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What goes around comes around&hellip,Willy McCrombie doesn&rsquo,t forget. After serving twenty years in prison for murdering his girlfriend, he&rsquo,s ready to serve his own brand of justice to the judge who sentenced him.Retired Judge Antonio Facinni&rsquo,s life is about to unravel. Now a bestselling author of mystery thrillers, he&rsquo,s being framed by McCrombie for murders that match the killings in his novels. To make matters worse, the police think he&rsquo,s guilty.Now it&rsquo,s up to Detective Charlie Whitaker to find the truth. In her perseverance for justice, she&rsquo,s falling for Antonio. Do the two lovers have a future, or will McCrombie succeed in destroying the judge once and for all?_,

A killer with a causeSomeone is killing all the bad guys...The only clue? A single long-stemmed black rose left at each of the crime scenes.Now Private Investigator Beau Dexter has his work cut out for him. He&rsquo,ll have to wade through the maze and the deception of the criminal justice system to solve the vigilante murders&mdash,or die trying._,

Harmony Duprie enjoyed her well-ordered life in the quiet little town of Oak Grove&mdash,until her arrest for drug trafficking. Cleared of all charges, she wants nothing more than to return to the uneventful lifestyle of a historical researcher she once savored. But when her beloved old car &ldquo,George&rdquo, is stolen and explodes into a ball of flames, it sets off a series of events that throws her plans into turmoil. Toss in a police detective that may or may not be interested in her, an attractive but mysterious stranger on her trail, and an ex-boyfriend doing time, and Harmony&rsquo,s life freefalls into a downward spiral of chaos. Now she has to use her research skills to figure out who is behind the sinister incidents plaguing her, and why. And she better take it seriously, like her life depends upon finding the right answers. Because it might._,

Artist Lia Anderson survived the murder of her boyfriend and betrayal by her best friend, emerging from trauma with a hunky new boyfriend, an exciting art project, and a straight-talking therapist to help her sort everything out. Life at the Mt. Airy Dog Park is returning to normal, and that suits Lia just fine. Then a message delivered by a stranger raises questions about Luthor',s murder, starting Lia on a search for the truth that will ultimately have her fighting for her life. This book concludes the ,storyline begun in ",A Shot in the Bark",_,

&ldquo,You&rsquo,re the murder man, aren&rsquo,t you?&rdquo, Mrs. James demanded. &ldquo,Well, that&rsquo,s not exactly how I describe myself,&rdquo, Bobby answered. Bobby Owen and his wife Olive are on holiday, enjoying a motor tour of England, when they visit Bobby&rsquo,s old ancestral home and his cousin Myra. An eerie air hangs over the household, where Teddy Peel, a psychic medium of dubious repute, has become a fixture. Myra&rsquo,s husband himself is a specialist in African folklore, the owner of a genuine witch doctor&rsquo,s bag. What&rsquo,s inside the bag, and how that connects to the promise of riches, whispered threats and very real murder, forms another absorbing puzzler for Bobby. Six Were Present (1956) is the thirty-fifth and final novel in the Bobby Owen Mystery series, here presented with a new introduction and additional notes. This new edition also features the script of the rare radio play Death on the Up-Lift (1941), starring Bobby Owen, here published for the first time. &ldquo,What is distinction? &hellip, in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.&rdquo,--Dorothy L. Sayers_,

One for Hell  , When Willa Ree emerges from the boxcar, he is broke and ready for a fresh start. And Breton looks to be a town full of fresh suckers. Ben Halliday is not one of those suckers, or so he thinks. One of the town leaders, he needs a new cop with adjustable morals. Ree is the perfect fit. Unfortunately, Ree is even less subtle than Halliday had hoped. Because Ree has plans of his own. Now that he&rsquo,s a cop, he intends to steal every dollar he can lay his hands on, and seduce any woman he wants. This Texas oil town is ripe for the picking on all accounts. It&rsquo,s Willa Ree&rsquo,s town now, and nothing that Halliday&mdash,or anyone--can do will stop him._,

Someone is trying to sabotage the Initial Public Offering of ',Read-Out',, a small Silicon Valley start-up, and Lee Alvarez has been hired to find the culprit. Meanwhile, the first Alvarez grandchild is about to be born while Lee is planning her very own Christmas wedding, or rather letting her mother plan it. When Lee finds the CEO hanging by the neck in his boardroom wearing nothing but baby blue boxer shorts, she has to ask herself, was it suicide? Or was it murder? If so, was the saboteur responsible, one of his business partners, or even his famous rock star ex-wife? There are too many suspects and the bodies start piling up just in time for Christmas. Ho, ho, ho_,

The Road of the Innocents is a literary thriller in the vein of John le Carré, and Tana French, and maintains the same intensely drawn, captivating characters as a Stieg Larsson novel. The story take

As Los Angeles comes of age in the 1960s, two undercover cops, posing as bikers, ,struggle to maintain their balance in the growing drug trade. , Boundaries are broken and borders are crossed in an effort to do good&mdash,while doing bad. The newcomer, Gabe, learns from a few masters in the game of life, love, and staying alive while undercover. He soon finds that &ldquo,Normal&rdquo, is a meaningless word civilian society makes up. ,His first master teaches him that ,the books (on being a cop) don&rsquo,t know squat. The next cop shows him that being ,irreverent and ,unconventional in the approach of doing their job, ,gets results. As part of his cover, Gabe buys a house in the neighborhood that is serviced by his old precinct. Some old habits die hard. ,His understanding for those that still wear the uniform runs deeper than ,a commercial coffee maker and more open handed than the back-door that has no lock. ,Soon he finds that ,he must learn to deal with what becomes more like a ,frat house with a very large snake running loose. After a bar fight, the team is one man down. But there is a more important job to be done

The Name of the Game is Death  , He calls himself Earl Drake. That&rsquo,s not his real name, but it&rsquo,ll do. Hell, he&rsquo,s changed his identity so many times, it hardly matters anymore. Right now he&rsquo,s calling himself Chet Arnold. After the last bank robbery, after they made their escape and Bunny ended up taking most of the money with him to Florida, he figured it was time to collect. But something&rsquo,s happened to Bunny. So here he is in Hudson, Florida, trying to find Bunny and the money. First he finds Hazel, six feet tall, red hair, all woman. Then he meets Lucille, the local man-hungry postmaster. Finally he meets Blaze Franklin, a cop who&rsquo,s just about ready to kill somebody. It&rsquo,s one helluva situation. And that&rsquo,s the kind that Drake likes best.  , One Endless Hour  , Sheriff Blaze&rsquo,s double cross is a good one. But Drake finds Bunny and he finds the loot. Trouble is, it all blows up in his face this time. Literally. And now they&rsquo,ve got him behind bars and covered in bandages--and under the thumb of a particular sadist named Spider Kern. The authorities think they&rsquo,ve got a monosyllabic basket case named Chet Arnold locked up for the criminally insane. But thanks to the experimental plastic surgery treatment of Dr. Afzul, they soon have an Earl Drake who is not only armed with a new face, but a plan as well. All he needs is a gun, and it&rsquo,s payback time. Sweet payback time._,

Rayne Kilpatrick has everything. A job she&rsquo,s dreamed of since a little girl. The perfect house. And a man she loves and is about to marry&hellip, Until he never returns from a humanitarian mission. , Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. When footage of his gruesome murder by a Muslim extremist group is shown across the country and around the globe, she wants the person responsible for the disappearance of the man she loves to pay. She wants him to lose the one person who means the world to him, too, and she won&rsquo,t stop until he does.  , Alexander Burnham has everything&hellip, Finally. A job he enjoys where he can actually make a difference in the world. The perfect woman who he&rsquo,s loved his entire life. And the most beautiful daughter a father could ask for&hellip, Until he walks into her bedroom one morning to find it empty. , Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. It&rsquo,s a race against the clock for Alexander to put the pieces together and find out who has taken his daughter and what they want from him. As information comes to light, he is forced to bury the guilt he feels after losing his fellow team member and focus instead on finding and saving his daughter&hellip, Before it&rsquo,s too late._,

Gang Girl  , Lora Menotti is five feet five of concentrated sex, one hundred twenty-five pounds of undiluted viciousness. She is sixteen. She is deadly. Her parents know it, and they are afraid of her. Her older brother knows it, and he tries never to turn his back on her. Her neighbors know it, and they keep their distance. The other kids in the gang, the Scarlet Sinners, they know it, too. They fear her, and because of that they respect her. In a teen gang, fear equals respect. There is no other law. This is Lora&rsquo,s story, a girl who thrills at the thought of death, embraces sex with each new leader of the gang, and who controls her world the only way she can--by pitting each member against the other, with her body as bait.  ,  , Sex Bum  , Johnny Price has big plans. Only 19, he already knows what he wants, and he isn&rsquo,t going to find it delivering groceries in a small town in upstate New York. So when he gets a chance to help a couple of local gangsters take out the competition, he jumps at the opportunity. Suddenly, he&rsquo,s in, a member of the Syndicate. Johnny is on his way. Now he&rsquo,s got plenty of money, a new car--and lots of women. And that suits him fine, because Johnny knows how to please them all. But Johnny wants more--more power, classier ladies--like the slinky, sophisticated Marie. But Marie is Rizzo&rsquo,s woman. To take Marie, he has to go all the way to New York City. And to get there, he has to betray his own bosses. Good thing for Johnny he has a plan._,

Second installment in this USA Today bestselling author',s cozy mystery series. Charlotte ",Charlie", Parker',s last case (Deadly Gamble) left her tired and emotionally drained. She books a vacation

A muggy July weekend in Toronto. A house party with a disparate assortment of guests. A tired police inspector, his rookie partner, and murder. &ldquo,Reminiscent of the best Agatha Christie had to offer&hellip, Humor, complications, and characters so real that you can just about touch them and smell their sweat.&rdquo, &mdash,Midwest Book Review Get to know and love (or hate) a rich cast of characters Homicide inspector Paul Manziuk wants nothing more than a few days R and R to recharge his brain. Constable Jacqueline Ryan believes she owes her promotion to the Homicide Squad to being a black woman, and that she&rsquo,ll do a better job of proving she belongs there if she can avoid working with the no-nonsense, intimidating Manziuk. Senior corporate lawyer George Brodie and his wife Ellen want their son to marry a nice girl and settle down. To that end, Ellen invited the auburn-haired daughter of a distant relative for the July long weekend. But her plans go sadly awry when George invites his junior partners and their wives, and their son brings along his roommate&mdash,a ladies&rsquo, man. Jillian Martin, the spoiled young wife of one of George&rsquo,s partners, looks forward to being the center of attention at the house party. But first her husband insists they take along her disgusting older sister, then an old flame seems to be more interested in a boring religious do-gooder and an experienced older man makes fun of her. The last straw is when the jealous wife of another partner dares to challenge her. After a lifeless body is found in a garden on the estate, chaos ensues. Manziuk and Ryan are given the case, and it isn&rsquo,t long before Manziuk feels he&rsquo,s been thrust into an Agatha Christie novel where everyone has a motive and it&rsquo,s necessary to sort through numerous baffling clues and conflicting alibis to find the truth. However, he&rsquo,s no

First Lieutenant Robert Davidson. The son of an American military legend and a war hero who died in combat during the Afghanistan conflict. Or did he? The answer could bring down a secret military empire &ndash, as well as a guy named Max Bowman. Max is a rapidly aging ex-CIA desk jockey who gets the job of tracking down the truth about Davidson &ndash, but his chances of actually discovering it are about half of that of finding a horse wearing a kimono. What Max doesn&rsquo,t know is that nobody wants the facts &ndash, and nobody expects Max to find them. But Max has to pay the rent. So he takes on the job, which takes him on a road trip into the heart of America&rsquo,s darkness as well as his own, where he has to deal with exploding homes, brutal murders, a sexy heiress, a misguided teenager and Max&rsquo,s girlfriend back home who&rsquo,s cursing him out on a regular basis. And, oh yeah, a para-military organization that&rsquo,s just waiting for the right moment to kill him. ,  ,_,

Her first tour in Europe, Tara Bentley, young prima ballerina with a small Seattle dance company, watches her excitement turn to horror when she',s haunted by the voice of her deceased dance teacher, Yelena Natilova.  ,She fears she might be going mad until she meets a necromancer who  ,assures her the voice is real.  ,Is he a charlatan? Or, has he the power to guide her through this nightmare as she struggles to hold her career together. Their dash through the great theaters of Europe becomes the performance of a lifetime with death waiting in the wings._,

A dozen Australian authors were tasked with writing a short story that revolved around the many and varied meanings of the word &lsquo,obliquity&rsquo,. What is obliquity? OBLIQUITY DEFINIT

A controversial verse in the Bible sparks college graduate student Ty Larson&rsquo,s curiosity causing him to stumble onto the faint trace of an ancient advanced civilization that&rsquo,s been all but lost to the sands of time. It soon becomes apparent that he&rsquo,s not the only one with an interest in this long-lost civilization, but the others who share this interest and what their intentions are remain a mystery. While wading through legends and folklore, clues begin materializing that lead Ty down a bizarre path, uncovering the secrets of the massive stone structures scattered across the globe from the distant past. From the timeworn ruins in the high mountains of Bolivia and Peru to the colossal megaliths in Baalbek, Lebanon to the Great Pyramid itself, Ty unknowingly inches ever closer to unearthing the disturbing truth of the origins of mankind. , Although this novel is fiction, it&rsquo,s based on fact, Biblical scripture, texts found in the Dead Sea scrolls omitted from the Bible, and many other stories from around the world that millions believe to be true. ,_,

GHOSTTOWN Still working from a distressed office on Hollywood Boulevard, with ex-prostitute and now legal secretary Lupe Ramos, Whitney Logan is summoned to the LA Criminal Courts Building to defend Tony Red Wolf against one of Division 40&rsquo,s lesser crimes&mdash,drunk and disorderly. But early the next morning, Whitney stands face-to-face with Tony Red Wolf over a trash can that contains the severed head of Shirley Yellowbird on top of a pile of dismembered body parts. Tony&rsquo,s only explanation&mdash,he had a vision of the murder. Realizing that she may be dealing with a psychopath, but knowing that if Tony is arrested he&rsquo,ll be assigned a more high-profile attorney, Whitney reluctantly agrees to wait 48 hours before surrendering her client in order to collect evidence that may exonerate him. Whitney may have finally found her chance to be a hotshot criminal attorney. Or be disbarred. Or end up in a trash can like Shirley Yellowbird. From an occult shop in Hollywood, to a Indian bar where even &ldquo,half-breeds&rdquo, are unwelcome, to a fabled &ldquo,ghost hotel&rdquo, in Los Angeles, where a medicine man is said to hold all the secrets&hellip,Whitney and Lupe are drawn into a mystery so dense that even the edges of reality itself become uncertain._,

THE DEADLY DAMES  , Montreal is in the midst of a heatwave. And if that weren',t miserable enough, private eye Bill Yates is hired by a lush to tail his wayward wife. Yates hates divorce cases. But this case has more than meets the eye. The lush',s rich mother-in-law wants to hire Yates away from the case. Then she gets hit by a bus and killed. The lush fires Yates. His wife, Gloria, promptly hires Yates herself. Gloria',s big sister, Fay, gets in on the act. Things get complicated. And between the boyfriend who wants to rough him up, the crooked cop who wants to bust him, the night club owner that wants to kill him, and several other characters who all seem to want to threaten Yates',s personal health, the heatwave is the least of his troubles.  , A DUM-DUM FOR THE PRESIDENT  , Montreal P.I. Mike Garfin doesn',t believe Martha Davenport when she comes to him to help her locate her wayward sister. Later that evening, he runs into an old friend at a local bar, who invites him to a swank cocktail party. Garfin knows he',s being set-up for something, and once there, he meets Tremblay, who takes him next door and introduces him to a mysterious Latin American gentleman known as Mr. Mirek. Garfin is asked to guard a key. The next day he discovers that Mirek is a powerful ex-president named Manuel Bordera. Something doesn',t feel right. Then Miss Davenport comes back with a new story. And in no time at all, Garfin is being smacked, shot at, strangled and seduced as he tries to get to the bottom of the whole affair. , , , , ,  ,_,