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  • Stunning

    by Catherine Rymsha
    Caroline described her life as ordinary. She and her husband, Greg, lived a comfortable life in a large house in a quaint coastal New England town north of Boston. Her two grown daughters lived nearby. To alleviate her boredom, she had her best friend, Noel, a woman still as wild as she was when they met in college, who entertained Caroline with her tales of world travels and romantic encounters. And so life went on…until one day, Caroline returned from walking her dog to find her life turned up... more

  • The Girl in Duluth

    by Sigrid Brown

    The Girl in Duluth is a literary mystery in the vein of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train. The novel won a 2023 Midwest Book Award and Mary Ann Grossman of the St. Paul Pioneer Press called the writing “gorgeous .... Why this novel wasn't snapped up by a publisher is the big mystery here."

    When 18-year-old June Bergeron’s mother goes missing, June fears the disappearance could be connecte... more

  • The Most Gentle Kill Ever: The House on Daughtridge Drive

    by Jeremy Jamaal Francis
    From Amazon’s most polarizing young author in the platform’s history comes his new wintry novella “The Most Gentle Kill Ever: The House on Daughtridge Drive.” Sharon loves her husband, Zack. Sharon really loves her husband, Zack, and would do anything for him. Zack, however, is falling for his childhood friend Julia. And since Sharon would do anything for the love of her life, when the three inevitably make it into the bedroom together, Zack’s heart can’t stop pounding. This book is a fas... more

  • The Potrero Complex

    by Amy L. Bernstein
    Journalist Rags Goldner is scarred and heartbroken after covering a devastating pandemic that rages in Baltimore for five years. She leaves the city with her partner in search of a simpler life in small-town Maryland--only to discover nothing in Canary is simple. A teenager is missing, and it falls to Rags to fight the forces of apathy, paranoia, and creeping fascism to learn the shocking truth about Effie Rutter's fate--and the fate of thousands like her.

  • Murder in the Tea Leaves: A Blake Sisters Travel Mystery

    by Carter Fielding
    Whitt and Finley Blake are heading to Sri Lanka, a place they have been before and couldn’t wait to return to. But this trip, someone is killing off people wherever the sisters go. Is it a coincidence? Is someone after them like they were in Morocco? Or are they after someone the sisters know? Whitt and Finley need to find out, and quickly, before the body count gets any higher. When Finley Blake, a young travel writer, gets a choice assignment to do a story in Sri Lanka, she snaps it up. Not ... more

  • The Lightning Rod

    by Ged Gillmore
    When gunshots ring out on a respectable Sydney street, Anna Moore finds herself sharing an Uber with a dead man. Unfortunately, the dead man was part of the feared Mendoza drug cartel, and now Anna’s the only one who knows his whispered last words. Ruthless undercover cop, Charlie Hall, sees a perfect opportunity when she interviews Anna. Charlie has a secret agenda, and Anna might just be the perfect pawn for her to use to bring down Mendoza’s operation. Meanwhile, the Uber driver, Bassam, sti... more

  • Future Skinny

    by Peter Rosch
    Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.

  • Damaged Goods

    by Dan Wasserman
    Challenging conventional wisdom can be deadly. What happens when a soon to graduate PhD candidate in paleontology challenges the old guard and their long-standing interpretation of how the prehistorical world operated? A new fossil find lands Amy Brown in the middle of a deadly fight she unwittingly started that goes to the heart of how money, greed, and reputation are the prime motivators to those who control the study of paleontology. Science, love and a will to succeed create a fast-paced ac... more

  • Into the War

    by James Rosone
    Humanity stumbles into a galactic war… …a war of survival, a conflict with no end Earth has united under the banner of the Republic. Humanities brightest minds have deciphered the secrets to the alien technology and begin to reverse engineer it. An elder race takes notice of humanities strides and intervenes. Humanity is brought into the fold of a galactic alliance, and learns they are not alone in their war against the insidious Zodark empire. Humans now fight alongside friendly alien ... more

  • Monroe Doctrine: Volume III

    by Miranda Watson
    As the dragon awoke… …the world came together. Would it be enough to stop China? WWIII wasn’t what any of the analysts expected. Across the globe, battles raged. Taiwan fell. Fighting continued in the Caribbean and South America. The Russian Far East had invaders, and nobody seemed able to stop this new Red Army. With the world in chaos… …it was hard to unravel the pieces. Would one U.S. pilot give them hope? On the first day of the war, his F-22 Raptor was shot down over Cu... more

  • Descent

    by Marion Kay
    The cause of Esther Richardson's undiagnosed health condition has been a mystery for as long as she can remember. When a series of chilling events bring with them confusion and darkness, clues also emerge. Will she be able to piece everything together before it's too late, or will the supernatural prevail?

  • Monroe Doctrine: Volume II

    by Miranda Watson

    Through the cyber-fog of war…

    … the National Security adviser had one worry.

    Would he be able to save the U.S. from defeat?

    Blain serves at the pleasure of the President. Brought over from the last administration, there were few people more trusted. He knew the biggest threat was the deepfakes.

    China’s AI played war like a Grand Master. In what seemed like an instant, the cyber-attacks crippled networks, and then the world lost faith in everything o... more

  • Monroe Doctrine: Volume I

    by Miranda Watson

    It was called Jade Dragon…

    …and it threatened to destroy the West.

    Was an attack on the U.S. imminent?

    In a lab deep in the heart of China, a brilliant engineer had a breakthrough. It was the most powerful AI ever created. Ma Young believed the Jade Dragon could solve the world’s most dire challenges. There was just one problem…

    The president of China had other ideas.

    Was this t... more

  • Hot House

    by Lisa Towles
    When a former CIA operative and private investigator Mari Ellwyn starts digging into the blackmail case of a federal appellate judge, she becomes targeted by a van following her, threatening notes in her mailbox, and a breach of her home. Teaming up with seasoned investigator and former detective, Derek Abernathy, the crime-savvy pair begin looking into the wrongful death of a mentally-ill college student, Sophie Michaud, as well as two journalists – one dead, one missing, who were writing a sto... more

  • PECK FINCH AND THE HANGED MAN

    by Jerome Mark Antil
    A young man stumbles upon a sex-trafficking ring in New Orleans and attempts to save one of its victims. Boudreaux Clemont Finch—everyone calls him Peck— is a man of beguiling contradictions: Once an “an illiterate Cajun French lawn-mowing hunk,” he is now in night school in Tulane, while he works at a law office run by his boss and sometime lover, Lily Cup. Despite his unprepossessing manner, he has a remarkably lively, observant mind. One night, he witnesses a young girl—he estimates she’s 13—... more

  • Crude Ambition

    by Patricia Hunt Holmes
    A Texas Reckoning In the early morning hours after a law firm recruiting party at a beachside house on Galveston Island, a female summer intern is found lying on the floor, bruised, bleeding, and unconscious. Something terrible has happened. She is taken to a hospital by the only other woman there, but the next day the intern is gone without a trace. Those involved decide to keep silent about the incident in order to further their own career ambitions, but the two women are haunted by what happ... more
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