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The Cured

by David Wind

When over 4000 people world-wide die after taking a cure for cancer, the drug is recalled. But the questions keep coming. Was it contamination? Was it sabotage? Or, was it outright murder by an insane research scientist in retaliation against the pharmaceutical giant he worked for and to avenge the death of his wife? And everyone wants Doctor Donald Brockman! The lawyers want answers; the FDA want answers and, Homeland Security wants the doctor. When the 911 code flashed across her beeper, Do... more

Rome Is Burning

by Roy A. Teel, Jr.

“Rome Is Burning” is secret government code for a potential terrorist attack in the U.S. The City of Los Angeles is in danger, and no one knows it. Special Agent John Swenson, aka The Iron Eagle, and Sheriff’s Homicide Detective Jim O’Brian have been in search of a serial killer with a twist: a terrorist plot of tremendous proportions. A disgraced Marine Corps Colonel has hatched a plan with her subordinates to destroy the city of Los Angeles and kill millions of its citizens. John Swenson, also... more

Qualified Immunity

by Sylvie Fox

Sheila Harrison Grant is the first African American woman ever nominated to the federal bench in Cleveland. But when her thirteen-year-old daughter Olivia shares a family secret with a well-meaning guidance counselor, she sets the wheels in motion to feed a partisan senate’s opposition, threatening her mother’s position…and both of their lives. Once an ambitious young law student with promise, Casey Cort made the mistake of crossing a classmate from a prominent and influential family. Now... more

The Invincibles

by JW Patrick

12-year-old Jack Crawford is the only person who can save his dad from certain execution. Trouble is, Jack is trapped thousands of miles away in a remote Scottish boarding school. He needs help but his new classmates are a bunch of rich, spoiled, lazy, resentful pre-teens. With time running out, Jack must forge this bunch of misfits into The Invincibles, a crack team of daring escapologists, whip-smart cryptographers, cunning App programmers and robotic engineers. But can The Invincibles overco... more

Loose Ends: A California Corwin P. I. Mystery (California Corwin P. I. Mystery Series Book 1)

by D.D. VanDyke

When a vicious criminals kidnap a young girl, street-smart but damaged ex-cop and P. I. California "Cal" Corwin is engaged to find and rescue her before murder raises the stakes. As a straightforward case takes unexpected twists, Cal must quell a growing fear that an anguished mother may never see her child again. With a shadowy crime lord lurking behind every unexpected clue, Cal struggles to tie up loose ends before evil claims its next victim.

Justice for None

by JM Harvey

Retired Dallas Police Department Homicide detective Valentine Justice had spent half his life chasing murder suspects only to become one himself. After a bloody shootout in a South Dallas basement left spree killers Lamar and Lemuel Sutton dead, Valentine had expected a hero’s welcome. What he received was a disability pension and an unceremonious ejection from the police department amidst allegations that he had executed the Suttons in cold blood. In the four years since he laid down h... more

Spectre Rising (Spectre Series Book 1)

by C.W. Lemoine

After a combat incident in Iraq, Cal “Spectre” Martin was grounded and told he would never fly an F-16 again. Years later, he started a new civilian life with his F-16 pilot fiancée while being haunted by the nightmares of his last deployment. But when she goes missing on a routine training mission off the South Florida coast, Spectre unwillingly finds himself thrust back onto the frontlines of the war on terror - this time, not in the skies over Iraq, but on the streets of Miami. While se... more

Laughing Heirs

by Michael Monhollon

Laughing Heirs is a humorous legal thriller that begins with a man peering through one of female attorney Robin Starling's front windows and a mad dash across an ice-slicked road. It continues with a dead man who might or might not have been murdered, boy problems, human blood that keeps showing up in the most unlikely places, and more boy problems. If that weren't enough, the district attorney seems to have a personal vendetta against Robin, who continues to poke around when more conventional l... more

A Life Unbroken

by K.M. Hewitt

Hailed as a contemporary tribute to The Count of Monte Cristo, A Life Unbroken is an intense, seemingly ripped-from-the-headlines tale that sizzles from page one. A Life Unbroken features protagonist Dr. Alexandra McKay. At 26 years old, Alex McKay has it all: a successful career as a plant scientist, a happy, comfortable home she shares with Abby, her beloved canine companion, and a burgeoning romance with Ryan Stinson. Alex’s life is coming together in a marvelous and joyful way….until the sp... more

Return To Sender

by Mindy Halleck

Return To Sender is a literary thriller about an ex-war-hero turned Catholic Priest, and a religious fanatic serial killer colliding with destiny. 1955 ~ Father Theo Riley never wanted to be a priest, nor a killer. The former boxing champion and Korean War veteran gave up more than a career when he went into the Army. He lost the only thing he ever wanted: his love, Andréa Bouvre. Friends thought Theo entered the priesthood to mend his broken heart or atone for the massacred orphans he couldn... more

MOSAICS: A Thriller

by E.E. Giorgi

Dubbed the Byzantine Strangler because of the mysterious mosaic tiles he leaves at the crime scene, a new serial killer is stalking the streets of Los Angeles. Racing to decipher the code encrypted in the tiles before the killer strikes again, Detective Track Presius faces a new challenge: the "awakened" genes that make his vision and olfactory sense so sharp are now taking a toll on his life. When a new set of tiles appears in his own backyard, Track makes a chilling realization: those very sam... more

Halo de Luna

by J. F. Murcia

HALO DE LUNA El enigma de las sombras en la mente En el invierno de 1988, Sandra Johns es culpada por una Corte de California de haber asesinado a su prometido cortándole la vena yugular con un cuchillo eléctrico. ¿Cómo pudo una bella y talentosa pianista de una familia poseedora de un gran viñedo, haber cometido un crimen tan atroz? Las evidencias en su contra son concluyentes. La policía implacable. La justicia firme. Pero la verdad yace tras las sombras de la mente enmarañada de Sandra, esp... more

The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer ( YA Thriller): A Bombay story

by Laxmi Hariharan

A YA thriller, with a strong dystopian undertones and a kick-ass protagonist, taking you on a white knuckle ride through a disintegrating Bombay City. A girl desperate to rescue her best friend. A cop willing to do anything to save the city he serves. A delusional doctor bent on annihilation. When Ruby Iyer's best friend is kidnapped by the despotic Dr Kamini Braganza, she will do anything to rescue him. Anything, including taking the help of the reticent Vikram Roy, a mysterious cop-turned-... more

Exam Room Confidential

by Louis Siegel M.D.

This fictional account is a revealing and shocking inside look at the underbelly of medicine and one doctor’s life and the medical and social pathology he confronts. This book will make you think hard about the trust, faith, and respect you place in your doctors and the systems in which they work. Through the use of the novel, the book explores physician aided death, end of life rights, gender issues, physician empowerment, and more. Includes a glossary, book club discussion topics, resources, a... more

Binds That Tie

by Kate Moretti

Love ties. Murder binds. Maggie never felt as though she belonged until Chris Stevens showed her what true happiness meant. Ten years into their marriage, miscarriages and infidelities have scarred them both. Despite their perfect-couple image, Maggie can’t look at Chris with anything but resentment. When a charismatic stranger offers the opportunity for a little harmless flirtation, she jumps into the game. But charm soon turns to malice, and a deadly split-second decision forces Maggie... more

The Annunciation

by Ron Teachworth

The Annunciation begins in Bucharest during the mid 1990’s. The secret, radical and conservative group, the Piagnoni, prepare their surrogate to assassinate Pope John Paul II. In Florence, Italy, a group of religious students from Detroit have joined an Art Restoration Fellowship at San Marco convent, studying and assisting in the restoration of frescos by the famous painter Fra Angelico. Two young students in the fellowship, seminarian Finn McNelis and Felician sister Olivia Gianetti, fall in ... more

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