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Palm Beach Taboo by Tom Turner

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About Featured Book: Palm Beach Taboo by Tom Turner

Available for $0.99 from 01/16/21-01/19/21!

OVER 1,200 5-STAR REVIEWS!

There’s a dangerous cult in Palm Beach.

The members say it’s all about altruism and philanthropy, but to detectives Crawford and Ott, it looks a lot like sex and money.

Make that sex, money and MURDER…when one of them is found brutally stabbed to death.

The list of suspects: a billionaire heiress, an ex-movie star, a former member of Skull and Bones, a Blackwater psychopath…and the weird thing is, they’re members of the Mensa society!

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Palm Beach Taboo by Tom Turner

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Palm Beach Taboo by Tom Turner

OVER 1,200 5-STAR REVIEWS!

There’s a dangerous cult in Palm Beach.

The members say it’s all about altruism and philanthropy, but to detectives Crawford and Ott, it looks a lot like sex and money.

Make that sex, money and MURDER…when one of them is found brutally stabbed to death.

The list of suspects: a billionaire heiress, an ex-movie star, a former member of Skull and Bones, a Blackwater psychopath…and the weird thing is, they’re members of the Mensa society!

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In The Beginning, There Was a Murder: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

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In The Beginning, There Was a Murder: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

When her best friend is murdered, Pauline Riddell finds she must take the law into her own hands if she is to see justice done.

It’s northern England, 1953, rationing is still in place and the Cold War is heating up. Her fiancé is out in Korea, where thankfully that war is winding down, and she’s just setting out in adult life working at a local armament factory. She’s hard-up, everyone is, but Pauline can see better times ahead, a home, a family, a responsible job, and she’s preparing for that future. Then her friend, Marjorie, is stabbed to death.

At first, Pauline is only concerned with helping the police. She’s intelligent and resourceful but also inexperienced, just out of school and still believing the world runs in trustworthy ways.

Then she finds the police think they’ve caught her friend’s killer and they’re winding down the investigation. Pauline now realizes this is a world where you can’t always leave things to others, you have to get involved yourself. But, as she investigates and puts pressure on the police for more action, she finds the killer wants her out of the way and the police have come to suspect she killed her friend. Can she catch the killer before she either faces the same fate as Marjorie or is hanged for killing her?

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Rogue Legal Thriller Series Boxset I: Legal Thrillers by Dale E. Manolakas

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About Rogue Legal Thriller Series Boxset I: Legal Thrillers by Dale E. Manolakas:

Two Essential Legal Thrillers [Audiobooks Available] KU-Kindle Countdown Deal $.99 Jan. 13, 2021 through Jan. 21, 2021

Hollywood on Trial ~ A Legal Thriller
✩Industry secrets uncovered…drugs, sex, betrayal, death…the power elite exposed and hunted down…murder on trial…✩
Sexual currency, extortion, and murder—the hidden life behind Hollywood cameras. The industry’s top entertainment lawyer represents star power—the price for ingénues is sex. Starlets pit man against man and willingly or unwillingly do what it takes to fight their way into the inner circle. After a starlet goes one step too far, a murder trial of the century shocks the world.
✩ AMAZON AUTHOR REVIEWS: “Have read this author before. Truly gifted.” “Put you into the courtroom.” “… amazing trial …. This author has a particular talent for developing real life characters that you can’t forget.” “Visceral. Sensual. Alive.”
✩ GOODREADS 4.67 RATING: .”Excellent legal thriller written well with attention to detail. Highly recommended to anyone who loves a gripping courtroom drama.” “a good mystery-thriller-suspenseful read … will keep you turning the pages to see what is coming next … fast moving.” “I highly recommend … this author.” “… gifted author …”

Rogue Divorce Lawyer ~ A Legal Triller
✩ Depravity escalates to murder. “Great psychological thriller.” “Author truly gifted.” “Real life characters you can’t forget.” ✩
[Note: Sexual Subject Matter ~ Some Necessarily Explicit ~ Mature Readers]
Based on a real “Me Too” case—in this legal thriller for decades divorce lawyer Gary Stockton sexually harasses, abuses, and subjugates his “special” female clients. To him, they are the perks of his practice.
When Stockton’s criminal depravity escalates to murder, this new craving leads to a shocking trial. A pillar of the community, this rogue divorce lawyer is unstoppable until a new client Eliana Thurston walks into his office—his lair.
✩ AMAZON REVIEWS 4.5: “The characters are as compelling as the story which is true. Have read this author before. Truly gifted.” “Couldn’t Stop Reading.”Put you into the courtroom.” “Great psychological thriller with an amazing trial. A real page turner. Could not put it down. This author has a particular talent for developing real life characters that you can’t forget.”
✩ GOODREADS: 4.33 Rating
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Penobscot Bay: The Slayer

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Bestselling author, Muriel Dermot, becomes the main character of a real life mystery. After months of being stalked and barely surviving an attempt on her life, the young woman escapes to an island off the coast of Maine where she starts a new life as Christine Marsden. The man who wants her dead travels coast to coast, leaving in his wake a mounting pile of dead women—because he can’t kill her.

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In The Beginning, There Was a Murder: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

In The Beginning, There Was a Murder: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

When her best friend is murdered, Pauline Riddell finds she must take the law into her own hands if she is to see justice done.

It’s northern England, 1953, rationing is still in place and the Cold War is heating up. Her fiancé is out in Korea, where thankfully that war is winding down, and she’s just setting out in adult life working at a local armament factory. She’s hard-up, everyone is, but Pauline can see better times ahead, a home, a family, a responsible job, and she’s preparing for that future. Then her friend, Marjorie, is stabbed to death.

At first, Pauline is only concerned with helping the police. She’s intelligent and resourceful but also inexperienced, just out of school and still believing the world runs in trustworthy ways.

Then she finds the police think they’ve caught her friend’s killer and they’re winding down the investigation. Pauline now realizes this is a world where you can’t always leave things to others, you have to get involved yourself. But, as she investigates and puts pressure on the police for more action, she finds the killer wants her out of the way and the police have come to suspect she killed her friend. Can she catch the killer before she either faces the same fate as Marjorie or is hanged for killing her?

Pauline stumbles a lot during her investigation, after all, she’s never done this before and has no training, but she does finally unmask the culprits and in doing so becomes known locally as the go-to person if you have a puzzle that needs solving.

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The 7 She Saw by Elle Gray

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Throughout history and in just about every religion the number 7 has held significance. And in the small town of Briar Glen the secret of the 7 will forever haunt you.

Blake Wilder is plagued with nightmares from her dark and twisted past.
Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.
Her parents murdered, and her sister taken.
At the age of 22, Blake joined the FBI in hopes of one day discovering the truth behind the mysteries of her own past.
The past few years since joining the FBI, Blake has seen many gruesome and nightmare inducing cases.
Now, she faces what may be the most grim and mysterious case of her career.
A case that will take her to Briar Glen.

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The Calcium Affair by Rahul Balakrishnan

The Calcium Affair by Rahul Balakrishnan

Top scientist Jerome Samuel goes missing while on his way to a conference, leaving little clue behind. A mysterious figure ‘Calcium’ claims responsibility for his abduction through email. Calcium soon provides video evidence for his custody and starts blackmailing the police. With the police stuck without much progress after one full month, the case gets transferred to a Special Task Force team lead by John Wilson. Follow John and his team as they slowly unshackle the mystery in an investigation full of twists and turns.

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Palm Beach Nasty (Charlie Crawford Palm Beach Mysteries Book 1) by Tom Turner

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OVER 1,200 5-STAR REVIEWS!

Burned out NYC homicide cop, Charlie Crawford, heads down to the Sunshine State to take it slow. But before long, he’s got a brutal murder and a long list of suspects: a billionaire with a thing for young girls, a creepy bartender with a sketchy past, and right in the middle of it all, his beautiful, conniving new girlfriend.

FREE December 14 -18

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Rabbit Moon by Jan D. Payne

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Rabbit Moon by Jan D. Payne

Everyone says you can’t go back home, but Dinetah, the Navajo Nation, is a place Marin Sinclair feels she has no right to claim as home. There are dark memories for her there, most of them wrapped up in the struggle to reconcile an Anglo worldview with that of the Navajo culture. She doesn’t expect that responding to a plea from a long ago Dineh friend will put her life in jeopardy, but Navajoland was ever a place to hold mysteries. The mystery now is what about her life then would make someone want to kill her?

Sgt. Justin Blue Eyes of the Navajo Nation Police shares a connection with Marin from the past, and he has the same question plus a few, including why the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission would send a top government agent to investigate the abandoned uranium mines on Navajo tribal lands—mines that in the past exposed hundreds of Native American miners to cancer-causing radiation. But first he needs to find Marin, and it looks like she has gone off the grid—on her own in the Lukachukai mountains with a killer close behind.

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Twas the Week After Christmas by Mark Justice

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When Abbie Price finds herself suddenly out of a job, she moves back to her home town of Juniper, Ohio, surrounded and supported by her friends and family.A series of unexplained packages pulls Abbie into a mystery that intimately touches the lives of everyone around her. With the New Year’s Nosh less than a week away, Abbie is determined to unravel the truth behind the mysterious packages and discovers herself on a journey toward acceptance, healing, and hope.

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The Asylum & Hiding The Past by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

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The e-version of The Asylum is currently available free from the author’s website.

The Asylum – Series Prequel
The job presented to forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier, ought to have been simple and easy. But the surprise discovery of an additional marriage to his client’s father leads Morton on an enquiry, revolving around a mysterious death in the county asylum. Requiring his various investigative genealogical skills, Morton must work to unravel this complex eighty-year-old secret and finally reveal the truth to his client.

Hiding the Past
Peter Coldrick had no past; that was the conclusion drawn by years of personal and professional research. Then he employed the services of one Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist – a stubborn, determined man who uses whatever means necessary to uncover the past. With the Coldrick Case, Morton faces his toughest and most dangerous assignment yet, where all of his investigative and genealogical skills are put to the test. However, others are also interested in the Coldrick family, people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to hide the past. As Morton begins to unearth his client’s mysterious past, he is forced to confront his own family’s dark history, a history which he knows little about.

These are the first two stories in the Morton Farrier genealogical crime mystery series. There are a further eight stories in this series: The Lost Ancestor; The Orange Lilies; The America Ground; The Spyglass File; The Missing Man; The Suffragette’s Secret; The Wicked Trade; and The Sterling Affair.

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NOT DEAD YET (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7) by Willow Rose

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About Featured Book: NOT DEAD YET (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7) by Willow Rose

Available for $0.99 for a limited time only (12.04-12.08.2020)

Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle?

When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she’s not dead.

Not yet.

Before she disappeared, Nancy Henry appeared to have everything: a successful husband who adored her, two beautiful children, a modeling career, and a charming home in south Merritt Island with a heart wreath on the door.

Now that she is back five years later, everything has changed. Her husband is with another wife, and her children are almost grown.

Everywhere she turns, people are telling her the same thing: We thought you were dead.

What happened to her?

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Evi’s Curse by Kathleen Grasso

About Featured Book: Evi’s Curse by Kathleen Grasso

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Evi Morris is excitedly planning her wedding. She’s so busy with designer wedding gowns and stilettos, the last thing on her mind is the rumored family curse. After all, everyone knows there's no such thing as psychics.
When Evi trips and hits her head, she has a vision of the wealthy Richard Bennigan being murdered by an unknown assailant.
Evi sets out on a quest to save a man who refuses to believe he’s in danger.

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NOT DEAD YET (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7) by Willow Rose

NOT DEAD YET (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7) by Willow Rose

Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery with lots of shocking twists.

Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle?

When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she’s not dead.
Not yet.
Before she disappeared, Nancy Henry appeared to have everything: a successful husband who adored her, two beautiful children, a modeling career, and a charming home in south Merritt Island with a heart wreath on the door.
Now that she is back five years later, everything has changed. Her husband is with another wife, and her children are almost grown.
Everywhere she turns, people are telling her the same thing: We thought you were dead.
What happened to her?
Nancy claims she doesn’t know where she has been. She remembers nothing after a blow to her head. She doesn’t want to talk to the investigation team lead by former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas, who has agreed to help with this bizarre case.
The sheriff’s office soon wants to give up on the case, but Eva Rae doesn’t quite believe in quitting. She sees fear in Nancy Henry’s eyes that makes her believe she is lying to them, maybe to protect herself.
What secrets is she carrying?
To get to the truth, Eva Rae must get to the bottom of what really happened on that night five years ago when Nancy Henry disappeared from her home in what looked like a home intrusion. But the past isn’t always easy to dig up, especially not when someone wants it to stay hidden and will go to great lengths to make sure it does.
Someone obviously tried to kill Nancy Henry. Will they come back to finish what they started?
Buy NOT DEAD YET today to get lost in a mystery you won’t be able to put down, and with a plot-twist, you didn’t see coming!

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BEACH BODY UNKNOWN by EMMA JACKSON

BEACH BODY UNKNOWN by EMMA JACKSON

Flotsam, jetsam, and death. Oh, my.

Cape Charles’ local Iraqi war veteran, Nottingham “Nott” Smith, is minding his own beach-combing business when he discovers a body in the sand dunes. The plastic-wrapped stranger is one piece of salvage that won’t be decorating his shack on Cherrystone Creek.

Paige Reese, Nott’s friend and Coroner Ad Hoc for Cape Charles, relieves Nott of his find and sets to work identifying the stranger and his cause of death. A few bumbling sheriff’s detectives and a cursing, Spanish-speaking parrot serve to muddy the waters. With too few clues and too much distraction, Paige’s medical sleuthing leads only to more questions.

Until a witness identifies Paige’s brother in connection with the dead man. What was a questionable death is now considered murder, and Billy Reese is the prime suspect.

Paige must work quickly to connect construction-grade plastic, Chinese business papers, and the Atlantic Flyway to her deceased client. If she’s too late, her own brother could be the next dead man.

Also look for the first book in the CherryStone Creek Mystery series, LITTLE GIRL UNKNOWN. Fall in love with the Eastern Shore!

Praise for CHERRYSTONE CREEK MYSTERIES:
“This particular author becomes more clever and the stories become more entertaining as time passes. I’m looking very forward to book three…”Michael Reisig, Clear Creek Press

“An Eastern Shore gem!” Don Rich, author of the Coastal Adventure series

“You have achieved that point in writing that the reader finds his/herself being in the room with Paige or on the beach with Nott. The reader isn’t just reading a book, but becomes a part of it, being able to actually visualize everything.” Art Davis, advance reader

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Devil’s Realm by Julie Jones

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On a searing summer’s day on an idyllic beach in South Devon, a young boy plunges to a horrific death from the overhanging cliffs. The tragic event graphically captured on film by the enigmatic Salcombe painter and entrepreneur Lois St John. Five years later, the boy’s father suffers the identical fate at the same location. Called to the scene, Moorland Forensic Consultants uncover a prophetic link between Liam Mercer’s fatal fall and a controversial painting of his son’s death titled ‘Falling Memories’. James, Fiona and Katie Sinclair draw upon their professional expertise as a string of mysterious deaths follow.

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change both his and Catherine’s life. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.

Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in happily ever after — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home.

Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The setting for The Osprey Cove Lodge series was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The description of the lodge is so beautiful and i

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change his life. It will also change Catherine’s. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.

Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in happily ever after — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home.

Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The setting for The Osprey Cove Lodge series was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The description of the lodge is so beautiful and inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there. The series is written in a continuing fashion; please be sure to read the books in the order written.

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

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FREE–NOVEMBER 29-30, 2020 The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette, changing his and Catherine’s life forever. Doug’s mysterious behavior afterward forces Catherine to escape to The Osprey Cove Lodge, where she finds something even more valuable. The series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations, from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau Lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An exciting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The description of the lodge is so inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there.

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