Tara Shiloh knows she’s not a drug addict. She’s positive she’s a good mother and hard worker. So why is she in an alley with a needle in her arm? Waking up in the hospital without her son is terrifying. Being told she can’t have him back nearly crushes her. With her memory spotty and the circumstances incriminating, Tara must fight to learn the truth and wrestle with the idea that maybe her son is better off without her.

Reid Holliston defends guilty people for a living and it's slowly killing him. He’s certain there is no such thing as a truly blameless client anymore. When his phone rings with a voice from his childhood his jaded views make him certain Tara is just one more criminal claiming innocence. But even his skepticism isn’t enough to keep him away.

Best friends from a lifetime ago, the two must find a way to trust each other again in spite of how the years apart have changed them. Can a promise made in childhood be enough to save them both?

A survivor. A fighter. A threat.

When Vancouver’s elite convenes in the prestigious Four Seasons Hotel to celebrate and fund the new British Columbia Children’s Hospital, it is a night of free flowing champagne, high class regalia and more flash than a museum could house – until suddenly everyone realizes all their precious jewels and baubles are gone.

In the space of one moment, the night turns from joy to confusion…. How did it happen? How were they all robbed, at once… without anyone seeing a thing?

Diana Hunter works for a news and crime magazine, yet her past experience and impressive, Sherlock Holmes-like skills mark her as an asset only the government could have trained.

Those skills are put to the test when the Superintendent of the Vancouver Police Department calls her in to work the case. Thrown together with a talented group, Diana must unravel the clues before the ghost like bandits strike again. With two successful heists behind them, Diana begins to fear the bigger picture and realizes that these ‘robberies’ may not just be robberies after all….

Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.

Murder meets the supernatural in DEADLY DESIRE by Robjert Joseph, when detective Raff Rafferty must find the killer of a reclusive millionaire, resist a seductive but spiritual femme fatale with mystical powers and escape with his life!

Mandy Carter, the pretty 18-year-old cart girl, is found buried in a sand trap at an upscale country club in New England. Who clubbed her to death … and why? That’s the question haunting Detective Abby Sanders, whose own teenage daughter looks so much like the victim they could have been sisters. A former competitive golfer herself, Abby quickly lets the country club crowd know that no one is above suspicion. Who killed the cart girl? • Mandy’s devoted boyfriend, Josh, the son of a wealthy plastic surgeon and his snobbish wife who live on the golf course • Josh’s mother, who thought the cart girl wasn’t good enough for her son • Josh’s former girlfriend who hated Mandy • The attractive golf pro who flirts with anyone in a skirt and has an endless supply of tasteless jokes • His jealous country club wife who is the city golf champion • The female assistant pro who hates the head pro and wants to play on the golf tour • The college golf star who is as competitive as she is beautiful • A caddy at the club who was vying for Mandy’s affections • The victim’s brother, a college student who got Mandy the job at the club • The aging proprietor of The 19th Hole snack bar, who has some secrets in his past?

Jack felt the familiar burn of shame in his chest.

Why do I keep doing this…thinking about her? It was so long ago, but I can’t get what happened out of my head. I shouldn’t let any of that junk define me, but I still do. I’m driving in circles, caught in some loop that I can’t break out of. I want to know why she abandoned me…but some things, I guess, I’ll never know…

Handsome police officer Jack Stratton is the “hometown hero cop with a heart of gold.” Constant nightmares have forced him to seek answers about his rough childhood and the dark secrets hidden there. With Alice (aka Replacement) by his side, Jack travels to Hope Falls to solve a murder that occurred before he was born. Everyone in the small town remembers the unsolved murder of Steven Ritter, but after 27 years, no one thought that someone would look into it—but they don’t know Jack.

Their lives are perfect… if only from the outside.

At first glance, the residents of Herald Springs lead charmed lives. But behind the dazzling smiles and inside the large brick homes, they all have their secrets. Most are harmless, but then again Annabeth King never did quite fit in.

This newest neighbor is harboring a special secret of her own, one that could prove deadly. Will the members of the “drink and gossip” club figure out what Annabeth’s working so hard to hide before disaster comes knocking?

With Storm’s signature bitter-sweetness and Hodge’s thrilling intensity, Walker Texas Wife offers a fast-paced, addictive romp that fans of Desperate Housewives and Pretty Little Liars will find themselves falling hard and fast for. This debut in the new Book Cellar Mystery series will leave you wondering: just how well do we know our neighbors after all?

Thirteen years ago, Melissa was abducted as a baby. Today, she was brutally murdered.

A missing woman. Her dead husband. A 600-pound tiger. What do they have in common? To what extent must Harvey go to shatter an inconvenient secret?

Dr. Harvey Nolan, a Nobel prize-winning Columbia Professor, isn’t expecting the FBI at his office after his first blood-soaking brush with them many years ago. In a dark and damp dungeon, a frightened woman wakes up to find herself chained to her bed, her screams echo but unanswered. Agent Katie Moulin, a jaded ex-FBI, grudgingly returns to the ground when things get chaotic with a single divergent event.

Caught in a crossfire between a merciless assassin and the FBI for a crime he did not commit, can Nolan clear his name before it is too late? As New York City becomes a hotbed of crime, Harvey's and Katie's lives must intertwine once again. Forced to battle enemies and allies closing in alike, they find themselves surprised by the extent of cruelty people can go to. Or perhaps, could the cruelty be justifiable?
 

Katy Gordon is having the time of her life. She is about to step on stage to accept the Bennet Award—the most prestigious award within the knitting community. She possesses a rare gift with the needle. Katy creates masterpieces, using skill and precision, of every kind of clothing imaginable, from patterns she’s created or adapted from antique patterns she owns. From Victorian and sensual to the Roaring 20s and beyond, Katy creates award winning pieces that have made her famous in the world of costume design as well as a variety of other arenas.

She has never been more excited, that is, until a crazy woman rushes the stage and accuses Katy of stealing her designs and stealing her award. Katy is flabbergasted by the outburst and is stunned as the security guards drag the woman away.

Katy chalks it up to some lunatic’s antics and tries not to let it spoil her evening. That is, until a few hours later when that same woman is found dead with one of Katie’s specially designed knitting needles found at the scene. Katie finds herself a suspect in a murder she did not commit.

Can she discover the real killer before she is sent away for the crime? Or will this journey plunge her into a world of mystery and intrigue she has only ever read about?

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The death of Lake Williams, a former football player at Central Montana State, in his squalid tent in a homeless camp looks to Seagate and Miner like a routine heroin overdose. Soon, however, they discover that someone hired a courier to deliver the uncut heroin, knowing that Lake would shoot up and die instantly. When a second body turns up, and then a third, the evidence points to the head coach and the other leaders of the football program, who appear to be covering up a secret that would destroy the program. When a man comes forward, claiming to have committed numerous felonies on behalf of the program over many years, the detectives don’t know whether he is the killer or merely a decoy in an elaborate misdirection play. In a heart-pounding final confrontation, Seagate and Miner confront the killer--and realize they have walked right into the trap.

This top-rated mystery-thriller is on sale for a limited time to introduce you to the wildly popular Rebecca Franck Series from bestselling author Willow Rose. We hope you enjoy!

A fast paced Mystery from Bestselling Author Willow Rose.

Alexandra wasn't delicate and petite like all the other girls. She didn't want to wear dresses or play with dolls. In school, she was mocked and people thought something was wrong with her.

They all thought they were doing what was best for her. The pastor, the therapist, the doctors, and especially her parents thought they were only helping Alexandra when forcing her to wear dresses, act like a girl, and play with dolls instead of cars.

Twenty years later, a string of strange deaths occurs in Karrebaeksminde. The bodies' genitals are mutilated. The men are dressed as women and women are dressed as men.

Rebekka Franck is back at Zeeland Times when the first bodies appear, and soon she realizes a ruthless serial killer is roaming the streets of the small coastal town. A killer with a message.

˃˃˃ Thirteen, Fourteen...Little Boy Unseen is a story about how being accepted for who you are while growing up is vital for every child. It is the seventh book in Willow Rose's bestselling Rebekka Franck series.

Book 1 : True Crime

Private Investigator Sean Hayes and his partner Ashley Reid are hired to find the fate of a girl who went missing 15 years back. And, before they could’ve made a move, the NYPD reaches out to Sean to investigate a murder case.

A long-closed case means Ashley has to treat everyone as a suspect. Sean, on the other hand, has to work with Detective Miller who opposes Sean's approach at every step.

With limited evidence and a dearth of time, will Sean and Ashley be able to get to the end of the investigation and find the true intentions behind both the crimes?

Book 2 : Loose Ends
When Agent Kiara Davenport and Agent Jake Carter were assigned new partners, they had hoped the cases would also be new. But, a serial killer is back in town, and Jake has to follow his trail. The only clue left behind is the dying words of the three victims.
And, before he could have asked Kiara's help, she is sucked into a high political game that is spread across continents. Will they be able to solve the cases without each other's help and that too using their new, inexperienced partners?

The year is 1937. The infamous Edgewink gang, three of Boston's most ruthless criminals, travels to Bangor, Maine in search of a quiet place to rest and split their loot. Instead, they find ambush and death, and they and the treasure they had amassed--now lost, if it ever existed--become the stuff of local legend.

Seventy-five years later, a string of murders rocks the relatively quiet city. Why are people suddenly dying, and how does the local gangster legend tie in? Detective Lieutenant Thomas Clipper must look to the pages of history to solve a thoroughly modern crime.

One move : Last move

Agent Kiara Davenport and Agent Jake Carter found antiques worth millions at a car crash, but no one came forward to claim them. With no leads, they had to not only find the person behind it, but they also had to find a whole network that was working without anyone's knowledge and that too for years.

Jake meets someone who gives him a lead, but as he tries to find a connection, he starts falling for her. He is in a dilemma and by the time Jake and Kiara come to know how deep it was, they had to decide if they could put their lives at risk and that too without telling their boss.

Will they find who was behind it and that too while running for their lives?

"I slowed way down for the speed bumps on the narrow, wet street. The cemetery loomed in its eternal silence on our right, and I felt the eyes of the dead opening under heavy lids to watch us pass by in the rainy night, somehow knowing we were on our way to do murder, to send them some company."

From the mean streets of Miami, Hialeah, and Key West comes this sprawling noir novel of three hardened individuals:

LOGAN, career criminal from Key West who is fed up with his outlaw life, but can't escape it.
MAMBO DeLIMA, gambling boss of Key West, who is being muscled by out-of-town racketeers and is determined to face them down.
SILVANA MACHADO, the first female detective sergeant in the Miami PD's homicide division, who gets her results through violence and intimidation.

In this first entry in The Miami Crime Trilogy, Don Donovan has spun a tale of separate South Florida characters whose lives are woven together into a web of money, betrayal, and murder.

It was an accepted fact that Beatrice Maybrick, owner and operator of the Maybrick Literary Agency, accidentally fell to her death. Or did she? Esme Timmons thought not, her suspicions fuelled by a letter she received from Beatrice following the tragic incident. Faced with this dilemma, Esme takes steps to find the killer.
Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn commences his investiga

tion into the suspicious death of entrepreneur, Preston Alexander. With robbery ruled out as the motive, Fitzjohn is drawn to Preston’s investment portfolio and the Maybrick Literary Agency.

Finding an antiquated establishment where uncertainty prevails following the demise of its owner, Beatrice Maybrick, Fitzjohn asks himself two questions. Why did the high flying investor, Preston Alexander, invest in such a business, and did it lead to his death?

Book 1 - Perfect Crime

The daughter of one of the most influential man in New York falls for a struggling investment banker. After a torrid affair, they finally get married. Everything seems to head towards a life of joy when the wife vanishes into thin air and the husband becomes the prime suspect.
As Agent Kiara Davenport is about to get hold of him, a ransom call is made from overseas. And, as she is about to catch the caller, someone else confesses to the crime. She knows something is amiss and as she is about to get to the bottom of it, all the suspects start getting killed one by one.
Everyone is a suspect and each suspect is more influential than the other. Will Kiara find the real culprit or become a pawn in the cat and mouse game?

Book 2 - True Crime

Private Investigator Sean Hayes and his partner Ashley Reid are hired to find the fate of a girl who went missing 15 years back. And, before they could’ve made a move, the NYPD reaches out to Sean to investigate a murder case.

A long-closed case means Ashley has to treat everyone as a suspect. Sean, on the other hand, has to work with Detective Miller who opposes Sean's approach at every step.

With limited evidence and a dearth of time, will Sean and Ashley be able to get to the end of the investigation and find the true intentions behind both the crimes?

New Mexico/Arizona 2016 Book Award Finalist

Everyone has secrets. Some more deadly than others.

When the ninth young girl falls into the clutches of a serial killer, maverick detective, David Temeke, faces a race against time to save her life.

The Duke City Police Department in Albuquerque, New Mexico is no stranger to gruesome murders, but this new serial killer on their block keeps the body parts of his eight young victims as trophies and has a worrying obsession with the number 9. The suspect is incarcerated in the state's high security penitentiary but Unit Commander Hackett is faced with a dilemma when another teenage girl goes missing.

Detective Temeke and his new partner, Malin Santiago, are sent to solve a baffling crime in the dense forests of New Mexico's Cimarron State Park. But time is running out. Can they unravel the mysteries of Norse legends and thwart the 9th Hour killer before he dismembers his next victim?

This is the first in the Detective Temeke Crime series. A unique noiresque modern detective novel.

Watch out for more from Detective Temeke and Malin Santiago

1.THE 9TH HOUR

2.NIGHT EYES

3.PAST RITES

What people are saying about THE 9TH HOUR:

"Tense action and complex psychological motivation is woven into a wonderfully satisfying novel." ~ Kristin Gleeson - Author of the Celtic Knot Series

"An intense, superbly crafted reading experience. I guarantee you'll go on reading well past the ninth hour." ~ Jim Pingelly, Kingdom Writing Solutions

The 9th Hour cometh! Despite - or because of - knowing so many writers, I still feel the magic when a book comes out that makes the hairs on my arm tingle because I think it's GOOD. I read MANY books and I only review and recommend those I really like, so of course this shows my taste as a reader. If you like modern detectives, think Ian Rankin set in New Mexico, you'll love this. A new detective walks the mean streets of my bookshelves - Temeke. The 13th Sign Publishing.

"Gripping, innovative, brutal and yet redemptive. This is crime fiction with a serrated edge and a brilliant sheen." ~ Marco Storey, author and speaker

"An assured page-turner that leads inexorably to a satisfying conclusion. I can't wait for Detective Temeke Book 2!" ~Jean Gill - The Troubadours Quartet
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Cats, cookies, and murder. An unfortunate recipe for a Halloween celebration.
After finding out her job at the Brimstone Press is at risk when a misogynistic journalist from her past gets hired, clever witch and accidental cat lady River Halloway doesn’t think her day could get any worse. That is, until someone new to town is killed during the Hallows’ Bay Halloween celebration, and one of the most well-loved people in town is accused of the murder. Now, not only does River need to solve the crime and be the first to write the story for the sake of her job, but she must find who the real killer is before her beloved friend gets sent to state prison for murder.

This is book 2 of the Brimstone Bay Mysteries series. If you're a fan of Amanda M. Lee, Juliette Harper, and Amy Boyles, then be sure to get your fill of magic, mystery, and murder with this cozy new paranormal mystery series.

Detroit homicide Detective Bonnie Benham has been transferred from narcotics for using more than arresting and is working the case of a killer of adolescent girls.

CSI collects DNA evidence from the scene of the latest victim, which had not been detected on the other victims. But no suspect turns up in the FBI database. Due to the notoriety of the crimes a task force is put together with Bonnie as the lead detective, and she implores the D.A. to use an as yet unapproved type of a DNA Search in an effort to identify the killer.

Homicide Detective Neil Jensen, with his own history of drug and alcohol problems, understands Bonnie's frailty and the two detectives become inseparable as they track this killer of children.