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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 rand ...
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, includ ...
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 themse ...
Scrawled in Blood Featured
Randy McKay anticipated a relaxing family vacation to Sitka, Alaska. He never expected murder to be on the agenda.
Randy's cousin, Ed Sarkov, had a long, frictional history with the victim and, after a public argument days before the murder, becomes the prime suspect.
Convinced of his cousi ...
Best Seller Featured
When crime fiction novelist Kelly Landon agrees to write a memoir for an eccentric, elderly gentleman, her quiet life turns upside-down.
Unbeknownst to her, the memoir is peppered with clues leading to a rare collection of stolen jewels from World War II. After the memoir makes the bes ...
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 find ...
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 woma ...
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 a ...
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 ...
Bayside Betrayal Featured
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 mystery ...
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 ...
Fountains and Secrets Featured
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 ...
A GRIPPING, DARK SOUTHERN GOTHIC SAGA.
Award-winning fiction that pushes boundaries: WINNER of The BookFest Psychological Thriller Award and PenCraft Intrigue Award.
In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing t ...
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 thei ...
Years ago, my brother—The Lancaster Slasher—covered our hometown in blood.
I won't let it happen again.
Riding high after her latest arrest and promotion in sight, Erin Hastings is plunged back to reality with her first serial killer case—in her hometown. Reminders of her brother’ ...
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 ...
During a break in the pandemic, Aidan Greene gets a panicked message from an old college friend living in Luxembourg. Ethan Katz is a banking exec in Luxembourg for a bank owned by a family from the UAE. He’s discovered a money-laundering scheme which puts his life is in danger and local security ca ...
Two years after getting arrested in a street racing and car theft sting, the police offer Gabby a chance to reinstate her driver’s license. Stuck driving a scooter, she longs to drive her cherished 1967 GTO again and is willing to go almost anything. The hitch is that Gabby must help the po ...
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 ...
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.
Quantum computers are the next big thing. A router capable of allowing those computers to talk to each other, securely and near instantaneously, will be worth billions of dollars. As the first “Quantum Router” nears completion, the lead inventor is murdered. When the surviving creator doesn’t believ ...
Assaulted, left for dead, and amnesic, the woman who thinks her name is Alex, may be the only surviving victim of a killer who’s targeting prostitutes. Every new victim makes it more crucial for Alex to remember what happened to her if Denver Homicide Detective Blake and his partner are to solve the ...
Sweethearts Eric Leidheldt and Desiree Chauveau are spending a weekend at his uncle's cabin when they encounter two strangers cutting wood. Eric is knocked unconscious, and Desi is viciously attacked. The following day two police officers come to their apartment to arrest Des ...
A small town murder hides a dark secret… When online influencer Simone Baker asks Leland Munroe to defend her on a criminal charge, the small town lawyer is ready to say no. He’s not a criminal lawyer—despite what the people of Basking Rock seem to think. Social media and manslaughter are both far f ...
Coming out of retirement can be deadly… After tragedy struck three years earlier, art sleuth Carmen De Luca vowed to never work in the field again. But fifty is too young to fill her days with water aerobics and bingo, so when her former partner calls and begs for her help, Carmen gladly agrees. ...
When her cat hitched a ride without her, she had no choice bu ...
The blistering summer heat of San Antonio, Texas reveals a disturbing trend: a surge in fatal fentanyl overdoses among the homeless population. Someone is preying on the most vulnerable, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. Still reeling from the trauma of her husband’s ...
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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Silver Medalist Global Book Awards
A mugging on her father’s doorstep, a missing wife, and the abducted child she failed to save set young ex-cop Lauren Beck on a pulse- ...
How do you make a Deadly Desert?
• Take a sleepy, border town like Las Cruces, New Mexico.
• Add three parts each of Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem.
• Season with True Love and Mirth.
• Let Steve Hartshorn stir it all up to perfection.
• Dress it with an ample slice of Unbri ...
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 ...
The shocking true story of a sociopath’s wife and the miraculous healing power of prayer. Keys of Deception is an emotional page turner filled with shocking twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
After struggling with debilitating health issues, Becca Bailey is resigned to li ...
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 invol ...
Venice is a city known for love, art, and most of all secrets.
Two couples separated by 500 years find themselves linked by a set of priceless jewels.
In 1485 Venice, stra-crossed lovers Nino, a sculptor, and Serafina, the daughter of a renown architect, must use to Jewels o ...
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. ...
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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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 ...
From Book 1: Is it a murderer or a ghost?
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 ...
Alyssa Carter just wanted to fill in the blanks on her family tree. A DNA test was supposed to offer roots, not rot. When the results arrive, they shatter everything she thought she knew about herself. Her frantic research leads her down a dark path that starts with the FBI at her door, asking qu ...
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 Killer,” has a last wish: he tells Rev. Stan McLoga ...
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 ...
It took just one bad decision to put his whole life in jeopardy. Tough-talking London Detective Inspector Jack Lisbon now faces a life-changing choice – seek justice or exact vengeance After a young fighter takes a beating for throwing a bout, DI Lisbon makes a decision that will come back to haunt ...
’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.
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, Abig ...
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 ...
From Book 1: Read the novel voted Science Fiction Book of the Year*, now in development as a major motion picture. Nomad is the first book in a new four-part epic from million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather.
Humanity only has days to prepare. Can one family surv ...
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 ...
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 i ...
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 ar ...
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 traumatiz ...
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 whe ...
“The German ambassador, madam,” said Sherlock Holmes, “is reputed to be brilliant and very difficult.”
“My dear, Mr. Holmes,” she said. “He is a man. Like all men when they are drunk and in the throes of ecstasy, he will be easy.”
“I must warn you, he has a reputation amongst men who ha ...
Age-old secrets are locked in this house . . .
And a ghost holds the key.
When Jesse Graham inherits a deserted haunted house, she also inherits a decades-old mystery a small town has been hiding for years. As the ghost leads her to investigate her aunt’s death, Jesse finds it diffic ...
There’s more to this game than dodging paintballs… a killer is on the loose. Newly licensed private investigator Fen Maguire gets his next case — to investigate an extortion ring putting the squeeze on loggers in the piney woods of East Texas. Working undercover at a local university, Fen traces ...
As newly appointed small-town Sheriff Angus Reid settles into Weyport, it doesn’t take him long to discover just how corrupt his new town is. With a desk full of suspicious open cases and too much to prove, he is determined to rid his town of crime and win the hearts of his people. But when two teen ...
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 ...
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 ...
Four action-packed stories from four-time award-winning author CB Samet. Dive into adventure as these brave heroes and heroines face dangerous villains, risking their lives to save each other and save the day. Connor File (a Rider Files novella) Rick Swanson loves his job as a firefighter, and when ...
The first three Huntingdon Hart stories. 3 Quick Reads collected in one Casebook. The named case is solved within each of the three stories, and we also learn a lot about Hunt's life, unfolding more fully with each case. Casefile # 1 - The Missing Peke Hunt is enjoying a quiet drink in the Bird in N ...
The Big Easy has plenty of song… …a lot of dancing and a bit of murder. Will Brandy be able to prove her friend is innocent? Brandy learned to be loyal in Catholic school. She doesn’t judge. When her best friend, Julia, an ex-stripper turned hotelier, finds the first guest of her new Bed and ...
She was two, and yet she was twenty. How could she be both in the space of twenty-four hours? ‘I call it a Revolution,’ she explained. As Crane Industries unveils its latest medical advance to ward of illness and aging, journalist Luke Maynard gets the opportunity to lift the lid on what it really d ...
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 co ...
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 ...
On a dark Los Angeles freeway, someone fires a gunshot at a local football star.
His family turns to Private Investigator Burnside, a former football star himself, who has recently left the LAPD. Burnside encounters beautiful girls, wayward athletes and overworked cops on his way to ...
Amelia had never wanted to help MI6. Now hearing the stealthy approach of the Japanese infantry, her despair came full circle: accept MI6, accept the risk, accept failure, accept death. But not far away, a rough-edged Marine---known as Stones---was hovering into a hot LZ from the futuristic subma ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, fi ...
Be careful what you wish for. It drives Nicholas Harlow nuts that his employer, Edward Harlow, refuses to promote his Aunt Civility etiquette books to the public, instead opting to give lectures to like-minded societies. When Nicholas tricks his brother into a speaking event at a popular bookstor ...
The exciting first book in the Rocky and Bernadette international mystery series.
What readers say about Temple of the Jaguar: "A fun fast paced murder mystery that takes you on a tour of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico!" "[an] entertaining murder mystery ... I ...
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 ...
Poisoned Legacy Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? California, 1868: A rundown goldmine seems like singing star Graysie's golden opportunity. But bright new beginnings crumble underfoot when the townsfolk of th ...
Madison Thompson was working a summer job in a brokerage firm to save enough money to finish her history degree the following year. Unaware that she walked into danger after closing the office, Madison carried a night deposit bag to the bank across a busy parking lot. A van suddenly blocked her path ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
They want him back—for one reason: he's disposable.
Former CIA agent Andy Flint seizes the chance to rebuild his career when his old bosses pull him in to investigate a series of calculated killings in Russia.
After landing in Moscow, Flint discovers the slain ope ...
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 ...
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 emeshe ...
Newly-separated Laura is back home living with her mum. She spends her days reading and escaping from the realities of her new life alone - until that life suddenly becomes more complicated than she could ever have imagined. When a novel received from an online book swap contains a chilling note, La ...
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 ...
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 t ...
When 18-year-old student Stephanie Cooper investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding her great aunt’s death, she discovers a painting thought stolen by the Nazis and destroyed during WWII, hanging in the home of the intriguing James Knox, guitarist with indie band, The Fury.
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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 ...
Explore the shadowy mysteries of America’s past with The Vanishing Act: Unsolved Cases of America’s Most Mysterious Women. This compelling trilogy collection brings together three captivating true crime narratives from the Shadows of the Past series, each immersing re ...
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 ...
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 demi ...
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 he ...
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 ...
My name is Thomas Edward Daniels. My associates call me Professor Daniels, and my friends simply call me Tom. I am a fictional character created by the author. I teach history at an upscale university somewhere in North Carolina. I am married to the most beautiful woman on planet earth. Her name is ...
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 financ ...
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 ...
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 Da ...
After the Dublin car bombings in 1974, Harold Stokes, ME, and his new assistant, Samantha Monaghan, begin the last autopsy of the casualties. This unidentified victim is not an Irishman, but an Israeli, killed by a bullet, not a bomb. Before they can finish their task, the body is stolen. Stokes and ...
