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Mamma Mia It's Murder

Mamma Mia It's Murder

When Carmella Moretti inherits her grandfather's beloved pizzeria in the quaint coastal town of Wavecrest Cove, she trades her fast-paced New York advertising career for small-town charm and the promise of keeping her family's legacy alive. But her fresh start takes a dark turn when a rival pizzeria owner is found dead, and suspicion falls on Carmella's establishment.Teaming up with the enigmatic Detective Maddox Jones, Carmella must clear her name and uncover the truth behind the murder. As they dive deeper into Wavecrest Cove's secrets, they discover a web of lies, rivalries, and unexpected alliances that threaten to tear the community apart.With the annual Best Pizzeria Bake-off Festival ...

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...

Evanish

Evanish

A young girl vanishes while playing in the forest of the Adirondack Mountain region. A reclusive writer is accused of committing the horrendous crime of murder and mayhem. Eleven years later, Troy Matthews is released from prison, and he and the girl's sister Jenna, set out to discover the real truth of her sister's disappearance. Along with an exceptional young man, they journey into the unknown within the underworld beneath the forest. Meet the Gods, Goddesses, elementals, fairies, ancestral spirits, and evil creatures that dwell in the lower Earth. Accompany the cortege as they strive to find the missing girl, and become tangled in an eternal battle between good and evil. Discover hidden ...

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Devastated by the loss of his wife to cancer, Al is looking for a way to deal with his grief. Once an advanced-level pickleball player, he hopes moving to a new town and returning to the game he loves will help him recover. With his loyal dog, Butch, along for the ride, Al heads to Rio Viejo, a small town on the Mexican border with a growing pickleball community.All is well in Al’s new life until players start dropping dead all around him. The local sheriff and his cohort, a retired homicide detective, are stymied by the sudden crime wave and quickly set their sights on the newest resident.As he tries to reclaim his life and his love for pickleball, Al must discover who is killing his new ...

All In A Day's Work

All In A Day's Work

Bob Jackson, the Consumer Champion, is a hero in Denver. Taking on dishonest contractors and businessmen, he is on a mission to protect unsuspecting consumers. His listeners love him, and shady contractors hate him. His fortune and fame have grown over the years and are now at dizzying heights. But things take a downward turn when contractors and business owners Bob has tangled with start to die. The murders—each one more gruesome than the last—are committed by a duo who leave almost no evidence for the police to go on. To further stymie and taunt the police the killers leave notes behind, calling themselves the Revengers. They tell the police and the public that the killings won’t sto...

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

Devastated by the loss of his wife to cancer, Al is looking for a way to deal with his grief. Once an advanced-level pickleball player, he hopes moving to a new town and returning to the game he loves will help him recover. With his loyal dog, Butch, along for the ride, Al heads to Rio Viejo, a small town on the Mexican border with a growing pickleball community.All is well in Al’s new life until players start dropping dead all around him. The local sheriff and his cohort, a retired homicide detective, are stymied by the sudden crime wave and quickly set their sights on the newest resident.As he tries to reclaim his life and his love for pickleball, Al must discover who is killing his new ...

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...

One Man Down

One Man Down

The tale of a stumped policeman, a third man, and a well-placed shot. It’s 1984. Princess Diana has just given birth to her second child. The legendary comic Tommy Cooper has died on stage (quite literally). And Angus Lovejoy and Brian Finkle are gloriously oblivious to it all as they strive to enthral the nation with their television commercials for the advertising agency Gordon Deedes Rutter. But all is not as rosy as it might seem in the frenetic world of Soho. Following a disastrous presentation to a manufacturer of diarrhoea tablets, Lovejoy and Finkle let off steam by playing cricket for an old school friend - but in doing so, stumble upon a nest of vipers involving a gay v...

A Brand to Die For

WORKING IN ADVERTISING CAN BE MURDER - LITERALLY.It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has been waging war on the Argentinians in the Falkland Islands. The miners are about to wage war on Margaret Thatcher. And Angus Lovejoy, once sent down from Charterhouse for shagging the Chancellor's daughter in the cricket pavilion, has now landed himself a job as a copywriter at London adland’s creative hot shop Gordon Deedes Rutter where he is teamed up with art director Brian Finkle whose neurotic Jewish parents are the bane of his life. The two are an unlikely duo, but their mischievous and sardonic take on the world makes them a brilliant creative team. Everything goes swimmingly until a bizarre and mys...

Write To Kill

Write To Kill

MOTIVE. MONEY. MURDER. YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP.

An aspiring author, cursed with writer's block and ridden with debt, is offered a huge amount of money to commit a heinous crime.

Caught up in the machinations of the underworld and at the mercy of London gangland boss, Mad Dog Maddox, will this budding writer accept the money, commit the crime and leave his innocence behind him?

And will real life turn to fiction, as events inspire him to write what he dreams will be an international bestseller?

WARNING - GRAPHIC and POTENTIALLY DISTURBING SCENES.X

The Killer in the Mirror

The Killer in the Mirror

17 year old Margot McClain used to be witty, talented and popular, but ever since a certain incident, she’s used her smart mouth like an insect-repellent to keep boys off her. But when a lost-looking new kid enrolls at her school and Margot learns he can’t remember his own name--or anything else about his past, her resistance weakens. She offers friendship as he grapples with bad dreams and shards of painful memories. His history catches up with him when a trashy former girlfriend shows up with two thugs. They demand he help them rob the bookstore where he works or they’ll tell the cops where he lives. Why would the cops be interested, he asks? “Don’t you remember? You killed your ...

Appointment in Mordora

Appointment in Mordora

Welcome to Mordora. It's a dark place with secrets so powerful they trigger a double abduction and a murder. And so toxic that revealing the truth would be worse than the crimes themselves. It begins with a murder that isn’t a murder, followed by a strange double abduction. To Police Detective Jacob Zaag, it feels wrong from the start. Who would kidnap a developmentally disabled teen and his adult sitter? A random grab? A sex crime? Zaag falls hard for Andrea, the boy’s single mom, 30, so damaged by her parents’ rejection. Running out of other angles, he reaches into the murky depths of Andrea’s past and uncovers a thicket of possible suspects and motives. When the truth finally emer...

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...