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A Note Before Dying (A Ghostwriter Mystery Book 6)

by C.A. Larmer

When rock legend Jed Moody is electrocuted while strutting his stuff on stage, he’s lucky his biggest fan Roxy Parker is in the crowd. The Ghostwriter may be there to write his life story but now she wants to know who snuffed it out and why. Could it be a string of lovers, his long-suffering wife, embittered band members or the sexy sparkie with the chip on his shoulder and the soft spot for Roxy?

The Iron Relic Book I: The Crossing

by Bobby Hundley

On his deathbed, billionaire philanthropist Henry Calhoun entrusts a silver crucifix pendant to his dearly beloved great grandson, Adam, and entreats him to keep his possession of it a secret. For, he says, in the small chamber at the back of it rests the broken tip from one of the Holy Nails that pierced Christ’s flesh. The legacy soon becomes a nightmare bequest as mystery, murder and miracles ensue, with shadowy figures and thugs for hire crossing paths with Vatican emissaries and forbidden a... more

Requiem for Rosco

by Peter Gallagher

Requiem for Rosco is a complex murder mystery set in Chicago. It gives readers a gritty, poignant tour of the city, navigating from the Gold Coast to the housing projects, and ultimately to the financial center on LaSalle Street. It is as much an intimate love story as it is a mystery. Gallagher's quick-cut pacing is a grabber, keeping three distinctive male characters and equally strong female characters in balance. The multiple viewpoints of this ambitious literary architecture allow Gallagher... more

Solomon's Whisper

by Sandra Brannan

“Finalist for Best Mystery/Suspense of 2014″ by Foreword Reviews

“Finalist for Best Book Cover for Fiction” by Foreword Reviews

AS LIV BERGEN INVESTIGATES THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF HER NIECE, SHE UNCOVERS A DANGEROUSLY-GUARDED SECRET-AND STUMBLES INTO ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC KILLERS SHE'S FACED YET.

ONCE AN AMATEUR SLEUTH, LIV "BOOTS" BERGEN has now found her... more

Cuts Like Glass

by Dana S. Feldman

When Gabe and Ella Griffin venture out for a day of sailing, terror and suspicion arise when the coast guard finds their boat floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with only Ella on board. Unconscious and in a pool of blood, Ella cannot seem to remember what happened. With the last two hours of her life a complete blank, she seems the distraught wife in search of the truth as to what happened to her missing husband. Or is she? With no body, no witnesses, no murder weapon, and no appa... more

Sweet Things Dying

by Dana S. Feldman

When out of work journalist, Eva Goldberg, reluctantly takes on an assignment to ghostwrite the autobiography of one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, she uncovers the truth surrounding the mysterious disappearance of a woman, and the murders of several others. As some truths are unearthed, Eva is besieged with more questions than she could ever have imagined. Despite putting her own life in peril, she cannot stop herself from digging further until she gets to the bottom of the truth.

Metal: The Trevin Project, Book One

by Stephen Gerard

The Trevin Project is the name of my new young adult action adventure series. The first book is called Metal and was published by Montauk Press in November 2014. The story centers around Delbert Hanks, a fifteen year-old high school student living with his mom in Claxburg, Maryland who accidentally drinks from a tainted bottle of Atomic Plus, a popular energy drink. Within weeks he discovers his body is slowly turning into metal. He hides this discovery from his mom, his estranged father, an... more

The Oracle of Baal

by Rebecca Yount

"The most puzzling aspect of Rosalinda Evelyn's suicide was that she shot herself with a in the head with a Magnum 8mm automatic just five hours after having won the Critics' Choice award for beat actress."

In his most bizarre case, Anglo Indian Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Mick Chandra and his partner, Hong Kong-born Elizabeth Change, face the challenge of exposing a sex and suicide cult, the Oracle of Baal, which persuades its clients that death is the way to ultima... more

Murder On The Menu (Nikki Hunter Mysteries) (Volume 1)

by Nancy Skopin

Private Investigator Nicoli “Nikki” Hunter has lost enthusiasm for the bar and restaurant surveys that pay the bills but no longer challenge her. When the brutal murder of socialite, (and stripper), Laura Howard lands on her desk, she finally encounters a case worthy of her talent. Murder on the Menu is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Nikki Hunter. The only child of a Cossack and a former nun, Hunter is a smart, tenacious thirty-five-year-old, who lives aboard a sailboat in the San... more

Sunbaked

by Junie Coffey

Nina Spark bought a house off the internet. On a sunny island she’d never heard of before. At about two o’clock in the morning with a glass of red wine in her hand. About a week later, she was sitting across a desk from Pineapple Cay's chief of police, wondering how her daydream of easy living in the islands got so far off track so quickly. For fans of comedic mysteries, and readers looking for a tropical beach vacation in a book at the tail end of a long, hard winter.

Deceived: A Sam McClellan Tale

by Laura S. Wharton

The beach life isn’t sunny for Detective Sam McClellan—not after he just lost his partner in a brutal killing that makes no sense. The truth pulls at him like an undertow as he uncovers an extensive drug trafficking scheme in the idyllic beach resort communities of North Carolina. With the help of sassy sidekick Molly Monroe and tips from some shady characters, Sam finds himself in one dangerous situation after another. Drowning in waves of trouble crashing around him, will Sam be able to save h... more

The Phantom Soldier

by Jon L Cadel

London, 2005. A re-elected government and fresh anti-war protests. Hopeful of securing a lucrative contract as a Private Military Contractor, Paul Elements heads to the capital to meet head honcho James Thompson—who is quick to question his lack of experience. When it turns out Elements has links to a social group that holds a secret, a secret which left a young man vegetating in a coma—one man convicted of the assault, one perpetrator unknown—Thompson gives him a week to find the identity of th... more

The Einstein Proxy

by Steve Dimodica

Albert Einstein died of natural causes in 1955. A final manuscript, long believed to be his incomplete deliberations on the most vexing issue in physics, is left in his office. It is a decoy. The brilliant scientist has smuggled the true mathematical solution overseas to a cadre of Jewish academics. It stays hidden for six decades. The year shifts to 2013. A family gathers around the table for a Seder feast at the beginning of Passover in the old Jewish quarter of Istanbul. A strange... more

Exposed by Rage

by Sherrel Lee

He has a dead body. She has the seedy connections. To solve the crime they are forced to work together. To keep her mother’s reputation from destroying her, Ashley Dix Gibson had to learn at an early age to persevere and tune out the lies, gossip, and the bullies. But even running away and joining the army couldn't help her escape the world she was born to and the death of her friend forces her to return to her roots. Detective Michael DeMarco has no desire to team up with a woman wi... more

The Ones THE DARKEST SERIES (Volume 1)

by Jackie Mae

There will be a price to pay. As an average, hard working girl, Claire finds herself terrified and confused; in the middle of madness in the blink of an eye. She is being pursued, but by who and why? They want to acquire her. If she wants to live, the mysteries that shroud her past must be discovered before it’s too late. They walk among us and hide in plain sight. Claire cannot fathom that they are wholly evil, abominations really. She will have to fight and sacrifice for what she b... more

Delusions of Grandeur

by Buck Winthrop

When aspiring writer Byron Hanolan meets Alexandra Bass, one of the countries top models, it is love at first sight. But Alexandra's domineering mother Charlotte is determined she marry the heir to one of New York's wealthiest banking families. When a ruthless web of deception backfires, Alexandra flees for a brand new life and stardom in Hollywood. Byron becomes head writer of Harbor Hills, a TV soap opera on the brink of cancellation with a cast of characters who prove fact is stranger than fi... more

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