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The Dream Catcher

by Julia Rohatyn

Two murders, two centuries apart. In this Hotel Mystery series book, Rebecca Bauer will team up with a sharp lawyer and a gutsy detective to use each homicide to solve the other. with the help of American Indian legends. When Rebecca is invited to stay at a renovated country inn owned by her friends, she did not plan on her room becoming a crime site. Her friend's arrest for the murder of his Native American architect sends her on a quest that becomes a search through New England history and t... more

Adeline

by Mark Torres

From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel A Stirring in the North Fork, Mark Torres’ next installment, entitled Adeline, is a fast-paced gripping tale about the mysterious death of an innocent young woman wrongly committed to a notorious mental asylum in 1977. The ever-determined Savoy Graves returns to try and unmask the sinister fiend, only to find himself plunged deep into the dangerous and dark world of a maniacal secret society willing to guard its identity at all cost. Will Grave... more

Killer Remedy

by Julia Rohatyn

Betsy didn't know much about medical marijuana, but she found out fast when she was hired to solve the murder of a pediatrician who did cannabis research. With the help of the new widow, who is an expert blogger, she discovers that is far more than one murder. The search becomes dangerous and the final confrontation turns deadly.

Atmosphere

by John Clarke

When the cosmos strikes a fatal blow, will salvation come in time? One-hundred feet below the surface of the frozen Ross Sea, crushed between 200 feet of glacial ice and volcanic rock, lies the remains of an ancient flying saucer and the unidentifiable remains of its luckless pilot. U.S. Navy divers have been tasked in a top-secret mission to extract information from that crash site. In this third and final book of the Jason Parker Trilogy, government scientists Jason Parker and Laura Smith j... more

The Sweetest Poison

by Jane Renshaw

When life has cast you in the role of victim, how do you find the strength to fight back? When she was eight years old, Helen Clack was bullied so mercilessly that she was driven to a desperate act. Now she is being targeted once more, but this time her tormentor’s identity is shrouded in doubt. When her life starts to disintegrate, she flees home to the wilds of north-east Scotland, and to the one man she knows can help her – Hector Forbes, the dubiously charismatic Laird of Pitfourie, wi... more

Diaries of a serial killer

by Sheng Sun

Serial killer Sebastian lived in Stockholm, Sweden, targeting single young women as his prey-the life of which was giving him a huge problem when he woke up every day in the morning. He then sought medical help from the psychiatrist Margareta, a married woman who was bored with her life, and this experience would alter Sebastian's life forever. In the book, you will also find a diary written by Sebastian as a young boy who lived in the Swedish countryside of Östersund. And the diary reveals a da... more

The Dark Heart of Night

by Vincent McCaffrey

In the midst of their daily assignments covering murder and mayhem as well as the political machinations of LaGuardia's New York, Hugh McNeill, a young press photographer for the New York Daily Mirror has fallen in love with Cass Green, a crusading reporter for the same paper. While pursuing a serial killer and possible prostitute apparently doing away with her clients one by one, they probe the supposed suicide of a young lawyer fighting anti-Semitism. Their city editor, The Boss, tries a... more

Quod Nidifene: Protector

by Brianna Bloomdahl

Micheal and Moses are just two ordinary high school boys. Ordinary except for one thing, they've been trained by their dad to be Protectors; people tasked with protecting the world from vampires. Their first job was supposed to be a simple one, but it goes horribly wrong when their target marks their school friend, Vanessa, to be turned into a vampire. With Vanessa's life on the line, the brothers must keep the vampire from completing the changing ritual, but he's not about to go down without a ... more

A Matter of Time

by Ed Davis

In the very near future . . . a progressive struggles against a newly elected totalitarian regime in America — at tremendous personal cost. While the country moves to the far right and sacrifices freedom for security, a small cadre of “slow old guys” in a bucolic Northern California town peacefully take over their local government to see their visions of peace, tolerance, and harmony become the law of their small land. But even as their cherished principles blossom in the village, dark clouds of... more

Consequence of Murder

by Michael J. Young

Deep in the research labs of University Hospital, a biochemical engineer has developed a new material that he designed to behave in a specific biological manner. The co-developer of this product is Dr. Jay Yamp, a renowned surgeon with an impeccable reputation, who is using it for the first time on his patients. A large pharmaceutical company engaged in opioid manufacturing and marketing, is attempting to promote the sale of its product to unscrupulous doctors––a whistle-blower in the drug indus... more

Fascinating Graces

by Erin McMennamy

It was supposed to be a time for Tara to take a break and get her head together. An easy job teaching for a year at the university in her hometown of Ludington surrounded by her friends and family. Then people started dying. The murdered man was one less thing for Tara to worry about, but the unexpected and so-called accidental death of a student was not.

As a hurricane is forecast to strike, Tara begins to feel like nothing is as it should be, even in a city where keeping s... more

Deceptive Cadence

by Anna Ryan

Deceptive Cadence is a collection of short stories that will make you question what you really, truly fear. Remember back to when you were a child, and you feared the monsters lurking under your bed, in your closet, or in another room? Well, if you have by chance forgotten, The Room at the end of the Hall will help you remember. If you have a room at the end of your hall, you may never want to go anywhere near it ever again. The disconcerting feeling that we are being watched is one that... more

Anathema

by James Cosgrave

Murder, romance, and psychological suspense intertwine in this modern Gothic tale of a secret society at a prestigious university.

TRADITION IS A TRICKY THING TO KILL

Twice a year, Anathema emerges from the shadows to perform satirical Sermons—controversial events that lambast Radcliffe College and the behavior of its students. Membership in the organization is open knowledge, but its rituals are closely guarded by those involved.

When... more

Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died (Newer Version)

by Bob Brink

The doorbell rings in the home of a prominent Palm Beach citizen, quickly followed by a shotgun blast that shatters a window, cracking the calm of a cool January night. Rodger Kriger falls to the floor, mortally wounded, leaving a wife and six children.

Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died is closely based on a sensational, real murder that happened in the posh ocean-side town in 1976. In the thin guise of fiction, the book contains shocking new information never before ma... more

sweethearts

by Elizabeth Mitchell

Twenty-nine years after finding Laura Hurst in a frozen lake, Ada Bailey decides it's time to revisit Lynn Pond and confront the past. But Silynn holds more than memories. Decades-old secrets tumble out as Ada explores the town she was sent away from. Her return dredges up more than sordid pieces of the townsfolk’s lives, though. Sam Pruette, a collector of innocents, worries Ada may remember details from that frigid day in November of 1988. Laura was only the first sweetheart.

City Of A Thousand Spies: The Conor McBride Series, Book 3

by Kathryn Guare

Conor McBride has accepted a bargain he may live to regret, if he gets to live at all. Lured by the chance to resume his career as a violinist, he’s agreed to extract a defecting Iranian from Prague. He’s been promised a simple, stitched up mission, but as he might have expected, it unravels into chaos as soon as he arrives. The Iranian has endangered his own life with a shocking indiscretion; a suspicious MI6 agent is hatching a plan that could start an international crisis; a mysterious strang... more

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