Mystery & Suspense

  • The Forbidden Life: Money, Fame, Secrets What the Price of Freedom? by Lifar Waidus

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    In a foreign land of royals and a wealthy family, Atheela is miserable. Following her sixteenth birthday, she has a run-in with her overbearing father, Victor, that ends with a nearly fatal accident. She’s sent to a posh rehab where she’s thriving, free from Victor’s excessive rules until one of his henchmen arrives with the news her older sister was given into an arranged marriage and she must return home for the engagement party. Setting foot back in the lion’s den of her childhood home is too much to handle, and she knows she has no choice but to smile and look pretty for the cameras. Little did she know that nestled in amongst the crowds of oil tycoons and superficial heiresses at the party, she would discover her first love. She falls for him hard and fast, sneaking out to clubs and late-night calls, certain that in no time she’d be walking down the aisle to be his Mrs. Her whole world is turned on its head the day of her sister’s wedding, when she learns the diabolical truth behind how Victor’s accrued his astronomical wealth, and she is forbidden from ever seeing her love again. She’s forced to flee her homeland and start a new life from scratch, a free life on her own terms and with her own rules. Content alone and fulfilling her dreams, fate drops an opportunity in her lap she can’t resist—the opportunity to love again. Everything is going perfectly fine until a member of her family is cruelly killed in revenge for Victor’s crimes, and she is forced to face her past and the man who almost destroyed her, again.

  • The Finger Trap by Johnny Worthen

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    Tony Flaner is a malingering part-time comedian, full-time sarcastic, who’s never had it hard, and never finished a thing in his life. He’s had twelve years to prepare for his divorce and didn’t. He had his entire life to choose a career and hasn’t. Now time’s up, and he’s in a world of trouble. But it gets worse—a first date and a drunken party ends with Tony facing prison for the murder of a girl he hardly knew.

    But other than that, it was a pretty great party.

    To save himself, wise-cracking Tony must discover who the mysterious girl was, what she was involved in and what the hell she saw in him in the first place. Their lives are linked together at the ends of a Chinese finger trap, like life and death, friends and enemies, arugula quiche and pigs knuckles.

    Winner of the League of Utah Writers Diamond Quill for Best Book of the Year.

  • Cursed by Peter Gray

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    It’s Halloween weekend, and Sara and her friends decide to go out into the wilderness to stay at Blackthorn Campground. When they arrive the campsite is eerily quiet, and the only lodger living there is quite adamant that they should leave. Sara and her friends choose to stay at the camp site, forcing them to face the consequences of their own actions.

  • Undercover Soldier-Part One by Austin Mitchell

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    One time mob hit man, Gus Mc Creed is engaged in a deadly struggle with several drug syndicates for control of the lucrative Jamaican market. These syndicates have gunmen whom, they call soldiers and whom, they often unleash on each other or hire out for pay.In the midst of all this, his foster son, Fred Billings, wants to get rid of his daughter, Lorena, as he has his eyes set on Mc Creed’s empire. Special Branch Detective, Curtis ‘Bendoo’ Johnson, could spell trouble for both men when he is sent to the notorious Wareika Hills area of Eastern St. Andrew, to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers hiding out there. Bendoo discovers that the gang is controlled by Mc Creed’s syndicate but soon comes to the conclusion that maybe he has bitten off more than he can chew as some of the most dangerous men on the island are holed up there.However the word fear does not exist in Bendoo’s vocabulary and that’s why he was sent on this dangerous mission by his superiors.

  • No Tears for Sonya by Austin Mitchell

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    Three years ago, Judy Binns, witnessed Sonya Brown writing fraudulent receipts. She threatened to tell her boss, Chester Guthrie on her. Sonya went to her off again, on again boyfriend, Mickie, to get contract killer and hitman, Carlos Whyte to warn her off. She is horrified a few weeks later when Judy is killed in a hit and run accident. Now three years later Chester is shot dead Sunday morning after he told her on Saturday night to come for a stock count the next day. She has things to hide, she has an apartment, and three taxis and several bank and investment accounts over the ten years she has been working at the hardware. Mickie does a disappearing act, first to Montego Bay and then to the Cayman Islands from where he was deported back to Jamaica. When Sonya asked him why he was running away he said that he was certain that Carlos was the triggerman. Chester’s wife, Delta, takes over, suspects Sonya of fraud and she is forced to repay the money she stole. To complicate things Carlos is shot dead a few weeks later. While he was in prison he confessed to a fellow prisoner about his role in both murders. The police are now treating the hit and run accident that claimed Judy’s life as murder. Meanwhile both Judy’s family and Delta have hired their own investigators to help probe the case. Sonya is selling goods out of the back of her car as she awaits the outcome of both cases. Incidentally both she and Delta were arrested on separate occasions for murdering Chester, but were released when Mickie who the police were relying on changed his statement. However a new witness has come forward claiming that he knows who paid Carlos to carry out the murders. He also claimed that Mickie witnessed the transactions.

  • THE CARRIER by _N_U_A_N_C_E_

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    After a science experiment goes terribly wrong, a young medical student is forced to bear the consequences as she becomes the only surviving carrier of a deadly novel virus.

  • The Place That Sleeps by L.R. STARR

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    Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack. All dressed in black, black, black.

    He likes to watch.

    The place that sleeps, that’s what the natives call it. A sweet little coastal coast town on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

    Piper decides it’s time for a seaside visit, she’s a frustrated investigative journo who’s on a quick getaway with her girlfriends. She picks a holiday house that’s owned by a wealthy barrister. The overpriced oceanfront rental mysteriously goes on the market every two years, except it never sells.

    The walls are dripping wet with secrets that threaten to overflow from its cracks.

    Then there’s Jack McMaster, the hot boy broody surfer and son of the owner. He’s drawn to Piper for more reasons than one. Locals start whispering in her ear about the house amongst the dunes, as a monster lurks and her investigative nose starts sniffing.

    She might break the story of the year, but when her friends go missing and she unravels one deadly secret after another the monster wants to take her to a watery grave.

    What will she discover about the broody McMaster from the sleepy side town?

    You can only cover things up for so long…

  • CheckMate by L.R. STARR

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    Welcome to L.R. Starrs’s author page. She is a romantic suspense writer with a penchant for private investigator heroines, assassins, and complex hot baddies who you hate to love.

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    L.R. Starr is a lover of mysteries, witty dialogue, suspense, romance, and fantasy. If you like to travel through your books strap in for the ride she’ll take you across the country.

    When she’s not I’m writing she’s usually exploring, and coming up with yet another devious plot or pursuing her other love which is painting and drawing. Enjoy the bedlam friends!

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  • The Adulterer’s Handbook: A Novel by Sam Anthony

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    I’m about to jump into the canal and pull her to safety when I stop at the edge of the towpath.
    What if I do nothing…?
    The must-read psychological thriller for 2020.
    If you’re having an affair and you don’t want to get caught, you must read this book.
    The Adulterer’s Handbook is the story of a happily married man, desperately trying to prevent his wife from finding out about his affair. For months he is successful, but then things take a dark turn…
    A love story, a betrayal, an accident, a murder? You decide.
    Lee Bolton has it all: a wonderful wife who he adores and two lovely children. But something is missing from his marriage.
    Sophia Miller, the office temptress, offers to fill the gap and they begin a carefully regulated and orchestrated affair.
    Lee, delighted with his new and improved sex life, walks a tightrope of near discovery; forever trying to keep his secret safe.
    But Sophia wants more. She wants it all.
    Sophia starts to break the rules, and she puts Lee’s marriage in jeopardy.
    How far will he go to protect his family?
    Would you commit murder to save your relationship?
    Gripping domestic noir with a shocking twist.

  • Killian (The fearless Few Series) Book 1 by Ryan Michele

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    The power of a name … Killian Graham.

    He was the kind of guy I couldn’t forget. From a high school crush that never went anywhere to now the full-grown alpha male that made my spine tingle, Killian Graham was the total package.

    Frustrating, infuriating, and hot as they come, Killian Graham invaded my world and things haven’t stopped spinning since.

    My best friend got herself in some trouble. Being the strong woman I was, I came to her rescue. That’s when Killian stepped in to save us both. From there, things got intense both in and out of the bedroom.

    Killian Graham the mystery man who rocked my world on every level.

    Killian Graham the man who decided he wanted me and would stop at nothing to have me safe and in his bed.

    The one man I wanted more than my next breath. The very same man I wasn’t sure I could hold onto because everything about him was a secret. Or so I thought.

    He laid his world at my feet. Now, it was up to me to decide if I could accept where things were headed for us and everyone around us.