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Poets and Philosophers

by Bill Thesken

Poetamos Jackson & Simon Profit are hired as undercover detectives in Los Angeles to investigate police department drug stings that have gone awry. Someone on the inside may be putting their hand in the proverbial cookie jar. But when their other partner is killed outside a church after Mass, they find themselves dragged into an underworld of strip clubs, blackmail, kidnapping, and revenge.

The Last Florida Boy

by Tom Gribbin

The names might be changed, but no one is innocent. Before cartels, before terrorists, before gangs, guns and violence - even before cell phones - there were just Florida boys smuggling pot up and down the coast, living the free-spirited life of boozy pirates and beach-town heroes. But the times changed, and some never saw the party ending. This is the story of alliances forged, friendships tested and lessons learned - about reefer, the law, love, stand-up comedy, and a little golf. In The La... more

Spanish Pieces of Eight

by Rick Glaze

From the grave Richard Dennison catapults his squabbling four children into a hunt for a vast treasure-trove of Spanish gold and silver coins. Can they discover a fortune or do the clues evade them and the prize lost forever? The Silicon Valley marketing wiz and worldwide sailor dies hours before he is set to undo a complicated and family-busting competition for a vast treasure trove of Spanish gold and silver in the British Virgin Islands. Spoiled and self-centered, his children try to unwi... more

The American

by Indy River

An American tourist at a Chinese monastery accidentally overhears an illegal international arms deal and witnesses two murders. She is now on the run with the ten-year-old son of one of the murder victims, while being pursued by assassin-monks and a few countries' governments, and is forced to trust people who may not be trustworthy.

Dark Was the Night

by Tania Lorena Rivera

Lucie Arnold is a mom plagued with paralyzing nyctophobia. One Halloween night, three masked intruders force their way into her home, where she is alone with her four-year-old daughter, Natalie. The intruders cut the lights and the phone lines, and they separate mom and daughter. Realizing this is not a typical break-in and that these individuals have dark intentions, Lucie must hatch a plan to escape her own house with her daughter. A terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues as Lucie navigates h... more

The Unquiet Genius

by Glenn Dyer

A scientist in hiding. A race to the ultimate weapon. Can a bold operative crush Nazi plans before he’s taken out by a Nazi bullet? December, 1942. Conor Thorn will stop at nothing to end Hitler’s terror. So when a brilliant nuclear physicist is discovered holed up in Italy, the elite OSS agent reunites with his MI6 counterpart and slips behind enemy lines on a recruitment mission. Now pitted against rival forces also on the hunt, Thorn is hell-bent on preventing the key to an atomic weapon f... more

Payback

by Marvin Dixon

In the aftermath of the Horizon Life Settlement Fund scandal, Justin Kell is waiting for the trials of the Lebanese organised crime syndicate to end and for justice to be served. When unexpected events disrupt the proceedings, Kell’s world is turned upside down as he returns to face some old adversaries. Recently established as a private investigator, his refusal to take on the case of a missing person leads to events from his past returning to haunt him, culminating in a race against time as... more

Being Alice

by Michele Olson

1981 has not been Alice Merveille’s cup of tea. Abruptly pushed into a contract by her scheming uncle, Alice has no choice but to sign on as the guitar and drum tech for world-renowned recording artist J.D. Grayling. Heading for the summer gig at the notorious Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, it isn’t her musical ability that consumes her with fear. Horrified at the idea of J.D., his band, and visitors to the Grand seeing her mangled face from the accident, which took her self-esteem, A... more

The Gryphon's Shadow

by Matt Nieland

U.S Marine turned covert operative Allen Schmidt finds top secret German documents that reveal the allies’ worst nightmare: the Nazis are building atomic bombs. The Gryphon’s Shadow is a military thriller that takes the reader from the deserts of North Africa to the fields of France, from the rocky coastline of Albania to the snowy slopes of Austria in an action-packed adventure as Schmidt struggles to stop the Nazi bomb. To unravel the mystery of the German bomb program and the sadistic SS of... more

Ghost Town: A Western Paranormal Thriller

by AJ Thibault

Three people, 3 days, trapped in a ghost town 100 years in the past.

Brilliant but burned out CIA operative Richard Hart has a midlife crisis. He wants out of the intelligence game for good. But he can’t resist his last and only opportunity to meet the legendary V.M. Moodbain, a grand CIA Chessmaster, who will do anything to keep him engaged.

When Moodbain does not show up for their rendezvous at the appointed time, Hart realizes he has been set up as a pawn... more

Death In Smoke

by Barbara Elle

A bloodied body buried on Cape Cod. A cold case in Kansas.

Can Leila track down a savage killer?

After a blinding snowstorm, artist and amateur sleuth Leila Goodfriend wakes early in the morning for a walk in the woods to think, to escape. When she stumbles on the bloodied body of a woman buried in a snow bank, Leila digs desperately, her fingers bleed, shaking with fear, she knows who it is.

It’s Susie, the ex-girlfriend of Steve, a failed photographer she dumped mont... more

Six Mercies

by Simon Phillips

It’s 1994 A wave of terror attacks begin to happen around the world. The race to find the mastermind and stop them in their tracks is on. Cassie Day’s mission takes her to Marrakech and into the darkness of a cult with a charismatic leader and entanglement with a CIA cell. Never sure who she can trust, she must enlist the help of an old friend in the Metropolitan Police and an FBI agent who may hold the key to understanding the terror campaign. But can anyone trust her? Her anger and viol... more

Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body

by Barry R. Ziman

A legislative intern with secrets that could unravel the governing elite vanishes into the night in Albany, New York. Seven years later, another young woman disappears in a suburb of the nation’s Capital. The only connection between both missing women is Ryan McNeil, the chief of staff to a rising congressman. Under suspicion, Ryan must now prove his innocence in these women’s abductions, but in the ruthless world of politics—where the line between crime and lawful authority blurs—there is no... more

Seven Lives

by Simon T. Phillips

It's 1993 A young British Agent with Post Traumatic Stress and a lost identity is the agency’s greatest undercover asset. Her memory of her life before her trauma starts to return whilst she is deep under cover. While she remembers her past, her job goes horribly wrong. Whilst she recovers she is given a new task of hunting a mystery assassin out for revenge. She goes undercover in an IRA terrorist cell in London to track her target down. Proving her own deadly skills along the way, she un... more

Beneath the Surface

by Tara Marlow

They’re on the run. Grace doesn’t know why but her father insists it's the only way.

She’s clinging to her mantra: ‘Finish high school. Turn eighteen. Freedom.’

She’s almost there but now she’s wondering if she can survive that long. Her father has never been father of the year.

Since landing in Sydney, her recurring nightmares are coming hard and fast. A red suitcase. Thorns. A phone number she can... more

Touch the Dead

by Ellen Thornton

Eden Sinclair leaves a broken marriage and the Blue Moon Trailer Park in Chicago to search for her missing cousin, Jess, in a Florida coastal community's fluid world of booze, sex, drugs, shady deals, and surfing. For nineteen-year-old Eden, finding answers and someone to trust are as elusive as the shadows lurking beneath the waves. When she makes a connection between Jess and another missing young woman, Eden lures a merciless killer into her arms to get the evidence she needs to avenge Jess.

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