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Boystown 8: The Lies That Bind

by Marshall Thornton

The eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mysteries series begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Private investigator Nick Nowak is pulled into the troubled world of freelance journalist, and all around pain-in-the-ass, Christian Baylor. When Christian can’t stop lying about the corpse in his bathroom things slip slowly out of control. Meanwhile, Nick’s relationship with former priest Joseph Biernecki takes an unexpected turn and the Federal case against Jimmy English proceeds ... more

Death Comes to Happy Acres

by JT Moss

At sixty-three, former jazz musician Wade Lovett finds himself something of a trailer park Lothario carrying on affairs with three different women. But when circumstances prompt Carol Smitzky to make a compelling case for a marriage arrangement, he agrees. The next morning he visits girlfriend number two, Peggy MacCallister, to tell her the news—and finds her lying dead on her kitchen floor. Shortly after Peggy’s death, Wade is surprised to learn that she left him guardianship of her prized cat,... more

Suicide Lake

by Ashley Fontainne

Those who have secrets… Renee Thornton is on the brink of despair, ready to take a final plunge and join the other tragic souls at the bottom of Bradford Lake—known to locals as Suicide Lake. Beneath the murky waters… Her plans change when she’s startled back to reality after a body brushes up against her from the depths below. Terrified, Renee runs away and slams into her old flame Cliff Simpson, a deputy with Whitten County Sheriff’s Department. Will stop at nothing… Strang... more

Connections

by Jacqueline Wein

When their beloved pets are threatened, a group of ordinary New Yorkers find surprising new connections.

Vile Means

by Steve Dimodica

Vile Means is an espionage thriller. It's 1999. The United States, a long time benefactor to Panama, is scheduled to return the canal to the Republic of Panama at the end of the year, so stability in the Central American country is paramount. But a wealthy Swiss financier and an Israeli Mossad officer have compelling reasons to destabilize the tiny isthmus. In an intricate plot, they enlist the help of a Bosnian war criminal who leads a series of attacks against defenseless j... more

Dead and Breakfast (A Cayo Hueso Mystery) (Volume 1)

by Kimberly G. Giarratano

Despite living in Key West his whole life, 18-year-old Liam Breyer is a skeptic of the supernatural until a vengeful spirit, murdered fifty years ago, nearly drowns him in a swimming pool. Luckily help arrives in the form of pretty — albeit homesick — ghost whisperer Autumn Abernathy, whose newly-divorced mom has dragged her to the island to live and work at the Cayo Hueso, a haunted bed and breakfast. Although they initially mistrust each other, Autumn and Liam team up to solve the decades-o... more

A Wake in Chinatown (A Honolulu Private Investigator Novella Book 1)

by A.P. Pierce

Private Investigator Brad Hunter built his one-man detective agency after losing his job with the Honolulu Police Department. Most of the mysteries he investigates now are Chinatown waitresses and seedy bars in hopes of finding new thrills in life. That is until he stumbles onto two of his biggest cases in months: a missing little girl, and the murder of a prostitute.

Chasing down one lead after another in both crimes, he plays a deadly game of suspense with an alluring second grade sch... more

The Courage to Kill

by Ron Argo

A girl molested ... A father murdered … A killer on the loose … The young UC graduate went to her father’s beachside condo the night he was murdered, but she doesn’t remember shooting him. Janice Parrish had plenty reason to hate her father after recalling the horrible memories of the abuse as a child some 20 years ago. But even as she’s booked on murder charges, she knows there was someone else at his house that night. So begins Janice’s dark journey through a tortuous psychological wasteland... more

978-1329712089

by Joe Peters

When terrorists apparently strike one of Boston's Mbta transit stations during the famed St. Patrick's Day parade, the onslaught of federal and state officials turn the city into a chaotic police state. Only a veteran transit cop, jaded by his memories of growing up in the shadows of Boston's forced busing and desegregation, knows the truth: The enemy is not some international terrorist cell but the politics and hubris that continually pit the haves and have-nots against each other in one of th... more

Veil of Deception

by Michael Byars Lewis

What if the company building America's most expensive weapons system was secretly owned by one of our enemies? For years, Air Force Captain Jason Conrad flew and instructed in the supersonic T-38. Despite his decline into a self-destructive lifestyle, he was considered one of the best instructors on the base. Following a terrifying jet crash, Jason finds himself on a very short list of people on their way out the door. It is a surprise to everyone when he is assigned to the home of the U.S. Air ... more

The Accidental Vigilante

by Robert Sterling Hecker

Rookie New Orleans cop Jeremy Porter was labeled as an oddball by his co-workers. His abrupt transfer to the Child Abuse Section was quickly terminated after he botched his first interrogation. He was ridiculed and demoted to desk duty. Determined to prove himself, he decides to secretly conduct his own off-duty surveillance of dangerous child molesters. But his good intentions result in several homicides and Porter becomes a person of interest to the NOPD. That's only the beginning of his tr... more

AFTER THE KILL - A Jake Roberts Novel, Book 4

by Cary Allen Stone

Will Jake pull the trigger? A gunman enters Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. His van, parked next to the terminal, has enough explosives in it to bring down the entire building. As Jake Roberts watches Caitland’s flight depart, desperate alerts are made to evacuate the airport. Jake runs to assist the airport police. He learns his best friend, an airline pilot, has been shot twice. Will he be able to rescue him? Forensic psychologist Mackenzy specializ... more

Anchor

by Marc Kuhn

Just about everyone in Philadelphia listens to radio news anchor Ryan Healy. Each day, as his listeners go through their morning routines, he tells them about the weather and traffic conditions, who won the game last night and everything else that's going on around the city and around the world. The only thing Ryan Healy doesn't share with his listeners is anything about himself...and that's the story they would really want to hear. A third-generation Irish-American, Ryan marries his ... more

The Foothills Mystery: The Investigation Into the Death of the Solo Rock Climber

by Stanley Yokell

The Foothills Mystery is the author's fourth book in the series that features Marie Quizno, Detective Chief of the fictional town of Big Rock, Colorado. When Tom Campbell, a doctoral candidate in mathematics at Colorado University is near completion of the first solo free climb of the Risky Route in the foothills, a person he knows greets him on the trail above. Tom asks for a sip of the coffee that he smells, Instead the person stamps on his hand causing him to fall to his death, Marie Quizno, ... more

Ties That Bind ( Detective Madison Knight Series Book 1)

by Carolyn Arnold

Grab a badge and a gun and strap in for an absolutely gripping ride that’s “full of suspense from the beginning to the end…” (Readers Abode)

She could feel him watching her… Though every time she turned to look, there was no one there. The rest of the world thought she was going crazy—until it was too late.

When Laura Saunders is found strangled in her home with a man... more

The Fog of Dreams - 2nd Edition: Operation: Harvest - Book One (Volume 1)

by Justin Bell

Werewolves do not exist...at least that's what GenTech wants you to believe. Secretly working with the National Security Agency, the world's largest genetics research company develops genetic manipulation techniques that turn ordinary men into vicious creatures! But William Strickland is no ordinary man. When he gets caught in GenTech's clutches, he'll stop at nothing to bring them down and find his missing family. Mom always told you there's no such thing as monsters...she was wrong.

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