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Dark Revenge Featured
Thirst for revenge lies deep in the human soul.
Dr. Fern Adams seeks revenge on the man who murdered her sister, and she’s prepared to abandon her Hippocratic Oath to punish her sister's killer.
Hero fireman, Jose Alvarez, has sworn revenge on the woman whose testimony sent him to jail. He’s willing to step outside the law to clear his name.
Deep in the shadows, an unkno ...
The Skull Keeper Featured
Best friends on social media, Allysa and Morgan share a love of three things: thriller novels, true crime, and keeping secrets from each other. As soon as Allysa asks Morgan to be her plus one at a funeral, Morgan jumps on the first available flight. Burying the dead might unearth the truth about what happened to Allysa’s brother twenty years earlier. She’s never believed he simply left town wi ...
Ever wonder how the Founding Fathers were able to pay for an Army and the basic resources required to sustain the new fledgling nation? Did they have access to a vast treasure? How did a ragtag set of Patriots defeat the largest military in the world? Our story picks up right where the first book in the series, The Secret of Eden and the New World, left off. Once again, Nathanial Briggs is a seemi ...
Defenseless Featured
A murdered woman, a powerful politician, and a witness who’s no longer willing to stay in the shadows. Eighteen years ago, Bela Houseman became a loose end. The powerful man who murdered her mother knows who she is and exactly what she saw that night. Giving up everything she’s ever known, including her own name, is the only way to protect herself. Now, as the lead cyber security expert at HICC ...
Cozy Mysteries in a Small Town Where Everyone Is Having a Worse Holiday Than You Young attorney JD Thompson looks forward to a quiet Thanksgiving week when a raging storm floods Central Texas, confining him and his partners to the Victorian mansion where they work and live. The fine print of their agreement with the house’s owner kicks in, and he and his partners must run a disaster shelter for ...
Pineapple Valentine Mystery Featured
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant finds romance deadly in the latest installment of the fun, thrilling, twisty Pineapple Port Mysteries!
When Matchmaker Lady Venus drops dead on the Pineapple Port community center's stage during a Valentine's event, Charlotte and the new detective agency she's started with her fiance Declan are called to the scene.
As dange ...
Death in Paris Featured
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WINNER of the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze - the IPPY - Best Mystery & Thriller eBookMàiri Maguire teaches in top schools all over the world, but on days like today she wishes she had never left Glasgow! 8:10 a.m. on 15th August 1970. They’ve only been in Paris one evening. but this morning Lianna is in jail, charged w ...
Even a well-planned vacation can go astray… With week-long plans at the beach, Brash deCordova makes it clear to his wife Madison: no snooping, no stirring up trouble, and absolutely no mysteries. This week is about resting, relaxing, and spending time with family. They’re staying at The Mermaid’s Retreat on Bolivar Peninsula, where the upper Texas Coast promises sunshine, sand, and ...secrets? ...
Pineapple Lies Featured
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Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series!
As an orphan adopted by one of Florida's 55+ communities, Charlotte ...
A Deadly Combo Featured
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 ...
Murder at the Galliano Club Featured
In 1926, thanks to Prohibition, it’s hard to find a beer in Lido, New York. But trouble is always on tap at the Galliano Club. Social hub for the Italian immigrant community, the Galliano Club serves bootleg beer and Luca Lombardo’s signature sandwiches to workers from the city’s copper mills. The club means everything to Luca, who arrived in Lido with nothing left to lose. He’ll do whatever it ta ...
Caffeine Before Curses Featured
When a movie shoot ends in murder, a caffeine fix might be the star’s only hope. Skye O’Malley’s grandmother always told her she inherited the Sight. But other than an occasional message from a blob of tea leaves or a vague dream, Skye doesn’t think she’s anything special, since she can’t even predict which of her coffee-shop customers will order hard-core black or fancy frou-frou with extra fo ...
Vendetta in Viera Featured
A much-loved President is publicly assassinated just before a major Presidential election. His running mate Amena Winston becomes the first female black President as a result. But during the lame duck session, nine of the President’s nemesis and enemies begin dropping like flies. Every single law enforcement agency in the country scramble to solve these murders while dealing with international bur ...
ANOINTED Featured
ANOINTED...(NEW RELEASE) After unexpectedly inheriting the British title of Lord of Mogford after the suspicious death of his father, Lord Reginald Muggs, investigative reporter Maxwell Muggs heads out to steamy Baton Rouge to battle with the despicable, self-anointed bishop of a cult-like church. On arrival, Max forms an intriguing partnership with the lovely Annabelle Muffet, a fiercely determin ...
An Air Of Deceit Featured
A cozy mountain town with elemental magic that goes back generations. A hereditary witch strengthening the powers within her since childhood. A magical family and a newfound cat familiar to stand by her as she builds a close knit coven of her own, solves the suspicious nature of her grandmother’s death, and steps up to become the foremost elemental witch of the mountain region. Autumn assumed sh ...
Senior Martha, her fluffy white puppy Teddy, and their roomie Pru, who is an assistant librarian, meet Chantal the fortune teller in the small Californian town of Gold Leaf Valley. Pru is reluctant to get her fortune told, but Martha can’t wait! When they stumble across a dead body outside the senior center, Martha declares that their senior sleuthing club is on the case! While interviewing ...
The world of Attorney Mylas Grey changes forever one Saturday morning in May. Unfortunately, he isn’t prepared for the situation, the consequences, or the danger, and he sure isn’t prepared for the female distraction. He isn’t prepared for the situation . . . Mylas always thought the owner of the McKinney Law Firm, where he’s employed, would outlive him, so when the owner suffers a fatal hear ...
The Bulls-Eye Killer Featured
Smart. Sexy. Single. And a knack for trouble, either finding it or it finding her. Introducing Pepper Jackson. In her mid-forties and recently divorced, she’s every bit as tough as she is drop-dead gorgeous. A Neighborhood Watch patroller, member of the Crime Busters book club, and advocate for finding forever homes for shelter pets, Pepper is an active, outspoken member of the community. Although ...
Border Field Blues Featured
"A potent dose of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" (ForeWord Magazine) Murder, sex, politics, and classic rock guitar collide in this original and compelling mystery set in the backcountry along the San Diego-Tijuana border, when a violent encounter between a young border-crosser and an angry bandit creates a secret and shocking bond between the boy and the bandit’s dumbfounded daughter. But when re ...
Brandon Foxworth, an ecology professor at the University of Virginia, and his wife are watching their two children chase lightning bugs in the back yard when suddenly all the lights go out. Three days later, Taylor Grant, a reporter with the Richmond Herald, stumbles coming down the stairs of his front porch and lands on his backside in a flower bed full of dead flowers. Following the subsequent d ...
Catrina Flaherty Series Featured
"Catrina Flaherty is a kick-ass female PI whose mission in life is to help women who can't help themselves. Her practice caters to abused women, divorce, rape, and sexual harassment. Come see her play with the big boys."
Unbaked Croakies Featured
My name is Naida Griffith and I’m a sorceress. I actually found that out not too long ago. I’ve lived with an undefined something burning in my belly for a while, feeling as if something wasn’t quite right under my skin. Then, on my eighteenth birthday I started getting headaches. Bad ones. And random stuff started following me around. Recently I was approached by a group called the Société of Dir ...
Final Arrangements Featured
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On paper, it was a great idea. Ginger Barnes would chauffeur her mother’s dear friend, fierce floral competitor Iffy Bigelow, to the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show in time to perfect that day’s “Sew What?” entry. In return, Gin and mother Cynthia w ...
Keep Your Doors Locked Featured
An escaped prisoner. A woman running from her past. National news coverage is the last thing Sara needs. After a troubled and abusive past, Sara Jennings has found a semblance of tranquility in her life. Buying an old farmhouse at the edge of nowhere has brought her the peace and solitude she so desperately craves. The property comes with history. Better yet, it comes with the promise of a fu ...
Codename: Parsifal Featured
The Spear of Destiny. The Roman Legionnaire’s lance that pierced Christ’s body as he hung on the cross. Legend claims whomever possesses it will become a great conqueror. But if they lose it, they will lose everything—including their lives. Shortly before WWII, Hitler stole the spear from a museum in Vienna. In the last weeks of the European war, he lost it. General George Patton orders an America ...
Gillespie Field Groove Featured
When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for, as ...
Leashed Featured
Jack has some ‘splainin’ to do! That's right! Callie Lassiter's normally well-behaved Great Dane Jack has run off and done the wild thing with the neighbor's dog. It must be puppy love! It's doubly embarrassing since she's a professional dog trainer. Of course, the neighbor would have to be hot, hot nightclub owner bad boy Owen McKay, just the kind of man Callie is determined to avoid. Owen’s comf ...
Secrets and Spies Featured
After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, New York society writer Louisa Delafield and her assistant Ellen Malloy join in the hunt for German saboteurs who are employing biological and chemical warfare on American soil. The spies have infiltrated all levels of American society, and they’ll do anything from churning out propaganda to cold-blooded murder to keep America from helping the allies. Ca ...
The Jungle Within Featured
19-year-old Pace Howell's life is a history of making mistakes, even flunking out of his freshman year of college. But everything changes when he meets Sage, who shows him that serving others just might turn his screwed-up life around. When they go on a church medical mission to the Amazon, Pace learns about a healing liquid — made from the eggs of a mythical creature — that could save a sick chil ...
A Case of Murder by Monte Carlo Featured
Laurel Benson is a loyal and dedicated nurse. She may be petite, but she’ll take on anyone who threatens her patients’ safety and well-being. That feisty protectiveness creates problems when a hit and run victim lands in the ER and Police Detective Cade Resnick arrives to investigate. There’s no denying the sparks between these two, but their professions put them at odds. As Cade zeroes in on his ...
Pineapple Cruise Featured
When Mariska trades the brisket she won at “meat bingo” for three tickets on the new Gulf Voyager cruise ship, she, Darla, and our detective Charlotte enjoy a ladies' cruise to Key West. But when passengers start dropping like anchors, they find themselves afloat in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico...and a murder mystery.
Charlotte notices th ...
Stalking the Moon Featured
Viviane's life is tough enough, but then a supernatural monster begins killing her friends. Have her hallucinations come to life? Viviane Rose has lived with auditory hallucinations all her life. Despite this, she has a good job as the manager of the laundry at Vince Malum Residential Living Center, a long-term care facility for the mentally ill. She works there to be near her catatonic mother and ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted time travelers bent on destroying humanity.
She doesn't remember ...
P. I. Apprentice Featured
P. I. Apprentice (Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 34) Private Investigator Dev Haskell is visited by Melissa Carter, the daughter of a former friend. Both her parents were killed in a hit-and-run ‘accident’ a few years earlier. She has strong doubts it was an accident and asks Dev to investigate. He grudgingly takes on the case, but the more he learns the more he’s convinced Melissa is on to ...
The Girl Who Was Forgotten Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.”— ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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On New Year’s Eve in The Sisters, Texas, anything is possible. Madison and Brash deCordova are hosting a masquerade party, so a bit of mystery and drama is expected. Murder, however, seems a bit drastic, even with Madison’s knack for finding dead bodies. The victim is Anastacia Rowland, owner of the new café in town directly competing with New Beginnings. Madison’s best friend Genny owns New Begin ...
Pineapple House Hunter Featured
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean, and gore-free small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller.
When Declan and his uncle Seamus find a dead woman in the master closet of a house for sale, Seamus hopes that means he'll get a deal...but private dete ...
LETHAL Featured
A teenager with no one to turn to must make a choice: save her classmates from a brutal school or defeat a sinister conspiracy to reshape the world. Hildi doesn’t have much left. Her life is a struggle against illness and to free herself from her wheelchair. The lone bright spot is her lifelong friend. So when he mysteriously disappears, she'll do anything to find him. When clues lead her to a mys ...
History, Mystery, Murder Featured
Maggie Quinlan has hit rock bottom. A failed marriage to an abusive ex, the termination of yet another job, and the sudden death of her beloved father—what more could happen? After her beautiful and wealthy cousin, Angelique, has everyone’s DNA tested and the cousins find which historical family they share their DNA with, a trip to England is called for. However, it seems as though trouble has tag ...
Angel of Mercy Featured
A Mystery Novel About Dignity in Life and Death: Veterinary surgeon Jim Briggs has assisted the suicides of ten Chicagoans. Briggs is an angel of mercy to the residents of the Lazy Acres homeless community. He cares for their dogs for free and provides those in need with a pain-free exit from the city's harsh winters and brutal life on the street. About to leave Chicago for a new job in Portland, ...
Frosted Croakies Featured
’Tis the season for great folly…walawalawalawalala…ribbit. The tree is up. The stockings are hung. And Christmas tunes are making me jolly. Obviously, everything is about to go sideways.
The Spiricom Featured
She was killed on their wedding day…but he couldn’t let her go. Tall, handsome Dr. Spencer Py was a well-respected environmental scientist...until the limo crash when a treacherous Maine road took away his new bride Melanie and left him in a wheelchair. He is racked with despair over his failure to save her until the fateful night he discovers plans on the internet for the Spiricom, Thomas Edison’ ...
The Girl Who Killed You Featured
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - the most fun you can have holding a Kindle Reader!
When Mick and his retired military gun-for-hire “fixer” service is hired by a United States Senator to find his missing son, he enlists the help of his daughter, Siofra “Shee” McQueen. An experienced tracker, Shee quickly ...
A Dagger Among Friends Featured
When murder comes to Harvest Falls, amateur sleuths abound. But the killer’s game pits friend against friend, and everyone’s in danger of a final turn.
A DAGGER AMONG FRIENDS is an amateur sleuth mystery novel with humorous elements. It plays on cozy mystery tropes and flips them on their heels.
"a fun amateur sleuth read!" - Amazon reviewer
Charlie Goode is struggling t ...
Fashion victims and fabulous felines – can Lauren, Annie, and Zoe discover who killed a local fashion designer? While serving plenty of cupcakes and coffee, of course! Lauren Denman, cupcake baker and owner of the Norwegian Forest Cat Café, along with her fur baby Annie, and her cousin and assistant Zoe, thought it would be a very quiet day, when they receive a strange request. A girl called Tabit ...
After the Storm Featured
Life was never going to be the same again…friends had become family and strangers became friends…all in the midst of a storm like no other and the aftermath that no one could have ever predicted. Jess and Max find their relationship takes an unexpected and life-changing turn…Brian decides on a risky mission that no one can talk him out of…and Sara struggles with the knowledge that among those resp ...
A Day for Bones Featured
Bones litter the street…
A catastrophic flood in Ellicott City leaves more than damaged buildings in its wake: a human skeleton now lies scattered along Main Street. Did a colonial settler wash out of his grave? Or is it murder? As Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller and his team investigate, the descendants of James Ferring, a local business icon from a bygone era, become ...
The Girl Who Wants Featured
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A wildly entertaining, wholly unique tour de force of action, psychological drama and wit from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
Shee wants a home.
Shee McQueen grew up skip tracing and hunting military criminals with her fathe ...
Lost in Little Havana Featured
Each brush with death Makes their shared desire harder to ignore Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez her whole life. When his partner is gunned down in a Miami Beach nightclub, she has a new secret to keep. Trey can’t know that she’s working for Internal Affairs—just like he can’t know that she’s always loved him. But when their lives are on the line, she ha ...
Killer Dead, Victim Alive Featured
The serial killer is dead; the expected seventh victim is alive, and the Santa Monica detectives and the FBI agents are shaking their heads. “Who-done-it” meets “why-done-it.” The result: A twisty mystery, spiked with psychological and cultural implications, all playing out in sun-drenched Santa Monica. Police Detectives Mollie Granger and Greg Nichols respond to a call near the world-famous pier. ...
From Book 1: A KISS TO KILL FOR…
In Colleen Mooneys funny, romantic, delightfully meandering cozy mystery, you gon have a authentic Noo Awlins experience, dawlin! And a wild ride into the bargain.
Brandy Alexanders the real deal--yes, thats her real name and shes not even a stripper, although her best friend Julia is. Brandy still lives with her parents in the Irish Channel an ...
Down Wind and Out of Sight is a genre-bender. On one hand it’s an utterly original suspense thriller, populated with unforgettable characters and loaded with bizarre twists and quirky science, that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride from the Australian outback to a top-secret US government research facility and into the astonishing electronics lab of an adolescent autistic savant. On the ot ...
Rural Sacramento, 1870. Caleb Stewart can’t wait to be a family man. After battling natural disasters and legal challenges to secure his land claim, he’s finally free to court the French beauty next door. But he’s forced to push his feelings aside when his own hacienda becomes the scene of a suspicious double murder. Madeleine Laurent hopes a fresh start in America will help her forget painful ...
From Book 1: USA Today bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you an unconventional sleuth hot on the heels of high-living lowlifes in book 1 of the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery Series. Even in a desert paradise, life is full of surprises like A Dead Husband.
"My first day as a sleuth was more Stephanie Plum than Miss Marple." Meet Jessica Huntington, an a ...
Georgia’s obsession with exposing the conspiracy entrenched in her genetic code makes her a natural target for her progenitors most dangerous experiments. Now she must untangle the secret of the technology implanted inside her before it takes her mind...and her life. *** Titanium Web is a fast-paced thriller, and the exciting sequel to the award-winning The Crucible of Steele. ***
Is Mothman Real, or Just Another Fly-by-Night Tourist Scam? The Truth is Out There … Way WAY Out There in this Deliciously Snarky, Semi-Paranormal Detective Mystery Growing up in backwoods Florida, Bobbie Drex has seen it all – from two-headed turtles to two-timing boyfriends. Her life of hard knocks has left her short on cash, but she’s still packing enough snark to give any whack-job a run f ...
It took just one bad decision to put his whole life in jeopardy. Tough-talking London Detective Inspector Jack Lisbon now faces a life-changing choice – seek justice or exact vengeance After a young fighter takes a beating for throwing a bout, DI Lisbon makes a decision that will come back to haunt him – he accepts a bribe to look the other way. With everything poised to go pear-shaped, the embatt ...
Fleeing her life for a short break, Charlotte Ross, along with her best friend, visit her aunt in the sleepy town of Raven’s Caw, Michigan. Charlotte hopes to recover from a recent split with her fiancé, and Jane, a new mystery writer, is looking forward to somewhere relaxing. But life has different plans for the two friends as they get swept up in a whirlwind of romance, mayhem, and murder when t ...
From Book 1: For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody.
Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered ques ...
Rhee Abbott is a reluctant witch with powers that never seem to do what she wants. But her new job as manager of the Drake's Rest Inn is her chance to start over with the normal life she has always yearned for--until she finds a dead body in a guest room just days before the Inn's grand opening. Even worse, she discovers that the dead have begun to talk to her when the victim's ghost begins to fol ...
It's always been Gina Iovino’s dream to have her own restaurant, something upscale and cosmopolitan. When she agreed to run the restaurant and tavern at her best friend’s historic inn in Vermont, Gina grossly underestimated just how rural it was. She misses bright lights and a busy social life. The place does have one advantage: hunky bad-boy-turned-law-enforcement-officer, Sheriff Shawn Johnson. ...
Jason – See no evil It started again when I bribed my ex-girlfriend's boss to fire her so she could work for me. Now the sparks and secrets between us may cost me everything. Caramel-kissable Kendis was mine in high school. She’s bubbly and feisty with pouty lips that belong to me. Kendis’ unique skills defend against cyber threats. But that isn’t the only electricity between us. W ...
Meet Alexa Owl. She's returned home to Pittsburgh after a divorce to start a new life and a new business, The Owl’s Nest Couturier Shoppe. Much to her surprise, she's getting more than she ever bargained for: Detective Bobby Starr, and he's no ordinary sleuth. Bobby is an angel who's returned to Earth in hopes of earning his way into the Guardian Angel Squad. He's been sent by none other than Sain ...
Only the invited get to stay. Only the lucky ones get to leave. When Katrina Darlington lost everything, she turned to a stranger for help. Desperate and grieving, she trusted the hand of friendship and travelled halfway across the world to a very private island. Blue skies, blistering sunshine, and luxury on a scale way beyond the average person’s means. The perfect place to start again, surround ...
When mystery novelist Kate Rawlings accepts a summer teaching position at her alma mater in the peaceful college town of Eden, Kentucky, she expects to have time with her ailing mother and time to write. But when her college boyfriend, Michael Mabry, makes a surprise appearance, trouble follows. Michael is on the run from his partners in a Chicago museum heist in which a valuable ancient Indian ar ...
NEW RELEASE -- Pre-Order now for $2.99 -- 40% off -- Delivery to your Kindle November 22nd. Be careful what you wish for . . . Rory McEntyre is a lonely trusts & estates attorney who plays the hero inside video games. Then, his old flame, Monica, walks into his office with a $60 million winning lottery ticket and a world of trouble. Monica’s husband, Tom, is dead, apparently from a self-inflic ...
The first three Huntingdon Hart stories. 3 Quick Reads collected in one Casebook. The named case is solved within each of the three stories, and we also learn a lot about Hunt's life, unfolding more fully with each case. Casefile # 1 - The Missing Peke Hunt is enjoying a quiet drink in the Bird in Nest, when two mysterious figures from his past turn up out of the blue - both wanting the same thing ...
Attorney Sabre Brown runs from a horrific assault and loses her memory of it with every step. When a dead man turns up in the same area, Sabre blames herself. Did she witness the murder? Or worse--did she kill him? Before Sabre and her private investigator, JP, can solve that mystery, a minor client, Angela, disappears near the murder scene. Sabre must find her. But as Sabre’s memory slowly return ...
Christmas comes with chaos—and a murder—in the fifth book in the Down South Café cozy mystery series! Amy Flowers thinks her biggest problem is going to be creating an enormous cake dummy to mount atop her car for Winter Garden’s upcoming Christmas parade. But when one of Roger's employees is murdered, making the float is the least of Amy’s worries. Her childhood friend is a prime suspect, Aunt Be ...
No Second Chances is one man`s story, told from his point of view regarding his first-hand experiences in the School of Hard Knocks. If you like thrillers, you`ll probably like this book...
Although it is non-fiction, its style has none of the dry, documentary-type language. It is compelling and entertaining, all while enlightening the reader.
You`ll read about a young, 20-year- ...
She’s dating a mobster When Autumn Braxton, discovers Anthony Juliano is a mafia kingpin, she runs for her life. But escaping him is no easy task, his men are everywhere, watching and informing. He has the police in his pocket too, and Autumn has nowhere to hide except right under his nose. With the aid of a street kid and his insider knowledge, Autumn seeks a way out of Juliano’s fast closing tra ...
Detective Carol Ainsworth really has her work cut out this time! Agnes at her craziest best. She discovers a secret that she can't reveal to anyone, including herself, and how does one psychic stop another from hunting her down? Meanwhile, Carol has her hands full with pissed-off Russians, the reborn builder of much of Victorian Victoria (yes, the Sir Francis Rattenbury), a young girl claiming to ...
It is early autumn, and Dixie Mae Carver is enjoying working as a Beauty Maven Cosmetics representative in her small hometown of Friendship. Her business is off to a great start until she finds one of her wealthy customers murdered by a knife-wielding maniac. When Detective Harlan Granger takes over the murder case, Dixie feels sure that he can quickly bring the killer to justice. Harlan and his t ...
In this intelligent and darkly funny mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, a private eye endures surrealistic dreams of a friend's suicide and discovers he disappeared weeks before the dreams began. His investigation sends him spiraling down an unrelenting road to face the shocking reality of his friend’s fate and the final desperation of his own.
When escape is your only option, you need a little lipstick and danger. Meredith Marshall, on the run from her past, abandons a promising career that meant everything to her. She escapes to Belize and carries with her, a life changing secret. In search of a new existence, she finds a trusting soul to give her a second chance. Problems begin to mount when a former Army vet, Axel Cahill, discover ...
If anyone can tell the difference between monsters and humans, it’s Dahlia Nite. For nearly a century, she’s hunted one to protect the other; safeguarding humanity from the creatures that slip through the torn veil between the worlds—creatures like her. But the lines are blurring. As people begin mutating and combusting on the streets, Dahlia realizes a strange affliction has descended upon Sentin ...
An intriguing tale of suspense and adventure unfolds in this entertaining tale of a promising young cosmetic surgeon and his bride who stumble onto a stolen treasure while on their honeymoon trip to Italy. Danger erupts when a morose Mafia chieftain offers Doctor Mark Gundersen a terrible choice. Operate successfully on his disfigured daughter and keep the treasure----or face a slow lingering deat ...
When her cat hitched a ride without her, she had no choice but to tail the furry creature...
A survival test in Arizona's Sonoran Desert proves deadly for the property owner, and dangerous for the survivors. The co-owner of an eco-tour company finds the man he recently fought with dead, stabbed with the guide’s skinning knife. Gabe Ramsay left his position as a science professor under a shadow, one he swore to keep secret. He escapes to become co-owner of Adventure Calls, an eco-touring c ...
Izzie Di Sante loves a challenge but not so many on the menu at once. With sudden personnel changes, she’s juggling the staff schedule for the family restaurant. Her sister, Chloe drops startling news, and Izzie’s itching to chase down a new cold case. Besides an excuse to see Henry, she empathizes with the victim’s sister, who wants answers. Answers the local police haven’t been able to provide. ...
Please note: the first link is to the first 2 books in my series and the second link is to the 3rd book!
Families have secrets.
Some secrets are locked, sealed, and taken to the grave. Others beg to be told. They ooze through cracks a little at a time. You tease them out until an ugly truth is fully exposed. Ella Perri knows there ...
Sex, drugs, rock and roll. It's the sixties, it is the South, and the country is gripped by social unrest, a war raging in Vietnam, and, in Mobile, Alabama, murder. Two victims, one on each end of the social hierarchy, are the first case for Hugo August, detective and newly returned Vietnam veteran. He must walk a fine line among the rich and powerful while also seeking justice for a small time dr ...
Cajoled into helping an old friend find the cause of her puzzling symptoms, Annie Collins, an operating room nurse, is drawn into a life that has derailed. Libby Matheisen’s doctors and her husband think her symptoms are the result of a miscarriage. Libby is sure they aren’t and wants Annie’s help to discover what’s wrong. Is Libby really ill or is there more to the story than what she’s saying? L ...
One determined detective. One thorough medical examiner. And the serial killer that brings them together. Connecticut State Police Detective Wesley Dawson will stop at nothing until this maniac serial killer is locked up and put away for good. With bodies piling up and his older sister living on the streets, Wes refuses to let anything get in his way. The crimes are gruesome, and nobody is safe wi ...
There’s more to this game than dodging paintballs… a killer is on the loose. Newly licensed private investigator Fen Maguire gets his next case — to investigate an extortion ring putting the squeeze on loggers in the piney woods of East Texas. Working undercover at a local university, Fen traces the clues to a neighboring county's championship paintball team. To prove it, he must first gain th ...
David Delahass enjoyed solving puzzles whether they originated thousands of years ago or found during one of his ambling walks among the majestic oaks and towering pines that were still plentiful on Delahass land. And it was during one of those walks he came across one such puzzle and wondered what secrets it held...if any at all.
Fran Williams never intended to be a travel writer but circumstances made her life take a surprising turn. Now, needing to put the past behind her and desperate for a fresh new start, she finds herself assigned to attend the Mayward Literature Festival as part of a group of journalists. It’s not long before things take a turn for the worse and Fran, teaming up with tourist board guide Harry, finds ...
Sibling rivalries during a mariachi show threaten brotherly love! When Andy Veracruz agrees to help his girlfriend stage a show in Vegas, he never expects the junior trumpet players to knock one another unconscious or his brother-in-law to blackmail his sister. Despite aid from a lookalike brother and a quick-thinking cousin, how can Andy put on a classy show while investigating multiple crimes?
When it comes to writing Golden Age Hollywood biographies, the pen is deadlier than the sword Charlotte Donovan's overbearing boss, Justine Turner, is a world-famous biographer of Hollywood stars. It comes as no surprise to Charlotte when Justine requests an emergency meeting related to her latest in-progress biography. It is a surprise, though, when Justine up and dies before their urgent discuss ...
Poisoned Legacy Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? California, 1868: A rundown goldmine seems like singing star Graysie's golden opportunity. But bright new beginnings crumble underfoot when the townsfolk of the Sierra Nevada mining town start dropping dead of mysterious causes. Will an Aussie-born adventurer ...
It’s 1967. Beatles’ songs are playing everywhere. Torrey is trying to put her broken-hearted life back together. She helps her dad and brother in the family’s surf shop in the friendly little beach community of Mission Cove. But when someone falls off Sunset Cliffs to their death, Torrey gets emeshed in a mystery she'd rather escape. The Fool on the Hill in a Convertible is a cozy mystery novella ...
From Book 1: Read the novel voted Science Fiction Book of the Year*, now in development as a major motion picture. Nomad is the first book in a new four-part epic from million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather.
Humanity only has days to prepare. Can one family survive?
SOMETHING MASSIVE IS COMING, and it's heading for Earth. That's what astronomer Ben ...
Be careful what you wish for. It drives Nicholas Harlow nuts that his employer, Edward Harlow, refuses to promote his Aunt Civility etiquette books to the public, instead opting to give lectures to like-minded societies. When Nicholas tricks his brother into a speaking event at a popular bookstore, the attendees include Edward’s former college English professor – a smarmy Lothario with his own ...
Lauren Beck’s friends, phone, home, credit and credibility are gone, severed with surgical precision by an enemy intent on framing her for murder. Is it one of the insureds she was hired to investigate? The fellow employee she upstaged? Does the daughter of her landlady and dear friend, Corinne Wilder, hate her even more than she thought? Whoever targeted her should beware. Lauren Beck knows how t ...
She came back for vacation. If she’s not careful, she might leave in a body bag… “The Jessica James Mysteries are edgy, thrilling, and simply captivating.” —Chicago Tribune Ivy League student Jessica James isn’t thrilled to be back home in Montana. But her boring summer break becomes a nightmare when her cousin dies at the local sawmill. Devastated by the death, she can’t help but draw connections ...
Quantum computers are the next big thing. A router capable of allowing those computers to talk to each other, securely and near instantaneously, will be worth billions of dollars. As the first “Quantum Router” nears completion, the lead inventor is murdered. When the surviving creator doesn’t believe the story of his ‘suicide’, she hires Trace Conner, a master Ninjutsu instructor, for protection. ...
Hell hath no fury like a mother whose daughter has been kidnapped by a sexual predator. Chloe Denhurst lives in the quaint coastal town of Driftwood, Oregon. Recovering from a hurtful divorce, she finally allows herself to have feelings for another man. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down by a stranger who attacks her on the street and snatches her adolescent daughter Kaitlynn. She enli ...
A popular TV game show is filming in The Sisters, and everyone wants their chance to win instant cash on Dollars or Death. The final rounds are called Sudden Death but for one unlucky player, it’s not just sudden. It’s final. That’s not the only chaos taking place in Madison deCordova’s life. In a Pinch Professional Services is temping at 3 G Fun Station in Riverton, and someone isn’t playing by ...
Love and betrayal—the ingredients in any crime of passion. But how dangerous can desire be? For the women in these tales, falling in love may prove to be deadly.
"Readers who love strong women and terrific writing will applaud this anthology." —Barbara Nickless, Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author
