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This mystery thriller is about Danny Bolt, a political fixer. When powerful people have impossible problems, they come to him. Danny works in the Hamptons in 1985.
In this adventure, Danny must solve the murder of a man his boss knew. The investigation leads to a twist-filled story of revenge, the plotting of mass murder, and a clue hidden inside a Dorothy L. Sayers novel.
Danny’s world is filled with politicians with secrets, moral dilemmas, and criminals. His inner world is filled with memo...
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A fishing trip has turned into a nightmare. Stranded on a remote Canadian island with a killer, the Trask brothers must use all their skills to survive and uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of their fellow anglers. As a storm rages on and the body count rises, Don and Dave realize that this may be their last trip. ...
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UNMOVED (adjective) [uhn-moovd]
A state of practiced calm.
The ability to see danger, sort choices, and act without fear or passion.
Lawson’s rule is simple.
The best way to avoid conflict—is to avoid conflict.
For ten years, Lawson’s life was predictable. The same Boston coffee shop. The same corner booth. The same clean line of sight to the door.
Before that, Lawson worked for S.I.R.E.—a government black cell that kept no records of its agents. He was their best ghost operator...
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Welcome to St. Louis, where justice comes from the barrel of a gun.
When a sadistic gang leader is murdered, Detective Darren Cutright suspects old-fashioned street justice. But when more criminals turn up dead, he discovers a chilling pattern. Someone is hunting the predators the courts refuse to prosecute.
And the list of victims keeps growing.
While Darren and his wisecracking partner debate if they should even stop the killer, rookie cop Mike Clark gets an education in the broken legal syst...
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It’s Fat Tuesday, the day before the holy season of Lent. Father Melvyn breathes in the spring air and murmurs, “Please, God, may I lead your flock well in this time of contemplation and prayer.”
Suddenly, a shriek—’ I’m going to kill that cat’—shatters his peace. That scream draws him and Mrs. B. into a murder that threatens to expose scandals involving his church.
Motives and suspects are plentiful. Can the dynamic team of Mrs. B. and Father Melvyn prevent the arre...
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You meets Misery in this darkly satirical psychological thriller about obsession, rejection, and revenge.
For twenty years, aspiring author Elena Cartwright has collected enough rejection letters to wallpaper her lonely cottage. Literary agent Kate Finlay could change everything, but Elena has stopped submitting manuscripts and started getting closer to Kate herself. As the line between fiction and reality begins to disappear, Elena’s latest manuscript comes to life — one confession at ...
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A rookie cop. A chilling cold case. A town with secrets that refuse to stay buried.
When Mike Ellis returns home to the Catskills, he’s drawn into a murder that mirrors a tragedy from decades earlier — and the deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. What Readers Are Saying About This MysteryIf you’re drawn to atmospheric mysteries with layered characters, clever twists, and emotional depth, this story delivers: A fresh take on small-town police procedurals with a mysterious ...
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Every wreck leaves a key to its story.
Janessa “Nessa” Douglas discovers a broken brass key among the wreckage after a Nor’ Easter storm as she catalogs for the historical society. The initials engraved on its shaft appear to connect it to the Widow’s Return, a legendary shipwreck said to be cursed.
Then, shipwreck podcaster Cassie Wren dies during a dive to the sunken vessel. Authorities call it an equipment failure. Nessa isn’t convinced. Before her death, Cassie uncovered evidence ...
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When Evan calls 911, he names Dylan as the man trying to kill him. Dylan is across town with his boyfriend, Oliver. Then their friends start dying, and Oliver realizes the killer wears the face of the man he loves. Free on Kindle.
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Oliver trusts his boyfriend Dylan—until gaps in his memory, shifting stories, and a murder close to home begin to unravel their life together. Every answer Oliver uncovers brings another contradiction, and the man he loves becomes harder to recognize. A tense LGBTQ+ thriller about dangerous secrets and the cost of wanting to believe someone. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A body in the library wall since 1925, still wearing a good suit. Ashwood has called him a thief for a hundred years. He would like a word about that. Librarian Ellie Ward has nine days before the library comes down, and her only witness won’t name his killer. $0.99 on Kindle.
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“A twisty cat-and-mouse thriller of false identity and creeping suspense. Great for fans of Kate Michaelson’s Hidden Rooms?and Catherine Ryan Howard’s The Nothing Man.” —BookLife? $0.99 on Kindle.
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Deep in the Appalachian winter, a brutal ambush at a remote mountain shelter leaves two young hikers dead. For Emma Fisher and her friend Summer, surviving the attack is only the beginning. Somewhere in the whiteout, a man named Jedediah follows them—a man bound to Emma’s past by something she believed had long ago been buried.
Jake McKellar travels the frozen ridges alone, carrying a compass and the memory of a brother he has spent years searching for. When he discovers the aftermath o...
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When PI Iris Raines stares into the face of a murder victim who looks just like her, she’s plunged into a deadly vortex of hidden identities and long-buried family secrets. Soon she’s in a race to find a century-old treasure someone is willing to kill to possess. As Iris follows a trail of forgotten histories and dangerous clues, the mystery becomes startlingly personal. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes—Iris may be the key to everything. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Who once was lost now is found. But grace didn’t lead her home.
For the last year, the sinister shadow of unsolved kidnappings has haunted Detectives Holden Walsh and Cabe Paxton. Their cold case turns hot when one of the abductees returns, but her traumatized silence only sparks more questions.
As the detectives unravel a web of deception, they discover depraved horrors spreading further than either imagined. Confronted by secrets and stymied by lies, they finally uncover the truth—though ...
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Some stories don’t end with a kiss. Some women don’t wait to be awakened. Los Angeles is sweltering through Holy Week when a teenage hustler named Kiddy is murdered on Hollywood Boulevard in broad daylight. The investigation pulls Detective Joanna Steele into a conspiracy that reaches from Hollywood’s shadows to the highest levels of power. Mia More is on the verge of superstardom when Kiddy crosses her path. What begins as concern becomes something far more dangerous: love, r...
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A Texas Murder, a Priest and the 60-year Cold Case the Church Couldn’t Bury
In 1960, Irene Garza was murdered in McAllen, Texas. The prime suspect was a Catholic priest. What followed was not only a brutal crime, but a 60-year investigation marked by silence, institutional power, and a conviction that would become the oldest on record.
In The Last Confession, Dr. Lynda de la Viña—cousin to Irene Garza—reveals the inside story of a Texas murder the Catholic Church helped conceal. Blen...
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A story 130 years in the making is finally about to be told.
John Harrison had always wanted to write fantasy novels.
After retiring from a long career in marketing, he finally had the time to pursue the dream he’d carried for most of his life. But an old farmhouse, a forgotten typewriter, and a story that seemed to be waiting for him began to change everything.
When John started to write, the words came faster than he could explain, and they didn’t always feel like they were coming from hi...
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A small-town scandal. A buried secret. And one woman determined to uncover both.
Miss Tony Cooper has spent years keeping the school district running smoothly-until everything begins to unravel.When missing funds trigger a quiet fraud investigation, Tony expects long hours and paperwork-not whispers, suspicion, and a growing sense that something isn’t quite right.
But when a principal is found dead and the superintendent is taken into custody, the situation turns far more serious than any...
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1/6: Will Be Wild is a terrifying alternate history of what might have been on January 6, 2021, and what might yet be on January 6, 2029. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Inside a 400-year-old manuscript lies an alchemist’s secret that could change the world—or end it. TV host Michelle Cruise and US agent Alex Marshall race across continents to uncover it before the wrong people do. Is the formula worth dying for? For fans of Dan Brown, James Rollins, and Steve Berry’s historical mysteries.
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The Ravens of Whitechapel and Other Curious Cases
Sherlock Holmes – The Animal Cases, Volume 1
A missing canary. Vanishing pigeons. Ravens blamed for theft and murder. Horses terrified by a danger no human seems able to see.
In this unique collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the world’s greatest consulting detective encounters cases in which animals play a crucial role in uncovering the truth. Set against the atmospheric backdrop of Victorian London, these stories explore the fasc...
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When a brutal escape unleashes a deadly fugitive into the Montana wilds, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is sent to bring him back, alive or dead. But the hunt turns treacherous when Danny discovers the escapee has entered the Bob Marshall wilderness, an area roughly the size of Delaware. Forced deep into whiteout conditions and uncharted wilderness, Danny must navigate blinding snow, rising danger, and a killer who knows the land as well as he does. What begins as a routine manhunt becomes a fight f...
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Some Secrets Get Buried. Others Get Buried Alive.
Former prison warden turned private investigator Jack Marconi thinks he’s simply proving yet another case of an unfaithful wife. Instead, he stumbles into a ruthless conspiracy where corrupt lobbyists, Russian mob enforcers, political power, and millions of dollars collide in bloodshed.
When witnesses start disappearing and bodies are buried beneath the foundations of a massive Adirondack casino project, Marconi becomes the next target. Ar...
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Two-year-old Jack Spinozza disappears from a crowded shopping mall in broad daylight, leaving his parents trapped in every family’s worst nightmare.
As Tess and Eddie Spinozza work alongside Detective Rick Sinnard to find their missing son, the investigation uncovers long-buried secrets that refuse to stay hidden.
Someone knows exactly what happened to Jack.
Someone close to the family.
As every lead pulls Tess deeper into the past, she realizes her son’s abduction wasn’t rand...
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“About a mother’s grief, a father’s cancer, and the dangers of Russian machinations, Loose Arrows is an involving . . . entertaining thriller. . . . Strong women, playing against feminine stereotypes, dominate the book. . . . Underlying and coloring the action is a winning, comical narrative voice.” —Foreword Clarion Reviews $0.99 on Kindle.
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A glossy promise. A murdered promoter. And a road someone is willing to kill for.
When tourism consultant Nora Keene arrives in Salmon, Idaho, selling jobs, visitors, and a bright new future, reserve deputy Hatta McFarlane determines Nora’s backers are vague, her promises are slippery, and the stranger at the back of the council meeting scares her badly enough to crack her perfect smile.
By morning, Nora is dead behind the banners for Discover Salmon Weekend, her phone is missing, and the tra...
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When a ghost from the past refuses to stay buried, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is pulled into a case that doesn’t make sense, and that someone powerful doesn’t want solved.
What begins as a routine eviction turns darker with every step. Missing persons with no trail. Bodies surfacing where they shouldn’t. And secrets buried long enough that some people have built their lives on keeping them that way.
But this is no ghost story.
As Danny digs deeper, he begins to see the hand of a powerful e...
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They built a cage of fear. Adrian Ward wrote the code to burn it down. When an MIT hacker translates ancient magic into a sentient C++ digital matrix, he triggers a shadow war with the Vatican’s elite hit squads. Dan Brown meets William Gibson in this high-octane cyber-occult thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.
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She writes thrillers for a living, but nothing could prepare her for the one she’s living now. By day, Michelle Holdcraft is the quiet woman-next-door in small-town Indiana. But by night, she’s D. Valentine, a bestselling thriller author with a mind for murder and secrets. Her real life? Completely ordinary. Until one unplanned trip to visit her estranged father in Iron Falls, Massachusetts, flips everything upside down. She wakes to a gunshot only to find her father’s body in a pool ...
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Her boat survived the blackout. Now she has to survive everyone who wants it. Hunted through the Atlantic islands after an EMP, Shannon must protect her crew with paper charts, dwindling supplies, and a diesel engine she can’t afford to lose. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Susan Price writes psychological thrillers about women who reclaim control.
When her latest novel explodes online, readers insist it isn’t fiction. They are certain it’s confession.
A young, charismatic influencer amplifies the theory, framing Susan’s silence as proof of buried truth.
But as interpretation turns to expectation, Susan realizes she is no longer the author of her own narrative.
As admiration hardens into entitlement, she must decide:
protect the myth that made he...
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City girls Zara, Faye and Heidi return from a rural retreat with a dark secret. They think they got away with it. But they were watched. Just how far will they go to keep their secret…? $0.99 on Kindle.
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For four years, an Iranian sleeper cell has lived ordinary lives in Los Angeles while guarding a smuggled tactical nuclear weapon and awaiting the signal that will turn them from neighbors into killers. When that order finally arrives, CIA agent Jack Harlan races to stop the detonation—but the operatives’ greatest obstacle may be the lives and people they have unexpectedly come to love. $2.99 on Kindle.
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When a young boy disappears from a small Nebraska town, a woman trapped in a controlling marriage begins searching for answers, only to uncover long-buried secrets that threaten everything she believes. As the mystery deepens, she must confront deception, betrayal, and the painful truths hidden within her own family. All We Keep Buried is a character-driven psychological suspense novel that blends emotional depth, domestic suspense, and unforgettable twists. Perfect for readers who enjoy Mary K...
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The lights went out. The desert didn’t care. Lizzy built a farm that pulls water from thin air. When a solar flare kills every circuit on earth, it becomes the last green place in Nevada, and every armed survivor wants it. Her sister Poppy knows how to fight. Lizzy has to learn. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Los Angeles, 1942. Lucille Ball reported enemy radio coming through her teeth. Every agency dismissed it. OSS officer Blackjack Harrigan drove out the same night. She was the only receiver in California the enemy didn’t know existed. Thirty years later she told it on TV as an anecdote. The real story stayed classified, until now. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Immerse yourself in turn-of-the-century California in all its dynamic and chaotic glory for a fun and cozy read! Follow Adele and her spiritual sidekick Nin as they solve the case of a dead debutante, a poisoned schoolteacher, and a wealthy family matriarch. “Great new series!” $2.99 on Kindle.
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Featuring original recorded songs, Cadillac Wheels is Dexter meets Johnny Cash, a gripping psychological thriller that explores themes of grief, revenge, and obsession. $0.99 on Kindle.
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NEW FROM Award winning author Captain W.L. BACH
Retired U.S. Navy SEAL
Betrayal’s Cost
A Navy SEAL disappears.
An NCIS investigation begins.
And the truth has a cost.
Now available with Kindle Unlimited $2.99 on Kindle.
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