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.

Dark Tides Rising

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In Philadelphia, Penn historian Erika Carr studies a Revolutionary era map that had been lost for centuries. Scrawled across its surface is a cryptic poem, the contents of which Erika suspects may point to a prize that has fascinated mankind for ages… $0.99 on Kindle.

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This Beautiful World

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As a girl growing up in small Cider Town, RaeAnne and her sidekick King came across the body of a boy their age within a crate of apples in the town’s orchard, which is operated by the eccentric and powerful Gray family. The novel opens with RaeAnne now grown, the mother of a troubled eight-year-old daughter, and trapped in a broken marriage to a rich, slightly older man. When RaeAnne’s mother is killed, she takes the bus home to Cider Town with her daughter, and doesn’t tell her estranged husband. But she finds her return to Cider Town unwelcoming, and frightening incidents start to happen involving her and her family. RaeAnne tries to repair her tenuous relationship with her father, a tough, traditional man. She must convince him to help her piece together the whereabouts of her unstable older brother, who left home and cut off all communication with his family the night RaeAnne and King found terror in the orchard. As she unravels the mysteries of their childhood RaeAnne reconciles with King, who stayed in Cider Town. King has grown up to be handsome but emotionally damaged, with a secretive quality. RaeAnne was once his sole support, but they drifted apart as they grew. King comes from a broken family fractured by scandal, and RaeAnne’s father is an influential figure in Cider Town, so their restored friendship is frowned on by almost everyone in the town. RaeAnne must find a way to bring her past into focus with her present and rediscover those she loves. $0.99 on Kindle.

Deception in Plain Sight

Deception in Plain Sight

Awesome Petté was a man without ethics. His primary purpose was to get rich without putting in the blood, sweat and tears. If it meant using people and ruining their lives, he couldn’t care less. So, Christine Bailey, a beautiful, young and successful businesswoman would unknowingly partake in his sinister plot to make his dreams a reality. $4.99 on Kindle.

Post Pattern

Burnside Mysteries

Private Investigator Burnside is trying to determine who’s behind the attempted murder of a local football star in a California freeway.

As Burnside unravels a complex series of baffling leads, the body count piles up. He is on a mission to crack the case, and it involves drugs, strippers and some pretty frightening bad guys. And as he continues on with his investigation, long after it seems sensible, he finds himself face-to-face with a betrayal from his past, one he’s been trying desperately to escape…

Set against the sizzling backdrop of a hot Los Angeles summer, Post Pattern provides readers with a taut, engaging mystery. The novel delivers a smart, sexy plot with crackling dialogue and fascinating characters. $0.99 on Kindle.

Lethal Lawyers

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A legal thriller that immerses you in the cutthroat culture of big firm practice. Here the partners and associates not only win at all costs, but also battle each other for money, power, love, clients, and ultimately their own survival. A blue-collar idealist with a huge student loan debt, Sophia Christopoulos, becomes a first years associate. But quickly she sees her success carries the unexpected price of disillusionment, murder, and betrayal. Sophia is torn between ethics and firm politics, as well as love and truth. As she fights to save her career and life, she becomes the star witness and then herself a target. $0.99 on Kindle.

Free: “Devil’s Lake”

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When Portia Lamont arrives home after being missing for two years, her family and friends are overjoyed. But when they discover how fragile she is, and question her about what happened, she clams up. Eventually they learn their worst fears are true—someone did kidnap her, and two days earlier, she escaped from his cabin in the woods. Boone Hawk, Portia’s childhood friend—now a strapping man who helps around her parents’ horse farm—wants to help. But Portia seems frightened of him. In fact, she shrinks from any man except her father. Portia doesn’t know if the man who took her is dead or alive. Did she kill him up there in the middle of nowhere when she escaped? Or is he coming for her? But he knows where she lives…Free on Kindle.

Current Assets

current assets

Author Darcy Farthing is writing at her new home in Marco Island, Florida while her boyfriend Mick Clayton conducts a GAO investigation of government property—asset forfeitures—stolen from under the noses of U.S. Marshals and a sheriff’s office. When close friend, Tom Smythe, is arrested for attempted murder of a deputy sheriff, the couple tries to identify who is behind the property thefts and corruption. When more deputies are attacked, Darcy and Mick are drawn into a bewildering government investigation and an alarming web of murder and conspiracy with a surprising link… $3.99 on Kindle.

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Past Suspicion

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Who do you trust when you don’t trust anyone? When her mother’s death forces Robin to move in with a stranger in a small town, she plots her escape to a normal life, only to be waylaid by secrets, tragedy, romance, and mystery. A hidden diary and an abandoned mansion hold the key to a dangerous truth. Robin may never leave this town alive… $0.99 on Kindle.

Frozen Highway

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“Frozen Highway” is the contemporary story of Kate Hendricks – a female veteran of the Iraq war who returns to Alaska physically and emotionally shattered – only to be hunted on a lone highway by a madman. The author offers a realistic story that is part thriller, part family drama, and part psychological crime story. As the story progresses, her family is threatened by a group of extremists in interior Alaska and Kate must fight for their survival. A great read with a surprising coda at the end. Free on Kindle.

Free: “The Devil’s Dream”

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Matthew Brand’s intellect pushed the world into new eras of knowledge. He spent the first thirty years of his life stretching humanity’s capacity for understanding and learning. By all accounts, his future looked even brighter than his past.

And then, police officers mistook his son for a criminal, gunning him down in the middle of the street. When the court let all four officers off without punishment, Brand changed his life’s work.

He forgot about bettering the Earth, instead deciding to use his talents to bring his son back from the dead. Eventually, his mind conquered even death’s mysteries—now, Brand needs living bodies to resurrect his son. So why not the bodies of the cops that murdered him?

In the most chilling FBI manhunt ever, they must catch a killer who can calculate all the odds and stack them in his favor. Free on Kindle.

Thriller” Get Clean

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The author of “Son of a Serial Killer” and “Finding Her Feet” takes on drug addiction in this crime fiction novel, following the life of Jimmy Walker, an addict who at best is guilty of making some terrible decisions, at worst, is an accomplice to murder… “Get Clean” will have you on the edge of your seat in this cocaine-fuelled rollercoaster ride of a novel. $0.99 on Kindle.

Big Little Lies

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Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. $3.99 on Kindle.

 

Act of Terror

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Warning: The next attack on American soil will come from within. From coast to coast, our nation is witnessing a new wave of terror. Suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear. A flight attendant tries to crash an airliner. A police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium. And at CIA headquarters, a Deputy Director goes on a murderous rampage. The perpetrators appear to be American–but they are covert agents in a vast network of terror, selected and trained for one purpose only: the complete annhiliation of America.

Special Agent Jericho Quinn has seen the warning signs. As a classified “instrument” of the CIA reporting directly to the President, Quinn knows that these random acts of violence pose a clear and present danger. But Quinn may not be able to stop it. The search for terrorists has escalated into an all-out witch hunt. And somehow, Quinn’s name is on the list. . . $1.99 on Kindle

A Hidden Element

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Evil lurks within…

When Caleb Madroc is used against his will as part of his father’s plan to breed a secret alien community and infiltrate society with their unique powers, he vows to save his oppressed people and the two children kept from him.

Seven years later, Laura and Ben Fieldstone’s son is abducted, and they are forced to trust a madman’s son who puts his life on the line to save them all. The enemy’s desire to own them—or destroy them—leads to a survival showdown.

Laura and Ben must risk everything to defeat a new nemesis that wants to rule the world with their son, and Caleb may be their only hope—if he survives. But must he sacrifice what he most desires to do so? $0.99 on Kindle.

Free Technothriller

1416330839_41LK46a6wqL._SL210_Years ago, the US attacked Iranian nuclear installations with a cyber payload. The Iranians got a hold of it, and now are aiming to re-purpose it for a terrorist attack. Only one man, Martin Spencer, can thwart their plans. But he’s been downsized from the defense firm he once founded, and no one knows where he is. Some think he’s a fugitive. Others are out to neutralize him. On the run with his Iranian girlfriend, Martin must sort out whether he wants to take part in the impending crisis, and if so, what role to play. Free on Kindle.

Fatal Remedy

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A thriller inspired by the controversy over anti-depressant drug therapies for children, ethical and criminal issues in psychiatry and the power of Big Pharma, FATAL REMEDY is a chilling journey into the darkest corners of modern medicine. $0.99 on Kindle.amazon buy now

 

Zandros in Love

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Sam Zandros is a major-league poker player—part of a large Greek-American family that runs a bookmaking business. And he’s fallen in love with Clare Russell, a beautiful photographer who has no one to look out for her. Sam decides to be that one. Clare’s fiercely guarded secrets have made her emotionally vulnerable. While Sam tries to unravel the truth of her life, he becomes vulnerable, too, as Clare’s life is threatened by devious men who want a big cut of his family’s poker winnings.

Love or money? Family or lover? How far will Sam go to protect Clare?

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Free: “Waiting for Shadow”

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Major Jane McMurtry came home a double-amputee when an IED shattered her body and her career as a military dog handler. Now she’s trying to rebuild her life, waiting for her dog Shadow to come home, when the police ask for her help tracking two kidnapped teenagers. Having learned to walk again on specialized prosthetic legs, Jane will grapple with how best to put her life together in the midst of a mystery that will intersect with what’s happened to her and impact her future. Free on Kindle.

CHIMERAS: A Medical Mystery

CHIMERAS A Medical Mystery

Haunted by the girl he couldn’t save in his youth, and the murder he committed to avenge her, Track Presius became a detective. Now he uses his unique gift–the vision and sense of smell of a predator–to save the innocent from would-be killers. (Just $0.99 on Kindle.)

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Blood on the Cobblestones

Blood on the Cobblestones

Venture into the streets of Boston’s North End in this hard boiled crime saga written in the fast style of page turning pulp adventure. Meet Jenna Coyne, recent college graduate, in her first adventure. Drugs, murder, betrayal all taking place behind the veil of a tourist attraction. $0.99 on Kindle.

Currents of Vengeance

Currents of Vengeance

Another cruise crime murder mystery novel by Arleen Alleman. In this sequel to Currents Deep and Deadly, new author Darcy Farthing and GAO manager Mick Clayton struggle with the aftermath of their traumatic South American cruise.

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Mystery: “The Gift”

The Gift A Christmas Miracle

Christmas is the time of giving and receiving gifts, and Julie Hamilton is expecting one very special gift this year – her first baby on Christmas Eve. She is over the moon and can’t wait, but unfortunately, something sinister happens and Julie’s and her husband Shaun’s dreams quickly turn into nightmares. Will their prayers be heard and a Christmas miracle happen? $0.99 on Kindle.

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