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Operation Blue Sapphire

Calcutta, 1943 – Blaine Phillips, an American War Department employee, goes to dinner with a French businessman he met at his tennis club. Phillips’ body is found the next day, floating in a canal with a bullet in his skull. The British colonial police treat the murder as a random crime, but what they don’t know is that Blaine Phillips was much more than a mere supply clerk. Now a team of deadly, ...

Death and a Crocodile

2021 Golden Scroll Novel of the Year In first-century Rome, sensible young ladies don't investigate crimes, but Livia Aemlia doesn't let stuffy conventions stand in her way. When her father is murdered and her innocent brother blamed for the crime, Livia and her spunky maidservant pound the ancient Roman pavements in search of the killer. Can she uncover the culprit before powerful men realize wha ...

Dead Secret

All the intel points to his kid as the perp. But the truth could get them both killed… Andy Flint is on the mend and off the booze. Hoping to reconnect with his estranged adult son, he arranges to meet him in New Zealand and walk the stunning Milford Track. But before they can reunite, a massacre at Wellington’s UN intelligence station leaves his boy as the only survivor… and the prime suspect in ...

Unbridled Vengeance #5 Of Gold & Blood mystery series

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 ...

Saving Alex

Dog Gone

Dog Gone is the Tale of Two Tail-Chasers Private investigator Dev Haskell’s new lady friend Maddie comes with strings attached: the loosely-knotted tie of her short black silk kimono, and the leash to Morton, her handsome Golden Retriever. It’s always a sexy mystery when Dev’s on duty, but this caper takes a turn toward buddy adventure when Dev agrees to pet-sit. On their first evening stroll, Dev ...

Lauren

Lauren: a Short Story is the story behind Treasure of Saint-Lazare and the Eddie Grant thriller series. Eddie made his name as a US Special Forces commander in the First Gulf War, then following in his family’s footsteps as a businessman in Paris, where he was born and lived until he left for college in Texas. Lauren tells the romantic back story of his years in college and his meeting Lauren ...

Fountains and Secrets

In bustling, affluent ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius, status matters—yet some dare to ignore it. And some dare to defy social conventions. Inspired by Jesus’s radical views, unconventional Livia Aemilia cares little about stuffy Roman dignity. She’d rather help others and solve crimes. But when her new husband forbids her from sleuthing, she continues in secret and soon learns t ...

Crime and Passion: Three Short Stories

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

Relentless

Delve into the world of vengeance, retribution, and bioterrorism as Lily "Devil" Devillier and Commander Darius Washington join forces. As each day passes, they come to realize that relying on one another might be their best option. Their journey unveils a plot rooted in Lily's homeland, one that could trigger a global war, and only their combined efforts can avert the impending international cris ...

The Jean Harlow Bombshell

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 ...

Shooting Messengers

What if delivering the mail was a matter of life and death? Somebody kills a postman in Quake City while he’s delivering the mail. Laconic private investigator Danny Ashford suspects the police will bungle the investigation—they usually do. He joins forces with headstrong investigative reporter Deepa Banwait to track down the killer. But when a second murder follows close on the heels of the first ...

Frost Giant (Trace Conner Book 3)

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. ...

You Bet Your Life

Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind. Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes ...

Three Days Clueless: A Mylas Grey Mystery

Mylas Grey is determined to find the person who shot a politician in broad daylight. There’s just one problem. The killer left no clues behind. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Mylas gets involved in an intriguing case of MURDER . . . When Mylas arrives in his hometown to spend time with Whitney, he agrees to help his father, a local private detective, examine the files of a politician who was murdered in c ...

Blue Moon

Luna Ortiz was once told by a seer that there would be two great mysteries in her life; when she solved one, she would find the key to solve the other. If not for those words, Luna wouldn’t think twice about trying to find the family who abandoned her as a baby. However, if finding them will get her the key to find her missing child, Luna will walk through hell to do it. So, when opportunity arise ...

Dead Ends

------------ Download Free Book through Author Site Links - Downloads as .EPUB file which can be used with any ebook app ----------------------- Three sinister stories—tales from dark places, where things don’t always end well. Recalculating: Maggie loves garage sales—the thrill of the hunt—as she might call it. Of course, some deals are too good to be true. Sweet Lenora: In 1930s Pe ...

Fighting Dirty

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 ...

Deadly Inheritance

Sometimes what you want most is what you left behind… After her cousin disappeared without a trace, Christina Wade left rural Vermont behind. Nearly a decade later she inherits the family’s historic inn that should have gone to the missing girl. Compelled to return to the place she intended to forget, she must decide whether to sell or run the family business. An old love lures her to stay as the ...

Soul Sentinel

When she’d run away from foster care, Layla Sandor dreamed of having a normal life, of education, a career and a family. Living and working at Stone House Inn, she’s on her way to fulfilling that dream. If only the dead would leave her alone. Bad things always happen when she allows her ability to communicate with the dead to be part of her life. A few people know about her unwanted gift and don’t ...

Cookies and Murder, A Parker Bell Humorous Mystery, Book 7

A cookie factory being burned down in a small Florida town, Miss Suzie's Delicious CC (chocolate chip) Cookies that may or may not be part of a drug cartel aka the Bunny Hop Gang and then there's the unfortunate murder - let's face it, what murder is ever fortunate - of the new owner of the cookie factory. It's time for Parker Bell and the always sugar-and-caffeine infused Lady Gatorettes to solve ...

Influencing Justice

A small town murder hides a dark secret… When online influencer Simone Baker asks Leland Munroe to defend her on a criminal charge, the small town lawyer is ready to say no. He’s not a criminal lawyer—despite what the people of Basking Rock seem to think. Social media and manslaughter are both far from his area of expertise. But with no other clients coming through his door, Leland takes the job t ...

Tori Hartley Mystery

From Book 1: Is it a murderer or a ghost?
Tori Hartley rents out one of the magnifice ...

Reality Bites Back Again

“You’ve been cancelled!” Daniel North, now the most famous man in Britain, is navigating the fickle world of celebrity. It’s a daily battle as he opens his DMs – is it another unsolicited nude, or a request for him to kill himself? There’s no grey area with the Reality TV fandom, and he’s reluctantly heading back into the Thunderdome, this time as a judge. Social Media Superstar sees a group of in ...

Bad Behavior

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 ...

Family Place - The Delahass Legacy

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.

Sweet Penelope and The Darkness of David Braxton

For David Braxton, his friends call him Davey and you can too, things are finally going right in his life. In his career, he's about to have the biggest week of his life where he works, the prestigious law firm of Myers, Morgan and Moore. In his personal life, he is about to ask his girlfriend, Abigail, to marry him. Life is a dream. For once! Everything in life is perfect, except for... THE DARKN ...

Fake Death

One dead body. Multiple identities. Can an amateur sleuth see through the charade before she becomes a tragic victim? Young military widow, Dotty Sayers, is delighted with her new job at an auction house in Britain’s picturesque Cotswolds. She reluctantly agrees to take part in a Remembrance parade, to commemorate her husband and his fallen comrades, but she’s shocked to learn that after the event ...

Dead Winner

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 Endless Mountain Series

Experience the enthralling Endless Mountain Series, where Christian romance, suspense, and mystery intertwine in a powerful blend of faith and love. Journey with Stella, Claudia, and Sofie, three incredible young women who must navigate life's obstacles and unravel dark secrets. In Shadowing Stella, book one, Stella grapples with her unexpected pregnancy while someone sinister lurks in the shadows ...

Devil's Claw: A Logan McKenna Mystery Book 3

Someone is slaughtering the innocent. That someone has Logan’s daughter. Facing her worst fears, Logan must find and stop a killer before all is lost.

It's summer, and with a new job, a new life, and plenty of time for her music, life couldn't be better for Logan. She and her daughter, Amy, home from Africa, even rescue an orphaned sea otter pup. They help nurse it back to health ...

The Mad Hatter's Son

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 ...

Stolen Memories

Madison Thompson was working a summer job in a brokerage firm to save enough money to finish her history degree the following year. Unaware that she walked into danger after closing the office, Madison carried a night deposit bag to the bank across a busy parking lot. A van suddenly blocked her path. One robber dragged her inside the van at knifepoint, and the other drove away. The next day Madiso ...

Brotherly Love

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?

Murder, Sonoran Style, An Adventure Calls Humorous Mystery

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 ...

Finding Pegasus

In the remote and gloomy mountains of Hungary, a renegade Silicon Valley billionaire is the money man behind a modern-day troop of brownshirts training in an ancient castle that once sheltered Vlad the Impaler. Military inventor Mark McGinley and ex-Navy engineer Kate Hall race from Miami to Paris to Hungary and back to recover Pegasus, the miniature space-age submarine they’ve built for the CI ...

The Main Line Is Murder

Ginger Barnes has high hopes that Bryn Derwyn Academy’s upcoming holiday concert will showcase the struggling school her husband heads. Enrollment pays bills, and little schools have big bills. Unfortunately, Fate laughs at high hopes. When Gin reenters the conference room she was tidying, a body is sprawled across the table. Richard Wharton, the school attorney. Dead from a blow with the new grou ...

Blood Sapphire's Revenge

Character driven. Action-packed. Boiling over with tension and angst. Blood Sapphire's Revenge is military thriller inspired by the genre that brought us Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher. In a globe-spanning tale of adventure, this gripping story full of twists and turns, and secrets from the grave that may just trigger the end of the world, will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. Dr. Bruc ...

Breaking Arrows

An eight-year-old Indian child is dead. The innocent boy’s death is cruel, torturous, and most of all, needless. Jeremiah Tiger, the chief of the Kialegee Tribe, is now faced with the realization that he must fight for his impoverished tribe against the State of Oklahoma and the wealthy and influential Muscogee Nation. The battle is seemingly unwinnable. The once fierce warriors of the Kialegee Tr ...

Hidden Island Novella Boxset 1

For years they’ve hidden a huge secret…an island that was home to their small town, the families and friends who live there, and the secrets they've kept for generations. But danger might be right beyond the water’s edge. Together, two guarded hearts are willing to face the impending threat and the danger it poses to the tranquility of their home. Ainslin O’Cleary wasn’t the type to over-react b ...

Party Wine

A party house, bad wine, and a dead villager add up to murder! When Sofi Francese heads to Italy to restore the family property, she never expects it to feature a dead relative. She runs to the nearest police station, but Cenzo Bot ignores her until he learns that the victim is also the town’s mayor. Together they follow leads, but the villagers only want to hear about Sofi’s wine cellar.

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Prints in the Snow

Early Christmas morning, Tori returns home to frantic banging on her front door. She goes to investigate, but instead of finding someone at the door, there is a barefoot man lying dead outside in the snow in a pool of blood. She calls the police, but when they arrive, the body is gone. There is one set of footprints in the snow leading to the road before vanishing. The mystery deepens further when ...

What Doesn't Kill You, the mystery

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 ...

Death Takes a Detour

A murder. A mystery. A legacy to uphold. Abbie Grimshaw’s road to recovery from a traumatic experience takes her on many journeys. On a whim, she stops at St. Michael’s church and runs straight into more danger. This time, there’s a supernatural complication: she can see—and talk to—the Earl of Ashford. He died in 1816, but death doesn’t stop him from charging Abbie with the safety of two young or ...

Dead and Breakfast

The Big Easy has plenty of song… …a lot of dancing and a bit of murder. Will Brandy be able to prove her friend is innocent? Brandy learned to be loyal in Catholic school. She doesn’t judge. When her best friend, Julia, an ex-stripper turned hotelier, finds the first guest of her new Bed and Breakfast, murdered, she’s on her way to help. Why do the police think Julia did it? There’s a ...

Pineapple Port Mysteries - Pack 1

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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.
After she's orphaned by her grandmother's death, Charlotte is raised by the Pineapple Port 55+ community. Finding human bones in her backy ...

The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles (4 Book Series)

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 ...

The Jungle Within

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 Rachel Thomas Novel (2 Book Series)

From Book 1: If Rachel stops running, she will die. Or worse.

The debut novel from thebest selling, award-winning author of Conduit

 

Rachel Thomas longs for normalcy, but if she stops running she could die... or worse. Chased by a past that wishes to imprison her, haunted by dreams that seek to destroy her, Rachel finds solace in a love she could not pred ...

House of Miracles

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 ...

The Unknown

My name is Thomas Edward Daniels. My associates call me Professor Daniels, and my friends simply call me Tom. I am a fictional character created by the author. I teach history at an upscale university somewhere in North Carolina. I am married to the most beautiful woman on planet earth. Her name is Sara Daniels. We have been married for over twenty-years, although to me, it feels more like a centu ...

Spirits on the Salish Sea: a Spirited Paranormal Cozy

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 ...

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