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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 ...
1920’s New York City
Desmond Cooper is nursing a broken heart. He’s so distraught, in fact, that his arrival in the Big Apple doesn’t go as planned. Instead of living it up at The Plaza Hotel, he ends up wandering around a bad part of town and stumbling over a dead body!
Enter feisty s ...
No one deserves to live. Everyone deserves to die. End of story.
The fourth book in The Serial Killer Anthology. Can be read as a standalone.
Facing execution, Arizona death-row inmate Travis Newsom, “The Compass Ki ...
Only the invited get to stay. Only the lucky ones get to leave. When Katrina Darlington lost everything, she turned to a stranger for help. Desperate and grieving, she trusted the hand of friendship and travelled halfway across the world to a very private island. Blue skies, blistering sunshine, and ...
London, 1909 Ruby Redlick is a young woman with a passion for reading, who yearns to break free of her constrained life in Upper Norwood and go on the stage. She dreams of playing dramatic characters like her idol Sarah Bernhardt. But the West End is full of lords, predators and courtesans ...
He made a tragic mistake. Will more missteps lead to his own demise? Andy Flint can’t escape his devastating guilt. Determined to bring the man responsible for his boy’s murder to justice, the disgraced former CIA officer heads to Brussels to meet an old friend and colleague. But their rendezvous tu ...
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 f ...
Angel of Mercy explores the line between justice and vengeance, mercy and murder.
Behind the gentle facade of a veterinarian lies a shadow. Jim Briggs, a man with a chilling secret, has been a silent guardian to the city's most vulnerabl ...
Ever since the love of Steve Hartshorn’s life was murdered, nothing has seemed right in the world. What he needs is a change of pace, so Steve spends a bit of his fortune on a head-clearing trip to Indonesia. Convinced he’s cursed and that’s why his friends and lovers keep ending up dead, Steve d ...
Christmas comes with chaos—and a murder—in the fifth book in the Down South Café cozy mystery series! Amy Flowers thinks her biggest problem is going to be creating an enormous cake dummy to mount atop her car for Winter Garden’s upcoming Christmas parade. But when one of Roger's employees is murder ...
New York, 1872. Sadie McGillicuddy’s word is her bond. Swearing to her dying mother to always protect her willful sister, she’s soon tested when her beautiful younger sibling runs off into the night. Jumping on a San Francisco train in hot pursuit, the resourceful young woman evades a gangland enfor ...
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 lengt ...
A Cinderella story pitting eternal love against evil.
Ashley has waited ten years for her father to honor the promise he made to his wife on her deathbed: “Be a dad, not a boss.“ Desperate to change his mind and save what’s left of her family, Ashley concocts a scheme to ...
Renny Butler races to Ireland in search of her mom Irene, who mysteriously vanished during a secretive trip. As Renny combs through Mom's belongings, she uncovers a shocking truth: she was adopted, and her birthmother was Aghna Shaw. With her decade of experience as an investigative reporter, Ren ...
In the aftermath of a conflict with Russia in the arctic. Canada has fragmented. Its provinces, now on their own, live on the edge of chaos and anarchy due to rampant and violent criminal activity. The Premier of Ontario makes a bold but controversial decision. She hires professional security con ...
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 l ...
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 connecti ...
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.
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When murder propels him backstage, Haydn is forced to confront a deadly killer. . .
When the Burgtheater’s impresario unexpectedly meets his maker, Joseph Haydn is relieved to learn no one expects him to look into the matter. The impresario was m ...
He's one Inferno trust fund tech expert. She's a gorgeous and fiercely independent diplomat. Together they team up to catch a deadly hacker in Morocco. As they confront the danger, sparks fly—will love or danger prevail? Kelly Ormond’s fiery spirit ignites something primal within me. Her dream ...
Tony Wagner's former foster daughter, Christi Fischer, asks him to investigate when one of her client's disappears. Chisti is a social worker at a women's shelter in Pueblo, Colorado.
Miranda Carrington had moved to her own place a month before. When her parents reported her missing, inve ...
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 Pari ...
Her stalker’s message is deadly clear. She’s his.
When Keira O’Ryan starts receiving photos of herself at business events, she assumes it’s just another office prank. Then the situation takes a menacing turn when the spotlight shifts to her personal life. As the photos pile up, K ...
From Book 1: A KISS TO KILL FOR…
In Colleen Mooneys funny, romantic, delightfully meandering cozy mystery, you gon have a authentic Noo Awlins experience, dawlin! And a wild ride into the bargain.
Brandy Alexanders the real deal--yes, thats her real name and shes not even a stri ...
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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.
After she's orphaned by her grandmothe ...
A survival test in Arizona's Sonoran Desert proves deadly for the property owner, and dangerous for the survivors. The co-owner of an eco-tour company finds the man he recently fought with dead, stabbed with the guide’s skinning knife. Gabe Ramsay left his position as a science professor under a sha ...
When she’d run away from foster care, Layla Sandor dreamed of having a normal life, of education, a career and a family. Living and working at Stone House Inn, she’s on her way to fulfilling that dream. If only the dead would leave her alone. Bad things always happen when she allows her ability to c ...
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 ...
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 bec ...
Trace Conner is a Ninjutsu teacher in Flagstaff, Arizona. Over the last few years, Trace has used his skills as a Ninja to protect people who are in danger. Two years earlier, Trace helped the MIGIsoft corporation stop the theft of a high-tech program and protect the new owner f ...
No Second Chances is one man`s story, told from his point of view regarding his first-hand experiences in the School of Hard Knocks. If you like thrillers, you`ll probably like this book...
Although it is non-fiction, its style has none of the dry, documentary-type language. It is compell ...
A popular TV game show is filming in The Sisters, and everyone wants their chance to win instant cash on Dollars or Death. The final rounds are called Sudden Death but for one unlucky player, it’s not just sudden. It’s final. That’s not the only chaos taking place in Madison deCordova’s life. In a ...
A deadly secret could end more than just her career. Spa manager Jade Abernathy overhears a sinister murder plot at the Bancroft Inn. The only person she can turn to is Wyatt Foster, the man whose family orchestrated their painful breakup last summer. As Jade and Wyatt race to unravel the myst ...
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 ...
Romeo wrote his own death sentence on the eKill app when he mortgaged his organs. Unfortunately for him, Rebecca, the only one who can help him, wants him dead.
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. Op ...
A proofreading sleuth. One dead newspaper editor. Will finding the killer be too much for Maggie to handle? Who would kill a small-town newspaper editor? Besides everyone, since nobody liked the man anyway. The suspect list keeps shifting. The police don’t have a clue. So, it’s up to proofreader ...
It is early autumn, and Dixie Mae Carver is enjoying working as a Beauty Maven Cosmetics representative in her small hometown of Friendship. Her business is off to a great start until she finds one of her wealthy customers murdered by a knife-wielding maniac. When Detective Harlan Granger takes over ...
Make a wish for ... murder? When reporter Roland Bean turns the big three-oh, his wife throws him, and his fraternal twin sister Robyn, a huge birthday bash. The festive occasion is lively and fun until a fight between his sister and her boyfriend ends the night on a sour note. Beanie decides to con ...
Zeke Hanson hunts things in the night. He learned about hunting from his dad until his murder forced Zeke into foster care. Outgoing & with an easy charm, Zeke keeps his emotion ...
Dora Stephens can’t refuse this case. When she witnesses Sheila, the aunt of her best friend, stagger out of the hospital and die from a traffic accident, Dora’s private eye instincts kick in. Something’s not right. Sheila had no known enemies… but someone wanted her dead. Digging into the circumsta ...
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Bored empty nester Amanda Charles has too much time on her hands. After an "incident" at the house while Amanda is away, she begins to suspect that her husband, Manny, is not really an engineer, but is instead a spy… and she inadvertently turns their lives upside down in her quest to discover the ...
In the small Maryland town of Morgan’s Landing, fourteen-year-old Julie Morgan is living in comfort with her wealthy family. She disappears on her way to school after a spat with her twin sister. Detective Jim Brady, married and the father of two, has been on the Morgan’s Landing police forc ...
Deadly knowledge. A killer on the loose. She’s ‘maid’ a fatal mistake… As a second-generation servant, the Great Library of Scolaris is the only home Quill has ever known, a place of refuge after her father left town following her mother’s tragic death. Seemingly, her unusual world is perfect. ...
Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series!
With the war all but over, I can now head home to Annie and hang my Pale Rider vest.
However, along the way, the son of a dear friends manages to find me.
Daniel Boon ...
Physicist Marcie Roselli’s world is reeling out of control after the death of her daughter in a car accident on an icy Colorado roadway. The specter of her dead child keeps Marcie teetering on the edge of reality as she battles to reclaim her own life from the depths of despair. When her cousin plea ...
A KILLER UNLEASHED. A DETECTIVE TRAPPED. A MANSION OF DEATHLY SECRETS.
A secluded old-money manor in the heart of the White Mountains conceals a chilling secret. The family matriarch calls for private detective Asha Kade and sha ...
Dani Calderwood, the only survivor of a man who killed her twin sister and drug-dealing boyfriend, saw only a brief glimpse of him from her hiding place. She can’t clearly identify him, but the police and the killer think she can and are looking for her. To escape them, Dani flees to an isolated Col ...
It's always been Gina Iovino’s dream to have her own restaurant, something upscale and cosmopolitan. When she agreed to run the restaurant and tavern at her best friend’s historic inn in Vermont, Gina grossly underestimated just how rural it was. She misses bright lights and a busy social life. The ...
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 he ...
One determined detective. One thorough medical examiner. And the serial killer that brings them together. Connecticut State Police Detective Wesley Dawson will stop at nothing until this maniac serial killer is locked up and put away for good. With bodies piling up and his older sister living on the ...
Based on a real-life tragedy, Mirror Image is a heart-stopping tale of horrific abuse. Female PI Catrina Flaherty tackles one of her most difficult cases. Cat specializes in women’s issues, infidelity, messy divorces, spousal abuse, sexual harassment, etc. But her newest client, Mandy Alcott, has an ...
“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 ope ...
A Shamus Award Finalist and Named Best Mystery in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Former piano prodigy-turned FBI agent Scott Drayco is tormented by nightmares from his last case as a private consultant. Adding insult to injury, he’s saddled with an unwanted, dilapidated Opera House in ...
Private Investigator Mylas Grey is given strict orders to take seven days off.
It makes sense. After all, he’s recuperating from a gunshot wound.
There’s just one problem—Mylas doesn’t know how to take time off.
Besides that, he’s agreed ...
Facing years in prison, a man fights back… as a fugitive.
Jason Mulder couldn’t believe the shocking verdict. He became a DEA Special Agent to protect his family and community from dangerous drugs. He’s stunned when K9 officers find narcotics in his truck and allies testify against him in co ...
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 ...
From Book 1: Is it a murderer or a ghost?
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 comp ...
Gossip is the life blood of most any small town. How do you combat something like that when gossip is so much more interesting than the truth? Bruce Cartwright was willing to feed the gossip mill if it got him what he wanted.
It had been six months since Melanie Jarvis had seen him when h ...
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 Ear ...
When Bernie, the star of breakfast show TV Rise & Shine, is murdered in her dressing room, Celebrity Crimes Investigation Agents Abi and Jake are sent undercover to catch the killer. With suspects aplenty, the snow building up outside and the holidays fast approaching, they’ve certainly got thei ...
When escape is your only option, you need a little lipstick and danger. Meredith Marshall, on the run from her past, abandons a promising career that meant everything to her. She escapes to Belize and carries with her, a life changing secret. In search of a new existence, she finds a trusting sou ...
Scandalous contents of a hidden box reveal a secret life, a missing woman, and a dark truth deftly concealed by someone in the family. One woman embarks on a quest for truth but the truth may cost her her life. Explore the intense atmospheric Ella Perri Mystery Series from book award finalist, Kr ...
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 rebor ...
All Becca wanted was a fresh start. That wasn’t what she got. Get started with this award-winning series today.
Fran Williams never intended to be a travel writer but circumstances made her life take a surprising turn. Now, needing to put the past behind her and desperate for a fresh new start, she finds herself assigned to attend the Mayward Literature Festival as part of a group of journalists. It’s not lon ...
Is Mothman Real, or Just Another Fly-by-Night Tourist Scam? The Truth is Out There … Way WAY Out There in this Deliciously Snarky, Semi-Paranormal Detective Mystery Growing up in backwoods Florida, Bobbie Drex has seen it all – from two-headed turtles to two-timing boyfriends. Her life of hard knock ...
When Stacie Maroni, amateur sleuth, is mistakenly abducted, she fears for the life of the intended victim. The young woman, who worked at the same company as Stacie, soon turns up dead. With the kidnappers afraid Stacie can identify them, threats lurk around every corner. Add in the victim’s two fri ...
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 ...
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, ...
Chloe and Caleb are two people who have been thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Chloe is a former assassin for hire who is trying to reinvent herself as an investigator in the bustling metropolis of Junction City. Her first case proves to be far more complicated than expected, she finds a d ...
Rhee Abbott is a reluctant witch with powers that never seem to do what she wants. But her new job as manager of the Drake's Rest Inn is her chance to start over with the normal life she has always yearned for--until she finds a dead body in a guest room just days before the Inn's grand opening. Eve ...
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 ...
All the intel points to his kid as the perp. But the truth could get them both killed… Andy Flint is on the mend and off the booze. Hoping to reconnect with his estranged adult son, he arranges to meet him in New Zealand and walk the stunning Milford Track. But before they can reunite, a massacre at ...
The famous Carlo painting Stealer of Horses sells for cash in a small Wyoming town and gallery owner Sheldon Spence gives the $200,000 to his wife, who walks over to the bank to make the deposit…and never returns.
A witness claims to have seen a frightened-looking Susan Spence in a batter ...
A daring puppy. A vicious war. When the merciless desert craves her humans' lives, can this K-9 defend them, or will she pay with her blood?
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 holida ...
Every cruise has its share of drunks, but missing wallets and jewelry is an entirely different matter. Is the current shipboard drunk involved? Lizzie O’Connell doesn’t think so. Convincing Dean Templin, the head of sec ...
Can a conspiracy be uncovered before the Death Count rises?
Forensic accountant Kat Munro fights corporate fraud during the day and kickboxes her demons at night while trying to ignore the night ...
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 ...
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 ...
Saving an unknown child isn't on Dee's list of things to do before she dies. But if the bad guys find her, it might end up being the only thing on her bucket list. An unintentional heroine, she sets out to discover if her father is a good guy or a bad guy, and as her nice, ordered life spirals out o ...
Twenty-five years ago, three college boys tackled an ambitious class assignment; a documentary surrounding the legend of The Flaming Woman, rumored ...
IN THIS THREE-BOOK BOX SET: Book 1: Murder at the Pier When Lea’s adventurous canines find a body under the pier, she and her sister Maddy are drawn into a mystery with possible deadly consequences. Who killed the man the dogs found lying in the sand? -Corrupt officials willing to commit murde ...
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 som ...
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 daught ...
In bustling, affluent ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius, status matters—yet some dare to ignore it. And some dare to defy social conventions. Inspired by Jesus’s radical views, unconventional Livia Aemilia cares little about stuffy Roman dignity. She’d rather help others and solve ...
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-pace ...
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 ...
A bitter past drives Acapulco’s first female police detective into a Hollywood film starring lies and murder when she goes undercover to catch a killer. As the camera rolls, Detective Emilia Cruz will face her toughest case yet. After witnessing the execution-style murder of a taxi driver, Emilia ...
From Book 1: USA Today bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you an unconventional sleuth hot on the heels of high-living lowlifes in book 1 of the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery Series. Even in a desert paradise, life is full of surprises like A Dead Husband.
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A novel of secrets, memory, family, and forgiveness by the USA Today bestselling author of The Art of Enchantment.
Armed with only a backpack, her boyfriend, and a mysterious old photograph, twenty-three-year-old Sophie Groenveld escapes the tension at home for a summer i ...
Sex, drugs, rock and roll. It's the sixties, it is the South, and the country is gripped by social unrest, a war raging in Vietnam, and, in Mobile, Alabama, murder. Two victims, one on each end of the social hierarchy, are the first case for Hugo August, detective and newly returned Vietnam veteran. ...
As the chatty classroom of kindergarten children excitedly awaits the final bell to release them for the weekend, Chloe, racked with exhaustion, desperately attempts to keep her eyes open. Nervously staring at the battered wooden desk, her six-year-old mind becomes fixated on the sound of the room's ...
