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Rebels in Pisa

by Kenneth Tentarelli

Renaissance Italy 1465: Rumors of insurrection in Renaissance Pisa spur Florentine authorities to send young lawyer Nico Argenti and his team to stop the troublemakers before they resort to violence. In Pisa, the team uncovers more than expected: smuggling, abduction, and murder. But their search for the rebel leader also sets Nico as a target. The hunt turns urgent when the rebels show their resolve by abducting the provincial governor. Nico’s efforts to discover the source of the rebels... more

Murder Garden

by Ron Fritsch

Ted discovers his boyfriend Warren in their backyard garden—dead. Ted soon learns he’s a suspect in Warren’s murder.

The Vaccine

by Hassan Riaz

Five years into a deadly menglavirus pandemic, Dr. Harrison Boyd has accomplished what no one else has been able—he has developed a vaccine for history’s most lethal virus. But a powerful US senator—Scott Spaulding—is intent on keeping the vaccine from the public for his own nefarious purposes. Harrison must race against time to eradicate the virus before Senator Spaulding eradicates him instead. Hassan Riaz is a writer and physician whose fiction has appeared in Antioch Review, Slice Magazin... more

Outwitting the Enemy

by Mike Walsham

Andrew was recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1939 for his linguistic talents and other qualities suitable for working in the Service. By early July 1940, he had already been sent on four missions including the sabotaging of a train carrying tank engines inside Germany, assisting in the evacuation of BEF soldiers from Dunkirk on one of the ‘small ships’ and surviving a number of life-threatening incidents when bringing King Haakon and the Norwegian cabinet from no... more

The Syndicate Spy: A Juliet Arroway Novel

by Brittany Butler

In the near future, Earth’s oil reserves are depleted. Nations grapple to find an alternative energy source. Terrorists race for control over world resources. And the Syndicate―a conglomerate of allied intelligence agencies―struggles to maintain peace. Syndicate operative Juliet Arroway and her best friend, Mariam, a progressive Saudi princess, are tasked with hunting down terrorists and putting an end to the global energy war, the same mission that cost Juliet’s father his life. But when mul... more

Fatal Connections

by Debbi Mack

When Marine veteran and aspiring private eye Erica Jensen gets a frantic call for help from one of her clients, she rushes to her house. Upon arrival, she finds the client and her husband brutally murdered. Given her background, the police consider her a "person of interest". Meanwhile, witnesses who could clear her are winding up dead. Can Erica solve the case and avoid being framed for murder?

Hero of the Day?

by Henry D. Trett

Would you be willing to watch a stranger's senseless death, or would you be willing to kill and protect a life? Oh, and by the way, you now have mere seconds to make up your mind: 3...2...1...Times up! David Alan Taylor simply wanted to celebrate his birthday, but fate had other plans for him that night; forcing him to blindly choose between getting involved or watching things evolve. What would you do? This is the simple choice presented to David; just a normal guy with a day job, s... more

Chicago Detective Jack Fallon in the Mystery of the Exotic Escort Murders

by Bob Kelly

Young Chicago Detective Jack Fallon takes on his first murder case with his new partner Elaina Rodriguez as part of an elite task force while also dealing with dire threats from a southside Chicago street gang. This adventurous tale of mystery and suspense is fast-paced and will keep adult readers of all ages riveted and anxious to find out what happens next.

Desert Deadline: A Dante & Jazz Mystery

by Michael Craft

Desert Deadline: A Dante & Jazz Mystery (series installment #2)

Dante O’Donnell and Jazz Friendly make an unlikely pair of crime solvers, thrust together by iffy circumstances in the so-called paradise of sunny Palm Springs. He’s white and gay, a concierge at a vacation-rental outfit; she’s Black and straight, a private eye on the rebound from a failed marriage.

Maude Movay, a reclusive author of romance novels, is facing a tight deadline for a m... more

Echoes of Navarre

by Paul Richardson

Gillespie Field Groove

by Corey Lynn Fayman

When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for when San Diego Police detective Bonnie Hammond opens an investigation into his death.

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Sandi Jacobs

by Aaliyah D. Murphy

Sandi Jacobs wasn't always sick, but after escaping from the clutches of her abusive father she never got a good grip on reality. Diagnosed with schizophrenia at the tender age of seven, Sandi's nightmares aggressively follow her into her waking life. No matter how far they are from her father's influence his presence always seems to be there, although reality might be blurred for her this isn't the case for everyone. Every time she gets closer to seeing just how thin the line is between her il... more

Hidden In The Shadows

by A.D. Vancise

"All I can ever think about is murdering her." -C.B. Twenty-three-year-old Evie Day never dreamt she'd be back in Woodsville Arkansas, a small town in the middle of nowhere, after having left five years earlier, but the death of her grandfather called for her return. After discovering a photo from 1933 of a mysterious woman standing next to a tiny wooden box, a strange vial of blood wrapped up in a handkerchief in the pocket of her grandfather's overalls, and a key hidden in his desk drawer th... more

Death on the Causeway (Myrtle Beach Mysteries Book 4)

by Caleb Wygal

When Clark Thomas finds a beautiful young woman stranded alongside the highway, he takes it upon himself to help. He soon finds himself in a chase up and down the Myrtle Beach Grand Strand, trying to find the woman's fiance only to find himself trapped in a deadly scheme. Clark must unravel the clues leading up to an explosive climax that changes everything.

The Key to Kells

by Kevin O'Connor

DISCOVERY UPENDS EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT MEMORY AND GENETICS. IT MIGHT COST KEY MURPHY HIS LIFE. Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he’s diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which allows him to experience the memories of an ancestor. Key also has a family link to The Book of Kells. Pages from the book were stolen in Ireland in the distant past. Those pages are believed to contain clues to the location of a priceless relic ... more

Death Coach: A Detective Walker Novel

by Morgan Rivers

A psychosexual story that redefines the erotic thriller What happens when a detective gets unwittingly involved with the serial killer he’s hunting? That’s what Sergeant Walker is about to find out. Death Coach takes the reader on a fast-paced, sexy ride where the golden boy of Joliet P.D. has attracted the attention of Terana, a “life coach” whose talent is actually ending the lives of her clients. When this gorgeous psycho becomes obsessed with the handsome detective on her trail, she... more

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