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"Noirish, hard-edged, and memorable Las Vegas procedural." -Booklife.com "An emotionally charged, brilliantly-written debut crime thriller." - BestThrillers.com Complex characters. Shocking twists. A debut crime thriller readers can't put down. When Maria Varela first made detective, more than a few cops called her a nepo-baby behind her back. Sure, having a legendary detective for a father hadn’t hurt her career, but he was retired, and the one closing cases was her, not him. Eventually all the arrests silenced even the loudest of the doubters. Then a long dormant serial killer murders ...

This essay-style short story, published in 1943, is a sequel to the earlier work Going Home (1943). The protagonist, who his family has disowned, receives news that his mother is dying and heads back to his family home with his wife and child. He is the sixth son of a wealthy family from Aomori. He went to Tokyo Imperial University with the hopes of his family, but became involved in left-wing movements, was arrested by the police, became addicted to drugs, and repeatedly attempted suicide. Dazai is aware that he has been a bad son to his mother and that her death is imminent. He also has ...

Escape was just the beginning. Now, the real hunt begins. Out of the frying pan, into the radioactive wasteland. Elias Thorne, former analyst, and Petra, hardened security operative, barely escaped the oppressive confines of Port Sumner with their lives—and Project Chrysalis, a secret powerful enough to shatter the Mandate's iron grip. But sanctuary is a lie. Stranded in the toxic ruins surrounding Dead Letter City, they face a new, more brutal reality. Hunted relentlessly by the technologically superior forces of Division 14, and stalked by a phantom known only as the Hunter—an ...

Should I use my bonus to buy a new car or a 5* holiday?Lying on the beach in Thailand – loving the traveller lifestyle!My man's just proposed!!!Renee’s Facebook stream is bursting with good news from the friends she made at university. But behind the scenes, their lives aren’t so rosy: Dave has been made redundant, Renee’s marriage is crumbling and Katie is forced to return home to her parents after six years abroad. When they reunite, will the friends be able to support each other and face up to the choices they need to make? Or is it already too late? “27” is a roller-coaster ...

Ryder Giles, a formidable vampire hybrid and the calmest, most unshakeable bodyguard at Scanguards, believes he’s met his match in Scarlet King. She’s an introverted trust fund baby and PhD candidate, notoriously difficult and manipulative, and every other bodyguard has thrown in the towel. Ryder, however, is confident he can handle her. He couldn’t be more wrong. Little does Ryder know that Scarlet is the fiery seductress who gave him a fake name during their explosive, life-altering encounter at a nightclub. Now, secrets and intrigue collide, forcing them into an impossible alliance...

Jack Ludlow, aka Jackson A. Lothario, is back in his beloved Belize City, looking to resume the lascivious lifestyle he left behind when Captain Jeff Merry and Conrad Bishop whisked him away to Costa Rica. With money in his pocket, Jack is hoping to upgrade his accommodations and parlay his new-found millions into much, much more. That's when and where the trouble begins. Jack finds himself embroiled in the middle of a drug cartel war that will perceptibly change the lives of numerous characters forever. That's also where we find Garret Cooper. Pulled into a second Joint DEA/FBI Taskforce. ...

In their fight against the unyielding forces of nature, the inhabitants of Shield Island strive to maintain harmony in a world of stunning beauty and staggering destruction. In the second installment of Parallel Planes, discover the curious and stunning world of divergence X0000BCE001 where the timeline branch occurred prior to written history and diverged into a world free of predation and violence. In the present day of the breathtaking alternate universe, the peaceful timeline persists under the shadow of dire and perpetual peril as nature's beauty and natural disasters collide, and a ...

Maggie Thomas, P.I. and her orthopedic shoe wearing sidekick Dorothy Raye return. When Maggie witnesses a horrific accident it doesn’t take long for her to discover it was no accident. The victim’s wife hires Maggie to find the killer. But Detective Jake Jackson thinks he already knows the identity of the killer. Maggie disagrees. Who is right and will their opposing views cause friction in their new relationship?

The confetti's barely settled from his son's wedding when private eye Jamaica Biltmore finds himself embroiled in his most explosive case yet. Just as Jamaica and his wife, FBI Agent Julie Waters, enjoy a rare moment of calm, the celebration takes a shocking turn. The FBI agents at the wedding are called into action, revealing a heart-stopping truth: the governor of New York has been kidnapped. Adding a layer of unwelcome drama, the governor's wife, Jamaica's ex-wife who vanished when their son was an infant, insists he be brought in on the investigation. Against his better judgment, ...

What happens to a character when the story is over? Sunny Dae Grayson is about to find out. In a moment of profound loss and rage, Sunny destroyed her character, upending her story as an act of defiance. But the end of her narrative doesn't mean the end of her existence. Sunny finds herself in a mysterious new world inhabited by other characters whose tales have concluded. But this strange realm is dying, its life force ebbing away as their tales are forgotten. Determined to make a difference, Sunny teams up with Johnny Mountain, a fearless young adventurer, and Jackson Windstrom, a pensive...

A psychopathic hacker and a technophobic FBI agent must team up to solve a high-profile murder committed with an autonomous car in this provocative tech-noir thriller. On a coastal highway in California, a self-driving SUV crashes and kills its lone occupant: the CEO of Asimov Automotive, one of the most prominent driverless vehicle manufacturers in the world. Suspecting foul play, the board of directors brings in whitehat hacker Isabella Cray to assist the investigation. Cray is a high-functioning psychopath, using her calm, detached nature to solve problems while restraining her darkest ...

This box set includes the first three audiobooks in the Wandering Cultivator progression fantasy series, following Calin on his journey to become a powerful cultivator.

Driven detective Casey Clement and her hotshot team of misfits are called to the murder of a gorgeous woman, left overdosed, beaten and shot in a Manhattan park. Famous, sexy photographer Jamie Carval, obsessively shooting the team for his next blockbuster exhibition, with Casey the stunning heart of his concept, identifies the victim as a model. When a second similar corpse turns up only a few weeks later, and then a third emerges, the team have to delve into the ugly underbelly of the modelling world, uncovering sleaze, sexual abuse and serial killing. As the dirty, degraded details of ...

Vivienne Lane thought she left the drama behind when she traded big-city chaos for the quiet charm of Foxwick Harbor. Now, she spends her days running Lane & Co. Antiques, sipping lattes at Bean & Bloom, and avoiding her nosy neighbor’s unsolicited opinions. But when she stumbles upon the town’s most scandalous socialite dead in a wedding dress—and in a very inconvenient place—Vivi suddenly finds herself at the center of a mystery far messier than her shop’s storage room. Gwendolyn Fairchild wasn’t just any bride-to-be; she was a journalist with a reputation for unearthing ...

When Vanessa Giles, Scanguards’ tenacious community outreach manager, saves a sex worker from a rogue vampire’s fangs, she’s plunged into a dangerous new reality. Her path collides with the enigmatic Cole Whitlock, a human internet entrepreneur drawn to San Francisco by a secret, debilitating ailment. He’s inexplicably pulled to Vanessa, even as he mistakenly believes her to be a high-class escort. Vanessa, a vampire hybrid herself, desperately wants Cole close, yet she must conceal her true nature from him. Their delicate dance of attraction turns deadly when a rogue vampire begins...

I'm Tracy Belden and my crazy client just killed her husband. She told me so when she called me at oh-dark-thirty. Now his body is in the morgue, my client is the number one suspect, and I’m the main witness. With the police ready to make an arrest, she changes her story and hires me to find the real killer. Can I solve the case before my client is arrested for murder? But if she’s the killer, how can I finish my crossword puzzle with a clear conscience? If you like fast-paced, humorous cozies, dive into the Crossword Puzzle Cozy Mysteries! Available in e-book, paperback, and on Kindle ...

When Tom Hitsman attends his high school reunion he is confronted by the bullies that made his life miserable decades earlier. Suspecting that they are involved in criminal activities and faced with a terminal diagnosis, he makes a decision that will alter his life and their lives forever. As Tom navigates the complexities of vengeance and moral ambiguity, he manages to create ingenious ways to dispose of the bad guys including using a Barry Manilow song. They say revenge is sweet, but is it truly sweeter when simmered over thirty years, or just a really a bad idea. Find out in Terminal ...

Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of "confinement rooms"—rooms designed to hold human beings captive—where they make other chilling discoveries.

Maggie Newberry is an advertising copywriter who’s fast on her feet and a little stunned to realize that she’s over 30 and still hasn’t found true love. When her missing sister ends up dead, Maggie flies to the south of France to find the little niece that no one in the family even knew existed. Along the way, she finds handsome, sexy Frenchman Laurent Dernier to help search for the girl. Meanwhile, her sister’s murderer sets his sights on the little girl - and Maggie.

A sassy, charitable woman, a determined, charming man, and the million-dollar challenge that will tear them apart. Kaimbrey Jackson has been obsessed with building her home for those in need. When she’s offered a million dollars for her charity, if she can get the handsome and flirtatious Brody Jepson to propose, she figures she’d been handed the golden ticket. But what happens when she falls in love and stands to lose everything if Brody finds out the truth? Brody Jepson has been burned by love before and won’t trust his heart to anyone. When the sassy and irresistible Kaimbrey ...