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When wedding planner Adrielle Pyper orchestrates a destination ceremony in Hawaii, she&rsquo,s prepared for anything&mdash,except murder. , After the trauma of her last event, the beautiful isle of Kauai is the perfect place for Adri to unwind and do what she does best &ndash, plan. She even lets herself indulge in the attention of the groom&rsquo,s handsome brother. But just when everything seems to be perfect, an afternoon snorkeling trip turns deadly when Adri discovers the body of a young woman. , Shaken, but unable to let go, Adri&rsquo,s sleuthing leads her into more danger than she bargained for. When a number of &ldquo,accidents&rdquo, threaten her own life, it soon becomes apparent that someone will do anything to keep Adri from interfering with their vengeance. , For great craft tips, visit Adri',s website, www.mashedpotatoesandcrafts.com._,

Because Lydia didnt have arms or legs, she shelled out three thousand bucks to a washed up middleweight named Cap to give her ex-husband the beating of his life. But the beating turns to murder, and the murder into lust and desperation between Lydia and an underworld clean-up man. Meanwhile, overgrown frat boy car thieves take up cop killing as a side hobby. When these paths cross, a horror show of violence unfolds as they all slide into a hell of their own design, surrounded by the neon and noise of the casino strip on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Violent, vivid, life at hyper-speed. Psychosomatic is the debut novel from Anthony Neil Smith and it is a noir nightmare that asks how much is too much in a relationship, and what is the cost of leaving? Praise for PSYCHOSOMATIC

Gail Zigman, town selectwoman and Joe Gunthers companion of many years, is raped, and the detective finds himself caught between the media, local politicians, and a network of well-meaning victims rights advocates as he tries to put his own feelings aside and follow the trail of evidence. Every lead seems to point to a single, obvious suspect, but is the evidence too perfect? Risking his friendship with Gail, the respect of his peers, and his own life, Lt. Gunther keeps digging, hoping to find out if the man they have in jail is rightly there, or if the evidence against him is tainted-fruits of the poisonous tree._,

MWA Grand Master Margaret Maron, Edgar Award winner Tom Franklin, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ron Rash headline a new anthology of 21 tales spanning from traditional detective stories to comic capers to darkest noir and more-something for all tastes. Murder Under the Oaks is published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, held in 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina-the City of Oaks. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide range of crime writers from across the country and around the world-including both veteran writers and the brightest up-and-coming talents in the field. Several of the stories in Murder Under the Oaks draw on the regions history and culture-including the birth of a secret society at the University of Virginia, a mystery from Edgar Allan Poes childhood days, and a series of less-than-welcome visits by everyones favorite hometown sheriff. All participants contributed their efforts to support our charity-the Wake County Public Libraries-and by extension readers and writers everywhere. All profits go to the library. Edited by Art Taylor Including Stories By J.L. Abramo J.D. Allen Lori Armstrong Rob Brunet P.A. De Voe Sean Doolittle Tom Franklin Toni Goodyear Kristin Kisska Robert Lopresti Robert Mangeot Margaret Maron Kathleen Mix Britni Patterson Karen Pullen Ron Rash Karen E. Salyer Sarah Shaber Zoe Sharp B.K. Stevens Graham Wynd_,

In addition to writing seven Evan Horne mysteries and two stand-alone international thrillers, Bill Moody has written eight short stories, which appeared over the years in various anthologies, along with a brand new story. For the first time, Mood Swings collects all nine stories of murder and music. Moody is a fluent writer with a good ear for dialogue, a deft and ingratiating descriptive touch, a talent for characterization and a genuine feel for the jazz world. -New York Times You dont have to be a huge jazz fan to enjoy the latest of Bill Moodys colorful, cross-genre riffs about piano man and sleuth Evan Horne. -Chicago Tribune ...youre in for a suspenseful read that will rivet you to your seat... -Gayle Lynds, New York Times best selling author_,

A crowded playground is bursting with excited toddlers, their parents and grandparents. Four-year-old Candice disappears. How? Was she abducted? Did she wander off? Where is she? Joanna Best moves from Homicide to Serious Crime and finding little Candy consumes the city.Jo&rsquo,s secretive criminal life involves helping a young woman, the victim of revenge porn. A brute is on the warpath looking for Joe Best. Who? Candy&rsquo,s parents are at breaking point. They must be handled with sensitivity. At their home, Jo starts a brawl and is arrested. Can she ever stay out of trouble? And can she handle not one but three suitors? Candy isn&rsquo,t found and Homicide take over the case until Best saves her best for last._,

Harry Caine has been hired to determine whether the missing father of his client is dead or alive. The client wants closure in his burning desire to determine the what, who, where, when, and why of his missing father who disappeared shortly after taking off in his private plane from Pahokee to West Palm Beach. The authorities have declared the case closed after an exhaustive search of the surrounding everglades, sections of the Gulf of Mexico, and the waters off the Florida east coast. As Harry and Mona uncover the facts of the case, the profile of a serial killer begins to immerge. The action in this unforgettable Harry Caine Mystery takes place on land, sea, and air, moving from Palm Beach and Marion County, Florida, to Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas._,

He kills from afar. Until Jess Kimball makes it personal. An explosion ripped through a close-knit community in Iowa, leaving five dead, dozens hospitalized, and the country outraged. One of their own is charged with planting the bomb based on airtight evidence. Shattered and bewildered, his mother begs Jess Kimball to investigate. Since her own son was taken, Jess has never refused a heartbreaking plea from a desperate mother. She rushes to Iowa to find the truth. Instead, she learns the only alibi witness has already fled the country. Unwilling to admit defeat, Jess traces the witness to Spain. Teamed with a British operative, Jess is thrust into the international search for a lethal insecticide. Together they race against time to find and stop a ruthless killer before he destroys them all. Relentless Reporter Jess Kimball thrills in this exciting new novel from award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri and Nigel Blackwell. Read one Jess Kimball thriller and youll be hooked. Strong female characters, a fully developed plot, and thrills till the end. Make some coffee. Youll read all night. For fans of Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Jack Reacher, John Grisham, and James Pattersons Womens Murder Club Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too. - Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers Expertise shines on every page. -- Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award Winning MWA Past President Relentlessly determined to bring justice to an unjust world, Jess Kimball is like a female Jack Reacher, only nicer! -- Martha Powers, award winning author of Conspiracy of Silence and Death Angel_,

Gordon Gekko meets Janet Evanovich in this wry and winning caper-Jack Getze does it again! -Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award winning author of Truth Be Told Wall Streets miasmal garbage washes up on the Jersey Shore when a small time broker falls in love

Gourmet cook Angie Amalfi has big plans for her life as a soon-to-be married woman, but between nervous kitchen remodelers, clever murderers, and possibly ghosts ... what could possibly go wrong? Angie hopes a romantic evening out with her fiance, Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith, will bring a welcome reprieve from the hectic pace of remodeling the older house she and Paavo bought to make it move-in ready before their upcoming wedding. But circumstances--worldly and seemingly other-worldy--conspire against her. Not the least of which is her newest acquaintance, a lonely heiress, who quickly involves Angie in the heiress',s bizarre family history of indiscretions, high finances, and murder. , Angie suspects the key to all the weirdness going on with the family lies in the mansion that is now in her new friend',s hands--a place that, if it isn',t haunted, certainly looks like it should be. Angie drags several old cohorts into the fray to help her newest pal, but as the situation gets murkier, Angie wonders if she',ll ever see her own happy ending._,

Buddy Kai and Dominic Rosario are enterprising native Hawaiian businessmen-competitors, actually-preparing to fight for control of the methamphetamine trade on the Big Island of Hawaii, where the population is small in relation to Oahu with it megapolis of Honolulu, but where the appetite for ice-as crystal meth is known in the local parlance-seems to both of them to be almost insatiable. When Buddy is approached by an L.A.-based Mexican cartel to be their main man on the Big Island, and becomes convinced that he and his particular cohorts and minions can go up against and defeat the entrenched Japanese organization, which has controlled all vice in the Islands, including the meth trade, since time immemorial, and which certainly has no intention of sharing, let alone being forced out, of such a lucrative criminal enterprise, the stage is set for Dark Paradise, Lono Waiwaioles brilliant Red Harvest in miniature, a noir novel-com-sociological study that truly tells it like it is, showing the society that has resulted from the policies of internal colonialism that have been practiced by the federal government of the United States, starting with the Calvinist missionaries of European descent and continuing through the last one hundred twenty-five years, with successive waves of imported foreign labor-Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, South Sea Islander-always with the native Hawaiians relegated to the bottom rung of the economic totem pole, where the only outs-just like in the mainland ghettos-are sports, entertainment, or drug-dealing. Maybe the situation will change some day, if enough people read and understand novels like Dark Paradise. *Starred Review* Waiwaiole has an Elmore Leonard-touch with his lowlifes, injecting plenty of pop culture and humanizing quirks, but these guys never seem unrealistically lovable the way Leonards rogues sometimes do. Theyre more like the cut-to-the-bone characters in a Daniel Woodrell novel, or even early Pelecanos-say, King Suckerman-

Annie Fitch, a former police detective, struggles to make ends meet as a private investigator in the sleepy town of Leesburg, Virginia. On partial disability because of gunshot injuries, she&rsquo,s relegated to doing surveillance gigs and background checks. But things are looking up, since her on-again, off-again relationship is back on and might stay that way. ,When Annie is hired by Laura Carlton to follow her husband to get evidence of cheating, Annie is certain the case won&rsquo,t take long. ,Nick Carlton grew up with money and privilege and has a sex addiction dating back to his high school days. But things go sideways when Annie finds her target dead in an alley just a few blocks from her own home. ,Working with her former partner, Gunnar Jansson, Annie digs deeper into Carlton&rsquo,s background, slowly excavating his past to reveal the multiple suspects and motives. The list includes his many lunch-hour-tryst partners, a local shop owner, and his business partner, among others. Layer by layer, Annie uncovers a truth that runs much deeper than anyone expected._,

Envelope-pushers! A truly WOW collection by the best mystery writers out there-full of surprises only they can pull off. -Thomas B. Sawyer, best-selling author of Cross Purposes and No Place to Run, and head-writer of Murder, She Wrote Coast to Coast

Hardboiled. Softboiled. Noir. East Coast. West Coast. And all points in between. Whatever you call them, gumshoe, shamus, Pinkerton, detective, private eye, P.I., shadow, tail, investigator, and wherever you need them, from East to West, North to South. Theyre all here. From the hard pavement of Brooklyn, New York, to the mean dusty streets of Carson City. Down to sultry New Orleans and the freak show thats Venice, CA. From the flim-flammers of Waco, Texas to DC, Las Vegas to San Berdoo and LA. And from Iowa City to San Diego and small town North Carolina-not to mention the low-life drug dealers in a little place called Kings Quarter, Maine. No one is safe in this impressive collection featuring fourteen original private eye stories plus one previously published bonus story. Crime fiction connoisseurs will visit one major crime scene after another with some of todays best-of-the-best crime writers serving as tour guides. Poisoned-pen masters like

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The real estate mogul is lying about something, but his wife really was raped twenty-years ago in an unsolved assault. Now shes long dead by her own hand, the case has gone cold, and the mogul starts dropping cash into former Saint Ansgar homicide detective turned private eye Richard Dean Buckners wallet to find some answers. Just hours later Buckners old homicide partner calls up. His grandmother was just killed in a drive-by that hit the wrong address. People that stupid need to be taught harsh lessons, and vengeance just so happens to be one of Buckners finer skills. Everything circles the drain as Buckner finds himself at war with the worst gang the city has to offer as well as the slithering rapist who has resurfaced just to tie the loose ends from the twenty year-old crime. Buckner doesnt back down, and if that means getting himself carjacked so he can interrogate the gang bangers, pose as the moguls secret lover and chase the rapist into a womens shower room so he can beat him mercilessly, so be it. Just another day._,

Hopper Garland is good at finding lost girls. When his last target tries to taker her life upon being discovered, he begins to rethink his career as a private eye. However, a persuasive offer from a sexy woman has him back on the case, chasing a missing sixteen-year-old pregnant girl from the swampy ruins of post-Katrina New Orleans to the neon grime of Las Vegas. Along the way hell have to contend with a rogues gallery of henchmen, pornographers, and his own incestuous sister. After he makes a deal with a sociopathic murderer who believes hes found the secret to eternal life, Hopper will relearn that old saw

Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont police force has a serious problem

Intriguing plots, complex characters, and a landscape come to life are mainstays of Archer Mayors New England thrillers. With a gift for vivid writing, he has made an honorable art form of the regional mystery, according to the New York Times Book Review. Now in a suspenseful new novel, Mayors popular sleuth Joe Gunther faces one of the most baffling cases of his career._,

Joe Gunther gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears--a cop has been murdered in the line of duty. Deputy Sheriff Brian Sleuter has been shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what can been seen on the cruisers tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they are a couple of Boston-based drug runners who were stopped by the deputy on their way from Canada down to Boston. That brings Gunther and his major crimes team into the investigation--and eventually to Alan Budney, the disaffected son of a Maine lobsterman, now a drug kingpin, who uses the closed, clannish lobster fishing community, and his extended family in particular, to move drugs along the New England coast._,