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Who’s Killing All My Old Girlfriends: (Old Guys Murder Mystery #1)

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Being old ain’t easy, but it’s a lot more fun when chasing down a killer.

Meet Charlie North, retired columnist, now blogger. With one of his blogs, he springboards to be the top suspect of cops from LA, Chicago and Miami for the murders of his three former girlfriends.

Cornered, Charlie investigates the first murder. He hires a private detective, Reggie Parker, the daughter of a retired LAPD friend. As they dig up clues, Charlie dutifully reports their findings in his blogs.

The blogs go wildly viral, shaking up the investigations of all three murders.

Charlie thinks he has the answers to the killings, and in a blog he fingers prime candidates for each murder. He promises in his next blog to provide go-to-prison proof of who did all three murders.

There’s a rousing finish at a lonely Oregon beach house where everything becomes clear, justice prevails in strange ways, and there’s at least one surprise where you smack the side of your head saying, ‘who knew?’

This is a fast read. Old guys like things fast.

PRAISE FOR WHO’S KILLING ALL MY OLD GIRLFRIENDS

***** “One of the few books I have ever read that I finished in a day and a half.”
***** “An easy to read novel that keeps you flipping the pages.”
***** “This reader for one, could not stop reading.”

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The Fading Line: A Crime Novella

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From The Author Of The Alex Hollick Series, A Thrilling Novella Riddled With Crime, Corruption, and Deceit!

On the broken streets of Brooklyn, Detective Roman Gallus does his part to keep the peace during New York’s darkest decade…the 1970’s, but when bureaucracy stands in the way of his investigation of a local priest, he takes matters into his own hands. Impressed by his initiative, his captain, Jack McCloskey brings Roman into a ring of dirty cops and an underworld of police corruption.

The Fading Line makes for a perfect afternoon read. With a dynamic plot, strong characters, and a vivid setting, the back alleys of New York come alive with elevating action to the very last page!

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The Bloodbath Ritual: An American Thriller (The Alex Hollick FBI Series Book 1)

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The Bloodbath Ritual begins a thriller series like nothing else in its genre!

The Alex Hollick FBI Series takes readers into an underworld of secretive government agendas and a troubled young agent caught between love, morality, and survival. This exciting, gripping, and original thriller series combines murder mystery, saga, romance, and conspiracy thriller into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric story.

What readers are saying about The Alex Hollick FBI Series!

“Refreshingly original.”

“A great story, will keep you glued to your kindle for hours.”

“Smooth but gritty, intellectual and sexy…great read.”

“The story was intense and gripping and the character development was amazing.”

“Brings something new and fresh to the table.”

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Alex Hollick is a clean-cut robbery division agent in Los Angeles, paying his dues, putting in his time, but his steady climb up the FBI ladder is about to take a major detour. Half of his team is killed in an unauthorized sting operation. The situation worsens when Hollick learns of the internal corruption that helped shape the deadly event.

At the order of his trusted mentor, John Novak, Hollick travels to Virginia, unknowingly as a suspect. A CIA torture team lies in wait, planning to kidnap Hollick and squeeze the truth out of him. After a torturous, drug-induced series of mind games, Hollick is released to Jordan Clay; head of a clandestine group burrowed deep within the FBI. His orders are simple – Bury the truth about the SOCAL robberies…

But things become more complicated from the moment the cover-up begins. Blood spills in all directions as Hollick and Novak attempt to hide the truth. Arson leads to a cop killing in the Mojave Desert. An ambitious Internal Affairs Agent is on to the corruption, and two-million dollars in missing robbery money sits in the lap of a beautiful, but troubled young widow.

As the danger escalates, Hollick concocts a seemingly perfect plan to protect the woman of his dreams, Agent Jennifer Fletcher.

Back in Washington, Clay has big plans for Hollick. A career in homicide waits, investigating religious crime at the height of the Satanic Panic of the 1980’s. Feeling confident that his plan has worked, Hollick begins his first case, The Halloween Murders – A double-homicide marked by a satanic signature. Hollick soon realizes that his prime suspect is a scared eyewitness and that the true killers are sabotaging his investigation.

While Hollick struggles to close in on the killers, John Novak has made some plans of his own, to find and destroy the one piece of evidence keeping Jennifer Fletcher alive.

The Complete Series Now Available!

BOOK ONE: THE BLOODBATH RITUAL
BOOK TWO: ROTTEN WAS THE HARVEST
BOOK THREE: AS EMPIRES FALL
BOOK FOUR: MALICE AND MACABRE
BOOK FIVE: THE FINAL EMBRACE

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Grave Passion (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 12)

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Two young lovers out for a night of romance. A short cut through a cemetery. They witness a murder, but there has been no struggle, only a knife to the heart.

It has all the hallmarks of an assassination, but who is the woman?

And why was she alongside a grave at night? Did she know the person who killed her?

Soon after, other deaths, seemingly unconnected, but tied to the family of one of the young lovers.

It’s a case for Detective Chief Inspector Cook and his team, and they’re baffled on this one.

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Grave Passion (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 12)

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Two young lovers out for a night of romance. A short cut through a cemetery. They witness a murder, but there has been no struggle, only a knife to the heart.

It has all the hallmarks of an assassination, but who is the woman?

And why was she alongside a grave at night? Did she know the person who killed her?

Soon after, other deaths, seemingly unconnected, but tied to the family of one of the young lovers.

It’s a case for Detective Chief Inspector Cook and his team, and they’re baffled on this one.

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Murder has no Guilt (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 9)

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A mass shooting. An amoral Romanian gangster. A Russian oligarch who claims to be an honest businessman, but isn’t.

No one knows who was the target or why, but there are eight dead. The men seem the most likely, or could have it been one of the two women, the attractive Gillian Dickenson, or even the celebrity-obsessed Sal Maynard?

There’s a gang war brewing, and if there are deaths, they don’t care as long as it’s not one of them. But to Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, it’s his area of London, and he needs to find out who killed the eight.

It’s unpredictable, and initially, it had been the West Indian gangs that had held sway in the area. But then, a more vicious Romanian gangster had usurped them. And now he’s being marginalised by the Russians. And their leader is the head of the most vicious Russian mafia organisation, and he’s got residency in England, as well as money and influence, the ear of those in power.

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Murder has no Guilt (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 9)

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A mass shooting. An amoral Romanian gangster. A Russian oligarch who claims to be an honest businessman, but isn’t.

No one knows who was the target or why, but there are eight dead. The men seem the most likely, or could have it been one of the two women, the attractive Gillian Dickenson, or even the celebrity-obsessed Sal Maynard?

There’s a gang war brewing, and if there are deaths, they don’t care as long as it’s not one of them. But to Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, it’s his area of London, and he needs to find out who killed the eight.

It’s unpredictable, and initially, it had been the West Indian gangs that had held sway in the area. But then, a more vicious Romanian gangster had usurped them. And now he’s being marginalised by the Russians. And their leader is the head of the most vicious Russian mafia organisation, and he’s got residency in England, as well as money and influence, the ear of those in power.

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Fall of the Cities: Planting the Orchard

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The world is falling apart. Terrorists spark a worldwide oil and gas crisis while imports grind to a halt. Europe and Britain are erupting into chaos as food runs out and desperate people take matters into their own hands.

As the government begins to seal off rioting parts of the city, Corporal Harry Miller takes an offered discharge to get his sister and her kids to safety. But he’s not fast enough. Trapped in the city with a rag-tag collection of ordinary citizens, Harry struggles to create a small pocket of stability – a place to ride out the coming confrontation between rioters and the Army, and save themselves from complete annihilation.

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Hide From the Light: A Short Horror Story (Tirzah M.M. Hawkins Horror Stories)

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When is it government overreach, and when is it something more sinister? Palaha is willing to go along with forced confessions and mandated antibiotics, but her husband Maksim is critical of the government interference. When their little girl begins to have visions, the family realizes that resistance may be futile.

Hide From the Light is a 5,000-word short story set in modern-day Belarus during Maslenitsa. It contains elements from multiple fun horror genres such as psychological, supernatural, folk, and religious.

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Dirty Deeds 4 by Armand Rosamilia

Dirty Deeds 4 by Armand Rosamilia

The Big Easy. The Crescent City. Birthplace of Jazz. Mardi Gras City. NOLA. New Orleans.

Even in a fun place like this I find myself being chased, shot at, coerced and abused by the FBI, organized crime and Reggie Keane, who used to spend his days trying to arrest me.

Did I also mention a serial killer is in the mix as well?

One of these days I’m going to spend time in a city and enjoy the tourist sites.

The fourth book in the crime thriller series from author Armand Rosamilia

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The Body in the Ditch (A DI Tremayne Thriller Book 8)

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A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman.

The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody’s not following his dictate.

The second death, an old woman, seems unrelated to the first, but is it? Is it part of the tangled web that connects the farm to the village?

The village, Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Clare Yarwood find out soon enough, is anything but charming and picturesque. It’s a hotbed of intrigue and wrongdoing, and what of the farm and those who live there. None of them can be ruled out, not yet.

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The Canal: A Suspenseful Thriller

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When Bobby Parrish discovers severed body parts in the local canal, so begins a tangled web of events tethered to the darkest secrets of Lorendale—a town accustomed to delinquency, but unprepared for the truths to be pulled kicking and screaming into the light. The evidence points to only one suspect, a man whose questionable involvement in another suspicious death continues to haunt the community one decade later, yet whose exoneration and attempts to rebuild his life since have not spared him from persecution. In the middle of all of this are a newly promoted police chief, her erstwhile former partner, and a county judge trying to drive a wedge to the rhythm of his own agenda, as the canal flows, concealing as much as revealing what lies beneath.

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Serenity by Craig Hart


About Featured Book: Serenity by Craig Hart

Shelby Alexander just wanted a cup of morning coffee.
Not a badly injured girl curled up by his barn, freezing in the winter chill.

When Shelby moved back to his small hometown of Serenity after retiring from boxing, he was looking for a little peace and quiet. He was getting too old for all the high-octane nonsense of his prior life.

Right?

But when a bullet slams into the wall just past his head, and a drug dealer offers him $10,000 for information regarding his dead sister … well, he can’t very well say “no.”

Or can he?

But if the local sheriff has anything to say about it, Shelby will be spending a lot his retirement in jail.
Ah, well … it’s just another day in the small town of Serenity.

Over 400,000 readers have thrilled to Shelby Alexander’s escapades. Read book one and join them!

This Thriller book is available in these Formats: eBook, print, audiobook

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Burial Mound (A DI Tremayne Thriller Book 7)

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A Bronze-Age burial mound close to Stonehenge, an archaeological excavation. What they were looking for was an ancient body, historical artefacts. When they found a modern-day body, it was then that the police became interested.

It’s another case for Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Yarwood. The more recent of the two bodies, the brother of the mayor of Salisbury.

The person responsible keeps leading back to the brother, the upright and serious-minded Clive Grantley. Tremayne’s sure that it’s him, but Clare Yarwood’s not so sure.

But is her belief based on evidence or personal hope?

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Murder is only a Number (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 3)

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Before she left she carved a number in blood on his chest. But why the number 2, if this was her first murder?

A woman stalks London. She kills at will. Her targets are men who have wronged her, or have they?

What is behind her hatred and why is she keeping count?

DCI Cook and his team know who she is, at least after she has killed the first four, but the woman disappears in plain sight. The pressure’s on to stop her, but she’s always one step ahead.

And this time, DCS Goddard can’t protect his protégé, Isaac Cook, from the wrath of the new commissioner at the Met.

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Murder is only a Number (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 3)

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Before she left she carved a number in blood on his chest. But why the number 2, if this was her first murder?

A woman stalks London. She kills at will. Her targets are men who have wronged her, or have they?

What is behind her hatred and why is she keeping count?

DCI Cook and his team know who she is, at least after she has killed the first four, but the woman disappears in plain sight. The pressure’s on to stop her, but she’s always one step ahead.

And this time, DCS Goddard can’t protect his protégé, Isaac Cook, from the wrath of the new commissioner at the Met.

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Burial Mound (A DI Tremayne Thriller Book 7)

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A Bronze-Age burial mound close to Stonehenge, an archaeological excavation. What they were looking for was an ancient body, historical artefacts. When they found a modern-day body, it was then that the police became interested.

It’s another case for Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Yarwood. The more recent of the two bodies, the brother of the mayor of Salisbury.

The person responsible keeps leading back to the brother, the upright and serious-minded Clive Grantley. Tremayne’s sure that it’s him, but Clare Yarwood’s not so sure.

But is her belief based on evidence or personal hope?

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Fear Has a Name: A Pulse-Pounding Contemporary Christian Thriller (The Crittendon Files Book 1)

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A Haunting Name From the Past . . .
Granger Meade was mentally scarred as a boy by his religious zealot parents. He was bullied at school for his quiet, oafish appearance, which naturally made him a loner and outcast.

But one girl treated him differently—Pamela Wagner. Pam talked to Granger, took an interest, listened, made him feel like a human being. She cared when no one else did, and Granger loved her for it; and still does 20 years later.

So Granger goes back to their Ohio town. Back to Pamela. But she is happily married to reporter Jack Crittendon, who’s embroiled in a time-sensitive story about a pastor who’s disappeared and left a suicide note; a case swirling with suspicion and talk of scandal.

With tension on every page, Amazon #1 Best-Selling author Creston Mapes demonstrates why he is a “Top Pick” among mystery, fiction and thriller lovers.

Fans of DiAnn Mills, Terri Blackstock, Susan Sleeman, Alton Gansky, Karen Kingsbury, and Robin Patchen will love this thriller from award-winning and bestselling author Creston Mapes.

Reader praise for Fear Has a Name

★★★★★ Gripping Suspense, Edge of Your Seat Reading. Fear Has a Name is a gripping Christian suspense novel that gives you everything you want from cover to cover. You will be on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen next. The best thing about this novel from a Christian readers perspective is the way that faith, mercy and forgiveness are woven seamlessly throughout the book . . . A very good read for anyone who likes Christian Suspense and drama. Once you start reading you won’t be able to stop until it’s done.

★★★★★ First time I have read a Christian suspense novel . . . I’m hooked. Honestly not sure how I stumbled on to this book but have found a new genre. I have read a lot of suspense and crime novels and didn’t know there were Christian suspense novels until this one! Creston Mapes is an incredible author. Powerful storytelling with believable characters and plenty of suspense.

★★★★★ Fast-Paced Christian Thriller. Two intriguing storylines converge in the end . . . I read late into the night, and after I went to sleep, I had a nightmare about being kidnapped like Pamela. I woke up and had to finish the book before I went back to sleep.

★★★★★ This is an excellent and gripping Christian Fiction thriller that will keep you glued to the pages until the very end. Or, if you are like me, it will keep you up all night because you can’t walk away from it. The story line is enticing and action packed.

★★★★★ Highly Recommend. This was a great read! I enjoy clean suspense. The plot was well laid out. The Christian themes were strong. This book is a ministry, and it was nice to see such a strong statement of faith presented in a story that was full of real life hurt, pain, and imperfection.

★★★★★ Creston Mapes has a new series called “The Crittendon Files” that promises to be his best writing yet . . . We aren’t supposed to make a personal connection and actually feel empathy with the bad guy in a book, right? But Granger is, in my opinion, one of the best written antagonists I have ever read. And the final paragraph in this book really hit home for me. I mean…it was a jaw dropping wow moment that I haven’t had since Ted Dekker’s “Heaven” series . . . If you only buy one book this year, make sure you buy this one . . . It’s that good.

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Accidental Exposure: Where is Andy?

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A gripping thriller about losing family, fighting injury, and murder.
The calm Sydney morning is shattered as the Crown family’s car smashes into another. Andy was in the backseat before the terrible accident; now the child is missing. What will become of them when the truth is accidentally exposed?
Daniel Norrish is a disability support worker, and this novel includes a child blinded by immense pressure to the optic nerve. If you have any interest in disability care, this might be the book for you.

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Murder in Little Venice (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 4)

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A dismembered corpse floats in a canal in London. Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it’s there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more?

Whatever the reason, it’s clearly a warning, and Isaac and his team are sure it’s not the last body that they’ll have to deal with.

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