White Russian

White Russian

Steven Henry

Mystery / Crime / Fantasy

From USA Today best-selling author Steven HenryNot everyone who comes to America arrives by choice.A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn't the first time Erin O'Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she isn't prepared for the sheer brutality that's waiting for her. She and her trusty K-9 Rolf peel back the curtain on a seedy world of human trafficking and murder. In the streets of Little Odessa, Erin finds men who won't think twice about killing a woman. And this is one place where her gold detective shield will be no protection.
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Black Magic

Black Magic

Steven Henry

Mystery / Crime / Fantasy

A cop watches your hands; a magician shows you the wrong one.New Year's Eve is a time for new beginnings, but it's business as usual for Detective Erin O'Reilly and her K-9, Rolf. A midnight magic show on Broadway goes horribly wrong and a woman dies onstage. Is it a dreadful accident or an act of murderous sabotage? It's up to Erin to unravel the web of deception surrounding the death, even as her personal life threatens to spiral into chaos.She's caught the eye of Irish mobster Morton "Cars" Carlyle, and worse, she's beginning to like him back. It seems obvious that a relationship between a police officer and a criminal is a disaster waiting to happen. But as Erin is coming to discover, in the underworld and on the stage, things are rarely as they seem.
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The Holiday

The Holiday

T. M. Logan

Thriller / Crime / Contemporary

<font size="+2">For fans of Harlan Coben and Shari Lapena, and from the bestselling author of LIES take a holiday you won't forget . . . </font>Seven days. Three families. One killer.It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Provence. But there is trouble in paradise. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair, and that the other woman is one of her best friends. One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family. But which one? As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. Because someone in the villa is prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden.'Perfectly plotted and riveting...
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Blood Moon

Blood Moon

T. J. Hunter

Mystery / Crime

At a remote site in the Peruvian mountains, Jonathan Willington ceases to exist and Azul the most powerful wizard ever is reborn. What was once a simple life is no more as the former archeologist realizes his true identity and embraces destiny.
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RIPE FOR VENGEANCE

RIPE FOR VENGEANCE

Wendy Tyson

Mystery / Crime / Thriller

It's late spring in Winsome, and Washington Acres is alive with the sights and sounds of farm life. The flowers are blossoming, the vegetable gardens are thriving, the pollinators are buzzing, and the Pennsylvania countryside has fully awakened from its deep winter slumber. Only this season, rebirth comes with a price. College friends of Megan's beau, the handsome veterinarian Dr. Denver Finn, are in Winsome for a corporate volunteer event. They will be mentoring troubled kids from a nearby school during a hiking and camping trip. When one of Dr. Finn's friends is murdered at the state park, a student—a boy with a brutal history—becomes the prime suspect. With a teen's life at stake, Megan digs into the victim's past to clear the boy's name. She learns that the victim sowed conflict wherever he went. As Megan worms her way closer to the truth, she realizes her own life is at stake, as well as the lives of those she loves. - - - - - - - - - - - -...
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Play With Fire

Play With Fire

William Shaw

Crime / Mystery / Historical Fiction

In hedonistic 1960s London, a police detective investigates the unexpected connections between two suspicious deaths: a call girl and a rock star. It's the summer of '69, and the hard-living rock stars of the British Invasion still rule London. When former Rolling Stone Brian Jones turns up dead, floating in the pool of his palatial home while the party continues around him, Detective Sargeant Cathal Breen is called away from his former partner, now girlfriend—who quit the force when she became pregnant with his child—to take the case.Breen's investigation soon uncovers another body spat out by the hedonistic '60s party scene: a young woman, a call-girl for the rich and famous, a girl they called Julie Teenager. Her client list is thick and full of suspects—all rich, powerful, and protected. When Breen gets too close to fingering a financier with ties to Russia—and gets a phone call from MI6 warning him to watch his back—the...
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Murder in Mystery Manor

Murder in Mystery Manor

Anthony E. Zuiker

Crime / Mystery / Horror

British butler Giles has taken a job for three times his usual salary. He is soon to find out that he will forever be cursed and faced with allowing a group of unknowing people to meet a killer so maniacal and twisted that the murders are virtually motiveless. Giles welcomes ten guests to a luxurious estate where they will be embarking on a diabolical game of life and death. Giles, while on the guests' side, is a leader who will get out of the way of the killer and stand by as one person in each chapter is murdered in an outrageous manner. For example, one murder is a choreographed shark where the guests have to retrieve the victim's head from the shark's body. Another murder will be at the hands of a driverless car a la Stephen King's Christine. After each murder, the rest of the guests will have their choice of investigating the crime scene, the body or the last known whereabouts. They then must present their account of the details of the murder. The two whose assessments are...
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Half-Alien Warfighter (Lady Hellgate Book 3)

Half-Alien Warfighter (Lady Hellgate Book 3)

Greg Dragon

Science Fiction / Thriller / Crime

After returning to the Rendron with her battle-weary Nighthawks Special Forces, Helga Ate is ready for some rest and relaxation. But once they can finally breathe and feel as if they are out of harm's way, the Rendron is ambushed again. But who could've known that they were home and safe? Unless, someone on the inside had other plans... The treachery is far deeper than Helga and the Captain ever imagined. Can Helga and her Nighthawks find the traitor in time to save the crew, or will the next ambush be the last one?
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Let Justice Descend

Let Justice Descend

Lisa Black

Mystery & Thrillers / Crime / Suspense

In a taut, brilliantly twisted new thriller from bestselling author Lisa Black, forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator with secrets to hide... Three days before a key election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep—a shocking twist in an already brutal political race. Cragin's chief of staff is quick to blame rival Joey Green, a city development director who's had his hand in every till in town for over twenty years. Maggie and Jack have their own theories, especially after discovering a fortune in cash in the senator's safe. But as they follow the money through the treacherous landscape of Cleveland politics, they find many more millions in play—and more suspects. As Jack says, "Anyone can be dangerous, when they have what they think is a good reason." He should know. Now a Herald reporter is perilously...
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Fine Lines

Fine Lines

Simon Beckett

Thriller / Crime / Mystery

From Publishers WeeklyBritish journalist Beckett's first novel is a chilling tale of sexual predation. Celibate, aging art dealer Donald Ramsey returns to his London gallery for forgotten papers and comes upon his beautiful assistant, Anna, changing clothes in his office. Secretly watching from the hallway, Ramsey is transfixed by a rare sexual spark and inflamed with voyeuristic desire. Accepting his own romantic shortcomings, he lives for imagined pleasures with Anna until he learns that her brilliant but ugly American boyfriend, Marty, will be taking her back to New York. Because the pair "were very obviously in love, and when I decided to end their relationship I knew I would need help," Ramsey pays sexual athlete Zeppo Marks a fortune to seduce the young woman while he himself poses as the couple's champion. Anna and Marty remain faithful to one another, however, rebuffing every onslaught that Ramsey and Zeppo devise and forcing a desperate plan to remove Marty permanently. But even this act of murder seems less abhorrent than the evil inflicted on Anna by the two conspirators, an evil made all the more horrific by her ignorance of their role in ensuing events. Beckett skillfully brings matters to their logically sadistic conclusion, then twists his tale around by ironically echoing Freud's tenet that desire lies just the other side of repugnance-two emotions that readers are likely to feel simultaneously as they speed through this clever yet brazenly sleazy story. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From BooklistBeckett's debut novel is defined by a chilling vision of sexual obsession, personified by London art dealer Donald Ramsey. When this meek aesthete's comfortably asexual lifestyle is upended by his impetuous fixation on a gallery assistant, Anna, the wheels are set in motion for a deadly scheme aimed at satisfying Ramsey's voyeuristic urges. He easily enlists Zeppo, a male model whose most notable credentials are his sexual exploits, to play a pivotal role. Zeppo is drawn to the large sum of money being offered and, moreover, to the challenge of seducing Anna. Beckett sustains an element of mystery, as cold-blooded murder becomes essential to Ramsey's unyielding plan. It is only in the book's final pages that the persistent pace of Beckett's terse prose subsides, deflating the spell cast by this intriguing young English writer. Alice Joyce
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The Night Fire

The Night Fire

Michael Connelly

Crime / Literature & Fiction / Thriller

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective he had an inspiring mentor, John Jack Thompson, who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now John Jack is dead and Harry inherits a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals.Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point.The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigative team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?
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Riverflow

Riverflow

Alison Layland

Contemporary / Fiction / Crime

No longer the benign friend of summer, the Severn was a restless dragon slithering its way pastAfter a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, Bede and Elin Sherwell want nothing more than to be left in peace to pursue their off-grid life. But when the very real prospect of fracking hits their village, they are drawn into the front line of the protests. During a spring of relentless rain, a series of mysterious threats and suspicious accidents put friendships on the line, and the Sherwells' marriage under unbearable tension. Is there a connection with their uncle's death? As the river rises in torrential rain, pressure mounts, Bede's sense of self begins to crumble, and Elin is no longer sure who to believe or what to believe in. 'I was completely drawn in by her characters and their environment... The sense of unease that pervades throughout was heart-stopping.' Emma Curtis
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Ironside

Ironside

Alexis Abbott

Romance / Suspense / Crime

The Darkness makes devils of us all.She's too sweet and innocent to be caught in this dark underbelly. But the evil that she was fleeing was so much worse.I'm the only one who believes her. The only one who can keep her safe. But she has to know that we're all playing with the fire, and that someone is bound to get burned.I've been forged in combat and blood, my body honed into iron, and I'm not going to let her down like everyone else. No matter the cost.
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Breaker

Breaker

Alexis Abbott

Romance / Suspense / Crime

This time, she won't escape.She was just an innocent girl. With her beautiful auburn hair, and those sparkling blue eyes, she deserves better than to be held captive by the monsters I call my friends.I watch over her, biding my time. Waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. To be the knight in leather armor.After I save her, there's no going back. Our lives will forever be intertwined, whether she wants it or not.Eventually, she'll come to see me as her savior.Eventually, she will be mine.
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Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry

Mary Higgins Clark

Mystery / Thriller / Crime

The newest thriller from "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark!When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "C Ryan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment "and I'm not the only one," Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a Jet Ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a tricky spot. Several female employees have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the news company's star anchor. Carter approaches the CEO and the founder's son offering to persuade the victims to accept settlements in exchange for their silence. It's a risky endeavor, but it could well make him rich. As more allegations emerge and the company's IPO draws near, Carter's attempts to keep the story from making headlines are...
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The Ottoman Secret

The Ottoman Secret

Raymond Khoury

Mystery & Thrillers / Historical Fiction / Crime

'The best what if thriller for a long, long time' LEE CHILDPARIS, 2017. 300 YEARS AFTER ALL OF EUROPE FELL TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE . . .Kamal Agha is a special investigator for the state police, forced to uphold the feared sultan's strict regime.When a mysteriously tattooed, naked man appears by the Seine and murders a passerby, it's up to Kamal to track him down.But it's a trail that leads him to an astonishing secret.A secret that exposes an empire of lies - and which the sultan's men will do anything to keep hidden.Forced on the run, Kamal knows he will be killed for what he knows - unless he dares use it to save himself.But doing so could wipe out his whole world, and everyone he ever loved along with it . . .This fast-paced adventure packed with thrills and intrigue, will appeal to fans of The Man in the High Castle.___________'A sweeping and...
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A Shadow Falls

A Shadow Falls

Andreas Pflüger

Thriller / Mystery / Crime

She knows the only way to fight him is to fall into his trap... Five years ago, Jenny Aaron was a covert ops agent. Then a shot to the head left her blind and ended her career. Four weeks ago, she killed the psychopath who stole her sight. Ludger Holm hunted her with a vicious determination but, even in the dark, Aaron fought back. Now, she has learnt that Holm left her two billion dollars. She knows it's a trap. But if she's ever going to be free of him, she must play his game to the bitter end.
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Dissident Dispatches

Dissident Dispatches

Andrew Fraser

Crime / True Crime / Mystery

Dissident Dispatches is about Christian theology. It also gives voice to the ethno-patriotic concerns now fuelling the growth of the secular Alt-Right movement. Both reject the ongoing spiritual degeneration and concomitant demographic displacement of every white European ethno-nation.The author, Andrew Fraser, has studied and taught history and law at leading universities in Canada, the United States, and Australia. He was born a British subject when people of British stock still counted as one of Canada’s two “founding races”. Indeed, at that time, there was no such thing as a “Canadian citizen”.A “late loyalist” in his own personal development, Fraser deplores the ethno-masochistic eagerness with which far-too-many other WASPs still spit upon the graves of their ancestors.He recognizes, however, that it is not enough to mourn the loss of once-secure and legitimate ethno-religious identities. Nor will politics alone save us. Dissident Dispatches outlines the fundamental elements of the Christian ethno-theology sorely needed by the Alt-Right if it is to halt, much less reverse, the rising tide of colour.Dissident Dispatches identifies the main currents in modern Christian theology responsible for the moral and spiritual collapse of both the Anglican Church and Christendom more generally.Given the rusted-on secularism of the Alt-Right, the book offers a critical comparative analysis of the major alternatives to a Christian ethno-theology; namely, the political theology of popular sovereignty and the cornucopian civil religion of perpetual progress. Across a wide range of issues in systematic and practical theology, in bible studies and church history, the essays collected here provide the basic ingredients for the counter-revolutionary theology of Christian nationhood needed in contemporary debates with Christian universalists and disingenuous white liberals.The book counters the Christophobia endemic among neo-pagan white nationalists with an intellectually respectable Christian apologetic as well as a biblical hermeneutic informed by both “kinism” (aka covenantal creationism) and “preterism” (aka covenant eschatology).But Dissident Dispatches is more than a theological treatise. It is also a personal memoir. The author, Andrew Fraser, is a racially aware, former law professor who became a theology student at a divinity school in suburban Sydney, Australia. He discovered there a multiracial college community of professedly Christian teachers and students promoting the postmodern cult of the “Other”. There, to be Christian is to celebrate the fact that Australia, Canada, the United States, even England, are no longer “Anglo-Saxon countries”.Following in the author’s footsteps from one class to another, the book provides insight into the academic and personal problems likely to face pro-white students engaging in politically-incorrect speech or behaviour in a divinity school anywhere in the white, English-speaking world.The author has considerable personal experience on the receiving end of politically correct thought policing. Early on, Dissident Dispatches explores the background to the one-year suspension meted out to the author for “offending” faculty members and/or female and ethnic students by the allegedly racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic remarks made by him in classes and seminars.Dissident Dispatches is the unplanned product of the culture shock experienced on all sides when an Alt-Right senior citizen cum cultural warrior decides to rattle his politically-correct bars by going to a theological college run by a church often confused with the Communist Party at prayer.
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No Further

No Further

Andy Maslen

Thriller / Crime

The Iranian government is only weeks away from deploying a nuclear missile against Israel. UK Government agent Gabriel Wolfe, is tasked with assassinating the Iranians' chief nuclear scientist and destroying his lab before the warhead is complete. But trouble follows Gabriel like a faithful dog, and before he even leaves UK shores, he has to contend with a shadowy crime group called Kuznitsa. Its bosses want payback for one of their senior operatives killed by Gabriel in a previous mission. How much pain can Wolfe take? Together with ex-Mossad operative Eli Schochat, Gabriel travels to Tehran undercover. But a traitor inside UK intelligence betrays the mission. Imprisoned in the infamous Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Gabriel meets General Razi, a skilled and sadistic torturer. Gabriel faces one of the toughest challenges of his life ... and the clock ticks on. Blink and you'll miss some action This gritty, fast-moving action thriller is the seventh novel in Andy Maslen's Gabriel Wolfe series. From air strikes to drone swarms, surveillance to firefights, the action never lets you go. You'll feel the searing heat of Iran, hear the explosions, smell the acrid tang of gunsmoke as you travel alongside Gabriel and Eli towards a truly shocking climax. Praise for Andy Maslen's other novels Fans of Lee Child, Mark Dawson, Stephen Leather, Daniel Silva, Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, Andy McNab and Chris Ryan love the Gabriel Wolfe thrillers. "The 6th novel in the Gabriel Wolfe series by Andy Maslen. Yet again, Andy had surpassed himself. Only a 1/4 way through but a real page-turner. Another best seller, which I would 100% recommend to anybody looking for a cracking yarn. Suggestion - read the first four Gabriel Wolfe novels first to really get into the character." Ian Brown "Was really looking forward to the next in the Gabriel Wolfe series and was I disappointed - NO! Once again the plot is complicated and challenging and keeps the reader desperate to read more. Gabriel is a killer with a conscience and his relationships and escapades are extremely believable. If you want a book (or even a series) of books that will provide exciting holiday reading, or any other time, then these are the books for you." Mrs K Miles "This book is incredible. Andy Maslen in an amazing author, draws you in, keeps you there. Read his first four books and can't wait for the fifth. Would highly recommend all four of the books." Michael Lock BUY YOUR COPY OF NO FURTHER NOW
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Hit and Done

Hit and Done

Andy Maslen

Thriller / Crime

When a vigilante loses control, nobody's safe Detective Inspector Stella Cole has almost completed her bloody quest to avenge the hit and run killings of her husband and daughter. Only one member of the legal conspiracy who murdered them remains. But he happens to be her boss: Detective Chief Superintendent Adam Collier. And he's not going to go down without a fight. His first move is to have Stella sectioned. While she's incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, he hires a Maltese woman to kill her. Monica Zerafa is fearless, brutal and hungry for the cash Collier's promised her. But neither Collier nor Zerafa has reckoned with Stella's violent alter ego, "Other Stella". What's worse for Stella, this split-off part of her personality is growing stronger by the day. She wants control. The non-stop action switches from London, to a gangster's palatial home in rural Essex, then to Canada and an Ojibway reservation, and Chicago, before the final, bloody climax in a frozen Minnesota. A darkly disturbing crime thriller... Hit and Done is the third book in this hyper-violent trilogy about love, revenge and what a mother will do when pushed to the edge of sanity. The body count keeps on growing as Stella confronts all the people who want to harm her ... and metes out her own special brand of justice. Fans of Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, Tess Gerritsen, Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbo, Jeffery Deaver and Ian Rankin will love Stella Cole. Praise for the Stella Cole trilogy Hit and Run "After the first chapter I was hooked and I was really rooting for Stella Cole all the way to the last page. You are taken on mazy journey as Cole incurs significant emotional trauma and has to find her way out of her own deep and dark black hole. From there she has to confront her demons and find a way to overcome a shadowy world of power and the elite within the establishment. Simply put this book is un-putdownable!" Badabing666 Hit Back Harder Noooo! That ending twist was so unexpected and that's what I exclaimed when I read it! This book kept me awake at night... it didn't give me nightmares although I suppose the graphic detail could have done. No, it was its gripping storyline that was the problem. I like to read for a short while before settling to sleep at night, but I couldn't put the book down and ended up with some very, very late nights. Andy's portrayal of Stella Cole, the main character, draws you in. I found myself trying to warn her when I read the potentially dangerous situations she was heading for. That is how powerful Andy's storytelling style is. I can thoroughly recommend this book, BUT, don't start reading before bedtime if you've got to get up for work the next day. Carol E. Bentley GRAB YOUR COPY OF HIT AND DONE
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Minefield

Minefield

Andy Maslen

Thriller / Crime

In the minefield, death is only a step away Gabriel Wolfe and his partner, Eli Schochat have flown to Cambodia to assassinate an ex-Khmer Rouge warlord. By a freakish stroke of good fortune, Win Yah dodges the bullet that would have exploded his skull. Wounded by a mine, Eli is captured, brutally beaten and taken into the forest to be executed. Gabriel must find her, evade recapture by the warlord’s heavily-armed gang, and get her to safety. Only then can he return to finish what Eli started. This 25,000 word novella from best-selling thriller author Andy Maslen kicks off with high-powered action and doesn’t let up until the final page. Mines litter the forest - and the plot - causing trouble for everyone who wanders off the path. **How you’re helping Cambodia’s poorest children get a decent start in life Andy wrote Minefield after visiting a rural school in northern Cambodia, whose grounds were carved out of a minefield. He is donating all royalties from the book to the Ponheary Ly Foundation (PLF). The PLF was set up by Ponheary Ly, herself a survivor of the Cambodian genocide. It gives vulnerable children an education, as well as a full belly and a real chance of making the most of their potential.**
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