This book selection was updated on October 21st, 2026.
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Waking Sleeping Beauty

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... [Read More...]

The Last Confession: Murder, Family, Ethnicity, and Justice in a Texas Border Town

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... [Read More...]

Free: The Bestseller

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... [Read More...]

Free: Bells, Binders and Bodies (Apple Creek School District Mysteries Book 1)

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... [Read More...]

Enigma: The Alchemist’s Legacy

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. $4.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Ravens of Whitechapel: Sherlock Holmes: The Animal Cases Volume 1

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... [Read More...]

Frontier Bounty: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 5)

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... [Read More...]

The Naked and the Damned

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... [Read More...]

It’s Personal (Tess Kincaid)

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... [Read More...]

Loose Arrows: A Thriller

“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. ... [Read More...]

Dead Behind the Banners

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... [Read More...]

Frontier Ghosts: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 6)

PRE-SALE, RELEASE Nov 1st – 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 begi... [Read More...]

Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1)

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. ... [Read More...]

Fear of Flames: Romantic Thriller

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 ... [Read More...]

The Things I Agreed To

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... [Read More...]

Dawn of the Crescent

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. ... [Read More...]

All We Keep Buried

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... [Read More...]

Hiss Snap Burn

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. ... [Read More...]

Adele Gossling Mysteries Box Set 1, Books 1-3

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. ... [Read More...]

The Truth Chamber

In an election year marred by violence, Anna Hoffman warns a divided America that the country will devolve into a Russia 2.0 if her rival, Mack Leach wins. Liam Driscoll recruits a Stanford PhD student developing The Truth Chamber, an AI technology to figure out who is behind the escalating violence and an assassination attempt on Anna. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Murder on Driftwood Beach: A Small-Town Coastal Mystery (The Sand Dollar Detective Club Book 1)

She thought she’d buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over. Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn’t let anything go. The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning circle as if... [Read More...]

Dark Waters 2: A Family Drama Book Series

Gunfire tears through Judge Waters’s SUV, leaving him and his secret family bleeding on the side of the road. Three are rushed to the hospital—but only two survive. Now, all eyes turn to his wife, Lillian Waters, as the truth hides behind her wall of silence. District Attorney Keenan Waters Jr. is arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from a school fundraiser—and now he’s scrambling to cover his tracks. His freedom is at risk. His political future is collapsing. And when his wife... [Read More...]

EMP No Grid No Warning

Overnight, an EMP sent America back to the age before electricity. Her promise didn’t age a day Years ago, they took away her wings. Yesterday, the EMP took down her plane. Grace appeared to be just another grandmother on a crowded flight. Then the EMP killed the engines, and the pilots didn’t make it. Now the only survivor who knows how to keep a child alive in a frozen mountain range is an old woman the world forgot was ever a pilot at all. There’s no rescue coming. No worki... [Read More...]

Free: The Perfect Patient Trilogy

Therapy was supposed to help Elena Drake trust her mind. Instead, someone is manipulating her into doubting it. It starts with things Elena can almost explain away. A deadbolt left unlocked. A lamp she doesn’t remember turning on. An appointment book moved from where she left it. Then she finds a Polaroid on her pillow—a photograph of herself asleep in her own bed. No one believes someone is watching her. Her boyfriend thinks she’s overwhelmed. Her best friend blames stress. The police fi... [Read More...]

Free: A Murder in Jubilee Springs

The lightning bolts that occasionally shoot out of the little black cloud that follows psychic Mabel Dornas around never kill her or injure her – when they hit her, they give her a glimpse into the future of a person who, during the next 24 hours, is scheduled to die. Unfortunately, even though she knows where it will happen, when it will happen, and to whom it will happen, there’s not much Mabel can do about it. Or is there? Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Frontier Series

The law has boundaries. The frontier doesn’t. From the frozen backcountry of Montana to the remote reaches of Indian Country, Danny Coogan has built his life around protecting people in places where help is often hours away. An Afghanistan veteran turned game warden and eventually U.S. Marshal, Danny knows that out here justice is rarely simple. Murder crosses county lines. Criminals disappear into millions of acres of wilderness. Old grudges survive for generations. And the difference betwee... [Read More...]

In the Shadow of a Stranger

As a result of a chance encounter with a Holocaust survivor on vacation in Mexico City, young attorney Antonio de la Vega learns that his natural father is a former Nazi who committed heinous crimes during WWII. Obsessed with the idea of meeting his father, Antonio embarks on a search that takes him from Mexico to the United States and ultimately to South America, meeting ageing ex-Nazis, vengeful Jews, and an alluring young woman who has been assigned to watch his every move. Meanwhile, Antoni... [Read More...]

THE VANISHING AT TABLE NINE

A woman vanishes from a Manhattan restaurant without her phone, purse, or coat. Private investigator and professional fixer Kit Calder takes the case—and finds a disappearance that may have been planned. Sharp dialogue, dangerous secrets, and a heroine who can solve almost anyone’s problem except her own. Start The Kit Calder Files with Book 1 for just $0.99, also available in Kindle Unlimited. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Moonlight Kills

Hollywood is hell on earth—and Dick Moonlight is about to discover just how deadly it can be. When private investigator Dick Moonlight and his professional Elvis impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, discover the severed head of a beautiful blonde beneath the floorboards of an unfinished luxury home, they uncover a nightmare buried beneath the glitter of Hollywood. The trail leads to a husband-and-wife construction team with dreams of becoming filmmakers. But they’re not making romantic com... [Read More...]

The Beekeeper’s Bad Day: A Ben Perkins Novel

Ben Perkins wanted a quiet life. Bees. Honey. A rundown farm in rural Indiana and enough isolation to avoid people asking questions about his military record or his failed marriage. It was going pretty well right up until somebody tried to shoot him in his own field. Darkly funny, lean, and loaded with salty and sharp dialogue and sudden violence, The Beekeeper’s Bad Day blends rural noir, deadpan humor, and hard-edged suspense into a thriller where everybody is lying, nobody is safe, and the... [Read More...]

The Kill Line

Hunted by a killer. Trapped by the wild. In Yellowstone, everything wants you dead. When Jane witnesses her father’s murder during a routine wolf?research trip, she’s forced into a deadly race for survival through blizzards, bison, and a stalking predator who knows the terrain better than she does. Teaming up with Colm—another target—may be her only chance, but the wilderness is as ruthless as the man hunting them. The Kill Line delivers a fierce, breathless fight to stay alive in Ameri... [Read More...]