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The Dark Cipher

In Karnis City, justice isn’t blind. It wears a black mask.By day, Will is a quiet high school math teacher, keeping his head down in a metropolis rotting under the absolute control of a ruthless un...

Absent Signal

In a world that tracks everything, the most dangerous thing is what doesn't exist.Mara Kess leads a five-person unit that doesn't exist on paper. No agency acknowledges them. No government funds them....

No Time for Murder

“Wow! Not a book you can easily put down!”“A skillfully written, finely paced, engrossing thriller.”When the widow of David Dartman’s best friend demands he prove her husband’s suicide was...

EDDIE

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points at...

EDDIE

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points at...

Magnanotron: The Evolution

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers stories...Magnanotron: The Evolution takes the reader two years after the action filled Russia Affair. A remarkable new discovery has come to the ...

Thieves & Lovers

...the worst monsters are the ones we loveThe grisly discovery of a trailer of dead women who were kidnapped in Central America to serve as prostitutes in California leads the CIRG team of the FBI hea...

The Shape of Rain

Were the moon landings real or faked? Was the war in Iraq necessary? And could these disparate events be connected?In September 2002 a celebrity investigative reporter is about to broadcast an explosi...

Plausible Liars A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery (5)

By: Lin Wilder

A gripping medical-legal thriller, Plausible Liars plunges Dr. Lindsey McCall and investigative journalist Kate Townsend into a high-stakes conspiracy involving medical ethics, federal indictment, and...

Overt

By: P.S. Winn

The murder was gruesome. A small town deputy has to figure out who murdered Steven Carmichael. Tony doesn't find clues at the scene, but digging into Steven's past, he does find a lot of subjects. Ton...

Mancer Hollow

By: P.S. Winn

In Mancer Hollow, three generations of women live in a house close to the river. The people in town gossip and spread rumors about the women, who have special gifts. The townspeople wonder if the thre...

Bread of Heaven

By: Mark Rasdall

A cold case. A fresh crime. One village hiding decades of secrets.Book 4 in the compelling Inspector Harcourt crime mystery series.As the world teeters on the edge of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 20...

Family Fiction

By: Mark Rasdall

A Small Village, A Big Secret, and A Murder That Could Change Everything.In the summer of 2019, the quiet Worcestershire village of Bishop’s Lacy is shaken to its core. As the funeral of Brenda Wilk...

Water, Slaughter Everywhere

By: Mark Rasdall

A Dark Mystery Unfolds in Rural Worcestershire…In the autumn of 2017, Inspector Harcourt of West Mercia Police returns in the second gripping installment of this critically acclaimed crime series. S...

Lies In Shadows

By: P.S. Winn

With both her parents dead, Lucretia lives in their house alone. She has a brother, but doesn't talk to him much. In the house, Lucretia has seen the ghost of her mother. That is the least of her prob...

Just Divine

By: P.S. Winn

If you stepped into the Just Divine coffee shop and bakery, Pat and Tracy would greet you with a smile. The two women bought the shop with a house attached when they were rudely shoved out of their ho...

Tales from Waxling Beach

By: Mark Rasdall

Unlock the Mystery of the Past in This Gripping Tale of Secrets, Love, and DiscoverySet in the summer of 2007, Tales from Waxling Beach follows a televised archaeological dig near the lost village of ...

The Proofreader

By: Mark Rasdall

A village haunted by old ghosts, and a detective with ghosts of his own.In the spring of 2017, DI Harcourt is called to the village of Castle Upton to investigate the death of Andrew Patch, only to fi...

House of Lies

By: P.S. Winn

Ray Larsen needs a job. The factory that employed most of the town has closed its doors. Luckily, a job that comes with an apartment and even meals. He can't believe the opportunity. That is, until st...

Shadows of Deceit

By: Kwan Chak Tang

In the heart of a sprawling metropolis, where secrets whisper through the neon-lit streets, Detective Alex Mercer is thrust into a web of conspiracy and deception that threatens to unravel not only th...

Echo

By: Patricia Ntsama

Dans un monde où la violence conjugale reste un fléau silencieux, les statistiques révèlent une réalité alarmante : chaque jour, des femmes perdent leur vie sous les coups de leurs partenaires. ...

Fatal Pretense

By: P.S. Winn

Sometimes, when you least expect it, a conspiracy lands in your lap, even one that brings danger and death. Alana Metcalf had no idea that her boss, the owner of Crawford Pharmaceuticals, was up to no...

Disruptions

By: P.S. Winn

Things in life affect us all differently. For three friends in a small town, the horrors they saw changed everything. At only ten years old. Teresa, Liz, and Megan dealt with the worst aspects of life...

Deadly Afflictions

By: P.S. Winn

Dealing with anxiety after her mother's death, Amy decides to start fresh. She moves to anew town, gets a new job, and settles in. When one murder hapens then another, Amy finds herself in the middle ...

Correlations

By: P.S. Winn

After her grandmother passes away, Lacey is having a hard time coping. It doesn't help that someone is stalking her. Lacey finds that harassment is related to something in her past, and her mother's d...

Collisions

By: P.S. Winn

The day Lindy took her first breath, her mom took her last. Melinda is still nearby. Through the veil, she watches her daughter grow up. When Lindy and her friends play with an Ouija board, a tear in ...

True North Trilogy

The Complete True North Trilogy — three political thrillers in one volume.How secure is a nation in a world of cyber warfare, economic pressure, and geopolitical power plays? The True North Tri...

Channels

By: P.S. Winn

Where are the children? Three kids are missing in Harper Falls. Denise Hanley doesn't feel like she is getting help from local police, who are lost trying to find the children. Denise makes a call in ...

BA 47

By: P.S. Winn

When a biofuel plant was built close to a small neighborhood, the residents weren't worried. That was until an accident at the place left people injured, and even dead. Trying to survive the accident,...

At Hidden Lake

By: P.S. Winn

Three friends head to a cabin at Hidden Lake for a bit of rest. A bit of exploration has the three finding a cave. What they didn't expect was to see someone guarding the secrets inside. Doing some re...

A Gradual Decline

By: P.S. Winn

Rick Holten is a young reporter who just got the job that only comes along once in a lifetime. A serial killer who raped and killed women in the seventies is going to be executed. Rick is the one who ...

75 Hawthorne Lane

By: P.S. Winn

A new home, a new job at a local library, has Jan feeling lucky. Both of those things are a dream come true. Shortly after Jan moves in, strange things begin happening. Trying to deal with those...

MIdnight On Owl Mountain

By: P.S. Winn

People living in and around the small town of Thomas Falls have bad feelings about the Anderson Army base. Watching as the base expanded on public lands that are a part of Owl Mountain, the bad feelin...

The Pyramid Code

By: Richard Bradley

Join agent O'Hara in the exhilarating Archeological Thriller, The Pyramid Code, where the past, present, and future all collide in a web of intrigue and deception. Former soldier Marc O’Hara is...

Murder with a Terrace View - A Harrington House Mystery - Book 1

By: Teresa Michael

Charming B&B Turns Crime Scene: Ghostly Clues Unravel Murder Mystery. Local Author's Death Unveils Scandal, Love Child, and a Heroic Ancestral Spirit.In Murder with a Terrace View, Molly Harringto...

The Wedding Planner's Secret - A Harrington House Mystery - Book 2

By: Teresa Michael

In The Wedding Planner’s Secret, Molly Harrington never expected murder to crash the Chamber of Commerce gala. But when Molly and her coroner friend Rick discover wedding planner Brandi Wrocklage de...

“Stay on the phone…”

By: The_Rooski

“Hey, I never technically did anything wrong, so just stay on the phone. TEXT ME BACK! I need to let you know I’m okay!”

Keep your 15 minutes close and your enemies closer, I guess.

The Blueberry Muffin Murders: A Maple Falls Mystery (Season One)

By: C.B Miller, Author

In Maple Falls, nothing is as sweet as it seems.Clara Miller, a former chemistry teacher turned baker, runs the Periodic Table Bakery, where every recipe is a precise equation. But when a powerful dev...

Works of Darkness

Some secrets just won’t stay buried. A construction site provides a horrific discovery when a worker uncovers the skeleton of a small child wrapped in a sleeping bag. Police Chief Matt Foley soon li...

Shadow of Justice - The Fall and Rise - Book 1

By: Jules MacLeod

In Shadow of Justice - The Fall and Rise - someone guns down Detective Robert Cooper outside his apartment, leaving his partner, Detective Josh Watson, devastated. A strange, unsettling occurrence soo...

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