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  • Burton's Solo

    by Richard J. Cass
    When Dan Burton beats up Antoine Bousquet, the clothing designer suspect in the murder of two Chinese seamstresses, he jeopardizes his job as a homicide detective and his life. Bousquet is released without bail because of Burton’s mistake. When Bousquet turns up dead, beaten and tortured, Burton becomes the prime suspect. The department’s Internal Affairs inspectors, Bousquet’s live-in lover, several Russian gangsters, and the kingpin of the Boston underworld are all looking for Burton. But Elde... more

  • Solo ACT

    by Richard J. Cass

    An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. In this amateur sleuth mystery, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston, hoping to turn it into a jazz nightspot. Though he knows that working in a bar is going to test his sobriety, he's relying on the support of his ex-lover, a jazz singer named Alison Somers.

    The two of them split when Alison moved to New York to further her career but befo... more

  • In Solo Time

    by Richard J. Cass

    An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. At the urging of his sometimes lover and sometimes drinking partner Jacquie Robillard, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston that he plans to turn into a jazz nightclub. But before he can turn the place around, the body of Timmy McGuire, a jazz guitar player, shows up on the small stage at the Esposito, stabbed to death.

    Dan Burton, a Boston Hom... more

  • Runed: A Taylor Sinclair Novel (Taylor Sinclair Series Book 3)

    by Wendy Hewlett
    In a home invasion style attack, a woman is left with disturbing injuries and Toronto Police Constable Taylor Sinclair finally gets the opportunity to work an active case with Detective Sergeant Chris Cain in the elite Sex Crimes Unit. Determined to prove herself not only to Chris, but to the Chief of Police and the whole damn department, Taylor steels herself to face the horrors endured by the Sex Crimes Unit twenty-four hours a day. She finds her resolve in her determination to seek justice f... more

  • Unfinished Business: A Taylor Sinclair Novel

    by Wendy Hewlett
    Taylor Sinclair makes an explosive return to Toronto after a grueling North American tour to promote her book, Leila’s Locket. The media has been murderous, but it’s about to get worse with Sarah Johnson’s trial just days away. Adding more stress, Taylor learns that NNN is about to air interviews with Sarah and Darryl Johnson which could reveal any number of her closely guarded secrets. It may not be worth worrying about though, because someone wants Taylor or Caillen Worthington dead. Is Cail t... more

  • Saving Grace: A Taylor Sinclair Novel (Taylor Sinclair Series Book 1)

    by Wendy Hewlett
    With nothing left to lose and no hope for the future, Taylor Sinclair thinks nothing of putting herself between monsters and innocent victims.
When serial rapist/murderer, Ralph Morse, escapes from prison, Taylor knows he’s going after the woman responsible for his conviction. The Toronto Police won’t listen to her, so she takes matters into her own hands.
Saving Grace Reilly, aka bestselling author Gray Rowan, rips open the wounds of Taylor’s traumatic childhood, but will it set her free or des... more

  • Prodigal Avenger: A Story of the Secret War in Afghanistan

    by Tim Moynihan

    A Covert Rescue Mission No One Expects to Succeed--Who will survive?

  • Screwed: A Prison Story

    by Chester Hart
    Inspired by the author’s real life experiences working within one of Victoria, Australia’s prisons. Screwed is a tale of toxic work culture, prisons and how the best intentions can go horribly wrong on the inside of this bizarre world. The author takes you on an insiders journey into the heart of this dark and disturbing world, where the moto is “fit-in or fuck off.” Join Gabe Townsend as he discovers that sometimes those who are meant to be on your side, can be the most dangerous of all.

  • Emerald Coast:Free Money

    by Michael Guillebeau
    Honest Lizzie Borden has never in her life taken a thing that didn’t belong to her. But now the Florida swamp girl/budding rock star (robbed of her music by a record company) has two million dollars, a dead mobster, a live amateur mobster who wants his money back, a detective she’s falling for—and a chance to get her music back. On Florida’s beautiful—and bizarre—Emerald Coast, anything can happen. Especially the things you don’t want. Foreword Reviews said, "Emerald Coast is a freewheeling F... more

  • The Laureate

    by Ken Tentarelli
    August 1464: Young Nico Argenti returns from the university with a law degree. He is eager to begin his career, but instead finds his city of Florence shaken by the death of Cosimo de Medici, patriarch of the Medici dynasty. Power hungry aristocrats see that as the perfect opportunity to seize control of the Republic. A Florentine Chancellor, who has been tracking Nico’s accomplishments at the university, recruits Nico to uncover details of the plot before it can destabilize the goverment. ... more

  • The Judas Goat

    by Adam S. Barnett
    When does self-defense become murder? Kyle is an ordinary guy living a life he chose for himself. He has his own diner. He has a great girlfriend. He has his privacy and a reputation for being a good, hardworking man. That all changes the day Kyle kills a 15-year-old would-be robber. The prosecution thinks he went beyond self-defense. His girlfriend doesn't know what to do. The Internet has made Kyle an unwilling poster child in the nation's gun control debate. His attorney knows this ca... more

  • The Master Hacker

    by Steve Burkart
    When SunHee Nham, a disaffected North Korean computer scientist working in China, decides to escape her conscription, she takes a few secrets with her. Her dream of living in freedom in the U.S. begins to prey on her mind when she thinks about the hardships under which her fellow countrymen are forced to live. After a chance meeting with John Darque, the head of a covert organization charged with maintaining the balance of power in the world, the two form a partnership to destroy a weapon system... more

  • Click to Kill

    by John Carlo
    You can't be dead, if you were never alive... An assassination in Belgrade. A spy on the run in London. Witnesses vanishing into thin air. Caught in the crossfire is Rigby Goode, a hacker with a heart of gold whose ability to erase personal identities makes him the man everyone wants, and some will stop at nothing to get their hands on. Cycling mad, coffee-addicted, and bacteria-phobic, Rigby was trained by the National Crime Agency to erase digital records. He now works independently, hu... more

  • Get Out Now!

    by Barbara Harrison
    Beautiful, naïve Amber Light, falls in love with a tortured artist named Cade Raine. From the first moment she meets him, she is absolutely smitten. Not only is he incredibly handsome, but also successful and wealthy. They marry soon after. Without realising it, suddenly, Amber’s entire world revolves around this one man, who isolates her from family and friends then overtly turns against her. He does this subtly at first, allowing Amber to believe that everything which goes wrong in their rel... more

  • The Sky Tells No Lies

    by Don Derkach
    Recently retired investigative reporter Quentin Thomas is dealing with another relationship breakup when the bigwigs at his former paper call in markers to get him back. There's a blockbuster story waiting to be written. An astrologically inspired killer targeting lawyers has eluded the FBI for months and they aren't happy when Quentin starts poking around. The apparent killer targets Quentin and he is shot but he survives and the police kill his attacker. The FBI closes the case but Quentin kno... more

  • The Monster

    by Josh Soule
    A college student has a strained relationship with his mother and ex-girlfriend. When he sees his ex and best friend together at a Halloween Mixer, he becomes enraged. Things turn when a mysterious, puppet-themed student attacks the couple, leaving the protagonist seemingly to blame. Things escalate quickly, and the narrator soon finds himself framed for murder at the hands of the "Puppet Man". He decides to go on the run, and finds himself in the company of misfits and criminals while seemin... more

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