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IT’S NOT OVER by Willow Rose

IT’S NOT OVER by Willow Rose

Parents’ worst nightmare!

What would you do if your son went missing from your hotel room while you are downstairs in the restaurant for dinner?

As she digs into the disappearance of the boy, racing to save the child’s life, she realizes this psychopathic killer lurking in the shadows has unfinished business with her, and he’s not stopping till his debt is paid in full.

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The City That Barks And Roars

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Animals rule the world.

They hit cafes for breakfast then nine to five at the office, and fritter away evenings at jazz clubs.

But paradise is still a distant dream, for there are devils amongst the angels.

Lucas Panda is missing; clues on the riverbank suggest he was probably kidnapped.
Enter Frank. Who else you gonna call? Hard-boiled penguin and the finest detective in town.
And meet his new partner, Detective Chico Monkey – yeah, the wisecrackin’ kid with all the snappy suits.
But the stakes have been raised; three more creatures are missing and the citizens of Noah’s Kingdom are faced with possible extinction. Can the grouchy bird and plucky young ape save the city from doom? Or, will evil prevail and escape the claws of justice?

‘Animal noir’ peppered with plenty of humour; this thrilling debut novel from award-winning comedian JT Bird is an intriguing blend of Jungle Book and Chinatown (Zootopia for grown-ups?! Watership Down with Fedoras!?) – perfect for fans of animal fiction, or mysteries, adventure and crime. A gripping yarn, packed with weird and wonderful creatures, for youngsters and adults alike (or anyone who’s crying out for anthropomorphic detectives!!)

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Spring of Fire

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A town threatened with extremist violence. One woman is tasked with diffusing the threat. Can she uncover the truth before her town explodes in violence?

Sgt. Cory Marin wants to bask in the glow of her pregnancy, but when an extremist preacher threatens to burn the Koran and books of the devil, national attention falls on her peaceful college town. Racing to avoid an international incident, she uncovers a second threat, a more dangerous leader with plans for a rally that will draw like-minded people from around the country. With extremists staging protests to grab national headlines, Cory races against time to uncover the leak on her team and diffuse tensions before her town becomes another Charlottesville.

Spring of Fire is the fifth book in the Cory Marin Mystery series. If you like strong female characters and stories ripped from the headlines, then you’ll love JW Robitaille’s Spring of Fire. Order this gripping page-turner today.

“Once again Cory Marin engages the reader in a crime mystery that is both timely and riveting.” Amazon Reviewer

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The Dead of Jerusalem Ridge

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Eight months on the job, Sheriff Piper Blackwell takes a holiday weekend to reconnect with her Army buddies. The outing turns tragic, and the young sheriff must filter through the chaos and the clues to discover a murderer. At the same time, her small department is faced with a horrendous hate crime that sends ripples through the rural county. Two crimes, two fronts, and Piper has to piece it all together to protect the residents and her heart.

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The 7th Riddle Book Episode 1

About The 7th Riddle Book Episode 1:

“A little informer, clothed in bright Armor, beloved by men of degree. It goes fine and neat without leg or feet. Now tell me what this riddle must be.’”

She was on her third lap around Central Park, one of New York’s most dangerous localities, famous for its shocking headline news of murders, rapes, theft and the likes. Those things never really bothered her as she had seen her share of unspeakable things that would keep another person up at night.

But this introductory riddle was the challenge for today, albeit the few 30 minutes it would take her to run around the park. She wondered how it would be received globally and would it be too difficult for some. Being easy was not the concern, as the rewards at the end would demand harder riddles for the contestants to solve as they successfully maneuvered thru each of the seven levels of this new game being released.

Lebekkah Jordan, slender and athletic, was the founder and president of Pyramid International Investments. In her line of business taking venturous risks, was the ultimate challenge whose payback had generated substantial rewards over the past two years. A healthy, sharp mind and a bright, energetic team were the best defensive weapons, she surmised, in the world of high finance and trade. Today they were taking on a more arduous venture.

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Death in Sight by SR Garrae

Death in Sight by SR Garrae

The third novel in the Casey and Carval series.
Everyone has secrets…and some people kill to protect them.
Asher Washington was keeping secrets from his friends, family and fiancée. Did his silence lead to his shooting in a snowy Manhattan park, or was he killed by the secrets hidden by the people around him?
The secrets that swirl around brilliant NYPD detective Casey Clement and her hotshot team of misfits also bind them together. Their case turns on the secrets surrounding their victim, but Casey’s reputation and relationships are threatened when the secrets kept by Casey, her team, her lover, and her alcoholic father are exposed.
Casey can deal with murder. But when all of the secrets around her are uncovered, will it be more than she can handle?

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ALL THE GOOD GIRLS by Willow Rose

About Featured Book: ALL THE GOOD GIRLS by Willow Rose

Free for a limited time (07.02-07.06)
Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.

Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.

Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.

Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS is the first book in the Harry Hunter Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

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ALL THE GOOD GIRLS by Willow Rose

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS by Willow Rose

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.

Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.

Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.

Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS is the first book in the Harry Hunter Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

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Breakwater Skeleton Unknown by Emma Jackson

Breakwater Skeleton Unknown by Emma Jackson

Making dry bones talk is Paige Reese’s specialty.

After the untimely death of her close friend, Paige wants only one thing: to become better acquainted with FBI Special Agent Tim Hannegan.AKA: Agent Dish. Unfortunately, Paige has other work to do.

As Coroner Ad Hoc for the small bayside community of Northampton County on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, she sees every deadbeat in town. So, when the Coast Guard locates the sun-bleached bones of a skeleton on a nearby breakwater ship Paige makes it her business to determine the identity of the deceased. She has few clues to go on. What do a dismembered skeleton, white fishing boots, and a saint’s medallion all have in common?

Nott Smith lends an investigative hand, and Paige begins sorting out the puzzle of the unknown. Then a warning note arrives, urging Paige to let the dead rest in peace. If she doesn’t obey, it could be her own dry bones telling the story.

With colorful descriptions of Virginia’s beautiful Eastern Shore and her unique community of locals, BREAKWATER SKELETON UNKNOWN is the second installment in the Cherrystone Creek Mystery series. Don’t miss the first book in the series, LITTLE GIRL UNKNOWN, which introduces Paige, Nott, and Tim, as well as their scenic – and mysterious – fishing town. Get hooked today!

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The History Teacher by Susan Bacon

The History Teacher by Susan Bacon

It’s 1978. In the wake of a baffling double murder, a Columbia University professor is drawn into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War — and forced to confront the truth about her family and history as we know it. Susan Bacon’s award-winning debut novel pays homage to the classic political thrillers of the 1970s. Reviewers have called it “riveting” (Midwest Book Review), “fresh and eye-opening” (Emily Yellin) and “a pleasure to read” (Bruce Weber).

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The History Teacher

About The History Teacher:

It’s 1978. In the wake of a baffling double murder, a Columbia University professor is drawn into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War — and forced to confront the truth about her family and history as we know it. Susan Bacon’s award-winning debut novel pays homage to the classic political thrillers of the 1970s. Critics have called it “riveting,” “fresh and eye-opening” and “a pleasure to read.”

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The Junkyard Dog

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EDGAR Award Winner – Chicago is Jimmy Flannery’s kind of town, everything that happens there is his business. Including murder. After the killer targets his lady love, he becomes a junkyard dog on the trail of the crooked politics combining passion with revenge, a very deadly combination.

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Blood Honor _ American Yakuza IV by Isabella

Blood Honor _ American Yakuza IV by Isabella

Luce Potter, the only female head of a yakuza organization, has been flirting with death for a while now. Try to take something away from her, hurt her family, or threaten her life, and she strikes back with viper-like precision. Now, Frank Yeow, her dead grandfather’s former second-in-command, is coming for her again. This time he’s working with Carolina Petrov, the widow of her most recent nemesis. Luce finds herself pulled in two directions, with sweet revenge on one side and her lover’s happiness on the other, including a family and everything that comes with it: PTA, soccer, and sit-down dinners on Sundays.

Brooke Erickson is ready for the quiet life that includes babies, a house in the country, and her lover, Luce Potter. Brooke stepped up to lead the yakuza clan when Luce was kidnapped and almost killed, but now she thinks that danger is behind them and it’s their time to be happy, domestic, and drama-free. There’s only one problem: Luce doesn’t see herself as the mommy type and is finding it hard to put her past behind her.

With Frank’s help, Mei Potter has finally found her sister and been at least superficially accepted into the family, but it is clear that Luce doesn’t want anything to do with her. Mei has her foot in the door, but it will take more than a claim of blood ties to earn Luce’s trust enough to enact her nefarious endgame. Getting close to Luce brings up questions of birthright and honor, Mei must navigate a tricky dance with Luce and the crime family while Frank’s iron grip steers her to complete her mission—one way or another.

Three lives are intertwined yet moving in different directions. Can each survive long enough to get what they want, or are they all on a one-way path toward collective destruction?

*Note — there is a bondage scene in the book

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Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold

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. Author’s Note: 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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HARRY HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES 1-3 by Willow Rose

About Featured Book: HARRY HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES 1-3 by Willow Rose

Available for 0.99 from 06/15-06/20

This is the first three books in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter Mystery series.

Mystery, love, and action: this series has it all.

BOOK 1: All The Good Girls:

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.
Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime. Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.
Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

BOOK 2: Run Girl Run:

When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.
Everything points to a murder-suicide.
They were homeless, living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.
But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.
Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.
As Harry races to protect her, he is betrayed by someone he thought he knew, leaving him terrified of trusting anyone in a town filled with liars.

BOOK 3: No Other Way:

Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match.
Who is telling the truth?
What are they hiding?
Detective Harry Hunter of the Miami PD is in church on a peaceful Sunday morning when a young teenager pulls out a gun and shoots his own father.
Once the shock is gone, Harry starts to ask himself the question no one else seems to care about: What makes a young boy want to kill his own father?
When more blood is shed, Harry suspects there’s a secret buried in this town that no one wants unearthed. What are the people around him not telling him?

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Don’t Lie to Me by Willow Rose

Don’t lie to me by Willow Rose

When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home.
Three months later, her body is found inside her sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach, and the town is outraged.

The girl isn’t just any child. She’s the town’s most beloved surf idol, and it was believed that she could be the next Kelly Slater.

As another child, the son of a well-known senator is kidnapped, and the parents receive a disturbing video, FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas — who has just returned to her hometown, divorced and out of a job — plunges into the investigation, breaking her promise to her children not to do police work again.

Local law enforcement, with her old flame Matt Miller in charge, are the ones who ask for her help in a case so unsettling that only she can solve it. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier it becomes for Matt and Eva Rae. Soon, everyone she holds dear is in grave danger as this case hits a little too close to home.

DON’T LIE TO ME is the first book in the Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

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HARRY HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES 1-3 by Willow Rose

HARRY HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES 1-3 by Willow Rose

This is the first three books in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter Mystery series.

Mystery, love, and action: this series has it all.

BOOK 1: All The Good Girls:

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.
Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime. Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.
Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

BOOK 2: Run Girl Run:

When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.
Everything points to a murder-suicide.
They were homeless, living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.
But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.
Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.
As Harry races to protect her, he is betrayed by someone he thought he knew, leaving him terrified of trusting anyone in a town filled with liars.

BOOK 3: No Other Way:

Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match.
Who is telling the truth?
What are they hiding?
Detective Harry Hunter of the Miami PD is in church on a peaceful Sunday morning when a young teenager pulls out a gun and shoots his own father.
Once the shock is gone, Harry starts to ask himself the question no one else seems to care about: What makes a young boy want to kill his own father?
When more blood is shed, Harry suspects there’s a secret buried in this town that no one wants unearthed. What are the people around him not telling him?

Scroll up and grab three thrilling, suspenseful mysteries today.

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The Blood Of Florence (Part I)

About The Blood Of Florence (Part I):

Injured Al-Qaeda terrorist prisoner Khalid Mohamed carries out a daring escape from the Florence Medical Center in Colorado shortly before being interviewed by FBI Special Agent Tyrone Henderson.
As the medical quartet of Doctor Abraham Hurwitz, Doctor Shane Sherman, and nurses Catherine Ackerman and Tina Cohen arrive at the medical center to beef up the staff, they find the area in a state of chaos.
With Khalid on a mission to bomb American civilian targets, he joins up with fellow Al-Qaeda terrorist Hasan Ahmed, in a bid to break their third colleague, Mustafa Ressam, out of the medical center.
With the help of retrenched CIA spy Kennedy Forbes, Tyrone Henderson has to follow a trail of cryptic clues to bring down Khalid and Hasan before they bring down Florence.
When the Governor of Colorado, John Michaels, gets poisoned in the Intensive Care Unit while recovering from a heart attack …
When the drug user, Carl Watson, poisons his identical twin brother, Officer Luke Watson, who was due to guard the hospital room of the Governor …
Time is ticking for Tyrone Henderson and Kennedy Forbes as they leave no stone unturned to bring the much-feared Al-Qaeda terrorists to book.
A clue for Tyrone and Kennedy – find out what 616 in the cryptic messages means and find out where Khalid and the bomb are!

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Don’t Lie To Me by Willow Rose

About Featured Book: Don’t Lie To Me by Willow Rose

When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home.
Three months later, her body is found inside her sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach, and the town is outraged.

The girl isn’t just any child. She’s the town’s most beloved surf idol, and it was believed that she could be the next Kelly Slater.

As another child, the son of a well-known senator is kidnapped, and the parents receive a disturbing video, FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas — who has just returned to her hometown, divorced and out of a job — plunges into the investigation, breaking her promise to her children not to do police work again.

Local law enforcement, with her old flame Matt Miller in charge, are the ones who ask for her help in a case so unsettling that only she can solve it. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier it becomes for Matt and Eva Rae. Soon, everyone she holds dear is in grave danger as this case hits a little too close to home.

DON’T LIE TO ME is the first book in the Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series and can be read as a standalone.

This Mystery book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print, Audiobook

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Death by Diamonds by Kelly Rey

About Death by Diamonds by Kelly Rey:

Diamonds are not always a girl’s best friend.

At least that’s what legal secretary turned reluctant sleuth Jamie Winters realizes when a dead body shows up on her boyfriend, Curt’s, patio…with a pocket full of diamonds! The dead woman was an old college friend of Curt’s, and the deeper Jamie digs, the more it appears someone was out to get her. With the help of her teenage sidekick, Maizy, Jamie tries to determine if Amber was an innocent victim or a jewel thief. And as the case leads them to a shady pawnshop and its shadier staff, Jamie realizes no one is whom they appear to be and everyone is a suspect. Was it the wannabe-mobster owner, his long-suffering wife, his spoiled daughter, the gold-obsessed clerk, or the inscrutable security guard? Or possibly it was the owner’s hired muscle nicknamed the Disposer…who just may dispose of Jamie and Maizy! One thing is for sure: the killer will stop at nothing to reclaim those diamonds, and if she isn’t careful, Jamie could just be the next target in the way!

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