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When opponents of a planned resort development on Moosehead Lake in northern Maine start turning up dead, Detective Doug Bateman of the Maine State Police is called in. Concurrently, investigator Anne Quinn with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office is looking into a series of bizarre assaults on women. As the parallel investigations unfold, Bateman and Quinn each find their cases becoming more complex and more disturbing.

Everybody in the village liked Grace Mathison, but, when the body of this retired schoolteacher is found on the roof of her home, it is up to the small-town police force to determine what has happened and why. The residents of Summerfield, Ohio, under investigation and ranging in character, all add pieces to the puzzle. But the more the police department learns, the more questions they have, and the scope of their investigation grows.

America’s dubious view of recent elections has a solid basis. This book satisfies the insatiable appetite for this timely topic. Voters want to know their vote counts. Pseudo President takes listeners through murder, romance, intrigue, mystery, and the fraudulent voting technologies widely used in the last several elections, based upon actual events, court cases, news reports, and persons. The main character is a former Special Operations US Marine.

Two old letters reveal the existence of an unknown Van Gogh painting. Only four individuals have ever seen the work, all now dead. One deceased man, an alcoholic thief, claimed to have smuggled the painting out of France at the beginning of World War ll. His two sons dedicate themselves to finding the Van Gogh, seeking personal redemption for their father and damaged childhoods.

The biggest story of Francine Vega's career could end her life...or start World War III. Francine is a rising TV news reporter in New York City. Despite her brains, beauty, and a growing following, she is stuck covering local-interest stories. That is, until her career literally hits the jackpot, when the winner of a $450 million dollar lottery tells Francine that he is committed to using his new fortune to avenge his brother's killing at the Pentagon on 9/11.

They say those who get deep into the Kabbalah’s mystical text of the celestial spheres can lose their minds. But one man discovers the celestial spheres are far from saintly. The man, Jack Merriman, is a seer sucked into the celestial realm against his better judgment. He finds out Satan is a beautiful female with a keen sense of justice. Archangel Michael sounds just like James Earl Jones, and the Cherubs fill the Celestial spheres with heavenly elevator music. But underneath, the Celestial Spheres are as political and incompetent as a big government agency.

Two detectives' steamy past complicates their hunt for a psychotic killer and puts them in an assassin’s deadly sights. Would you trust a former lover who’d betrayed you? Detectives Cole Trane and Mollie Simmons have no other choice. They’re after a ruthless killer tied to the Russian mafia who leaves behind a bloody trail of victims - from a world-famous movie star to a squad of Royal Canadian Mounties - as he races for the border. Their only hope is to have each other’s back like they once had each other’s heart.

A string of patricides rocks 1916 Dublin and a washed-up Scottish doctor receives a mysterious manuscript from a fellow Scotsman recounting his dark experiences in the pioneer city of Seattle in 1889. As the doctor reads the manuscript, he’s made aware the murders in Seattle are connected to those in Dublin and he and the author crossed paths many years before, and under tragic circumstances. In Seattle, a tale of corruption and conspiracy unravels at the feet of a crazed serial killer hell-bent on halting historical progress.

Murder has come yet again to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of Detective Simon Grave, his “almost invisible” partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, and his new assistant, Charlize, a simdroid (an android lookalike of a famous person) who fancies herself a match for Sherlock Holmes, in the simulated body of Charlize Theron. When a body is discovered on a deserted beach, alongside a deactivated Betty White simdroid, the game is afoot.

Trapped in a wintry setting and followed by two men determined to kill her, Victoria Anderson searches for someone who doesn’t want to be found. She drove the length of the east coast in a quest to find Danny Wilcox, intending to convince him to return to Florida with her. The drug lord, the most wanted criminal in the Province of Quebec, has other plans.

International terrorism and political turmoil dominate the early 21st century in this sequel to Shattered Triangle: A Consequential Murder. War looms on the horizon, straining ancient friendships as nations are divided over how to confront and conquer terror. As world conflicts threaten to spiral out of control, politics, religion, and law enforcement each seek ways to respond to these new realities and bring order from chaos.

Meet William Woodside: He’s enamored by seeing small animals like cats and dogs suffering terribly at his hands. He loses his job as a security guard because he skins dogs alive and is caught and jailed. When he’s released, he has no job so after panhandling and working some day labor gigs, he begins robbing banks.

Sick with a disease that doesn’t officially exist, a state director for a US senator struggles to make sense of her boss’ suicide, as she investigates the suspicious activities of the state’s other US senator and his sidekick, a nefarious rheumatologist - all while her best friend helps her manage her new and confusing symptoms of chronic Lyme.

Three friends, inseparable as children, take very different paths toward adulthood. In spite of the distances that emerge among them, they are thrust together by the tragedy of death. Each affected in different ways. Giuseppe Lozano, candidate for US Senate, returns home one night to find his wife and three children mysteriously murdered. There seems to be no motive, and little evidence is left at the scene. How will this affect him and his run for office?

Murder has come once more to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of “almost handsome” Detective Simon Grave and his “nearly invisible” partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, who investigate a locked-room mystery with a significant twist: the prime suspects are in the locked room, not the victim, a logic-defying situation that challenges the team at every turn. As if murder weren’t enough, they must also investigate the simultaneous disappearance of The MacGuffin Trophy from that same locked room, the studio of artist Whitney Waters, famous for her stylized paintings of red herrings.

Jessica Gracers sits in a jail cell. Accused of murdering her husband; a crime she insists she is innocent of. Having heard of Derek Cole and his investigative skills, Jessica hires Derek and requests he begin the investigation immediately. But when Derek Cole and Nikkie Armani arrive in the Tampa, Florida area, they learn their client has refused to give an alibi. Forced to work with Jessica’s lawyer, a woman with a past and present filled with secrets, Derek and Nikkie must first convince their client to give her alibi before they can begin their investigation.

Would you risk everything to save a stranger? Off the coast of Venice lurks Poveglia, the world’s most haunted isle, steeped in centuries of innocent blood. A deranged doctor who took great joy in torturing his patients in life continues to rule his abandoned asylum after death. Few go to Poveglia willingly, but medium Kate Carlsson has no choice. It’s her job. While struggling to retrieve a young girl’s soul, Kate uncovers some shocking truths about the evil on the island that challenges her own convictions and morals - and even her life.

On a sunny afternoon in sleepy Southeastern Idaho, a bread truck carrying $3 million in cash receipts from West Yellowstone is robbed on a lonely pine-shrouded highway. Except for the missing money, there is no evidence a robbery ever occurred. Hokee Wolf is a trained Native American shaman, and by using his unusual skills, he became Idaho’s most successful private investigator. He was hired to find the thief or thieves and return the money.

The King's Favorite is a mystery thriller set during one of the most spirited, scandalous, and memorable periods in English history - the Restoration - when the son of an executed king brought monarchy back to England after the repressive years of the Commonwealth. Following the coronation of Charles II came a reopening of the theaters, with the first women performing on the English public stage. What follows is a devastating London plague and fire, a monarch who openly indulged his sexual proclivities, a series of plots against the crown, and the first true collection of female celebrities - as actresses, mistresses, and even orange girls.

Hard-nosed Detective Jack Bailey is back in Chicago with a serial killer on his hands. At first, Jack figures the murder of Sister Anne is a robbery gone bad. But when a Bible verse turns up with the body, he and his partner realize this is no random murder.