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The Happy Month

by Marshall Thornton

In the third book of the Dom Reilly series, Dom is happy. He and his boyfriend, Ronnie, are working on the co-op they recently bought, he has good friends, and things at The Freedom Agenda are working out well. Having decided to take the Larry Wilkes case, he and attorney Lydia Gonsalez need to find a way to get their client out of prison. Meanwhile, attorney Edwin Karpinski asks Dom to look into a fifty-year-old murder. While juggling the two cases, he also deals with a nagging injury, a surpri... more

The Forgotten Alphabet

by Steven Freeman

Underwater archeologists have discovered a lost, encoded manuscript linked to Saint Theo Erkenwald, a seventh century Benedictine monk. When a team of scholars unravels the secrets embedded in the medieval document, they realize the long-hidden knowledge threatens the entire world with a disaster of biblical proportions. The threat grows even more urgent when the details of their discovery fall into the hands of a shadowy organization with sinister motives. Racing to trace the leaked data, th... more

The Mountain Mystic

by Russell W. Johnson

Since succeeding her dearly departed husband, Bill, to become Jasper County’s first female sheriff, Mary Beth Cain has closed more cases than any three of her male predecessors combined. But nobody bats a thousand in the cop game. Nobody. And, ovaries aside, Mary Beth knows she’s no different. There’d been a handful of unsolveds during her tenure, victims and families denied their justice, and each and every one of them gnaws at her soul. She thinks about them late at night as she sips her whisk... more

Cost of Malice

by H. Mitchell Caldwell

Dive into a thrilling legal drama in which prosecutor Jake Clearwater navigates murder, morality, and justice. It is a must-read for mystery fans. Follow a riveting tale set in the heart of the criminal justice system, where the brutal murder of Tracie Switzer plunges seasoned prosecutor Jake Clearwater into a vortex of legal battles and ethical quandaries. As Clearwater delves into the complexities of the case, he confronts the harsh realities of law and order, challenging his beliefs a... more

The Highway Gray

by Kyle J. Brown

Forging a deep friendship with a wise and ancient raven, a young loner unwillingly leaves behind the familiar in both time and space, embarking upon the journey of a lifetime, in search for the truth.

Mine: Untold Secrets

by William Davis

Laura Martial and her two daughters, Adrienne and June receive word that her estranged aunt Katie has died under suspicious circumstances, and Laura is her sole heir. Katie’s wrecked truck had been discovered by a young man from the Farmer’s Cooperative, but it takes a small group of searchers to find her body in the woods of her remote western farm. Unknown to Laura, Lloyd, a local hunter and poacher, aids in the search and is attacked by a strange primate species none of the other searchers... more

Farewell Performance

by Donna Huston Murray

Returning home to star in a movie about going home, Jan Fairchild stirs up old resentments galore. When the actress is found dead the morning after a nostalgic pajama party, several of her former high-school girlfriends become suspects—including Ginger Barnes. The homicide specialist the police bring in seems unusually eager for the amateur sleuth’s observations. Is that because she's his #1 suspect?

Alone Along Writers' Roads

by Tom Wood

In Chicago, Davis Quigley has grown tired of his career as a beat broadcast reporter where the story rarely changes, and lands a publishing deal for his debut novel that aims to question the ultimate purpose of justice. Meanwhile Catherine Dallas’s first novel becomes a best seller practically overnight while she is still attending college in Massachusetts– launching her into the national spotlight. Over in Connecticut, Brady Harvey writes a self-published memoir while serving a prison sentence.... more

Year of the Rippers

by Gary Genard

Jack the Ripper was the ultimate killer. Or was he? This is the shocking novel that reveals the truth about the world's most famous murders.

Doctor Lucifer

by Anthony Lee

During a global cyberattack, a computer hacker tries to kill a doctor's patients, just by remotely altering medical records. Dr. Mark Lin, a proficient but cynical and disillusioned internist, is the target of this scheme, scrambling to avert one medical crisis after another with the help of the hospital's IT specialists.

TYE

by J. Denison Reed

Darius and Marcus Tye's childhood in rural Kentucky was marred by the constant abuse inflicted by their father and the tragic loss of their mother at his hands. The trauma they endured, especially Marcus' severe head injury, left deep emotional scars that haunted them for years to come. Despite efforts to find solace in group homes and foster care, the brothers found it difficult to escape the shadows of their troubled past. As they grew older, Darius and Marcus' descent into a life of crime b... more

Exposure

by Jan Sayer

Nova Scotia - Canada - October 2012 'a cold place to die' One morning David Kettle finds a woman unconscious in the snow in his garden. As she is rushed to the hospital in a coma, he struggles to figure out why she was there and whether he knows her – something he must do quickly, as time is running out and evidence is mounting up against him. The focus changes abruptly when the police discover a link between David and the woman. Can David prove he is innocent before his life is shattered... more

The Fall and Rise of Henry Milch

by Marshall Thornton

In the third book of the Wyandot County Mystery series, Henry is very excited: He’s just bought a car—and his old roommate in Los Angeles wants to get an apartment with him. But then, when he stops in at his doctor’s to pick up an Oxy prescription (he’s titrating down, honest), he accidentally trips and falls on the doctor’s corpse. That leads to his being a person of interest in the murder. Now he has to clear his name before he can even think about returning to LA. As he does, he has to ... more

Parallel Circuit

by Wanda Vargas

When Detective Castiel (Cast) Chavez discovers that one of his cases has been published as a fiction novel, he sets out to find the author. Furthermore, the novel reveals missing details of an unsolved murder plot that he can use to finally close the case. What Cast does not know is that author Achaia Imala is a clairvoyant cursed with visions of crimes as they happen. Tormented by what she sees, Achaia has closed herself to the world and her only means of support are the novels she writes based... more

Sniper's Day

by Dave Lager

Outgunned and outclassed, Ro Faces Her Deadliest Adversary Yet On the books, Airman First Class Wade Meese was ‘only” an Air Force counter sniper assigned to protect the giant Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan. Off the books, he was one of the deadliest and most feared shooters in that war torn hellhole. Most of his eighty-plus kills went unconfirmed because he operated alone and in places he was never officially in. The Taliban-sponsored drug smugglers who were his targets along ... more

The Gods of Sleep

by Robert Mix

“WHAT WE DELIVER IS DEATH BY NATURAL CAUSES…” A murder-for-hire syndicate rises from the ashes of a scandal-ridden university dream research project. By seizing control of the victim’s autonomic nervous system during a dream, a company called Morpheus Research executes high profile assassinations—with a twist. They always appear as death by natural causes. No bullet holes, no stab wounds, no poison. Sean Hastings is a forty-year-old stock broker whose life has become a sad cocktail of inso... more

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