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Harry Starke

Harry Starke

No badge. No rules. Ex-cop Harry Starke’s second act.Recommended for fans of Davenport, Hammer, and Bosch.Harry Starke was once the golden boy of law enforcement. Now, he's a formidable private eye with a chip on his shoulder and a score to settle. Forced out of the police department by the city's powerful elite, his fall from grace only fueled his determination to uncover the truth, no matter how ugly.When Tabitha Willard's body is pulled from the Tennessee River, the official verdict is suicide. But Harry was there on the bridge when she jumped, and he can't forget the terror he saw in her eyes moments before she fell. What could drive a vivacious young woman to such desperation?As Harry...

Flim Flam

Flim Flam

Flim Flam is the fourth novel in Carl Schmidt’s Jesse Thorpe Mystery Series, set in Maine. The story follows private investigator Jesse Thorpe as he investigates the murder of Scott Decker, a young entrepreneur from the Lewiston area, who is found dead in his home, with a trove of gold bars missing from his wall safe. Scott’s former high school sweetheart hires Jesse to uncover the truth behind his death.Witnesses suggest that Scott may have made his fortune in the opioid trade, but his family and closest friends insist that can’t be true. Suspects abound, including Scott’s ex-wife, his business partner, and several associates from a local militia. Jesse’s investigation spans six y...

Redbone

Redbone

Redbone is the third novel in Carl Schmidt’s Jesse Thorpe Mystery Series, set in Maine. The story follows private investigator Jesse Thorpe as he investigates the death of Julio Redbone, who, after serving eight years in prison for a minor offense, receives a gubernatorial pardon but dies a month later from a lethal dose of potassium cyanide.While the Portland police consider it a probable suicide, Julio’s mother, Juanita, believes otherwise and hires Jesse to uncover the truth. As Jesse delves deeper, he uncovers a network of violent criminals in high places. The novel is noted for its intricate detective work, forensic details, and witty dialogue, bringing to life the local charm of Ma...

A Priestly Affair

A Priestly Affair

A Priestly Affair is the second novel in Carl Schmidt’s Jesse Thorpe Mystery Series. Set in Maine, the story follows private investigator Jesse Thorpe as he is hired by Monsignor Francis O’Reilly to locate his three-year-old daughter, Evelyn, conceived during a one-time encounter with a parishioner, Nicole Levesque. Despite confirming his paternity through DNA testing, the monsignor has never met his daughter and has been paying annual child support without any contact.As Jesse delves into the case, he discovers that Nicole is part of an organized group of con artists who use deception and threats to maintain their schemes. The investigation takes a darker turn when another paternity vic...

A Murder Foretold

A Murder Foretold

Charlie Novak has been making a very nice living staging fatal accidents and splitting the insurance payouts with his partner. The victims? His partner's many wives. But when one of those wives is slain 6 months ahead of schedule by someone else, Charlie needs to find out who did it, and why--before a homicide investigation unravels their entire history of serial insurance fraud and serial murder. But there are complications. Disfigured as a child, Charlie has never known love. So he's in way over his head when he falls for the woman who found the body, and whose involvement in the crime is a deepening puzzle. He's helplessly drawn to this woman despite knowing she has dark secrets of her ow...

Voices in the Night

Voices in the Night

Set in the early ‘90s when cellphones were a new thing, wounded soul and single dad Nick Clayborne uses a radio scanner to listen in on private conversations--virtually his only adult contact. He fills notebooks with what he hears. He’s not totally weird though: he has a book deal based on his earlier article in Rolling Stone. His life changes when three of those strangers he listens to are brutally murdered. His life changes again--for the better-- when he finally meets one of the women he’s been listening in on. But when the police learn about Nick and his strange hobby, he becomes their prime suspect. Especially when three more victims turn up in his notebooks. Now all the cops need...

Upriver

Upriver

NCIS Special Agent Linus Schag is no stranger to violence and bloodshed, but when he’s sent to Iraq to take custody of two Navy SEALs suspected of murder, he finds himself thrust into a manmade inferno as coalition forces fight to free northern Iraq from the Islamic extremist group called ISIS.The explosion of an IED allows the SEALs, suspected of killing a fellow commando, to escape and flee up the Tigris River in a stolen Navy patrol boat. Schag pursues the SEALs in another boat assisted by an Army criminal investigator, a vengeful Iraqi interpreter, and a hostile Navy boat crew. Facing danger at each bend in the river, Schag and his companions endure ambushes, firefights, and friendly f...

The Butcher's Bill

The Butcher's Bill

2017 Best Mystery/Suspense Novel (Best Independent Book Awards)2018 Clue Award for Best Thriller (Chaticleer International Book Awards)Meet William Butcher, aka The Butcher, former Navy SEAL, now a disgraced ex-NCIS agent.Those who stole $9 billion in cash from Iraq want him dead.The cops want him for murder.Butcher's only hope is his former NCIS colleague and closest friend, Linus Schag.Together Schag and Butcher tear away the veil of conspiracy,uncovering a criminal enterprise reaching into the highest levels of government.Ripped from today's headlines, this sequel to Martin Roy Hill's highly praised The Killing Depths takes the reader from the California mountains to the coastal waters of...

The Killing Depths

The Killing Depths

A killer lurks beneath the waves of the western Pacific Ocean.

The USS Encinitas, the first attack submarine crewed by both men and women, stalks the Crescent Moon, a renegade Iranian sub armed with nuclear-tipped missiles.

But another predator hides aboard the American sub, a murderer who has already left a trail of dead women behind on shore.

While the crew of the Encinitas plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with the Crescent Moon, NCIS investigator Linus Schag must discover the killer’s identity before his – or her – blood lust leads to the submarine’s total destruction.

The Fourth Rising

The Fourth Rising

On May 8, 1945, WWII in Europe ended with Germany’s surrender. But did the Nazi Party itself surrender? Some say no.1943: A German ship moors in a clandestine anchorage in western Mexico with a cargo of gold intended to bribe the Mexican government into declaring war on the United States. When the attempt fails, the German vessel flees leaving its gold buried somewhere along the coast of the Sea of Cortés.1997: The horrific murder of an old flame’s husband sets former war correspondent Peter Brandt on the hunt for the hidden Nazi treasure. The search takes him down a bloody trail leading from the drug cartels of Mexico to a neo-Nazi training camp in the Southern California mountains. Al...

The Last Refuge

The Last Refuge

Iraq, 1991: Operation Desert Storm. In a terrible friendly fire incident, a U.S. helicopter massacres a small convoy of American MPs. Among the dead: a mysterious American civilian engineer discovered by the soldiers behind enemy lines.San Diego, CA, 1993: A freelance journalist is hired to write a story about a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the dead engineer's widow against the government and the defense contractor he worked for. The problem: the government insists the lawsuit does not exist, and the contractor claims the engineer did not work for them. Worse, someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.Peter Brandt, the war-scarred journalist hero of Empty Places, returns in this stor...

Empty Places

Empty Places

The year is 1987. America is clawing its way out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Washington pursues illegal and unpopular wars in Central America. In the wealthy desert playground of Palm Springs, storefronts that once catered to the rich sit empty and shuttered. Crowds of bored rich teenagers in designer clothing entertain themselves with expensive cars and cheap drugs, while those less fortunate haunt darkened street corners, offering themselves for sale.This is the country to which war correspondent Peter Brandt returns. Physically and mentally scarred by the horrors he’s covered, Peter comes home to bury his ex-wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, only to discover...

The Whistle of Revenge

The Whistle of Revenge

Book four of this stylishly addictive series, " The Whistle of Revenge", is an exciting standalone follow-up to The Hound of The Baskervilles. "Sometimes our deepest fear, is not the darkness, but the light that blinds!!Blurb. If you loved Conan Doyle's The Hound of The Baskervilles, prepare to be enthralled by KD Sherrinford's captivating follow-up, The Whistle of Revenge.The deadly antagonist, Jack Stapleton, makes a spectacular return to the city of Milan in pursuit of his old nemesis, the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes.Adopting the enigmatic persona of Janus, a vengeful Stapleton, along with the Italian mafia, wreak havoc on the Italian horse racing fraternity and fledgli...

The Bleed

The Bleed

THE BLEED - A GRIPPING NEW CRIME THRILLER. SET IN SOUTH LONDON, INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS.MARC MADISON IS A GHOSTAND YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOSTThis is PAUL BARRELL at his best. A Pedal to the Metal Thriller with a side of supernatural. HILARY MANDERGreat plots, great characters, great action. PHILIPPA NICHOLSONGangs of London meets Top Boy. SHEENGATE PUBLISHINGMarc Madison is a loveable rogue, with a flawed addictive personality but no one ever got sacked for smoking a little too much weed or nursing the hangover from hell. He is, unbeknown to others, also one of the Mets best undercover cops and his current assignment is to bring down the drug Kingpin of south London.With the help of bad boy deal...

Meet Me in Milan.

Meet Me in Milan.

The deepest secrets are often out in the open, if we only know where to look. Book 3 of This stylishly addictive series is a mystery within a mystery that will keep readers turning the page. Blurb While her husband, Sherlock Holmes is off playing detective in London. Irene Adler finds herself having to turn investigator when her friend Renata becomes the prime suspect in the attempted murder of her husband, Luigi Amato. How can she refute the testimony of a credible eyewitness, even though her heart tells her that Renata is innocent? She needs tangible evidence and is willing to do what she must to obtain it. When Sherlock finally arrives on the scene, Irene seeks his cou...

The Bleed

The Bleed

THE BLEED - A GRIPPING NEW CRIME THRILLER. SET IN SOUTH LONDON, INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS.MARC MADISON IS A GHOSTAND YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOSTThis is PAUL BARRELL at his best. A Pedal to the Metal Thriller with a side of supernatural. HILARY MANDERGreat plots, great characters, great action. PHILIPPA NICHOLSONGangs of London meets Top Boy. SHEENGATE PUBLISHINGMarc Madison is a loveable rogue, with a flawed addictive personality but no one ever got sacked for smoking a little too much weed or nursing the hangover from hell. He is, unbeknown to others, also one of the Mets best undercover cops and his current assignment is to bring down the drug Kingpin of south London.With the help of bad boy deal...

Christmas at The Saporis

Christmas at The Saporis

What will The Saporis find beneath the Christmas Tree this year? Presents, or family skeletons. In the spirit of the holiday and a wish for familial harmony, Irene Adler persuades her detective husband to invite his brother Mycroft to Christmas Luncheon. Holmes had cut ties with his bother when he discovered the machinations Mycroft employed that drove Sherlock and Adler apart for four years. He isn't really sure if this reunion is a great idea, but he can deny his wife nothing. Of course, they can't tell the children what Mycroft is to them, as that would entail learning that their father is the celebrated detective when they know him simply as Lucca Sapori. And just when they thi...