A Day for Bones
A catastrophic flood scatters a human skeleton along Main street. As Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller investigates, the dark secrets of a successful family emerge, until someone lurking in the shadows resorts to murder to keep them hidden.
A Disturbing Nature
Mid-August 1975, Maurice “Mo” Lumen is exiled from his home in Virginia, bearing the weight of what he’s left behind—accusations, a half-brother, and an inhospitable cot. With the mind and heart of an eleven-year-old—the result of a self-described “accident”—and a love of baseball, Mo emerges in Rhode Island just shy of his twenty-fifth birthday. As summer yields to a rain-soaked fall, his frustration rises when news of a prolific killer in the region, nicknamed the Pastoral Predator, overshadows the Red Sox march to the World Series, and Mo unwittingly becomes a central figure in the investigation. FBI Chief Investigator Francis Palmer, fresh off the ensnarement of a monster—Ted Bundy—is thrust into the Pastoral Predator’s destructive path. Permanently scarred by every killer he’s hunted down, The Beast inside Palmer simmers as the investigation hits closer to home, forcing him to confront his demons. By the time Mo and Palmer’s paths collide, a dozen young women are dead. As the list of suspects narrows, Palmer’s confidence is shaken, and Mo begins to doubt his own innocence. Unable to escape their histories, they become increasingly isolated, and old secrets resurface. Who is destined to pay for the sins of their fathers, and who will pay for their own? A Disturbing Nature is a psychological thriller and coming-of-age story that examines Post-World War II America, exploring the heredity of prejudice, the hypocrisy of privilege, and the blurred line between man and monster.
A Passion for Murder
Another heinous crime occurs in Alaska. With no time to heal from the last brutal case of The Snowman, and Stowy Jenkins, Detective Quaid returns to his job. PTSD, a former lover, and an odious villain test his mettle and sanity.
A Pickleball Poison
When Esther drops with her drop shot on the Pickkleball court inner retirement community, amateur sleuth Angelina suspects foul play. As she uncovers clues and motives she also enhances her relationship with widower detective Guy Luccino. A fun cozy mystery revolving around America’s fastest growing sport.
A Seed for Murder
Introducing the latest addition to the thrilling Mancuso and O’Brian Crime Mysteries series – “A Seed for Murder”! In this gripping tale of industrial espionage and murder, author Owen Parr takes you on a journey into the world of genetically modified crops, exposing a web of deceit and greed that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Did Myrna Tucker really commit suicide, or was there something more sinister at play? With NuvoSeed fearing that their intellectual property has been stolen and the company on the brink of a lucrative sale, could they be hiding the truth about Myrna’s death and the server breaches from the acquiring company?
Adverse Effects (Memory Thieves Series, Book 1)
“A riveting adventure into the world of memory control where nightmarish consequences await. Memorable characters and a chilling plot are certain to keep the reader turning pages deep into the night.”–Leonard Goldberg, author of the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mysteries
An Amazing Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
In this darkly humorous and philosophically engaging sci-fi novel, a wayward young woman and her straight-laced companion awake from 200 years of “suspended life” to a future that challenges many ideas about what it means to be and to remain human. The technological changes that have transpired during their long sleep rattle them, but even more mind-boggling are the startling views they must grapple with regarding human evolution. Although they do not know it, the two young visitors from the past have a significant role to play in humankind’s unfolding drama. The citizens of this post-apocalyptic world hope to discover from their time travelers some clue that might explain humanity’s downward slide towards oblivion. And if this small survival colony fails to come up with a rescue plan, there is still Ike, an extraordinarily creative AI who has an existential trick up its sleeve to save the human footprint. But Ike’s remedy might not be the sort of salvation most of us would readily embrace. Though as he sees it, “desperate times require desperate measures.” And with the hands of Doomsday’s clock perched just nanoseconds before midnight, the times could not be more so.
Assignment Potsdam: Countdown To War
A plot to assasinate Khrushchev and to remove JFK drags Colonel McDesmond into international intrigue.
At Any Cost (D’Accio Investigations Book 1)
Private Investigator Curt D’Accio was hired by wolf-shifter Russell Chandler to track his wayward half-sister down and convince her to return home. After weeks of chasing Tabitha’s boat wake, he found her. And a boatload of animosity toward her family. Undaunted, Curt persevered, and Tabitha eventually agrees to return with him.
Curt barely survives the ambush outside their hotel. Who attacked them? Why? The police are stymied: no motive, no leads, no suspects, and their case quickly goes cold. Curt refuses to give up, determined to find the answers and the one responsible for her murder.
Behind the mask
Jason Tanner and his partner Jennifer Jones are up against crooked politicians in this stunning new novel.
Beyond Midnight: Seven Peculiar Tales of Mystery and Suspense.
A collection of seven strange and supernatural tales from the storyteller who gave voice to The Midnight Society of Are You Afraid of the Dark? These yarns invite you into the lives of several individuals who find themselves trapped in unusual dilemmas that range from eerie to impossible, from frightening to deadly. Join bestselling author D.J. MacHale on a twisted journey that will take you to the limits of sanity and challenge you to find a way back.
Big Trouble in Little Greektown (A Goddess of Greene St. Mystery Book 3)
In a tourist town on Lake Michigan, Athena Spencer keeps busy raising a son (and a pet raccoon named Oscar) while working at her family’s garden center. But sometimes, she also has to get the dirt on a murderer, in the new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries . . .
Blessed Curse
BLESSED CURSE. Deeply scarred from her childhood, Jorie Wainright has pledged to remain childless. Fate intervenes to give her a child, but immediately powerful otherworldly forces threaten the baby’s survival. Even though the child’s birth will jeopardize her future with the man of her dreams, Logan Mathis, the child’s father, Jorie fights to save her unborn. With a psychic connection forged in a mountain mist on the edge of the rational world, Jorie, Logan, and four childhood friends engage in a battle that may destroy them.
Bye Baby Bye: Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles Book 19
Bye Baby Bye Synopsis My protagonist is Madison Dawn Jackson, a law enforcement officer with the Texas Department of Fish and Wildlife. Madison is thirty years old. She has one nine-month-old child named Anna. They live with Madison’s father, Grant Jackson, a retired Texas Ranger. In a previous book named Justice, Madison was captured by the Mexican Jalisco New Generation Cartel and sold to the second in command of that organization, Jose Miranda. She was forced to marry him. Anna is the child of that forced marriage. Madison escapes the clutches of Miranda when her father rescues her from Miranda’s mansion in Tenancingo, Mexico and takes her home to Magnolia Bluff, Texas. Madison discovers her child has been kidnapped from her crib while everyone slept. Several law enforcement agencies become involve in the investigation: the local Magnolia Bluff Police Department, the Texas State Police, the Texas Rangers, and the FBI. Each law enforcement agency attempts to seize control. Madison wonders if someone she previously arrested might be the culprit that abducted her child.
Call to a Nightmare
It was the Roaring Twenties. The era of flappers, bootleggers and G-men. Spiritalism was al the rage. Everyone wanted to talk to the dead. Except Dr. Alex Gabriel, the country’s leading skeptic. Until he met Savannah Bishop, America’s most unique Medium. Together, they set out to solve a series of brutal murders that range fromt the glitz of Hollywood to the backwoods of Arkansas to the Bohemian Left Bank of Paris.
Can’t See Around Corners
Two fraternal twins, Sharon and Annie are the only children of Edna and Warren Karce. They are the future of the highly famed socialite dynasty. The girls have graduated with honors and look forward to their trip to Europe. The sisters’ love for one another is obvious but a sinister force of malicious feelings dwells beneath their façade of shared contentment. Once abroad and with their hypervigilant parents absent, treachery, deceit, and wickedness develop intensely between the girls, and their relationship advances into the vilest possible nightmare, changing their lives forever. The discovery of an ancient, mysterious pendant formerly owned by Vlad, the Impaler from Dracula’s Castle begins an epic spiral of demonic incidents that traumatize not only the
twin girls lives while in Romania but has the ability to penetrate their family’s existence back home in Australia. How will the highly renowned family survive the unforeseen satanic entity, integrated with the discreditable exploits from the once idolized and respected daughters of the Karce Empire?
Chasing Time
A Literary Titan Gold Award winner, Chasing Time takes the reader on a thrilling adventure as history professor Tony Lucas seeks to unravel clues from an ancient time-bending key in an effort to save his wife from the throes of a devastating and deadly disease. The story takes the classic medical drama, historical fiction, and fantasy genres, and turns them all completely on their heads. With its sharp, precise, and witty style, Chasing Time is an engaging, must-read story like nothing like you have read before.
Claiming Lily
Can the billionaire win her trust, and rescue her? While studying abroad, I was drugged, kidnapped, and imprisoned . . . in a Hong Kong brothel. After several failed attempts to escape, I know my time is running out. My innocence is about to be sold to the highest bidder.
Cyclist Down: Mariner’s Story 1 (Mariner’s Story)
Cyclist Down – Mariner’s Story #1
Shelly is the perfect young mother cycling home from work. Chuck is out of control, drinking, drugs, dangerous, but he is driving a big car and feeling good. A terrible accident happens and Detective Mariner has to find the evidence and fight for justice in court. The outcome will change people’s lives.
Danger in Plain Sight
For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler. “Weissbourd has created an entire genre—Seattle Noir… I devoured the novel in a single night, and I think you will, too.” —Jacob Epstein, writer and executive story editor, Hill Street Blues Celebrated restaurateur Callie James is stunned when her estranged ex-husband, French investigative reporter Daniel Odile-Grand, strolls into her restaurant on what could have been any Seattle evening. After fourteen years, the story he tells is even more unlikely than his sudden appearance. As she throws him out into the darkness, her nightmare begins. Daniel is deliberately hit by a car, hurled through the front window of her restaurant—broken, bloody and unconscious… Reluctantly, Callie hides him. Returning to her restaurant, she is greeted by two assassins insisting that she produce Daniel or pay deadly consequences. Overwhelmed, and hopelessly out of her depth, Callie hires the only man she knows who can help her: Cash Logan. Callie can’t imagine relying on Cash, a soldier of fortune… and her former bartender, a man she had arrested for smuggling ivory through her restaurant two years earlier, a man who still hasn’t forgiven her. After a devastating attack on her restaurant, with danger in plain sight, Callie and Cash face kidnappers, murderers, weapons dealers, and treachery at every turn. Ultimately, Callie is forced to change—to become authentically self-aware—with stunning consequences.
Dead Code: A Trisha Carson Mystery
Amateur sleuth Trisha Carson is being watched. By a laptop that tracks her online life. By a blue-eyed athlete who guides her through an open water swim. And by Frida, her smart refrigerator. What are they looking for? A determined Trisha hunts down her stalkers and stumbles across a grim plan that will echo throughout the West Coast.
Defeat of the Wicked Iniquitous
This is a sensational dramatic book where the power of good defeats very dark evil, with a beautiful very happy ending. The purpose of my “Defeat of The Wicked Iniquitous” book is to illustrate my new ‘non-fiction’ economic system concept called MIDDLE CLASS CAPITALISM (MCC). It can be real in about 5 years. It is the people’s most powerful corporation ever, ensured by ownership by all of us of the new cyber secure YOUR SPACE WORLD Global Internet with endless profit centers for everyone. The people’s corporation law ensures it is owned with the combined economic power, labor and capital of all 7 billion of us, sealed with a free share of initial stock. These MCC Economic Warriors defeat the crony wicked global capitalists and greedy evil profiteers. This is a sensational dark, good defeats evil parody fiction drama in the MADEVIL ERA.
Downeast: This Blessed Assurance
Shortly after a brutal attack left Percy Black with gunshot wounds to his arm and face, and his lover Starr Knitter with a desperate bullet wound to her pelvis, their love story continues to gunshot wounds to his arm and face, he tries to rebuild his relationship with his son. His lover, Starr Knitter, having narrowly survived a gunshot wound to her pelvis , their love story continues to evolve slowly, like a smoldering fire. But fate has a cruel twist. From her hospital bed, Starr delivers a shocking message to Percy — a young mother has been discovered dead, her body entwined in the weeds of a local pond. That same night, little Carol, the young mother’s daughter, is found battered and terrified, weeping alone in a motel closet. Percy rushes back to Maine to comfort Starr and to do what can be done to shield Starr and Carol from the ruthless forces that pursue them. Though Percy and Starr are physically apart, they make plans to confront the evils that surround them. Percy must venture deep into the untamed wildness of far eastern Maine and its lakes, ocean reaches, forests, and mountains in winter. From her hospital bed, Starr fights to return from near death, while Percy searches for a likely murderer. This novel is a thriller, an intense and passionate love story, and at heart a murder mystery. It is written with lyrical elegance while it maps out the truths between Percy and Starr and about the culmination of their love affair.
Drawn To Murder
Gabriella Alegré draws caricatures and portraits of visitors on Pearl Street. It’s a fun place to be – until someone is murdered. Now, Gabriella must use her powers of artistic observation and attention to detail to find the killer. She is helped by Pearl Street’s living statues, musicians, a reclusive psychic who isn’t what she seems, and other buskers.
Encounter: Close Encounter Of The Fifth Kind.
RUN WITH MI6 OPERATIVE FRANK RYDER AS HE STRIVES TO FIND THE ABDUCTED SON OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND FOIL THE RUSSIANS FROM DEPLOYING A WEAPON THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO BECOME A DOMINATE WORLD POWER A strange signal is received by military listening stations in the Arctic. The source of the signal is determined to be from a Russian archipelago in the Barents Sea, but the signal cannot be fully deciphered and its location pinpointed.
Fault Line
Newly minted 25-year-old lawyer Bob Abramson joins the DA’s office in San Diego and soon finds himself leading an investigation into the politically charged murder of the mayor’s husband, a powerful, wealthy developer with far too many secrets for his wife’s political ambitions.
Financial Stay of Execution
It is Judge Payton’s job to abide by the law and carry out the necessary sentence, even when it is a sentence he would rather not approve. Within five years, he has had to send six young men under the age of twenty-five to death row. These harsh punishments are wearing down on the judge’s mind as he wishes there was another way to give these condemned men a second chance to redeem themselves. When yet another young man, Charles Williams, is found guilty on four counts of first-degree murder and is heading towards the same fate, Payton desperately searches for a means to save him. His search rewards him with the “Financial Stay of Execution”.
Fruit of the Poison Tree
In the exciting sequel to Seven Seconds, dive back into the murky recesses of Olivia Osborne’s shadowy world as she searches for the truth about life and death, good and evil and the twilight in between. Gran warned against mixing the light with the dark – it was a magical place that turned everything to grey. The Fruit of the Poison Tree bears it all. Olivia Osborne is many things: a sensitive, an empath, a reader of death. Is she also a demon dealer? Or is she something else?
Ghost Light
Theodosia “Teddy” Ballard knows nothing about community theater, but when the stage manager for “Little Shop of Horrors” takes a tragic header down the costume-loft stairs, she agrees to fill in for the sake of her actor friend, Will. Teddy takes the superstitions and swelled heads of The Stage in stride—till she meets George Clancy Everhart, the theater ghost, who informs her that the previous stage manager was murdered and demands that she find the killer. Both investigation and rehearsals are complicated when she makes a surprising discovery about her relationship with Will—and learns that George has his own dramatic agenda.
Grim Trigger
A murder at a quantum computing firm leads a hacker and an FBI agent into a race against the clock—before a polarized America reaches its breaking point. In the wake of a controversial Supreme Court decision, a firestorm of civil unrest erupts on both ends of the political spectrum. As Los Angeles grapples with the turmoil, a woman is found murdered inside an office building, mere feet from the most powerful quantum computer ever created. The next day, whitehat hacker Isabella Cray hears from an old flame, unexpectedly in town and acting strange. Before she knows it, Cray’s life is turned upside-down, her ex-lover vanishes, and the FBI is asking her questions. Reunited with Special Agent Will Fraser, Cray embarks on a quest for answers that will take her from the riot-torn streets of L.A. to the scorching badlands of the High Desert. Crossing paths with an ex-Stasi billionaire, national-anarchist radicals, and desperate cybercriminals, Cray and Fraser race to unravel the truth as a devastating technology hangs in the balance—and before a ruthless adversary can exploit the divided nation for their own nefarious agenda… Fast-paced, provocative, and timely, Grim Trigger is a thriller you won’t soon forget.
Hidden in the Shadows
“All I can ever think about is murdering her.” -C.B. Twenty-three-year-old Evie Day never dreamt she’d be back in Woodsville Arkansas, a small town in the middle of nowhere, after having left five years earlier, but the death of her grandfather called for her return. After discovering a photo from 1933 of a mysterious woman standing next to a tiny wooden box, a strange vial of blood wrapped up in a handkerchief in the pocket of her grandfather’s overalls, and a key hidden in his desk drawer that belongs to a secret safety deposit box, Evie is unwittingly thrown into a world of evil where those closest to her are the ones to be the most feared and danger lurks around every corner. Hidden in the Shadows by A.D. Vancise shines a light on the darkness and reveals the underlying players that have been hunting in plain sight.
Hiding Behind Robes
It’s Monday morning, and the last place Lt. Detective Philip Samyn wants to be is in a church, but it’s better than being in a meeting with his boss. The presiding bishop requested he and his team come to the back of the parish and speak to no one about this call if possible. Keeping his boss out of this suits Samyn fine, but not knowing why he is being summoned by a church official immediately makes him suspicious.
Keeper of the Algorithm
Once a misfit dropout, Mike now controls the fate of man versus machine As technology’s grip tightens, a haunting question emerges: Does anyone hold the reins of the omnipotent Algorithm? Assuming another student’s ID in a crowded exam room, Mike’s journey takes an unexpected turn when a stern figure declares, “I am Jacob Winters. Welcome to the AI career placement test. Today, we will discover which of you represents the pinnacle of human genius.” Delve into Keeper of the Algorithm to discover a future where destiny is written in code and domination is the ultimate prize. For AI enthusiasts!
Magnus Maximus 1
368 AD. Hero hero. True events. 5 armies invade Britain. Meet the man sent to stop them.Britain.
Malicious Deception
Trapped between the need to save thousands of lives and a billionaire psychopath intent on taking her life, Essie fights a corrupt bureaucracy and elite assassins to stop the unimaginable.
Mazes of the Mind
A young man wakes up in a strange room as a complete stranger to himself. Saxon remembers snatches of a dream of being in a desert, and nothing more. Looking in the mirror, he finds himself battered and bruised. A man he doesn’t recognize enters and tells Saxon he is recovering from a concussion gotten in a football match. The team was scheduled to move on, so Saxon has been left in the care of this Frenchman who claims to be a good friend. He suggests Saxon relax and read a book while he recovers – ‘The Metamorphosis’, by Franz Kafka. The Frenchman then leaves, arranging to meet Saxon later in a courtyard café outside the inn. But the Frenchman has disappeared, leaving Saxon to encounter a violinist, a puppeteer, and a severely attractive Russian woman who seems dangerously familiar. Giving up on finding the Frenchman, Saxon returns to his room and collapses in bed, where he returns to the desert in his dreams and then awakens to a different reality. Thus begins Saxon’s convoluted journey through the maze his mind has become. Supposed friends appear to lead a Saxon unfamiliar even to himself through a life he does not recognize. It becomes apparent they are leading him through all these deceits toward some hidden goal. What? Kafka seems to hold the answer, if Saxon can only understand what Gregor Samsa is trying to tell him.
Midnight Black
When a man commits a heinous crime against DEA Agent Billy Russell, Billy executes him in cold blood. Eighteen years later, Billy’s suddenly paroled… but there is a catch. A corrupt, oppressive government forces him to participate in the wildest conspiracy he could have ever imagined. Does Billy follow orders or risk losing his life? Midnight Black is a harrowing novel that delves into a near-future society on the edge of moral and economic bankruptcy.
Misfortune’s Wake
A young American seeking escape from a tragic event, takes a job with an international conservation organization in the foreign port of Retiro de Santos. There, he becomes romantically involved with a local artist, and platonically involved with a young girl pursuing a better life. Soon his environmental group is sabotaged, his coworker dies mysteriously, and his young friend is shanghaied. Finding himself on the wrong side of unjust laws, he must decide whether to act or abdicate responsibility. As he teeters precariously on the edge of a decision, a raging storm barrels ashore to threaten everyone and everything in its path.
Montana Countdown
A wealthy Montana rancher inadvertently draws the attention of a beautiful, would-be novelist when she overhears his tempting tale of using seven keys to keep his millions safe. Troy and Ivy are surprised when intermittent sparks fly between them, but unnamed evil forces are at work. When the novelist disappears, the clock is ticking and mysteries must be solved or people will die.
Murder at the Magical Bookshop
When a shocking murder rocks her peaceful island community, adventure comes knocking on her door in a way she never expected. With the killer hot on her trail and the family bookshop now in her possession, Sophie must use all her wits to stay one step ahead. Luckily, she has a loyal band of friends, including her childhood buddy Detective Charlie Bell, who’s been eyeing her with more than just nostalgia. But it’s not just her human friends who come to her aid. A mysterious stranger, a protective cat-turned-human, and even the powerful secrets hidden within the bookshop all rally around Sophie when another body is found. As the clouds gather and reality begins to fray at the edges, Sophie faces a choice: retreat back into her old life or embrace the adventure. With the fate of her beloved town hanging in the balance, she knows there’s only one path forward. But can she find the courage to take it? One thing’s for sure: Grandma would be proud. And if Sophie could only see her one more time, she’d know exactly what to do. Hold onto your hats! There’s a storm brewing, and it’s going to get bumpy.
Murder at the Olympiad
An American tourist is murdered in a Mexican gay sauna, and Amanda Pennyworth, the American consul to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, risks her career and her life to find the culprit. Amanda Pennyworth works with a junio officer of the Tourist Police in search of suspects in the secretive underworld of this beautiful resort. When a young Mexican boy is arrested on flimsy evidence, Amanda is convinced it is a terrible mistake. But no one is willing to list to her: not the arrogant chief of police; not the boy’s parents who seem to blame her for the murder; and not the cynical American Ambassador who only wants to avoid an international incident. It’s up to her. And when she finally identifies the killer, she also discovers some very unpleasant truths about the Foreign Service in which she serves.
Murder in the Family
A minor hitch arises before the marriage ceremony of Oxford University tutors Catherine Tregowyn and Harry Bascombe. The best man is missing. Perhaps Harry’s Uncle Jonathan was detained by car troubles somewhere in the Cornish hinterlands? No one suspects that he is lying dead at the bottom of a cliff where ocean waves have swept him into a cave. When he is at last discovered, the police suspect that he slipped off a cliffside hiking trail, but no one who knew Jon believes this version of events. Catherine and Harry suspect foul play. Harry’s cosmopolitan uncle, a dealer in Italian Renaissance art, was very wealthy indeed. Is it coincidence that the temperamental Italian fashion model, claiming to be his wife, appears at Jonathan’s holiday cottage with two children the day before he disappeared?
Music For Murder
Raff Rafferty, is a priest and former NYPD detective. A wealthy acquaintance asks him to return to New York as a special police consultant in a case eerily resembling ‘Phantom of the Opera”. Raff, unwilling to do so, finally agrees to help his former NYPD partner find the murderer hiding among the cast and crew of the New York Municipal Opera. But everyone associated with the opera company is reluctant to help with the investigation. Can Raff find a way to circumvent this overcome daunting resistance before another victim is struck down?
No Man Left Behind
He was left to die in the steaming jungles of Vietnam by his commanding officer and the rest of his battalion back in 1975…they shouldn’t have done that. Forty years later. Homicide Detective Iris Williams and her partner Detectives Annette Toni are assigned to a case where the victims are left in the most bizarre manner. The killer’s hiding place is somewhere in the abandoned subway tunnels under New York City. Detective Iris Williams must overcome her fears and venture into the rat-infested tunnels to apprehend the most diabolical serial killer she’d ever faced… A serial killer that will change her life forever. The media is calling him, The Piggyback Killer..
No Strangers Here
Set in Ireland’s striking, rugged countryside, the USA Today bestselling author’s unsettling, atmospheric new crime fiction novel combines the eerie mood of Tana French and Louise Penny with the compulsively taut plotting of Dervla McTiernan and Lucy Foley, as an Irish veterinarian grapples with life, death, family dynamics, and the secrets at the heart of her small community…
Not Murder #4 In The Mavis Davis Mystery Series
.99 sale through Halloween: Fiercely independent Texas P.I. hired by a Galveston attorney to track down a deadbeat client, Mavis discovers a body in a box. Tasked with finding the killer, and the money, Mavis must keep her head down or be arrested for tampering in an active police investigation. More importantly, can Mavis avoid becoming the next victim?
NOT MURDER: #4 In The Mavis Davis Mystery Series
Fiercely independent, though struggling, Texas P.I. Mavis Davis rates missing persons cases high on her list, second only to murder. After being hired by a Galveston attorney to track down a deadbeat antiques dealer who failed to pay her hefty fee, Mavis discovers a body in a box. Tasked with finding the killer, and the money, Mavis must keep her head down or be arrested for tampering in an active police investigation. More importantly, can Mavis avoid becoming the next victim?
ONCE BITTEN
Keith Michaels sits on Georgia’s death row convicted of the brutal murder of the wife of an Atlanta dentist-a crime he did not commit. Keith’s sister Diane is determined to see her brother freed and hires the Atkinson Detective Agency to find evidence that Keith did not commit the crime. Mike and Linda Atkinson, along with Linda’s brother Tommy Cevilli set out to disprove the overwhelming evidence that led to Keith’s conviction. Their search leads them to the actual brutal killer and more of his heinous crimes, but he is determined to not have his crimes uncovered and is willing to do whatever he feels is necessary to not be found out. The events unfold to a stunning conclusion.
Performing Murder (A Tony Harrington Novel Book 4)
The violent death of a famous actress rocks the rural Iowa town of Orney, where a Hollywood movie company is filming on location. Local newspaper reporter Tony Harrington is stunned by the murder, as he was one of the last people to see her alive. Tony finds himself further entwined in the case when it’s learned the actress was seen riding in his car on the night she was killed, and when her former lover attacks him and his best friend.
POPPY: My Little Wife
The Bestseller no. 1 in Germany: Poppy is a six-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a run-down suburban neighborhood. One day, they move into a luxurious mansion with her mother’s new partner. Poppy’s mother is happy. She can finally buy anything she wants. This new ‘Daddy’ or “Mr. Rich”, as the young girl calls him, makes Poppy’s every wish come true. He showers her with gifts, washes her hair three times a week and takes her on long journeys in his big car, just the two of them. He calls her his little wife.In fact, everything would be just great, if it wasn’t for one thing … Critical Reviews: *Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” (German newspaper): “One of the most powerful and daring novels of the year, based on a true story. This tale of mind games, abuse, and resilience is heart-warming as well as unbearable, powerful, and extremely alarming, and all at the same time is inspired by its lovable heroine.” *Stadtspiegel (German Newspaper): “In Poppy, Astrid Korten gives abuse a voice and successfully uses her light yet cutting tone to allow readers to imagine the unimaginable. She illuminates a dark topic and knows how to use humour to tell a harrowing story.”