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5th and Vanguard

by Lee Adams

5th and Vanguard is set in a seaside town called Berle and narrated by Julie Page, an ex-junkie and writer who had retired her writing (and other addictions) for a more conventional life. But inspiration pays a call one windy night in front of Bob's Liquor Palace as a glamorous, disfigured old woman emerges from the backseat of a Cadillac and offers Julie one more chance at taking chances. This darkly comic mystery explores the pock-marked inner and outer world of its heroine as she faces he... more

Three On A Match

by Anthony Cain

Fred Stiles is trying to leave San Francisco when he meets an old, disabled private investigator who needs help solving a strange crime – an apartment has been robbed of everything, literally. The shower curtain, the soap in the soap dish. There's a woman to impress, and a fee that will allow him to pay his back rent and get a moving truck out of town. Stiles embarks on a journey that leads him to a San Francisco he never knew existed with people he never wanted to meet. When his investigation d... more

A Death at the Potawatomi Club

by Stephen Timbers

Charlie Bailey becomes an amateur sleuth when suspected of the murder of a friend and client. He outinvestigates the police while exposing his family and himself to the crosshairs of the real killer.

Danger to the Throne: Kopp Chronicles

by Gregory Kopp

Uncannily similar to current political events, an impeached president makes unfounded claims of election fraud as a mob storms a government building, and challenges to voting rights increase; while a beautiful French spy and an intrepid Scotland Yard detective are thrust into tumultuous American and European capital intrigue. Enjoy the next exciting volume, based on a true story, of the powerful and epic Kopp Chronicles series.

A Death in Berlin

by David C. Dawson

Berlin 1933: When the parties stop...the dying begins The city that’s been a beacon of liberation during the 1920s is about to become a city of deadly oppression. BBC foreign correspondent Simon Sampson risks his life in a bid to save thousands of gay men from the growing Nazi threat. This is the second in the Simon Sampson mystery series. The first, A Death in Bloomsbury, was hailed as ‘a good old-fashioned John Buchan-esque mystery reworked for the twenty-first century’. Simon moves to Berl... more

The Lawyer's Angel

by Scott Allen Benkie

Attorney James Crosson is in the grips of despair, blaming himself for his wife’s death. A widow hires him to pursue a wrongful death case on behalf of her late husband who died in a seemingly ordinary car wreck. Crosson must confront his own tragic loss and gambling debts as he unravels the plot hatched by a deranged corporate tyrant who will stop at nothing to conceal the truth, take down the lawyer, and preserve his empire. With Vegas goons closing in and everything at stake, Crosson goes all... more

Bad Cop

by Peter Sarda

After putting away the head of the Albanian mafia in Hamburg, Homicide Detectives Thomas Ritter and Motz Beck are confronted with a bloody war to control the local drug trade in the mobster’s absence. First an Albanian courier is shotgunned to death at the edge of Hamburg Harbor. Then a Hells Angel gets the same treatment on the Alster River. As the bodies pile up, Ritter and Beck are forced to work with an organized crime expert, a burned-out narcotics agent with his own drug issues. B... more

The Ridders

by Lisa Towles

Young PI, BJ Janoff is randomly approached by a stranger with a proposition he can’t refuse – a million dollars to deliver an envelope to a hotel lobby. The pusher forces him to accept the money upfront and threatens to kill him if he doesn’t deliver the envelope in three days. BJ’s growing obsession with the envelope’s contents leads him down a treacherous path toward the game orchestrators - where he discovers a large-scale political controversy, a treasure hunt for a priceless sword, and a gl... more

Shadow Valley

by Nik Xandir Wolf

It’s 1988 and Heath Walker, who spent most of his life in group homes, bartends and sells weed to keep the lights on for his ailing foster mom. When Heath meets and quickly falls for the brazen and beautiful Rori Burke at his bar, he kicks off a series of events that leave both his mother and a cop dead, and Rori’s father—a crooked small-town police chief—on their trail. As the young couple tears away on their journey from Santa Cruz communes to cartel territory in Baja, Heath carries w... more

Related By Murder

by Robin Castle

Elise Edwards exists in a cocoon of routine designed to protect her from the outside world. When her brother Chester is murdered, her dismal life is shattered, and she’s forced to confront her past, her brother, and herself. Working with her nemesis to investigate Chester’s murder, she uncovers shocking secrets…including her nemesis’ lack of alibi. Has Elise been cavorting with a killer? As Elise investigates further, the list of Chester’s enemies keeps growing…and it includes Elise’s best frie... more

Blood Sapphire's Revenge / 979-8-9854343-3-0 / B09NYJT6BX

by Dr. Bruce Farmer

After shooting a notorious Islamic extremist in the Hadhramaut Mountains of Yemen with a record-setting sniper shot, Israel Defense Force Staff Sergeant Haddy Abrams finds herself in the crosshairs of a diabolical Eastern European oligarch known only as “X”. After narrowly surviving a targeted suicide bombing assassination attempt, a trauma scarred Haddy sets off resolutely to settle the score with a diabolical merchant of death who is hell-bent on the nuclear annihilation of Jerusalem. Acros... more

Dissection: A Medical and Political Thriller

by Bruce Bortz

D.C. heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury—a dissection. And all the victims have first received innocuous-looking cards announcing: “Your heart attack/stroke will arrive within one hour!” Private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, and they immediately suspect Leeds’ former lover, Dr. Silvana Moretti, a brilliant research scientist who harbors a g... more

Hunters Point

by Peter Kageyama

Katsuhiro, ‘Kats’ Takemoto is a war hero turned private detective in the exploding metropolis of San Francisco in 1958. Drawn into a deadly cover- up, Kats investigates the US Navy, the west coast organized crime families, and the North Beach Beat scene in search of the truth that hides in the cold waters of San Francisco Bay. The first book of the new Kats Takemoto Adventure Series!

The Shepherd's Burden

by Ryan Young

Staff Sergeant Daniel Jefferies has returned home to upstate NY after nearly being killed in an ambush in Iraq. Plagued by the trauma of war, he struggles to find his place in a world that he no longer recognizes. He feels disconnected from his family and friends. But, none of his burdens are heavier than the terrifying secret that he has kept about a mysterious encounter from his youth. When a suspicious murder occurs, he will discover that he has been chosen for a purpose that transcends life ... more

The Brooch Heist: The modern crime story (The Brooch Heist Crime Thriller Series Book 1)

by Anna Varlese

A priceless brooch, stolen from the ancient Russian house of the Vorontsovs was thought to be lost forever. Until Ekaterina Vorontsova-Lehrner, a descendent of the family, hatched a daring plan to take back what was rightfully theirs. Ekaterina, also known as K, learns that her successful heist hasn't gone unnoticed when she is confronted in the airport by Easy Man, a mysterious criminal fixer. With no other options, K is forced to travel to Brussels with one of the FBI's Most Wanted to meet ... more

Saving Tres Rios (Rob Madden Series #1)

by John Witzel

Retired Air Force Sergeant Robert Madden thought the war was behind him, but as he entered Tres Rios, New Mexico, a new war was just beginning. When Madden stops at Tres Rios, New Mexico on his way to California to pursue a doctorate in education, he doesn’t expect to stay past lunch. A run-in with the local drug lord halts all of his plans. To escape from a corrupt police force and legal action, Madden is given a choice in punishment—state prison or a year of teaching troubled kids at the lo... more

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