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Wish Me From the Water

by R E Swirsky

A young boy commits suicide. The town folk believe it was another result of bullying but two brothers discover the truth and decide to take matters into their own hands.

(Warning: This novel contains material about sexual abuse of children and domestic physical abuse. Although there is no graphic content some may still find the content disturbing).

When GERALD W. BURKE, the president of the United States, gives the leaders of Israel and Palestine an ultimatum to settle the conflict on his terms—or else, he triggers a chain reaction that threatens his presidency and his life. Opposition to his Israeli policy is voiced by Congress, ALPAC—the powerful Israeli lobby, and al-Qaeda and the Israeli Conservative Alliance who conspire to scuttle the agreement by any conceivable means, including assassination. At the center of the action is ARI BUG... more

The Proffer-LetMe Count The Ways

by john cavi

John Giordano, the former associate US attorney who successfully prosecuted the five NY crime families—known as the Commission Case— in the trial of the century, is selected by the president to run as the law and order candidate for the NY Senate. Giordano’s life gets complicated when he receives a visit from his former lover, Paula Fasano—the grand daughter of a Mafia Don—with whom he had a secret love affair thirty-five years ago. Accused of first-degree murder of her husband, Paula asks Jo... more

Deep Cover: The Copper Scroll

by Richard Fliegel

Deep Cover: the Copper Scroll is a spy thriller set in Israel and Iran. An American writer named Jason Goldfarb and his Palestinian bride Safiya are sent to Tehran by the Mossad to help an Iranian nuclear engineer defect. Their cover story is research for a new book about the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great -- while Jason keeps a deep cover story in reserve. The novel opens on the floor of an interrogation cell where Captain Afshin Zamaani of the Revolutionary Guard is determined to learn the tr... more

The Katrina Contract

by Larry Nocella

Kept secret from the American public, after the inept response of public emergency agencies to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, military contractor companies began quietly offering private emergency services. At a price only the wealthy can afford, these contracts function as a world-wide 9-1-1, offering personal rapid-response extraction from anywhere at any time in any situation. The Sunset Mist luxury liner has been overrun by terrorists off the coast of Florida. On board is billionaire Danfort... more

KHAKI=KILLER, ISBN 9780982444825

by Connie (Corcoran) Wilson, M.S.

KHAKI=KILLER, 3rd novel in THE COLOR OF EVIL series, follows young Tad McGreevy and friends at Cedar Falls' Sky High Lab School through the 2nd semester of their senior year. Recently named a "Page Turner" by Shelf Unbound magazine and NABE Pinnacle Thriller winner, the series details the adventures of the young man (Tad McGreevy) with the power to detect auras around others (Tetrachromatic Super Vision) and to relive the crimes of those with "the color of evil" in his dreams. Khaki=Killer. B... more

The Hard-Boiled Detective 1

by Ben Solomon

For the first time, the original 11 yarns from Solomon's ongoing, throw-back crime series are available in one volume. His nameless detective faces murderers, blackmailers, adulterers and racketeers—and that's only the first story in this collection. Ten more tales cover a never-ending parade of lowlifes, misfits and suckers, all narrated by the hard-luck gumshoe in his statements to the cops. If you're a fan of "Black Mask," Chandler and Hammett, you'll get a bang out of Solomon's take on old-s... more

The Big Disrupter

by Paul Markun

Idealistic entrepreneur Lionel Lane is struggling with his San Francisco-based company Double Vision Beverages. His only hope is winning the biggest social entrepreneur award ever, the one billion dollar Big Disrupter. Desperate, he partners with his brilliant ex-girlfriend Maxine Gold. Lionel and Maxine expand Double Vision into energy drinks in the mountains of Telluride, Colorado, with the help of a talented 21-year-old extreme skier, Reddi Christiansen. One by one the leading competi... more

Aloha Kahuna Soul

by Rick Pruett

Haunted by a chance meeting with a Kahuna, Alika Kealoha realizes the Hawaiian priest is a connection to the seafaring warriors of his ancestral past and the key to solving the mystery of his father’s disappearance. His investigation uncovers a secret, protected for hundreds of years by a Royal bloodline. Now pursued by murderous thugs, the tropical paradise he loves has turned into a nightmarish maze of betrayal and deceit. Alika finds solace and protection in a crew of locals, whose Mana leads... more

Why?: A Courtroom Drama of Self-Discovery

by R. H. King, Jr.

Dartmouth professor Dan Jackson did not want to murder his students. Yet, when he finds two pistols perched on top of the mid-term exams in his briefcase, he cannot resist the impulse to pull out the guns and start shooting. Now Dan struggles to find the answer to the question that haunts him: why did he kill fifteen of his students? \tDan’s search for the answer must be pursued through his defense to the criminal charges and possible death penalty. However, his grizzled, pony-tailed lawyer ... more

The Do-Nothing

by Brannon Perkison

Wounded, scared, and lost in the backwoods of East Texas, seventeen-year-old John Sharpe thinks he's a killer. If he's not careful, he might just prove himself right.

Found, Near Water

by Katherine Hayton

Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma into a mother’s nightmare. Her daughter’s is missing – lost for four days – but no one has noticed; no one has complained; no one has been searching.

As the victim support officer assigned to her case, Christine Emmett puts aside her own problems as she tries to guide Rena through the maelstrom of her daughter’s disappearance.

A task made harder by an ex-husband desperate for control; a paedophile on early-r... more

The Devil Walks Beside Her

by Gus Leodas

Deanna Layne, a Suffolk County legislator pregnant with twins, flees to Fire Island terrified of being murdered before becoming a mother. She needs to survive a killer in an environment sated with unusual alliances, lethal relationships, and solutions.

Discernment

by Lacy Sereduk

Johanna Parks is a 30-something, life-time sufferer or night terrors. This psychological thriller details a period in her life in which she attempts to hold on to 'real life' as the episodes of her disorder become increasingly terrifying, dangerous, and involved. Desperately trying to find answers to her life-long questions of what they are and why they happen, she develops a relationship with another sufferer, a 'normal' guy to date, and different mental health counselors.

The Wolf Hunter

by mark giles

In the Stanley Valley, it's Blue State vs. Red when it comes to wolves. It's Cowboy Noir as misunderstand-ings--and fate--send reasonable people into an unreason-ing spiral. Annie Mann is for renewing the wolf packs. Against them is Wilhelm Spatz. They once shared a bed; now it's just hate. She fears his hunting camps, a cover for poaching that is denuding the land. Spatz thinks her Big Money Liberals will turn the wild and free ranges into boutique grasslands. Events come to a head whe... more

FIND EDSELL!/ISBN: 978-1-4572-1326-6 (sc), ISBN: 978-1-4582-9 (hc), ISBN: 978-1-4582-1324-2 (c)

by Elsa Bonstein

June of 1988. Edsell Jones, a 17-year old disappears on the way home from his girlfriend's house on the Jersey Shore. His single mother comes home from working the night shift and finds him missing. She calls the police, then in desperation, his friends. Others join the search that leads to the nearby PIne Barrens and a secret drug rehab. In this fast-paced thriller, two teens unearth an international plot and find a fiery hell. No superheros, zombies, vampires or aliens, just real adults ... more

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