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Hey You, Pretty Face (Jack Rutherford and Amanda Lacey Book 6)

by Linda Coles

An abandoned infant. Three victims stolen in the night. Can one overworked detective find the connection to save them all?

London, 1999. Short-staffed during Christmas week, Detective Jack Rutherford can’t afford to spend time on the couch with his beloved wife. With a skeleton staff, he’s forced to handle a deserted infant and a trio of missing girls almost single-handedly. Despite the overload, Jack has a sneaking suspicion that the baby and the abductions... more

Shadow Crimes

by E.J. Moran

The year is 1978 and NYC has become a place of moral decay. A recently discovered fashion model signed by modeling agent, Natasha Burns, has been murdered. Who preys on the women of Natasha Burns’s agency? Is it the seedy movie producer, a drug-addicted photographer, or the handsome male model? In an industry where women are seen as objects to be used and discarded, anyone could be responsible.

Lost to the World

by Libby Sternberg

Ten years after the end of World War II, Detective Sean Reilly finds no peace. His wife is gone, he has to raise two boys on his own and solve a complicated new case: the murder of a researcher at the Johns Hopkins polio research labs on the eve of the famous vaccine trials that will save so many children while leaving current polio victims lost to the world. Although fiction, this book also explores the conspiracy theories (some anti-Semitic) surrounding the release of the polio vaccine, an... more

The Vengeance Squad Goes To Germany

by Sidney W. Frost

Sometimes a man must break a promise to keep one … Chris McCowan vowed to love, honor, serve, and protect Angela, but she’s gone missing. Long silences aren’t unusual for the MI6 agent, but something feels different this time. He remembers his promise to never look for her if she disappears, but that doesn’t stop the worry. When the cyber security guru stumbles across a clue, he’s forced to choose which promise to keep. Desperate to find his wife, Chris activates the Vengeance Squad and heads... more

The Girl in my Mirror

by Gina Karasek

Derry has almost everything she could ever want. She’s doing well in college, her best friend Sarah is her roommate, she has a very close family with a little sister whom she adores, and the guy she’s had a crush on all semester is finally starting to notice her. But one morning after having a nightmare, she finds out that the pet cat she has loved since she was a child is really just a stuffed animal, and everyone except her has known it all along. Sarah - a psych major - helps her to unders... more

Adrian's Revenge

by Marilyn Alcorn Alcorn

"ADRIAN'S REVENGE" a Christian suspense thriller; and historical tale that tells of a true American Hero, a professional football player; and of true love's lost; and yet of a future renewed!

"... once again, as it was in the beginning when Adam first knew Eve, a man child would be born. Yes, Jonny knew already in his heart of all hearts that God had allowed his seed to bring forth a child. And that perhaps long after he was no longer that the child wo... more

Murder Music, a YA Mystery-Thriller

by Michael Baldwin

Murder Music is a mystery-thriller for anyone who enjoys mayhem, music, and romance. Join Missy McKean, beautiful teen virtuoso who plays a haunted violin; Missy’s genius jazz mentor, Tiger Blakely; a demonic drug kingpin who wants Tiger very dead; Tiger’s dog, Bix, a canine Einstein; a mysterious red-haired Indian from outer space; and a bevy of craven killers on a crazy cross country jazz road trip that can only end in death and disaster.

Journey Through Chaos: The Valley

by Ward Williams

After concealing their true financial instability to the world for a decade, the Chinese government implodes, triggering severe global economic crises and panic. Rioting, chaos, and ultimately anarchy breaks out in the U.S. as it experiences the sudden and complete collapse of banks, stock markets, and all major business enterprises twice as bad as the Great Depression. One man anticipates this chaos and prepares a journey to a safe haven in a valley just two hundred miles away. The rapid disint... more

The Condor and the Hippo

by Larry Raymond

Surrounded by the lush landscape and societal problems facing many Africans today, this thriller follows Kelvin Kantu and the path leading him from good works toward violence.Each day, hundreds of tribal people migrate into the degradation, squalor, and disease of city slums, and dozens die young. As Deputy Minister for Zambia's tribes, Kelvin proposes installing solar panels for the electricity, internet, and jobs to keep them in their rural villages. But politicians block his funding and ... more

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by John Fullerton

Every dystopian world deserves a dystopian detective and London just got hers. A female politician is shot dead in the capital. A talented detective, Kramer, is charged with leading the investigation; trouble is, he’s both much more and a great deal less than mere cop. His brilliance is at least in part due to a permanently skewed moral compass. This is less whodunnit than whydunnit and a will-he-get-away-with it crime novel set in an England several years in the future - a world of labour c... more

A Persian Gem: A Sinister Span Mystery (Sinister Span Mysteries Book 2)

by Jeff Isaacson

A woman jumps from the bridge connecting Fort Myers and Sanibel, Florida. Stunned onlookers watch her plummet seemingly halfway to the rough Gulf waters below in a second. Then, remarkably, her body appears to snap back. A bright, yellow and orange explosion of fabric erupts into a parachute behind her. She glides out onto a passing Chinese ship below and hitches a ride out into the distance. Anjali, a woman fascinated with bridges and suicides, happens to be on vacation just a few miles away. S... more

At Daddy's Hands

by Jacob Paul Patchen

In public, Jim Handler is a well-respected, small-town hero, and homicide detective who solved the case of the Will’s Creek Massacre. But at home, in the shadows, Jim’s childhood demons come alive to feast upon his family in the form of sexual, physical, and mental abuse. But his three teenage children have had enough. They have devised a plan for redemption. Empowered by the legal system’s lack of accountability, a judge who offers a quiet and meager plea deal to save face, Jim feels enab... more

Death Stalks the Runway: Ray Irish Mystery Case File #1

by Gordon Brewer

The Ray Irish Mystery Case Files follow a hard-boiled private detective with a chip on his shoulder and a whiskey bottle in his desk drawer. Set in in the late 1940s in the rough and tumble world of his adopted hometown, Oyster City, Irish has a reputation for his short temper and hard-headed luck. He’s a relatively honest private detective that believes in honor and justice. However, his beliefs are continually tested when trying to survive in a corrupt city controlled by crooked politicians, w... more

Project 137

by Seth Augenstein

WHERE HAVE AMERICA’S MISSING PERSONS GONE? As a doctor in the post-Blackout United States of America of 2087, Joe Barnes struggles to save his patients and uphold his Hippocratic Oath. Even so, he’s an idealist, and his home life is one of happy expectation as he and his wife Mary prepare to welcome their first child after a “medical miracle” makes their dream possible. But a teenaged boy dies unexpectedly on Barnes’ watch and a girl goes missing, and as Barnes becomes obsessed with findin... more

Novum Orbis Regium

by W. A. Holdsworth

476 CE. Badon Hill is under siege by the Saxon warlord Oesc of Kent. Arthur’s cavalry holds the high ground. A heavy mist rolls into the valley during the night, blanketing the Saxon camp and giving Arthur his chance to end three generations of war. As the blood-red sun rises above the mist, Arthur and his horsemen plunge down the mountainside in hopes of finally turning their isle of woes into a Camelot to be dreamed of by generations to come. Modern Day. For fifteen centuries, the Clan Camul... more

"Evening in the Yellow Wood"

by Laura Kemp

Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her twelfth birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. Now, ten years later, she leaves her life and travels north to the mysterious town of Lantern Creek, Michigan after seeing his picture in a local newspaper. Once there, she discovers that her father had been living a double life and meets the autistic brother she never knew, a young man who is mute but able to read her mind. When a girl who looks like Justine... more

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