When PI Iris Raines stares into the face of a murder victim who looks just like her, she’s plunged into a deadly vortex of hidden identities and long-buried family secrets. Soon she’s in a race to find a century-old treasure someone is willing to kill to possess. As Iris follows a trail of forgotten histories and dangerous clues, the mystery becomes startlingly personal. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes—Iris may be the key to everything. $0.99 on Kindle.
Double Trouble: A Texas Private Investigator Mystery
October 23, 2026 By
Free: Born for Revenge (Paxton & Walsh Mysteries Book 1)
October 23, 2026 By
Who once was lost now is found. But grace didn’t lead her home.
For the last year, the sinister shadow of unsolved kidnappings has haunted Detectives Holden Walsh and Cabe Paxton. Their cold case turns hot when one of the abductees returns, but her traumatized silence only sparks more questions.
As the detectives unravel a web of deception, they discover depraved horrors spreading further than either imagined. Confronted by secrets and stymied by lies, they finally uncover the truth—though not fast enough.
Another girl is taken.
With their friendship straining under the weight of the case, Walsh and Paxton race to find and stop the ruthless predator, all the while battling an unforgiving clock—and sometimes each other.
The past threatens to repeat itself. Because only some people are born to seek justice.
Others are born for revenge.
Paxton & Walsh stories deliver the unflinching loyalty and sharp humor of Robert Crais’s Elvis Cole & Joe Pike novels, the dogged determination and complex cases of Michael Connelly’s Bosch & Ballard, and the rural atmosphere and lawman partnership of Craig Johnson’s Longmire series. Free on Kindle.
The Evelyn Project
October 22, 2026 By
Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestor, who died of tuberculosis in 1894.
What if the past could be rewritten… one life at a time?
When London professor Franco Lorenzi is approached by a mysterious millionaire claiming a distant relative’s life depends on him, curiosity quickly turns into fear.
Because the woman they want to save died more than a century ago. $0.99 on Kindle.
Waking Sleeping Beauty
October 21, 2026 By
Some stories don’t end with a kiss. Some women don’t wait to be awakened. Los Angeles is sweltering through Holy Week when a teenage hustler named Kiddy is murdered on Hollywood Boulevard in broad daylight. The investigation pulls Detective Joanna Steele into a conspiracy that reaches from Hollywood’s shadows to the highest levels of power. Mia More is on the verge of superstardom when Kiddy crosses her path. What begins as concern becomes something far more dangerous: love, responsibility, and a fierce protective instinct that pulls her back into a world she once escaped. To save him, she may have to risk everything… including her life. Lana DeMille drifts through Los Angeles with a fractured memory and nowhere left to land. Somewhere in the gaps of what she’s forgotten lies the truth about what happened to Kiddy—if she can piece together what she saw before the killer remembers her.
As the investigation tightens and the body count rises, the line between victim and predator blurs. In this dark, fierce reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, three women awaken to a truth someone will kill to keep buried—in a city where the most dangerous stories are the ones no one lives to tell. $3.99 on Kindle.
Storm Damage: A Sonny Marshall Thriller
October 21, 2026 By
The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile. When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, the victim of a drugged-up killer. That night, during a gig, Sonny Marshall watches helplessly as his band’s guitarist collapses mid-set, brought down by a drug no one can identify, his body locked in euphoric paralysis. The incident rattles Sonny, but the news about Kat hits harder. When he learns she was among the victims, he drops everything to be at her side. Kat is more than a casualty—she’s the woman he loves, and the one person still holding him to the right side of the line. As he begins to connect the dots, a chilling truth emerges: two designer drugs, no less deadly, created by the same phantom chemist. Sonny isn’t a cop. He’s a blues saxophonist with a bad knee, a worse Oxy habit, and a white knight complex he can’t shake. With Kat recovering and chaos spreading, he steps outside the law—guided by a code the courts don’t recognize and a team that doesn’t ask for forgiveness.
As Sonny teeters on the edge, one question haunts him: How do you stop a killer no one can see—without becoming something you don’t recognize yourself? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Last Confession: Murder, Family, Ethnicity, and Justice in a Texas Border Town
October 19, 2026 By
A Texas Murder, a Priest and the 60-year Cold Case the Church Couldn’t Bury
In 1960, Irene Garza was murdered in McAllen, Texas. The prime suspect was a Catholic priest. What followed was not only a brutal crime, but a 60-year investigation marked by silence, institutional power, and a conviction that would become the oldest on record.
In The Last Confession, Dr. Lynda de la Viña—cousin to Irene Garza—reveals the inside story of a Texas murder the Catholic Church helped conceal. Blending true crime, memoir, and investigative reporting, she traces the decades-long fight for accountability in the Rio Grande Valley. Dr. de la Viña draws on meticulous research and personal memory to expose how legal barriers, district attorney refusals, church governance, and political ties obstructed justice for over half a century.
As a family member who lived under the shadow of this crime and a retired professor trained to analyze systems of power, Dr. de la Viña brings both emotional truth and factual precision to this historic conviction.
Inside, you’ll discover:
• How a 1960 Texas murder became one of the longest-running cold cases in U.S. criminal history—and why it took 60 years to convict.
• The documented inner workings of Catholic Church governance and how institutional silence protected a priest.
• The role of grand juries, district attorneys, and investigative process failures that delayed justice.
• The psychological manipulation and shifting confessions of Father John Feit.
• How one South Texas family refused to let corruption erase their cousin’s memory.
More than just a true crime book, The Last Confession is a record of perseverance, faith tested by power, and justice finally restored. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Bestseller
October 17, 2026 By
A story 130 years in the making is finally about to be told.
John Harrison had always wanted to write fantasy novels.
After retiring from a long career in marketing, he finally had the time to pursue the dream he’d carried for most of his life. But an old farmhouse, a forgotten typewriter, and a story that seemed to be waiting for him began to change everything.
When John started to write, the words came faster than he could explain, and they didn’t always feel like they were coming from him.
Each book he released became a bestseller, but each one brought him one step closer to the grave.
Will he finish writing the final book in the series? Or will he die trying?
Some stories are meant to be told.
Some stories refuse to stay on the page. Free on Kindle.
Free: Bells, Binders and Bodies (Apple Creek School District Mysteries Book 1)
October 16, 2026 By
A small-town scandal. A buried secret. And one woman determined to uncover both.
Miss Tony Cooper has spent years keeping the school district running smoothly-until everything begins to unravel.When missing funds trigger a quiet fraud investigation, Tony expects long hours and paperwork-not whispers, suspicion, and a growing sense that something isn’t quite right.
But when a principal is found dead and the superintendent is taken into custody, the situation turns far more serious than anyone in Apple Creek wants to admit.
As rumors swirl and the press circle ever closer, Miss Tony refuses to let the truth be lost beneath gossip and half-told stories-especially when someone close to her may be caught in the middle.
With only her instincts-and a very perceptive duck-Tony begins to piece together what others have overlooked. Because in a town like Apple Creek, secrets don’t stay hidden forever. And someone is counting on that.
Bells, Binders, and Bodies is the delightful first book in the Apple Creek School District Mysteries series-a cozy spin-off of the Apple Creek R-Park Department Mysteries.
If you enjoy small towns, hidden secrets, and a mystery best solved with instinct-and a perceptive duck-you’ll love Miss Tony’s warm and twisty adventures in this Montie Red series. Free on Kindle.
1/6: Will Be Wild
October 14, 2026 By
1/6: Will Be Wild is a terrifying alternate history of what might have been on January 6, 2021, and what might yet be on January 6, 2029. $0.99 on Kindle.
Enigma: The Alchemist’s Legacy
October 12, 2026 By
Inside a 400-year-old manuscript lies an alchemist’s secret that could change the world—or end it. TV host Michelle Cruise and US agent Alex Marshall race across continents to uncover it before the wrong people do. Is the formula worth dying for? For fans of Dan Brown, James Rollins, and Steve Berry’s historical mysteries.
$4.99 on Kindle.
The Ravens of Whitechapel: Sherlock Holmes: The Animal Cases Volume 1
October 12, 2026 By
The Ravens of Whitechapel and Other Curious Cases
Sherlock Holmes – The Animal Cases, Volume 1
A missing canary. Vanishing pigeons. Ravens blamed for theft and murder. Horses terrified by a danger no human seems able to see.
In this unique collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the world’s greatest consulting detective encounters cases in which animals play a crucial role in uncovering the truth. Set against the atmospheric backdrop of Victorian London, these stories explore the fascinating connection between human nature, instinct, and observation.
This volume contains four original Sherlock Holmes adventures:
The Ravens of Whitechapel – A colony of ravens becomes linked to a mysterious death in London’s East End.
The Pigeons of Fleet Street – Homing pigeons disappear from the skies above the city, leaving Holmes to uncover an unexpected predator.
The Street the Horses Feared – The strange behaviour of horses points to a hidden danger overlooked by everyone else.
The Canary in Baker Street – A small yellow bird helps reveal a moving story of loss, memory, and hope.
Written in the classic tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, these atmospheric mysteries combine deduction, Victorian intrigue, memorable characters, and the timeless partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
Classic Sherlock Holmes stories
Cozy mysteries with depth
Victorian London mysteries
Animal-themed mysteries
Historical detective fiction
Clever puzzles and traditional whodunits
Conan Doyle pastiches
The Ravens of Whitechapel and Other Curious Cases is the first volume in The Animal Cases, a series of original Sherlock Holmes adventures by Alistair Croft.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Frontier Bounty: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 5)
October 9, 2026 By
When a brutal escape unleashes a deadly fugitive into the Montana wilds, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is sent to bring him back, alive or dead. But the hunt turns treacherous when Danny discovers the escapee has entered the Bob Marshall wilderness, an area roughly the size of Delaware. Forced deep into whiteout conditions and uncharted wilderness, Danny must navigate blinding snow, rising danger, and a killer who knows the land as well as he does. What begins as a routine manhunt becomes a fight for survival—and the truth. $7.99 on Kindle.
Frontier Vengeance: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 4)
October 8, 2026 By
Danny Coogan is now working as a US Marshal, and he is within weeks of becoming a father for the first time. During a takedown of a fugitive, he makes a grisly discovery: a body, and it’s the son of someone he knows and works with. Thus begins an off-the-books investigation that leads him to millions of dollars in stolen money, an entire collection of dead bodies, and an ultimate showdown with an adversary determined not to be taken alive. $7.99 on Kindle.
The Naked and the Damned
October 8, 2026 By
Some Secrets Get Buried. Others Get Buried Alive.
Former prison warden turned private investigator Jack Marconi thinks he’s simply proving yet another case of an unfaithful wife. Instead, he stumbles into a ruthless conspiracy where corrupt lobbyists, Russian mob enforcers, political power, and millions of dollars collide in bloodshed.
When witnesses start disappearing and bodies are buried beneath the foundations of a massive Adirondack casino project, Marconi becomes the next target. Armed with only his instincts, his Colt .45, and a stubborn refusal to back down, he’ll have to expose the truth before he becomes a permanent part of the concrete foundations.
Fast-paced, gritty, and packed with razor-sharp dialogue, shocking twists, dark humor, and relentless action, The Naked and the Damned is a hard-boiled thriller that proves some crimes are never meant to stay buried. For fans of Michael Connelly, Reed Farrel Coleman, Robert B Parker, and hard-boiled mystery, suspense and pulp fiction. $0.99 on Kindle.
It’s Personal (Tess Kincaid)
October 8, 2026 By
Two-year-old Jack Spinozza disappears from a crowded shopping mall in broad daylight, leaving his parents trapped in every family’s worst nightmare.
As Tess and Eddie Spinozza work alongside Detective Rick Sinnard to find their missing son, the investigation uncovers long-buried secrets that refuse to stay hidden.
Someone knows exactly what happened to Jack.
Someone close to the family.
As every lead pulls Tess deeper into the past, she realizes her son’s abduction wasn’t random. It was carefully planned. The answers lie in old betrayals, broken loyalties, and a decades-old grudge that someone is finally ready to settle. To save Jack, Tess must confront truths she’s spent years trying to forget before the kidnapper returns to claim what they wanted all along.
Blending relentless suspense with emotional stakes, this psychological thriller explores revenge, family secrets, betrayal, and obsession while keeping readers guessing until the very last page.
Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, Kendra Elliot, and Melinda Leigh, as well as readers who enjoy crime thrillers with emotional depth and unforgettable twists.
It’s Personal is the seventh novel in the Tess Kincaid series. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone, longtime readers will appreciate this next chapter in Tess and Eddie’s journey. $0.99 on Kindle.
Loose Arrows: A Thriller
October 8, 2026 By
“About a mother’s grief, a father’s cancer, and the dangers of Russian machinations, Loose Arrows is an involving . . . entertaining thriller. . . . Strong women, playing against feminine stereotypes, dominate the book. . . . Underlying and coloring the action is a winning, comical narrative voice.” —Foreword Clarion Reviews $0.99 on Kindle.
Frontier Marshal: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 3)
October 7, 2026 By
U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan returns to his roots in Montana to settle in the sleepy town of Darwin with his pregnant wife. But as Danny races into town ahead of an early blizzard, the storms of his past threaten his future. Not only has the ambitions of the Ghost Buffalo Society set some of the local Indians on a path toward insurrection, but Danny’s best friend, Edmund Goodrunner, working undercover for the Tribal Council, has gone missing.
$7.99 on Kindle.
Frontier Outlaws: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 2)
October 6, 2026 By
Eight months after the showdown with the domestic terrorist group that nearly cost him his life, Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer, faces a new threat to his community—and his career. It starts with a dead steer. Which happens to be near the body of a dead rancher. Both of which are on the Dead Horse Indian Reservation.
Soon, Danny, the Tribal Police, the local Sheriff’s Department, and a US Marshal are pressed into action. Danny’s connections to the Rez draw him into the murder case and plant him firmly in the crosshairs of the killers. Another victim is discovered, tortured, and murdered—but why? What secret painted a target on these locals?
Along with fellow Afghanistan veteran Matt Bringloe from the Tribal Police, Danny is determined to uncover the truth. Then, a connection is made to a decades-old cold case, revealing hidden motives and secret agendas. Now, Danny must pull together the clues before someone else dies.
Cattle rustling, a magic mushroom drug operation, and unsolved murders result in a shoot-out at a remote ranch, a race against time to a ghost town, and a final stand in the most unlikely location.
With the flavor of a down-home yarn and the intensity of a high adventure, FRONTIER OUTLAWS offers Craig Johnson and CJ Box fans a thrilling ride that delivers a bronco-busting punch.
After the best-selling success of his first novel, FRONTIER JUSTICE, Michael Cardwell pulls his fans into another action/adventure. If you like mysteries and crime stories with resilient heroes, slam-bang action, and nail-biting suspense spiked with a splash of wilderness humor, you’ll love this second book in the Coogan Mystery series. $5.99 on Kindle.
Dead Behind the Banners
October 6, 2026 By
A glossy promise. A murdered promoter. And a road someone is willing to kill for.
When tourism consultant Nora Keene arrives in Salmon, Idaho, selling jobs, visitors, and a bright new future, reserve deputy Hatta McFarlane determines Nora’s backers are vague, her promises are slippery, and the stranger at the back of the council meeting scares her badly enough to crack her perfect smile.
By morning, Nora is dead behind the banners for Discover Salmon Weekend, her phone is missing, and the trail leads from false names and doctored maps to land Hatta inherited.
Suspects include Grant Bellamy, an ambitious lodge owner who has plans of his own; Clay Berringer, a disgruntled rancher; Wade Thomas and Bud Ferris Jr., rival contractors competing for promised work; and a stranger with more than one name.
With Sheriff Earl Hobbs, her perceptive dog Sprout and her ghostly grandmother helping, Hatta must discover who is turning memory, money, and murder into a map before the missing murder weapon is used on her.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1)
October 6, 2026 By
They built a cage of fear. Adrian Ward wrote the code to burn it down. When an MIT hacker translates ancient magic into a sentient C++ digital matrix, he triggers a shadow war with the Vatican’s elite hit squads. Dan Brown meets William Gibson in this high-octane cyber-occult thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.
Frontier Ghosts: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 6)
October 6, 2026 By
PRE-SALE, RELEASE Nov 1st – When a ghost from the past refuses to stay buried, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is pulled into a case that doesn’t make sense, and that someone powerful doesn’t want solved.
What begins as a routine eviction turns darker with every step. Missing persons with no trail. Bodies surfacing where they shouldn’t. And secrets buried long enough that some people have built their lives on keeping them that way.
But this is no ghost story.
As Danny digs deeper, he begins to see the hand of a powerful enemy from his past, someone with the reach to stop investigations, silence witnesses, and make the truth disappear. Someone who knows exactly what Danny is capable of and has no intention of letting him uncover what happened years ago.
With the body count rising and the past closing in, Danny must navigate deadly terrain, old betrayals, and an enemy who always seems one step ahead. It turns out the most dangerous ghosts aren’t the ones haunting the land.
They’re the ones still breathing—and they remember Danny Coogan. $12.99 on Kindle.
Fear of Flames: Romantic Thriller
October 6, 2026 By
She writes thrillers for a living, but nothing could prepare her for the one she’s living now. By day, Michelle Holdcraft is the quiet woman-next-door in small-town Indiana. But by night, she’s D. Valentine, a bestselling thriller author with a mind for murder and secrets. Her real life? Completely ordinary. Until one unplanned trip to visit her estranged father in Iron Falls, Massachusetts, flips everything upside down. She wakes to a gunshot only to find her father’s body in a pool of blood on the first floor and flames engulfing the walls.She barely escapes the burning house. Fleeing barefoot into the snow, Michelle becomes the only witness to a crime that no one in Iron Falls wants solved. Especially the sheriff. Hiding in the snowy pines as she watches her father’s home burn, Michelle doesn’t know what to do, until a mysterious man appears, offering to help her—to save her life. Michelle has never met Fletch—surely, she would remember this handsome and dangerous man if she had. However, Fletch knew her father and knows a lot about her, including her alter ego and her mother’s mysterious death. With limited options, Michelle accepts Fletch’s help. It isn’t until she sees the large tattoo across his wide shoulder blades that she is shaken to the core. Michelle has seen that exact tattoo before—on her father. Fletch might be her only ally… but he is hiding something. Somehow, her life has become one of her thrillers. This time, the heroine doesn’t get to write the final page. The story’s out of her hands—and the ending might just kill her. Have you been Aleatha’d? $1.49 on Kindle.
Frontier Justice: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 1)
October 5, 2026 By
Danny Coogan, a freshly minted Montana Fish and Game Officer and recent Afghanistan veteran, hopes to bury his demons in a simple life in the wilderness around the small town of Darwin. But his life becomes a nightmare when he is shot and left injured and alone in the freezing countryside to struggle for survival. His assailant? A local Native American, he had considered a friend, Edmund Goodrunner.
Thus begins a brutal battle of lies, deception, and revenge with drug runners, weapons dealers, kidnappers, and killers. Danny finds himself thrust into an FBI investigation and forced to juggle the threats of a dangerous domestic terrorist group that threatens every aspect of the community he loves and has vowed to protect.
Danny, along with his surrogate father, Senior Game Warden Ben Whitetail, and the local Tribal Police Chief, instill the rich flavor of rural America through poignancy and down-home humor as they struggle, each in their own way, to bring peace back to their snowy town.
Fans of Craig Johnson and CJ Box will love this outstanding first novel as the author draws on his military experience and deep love of rural America to produce this action/adventure.
If you like mysteries and crime stories with resilient heroes, slam-bang conflict, and nail-biting suspense seasoned with a splash of wilderness humor, then you’ll love FRONTIER JUSTICE. $4.99 on Kindle.
No Safe Harbor
October 5, 2026 By
Her boat survived the blackout. Now she has to survive everyone who wants it. Hunted through the Atlantic islands after an EMP, Shannon must protect her crew with paper charts, dwindling supplies, and a diesel engine she can’t afford to lose. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Things I Agreed To
October 5, 2026 By
Susan Price writes psychological thrillers about women who reclaim control.
When her latest novel explodes online, readers insist it isn’t fiction. They are certain it’s confession.
A young, charismatic influencer amplifies the theory, framing Susan’s silence as proof of buried truth.
But as interpretation turns to expectation, Susan realizes she is no longer the author of her own narrative.
As admiration hardens into entitlement, she must decide:
protect the myth that made her famous or reclaim herself and endure the fallout.
The Things I Agreed To is a precise psychological thriller about projection, authorship, and the cost of saying yes. $0.99 on Kindle.
