Dog Thriller

Curiosity draws me back to the wooded retreat when random items and a camper goes missing. But a dead body means I’m staying. My return to sister camp, River Rock, was to help locate Wesley. But when his body is found lifeless, my gut tells me there’s more linking these wooded retreats than pine trees. Detective Harper warns me away, but unresolved history pulls us into a fragile alliance to find the truth. As whispers of the murder burn through the camp like wildfire, Leah, with her violent past, suddenly reappears and Dana’s sinister facade becomes more suspect. Adding another layer...

Three ways that Ella's life is totally messed up: Her new coworker is as cranky as he is attractive. A mischievous cat has decided she needs a familiar. She just found out she's a witch who can read the emotional hologram of a magical death (and isn't that a mouthful).

Lieutenant Sam Myerson’s latest mission goes horribly wrong. His SEAL team is betrayed, and he's kidnapped...but the problem doesn’t end there—it stretches all the way to the secret witness protection town of Sanctuary…and Sam’s wife. Beth Myerson is on a mission of her own since her parents were assassinated. Nothing feels right, and it doesn’t get better when Sam shows up determined to protect her and their unborn son. Someone has discovered her location, and they won’t stop until they get their hands on what Beth is hiding. When the real reason Beth was sent to Sanctuary is...

Adam Streeter has covered international crises from Siberia to Cambodia. When disaster strikes, he grabs his battered typewriter and hops on a plane, hurling himself into danger wherever the story demands. He is brave, talented, and internationally renowned - so why would he turn a pistol on himself? Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist this successful would never take his own life. He digs into Adam's last story - an unpublished investigation into the whereabouts of a vanished South American strongman, called El Carnicero.

She may be bowed, but she is not broken. Lucy Hickey-Rios, The Executive Director of Mercy Animal Shelter, is feeling the pressure. The Shelter is broke. The cages and kennels are full. So, how can Lucy even consider pursuing a man she suspects is running a puppy mill? How can she not? Saving the mill dogs, and coming up with a way to raise money won’t be easy, especially with all the distractions currently swirling around her. Her estranged husband’s face is all over the news. A sniper has rolled into town and is assassinating people who have been convicted of animal cruelty. What else...

When Retta's "gentleman friend" is accused of murder, the Sleuth Sisters take on the case. Winston Darrow is a charmer, but his secrets create trouble that spills onto Retta, Barb, Faye, and even police chief Rory Neuencamp. Someone is out to get Win, someone he claims is the real killer. While Retta admits Win is less trustworthy than her daffy Newfoundland dog, she insists he's not a murderer. Dogs become an issue when Faye rescues a mutt she finds hurt on the road.

Sam Acquillo, ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive, and accidental hero of The Last Refuge, can't seem to stay out of trouble. All he really wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka, and hang out with his dog, Eddie. But when a car bomb outside a trendy waterfront restaurant kills a prominent financial consultant, injuring Sam and his lawyer friend, he is drawn into the investigation.

Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating - and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife.

Older, but not necessarily wiser, Aiden Pearce, “the Fox”, is a rolling stone, surviving by moving from one shadowy hacker job to the next. While in Baltimore, he’s captured by a mysterious agent who insists finding missing cargo full of transhuman tech is something only Pearce can do. When flattery doesn’t work, he’s blackmailed into taking the job. Worse, he’s partnered again with the unscrupulous Jordi Chin. Soon what looks like a simple investigation spirals into a nefarious plot leading all the way to the White House.

☘️ Murder, secrets, and one explosive St. Patrick’s Day in Gordonston. As the city of Savannah prepares for its biggest celebration of the year, dark forces are gathering. Old scores demand to be settled. Secrets refuse to stay buried. And not everyone will make it out alive. Detective Jeff Morgan is closing in on a truth some would kill to keep hidden. A sniper lurks in the shadows, ready to strike. And as the residents of Gordonston drink, party, and parade through the streets, a final act of vengeance is set in motion—one that will change everything. 💀 In this shocking ...

Dick is finally clean - mind and body - from his poisonous addiction, only to be sent reeling again upon awakening and discovering Steve and Jamie have startling secrets of their own. It will take every ounce of focus and resolve to shake off his new reality and make a trek to Arkansas to reunite with his wife and daughter, especially with the other challenges he faces along the way. He thought he was ready to face the world anew, until he realized the world was out to get him first.

When relationships go south, some people just can't - or won't - let go. When Fort Worth Police Officer Megan Luz and her pawed partner Brigit investigate a series of stalking incidents involving a couple who recently broke up, their detective powers are put to the test. Is this a case of a controlling creep who refuses to accept rejection - or one about a woman scorned whose fury has been unleashed?

She hardly has time to pay much attention to her Aunt Peg's new protg, Nick Walden, a self-proclaimed "dog whisperer" with an uncanny gift for decoding dog-speak. The well-heeled dog owners of Fairfield County are lapping up his alleged talents, anxious to discover exactly what their pampered pets are thinking--that is until the pooches start spilling their secrets.When Nick is discovered dead in his home, his sister Claire enlists Melanie to help track down the killer.

Police Chief Aggie Malone is facing her first Christmas as a married woman, and hoping for a relatively uneventful holiday in the quiet Gulf Coast community of Dogleg Island where she, along with her perspicacious border collie Flash, is in charge of keeping the peace. She is still trying to find her place in the big, boisterous Grady family, but unlike Flash - and her own husband, Deputy Sheriff Ryan Grady - Aggie does not see the appeal of the holiday, and the magic of the season is completely lost on her. The old-fashioned Christmas Grady has planned for his bride begins to unravel when Aggie's investigation into a homicide hit-and-run leads to the arrest of her own brother-in-law and exposes a crime syndicate that's responsible for spreading millions in counterfeit bills throughout the southeast.

Thirty-nine-year-old empty-nester, Megan Fallon is putting the fiance who left her well and truly out of her mind, and focusing on settling back into village life, and her new job. Meanwhile, her childhood friend, American, Jack Windsor, is renovating the old village school, and is looking for a four-legged friend to share his new home with. All is well in Bliss Bay until obituaries start appearing on the church noticeboard for villagers who are still very much alive, and the village is thrown into turmoil.

I’m Dr. Kallie Collins, a veterinarian who can communicate with animals. No, it’s not as crazy as it sounds. Yes, it has landed me smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation. It all starts with a bone. A dog digs up the bone. A detective wants the bone. The dog wants to keep the bone. That’s where I come in.

There were ten members of the Black Mamba covert team. Nine men, one woman. Alphabetically their code names were Adam, Blackhawk, Charlie, Dakota, Echo, Fabian, Gumbo, Hero, Indigo and Jackson. They didn’t get to choose their names, the Colonel did. Once their code name was chosen and the team formed, their old names and their old history disappeared from government records. They no longer existed. County courthouse records just disappeared. No birth records, no census records, no school records. Gone. They all had similar experiences. They were all orphans. All young. All joined the Navy...

A Christmas skiing retreat turns treacherous when Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit officer Veronica Eastwood’s sister is kidnapped—and only rival officer Parker Walsh can help her in Katy Lee’s Yuletide Ransom. And in Sharee Stover’s explosive Holiday Rescue Countdown, K-9 officers Dylan Jeong and Brandie Weller must race against the clock when they face a Christmas parade bomb threat…and a killer from Dylan’s past.

An angel without wings. A vampire haunted by his past. A miracle that could save them both - or destroy everything. Ava died at 18, and a century later, she's still trying to prove herself worthy of her guardian angel wings. But when her latest attempt at a supernatural miracle leads her to Fin, a vampire doctor with a tortured soul, she realizes she might be in over her head. Fin has spent 47 years atoning for the lives he took on the night he turned. Now, he's caught between his desire to help others and the dangerous demands of his own kind. When Ava offers him a chance at redemption, ...

Elli was named for a Nordic Crone Goddess, but she didn't know why until she found some interesting maps and books in her uncles' old trunks. She also would not have expected how much she would need what she learned to help her friends when they began investigating some old and not so old crimes. Elli was a retired policewoman with a lot of skills and experience, but even she would need help from her unlikely crew to overcome what was ahead.