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The Recordings

by Kyle Zona

Joseph Bailey—recently fired after a student-scandal—moves to Baxtor Springs, hoping to publish a novel unlike his previous textbooks. After a massive explosion claimed hundreds of lives in Baxtor Springs, Joseph feels inspired to use the tragedy in his writing. But would it be malicious to write about the victims as an outsider? Alone in his smart home, Joseph asks his Home Device to play a record—but his words are misinterpreted. Instead, the Home Device plays the recording of a murder, a r... more

Border Sands

by Math Bird

ONE AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY. ONE BRUTAL MURDER. On a sweltering August Bank Holiday in 1983, the town of Mabon Pryce’s childhood home had much to celebrate - until tragedy struck with the brutal murder of local beauty Mary Reece. Haunted by the darkness that shrouds the small town, Investigative reporter Mab returns for the funeral and finds himself drawn into the mystery of Mary’s death. As he begins to piece together the events that led to Mary’s death, he realizes that the truth is far m... more

Break My Bones

by Michelle Ian

A secret never to be shared. A killer seeking vengeance. Is his nightmarish fiction about to become a bloody reality? Michael Kerrigan is delighted with his success. With his well-received suspense novels putting him on the map, the popular author trades his dark past for meet and greets with adoring fans. But his borrowed peace shatters when a friend he thought he’d buried dead in the ground long ago shows up very much alive… and hellbent on wreaking murderous havoc. Trapped in a deadly g... more

Bee Conspiracy

by David Boito

As concerns over food shortages grow amid massive honeybee die-offs, an LAPD cop and a Special Agent for US Fish and Wildlife investigate a sociopath kindling mass hysteria to profit from the extermination of biological bees.

Gracie's Deal

by Larry Enright

Everyone’s got a deal. Gracie’s is complicated, but then everything is complicated in the quaint little college town of Holbright. Gracie was born there and has lived there all her life. That makes her a townie, and at any bastion of education atop a holy hill in the middle of nowhere worth its salt, that merits her little more than a look of disdain down a better-than-thou nose. It doesn't matter that she more or less graduated from there or that her father is the college physician. It doesn’t ... more

The Spirits of South Drive

by Caroline Kaiser

When antiques appraiser Virginia Blythe finds a murdered woman in the art studio of a gloomy mansion, she’s stunned to realize that she recognizes the victim. Who would have strangled eccentric but harmless Alice Aberfoyle, and why? Virginia’s boss, George Schlegel, and Detective Joe Hanratty are determined to find the killer, but the investigation is going nowhere. Then Virginia meets a quartet of frustrated ghosts who attended an art class in the studio in 1928 and still gather there to this d... more

Ghost Witness

by Jason L Melendez

Ghost Witness follows the sole witness to a murder, a young woman haunted by what she’s seen; only she’s seen it in her dreams and has written it off as just an unwelcome recurring nightmare. Everything changes when she meets the mysterious and irresistibly attractive new tenant of the house where her nightmare takes place, and she begins to suspect that his adopted four-year-old niece’s disturbing claims of seeing ghosts in her room are related. Meanwhile, those be... more

The Honolulu Situation

by Mark A. Henry

From the streets of Taboor City to the Molokai Fracture Zone, trouble finds Jefir Zaqq like a hook. When a ten-dollar street fight leaves him the target of a vengeful warlord, Jefir accepts the help of a mysterious stranger who helps him escape to America, where everything has a price. On the run in Honolulu, Jefir throws in with the salty crew of the fishing boat Monkey Fist and tries to survive the whirring gears of capitalism, corporate security, home furnishings, secrets and lies in the ... more

X

by Jafe Danbury

From JAFE DANBURY, author of the critically acclaimed thriller LEAVING PHOENIX, comes ❌, the riveting follow-up to Phoenix’s story. With the happily-ever-after they thought they had, Phoenix and Curt are settled into family life with young daughter Rose when the unthinkable occurs. It's every parent's nightmare. How do they navigate that dark world to rescue their child when unseen forces threaten everything? Beating and leaving behind her past helped Phoenix find her strength. What will... more

Your Turn

by Lavelle Andrew Miller

Ten years ago, Seven House was found guilty of a heinous crime, the murder of a fellow police officer. After his surprising release, House attempts to track down who framed him, uncovering a shocking revelation about his old police department.

Rogue Agent

by Dan J Ford

Rogue Agent is a fast-paced, detective-style, conspiracy-spy-thriller opener, featuring dogged and old-school ex-FBI Agent, Tom Wiseman, in an ultra-modern world. Rogue Agent follows Tom's investigation into a missing UN Helicopter, as it spirals into territory where dark, secretive, and powerful forces collude. Against his own better judgment and direct orders, Agent Wiseman goes 'Rogue' to pick through a web of deceit and profiteering so ingrained, discovering its mere existence is a death ... more

Osprey

by M. L. Buchman

Russia teeters on the brink of collapse, spoiling for a battle to end all wars. All it needs? One thin excuse. World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. World War II launched with the invasion of Poland. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t do it—yet. A close flyby of an American CMV-22 Osprey tiltrotor goes desperately wrong over the North Sea. Will the tipping point for World War III break the moment a favored daughter of the Oligarchy goes down in flames? When th... more

Believing Her: The delicate destiny of a man’s life

by David Colquitt

Richard Trent is a successful advertising and marketing executive for a manufacturing business in Manchester, New Hampshire. At an after-work party given in his honor, he could not have predicted how that very night his life would begin to unravel. Young Belinda shows up as a hired gun, but the target on Richard’s back is the work of someone else. The levels of control and scheming run deep, led by a dark secret agenda—a fuse that has been years in the making. Igniting this spark will start the ... more

D.O.G.: Executive Order

by Robert Barlow Jr

As if ripped from the headlines, this pulse-pounding thriller pits two elite snipers against an entire system of corruption. When the President orders a covert mission to eliminate a terrorist leader, sniper team D.O.G. is ordered to complete the mission. But someone has other plans for team D.O.G., and now Gunnery Sergeant Zach Hinson and Sergeant First Class Jason Jones are in a battle for survival. Captivity can't contain the tenacity and skill of these well-trained snipers, and Zach and J... more

The Deadly Samaritan

by Michael Geczi

One week. Three towns. Three people. Each with surgical scissors protruding from their right arm pits. Remove the weapon, immediate death. Leave it in, opportunity – at least for a while – for some medical care. Someone had deliberate intentions. Drew McLogan, ex-TV producer with more than enough problems of his own, gets pulled into one of the cases. His presence – and questions – shake up a small New Jersey town where one of the attacks took place. Town officials, business executives,... more

Against Her Will

by Cynthia Kumanchik

All she wants is her life back. Best-selling author Mona Mason discovers her estranged niece has plotted against her. Mona fights to escape an oppressive resort where she's been held captive for weeks, only to be kidnapped by her obsessed fan.

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