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Thriller - Suspense

The Devil of St. Gabriel

The beautiful, seductive and ruthless Lucy has a rap sheet as long as her golden blonde hair. She will do anything to stay out of jail and although her intentions are good, the devil inside her takes over and has her undertaking continuous acts of evil. On the other side of the spectrum, Nicholas, being a man of God, is naive and hopes to lead the sultry Lucy to the light of his God. But the devil ...

The Butcher's Bill

2017 Best Mystery/Suspense Novel (Best Independent Book Awards)2017 Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller (Chanticleer International Book Awards)2018 Silver Medal for Thrillers (General) (Readers Favorite Book Awards)2018 Winner, Adult Fiction (California Author Project) Meet William Butcher, aka The Butcher, former Navy SEAL, now a disgraced ex-NCIS agent. Those who stole $9 billion in cash from ...

Pocketful of Bones

Finnegan MacGillivray finds bones buried in his mother’s garden while she entertains “dates” inside his home. When he accidentally kills a friend, his mother keeps his secret. Is he bound to keep hers? And is murder his birthright?

Blurline

Australian journo Peter Clancy is in London this time, working for a notorious scandal sheet. While writing salacious stories on celebrities, Clancy poses as a biographer to dig the dirt on drug- and alcohol-raddled Olivia Michaels, once a star of the screen. But the more he discovers about Olivia Michaels, the more deeply he becomes embroiled in ugly secrets stretching across the entertainment wo ...

The Only Secret Left to Keep

Sometimes a secret is all you have left. Detective Ngaire Blakes is back on the case when a skeletonized murder victim is discovered---a crime that took place during the Springbok Tours of 1981. A period that pitted father against son, town against city, and police against protestors.. When the victim is identified as Sam Andie, a young African American man, Ngaire must investigate whether racial ...

Where There's Smoke

When fires start cropping up on the Gold Coast, it’s Detective Erika Lawson’s job to put a stop to them. Erika hunts the arsonist, piecing together the clues he’s left behind. But the more she learns, the more she realises the boy she’s looking for is not who she expected. Meanwhile, TJ is in over his head. Weak, anxious and self loathing, his teenage frustrations have only one outlet: fire. But s ...

Killing TIme

When the Strongest Hurricane in Decades Takes Aim at Florida, Ronnie Tries to Escape its Wrath. Will she Die in the Storm or Be Lost in Time Forever? Ronnie Andrews is lucky to be alive after a time travel glitch nearly took her life during Hurricane Frances. When Hurricane Ivan, one of the strongest storms in decades, sets its sights on Florida, Ronnie jumps at the chance to join Mike, her myster ...

The Cost of Crude: A Gwynn Reznick Mystery

The brutal murder of her best friend sends Gwynn Reznick racing against the clock to find the assassins and stop a deadly conspiracy that threatens a catastrophic oil and gas disaster. Corruption, betrayal, murder and romance collide as horrifying events mount, and place Gwynn on the perpetrator’s radar—targeted for death.

Lethal Justice

For Ion Frost, justice is cold as ice…

Former Special Forces Operative Ion Frost has one job left before he vanishes off the grid: deliver his dead comrades dog tags to his nephew, Lincoln, in Clear Rock, Wyoming. It should have been a quick, easy stop.

But for Ion Frost, things have a way of getting complicated…

Upon meeting Lincoln, Ion ...

DNA STALKER: Revenge or Justice?

Does the Stalker seek revenge, justice, or stolen jewels? The Stalker has tracked a target for thirty-nine years and won't be easily stopped by a pair of ship’s detectives. Now DNA profiling might lead to the target, endangering innocents along the way. Natalia and Jason work together on the cruise ship, Sea Mist, and they must stop the Stalker from harming identical twins onboard the ship! Hundre ...

Swimming Monkeys: Genesis

An Impossible Promise...A Remarkable Discovery...A Decision for Mankind... When Ryan Webster is summoned to a Miami hospice by his dying grandfather, he knows his hero's life is about to end. A renowned zoologist and founder of the world's most famous primate park, his grandfather tells Ryan about a remarkable species of monkey kept secret by the Webster men since their discovery in 1926, the year ...

Yellow Death: Atonement

The stage is set for a climactic battle for survival and freedom - but will it go ahead?

Following a plague which devastates humanity, a cruel dictatorship rises in south-west England. The citizens of the Yellow Cross settlement have a crazy plan to fight back, but to succeed they may have to kill innocents. 

Perhaps there is a solution to the moral dilemma, but somebody ...

Baksheesh (Bribes)

A covert operative is ready for a new life outside of international espionage. But her enemies are far from willing to let her go…

Tranquil Heights

Katie Edgecomb is questioning everything she thought she knew. She thought the family curse was fake, just a scary story her mom told her to keep her from misbehaving. The first-born daughters in each of the last three generations lost their lives on their twenty-fifth birthdays, a series of tragic accidents sending shock waves of grief through multiple generations. It isn't until Katie is faced w ...

Gun Kiss

When the Deringer pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is stolen and ends up in the hands of a Russian military general, covert agent Blake Deco is tasked by the FBI to head to the Balkans to recover the historical weapon. Meanwhile, the United States media is abuzz with news of the mysterious disappearance of Hollywood movie star, Goldie St. Helen. After Blake’s return from overseas, he receives a ti ...

The Bone Church

In the surreal and paranoid underworld of wartime Prague, fugitive lovers Felix Andel and Magdalena Ruza make some dubious alliances – with a mysterious Roman Catholic cardinal, a reckless sculptor intent on making a big political statement, and a gypsy with a risky sex life. As one by one their chances for fleeing the country collapse, the two join a plot to assassinate Hitler’s nefarious Ministe ...

Family Curse

Domestic violence and alcoholism stalked three generations of the Byrne family, with Colin the latest victim. A successful Oregon winemaker who survived a near-fatal beating as a child, Byrne is a man possessed with learning why his father tried to kill him for no apparent reason 50 years before. After discovering a 100-year-old family secret that haunted generations, Byrne flies into a rage, prom ...

His Game The First Time

Rachel's your average teenage girl, fresh out of high school, excited about the secret trip her boyfriend surprised her with. She's been waiting forever for him to pop the question. However, John isn't your average teenage boy. And his idea of a fun trip is far from a proposal. John's growing into his tastes. Tastes for things unmentionable in polite society. Read this coming-of-age story ab ...

Till Darkness Comes

When Beth Vogelsang's Uncle Jerry is tortured and murdered Beth's estranged friend Regan is the first cop on the scene. Regan hopes for reconciliation, but they've led different lives. Beth has been abused, beaten, raped, and has experienced a devastating death in the family. She's also fallen in love with her lesbian therapist. Will she reunite with her genderqueer friend? Or will their individua ...

Down and Out in Kathmandu: A Backpacker Mystery

Zelda wants to teach children English and “find herself” in Kathmandu. Ian wants to get stoned and trek the Himalayas. Tommy wants to get rich by smuggling diamonds. How their stories collide will leave you on the edge of your seat! Travel from the dusty, tout-filled streets and holy sites of Nepal to the sultry metropolises and picture-perfect beaches of Thailand, as Zelda and Ian try to outsmart ...

The Machine Detective

NU-USA, 2125. Dhata Mays’s anger is primed to erupt. When an old friend on the force clues him in to a mysterious murder gone cold, the mercenary sleuth allows his obsession to take control. But no sooner does he dive into the details of the case than he barely survives an ambush by unknown assassins. Too bitter about the murder to back off, the cynical detective ignores the price on his head a ...

One Last Move

A stellar mystery… Packed with skill and nuance, Snowden’s latest is a treat for serious mystery buffs. When Doctor Lawrence Rosewood’s best friend and business partner, Ted Villeneuve, committed suicide, the latter left a Pandora’s box of mess in his wake. With dwindling finances, a million-dollar lawsuit, and a consortium of criminals aiming to gain a foothold in the Golden Ages chain of retirem ...

Yucatán Dead

She was a dangerous man's lover...now she's his dangerous enemy. For Kate Jones, being on the run from her former lover--the vicious leader of a Mexican drug cartel--was never going to be easy. But with a new identity, a new lover, and a new life in Arizona, she was beginning to believe she'd made it through the worst. Then, in an act of twisted revenge, Kate's kidnapped and imprisoned by her dead ...

Heroes Don't Cry

Heroes Dont Cry-#3 Dystopian Thriller HEROES Series is a fast paced, dystopian thriller.

Be the hero. Save the girl. But Ben Jackman is a hunted man. He has killed and that changes a man.

When Ben discovers a plot to kill the King, decimate his Good Samaritan award ceremony with children wearing vests set to blow, he must come out of the dark and save the day.

But ...

The World Breaks Everyone

Every day, I wake up certain of only three things: I am responsible for my mother’s death. My father has vanished. Someone wants me dead. I’m on the run. It’s me against the world. I cannot let it break me. When sixteen-year-old Olivia Jacobs and her celebrity chef father are brutally attacked after his French Quarter restaurant opening, the shell-shocked Olivia finds herself on the run on the str ...

Headland

What happens when a drug dealer is forced to turn detective? Meet Bill Murdoch, the world's most reluctant private investigator. Bill Murdoch’s doing just fine, thanks for not asking. He’s dealing drugs for a professional crime syndicate in Sydney and saving for a house by the sea. But what does he think life is - a fairy tale? As the syndicate puts pressure on him to fill the shoes of his murdered ...

The Third Nanny

Everyone has something to hide. Including the nanny.

Family Secrets

A new husband, a new town, a new job-- Claire O'Connell Whitney expected moving was going to be an adventure. But in one mystifying, horrifying morning, adventure turns to disaster and she finds herself accused of murder! Now she is unable to explain the unexplainable, even to herself.

Val Ryker Thrillers

Night Wind (Night Wind Book 1)

Robin Curtis and her son Paul have come to Devil Creek to start over after her bitter divorce. Also new to the area is Mike Landware, a writer haunted by the death of his wife. Neither of them is looking for love or trouble, but in Devil Creek, it's possible they'll find both. At first Devil Creek seems like an idyllic small town, but it's not long until things begin to go horribly wrong. A young ...

The Final Heist

The ugly sound of gunfire rips down the Paris boulevard from the Louvre to the Opera, ruining the sunny and tranquil June day and throwing Eddie Grant head first into his own rendezvous with destiny. He reacts to the violent armed robbery on instinct alone, but soon realizes it’s more than a single crime. Failure may mean a major European war. Eddie calls on his experience as a Special Forces wart ...

The Watson Girl

What if an entire family is murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed? For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The ...

Rasputin's Legacy

Historical/espionage thriller (not a romance).

The Cold War. A backdrop to betrayal. A playground for power. A rogue Soviet general mobilizes to overthrow the Soviet regime and gain control of the USSR's military arsenal. The world is on the brink of war. To stop him, the US president sends covert operator Atcho deep inside Siberia. Failure could spell nuclear annihilation -  and a ...

Hard Revenge

(First of four in the series - so far) Sick at heart. . . Mad to the bone. . .Witness to her brother's murder, Michelle is dead set on revenge. But how? Neither a gangster or a cop, she's just a regular person, an "everywoman." Now, she's also hunted and homeless. Her life in shambles Michelle discovers the hero living in the heart of each of us. She uncovers the strength we know we’d have if face ...

The Snow Globe

In the four years since breaking off her engagement, Maggie Kincaid has fled from city to city, seeking to escape her ex-fiancé Michael’s relentless pursuit. Abandoned by a criminal justice system that cannot seem to protect her despite multiple restraining orders, she is ready to give up. But it isn’t that easy. Maggie’s dead grandmother keeps haunting her dreams, warning her in cryptic phrases o ...

Adam's Witness

Where Does Justice End And Vengeance Begin? When newspaper reporter Grace Rampling stumbles onto a grisly crime scene while on a routine weekend assignment, she abruptly finds herself at the centre of a police investigation into the death of a Catholic bishop. The Crime: Bewildering As the investigation unfolds, evidence points to a troubling hate crime as Grace finds herself central to the case - ...

The Damascus Cover

LA TIMES BESTSELLER. TRANSLATED INTO 7 LANGUAGES "KAPLAN IS UP THERE WITH THE BEST" - CLIVE CUSSLER In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto Or so he thinks. In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be falling in love with Ari, ...

Rage in The Wilderness

You can’t keep the past buried forever… When private investigator Nikki Garcia comes to New Mexico, raging wildfires in the nearby mountains force her and her family to evacuate. In the ensuing chaos, people close to her, including her husband, mysteriously disappear. Join Nikki as she races across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Colorado prairie in a desperate attempt to save her lo ...

Defending Innocence

An innocent client harbors dark secrets…

Defense attorney Leland Monroe lost it all: his big-city job, his reputation and, worst of all, his loving wife. Now he's back in his hometown to hit restart and repair the relationship with his troubled son. But the past is always present in a small town.

Leland returns to find his high school sweetheart hasn't ...

Kings and Killers

If you mess with a Devil, there will be hell to pay… Mike Monroe’s Marine Corps platoon are more than just fellow Devils. They’re family. Rowdy, tough, and tight-knit, despite their differences, they have each other’s backs no matter what. After all, they’ve trained together, fought together, killed together, and celebrated many a drunken night together. Nothing can come between them. Until a doub ...

Kayla Walsh Mystery-Suspense Box Set

Lies and secrets destroyed Kayla’s family. Her quest to find the truth could turn deadly. After a savage attack at the hands of a masked murderer, Kayla Walsh’s life will never be the same. As if witness protection weren’t enough of a challenge, she needs constant support and struggles with day-to-day self-care. Martin Daniels wants to keep the tragic results of his childhood as a foster kid burie ...

Chance Collision

Vowing to protect her has nothing to do with feelings. Detective Pete Crane catches a new shooting case and considers it business-as-usual. But when the lead witness is the Chief of Police’s fiery assistant, he never anticipated she’d challenge him—personally and professionally. Little do they know, the shooting she and her grandmother witnessed was anything but random. Thrown together, their attr ...

Dark Web

There are traps you can't escape.

When Ryan Jacobs asks to join the Faction, he finds himself trapped in a situation which keeps getting worse. He needs to escape fast, or they will own him forever. But how can he fight an invisible enemy?

You shouldn't have to solve problems like these when you're only twelve. But you shouldn't have to solve problems like these a ...

Enemy Within

IF THE MOST WANTED MAN IN THE COUNTRY... WAS SLEEPING IN YOUR HOUSE... WHAT WOULD YOU DO? IF THE WORLD`S FATE DEPENDED ON YOUR ACTIONS... HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO? The year is 1918. War is raging in Europe. America has a new weapon so deadly no one knows about it. But a killer spy in New York finds out, and he will stop at nothing to fulfill his destructive mission. As the War begins to slip out of th ...

You Belong to Me

Science fiction author Nicole Collins is thrilled when she learns her first book will be made into a movie by Celestial Productions – until she finds out who owns the company: Malcolm Bryant, her ex-husband. Nicole still loves him, but she fears Malcolm is the same man who crumbles in the face of adversity. And then there are those threatening letters. Somewhere out there a deranged fan has adopte ...

The Siege

One hundred inmates hold twelve guards hostage in the laundry dorm of The Indiana Penal Farm. Emergency squads are massed along the fence, awaiting the order to attack, while sharpshooters are perched like crows on top of the administrative building. Tom Hemmings, a dorm counselor, has been drafted to defuse the standoff. But the inmates are divided into rival gangs, the guards into feuding unions ...

The Berllin Tunnel: A Cold War Thriller

Books, movies and popular media have eulogized the major role that British breaking of the Enigma Code played in the winning of World War II. During the Cold War, a more monumental effort was made by America and her allies to intercept and exploit Russian and communist countries communications. In the mid-1950s a tunnel was built by British MI-6 and the CIA which tapped into a buried communication ...

Thornydevils

It is Melbourne 1989. While investigating organised crime, Peter Clancy is caught up in a sinister plot involving drug importation, police corruption, and some very kinky sex. Along the way, Peter meets a young lawyer and is instantly besotted with her—unlike his friends and colleagues who see something disturbing beneath her wholesome exterior. Enter the world of the thorny devils—where nothing i ...

The Vermeer Deception: An Art Mystery

An art historian finds – then loses – a portrait by Johannes Vermeer in this thrilling art mystery set in Munich, Heidelberg, and Amsterdam. When Zelda Richardson investigates a new lead about a missing portrait by Johannes Vermeer, no one expects her to actually find the painting in a retired art dealer’s home in Munich, Germany. Not her parents visiting from America; her boss, private detective ...

Lone Hunter

One billion dollars. Two killers. Three ways to die. A villain emerges from the collapse of the Soviet Union and threatens to destroy Finch, Eve and Sochi. And behind the scenes a more sinister menace prepares to strike them all. The encrypted files should shield the billion dollar fortune at stake, but only if Finch can turn one killer against the other.... Unless Finch, Eve and Sochi are murdere ...

Murder After Hours

Whose secret is a motive for murder? Sandra is murdered while working late at the office and the investigation drives Detective Elliot crazy because everyone has secrets. Ian is trying to hide illicit activities, Henry has a darker, hidden side, George needs money and will make it any way he can, Nathan wants escape from a mundane existence, Brody seeks power and respect, and Brooke wants to ...

Lethal

LETHAL
Book One in Small Town Secrets series

A Prison Wedding
Psychology professor Risa Madsen was too late to stop her little sister from marrying incarcerated serial killer Ed Dryden. But it wasn't until he escaped, and took sister Nikki with him, that the horror really began...

A Promise Broken
Years ago, FBI profiler Trent Burnel ...

Encore: A Love Story of Hypnotic Abduction

An in-law-averse bartender finds a heroic purpose for her skill at hallucinating while listening to neo-psych rock during her sessions alone in complete darkness in Addie's Float, which is an isolation tank that brings comfort to the Indiana town. When the comfort turns to scandal, the mysteries and threats tear down a young surveyor named Austin, who sees three strangely narrow men turning up in ...

Vanishing Day: A Logan McKenna Mystery Book 4

Viciously attacked, Logan's neighbor clings to life in ICU, her three-year-old the only witness. Logan holds the only clue. Will it get her killed?

Logan soon discovers her new friend isn’t who she said she was. Without any ID, the police investigation stalls. Logan holds the only clue, but has no idea what it means or how dangerous it is.

That’s never stopped her before, but ...

Dangerous Addictions

With the aid of an inexplicable super-power, he's determined to conquer any hurdles to gain back his freedom. Except one hot mess of an obstacle he can't get around. An attack leaves thousands of Americans dead or with diminished brain function. As the government seizes control, order is restored but freedom is taken and the nation is quarantined. For genius hacker Riley, that lack of freedom is n ...

Cut Reality: A Novel

When death washes ashore on reality TV, who's to blame? Join Jason Debord as he seeks clarity following the death of a reality TV co-star and ends up uncovering criminal conspiracy. When Jason returned home from competing on Beached he'd lost weight, couldn't sleep, and felt more alone than ever. But, he expected those changes. Jason had no way to predict that one of his fellow competitors would f ...

Sigil

What if you lived next door to a murderer? A small Irish village are shocked by the tragic news of a local man's death. The coroner's report is clear. Suicide. But one man suspects foul play. Piecing the clues together, Fr. Tom Regan soon discovers that the outwardly religious residents and tight-knit community have been secretly hiding a murderer - in a village where everyone's a suspect.

Fragments- The Seekers Series Book 1

If your very existence relied on uncovering the most profound mysteries of the universe, where would you turn? Father Curtis, Priest of the Order of the Eternal, seeks solace in the serenity of his secluded parish, sheltered from the oppressive regime's grasp. But when he is unjustly branded a heretic, he is forced to embark on a harrowing journey for survival. In the process, he discovers ...

The Gamma Sequence

Geneticist Lanaya Kim must do what authorities haven’t—tie together the “accidental” deaths of several prominent scientists around the country to show they were actually murdered. Over the past two years, geneticists have died in what appear to be accidents, but Lanaya knows otherwise. If she tells her secrets to the authorities, she risks becoming a suspect or revealing herself to the killer and ...

Justice for All

Someone is watching… ​ Just months from her college graduation, Elizabeth Holt is in love and her future is brighter than the sun. But all that changes when, after a romantic birthday with her fiancée, Elizabeth returns home, unaware a secret watcher has unimaginably horrible plans for her. Left for dead . . . Days after the attack, Elizabeth emerges from a coma, but she is irrevocably changed. Co ...

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