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BELLADONNA, Bitter Conduct

by L.M. Jorden

BELLADONNA Bitter Conduct, a 1935 Mystery Voyage

An Italian opera star spouts strange verses and collapses during the final act of Romeo and Juliet. Dr. Josephine Reva is in the audience and rushes to render aid. She believes the soprano was poisoned by Belladonna, a plant with deadly black berries, but her botanical expertise tells her there’s something more.

Meanwhile, the Chief Detective uncovers fascist plots to overthrow President Franklin... more

The Crooked Queen

by Daniel A. Crane

The Murder of a Queen Lacey Papparin, a law school dropout turned private investigator, is on assignment in Lisbon when she stumbles into a mystery involving the murder of a fourteenth century noblewoman depicted in a work of art that has disappeared along with a man claiming to be its owner. Working with the disappeared man's daughter, Lacey must study the secrets of Portugal's traditional azulejo art form while dodging sinister forces bent on preventing her from uncovering the truth. Wit... more

Murder Not Quite Buried

by Murray Moffatt

Shane Daniels is a disabled former police officer who lives in the Ontario city of Brantford and now works as an investigator for a lawyer. The lawyer, Jason Burke, asks Shane to review the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a woman seven years ago before her husband receives a huge life insurance payment. But the discovery of the bodies of a woman and a young child, partially buried in a wooded area near Shane's hometown brings shocking family news for Shane and sends him looking f... more

Fade into the Night: Philly Heat Series, #5

by Becky Flade

A man dedicated to unmasking monsters. The woman who gives faces to the lost. Neither can see the evil hiding in plain sight. FBI Special Agent Noah Danes’ investigation into The Beltway Romeo brings him to Philadelphia and leads to a chance encounter with an old friend. Forensic facial reconstructionist Sadie Potter. She hasn’t seen Noah since the sentencing of her mother's murderer four years earlier. Seeing one another in a new light, they both dare to hope for more. But before they c... more

Spy Girls

by Joanna Vander Vlugt

A CIA action officer is released from prison. A Chief Justice is murdered, and the Law Society is scrutinizing Jade Thyme’s conduct. Jade’s life can’t get much worse until she is coerced into finding an elusive double agent. Tangled in lies and political agendas, high speed chases and sticky bombs, can Jade outplay a dangerous Hungarian assassin before her own life is terminated?

Dealer's Child

by Joanna Vander Vlugt

Jade Thyme must delve into her mother’s free-spirited past if she wants to prove her father was murdered and hadn’t died from a cocaine overdose. Legislative Clerk Adam Younghusband gives Jade damning evidence regarding the island’s once feared drug dealer, Oscar Cooper. Immediately Jade and Sage are targets as they uncover generations of dealers, while hiding from an arsonist determined to destroy them. Is it all connected? From a ghost appearing on the picnic table to the possessed type... more

Village of Chance: Supernatural Murder Mystery: Book 1

by James Lowery

Detective Jack Kelly hunts for a serial killer in a small village founded two-centuries ago. A sixteen-year-old teenager is found murdered. The serial killer murders two other village residents. There are several suspects, but an evildoer keeps impeding the detective’s investigation. A psychic, a paranormal cat, and a sorceress help the Detective to soar to the ultimate battle of good versus evil, spawning a Ring of Fire eclipse and an enormous storm creating a tornado of millions of swirling bl... more

Wedding Bandits

by Oswald Black

After Angie Robertson’s new husband disappears with over $200,000 in wedding gifts and a brand new 911 Porsche convertible, her gangster father makes it his mission to seek retribution. Alongside him is Angie’s brother and heir to the Robertson empire, Sebastian, who, like his father, is eager to enact a swift revenge. Meanwhile, the missing groom and his team of con artists speed along the southwestern coast, searching for the next town and rich, lonely girl they could scam out of a couple hun... more

Burned Out and Bled Dry

by Meredith Jacobowitz

Burned Out and Bled Dry is a murder mystery that follows Tyler, a stressed out, workaholic young associate at a large law firm whose career goals come into jeopardy when she discovers her boss Kevin's corpse in the trunk of her car and becomes involved in the subsequent murder investigation. After discovering Kevin's body, Tyler worries that reporting her discovery and fielding police questions would take too much time away from her work, not to mention that being involved in her boss' murde... more

Spygirls

by Joanna Vandervlugt

A CIA action officer is released from prison. A Chief Justice is murdered, and the Law Society is scrutinizing Jade Thyme’s conduct. Jade’s life can’t get much worse until she is coerced into finding an elusive double agent. Tangled in lies and political agendas, high speed chases and sticky bombs, can Jade outplay a dangerous Russian assassin before her own life is terminated?

The Greater Good

by Frank J. Sapienza

Dr. Jonathan Morrison saves his son’s life with a kitchen knife tracheotomy , but finally realizes he has been in denial about the true cause of his son’s worsening symptoms.

When he is contacted by Advanced Genomic Research, their promise of creating a revolutionary new treatment for his son seems too good to be true.

And there is a catch. He is faced with an impossible choice – abandon a possible cure for his son, or embrace an ethical compromise that will chan... more

Roll Me Away

by Alan N. Webber

Trucker Tim Harrison is back, years away from his problems in Whipping Post. He has a new job, a new home, and a budding love life. But then a fellow trucker is murdered and Tim is drug back into a situation he doesn't want to be in, with horrific results.

Barren

by JJ Savaunt

Like most when receiving a promotion, Dr. Jacqui Stevenson believes it is the opportunity of a lifetime. However, Jacqui soon realizes that she is not helping women, but harvesting their most precious organ. When Jacqui finds out the truth she cannot walk away because now she has more at stake; her daughter’s life is on the line. This crime suspense novel, Barren, is told in three alternate points of view and set in a fictional contemporary American city. At the center of the conflict, power, we... more

Season of Eclipse

by Terry Wolverton

The plot centers on Marielle Wing, a highly popular literary novelist whose triumphs on the page are matched only by her failures in finding and loving another woman. At JFK airport, she encounters a terrorist bombing; rather than running, she begins snapping photos and this brings her to the attention of Homeland Security, who insists she enter the Witness Security Program. Denied her vibrant Los Angeles life, banished to a dreary suburb of Detroit with only her cat, Dude, Marielle convinces he... more

Reap the Wind

by Joel Burcat

REAP THE WIND is an action and adventure thriller wrapped in a climate change-induced hurricane. It has strong elements of family drama and romantic suspense. Josh Goldberg is a lawyer at a Philadelphia law firm attending a firm marketing function at The Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. His eight-months pregnant fiancé, Keisha, has come along for a last “baby-moon” at the five-star hotel. A monumental hurricane, caused by climate change, approaches Houston and Keisha decides to head back to Phi... more

Target Area: A Leo Rossi Novel

by Lawrence Colby

In the latest full-octane thriller from #1 Amazon bestselling author and former military pilot Lawrence Colby, Special Agent Leo Rossi organizes the greatest manhunt Washington has ever seen to locate one of the Pentagon’s highest-ranking generals who has suddenly disappeared. When an Air Force General cannot be located, and an ensuing search breaks out in Washington, D.C., it doesn’t take long for Air Force OSI Special Agent Leo Rossi and FBI Special Agent Marcy Phillips to realize that ther... more

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