Think your family’s dysfunctional? Meet Gracie Andersen’s and the peaceful farming community of Deer Creek. Gracie has her hands full–a new business and trying to get her life on track after the loss of her husband and unborn child. When an odd gift from her troubled uncle thrusts her into an investigation of a cousin’s tragic death 20 years ago, Gracie meets with opposition from family and friends. What really happened that rainy, October night when her cousin was killed by a hit-and-run driver? As pieces of the truth are wrenched from the past, her new business, Milky Way Kennels teeters on the edge of disaster. And then death strikes again. Someone is determined Gracie won’t find the truth. With Haley, her black Labrador by her side, Gracie doggedly pursues the trail of clues to unravel the mystery of her cousin Charlotte’s untimely death. $0.99 on Kindle.
Family Matters
Into the Devil’s Underground
For Emilie Davis, it was business as usual in her job as bank manager of WestOne until two men storm in demanding cash. However, it doesn’t take long before Emilie learns one of the men isn’t there for money–he’s convinced they have a connection and has come to claim her. And he won’t give up.
When hostage negotiator Nathan Madigan and Las Vegas SWAT enter the bank on a rescue mission, Emilie’s captor makes a shocking escape into the abyss that lies beneath the city: the Las Vegas storm drains, a refuge for the downtrodden and the desperate.
Through the darkness of the Devil’s Underground and secrets from her past, Emilie finds there is no escape from her stalker. She turns to Nathan, who is determined to save her no matter what it takes. But will it be enough? $0.99 on Kindle.
A Current Deception
Darcy Farthing joins family and friends for a cruise around Australia, only to find her investigative skills challenged by mysterious and alarming crimes on the ship. An annoying infestation of yellow crazy ants turns serious when the ants injure crew members and passengers. After a brutal murder on the street in Adelaide, it becomes evident that a stalker is onboard targeting members of a small town Kansas high school reunion group. As bizarre attacks escalate, Darcy’s friend and ex-husband, Brooks, becomes the only viable suspect. Meanwhile, Darcy’s daughter, Rachael, begins an unlikely relationship with a handsome passenger drawing her attention away from her infant daughter. $3.99 on Kindle.
Divine Trilogy
In this hot trilogy by best-selling author Cheryl Kaye Tardif, CFBI Agent Jasmine McLellan and her team of psychics take on tough murder cases, putting their lives on the line for justice. The trilogy includes the novels DIVINE INTERVENTION, DIVINE JUSTICE, and DIVINE SANCTUARY. $0.99 on Kindle.
Fatal Rhythm
“Best of 2014” – Suspense Magazine
In the pre-dawn hours of the graveyard shift, the ICU at the Houston Heart Institute is quiet, and quietly patients are dying. Surgery resident Joe Morales dreams of becoming a rich heart doctor. First, he must survive his assignment to an ICU rife with land mines–unexplained patient deaths, rival faculty, fellow resident saboteurs, a cost-slashing administrator, a ruthless insurance executive, a seductive head nurse, a jealous wife, a critically ill son, an overprotective mother, and an orderly distraught over his daughter’s death. To salvage the career he thought he wanted, Joe must determine the cause of the suspicious deaths. In the process, he’s forced to re-examine the ethnic and religious heritage that he had rejected. $0.99 on Kindle.
Mocha, Moonlight, and Murder
A midnight food run nearly gets 28-year-old Katherine O’Brian killed. She’s the only person to see the man who brutally murdered a local woman and the killer is hell-bent on making sure she doesn’t talk.
Enrolled at the local community college, she meets Scott Mitchell; literally, tall, dark, and handsome. Scott and Katherine will face jealousy, misunderstandings, lust, and rivals, not to mention attempted murder—and all before their first real date. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: “Lady Justice in the Eye of the Storm”
With the death of a young black man, Walt and Ox are dragged into the eye of a storm as Kansas City erupts in violence and demonstrations. Fearing for their lives, Captain Short sends them on assignment to Cabo San Lucas where they find themselves in the eye of a very different and even more dangerous storm — Hurricane Odile. Surviving these ordeals pushes both men beyond the limits of anything they have experienced, and leaves Walt facing one of the most important decisions of his life.
An Unquiet American
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.
Image of Deceit
This 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.
Dark Tides Rising
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.
Mystery: “Gull Harbor”
Claire Linden arrives in Gull Harbor ready to take on an aggressive ghost. Now that she’s embraced her gift as a medium, she’s confident she’ll succeed in ridding her temporary summer home of the restless spirit that drove the owners of the house to hire her. However, she never expects to also encounter Max Baron, the man who promised to love her forever, then disappeared suddenly from her life five years ago without a hint of an explanation. As Claire begins to unravel the truth behind the haunting, Max is forced to share his secret to stay close enough to Claire to try to protect her from a danger that extends beyond the paranormal. $0.99 on Kindle.
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.
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.)
Mystery: “The Gift”
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.
Free Mystery Novel
Bree Butler shelved her dream of becoming an investigative journalist long ago. But when she finds a young biotech executive dead on his office floor, she begins to think she might have another shot at it – even though she’s a suspect in the homicide investigation. Bree and her old college friend, Detective Gen Delacourt (who we first met in Mark of the Loon), begin a danger-filled quest to unravel the puzzle. The deeper they dig, the more truth about their own personal lives is revealed along with the dead man’s. They’ll both begin again after this is solved … if Bree makes it out alive. Free on Kindle.
The Moonglow Cafe
New York reporter Paige MacKenzie has a hidden motive when she heads to the small town of Timberton, Montana. Assigned to research the area’s unique Yogo sapphires for the Manhattan Post, she hopes to reconnect romantically with handsome cowboy Jake Norris. The local gem gallery offers the material needed for the article, but the discovery of an old diary, hidden inside the wall of a historic hotel, soon sends her on a detour into the underworld of art and deception. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: “Sweet Ginger Poison”
Cozy mystery about Ginger Lightley, a 61 year-old bakery owner turned sleuth. After a young man drops dead while eating one of her cakes, the new police chief charges one of Ginger’s employees with murder. Ginger is determined to save the young woman from prison by finding the real killer. But her initial investigation reveals the shocking truth that the police chief just might be correct. Free on Kindle.
Searching For Hope
When maverick PI Sam Carlisle stumbles across a homeless man dying from a knife wound, the victim’s final, desperate words compel him to investigate the tragic incident. However, as Sam retraces the stranger’s last movements, he finds himself targeted by people who will go to any lengths to prevent him revealing the truth. Learn more.
Doyle’s Law
Doyle is a homicide detective. He’s a good detective, but he has a problem, he’s getting fed up with crime. A hostage situation comes up involving the Mayor of Detroit and a mugger, who Doyle put in the hospital.
The hostage exchange goes slightly wrong, but it was enough to make Doyle quit the PD. He goes out on his own to become a private eye and along with another ex-detective, Oscar Drew, they start their business. Their first client is a woman looking for her missing father. But is there more to the story involving bookies, murder, a missing lottery ticket and a hot looking waitress. Doyle and his partner have their hands full trying to sort everything out.
Detroit will never be the same when Doyle hits the streets. A new novel by Bob Moats, the author of the Jim Richards Murder Novels.
Best Served Bloody
After her husband passed away, all Jessica Green wanted to do was be alone and paint. She finds the perfect house on the shore of a large lake, secluded and rumored to be haunted. Unfortunately, the rumors are true.
Murder is unforgivable, guilt is inflexible, escape is impossible — and revenge is a dish Best Served Bloody.
Alternate Currents
Proud finalist in Foreword Reviews 2013 book of the year contest.
Against Mick’s wishes, on an impulse and without much thought of consequences, Darcy flies to Seattle to help Charlie’s partner, Don, and their daughter, Penelope, cope with the loss. She is worried about Mick’s negative attitude about the couple and worries that he is prejudiced toward her friends. As a result, she finds herself reevaluating the direction of her personal and professional life.
Soon after her arrival in Seattle, she becomes immersed in the unfamiliar world of domestic partnerships, birth surrogates, and assisted reproductive technology. Don and Charlie, who became unlikely heroes in the first novel in this series, Currents Deep and Deadly, have their lives turned upside down by elusive kidnappers with no apparent motive. At the same time, their well-intentioned decision to pay a surrogate to bear their daughter for them turns into a nightmare, when the biological mother returns after eight years, claiming that Don and Charlie are not Penelope’s fathers as they believed, and she wants her child back. This revelation sets in motion a series of tragic events that threatens to destroy a parent-child bond, and worse.
Before the police and FBI are able to solve Charlie’s kidnapping, an even more devastating case materializes when Penelope also vanishes. The FBI and Seattle police detectives frantically look for clues. In the process, they implicate a local antigay organization and its leader, two local business owners who are being harassed by antigay demonstrators, a flamboyant stalker who is obsessed with Don, and the birth mother herself. There is no hard evidence against any of the suspects, and the leads are curtailed when two of them are murdered. The authorities are no closer to finding Penelope and now worry that she has been abducted by a vicious killer.
In the midst of turmoil surrounding Penelope’s birth status and abduction, true to her nature, Darcy tries to help her friends. When she ventures into the midst of the case by conducting a freelance interview with a local clergyman, she is nearly killed in a vicious attack by an unknown assailant. Mick rushes to her side and soon overcomes his reluctance to get involved with Don and Charlie’s plight. Together they try to gather information to help solve the case. Before the hostility ends, Don also becomes a victim and then a hero, and Mick must fight an unbalanced killer intent on revenge.
Ring of Lies
Daniel Elliot dies in a single-car accident one rainy English night. His wife, Grace, is grief stricken. Although their marriage was imperfect, sheltered Grace doesn’t relish the future alone.Chameleon
As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler’s henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse game with the Third Reich’s perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces. In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his elusive quarry into the cutting edge of world events—and into the secret inner workings of a terrifying mission known only as “27.”
“The best book of its kind since THE DAY OF THE JACKAL…Edge-of-the-seat stuff.”–PEOPLE
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Dark Side of Sunset Pointe
A hardcore contemporary mystery/thriller – a paranormal mystery, to be more precise. Based on real-life events, this murder mystery is new and very different. Mystery connoisseurs beware, the first book in the Lance Underphal Mystery series will keep you guessing . . .
The Hardboiled Detective – Frank Salmon, the homicide detective on the case, does his best to blow off Underphal’s “visions.” But the murders keep piling up and the visions are all-too real.
Sex and Money/Lust and Greed – The trail goes cold until a double homicide at a fast food drive-thru takes a u-turn back to the dead developer and a martial arts instructor’s kinky wife.
Salmon reluctantly pursues Underphal’s cryptic clues, leading him from a popular strip club to a failing community bank, adding a blackmailing stripper’s murder to the body count.
Thrill Ride – With Underphal pointing the way, Salmon hunts for a key piece of evidence and the common link between the killings – a custom offroad truck. Instead of clearing the case, the truck takes off, dragging Salmon into a high-speed chase, leaving a freeway pileup in its wake.
Suspense Builds – Underphal struggles mightily with his psychic curse, teetering on the brink of insanity. His only hope for redemption is the voice in his head, the voice of his dead wife. Stumbling through dark vortexes of murderous intrigue, he comes to realize his visions will either kill him or lead to the capture of a killer-maybe more than one.
To Catch a Bad Guy
Janet Maple’s stellar career ended with a lay off and her boyfriend of almost five years told her that he wants to be just friends. When she lands a job at one of New York’s premier boutique investment firms, Janet begins to hope that her luck is finally turning for the better. Not only is she happy with her new paycheck, but things also seem to be looking up on the personal front, as the company’s handsome attorney expresses keen interest in Janet.
However, her euphoria is short-lived, as Janet soon discovers alarming facts about her new employer’s business tactics. When her boss dismisses her suspicions as groundless, Janet finds herself confiding to a cute IT engineer, Dean Snider. The closer she gets to Dean, the more Janet is tempted to break her rule of not dating co-workers, but what she doesn’t realize is that everything she knows about Dean, including his occupation and even his name, is a lie.
Dennis Walker is a top-notch white collar crime investigator who will stop at nothing to put culprits away. When an opportunity for an undercover assignment at one of New York’s premier boutique investment firms comes up, Dennis jumps at the chance, adopting a persona of geeky IT engineer, Dean Snider. While he may be an ace at his job, years of experience fail him when Dennis meets Janet Maple and finds himself torn between his professional obligations and his personal desires. Will he have to choose between his feelings and duty, or will he find a way to satisfy both?
