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Mystery/Thriller

  • Detective Swifty and the Case of the Missing Ice Sculpture

    by Deeksha Vishwamitra

    Detective Swifty, an adorable, clever swift fox, and his loyal, trustworthy prairie dog pal, Gus explore the cold Arctic tundra as they help Mayor Pauly the Polar Bear solve the case of the missing ice sculpture. This educational storybook introduces the reader to several endangered species of the Arctic Tundra biome, but also provides interesting facts about each animal, place, or thing introduced in "Knowledge Boxes" that are scattered throughout the book!

  • Accountability

    by Bob Price
    When there’s nowhere to turn because authority is corrupt what choice do any of us have? Leo Priest spent fifteen years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Worse, people knew he was innocent. Important people. Powerful people. People he trusted, respected. Discovering everything you believed in was an illusion is hard to take at the best of times. Doing so for a crime you did not commit, more so. As a former regular soldier with commendations for bravery in every war zone from Euro... more
  • Criminal Kingdom

    by Stephen K. Gold

    Joe Glass works undercover. 

    Deep undercover. A world where laws don’t count for anything and his so-called friends might kill him at any moment. Or he might have to kill them.

    His latest assignment - infiltrate a gang of thieves, drug dealers and murderers, led by terrifying psychotic Silas Brown. The gangsters are plotting to import a new and deadly narcotic that makes everything else on the street look like candy. They have to be stopped. 

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  • Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries 7)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    Franki Amato is in Venice to celebrate her best friend’s Christmas Eve nuptials. She’s looking forward to a relaxing break from the PI grind and a romantic gondola ride with her Casanova. But when a chef goes belly up after making violet risotto for the reception, her holiday plans start sinking like La Serenissima. Dead set on finding the killer and saving her BFF’s wedding, Franki navigates the city’s streets and canals that are darker and more twisted than catacomb ... more

  • Marsala Maroon (Franki Amato Mysteries 6)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    Jazz Fest is in full swing in The Big Easy, but PI Franki Amato is singing the blues. The owner of an historic Italian grocery and deli is murdered in a manner eerily reminiscent of the Axeman of New Orleans, a notorious serial killer who hasn’t struck in over a century, and someone Franki knows has been arrested for the crime. Adding to her distress, Franki, her mom, and her meddling Sicilian nonna finally meet her fiancé’s family, but the tone of their encounter is decide... more

  • Galliano Gold (Franki Amato Mysteries 5)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    It’s Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, but PI Franki Amato has too many problems to celebrate. A proven Sicilian lemon tradition hasn’t landed her a proposal, so her nonna has amped up the meddling to get her married, and pronto. Franki’s also under pressure to solve the strange murder of a family friend’s nephew, Nick Pescatore, who was found on a Mississippi River steamboat rumored to be haunted. When the sinister old boat sets sail on an overnight gambling cruise, F... more

  • Campari Crimson (Franki Amato Mysteries 4)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    Halloween is looming large in New Orleans, and Private Investigator Franki Amato’s in a gloomy mood. Her boyfriend Bradley has to leave on an extended business trip, and her slacker brother is coming to town with her matchmaker nonna who’s determined to see a Sicilian lemon superstition bear fruit. Meanwhile, the entire city is spooked because a caped figure is targeting its blood banks. Things turn macabre when a psychic makes a dark prediction about Franki’s brother and a ... more

  • Amaretto Amber (Franki Amato Mysteries 3)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    Private investigator Franki Amato has just turned thirty, and she feels anything but festive. For starters, she can’t have cake because she’s given up sweets, and one of her teeth is torturing her. To add insult to birthday injury, she has to investigate a surreal strip club homicide—with her sixtyish ex-stripper landlady. Then her meddling Sicilian grandma crashes the New Orleans non-party and insists that she steal a lemon to land a husband. Unfortunately for Franki, the m... more

  • Prosecco Pink (Franki Amato Mysteries 2)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    For PI Franki Amato, New Orleans is anything but The Big Easy. Her best friend and employer has assigned her an unsettling investigation—the murder of a gorgeous cosmetics CEO at an allegedly haunted plantation. Adding to Franki’s stress, her meddling Sicilian nonna is planning her engagement even though her boyfriend, Bradley, hasn’t popped the question, and his new secretary seems determined to ensure a proposal never happens. As Bradley grows distant and the plantation gr... more

  • Limoncello Yellow (Franki Amato Mysteries 1)

    by Traci Andrighetti

    Francesca "Franki" Amato is a straight-shooting rookie cop in Austin, Texas, until an embarrassing 911 call prompts her to take a job at her best friend’s PI agency in New Orleans. But Franki soon learns that solving crime in The Big Easy is no Bourbon Street party. Case in point, her first investigation involves the murder of a beautiful boutique manager who was strangled with a cheap yellow scarf, and her primary suspect is her client. When Franki’s not on the clock, s... more

  • Legacy of Lies

    by Lexa M. Mack
    A multitude of secrets are buried in the past, but with DNA testing on the rise, the sins of the father are visited upon the children. Lies are unearthed, histories are changed, and lives are ended.
  • The Tempest In Glass

    by Dirk Eichhorst
    One man’s prayer for the safety of a woman causes a terrible accident, launching him on a dangerous quest through ancient ruins and mystical realms, where he discovers unspeakable secrets that threaten the course of eternity.
  • Raaz Mahal: The Palace of Secrets

    by Neal Nathan
    Taj Mahal - the magnificent mausoleum in marble, a symbol of love, erected by Mughal emperor Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz that took 22 years, 20,000 laborers, and architects from far-off places to build … so goes the legend. In Agra, India - the city of the Taj Mahal - the Bureau of Archaeology (BoA) receives a bizarre petition under the Right-To-Information (RTI) Act, demanding the bureau disclose authentic historical evidence for the legend of the World Heritage monument. The bureau dumps the... more
  • Black Aries

    by Shaundra Felder

    "Black Aries" is a gripping novel that tells the story of a marketing executive who returns to her hometown to stop an ambitious special investigator from exhuming her stepfather’s body and exposing the secret she thought was buried forever.

    In the spring of 1978, six-year-old Denise Blackburn caused her shell-shocked stepfather to fall to his death, then she killed the elderly neighbor who witnessed it. At least that is what the nightmares tell her. Forty years later, t... more

  • The Informants

    by Scott Nickerson
    The wife of a Mexican Cartel leader is poisoned while having dinner with her 11-year-old daughter, and the head of the most violent drug trafficking cartel in the world sets a $10 million reward for the murder of the waiter responsible for poisoning his wife, as well as the unknown individual responsible for ordering the hit. Julian Castro Rodriguez, aka: El Jefe, orders dozens of Cartel members to Sinaloa and offers the reward for information leading to the murderer. \tMeanwhile, DEA holds a c... more
  • White Gold

    by Micheal E. Jimerson
    For thirty years, E.J. Kane exemplified perfection in law enforcement. But when he loses a son to the war on terror in Afghanistan, both his marriage and his career as a Texas Ranger are crushed. Incapable of acknowledging his daughter’s drug addiction, she ends up sex trafficked. His last chance job as head of security at an energy company pulls him into the romantic clutches of a ruthless businesswoman known as Widow Welchel. She allies with a sovereign citizen group stealing casinghead gas, a... more
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