Mystery / Suspense

IN VELVET

The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management, and Rachel, a bear biologist, is discovering some very startling animal behavior — grizzlies denning in June, swans at their wintering grounds in summer, and what appear to be Irish Elk, an extinct species, with huge palmated antlers. There are also horrific mutations in the young — elk calves with no front legs, earless bear cubs, and eaglets without wings. What has gone wrong? Why is this area closed?

The Mithras Conspiracy

When Commissario Marco Leone of Rome's police discovers the murdered corpse of a Vatican scholar floating in the Tiber, he postpones a sabbatical trip abroad to investigate. The murder is only the first in a puzzling series of costumed and ritual assassinations. The mystery intensifies with attacks on specific chruches in the Eternal City....all built ovver the ruined chapels of an ancient god, Mithras. The investigative twists lead Leone to two American archaeologists excavating the Villa of the Papyri.

Love In the Shadows

“LOVE In the Shadows,” the final book of the Passaic River Trilogy, takes the reader from 1947 Newark through the dark shadows where mindless brutes of all classes preyed on the helpless. Women were fighting back and for the first-time muscular feminism was changing the world with Rosie the Riveter pumping her biceps on posters from coast-to-coast. Men were no longer the only ones using their fists. Four battered women panic the city’s elite when they enlist a mafia gangster to help exact vengeance on powerful men who escaped punishment despite years of brutal behavior.

Written in Stone

“What happens at Grandma’s house, stays at Grandma’s house.” The problem is A. J. (Alison Jane) Cadell can’t remember Grandma or her house. Dreaming of becoming a best-selling romance novelist, Alison is invited to Cedar Grove, British Columbia to be a Writer-in-Residence and reside at Thistlewood Manor for a month. When a resident of the manor is found dead, Alison is drawn into a mystery involving a grandmother she doesn’t remember, a father she thought was long dead, and a handsome firefighter who could be the link to solving the mystery. Will someone be after her next?

"He Wouldn't Let Me Die!"

Young girl sexually abused by biological father.She faces a near-death experience by biological mother and older cousin.She endures bullying and abuse by family members, friends, and classmates.Her trauma begins to impact her life substantially which causes a downward spiral in her growth process and it leads her to have encounters with the legal system.She decides to leave her birth place and join the United States Army where her journey of more trauma but healing begins.Does she defy the odds or doesn't she?

The Narcissist

When famous actress Vanessa Forsyth is found dead in her dressing room, with a bullet hole in her head and a gun on the floor, everyone assumes she has taken her own life. It is only a matter of time, however, before DI Ronnie Twist and her sergeant, Luke Carter, discover that the film star was murdered.

Novembers

It is a cold November and a savage murder has been committed in an affluent Toronto neighbourhood. The brutality of the murder borders on sadistic, and the severe lack of evidence appear to indicate the perfect crime. This is something Sgt. Detective Aristotle Boyle will never accept, driving him to obsession, calling on all his hardened experience to lead his team in investigating this intricately planned homicide.

Damaging Secrets

After experiencing a personal tragedy, Detective Rachel Ryder packs up and leaves Chicago for small town Georgia. She soon finds out that like the big city, small towns have big crimes. Breaking into the good ol' boy network isn't as easy as she thought. The chief and mayor would rather hide crimes than solve them, but that doesn't work for Rachel. When a city councilman is found dead, it's tagged a suicide, but Rachel knows better. Determined to find a killer her entire department, including her partner, don't think exists, What Rachel finds is more than a murder.

The Empty Kayak

For Detective Ebony Jones, crime is always personal. But this time, it strikes too close to home. A pop-up thunderstorm marched its way across the Hudson River, ambushing a young couple’s kayaking trip. The woman miraculously made it back to shore, but her fiancé remains missing. Ebony and her partner are the first responders who rush to the river to assist in rescuing the capsized boater. The victim’s identity shocks Ebony to the core. Kyle Emory, the ex-boyfriend of her estranged best friend, attorney Jessie Martin, is the man who never made it out of the water.

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