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BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY OF ITS YEAR — Readers' FavoriteA lost Renaissance masterpiece. A king's ransom in Nazi gold.And a love that will not die.Eddie Grant has built a billionaire's life in the Paris he loves —born there, shaped by it, returned to it after his war. But the cityholds a wound that won't heal. A decade ago, a criminal gang traceda long-lost Raphael painting to his father's door. His father diedunder their torture. His wife and child were murdered.Now Jen...

“What have I done?” Navy SEAL Jack Thibideaux thinks as he stands over the shepherd girl he has just accidentally shot high atop a snow capped peak in Afghanistan. Thus starts Jack’s perilous journey to save the girl, and himself. With the Taliban close behind, Jack fights his way down the mountain to rescue the girl and find his own redemption. In his new life as a bookstore owner in a small Port Townsend, Washington Jack seeks solace from PTSD...

On Monday, Grace Reagan meets a teenager who says he is her son. Two days later her world is unrecognizable and there’s a dead woman on her doorstep.She’s been ignoring the warning signs for weeks. Something bad is coming, but until it’s right in front of her, Grace refuses to see it. When three seemingly unrelated disasters hit, her life flies out of control. In the center of the chaos is the stranger who believes she is his mother.Small town...

FIVE STARS! A Josiah Reynolds Mystery, is an engaging and entertaining whodunit! Keam’s plot is agreeably reminiscent of classic drawing-room detective novels, and her characters work so very well together. Death By Drama: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery is most highly recommended." -Readers' Favorite Josiah joins an amateur thespian group that puts on plays in quirky places like public parks and crumbling antebellum mansions. It is a way to socialize, and Josiah feels lonely when her friend Hunter stops calling. Since...

Death drives on four wheels...In the latest adrenaline-fueled Baker & Tate thriller, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate chase a faceless driver on a state-wide killing spree.When a brutal murder shocks a quiet Texas town, Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate are called to the scene. All signs point to a cold-blooded killer in a black Cadillac with tinted windows and no plates.Before they can close in, the car reappears miles away. Another victim. Another clean escape.With no...

A serial killer returns to torment the woman once determined to catch him. This time, she's not backing down.Former detective Jill Jacobs is forced to confront the Makeup Artist, an elusive psychopath whose trail of terror left seven dead and whose obsession with her almost destroyed her.When the Artist strikes again in a new city, Detectives Gordon Daniels and Aaron Remalla seek out Jill, whose strange telepathic connection to the killer is their best hope to catch him.Desperate and plagued...

What would it take to change the world?Henry is a wealthy idealist with a vision. He’s convinced the global order is broken by the erosion of democracy, the rise of inequality, and the threat of the climate crisis. Humanity can’t afford to wait for the compromised institutions to act.But a dark past shadows Henry’s project: the death of his former partner is a sacrifice to the cause he can’t leave behind—until he meets charming and like-minded Cecile. The two sense...

When a woman is found murdered in the San Antonio River Walk area, with a cryptic literary message tied to her wrist, Detective Mara Reyes discovers the killing may be connected to once-celebrated novelist Ethan Sloan.Seven years earlier, Sloan's career collapsed after a real homicide in Colorado appeared to imitate a murder scene from his bestselling novel Ash Summit. Though never charged, Sloan vanished from public life and became the center of a national controversy.Now someone has staged another body.As...

The war is over. The serpent is dead. Caleb Rourke and Zane Maddox are supposed to be free.They are not free.The woman who shaped Caleb's entire life is gone — but the machine she served has been running for two hundred years, and it doesn't stop for one man's grief, or his wedding, or his carefully built peace on the Virginia coast. When a silver key arrives with no return address, Caleb understands what it means: his father left something...

The board is set. The pieces are in place. There will be no stalemate in this endgame. Journalist Tierra Campos and FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen make a last-ditch effort to stop a coup against the incoming president of the United States in the thrilling conclusion to multiple award-winning political thriller author Mikael Carlson's terrifying contemporary fiction series. As the calendar marches toward the Electoral College vote that will solidify the cabal’s control, Tierra’s and Victoria’s ad-hoc alliance must roll...