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Everyone came to hear Helena Marsh read murder. No one expected to witness one.When the bestselling mystery author arrives in Mapleoak for a bookshop reading event, the Murder Mystery Book Club is beside themselves with excitement. Twenty-four hours later, Helena is found dead — crushed beneath a fallen bookcase in her seaside rental cottage.With the town’s real detective inconveniently out of state, the club finally has its moment.Helena had enemies and plenty of them.A scorned ex-lover hiding secrets.A furious rival...

Raymond Mackey is a struggling crime writer. His friends call him Mack. But friends are in short supply these days. Mack’s thirty years as a homicide detective came to the kind of abrupt, ignominious end that tends to make friends dry up and blow away. It matters little that Mack was never actually a mole working for a shadowy, seemingly omnipresent mob boss. Somehow, the evidence was there anyway and the scandal ended everything for him overnight. Lucky to stay...

A missing woman. A bag of money. A detective who trusted her.Some lies you survive—others make you.Before Detective John Stone was a legend, he was just a cop with a bad habit of trusting the wrong people.Caroline Howard walked into Stone’s life with a story of blackmail, fear, and men willing to kill to keep their secrets. She was beautiful. She was desperate. And she was lying.A midnight exchange turns violent, a killer escapes into the dark, and Caroline disappears...

The truth is only revealed when you pull back the blanket of lies. From multiple award-winning and Amazon best-selling political fiction author Mikael Carlson comes a conspiracy thriller novel that pulls back the curtain on American politics in the first installment of this page-turning suspense series. * WINNER - National Indie Excellence Award for Political Fiction, 2020 * WINNER - American Fiction Award for Thriller: Political, 2020 * WINNER - Book Excellence Award for Suspense, 2021 * SILVER MEDAL -...

A City is Haunted by a Killer Who Believes He’s Saving Souls. The Detective Desperate to Stop Him Can't Let Go. Four years after vanishing, the Moralist returns—his twisted crusade to “cleanse” young women of their sins reignited with a twelfth victim. For Detective Walker Michaels, the case is personal: three years of failure have left scars. As he delves deeper, Michaels finds himself dangerously drawn to the latest victim and her grieving family, blurring the lines between duty and...

Can one honest man change the course of a nation? From multiple award-winning and Amazon best-selling author Mikael Carlson comes a contemporary political suspense thriller that pits an inspirational leader against an unscrupulous politician in an election that captivates the country. * Silver Medal - Global Ebook Awards for Fantasy/Contemporary, 2015 * Finalist - Montaigne Medal for Most Thought-Provoking Book, 2015 * Winner - National Indie Excellence Award for Political Thriller, 2014 * Silver Medal- Reader's Favorite Book Awards for...

What was supposed to be the highlight of their senior trip—a sightseeing flight over a newly formed volcanic island—becomes a nightmare when their plane crashes into the ocean.A handful of girls make it to an uninhabited island, certain rescue is just hours away. But help never comes.As days turn into a fight for survival, they discover that the greatest threat isn't the unforgiving landscape—it's each other...

Death. Chaos. Feathers.“DEATH, CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION VISIT THE MOUNTAIN-RESORT TOWN OF INDIAN HEAD, WYOMING.”—above-the-fold headline shouting from the Caspar Star-Tribune Monday, July 9 Special Two-Part EditionIt’s the beginning of the long Fourth of July holiday week, and Indian Head is crawling with tourists from Nebraska.That’s good, because ex-con Jack Ross is counting on those Cornhusker dollars to keep his roadside burger-and-shake joint, Crazy’s, going. And then the screaming and the dying start, and a demented killer is caught on grainy...

Theo Holmes is a private investigator and direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides of the homeless by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the San Diego and Vegas police departments to help. Working with Delaney Watson and a beautiful AI robot named P.A.M., Holmes and his team are confronted with contradictory DNA evidence and a bizarre connection with Elvis. Who is behind the killings in San Diego and...

Ashdown taught Elise Miriam Scott two rules:never make trouble, and never ask what happened at the lake.Years later, Elise has done everything right. She has degrees, credentials, a life built on evidence and control—operating rooms, board meetings, and legal briefs where facts are supposed to matter more than feelings. She has therapy sessions scheduled into her calendar like any other standing meeting. She has the kind of distance from her family that looks, from the outside, like success.Then her father...