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  • Bartender Wanted

    by Maureen Anne Jennings
    Rose Leary tends bar in 1980s New York City to subsidize her writing career. Someone keeps killing women at her job, and Rose suspects she's next. Despite official warnings to leave sleuthing to the pros, she struggles to find the murderer in a desperate race to save herself and her work. Smart and stubborn Rose brings her sharp wit to the search, defying her fear with dark humor. And cocktails.

  • One Too Many: A Rose Leary Mystery

    by Maureen Anne Jennings
    Rose Leary writes murder mysteries, but she never wants to see another real corpse. She tends bar to buy time to write in 1980s New York City, until her gruesome discovery of a murdered colleague derails those careful plans. As threats escalate, Rose fears for her next novel, her safety, and even her trust in Detective Frank Butler. Danger edges closer. She won’t survive unless she can outwit the murderer and find the weapon she needs to save everything that matters most. Written with wit, intel... more

  • Darkness Descends on Princeton: A 1930's Murder Mystery

    by Jeff Jacobs
    A professor murdered. A young couple on the run. Peter Lorre, Edna May Oliver, Charles Coburn, and dozens of other classic Hollywood actors living and working in a small college town. Nazis, The New York World's Fair, and Albert Einstein. It's 1939 and something strange is happening in Princeton, New Jersey.

  • Detective Lessons

    by Bill Larkin
    When a wealthy real estate developer convinces Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Schmidt to search for his missing son, Schmitty senses trouble. It’s not the fact that it’s a prohibited side job, it’s the fact that he has to team up with Megan McCann, an attractive private investigator with her own set of rules. Finding a body in the trunk of a BMW sends Schmitty and Megan on an adrenalized trail through Southern California unraveling a sophisticated real estate scam. A run-in with the LAP... more

  • A Bonafide Detective

    by Tim Twombly
    It’s 1960. The Russians have nuclear missiles off the coast of Florida. The Sexual Revolution is about to send the world spinning. Intellectuals are predicting the death of God. All that aside, fifteen-year-old Dewey “Doc” Ruggles has real challenges to deal with. He needs to find a babysitter for his little sister, Snowball, so he’ll have time to solve his hometown’s most chilling cold-case murder. It’s his chance to be a local hero and attract evil’s opposite: true love. A chance sightin... more

  • On the Road to Where the Bells Toll

    by M. J. Williams
    Emily and Stan pack up the RV and head to Boston for some R & R with the grandkids and a chance to immerse themselves in colonial history. But their Fourth of July celebration comes to an abrupt halt when they stumble over a body on the Boston Esplanade and then another hanging in the steeple of the Old North Church. Now the couple must unravel a tangle of forged clues and flush out the perpetrator before their own untimely epitaphs are written onto the historical landscape.
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    Purgatorium: Volume 1

    by Connor Hinds
    Los Angeles, 1946. The second world war had ended but the war on the streets was only just starting, Italian gangsters like Jack Dragna had muscled their way into LA and were paving the way for drugs, extortion, prostitution and all out gang warfare. In amongst the crime families and chaos, hotshot Adrian Hollis of the L.A.P.D is sent to investigate the savage murder of a young street girl in Downtown. He's a war veteran, a man with an incorruptible mind in a Police department full of dirt... more

  • The Case of the Vanishing Scroll

    by J. D. Howard
    When an ancient scroll vanishes from the museum, police accuse Sam's friend, Dr. DiGenio, of the crime. Sam doesn't believe the charge against him and leads his friends on a mission to discover the truth. Together, they uncover a shadowy world as they find one clue after another. Every step on the trail takes them deeper into danger. Will their adventure mean the end for Sam and his friends?

  • 978-1490928241

    by Maggy Downey
    Eleven-year-old Declan McLeod loves a challenging puzzle. So he has been given three complex puzzles to solve in the new mystery series Declan the Kid Detective. Gone are the days of tracking down missing dogs and secret admires. His latest assignments involve culprits with twisted minds who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Joined by his assistant and best friend, Layla Price, Declan is about to discover some puzzles are not so easy to figure out, but if you do, there may be a price t... more
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    Protector of Children: Assassin's Dreams

    by David V Mammina
    C.A.S.T., the Covert Alliance of Selective Termination, is a secret government society dedicated to exterminating the most dangerous criminals in the United States. For decades, this clandestine band of legal assassins, organized and governed as a classic chivalric society, has "silenced" thousands of dangerous persons, ranging from serial killers to terrorists. But what if one of those killers takes revenge? As C.A.S.T. member Vincent Putnam pursues his calling to rid the world of evil, he mus... more

  • Breaking Free

    by Rob Lubitz
    Ryan Butler’s once promising baseball career came to a crashing end twenty years ago. Now, he’s an unhappy lawyer in an unhappy marriage. His life is going nowhere …until an old friend of Ryan’s is found comatose on a park bench. This old friend, Steve, vanished from work earlier that day with a quarter of a million dollars. The money is mysteriously missing and the police have no clues. Dazzled by Steve’s gorgeous young wife, who may or may not be as innocent as she seems, Ryan risks every... more

  • The Secret of the Sacred Scarab

    by Fiona Ingram
    A 5000-year-old mystery comes to life when a scruffy peddler gives cousins Adam and Justin Sinclair an old Egyptian scarab on their first day in Egypt. Only when the evil Dr. Khalid shows a particular interest in them do the boys realise they are in terrible danger. Their adventure takes them down the Nile and across the harsh desert in their search for the legendary tomb of the Scarab King, an ancient Egyptian ruler. They survive terrifying dangers in a hostile environment, pursued by enemies i... more

  • Farrow's Legacy (EM2)

    by Mark Radford
    Three suicides after each committed a murder led to an investigation that linked them to a mysterious musical box and an awakening of old hostilities. As the truth gets uncovered behind Farrow's legacy, survival becomes the key in a battle of life or death for redemption.

  • Game Of Justice

    by Mark Radford
    Britain, in the year 2027, is under military rule by a hard-line Animals' Rights organisation. Military Crimes Officer Carl Treyer, on an investigation into a man's death, discovers a trail of murder that leads to a top-ranking official. In trying to bring the perpetrator to justice, his life is placed in jeopardy. However, intervention from an unexpected source is the catalyst which may blow the whole case wide open, forcing a battle for survival.

  • Early Memory (EM1)

    by Mark Radford
    Mike Harley returned home to a message and a problem. Two men were stalking him and as he escaped capture, he witnessed a murder committed by them. Events leads him into the path of a crime lord, a corrupt detective and the mysterious Midnight, who had a hidden past. Survival became the name of the game in a trail of deceit.
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    Critical Mass: A Spiritual Adventure to Save the Planet

    by E. Bruce Bushong

    Ever since the horrors of 9/11, Brian had been lost.

    His quest for purpose led him to France in the spring of 2003. There, everything changed when he joined with fellow seekers—Katrina, a German physicist; Hadji, an Indian engineer; Alia, a Brazilian pilot; and Qui Jen, a Japanese ninja—as part of the Holistic Group dedicated to the transformation of the planet through the creation of Critical Mass.

    As foretold in ancient texts, Critical Mass is both ... more

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