Good Morning Fans!! Hope you have all had time to recover from turkey/shopping comas! It was nice that I finally had time to sit and read some of these great free books I find!! Did you read anything this weekend? If so, what? How did you enjoy it? Talk to me!! Let me know what you want in a book.. :) Well, most of us head back to work today, so enjoy these Mystery, Thriller and Suspense!
It's Christmas time in The Falls. The town is just getting ready to welcome in the joy, love and warmth of the season, when a local petty criminal is found shot to death in a stand of Christmas trees! Follow Sheriff Cash Green, Deputy Ericka Yamato, Doc Stone, and Dr. Meg Monroe as they set about to find out who is using a Naughty List to bring some vigilantee justice to The Falls! Join Sean Frasier, his brother William and Dr, Serafina as they help track down the guilty party. Lots of Christmas cheer, small town interactions and a puzzling "who dunit". Welcome back to The Falls!
Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctor’s husband, a surgeon, and this makes her a “person of interest” to the police, if not an outright suspect. But it’s not the cops who are following and watching Cheryl Beth.
Then another killing comes as former homicide detective Will Borders is just hours out of surgery. But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence. Instead, it has all the marks of a serial killer case he supposedly solved years earlier. Rebuked by his former partner and unable even to walk, Borders starts to investigate. He teams up with Cheryl Beth, who is desperate to clear her name. But as the city teeters on the edge of violence and a killer grows closer, the two are running out of time to unlock the secrets of the murder and the brooding, old hospital.
Then another killing comes as former homicide detective Will Borders is just hours out of surgery. But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence. Instead, it has all the marks of a serial killer case he supposedly solved years earlier. Rebuked by his former partner and unable even to walk, Borders starts to investigate. He teams up with Cheryl Beth, who is desperate to clear her name. But as the city teeters on the edge of violence and a killer grows closer, the two are running out of time to unlock the secrets of the murder and the brooding, old hospital.
JJames Smith is receiving messages.
Fired from his job, his girlfriend on the verge of leaving him, barely keeping his life in order, James’ unyielding insistence on following the signs and putting together the clues brings him to the answer…and it changes everything.
Hindered by flashbacks to a barely remembered babyhood at the hands of a criminally insane mother, James forges ahead, committing acts he’d never have thought himself capable, from shadowing a local teen, to kidnapping, to a murderous confrontation–all over the object of his desire.
When he partners with a mysterious cop named Riddel, James is certain he will not only bring everything out into the open, but also convince his girlfriend Lacey that she is central to his quest. And she is, but in a way they are all unable to foresee.
Fired from his job, his girlfriend on the verge of leaving him, barely keeping his life in order, James’ unyielding insistence on following the signs and putting together the clues brings him to the answer…and it changes everything.
Hindered by flashbacks to a barely remembered babyhood at the hands of a criminally insane mother, James forges ahead, committing acts he’d never have thought himself capable, from shadowing a local teen, to kidnapping, to a murderous confrontation–all over the object of his desire.
When he partners with a mysterious cop named Riddel, James is certain he will not only bring everything out into the open, but also convince his girlfriend Lacey that she is central to his quest. And she is, but in a way they are all unable to foresee.
Melissa Mel Addison, an amateur detective, investigates the unthinkable crime, the murder of a mother by her son. When the police are convinced he is guilty, her brothers demand she drop the case. But when she discovers the dead woman's dog is missing, Mel delves into the dark secrets of the woman's past. Forced to uncover the truth alone, Mel searches for the dead woman's small dog in the hope of solving the crime, and to prove her son not guilty. Is the dog alive? As Mel follows the missing dogs trail, she discovers that the elderly woman is not what she seemed. Will the dog lead her to reveal the real murderer or just prove Mel wrong about the son?
After the death of his ex-wife, successful sculptor Tim Overleigh trades in his lucrative career for the world of extreme sports, but when a caving accident nearly ends his life, Tim falls into a self-destructive depression. On the cusp of madness, an old friend convinces him to join a team of men climbing the Godesh ridge in Nepal. When this journey of mythical and spiritual discovery rapidly turns deadly as the climbers fall victim to a murderer within their group, the remaining survivors begin to wonder if any of them will escape the mountains alive.
In this fast paced thriller, Iraq's top terrorist makes two promises - a kidnapped American contractor will be executed on a given date, his body dumped in Baghdad's Green Zone and a major attack will occur in seven days.
Working desperately to find the American and thwart the impending attack is an elite 4-man CIA team which includes an attractive female doctor. But they can only watch helplessly as the terrorist and his masked henchmen behead the American during a live video feed carried on the Internet.
What they don't know is that one of the masked men is not a terrorist, but completely innocent. He is an Iraqi pharmacist who has infiltrated the group. His only objective - to find his missing fiancée, who the terrorist has also kidnapped.
After the beheading, he is free to go. But little does he know that his fiancée will bring the deceased American's head to the Green Zone, and inside the dead man's mouth is evidence linking him to the terrorist.
Working desperately to find the American and thwart the impending attack is an elite 4-man CIA team which includes an attractive female doctor. But they can only watch helplessly as the terrorist and his masked henchmen behead the American during a live video feed carried on the Internet.
What they don't know is that one of the masked men is not a terrorist, but completely innocent. He is an Iraqi pharmacist who has infiltrated the group. His only objective - to find his missing fiancée, who the terrorist has also kidnapped.
After the beheading, he is free to go. But little does he know that his fiancée will bring the deceased American's head to the Green Zone, and inside the dead man's mouth is evidence linking him to the terrorist.
When the world’s most famous explorer is murdered at the Smithsonian, it’s up to a cynical Washington detective to solve the case.
Bob Fundwell dies in the Smithsonian’s Ocean Hall when the life-size replica of a whale falls from the ceiling and crushes him.
A veteran black investigator, Detective Thomas, is assigned the case. He’s witnessed two decades of bloody mayhem on the streets of our nation’s capital.
The list of suspects is long, for the victim was arrogant and reviled. Fundwell discovered the Gigantic, a legendary ocean liner that sank in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. He became rich and famous by falsely claiming the work of his colleagues.
As Thomas investigates the case, he is lied to by people at all levels – from housing projects to the Supreme Court. Deceit is the one constant in a Washington on the eve of the 2008 election. Yet, he presses on, determined to find justice and prove that the city has changed since its days as the murder capital of the country.
Murder in Ocean Hall is inspired by true events, including the real-life controversy over the discovery of the Titanic, as well as the author's two decades in Washington, DC. This fact-based murder mystery takes you behind the scenes of our nation's dysfunctional capital, revealing the real city beyond the monuments.
Bob Fundwell dies in the Smithsonian’s Ocean Hall when the life-size replica of a whale falls from the ceiling and crushes him.
A veteran black investigator, Detective Thomas, is assigned the case. He’s witnessed two decades of bloody mayhem on the streets of our nation’s capital.
The list of suspects is long, for the victim was arrogant and reviled. Fundwell discovered the Gigantic, a legendary ocean liner that sank in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. He became rich and famous by falsely claiming the work of his colleagues.
As Thomas investigates the case, he is lied to by people at all levels – from housing projects to the Supreme Court. Deceit is the one constant in a Washington on the eve of the 2008 election. Yet, he presses on, determined to find justice and prove that the city has changed since its days as the murder capital of the country.
Murder in Ocean Hall is inspired by true events, including the real-life controversy over the discovery of the Titanic, as well as the author's two decades in Washington, DC. This fact-based murder mystery takes you behind the scenes of our nation's dysfunctional capital, revealing the real city beyond the monuments.
Lazy, corpulent and clever, Mycroft, elder brother of Sherlock Holmes, is back with a new adventure by David Dickinson in the series widely praised for its fidelity to the Conan Doyle originals.
Silence is golden at the Diogenes, Mycroft's Pall Mall club. You are only allowed to speak in the Stranger’s Room. But for William St John Plunkett neither silence nor speech is an option any more. He is found dead at the bottom of the great staircase, blood and brains spattered all over the marble floor.
Mycroft, although in the club at the time, leaves the details of the investigation to Inspector Lestrade, including the baffling geography of the Diogenes with its library called Plato's Cave and a dining room called Secundus the Silent. Eccentrics roam the building, Cholmondeley Warner with his matchstick cathedrals, Fitzpaine Somerset, bankrupted by grandfather clocks, the corpse himself, obsessed with attending funerals.
Inspector Lestrade is lost in the silent world of club land. Mycroft's health is failing, but he summons all his powers to resolve the murder mystery on his own doorstep. As the police close in on the killer Mycroft seems to be at death's door. ‘You must live for your country,’ his young assistant Tobias tells him, ‘you must live for England. England needs you.’
Sweet Dreams (UNCUT Edition)(Hard-Boiled Thriller) (A Mark Appleton Thriller)
The WJA series is a cross genre series and may bend or break many rules. If you are set in the traditional ways of storytelling this may not be the series for you. Please use caution and only read if you are of an open mind, and crave something off the map and mind-bending.
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Mark Appleton is living the American Dream. Beautiful wife, loving daughter, and a high paying job in New York City. But when his family are killed in a accident he must reinvent himself. A year later in the midst of putting his life back together, Mark finds out that his family was killed and it was...No accident. Mark will stop at nothing to hunt down the men responsible for the death of his family and what he finds will change his life forever.
Kirk Weston is a Detroit detective. He hates his job, his ex-wife, and his life. He is hand selected to help the FBI on a high profile case and just when he thinks things could not get any worse...
They do.
Irreparable Harm (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller No. 1)
Find the entire Sasha McCandless legal thriller series here: smarturl.it/sashaseries
After eight long years, attorney Sasha McCandless is about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up.
When a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard, Sasha gears up to defend the inevitable civil lawsuits. She soon realizes the crash was no accident: a developer has created an application that can control a commercial plane's onboard computer from a smartphone.
Sasha joins forces with a federal air marshal, and they race to prevent another airline disaster. But when people close to the matter start turning up dead, Sasha must rely on both her legal skills and her Krav Maga training to stop the madman before he kills her.
Missing Flowers
When psychic Julie Seer moves to Vancouver, her dreams are filled with visions of women being murdered. She doesn’t know who is being killed, or why, until the day Julie goes to a press conference held by the Vancouver Police Station: a press conference to announce the formation of a special task force that will investigate the case of the prostitutes who have gone missing from Vancouver’s East Side.
Detective Constable Santoro Ricci, an officer with the Vancouver Police Department, wants on the special task force. When he happens upon Julie at the press conference, Ricci finds himself unofficially investigating the case.
Julie also finds herself having visions where she is transported back in time into the body of a Chinese prostitute in the late 1800s. Through these visions, and stories told to her by long time residents of the city, Julie learns more of the history of Vancouver.
With the help of Francine, an east side prostitute, Julie and Santoro work together to solve the mystery of the missing women. When Francine and Julie are taken by the killer, Santoro must find the missing answers fast.
Fractured Facade
Marie's peaceful life in Virginia is shattered the moment she receives word from her brother: “I just got a call from a detective. Daddy’s dead.” Rushing to her family home in Brooklyn, New York, Marie seeks answers to her father’s mysterious death only to discover disturbing occurrences and encounter acts of betrayal.
After her questions are amplified and suspicions confirmed surrounding her father’s ex-girlfriend, Marie becomes frustrated by how oblivious so many had been, and continue to be, to the wily con-artist.
Inheriting her father’s scheming ex-girlfriend becomes a journey Marie never imagined she’d be forced to travel.
Written as memoir, and based on a true story, "Fractured Facade" is a cautionary tale for anyone concerned about a parent after the loss of their spouse. The survivor, often thrust into an unfamiliar world, can find it quite different from the dating scene of their youth; one where some people create facades to mask their true intentions. Sadly, loneliness can cause an otherwise intelligent person to behave foolishly.
"Fractured Facade" is the tale of a father’s death, a daughter’s life, and a sociopath’s vendetta.
Author's Note -- Some may find language they deem inappropriate...I don't.
Little Deadly Things
When abusive parents raise brilliant children, you might end up with a saint, or a killer…or one of each.
Little Deadly Things is the place where science meets the psyche, where humanity’s future is in the hands of a madwoman and the woman that must stop her.
The seeds of an apocalyptic race—to save mankind or to destroy it—were sown in the earliest years of two scientists. Young Eva Rozen witnessed her sister's brutal murder, and barely escaped with her life. She found refuge from madness in the orderly world of science. Twenty-five years later, this master of nanotechnology is the world's richest woman... and the most dangerous.
Marta Cruz also endured a troubled childhood. Her mother’s death and her father's incarceration left her an orphan, and a crippling disease left her in pain. Marta's refuge? A tropical rain forest where she discovers plants with miraculous healing properties under the tutelage of her shamanistic grandmother.
The two girls meet in high school and form an uneasy friendship that lasts through college. Eva wants power, profit—and Marta's husband. She offers to fund Marta's public health dreams in exchange for the ailing physician's knowledge of plant-based medicines. Together, they build the world's largest nanotech manufacturer.
When the unstable Eva has a psychotic break, and attacks the people who rely on her for survival, only Marta can stand between Eva and the death of millions. But Marta is a healer, not a fighter, and must rely on her husband and teenaged son, a boy who faces a life-or-death challenge well beyond his years.
Little Deadly Things is set just a few years in the future, yet the story’s technology comes directly from today’s laboratories. Here is a chilling look at a future that is already on our doorstep—and a study of the two women who will decide the fate of mankind.
The Justice of Revenge
Previously published in an abridged form as Logans Touch
“Tough action, murder and a plot that will shock you to the core"
The mystery kidnap of the daughter of an ex-Marine brings in old friends from the Corps. Major Wes Van Den Heuval, USMC and Major Harry Kewell, ex-Royal Marines, both of whom are ex-Special Forces are brought together by MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Chief suspect is the emerging Continuity IRA, but they aren’t even in the same ball park. Major Kewell comes head to head with Billy Logan an old Provisional IRA bomb maker with bloody consequences in the Vineyards of Sonoma, in California. Old scores have to be settled.
...and British Intelligence..? They aren’t exactly lillywhite either. At one time you knew those you perceived to be the enemy, yet they protect you… and those who are supposed to protect you, your friends . . you now find they are trying to murder you…enter the murky world of the Secret Intelligence Service.
But the word is out: Defy all the Rules! Previously published in an abridged form as Logans Touch
Buried In Benidorm (Max Castillo Mystery Series #1)
Ex-priest and newly minted agnostic Max Castillo ekes out a living as a private investigator from his houseboat in Benidorm, Spain. He finally has a little free time ... until a big-shot turns up dead at a local golf course. Now, his former employer is calling in an old debt, and Max is neck-deep in gangsters, grifters and girls with grudges. A decades-old secret could hold the key to solving the case, but can Max figure it out before one of them leaves him ... Buried in Benidorm?
Season Of The Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 1)
If you’ve enjoyed stories by James Rollins, Michael Crichton, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, get ready to strap yourself in for a roller coaster ride of terror as you learn that you truly are what you eat…
At a genetics lab where a revolutionary strain of wonder food crops is being developed, FBI Special Agent Jack Dawson’s best friend and fellow agent, Sheldon Crane, is brutally murdered. The killer was looking for very special seeds that Jack’s friend had taken from the lab, and tore his body apart trying to find them…
Jack is convinced that Naomi Perrault, the beautiful geneticist who leads a group of suspected eco-terrorists, is behind the murder. But when FBI agents who aren’t quite who they claim to be show up on Jack’s doorstep after a bomb devastates the FBI lab in Quantico, destroying the evidence from his friend’s murder, Naomi becomes Jack’s only hope of survival.
Framed for murder and confronted by the terrifying truth of what the genetically engineered seeds stolen by his friend are truly for, Jack joins Naomi in a desperate battle across half the globe to save humanity from extermination…
Deadly Diversion (Monika Everhardt Medical Mysteries)
Deadly Diversion takes us to the Intensive Care Unit of St. Teresa’s (or St. T’s to its dedicated staff) where head nurse Monika Everhardt investigates the suspicious death of cancer patient Huey Castle, a small-time crook who died just before he was to talk to police about a long-ago crime. Is the perpetrator a disgruntled worker? A local mob figure’s family? Or could it even be her demanding supervisor?
Dark Luck (A Suspense Thriller)
For the fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz....
What if, hundreds of years from now, scientists invent a time machine? Wouldn't it be nice if your great-grandkid used it to send you a winning lottery combination that would make you a multimillionaire?
After winning a four-hundred-million dollar jackpot with the numbers he received from the future, Ted Duplass is as happy as can be. He buys a house in an upscale neighborhood, a luxury car, a Rolex watch, and a whole bunch of other things he couldn't afford before. Life is great.
The fun stops when Ted learns that he's going to be murdered by the end of the year. Fortunately, he knows the name of the killer.
The question is: how much luck does he have left?
Bad Moon Rising
Peace, love, murder . . . The love that symbolized Woodstock for Riley, Heather, Lance, and Terry changes when the college friends return to Kent State University and are drawn into a murder investigation. Two drifters they met at Woodstock, Laurel and Mango, are also caught in the trouble.
Products of their times, our characters freely embrace sex, violence, drugs, and rock and roll. While the Ohio National Guard shoots at protesting students, the friends face the reality that one of their own is also a murderer.
Will they find the way back to friendship, solve the murder, and embrace the kind of love that lasts a lifetime? Between the dreamy unreality of Woodstock and the harsh light of day at Kent State, the characters grow and mature as they make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
This fictional story is set in 1969-70, when both the country and its young people were irrevocably changed.
The Wrecking Crew (Janac's Games)
Janac's back... and there will be games - so what will you do when it's them... or the woman you love?
Psychotic Games
Drug baron Janac has unleashed a reign of terror in the South China Sea to fund his battle for control of the Australian narcotics trade. When he attacks an old cargo ship on an evil night off the Indonesian coast, it seems he has also found the perfect victims to exploit with his psychotic games.
Last Voyage
Phil Hamnet and his wife Anna are sharing a last voyage before the arrival of their twins. Hamnet escapes Janac's attack, but Anna is taken and held hostage to ensure first his silence, and then his cooperation. But when Janac's rogue ex-Special Forces crew attack more ships and men start dying, Hamnet has to decide if he can continue to sacrifice the lives of unknown sailors to save the woman he loves.
Living Nightmare
It's an awful decision for anyone to have to make, but for a man who's already had the same dilemma - tormented in a lifeboat, adrift in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean - it's a living nightmare.
One
Have you ever wanted to be alone, truly all by yourself? Timothy Hayden felt that way. A young man, just 21, only a year ago he lost his father Alexander to a drunken driver. Since then he has watched his mother Martha pull away from her beliefs and cling to her two children. Timothy has watched his carefree sister Ashley become more quiet and introverted. While his keen intellect and logical sense tells him they have not truly adapted it is they whom question his adaptation.
Timothy feels he has dealt with the life fate has handed him and that everyone else including his girlfriend, Christine is projecting their issues onto him. His shaded bedroom high above the gold cost of Chicago is not far enough away from their distractions.
Timothy goes to bed wishing to be free and awakens in a world void of all life. Now Timothy must not only unravel the mystery of a world without another live soul, but the haunting visions and thoughts being forced upon him. As his journey begins, he thinks back to what his sister told him the night before everything began
Dark Horse (Jim Knighthorse Series #1)
When high school student Derrick Booker, the only black student at a posh Orange County high school, is accused of killing his white girlfriend, ex-college football hero and detective Jim Knighthorse is hired to dig a little deeper into the murder. It doesn't take long for Knighthorse to realize that not all is as it seems at tranquil Huntington High, from a band director who preys on the innocent to a vice-principal with a secret agenda of her own. Not to mention someone's hired a professional killer to keep Knighthorse permanently off the case.
As the investigation continues, Knighthorse's personal life is shattered by the discovery of new evidence relating to his mother's unsolved murder, a murder dating back twenty years. Reeling from the discovery, a determined Jim Knighthorse sets out to bring two killers to justice.
Bloody Bones "Demon From Hell"
The entire town of Seymoure, Indiana covered up the brutal murder of Chemist Bill Clutter. No one was talking and daily life continued on as usual. That is, until Clutter returned from the grave to seek revenge on everyone involved in his early demise. Once the towns people began dying horrible deaths, one by one, it didn't take long for paranormal investigator and police Detective Darryl Roberts to come face to face with Bill Clutter now called, "BLOODY BONES",the real Freddy Krueger
Wiseguys in the Woods
It is the summer of 1989, and the shocking evidence of a mummified murder victim found behind a restaurant wall, a gunshot into a nightclub ceiling and a profitless armed robbery are seemingly unrelated events that all seem to revolve around a secretive middle-aged man who always wears a suit and speaks with an accent. Suddenly, the post card beauty and quiet of the Lake George Region is playing host, as it has in the past, to the Mafia. This, though, is not the Mafia of Godfather movies, but a fast-growing and more sinister version that recruits its members from Italian prisons – the Camorra. As the questions and the bodies begin to pile up, local law enforcement races to respond with forensic personnel from the State Police’s early version of CSI’s, a skilled forensic pathologist for an unusual autopsy, and police colleagues of Peter Drake, including several new ones, working to unravel one mystery only to be faced with another.
Despite all of this help, or perhaps because of it, local First Assistant District Attorney Peter Drake’s biggest worry is that he might let them all down. Peter is a young and unremarkable prosecutor, who has worked in Albany County and has recently moved north. The implications of these cases continue to grow, as they peel away layer after layer of secrets. Secrets that many persons, in and out of government, will kill to protect.
Only recently has it occurred to ADA Drake, that while most crimes listed in the New York’s Penal Law are committed anywhere in the state, there is one form of criminal activity usually confined to the big cities. It has more to do with the nature of the criminals than the nature of the crimes, but traditional organized crime belongs in the large metropolises. The natural habitat for wiseguys and other mobsters here in New York State would be the five boroughs of New York City and, perhaps, Buffalo. Certainly not the boonies of upstate New York, where they would be the big-eyed fish out of water.
Peter’s own experience tends to bear this out. In his seven years as a prosecutor, he has not seen or heard of any organized crime activity, apart from the odd wannabe, in either the Albany area or here in rural Warren County, where he now works, until now. Sure the drug gangs of the mid 80’s, riding the first massive wave of cocaine into the Capital Region, were organized to an extent and caused no end of problems for an unprepared law enforcement community. Peter is now beginning to realize that there is a world of difference between criminals who are organized and organized crime.
Cupid's Kill
Death arrives in diverse delivery methods.
One in particular is a plague to the detectives of the Marcona Police Department. A monster has returned, and he won’t rest until his vengeance is complete. Armed with a paralyzing concoction and the tools of his trade, he targets a select few to add to his collection.
Chief Mark Blankenship, along with detectives Brian Jeffers and Kelli Jordan, face off against the madman, hoping to end his bloody path of destruction.
Unfortunately, they haven't anticipated the killer will sacrifice at all costs, making one of them his prized token…
Snout
London, 1979. A new government is about to take power in Britain, and the intelligence services need to be purged.
Roy Nichols is pushing fifty, a little too fond of a drink, and frustrated in his career. He's also in charge of a division of MI5 in which a Soviet mole has been found to be operating. It's his job to identify and expose the enemy agent.
Nichols has two acolytes, both with their strengths and weaknesses. Which if either is the mole? As the shadow of suspicion falls on Nichols himself, he finds the pressure almost more than he can bear, and resorts to an unorthodox method of coping: he starts a diary...
A tense, chilling Cold War spy mystery in the spirit of Le Carre, Snout is an 8,000-word story of suspense and high drama that will keep you guessing right up until the final twist.
DIVA (A Frank Renzi mystery)
Murder, music and sexual obsession in New Orleans.
Vol. 2 in the Frank Renzi mystery series.
Beautiful and talented, Belinda Scully wants to be a star. But fame can be dangerous. Fourteen months post-Katrina, an armed ex-military man is after her. This ruthless stalker will do anything to have her: blackmail, kidnapping, even murder.
When Belinda rejects him, he vows revenge. After kidnapping her, he terrorizes her in a vacant Katrina-ravaged house. Will NOPD Detective Frank Renzi find the feisty flutist in time?
A stalker, a kidnapping, revenge and murder. DIVA has it all. See the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans. Experience the fear of a talented teenaged jazz saxophone player badgered by drug dealers. Travel to London with Belinda where she plays a solo concert.
Silver Justice
Manhattan. A ruthless serial killer is butchering financial industry high rollers. FBI Special Agent Silver Cassidy, the head of a task force that's on a collision course with disaster, finds herself fighting impossible odds to stop the murderer before he can kill again. Struggling to balance the hunt for a savage predator with the challenges of being a single parent, Silver finds herself thrust into a nightmare of brutality that will demand every ounce of determination she possesses to survive.
Murder Changes Everything
Greg Garrison is a happy guy today. Riding in his flashy convertible he’s showing off to the world that he’s become a success in the movie business. These are Greg’s last moments on this earth.
Detective Millard Whitney is asked by a friend of his, the CEO of a film production company, to investigate. Millard immediately finds that Greg Garrison made many enemies on his way to the top. Certain directors, producers, and actors all had a stake in seeing Garrison gone from the scene. But there are also suspects from Garrison’s personal life: infidelity and humiliation can be strong motives for murder. Even as a child, Greg harmed the people closest to him.
Thrown into the mix are also a terrorist link and some local gang bangers. But the cause of Greg Garrison’s death might be what happens to us all when we’re young. Fantasy, played out, has consequences in the real world.
For this case, Millard himself becomes more personally involved when a lady he cares about is drawn into the net. The key to the case seems to lie in Greg Garrison’s past, but when he swims into these deeper waters, Millard become caught in a maelstrom that he wasn’t prepared for. Should the past remain buried, or will it be Millard who’s finally buried?
Millard begins to know, even halfway through this case, that if a film were made of his investigation, it would be called, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The problem the detective finds is that he’s having great difficulty separating one from the other. And he’d better do it quickly, or the new title for the movie will be, “The Quick and the Dead,” with Millard quickly dead.
You think you know me pretty well (an Alex Sedaka thriller)
Previously published as MERCY
San Francisco lawyer Alex Sedaka is surprised when California governor Chuck Dusenbury offers eleventh-hour clemency to Sedaka’s Death Row client Clayton Burrow - persuaded to do so by the dying mother of the victim. But there is a condition: Burrow must reveal where he buried body.
The problem: Burrow insists that he is innocent and claims that he was framed by the missing girl herself. Until then, Sedaka – who only recently took over the case – thought that Burrow was guilty. But now that Burrow has rejected the clemency offer, he is not so sure. Thus begins a race against time to unravel the mystery, aided by his secretary, an enigmatic legal intern and his own computer expert son.
Alex finds evidence of school bullying, marital infidelity and even child abuse. But with the clock ticking down to Burrow’s execution, Alex is frustrated at every turn by elusive evidence that casts doubt on Burrow’s guilt, but is not enough to satisfy the rigorous requirements of the courts or the governor at this late stage.
And as the execution looms ahead, the race turns frantic… and dangerous.
Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow and Harlan Coben, Mercy is the first in a series featuring US lawyer Alex Sedaka.
Silence is golden at the Diogenes, Mycroft's Pall Mall club. You are only allowed to speak in the Stranger’s Room. But for William St John Plunkett neither silence nor speech is an option any more. He is found dead at the bottom of the great staircase, blood and brains spattered all over the marble floor.
Mycroft, although in the club at the time, leaves the details of the investigation to Inspector Lestrade, including the baffling geography of the Diogenes with its library called Plato's Cave and a dining room called Secundus the Silent. Eccentrics roam the building, Cholmondeley Warner with his matchstick cathedrals, Fitzpaine Somerset, bankrupted by grandfather clocks, the corpse himself, obsessed with attending funerals.
Inspector Lestrade is lost in the silent world of club land. Mycroft's health is failing, but he summons all his powers to resolve the murder mystery on his own doorstep. As the police close in on the killer Mycroft seems to be at death's door. ‘You must live for your country,’ his young assistant Tobias tells him, ‘you must live for England. England needs you.’
The WJA series is a cross genre series and may bend or break many rules. If you are set in the traditional ways of storytelling this may not be the series for you. Please use caution and only read if you are of an open mind, and crave something off the map and mind-bending.
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Mark Appleton is living the American Dream. Beautiful wife, loving daughter, and a high paying job in New York City. But when his family are killed in a accident he must reinvent himself. A year later in the midst of putting his life back together, Mark finds out that his family was killed and it was...No accident. Mark will stop at nothing to hunt down the men responsible for the death of his family and what he finds will change his life forever.
Kirk Weston is a Detroit detective. He hates his job, his ex-wife, and his life. He is hand selected to help the FBI on a high profile case and just when he thinks things could not get any worse...
They do.
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After eight long years, attorney Sasha McCandless is about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up.
When a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard, Sasha gears up to defend the inevitable civil lawsuits. She soon realizes the crash was no accident: a developer has created an application that can control a commercial plane's onboard computer from a smartphone.
Sasha joins forces with a federal air marshal, and they race to prevent another airline disaster. But when people close to the matter start turning up dead, Sasha must rely on both her legal skills and her Krav Maga training to stop the madman before he kills her.
When psychic Julie Seer moves to Vancouver, her dreams are filled with visions of women being murdered. She doesn’t know who is being killed, or why, until the day Julie goes to a press conference held by the Vancouver Police Station: a press conference to announce the formation of a special task force that will investigate the case of the prostitutes who have gone missing from Vancouver’s East Side.
Detective Constable Santoro Ricci, an officer with the Vancouver Police Department, wants on the special task force. When he happens upon Julie at the press conference, Ricci finds himself unofficially investigating the case.
Julie also finds herself having visions where she is transported back in time into the body of a Chinese prostitute in the late 1800s. Through these visions, and stories told to her by long time residents of the city, Julie learns more of the history of Vancouver.
With the help of Francine, an east side prostitute, Julie and Santoro work together to solve the mystery of the missing women. When Francine and Julie are taken by the killer, Santoro must find the missing answers fast.
Marie's peaceful life in Virginia is shattered the moment she receives word from her brother: “I just got a call from a detective. Daddy’s dead.” Rushing to her family home in Brooklyn, New York, Marie seeks answers to her father’s mysterious death only to discover disturbing occurrences and encounter acts of betrayal.
After her questions are amplified and suspicions confirmed surrounding her father’s ex-girlfriend, Marie becomes frustrated by how oblivious so many had been, and continue to be, to the wily con-artist.
Inheriting her father’s scheming ex-girlfriend becomes a journey Marie never imagined she’d be forced to travel.
Written as memoir, and based on a true story, "Fractured Facade" is a cautionary tale for anyone concerned about a parent after the loss of their spouse. The survivor, often thrust into an unfamiliar world, can find it quite different from the dating scene of their youth; one where some people create facades to mask their true intentions. Sadly, loneliness can cause an otherwise intelligent person to behave foolishly.
"Fractured Facade" is the tale of a father’s death, a daughter’s life, and a sociopath’s vendetta.
Author's Note -- Some may find language they deem inappropriate...I don't.
When abusive parents raise brilliant children, you might end up with a saint, or a killer…or one of each.
Little Deadly Things is the place where science meets the psyche, where humanity’s future is in the hands of a madwoman and the woman that must stop her.
The seeds of an apocalyptic race—to save mankind or to destroy it—were sown in the earliest years of two scientists. Young Eva Rozen witnessed her sister's brutal murder, and barely escaped with her life. She found refuge from madness in the orderly world of science. Twenty-five years later, this master of nanotechnology is the world's richest woman... and the most dangerous.
Marta Cruz also endured a troubled childhood. Her mother’s death and her father's incarceration left her an orphan, and a crippling disease left her in pain. Marta's refuge? A tropical rain forest where she discovers plants with miraculous healing properties under the tutelage of her shamanistic grandmother.
The two girls meet in high school and form an uneasy friendship that lasts through college. Eva wants power, profit—and Marta's husband. She offers to fund Marta's public health dreams in exchange for the ailing physician's knowledge of plant-based medicines. Together, they build the world's largest nanotech manufacturer.
When the unstable Eva has a psychotic break, and attacks the people who rely on her for survival, only Marta can stand between Eva and the death of millions. But Marta is a healer, not a fighter, and must rely on her husband and teenaged son, a boy who faces a life-or-death challenge well beyond his years.
Little Deadly Things is set just a few years in the future, yet the story’s technology comes directly from today’s laboratories. Here is a chilling look at a future that is already on our doorstep—and a study of the two women who will decide the fate of mankind.
Previously published in an abridged form as Logans Touch
“Tough action, murder and a plot that will shock you to the core"
The mystery kidnap of the daughter of an ex-Marine brings in old friends from the Corps. Major Wes Van Den Heuval, USMC and Major Harry Kewell, ex-Royal Marines, both of whom are ex-Special Forces are brought together by MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Chief suspect is the emerging Continuity IRA, but they aren’t even in the same ball park. Major Kewell comes head to head with Billy Logan an old Provisional IRA bomb maker with bloody consequences in the Vineyards of Sonoma, in California. Old scores have to be settled.
...and British Intelligence..? They aren’t exactly lillywhite either. At one time you knew those you perceived to be the enemy, yet they protect you… and those who are supposed to protect you, your friends . . you now find they are trying to murder you…enter the murky world of the Secret Intelligence Service.
But the word is out: Defy all the Rules! Previously published in an abridged form as Logans Touch
Ex-priest and newly minted agnostic Max Castillo ekes out a living as a private investigator from his houseboat in Benidorm, Spain. He finally has a little free time ... until a big-shot turns up dead at a local golf course. Now, his former employer is calling in an old debt, and Max is neck-deep in gangsters, grifters and girls with grudges. A decades-old secret could hold the key to solving the case, but can Max figure it out before one of them leaves him ... Buried in Benidorm?
If you’ve enjoyed stories by James Rollins, Michael Crichton, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, get ready to strap yourself in for a roller coaster ride of terror as you learn that you truly are what you eat…
At a genetics lab where a revolutionary strain of wonder food crops is being developed, FBI Special Agent Jack Dawson’s best friend and fellow agent, Sheldon Crane, is brutally murdered. The killer was looking for very special seeds that Jack’s friend had taken from the lab, and tore his body apart trying to find them…
Jack is convinced that Naomi Perrault, the beautiful geneticist who leads a group of suspected eco-terrorists, is behind the murder. But when FBI agents who aren’t quite who they claim to be show up on Jack’s doorstep after a bomb devastates the FBI lab in Quantico, destroying the evidence from his friend’s murder, Naomi becomes Jack’s only hope of survival.
Framed for murder and confronted by the terrifying truth of what the genetically engineered seeds stolen by his friend are truly for, Jack joins Naomi in a desperate battle across half the globe to save humanity from extermination…
Deadly Diversion takes us to the Intensive Care Unit of St. Teresa’s (or St. T’s to its dedicated staff) where head nurse Monika Everhardt investigates the suspicious death of cancer patient Huey Castle, a small-time crook who died just before he was to talk to police about a long-ago crime. Is the perpetrator a disgruntled worker? A local mob figure’s family? Or could it even be her demanding supervisor?
For the fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz....
What if, hundreds of years from now, scientists invent a time machine? Wouldn't it be nice if your great-grandkid used it to send you a winning lottery combination that would make you a multimillionaire?
After winning a four-hundred-million dollar jackpot with the numbers he received from the future, Ted Duplass is as happy as can be. He buys a house in an upscale neighborhood, a luxury car, a Rolex watch, and a whole bunch of other things he couldn't afford before. Life is great.
The fun stops when Ted learns that he's going to be murdered by the end of the year. Fortunately, he knows the name of the killer.
The question is: how much luck does he have left?
Peace, love, murder . . . The love that symbolized Woodstock for Riley, Heather, Lance, and Terry changes when the college friends return to Kent State University and are drawn into a murder investigation. Two drifters they met at Woodstock, Laurel and Mango, are also caught in the trouble.
Products of their times, our characters freely embrace sex, violence, drugs, and rock and roll. While the Ohio National Guard shoots at protesting students, the friends face the reality that one of their own is also a murderer.
Will they find the way back to friendship, solve the murder, and embrace the kind of love that lasts a lifetime? Between the dreamy unreality of Woodstock and the harsh light of day at Kent State, the characters grow and mature as they make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
This fictional story is set in 1969-70, when both the country and its young people were irrevocably changed.
Janac's back... and there will be games - so what will you do when it's them... or the woman you love?
Psychotic Games
Drug baron Janac has unleashed a reign of terror in the South China Sea to fund his battle for control of the Australian narcotics trade. When he attacks an old cargo ship on an evil night off the Indonesian coast, it seems he has also found the perfect victims to exploit with his psychotic games.
Last Voyage
Phil Hamnet and his wife Anna are sharing a last voyage before the arrival of their twins. Hamnet escapes Janac's attack, but Anna is taken and held hostage to ensure first his silence, and then his cooperation. But when Janac's rogue ex-Special Forces crew attack more ships and men start dying, Hamnet has to decide if he can continue to sacrifice the lives of unknown sailors to save the woman he loves.
Living Nightmare
It's an awful decision for anyone to have to make, but for a man who's already had the same dilemma - tormented in a lifeboat, adrift in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean - it's a living nightmare.
Have you ever wanted to be alone, truly all by yourself? Timothy Hayden felt that way. A young man, just 21, only a year ago he lost his father Alexander to a drunken driver. Since then he has watched his mother Martha pull away from her beliefs and cling to her two children. Timothy has watched his carefree sister Ashley become more quiet and introverted. While his keen intellect and logical sense tells him they have not truly adapted it is they whom question his adaptation.
Timothy feels he has dealt with the life fate has handed him and that everyone else including his girlfriend, Christine is projecting their issues onto him. His shaded bedroom high above the gold cost of Chicago is not far enough away from their distractions.
Timothy goes to bed wishing to be free and awakens in a world void of all life. Now Timothy must not only unravel the mystery of a world without another live soul, but the haunting visions and thoughts being forced upon him. As his journey begins, he thinks back to what his sister told him the night before everything began
When high school student Derrick Booker, the only black student at a posh Orange County high school, is accused of killing his white girlfriend, ex-college football hero and detective Jim Knighthorse is hired to dig a little deeper into the murder. It doesn't take long for Knighthorse to realize that not all is as it seems at tranquil Huntington High, from a band director who preys on the innocent to a vice-principal with a secret agenda of her own. Not to mention someone's hired a professional killer to keep Knighthorse permanently off the case.
As the investigation continues, Knighthorse's personal life is shattered by the discovery of new evidence relating to his mother's unsolved murder, a murder dating back twenty years. Reeling from the discovery, a determined Jim Knighthorse sets out to bring two killers to justice.
The entire town of Seymoure, Indiana covered up the brutal murder of Chemist Bill Clutter. No one was talking and daily life continued on as usual. That is, until Clutter returned from the grave to seek revenge on everyone involved in his early demise. Once the towns people began dying horrible deaths, one by one, it didn't take long for paranormal investigator and police Detective Darryl Roberts to come face to face with Bill Clutter now called, "BLOODY BONES",the real Freddy Krueger
It is the summer of 1989, and the shocking evidence of a mummified murder victim found behind a restaurant wall, a gunshot into a nightclub ceiling and a profitless armed robbery are seemingly unrelated events that all seem to revolve around a secretive middle-aged man who always wears a suit and speaks with an accent. Suddenly, the post card beauty and quiet of the Lake George Region is playing host, as it has in the past, to the Mafia. This, though, is not the Mafia of Godfather movies, but a fast-growing and more sinister version that recruits its members from Italian prisons – the Camorra. As the questions and the bodies begin to pile up, local law enforcement races to respond with forensic personnel from the State Police’s early version of CSI’s, a skilled forensic pathologist for an unusual autopsy, and police colleagues of Peter Drake, including several new ones, working to unravel one mystery only to be faced with another.
Despite all of this help, or perhaps because of it, local First Assistant District Attorney Peter Drake’s biggest worry is that he might let them all down. Peter is a young and unremarkable prosecutor, who has worked in Albany County and has recently moved north. The implications of these cases continue to grow, as they peel away layer after layer of secrets. Secrets that many persons, in and out of government, will kill to protect.
Only recently has it occurred to ADA Drake, that while most crimes listed in the New York’s Penal Law are committed anywhere in the state, there is one form of criminal activity usually confined to the big cities. It has more to do with the nature of the criminals than the nature of the crimes, but traditional organized crime belongs in the large metropolises. The natural habitat for wiseguys and other mobsters here in New York State would be the five boroughs of New York City and, perhaps, Buffalo. Certainly not the boonies of upstate New York, where they would be the big-eyed fish out of water.
Peter’s own experience tends to bear this out. In his seven years as a prosecutor, he has not seen or heard of any organized crime activity, apart from the odd wannabe, in either the Albany area or here in rural Warren County, where he now works, until now. Sure the drug gangs of the mid 80’s, riding the first massive wave of cocaine into the Capital Region, were organized to an extent and caused no end of problems for an unprepared law enforcement community. Peter is now beginning to realize that there is a world of difference between criminals who are organized and organized crime.
Death arrives in diverse delivery methods.
One in particular is a plague to the detectives of the Marcona Police Department. A monster has returned, and he won’t rest until his vengeance is complete. Armed with a paralyzing concoction and the tools of his trade, he targets a select few to add to his collection.
Chief Mark Blankenship, along with detectives Brian Jeffers and Kelli Jordan, face off against the madman, hoping to end his bloody path of destruction.
Unfortunately, they haven't anticipated the killer will sacrifice at all costs, making one of them his prized token…
London, 1979. A new government is about to take power in Britain, and the intelligence services need to be purged.
Roy Nichols is pushing fifty, a little too fond of a drink, and frustrated in his career. He's also in charge of a division of MI5 in which a Soviet mole has been found to be operating. It's his job to identify and expose the enemy agent.
Nichols has two acolytes, both with their strengths and weaknesses. Which if either is the mole? As the shadow of suspicion falls on Nichols himself, he finds the pressure almost more than he can bear, and resorts to an unorthodox method of coping: he starts a diary...
A tense, chilling Cold War spy mystery in the spirit of Le Carre, Snout is an 8,000-word story of suspense and high drama that will keep you guessing right up until the final twist.
Murder, music and sexual obsession in New Orleans.
Vol. 2 in the Frank Renzi mystery series.
Beautiful and talented, Belinda Scully wants to be a star. But fame can be dangerous. Fourteen months post-Katrina, an armed ex-military man is after her. This ruthless stalker will do anything to have her: blackmail, kidnapping, even murder.
When Belinda rejects him, he vows revenge. After kidnapping her, he terrorizes her in a vacant Katrina-ravaged house. Will NOPD Detective Frank Renzi find the feisty flutist in time?
A stalker, a kidnapping, revenge and murder. DIVA has it all. See the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to New Orleans. Experience the fear of a talented teenaged jazz saxophone player badgered by drug dealers. Travel to London with Belinda where she plays a solo concert.
Manhattan. A ruthless serial killer is butchering financial industry high rollers. FBI Special Agent Silver Cassidy, the head of a task force that's on a collision course with disaster, finds herself fighting impossible odds to stop the murderer before he can kill again. Struggling to balance the hunt for a savage predator with the challenges of being a single parent, Silver finds herself thrust into a nightmare of brutality that will demand every ounce of determination she possesses to survive.
Greg Garrison is a happy guy today. Riding in his flashy convertible he’s showing off to the world that he’s become a success in the movie business. These are Greg’s last moments on this earth.
Detective Millard Whitney is asked by a friend of his, the CEO of a film production company, to investigate. Millard immediately finds that Greg Garrison made many enemies on his way to the top. Certain directors, producers, and actors all had a stake in seeing Garrison gone from the scene. But there are also suspects from Garrison’s personal life: infidelity and humiliation can be strong motives for murder. Even as a child, Greg harmed the people closest to him.
Thrown into the mix are also a terrorist link and some local gang bangers. But the cause of Greg Garrison’s death might be what happens to us all when we’re young. Fantasy, played out, has consequences in the real world.
For this case, Millard himself becomes more personally involved when a lady he cares about is drawn into the net. The key to the case seems to lie in Greg Garrison’s past, but when he swims into these deeper waters, Millard become caught in a maelstrom that he wasn’t prepared for. Should the past remain buried, or will it be Millard who’s finally buried?
Millard begins to know, even halfway through this case, that if a film were made of his investigation, it would be called, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The problem the detective finds is that he’s having great difficulty separating one from the other. And he’d better do it quickly, or the new title for the movie will be, “The Quick and the Dead,” with Millard quickly dead.
Previously published as MERCY
San Francisco lawyer Alex Sedaka is surprised when California governor Chuck Dusenbury offers eleventh-hour clemency to Sedaka’s Death Row client Clayton Burrow - persuaded to do so by the dying mother of the victim. But there is a condition: Burrow must reveal where he buried body.
The problem: Burrow insists that he is innocent and claims that he was framed by the missing girl herself. Until then, Sedaka – who only recently took over the case – thought that Burrow was guilty. But now that Burrow has rejected the clemency offer, he is not so sure. Thus begins a race against time to unravel the mystery, aided by his secretary, an enigmatic legal intern and his own computer expert son.
Alex finds evidence of school bullying, marital infidelity and even child abuse. But with the clock ticking down to Burrow’s execution, Alex is frustrated at every turn by elusive evidence that casts doubt on Burrow’s guilt, but is not enough to satisfy the rigorous requirements of the courts or the governor at this late stage.
And as the execution looms ahead, the race turns frantic… and dangerous.
Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow and Harlan Coben, Mercy is the first in a series featuring US lawyer Alex Sedaka.
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