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I Killed Sam: A Novel Based on the 1957 Groundbreaking Trial of a Battered Woman

by ROBERT A. STEADMAN

I Killed Sam is inspired by the true story of a ground-breaking defense of a Flint woman who killed her abusive husband in the mid-1950s—a time when a husband could rape his wife in Michigan without facing criminal charges.
Trial attorney Bob Steadman, 93, was inspired to write I Killed Sam, based on his ground-breaking defense of a battered woman in 1957, when most of the country accepted and supported spouse abuse. Despite the long, le... more

The Spark

by Howard Rahtz

The book opens as the January 6 attack on the Capitol is unfolding. After the attack, seeking to start a race war and overthrow the government, a white supremacist gang plots a terror attack at the NBA All-Star game. As the suspects infiltrate arena security, police and the FBI office become aware of a possible attack. With game day quickly approaching, the police and FBI race feverishly to stop the attack. While the clock winds down to game time, the characters confront the most pressing iss... more

Dark Heat

by J. M. Taylor

The novel focuses on Starr Wyman, an herbalist who must also care for her war-damaged brother, a veteran of the Iraq campaign who harbors secrets no one could fathom. Her father, a despotic alderman and drug kingpin, keeps his boot heel on her movements. But when a stranger comes to town, searching for an ancient relic stolen from the Iraqi National Museum, she sees what just may be a way out. But, like Medea, she will have to make a painful sacrifice in order to gain her freedom.

The Gallucci Gallery

by K.B. Richards

Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bianca attempts to rescue her kidnapped children while being hunted for a murder she didn't commit...

The Blue Executions

by George Norris

A serial killer is roaming the streets of New York City…the madman’s target—New York City police officers. An incident in a Queens housing project hurls highly decorated detective Tommy Galvin not only onto the front pages of the newspapers but also into the crosshairs of the sociopath. The hunter becomes the hunted! Galvin’s actions on a warm spring evening ignite a powder keg of racial tension and civil unrest, capturing national attention which must be dealt with and brought under control ... more

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.

E.M. Sanchez and the Broken Bird Feeder

by Autumn Siders

E.M. Sanchez is well-known for two things, her skills as a private investigator and her love of tuna. Partnered with the famous yellow bird, Web, there isn't a case the two of them can't solve. When a bird feeder gets broken in the neighborhood, the two set out to uncover who is responsible and clear the name of one very nervous squirrel. More importantly, will Sanchez be able to solve the case and still squeeze in a nap or two?

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

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