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The Cemetery Sleeper

by Susan Griner

The Cemetery Sleeper is a middle grade novel about a boy named Freddy Pesterfield who is lured into sleepwalking to an abandoned cemetery by a vengeful ghost. Freddy desperately seeks a cure for ghosts after he repeatedly wakes up in the graveyard. He enlists his superstitious friend and his wary cousin to help him find a remedy against the ghost named Tump. As Freddy learns about Tump’s past through his dreams, he begins to suspect his older relatives were involved in Tump’s drowning. Freddy mu... more

Twilight of Doom: A Taylor and Alan Adventure

by Jackie Mae

Faction meets Fantasy in this thrilling new tale. Meet Taylor and Alan, the sister-brother duo, as they embark on their latest mission. It all started while on vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. They indulge on boardwalk fries, cotton candy, and play in the sun and surf, having fun, fun, and fun—until they go with their parents to the House of Mirrors. The House of Mirrors, where all is not as it seems. Can Taylor and Alan outsmart the powerful wizard, save the people from Land of Spark, and ... more

The Devil in Canaan Parish

by Jackie Shemwell

The Devil in Canaan Parish is a southern gothic suspense novel set in south Louisiana in 1957. It tells the story of Bram and Sally Palmer, a middle class couple trying to keep apace with Sally's wealthy relatives. One night in late July, a tropical storm hits the small town of Techeville. The local jeweler's shop is robbed and a stranger, Melee Mouton, arrives in town. The young Cajun girl goes to work as a maid for the Palmers, and quickly becomes a prisoner in the couple's bitter, covetou... more

Alexandra Fry, Private Eye: Tutankhamun's Gift

by Angella Graff

Now an 8th grader and the senior of Sage Brush Middle School, Alexandra Fry is looking forward to having a nice, calm, mystery-free year. But her hopes are dashed when she's visited by none other than the famous boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamun who has a very special request: to find the carved jade crocodile that once belonged to the mummy of his unborn child. With a fight brewing between Alexandra and her two best friends, Penelope and Jack, this case won't be as easy as it seems. New friends, a fi... more

Alexandra Fry, Private Eye: Curse of the Lion's Heart

by Angella Graff

Alexandra Fry is just your average seventh-grader. Or is she? Starting a new school, Alexandra hopes to leave her old life, and old reputation, of “Loopy Lexi” behind. But it’s not so easy when Alexandra is the kind of girl who sees ghosts. And not just any ghosts, but history’s most famous. They come to her to solve mysteries when things from their past life fall into the wrong hands. Desperate to be normal and make some friends, Alexandra is devastated to be visited by none other than Queen... more

Patchwork People (Patchwork People series Book 2)

by D. B. Martin

Patchwork People is the second in the Patchwork trilogy – Patchwork Man being the first. It opens in the aftermath of Lawrence Juste QC winning his young client’s manslaughter case and temporarily gagging the bully who’s threatened Juste since childhood. There’s an uneasy truce in place between Juste and his recently re-discovered family as his wife’s funeral approaches. It’s a period of calm before the storm – which arrives on the eve of the funeral with a package of ‘evidence’, apparently from... more

FORGIVE NO MORE: (US Edition) (James Blake thriller series Book 3)

by Seb Kirby

Dark secrets revealed in a thrilling climax

James Blake and his family can only be safe if the truth about the conspiracy threatening their lives is brought into the full light of day.

Follow James in this intriguing thriller as he returns to London and Italy to confront those seeking to destroy his family.

As the mystery comes to a resounding climax, he discovers that dark secrets have survived down the centuries and are in the hands of those who threaten all those dear to ... more

REGRET NO MORE: (US Edition) (James Blake #2)

by Seb Kirby

No one is safe from the past

James Blake and his family were safe - until he received the phone call that meant they knew where he was.

A stolen Picasso lies at the root of an international conspiracy that reaches into the life of a prominent US politician with devastating consequences not just for him but for so many of those caught up in the crime. Wolfgang Heller, a ruthless assassin, is seeking to eliminate those who have any knowledge of the theft.

James Blake must come... more

Stationary Black

by Klaus Libelle

"Stationary Black" (Crime-Thriller/Drama)

Three years have passed since the night Adam died. The Langley Police Department has been investigating the case and working with the German government to sort out what happened. After all this time, they finally complete their report--until it occurs to them that Adam called someone the night before he died: Luna. In fact, Luna is the only person alive who was directly involved with what happened.

With danger looming around ever... more

The Iranian Connection: A Novel of Geopolitics, Industrial Espionage, and Entrepreneurship

by Bill Relf

By nearly every measure, Cameron Ash (nickname Cash) is a success. Handsome and charismatic, he developed Cameron Industries into a $400 million international powerhouse. His wife and children love him unconditionally and crave his companionship. His management team protects his life even if it endangers their own. Inside, though, Cash is consumed by rage and hungry for revenge. As a teenager, the explosion of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland took the lives of his parents. Twenty-five yea... more

Wild Game

by Blayne Davis

Behind modern glass doors, high above the streets of Manhattan, an underground operation works around the clock. The Ivy League boys wearing pinstriped suits are discreetly siphoning off millions in the world's gambling markets. Their information is brilliant and their execution is flawless, as they plunder the world of sports betting. An unlikely betrayal sets off a chain reaction that puts the AQSR Group on the radar of the FBI and international police. Investigators and prosecutors start to ... more

Allison rubiero

by Wallace Provost

Allison Rubiero is a Cuban Psychologist/Lawyer who is just returning to Tampa from Cambridge where she earned her Harvard Law Degree. Her first problem is to get Bertram Sandell out of jail which requires involving the DEA, ATF, FBI, and the Tampa Police Department all unofficially. Her second problem is a millionaire woman convicted of a murder she did not commit and is on death row. Allison has to delve deep into her fascinating life to find the real killer. This all take place on the streets ... more

Fatal Rhythm: A Medical Thriller and Christian Mystery (Texas Medical Center Mystery) (Volume 1)

by R. B. O'Gorman

In the pre-dawn hours of the graveyard shift, the ICU at the Houston Heart Institute is quiet, and quietly patients are dying. Surgery resident Joe Morales dreams of becoming a rich heart doctor. First, he must survive his assignment to an ICU rife with land mines--unexplained patient deaths, rival faculty, fellow resident saboteurs, a cost-slashing administrator, a ruthless insurance executive, a seductive head nurse, a jealous wife, a critically ill son, an overprotective mother, and an orderl... more

The Schwarzschild Radius

by Gustavo Florentin

Rachel, an 18-year-old Columbia University student, descends into the netherworld of runaways and predators to find her sister, Olivia, who has suddenly disappeared. After getting a job in a strip joint where Olivia worked, then doing private shows in the homes of rich clients, Rachel discovers that Olivia has been abducted by a killer who auctions the deaths of young girls in an eBay of agony. When she finds Olivia, Rachel becomes the killer’s next target.

Running For The House

by Howard Kleinhendler

An ambitious politician finds himself the puppet of a mysterious organization in Howard Kleinhendler's adrenaline-pumping debut novel, Running for the House.

Known only as “the Committee,” this secret political organization aims to end the escalating South American drug trade once and for all.

In the process of developing a biological weapon that will result in its victims completely untraceable deaths, the Committee needs a politician on the inside to mak... more

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