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About Duality:

Two sides of the same coin. Completely alike. Completely different.

What started out as a normal art restoration project for Melinda Martin soon took on a life of its own. Could this unusual painting actually be a Botticelli masterpiece thought to have perished as part of Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities? Had Melinda’s friend, Lana, a well-known art picker inadvertently acquired stolen art; art that might have ties to the occult and worth millions? Did a bad business decision endanger everyone who touched this potential treasure?

When the painting disappears and both women are found dead, the police think it’s an open and shut case. The husband – it’s always the husband. He had means, motive, and opportunity, and acted strangely cold after the fact.

Is it a case of mistaken identity? Does a secret relationship put Mr. Martin in the crosshairs of an assassin sent to retrieve the painting? Or is he really a sociopath forger with mysterious ties to the Vatican?

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The Zero Tolerance Game by Nathan Gottlieb

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About The Zero Tolerance Game by Nathan Gottlieb:

The odd couple of private investigators is back!

Frank Boff, the legendary DEA agent turned rogue P.I., teams up again with the volatile Emily Lynch, a six foot, alpha-female detective on suspension from the NYPD because of a drinking problem.

On a perfect summer day where seemingly nothing could go wrong, everything does. Boff walks his client to his car and is heading to retrieve his own vehicle, when he hears a tremendous explosion behind him. He looks back and is shocked to see his client’s car engulfed in flames.

Boff’s shock turns to anger as he realizes if he had been closer to the vehicle, he’d be dead now. He knows in an instant that whoever did this is going to pay. Big time.

When Boff gets home, he receives a phone call from an old high school buddy who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison for life at the age of seventeen.

Twenty-nine years later, his friend’s conviction has been overturned, and he’s being released with only one thought in mind: hire Boff to help find the real killer and punish him.

Faced with two murder cases, Boff needs a partner. With reluctance he turns to the combustible Lynch, who after her latest bout of binge drinking, finds herself homeless and sleeping in subways and shelters.

Inevitably, sparks fly between them as they struggle to solve two cases involving warring snipers on New York City rooftops, the world’s most ruthless drug cartel, corrupt federal agents, and caffeinated mobsters who’ll stop at nothing to get what they want.

In this second installment of the Boff-Lynch team, nothing is as it appears to be, and the truth is buried beneath layers of lies and deceit.

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Granny’s Revenge

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After losing her family, her friends, her home and everything else she holds dear to a careless drunk driver; Granny decides to take the law into her own hands; a record-breaking, mind-baffling killing spree that the small southern town won’t soon forget.

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The Memory Trap by Greg Koren

About The Memory Trap by Greg Koren

HERE’S THE PROBLEM
Henry Dunne is about to be suspended from his new middle school for something he didn’t do, and the principal’s old but beloved car is about to disappear for the last time.

HERE’S THE DEAL
Henry and the principal agree to help each other, but these unlikely friends don’t realize the deck has been stacked against them, and time is running out.

HERE’S THE THING
Henry must confront his fears and figure out whom to trust before the sinister force making their lives miserable steps from the shadows to deal the final, crushing blow.

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Greg Koren (Do Over, 2016) has written a novel for middle school-grade readers that Kirkus Reviews calls “thoughtful and perceptive, with offbeat humor, twisty puzzles, and exciting action.” The Memory Trap isn’t just for young readers, though. It’s for anybody seeking a smart mystery that celebrates family, forgiveness, and living mindfully.

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Escape to Osprey Cove

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The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette. It will forever change his and Catherine’s life. Doug’s mysterious behavior after the find forces Catherine to seek escape at The Osprey Cove Lodge. What she finds at the lodge turns out to be far more valuable than Doug’s find. Follow the suspense, mystery, and romance of Book 1 of The Osprey Cove Lodge Series.
Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The setting for The Osprey Cove Lodge was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The description of the lodge is so beautiful and inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there.

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A Predator and A Psychopath: A Dark and Twisted Psychological Thriller by jay kerk

A Predator and A Psychopath: A Dark and Twisted Psychological Thriller by jay kerk

“The plot is graphic and unapologetic….a novel for those who really have the stomach,” Readers’ Favorite.

After Jason is committed to a mental institution, he begins to uncover things he never knew before or things his mind shut out to protect him. Under the care of the facility’s doctors, he finds himself questioning what’s real and what’s not. What is the truth? What happened to him? Is his mind playing tricks on him?

Wait a minute, what happened to his wife, Lisa? Where is Lea? Why can’t he remember what happened?

Meanwhile, Jerry is dangerous and unpredictable. He envisions a world where boundaries are broken down and he is free to enforce his narcissistic belief that he has a divine mission. Technology allows him the freedom to use his position of trust to play with people’s lives.

An explosive ending that is anything but expected, forgive yourself for shuddering throughout and after you close the book

Drawing inspiration from real cases, and with well-researched, realistic characters, A Predator and A Psychopath is not for the soft-hearted.

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War Boat by Thomas Hollyday

About War Boat by Thomas Hollyday

Don’t miss this thriller! Back in 1941, Nazi U-Boats infiltrated the Chesapeake Bay. Local lives were lost defending their town of River Sunday – but was a traitor involved? Now, grandson John Thornton risks his life to uncover the secret Nazi plan that could have changed America forever.

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Zodiac The Killer Cop

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Far more vicious than any predator in the wild, he stood in the open amidst his pool of potential victims, his cunning eyes looking, searching for his prize, what – not who – he considered his next victim.
Serial killers were, are, and always will be what is inherently programmed in their DNA. For a while, that genetic predisposition to kill may lay dormant or be masked by some socially acceptable or even commendable profession – a teacher, lawyer, cop, mailman, etc. – but, ultimately, it’s the desire to kill that prevails.
Unlike the Hollywoodian stereotypical figure of a desperately awkward sociopath lurking in the shadows, most serial killers are on the surface as ordinary as you and me. They work, socialize, and live their lives in a mundane, traditional manner. However, what is not normal in them is their desire to cause pain, enjoy torturing, disfiguring, and eventually murdering their victims. They are sly, lethal animals who will rule deadly tumult upon anybody unfortunate enough to cross their paths, and they do it unnoticed. They are the hunters in our midst, murdering without regret, compassion, or blame. They are the monsters we are cautioned about as children, and they are out there ready to pounce.
The Zodiac Killer was one such monster. Undetected, sometimes protected, but ultimately undiscovered by the law… until now.

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Her Daughter’s Empty Casket

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What is a distraught mother and wife to do when she suspects her husband may have something to do with the disappearance and potential murder of their child?

This story focuses on the disappearance of Niesha Turner, a ten-year-old girl who has been missing for almost a year now, kidnapped in Chicago while with her father at a convenience store. For nearly twelve painfully long months, Niesha’s mother Kanesha Turner has stood silent as the Chicago Police Department botches the investigation.

Unable to take it anymore, Kanesha embarks on her own journey to find out what happened to her missing daughter. After a near-death experience, Kanesha is sure her daughter is visiting her in her dreams and giving Kanesha clues to find her daughter’s abductor. During Kanesha’s investigation, she realizes her husband may have something to do with their daughter’s disappearance and that he’s hiding something. Will Kanesha find her daughter alive or is it already too late? Open the book, and find out inside.

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Stripper – A Natalie McMasters Novel by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

Stripper – A Natalie McMasters Novel by Thomas A. Burns, Jr.

Natalie McMasters is twenty, short and blonde (OK, it’s bleached!), way cute, and a pre-law student at State. She’s also straight, or at least she thinks so. To put herself through school, she’s moonlighting as a private detective trainee at her uncle Amos Murdoch’s 3M Detective Agency, where the most exciting thing she does is sit in a car. After she directly confronts a subject on a stakeout, Amos fires her for taking too many chances. Then she meets another student who bears an uncanny resemblance to her, and everything in her life changes.
When her new best friend is brutally murdered and Amos is critically injured, Nattie immerses herself in the seamy world of web cams and strip clubs to hunt the killer. Her investigation forces her to reassess many of the ideas that she’s lived by her whole life and do things she’s never considered before – strip on a stage, question her sexuality, and rediscover the meaning of love itself.
Nattie eventually exposes a drug ring, police corruption, and an assassin-for-hire online. Then she stumbles upon the true face of evil, and her encounter does not leave her unscathed…

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First Edition Murder by Tessa Kelly

About First Edition Murder by Tessa Kelly:

A summer wedding ends with a bang of the gruesome kind. Caterer Sandie James must turn amateur detective to save her dad from prison.

For Sandie James, fresh out of graduate school with a degree in Literature, employers aren’t exactly lining up. To make ends meet, she works at her sister’s bakery in their cozy little corner of uptown Brooklyn. When a customer asks her to replace her sick wedding caterer at the last minute, Sandie is glad of the extra cash.

The last thing Sandie expects is her dad, an obsessive book collector, crashing the reception to pick a fight with a guest who outbid him on a rare edition of a Raymond Chandler mystery. She is horrified when that guest turns up dead—and her dad is found standing over the body with the murder weapon.

Sandie is convinced her dad has been set up, but proving it is not easy. She must rely on her own wits, and the enthusiastic help of Marlowe, the family’s Springer Spaniel, to save her dad from prison.

As fear and blame spread through their quiet neighborhood, Sandie races to clear her dad’s name and find the real killer, before the killer finds her.

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Choice Cut

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Jerome Samuels was a famous muralist. Before he switched mediums, he was a tattoo artist—and a damn good one. His untimely death has renewed interest in old rumors and triggered a race to find his ink work. Samuels’s two shiftless sons believe his unique creations contain clues that lead to the proverbial pot of gold. They feel betrayed and would love to break the code allegedly hidden in them and stick it to the old man posthumously. Jonah Bahena, on the other hand, believes the tattoos stand between him and his longstanding political aspirations. He’s got a closet full of skeletons and needs to keep a specific event in his past under wraps. After the two groups begin their searches, locals in Yonkers start dying and The Butcher, a serial killer with a point to make, gets the blame. But, is he really behind the murders? That’s one of the questions Detective Sergeant Hamilcar “Ham” Hitchcock and his general assignment squad needs to answer in this most recent thriller.

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A Date With A Girl With Double Amnesia

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A romantic mixed up mystery about a young woman who can’t stay in her right mind. Found distraught and disoriented on the streets of New York City. A journalist just back from a foreign assignment stumbles upon her and then tries to break through her wall of amnesia to help her. Over time, her mind starts to open up revealing an even larger mystery involving the disappearance of her friend and a family torn apart by the lust for gold. As the story unfolds, he finds himself falling in love with her while being drawn into her world.

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The Watanabe Name by Sakura Nobeyama

About The Watanabe Name by Sakura Nobeyama:

Historical Fiction, Mystery, Japanese Culture, WWII

Japanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the secrets surrounding his father’s murder for many years. When a detective calls in 2002 hoping to solve the case with new information, Kenji takes immediate action to keep the truth from becoming public.

In 1967, Kenji’s father, a former general in the Imperial Japanese Army, had more than his fair share of enemies. When a burglar stole his war sword and left a threatening note, it became clear that someone held a nasty grudge. And when the general was found murdered with Kenji holding the same sword over his dead body, Kenji became the prime suspect.

Kenji learned who killed his father and knew why, but no one was ever arrested. In 2002, the statute of limitations has already run out. No charges can be brought regardless of the new evidence.

Yet, Kenji would rather die than reveal the secret.

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Escape to Osprey Cove

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What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change his life. It will also change Catherine’s. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.

Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in “happily ever after” — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home. Follow the twists and turns of Book 1 of the Osprey Cove Lodge Series. Follow Doug and Catherine’s story to see if there is a “happily ever after” and with whom.

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Finding Jessie

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Christmas In July. Enjoy this standalone Grace deHaviland bounty hunter story now about that special time of year when help can come from the most improbable of places.

It’s Christmas Eve and bounty hunter Grace deHaviland’s got plans. For once in her life, she’s actually not going to spend Christmas alone.

But when a custody case results in a little girl being kidnapped, yuletide festivities will have to wait. As the weather outside turns frightful, Grace gets to work. Yet, even with all hands on-deck, meaning every police agency in the state on the lookout, and her best friend Sheriff’s Deputy Suzie Jensen by her side, it may not be enough.

What Grace needs to find Jessie before time runs out, may just be a Christmas miracle.

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An Uncollected Death

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Broke, friendless, and career in freefall – can a murder get her life back on track? Things appear to be looking up for Charlotte when she is offered a new editing job. Finding her new boss battered and left for dead on her first day, however, was most definitely not in the job description. She turns amateur sleuth in an attempt to continue with her editing assignment but complications set in from the start. The notebooks that she needs are well hidden and the only clues to their whereabouts are extremely cryptic. To add to Charlotte’s problems, she is not the only one with an interest in the notebooks. The town’s criminal element will stop at nothing, up to and including murder, to get their hands on the prize.

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Ten Little Girls by Willow Rose

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Every Mother’s Worst Fear!

Imagine waiting for the school bus, waiting for your daughter to come home, but as the bus stops and the children start to come out, your daughter isn’t there.

Ten girls go missing on the same day in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Ten little girls all from the same elementary school.
Ten abductions that hold the entire town captive – until the letters start to arrive.
Letters with lines from the nursery rhyme Ten Little Indians, directing the parents to their daughters. But will they make it in time to find them alive?

Rebekka Franck’s daughter, Julie, is one of the missing girls and, together with local detective Jack Ryder, she is launched into the most unsettling case of her career. In a heart-pounding race against time, can Rebekka keep one rhyme ahead of the kidnapper before her own daughter fall victim to the savage word games?

Ten Little Girls is a spine-tingling standalone mystery featuring Willow Rose’s iconic characters Rebekka Franck and Jack Ryder. If you like clever heroines, heart-stopping suspense, courageous parents, and a tug on your heartstrings, then you’ll love Willow Rose’s fast-paced Thriller.

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Lightly Falling Snow

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An occult murder. An unsolved mystery. And a writer with too many secrets.

Three years ago, police detectives, Rojhat and Dimitrios, were unable to solve the brutal murder of a headteacher in the the remote wilderness of Cumbria. Laid out as an occult sacrifice, the gruesome details were kept hidden from the public, and the case soon went cold.

Now, by chance, Rojhat has discovered a novel which is seemingly based on the murder, down to the intricate, satanic details of the crime scene. Rojhat and Dimitrios will need to uncover the writer’s secrets before it’s too late. Does the novel point to a possible killer? Or is there something far more insidious at work?

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Streaming Sarah by Joyce Kostakis

About Streaming Sarah by Joyce Kostakis

Ghost Whisperer meets Dead Files meets Fringe, Streaming Sarah is a rare fusion of detective mystery and the spirit world.

Dying was the break she needed…

Or so she thought. Homicide Detective Katie Hanson always prided herself on being an advocate for the dead. When she returns home from the hospital after a near-death experience, the door to the spirit world remains open … wide open. Now the murder victims of her police department’s cold cases are haunting her, beginning with Sarah Alexander and her two children. It turns out that Katie’s near-death experience has added a new skill to her crime-solving abilities… she can stream the dead. It is more than just channeling murder victim Sarah Alexander’s account of her horrific murder and the murder of her two children, much more. Katie learns to stream Sarah’s consciousness, her memories, her very soul.

Katie realizes that a dead person’s memory of the events can be as flawed as the living’s: Sarah’s testimony does not back up the evidence. Katie’s gut instinct is to believe Sarah, but the evidence doesn’t support the assertion. It made matters worse. Now she has two suspects. Will Sarah help Katie bring the killer to justice, or will they drag in an innocent man?

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