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Mystery-Crime

The Reluctant Witness

Trust no one and keep running, or they will find you… When Liam, lead singer of The Fury, falls for enigmatic Bella, little does he know that she is hiding a dangerous secret. After a photograph of the couple, taken outside a London recording studio, circulates, Bella prepares to run. But Liam enlists the help of Stephanie and together, they uncover a crime within a crime, and Bella must decide wh ...

The Reverend Goes Home

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The Desperation of Harry

Shocks, secrets and humor pack this novel based on actual events, as 23-year-old Monty Hill leaves his Midwestern roots for 1977 Hollywood desiring to become a major film screenwriter. He meets his endearing new neighbor, Harry, who in hopes of assisting Monty financially, entangles him with an apparent dangerous producer of adult films. Meanwhile, Monty describes his stumbling through various rom ...

Behind the Walls

There’s something hidden behind the walls of the hurricane damaged house Jolie bought in her New Jersey beach town. Something someone seems willing to kill for. After Jolie and Scoobie find a small sack of jewelry as they do a mold attack on her bungalow, Jolie is pursued by a purse thief and a burglar. But the guy she’s most worried about is the one who left an elderly auctioneer dead ...

Fly Me to the Moon

After finagling a job on board an outer space cruise ship, Sylvia Stryker is ready to explore all that outer space has to offer. With a private room in the staff quarters, her robot cat by her side, and the responsibilities of uniform management, she couldn't be more thrilled--until she discovers the second navigation officer dead in the inventory closet. Neptune, the head of ship security, finds ...

The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles (4 Book Series)

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 stripper, although her best friend Julia is. Brandy still lives with her parents in the Irish Channel an ...

Christmas Grift

A corpse, a cantankerous camel, an entertaining array of suspects, and a yule tide of problems along the way…it must be a Flo and Agnes Christmas! Who would have guessed Agnes would rub Penelope the cranky camel the wrong way? Or that Flo would find herself ankle deep in camel dung while fending off a masked murderer? Or that TC would, once again, get on the wrong side of her handsome detective in ...

The Society

When Elizabeth Grant sees her childhood friend, she is thrown into a world of secret societies laced with conspiracies.      Elizabeth has been plagued with visions since the disappearance of Loralie. When she returns to the small town of her childhood, she’s unaware that she’s walking into the middle of what killed her friend.      Unknown to the rest of the world, T ...

Murder On The Angelina

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 the clues to a neighboring county's championship paintball team. To prove it, he must first gain th ...

Twelve Years Gone

Twelve years gone… Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back. In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow... The family hasn’t given up their hope for revenge, or at least ...

Special Agent Booker


 When Sloan Booker’s father dies tragically, he has no other option but to give up his job as an FBI agent and take over his family’s vehicle restoration business in Oahu, Hawaii. Giving up his b ...

Race into Murder

Jeff Frazier is a racehorse trainer whose talented colt has a bright future, until his horse becomes the motivation for murder. An elite jockey is killed, and the racing world is in chaos. When an innocent man is arrested, the fate of three families depends on finding the truth. As the trial date nears, the killer is torn between what he believes was a just murder and the morality of allowing an ...

Parkland

A story none could imagine. A tragedy that should have been stopped. Angels and Demons are near, and they have their sights set on Parkland. Nikolas Cruz often claimed there was a demon in his head… and he may have been right. In epic detail, ‘Parkland’ tells the story surrounding the other-worldly life of Nikolas Cruz and the societal failures that led to one of the worst school shootings in hist ...

Too Cute to Kill

Emma Rand can't understand people who consider the countryside a dumping ground for whatever they no longer want. Living on ten acres outside of Casper, Wyoming, she's seen everything from pets to appliances dumped along her fence line but when she spies something propped against her fence after a blizzard, she never expects to find a body. When the police investigation stalls, she and her husband ...

Deja Vu

After years of psychiatric counseling and group therapy, Private Investigator Brenda Corrino is finally ready to move on. The cases involving David Fanning and Mark Alexander are long behind her. Brenda was largely responsible for helping to secure Alexander’s conviction for several rapes, including her own. A few years later, she worked undercover to get Fanning to confess to the rape and murder ...

Crying Woman Bridge

While returning from Professor Dawson’s lecture on haunted places, the last thing Sheriff Jeff McQuede and Dawson expect to encounter is a terrified woman clinging to the railing of Mirabella’s Bridge, crying for her lost baby. It looks as if Rae Harris has thrown the infant over the bridge in a fit of despair, but she claims he has been stolen by a ghostly figure she calls Mirabella. Similar to t ...

The Girl They Took

Where her daughter had played Gretel in front of a cheering audience, only two faint stage lights remained. The theater was deserted and eerily silent; the only sound she could hear was her own heart, pounding in a frenzy against her chest. She rushed outside and stopped sharply at the top of the stairs, stunned, her blood turned to icicles. Darkness had fallen, thick and filled with ocean mist, l ...

Through Vira's Eyes

Trapped in a bunker in Ukraine's war zone with her family, five-year-old Vira is thrown into an adult world where terror awaits around every corner. Encouraged by her faith to be optimistic, Vira sees angels working for her good. A short story from the award-winning anthology "Children of War." Children of War is a fourteen-author-anthology created to support child survivors of war in Ukraine. If ...

Flight of the Tarantula Hawk

An investigative reporter, she’s tough and smart. Her husband, a hardnosed homicide detective who won’t give up. The first corpse, a Realtor found murdered in a vacant house, her body decomposing, her mind adrift. A freelance crime scene photographer, who saw it through the eyes of a Tarantula Hawk. Outside the box of King and Koontz, it’s one of a new breed of mystery thrillers. As seen on NBC. D ...

Civility Rules

When former football player turned etiquette author, Edward Harlow, arrives at Inglenook Resort to give a lecture about all things genteel, the discovery of a corpse in the guest room next door sends his ordered world spinning out of control. His loyal secretary and brother, Nicholas, scrambles to keep the author's reputation unsullied by this ultimate breech in manners, but soon the investigat ...

Family Curse

Domestic violence and alcoholism stalked three generations of the Byrne family, with Colin the latest victim. A successful Oregon winemaker who survived a near-fatal beating as a child, Byrne is a man possessed with learning why his father tried to kill him for no apparent reason 50 years before. After discovering a 100-year-old family secret that haunted generations, Byrne flies into a rage, prom ...

Cursed be the Wicked

Cooper Shaw lives his life under a pen name and enjoys the anonymity it provides during his journeys across the globe as a seasoned writer for a travel magazine. When his job lands him in his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts to cover the famous Festival of the Dead, he soon realizes that he can’t stay invisible forever as he faces ghosts from a past he’s been trying to forget ever since he left. ...

FIREBUG

“A compulsively readable suspense thriller… An investigation into a series of deliberate housefires puts investigative journalist Maxwell Muggs on the trail of a maniac killer in Snowden’s gripping latest. Maxwell Muggs, an investigative reporter and a recovering gambler, gets involved in a case of suspicious fires breaking out around the city. Paired with Scarlett Sympson, an investigator with Al ...

Sam's Top Secret Journal: Sam's Secret Island

Sam is an eight-grade girl living a regular life, enjoying her family, school and traveling. She doesn't feel different but sometimes others treat her differently because she has Down syndrome. Sam's private journal chronicles what begins as a summer vacation...and turns into a brand new adventure, filled with friendship, mystery and a secret island. Dr. Sean Adelman crafts this second book in the ...

The Bloody Century: True Tales of Murder in 19th Century America

The Bloody Century retells the stories of Americans, driven by desperation, greed, jealousy, or an irrational bloodlust, to take the life of someone around them. It presents 50 of the most intriguing murder cases from the archives of American crime. Richly illustrated with scenes and portraits from the time of the murders, and including songs and poems written to commemorate the crimes, The Blo ...

Murder and the Good Old Boys' Club

Threatened victim, waiting grave…Sheriff McQuede is called to the cemetery by Ben Ward, a member of Durmont’s Good Old Boys’ Club. Ward’s tombstone, where he plans someday to be buried with his first wife, is vandalized. A menacing date of death, fast approaching, has been drilled into the stone, and splotches of red paint drips over it like blood. Ben Ward and his four partners have sunk vast sum ...

The Bride Wore Dead

Snarky food critic Josie Tucker usually can soothe any problem with food or drink. Missed bus? Mango-orange smoothie. Mild doldrums? A piece of peppered beef jerky. But lately, she can’t stand the smell of a watery cup of broth. Being at the mercy of an indignant and vengeful stomach is no cup of tea. What happens when she gets roped into being the last-minute bridesmaid at a society wedding? ...

Temporarily Insane

Bad job. Wrong love. And Murder. Hattie Cooks is still searching for her dream job and one might be available...in the Big Apple, far from friends, family, and Allan Wellborn, the man who still makes her heart race. In the meantime, she finds temporary employment at an accounting firm where mishaps and murder are definitely fishy. Detective Allan Wellborn dropped Hattie for Blonde Bimbo who, coinc ...

Chasing Shadows

Sometimes the dead come back to speak. Eleven years ago, a body was found days after a woman calling herself Charlene Browner checked into a motel. No possessions. No cause of death. No next of kin. It is almost as though she'd never existed. A strange accident on a lonely road launches Sheriff August Melville on a journey into Canyon County's past. Charlene was on the run -- but from what? As Mel ...

Looking for Ona

Welcome to Beyond, where the gravestones have no birth dates, and the residents are dying… A new series from the author of the popular Promise McNeal Mysteries…

Looking For Ona introduces Paula Vega, whose plan for surviving Atlanta’s brutal summer is to complete her latest steamy romance novel, send it to her editor, and camp out by the pool. Then her best fri ...

The Melbourne Connection

Ten-year-old Nora Benito watches in horror, as her mother is torn away from her in a life-changing few moments. The trauma she suffers shouldn't happen to anyone, never mind her being such a tender age. The pain she endured will last a lifetime, evidenced by the slap in the face she received when, as an adult, she hears an unmistakable voice from her past. Giacomo Rinaldi is a controlling, conn ...

Happy Homicides 3: Summertime Crime

A Beach Read Bonanza -- A fun way to find your new “favorite” author. Number 3 in a series of bestselling mystery anthologies. Twelve traditional mysteries by a dozen bestselling and award-winning authors. With free bonus file of recipes and craft ideas. These clean mysteries are crimes committed in the heat of the season. Authors--Joanna Campbell Slan, Linda Gordon Hengerer, Margaret Lucke, Nanc ...

Forest Park: A Logan McKenna Mystery Book 2

There’s a killer on the loose in Portland and no one is safe. Blocked at every turn, Logan McKenna must uncover the truth before more lives are lost.

It’s been two years since the fatal car accident that changed Logan’s life forever. She’s recovered most of her health, forged a new career, and even ventured into a new relationship. Combining business and hopefully plea ...

Dhata Mays

After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully. Until now... When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidd ...

Vanishing Day: A Logan McKenna Mystery Book 4

Viciously attacked, Logan's neighbor clings to life in ICU, her three-year-old the only witness. Logan holds the only clue. Will it get her killed?

Logan soon discovers her new friend isn’t who she said she was. Without any ID, the police investigation stalls. Logan holds the only clue, but has no idea what it means or how dangerous it is.

That’s never stopped her before, but ...

The Girl From Silent Lake

“Please, not in front of my daughter,” she pleaded. “She’s just a little girl.” He leaned closer, so close she felt his heated breath on her face. The blue jays that had been filling the valley with their chirping fell silent all at once when the woman’s cry ripped through the clear mountain air… Detective Kay Sharp vowed she’d never return to her childhood home. On the night of her thirteenth ...

Carnage: An Ode to Aria

A bad dream becomes a real nightmare when down-and-out Rob Gigot tries to find out who killed his ex-girlfriend. Her mother's a Hollywood movie star, her husband's a South American shipping magnate, and her thirteen-year-old brother is a human hand grenade. But what matters to Rob is the official story that Aria managed to shoot herself twice in the head with a shotgun. Rob’s an ex-trust fund kid ...

Pineapple Beach House

The Pineapple Port crew takes a road trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina, only to discover “body bits” in their vacation home. The nursing home next door is run by some suspicious characters and one of their residents is missing. 
Hmm...

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