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  • Murder at Beechwood

    by Alyssa Maxwell
    For Newport, Rhode Island’s high society, the summer of 1896 brings lawn parties, sailboat races…and murder. Having turned down the proposal of Derrick Andrews, Emma Cross has no imminent plans for matrimony—let alone motherhood. But when she discovers an infant left on her doorstep, she naturally takes the child into her care. Using her influence as a cousin to the Vanderbilts and a society page reporter for the Newport Observer, Emma launches a discreet search for the baby’s mother. One ... more

  • In the Bones

    by Renee Miller
    Welcome to Albertsville: Population 397…and falling. When Ryan Cassidy claims a house left to him by his estranged grandparents, he becomes tangled in the mystery of a town crushed by a deadly secret spanning generations. The town's power core, which includes the reeve, his council members, and the local police, smother opposition with deceit, brutality and fear. They will stop at nothing to keep the horror they've committed buried. A severe winter storm leaves Albertsville sno... more

  • Plague of Equals: A science thriller of international disease, politics and drug discovery.

    by D. R. Oestreicher
    A science thriller of international disease, politics and drug discovery. In cities and villages world-wide, drug companies must defend their clinical trials against anti-science activists. Eleanor Powell is convinced the drug companies have done their due diligence, but the global population is shrinking and politicians are looking for a scapegoat. Eleanor is finding herself suddenly in the middle of a cultural battle over science and statistics. Meanwhile, in a remote village in Vietnam... more

  • A Smoking Gun

    by Patrick Freeman
    When private investigator Jacob Franks was falsely accused and convicted of murder it left him a little disillusioned about the ‘legal system’ in America. Among other things he learned that the Constitutional guarantee that the accused shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty doesn’t exist anymore – if it ever really did. Did the experience leave him bitter and angry? Maybe a little. Cynical and sarcastic? Absolutely. Stanley Morrison is a thirty-year-old autistic man who has been accused ... more

  • Linear Shift

    by Paul B. Kohler
    No one said time travel would be easy. Peter Cooper, a widowed father of two whose life is crumbling around him—until a bizarre encounter with a desperate Army general launches him on a risky mission: to go back to 1942 and change a moment in time. The repercussions will almost certainly alter the conclusion of World War II. But will the ripple effects stop there? And what kind of life will Peter return to? Unknown Consequences: A successful mission may not have the success he had in... more

  • Pineapple Lies

    by Amy Vansant
    Growing up in one of Florida’s fifty-five plus communities, Charlotte never expected life to be wild. Golf cart racing with her surrogate mothers Mariska and Darla was about as nutty as life got...until she found the hot pawnbroker’s mom buried in her backyard. Talk about making a lousy first impression. Armed with nothing but her wits, Pineapple Port’s questionable cast of characters and a growing\tcrush, Charlotte is determined to solve the mystery of Declan’s mother’s murder. Hey, at le... more

  • Day Zero: The Book of Patrick

    by BJ Hyman
    There is a time for everything...including a time to die. Patrick Eldridge has just hit the last day of his countdown. If he can live through this one day, it is just the beginning of his problems.

  • Into the Roaring Fork

    by Jeff Howe
    They set out for Aspen in 1985. A one year post-graduation detour to play in the Rockies prior to entering the "real world." That was the plan. They wouldn't need much. Just ordinary jobs with a ski pass attached, a one-bedroom apartment, and each other. But tempted by the decadent side of this iconic resort town, Alex Cavanaugh enters into an illicit agreement with a new acquaintance and finds himself on a remote forest trail, where the crime he is committing pales in comparison to the one his ... more

  • CANDY, MURDER AND ME: Cozy Mystery with Recipes

    by Carolyn Chambers Clark and Anthony Auriemma
    When Cookie Berelli, dress designer for full figured women, discovers her private investigator dead in her salon, she calls on a few friends, including Sigmund Freud, dachshund, to get her out of trouble. Included in this sweet cozy mystery are recipes from her Norwegian and Italian heritage: Grandma Berelli’s Pralines (“Worth going to jail for”), Cookie’s Maple Candies (“So good they’re criminal”), Nana’s Kringlas (“To kill for”), Cookie's Chocolate Cover-Up Fudge ("Perfect for spying activitie... more

  • The Rockets' Red Glare

    by John Darrin
    Al Qaeda in North America steals a huge supply of radioactive cesium and plans a deadly July 4th fireworks display over 12 American cities. But they can’t do it alone. With America’s national security forces focused on Islamic terrorists, AQNA forges an unlikely alliance – the White Aryan Resistance – to carry out the cataclysmic scheme in total secrecy. Cal Bellotta, a terror expert, and Ray Nassiri, an American Muslim and government computer genius, form a partnership that frustrates and insp... more

  • Minister of Justice

    by Leif M. Wright

    EVERYBODY LOVED ATTORNEY MIKE SAMUELSON. WELL, EXCEPT FOR WHOEVER KILLED HIM AND CHOPPED HIM UP.

    The cops are baffled as the killer seems to know all their moves. Mike’s brother, Steve, is a reformed fire-and- brimstone preacher who was just mending their minced relationship, but now he must figure out who minced his brother. A strange little man and a high-school beauty whose false claim of rape may have touched off the murder seem anxious to help, but can this unlikely pair figu... more

  • The Cardinal's Sin

    by Robert Lane

    While concluding a European vacation with his girlfriend, Kathleen, Jake Travis is instructed to kill an international assassin who is known to dress as a cardinal and take contemplative strolls in Kensington Gardens. Jake completes, his task, returns to Florida, and learns that he has "Clipped the wrong bird." He has killed a popular and progressive cardinal.

    Jake must hunt down a woman whom he believes holds the key, and do so before the assassin strikes again. Kat... more

  • Alone and Unafraid (American Praetorians) (Volume 3)

    by Peter Nealen
    A Country In Flames… …And Jeff Stone’s Praetorian contractors are right in the middle of it. Mullah Abdullah Al Hakim has established himself, with Praetorian assistance, as the leader of the autonomous province of Basra in the wake of the bombing that killed the Iraqi Parliament. But an Iranian-aligned Iraqi General-turned-Warlord is descending on Basra with more force than either Al Hakim or Jeff’s two reduced teams of Praetorians can resist. They have to escape from both the oncoming troops a... more

  • Hunting in the Shadows (American Praetorians) (Volume 2)

    by Peter Nealen
    It has been a year since the bloodbath of East Africa. A year since the shooters of Praetorian Security committed themselves to fighting a war the powers that be refused to acknowledge was even happening. Jeff Stone is now a Praetorian Security Team Leader. The bulk of the company is deployed to Iraqi Kurdistan, ostensibly to protect the oil facilities on some of the few functioning oil fields that are still supplying oil to the West, but also to hunt terrorists on the side. The constant, low-l... more

  • Task Force Desperate (American Praetorians) (Volume 1)

    by Peter Nealen
    Jeff Stone and his team of Praetorian Security contractors are marking time on counter-piracy duty aboard a freighter in the Gulf of Aden when the boredom ends abruptly. A major US base on the Horn of Africa is overrun in a well-coordinated terrorist attack, and those base personnel who survive are taken hostage. With the world economy tanked, and most of the Western militaries dangerously thinned, the Praetorian operators find themselves to be the hostages’ only hope of rescue. The mission w... more
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    The Boxing Day Fraud

    by Roy Adams
    The story of the biggest fraud that ever hit the High Street on Boxing Day 1981. There are no official records to say it took place. Did it happen or was it denied because the government were afraid of a copycat crime?

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