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Sazerac, Sleuth & Slay

by Mary Cunningham

It’s gonna be a great day! Or, so she thought. Andi Anna Jones, so-so travel agent, amateur sleuth, doesn’t suspect her least favorite client, Stewart (The Pain) Payne, will set off circumstances that lead to disappearance and death. After his wife is a no-show for a convention in New Orleans, his threat to sue Graves Travel for “ten times more than it’s worth”, and Andi’s wish to honor one of her late dad's requests, leads her to The Big Easy in search of Grace Payne. Five unsolved mur... more

Pain is a complex sensation

by lucky ar

The complicated feeling of pain is brought on by the activation of nociceptors, which are specialised nerve cells.

Sherlock Holmes: A Question Of Time

by Glenn Searfoss

A Question of Time pays homage to three great Victorian characters of literary fiction: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. James Watson—with a sly aside to a nefarious criminal—and the Time Traveler of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. "I ask for your pardon. Even now, I hesitate to put pen to paper. During my years chronicling the many amazing adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I have never doubted their veracity. But this time, were it not for the results of my own feeble efforts at d... more

Dangerous vibrations

by Radović Vido

Secret agent Ted Miller is vacationing with his wife Amber in the Mediterranean. A chance encounter with an arms dealer will turn a vacation into a dangerous mission. Accompanying trader Ted will soon witness a secret weapon test. Convinced of this enormous destructive power , the agent fears that the weapon could pose a threat to the social order . After successful testing , the trader is ready for the act of revenge that he has been planning to perform for a long time. The President of... more

The Ericksen Connection

by Barry L. Becker

The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team-Six operator and executive vice president of EyeD4 Systems, a biometrics defense contractor based in Wilsonville, Oregon, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned from his commission and, over the next several years, worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD. In 2009, the... more

Lewis and the Mystery of the Missing Bones

by Aidan Niles

Lewis is a rescue dog who likes to watch mystery shows with his boy, Nicholas. When his friend, Ed, is accused of stealing the local pack leader’s bones, Lewis takes the opportunity to solve the mystery of the missing bones and prove his friend’s innocence. He enlists the help of Whiskers, a cat, and a rather obtuse squirrel named Phil. After a number of red herrings including raccoons, chicken bones, and drones, Lewis puts the clues together and realizes the bones were tossed in the trash by Bu... more

A Deadly Combo (Rocky Nelson Boxing Mystery Book 1)

by Karen A Phillips

What do boxing and vintage trailers have in common? Meet Raquel (AKA Rocky) Nelson, a retired single woman with an attitude and love for boxing. Sisters Rocky and Bridget are enjoying each other’s company at a vintage trailerfest until they stumble over a corpse. The dead guy is none other than the local trailer restorer Bridget was overheard threatening to kill. Mounting evidence leads police to focus on Bridget as a person of interest. Desperate to prove her sister innocent of murder, Rocky... more

Breaking News of Tomorrow

by Igor Chirashnya

What would you do if you had the chance to influence the world? That is the question Mike faces. On the night that he finds the courage to propose to his girlfriend Jenn, he stumbles upon a website with a difference. It can do things regular websites cannot. Mike decides to use his new find to turn his life around, but as in the case of Pandora’s Box, it is not without consequences. His meteoric success attracts the attention of others who seek to learn the secret of his fortune. In Igor ... more

Editor Kill Fee

by GG Collins

Mystery editor Taylor Browning is back with her cats and this time the “cantankerous cat” Oscar and new brother Cheddar get in on the action. The president of the Santa Fe Wine and Crime book club takes a wrong turn. To her horror she finds herself on one of the most deadly roads in the area. She doesn’t make her meeting and no one knows what has happened to her. Taylor, an honorary member of the book club, becomes involved with the search for the club president. What she doesn’t expect is... more

Hidden Shadow

by Jennifer Bourland

A puzzling question from a mysterious woman in a dream disturbs the subconscious of psychologist Sophie Thomas, expert on the human mind. At the same time, shattered future plans implode her life as she knows it---leaving her single, homeless, and jobless. At a pivotal moment in her life, she inherits a building that is a 100-year-old speakeasy, which turns out to be occupied by the unexpected. As Sophie tries to adjust to her new life, she discovers her inheritance has more to it than she initi... more

Extreme Vetting

by Roxana Arama

An immigration lawyer fights to keep her client from being deported to the country where his family was murdered many years ago. Then she finds out the killers are coming here—for both of them.

Honeymoon in Jail

by S T Joshi

This is a novel set in the year 1928 involving the renowned horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his estranged wife Sonia, who are invited to a wedding of some mutual friends in Far Rockaway, Brooklyn. In the course of a pre-wedding dinner a murder is committed at the hotel where the dinner is being held, and the bride-to-be is arrested. Lovecraft and Sonia investigate the crime. Lovecraft transforms himself into something of a hard-boiled detective, relentlessly pursuing the truth in spite of all ... more

Their Just Desserts (The Derry Murder Mysteries Book 1)

by Gerald Hansen

The brutal killing of middle-aged supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps is shocking to all who knew her. Regina might have kept herself to herself, but she always had a smile for everyone she came across. Who could possibly have wanted to do her harm? As mundane as Regina's life might have seemed on the surface, her murder is anything but: she's been strangled, posed atop a cannon on Derry's historic city walls, and stripped of her clothing and dignity. When seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin arrives... more

Alaska Deadly

by J.L. Askew

The Moonshine Messiah

by Russell W. Johnson

As if being a woman sheriff in the West Virginia coal fields wasn’t tough enough, Mary Beth Cain’s life is complicated by the fact that the local hillbilly crime syndicate is run by her mother, Mamie. It's an association that, along with Mary Beth’s head-busting ways, has her staring down a corruption investigation when she gets a surprise visit from Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Connelly. Twenty years earlier, Patrick was Mary Beth’s high school sweetheart, but they broke up because Mary Bet... more

Panoptes

by Drew Rogers

In the near future, following years of anarchy and insurrection, with society craving law and order, an autocrat arises. That it is a machine is a sign of the times. Panoptes draws praise for its non-partisan efficiency and apolitical decisions. But when it begins extrapolating profiles, predicting crimes and executing innocent people, horror sets in. Gabriel Ross is the world’s greatest salesman, successful because he identifies what an individual wants and provides it – at great profit. ... more

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