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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...

Hot Potato, a novel

The Berlin Wall came down, and the world believed it was on the path to peace. A secret sect within the Russian government created this illusion. America and the world are caught asleep at the wheel. ...

Blind Revenge, A Mark Schaffer Thriller

Blind Revenge, the searing sequel to Hot Potato, finds America once again embroiled in a situation with potentially grave international consequences. Just three months after Mark Schaffer found himsel...

The Bell Tower Murder

Christmas Eve in the Blackmore Vale. Church bells should be ringing across the frosted countryside, calling the faithful to midnight mass. But at St. Mary's Brambledene, the bells are silent.When Dete...

Breaking Faith

When a defence technology company suspects classified information is being leaked, the board turns to Bartholomew Aldridge — a former MI6 officer running a small, elite investigation firm in Boston....

THE GLASSMAKER’S MIRROR

By: Vikram Sarin

Some reflections never fade. They wait.St. Petersburg, 1998.Eleven people stood together for a photograph at Pavlovsk Palace.Within days, one of them was dead, another was missing, and a collection of...

FOREVER HOME

By: Vikram Sarin

Maya and Liam Bennett have spent years working toward a single dream: owning a home of their own.When they finally purchase a beautiful house in the prestigious Crestview Estates community, it feels l...

THE TEA PLANTER'S LAST VINTAGE

By: Vikram Sarin

A family secret. A deadly past. A truth worth killing for.When retired Scotland Yard inspector Quintin Quigley is invited to High Fields, a once-renowned tea estate in the misty Nilgiri hills of Ooty,...

THE AJMER SECRET

By: Vikram Sarin

A dead developer. A forgotten agreement. Eleven ancient-looking figures. And a secret buried beneath Ajmer.Before dawn, a body is found floating in Ana Sagar Lake.Sameer Malhotra, a powerful Delhi dev...

DEATH AMONG THE VINES

By: Vikram Sarin

In the vineyards of La Rioja, nothing is out of place.When a sudden death at a private gathering is quietly dismissed, it should end there. But a visiting restorer begins to notice what others ignore�...

THE OLIVE GROVE GUESTHOUSE

By: Vikram Sarin

Anna arrives at a quiet guesthouse in the Italian countryside, expecting peace and routine. Instead, things begin to disappear.Not everything—only the things that prove something is real.A written n...

I CAN'T STOP THIS CAR

Marcus spends his nights driving passengers around, trying to earn extra money, until a crash changes everything. When he wakes up, he's trapped behind the wheel, forced to accept ride after ride. His...

SOVEREIGN QUEEN

By: Vikram Sarin

For forty years, the greatest mystery aboard the legendary ocean liner S.S. Sovereign Queen has remained unsolved.When celebrated investigator Daniel Mercer is invited aboard during the ship's final A...

THE JALEBI MURDERS

By: Vikram Sarin

In Barwaha Kalan, everyone knows Babulal Halwai.He makes the town's most irresistible jalebis, guards a legendary secret recipe, and knows everyone's business.Then one evening, Babulal is found dead i...

THE SPIRAL BENEATH THE SKY

By: Vikram Sarin

The Spiral Beneath the Sky follows Meera Khanna, a powerful corporate strategist whose life changes when she discovers that the systems sustaining modern civilization are pushing the earth toward a ca...

The Third Run

By: Sandra Boyle

A popular president. A constitutional loophole. A country holding its breath.When legal theories surface suggesting a president might serve beyond two terms, the idea of a third run shifts from rumor ...

Unmasked

By: Howard K. Pollack

When the wife of a shady Florida businessman is shot in bed in their exclusive home, all signs point to a senseless robbery. Detectives are on the case, but it's the dead woman's high school sweethear...

Where The River Runs Red

By: Howard K. Pollack

WHERE THE RIVER RUNS RED is a gripping legal thriller that unravels the wrongful conviction of Chad Greer, sentenced for the murder of his girlfriend, Megan Miller, fifteen years ago. His sister, Sawy...

Everywhere That Tommy Goes

By: Howard K. Pollack

In a story inspired by actual events, a young man is accused of serial murder and to clear his name he must face the truth about his troubled childhood, a mysterious enemy and a secret so...

This Guy Walks Into a Bar

By: William J. Goyette

She made him an offer he should have refused.Joe Campbell's an average guy. Average job. Average looks. Even his name's average. Just a regular old Average Joe. Until the fateful night he walks into a...

Phobia: A Jake Hawksworth Thriller

By: William J. Goyette

What do you fear most?When members of a phobia therapy group begin dying in ways that mirror their greatest fears, Detective Jake Hawksworth faces his most complex, and terrifying, case. The investiga...

In Our Blood: A Jake Hawksworth Thriller

By: William J. Goyette

EVIL ISN'T ALWAYS LEARNED...SOMETIMES IT'S IN OUR BLOOD.Decades ago, Detective Jake Hawksworth and best-selling author Drew McCauley were brought together by a horrific crime. Jake, still reeling from...

The Case Files of George Spade

Get ready to laugh out loud at this hilarious anthology of the nineteen cases handled by P.I. George Spade. In a world filled with advertising icons and cartoon characters, intrepid shovel Spade...

depth of justice

Eastmon City doesn't sleep. Neither do the people trying to control it.Rico Torres Rodriguez arrives in Eastmon looking for a fresh start and a badge. What he finds is a city where cops, criminals, fa...

Where The Cobblestones Turn Black

By: Kimberley Hall

In the rain-slicked town of Oakhaven, Elias Thorne lives among the dead--not ghosts, but the forgotten records of an ancient archive. For three years, he has been a man out of time, his life halted on...

Death, Discovery and Carne Asada

By: Thomas Curran

I didn't plan on killing people when I walked across America. I made a list of things I wanted to do, and murder was not on it. Yes, I killed people. A lot of people. Now I'm going to t...

The Magician's Misadventure

London, December 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger, and his detective partner Ben Watson, embark on one of their most deadly investigations yet! Why did a magician unknowingly stab to dea...

The Vampyre Client

London, October, 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger and his colleague in crime-solving, Ben Watson, are hired by a man whose neighbours are convinced he is a vampyre and have threatened hi...

The caller knows

What if the voice warning you to survive tomorrow... was the sound of you disappearing?The first voicemail shouldn't have unsettled William. Eleven seconds, his own voice, telling him to stay home. No...

What Matters Most: The Letter from Beyond the Grave

Book overviewWhat if your dead father left you a letter—and you found it waiting at his grave?When three brothers visit their father's grave, they expect a quiet moment of remembrance. Instead, they...

The Dog Between the Couple

The Dog Between the CouplePeter Harrison thought bringing Jerry home from Australia would be one of the happiest decisions of his life.The highly trained pedigree dog had been his loyal companion ever...

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...

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