Mystery: Iraqi Icicle

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A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of deviousness. Pulled from his cozy world, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. (This mystery novel takes place in Australia.) $2.99 on Kindle.

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Pickin’ Ground

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This Christian suspense novel is filled with southern charm, mystery and a dash of suspense, Pickin’ Ground takes readers through a thorny murder plot that keeps unraveling to the very last page!

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St. Nick

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It’s not looking like a very merry Christmas for San Diego cop Nick Pappas. Suspended from his job, alienated from his family, and persecuted by the press, he’s sorely tempted to turn his gun on himself. Except for his first name, he couldn’t possibly have less in common with jolly old St. Nicholas. But when a local mall decides it needs a secret Santa to help collar some vicious muggers preying on its holiday shoppers, Nick decides….

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Mystery: “Mark of the Loon”

Mark of the Loon

Madison is a skilled property “flipper” who renovates distressed homes in addition to her busy real estate sales career. She struggles with the inability to put down roots years after the sudden death of her beloved parents. Madison and her three wise, hilarious friends all wonder if she uses her busy, work-centric lifestyle as an excuse to avoid connection with anyone but them.

Madison is keen to buy a fabulous stone cottage in the country and she nixes her budding relationship with Coleman Welles to do it. But once the renovation begins, the property’s long-buried secret threatens to derail everything. Can her friends help solve the mystery?

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Crime Thriller: Damnatio Memoriae

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On a small, remote island off the coast of Maine life is pretty quite for Enim, a high-school student. But when a body washes up on the school’s shore and a teacher vanishes without explanation, Enim finds himself tangled in the crime. He fears the unfolding events might dredge up horrors in his past that, if uncovered would ruin him. As Enim is pulled further and further into crimes that he both has and hasn’t committed, he finds that his mind is slowly unraveling and his grip on reality is faltering. Find out what happens in “Damnatio Memoriae.”

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Until Morning Comes

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Secret Service Agent Carlie Simmons began her day surrounded by trusted colleagues in an inter-agency shooting competition in Tucson. It ended with a staggering body count as the world around her unraveled from a deadly virus. With her mission to extract the President’s daughter from the University of Arizona gone awry, she must choose between her sworn duties and her moral obligations to others as the city is overtaken by roving packs of flesh-eating mutants. If she and her small group are to survive the night and find a way out of the ravaged city, she will have to summon all of her training, mental prowess, and tactical abilities.

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Free: The Caller

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Author Em Watts begins to receive disturbing phone messages on her answering machine from a fan of one of her early books. As the book is a harrowing tale, she is concerned that the caller would be attracted to that particular book; and that he is calling regularly. A chilling kidnapping mystery, this book will be hard to put down! Free on Kindle.

An Unquiet American

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In the dead of night, Rufus Reed is a former British Special Forces officer turned author, is drugged, kidnapped and “disappeared” to a secret CIA prison outside the United States. Accused of terrorism he is relentlessly questioned and tortured.

But Rufus is no ordinary prisoner, and has some surprises of his own. He engages in psychological “warfare”, surprising his interrogators – Captain Sorenson and Walter Grace – with his ability to resist torture, his quick wit, intelligence and even-tempered logic. As he plants seeds of doubt, a dramatic turn of events sets off alarm bells in their minds – with growing horror they realize they may simply be pawns in a larger more insidious game being played out at the highest levels of the US government. A game where not just Reed, but all of them are expendable. Dare they take a life and death decision to step out of the game? And if so, how? $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Broken Men

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The year is 1980 and South Africa stands on the brink of collapse. World opinion is firmly against the white Afrikaner controlled government and internal strife is rising as indiscriminate bombings become an almost daily occurrence. Every white male between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five is eligible for conscription and the war has become one of attrition as it eats away at the fabric of society. Both sides have become so inured to death and aggression that violence has become a normal way of life.

In this turmoil of Apartheid and its policies of hatred, two young boyhood friends, Leon and Pete, grow up to become the most deadly enemies. Together they are drawn into a path of brutality and death that spans the oceans from Southern Africa to the United Kingdom.  The death of a way of life. The death of a country. And the birth of a new nation. $0.99 on Kindle.

Image of Deceit

Image-Of-DeceitThis cozy murder mystery tells the intriguing story of Bygie Hudson who had wanted a divorce for most of the years she was married. Still she did not know the depths of her husband’s depravity. When he ends up dead, Bygie learns what he’s really been doing, and she finds herself at top of the suspect list. $2.99 on Kindle.

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Melancholy Manor

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Private Investigator Hera Hunter thinks it’s odd when no one steps forward to identify the woman found dead behind City Hall. Then another friendless woman is gunned down on the street. “My stepbrother murdered them,” Zoey Barnes cries. But everyone knows she’s a little crazy. Besides, she’s hated her stepbrother ever since he ran over her fiancé twenty four years ago. Her cries go unheeded until their mother, Caroline Dunham, hires Hera to prove her stepson’s innocence. But Caroline’s a bit strange, too. She hears weeping from those who generations ago were murdered in her stately home. Hera doesn’t believe in mournful ghosts. But she does believe that there’s a connection between these past and recent killings and that she must find it before another lonesome woman dies. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: A Killer Season

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“A Killer Season” is the story of the man who wants to win the most money in Las Vegas history. Remarkably, he wants to do it betting on baseball, the most difficult sport on which to predict outcomes. To achieve this ambitious feat, Coll Nolan has to fight for his life all the way through the story. A dangerous background with Dutch mobsters from New York haunts his every step during his attempt to conquer Vegas. Coll knows his time in Sin City is going to become a killer season. Free on Kindle.

Free: Eleven (Brandon Fisher FBI Series)

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Eleven Rooms. Ten Bodies. One Empty Grave.

Brandon Fisher never expected this when he signed up as a Special Agent for the FBI. Working in the shadow of Supervisory Special Agent Jack Harper of the Behavioral Analysis Unit his career seemed set. But when the team is called to a small rural town where the remains of ten victims are found in an underground bunker, buried in an unusual way, Brandon knows he’ll never return to his normal life. Free on Kindle.

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The Clout of Gen

The Clout of Gen

A Suicidal Journalist, a hidden box, a recorded message taped 30 years ago, mentioning events happening decades ahead. Can John Teddy uncover a conspiracy reigning from East to West. $0.99 on Kindle.

The Body Business

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What if your killer job could get you killed? Great job. Fantastic boyfriend. Samantha Newman thought she had it all. But when her best friend vanishes, doubt creeps in. Is there some ugly reality behind her firm’s success? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Clonmac’s Bridge: An Archeological Mystery

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Inspired by a real discovery, Clonmac’s Bridge is based on the effort to raise Ireland’s earliest major span. An archaeological thriller, a love story, and a dramatic exploration, it’s the story of two men who struggle against envy and mediocrity—a millennium apart. $0.99 on Kindle.

Betrayal: A Tall Pines Mystery

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Marcella Hollister realized a lifetime of hopes and dreams when she was given custody of a child. A cousin of her half-Seneca husband, Quinn, the baby’s mother was murdered in a political plot—and Marcella, who’s never been able to have children of her own, formed an instant bond with little Kimi.

Then a distant relative comes forward to claim Kimi—and Quinn, who Marcella thought understood her pain better than anyone, allows them to take the baby without a fight. Confused and deeply wounded, Marcella takes off for Tall Pines, their secluded Adirondack cabin. She hopes the peace and natural beauty of the mountains will help clear her head and decide whether to forgive Quinn…or leave him. But the situation at Tall Pines is anything but peaceful…. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Dangerous Times

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John Kirk is an auto mechanic who wants to get out of the city of San Pedro and leave his troublesome relationships behind. His live-in sweetheart is fed-up with his station in life and has become difficult, his mother finds solace from the death of Kirk’s father by embracing the bottle, and Kirk’s boss at the auto shop is an overbearing, cheap son of a bitch. These troubles are nothing compared to what fate is about to deal him.

Psychopath Frank Moore has found his look-alike, a close-enough double who will be his scapegoat. In government databases Frank has switched his identity and fingerprints with Kirk’s. Frank now murders his way to the cash he needs to bring his plan to fruition, one which will drown goodness and grace in a river of blood.

Frank Moore arrives in San Pedro. Quite the actor, he hides out with the money at Kirk’s place, posing as Kirk, hair cut and dyed to match. Those close to Kirk accept Frank’s phony look-alike story, mostly because of the cash he proffers. Frank has a good time performing sex and murder—until the women in Kirk’s life bring Frank the unforeseen.

While Kirk, thought to be Frank Moore, is on run. He is being pursued by those who the money was stolen from, along with a rogue police detective who wants that money for himself. A condition that will send the innocent Kirk through 48-hours of betrayal, violence, and murder.

The Devils’ Cradle

the-devils-cradleOn Australia’s island state, more than one species of Tasmanian Devil exists… 

Beneath the surface of Nina Holt’s perfect marriage lurks a life of terror inflicted upon her by her politically powerful husband Michael and his brother Greg, a sadistic detective. For over a decade they have managed to keep Nina imprisoned, using her to satisfy their every whim. 

Worse still, the only light in her life—her 9-year-old son, Sam—considers Michael a hero. When Sam imitates Michael’s violence by lashing out at her, Nina knows it’s time for both of them to escape before Sam truly turns into the monster Michael is grooming him to become. 

After crashing her car in her haste to escape, kind motorist Case Herder offers her help. Unaware that he has his own plans for her, Nina accepts, igniting a deadly game of cat and mouse as they flee across Tasmania with Sam. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Sons of Zadok

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Charlotte Ansari, international correspondent for CCN, has a problem. Her investigation into a clandestine society of assassins has made them very angry. And that’s not the most frightening part. Her Asperger’s son, who is now the leader of this global, murder-for-hire organization, has assigned its top-ranked assassin to take care of the problem. Find out what happens in “Sons of Zadok.” $0.99 on Kindle.

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And Justice for Her

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Ready for a box set of 3 mystery, thriller & suspense novels? This one contains the following books by Brenda Hill: WITH FULL MALICE: A Crime Thriller, TEN TIMES GUILTY: A Psychological Thriller, and BEYOND THE QUIET: A Romantic Thriller.

Without Mercy

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A bank robbery. A murder. A single mother caught in a deadly plan.

China and her young daughter’s lives are invaded by a group of mercenaries with a sinister plot. They will stop at nothing to win, and each time China tries to find a way out, someone dies. She’ll fight to her last breath, but that might not be enough.

When a ghost from her past resurfaces, she learns that she and her daughter were only pawns in a game with dire consequences. Can she determine who to trust before she loses everyone she loves? $0.99 on Kindle.

Free: “The Lipstick Murders”

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Free Christmas Gift, “The Lipstick Murders.” Nick Burns retired as the Chief of Police for the Chicago Police force to get away from the Murder and mayhem of the big city. He accepted a new job as Chief of Police of the sleepy little Town of Frederick, Maryland only to discover there is a serial killer on the loose. Not to mention a rapist who is terrorizing the young women of the city. Free on Kindle.

The Contestant, A Crime Fiction Thriller

The Contestant Crime thriller

Raymond is a serial killer, brilliant and resourceful. Once a respected psychological profiler, a hit-and-run accident five years ago left him in a wheelchair, and now he’s reduced to scratching out a living with online contests using fake or stolen identities. Blinded to how petty his life has become, his predatory instinct is mostly spent pursuing prizes with an ironclad will.

 

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Love on the Run

Love on the Run by Dean  Moore

An unemployed risk assessment manager and a human rights advocate take up robbing banks to rescue their relationship, to say nothing of escaping the ennui that is life in suburbia. As if robbing banks and casinos weren’t hard enough, there’s the issue of how long they can continue to dodge the hotshot lady FBI profiler on their tails. Can Zinio continue to see enough moves ahead to keep them out of trouble? And will Delaney have enough time to parlay the thefts’ proceeds into worthwhile social causes?

This book is similar to “The Thomas Crown Affair” and “Fun With Dick and Jane.” Just $0.99 on Kindle.