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BA 47

By: P.S. Winn

When a biofuel plant was built close to a small neighborhood, the residents weren't worried. That was until an accident at the place left people injured, and even dead. Trying to survive the accident,...

At Hidden Lake

By: P.S. Winn

Three friends head to a cabin at Hidden Lake for a bit of rest. A bit of exploration has the three finding a cave. What they didn't expect was to see someone guarding the secrets inside. Doing some re...

A Gradual Decline

By: P.S. Winn

Rick Holten is a young reporter who just got the job that only comes along once in a lifetime. A serial killer who raped and killed women in the seventies is going to be executed. Rick is the one who ...

75 Hawthorne Lane

By: P.S. Winn

A new home, a new job at a local library, has Jan feeling lucky. Both of those things are a dream come true. Shortly after Jan moves in, strange things begin happening. Trying to deal with those...

MIdnight On Owl Mountain

By: P.S. Winn

People living in and around the small town of Thomas Falls have bad feelings about the Anderson Army base. Watching as the base expanded on public lands that are a part of Owl Mountain, the bad feelin...

The Pyramid Code

By: Richard Bradley

Join agent O'Hara in the exhilarating Archeological Thriller, The Pyramid Code, where the past, present, and future all collide in a web of intrigue and deception. Former soldier Marc O’Hara is...

Murder with a Terrace View - A Harrington House Mystery - Book 1

By: Teresa Michael

Charming B&B Turns Crime Scene: Ghostly Clues Unravel Murder Mystery. Local Author's Death Unveils Scandal, Love Child, and a Heroic Ancestral Spirit.In Murder with a Terrace View, Molly Harringto...

The Wedding Planner's Secret - A Harrington House Mystery - Book 2

By: Teresa Michael

In The Wedding Planner’s Secret, Molly Harrington never expected murder to crash the Chamber of Commerce gala. But when Molly and her coroner friend Rick discover wedding planner Brandi Wrocklage de...

“Stay on the phone…”

By: The_Rooski

“Hey, I never technically did anything wrong, so just stay on the phone. TEXT ME BACK! I need to let you know I’m okay!”

Keep your 15 minutes close and your enemies closer, I guess.

The Blueberry Muffin Murders: A Maple Falls Mystery (Season One)

By: C.B Miller, Author

In Maple Falls, nothing is as sweet as it seems.Clara Miller, a former chemistry teacher turned baker, runs the Periodic Table Bakery, where every recipe is a precise equation. But when a powerful dev...

Works of Darkness

Some secrets just won’t stay buried. A construction site provides a horrific discovery when a worker uncovers the skeleton of a small child wrapped in a sleeping bag. Police Chief Matt Foley soon li...

Shadow of Justice - The Fall and Rise - Book 1

By: Jules MacLeod

In Shadow of Justice - The Fall and Rise - someone guns down Detective Robert Cooper outside his apartment, leaving his partner, Detective Josh Watson, devastated. A strange, unsettling occurrence soo...

Shadow of Justice - Moving On - Book 2

By: Jules MacLeod

NYPD Detective Josh Watson returns from a transformative trip, haunted by the memory of a woman he left behind. As he tries to move on, a new drug lord rises in the syndicate he previously investigate...

The Battle for Truth and Shadows

By: Ben D. Schwandt

The Battle for Truth and Shadows is a gripping thriller that delves into how far people will go when truth becomes a weapon and secrets turn into shadows that refuse to stay buried. The story follows ...

The Lying Spiral: Some Truths Are Better Left Undiscovered

She's gone. Vanished from a city so slick it looks like it’s been sprayed with high-gloss paint. But underneath, it's as rotten as a week-old banana in your gym bag. Where silence and deceit are bou...

CAPABLE OF MURDER Book One

By: brian Kavanagh

The old lady's body lay at the foot of the stairs. The police believe it was an accidental fall that killed great-aunt Jane. Young Australian, Belinda Lawrence is convinced it was murder and when she ...

The Travel Agent: A Rosie Winterbourne Thriller

By: Michael Rothery

Some people move tourists.Some people move terrorists.Rosie Winterbourne is a former Royal Navy NCO with an unusual skill set: she speaks Arabic, remembers everything she has ever seen, and sails alon...

The Conflicted Bride: A Rosie Winterbourne Thriller

By: Michael Rothery

How far would you go to save a friend—if the people trying to stop you are on your own side?When British intelligence trainee Rosie Winterbourne learns that her closest friend, yacht skipper Michael...

The Eye of Saba

By: Michael Rothery

A jewel stolen from legend. A curse that never left the sea.In 800 BCE, a slaver seizes a gold pendant said to be a gift from King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba—and the ocean answers with a storm th...

Return to Saba

By: Michael Rothery

Return to Saba: search for the Eye is the gripping continuation of The Eye of Saba tale—where a lost relic, a fabricated murder case, and a brutal countdown collide.Patrick Redman thought he’d esc...

Boat Finder

By: Michael Rothery

A rogue ex‑operative. A hijacked yacht with hostages. A smuggling route that leads straight into Russia.After losing her dream job at Firegate, Rosie Winterbourne rebuilds her life inside Michael’...

Patrick Smith

By: Philip G Henley

Patrick Smith is at rock bottom. A much-needed haircut leads him into a world of chaos when a shooting erupts in the Turkish barber shop. In a moment of panic, he grabs two bags filled with cash, drug...

Recount

By: Philip G Henley

Ben Walker, The Count, faces the unthinkable. Helen an FBI Agent, vanishes while trailing three Russians who may be carrying out back-channel negotiations.She appears to be gone without a trace, excep...

Counter

By: Philip G Henley

Ben Walker, the count, is off the grid, hiding because of what he took. A life in the shadows with covert military operations was terminated. He sought revenge. He tracked down the chain of command. L...

The Declan Williams Investigation

By: Philip G Henley

Declan Williams is still running large parts of the European drug market, and the stakes have never been more significant. The cartel didn’t stop. Their corrupt police officer must be silenced befor...

The Case of Declan Williams

By: Philip G Henley

Intrigue, betrayal, and danger intertwine in The Case of Declan Williams.A young man flees a foster father he assaulted. He ends up in Ibiza. Declan finds employment in a nightclub but quickly becomes...

Sailor Knot

By: Philip G Henley

In the shadows of betrayal and vengeance, the Russian bear awakens, targeting the architects of operations and their defecting fugitives in a deadly game of cat and mouse. The Russians, driven by a bu...

Sails

By: Philip G Henley

Despite the declared end of the pandemic, there are still threats to the UK, particularly from Russia. Friends from across the Atlantic who like to meddle continue to track and follow the shadowy fina...

Sail Chains

By: Philip G Henley

Captain Tom Larring barely escaped alive from a mission in Afghanistan. He now has another task. Effi Miani has been undercover in the Middle east but is needed for the same operation. Together they m...

Sailing Clear

By: Philip G Henley

An old MI6 undercover mission to prevent terrorists entering the UK via sex trafficking routes went wrong. The undercover agent is assigned to a new role.A man lost in the shadows manages the hidden f...

The Demise Trilogy

By: Philip G Henley

The Demise Trilogy is all three books of the series in a single large volumeThis is a complex thriller based on the lead up to and aftermath of the second Iraq war. A conspiracy to cover up the associ...

An Agent's Prize

By: Philip G Henley

The conclusion to the Demise trilogy.The conspiracy is over the mistakes and cover up are hidden and buried for good. Both sides of the Atlantic can concentrate on the threats from Islamic Terrorism. ...

An Agent's Rise

By: Philip G Henley

The Demise operation was shut down the killer allowed to disappear. But the conspirators have not all been caught and the efforts of MI6 and the CIA to cover up the dirty deeds of the security service...

An Agent's Demise

By: Philip G Henley

Intelligence analysts and agents have gone missing, some may have been killed. The press and the police suspect there is a serial killer on the loose. John Slater was near the latest victim, he is eva...

Death in Tomorrow's Shadow

By: H. Melvin James

There is only one speck of land in the entire world where activities literally take place in the shadow of tomorrow. It is a remote island in the Arctic Circle, beyond the northwestern tip of the Aleu...

Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel

By: BS Murthy

Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life.But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poi...

The Damaged CEO’s Fake Wife: The Wife He Betrayed — An Enemies-to-Lovers Regret Marriage of Convenience Romance (The CEO’s Forbidden Damage Book Series Book 1)

When the man who destroyed you comes back needing you to save him what do you do?And the worst part is — you still feel everything.You loved him completely. You gave him three years, your loyalty, y...

The Devil's Bargain: A Jack Noble Thriller

By: L.T. Ryan

Everyone has a price. Jack Noble is about to learn his.Burned. Exposed. Hunted by every enemy he's ever made. After six months on the run, Jack has nothing left—no safe houses, no aliases, no future...

Shadow Directive (Danny Cortez Thrillers Book 2)

By: L.T. Ryan

He survived the cartel. He won’t survive what comes next.Former DEA agent Danny Cortez thought he’d left the bloodshed behind. Lying low in the Arizona desert, he’s trying to rebuild what’s le...

Beneath the Frozen Sky (Bear & Mandy Logan Book 8)

By: L.T. Ryan

Buried secrets don’t stay frozen forever.Bear Logan and Mandy thought they’d found peace in a remote Alaskan outpost. A place where the harsh beauty of the tundra promised quiet days and star-fill...

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