Thursday, December 27, 2012

Suspenseful Snow Day


Good Morning Fans. How are we? Did everyone get some snow last night? I sure did. Well how about some Suspense to get you through the dig out? 


The Blasphemer - An Islamic Thriller

For fans of Robert Ludlum and Frederick Forsyth -- how far would you go to protect one man's right to speak?

When Abraham Khan releases an e-book condemning radical Islam, the consequences hit him fast and hard -- an armed fanatic smashes into his home one evening, trying to kill him. He survives the harrowing attempt. Just barely. But will he survive the next one?

Maya Raines is the security operator brought in to protect Abraham. She is tough and committed. The very best at what she does. Always one step ahead of the threat.

But Abraham is no ordinary principal -- he will not hide, and he will not stay silent. And as rage explodes on the streets and the nation is propelled to the brink, Maya will have to ask herself the hardest question of all: how far would you go to protect one man's right to speak? 



Safe Harbor
What would you do to protect your family?

Financial advisor Pat Tierney’s world is shattered when a visitor to her office tells her that Pat's late husband is the father of a seven-year-old boy. Stunned by the revelation of her husband's affair, Pat is even more shocked when the woman bolts from the office, leaving young Tommy behind.

When Tommy's mother is murdered, police tell Pat that the boy may be the killer's next target. In a desperate race to protect Tommy, Pat's searches for the truth and uncovers a deadly scheme involving illegal immigrants, trafficking in human body parts and money laundering.

And Pat discovers that she'll do just about anything to keep her family safe.


Decorah Security Collection
A boxed set of the following Decorah Security series books by Rebecca York:
DARK POWERS (a novel)
CHAINED (a novella)
HOT AND DANGEROUS (a short story)
AMBUSHED (A short story)

The Dead Room
A young woman is found, brutally murdered and left on
gruesome display in the "safety" of her own home. The atrocity kicks off
an investigation into a bizarre string of increasingly disturbing
murders, all believed to be perpetrated by someone of unprecedented
savagery and cunning. As the city's panic rises, civil attorney Teddy Mack is thrown headlong
into the grisly homicide case--and into a world of dirty politics and
corrupt justice, where deceptions are as deadly as the killer's twisted
secrets. Now, another woman is about to meet the same horrific fate as
the others. To end a madman's reign, Teddy must enter his maze--a place
of unimaginable terror and shocking revelations.

With his second thriller, L.A. TIMES bestselling author, Robert Ellis, delivers an
explosive read with full-blown characters caught in a world stacked with
twists and turns and an emotional intensity that burns white-hot.

Chasing the Ghost (Black Ops)
Covert operative Horace Chase has been chasing ghosts his entire life. 
First, his Medal-of-Honor winner father who died in Vietnam without ever meeting his son. And left him the legacy of an automatic appointment to the Military Academy at West Point which shaped the next thirty-five years of Chase's life. Then, the ghost of his mother, who died while he was at war in Afghanistan and wounded, causing him to resign his commission and return to the United States, a lost soul. 

Chase now wears two hats as a Federal counter-terrorism liaison to the local police department in Boulder, Colorado where he becomes embroiled in two seemingly un-related cases. Working as a detective with Boulder PD he chases another death, this one the apparent rape/murder of Rachel Stevens, an upscale housewife attending night classes at the University of Colorado. And with his counter-terrorism team he is embroiled in a series of killings involving a militia group, a rogue ex-Special Forces officer, a psychopathic ex-CIA contract mercenary, and ruthless drug runners.

From the streets of Boulder, to the highest railroad tunnel in the world, to a swingers club hiding in plain site in suburbia, Afghanistan starts to look pretty good to Chase.


Kiss Me or Die
Richard's life is a horror story. And it's all the fault of those people inside his head.

Richard thinks he has them stereotyped for his autobography, but he’s about to get a new tenant: the Insider, a malevolent soul-hopping spirit that may or may not be born from Richard’s nightmares and demands a co-writing credit and a little bit of foot-kissing dark worship.

Now Richard doesn’t know which voice to trust. The book’s been rejected 117 times. The people he loves keep turning up dead. And here comes the woman of his dreams.

The River
STEM CELL RESEARCH, CLONING, AND WORLD DOMINATION--WITH A TWIST...

The South Nahanni River area of Canada's Northwest Territories has a history of mysterious deaths, disappearances and headless corpses, but it may also hold the key to humanity’s survival―or its destruction.

Del thought her father was long dead. But someone from her past says otherwise. Now she and a group of near strangers embark on a perilous mission...

Seven years ago, Del Hawthorne’s father and three of his friends disappeared near the Nahanni River and were presumed dead. When one of the missing men stumbles onto the University grounds, alive but barely recognizable and aging before her eyes, Del is shocked. Especially when the man tells her something inconceivable. Her father is still alive!

Gathering a group of volunteers, Del travels to the Nahanni River to rescue her father. There, she finds a secret river that plunges her into a technologically advanced world of nanobots and painful serums. Del uncovers a conspiracy of unimaginable horror, a plot that threatens to destroy us all. Will humanity be sacrificed for the taste of eternal life?

At what point have we become...God?

Rebekka Franck Series Box Set
Book 1 - One, Two ... He is coming for you
Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six year old daughter. She is trying to escape her ex-husband and starting a new life for her and her daughter, when the small sleepy town experiences a murder. One of the kingdoms wealthiest men is brutally murdered in his summer residence in Karrebaeksminde. While Rebekka Franck and her punk photographer Sune try to cover the story for the local newspaper another murder happens on a high society rich man. Now Rebekka Franck realizes that the drowsy little kingdom of Denmark has gotten its first serial killer and soon a series of dark secrets - long buried but not forgotten - will see the day of light.
One, Two ... He is coming for you is the first book in Willow Rose's mystery-series about the reporter Rebekka Franck and her photographer Sune.

BOOK 2 - Three, Four ... Better lock your door:
It was supposed to be a night of fun, pleasure, lust and pain for Susanne Larsen when she agreed to meet with a stranger from a S&M chatroom. She met him for dinner that later led to casual, anonymous sex at the hotel-room at the local inn.

But someone else showed up in the room and suddenly it was no longer a game.

Zeeland Times star-reporter Rebekka Franck and her photographer Sune are covering the case for the news-paper and soon they find themselves deeply involved in a story of terrifying horror and ugly secrets.

BOOK 3 - Five, Six ... Grab your Crucifix:

The Priest is a man with a mission from God. He is to help those possessed by evil to finally become free from their stronghold. He has expelled demons for years and had great success.

But there is one demon he never managed to cast out. And that demon has now come back to get him.

Collide (Collide Series)
Phaedra had always been different than the rest of her peers. Recently she started to accept that was just the way she was—a seeker of chaos and adventure. Nothing seemed to satisfy her insatiable hunger for the ill-behaved. When her brother can no longer handle her rebellious behavior, he makes a very harsh decision to send Phaedra to her estranged grandparents’ home on a Navajo Reservation in the middle of nowhere. Phaedra’s tenacious spirit is not willing to accept her brother’s rash decision. The minute her plane lands in Albuquerque, she quickly makes plans to escape. Her plans to run are easily thwarted when she looks into the ochre eyes of a man named Ebon who was sent by her grandparents to pick her up. He is bold and unusual, but in an entirely different way than Phaedra had ever seen before. Not only do Ebon’s strange good-looks easily suck Phaedra in, but so does the extraordinary connection she feels for him. Once in the small town of Ramah, New Mexico, strange things start to happen to Phaedra, things that couldn’t possibly be real. She is torn between leaving the man who effortlessly lured her there and the life she used to live. Little does Phaedra realize she is the key to the future of many who are just like her. Can Phaedra accept her preordained fate or does she fight it like everything else that has ever presented itself in her life? Can Ebon and Phaedra resist their powerful attraction for each other to obtain an unseen promise of something so much more rewarding?

Dark Corners (The Ella Reynolds Series)
Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life. Everyday reality slips a little more between her fingers as she struggles to break free from her memories. She must look deeper into her past as well as the present to discover truth of her husband's homicide. A string of uncanny events takes place and practical explanations run thin as Ella follows the terrifying road to closure. As the past and present come to a head, Ella must decipher who or what the murderer is before it takes her as well.

The Soul of the Ships
From the author of Spilled Blood and The Cold Nowhere

An enchanting Christmas short, in which two strangers witness a magical spectacle on the misty waters of Lake Superior

Deadly Illusions (Greg McKenzie Mysteries)
Molly Saint hires new PI's Greg and Jill McKenzie to check into her husband's background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit. Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation stemming from the assassination of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel. The case resurrects old problems with a Murder Squad detective and his colleagues among Nashville's finest. The deeper the McKenzies dig, the more deadly illusions they face. After threats, break-ins, and another murder, the charade ends in a shocking showdown.

Red Tide
When both old and new secrets are uncovered at a burial site, the timetable of a madman moves up…

Jamie Taylor and her human remains detection dog set out to find some bodies buried for more than a decade. They found them—and some new surprises as well. Some families would find closure while others would have their lives ripped apart.

Agent Nicholas Grant becomes embroiled in the case while battling his own demons.

A madman watches from the distance while officials expose his clandestine playground, forcing him to speed up his plans for devastation.

Can a dog handler and a troubled FBI agent stop him before he kills thousands of innocent people?

Hide and Seek
An unforeseen school reunion sparked by the death of a childhood friend quickly turns into a living nightmare for Peter Stevenson. 
Waking the day after, he finds his friends missing, his possessions gone, and himself placed at the centre of a game of hide and seek.

Yet this is no ordinary game - like those of his childhood days - but a twisted version, directed by a madman and with the lives of his old friends on the line.

As the dramatic day unfolds, Peter is forced to relive his past to ensure that his friends have a future. And as the cruel challenge against the clock unfolds, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that one of his closest friends could be the mastermind behind the sinister game of life and death.

Deadly Gamble: The First Charlie Parker Mystery (Charlie Parker Mystery Series)
In this debut mystery series novel, Charlie Parker, accountant and partner in an Albuquerque private investigation firm, is visited by her old school friend, Stacy North. Stacy's Rolex watch is missing and she begs Charlie to help locate it before her husband finds out. Things are complicated by the fact that Stacy had been seeing another man, Gary Detweiller, and he's the one she suspects of having stolen the watch. With a little detective work, Charlie retrieves the missing watch and all should be well. But three days later, Detweiller is murdered. All eyes turn to Stacy as the prime suspect. 

Once again, Stacy begs Charlie's help in proving her innocence. As she begins to ask questions, Charlie learns that Detweiller's life was not as simple as first perceived and that any number of people had grievances against him. And before she can pinpoint the killer, her own life is in danger as well.

Targeted: A 30 Pieces to Havoc Bridge Short Story (Betrayed Series)
Now for Targeted...
From the #1 Bestselling Men's Adventure, Action/Adventure, War, and Techno-thriller author, Carolyn McCray comes a short story bridge between the extremely controversial historical thriller, 30 Pieces of Silver and Havoc.

Packed with about as much action as you can stuff into 9,000 words, join Brandt and Monroe as they attempt a romantic evening alone. Like we said...attempt!

THE ACCIDENTAL HEALER
After washed up CEO Dave McKenzie loses his job, his wife and kids leave him, he decides to end it all. Only to find a destiny he never expected. And for once in his life, it's not all about himself.

Includes free sample chapters from Graham's #1 bestseller BEYOND JUSTICE.

Lost Girls (The Cellar)
This terrific follow-up to Bodyguard of Lies continues to track the Cellar, a government organization whose task is to police rogue agents in the CIA, FBI and other U.S. bureaus. Maj. Jack Gant is called in from his South Carolina island home to oversee an investigation involving the abduction of Emily Cranston, daughter of Fort Bragg Special Warfare Center commander Col. Samuel Cranston. The motive for the abduction is revenge, and the perpetrators have been highly trained in how to carry it out—by the U.S. government. As related crimes pile up, Mayer delivers top-notch action and adventure, creating a full cast of lethal operatives armed with all the latest weaponry. Excellent writing and well-drawn, appealing characters help make this another taut, crackling read from Mayer. (Aug.)

Considered for option by Smokehouse, George Clooney’s production company.

Who polices the world of covert operations? Enter the Cellar, the most secret spy organization hiding deep within the United States.

Deep in the forests of Kentucky, a girl is held captive.

In Oklahoma, a young preschool teacher is murdered in front of her students.

In the Panhandle of Florida, a college undergrad is kidnapped from a nightclub.

These seemingly unrelated crimes catch the eye of the Cellar, the ultrasecret cell of operatives set up to police all other government agencies. Cellar operatives Gant and Neeley, along with profiler Susan Golden, must track down those responsible. But these are not ordinary criminals. They are a highly trained Special Forces sniper team. Crisscrossing the United States as new Cellar head Hannah Masterson calls the shots from up high, the Cellar operatives soon find themselves being targeted. Whoever is behind this knows the ultra top-secret Cellar's tactics all to well.

Underneath this web of death, deceit, and revenge lies an even more shocking crime . . . a conspiracy that powerful men will sacrifice their lives -- and the lives of their families -- to protect.

The Bridgeman (An Emily Taylor Mystery)
Some secrets can come back to haunt you…

Principal Emily Taylor feels safe in the friendly little town of Burchill—until she finds a body in her school. The murder of caretaker Nathaniel Ryeburn brings back memories she'd rather forget and plunges Emily into a mystery that involves a secret diary, an illegal puppy mill and a murderer innocently disguised as an ordinary citizen.

As fear rips through the traumatized town, Emily's investigation inadvertently leads the police to her door, and to her husband Langford, who is hiding a secret of his own. It becomes clear to Emily that many of Burchill's residents are merely wearing masks. And it's time for those masks to be ripped away…and for a killer's identity to be revealed.

Dark Mountain
While hiking on a lonely mountain in Arkansas, Jacob Barclay finds a cabin with a terrible secret. 

Sheriff Billy Joe Shoemaker discovers that his small, backwoods town may hold more danger than he ever imagined. 

Molly Carothers, lost in a sea of woods, starving and scared, believes she has found a guardian angel to free her. 

Brian Carothers, haunted by his family's heritage, struggles with his sanity. 

Victor Carothers influences his family through fear and blood. Along with his wife, Patsy, they find victims among transients and strangers as they seek to sate their appetite for the occult.

The lives of the town of Bexton, Arkansas depend upon Jacob, the strange Yankee seeking adventure and solace. Jacob finds he is faced with a struggling faith, and the realization that sometimes evil runs in the family.

Live and Let Die
On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago’s snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body was discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files.

Over a year later, Tracy’s sister, Sondra, still can’t come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister’s death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy’s past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister’s life that may have led to her death.

As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she’s launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death…

This one damn night
The master electrician Adam Branter and the police officer Katia Kramer are entirely busy with their wedding preparations. After a romatic dinner they are attacked in the darkness. Giving chase, Adam gets caught in a trap. Suddenly the thief is dead. Luckily, Adam manages to flee from the police, but is still pursued as a searched murderer.

Helmut Weinkauf, policemen and brother of the man killed by Adam, investigates on his own initiative. Having been advised that the suspect is Katia's future husband, he does everything possible to catch him. Adam has to die as Helmut demands Katia for himself.

Adam accidentally watches a get-together of Katia and Helmut. He assumes that they are behind all trouble. Being on his own now, Adam is hiding. On the run he is confronted with a swamp of corruption and intrigues. All friends turn away from him; to make matters even worse his company goes bankrupt. He dares everything to prove his innocence.

This one damn night had changed his entire life.

Heckel Casey
Sometimes the world needs a hero...

Former high school teacher Heckel Casey knows how civilization collapsed in this post-apocalyptic world. And he knows who is responsible for the evil that has nearly decimated humanity. His journey across the country slowly reveals that there is a power growing inside of him that is strong enough to confront the evil and eliminate it. 

Sometimes the world needs a savior...

Encountering attacks from hellish snakes, demonic bikers, violent tempests, not to mention self-doubt, deception and betrayal, Heckel must overcome these ‘bumps’ in the road to lead his companions to the ultimate battle to save humanity.

This world needs Heckel Casey.

The Devil's Trinity
A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.

CIA agent, Remo Francesini has deep concerns when he talks to a man dying of radiation sickness in the naval hospital at Guantanamo. He is under pressure from his boss, Admiral Starling, and knows the American public rely on people like him to keep them safe. But those concerns and worried deepen when he learns about Harry Marsham, an underwater oceanographer who survives when his yacht is rammed by a freighter in the dead of night, on a becalmed sea. Unwittingly, the two men are drawn into a battle to expose the world famous explorer, Hakeem Khan and his plan to attack the soft underbelly of America. The result would devastate the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States. The two men are sucked into a world of kidnap, Caribbean voodoo, nuclear weapons and the very real threat of apocalyptic proportions.

The Horrifying Tale of Mrs. Trollope
Since time immemorial, Mrs. Trollope has been seeking vengeance. And with the knocking at her door, on this, the Night of Dread, it appears the fateful day has finally come.

We join Jack and Clara Gallagher on the
Night of Dread--when a full moon and Friday the thirteenth join
forces--and their car has broken down. They seek help at a nearby house,
and due to some rather bizarre circumstances, find themselves Mrs.
Trollope's guests for the night. The next day they awaken to find
themselves trapped in a house of untold horrors. They escape, of
course--but not before Clara's been infected. An infection that--if
permitted to run its course--will make of Clara a walking dead. The
cure?--A wooden stake driven through Mrs. Trollope's heart. A daunting
task made no easier by the fact that Mrs. Trollope--a vampire as cunning
as they come--will not rest until her vengeance toward Clara's father has
been satisfied. Not only does she want Clara for herself, but she wants
Clara's sister as well. The game of cat and mouse that follows--from the
wilds of the New England countryside, to the jungles of New York
City--will have you wondering more often than not: who is the cat and who
is the mouse?


She Cried Wolf
Irene Carlotti's stalker swore he'd make her his alone. She never doubted his threat. She changed her name and moved from New York to San Francisco to become a reclusive bestselling author. Haunted by her past, she saw her stalker in every shadow, every window, in every pair of blue eyes. She cried wolf so often, the police now ignore her. When she finally saw the man who promised to never forget her, no one will listen to her. No one, but Rio DeJesus,former FBI agent turned Victorian restorer. As he works on Irene's old home, he's listening and believing .

Prime Candidate
Elliot Delaney has reached a point in his life when he feels there is nothing left to live for. Then a mysterious phone call leads him into a dangerous web of intrigue that threatens disaster for the whole world. But can he prevent it, as he battles a deadly enemy?

A Harbinger's Tale
He is the Bringer of the Apocalypse. Chosen by God to bring about the End of Days. He asks himself, “Is he evil or just a guy with a bad job?” Everyone has a story. This one is his. 
As a gift, God presented him with the seals of the Apocalypse. Not wanting to displease God, he accepted them. 
After breaking the first Seal, accidentally, he is thrust into a crumbling world where his constant companions are his dead friends, Mother Earth, and Abaddon the Destroyer. 
Mother Earth spins an emotional tale of her cosmic origins, as well as her devastating crisis after the loss of her child Luna.
It has a first person perspective and multi-focal story line that leads to mankind’s apocalyptic revelation, and ultimately its evolutionary redemption. 
Straight from the pages of Revelation this is a fast paced, disaster happening, mind blowing, ghost talking, zombie having, revelation following, demon spawning roller coaster ride. 

Family History
A locked house and a strangled woman.
Town gossips say the sister did it.


Crystal Sands Marshall is furious. The local historical society has chosen another family as the subject for a book on the town's beginnings. Crystal hires her own writer and then sets off to collect the necessary family records from her eccentric sister, Iris.
When Iris, who has not left the house since their mother's death five years ago, fails to answer the door, Crystal breaks in. She finds Iris unconscious on the kitchen floor. Fearing her sister has attempted suicide, Crystal delays the sheriff's investigation until she can search the house and dispose of anything that might set local tongues wagging. She discovers Iris's diaries and learns her mother committed murder to protect the family name. As increasingly horrible secrets are revealed, Crystal is faced with the same choice: public ruin or murder. Is this a case of like mother, like daughter?

Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)
In the space of a breath, what he thought was his life...shattered. 

Grant Borrows has been Shifted- in the silence between heartbeats, his whole life fundamentally altered. There's another man in the world wearing his face and living his life. What's more, the man staring back from his mirror is a stranger.

But the changes don't stop at skin-level. Inexplicably, he's able to affect objects around him by simply thinking about them. And as he soon learns, he's become the central figure in a vast web of intrigue that stretches from an underground global conspiracy to a prophecy dating back over seven thousand years. Enemies and allies find him at every turn, but one thing they learn all too soon is that you don't want to push Grant Borrows too far...

Can destiny be undone?

The players are ready. 
The game is in motion. 
And the pace is: Relentless.
(The Dominion Trilogy Book 1)

Aries Fire (Sign of the Times)

The Roman Empire. 415 AD. Renowned scholar Hypatia of Alexandria is brutally murdered. Why? And by whom? Hypatia’s death leaves her 17 year old bastard daughter, Seira, fleeing for her life. Alone and homeless, Seira is thrust into a life of struggle and survival amidst the rise of the Catholic Papacy and the savage Roman battles with The Huns. Two men—the sea captain Alexander and the great Khan, Attila-- vie for Seira’s love as she searches for her mother’s murderer and father’s identity. Her epic journey across Europe and the Middle East throws Seira onto a never-ending precipice of conspiracy, war, passion, mysticism, initiation, and self discovery. What Seira ultimately discovers can destroy an empire and change the tides of history.

An Eye For An Eye

IF SOMEONE HURTS YOU, YOU WANT RETRIBUTION.
BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE KILLS THE PERSON YOU LOVE, WOULD YOU...?

After witnessing his mother’s death at the hands of her lover, and then his father’s imprisonment for murder in the name of ‘An Eye for An Eye’, Billy’s life is shattered. His makes a new home with his Aunt and Uncle, but this is jeopardised when he learns of his father’s suicide. He goes off the rails and attempts to take his own life, only to be saved and given a chance to start over again. Later having found love, his wife’s affair leaves him devastated, and forces him to look again for happiness.. But after a succession of disasters and heartbreak, Billy flips and seeks revenge in his father’s manner.

A Good Time To Die

The time is the present. At Cambridge University Hospital a battle is being fought. A battle that is fought daily at hospitals throughout the country. The battle lines are drawn over the question of cost.

In these days of ever tightening budgets and HMO encroachment, hospitals need to act more and more like every other business. If they plan to survive in the long run, they need to control expenses. Unfortunately, providing health care can be quite expensive, and if a patient does not have insurance or is unable to pay, the hospital has no choice but to sustain a loss. No legal choice, that is.

At Cambridge University Hospital Dr. Randy Hill (a physician administrator) has devised an economic plan that includes the elimination of certain costly patients. These are usually elderly, chronically ill patients for whom a slightly premature demise would not be suspicious. But when Michael Santucci unexpectedly passes away, the sparks begin to fly.

Michael Santucci was no ordinary patient. He was a clandestine informer in a major drug smuggling case. Unbeknownst to Dr. Hill, he was also not ill. The DEA, with the grudging help of Dr. Rick Embry, was hiding their star witness in plain view. A plan that was supposed to confound a vengeful Mafia.

Mr. Santucci’s mysterious death leads to a desperate search for his killer (or was it a natural death?) as well as for the massive cocaine shipment, details of which Santucci had not yet disclosed.

The search leads to peril for Dr. Hill, as well as unexpected romance. Both build to a crescendo as plot twists converge towards a gripping final battle fought within the hospital.

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