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A Fate Worse Than Death by Britt Lind

A Fate Worse Than Death by Britt Lind

As a homicide detective, Rosemaria Baker is known for her street smarts, her feisty personality and her ability to nail the bad guys.

Being the daughter of a cop and an actress gave little Rosemaria a dichotomous view of life. Her mother was inclined to get lost in her fantasies while her father had to face the harsh realities of a world filled with murder and mayhem. Nine-year-old Rosemaria loved both her parents and admired her mother’s talent but even at a young age she felt drawn to her father’s work as a detective, constantly begging him to share with her every detailed description of the dangerous criminals and close calls he survived while chasing the bad guys.

Whatever Rosemaria did she did it well; be it hitting baseballs, shooting baskets, writing school papers, she put her all into every endeavor. When tragedy invaded her world at the tender age of ten, she survived because of her innate ability to compartmentalize her feelings and move forward.

While still in college she was faced with a terrifying situation where she had to use all of her mental and physical capabilities in an effort to save her father’s life. Ignoring what would have been safe and expected of her and asking no one’s advice, she risked everything to find him and bring him home alive.

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The Dreadful Dawn by Kalen Iselt

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A family of four is forced to confront a devastating, brutal reality: they are going to lose someone they love. Not only that, but he will try to take all of them with him.

A mother and their eight-year-old twin boy and girl face the depths of despair when their father becomes infected with COVID-X, and they must try to survive until dawn.

What ensues is a night of terror, as the monster he becomes, a Shadow Seeker, is consumed by rage and bloodlust, with no hesitation to kill the family that he loved and cherished mere hours before.

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Do No Harm by James Cohoon

Do No Harm by James Cohoon

Torrey and Matthew meet while attending Stanford Medical School. She wants to become a doctor to save lives; he wants to become a prison doctor for the sole purpose of gaining access to San Quentin where his father’s murderer is serving a life sentence. Matthew wants to exact the ultimate revenge.

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So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon


About Featured Book: So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon

Free from 1/24/2023 through 1/32/2023

Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon’s new intergenerational tale set in present-day Kentucky, four decades after the rise and fall of the Cornbread Mafia.

When Ruth Hannacker finds a “just-in-case-anything-happens-to-me” letter among her mother’s things after she was killed in a tornado, it opens a new chapter in the family’s decades-long, fraught, and often tragic story with Righteous Weed.

The letter from Jessica Monaghan Hannacker tells of the Tree House, a propane tank buried in the ground where Willie Ray Taggart stashed his marijuana money back in the heyday of the Cornbread Mafia. When Ruth finds the Tree House, she discovers $75,000 in cash and quart jars of Righteous Weed seed, the finest strain of marijuana ever developed.

Over the protests of 72-year-old Riley Hannacker, the only remaining living member of the original Cornbread Mafia, the family decides to grow an indoor crop, illegal in Kentucky, so they can patent the strain and get a license to grow in one of the 11 newly legal states. They plan to market it as a premium boutique cannabis, appealing to the nostalgia of the smokers’ first-time high.

But as so often happens with the best-laid plans, things quickly go awry. Jealousy, resentment, anger, greed, and deeply buried feelings from long gone wrongs resurface and wreak havoc with what is left of the family.

So Shall The Tree Grow is the fourth and final book in Ninie Hammon’s new Cornbread Mafia series, a fictional story inspired by the real Cornbread Mafia that sprang up in picturesque Marion County, Kentucky, and grew into the largest illegal marijuana-growing operation in U.S. history.

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Money Changers and False Profits: A Suspense Thriller by Jane M. Bell

Money Changers and False Profits: A Suspense Thriller by Jane M. Bell

“Like the man seated across from him,

the one thing the detective hated more than anything else was a liar,

especially among his colleagues.

Yet, here he sat,

on the verge of telling the biggest lie he’d ever told in his life.

Lying to the D.A. was, in his mind, a horrible situation.

Dragging his supervisor into this deception was even worse…”

“Money Changers and False Profits” is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that takes you on a journey through the seedy underbelly of 1970s New York City. Follow the story of seasoned NYPD detective, Francis Clavering as he delves deeper into the world of organized crime, uncovering a shocking alliance between the Vatican Bank and the American and Italian Mafia. This historical novel is based on true events, and exposes the greed, corruption, and murder that lies at the heart of this unholy alliance.

As the Detective Clavering travels from New York to Germany, Italy, and beyond, he uncovers a web of lies, deceit, and deadly collusion that threatens to shake the foundations of the Catholic Church and the American government. This gripping story will keep you on the edge of your seat as you follow the detective’s desperate efforts to bring the criminals to justice.

With its richly drawn characters and expertly crafted plot, “Money Changers and False Profits” is a must-read for fans of true crime and suspense novels. Don’t miss out on this thrilling journey through the dark side of religion, power and greed. Order your paperback copy now, or add this new release from December 2022 to your Kindle Unlimited thrillers library list and experience the thrill of the chase!

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Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

Hiram Garbuncle is a veteran criminal defense attorney – as well as a miserly alcoholic. His life revolves around hoarding money, following sports, pursuing sex, drinking – and the prideful practice of law.

Alec Monceau is working as a computer salesman to support his daughter’s family in Trinidad. It is 2008, and his car carries an Obama bumper sticker. This political advertisement leads to a superfluous traffic stop and a brutal beating by police.

Garbuncle is reluctant to defend a man pro bono from a charge of violently resisting arrest, but he is so confident of winning that he is negligent in the jury selection, and a mistrial occurs. He then discovers incriminating evidence on the two cops, and his new challenge becomes how to keep himself and his client alive pending a new trial.

Along the way, a romantic affair turns into a tragic love story as Garbuncle’s paramour also becomes a target of the cops and their collaborators.

The inspiration for Blood on Their Hands came from the movies Gran Torino and My Cousin Vinnie. It is replete with suspense, thrills, plot twists, comedy, and crackling courtroom drama. The action includes violent scenes, and yes, a bit of titillating sex. Abundant humorous episodes provide comic relief from the pathos of a tragic love story. Amid an assortment of diverse characters, piquant dialogue, intrigue and moral tension is a message that resonates in our time.

Perhaps above all, Blood is a story of redemption.

Blood on Their Hands will be free on January 15 via the Kindle Select program.

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Nazis vs Dinos

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It’s 1944 and Hitler is desperate, so a monstrous dictator out of time sends commandos to a timeless island that some call Atlantis to steal a super-weapon that may be the lost Ark of the Covenant. The best Nazis must beat the worst monsters of the future or they’re history. The truths they discover are more monstrous than the lies they’ve been told because the island is out of time – and so are they.

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Well OK, Five by Jinx James

About Well OK, Five by Jinx James:

Dead Funny focuses a satirical dark light on the lives of four very different, but equally ballsy women, who cross a moral line to get what they want. Meet Annabel, Tayla, Anita and Robyn. Throbbing with dark humour and suspense, the bodies mount up in this comedy crime fest.

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The Brother’s Curse (The Brother’s Curse Saga Book 1)

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A year after the brutal death of her parents, Crystal Francois moves back home to the eerie small town of Lakeview Falls. When one of her neighbors goes away abruptly leaving his home to be watched by a young man named Jason Warwick, Crystal finds herself falling for him instantly because of his charming ways and dashing good looks.

Two weeks before her 25th birthday, she receives a rare antique purple amethyst stone necklace that is left for her by her late mother; A necklace with a deadly past and horrible consequences when worn. She finds out that wearing the necklace causes her and her friends to be the target for two sadistic 18th-century old Shape-shifter brothers who will not stop till they find her and retrieve the chariot stone necklace that holds their father and 24 demonic Shape-shifters captive.

When young men from town go missing, and bodies showing up eaten or skinned alive. Lakeview Falls is on high alert. It doesn’t take long for Crystal to discover that the new guy in town isn’t who he claims to be or if he is even human.

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What Comes Before

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This book is not only a stand-alone thriller it is also the newly released third book in the Heirs and Descendants Series, being published on the 4th of January this year.
The first book in this series; The Desolate Garden, was under a paid option to become a thirty-million-dollar-film, until, unfortunately, the option failed to materialise when it reached the distribution stage. However, not all was lost!
The publicity Mr Kemp received: an appearance on the BBC nationwide news programme, plus an article in a London evening newspaper, resulted in Mr Kemp being invited by Waterstone’s Bookshops on a countrywide tour signing that first novel of his.

This novel, ‘What Comes Before,’ carries that story, first told in The Desolate Garden and then Percy Crow, forward, to when——
Lord Harry Paterson, Sheriff of the County of Yorkshire, is coerced back to work for the British Security Services after witnessing the macabre death of a beautiful, young woman at a grouse shoot hosted by his friend and ex-fellow army officer, Viscount Winston Bottomly.

Unbeknownst to Harry, the woman – the Viscount’s fiancée – had stolen a top-secret file from the French consulate in London, containing information about an innovative encryption method called post quantum signal cryptography. With the power to endanger every communication method in use between allied nations, the document – in the wrong hands – could completely change the balance of power between East and West.

To avoid a technological threat to world safety, Harry is instructed to find the file and eliminate all those who have seen its contents. But does he still have what it takes to get the job done?

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MILK by Michael Owino

MILK by Michael Owino

Milk: Milk Trilogy Is Unfolding the Truths about the Indian Officials
[City, Month, Date, State] the author Michael Owino has recently written a book under the title of MILK: MILK TRILOGY. The book falls under the category of historical drama and covers wide aspects of the legal and illegal businesses that are run by Indian officials. The story will keep you hooked to the pages, and you will be surprised to know how much illegal businesses are entertained in India.
The story is written from the point of view of the villain in this novel, and you get to witness Mumbai from her perspective. The villain in this novel is represented by a strong and powerful woman who can pass any obstacle that comes her way, Claire, who has been in a serious love and work relationship with the main villain of the story whose name is Gustav Kräsen.
Reading this novel, you get to experience the thriller of secret investigations that are held against Gustav’s illegal business. You will get to know some of the unknown sides of how a private investigation is being conducted because the secret agent in the story has the approval to freely investigate inside India for eight days, and he is making the most out of it.
About the Author
In between the work with the reach and writing the first draft of Caught in time. Michael took extensive writing classes at a school for two years, and his teacher helped him to get finish his debut novel, Caught in time, and a new trilogy and writer was born. Since then, Michael’s life has been all about writing.
“I always knew that I was good in writing stories. I had written a lot of text to music, and so on, but I had never written a book. While I had traveled a lot in Germany during my whole life and have some family members there, I was starting to wonder – how on earth could these skillful and friendly people ever have been Nazis. As history obviously always had been my great hobby, I was starting to dive deeper into the question – I wanted to write a book about how it could happen what had turned those people to this disaster.”

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Money Changers and False Profits: A Suspense Thriller by Jane M. Bell

Money Changers and False Profits: A Suspense Thriller by Jane M. Bell

“Like the man seated across from him,

the one thing the detective hated more than anything else was a liar,

especially among his colleagues.

Yet, here he sat,

on the verge of telling the biggest lie he’d ever told in his life.

Lying to the D.A. was, in his mind, a horrible situation.

Dragging his supervisor into this deception was even worse…”

New York, 1973 Racketeering Bureau, Leonard Street, downtown Manhattan

has been keeping tabs on the local mob scene for the last two years.

Francis Clavering, a seasoned detective in “Rackets,” husband and father of

three struggles with his almost obsessive-compulsive work ethic and wanting

to be a better husband and family man.

Hot trail of a low-level NYC mobster, Detective Clavering soon finds himself

in a hidden world where religion, faith, diplomacy and politics are intertwined

through a scandalous relationship between the Vatican and her bank, the

American and Italian Mafia and the Propaganda Due (P2) Masons.

Based on true historical events, this story is not short on debauchery, greed,

money laundering, lust for power, corruption, collusion and murder.

If you are a fan of the descriptive style of Margaret Atwood, and the mystery and

suspense of a Dan Brown thriller, Money Changers and False Profits delivers all

that while keeping the pages turning. The gut punch right around the middle of the
story showcase author Jane M. Bell’s ability to stir the minds and souls of readers.

Will Detective Clavering be willing to sacrifice career and family in order to bring

the richest, most dangerous global power players to justice? Pick up your paperback

or Kindle/Kindle Unlimited copy of Money Changers and False Profits today

to begin YOUR journey.

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Do No Harm by James Cohoon

Do No Harm by James Cohoon

Torrey and Matthew meet and fall in love while attending Stanford Medical School. She wants to save lives; he wants to become a prison doctor for the sole purpose of gaining access to San Quentin where his father’s murderer is serving a life sentence. Matthew wants to exact the ultimate revenge.

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Sister! A Natalie McMasters Mystery by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

Sister! A Natalie McMasters Mystery by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

What do you do when you find out your twin sister is a stone-cold killer? Love her anyway!

Twentysomething detective Natalie McMasters comes face-to-face with the awesome power of money and privilege in her latest adventure. After she finds out that she has a twin sister who’s committed a heinous crime, her son Eduardo falls into the clutches of a perverted billionaire who plays with peoples lives for sport. Getting into his futuristic walled estate is a piece of cake, but getting out again is another matter entirely. While her friends and fam battle endless frustrations trying to convince the cops and the courts that Nattie and Eduardo are in deadly danger, Nattie plays a risky game with a malignant narcissist, his venomous consort, and some unexpected houseguests, fighting for the souls of her sister and her son. How can she ever succeed against such impossible odds? The twisted ending packs a punch you won’t soon forget!

Sister! is the perfect read for fans of Karin Slaughter, Ruth Ware and Mary Kubica.

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Do No Harm by James Cohoon


About Featured Book: Do No Harm by James Cohoon

Torrey and Matthew meet while attending Stanford Medical School. She wants to become a doctor to save lives; he wants to become a prison doctor for the sole purpose of gaining access to San Quentin where his father’s murderer is serving a life sentence. Matthew wants to exact the ultimate revenge.

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The Black Swan Event by Mikael Carlson

The Black Swan Event by Mikael Carlson

Following a global economic collapse in 2039 that brought governments to their knees, brutal violence and chaos spread across the globe. To fill the power vacuum, giant multinational corporations, backed by wealthy benefactors, seized the reins of power and began governing the masses. Nearly fifty years later, there is no crime, no unemployment, no homelessness, and no war. All that progress came at a cost – individual freedom.

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Never Let Go by Lori Duffy Foster

Never Let Go by Lori Duffy Foster

Most people have nightmares while they sleep. Carla Murphy awakens to find herself living one. Carla is excited when her best friend asks her to lunch and tells her to bring the baby. Rachel dislikes children and had been distant throughout Carla’s pregnancy. But Carla should have known that people don’t change that quickly. Lunch was a ruse. Carla emerges from a drug-induced slumber sealed in a room in Rachel’s basement with her son gone. Her best friend is no friend. She is obsessed with Carla’s husband and will kill them both if she doesn’t get what she wants. Carla has no choice. She must help Rachel, her confidant since childhood, seduce her husband or they all die, and her baby will be lost to her forever.

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The Jabberowk by Ninie Hammon


About Featured Book: The Jabberowk by Ninie Hammon

Nower County was never a hard place to leave. Now, leaving is impossible.

When drunk teenagers add letters to the Welcome to Nower County sign, making it Welcome to NowHerE County, nobody repaints it. Why bother? Everyone knows they live in the middle of nowhere.

Children’s book author Charlie McClintock and her three-year-old daughter, Merrie, return home to settle Charlie’s recently deceased mother’s affairs. It’s the first time since high school that she and childhood friends Sam Sheridan and Malachi Tackett have been reunited. A beat of happiness before Charlie experiences an unexplainable disaster.

A bizarre storm blows through the Appalachian Mountains and literally wipes Nowhere County off the map. The outside world forgets the tiny town ever existed, and no one can leave. Anyone who tries wakes up in the Dollar General Store parking lot with blinding headaches, gushing nosebleeds, and no clue what happened to them.

Locals name the shimmering mirage on the county line that imprisons them the Jabberwock.

Abby Clayton thinks it’s Charlie’s pet. Desperate to bring her baby home from the hospital across county lines, Abby is the only person who has dared to “ride the Jabberwock” more than once.

She believes it spoke to her. Brain-damaged, barely able to walk from her injuries, Abby hatches a deranged plot to force Charlie to make the Jabberwock set them free. Will Malachi manage to stop her and save Charlie and Merrie in time?

And can Abby survive one more ride on the Jabberwock?

The Jabberwock is the first book of Ninie Hammon’s new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere.

Fans of Justified,  Under The Dome, and LOST will love settling down to spend some time in Nowhere USA.

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In The Name Of

About In The Name Of:

A fast-paced crime Thriller in the tradition of Lee Child. In The Name Of

A woman returns to London looking for revenge and a way to die. Crawling back into the world of organised crime her murdered husband left behind, she seeks those that killed him and a chance at redemption. She faces childhood demons and past loves on her violent way to finding peace for her own misdeeds.

He wants a way to ease into death. His past is violence, his present is hurt and his future leads only to destruction. He owes a debt to people he loved. A meaning to exist comes from his murderous past.

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A driven woman returns to avenge her husband’s death. An old flame endures brutality and unrequited love. Together they face a terrifying ordeal of life or death.

In The Name Of introduces us to two most unlikely heroes, or should I say anti-heroes. Charlotte, a slender but lethal woman driven by the need for revenge. Raucous, a battered, defeated, violence-for-hire nobody, whose greatest assets are his stubbornness and his ability to take a beating like no one else.

Characters’ inner lives
What I particularly admired about this book was the wistful, regretful, yearning tone of the writing which elevates the story out of the formulaic. We see into the minds of the characters and the alternating voices of Charlotte’s and Raucous’ perspectives gives us a painful insight into their lives and motivations.

In other novels, Raucous would simply be the stupid muscle in the background, taking orders to administer pointless violence. Here, we meet a character who would still repel and appal us, but by glimpsing his inner life we see the man inside wrestling with a decision to attempt the greater good.

Writing a female character administering violence is often a tricky one. So many female characters become one-dimensional, unscrupulous villains. By revealing Charlotte’s thoughts and motives this is avoided, and we feel her doubts and pain, as well as her obsession.

Tense conclusion

Despite the bleak, hopeless prospects facing the unlikely alliance of Charlotte and Raucous, with seemingly no way out of their doomed situation, they never give up. The plot unfolds gradually and builds the tension cleverly. It’s an unusual but satisfying story.

I would recommend In The Name Of to those of you who enjoy fairly raw crime fiction with a human element, provided skillfully through insight into the characters interior lives. It’s not Miss Marple but its much more sophisticated than the ‘shoot-em-up’ genre.

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Bones Along the Hill by Nancy Sartor

Bones Along the Hill by Nancy Sartor

Neva is a funeral facial reconstructionist whose legendary skill at making the dead look alive has earned her the title of best in the nation. But her talent cannot bring back Gray Ledbetter her first love, who inexplicably took his own life ten years ago. Neva’s new love interest, hunky architect Davis Pratt has his own tragic mystery. He searches for his younger brother, Stephen, who disappeared long ago. Chances are Stephen’s dead, but Davis won’t give up. When their separate searches lead them to the Oakley cemetery and a murder tied to a human trafficking ring, impossible crimes threaten both family and friends, crimes that cannot be ignored. Not even the Nashville PD can keep Neva safe. Can Neva and Davis work together to avoid a fate that is absolutely worse than death?

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