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Old Bones and New Ghosts

by Kay Charles

Book Two in The Marti Mickkleson Mysteries. With only one month to go until Marti meets the conditions of her late father’s will and gains control of her trust fund, she’s determined to be on her best behavior. No admitting that she can see ghosts and certainly no talking to the dead. But her mother’s roped her into a new family project, her new office has a mysterious haunt, Grandma Bertie’s digging up mysteries from the past, her friend Dmitri’s barely speaking to her, and her sister's life... more

The Turnbull Murders: A Historic Homes Mystery

by R.J. Koreto

Movie star Nicky Tallon selects architect Wren Fontaine to renovate Turnbull House, where he'll be filming his next movie. Even to Wren, used to old homes, this one is special: a 200-year-old federal-style home on a private island in New York harbor, designed by the most celebrated architect of the day. But Turnbull House hides many secrets, such as the disappearance of the sea captain who built it. That's just a historical curiosity, until a studio executive no one likes is killed. Wren just w... more

Herbvana

by Brian B. DeFoe

Herbvana tells the story of an ill-fated partnership between an illicit marijuana farmer who wants to go legitimate, Barry Jones, and a shady lawyer, Marshall Owens. Their store is successful but they're being extorted by a corrupt Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board officer. Things go from bad to worse when Marshall catches Barry stealing product from their store. In the confrontation that follows, Marshall ends up dead. Unbeknownst to Barry, Marshall had previously commissioned orga... more

Sugar and Vice

by Melissa Yi

Felony and the Feast Hope hurries to Montreal’s first Dragon Eats Festival, a combined dragon boat fest and mukbang eating contest that starts out delicious (Pho King Awesome! Tart of Darkness!) and winds up deadly. While Hope pursues the killer, dragons begin to haunt her in an increasingly fatal game of Eat/Prey/Lose. Will Hope's gluttony lead to her doom? “I’ve always known that if someone wants to murder me, the easiest way is through my stomach. I just hadn't expected anyone to kil... more

The Bedmakers

by Chad Lutzke

After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in search of work out west. But before their last stop, a traumatic event in an empty train car steers their once-hopeful journey into a path of chaos filled with deceit, murder, graverobbing, and dormant secrets.

Catch the Earth

by Juliet Rose

Fleeing from a nine-year abusive marriage, Audra Banner boards a small passenger plane that never makes it to its destination. Thinking she is the sole survivor, injured and scared, Audra is relieved when another passenger, Luke, an Irish, one-armed rock climber, finds her near the wreckage. They rapidly try to figure out how to survive, waiting to be rescued. Opening the cargo hatch of the wrecked plane for supplies, they find the plane was on a much more nefarious mission. This now puts them i... more

Someone Has Killed the Bishop

by E. T. Malone, Jr.

The annual convention of an Episcopal Diocese in the upper South is thrown into an uproar in 1994 after someone murders Bishop Randolph Tucker Cabell. Potential suspects include a wide variety of characters, ranging from theological fanatics to a slightly deranged and belligerent auto mechanic. Protagonists Ned Cheyleigh, the bishop's assistant, and Arabella "Bella" Howard Hampton, the aristocratic diocesan newspaper editor, seek the killer, in a twisting plot involving switched identities. The ... more

Lost and Found

by Robert E. Kearns

Liam Dunne, while on an evening walk, stumbles across something he shouldn't have. This sets into motion a train of events that leaves him with missing time, memory loss and incessant nightmares. In Washington D.C., Lester Stevens, who accepted a position with a secret department inside the Pentagon, surfaces after a month telling his old boss he has no memory of where he was or what he was doing. The same as with Liam Dunne in Ireland, he begins to suffer from bad dreams, and finds himself dri... more

The Delusion

by T. O. Paine

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. It’ll drive you crazy. Literally. Hotel ballroom lights flicker as the University of Baltimore announces the winner of this year’s Tiberian Research Award in Psychology. Years of toil and sacrifice weigh on Emma’s shoulders. Years of enduring her professor’s unearthly demands. Years of researching mass persuasion on the internet late into the night, living in a single-bedroom apartment on campus while her friends moved away and started famili... more

Current of Darkness

by Robert Brighton

Current of Darkness: Desire and Deceit in the Gilded Age The third book in the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries - publishing Spring 2024. Haunted by her past, detective Sarah Payne immerses herself in a new case . . . while a vengeful Alicia Miller seizes the reins of her murdered husband’s company . . . A secret meeting in nearby Niagara Falls lures beautiful Sarah Payne undercover . . . behind the bright façade of the honeymoon playground and into a much darker place—the s... more

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by Motaz H. Matar

Discover a World Where Water is the Ultimate Prize, and One Man Holds the Key. Aziz, a humble janitor with dreams as vast as the desert itself, finds himself in a battle for his future. Stranded at a water-bottling factory, Aziz watches helplessly as the lifeblood of Arabia is ruthlessly drained for profit. When whispers of water smuggling echo through the factory's metallic corridors, trust evaporates faster than a desert mirage, and workers are cast aside like forgotten dreams. Aziz i... more

SCUM ISLAND: Stand for Truth No Matter the Cost

by Michael Lee

PAPERBACK WILL BE PUBLISHED 12/08/23 AUDIOBOOK IS IN PRODUCTION. PLAN IS TO BE PUBLISHED BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Inspired by a survival game called, Scum Book Blurb Fong, a 30-year-old man who dared to stand for truth, is trapped in the deadly game of Scum Island. Driven to expose an evil corporation, Fong's integrity leads to his capture and placement on the island, where survival becomes a perverse form of entertainment. Stranded and left to the whims of a brutal rating system, Fong and his ... more

‎Plausible Liars

by Lin Wilder

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Kate Townsend knew she would lob an incendiary device into the contemporary culture if she wrote and published her series, Corrupting America's Children: Creating Chemical Eunuchs. But because of what she'd witnessed in her son's pre-kindergarten, she felt obligated to do it. In a remarkable convergence of events, Lindsey McCall is also drawn into the explosive world of transgender politics. For the second time in four years, Lindsey is facing i... more

Twisted Fate

by Adam Lewis

Introducing "Twisted Fate" by Adam Lewis, a thrilling new novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Dive into the electrifying debut of this captivating crime fiction and legal thriller that unveils the Shadows of Justice.

In the heart of New York's teeming legal battleground, Jay Sutherland, a decorated U.S.M.C. veteran and the city's youngest-ever district attorney, faces the most challenging case of his life. Twisted Fate takes you on an engrossing journey ... more

D.O.L: City Lights Part 1

by Jason Maxwell

D.O.L City Lights Part 1

Set in New York City proper during the late 1990s, Lilly Lamberton’s life was flipped upside down at age thirteen. In one year she lost her father, betrayed her best friend, and fell into a crushing depression. Now, at age seventeen, she lives with an abusive stepmother who only agreed to take custody in order to steal Lilly’s inheritance. Lilly has no knowledge of her family history and is completely orphaned. Racked with guilt and desperate to reli... more

Sledge vs. The Labyrinth

by Nick Horvath

SLEDGE. “THE ULTIMATE ANTI-HERO.” – Horror Reads When his former lover, Kiira, finds herself the target of a mysterious dark web assassin network, modern-day gladiator, Einarr “Sledge” Laukkanen, embarks on a blood-spattered mission to uncover who lurks at its heart. But as he bludgeons his way down to its lowest depths, one thing becomes terrifyingly clear: NO ONE ESCAPES THE LABYRINTH . . . “THINK REACHER. BUT MEANER AND LEANER.” – EC Greaves, author of Daughter of the Beast “H... more

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