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A Honky Tonk Night and Murder

Cyber consultant and best-selling author Parker Bell is lured back to Po’thole (Po Ho to the locals and Pothole by anyone north of the Florida Georgia line) by the untimely death of her childhood friend, a city commissioner who voted against a riverfront casino and boardwalk. Is the Mafia trying to take over a small, sleepy Southern town or a bunch of misfit, crazy local politicians who are plotti ...

Coyote, A Jessica James Mystery

She came back for vacation. If she’s not careful, she might leave in a body bag… “The Jessica James Mysteries are edgy, thrilling, and simply captivating.” —Chicago Tribune Ivy League student Jessica James isn’t thrilled to be back home in Montana. But her boring summer break becomes a nightmare when her cousin dies at the local sawmill. Devastated by the death, she can’t help but draw connections ...

The ForEver  Project

What if you had all the all the time in the world? Would you become a better person? Or worse? And what would you do with all that power? Unexpectedly, Jason Crane goes from having his anticipated three score years and ten, to having only six months to live, then to having FOREVER as immortality beckons. Jason Crane behaves like he's God - well, he does joke that his initials are JC, but Jason's n ...

An Itch for Danger

Izzie Di Sante loves a challenge but not so many on the menu at once. With sudden personnel changes, she’s juggling the staff schedule for the family restaurant. Her sister, Chloe drops startling news, and Izzie’s itching to chase down a new cold case. Besides an excuse to see Henry, she empathizes with the victim’s sister, who wants answers. Answers the local police haven’t been able to provide. ...

Christmas Cloches and Corpses

Bodies are dropping like gumdrops off a gingerbread house! Max's nephew, Dwight, is in a nursing home; but instead of the holiday season being a time of goodwill, several of Dwight's friends have died under mysterious circumstances. Is the facility merely suffering a run of bad luck, or is there something sinister going on? Either way, Max, the Ghostly Fashionista, is determined not to let her bel ...

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.

The Fool on the Hill in a Convertible

It’s 1967. Beatles’ songs are playing everywhere. Torrey is trying to put her broken-hearted life back together. She helps her dad and brother in the family’s surf shop in the friendly little beach community of Mission Cove. But when someone falls off Sunset Cliffs to their death, Torrey gets emeshed in a mystery she'd rather escape. The Fool on the Hill in a Convertible is a cozy mystery novella ...

Broken Chords

When jealousy amps up to murder rock and roll on the high seas hits a sour note! Nine days floating through paradise? Free? Who wouldn't jump at the chance? Well, Chef Tina Crawford is rethinking her decision ... Take a rock and roll themed cruise and complete one simple task: bury the hatchet with my rock star father. Oh yeah, and do it sober. The prize? A partnership in the Cosmic Café. To win, ...

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 ...

Titanium Web

Georgia’s obsession with exposing the conspiracy entrenched in her genetic code makes her a natural target for her progenitors most dangerous experiments. Now she must untangle the secret of the technology implanted inside her before it takes her mind...and her life. *** Titanium Web is a fast-paced thriller, and the exciting sequel to the award-winning The Crucible of Steele. ***

The Corpse's Secret Life

Pat’s fledgling private investigation company, PIP Inc., has a promising new case. Pat is still wearing a wrist cast after breaking her arm in a confrontation with a killer, so when she’s hired by the City of Watsonville to unearth the identity of an older woman who died in her bed, she’s delighted that her next job promises to be a simple computer-based research project. Why is it that things are ...

The Dying Five (A Hospice Heroes Mystery)

Murder and conspiracy are exactly what the doctor ordered, if you ask The Dying Five. Who says you can't solve crime with terminal illnesses? When Eric Graham, the CEO of an Indianapolis start-up company is gunned down on his porch after a dinner party, a group of hospice heroes and their social worker go undercover to unravel the mystery. Investigating Eric's death exposes a scheme of national pr ...

Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery Series (6 Book Series)

*****Voted one of 50 self-published books worth reading, 2016***** 

USA Today Bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you murder, mayhem, and a second chance at love! Mystery, food, and a Siamese cat named after Miles Davis, too. 

It's not easy doing Public Relations for Catmmando Tom, a famous cartoon cat. When they find a dead body at the foot of Catmmando ...

The Dutiful Daughter

Carmela is on the run with nothing more than a Star Trek flip phone, a ring from a wedding she can’t remember, and a Glock 19. Can she find the key to her husband’s death before the killers find her? Carmela Canova Cardova always did what her parents wanted. She majored in marketing like they suggested, graduated from the college they paid for, married the man they chose. But the day after the wed ...

Lethal Blossoms (Trace Conner Book 2)

A Kunoichi, a female Ninja, has begun murdering Yakuza members in Tokyo. The murders are violent and nearly impossible to believe. Trace Conner, an American Ninjutsu instructor, is asked to come to Japan and help because it is believed that he knows the Kunoichi and may be able to stop her. Once there, Conner finds that he does know her but has almost no hope of stopping the murders. Following a t ...

Three Confess: A Silas McKay Suspense

When Silas investigates a case of intellectual property theft, he has too much of everything. Too many suspects. Too many distractions. Too many feelings. Circuitry Innovations of Dallas has developed a new type of semiconductor. Sales are pouring in, but when the CEO learns a Chinese tech company in Shanghai has an identical product, he hires Silas, head of operations for Discreet Corporate ...

Catch A Falling Star (An Eden Mystery)

When mystery novelist Kate Rawlings accepts a summer teaching position at her alma mater in the peaceful college town of Eden, Kentucky, she expects to have time with her ailing mother and time to write. But when her college boyfriend, Michael Mabry, makes a surprise appearance, trouble follows. Michael is on the run from his partners in a Chicago museum heist in which a valuable ancient Indian ar ...

Suspect Santa

Suspect Santa (Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 33) Private Investigator Dev Haskell gets a call from Tubby Gustafson. There’s a car waiting for Dev just outside his office. If he doesn’t want to take the ride, he’ll have to drive himself to the Emergency room. Dev decides whatever he was involved in can wait and is driven to Tubby’s mansion. Turns out Tubby wants any and all information on e ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Space of an Atom

There’s nothing like someone trying to kill you to give your life direction. Yes, I had been in a funk, drifting from job to job, but that all changed when Jones came at me with a gun. And when he, the research lab where I had worked, and the chief scientist all disappeared, I was left with nothing but a piece of mind-blowing technology and a story so bizarre that the police were more concerned ab ...

A Lead Pill

My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes ...

Snowfall in Venice

An intriguing tale of suspense and adventure unfolds in this entertaining tale of a promising young cosmetic surgeon and his bride who stumble onto a stolen treasure while on their honeymoon trip to Italy. Danger erupts when a morose Mafia chieftain offers Doctor Mark Gundersen a terrible choice. Operate successfully on his disfigured daughter and keep the treasure----or face a slow lingering deat ...

Ryan Kaine (4 Book Series)

A passenger plane explodes. Eighty-three people die. One man is responsible. 

When an apparently routine operation ends in tragedy, decorated ex-Royal Marine, Ryan Kaine, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. The police want him on terrorism charges, and a sinister organisation wants him dead. 

Desperate to prove his innocence, Kaine is forced to rely on two w ...

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 ...

Permanent Shadows

Canyon County has a frightening secret. Not everything is what it seems out on the prairie. August Melville, the new sheriff of Whistler's Grove, is about to discover how difficult upholding the law in your home town can be. Sheriff Melville, just getting his feet west in his new role as sheriff, finds himself thrust into an ancient cycle of hauntings that has plagued his town for generations. Wil ...

B is for Bonnie

Bonnie’s about to take you on the ride of your life…that is, if you can convince her to let you join the club. This feisty, sultry anti-heroine, and her rebel renegades will have you falling hard, secretly rooting for the bad guys, and craving more. Join Bonnie, aka Bee, and the Boys for the biggest heist yet. Betrayal, jealousy, and emotions run rampant in this Why Choose/Reverse Harem Bonnie and ...

Ant Farm

First Book in the series. Meet Seamus McCree, a single dad, amateur sleuth, champion of the little guy against those who abuse their power. In this Kindle Scout winning page-turner, police can’t figure out why someone murdered thirty-eight retirees at a Labor Day picnic. They enlist Seamus, a financial crimes consultant, to follow the money, taking him from behind his computer to the front lines t ...

Beneath the Surface

Grace has been on the run for as long as she can remember. She doesn’t know why, but her father insists it’s the only way. As Grace clings to her mantra, 'Finish high school. Turn eighteen. Freedom.', her life in Sydney is fraught with uncertainty. With only months to her eighteenth birthday, Grace wonders if she’ll survive that long. John would never win Father of the Year. Her recurr ...

The Creation of Marla Adams

Someone is killing the citizens of Hildebrandt, Texas, and carving perplexing numbers on the bodies. Police Officer Marla Adams is forced into a position for the first time in her career. She has never wanted to be the lead investigator of a major crime, but when her father, the police chief, struggles with his mental illness and her husband, Detective Crosby Adams, battles his demons with drugs a ...

The Makarov File

He’s fallen from grace. Will this high-stakes contract restore his status… or prove he’s lethally expendable? Washington, D.C. Former CIA agent Andy Flint has hit rock bottom. Broke, divorced, and facing a court case for a drunken bar brawl, the bottle is his only friend. So he seizes the chance to rebuild his career when his old bosses pull him in to investigate a series of calculated killings in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Wrinkle in the Mind

“A suspense-filled, gritty thriller packed full of twists and turns.” - A Wishing Shelf Book Review In the heart of Washington, DC, the unimaginable unfolds when Violet Cruz levels an explosive accusation at U.S. Representative Alan Barclay, branding him "the spawn of a Martian whore" as she opens fire. And when the smoke clears and she lay dead in a growing pool of her own blood, a consensus ...

The Advocate's Memory (The Advocate Series Book 13)

Attorney Sabre Brown runs from a horrific assault and loses her memory of it with every step. When a dead man turns up in the same area, Sabre blames herself. Did she witness the murder? Or worse--did she kill him? Before Sabre and her private investigator, JP, can solve that mystery, a minor client, Angela, disappears near the murder scene. Sabre must find her. But as Sabre’s memory slowly return ...

The CIAs Encounter With Akinlana Osei

This International CIA thriller takes the reader to New Zealand, Nigeria, and finally to the United States, where terrorism follows. Akinlana Osei, aka Gill, does not know what to do after his family is kidnapped in Nigeria in return for a remote device that can go through airport security without being detected. He contacts the CIA and becomes a person of interest because of his computer security ...

Magpies and Murder

Laura Valorian is an emergency room physician who, while attending a medical conference in Orlando, Florida, stumbles one evening across a victim of homicide—a woman she knows. The dead woman had hidden money in the nearby psychic town of Cassadaga—money that other people desperately wanted.

When Laura becomes a suspect in the crime, she and Alec Dupree, a private investigator and frien ...

Oceanberry Blues

Gemini Reed is desperately searching for a cure for her dying husband, Leo. After finding a drug trial at Charming General Hospital in the seaside town of Charming, Oregon, she and Leo arrive to find the director of the program, Doctor Wilson, inexplicably missing. With the clock ticking, Gemini is determined to find Doctor Wilson before it's too late for Leo. But Feather Jones, the town's salon o ...

Payback Brother

US Marshal Jack Dillon gets an early morning call. An American has been murdered in the Finglas section of Dublin. Dillon hurry’s to the scene. A brutal shooting in the back garden of the home and there are no answers. No witnesses. Very little information on the victim. Is there a gangland connection? In short order, bodies begin to pile up and no one seems to have an answer. Are they even relate ...

Crooked Man

Maverick New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet's new client is Darryl Alvarez, the manager of a local nightclub who's been caught unloading marijuana from a shrimp boat. At their first meeting, Darryl entrusts Tubby with an ordinary-looking blue gym bag--filled with cash. After Darryl's unfortunate demise, Tubby can’t just give up the cash. If he gets caught, he’ll be in jail; if the wrong people catc ...

Other People’s Lives

THE SILENT PATIENT MEETS GONE GIRL “Let me ask you. Are you worried that someone is watching you, or are you worried that you think someone is watching you?” Sophie Portman has lost her husband, and she thinks she may be losing her mind. She seeks the help of psychiatrist Andrew Thacker, but as she starts to open up, the truth begins to unravel and nothing is quite as it seems. Other People's Live ...

Best Buddies

"Your son’s invisible friend is not imaginary." Kate’s little boy has a new buddy, one even he can’t see. Can’t hear. Can’t feel. Yet, it’s feeding him information about the world. And about the future. He is using this thing, this undetectable entity, to advance at school. And to help Kate gamble. Despite her addiction.

But, for every morsel of knowledge, his friend demands a favor in ...

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 ...

A Chocolate Centered Cozy Mystery (13 Book Series)

Ally Sweet is happy to be returning for a short break to the small town where she grew up. She is planning on using the time off to get over her messy divorce and she is looking forward to spending time with her much-loved grandmother and relaxing making chocolates and anything chocolaty.

But then… the delivery driver for her grandmother’s chocolate shop is found murdered. The detective ...

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 ...

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 ...

One Random Act of Violence

A career thief, Adam has never hurt anyone. But that could change when Darla, his former partner, recognizes him during a robbery at a local store. Adam has been looking for her for quite a while and expects her to pay a debt he believes she owes him. Without thinking about the consequences when Darla refuses to leave with him, Adam kidnaps her along with another customer, Anna. He leads detectiv ...

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 ...

Trickling Sands

Two spouses, Richard and Serene awake to a morning of uncanny feelings and to add to their unease, they soon discover their six-year-old son Mark is nowhere to be found. Despite their numerous attempts of searching top and bottom throughout their home, there is no trace of their son. After searching, Serene and Richard finally locate him in his favorite hide-n-go-seek spot in the basement. Unfortu ...

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 ...

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