BookLife - Resources and tools for book publishers and writers

The Second List

by Max Bridges

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” –Benjamin Franklin Patrick Rooper, an investigative journalist and ex-Navy SEAL, is looking forward to his upcoming wedding when a rich socialite walks into his office and offers a lucrative assignment. To retrieve a document from the Swiss Alps seems easy enough for someone with Patrick’s accolades, but unbeknownst to him, the undertaking poses an existential threat to someone powerful—someone desperate to stop him at any cost. The socia... more

Trail of the Jaguar

by Jonathan Hanson

Biologist, wildlife photographer, and tactically trained anti-poaching expert Clayton Porter witnesses what appears to be a routine drug-smuggling flight across the Arizona-Mexico border. Instead, he uncovers a sophisticated operation involving a secret lodge high in the Sierra Madre, canned hunts for endangered jaguars, a ring of opioid-dealing doctors in the U.S., and a string of cartel victims partially consumed by a large predator. After Porter unwittingly throws a wrench into the works and ... more

B0943ZCFYN

by K.C. Turner

He’s out of prison. His targets are set. And she’s one of them. Elizabeth Strong had hoped after all this time, Steve Robinson would leave her alone. But his message is clear. He’s not only coming for her; he also has his sights set on another woman who refused to testify against him back then. But since recently being made an unwilling accomplice to Robinson’s current criminal empire, she immediately goes to Elizabeth for help. With at least one dirty cop in the Silverton Police Depar... more

Casket Case

by Lee James

Cynthia Shade. That's her name. She has ADHD and cynophobia. That's just a fancy way of saying she's terrified of dogs. Not all dogs mind you, just the tiny ones that come at you with their razor-sharp fangs and frenzied eyes. To make it worse, she can't find a job, rather, she can't keep a job, and she's about to be evicted. Just when she gets a glimmer of hope she's blackmailed into trying to solve a murder. Wait-what? Cue the handsome sheriff who awakens real interest in perpetually single ... more

Long Journey Back

by Jeanne Bandolina

Piedmont Triad International Airport, Greensboro, NC. During landing, a policeman enters the cockpit of a Galaxy Airlines jet and convinces Captain Alex Decker to request a different gate. Alex heeds the warning, and minutes later, an explosion rocks the concourse where he should have parked the plane. On the heels of the tragic fire at the Greensboro airport, Alex teams up with FBI Agent Maria Rodriguez. They travel from North Carolina to Africa and Central America in pursuit of an unknown and... more

Songbird

by Gail Meath

Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he?

Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes criminals into submission. Well, maybe not.

But the two of them are a whole lot smarter than they look. And they have their hands full when a playwright’s death is declared natural causes, and his new manuscript worth a million bucks is missing.

Laura Graystone, ... more

Ready Aim MURDER, Book2 Peter Dumas Mystery Series

by L.C. Blackwell

Peter Dumas is one of 13 guests at a killer Christmas weekend in the country with no expectation of using his clairvoyant gifts to solve a murder. But murder seems to follow Peter. First, an advertising VP is killed with a Comanche arrow at a TV shoot in Florida. Then the ardrows target his host's family and a Native American arrow maker in Wisconsin. Who does the deed? Who survives? You'll have to read who Peter targets.

Doctor Hate

by Richard Helms

Richard Helms’ Derringer Award-winning (The Gospel According to Gordon Black) and Shamus Award-winning (Brittle Karma) San Francisco private eye Eamon Gold returns in Doctor Hate, a tale cast in molds forged by Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Robert B. Parker. Brandon Hunt is an arch-conservative, racist, sexist, xenophobic college professor, and he isn't shy about it. Having won almost termination-proof tenure in a lawsuit against the university, he has become a lightning rod for contr... more

CASSIA

by DC Mallery

Cassia is the story of Dr. Jack Temple—an ambitious young physician working at a state psychiatric hospital—who becomes obsessed with cheating death to save his dying wife. And it is the story of his wife, Wendy, struck down in her prime, and now caught in a web of madness she can't understand. It's also the story of Dr. Temple's precocious assistant, Lillian Anderson, who is also driven by relentless obsession but for far different reasons … and it’s the story of the ruthless psychopath, Edmund... more

A Counsel of Death

by J.J. Cagney

He thought he was investigating money laundering, but the case is far more menacing. It’s murder…

Detective Sam Chastain has been dreading his next case: he must investigate his father-in-law’s role in a federal money-laundering scheme. When a grisly murder reframes the case, he must find answers before he loses another witness.

At the same time, new evidence sheds light on the decades-old drowning death of Cici’s uncle. She&... more

The Fortuna Coin

by Karen Ann Hopkins

The Fortuna Coin is a haunting psychological thriller about domestic abuse, personal choices and second chances. Wendy Catalano, a newly remarried mother of four, finds herself, her husband and her children, murder victims of her ex-husband. A family heirloom takes her back in time to the beginning of her relationship with her eventual killer where she’s given the magical opportunity to change the future and stop her family's tragic ending. But she isn't aware that she's reliving a tortured l... more

FitzDuncan's Alchemy

by John J Spearman

The second adventure of Casimir FitzDuncan. Caz has a new challenge land in his lap and only a brief time to pull it off. He finds help from unlikely sources as he attempts to swindle a swindler.

If You Didn't See It Coming

by Amanda L. Webster

The Murder Before Christmas

by Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)

If you've got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right. EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions. Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on her. So, Courtney asked about poison, instead. She said she was joking. That's what happens between wives and husbands. They get angry and talk about killing each other. They don't really mea... more

The Adventure of Detective Robert Bensen

by Angelo Thomas Crapanzano

The Adventure of Detective Robert Bensen is a fictional novel of the life of Robert Bensen and the adventures he had after he retired from the police force. After his wife passed away, to keep busy he started to write a novel around all the action he had during his time in the police force. However, his previous boss Captain Wilson did not let him retire in peace. He was asked to come back as a part time detective when his keen ability to investigate a crime was needed. Robert couldn't resist th... more

Flipping the Circle

by Michael Leppert

“People don’t often think of corruption or white-collar crap having an actual crime scene, but the Winner’s Circle was the scene of this one.” Will O’Courtney is the ultimate insider. Having worked as an experienced contract lobbyist in Indianapolis for over a decade, he knows all the ins and outs of back-room deals and trading information. Shortly after his divorce is finalized, Will resolves to turn his life around, and just when he starts to think of leaving the winning course, he lands a ... more

Discover Books

Mystery/Thriller