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Fermata Cellars

by Gwen Clayton

Fermata Cellars is the debut novel by author Gwen Clayton. It tells the story of a young marketing director who grew up as the son of a migrant farmworker in the vineyard and has now worked his way up into management. In his youth, he had heard stories of the winery being haunted, but he never believed them. As an adult, he finally learns the truth. This is the first book of the Rivervine Trilogy. The second will tell the story from the ghost's point of view. The third will be from the newspaper... more

Jubilee: The Heist to Erase Debt

by Joseph Preacher

Mastermind. Con-man. Hacker. Burglar. Muscle. Together, this crew will execute the most ambitious heist conceived. Jubilee: The Heist to Erase Debt is packed with heart-stopping political intrigue, adrenaline-fueled suspense, and high-octane action. It’s a slick heist and technothriller that taps into the unrest and disillusionment of debt and its devastating effects on society. On the surface, Roman Hawker is the consummate professional. Behind that squeaky-clean façade lies a secre... more

Let Me Die

by Rubby Nwonye

Elsie hated the awful care her mom received from a nursing home and the associated back and forth visit to the hospital. It hurt anytime she remembered the pain and agony her mom suffered from endless needle sticks for intravenous, pick line, blood draw, finger sticks, tube feeding, and tracheotomy while in a coma, yet she didn’t survive. In her will, Elsie directed her children and lawyers in advance, “Do not resuscitate or put me on life support if I’m in a similar situation as my mom. Pleas... more

Let Me Die: Do Not Resuscitate

by Rubby Nwonye

Let Me Die combines crime, romance and health and recounts the nightmare Elsie went through as she remembered the painful struggles her parents, mother especially, had to endure in the hands of caregivers and still died. Her hardwork to the top paid off. However, two of her three strayed children turned their lives around towards her, while the oldest lived his life in crime against her. His payment was jail time and little inheritance from Elsie's will. Rubby Nwonye combined his skills in fi... more

The Thin Blue Li(n)E

by Brian Cook

The Thin Blue Li(n)e picks up the saga of the Office of the Sheriff where Hands Across The Sea left off.

As the real talk grows contentious, the characters and storylines square off against puppeteers trying to pull the strings. While Sheriff Brendan Callaghan and Undersheriff H. Maxwell Ulrich dig deeper at the crux of the Union’s complaint, the needs of the Agency must balance the political muscle of the Board of Supervisors and the bureaucratic clout of the Vasco city officials... more

Hellmouth

by Meredith Anthony

By turns surprisingly funny and very dark, HELLMOUTH chronicles a woman’s determination to discover the truth. Smart and confident, Helen Goode brushes aside rumors that her husband, a powerful judge, is having an affair. But when the woman in question is murdered, Helen’s fears sharpen. A high-profile murder case overshadows the woman’s death, but Helen has to know. She pursues the truth, even when it becomes clear that the cost of knowing might be her husband’s life. Or her own.

Purple Kitty: A Serena McKay Novel

by Chariss K. Walker

Serena McKay, P.I., isn't your mother's favorite female sleuth. Enjoy the gritty story of a strong and feisty, albeit flawed, female private investigator that gets down and dirty solving crimes in this hard-boiled, dark-fiction thriller.

Burn

by Paul Slatter

In cozy Vancouver, British Columbia, where some dress their dogs in designer clothes and others undress for kinky sex, someone is burning people in the streets. A psychotic Russian, a Jaded policewoman with no time for procedure, an unwitting international superstar and an aging private investigator. Burn is a dark comedy about depravity and revenge in a city unprepared for the firestorm that comes when cultures collide.

Deadly Impulse (Detective Madison Knight Series Book 6)

by Carolyn Arnold

It’s all in the state of mind…

“Not only will this book have your detective skills on alert, but it will have you rooting for Maddy.” —Bookaholic and More Blog

Detective Madison Knight wishes she’d just pulled the trigger and killed the Russian Mafia hit man when she had the chance. But there’s no time machine, no going back. Now’s she’s living in hell, suffering debilitating flash... more

The Third Option (A Taylor Morrison Thriller Book 2)

by Cat Gilbert

Injured and hunted, Taylor is forced to form an uneasy alliance with KOR, a clandestine group of ‘patriots’ in the hope of protecting the people she cares about. She soon discovers all is not as it seems as she is thrown into a world of secrets, spies, and betrayal within the organization, even as Vice President Armstrong sets a trap for her, with bait he knows she cannot resist. Not knowing who to trust, or how to evade Armstrong, she must push her telekinetic ability further than ever befo... more

Brain Storm (A Taylor Morrison Thriller Book 1)

by Cat Gilbert

Was she insane or psychically gifted? Private Investigator, Taylor Morrison, has just managed to put her life back together after the death of her husband when strange things begin to happen around her. Things that can’t be explained. Taylor begins her search for answers only to discover that someone else knows what she is capable of and they will stop at nothing to possess it. As Taylor’s once ordered world erupts into violence and chaos, she is forced to go on the run, fighting to pro... more

The Hunted

by Peter Clenott

It is 1996 when a helicopter carrying a geological survey team is forced to land in the Amazon rain forest. There, they soon discover the only remnants of an indigenous tribe hidden for thousands of years: an elderly shaman, two boys, a girl, and an infant named Suyape. Medical tests run on the five Ipanao survivors indicate one troubling fact?something is not right with their DNA. Years later, seventeen-year-old Suyape Goncalves is back in hiding once again. Adopted in the United States by two... more

The Watson Girl: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller

by Leslie Wolfe

An entire family is murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl.

A therapist has asked her to participate in regre... more

The Place Where the Giant Fell

by John Henry Hardy

Carrie Ann Benton and Rodney Buchard have been in love since grammar school. Her father, federal judge Horace Benton, has forbidden them to see each other. The reason? Rodney's mother is Mexican, a fact that may hurt Horace's prospects of becoming governor of Arizona--and one day, maybe president of the United States. But Carrie and Rodney continue to meet meet in a secret location. The judge hires henchmen to kill Rodney,. Will Marshal Greystone unravels the judge's evil scheme before it is to... more

Dead Man's Tale

by David Campbell

Who killed Arnold Gibbs is no great mystery. Or is it? Dallas homicide detective Reese Barrett strives to solve a riddle, which involved a suspect that has an alibi at the assumed time of death. But more puzzling is why the dying man was kidnapped from a coma ward in a major hospital when doctors projected he had only weeks to live. And who is the victim now occupying his bed, forced into an irreversible coma and bearing Arnold Gibbs's identification? After his partner is hospitalized, Barrett f... more

Presidential Conclusions

by Douglas J. Wood

Samantha Harrison, now President of the United States, is faced with her greatest challenge yet: how to keep a splintered nation together in the face of unprecedented fear. Ripped from today’s headlines and full of imagined conversations with real politicians, PRESIDENTIAL CONCLUSIONS is a political thriller with unpredictable twists. As Samantha Harrison takes her place as leader of the free world, her dilemmas give readers a taste of the difficult decisions politicians must make and the res... more

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