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The Sinful

by GW Allison

A neo-noir thriller with murder, political corruption, and a family’s dark secret, set in Detroit, The Sinful is an attractive read for fans of S.A. Cosby, Mosley, and Block.

With his days as a Detroit cop behind him, Cutter is feeling the heat of a life lived on the edge. When an old friend presents him with a case involving the disappearance of a young woman from the city’s most prominent family, he sees an opportunity to make some ... more

Knights Templar Treasure Found

by Bart Rice

The dark, mysterious, and disastrous medieval year of 1307 when the Knights Templar lost their lives, fortune and existence is laid bare. The reader is taken through a labyrinth of secrets, twists, and turns as the Templars faced enemies from France, England, the Holy Land, and present day Iran. A plausible explanation of where their massive lost fortune is suggested..

The Girl in the Blue Blazer

by Alretha Thomas

Two women. One powerful man. A decades-old secret binds them together.

In 2019, Pamela Carter is determined to secure her dream internship with billionaire businessman Andrew Clifford III.

Twenty-five years ago, in 1993, Andrew is just starting out. Without any of his later fame or fortune, the party boy becomes a legitimate hero when he intervenes to save assaulted Elizabeth Westlake. Sure, she’s a waitress at a strip club, but that’s not her dream. Elizabeth is deter... more

Blood Red: a Rob Walker thriller

by John Etterlee

When diplomacy fails and war is inevitable... On a mission with his Special Forces team in Ukraine, Rob Walker is on the hunt for an elusive enemy who strikes from the shadows and disappears without a trace. Nobody expected Russia to start a war. But when the country’s deranged president does the unthinkable, Rob’s Special Forces team is sent in to assist Ukrainian forces in repelling the invaders. The Ukrainian military has held its own so far, but the Russian president has a secret... more

Things Worth Fearing

by Anthony Ross Davies

Claire Astrom hasn’t left her apartment in months. After a devastating trauma, she’s developed blinding panic attacks, which have cut her off from the outside world. With the help of her closest friend, Steven, she’s been fighting to free herself from her illness, struggling back to health one day at a time. When an old friend invites her to a remote cabin to spend a weekend with her and her new partner, Claire accepts it as a challenge to move forward and throw off the shackles of self-isolati... more

Carmel Conundrum

by Stacy Wilder

Stolen identities, a cult, a kidnapping, an attempted murder, and a budding romance . . . Join Private Investigator Liz Adams, and her lie-detecting Labrador, Duke, in the scenic town of Carmel By-the-Sea, as the pair investigate the mystery of stolen identities. Complications arise when Liz becomes romantically entangled with her hot new client, Brad. Enter Apollo, a charismatic cult leader, whose mission to save the homeless has a dark twist. Why does he continue to trespass on Liz’s pr... more

The Night of the Burning Car

by Rob Lubitz

Driving late at night on a rural road in North Carolina, Billy Dalton sees a fiery car in the distance. He brakes, sprints to the burning vehicle, and rescues a beaten woman and a rope-bound little girl just as the gas tank explodes.

Later, awakening in the hospital and covered with burns, the sheriff tells Billy there was no woman, no child, and no other vehicle found at the scene—only the scorched wreckage of Billy’s own car. Gradually and reluctantly, Billy accepts t... more

Blood Letters

by Joshua Martin

The novella takes place in the city of Greenville where a heinous murder occurs. The killer leaves messages for the police written in her victim's blood, maybe to annoy the police or maybe to leave a clue about the next murder. The point of views interchange betwixt the protagonist, Detective Lynn Pocker, and the serial killer. Here is a brief excerpt from the book: "Well, Eric, do you recognize me now? No? Well, let me refresh your memory. My name isn't Barbra. My name is Selena, Selena Miller... more

The Nine Lives of Felix the Tomcat

by M.P. Frank

The Nine Lives of Felix the Tomcat Felix takes you on a rollicking ride through his journey from the cruel alleys of Pittsburg to his cushified life in the rich guppified suburps. This Indiana-Jones clone, stand-alone Tomcat is blessed with high intelligence and a hyperthymesified (photographic) memory… there is nothing he won’t tackle… including stand-up comedy, battling coyotes and being shot out of a volcano. Ultimately, Felix and his rag-tag band of brother cats and humans arrive at H... more

Rendevous at the Wild Onion: A Sis Steele Mystery

by A. Wayne Ross

Alan Armstrong is the newest best-selling author. Sis Steele is the new chief of detectives for the city of Pittsburgh. The two cross paths when the murder Sis Steele is investigating is identical to the one in Armstrong's best-selling book. As the pieces come together author Armstrong becomes a prime suspect. Then a second murder from the book happens things really heat up. When the hunter becomes the hunted and you are up against the devil it's good to have a a guardian angel on your side.

Even Climate Change Can't Stop Love And Murder

by AES O'Neill

Crossing the United States to relocate to their new witness protection home in Arizona, Ginger and Alby’s search for love is marred by violent interludes with insurrectionists, white supremacists, and jihadists. Yet the worse threat of all is the fury of climate chaos-- storms beyond measure, a bitter fact of life in 2026. And as our characters soon discover, these storms’ death and destruction becomes very personal. Even Climate Change Can't Stop Love and Murder: Paying the Price is the sec... more

Boxes - The Trappings of Society and Relationships

by Thomas DeSanto

Feeling trapped by corporate corruption at work, marital strife at home, and America's festering social problems, Tim Adams launches his secret escape plan. He disappears into the night with his three-year-old daughter. As Tim brilliantly evades a private detective and the FBI, all hell breaks loose. A tangle of lies, betrayal, revenge, and murder jolt people from hopeless boxed-in lives to new beginnings. This twisting and turning mystery meets social injustice head on.

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by P. D. Fertitta

Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles: Novella II is the exciting continuation of the Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles series. Follow the epic saga of the Messina-Balisteri Crime Family from their roots through their rise to wealth, power, and infamy. Two best friends get mixed up in the mob as they scheme to free their enclave of Little Italy from the brutal iron grip of the Bruno Crime Family. Along the way, Nino Messina and Carmine Balisteri, friends who were as close as fa... more

Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles: Novella I

by P. D. Fertitta

Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles follows the epic saga of the Messina-Balisteri Crime Family from their roots through their rise to wealth, power, and infamy. Two best friends get mixed up in the mob as they scheme to free their enclave of Little Italy from the brutal iron grip of the Bruno Crime Family. Along the way, Nino Messina and Carmine Balisteri, friends who were as close as family, become sworn enemies. Can love cover a multitude of sins? Is there hope for redemption and for... more

Murder at an Exhibition

by Lisa M. Lane

In 1863 London, a photographer is murdered, his body found at the Royal Academy Exhibition shortly after his assistant, Bridget, is locked in the dark-room at the studio. Then art expert Giovanni Morelli is attacked. With the police unable to see the connection, illustrator Jo Harris must help Bridget uncover the clues among wealthy art collectors and purveyors of photographic pornography, with help from the likes of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Sir Charles Eastlake

The Things We Keep

by Janet Dawson

TWO HUMAN SKULLS ON A PILE OF BONES. EMPTY EYE SOCKETS STARE UP AT JERI HOWARD. The Oakland PI is helping friends inventory the contents of an old house. Jeri finds a battered Navy footlocker hidden in the back of a dusty storeroom. When she pries open the lid, she’s shocked at what she finds. Human bones. Whose bones? How did they get there—and why? The elderly homeowner, now in a senior apartment, doesn’t want to talk. Does she have something to hide? Jeri investigates, determined... more

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