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Mystery/Thriller

Book reviews of a wide array of mysteries, thrillers, supsense novels, and even including horror. 

Author
Valerie Connelly

Publisher
Nightengale Press

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Sacred Night

As forty-something Emily Sanders and Dan Barton are sipping coffee in Rita's Bar, a car crashes through the front window and explodes, killing everyone except Emily and Dan. They awaken twenty years younger in a surreal Chicago where the rules of survival differ dangerously from their true existence: lying in the hospital unconscious, but mysteriously unhurt by the bl.......

Author
Valerie Connelly

Publisher
Nightengale Press

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Sidetracks

With SIDETRACKS, Ms. Connelly takes her new hero and heroine back to the other side. Seriously injured in an apparent bathroom accident, the successful businesswoman, Hannah Sebastian, is rescued by a delivery driver, Peyton Staley, who has just arrived at her home to deliver flowers.......

Author
Nancy Gettelman

Publisher
Nightengale Press

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Full Circle

Sara Rebstock sees a man who resembles her late husband, Kyle. How could that be? He disappeared twenty years before and was declared legally dead. Later that same day, still upset, she phones her daughter, Emma, who says she is positive she saw her father that afternoon. This sighting takes Sara back to the series of events that followed her marriage to Kyle.......

Author
Thomas Thorpe

Publisher
Black Rose Writing

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Without Redemption

In the spring of 1846, William and Elizabeth Darmon receive a mysterious letter from a soldier dying on a Punjab battlefield. Soon after, a Sikh refugee arrives at London dock pursued by a Russian agent who kills the warrior and kidnaps Elizabeth. William trails them to India and confronts the predator high on Rakaposhi Mountain.......

Author
Jean Sheldon

Publisher
Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press

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The Woman in the Wing

In July of 1944, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots struggles to land an A-24 dive bomber whose engine suddenly burst into flames. A week later, another WASP finds her life threatened when the rudder cables of a BT-13 training plane snap mid flight. The plane goes into a deadly spin and she prepares to jump, only to find her canopy jammed.......

Author
Raymond Clark Lutz

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Coils of the Serpent

When three friends, drawn together through a neighborhood book club, have a chance encounter with a mysterious old stranger to their town, they find themselves drawn into a strange web of scientific inquiry laced with fundamentalist religious beliefs.......

Author
John Rislove

Publisher
PublishAmerica

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Human Services: Elimination of Evil

Human Services: Elimination of Evil is a suspense thriller illustrating the human and financial cost of violent offenders upon our civilized society. One bold man of ideas, wealth and power puts into motion a secret project to test his theory of change aimed at shifting public money into services for good, law-abiding citizens in need.......

Author
J A Nevling

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Burned: A Tragic Mystery

IMPULSIVE DECISIONS CAN BE DEADLY

It is inevitable that potentially disastrous events will occur in everyone's life. What one may never imagine are the far reaching consequences that can arise from hasty or irrational decisions made at such challenging moments.......

Author
tom weston

Publisher
tom weston media

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First Night

Alexandra O'Rourke, aged 16, is not a happy camper. It's New Year's Eve. She should be partying in San Diego with her friends, but instead she is stuck in Boston, with just her younger sister, Jackie, for company. As if that wasn't bad enough, she is being haunted by Sarah, the ghost of a seventeenth century Puritan.......

Whistleblower

A tightly crafted murder mystery and courtroom drama.
Mike Stratton, a disbarred attorney, recently released from federal prison, wakes up in jail in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, his boyhood hometown, suffering from amnesia and charged with the rape and murder of Diane Lawson, a high school girlfriend, whose half-naked body was found in his Winnebago at a local campground.......

Author
Richard Hicks

Publisher
Xlibris Corporation

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MURDER BY THE NUMBERS — The Righteous ONE

The first in a series of mysteries set against the background of San Diego, Murder By The Numbers explores the world of the Enneagram (a personality typing system).

When a prominent psychologist and Enneagram author is found dead, the apparent victim of a mercy killing, San Diego’s Portuguese-American chief-of-police, Eddie DeSilva, pairs up with Pauline.......

Author
John F. Dobbyn

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Frame Up

After graduating from Harvard Law with his closest friend John McKedrick, Michael Knight takes a job with his mentor, legendary trial attorney Lex Devlin, while John becomes sole associate of a notorious mob lawyer.......

Author
Ilyn Ross

Publisher
BookSurge Publishing

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Royal Serf: A Historical and Current Events Novel

The intellectual revolt against the government of thugs, by thugs, for thugs: US Presidential candidate Apollo Marianto battles the camouflage used to tyrannize: business’ Goliath image. Having a monopoly on coercive power, only the govt. can become a Goliath. Govt-Goliath terrorizes. Corporate America, the Royal Serf, is under a bipartisan dictatorship.......

Author
Ilyn Ross

Publisher
Booklocker.com, Inc.

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Reason Reigns

A novel of ideas with nonstop suspenseful action. Its theme is: "Heaven on Earth can be achieved when reason reigns." Young beau ideals shine as battles are joined between tyrants who crave to rule and thinkers who cannot be ruled......

Author
Patrick M. Garry

Publisher
Inkwater Press

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A Bridge Back

Eighteen years ago, on a stormy night, the worst tragedy to ever hit Mount Kelven occurred on a lift bridge over the Esarno River. Many said it was caused by two reckless young people on their way to a Justice of the Peace. For 18 years, Nate Morrissey has stayed away from his hometown of Mount Kelven.......

Author
Alfred M. Albers

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Of Ghosts and Magic

In 1973, Alex Holloman got a job as a courier and met a wonderful lady. Suddenly, his world fell apart; his parents were killed and then he inexplicably disappeared.

When America's Foremost Magician, John Michaels, agreed to perform for his high schools 30th Anniversary Reunion in June 2000, he didn't know it would also involve searching for his friend, Alex H.......

Author
Debra Purdy Kong

Publisher
Gypsy Moon Press

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Fatal Encryption (Alex Bellamy)

Dressed as Kermit the Frog on Halloween night, an unemployed Alex Bellamy wonders where his life went wrong. It could be worse. A few miles away, Zachary Ternoway is stabbed at his front door. In need of cash, Alex agrees to help catch a computer prankster at McKinleys' Department Store.......

Author
Dale Walker

Publisher
Infinity Pub

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Guns and Miners

The tension rises in Guns and Miners, as Steve Dawson, new to eastern Kentucky's colorful culture, stumbles into an arms smuggling conspiracy. Several trusted associates are conspiring with a renegade general to fight a private war against terror. The general's brother, Kentucky's governor, uses contacts within Dawson's company to warehouse stolen arms underground.......

Author
Sheila Lowe

Publisher
Signet

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Dead Write: A Forensic Handwriting Mystery

When it comes to solving murder, sometimes the pen can be mightier than the sword ...

Dating can be dangerous, so clients who can afford the services of eccentric Russian "baroness", Grusha Olinetsky, are willing to pay the hundred thousand dollar fee she charges for an introduction to their perfect mate.......

Author
Richard Phillips

Publisher
Synergy Books

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The Second Ship (The Rho Agenda)

For sixty years, the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been investigating the powerful technologies of a damaged alien ship, an effort dubbed the 'Rho Project.' Now, the American government is ready to share the Rho Project discoveries with the world.......

Author
Gordon Zuckerman

Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press

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The Sentinels: Fortunes of War

In this riveting amalgam of political intrigue, poignant romance, and bare-knuckled action, six friends risk everything to thwart an international Nazi conspiracy.

In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the National Socialist Party in order to rearm Germany and reap the financial rewards.......

Author
Sharon Potts

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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In Their Blood: A Novel

Born into a life of privilege, Jeremy Stroeb loves freedom, loathes responsibility and drops out of college to start backpacking across Europe. But this free-spirited drifter crashes back to brutal reality when his parents, Rachel and Daniel Stroeb, are murdered in their home on Miami Beach.......

Author
C. W. Gordon

Publisher
Eloquent Books

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Azure Dying

Tortured by the memories of his incestuous upbringing and the specter of his deviant mother, Adam Parker has decided to take all the pain and anguish of his life and "give it back." Adam's madness plunges the city of Austin into a nightmare of senseless murder.......

Author
Rick Wallace

Publisher
Infinity Pub

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Anoka

ANOKA is the story of a couple who are confronted with strange and bizarre happenings, an unsolved murder, and the specter of a deadly drug ring, as they undertake to build a retirement cabin on a remote lake in Maine.......

Author
James Rupe

Publisher
MidLand

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Day of Vindication

In Day of Vindication, the reader is swept up on a gripping journey into the all-too-realistic future, depicting tomorrow’s headlines before they happen – a large American city is destroyed by fire, millions die as a result of the surprise attack.......

Author
Kurt Kamm

Publisher
Aberdeen Bay

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Red Flag Warning

Los Angeles County is burning! A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into the infernos, and face the heat, smoke and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Arson Unit struggles to find the fire setter and stop the devastation.......

Author
Laurel Dewey

Publisher
Story Plant

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Redemption

As Redemption opens, flawed but driven detective Jane Perry has resigned from the Denver Police Department and is trying to make a living as a private investigator. Kit Clark hires Jane to drive with her from Colorado to Northern California in search of a man who matches the description of the killer who murdered Kit’s granddaughter many years ago.......

Author
Alberto Rios Arias

Publisher
Freedom Rivers Books

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A Death For Beauty

A troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after a death-wish aimed at her abusive husband comes to pass.

When Virginia Mae Mercy secretly wishes for her husband's death, she never thought of herself as an accomplice. But when he is mysteriously murdered, she begins to question her involvement in the grisly crime.......

Author
William P. Robertson

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Terror Time

Terror Time is William P. Robertson s third collection of horror stories and his hardest hitting yet. The anthology kicks off with a second visit from femme fatale, Lauren Watson, as she returns from Dark Haunted Day to wreak havoc on another branch of her family.......

Author
Patricia Gussin

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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The Test: A Novel

Renowned philanthropist and billionaire Paul Parnell had reached the pinnacle of monetary success, but not without cost. Had he put too much emphasis on work and spent too little time with his family? Determined to leave something far more valuable than money to his six children, Paul instructs his lawyers to create an unusual last will and testament.......

Author
Jill Brock

Publisher
BookSurge Publishing

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Pennywise

What would you do for your best friend? Would you break the law, put yourself in danger, or put your own emotional and mental meltdown on hold? Odessa Wilkes is about to find out when she helps her best friend, Maggie Swift find her missing husband. Roger Swift is gone and emptied out the checking account. He's left his wife clueless and in near hysterics.......

Author
Jill Brock

Publisher
BookSurge Publishing

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Drop Dead Delicious: A Maggie and Odessa Mystery

Drop Dead Delicious

Best friends since high school, Maggie Swift and Odessa Wilkes are working hard at their new careers, Maggie as a P.I. in-training and Odessa as a dessert chef. A pixie redhead, with more curiosity than common sense, Maggie wants to do more than the dishes and coaching her son’s soccer team.......

Author
Don Bruns

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Stuff to Spy For

best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs, still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, but still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when Skip lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems.......

Author
Joe Wesley Rowland

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Timidity

It is late spring, 1945. Annette Mosconi, falsely accused of murder, is being held, incommunicado, in jail by a corrupt sheriff. The forces aligned against her are formidable. She has no one to turn to but her teenage son, Rick, who is hamstrung by his own inner demon he calls the heebie jeebies.......

Author
Tim Baker

Publisher
Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

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Living the Dream

"Living the Dream" is a semi-humorous crime story about a loser named Kurt who thinks that his ticket to Easy Street lies in a half-baked kidnapping plot. After the road trip from hell he arrives in Florida to find that Vicky, his intended victim, is out of town. Vicky's husband, Jimmy, is thinking of divorcing her and probably won't pay the ransom anyway.......

Author
H. Griffin

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Wyatt's Revenge: A Matt Royal Mystery

On balance, retired trial lawyer turned-beach bum Matt Royal is a pretty laid-back fellow. But when Laurence Wyatt, one of Matt's best friends, is murdered, Matt trades in his easygoing ways for a hard-hitting quest for revenge. Matt knows the Longboat Key police will do their job in investigating. But for Matt, finding Wyatt's killer isn't a job; it's personal.......

Author
Deborah Shlian

Publisher
Oceanview Pub

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Dead Air: A Sammy Greene Thriller (A Sammy Green Thriller)

Talk is cheap, but when this radio host takes action, she may pay the ultimate price. An outspoken, brash, native New Yorker, Sammy Greene isn't afraid to ruffle a few feathers at Ellsford University, her ultraconservative New England college.......

Author
Frank Anthony

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Living Without A Life: Curtis Lake Mysteries(r)

Skip Watson makes the biggest mistake of his life when he allows himself to be arrested and convicted of a crime he never intended to commit as was sentenced to prison as a sex offender......

Author
Whitney Lee

Publisher
Enaz

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Chronicles of the Collapse

Kathryn, Michael and Timothy are three high school grads trying to maneuver their way through one of the most treacherous times in history-the Recession of 2008. As times become direr, the country descends into chaos and the three friends must rely on the whims of their mentors who represent a mysterious and corrupt corporation.......

Author
Mike Green

Publisher
Peacemaker Productions, LLC

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Path of Thunder

China's dire thirst for oil, Iran's burning desire for a caliphate, and one man's ruthless ambition join hands in this edgy thriller that has CIA analyst James Marshall back in the field, trekking across three continents in furious pursuit of those responsible for killing his best friend.......

Author
Ray Ferguson

Publisher
Piermont Gem Publications

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The Gem Merchants

Mark Branson, a young gem trader, knows that emeralds are mined, bought, stolen, coveted, and even killed for--knowledge that weighs heavy on his mind as he journeys from the sedate, gentlemanly world of London's Center for Precious Stone Trading to the deep bush of Africa in search for the glittering green gems.......

Author
Richard Barcott

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Searching for Atlantis

Searching for Atlantis

Archaeologist Dr. Henry Randalls is challenged to discover one of the greatest mysteries in the world: the Lost Continent of Atlantis. This once powerful empire contained palaces of gold, silver, and wealth untold. But then, mysteriously disappeared. Accepting the venture, Dr.......

Author
J. B. Bergstad

Publisher
Woodside Publishing Group/Booklocker.com, Inc.

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Screwing the Pooch

Screwing the Pooch is a collection of seven eclectic tales filled with thrills, suspense, chills and romance. There's even a little laughter and murder to liven up a coffee or lunch break. If agony, redemption, love and laughter are your cup of tea, you will find them stylishly attended in this compilation.......

Author
Lois Lewandowski

Publisher
iUniverse.com

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The Burden of Truth: A Gillian Jones Mystery

Probation officer Gillian Jones knows that someone or something drove her client, 17-year-old Jessica Coffers, to abandon her newborn baby. Even though Jessica is now raising the rescued infant, some people in Bend Brook, Nebraska still consider her a cold-blooded killer and they are pressuring the county attorney to file additional charges.......

Author
Pamela S. Beason

Publisher
WildWing Press

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Wild

When two-year-old Zachary Fischer vanishes from a Utah campground, the television news is quick to accuse the local cougars. Wildlife writer Summer 'Sam' Westin has good reason to suspect a two-legged predator. But can she uncover the truth before it's too late for both the boy and the big cats?

Author
Ernesto Robles

Publisher
Loyal Dog Publishing

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The Malthusian Catastrophe

Society has become obsessed with youth and will do anything to hold onto it. Aseso Nutraceuticals, an herbal supplement company co-founded by a charismatic American scientist and a mysterious Japanese businessman, exploits this growing global anti-aging craze by producing Sinsen, what is widely believed to be the "fountain of youth" in a bottle.......

Author
Rod Hoisington

Publisher
EnteraBooks

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One Deadly Sister: Woman-trouble Can Be Deadly

When Sandy Reid gets a life or death call from her estranged brother--she tells him to go to hell. She doesn't need this. She's holding an old grudge and resents having her life in Philadelphia interrupted. Her brother Ray isn't looking for trouble, he simply wants to get past his Philadelphia divorce and start a new life in a small Florida oceanside town.......

Author
Donan Berg

Publisher
DOTDON

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The Bones Dance Foxtrot

The Bones Dance Foxtrot "...clues eventually fit together in clever and significant ways...." "...dramatic tension builds around which woman Jake will pursue...." National Reviewer "Truck driver as the main character is a fresh approach. "...promises to be an interesting mystery and romance." S. Haven, critiquer.......

Author
Mark Terry

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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The Fallen

Twenty world leaders meet for the G8 Summit at the beautiful Cheyenne Resort in Colorado Springs. But an ugly plot lurks beneath the surface: a terrorist group, The Fallen Angels, plans to wreak havoc on the Summit.......

Author
Sam Hilliard

Publisher
Buddhapuss Ink LLC

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The Last Track: A Mike Brody Novel

Imagine if being late meant a child disappeared forever. That is the fear that drives Mike Brody--the man you want, when the one you love is missing. Mike is more than just a master tracker. An ex-Special Forces operative, smoke jumper, and now extreme adventure tour guide, he also possesses a unique ability to tap into the memory and emotional state of those he pursues.......

Author
Jean Sheldon

Publisher
Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press

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Seven Cities of Greed

A hand carved leather journal promises fun and excitement in New Mexico for an unlikely group of adventurers. Instead, they find themselves followed by a modern day conquistador who will stop at nothing to have the book and the secrets it holds.......

Author
Roberta D. Hoffer

Publisher
AuthorSolutions

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Silentheart

Vampires walk among us. Are you certain they do not? Sarah Abbott discovers they do. Not only does she meet her great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Abbott, but he informs her of his immortality. He then enlightens her of the vampire existence; contrary to the beliefs folklore has led us to believe.......

Author
Michael R. Stevens

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Fortuna

Longing for escape from his mundane existence as a Stanford computer science major, Jason Lind signs up to play Fortuna, an online role-playing game set in Renaissance Florence. From the first, fateful mouse click, Jason tumbles into the vibrant, lush, anonymous world of Fortuna.......

Author
Kathryn Nichole

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Darkness and Light

Cristian West, a famous artist, doesn't understand why his mind is haunted by an image of a very beautiful woman. He sees her constantly in his thoughts and feels as though he knows her. One day, during an exhibit of his new masterpiece, he sees the woman that he thought only existed in his mind in the flesh.......

Author
Jackie Fullerton

Publisher
Thomas House LTD

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Revenge Served Cold

A twenty-something court reporter by day, law student by night, Anne Marshall lives in a sleepy Midwestern college town with her fiancé Jason, the town’s District Attorney. But Anne has a secret: Jason isn’t the only man in her life and the other man—the ghost of her father, James Marshall—still plays a big, and sometimes com.......

Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo O'Higgins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula.......

Author
Barbara Levenson

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Justice in June

Miami in June: it's raining, it's pouring, but the life of criminal defense attorney Mary Magruder Katz is anything but boring-especially when she gets caught up in a whirlwind of three different cases. Judge Liz Maxwell's job, sanity, and reputation are at stake, and she needs Mary to ferret out wrongdoing in Miami's courts.......

Author
M. L. Lacy

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Chrysalis - Tribulations: Book 2

As the exciting Chrysalis saga continues, Bree's eyes are opening to unimagined possibilities. Reunited with her soul mate, Steven, and her protectors Bradley, Bill and Rick, she journey's through a world she is only now beginning to comprehend. Challenges abound as she contends with the jealousies of her new status from Madelyn and the two newest members of her clan.......

Author
Patricia Rockwell

Publisher
Cozy Cat Press

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Sounds of Murder

When Psychology Professor Pamela Barnes discovers her department's star researcher strangled to death in the computer lab, she's determined to find out who did it. Will an accidental recording of the murder allow Pamela to use her expertise in acoustics to identify the killer? A unique cozy mystery--set in the world of academia and high-stakes research--full of excitement,.......

Author
Waheed Rabbani

Publisher
YouWriteOn

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Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest

Doctor Margaret’s Sea Chest, is Book I of a trilogy of historical fiction set during India’s struggle for freedom—Azadi—from the British Raj.......

Author
Iolanthe Woulff

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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SHE'S MY DAD

"Don't hate, Nicholas. Hate destroys everything. Don't let it destroy you..."

A cautionary tale about the consequences of blind prejudice, SHE’S MY DAD tells the story of a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell, who, returning to her Northern Virginia alma mater to teach English to a new generation of scholars, is unaware that in the nearby t.......

Author
M. L. Lacy

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Chrysalis - The Awakening: Book 1

All families have secrets. But at 32 years old, Bree Campbell is discovering that her entire life has been a secret. Like most people, it never occurred to her to question her mortality; that is until she learns that she is a mortal born into a family of Magicals and begins to question everything and everyone in her life.......

Author
Steven Donkin

Publisher
Aberdeen Bay

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Honest Faces

During the autumn of 2008, Frank Allerton, lifelong resident of the small eastern Ohio town of Vernen, is visited by a brother whom he has not seen or heard from in forty-seven years. This bittersweet reunion, however, has a pall cast over it: Frank can't help being reminded of the family tragedy that originally drove the brothers apart.......

Author
Stephen Parrish

Publisher
MIDNIGHT INK

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The Tavernier Stones: A Novel

When the body of seventeenth-century mapmaker Johannes Cellarius floats to the surface of a bog in northern Germany with a 57-carat ruby clutched in his fist, the grisly discovery ignites a deadly twenty-first-century international treasure hunt to unearth the fabled Tavernier stones.......

Author
Curt Weeden

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Book of Nathan

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Rick Bullock is about to learn just how true that is.

Rick Bullock takes the road less traveled when he quits his job as an advertising executive to become director of a homeless shelter. Trading in a six-figure salary for paltry pay and even less respect? Costly.......

Author
J.C. Burnham

Publisher
Xlibris Corporation

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THE FRUIT OF THE FALLEN

When an infant is thrust into the arms of Dr. Jonathan Keats by a dying nun, he finds
himself accused of murder. His search to identify the child carries him to Europe and
to a secret religious society who reveals a prophecy of unimaginable proportions.
Serenity D’Evele has always known she was different.......

Author
W Jack Savage

Publisher
Xlibris, Corp.

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More With Cal and Uncle Bill

"But for bad luck, Cal Daniels might have gone somewhere in life. Instead he
wound up a forty-year-old overnight grocery stocker and ex-con living in
his Uncle Bill’s back apartment in Temple City. Over a beer one morning after
work, Cal meets a woman and brings her home and nothing in life will be the
same.......

Author
Philip Kraske

Publisher
Encompass Editions

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Flight In February

Flight in February is a mix of two stories – a prison-escape adrenalin-throbber and a bitter espionage story.  The lead character is the downtrodden U.S. deputy marshal, Henry Scott, who is a kind of Willy Loman with a badge.......

Author
Robert Wickes

Publisher
Crystal Dreams Publishing

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The Hornbrook Prophecy

An intense political thriller, The Hornbrook Prophecy poses an all-too-plausible question: What would happen if the US government suddenly went bankrupt? Protagonist Henley Hornbrook, an independent US Senator from Washington, fights against unscrupulous President Winston Dillard until a nationwide tax revolt threatens to plunge the country into chaos.......

Author
Larry Seeley

Publisher
Eloquent Books

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Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

Jack Sloan played his cards right, took the money and ran. Only now it seems he may not have run far enough. Set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this riveting novel is a story of murder and revenge, with a cast of characters that drive the plot forward, until the climactic end.......

Author
William R. Potter

Publisher
RealTime Publishing

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Dead of Knight-A Jack Staal Thriller

Your next birthday could be murder.
Believing he is a soldier of justice, a young man begins a callous campaign of terror, murdering women on their birthdays. Convinced of his righteousness, he continues his brutal crusade forcing the citizens of Hanson, B.C. to acknowledge a serial killer is active in their rural community.......

Author
Ward Larsen

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Fly By Wire

With its revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, the C-500 had become the freight airframe of choice. Until a routine delivery goes horribly wrong.

Falling like a stone from six miles up, a brand new C-500 crashes in central France, killing two pilots aboard.......

Author
Christine Husom

Publisher
Second Wind Publishing LLC

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Murder In Winnebago County

Murder in Winnebago County follows an unlikely serial killer plaguing a rural Minnesota county. The clever murderer leaves a growing chain of apparent suicides among prominent people in the criminal justice system.......

Author
Christine Husom

Publisher
Second Wind Publishing, LLC

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Buried in Wolf Lake

What is Buried in Wolf Lake? When a dog brings home the dismembered leg of a young woman. the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department launches an investigation unlike any before. Who does the leg belong to, and where is the rest of her body? Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Elton Dawes soon discover they are up against an unidentified psychopath who ta.......

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders—the second in the murder mystery series that began with Murder By the Numbers— features Eddie DeSilva,  San Diego?s Portuguese-American ex-chief of police and psychologist, Pauline Graham. The novel won FIRST PLACE in the San Diego Book Awards (as an unpublished manuscript).......

Author
Mike Hogan

Publisher
The Peppertree Press

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The Ovary Wars

An intense, gripping, and exhilarating medical thriller, The Ovary Wars is a timely, topical, and all-too-real tale of a sinister type of terrorism more powerful than a suicide bomber—and more deadly than a nuclear bomb. How does a terrorist kill four million people? He stops them from being born.......

Morning Mist of Blood

A black panther, a giant wolf dog and a beautiful woman with a rattlesnake tattoo. Buck McDivit must deal with all this and more when a wealthy rancher hires him to investigate murder, oil and cattle theft, and a pagan commune populated only by women......

Author
Hugh Centerville

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Bobby Slater's World: An early 1960s summer ghost story

Summer, 1964 and for 13 year old Bobby Slater, 1 of those rich summer kids up on Baker Lake, it's idyllic - swimming, fishing, baseball, hiking the mountains around the lake, camping on the islands, but what Bobby wants is a girlfriend. Be careful what you wish for, Bobby.......

Author
Don Castle

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Pecan Gap: A Jake Somers Novel

Detective Jake Somers has made many memorable trips from Dallas to the East Texas town of Pecan Gap. The quiet little town contains what remains of his mother Josie's old family home and is the source of many of his happiest childhood memories.
However, the past few trips have given him cause for concern.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer

Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer is Book II of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. It continues the story of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur and the hunt for the millions of dollars in U.S.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences

End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences, is Book III of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. In many ways, it brings to an end three things: the sagas of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur, the hunt for the millions of dollars in U.S.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Death By Wall Street: Rampage Of The Bulls

Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, a murder mystery, is based on real events. It is the story of how the oligarchs of Wall Street, doctors and others in the pharmaceutical research profession having significant conflicts of interest, and employees of two 'captured' US government agencies-the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Food and Drug Administra.......

Author
Dan Ronco

Publisher
All Things That Matter Press

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2031: The Singularity Pogrom

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
---- James Watson, Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

2031: The Singularity Pogrom, takes Watson's idea and raises the ante.......

Author
S D Hatfield

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Tip of the Spear

Danny "Cutr" Pearson is one of the best hackers in the country and the Government needs him to help fight in the next great conflict; a Cyber War between the US and China. Reluctantly drafted, he and some fellow hackers create a computer virus that could end the war.

During the heat of battle it falls on Danny to release the virus.......

Signal 30

Signal 30, the police designation for crime scene with extreme or imminent emergency, is a riveting mystery about the intricacies of a major crime investigation filled with the terror of an unpredictable and insane serial bomber.......

Author
R.M. Doyon

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Upcountry: A Novel

JANE SCHUMACHER is a smart, spirited and often profane press secretary to the Governor of New York. Immersed in the thrilling world of political warfare, she is shepherding her popular and charismatic boss for a serious run for the White House. But after visiting her doctor just before Thanksgiving, she questions whether any of her dreams will come true.......

Author
Alan Cook

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Forget to Remember

Carol Golden isn't her real name. She doesn't remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found in a Dumpster, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.......

Author
Christine Husom

Publisher
Second Wind Publishing, LLC

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An Altar by the River

The third thriller in the Winnebago County mysery thriller series about the sleepy backwoods of Minnesota and the deadly secrets waiting there to be uncovered.
A frantic man phones the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department reporting his brother is armed with a large dagger and on his way to the county, intent to sacrifice himself.......

Author
Rod Hoisington

Publisher
EnteraBooks

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The Price of Candy

A prominent Congressman gives a beautiful hitchhiker a ride to Florida. His fascination with her becomes an overpowering obsession as he mistakenly projects her romantic acceptance of him.
When her naked body is subsequently found on a Florida beach he risks having his misdirected passion exposed and his reputation and prosperous way of life devastated.......

Author
Rick Ward

Publisher
Spring Morning Publishing, Inc.

3 Review Copies Left

Blood for Molasses: A Mississippi Massacre

Blood for Molasses: A Mississippi Massacre based on a true story, is about a slaughter that started over an accidental spilling of molasses. The offended was a prominent white citizen. The offenders were two half-breed black and Indian brothers.......

Author
Jill Brock

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Semisweet: A Maggie and Odessa Mystery

Maggie Swift, wife, mother, and private eye in training wants to do her first solo case, unfortunately, that is news to her irascible boss, P.I. Frank McAvoy. He wants her to stick to filing and answering the phones. Maggie has other plans.......

13 Days: The Dark Circle

13 Days is a morbid romantic tale packed with the twist and turns of sixteen teens entering a Reality TV show. Love triangles emerge as mistrust grows by the hours. Day by day candidates are slowly and brutally taken away by an unseen hand from the moment they step onto the cast off sanctuary of St. Clara Asylum.......

Author
Jim Gilliam

Publisher
Booklocker.com, Inc.

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POINT DECEPTION

In August 1956 a troubled teen-age boy runs away from home, seeking the grand adventures he has only read about. Lying about his age he enlists in the Coast Guard at fourteen. A decade later, his career takes him to Vietnam where he is awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry. Returning home, he begins a new career as an undercover narcotics agent.......

Author
L. L. Reaper

Publisher
Hourglass Unlimited

4 Review Copies Left

Black Widow and the Sandman

Children in Cuba are suffering an agonizing death. The cause-a toxin released by a terrorist organization hell-bent on genocide. The scientific community is at a loss, and the Cuban government can no longer hide the truth from its citizens.......

Author
Colleen Helme

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Carrots

Shelby Nichols is an average woman who is married to the only guy she ever fell for. Her life is organized and predictable, revolving around her husband and two children. All that changes the day she stops at the grocery store for some carrots. As the cashier rings up her purchases, a gunman is busy robbing the bank inside the store.......

Author
Charles L Fields

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Sentimental Me: Travel Mystery Suspense

A RIDE TO HELL AND BACK

Don't let the nostalgic title Sentimental Me fool you. This fast paced travel mystery is a true gem. It takes Boston lawyer, Charles Stone to Aqua Prieta, Mexico to see why a slain U.S. Border Agent made a woman, with known Drug Cartel connections, the beneficiary of his $500,000 life insurance policy.......

Author
Charles L. Fields

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Canyons of the Soul

Charles Stone, Boston lawyer and sculptor is retained again by Franklin Life Insurance Company. This time it is more than another dangerous investigative assignment, but one that involves saving the insurance company from financial collapse.......

Author
Joshua Shifrin

Publisher
Old Line Publishing, LLC

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Chasing Victory

Chasing Victory is the story of William Victory, a young man struggling with a severe learning disability who forms a relationship with a brilliant psychiatrist named Julia Perlman. When Dr. Perlman makes a pharmacological breakthrough that can potentially change William’s life, as well of the lives of the countless individuals suffering with learning disabilities a.......

Author
DL Fowler

Publisher
Harbor Hill Publishing

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Lincoln's Diary - a novel

"Tantalizing ... Intelligent ... Riveting ... Sarah is a splendid protagonist ..." Sarah Morgan wants the truth, but if the truth proves Abraham Lincoln planned his own assassination, it could get her killed. While digging into her own family secrets, Sarah learns that a private Lincoln diary her mysterious grandfather once owned has gone missing.......

Author
Bob Frey

Publisher
Van Fleet Books

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The Bashful Vampire Murder & Comic Book Murders

Double your pleasure, double your fun with a Frank Callahan Mystery Twofer. Frank Callahan is a gay LAPD detective who first appeared in the free-for-all mystery, The DVD Murders. He and his long-term friend and partner, Detective Barry Jennings, are back in two contemporary crime fiction stories that will keep you guessing all the way.......

Author
Jerry Ackerman

Publisher
iUniverse.com

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In Green Sleep: A Tour of Duty

It is the late 1960s. Cold war tensions and the Vietnam conflict dominate the media. John Bluderin, a drafted, dejected nineteen-year-old army specialist, has been assigned to military intelligence in Germany. Fluent in German and absorbed into the social fabric of Schwäbisch Gmünd, no one would ever suspect him of doing anything out of the ordinary.......

Author
Robin Lamont

Publisher
Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

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If Thy Right Hand

When her autistic son is accused of abusing two young boys, an impassioned prosecutor's world falls apart. She becomes caught between his claim of innocence and her lifelong dedication to putting sex offenders behind bars. Things take a deadly turn when Ilene Hart discovers that someone is killing sex offenders with a biblical sense of retribution.......

Author
Jean Sheldon

Publisher
Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press

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Flowers for Her Grave

When a young woman shows up in Raccoon Grove claiming to be a missing girl from a 20-year-old murder, the local gossip columnist and gardener team up to discover the truth. Accidents threaten to put a stop to their investigation and the garden party where they plan to reveal what really happened. No one could have guessed the truth.......

Author
Lynn Osterkamp

Publisher
PMI Books

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Too Far Under (Cleo & Tyler Mysteries)

Ten-year-old Angelica is sure her mother didn't drown by accident. But no one will listen to her -- especially not her father and his greedy girlfriend. How can she uncover the truth and expose her mother's murderer?
Mirabel Townes has her share of enemies.......

Author
Sandra Levy Ceren

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Stolen Secrets: A Dr. Cory Cohen Mystery

A woman reveals her most intimate fantasy...
a stolen secret which could lead to murder!

A strait-laced patient in San Diego running for District Attorney is threatened by a midnight phone caller who knows her dirty secret--her fantasy of living as a prostitute--a secret she shared only with Dr. Cory Cohen.......

Author
Al Gellene

Publisher
Casterline Press

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Under Cover of Night

A disturbing plea for help from a distraught patient at Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County, New Jersey propels attorney Steve Caputo into a dark world of murder and betrayal. A car crash has left Beverley with serious brain damage and all the paranoid young woman has for him is a series of disjointed, nonsensical phrases that seem to mean nothing.......

Author
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield

Publisher
Kepler Press

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Hide & Seek: A Murder Mystery

A pre-Internet murder mystery set on Cape Cod in the 1980s, "Hide and Seek" tells a murder mystery backwards: we know the identity of the murderer, but not that of the detective. David Draper, scion of an old, wealthy Boston family, meets the lovely actress Melanie Carson at one of his Aunt Grace's fabulous Beacon Hill costume parties.......

Author
H. J. Kaplan

Publisher
iUniverse

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Paradise Denied!

What if you had the power and connections to stop terrorism? Paradise Denied! tells the tale of a covert organization, Stop Terrorism Now (STN), who has both. Their mission: Destroy global terrorism.

Terrorists are under attack! STN has declared their War against Terrorists on September 11, 2010, nine years after the Twin Towers attack.......

Author
Alan Thompson

Publisher
WingSpan Press

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A Hollow Cup

A HOLLOW CUP recounts the murder of a beautiful young woman and the effort, twenty-five years later, to find her killer. The novel has three parts. In "The Island" we see the characters growing up in the segregated South. Like most of the book, it presents events from the perspective of the two main characters, Pete Johnson and Luke Stanley.......

Notary Public Enemy

Notary Public Enemy is a fast-paced tale of forged documents, murder, million of dollars vanished—and the troubled lawyer to whom it all points.......

A Life Lived Ridiculously

When a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder falls in love with a sociopath, she must fight for her sanity and her life.

Maxine's brain is stuck. Everything around her feels wrong and the only way to fix it is to check, double-check, rearrange and count everything.......

Author
Randy Reardon

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Enemy Among Us: A Jordan Wright Thriller (Volume 1)

Mustafa Alfani is mad and there's nothing more dangerous than a mad leader of a sleeper cell.  For twenty years, Mustafa has waited for his controller in Iran to give him the green light to launch his attack on the birthplace of American freedom.  He will no longer wait, but now the mission is for him not the Ayatollahs.......

Author
Bobbie O'Keefe

Publisher
Five Star

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Family Skeletons (Five Star Mystery Series)

Every family has its skeletons, some figuratively and some literally, and the Corday family, on the scenic northern California coast, has both.

A lively whodunit served up with surprises, laughs, romance, skeletons and baseball bats, Family Skeletons is an entertaining read that will keep you guessing while the pages keep turning......

Author
Mike Bove

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Willowtree: A Bruce DelReno Mystery (Volume 1)

Bruce DelReno, a retired postman and avid amateur golfer, finds a body near the golf course. DelReno believes this murder is connected to others, and that the police aren't moving fast enough. He does his own investigating, with help from friends, including an Apache Indian and a retired anthropologist. The story takes place in Willowtree, a fictional Arizona town.......

NOC - Non-Official Cover: British Secret Operations

"WE WERE INSTITUTIONAL KILLERS in disruptive actions on the black, that is to say we made illegal entries across borders to perform dirty work then returned home mostly without the knowledge or connection to the local British embassy's staff assigned to other covert affairs. The main job description was called deep cover within SIS (MI6), though the U.S.......

Author
Robert Alan

Publisher
Cycad Press

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This Way Madness Comes

In a remote Arctic laboratory Soviet scientist, Alexi Truskov, discovers a virtually unlimited source of power, igniting a desperate race across land, sea and sky for a device that could change the course of human history—or end it.......

Author
William P. Robertson

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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The Dead of Winter

William P. Robertson's eeriest tales--all in the same cemetery row!.....

Author
Bernard Leo Remakus

Publisher
Wasteland Press

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Mia

Captain Zack Adams is the only American who can identify an elusive terrorist, codenamed Chameleon. Disfigured and emasculated during his Delta Force unit's failed attempt to neutralize the menacing terrorist, Adams is airlifted to an American military hospital, but his stay there is short-lived.......

Author
Larry Pontius

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Future King

Future King brings to life one of the world’s most romantic and enduring legends: when England needs him most King Arthur will return from Avalon. 

The setting is the day after tomorrow. Prince Charles has ascended to the British throne in the midst of what people are calling The Troubles.......

Cry For Justice

Cry For Justice takes the reader inside one of the nation’s most exclusive bastions of wealth; Palm Beach. The story follows hot-shot attorney Jason Justice as he delves into the affairs of a young girl who wants to locate her missing step father, who by all indications may have not only staged her mother’s suicide, he may have also made off.......

Author
Mr Richard C Hemingway

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Past Twilight

Summer 2011 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award winner.
Best Book Award in the category of Thriller

    It is 1976 and a huge hurricane is threatening the New Jersey coast. The protagonist is waiting out the storm with friends in Ocean Beach, but his mind is focused on Jan.......

Author
Stuart Land

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Epiphany

Doctor Sam Enright and his geneticist wife, Dorinda, face turmoil in their small town when a dozen adolescent girls show up pregnant at Sam’s office—and they’re all virgins. When their own daughter falls victim to the same fate, the Enrights rush to Homeland Security for answers.......

Author
Sarah Browne

Publisher
Scrivener House Digital

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Dead.com (The Samantha Darling Mystery Series)

It's 1999, and Manhattan journalist Samantha Darling is in a fix. The whole world is going digital, including her beloved magazine, which is about to be re-launched as E-LIFE. If Internet newbie Samantha wants to keep her job, she's going to have to morph from old media to new media--and fast.......

Author
Henry F. Mazel

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The Plot Against Marlene Dietrich

Hollywood's most glamorous star is now a target for elimination by German military intelligence. Blending historical fact and fiction, Henry Mazel creates a gripping mystery thriller set in New York and Hollywood on the eve of World War II.......

Nickels: a tale of dissociation

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable"
--Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl

Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood.......

Author
Malcolm Berry

Publisher
Rutsatz Publishing

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The Foulks Rebellion

It's the immediate future.  Unemployment and corporate greed are facts of life across the U.S.  The notion of an elected official telling the truth has become an anachronism, gone from the landscape like family values and ordinary human decency.  A massive megacorporation dominates media enterprises around the globe, and controls the US Congress.......

Author
Steven W Ritcheson

Publisher
CreateSpace

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The Breath of Allah

The United States has no shortage of enemies. Some attack with technology, others attack in spite of it. If successful, either attack could be devastating. Even if our heroes are flawed and our enemies are sympathetic, our battles must still be fought – and won. Today, we look for our heroes wherever we can find them.......

Author
Joel Jurrens

Publisher
Wings ePress

5 Review Copies Left

In The Sticks

"In the Sticks" is a novel about a murder in rural Iowa where the suspects are everyone, and the ending has a twist you will never see coming......

Author
J.T.Twerell

Publisher
Living Word Publications, Inc

5 Review Copies Left

Catch and Release

A botched drug raid took her father’s life when she was 7. On her 13th birthday she witnessed her mother’s murder. Alone in the world, Jennifer Blade sets out to even the score. At 33, enmeshed in a game that knows no rules, she is about to fulfill her quest when everything unravels.......

Zombie Day Care

     "He had dozed off, feeling safe and exhausted, in the middle of nowhere. He laid his head back, just for a second, listening to the madness on the satellite radio. America has fallen! Russia has fallen! The Middle East has fallen! He fell asleep.
     His eyes snapped open. A shuffle of dirt caught his ear.......

Author
Ronald Perkins

Publisher
Independent Publisher Services

5 Review Copies Left

Currents of Deceit

It is not only oil spills that threaten the health of the marine environment. Marine scientists conducting research on an isolated Caribbean island inadvertently interfere with the ambitions plans of an unscrupulous waste management comp;any in collusion with a corrupt island government.......

Author
Alfred M. Albers

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

4 Review Copies Left

A Pocket Full of Voices

When John Michaels received a phone call from a Mount Hope City, NJ lawyer, it meant one thing: someone was in trouble.  The only person John knew who lived and worked in this East Coast city, where legalized gambling is sanctioned, was long-time friend and fellow entertainer, Gary Egan.......

Author
Pearce Hansen

5 Review Copies Left

Stagger Bay

Hello all,

I'm looking for reviewers for my second novel Stagger Bay.

Markus, Stagger Bay’s protagonist, is a man who overcame a horrendous childhood and criminal youth to go straight and raise a family.......

Author
Ms. Sylvia Andrews

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Black Jaguar, Green Jade: A Maya Adventure

A story for young adults set in the jungles of Belize. The heronie realized her dream of joining an archaeological dig, but must also confront drug dealers, kidnappers, and her feelings for Balam, a yong man from a nearby village. With the help of her friends, both real and spectral, she solves an ancient mystery, and finds romance in unexpected places.......

Author
Richard Roche

Publisher
Southern Georgia Freedom Press

5 Review Copies Left

The Romanian Connection: A Spy Romance Novel

After the senseless deaths of his wife and teenage daughter, American Intelligence Analyst Jack Hollingsworth returns to Romania to help the CIA find five missing Scaleboard missiles and to personally find the persons involved in his loved ones' deaths.......

Author
J. D. Boss

Publisher
PublishAmerica

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Deception Island

While at an archaeology dig in Afghanistan, Rachel St. Claire, an evolutionary anthropologist, comes across a pendant with strange shifting symbols. Not long after, she receives an urgent call from her colleague, Dr.......