This book selection was updated on October 21st, 2024.
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The hunt for a spy turns into a larger security breach – This next installment to the Alex Boyd series will have readers guessing at every turn. Assigned to London, Alex Boyd and his wife Rachel Smith, a political officer for the Department of State, step into a spider’s web of intrigue at the US Embassy.
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In this nail-biting thriller, CIA Agent Dave McClure is sent to Jerusalem faces a cell of Hezbollah terrorists. In Tokyo, embassy employees are being threatened. Dave is sent, leading to yet another life-or-death challenge. And it will take all the courage and cunning McClure possesses to make it out alive. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Over 1,900 reviews with a 4.3 rating on Kindle. Special Access is the darkly unsettling first book in the Duncan Hunter series of political thrillers. If you like tough-as-nails heroes, high-octane adventures, and stories of real-world corruption, then you’ll love Mark A. Hewitt’s suspense-laden tale. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Ericksen Connection is an espionage thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, and terrorism. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team Six operator and a successful hi-tech business executive with EyeD4 Systems, an Oregon-based biometrics company, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned his commission in 2002 and, over the next several years, worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while concealing his PTSD. In 2009, the CI...
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Anson Green vanished on a solo road trip, leaving no clues—just silence. Hired to find him, P.I. Sylvia Wilcox uncovers a hidden agenda behind his journey. In the lawless, desolate places where the lost go unnoticed, Sylvia must uncover the truth before Anson’s trail disappears forever. Free on Kindle.
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Uncovering a tangled web of danger and deceit, Jesse Weaver races against a constantly shifting clock to protect a defenseless child as she unravels a sinister plot that could cost them both their lives. WHERE THERE’S A WILL is a fast-paced, gripping thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat! $2.99 on Kindle.
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Dave is just a regular guy, working in Human Resources, when he is approached by Derrick to help create a new consulting firm. While Dave is considering this life changing career choice, he is drawn into the complicated world of spying on his potential new partner, which could have major political and life saving ramifications. The novel, as told by Dave, goes back and forth between the middle of the story and how it all began. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Joey Mancuso’s life takes a dramatic turn when a young man enters, claiming to be his son from a relationship two decades ago. The young man, now facing a murder charge, pleads for Mancuso’s help, insisting on his innocence. Though unsure if the boy is truly his, Mancuso can’t ignore the striking resemblance and reluctantly agrees to investigate.
As Mancuso digs deeper, he uncovers layers of lies and deception. The boy’s mother, Adriana—Mancuso’s former lover, thought to...
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The suspenseful and chilling conclusion to the award-winning Lost Grove: Part One.
Nestled among the ancient redwoods, on the fringes of the quaint yet haunted Victorian town of Lost Grove, looms the formidable Orbriallis Institute—a beacon of medical innovation shrouded in secrets. Within its hallowed halls, Dr. Neil Owens reigns, a figure both revered and reviled for his relentless pursuit of scientific advancement. Behind closed doors, whispers of his manic obsession with unraveling the my...
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She didn’t need to be on Broadway today. She just didn’t want to die before she had the chance. Chicago 1927 Speakeasy singer Katie OSullivan and her beau, Garrett Macmillan, must stop the Juiceman before they become his next victims. A tale of suspense, sweet romance and a bloodhound named Watson. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Its been five years since CIA agent Travis Bishop walked away from his career…Now living on a ranch in Texas training performance horses, he swore he’d never go back.The arrival of an unexpected guest at the ranch throws Travis headfirst into trouble. A man shows up on his doorstep claiming an agent that saved his life has gone dark and is nowhere to be found. Worse yet, the CIA believes her to be a traitor.A simple dinner to talk through the details leads to murder and a plan to to...
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Over 2,900 reviews with a 4.5 rating on Kindle. After a young patient is brutally murdered, emergency physician AJ Docker is determined to bring the killer to justice. But when his investigation leads him into a dangerous world of organized crime, his quest for vengeance becomes a fight for his own survival. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Wit meets murder in the humorous mystery set in Sin City. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Yurie Kiri’s novel Moonlight Beach won the 2020 Hollywood Book Festival’s award for Genre Fiction. Moonlight Beach is about four friends who contact the spirit of dead Native American woman and have to fight for their lives against the serial killer who had been chasing her. The second book in the series, where two of the surviving women of Rancho California take a trip to New Mexico, is called Moonlight Canyon. The third book, called Moonlight Rocks is about a battle over a meteorite that ...
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Where Magic is Known Among the Universe.
Aryssa Mathis, a distinguished regent of the Invoker Corum, finds herself far from home on an assigned mission. Her journey takes a perilous turn when she is ambushed by the Kaljerian Legion, a race clad in dark armor and equipped with advanced technology and a formidable fleet of flying ships. The motives behind their pursuit remain a mystery.
Meanwhile, on Earth, an ordinary man named Michael Weller is unexpectedly drawn into the conflict. In his attem...
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Who would have thought Rosetta’s exotic trip to Europe would involve thieves and kidnapping? (Book 1 of 4).
When Rosetta and her daughter get a chance to travel to Europe, a criminal crosses their path. Follow her through famous cities in this tale of forgotten love, and the dangers of recovering a long lost hidden jewel Free on Kindle.
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When a body is discovered at a local church’s trunk-or-treat event, all signs point to pre-meditated murder, but could a silly vendetta over a costume drive inspire a few good women to take matters into their own hands? Realizing they’re the only people with a motive, the church ladies hide the corpse in a coffin. Unfortunately, while the women host the trunk or treat, a mortician arrives and picks up the casket.
When the Halloween festivities are over, the women are left to solve a crime, ...
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“What have I done?” Navy SEAL Jack Thibideaux thinks as he stands over the shepherd girl he has just accidentally shot high atop a snow capped peak in Afghanistan. Thus starts Jack’s perilous journey to save the girl, and himself. With the Taliban close behind, Jack fights his way down the mountain to rescue the girl and find his own redemption.
In his new life as a bookstore owner in a small Port Townsend, Washington Jack seeks solace from PTSD and a new life, but his bloody past is sink...
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Adventurer Chase Baker goes on the hunt for the dress that was soaked in Lincoln’s blood immediately after he was shot by an assassin’s bullet in Ford’s Theater. The dress, which belongs to a long dead woman, Clara Harris, one of the two friends who accompanied the Lincolns in the presidential box on that fateful night, is said to be hidden behind a secret wall in a haunted house located in Albany, New York. Based on a true story by Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandr...
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In this thrilling continuation from The Veil of Oppression, Emily Anderson continues to push the two-faced CFO of Roth Pharmaceuticals to take accountability for his unethical company. But when hes got one foot in the grave himself, shell have to use all the influence she’s got even if that means getting closer to his heart than she expected. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Sara West is a beautiful 28 year old graduate student on a scientific expedition in Africa who stumbles upon a cache of WWII Nazi files in the wreck of a German bomber hidden in the jungle. The files reveal the location of a multi-billion dollar war-chest, secretly deposited by the Nazis in numbered Swiss bank accounts at the end of WWII. The story that follows is a nail-biting thriller, with a captivating heroine who is pursued across Africa, the Middle East and Europe by relentless Russian an...
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Raising your mother can be deadly.
Thirteen-year-old Liberty takes care of her heroin-addict mother, and when a drug dealer shows up at their house a fight breaks out, and the dealer ends up dead. To save them both, Liberty flees the scene with her mom in tow. Facing the demons of their past, the two are forced to run, staying just one step ahead of the police and the killer hired for revenge.
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A series of eleven books, all set in the mid 1940s to early 1950s, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Bryce of Scotland Yard. (In the earliest story he is a mere Inspector, and in the latest he has reached the rank of Chief Superintendent.)
The various stories take him to various parts of England, when local police forces ask the Yard for help in solving difficult and serious cases. In other books, the setting is London.
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Book 2 of 3 in the O’Shaughnessy Investigations Mystery Series. The homefront 1943, Brooklyn, New York. Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino survived the first year of their partnership thanks to solving a murder nobody else wanted to touch. Now they find themselves in much more dangerous territory, caught between feuding mobsters. World War II rages on and it appears the tide is turning, but when will it end so the “boys” can come home? A neo-noir/historical fiction novel...
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MURDER, ADDICTION, AND REDEMPTION COLLIDE IN THIS ENTHRALLING SMALL-TOWN MYSTERY.
Kentucky Game Warden Luke Ryder is an alcoholic on the verge of losing his job. But when a Louisville gangster is found dead in rural Kentucky on the first day of muzzle-loader hunting season a chance for Luke to prove his worth strikes.
Asked to help with the investigation by County Sheriff Jim Pike, Luke works on the case while also confronting his addiction and using his innate detective skills to uncover clues...
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A boy is trying to find his missing friend – he’s also trying to survive the sex industry.
Teenage rent boy Joseph Fernandez hopes to find a sugar daddy and take him for all he can get. Not only is he battling with heroin addiction, he’s also made some dangerous enemies. Homeless and desperate, Joseph fails to recognize a dodgy punter when he meets one. This thrilling and gritty coming-of-age story is set in 1980’s London.
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A small Washington state mountain town police woman gets caught up in seemingly connected kidnapping and murder cases, even while a budding romance blooms. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Agent Danny Carlisle runs, swims, works out. She’s fit. Like the young women who have gone missing. She’s not especially excited about helping the Duluth police look for these women, she’s being pulled from a much more interesting case. At least she thought it was. Until the first body is found. Free on Kindle.
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When Californians start getting sick with flu-like symptoms, civil engineer Jake Bendel is once again forced to work with the FBI to discover the cause. With his new desalination plants behind schedule and searing pressure from the California Governor, Jake uncovers a secret network of vengeful terrorists planning Nazi-level genetic modifications. But before the engineer can find a way to cure the masses, he himself is injected with the virus, forcing him to dig deep to track down the leader of...
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For fans of Twin Peaks and Stranger Things, Lost Grove is the first in a paranormal mystery duology that explores the twisted legends and mysteries in one small town.
In the eerie, enigmatic town of Lost Grove, where secrets whispered among the rustling pines are as thick as the fog rolling in from the sea, the discovery of Sarah Elizabeth Grahams’ lifeless corpse on the windswept beach is but the first note in a haunting symphony of mysteries.
Sergeant Seth Wolfe, the town’s tenaci...
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In this nail-biting psychological thriller with twists you won’t see coming, a husband and wife come head-to-head in a dangerous back-stabbing conflict that has them both fearing for their lives. $0.99 on Kindle.
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With the Gray Throne secured, brothers Kildare and Zedaine are forced to part ways.
Leading a party south, Zedaine is tasked with retrieving a powerful artifact stolen by Ebonfire, the great black dragon of the Serpent Marsh and an army of demon spawn stand in the way.
While Kildare is compelled to ally with his father, King Medyha, to travel overland to the north, a route under the control of hundreds of cutthroat mercenaries claiming to be priests of the Duorn, the All-Father. Along the way, ...
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When Leah Avondale, a sophomore soccer star, becomes more than a little upset with her father, Martin, and his broken promises and decides to take a trip to see her aunt, it starts a series of events that eventually lead up to her father being arrested for her disappearance and possible murder.
When Special Agent Jonathan Dearfield (JD) of the FBI is called to the case, he discovers a fact in the case that could change his life forever, and only after finding Leahs secret diary does he find the...
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Adventurer and Renaissance man, Chase Baker, finds himself in the presence of a Vatican priest who desperately needs his help. One of the church’s great relics has been stolen by a surviving member of the Nazi SS. A man by the name of Adolf Rickman. The relic is none other than the spear of Longinus. Can Chase nab the spear of destiny before the Nazis use it to take over the world? $0.99 on Kindle.
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Kate and Halifax find themselves on the tail of the mysterious Insider, who has been using their position to leak details of the murder squads investigations. Soon they find things are even more complicated than they dared to imagine. Who is The Insider and can they be stopped? Free on Kindle.
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Blue-collar Archie Wilson cant catch a break. His wife, Della, spends money they don’t have like she’s one of the la-dee-dah ladies down at the boutiquetalk about gold-plated taste on a tin foil budget. Their marriage is stale, Della quit her job, and she shows more attention to her teacup poodle Smoochie-Pie than to Archie. A lesser man would turn to crime, but Archie is no criminal. When his great-aunt leaves him a small inheritance, he seizes the chance for a once-in-a-lifetime c...
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Are memories freedom or punishment?
Losing her husband suddenly was difficult enough for Sally, but now her eighteen-year-old daughter has sought out her birth father, Ricky. Sally hasn’t seen Ricky since she was a teenager herself, and her memories from back then are having an unsettling effect on her sleep.
As her world begins to crumble around her, Sally decides to face her anxieties by consulting a hypnotherapist. But when more terrifying secrets rise to the surface, will Sally be abl...
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Embark on a gripping journey into the untamed frontier with C.K. Crigger’s Spur Award-winning series, The Woman Who. Across six captivating books, witness a saga of legacy, revenge, and turmoil as one woman’s unwavering strength takes center stage.
The Woman Who Built a Bridge
When January Schutt saves Shay Billings after hes ambushed and left for dead on a bridge, they join forces against a mutual and power-hungry adversary. But as their story unfolds into a war over water rights, J...
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The writers’ group president is dead as a wedge on the patio tiles, gruesomely stabbed to death. Forty-five minutes prior, all twelve group members were in the house for a meeting. Becky, the group secretary and attractive professor, finds the body and is determined to use her computer skills to solve the case before the killer strikes again. She teams up with hot Detective Hernandez and is in for the ride of her life. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The epic struggle of the centuryWorld War II.
It’s America, and her allies are at war against tyrants who seek to subjugate everyone and every American must risk it all to help themselves, their family, and their country to survive.
The Holts, an Illinois family, are caught up in the trials of World War II, their sons as soldiers and their daughter as the wife of a soldier. As each experiences the ebb of war where people are struggling for their very existence they come to realize that wa...
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