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  • The Big Interview, Book 2 in the Stella Reynolds Mystery Series

    by Libby Kirsch

    Novice TV reporter Stella Reynolds signs with a new station, excited to head to a bigger city for a better job. But when she arrives in Bristol, Virginia, she finds a sexist, mean boss, unfriendly coworkers, and a town in love with a sport she’s never even watched—NASCAR!

    Before she can unpack her bags, Stella is drawn into an investigation when a driver is killed in a fiery wreck on the track.

    Experts call his death a tragedy, but Stella has insider information that t... more

  • Perception of Power

    by Bruce Thomason
    Clay Randall is back in this exciting, fast-paced third installment of the Detective Clay Randall series. In Perception of Power, Clay faces his biggest challenge yet when a powerful politician becomes obsessed with destroying him. Filled with investigative insights, a murder for hire scheme gone awry, and surprising plot twists, the story leads the reader from the sandy Florida beaches to the Nevada desert as detectives search for answers. Conceived and written by a seasoned law enforcement pro... more

  • Degenerates

    by Neil Ostroff
    Remember to breathe while reading, and keep repeating, it’s only a book, it’s only a book! A cold-blooded psychopath with gruesome tastes for twisted pleasures is out there. Undeniably genius, this psychopath kills anywhere at any time with seeming randomness. Police officer Aaron Miller receives the shock of his career when the mayor unwittingly assigns him the case. A chance encounter leads him to investigate City Café. Something sinister bubbles below the surface of this semi-dysfunctio... more

  • Pulp

    by Neil Ostroff
    Nothing is as it seems! As pulp fiction writer, Kevin Turner’s life is unraveling he receives a panicked call from his ex-girlfriend Tina, a high-priced hooker. The mayor’s married son is dead in her bed and she needs Kevin’s assistance. As if Kevin doesn’t have enough problems. When Kevin discovers Tina’s psychotic brother chopped up and removed the body, and Kevin’s fingerprints are all over the crime scene, and the police are now finding human remains spread across the suburbs, and Tin... more

  • Frostproof

    by Neil Ostroff
    That scream… it’s your own! Some friendships are best forgotten. Coping with deep financial difficulties and a failing marriage, Niles Goodman is delighted when a figure from his past, Cody Larson, shows with a map and story of buried riches. Embarking on a two thousand mile trip, the journey quickly escalates into horrifying episodes of violence, greed, and terror. Along their route, road kill are people. After each murder, Cody philosophically justifies the slaughter, nicknaming his chil... more

  • Fall of Indian Summer

    by Kathleen Rhoads Carpenter
    When Julie Dalton, a pretty, young English teacher in Berry Twp., a Northeastern suburb, is founded murdered in the school's field house, KADO DOLAN, a 60-year old retired teacher is asked to teach her classes. The victim has left a clue on the dusty blackboard in her classroom. As a result many possible killers emerge: a fellow teacher, a former student, a jealous sister, an unhappy student, an angry cheerleader, and a high school beau. GEORGE CLEWS, the Police Chief and former student of Kado'... more

  • U.S. vs. Welkner

    by Sonny Hayes
    There’s a dirty little secret orbiting just over 22,000 kilometers above the earth. ‘The company’ has created an advanced satellite system that allows them to surreptitiously manipulate and bilk financial institutions, money exchanges and stock markets worldwide out of trillions of dollars. Rick Welkner and his brother, Brian, have stumbled upon this system and use it to covertly relieve the Las Vegas casinos out of millions. It’s exciting for a while and they soon find that they have more... more

  • Starfall

    by John Hegenberger
    In March 1959, the nation was introduced to the Mercury 7 astronauts while a hard-luck private eye working undercover for Walt Disney searches Hollywood and his soul to learn who killed the 8th candidate for America’s first man into space.
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    The Ice Cream War: A Mystery of Hot Fudge and Murder

    by Paul Janson
    A mystery of rival ice cream shops in a small town in middle America. Jerry, a California surfer, returns to his home town and opens an ice cream shop where he is giving away his ice cream. This threatens Mary owner of the only other ice cream shop in town with disaster until there is a murder in Jerry's shop. Mary find herself reluctantly trying to prove that Jerry didn't kill anyone, although she thought of killing him to save her shop, and Jerry ends up working beside her in her ice cream sho... more

  • Crossfire

    by John Hegenberger
    In 1988, a burnt-out Midwest PI faces a series of bizarre deaths while investigating industrial espionage that threatens the Summer Olympics.

  • SPYFALL

    by John Hegenberger
    Here’s Stan Wade, L.A. PI, in the first of a series of six “noirstagia” novels from 1959. SPYFALL is your E-ticket to a nuclear threat hidden from the public until 2012. The insightful tale teams Ian Fleming of MI6, Walt Disney of the FBI, and a hard-luck private eye searching his past for truth, justice and… well, you know. With appearances by Karloff, Steinbeck, Cohen and Flynn, SPYFALL is a rollicking ride into a past that never was… or was it?

  • Mal Practice

    by Paul Janson
    Joe Nelson is a pediatrician in Eastern Kentucky and is being sued for malpractice involving the death of a four-year-old girl. The child was the niece of the wealthiest man in town, and the trial is not going well. Then it gets worse. While sitting in his car outside his lawyer's office, someone shoots at Joe. The police seem convinced that he has faked the shooting, especially since the shot was fired with his own gun. The next day in court, Joe realizes that his patient's death was not an acc... more

  • With A Little More Practice

    by Paul Janson
    The protagonist of a previous book, Mal Practice, returns to solve yet another murder. Dr. Joe Nelson is supposed to be having a fun time in the city of Las Vegas but he cannot ignore the plight of runaway children, and soon he and his compatriots are caught up in a gruesome murder. They have been warned not to get involved, but Joe is ignoring that advice once again.

  • TRIPL3 CROSS

    by John Hegenberger
    Cuba, 1988. What fresh hell happened there while our backs were turned? Small-town P.I. Eliot Cross is searching for his long-lost father. Then, a CIA informant says that Dad has been in deep cover for over twenty years. Now, the informant's been murdered and Eliot is on the run. Scrambling to clear his name, Eliot journeys from Washington D.C. to Havana, Cuba, struggling against deadly drug-runners, syndicate hit-men and his own violent nature. But the worst is yet to come, as Eliot dis... more

  • Cross Examinations

    by John Hegenberger
    Meet Eliot Cross, Columbus-based P.I. in 1988. A series of serious crimes: Kidnapping. Murder. Art Thief. Blackmail. Comic Books. Private Investigator Eliot Cross faces heartache, headache, backache, and a royal pain in the neck in these rollicking noir stories from the heart of the Heartland. Cross Examinations, Inc. established in 1988

  • Unimaginable (Women in Danger Book 1)

    by Stella MacLean
    Patient Services VP Rachel Moore’s professional life is threatened when attacks at Mercy Hospital put adolescent psychiatric patients in danger. Midnight phone calls, and angry parents create a backdrop for the murder of a woman in the basement of the hospital. When an attempt is made on Rachel’s life, she receives a shock. The police believe she's somehow involved in what's going on in the hospital. Facing accusations about her possible involvement in what is happening she is forced to choos... more

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