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Man on the Run

by Charles Salzberg

Francis Hoyt, a daunting career criminal, is on the loose. Having masterfully escaped from his court appearance, Hoyt, now a fugitive, relocates to the West Coast to lick his wounds. Meanwhile, former newspaper journalist Dakota Richards embarks on her passion project: a true crime podcast. A year into her new career, she takes a deep dive into the life of the elusive Francis Hoyt. Hoyt, arrogant and desperate to get back in the limelight, taunts Dakota, dangling the possibility of cooperating w... more

The Cut Off

by Mark James Montgomery

Cole: “Why does this town keep all the lights out at night?” Althea: “So it looks like no one’s at home.” Cole Cantwell is emotionally destitute. He was late for his father’s funeral, his girlfriend is leaving him, a blizzard is due, and he’s trying to get over the Sierras and recover what’s left of his life. Instead, he takes a cut off and crashes his car in a white-out. The hamlet of Cope is in walking distance, where he hopes to find shelter. But he has stumbled into forbidden territory.... more

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF EMMA MURRY

by Rebecca Laxton

Thirteen-year-old Emma Murry has three goals for summer vacation: finish her art terms project, land an ollie, and help the environmental club save the monarchs. But then her Instagram crush Jeb Scott and his celebrity dad Chester make a surprise visit to Black Mountain. At first, Emma is thrilled, then she overhears their plans to destroy the monarch butterfly garden to build a ski resort. She and her best friend Sophie add a new summer goal: STOP. THE. SCOTTS.

But Emma... more

Elena in Exile

by Gavin Boyter

Elena Balan should be laying low. After all, she's on the run from a horrifying mistake. A Romanian single mum, Elena arrives in London to discover that her lover, Frances, has vanished. To find her, Elena's 14-year-old daughter Ana enlists disgraced former police detective Robin Yarmouth. Although Frances' whereabouts remain a mystery, things begin looking up. Elena and Ana find an apartment, a job and a new school. Then Elena's sex worker neighbor and friend is found dead. The police are ce... more

Fatal Flaw

by Warren C. Easley

WHEN GREED RUNS RAMPANT, MURDER CAN’T BE FAR BEHIND It’s winter in the Oregon wine country, and small-town lawyer Cal Claxton deserves a respite after his last grueling case. But just as the world learns about a threatening new virus variant, a woman named Willow Daniels shows up at his office, asking Cal to represent her in the settlement of her uncle’s estate. The uncle’s death was ruled a suicide, but Willow isn’t buying it. Getting involved is against Cal’s better judgment, but how can he r... more

Misconduct

by Christopher Renna

Sixteen-year-old Jasper is finally focusing on schoolwork and his prospects of going to college. He's also looking forward to the freedom and seniority of his last two years of high school. But homework, soccer, and his strict father keep him from truly enjoying his status as a popular upperclassman. Befriended by the new algebra teacher, Jasper believes an adult finally understands him and his goals. Soon, their friendship develops into an affair. After their relationship is discovered, Jasp... more

The Expat Wife: A Novel

by Courtney Hargrove

Welcome to Switzerland in winter: Snow upon snow, everywhere to disappear, nowhere to hide... When newlyweds Rose and Wesley Blackwood move from New York City to Lucerne, Switzerland for his new job, they quickly take to expatriate life. What's not to love about this safe, cozy country known for chocolate, cheese, and scenery to die for? But when Rose's new friend Jacqueline disappears, Rose begins to see an ugly side to this beautiful country-and to her new husband. Muddled by jetlag a... more

Greyham's Diary

by Francis Xavier

As an unfortunate orphan at a young age, Danny Greyham, a teenager, tells of his personal encounter with incidents that are beyond human understanding and answer to cases he witnessed as a young boy ravaging the town he lived with his uncle at a time of turbelence.

Black Magic 1

by ChiQui Thoughts

Four teens discover that magic exists in the darkest of places including a town in the big city of New York. They also discover that sometimes you have to look at things with your third eye to see the bigger picture.

Regardless of the Consequences

by Larry Lauritzen

Sheriff Lance Tallbear’s half-blood Apache heritage leaves him struggling to find his place in a world where neither white nor Indian wants or readily accepts him. He faces the world his shaman father turned away from and acknowledges the one his shaman grandfather prays he’ll return to. Tallbear’s new case uncovers a mysterious plane wreck discovered in the Superstition Mountains that turns out to stir both his life decisions and ultimate direction. Along with his troubled FBI partner, Brad Ha... more

90 Days

by W. Michael Hewitt

Dr. Essie Openwaters has just ninety days until nuclear annihilation. She must find the stolen plutonium and prevent the mad men from using it. But who is sending the assassins this time? Is it Rettig again? And why did friendly colleagues turn hostile? Someone among the FBI, Secret Service, and National Security Administration agents she is working with is spying on her. Billionaire psychopath Tyrone Rettig must exterminate the lovely, young Essie Openwaters. Her relentless search for the p... more

Far Out

by Khaled Talib

Screenwriter Blake Deco' s life is upended when his Hollywood movie-star wife, Goldie Saint Helen, comes out of a coma after a car accident with a makeshift identity. Her lawyers see her condition as an opportunity to swindle her.

Call of the Nightingale (A James Cartwright PI Mystery - Book 2)

by Oliver Dean Spencer

In his latest case, James Cartwright, a Detroit ex-cop, turned private eye, sets out to prove the innocence of a seventeen-year-old girl named, Alice. She’s suspected of murdering her grandfather, Professor Carmichael. However, the murder turns out to be anything but straightforward. Carmichael, a leading genetic scientist, has a dark and sinister past, dating back to the American Eugenics programs from the 1930s.

The Rebirth

by V.P. Evans

It’s been ten years since Jason and Mark last saw each other when a murder brings them together one night. Trapped in Chicago now, they must follow a secret path in the city by analyzing the works of some of the greatest minds in history to reveal the darkest scandal of all time. But each minute, their chasers are closing in, and haunting memories are coming to the surface, reminding them of the shadiest aspects of the human soul. And . . . soon, their last hope to alter the fate of the... more

Zone Trip

by Kitty Turner

Outlaw artists wage war on Big Tech to reclaim San Francisco for themselves. Fight Club meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow in this debut technothriller.

It's 2032, and anarchist impresario Leo wages war on Bay Area Big Tech with his guerrilla art organization, the Chaos Order. After being arrested for sabotaging the virtual reality company HERE's property, Leo's closest followers, Evan and Lydia, take two different paths. Evan joins HERE to avoid leg... more

UNFIXABLE

by Donna Ball

Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small south Georgia town of Mercy, and soon finds himself in over his head. For one thing, his predecessor has been murdered... Leaving behind two failed marriages and a job that almost cost him his life, all Buck wants for himself and his new family is a fresh start. But Mercy is a town with a past as dark as the Blood River that runs through it, and the crime that resu... more

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