other coeds at a prominent university—and most of them did follow the typical pattern, attending classes, gathering at social functions, making new friends, and relishing the freedom of living away from home. For others, however, the college experience was not at all what they anticipated it would be. Heather fall... more

Death and Dark Money (Sabel Security #4)

by Seeley James

Is Jacob mad or does he really talk to an unemployed god? He was a killing machine for the Army until he started listening to Mercury, winged messenger of the Roman gods; now his mental health is in question. When Pia Sabel asks about a $20 million overpayment from an Arab Prince, teams of assassins descend on her meetings. Together they must take down the billionaires intent on influencing American elections. A political controversy ripped from today's headlines that asks, "Would you ta... more

Who Killed Little Johnny Gill?: A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery

by Kathryn McMaster

He's just seven years old. He's your son. You wave goodbye to him one morning as he disappears into the swirling fog. And then he is gone. Forever. This gripping historical crime fiction novel, based on fact, is set in Bradford, England,1888. It explores the horrific murder of Johnny Gill; a murder and mutilation so gruesome, it stuns a nation. Even hardened detectives are affected by its savagery, swiftly comparing it to the work of Jack the Ripper. "Who Killed Little Johnny Gill?" is ... more

Trapped in a Hall of Mirrors: How the Luckiest Man in the World Became a Spy

by Michael Connick

A cold war espionage novel that follows Stephen Connor in his early career in the intelligence community. After first working for the NSA, he is transfered to the CIA and sent to pre-revolutionary Iran and Vienna, Austria. In Austria he transitions from a technical role in the Agency into a covert intelligence officer. Along the way he encounters KGB moles, an East German seductress, and is targeted by a psychopathic killer.

FRANCIS

by Allan Hansford

WARNING: Some readers may be disturbed by the macabre, the sexually explicit scenes and/or language. This is not a book for the faint-hearted. There is no name for what Francis Ashford suffers from; the closest psychologists could come to was Psychopathia Sexualis— but not exactly... Francis Ashford, highly intelligent age thirteen, commits a despicable crime and absconds wearing his mother’s clothing. Initially, he successfully passes off as a female calling himself Frances. When c... more

Said the Fly

by Laurie Taylor

On a remote Spanish island near the African coast, a young scientist, Epiphany Jerome, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead, she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back.

It's not just another tourist. It's the daughter of Epiphany's landlady and the single mother of an 11-year old girl devoted to Epiphany's small dog, Mostly. As a forensic entomologist trained in the language of insects, Epiphany can tell the police more about t... more

Infinite Time

by HJLawson

Save the girl. Save the day. Save yourself. The mission sounds easy enough, but it is anything but easy for Parker Jenkins. Yesterday, ordinary, poverty-stricken Parker was an ordinary high school kid, getting bullied relentlessly and trying to get by. Today, he's a time traveler with gifted powers expected to carry out the extraordinary. Teaming up with another time traveler, Scarlet, they must save an innocent girl on the run before the villains kill them all. If they don't, their present... more

The Legacy of Izaak Wolf

by Alan A. Winter

"The Legacy of Izaak Wolf" is about the recently widowed Michaela Wolf and the tsunami of woes she and her children face when her sisters-in-law sue to claw back the family assets she will soon inherit. Having settled the bitter dispute and thinking herself rid of them, imagine Michaela's horror when her sisters-in-law hold her hostage in order to force her teenage son – who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome – to journey to Zurich to retrieve a treasure his grandfather hid from the Nazis. Nin... more

Shattered by Death

by Catherine Finger

After Chief of Police Josie Oliver’s abusive soon-to-be-ex-husband had an affair with another woman, she could have murdered them—but when someone does, Jo becomes the prime suspect. Teaming up with old flame and FBI agent Nick Vitarello to hunt a serial killer who is framing her for murder, her fledgling faith in God and man is severely tested. The situation escalates when Nick declares his love for her—but his loyalty comes under fire. As the manhunt heats up, the only thing Jo is sure of is t... more

Liszt's Dante Symphony

by Rich DiSilvio

Liszt’s Dante Symphony is an enigmatic tale of ingenious ciphers, covert spy rings and murder amid the turbulent rise of Bismarck’s Prussia, which leads to Hitler’s infernal Third Reich.

Radioactive

by Lloyd Vancil

Disaster strikes when LAPD Detective Sergeant Mitchell Foster's orders lead to fatal consequences for his family. Foster is haunted by his past and nearly destroyed by this new grief but he must pull himself together when a terrorist raid on a nuclear storage facility puts law enforcement officials across the country on alert, Detective Foster is drawn into the investigation of a home grown terrorist plot aimed at turning a most of the Los Angeles basin and half of Nevada into a radioactive was... more

Fear Dreams

by J.A. Schneider

Liddy Barron, an artist, was injured in a hit-and-run accident that left her with recurring nightmares, gaps in her memory, and an increasing obsession in the disappearance of a coed named Sasha Perry. Insecure and nervous, Liddy's turmoil grows as she begins seeing ghostly images. Her husband Paul tries to help but suspects it's just her imagination...while intuitive Detective Kerri Blasco, also obsessed with young Sasha's disappearance, senses that Liddy may have a key to solving the case, and... more

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