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10-30: A Riveting Crime Mystery

by Michael Golvach

In every murder investigation, there are rules—how fast you learn them can mean the difference between life and death. Payden Beck begins his first week after graduating police academy as a phase-one field trainee under the tutelage of Richard LaMont, an experienced, older field-training officer (FTO) who distributes justice on his own terms and keeps the world at bay. When his FTO invites Payden home for dinner, and to meet his eccentric, much-younger wife, Ana, at the end of their first ... more

Split the Middle

by Michael Golvach

In every murder investigation, there are procedures to follow--and then there are the ways things get done. Michael Dooley, a drunken ex-con, has lost his wife, his child, and everything he cares about. His life has hit rock bottom... he thinks. When he stumbles upon the scene of a horrific murder, he realises that the bottom is a lot farther down than he'd ever imagined. Split between the lower-class urban wasteland of the village of Broker, and the spit-and-polished elegance of the city ... more

Dell's Luck

by ML Biddison

When Deputy Dell discovers a young Lakota woman bent on suicide, she intervenes and uncovers evidence linking the desperate act with human traffickers menacing vulnerable girls across the state. A brush with traffickers in a former life has left her with an obsessive need to squash these vermin. Colleagues jump to help. Support springs also from a cryptic tribal network that supplies her with critical information. As Dell pursues the quarry, she bumps up against an old nemesis whose livelihood i... more

Montauk Mayhem

by Tom Schneider

In 1983, Glenn is on-the-run from the Monarch Project when Robin’s son Michael goes missing from a Montauk carnival. Glenn’s search to find the boy uncovers a conspiracy beyond kidnapping right back to the program he is trying to escape. A sexy fortuneteller holds the key. But can he unlock the puzzle in time to find Michael while battling old demons and new monsters?

Traffic: Kingman & Reed Novel #5

by Bill Zahren

Sometimes traffic moves on two legs instead of four wheels. Raising and selling livestock has been a way of life in rural America for generations. Unfortunately, one rural Iowa resident has twisted the tradition into an evil mutation — harvesting young girls to traffic to sex-obsessed buyers around the world. When a teenage girl goes missing, Sioux City Sentinel-Leader reporter Tom Kingman discovers that not everything in rural Woodbury County is as beautiful as the fall colors. The hills are... more

City of Dark

by Claire Dickinson

The Paris catacombs. The city’s subterranean shadow. Hundreds of kilometers of tunnels. A land of history and legend, where the underground explorer treads a fine line between reality and irreality. Below the City of Light, this is the City of Dark. As the top inspector on the counter-terror squad, Khalid Sadiqi thought he knew everything there was to know about the city's weak spots. But even he is rattled when he arrives at Val de Grace military hospital and discovers that not onl... more

Killer Remedy

by Julia Rohatyn

A doctor working in medical marijuana research is killed and his widow, Emma, wants to know why. She hires a neophyte private detective, Betsy Connolly (who also appears in the hotel mystery series) to find out. Betsy and Emma work together to catch the killer and discover that it's not one homicide. It's more and counting. They use every tool they have to find out what secret the hospital in Israel is keeping. They must reveal the connection with cannabis. Using Emma's skill on the internet and... more

The Retired Detectives Club: See No Evil

by Shawn Scuefield

Meet retired police detective Robert Raines. After devoting forty-three years of his life to serving and protecting the streets of Chicago, he has called it a career. But good cop instincts die hard—--if they die at all. Before long, he finds himself teamed with two fellow retired cops, Dale Gamble and Ashe, as they take on the case of a missing 19 year old college student. The investigation takes them to the bayou state, Louisiana, where all isn’t as peaceful and tranquil as it first seems. Wom... more

Shallow Waters

by Kay Jennings

Detective Matt Horning, seeking a fresh start after a horrifying professional experience in his native Texas, takes the job of new police chief in the remote coastal village of Port Stirling, Oregon. But there's a problem on Horning's first day on the new job; the mayor's four-year-old daughter turns up murdered and left on the beach. What secret is his new hometown hiding?

Yukon Revenge: A C.E. Brody Novel

by Ken Baird

From award winning author Ken Baird comes the sequel to Yukon Audit. Meet C.E. Brody, a Yukon renaissance man who leads a solitary life on the edge of civilization. Living without cell phones or internet is just fine with him—with a cabin on the river, a vehicle repair shop, an old pickup truck and plane, and two dogs to keep him company—he has everything he needs. Or does he? It's been a year since Brody was lucky to escape with his life after a harrowing chase down the Yukon River. A mobste... more

In The Best Interests

by Tim Hind

Luke Frankland, a junior intelligence officer just home from the Iraq War, finds himself cast into a world of cyber espionage and state-level politics. Out of his depth and with no one in the Government heeding his warnings, he forms a makeshift team and tries to establish who is waging a new kind of war from behind a keyboard. The truth will leave him plunged into an arena he little expected and where the real cost is not measured in 1s and 0s but in human life.In The Best Interests is the firs... more

Any Witch Way But Goode

by Michelle M. Pillow

From NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Michelle M. Pillow, a Cozy Mystery Paranormal Romantic Comedy.

The Garden Gnome Bed and Breakfast might be a new kooky weekend getaway spot, but for Lily Goode the inheritance represents the promise of a stable future for her and her siblings. Unfortunately, the house isn’t the only thing she inherited. The Bed and Breakfast also comes equipped with witchy Aunt Polly, troublesome garden gnomes, a town that hates her, newfound... more

Requiem for the Dead

by Victor M. Alvarez

A rogue ex-US military general and his army of ex-Special Forces operators kidnap four dependent children, of four highly placed Army Generals in the USAEUCOM Command, in Germany. The lives of the four children hang in the balance as it forces the Generals to change and implement the Army’s first strike capabilities; a plan that calls for the nuclear bombing of the North Korean Capital. US Army CID Special Agent Jacqueline (Belle) Sinclair and Special Agent for the DIA Tom Price team up in t... more

Below The Radar

by Dana Ridenour

“WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE, WE BECOME.” FBI SPECIAL AGENT LEXIE MONTGOMERY has been handed the most dangerous undercover assignment of her career: infiltrate a terrorist cell in a foreign country to locate and rescue a missing Dutch undercover operative. During the mission, a charismatic American extremist develops romantic feelings for Lexie. Believing they are of the same mind-set, he takes her to a remote terrorist training camp for indoctrination. While the Dutch Police and the FBI futilely s... more

Scourge

by Charley Pearson

Desperate researchers hide from authorities and resort to unethical means to fight a uniquely virulent plague. Seriously unique, as in nothing like it in nature or fiction. Ecoterrorists, a doomsday cult, and insufficient chocolate in the laboratory fridge. (Hey, this is important.)

Quiet Fury

by morgan james

Evil Magician, Reznik the Magnificent, returns… Retired psychologist and Atlanta transplant to the North Carolina Mountains, Dr. Promise McNeal, hasn’t had a good night’s sleep since Reznik whispered he’d be waiting for her and then disappeared. Now, months after Reznik vanished, security cameras in the shadowy, underground corridors of Asheville’s two-hundred-and-fifty-room Biltmore Mansion catch Reznik on video. He’s back and he’s on the move. But what, or who, is he searching for? Pro... more

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