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The Teaching

About The Teaching:

Based on the author’s true-life experience living in a cult . . . Raine Harkins believes everything the Teaching tells her—forgiveness is freedom, there are no dead, and there is no dying. She has lived her entire life in the Haven, a small religious community buried in the hills of northern Nevada, and it’s been a good life. But when she discovers a frightened teenage girl hiding in the forest, everything changes. Raine offers to help the girl, but gunshots ring out, and the girl runs away, never to be seen again. A week later, Raine finds a letter pinned to her cabin door—God doesn’t want you here. Leave the Haven now, before he runs you down. Raine can’t bear the thought of leaving the only life she’s ever known, but her search for the missing girl leads her down a twisted path, unraveling the truth behind the Teaching. It’s not a good life—there are dead, and people do die.

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Betrayed by Joseph Lewis

Betrayed by Joseph Lewis

Integrity is protecting someone who betrayed you. Courage is keeping a promise, even though it might mean death.

A late-night phone call, a missing kid, a murdered family, and no one is talking. What was to be a fun hunting trip into a deadly showdown. Fifteen-year-old brothers George Tokay, Brian Evans and Brett McGovern face death on top of a mesa on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona. They do not know why men are intent on killing them.

Betrayed is a contemporary psychological thriller and an exploration of the heart and of a blended family of adopted kids, their relationships to each other and their parents woven into a tight mystery-thriller.

Top Shelf Award – 1st Place Fiction-Mystery
Top Shelf Award – Runner-Up Fiction-Crime
Readers’ Favorite Honorable Mention – Mystery
#1 Best Seller (Amazon) in Traditional Detective Mysteries
#1 Best Seller (Barnes and Noble)
2021 Maxy Award Runner-Up – Mystery/Suspense
2021 PenCraft Book Awards 1st Place – Thriller
Top 50 Indie Books – Readers’ Choice

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THE ARTIST by ANDY STONE

THE ARTIST by ANDY STONE

Is James Madison a creator, or predator?
Glen Cove has a mysterious new resident, intent on creating beautiful works of art, using grueling techniques, he is one of the most famous artists in the world but the way he accomplishes his work is extremely gruesome.

5.0 out of 5 stars, Best Book of the Year!
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
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“What an amazing read. It scared me, entertained me, and kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put it down… I highly recommend it.”

Join the resourceful and determined FBI Agent Summer Wynn in her action-packed search for the prolific serial killer. Addictive!

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable book
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023
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“This book kept pushing me forward to the ultimate climax. James Madison is a true narcissistic psychopath who has very unusual desires. I loved every minute of it. I read all the other books in the series. I will be looking forward to the next book in the series.”

There are many famous artists in the world, but James Madison is one of the most famous. He sculpts nudes that appear so real that you can easily be fooled into thinking they’re human. He wants them to be part of his family and never leave him, Summer Wynn must take him down before he kills again.

5.0 out of 5 stars, Great Psychological Thriller!
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2023
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“I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author explored the mind of a twisted character and allowed the reader to experience the horrors firsthand. I definitely recommend reading!”

Summer has her own demons to address. She was abducted when she was a teenager but escaped. She went into a coma and had amnesia afterward. Little by little, the memories are coming back.

5.0 out of 5 stars, most unusual and fascinating book I have read
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2023
What a refreshing book. Very unusual, but in a good way. I loved it. Be warned, it is about serial killers and how one artist approaches it. I was not expecting the ending. It was a pure twist. If you want the ride of your life, enjoy this book. I know everybody says this, but you will be up all night.

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Running with the Enemy by Lloyd Lofthouse

Running with the Enemy by Lloyd Lofthouse

An innocent man. A traitor’s crime. Proving himself not guilty could cost too many lives… He joined to fight for his country. He went AWOL to save the woman he loves. And now he must put his loyalty on the line to survive. If you like cat-and-mouse tension, crackling action, and a touch of forbidden romance, then you’ll love this thriller.

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Hallowed Ground by Maggie Hawkins

Hallowed Ground by Maggie Hawkins

Some say there are no secrets in a small town, that they just stay dormant, lying in wait for the right messenger. When journalist Cassandra Bell moved to the town of Brookville in upstate New York, she thought she was leaving the madness of the big city behind, but what she found instead was madness of a different kind. The people of Brookville, once ordinary and predictable seem to change personalities overnight. Their behavior is accompanied by a series of strange events – lost time, hallucinations, and memories of a past with which they are unfamiliar. Cassandra had heard of haunted houses, but could it happen to entire town? She will need to use her wits and her training to uncover the long-buried secret behind the mystery.

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Seeking the Light of Justice by Barry Nadel

Seeking the Light of Justice by Barry Nadel

THE PROFESSOR IS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE THIS TIME!

Prof. Yoshua Rosenberg, who has been studying the legends of the Light of Justice with his archaeologists for years, discovers the cover of General Aharon Dori’s Hoshiyan Chronicles in the binding of a 500-year-old book and publishes it on the Internet.

The release of the cover, intercepted by Vatican security, unleashes the wrath of the Church and the Pope, who had an ancient order to destroy the Chronicles or anything related to its author, resulting in the outbreak of the Vatican’s secret war against the Chronicles.

Clues lead the professor and his team to the study house where the chronicles in Spain were written, where he discovers a bomb planted by Basque separatists to destroy Spanish government offices.

During the excavation, they find a sealed room revealing the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition: forty-six Jewish bodies were left to suffocate.

They are perplexed when the deputy interior minister illegally arrests them and throws them into a Spanish prison.

What will happen to them now?

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Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann, were the linchpins in the guilty verdict. The two detectives thought it was over, but it was only the beginning.

Eiselmann planned for a quiet weekend with his family at home. O’Connor planned on heading to Northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip with another cop, Detective Jamie Graff, and four teenage adopted brothers.

But Andruko is ruthless and vindictive. From his prison cell, he hires two contract killers to kill both O’Connor and Eiselmann and anyone else in the way. The killers can be anyone. The killers could be anywhere, and the killers could strike at any time. And they don’t worry about collateral damage.

The quiet weekend for Eiselmann, and the short vacation for O’Connor, turn into a deadly nightmare as O’Connor’s and Eiselmann’s lives and the lives of the four boys are in peril.

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Pocketful of Rainbows by Adam Ramos

About Pocketful of Rainbows by Adam Ramos:

Being a young hippie in late 1960s Southern California, life itself was nothing less than a nonstop party of exotic exploration, lurid nightclubs, carefree romance and sunshine. And for Avery Brisbane, he was the unofficial ringleader of the whole scene. His life was so bound up and entrenched within the loose setting that it would have been unimaginable to not have him around. But very soon, a drastic turn of events leads him and his wild bohemian friends into a perilous web that unveils secrets and situations so mind-boggling that one would have to doubt if it were all even possible.

Did this really happen?

Travel back in time to the psychedelic sixties and experience a world of innocence completely shaken by a subterranean reality too shocking to believe.

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Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles Novella Series by P.D. Fertitta

Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles Novella Series by P.D. Fertitta

Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles follows the epic saga of the Messina-Balisteri Crime Family from their roots through their rise to wealth, power, and infamy. Two best friends get mixed up in the mob as they scheme to free their enclave of Little Italy from the brutal iron grip of the Bruno Crime Family. Along the way, Nino Messina and Carmine Balisteri, friends who were as close as family, become sworn enemies. Can love cover a multitude of sins? Is there hope for redemption and forgiveness? There is only one way to find out. Follow the epic Mafia saga of the Messinas and the Balisteris as it unfolds in this exciting series of novellas.

Trinacria: The Blood Washes Blood Chronicles is the creation of P.D. Fertitta, an ordained minister and local Shreveport native. Fertitta, a self-confessed cinephile and lover of literature uses the rugged genre of the Mafia novel to masterfully weaves a tale of family, vengeance, and destiny, murder and malice, redemption and hope complete with stories from his own family, local Shreveport legend and lore, people and places from past and present and elements of the grand narrative of scripture to create an epic Mafia saga you do not want to miss.

Novella 1 of the series.
“…Read this enthralling, darkly enticing mafia book. I didn’t anticipate such an incredibly intriguing and powerful addictive reading experience. I was expecting a great plot weaving however the author has outshone all my expectations. The pacing of the novella is highly engaging while narration is well done. The characters are also well-written. The richly explored mafia genre is a blazing fire amongst the books that i have recently read. The author is a master storyteller and he steers story through epic twists and turns. If you are interested in a different shade of mafia genre with an ingenious plot twist then I highly recommend this book to you.” – simranreadsitall (Instagram)

Novella 2 in the series.
“…an absolute rollercoaster ride of unpredictable chain of events and spectacular actions… the ending of the book was unpredictable and stunning. I stared at the last line for quite sometime to realize that was indeed the end…This novella takes its readers on a really evolved journey. I will recommend this amazing duo of novellas for a weekend read. It will definitely satiate your reading curiosity…” -simranreadsitall (Instagram)

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The Reaper

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A vigilante serial killer known as The Reaper is on the streets in Norfolk doing to its victims what they did to theirs. A message left on a tarot card is explanation enough as to why it kills. “Fear not those who are innocent, for I shall cause you no harm. I seek out only those who have yet to pay for their sins. Fear me if you have no remorse, for I am the Reaper. And I will ensure that you reap what you have sewn.”
Detective Mel Tanner is close to retirement when she is assigned to investigate a murder that leads her in a hunt for the serial killer known as The Reaper. As a seasoned homicide detective of 15 years, she now finds herself jaded and unfeeling about the atrocities that she has had to witness every day.
When rookie Detective Nat Petrov lands her dream assignment, to work with the best detective in Norfolk, she is thrown headfirst into The Reaper’s perverse sense of justice. The detectives race against the clock as body after body turns up with the signature Grim Reaper tarot card, each life ended in a way specifically designed for the individual victim. Will the detectives be able to catch a twisted serial killer before time runs out, or will The Reaper exact revenge in a way more personal than anyone could have ever fathomed?

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Killing the Butterfly by Dale Ward

Killing the Butterfly by Dale Ward

Nineteen-year-old Patty has a lot of baggage. Abusive parents. A horrible boyfriend. The stifling cocoon of her Podunk town. She longs to become a travel writer — visiting exotic lands far, far away…

But escaping town the way she does, forced by her boyfriend Roy to join him on a violent crime spree across middle America was not the travel of Patty’s dreams. It’s a journey that will only land her in jail — or dead. But escaping Roy is out of the question. He’d hunt her down, find her, and surely beat her worse than he’s ever beaten her before.

When they stumble across the gentleman alone at the cabin by the lake, he offers Patty a glimmer of hope and freedom. But this man hides evil secrets of his own…

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Dead of Winter by Antoinette McCormick

About Dead of Winter by Antoinette McCormick:

Can a dead woman’s memories solve her murder?

Ten years ago, someone brutally murdered Amara’s twin sister, Nisha.

No one ever found her killer… No one found any evidence at all. The loss devastated her family and drove her father to suicide.

Now, through a controversial new technology–memory reconsolidation–Amara hopes to catch a killer by having Nisha’s memories implanted in her mind.

What she doesn’t know is that Nisha’s killer might be something more than human…

Something capable of manipulating time and memory…

Something with an appetite for flesh and blood!

Winner of the 2021 Inkitt Midsummer Murder Mystery Contest, this debut thriller from the author of The Haunting of Sky Hollow will keep you on the edge of your seat!

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Feral Game by Mathieu Tallegas

Feral Game by Mathieu Tallegas

The body of a tween girl hangs from the branch of a fir tree. Stricken with grief, the father sets off looking for answers to her suicide. He scours a seedy cyberspace and the more familiar Pacific Northwest wilderness, then vanishes.

Samantha Janzen–Sam is unhappy. Her lesbian partner doesn’t support her vital need for gender reassignment. In her career, Sam is stuck as a freelance reporter covering the launch of the latest high-tech gadgets. When her mentor, the detective investigating both the suicide and the disappearance, shares the case details with her, Sam knows it will be her ticket out of the rut.

The journey toward truth and justice unravels ghastly secrets of violence, perversion, and abuse, threatening everyone involved–who will make it out alive?

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Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink

Little does alcoholic, miserly attorney Hiram Garbuncle know the danger he’s getting into when he reluctantly defends a black man brutally beaten by police during a traffic stop. It is 2008, and Alec Monceau’s car carries an Obama bumper sticker. The cops wrongfully charge Alec with violently resisting arrest, and Garbuncle’s negligence in jury selection results in a mistrial. He then discovers incriminating evidence on the cops, and his new challenge becomes how to keep himself and his client alive pending a new trial.

BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS has everything: suspense, thrills, plot twists, comedy, a moving love story, courtroom humor and drama, unforgettable characters, sharp dialogue, intrigue, moral tension, and a message that resonates in our time.

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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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Kokomo’s Café Complete (Flagler Beach Fiction Series Book 1) by Armand Rosamilia

Kokomo’s Café Complete (Flagler Beach Fiction Series Book 1) by Armand Rosamilia

Flagler Beach Florida is quite the small town, eclectic and quirky… and filled with many unique characters.

Kokomo’s Café owners Mac and Ginny see their fair share day in and day out. Come meet the locals and the tourists!

Contemporary Fiction and a fun beach read! Includes Ten Short Stories set in Kokomo’s Cafe!

The real start to the “Dirty Deeds” crime thriller series, too!

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Shell Games by Thomas J. Krepp

Shell Games by Thomas J. Krepp

Jim has nowhere to turn. His mentor is dead. Millions of dollars are missing. And he can’t remember the last six months of his life.
Working as an accountant for a Long Island investment firm, Jim Garvey is far more comfortable reviewing financial statements than he is exploring the local dating scene. While working late one night, his uneventful life is torn apart when someone burns his firm to the ground. The brazen attack leaves Jim physically injured and suffering from severe memory loss, his mentor dead, and the firm on the brink of financial collapse.

Despite all that he has gone through, Jim is the only person his boss trusts to help get the firm back on its feet. Upon returning to work, it doesn’t take him long to discover that nearly $5 million had been wired to a mysterious company the day before the fire.

That discovery leads him down a path filled with treacherous questions he must answer before it’s too late. To uncover the truth, Jim must navigate the secretive worlds of shell companies, corporate fraud, and money laundering. However, he can’t trust a soul with what he comes to learn along the way.

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Special District: Harbin: Book 2, The Tigers of East Mountain by Tim Stickel

Special District: Harbin: Book 2, The Tigers of East Mountain by Tim Stickel

The discovery of the defiled body of a local Jewish businessman in a Harbin back alley threatens to tip the city into mob violence…

It’s 1932 and Borya Melnikov has returned to police ranks after the Japanese take over the city and end Soviet control. Borya is assigned the case along with a police intern from Okinawa. The list of suspects runs from Russian Fascists to Soviet agents to the anti-Japanese resistance. Leaks and deadly attacks convince him he can trust no one except maybe his Japanese partner. Together they are in a race with the killer that leads them to the wild frontiers of Manchuria.

This is Book 2 of the award-winning Harbin Mysteries series

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The Little Woods

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AN AMAZON CHARTS #1 OCCULT HORROR IN THE US, UK & CANADA

Something feels very wrong about the Little Woods—something chilling and unnatural—and Ian Cockerton is about to remember why in 2022’s American Fiction Awards winner for Best Occult Horror and Best Supernatural Horror.

Western Pennsylvania, 1977. It was meant to be a harmless game. But when their summertime rite of passage goes terribly wrong, not all the boys will make it back from the Little Woods. Something ancient and inhuman has been awakened, and it wields a fate more horrifying than death.

Western Pennsylvania, 1995. Plagued by a mix of nerve-shredding flashbacks and uncertain premonitions, Ian Cockerton has vowed he’ll never return to his childhood home. When his fragmented visions predict more horrifying deaths by the demonic entity from the Little Woods, Ian no longer has a choice. Together with his brother and a charismatic psychic from New Orleans, he’s about to engage in the greatest battle of his life.

But is it too late to stop the deadly prophecy?

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The chilling first book in the New Apocrypha series, The Little Woods is a terrifying coming of age tale of modern-day demonic possession, inspired by real events. If you like dual-timeline stories, supernatural phenomena, dark biblical prophecy and twisted endings you won’t see coming, you’ll love A.G. Mock’s instant horror classic of good vs. evil.

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Blood on the Mountain by James Dain

About Featured Book: Blood on the Mountain by James Dain

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A dead skier. A missing phone. And a dangerous hit man.

Ski patrol thinks Kayla Sweet’s death is an accident—but her fiancé, snowboard instructor Mag Cutbank, believes differently. Kayla was too good a skier to simply fall off a cliff.

Broken with grief, Mag enlists the help of his disabled brother to help solve the mystery of her death.

But what was on Kayla’s cell phone that got her killed?

And what chance does a snowboard coach have against the brutal hit man trying to stop Mag’s investigation at any cost?

Mag is about to find out—the hard way.

And he will not rest until he brings Kayla’s killer to justice.

Set high in the Colorado Rockies, this suspenseful thriller combines an authentic snow resort background with twists and turns that will keep you reading far into the night. By James Dain, “Best Novel” winner at the Los Angeles Neo-Noir Festival.

“Just wow! James Dain writes stories you can’t put down!”
(Charles Anceney, author of The Boy in the Boat)

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