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The Girl Who Was Forgotten Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.”— ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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The Jungle Within Featured
19-year-old Pace Howell's life is a history of making mistakes, even flunking out of his freshman year of college. But everything changes when he meets Sage, who shows him that serving others just might turn his screwed-up life around. When they go on a church medical mission to the Amazon, Pace learns about a healing liquid — made from the eggs of a mythical creature — that could save a sick chil ...
Killer Dead, Victim Alive Featured
The serial killer is dead; the expected seventh victim is alive, and the Santa Monica detectives and the FBI agents are shaking their heads. “Who-done-it” meets “why-done-it.” The result: A twisty mystery, spiked with psychological and cultural implications, all playing out in sun-drenched Santa Monica. Police Detectives Mollie Granger and Greg Nichols respond to a call near the world-famous pier. ...
Secrets and Spies Featured
After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, New York society writer Louisa Delafield and her assistant Ellen Malloy join in the hunt for German saboteurs who are employing biological and chemical warfare on American soil. The spies have infiltrated all levels of American society, and they’ll do anything from churning out propaganda to cold-blooded murder to keep America from helping the allies. Ca ...
LETHAL Featured
A teenager with no one to turn to must make a choice: save her classmates from a brutal school or defeat a sinister conspiracy to reshape the world. Hildi doesn’t have much left. Her life is a struggle against illness and to free herself from her wheelchair. The lone bright spot is her lifelong friend. So when he mysteriously disappears, she'll do anything to find him. When clues lead her to a mys ...
Final Arrangements Featured
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On paper, it was a great idea. Ginger Barnes would chauffeur her mother’s dear friend, fierce floral competitor Iffy Bigelow, to the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show in time to perfect that day’s “Sew What?” entry. In return, Gin and mother Cynthia w ...
Angel of Mercy Featured
Note to readers: All the Angel of Mercy Series books are standalone novels. A Mystery Novel About Dignity in Life and Death: Veterinary surgeon Jim Briggs has assisted the suicides of ten Chicagoans. Briggs is an angel of mercy to the residents of the Lazy Acres homeless community. He cares for their dogs for free and provides those in need with a pain-free exit from the city's harsh winters and ...
The Girl Who Wants Featured
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A wildly entertaining, wholly unique tour de force of action, psychological drama and wit from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
Shee wants a home.
Shee McQueen grew up skip tracing and hunting military criminals with her fathe ...
On New Year’s Eve in The Sisters, Texas, anything is possible. Madison and Brash deCordova are hosting a masquerade party, so a bit of mystery and drama is expected. Murder, however, seems a bit drastic, even with Madison’s knack for finding dead bodies. The victim is Anastacia Rowland, owner of the new café in town directly competing with New Beginnings. Madison’s best friend Genny owns New Begin ...
Defenseless Featured
A murdered woman, a powerful politician, and a witness who’s no longer willing to stay in the shadows. Eighteen years ago, Bela Houseman became a loose end. The powerful man who murdered her mother knows who she is and exactly what she saw that night. Giving up everything she’s ever known, including her own name, is the only way to protect herself. Now, as the lead cyber security expert at HICC ...
A Day for Bones Featured
Bones litter the street…
A catastrophic flood in Ellicott City leaves more than damaged buildings in its wake: a human skeleton now lies scattered along Main Street. Did a colonial settler wash out of his grave? Or is it murder? As Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller and his team investigate, the descendants of James Ferring, a local business icon from a bygone era, become ...
Codename: Parsifal Featured
The Spear of Destiny. The Roman Legionnaire’s lance that pierced Christ’s body as he hung on the cross. Legend claims whomever possesses it will become a great conqueror. But if they lose it, they will lose everything—including their lives. Shortly before WWII, Hitler stole the spear from a museum in Vienna. In the last weeks of the European war, he lost it. General George Patton orders an America ...
Leashed Featured
Jack has some ‘splainin’ to do! That's right! Callie Lassiter's normally well-behaved Great Dane Jack has run off and done the wild thing with the neighbor's dog. It must be puppy love! It's doubly embarrassing since she's a professional dog trainer. Of course, the neighbor would have to be hot, hot nightclub owner bad boy Owen McKay, just the kind of man Callie is determined to avoid. Owen’s comf ...
Murder at the Galliano Club Featured
In 1926, thanks to Prohibition, it’s hard to find a beer in Lido, New York. But trouble is always on tap at the Galliano Club. Social hub for the Italian immigrant community, the Galliano Club serves bootleg beer and Luca Lombardo’s signature sandwiches to workers from the city’s copper mills. The club means everything to Luca, who arrived in Lido with nothing left to lose. He’ll do whatever it ta ...
Pineapple Valentine Mystery Featured
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant finds romance deadly in the latest installment of the fun, thrilling, twisty Pineapple Port Mysteries!
When Matchmaker Lady Venus drops dead on the Pineapple Port community center's stage during a Valentine's event, Charlotte and the new detective agency she's started with her fiance Declan are called to the scene.
As dange ...
Ever wonder how the Founding Fathers were able to pay for an Army and the basic resources required to sustain the new fledgling nation? Did they have access to a vast treasure? How did a ragtag set of Patriots defeat the largest military in the world? Our story picks up right where the first book in the series, The Secret of Eden and the New World, left off. Once again, Nathanial Briggs is a seemi ...
Pineapple Cruise Featured
When Mariska trades the brisket she won at “meat bingo” for three tickets on the new Gulf Voyager cruise ship, she, Darla, and our detective Charlotte enjoy a ladies' cruise to Key West. But when passengers start dropping like anchors, they find themselves afloat in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico...and a murder mystery.
Charlotte notices th ...
Stalking the Moon Featured
Viviane's life is tough enough, but then a supernatural monster begins killing her friends. Have her hallucinations come to life? Viviane Rose has lived with auditory hallucinations all her life. Despite this, she has a good job as the manager of the laundry at Vince Malum Residential Living Center, a long-term care facility for the mentally ill. She works there to be near her catatonic mother and ...
Dark Revenge Featured
Thirst for revenge lies deep in the human soul.
Dr. Fern Adams seeks revenge on the man who murdered her sister, and she’s prepared to abandon her Hippocratic Oath to punish her sister's killer.
Hero fireman, Jose Alvarez, has sworn revenge on the woman whose testimony sent him to jail. He’s willing to step outside the law to clear his name.
Deep in the shadows, an unkno ...
The Bulls-Eye Killer Featured
Smart. Sexy. Single. And a knack for trouble, either finding it or it finding her. Introducing Pepper Jackson. In her mid-forties and recently divorced, she’s every bit as tough as she is drop-dead gorgeous. A Neighborhood Watch patroller, member of the Crime Busters book club, and advocate for finding forever homes for shelter pets, Pepper is an active, outspoken member of the community. Although ...
A Deadly Combo Featured
What do boxing and vintage trailers have in common? Meet Raquel (AKA Rocky) Nelson, a retired single woman with an attitude and love for boxing. Sisters Rocky and Bridget are enjoying each other’s company at a vintage trailerfest until they stumble over a corpse. The dead guy is none other than the local trailer restorer Bridget was overheard threatening to kill. Mounting evidence leads police ...
Hunting a Cat in Dogtown Featured
Hunting a Cat in Dogtown, the third book in The Serial Killer Anthology, is the exciting sequel to the popular Killer Dead, Victim Alive. It picks up where the unexpected twists and turns of the first book’s cliffhanger ending left off: with a startling surprise at Santa Monica Police Lieutenant Greg Nichols' front door. Similar shocks greet others who were involved in investigating Chrissy Weeks' ...
The world of Attorney Mylas Grey changes forever one Saturday morning in May. Unfortunately, he isn’t prepared for the situation, the consequences, or the danger, and he sure isn’t prepared for the female distraction. He isn’t prepared for the situation . . . Mylas always thought the owner of the McKinney Law Firm, where he’s employed, would outlive him, so when the owner suffers a fatal hear ...
Brandon Foxworth, an ecology professor at the University of Virginia, and his wife are watching their two children chase lightning bugs in the back yard when suddenly all the lights go out. Three days later, Taylor Grant, a reporter with the Richmond Herald, stumbles coming down the stairs of his front porch and lands on his backside in a flower bed full of dead flowers. Following the subsequent d ...
Lost in Little Havana Featured
Each brush with death Makes their shared desire harder to ignore Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez her whole life. When his partner is gunned down in a Miami Beach nightclub, she has a new secret to keep. Trey can’t know that she’s working for Internal Affairs—just like he can’t know that she’s always loved him. But when their lives are on the line, she ha ...
Catrina Flaherty Series Featured
"Catrina Flaherty is a kick-ass female PI whose mission in life is to help women who can't help themselves. Her practice caters to abused women, divorce, rape, and sexual harassment. Come see her play with the big boys."
A Dagger Among Friends Featured
When murder comes to Harvest Falls, amateur sleuths abound. But the killer’s game pits friend against friend, and everyone’s in danger of a final turn.
A DAGGER AMONG FRIENDS is an amateur sleuth mystery novel with humorous elements. It plays on cozy mystery tropes and flips them on their heels.
"a fun amateur sleuth read!" - Amazon reviewer
Charlie Goode is struggling t ...
ANOINTED Featured
ANOINTED...(NEW RELEASE) After unexpectedly inheriting the British title of Lord of Mogford after the suspicious death of his father, Lord Reginald Muggs, investigative reporter Maxwell Muggs heads out to steamy Baton Rouge to battle with the despicable, self-anointed bishop of a cult-like church. On arrival, Max forms an intriguing partnership with the lovely Annabelle Muffet, a fiercely determin ...
Keep Your Doors Locked Featured
An escaped prisoner. A woman running from her past. National news coverage is the last thing Sara needs. After a troubled and abusive past, Sara Jennings has found a semblance of tranquility in her life. Buying an old farmhouse at the edge of nowhere has brought her the peace and solitude she so desperately craves. The property comes with history. Better yet, it comes with the promise of a fu ...
P. I. Apprentice Featured
P. I. Apprentice (Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 34) Private Investigator Dev Haskell is visited by Melissa Carter, the daughter of a former friend. Both her parents were killed in a hit-and-run ‘accident’ a few years earlier. She has strong doubts it was an accident and asks Dev to investigate. He grudgingly takes on the case, but the more he learns the more he’s convinced Melissa is on to ...
Cozy Mysteries in a Small Town Where Everyone Is Having a Worse Holiday Than You Young attorney JD Thompson looks forward to a quiet Thanksgiving week when a raging storm floods Central Texas, confining him and his partners to the Victorian mansion where they work and live. The fine print of their agreement with the house’s owner kicks in, and he and his partners must run a disaster shelter for ...
Tangled Secrets: A Suspense Thriller Featured
Grace Benson, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, leads a peaceful existence until a menacing letter disrupts her life. The situation escalates further when the FBI steps in, flipping her world on its head. Sheila Mitchell, a wedding planner in her forties, senses her husband is hiding something. However, she's unprepared to discover him deceased—and to be found unconscious next to his body, the murder w ...
Border Field Blues Featured
"A potent dose of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" (ForeWord Magazine) Murder, sex, politics, and classic rock guitar collide in this original and compelling mystery set in the backcountry along the San Diego-Tijuana border, when a violent encounter between a young border-crosser and an angry bandit creates a secret and shocking bond between the boy and the bandit’s dumbfounded daughter. But when re ...
Fashion victims and fabulous felines – can Lauren, Annie, and Zoe discover who killed a local fashion designer? While serving plenty of cupcakes and coffee, of course! Lauren Denman, cupcake baker and owner of the Norwegian Forest Cat Café, along with her fur baby Annie, and her cousin and assistant Zoe, thought it would be a very quiet day, when they receive a strange request. A girl called Tabit ...
Even a well-planned vacation can go astray… With week-long plans at the beach, Brash deCordova makes it clear to his wife Madison: no snooping, no stirring up trouble, and absolutely no mysteries. This week is about resting, relaxing, and spending time with family. They’re staying at The Mermaid’s Retreat on Bolivar Peninsula, where the upper Texas Coast promises sunshine, sand, and ...secrets? ...
The Spiricom Featured
She was killed on their wedding day…but he couldn’t let her go. Tall, handsome Dr. Spencer Py was a well-respected environmental scientist...until the limo crash when a treacherous Maine road took away his new bride Melanie and left him in a wheelchair. He is racked with despair over his failure to save her until the fateful night he discovers plans on the internet for the Spiricom, Thomas Edison’ ...
Vendetta in Viera Featured
A much-loved President is publicly assassinated just before a major Presidential election. His running mate Amena Winston becomes the first female black President as a result. But during the lame duck session, nine of the President’s nemesis and enemies begin dropping like flies. Every single law enforcement agency in the country scramble to solve these murders while dealing with international bur ...
Frosted Croakies Featured
’Tis the season for great folly…walawalawalawalala…ribbit. The tree is up. The stockings are hung. And Christmas tunes are making me jolly. Obviously, everything is about to go sideways.
Caffeine Before Curses Featured
When a movie shoot ends in murder, a caffeine fix might be the star’s only hope. Skye O’Malley’s grandmother always told her she inherited the Sight. But other than an occasional message from a blob of tea leaves or a vague dream, Skye doesn’t think she’s anything special, since she can’t even predict which of her coffee-shop customers will order hard-core black or fancy frou-frou with extra fo ...
After the Storm Featured
Life was never going to be the same again…friends had become family and strangers became friends…all in the midst of a storm like no other and the aftermath that no one could have ever predicted. Jess and Max find their relationship takes an unexpected and life-changing turn…Brian decides on a risky mission that no one can talk him out of…and Sara struggles with the knowledge that among those resp ...
Unbaked Croakies Featured
My name is Naida Griffith and I’m a sorceress. I actually found that out not too long ago. I’ve lived with an undefined something burning in my belly for a while, feeling as if something wasn’t quite right under my skin. Then, on my eighteenth birthday I started getting headaches. Bad ones. And random stuff started following me around. Recently I was approached by a group called the Société of Dir ...
A Case of Murder by Monte Carlo Featured
Laurel Benson is a loyal and dedicated nurse. She may be petite, but she’ll take on anyone who threatens her patients’ safety and well-being. That feisty protectiveness creates problems when a hit and run victim lands in the ER and Police Detective Cade Resnick arrives to investigate. There’s no denying the sparks between these two, but their professions put them at odds. As Cade zeroes in on his ...
The Skull Keeper Featured
Best friends on social media, Allysa and Morgan share a love of three things: thriller novels, true crime, and keeping secrets from each other. As soon as Allysa asks Morgan to be her plus one at a funeral, Morgan jumps on the first available flight. Burying the dead might unearth the truth about what happened to Allysa’s brother twenty years earlier. She’s never believed he simply left town wi ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted time travelers bent on destroying humanity.
She doesn't remember ...
Pineapple House Hunter Featured
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean, and gore-free small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller.
When Declan and his uncle Seamus find a dead woman in the master closet of a house for sale, Seamus hopes that means he'll get a deal...but private dete ...
An Air Of Deceit Featured
A cozy mountain town with elemental magic that goes back generations. A hereditary witch strengthening the powers within her since childhood. A magical family and a newfound cat familiar to stand by her as she builds a close knit coven of her own, solves the suspicious nature of her grandmother’s death, and steps up to become the foremost elemental witch of the mountain region. Autumn assumed sh ...
Gillespie Field Groove Featured
When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for, as ...
History, Mystery, Murder Featured
Maggie Quinlan has hit rock bottom. A failed marriage to an abusive ex, the termination of yet another job, and the sudden death of her beloved father—what more could happen? After her beautiful and wealthy cousin, Angelique, has everyone’s DNA tested and the cousins find which historical family they share their DNA with, a trip to England is called for. However, it seems as though trouble has tag ...
Death in Paris Featured
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WINNER of the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze - the IPPY - Best Mystery & Thriller eBookMàiri Maguire teaches in top schools all over the world, but on days like today she wishes she had never left Glasgow! 8:10 a.m. on 15th August 1970. They’ve only been in Paris one evening. but this morning Lianna is in jail, charged w ...
Pineapple Lies Featured
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Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series!
As an orphan adopted by one of Florida's 55+ communities, Charlotte ...
The Girl Who Killed You Featured
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - the most fun you can have holding a Kindle Reader!
When Mick and his retired military gun-for-hire “fixer” service is hired by a United States Senator to find his missing son, he enlists the help of his daughter, Siofra “Shee” McQueen. An experienced tracker, Shee quickly ...
Senior Martha, her fluffy white puppy Teddy, and their roomie Pru, who is an assistant librarian, meet Chantal the fortune teller in the small Californian town of Gold Leaf Valley. Pru is reluctant to get her fortune told, but Martha can’t wait! When they stumble across a dead body outside the senior center, Martha declares that their senior sleuthing club is on the case! While interviewing ...
Jason – See no evil It started again when I bribed my ex-girlfriend's boss to fire her so she could work for me. Now the sparks and secrets between us may cost me everything. Caramel-kissable Kendis was mine in high school. She’s bubbly and feisty with pouty lips that belong to me. Kendis’ unique skills defend against cyber threats. But that isn’t the only electricity between us. W ...
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 ...
In the remote and gloomy mountains of Hungary, a renegade Silicon Valley billionaire is the money man behind a modern-day troop of brownshirts training in an ancient castle that once sheltered Vlad the Impaler. Military inventor Mark McGinley and ex-Navy engineer Kate Hall race from Miami to Paris to Hungary and back to recover Pegasus, the miniature space-age submarine they’ve built for the CI ...
When it comes to writing Golden Age Hollywood biographies, the pen is deadlier than the sword Charlotte Donovan's overbearing boss, Justine Turner, is a world-famous biographer of Hollywood stars. It comes as no surprise to Charlotte when Justine requests an emergency meeting related to her latest in-progress biography. It is a surprise, though, when Justine up and dies before their urgent discuss ...
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 ...
A woman betrayed. A marriage trashed. A body in the lake. Less than two weeks before police slap handcuffs on Olivia Mercier’s wrists. When divers discover Shauna Wylie’s body, encased in a barrel of concrete in Donner Lake, Olivia is of two minds. The death of her former best friend traumatizes her. At the same time however, Shauna is the reason Olivia’s husband lives in a bachelor pad. Now ...
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 ...
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 ...
What critics are saying: 5.0 out of 5 Stars – Could NOT put this down. This series was one of the best ones I have read in a long time. Riveting, suspenseful, passionate. Everything you could want and more. I could not put it down and I read the entire series in 6 days! LOVE LOVE LOVE Sad it ended ............ 5.0 out of 5 stars - Don't miss out! I just wanted to keep reading. You are going to wan ...
Meet Alexa Owl. She's returned home to Pittsburgh after a divorce to start a new life and a new business, The Owl’s Nest Couturier Shoppe. Much to her surprise, she's getting more than she ever bargained for: Detective Bobby Starr, and he's no ordinary sleuth. Bobby is an angel who's returned to Earth in hopes of earning his way into the Guardian Angel Squad. He's been sent by none other than Sain ...
How many times have you stood in a bookstore and wondered, "Have I read this book yet?" This journal is designed to help you (and me!) to avoid re-reads (unless the book was really great), to keep up with your favorite series, and to keep track of books you've bought and haven't read or want to borrow from the library. Also includes reading goals and challenges!
Love and betrayal—the ingredients in any crime of passion. But how dangerous can desire be? For the women in these tales, falling in love may prove to be deadly.
"Readers who love strong women and terrific writing will applaud this anthology." —Barbara Nickless, Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author
A murder. A mystery. A legacy to uphold. Abbie Grimshaw’s road to recovery from a traumatic experience takes her on many journeys. On a whim, she stops at St. Michael’s church and runs straight into more danger. This time, there’s a supernatural complication: she can see—and talk to—the Earl of Ashford. He died in 1816, but death doesn’t stop him from charging Abbie with the safety of two young or ...
Abandoned by her spirit guide and reeling from a bad break-up, Lexi turns her back on her calling as a medium. Hunting for direction in her life, she borrows her best friend’s giant dog and heads to Rosestem Holiday Village for a quiet getaway. But the dead aren’t quite done with her yet. Even the irritation of a new spirit guide isn’t enough to persuade Lexi to return to her old calling, but a ch ...
For years they’ve hidden a huge secret…an island that was home to their small town, the families and friends who live there, and the secrets they've kept for generations. But danger might be right beyond the water’s edge. Together, two guarded hearts are willing to face the impending threat and the danger it poses to the tranquility of their home. Ainslin O’Cleary wasn’t the type to over-react b ...
From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes Merry Wrath's most wild case yet! Ex-CIA agent turned scout leader, Merry Wrath, faces her greatest challenge yet when her cranky new neighbor is convinced Merry’s cat is melting her mind from across the street. But when Merry tries to extend an olive branch in the form of Girl Scout cookies, she finds the neighbor murdered! Worse yet, the sec ...
Zeus Cubberly, successful conspiracy author and master of all things high tech, receives a bewildering message from his high school bully, a felon recently murdered in their sleepy New Jersey hometown. A photograph of Adolf Hitler’s legal heir, a corporate magnetic room key, and a library card are among the arcane clues sent him, accompanied by a challenge Zeus cannot resist. Unlocking the d ...
From Book 1: For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody.
Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered ques ...
A party house, bad wine, and a dead villager add up to murder! When Sofi Francese heads to Italy to restore the family property, she never expects it to feature a dead relative. She runs to the nearest police station, but Cenzo Bot ignores her until he learns that the victim is also the town’s mayor. Together they follow leads, but the villagers only want to hear about Sofi’s wine cellar.
...Sibling rivalries during a mariachi show threaten brotherly love! When Andy Veracruz agrees to help his girlfriend stage a show in Vegas, he never expects the junior trumpet players to knock one another unconscious or his brother-in-law to blackmail his sister. Despite aid from a lookalike brother and a quick-thinking cousin, how can Andy put on a classy show while investigating multiple crimes?
The holidays are hard enough for widowed NYC detective Frank Schultt without the gifts of a Christmas serial killer and a handsome FBI criminalist. On the first day of Christmas, a serial killer gave to me, twelve holiday murders… A killer is on the loose in New York City during the Christmas holidays and it’s up to NYC Detective Frank Schultt and his partner to figure out who the killer is and pu ...
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After she's orphaned by her grandmother's death, Charlotte is raised by the Pineapple Port 55+ community. Finding human bones in her backy ...
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 ...
For David Braxton, his friends call him Davey and you can too, things are finally going right in his life. In his career, he's about to have the biggest week of his life where he works, the prestigious law firm of Myers, Morgan and Moore. In his personal life, he is about to ask his girlfriend, Abigail, to marry him. Life is a dream. For once! Everything in life is perfect, except for... THE DARKN ...
Kat Wallace is on a mission. After escaping tortuous enslavement, she sets her sights on ending the human trafficking that has flourished in 24th century Earth.
Adopted by the leader of the pirate nation of Bosch, Kat Wallace is determined to prove herself as a member of the Bosch Pirate Force and use her skills to avenge her enslavement and free other thralls.
But unexpected love and a ...
Chicago Homicide detective, Cliff Ford, faces his biggest challenge yet. A serial killer is on the loose. It's a race against time to find her. Cliff must garner all of his abilities. Of course, with help from his wife, Julia. The FBI profiler says that the killer is hiding in plain sight. Is she closer than Cliff can ever imagine? Best Selling Author, Terry Toler, has a way of writing mysteries t ...
Silas McKay, the head of a corporate security company, is a grieving widower with no desire for female companionship. Ashley Davenport, the daughter of Silas’s highest-paying client, is a newbie private investigator who wants Silas to become her mentor. How can he say no? He can’t. Thus, Silas allows Ashley to work alongside him on a corporate espionage case. Although the case is intriguing, Silas ...
Bullied to death in the boardroom … or just the product of a damaged mind? Following her kidnapping, Nicole Veles moves to escape her past and try to rebuild her life. But when the husband of a friend commits suicide and she suspects foul play, she can no longer hide from the world. Not wanting to let her past taint her new life, she returns to St. Louis to hire PI Rebecca Marte. But as Rebecca be ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If anyone can tell the difference between monsters and humans, it’s Dahlia Nite. For nearly a century, she’s hunted one to protect the other; safeguarding humanity from the creatures that slip through the torn veil between the worlds—creatures like her. But the lines are blurring. As people begin mutating and combusting on the streets, Dahlia realizes a strange affliction has descended upon Sentin ...
Small Town. Big Murder.
Hi. I’m Alice. The number one secret to my success as a bodyguard? Staying under the radar. But when a public disaster blew up my career and my reputation, my perfect, solo life took a hard left turn to crazy town. And to bodies. Lots of dead bodies.
I thought my hometown of Nowhere would be an out-of-the-way refuge to wait out the media storm. It wasn’t. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feisty private eye, Emily Parker, is finally moving forward in her relationship with the hunky Paradise Valley police detective--that is, until a new friend suddenly goes missing and wedding plans are put on hold. Suspicions are flying that one of Emily's closest girlfriends may be involved, exposing Maggie's darkest secrets. Emily and Detective Andrews are locked in a desperate race to solve the ...
Madison deCordova is tackling one of her strangest ‘cases’ yet. A woman contacts In a Pinch, begging for Madison to keep her from killing someone. She hangs up before giving her name, or that of her possible victim. It could be a prank. Someone looking for attention. A lost soul reaching out for help. Yet the woman’s voice holds true worry, flavored with fear. The call sends chills down Maddy’s s ...
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 ...In this intelligent and darkly funny mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, a private eye endures surrealistic dreams of a friend's suicide and discovers he disappeared weeks before the dreams began. His investigation sends him spiraling down an unrelenting road to face the shocking reality of his friend’s fate and the final desperation of his own.
A suspenseful race against the clock thriller and a frantic exploration through Eastern Europe, as a worried father desperately searches for his missing wife. I DON'T KEEP SECRETS. UNLESS I HAVE TO. Nelli Horvath is a Hungarian immigrant seemingly living the American dream in Las Vegas with her husband, Clint, and their son, Ryan. After receiving an invitation to her 20th high school reunion, Nell ...
Welcome to the Cassidyverse, a rich tapestry of tales from the renowned Cassidy Chronicles where the boundless expanse of space serves as the backdrop for extraordinary adventures and unexpected journeys. Embark on a thrilling odyssey alongside Kendra Cassidy, a visionary determined to propel humanity towards the stars, as she and her devoted crew navigate the challenges of forging the Terran F ...
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 ...
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 ...
When sixteen-year-old Madison Brenna goes missing from her home in Arizona, her mother, Faith, reaches out to the half-sister she has never met, to ask for help. Her half-sister, Brenda Corrino is a former police detective who currently works as a private investigator in Connecticut. When Faith asks her to travel to Arizona to investigate her daughter’s disappearance, Brenda agrees to help, even t ...
Detective Carol Ainsworth really has her work cut out this time! Agnes at her craziest best. She discovers a secret that she can't reveal to anyone, including herself, and how does one psychic stop another from hunting her down? Meanwhile, Carol has her hands full with pissed-off Russians, the reborn builder of much of Victorian Victoria (yes, the Sir Francis Rattenbury), a young girl claiming to ...
Besides running the Norwegian Forest Cat Café with her cousin Lauren, Zoe Crenshaw has written a princess movie script which got turned into a real film! Now, the small Californian town of Gold Leaf Valley is hosting a premiere night for all the locals. The town is buzzing over the big night, especially Zoe. She’s thrilled to be interviewed by three journalists, including a TV reporter. But wh ...
Books 1 & 2 of the Dive Shack Mysteries. Shelby and Jesse are back on the island they love, living at a dive resort while Jesse delves into research for his dissertation. Shelby’s life gets interesting after the quirky and colorful resort baker takes her under her wing, a scruffy beach dog moves onto her porch, and she adopts an adorable kitten. ★In Book One, a disagreeable tourist dies, and s ...