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The Fifth Day Lady: Can She Make it Work?

by L.J. Golicz

The Fifth Day Lady: Can She Make It Work? by L.J. Golicz is a crime novel with a badass protagonist and a thrill-inducing story. Josephine, a DEA Agent, is on a new mission. Pretending to be a married, rich woman on a vacation without her husband in Siesta Key, Florida, her target is dentist Julio Juan Verelez de la Vega. Julio came under the DEA’s radar for being insanely rich enough to own a million-dollar polo team while remaining a humble doctor. It is Josephine’s job to figure out how a den... more

Mile High Lab Rat

by Ann Payton

Coordinating a college science lab seems a terrific job for this fledgling graduate. The instructors are fun and appreciative. Maci loves helping with field trips and magic shows, and the intrigues of science are endlessly fascinating. Except, why all the secrets? The dean orders Maci to say nothing about finding a bleeding man in the parking lot. Reporting missing lab equipment is also taboo. Her efforts to investigate apparent thefts are thwarted with ever more menace as she grapples to salvag... more

Jungle Heist

by Rob Phayre

International Runner Up - Best Thriller 2021 - Indies Today. "Jungle Heist. An action-packed thriller that keeps you hooked from start to finish." – 5 Stars! – Readers Favourite "A tight, heart pounding, page turner." - 5 Stars! - Jennifer Jackson, Indies Today. Deep in the jungles of Ghana lies one of the largest gold mines in the world. It’s well protected, but perhaps not well enough. Drone technology, so out of place it’s almost alien, crushes the hardened defences. What follows i... more

Dream Detective

by Lucy Weaver

Everyone said my brother died from an accidental heroin overdose—and I believed them. For a while. My life was pretty normal until Dex left me. But then suddenly, I was having weird dreams about other people who had died—and not the ones who passed from natural causes. I couldn’t figure out what was going on at first, but then I met Jude, the sexy, ice-blue-eyed private investigator who rescued me when I was abandoned in Vegas by my best friend. Now, he’s offering to train me up and be... more

Who Killed Coriolanus?

by Ron Fritsch

Who Killed Coriolanus? is a sequel to Helen’s Orphans. Both novels can be read on their own, but (spoiler alert) Who Killed Coriolanus? gives away the ending of Helen’s Orphans. Timon, who grows to adulthood in a Greek orphanage after the Trojan War, learns he’s the sole surviving member of the Trojan royal family. He and his Greek companion Lukas receive an invitation to visit republican Rome, the city the Trojan survivors of the war have founded. Charmed by their prospective host’s son Marco, ... more

A Portrait of Death

by Rhen Garland

A Victorian house party, a supernatural mystery, and two very special investigators. England 1899 Immortal detectives Elliott Caine and Abernathy Thorne have spent centuries searching through time for the reincarnations of their murdered wives. As their quest continues, they use their many lifetimes of knowledge to solve Gothic mysteries that can be unsettling, and sometimes terrifying. Never before have they been faced with a case like this. The great and the good are gathered for the soci... more

Neighborhood Watch

by Kevin Kenealy

Living in the most perfect town in America should be everything the Casey family had hoped for. The schools are top-notched, there's no crime, and the activities are first-rate. Yet, there is something strange about the missing person cases over the years and the neighborhood kids are about to undercover some dirty truths that the adults have been hiding for some time. That is, unless, the Neighborhood Watch Committee has anything to say about it.

Death of a Bad Neighbour - Revenge is Criminal

by Jack Calverley

From the rock star in his fairytale Gothic mansion in Central London whose neighbour plans a double basement excavation, to the retiree in a fisherman's cottage in the northeast of England whose neighbour tells lies to a court to acquire the back garden that is not theirs: we are plagued by bad neighbours. It does not take a crime writer to know that a plague of bottom-feeders calls for an exterminator. But it does take the creatively criminal-minded to come up with the bestest plan ever... ... more

Crime Writer

by Dime Sheppard

Evie Howland has problems.
Guns. Bombs. Murderers.
And that's just on the page...

In real life she's meant to be planning a wedding to adorable billionaire Daniel Bradley, but Evie is seriously snarled in the sixteenth book of her successful crime series. In fact, her protagonists are becoming almost impossible to wrangle: NYPD detective Carolyn Harding is volatile after a messy divorce, and Detective Jay Ryan has that heated look in his blue eyes again. They'... more

House for Sale: Occupied

by Brent Bohn

After walking in on his wife's infidelity, Richard Lee, an architect, hits the road to begin anew in D.C. He can't resist a colonial mansion in a nearby Virginia town despite the manor's reputation for harboring a vicious ghost. Can Richard cleanse his home of phantoms before he's forced into a premature afterlife.

The Encrypted Fortune Cookie

by Bill Sims

The lives of three ordinary people change when they find themselves working for the CIA… Three strangers, a Computer repair specialist, a wealthy World traveler, and a young Tech prodigy with a ponytail, get drawn into a covert CIA scheme to smuggle files from a secret foreign source to a clandestine destination. The path begins with a chance meeting in London of one of the three strangers, with a private club patron, who turns out to be an Agent for MI6. Through their ingenuity and tech skil... more

Dangerous Straits (Matt Lanier, #3)

by Chris Norbury

Once a world-class musician, Matt Lanier now survives by playing guitar for spare change in the streets and skyways of Minneapolis. He's also homeless, broke, and a fugitive accused of murdering a cop. His downward spiral started after he uncovered a multi-billion-dollar conspiracy orchestrated by Leland Smythe, a corrupt, ruthless real-estate magnate. To clear his name and reclaim his normal lifestyle, Matt must convince the authorities that the conspiracy is real. Because Matt threatens Smy... more

The Petrus Prophecy

by Gary McAvoy

Father Jonah Barlow is dead. The respected Jesuit scholar of apocalyptic studies might have died from a fall in his apartment . . . or was he pushed? All that is known for sure is that the provocative manuscript he was working on—a book that promised to reveal the upcoming fulfillment of ancient and recent prophecies, including the ghastly and shocking Third Secret of Fatima—is missing.

Two female detectives—one from Chicago, the other from Rome—take on the inves... more

Foreign & Domestic

by Brandon Phillips

Foreign & Domestic is a suspense-filled, and at times humorous, high-tech thriller centered around a rag-tag group of veterans. They are called upon to uncover a looming terror attack that would be catastrophic to the US. Their mission is much bigger than they realize, and the deeper they dive into the treachery, the bigger the target they find painted on themselves - from all sides.

Big Shot

by Kirsten Weiss

Small Town. Big Murder. The number one secret to my success as a bodyguard? Staying under the radar. But when a wildly public disaster blew up my career and reputation, it turned my perfect, solo life upside down. I thought my tiny hometown of Nowhere would be the ideal out-of-the-way refuge to wait out the media storm. It wasn’t. My little brother had moved into a treehouse. The obscure mountain town had decided to attract tourists with the world’s largest collection of big thing... more

Of Good & Evil

by Daniel G. Miller

The second book in the bestselling Tree of Knowledge Series Albert has seen the future...does he have the power to change it? An unstoppable force is sweeping the United States. Powered by a secret ability to predict and manipulate events, Cristina Culebra and her RED Army relentlessly accumulate followers with one goal in mind: Absolute Power. While Cristina and her movement captivate the country, the one man who knows their next move-- who knows their every move--Mathematics Professor Alber... more

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