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What if you had the power to deliver justice, to punish evil men, to right wrongs, and to save innocent lives? The family of young Mason Banks had been hurt, betrayed, cheated, and his father murdered. He felt helpless until he was recruited by a mysterious man whose organization gave him the opportunity to use his skills to deliver the justice the legal system couldn’t. And not only to his father’s killer. It was a noble cause… until it wasn’t....

2017 Agatha Award Nominee"For her first foray into full-length fiction, Laura Oles has demonstrated that her fictional eye is every bit as accurate as her camera lens. Well deserving of earning a place as a Killer Nashville Claymore Award finalist, Daughters of Bad Men is a solid tale, well told, and a promise of more to come from Jamie Rush." Killer Nashville"Compelling and deeply moving, Daughters of Bad Men is a study of the tangled family ties that bind. An...

A trained killer. One kill list. A world of hurt.Some killers are trained. Others are born of tragedy.She is both.A girl orphaned by betrayal. A woman reborn through vengeance.They took everything from her, her family, her innocence, her peace.Now they will pay for it.Raised by her father’s most loyal ally.Trained by a former KGB operative.Transformed into one of the deadliest assassins alive.She married into the empire that destroyed her world.And when her husband is executed in the streets, the last...

It’s been five years since CIA agent Travis Bishop walked away from his career...Now living on a ranch in Texas training performance horses, he swore he’d never go back.The arrival of an unexpected guest at the ranch throws Travis headfirst into trouble. A man shows up on his doorstep claiming an agent that saved his life has gone dark and is nowhere to be found. Worse yet, the CIA believes her to be a traitor.A simple dinner to talk through...

Fasten your seat belt. This is one trip you’ll never forget. It’s Christmas 1985. Phil Collins rules the airwaves, Back to the Future rocks the box office, and Teddy Ruxpin reigns supreme as the season’s must-have gift. Meet Tim and Blair, young upwardly mobile professionals from Omaha, Nebraska. They’re traveling to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for Christmas in their brand-new Jeep Wagoneer. They’ve driven this same 250-mile stretch of Interstate 80 countless times without incident. Tonight will be different. A blizzard...

To do: 1. check in guests2. help your pop star BFF3. solve a murder.Andrea Biscotti has a lot to juggle: She’s helping pop star Madison Beech move into her newly-renovated Beach Hill estate and prepping her family’s rental cottages for the start of the summer season—just a few days before Beach Hill’s annual Memorial Day Boat Parade.Then Andrea’s beloved cousin and cottage handyman Ricky doesn’t show up at a family birthday party, and the next morning, the body of a...

Returning to Pine Harbor was never part of Joy O’Farrell’s plan. But after a near-fatal shooting sidelines her NYPD career, she finds herself back in the coastal town she swore she’d left behind—a town still under the grip of the powerful Wallace family who shattered her father’s reputation years ago. When Joy uncovers their latest criminal expansion, she sees a chance to clear her father’s name and take down the family that has ruled Pine Harbor through fear and corruption....

What was real and what was fantasy?When Frank and Dora Parker, in their Boston Whaler, are fly-fishing for trout one day in their hometown of Twin Valley, Oregon, ghostly fog begins to roll down from the mountains. With it comes a haunting scenario.On the lakeshore, a mysterious woman emerges from the forest holding a large knife in her hand. Then a man steps out of the woods dragging, what to Frank Parker appears to be a dead body. However, only...

When someone close to Lilah is murdered in what is clearly an assassination, Lilah finds herself looking to Ghost, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. But is Ghost a friend or an enemy? Lilah's about to find out. But Ghost isn't the only one close to Lilah who may well be an enemy. Apparently, the line between friendship and murder, is bloody thin.Book nine in the Lilah Love series.

AN ENGROSSING AND FAST-MOVING STAND-ALONE MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MIKE STANHOPE SERIESWhat if someone paid you a massive bribe, but you knew nothing about it?When Rob Crichton arrives from London at a remote Northumbrian pub seeking rest and recuperation after executive burn-out, he’s quickly caught up in a bitter dispute between the likable landlady Catriona and her estranged husband Shaun.That turns out to be the least of his problems. Summoned back to London to fight for his job,...