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Bonded for Murder

Clients call her Angel of the Outlaws. Ruby Dark is a fifty-year-old red-haired Lamborghini-driving widow who took over her husband’s Denver bail-bond business after his unsolved murder. Brash, with...

Rope Burn

A former big-city detective battles rustling and murder in modern-day cattle country in this award-winning whodunitLeaving behind a troubled past, former Baltimore detective Nick DeNunzio hires on as ...

The stethoscope of stars

Beginning:Set in the parched, impoverished village of Dhanori, the story introduces young Meera, whose daily life is defined by grueling labor—such as carrying heavy pots of water from distant wells...

Dirk Strangelove: On the Other Hand...

By: A. N. Mercer

The third Dirk Strangelove case file sends a legally dead investigator deeper into Sanctuary, a city where identity, memory and personhood can be reduced to paperwork. Darkly comic, humane and unsettl...

Guilty by Blood: Guava Poacher

By: John Hair

In the wild hinterlands of Sherman County, Florida, a plane crash interrupts the dawn, pitching seasoned cowhands Max Blair and Cletus into a tumultuous chain of events. As law enforcement descends, l...

Death Comes to "Death Comes to Creedal Manor"

By: DJ Edwards

The scene was set, the lights were lit and the audience waited in eager anticipation for the drama that was about to unfold in the Woody Meadow Players latest production “Death Comes to Creedal Mano...

Dirk Strangelove: Die Twice, File Once

By: A. N. Mercer

The paperwork says Dirk Strangelove is dead. Sanctuary still expects him at work. When a missing factory worker draws him into a system that edits memories, reassigns names and treats personhood as co...

Nice Coincidence

Ten years after the sudden death of his husband, Jack Bell has built a quiet life on the French Riviera. His routine is settled, and his grief is managed. Until he runs into an old flame.Their reunion...

Dark Star

By: Mykel Gonzales Quitoriano

"No matter how hard we try......we're never equal." -Jacqueline "Jackie" Williams, "Dark Star" (2024)It is a dark time for police departments across the United States. A shocking string of unprecedent...

Dark Star II

By: Mykel Gonzales Quitoriano

"A true duality, like the moon and the sun. Though we're born as two......we'll always be one." -Mackenzie "Kenzie" Williams, "Dark Star" (2024)It has been four years since the notorious serial killer...

Battle Lines Drawn

Picking up where things left off, family becomes pitted against family after the reading of a will. Follow along with the Nolans, the Drakes, and others as they shore up positions for upcoming battles...

Last Will & Punishment

The lives of the Nolan family were rocked with the sudden death of one of their own. Now the reading of a will throws their world into even more chaos. Will it tear them apart for good or bring them c...

EDDIE

By: Richelle Author

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points ata pers...

Threads of Blood

By: Venning Bellasis

When Lana, a kind homeless shelter worker, is nearly robbed, she tries to make friends with her mugger. His name is Rafael, and Lana wants to guide him onto a better path. Across the city, a burglar c...

On Green II: Love and Speed

By: Dash

In the wake of his exodus from his life in New York, Dustin Cameron returns to his hometown of Sanford, Florida, to lie low and pick up the broken pieces of his life once again.However, after discover...

On Green

By: Dash

Having escaped a troubled past, Dustin Cameron now lives and works as a mechanic in Queens, New York. Struggling to make ends meet, he takes an off-hours gig as a rideshare driver to supplement his in...

Last Gunship Dial M for Mullinnix A Vietnam War Gunline Mystery

By: Frank A. Wood

The Vietnam War is raging along the coast. Aboard U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mullinnix, a murder threatens to tear the crew apart. As the ship pounds enemy positions with her five-inch guns, a darker bat...

Last Gunship From Mullinnix With Love A Cold War Naval Spy Thriller

By: Frank A. Wood

In the tense years of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mullinnix DD-944 patrols the stormy North Sea as NATO prepares to test a revolutionary new sonar device. Technology that could expose So...

Where Sunflowers Stand: A Traitor in Ukraine. A Spy in Russia. A CIA Man. And the Fight for Freedom.

Alex Curtner, the CIA’s Chief of Station for Russia and Ukraine, is in dire straits. His most critical operation is on the verge of collapse. Russian counterintelligence is closing in on a spy – A...

Breaking Moscow Charter: A Riveting Spy Mystery Thriller of Espionage, Betrayal & Battle for the Future of AI

With American interests increasingly under threat, the FBI must turn to an unlikely collaborator...On routine business in Russia, Silicon Valley tech executive Hanna Arnol overhears two men discussing...

The Blackmail Enigma: A Captivating Political Mystery Thriller of Crime, Intrigue & Quest for Justice.

Hanna Arnol, a Silicon Valley exec, leads an ordinary life.Until her favorite uncle, her sole family, dies unexpectedly.Was it a mere accident or a carefully planned murder? If the latter, who killed ...

The Panther Bracelet

Follow the exploits of the most notorious piece of jewelry in the world, made for the exiled King of England, sold at auction and then stolen by Billie Malory, the Black adopted daughter of an Irish i...

The Dark Cipher

In Karnis City, justice isn’t blind. It wears a black mask.By day, Will is a quiet high school math teacher, keeping his head down in a metropolis rotting under the absolute control of a ruthless un...

Absent Signal

In a world that tracks everything, the most dangerous thing is what doesn't exist.Mara Kess leads a five-person unit that doesn't exist on paper. No agency acknowledges them. No government funds them....

No Time for Murder

“Wow! Not a book you can easily put down!”“A skillfully written, finely paced, engrossing thriller.”When the widow of David Dartman’s best friend demands he prove her husband’s suicide was...

EDDIE

By: Richelle Author

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points at...

EDDIE

By: Richelle Author

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points at...

Magnanotron: The Evolution

By: Robert James Saniscalchi

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers stories...Magnanotron: The Evolution takes the reader two years after the action filled Russia Affair. A remarkable new discovery has come to the ...

Thieves & Lovers

...the worst monsters are the ones we loveThe grisly discovery of a trailer of dead women who were kidnapped in Central America to serve as prostitutes in California leads the CIRG team of the FBI hea...

The Shape of Rain

Were the moon landings real or faked? Was the war in Iraq necessary? And could these disparate events be connected?In September 2002 a celebrity investigative reporter is about to broadcast an explosi...

Plausible Liars A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery (5)

By: Lin Wilder

A gripping medical-legal thriller, Plausible Liars plunges Dr. Lindsey McCall and investigative journalist Kate Townsend into a high-stakes conspiracy involving medical ethics, federal indictment, and...

Overt

By: P.S. Winn

The murder was gruesome. A small town deputy has to figure out who murdered Steven Carmichael. Tony doesn't find clues at the scene, but digging into Steven's past, he does find a lot of subjects. Ton...

Mancer Hollow

By: P.S. Winn

In Mancer Hollow, three generations of women live in a house close to the river. The people in town gossip and spread rumors about the women, who have special gifts. The townspeople wonder if the thre...

Bread of Heaven

By: Mark Rasdall

A cold case. A fresh crime. One village hiding decades of secrets.Book 4 in the compelling Inspector Harcourt crime mystery series.As the world teeters on the edge of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 20...

Family Fiction

By: Mark Rasdall

A Small Village, A Big Secret, and A Murder That Could Change Everything.In the summer of 2019, the quiet Worcestershire village of Bishop’s Lacy is shaken to its core. As the funeral of Brenda Wilk...

Water, Slaughter Everywhere

By: Mark Rasdall

A Dark Mystery Unfolds in Rural Worcestershire…In the autumn of 2017, Inspector Harcourt of West Mercia Police returns in the second gripping installment of this critically acclaimed crime series. S...

Lies In Shadows

By: P.S. Winn

With both her parents dead, Lucretia lives in their house alone. She has a brother, but doesn't talk to him much. In the house, Lucretia has seen the ghost of her mother. That is the least of her prob...

Just Divine

By: P.S. Winn

If you stepped into the Just Divine coffee shop and bakery, Pat and Tracy would greet you with a smile. The two women bought the shop with a house attached when they were rudely shoved out of their ho...

Tales from Waxling Beach

By: Mark Rasdall

Unlock the Mystery of the Past in This Gripping Tale of Secrets, Love, and DiscoverySet in the summer of 2007, Tales from Waxling Beach follows a televised archaeological dig near the lost village of ...

The Proofreader

By: Mark Rasdall

A village haunted by old ghosts, and a detective with ghosts of his own.In the spring of 2017, DI Harcourt is called to the village of Castle Upton to investigate the death of Andrew Patch, only to fi...

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