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After the Bridge

by Andrew J Field

Two suicidal strangers, failing actor Owen and traumatised Ukrainian refugee Becky, postpone death on a bridge to honey-trap men. They make easy money. Until they reach Manchester. A blackmailer dies on Becky in a hotel room. Owen steals the dead man’s identity to con a quarter of million quid from a brain-damaged hero’s trust fund. His impersonation is good, but doesn’t fool a cynical cop, or the deceased’s crazy self-harming granddaughter. Putin’s pals are in the city too, demanding the blackm... more

The Grand Puppet Master

by Eddie Shay

“Betray me, and I’ll destroy everyone you care about before I come for you.” New York private investigator Lacey Green brushes off the cryptic TikTok message—until her father dies suddenly. Then, one by one, her closest friends and family begin to fall prey to chilling “accidents.” Could it be tied to her viral TikTok exposing a twisted fetish brothel in Flushing, the conspiracy behind the chilling wave of self-harm, or the brain-chip tech giant with ties to Communist China? Backing dow... more

Bone Deep Blues

by Brian O Callaghan

Bone Deep Blues intricately navigates the life of JD “Big Dog” Walker, a former Navy Seal turned blues musician and nightclub owner. When his brother and fiancée fall victim to a ruthless kidnapping, JD plunges into a dangerous world of human trafficking, organized crime, and desperate measures. Will they survive this darkness as he races against time to rescue his loved ones and safeguard his livelihood?

In Search of Tom Candy

by Dairl M. Johnson

In 1904, journalist John Stanton, the son of the man who had been Abe Lincoln’s secretary of war, seeks to clear his father of being implicated in the death of America’s towering sixteenth president. A trove of incriminating and circumstantial evidence has led a mob of revisionist historians to accuse Secretary Edwin Stanton of being at the heart of the assassination plot. But John believes he’s found the key as to why his father is being smeared: a large, far-reaching conspiracy that ranges f... more

Rainbow Warrior

by BB Clifford

More than a year has passed since the fire. The destruction of a home is bad enough, but the remaining members of Dylan’s family perished in the fire, so grief has followed Dylan in relentless pursuit. Never one to pass up an opportunity, Max, Dylan’s first love, seized what he could from a grief-stricken Dylan. He would have taken everything, but the fire gave Dylan an inexplicable strength to escape, so they fled Rotherwell in search of a new life across the Atlantic. But Max doesn’t let h... more

Tangled Knot: The tale of Eris of suburbia

by BB Clifford

Eris once believed that she could keep herself safe from the suburban beast that slithered around the swampland of a small town on the US East Coast. She hid herself away behind latches and bolts and locks, making a fortress of her family home. They called this recluse a witch, and if she had lived in another age, this suburban misfit would have been hanged or burned at the stake. Despite her fortress, the dangers still found Eris. As if myths and legends were true all along, her family was t... more

Ink and Intrigue at Ivy Tree Inn

by Ellen Butler

In 1958, amidst male-dominated workplaces and pressure for women to conform to stylish housewife roles, Ariadne Winter aspires solely to be fashionable, discarding the wife and mother expectation. Assigned to interview a Hollywood starlet on the cusp of royal matrimony for Ladies’ Lifestyle Magazine, she dreams to be an investigative reporter with a serious newspaper. Fate intervenes when she discovers a body and sees it as her ticket to the role she desires. Delving into the inn's secrets,... more

Mademoiselle Le Sleuth

by Theasa Tuohy

Paris thrums with life and mystery in the days before Notre Dame’s tragic fire. Vicki, a harried reporter, and her spirited four-year-old daughter, Miranda, navigate their bustling lives alongside Sarah, Vicki’s sister, an American actress newly arrived in the City of Light. The trio’s routine shatters when Sarah’s low-budget play becomes the stage for real-life intrigue and murder. As Sarah fights to keep the production alive despite the unsettling murder of a fellow actress, she finds hersel... more

Anchor’s Road: An Ian Reed Supernatural Thriller

by William Davis

A mystical object brings the CIA, Mossad, crime syndicates, and the Holy Roman Church into conflict. A father and son get caught in the middle as forces collide. Ian Reed, a former Philadelphia police officer, moves his family to a small lakeside community in western Maryland to look after his father and the family marina. Otter, Ian’s father, who’s struggling with Alzheimer’s reveals an ancient artifact he’s kept hidden for years. After his home health aide posts a picture of it on Facebo... more

Valuing Only Us

by Cory Desmond Wolfe

Ted Sullivan, an adopted boy who sprouted up on a modest farm in Oklahoma, is left penniless after the family livestock meat business goes under. Ted dreams of funneling the trauma he experienced in the slaughterhouse into a green billion-dollar company that will live forever. Meanwhile, Alec Young, a rich boy from Iowa whose family owns one of the largest producers of agricultural combines, endures verbal and physical assault from his father. Yet deep down, all Alec wants is to make his father ... more

Growler to Grave: Black OOps Detective Mystery Book 2

by Marissa Allen

Ex-FBI agent Tracy Black and ex-Navy SEAL Adam Slade are back in Growler to Grave, the second in the Black OOps Detective series! This stand-alone sequel to Cad to Cadaver finds partners Tracy and Adam embroiled in another zany rom/com mystery. Adam, a man of few words, and Tracy, a woman of many, are arguably a match made in Heaven. Catching brewmeister Blake Geist’s cheating spouse isn’t the most desirable job for these audacious private detectives, but money’s tight.... more

The Girl from Chapel Hill (Book 2): Legacy of a Praying Mama

by vanester williams

This book is the much-anticipated sequel to “The Girl from Chapel Hill: Her Journey of Faith, Forgiveness, and Freedom.” Laura has never forgotten the faith-filled lessons learned from her maternal grandmother. With a fearless determination – anchored in prayer - she passes these lessons on to her family. Travel on an unforgettable, suspenseful, and sometimes frightening journey with her family as they endure one challenge after another. Yet, at each juncture, somebody is fervently praying. ... more

The Yamanaka Factors

by Jed Henson

Fall 2028. Mickey Cooper, an elderly homeless man, receives an incredible proposition from a rogue pharmaceutical company: “Be our secret guinea pig for our new drug and we’ll pay you life-changing money, which you’ll be able to enjoy because if (cough) when the treatment works, two months from now your body will be youthened to twenty-three years old.” When his treatment proves more difficult than expected and corporate espionage turns deadly, Mickey finds himself flanked by internal corrupt... more

Locked Box

by Rebecca A. Miles

Celine Arceneau was admitted to the hospital for food poisoning and declared medically stable before her physician, Ellen Smythe, left for the evening. When she died the next morning from an unknown cause, Chief Detective Stefan Jablonsky suspects foul play and eyes Dr. Smythe, Dr. Kate Chambers’ friend and mentor, as his prime suspect. Pittsburgh’s amateur sleuth quickly joins the fight to prove her friend’s innocence. Chief Detective Jablonsky and Kate Chambers have worked together in the p... more

Failure Point

by Doug Williams

Is it possible to really know your spouse? Nick Faulkner is about to find out . . . if he can stay alive. Nick—a former FBI star whose career mysteriously tanked—returns home one day to find that his wife Lexi has walked out on him and simply vanished. Then, he discovers she’s part of a cult-like church. He doesn’t believe for a second she’s suddenly found religion, but is convinced she’s been kidnapped and recruits a band of similarly disgraced ex-agents to spring her from the cult’s hea... more

Walking Banks

by AH White

In a gripping narrative of intrigue and corruption, "Walking Banks" takes you deep into the heart of Beijing where a serial killer is on the hunt for a treasure buried in human flesh. When a high-ranking U.S. Embassy official is violently murdered in Beijing, seasoned security officer Jack Decker is reluctantly dragged back into action to unravel the mystery. Teaming up with the relentless Zheng Lei, a prodigious Beijing police officer, Jack delves deep into the investigation, uncovering a st... more

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