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A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales.Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance.In Washington, a small policy institute that has spent its life describing the world decides, for the first time, to act on it, and learns that the line between analysis and operation, once crossed, cannot be uncrossed.In Tehran, an air-defense colonel runs the only arithmetic that has...

A mysterious death and a world of problems for a retired cop...On a walk up the moor near Ilkley in Yorkshire, ex-detective Henry Ward and his loyal terrier Tessa stumble across the body of a young man, who is clearly deceased.Probing further, Henry decides that if the bag of drugs in his pocket is anything to go by, the lad has been up to no good.Despite resistance from the officer in charge – curt ex-Met officer DI Kate Barnes who’d rather Henry kept out of her way – Henry pursues his own line of inquiry. So much for thinking he’d...

Don't Deny the DeadA woman, clad only in a white nightgown, is dead - her body discovered on the banks of Black River. Her unsolved murder, and her ghost, still haunt the small town where she lived and died.Twenty-five years later, Detective Gordon Daniels inherits his estranged grandfather’s home on the property where the body was found. Anxious to sell it, Daniels invites his partner, Detective Aaron Remalla to help him clean it out and enjoy some time off from their high-pressure job. But their getaway is interrupted when a second woman’s body is found on the river, clad in...

Tommy has boomeranged back to his parents residence and a dead-end job after too many years in college. As he looks squarely at his next decade of life his smartphone convinces him the time is ripe for a change. A gift from his grandfather provides the means, so he embarks on the path of blues artists and beatniks before him—and hits the road. He immediately meets a damsel in hitchhiking distress who says her name is Mona. Her presence persuades him that the bright lights and dark clubs of Chicago might be his kind of town. So on a summer...

Tia Blackburn, the bounty hunter, is again on the trail of woman on her list.When Tia follows her suspect into a restaurant, she finds herself in the grasp of the true killer from her past.Now with time coming to an end, and lives being lost, Tia has to find a way to bring the killer to the forefront and confront her own demons.

Two-year-old Jack Spinozza disappears from a crowded shopping mall in broad daylight, leaving his parents trapped in every family's worst nightmare. As Tess and Eddie Spinozza work alongside Detective Rick Sinnard to find their missing son, the investigation uncovers long-buried secrets that refuse to stay hidden.Someone knows exactly what happened to Jack.Someone close to the family.As every lead pulls Tess deeper into the past, she realizes her son's abduction wasn't random. It was carefully planned. The answers lie in old betrayals, broken loyalties, and a decades-old grudge that someone is finally ready to settle. To save Jack, Tess must confront...

In this garden club, the competition is killer.Delia Norris hoped Magnolia Grove's prestigious garden club would help her plant new roots after her divorce. Instead, when the club president drops dead at the annual garden party, Delia finds herself surrounded by suspects with secrets to bury.A bitter rival. A nervous treasurer. A ruined landscaper. An estranged stepdaughter. Everyone has something to hide — and everyone has a motive.With her sharp eye for detail and Captain, her opinionated African gray parrot, offering commentary at the worst possible moments, Delia digs beneath Magnolia Grove's picture-perfect surface. Because in this town, the deadliest...

Lance Bear Wolf and his elite Shadow Tier operatives find themselves thrust into a high stakes battle against the resurgence of The French Connection, a sinister network with ties to Taliban terrorist funding. With the president's mandate echoing a desperate ultimatum—eradicate the Taliban's opium trade or face defunding—the pressure mounts as Wolf must navigate between safeguarding the Crow reservation and executing the president's directive. As Wolf’s teams trace the opium trail from Afghanistan to the shores of Marseille, France, suspicions arise regarding a clandestine United Nations connection. Wolf’s plan spirals into uncharted territory, culminating in a multi-national operation unlike anything...

Some Doors Should Never Be Opened. Some Mysteries Refuse to Stay Buried.Sixth grade at Mobile Middle School should be about football games, school dances, and surviving mystery meat in the cafeteria.Instead, Ben, Anna, Scooter, Frankie, Francesca, Stewart, Camilla, and Lucas discover hidden tunnels beneath their school, a missing teacher no one seems able to remember, and a mysterious lunch lady who may have been watching over Mobile for more than a century.As storms gather and strange disappearances spread across the city, the Magic Club finds itself drawn into a mystery older than the school itself. Deep beneath Mobile, something is...

Serial killers are riveting because they appear as normal humans—a neighbor, a mailman, a relative—but underneath it all, there is no humanity.The PVP Killer, named after the three letters that he leaves at his murder scenes, is a new serial killer in Detroit. The only characteristics about the killer that Detective Tobias Rodriguez can determine is that he’s inhumane, unstable, and still bloodthirsty.Tobias' new police partner, Detective Lauren Williams, realizes that the killer is staging his murder scenes like deaths from video games. Tobias is initially unreceptive toward Lauren, but when the killer takes an interest in her, his emotions...