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Free: 43 Missing

June 15, 2023 By

“Astounding” – Nightstand Reviews
Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled ride through a dark and treacherous world where justice hangs in the balance when Detective Emilia Cruz investigates Mexico’s most notorious true crime.
Emilia finds herself in Mexico City, part of a national task force investigating the disappearance of 43 students. Beset by problems, the task force seems to be an empty exercise that won’t lead to either answers or arrests.
When Emilia is offered a fortune to hide task force evidence, the offer raises profound questions of loyalty, conscience, and her future as an honest cop.
How much is she willing to sacrifice for justice? And will the pursuit of her personal vendetta against the shadowy criminal El Acólito cloud her judgment?
Little does Emilia realize that her investigation is just beginning.

2019 & 2020 Poison Cup award, Outstanding Series – CrimeMasters of America
Finalist for Best Investigator, 2017 Silver Falchion Award.

Free on Kindle.

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Free: Bodies, Baddies and a Crabby Tabby

December 5, 2021 By

Megan Fallon is in a pickle.

Not only is she suffering from empty-nest syndrome, but she’s joined the ranks of the unemployed, and her fiancé’s run off with her hairdresser.

In desperate need of a change of scene, she heads back to her childhood village home for some long-overdue friends and family time.

Things are looking up, until a shocking course of events disrupts her plans…

Whodunnit? Free on Kindle.

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Free: Tropical Punch

May 13, 2021 By

Strippers, drugs, and headless corpses…
All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective.
In the gritty underbelly of the high-tech city, Bubbles stumbles upon a secret.
And somebody will kill to keep it quiet.
When heads literally start to roll, a luxury space cruise seems like the perfect place to hide.
But Bubbles is being hunted…
Can she solve the murders before she loses her head?
If you love glitter, grit, and hard-boiled action, you’ll love this cybernoir mystery because it’s shaking up the detective genre. Free on Kindle.

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Sins of the Mother: A Caitlin Bergman Novel

January 10, 2021 By

At the top of a mountain, a cult of women pray for the end of the world. In the town below, a violent white supremacist thinks his daughter has been kidnapped. Caitlin Bergman’s search for her birth mother may set the world on fire. Perfect for fans of Julia Keller, Tess Gerritsen, and Michael Koryta – voted one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Thrillers of 2020. $2.99 on Kindle.

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Free: The Harrison

November 1, 2019 By eReader Nation

Amateur sleuth Madeline Donovan is delighted to learn a lavish hotel will be built right in her cozy neighborhood, Goose Island, in Chicago. But when young girls begin to go missing and she and her friends investigate, she thinks The Harrison may play a part. The third floor holds the answers. Free on Kindle.

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The Case of the Man Overboard

October 14, 2019 By eReader Nation

After an intense year of solving crime in their home town of Richmond, Virginia, Michaela, Dottie and retired canine Angel, travel to Europe to spend much needed leisure time at the Borghase Estate outside of Rome. Unfortunately, their plans are upended by a series of catastrophes.

A luxury cruise around the Mediterranean culminates their trip and becomes a nightmare as Mic and Dottie investigate an American pharmaceutical company’s release of a ‘dirty’ drug. The threesome meet up with lethal, dangerous and heinous criminals from their past and the cruise becomes a living hell.

How do you commit murder on a cruise ship while at sea and get away with it when there’s nowhere to run? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Unspeakable Grudges

June 23, 2019 By eReader Nation

In this thriller, a Denver private eye’s legal investigation has ties to an ongoing multiple-murder case. Get it today to discover why Kirkus Reviews called it “a laudable mystery galvanized by a series-worthy gumshoe.” $3.99 on Kindle.

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Unspeakable Grudges

July 15, 2018 By eReader Nation

A green-as-grass PI cracks the most disturbing murder case in Denver history . . .

Delusional and believing he is called by the Lord to sacrifice women to atone for his sins, champion bull rider Clint Barlow wins the buckles, beds the buckle bunnies, and murders women until his life is upended by someone from his past.

Brand new Private Investigator Claire Callahan is working on the city’s messiest divorce in decades, while her mentor, Denver homicide detective Rafe Brewster is working on a puzzling series of murders.

It doesn’t take long until they realize their two cases are linked, and they must move fast to end the killings. $4.99 on Kindle.

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Unspeakable Grudges

June 30, 2018 By eReader Nation

A green-as-grass PI cracks the most disturbing murder case in Denver history . . .

It doesn’t take long until they realize their two cases are linked, and they must move fast to end the killings. $4.99 on Kindle.

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Free: In Dulce, Disturbed… And Four More

June 27, 2017 By eReader Nation

Short novellas 1-5 start the Cinnamon Burro New Mexico Mysteries. Beaten to death by his teacher, a young native boy is found by the side of the road in Dulce, New Mexico. Cinnamon, an investigator, joins her pal Burro to face down the school and the teachers and solve crimes in this mystery series. Free on Kindle.

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Cozy Mystery: Ardis Cole Series

October 18, 2014 By Editor

Outside a small village near the Valley of the Kings, archaeologist Ardis Cole arrives in Egypt to help excavate a tomb recently discovered by her mentor, Jane Darvin. When Jane is murdered, Ardis must assume responsibility for the project.

With the help of mysterious Blake Lydon, she must unravel the tomb’s mystery—an ancient secret concerning two miniature obelisks of gold hidden by Queen Hatshepsut’s love, Senmut, over 2000 years ago.

As Ardis uncovers the ancient mystery, she finds herself drawn into a modern action tale of hatred, murder, and revenge.

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