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Attorney Grant Laviolette's first day of retirement delivers up a strange recipe for murder. Blissfully unaware that he has offended the wrong men, Grant heads off on a driving trip to Alaska as his reward for ending his long and fulfilling legal career. Twin psychopaths follow him like shadows, murdering innocent women and planting incriminating evidence pointing directly at Grant, who will soon discover that an exemplary life means nothing when the media and the police believe that they've found the "Serial Killer Lawyer." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a lawyer from ...

This is the 1st novel in the TY WARD ADVENTURE SERIES, now comprising seven books in all. Ty Ward wakes up on his 50th birthday disgusted with the violent life he has led for the past 30 years in South America. He returns to the USA intending to slowly drink himself to death as a fitting punishment for all the mayhem he had foisted on the world because of his horrid career choice. Fate has other plans. On his first day in New York City, Ty's immense size once again acts as a sleaze magnet for thugs looking for trouble. A minor dispute over a damage deposit mushrooms into a major war with ...

A fictional fun series of cozy mysteries and detecting. Simple and an entertaining read. The next chapter in the series continues. Lady Katherine Ashcroft and her dearest friend, Ellie, have just arrived. They are in New York for what should have been an enjoyable holiday, only things get out of hand! The cruise that they had experienced and survived has now passed, but there are dark secrets, and they could sound the beginning of an even deadlier encounter! It is 1951, and this retired British Agent, is called back into her duty to prevent an uneasy Cold War from brewing up a storm. Liam, ...

Larry Ward retired as a real estate lawyer when he won a lottery three years ago, and now he's having a ball in retirement. When five local real estate attorneys die within a short period of time, Larry poses the theory that a serial killer may be responsible. He is mocked as a senile old pest until someone attacks Larry with a nightstick. Folks could understand someone wanting to rid the world of divorce lawyers, but what possible motive could drive anyone to exterminate mild-mannered harmless real estate attorneys? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who ...

Murder at Midnight is a murder mystery set in New York City during the early 20th century. Dive into the twisted and enigmatic world of the Harris family, where secrets run deep and danger lurks in the shadows. When the Harris family's eldest daughter, Suzanne, is found murdered in her bed and the adopted daughter, Ada, is gravely wounded, the initial assumption is a botched burglary. But as Philo McCovey, a brilliant yet unofficial crime consultant, delves into the investigation, he uncovers a web of deceit and betrayal that points to someone within the family itself. Philo McCovey's keen ...

The Barrister Murder is a gripping murder mystery set in the tranquil yet deceptive English countryside during the 1920s. This tale of suspense will captivate fans of classic whodunits and psychological thrillers. Simon Bickel, a renowned barrister known for his relentless courtroom tactics, seeks respite at his brother William's idyllic estate in Carmenshire. The peaceful countryside promises a much-needed break from the high-stakes Munson case that has consumed Simon's life. However, tranquility quickly turns to terror when Simon and his guests, Vera Lewis and Howard Torrance, stumble ...

From recent customer reviews....... "A must-read for mystery enthusiasts, a real nail-biter!” “I found it hard to put down - A perfect made-for-TV movie!” "A well thought out courtroom drama with readers on each side of the jury’s verdict questioning their own morals and values." AN AURA OF SUSPENSE THAT NEVER LEAVES THE PAGES: A down-and-out, handsome young race car driver meets a wealthy older widow looking for true love. He proposes marriage - she accepts. What could possibly go wrong? She’s an attractive 60-year-old woman longing for love. He's a 38-year-old race car driver ...

A brutal drug cartel. An estranged daughter. Can she confront dangerous secrets from her past and survive? Sergeant Evelyn “Mac” McGregor has finally found her place. Promoted to master sergeant rank due to her last two cases, the dedicated Latina returns home to New Mexico to help with four military members who have vanished. But even though she quickly connects the problem to a local narcotics ring, she hits roadblocks with a hostile OSI agent. Fearing the case is only racing towards a bloody, corpse-littered conclusion, she’s filled with dread when her sister calls crying about her...

A small-town sheriff has some unfinished business in the big city.... Jack Lamburt doesn’t negotiate with drug dealers. When he learns that his girlfriend Debbie’s sister is keeping company with New Jersey gang leaders, he opts to spring her the only way he knows how. With a hail of bullets and blood.... On his quest to get Debbie’s sister free, Lamburt attracts the attention of an FBI agent eager to take the vigilante down. Things get even hairier when a drug lord goes on the war path to reverse the sheriff’s rescue mission with some deadly revenge.

One night, Daphne's teenage son Gabriel returns early from a house party, completely distraught. He refuses to let his mother know what's wrong and becomes very reclusive. But Daphne's son is not her only concern. Far from it. Her husband is acting oddly. And she is getting messages from an ex-partner she'd very much rather forget. Her family life seems to be unravelling at the seams, so when Gabriel's classmate Leo gets in touch and promises to help her son, she has hopes she can address at least one problem.

As a teenager, Hannah Jacobs was excited for a sleepover with her older sister Casey, but a blizzard altered their plans. Sometime that night, an unknown killer broke into Casey’s apartment in Laramie, Wyoming, and brutally stabbed her multiple times, leaving her for dead. Ten years later, Hannah is still haunted by the murder of her sister that fateful night, and with no viable suspects or evidence, the case has long turned cold, nearly forgotten by everyone except her. Determined to uncover the truth, Hannah shutters her Private Investigation firm and travels to Laramie.

Can do bad things . . .Tabitha and her best friend Nancy have been inseparable for years, but when Nancy suddenly begins avoiding Tabitha shortly after the beginning of their senior year, Tabitha grows concerned. But before she has a chance to find out why Nancy has driven a wedge between them, she learns that Nancy has been murdered, and what’s even worse, the police seem to be looking at her as their prime suspect. Now not only does she feel like she owes it to Nancy to discover the identity of her killer, she also has to do it if she wants to keep herself from being arrested for a ...

Dylan First, a brilliant psychologist, is haunted by the horrific discovery of her past. Her mentor and father figure, a brilliant psychiatrist and professor, was secretly a serial killer. He is behind bars, but with everything Dylan thought she knew turned upside down, she feels lost when the FBI suddenly comes knocking. A new killer is using her mentor’s trademark signature. And they need Dylan to dissect his mind and stop him before it’s too late.

A modest, Midwestern girl, Kaylie Brooks falls in love with a wealthy man who sweeps her off her feet and transplants her to a mansion in Palm Beach. But ominous signs abound, and Kaylie, out of place, realizes she is with a husband she barely knows. When a woman is murdered, Kaylie realizes she must dig deeper and uncover the secrets of this wealthy community, and of her husband’s past. But is she ready to face what she discovers?

Ellie Simons stands to inherit her Uncle Merlin's huge English country house. But on three utterly bizarre conditions. One: she must lose sixty-three pounds (rude!). Two: she must marry the fake fiance she's been passing off as her true love all weekend. And three: she must catch whoever killed Uncle Merlin in the first place.

Luke Whitney is stabbed to death. His wife Anna confesses after she is found next to his lifeless body. But if she did it, why can't she confirm any of the details of the crime? As police dig into the circumstances, they learn that the victim was a liar, a cheat and a narcissist. More than one person had a reason to want him dead; his scorned ex, his neglected mistress and Anna – who knows what happens to Mrs Whitneys when Luke gets bored of them.

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out...and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of....

Sarah Morgan is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC. With a perfect case record and having made named partner before the age of thirty-five, her life is going exactly as she planned. However, the same cannot be said for her husband, Adam, a failed author, who’s grown to resent his wife’s meteoric success as he feels it’s come at the expense of their relationship.

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Lana Fleming’s sister has vanished from the set of TV’s hottest show, and no one seems to care. Desperate for answers, Lana sneaks in as an extra, only to get stranded with Griffin Hart, an A-list action star with a reputation for good abs and bad decisions. Though Griffin didn’t expect to be cast as a librarian’s sidekick in a real-life thriller, he’s weirdly into it—and into her. Even more unsettling—she sees right through his playboy persona. But their meet-cute soon turns deadly when they uncover a Hollywood scandal for the ages.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable. But when Gwen's husband is found murdered after one of their weekly Friday night dinners, the peaceful quiet of their cul-de-sac shatters. The seemingly idyllic world of the three close-knit mom friends becomes a web of deception, betrayal, and revenge.

SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police. A top investigator until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue. Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women’s Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi’s death before the killer can take another one of their own.

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed.

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard. She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn't right.

NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow."This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.

Following the incident that brought justice to her parents’ killers but ended her career, former FBI Special Agent Rebecca West needs a fresh start. Hoping to find peace, she decides to spend a few months in the sleepy beach town of Shadow Island, where she spent idyllic summers as a kid. However, her vacation is cut short when a seventeen-year-old goes missing with no leads or clues. When the girl’s body is found in a nearby marsh with strangulation marks around her neck, Rebecca can’t say no when the overworked sheriff asks her to help investigate.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.

Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident...and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with 24-hour care.

When Glasgow law student David Hunter survives a mysterious attack, he discovers he's a descendant of a long line of witches known as Dream Dancers. Thrust into a hidden world of magic, government conspiracies, and perilous quests, David must master his newfound abilities to protect the mystical Akashic Records—the key to humanity's past, present, and future. Alongside the fiery Jessica Campbell, wise Aunt Gen, and the underworld creature Terence, they face malevolent forces aiming to manipulate reality.

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.