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Even the streetwise detectives in King County, Washington, are baffled by the death of fourteen-year-old Andrew Waterford. On the surface, the case is just another teenage suicide, but the police can find no trace of Andrews fingerprints on the gun. Then the forensic lab discovers the fingerprints of all four remaining Waterford family members on what could now be labeled a murder weapon. But this is not the last shocking Waterford secret to be revealed as a result of their sons death. In From Andrew, With Love we are introduced to sensitive, tormented young Andrew in vivid flashbacks through his short, troubled life. An awkward loner lacking the natural charm and athleticism of his two siblings, Andrew suffers the sting of being an outsider in his own home. The question is, did a member of the family commit a crime to keep the Waterford reputation intact? Will Andrews death finally force the Waterford family to face their problems, or will it shatter their bonds forever as the final, sinister secret is exposed? A thrilling novel filled with suspense and intrigue, From Andrew, With Love portrays in chilling detail the lengths to which a family will go to hide their darkest dysfunction. _,

Jeff Aderman had been a lost soul for most of his thirty-year existence. Always a spectator more than a participant in life, Jeff is now reeling from the loss of the love of his life, Niki, and subsequent firing from his job in Milwaukee. After mulling over his uncertain future, Aderman decides to return to Claybourn, Wisconsin, the hometown he once loathed. Adermans former mentor, Dean Laskey, offers him a job teaching English at a sleepy liberal arts college. Aderman is faced with confronting his worst fear-being trapped in a small town like his father, who died without having ever lived. His first day on the job proves to be more than he ever bargained for when a college student is found dead in the campus boathouse. Without warning, rural Wisconsin is suddenly encountered by evil acts, involving rape, murder, drugs, and abduction. Drawn into solving the case with his one-time college roommate-now sheriff-Jocko Middleton, Adermans life is transformed forever. As an unwilling amateur sleuth, he must come to grips with life-threatening circumstances. Home Again, Home Again. is a novel filled with danger, mystery, intrigue, and the answer to the oft-asked question, Can anyone ever really go home again?_,

Some murders take lives, and some murders save lives. For Father Michael Quinn, the distinction is all too real. A Catholic priest and Pastor at St. John of the Cross parish, Father Quinn is loved and admired by everyone in the small quiet town of Ravenna, Pennsylvania. He oversees the parish, he watches over the children, and he writes. He writes hundreds of stories, sitting at his Rectory window typing away at the keys of his old-fashioned typewriter until all hours of the night. He uses the stories for his homilies, leaving his congregation with a moral message each Sunday that they wont soon forget. When a new police chief arrives in Ravenna and suddenly reopens an unresolved murder case, Father Quinn finds himself at the heart of the investigation. He decides to use his Sunday homilies to guide the chief in the right direction. Through the events of the story, the reader is taken back in time to when Father Quinn was just a boy. By tracing the steps of his childhood, we become witnesses to the circumstances that shaped his life and molded him into the man he is today._,

What if your HMO came up with the perfect way to make money? What if it killed you? Tom Kanon is an international expert in nanotechnology who uses microbots to deliver healthcare directly to the organs and cells of the human body. He envisions a world where disease has been vanquished and designer robots police the human body. Microbots with specialized tools will remove cardiac plaque, carry hormones and enzymes where they are needed, and act as portable insulin pumps, miniature defibrillators, and pacemakers. Kanons nanobot research soon attracts the attention of Jack Taylor, the CEO of Omni Health HMO. Taylor shrewdly woos Kanon into accepting a position as the head of the emergency room at Omni to tighten the companys stranglehold on the market. Kanon thought he knew everything about his field-until people start dying at his hospital and none of the other staff members care. As Tom struggles to find out why, he races against time to ensure the safety of his patients and loved ones against those who want them dead. But wanting to trust someone and knowing whom to trust are two very different things in the world of global corporate domination fueled by the bottom line. _,

Private investigator Nick Gallo goes all out to catch a cunning mastermind behind bizarre Chicago killings. He finds surprising clues in Miamis South Beach and endures life-threatening encounters in Vancouver (Canada) and Michigans backwoods. His beautiful but fragile client Kelly seduces him and then has puzzling personality changes. Sophisticated dandy Jake Starr and salty Upstream Sally elicit tangled but vital information. Vengeful lesbian Faye Rogers becomes an unexpected ally. Old chum Captain Majeski of the Chicago PD devises a startling final engagement. Mentor and best friend Professor Hunt gets involved in a shocking entanglement. Comic relief comes from jazz musician Bobby Lewis and street denizen Lenny the Pick. This chilling story of homicidal greed probes multiple personality disorder and contrived hypnosis, complete with vivid characters, sharp dialogue, subtle humor and riveting surprises. Readers are treated to a suspenseful drama of human cunning, frailty, and betrayal._,

Following the success of his first book, The New American Revolution, Mr. Gibbons brings us another thriller

In an age of technology, of reason and certainly intelligence, one would not expect someones life to follow the path that it does, in which unexpectedly horrific acts are perpetrated by family and ot

Set in the aftermath of Bordering On Hatred, John Overland has been hired by the Tohono Oodham Reservation outside of Tucson, Arizona, for one reason

Charity McLaughlin is a well-respected, 32-year-old trial lawyer with a stormy past and a secret. Charity suffers from manic depression and has been hospitalized in mental institutions twice. Her condition causes her deep distress, and she must live with the fear that she could spiral into mania at any time. Through determination and treatment she maintains a semblance of normalcy in her life, and excellence in her law practice. One rainy day in February, Deborah Elledge comes to her and explains that her husband recently died under mysterious circumstances in the mental ward of Good Hope Memorial Hospital, while undergoing treatment for manic depression. Mrs. Elledge asks Charity to pursue a possible medical malpractice case against the hospital. Charity is chilled by the story, and her heart goes out to the grieving widow. In spite of her concerns that the facts surrounding the case are personally disturbing to her, Charity takes the case and becomes deeply involved in its investigation. She is shocked to uncover not only malpractice, but murder. What she does not realize is that in pursuing the case she is not only risking her sanity, but very likely her life as well._,

Laureen Fortune, still foxy at forty, visits the Arecibo Observatory as guest of former lover Kelly Collins, an astronomer from the University of Chicago. The Observatorys spectacular radio/radar telescope, comprising a twenty-acre reflecting dish of exquisitely shaped aluminum sheeting, a 600-ton cats cradle of steel girders suspended fifty stories above to hold its radio feeds, and cutting-edge radio and computing equipment, has drawn a number of other scientific investigators and hangers-on to its site in north-west Puerto Rico. Laureen knows several of these as long-ago friends and/or lovers, brought together by the Observatorys unique attractions. Laureen inhales the tortured history and mixed-up culture of the Isle of Enchantment until the idyll is broken one day by the discovery at dawn of a body that has fallen from the suspended structure, pierced the dish, and been disemboweled in the process. Finding herself and Kelly quite reasonably under suspicion of murder, she converts from pseudo-scientist to amateur crime investigator and, by her naturally contrarian processes of thought, identifies the true culprit and obtains a confession. She chooses not to reveal her solution to the investigating authorities, which, for their own reasons, would prefer not to be told. _,

Sandy McFersons husband has been cheating on her for some time now. She finally confronts him and gets the beating of her life. When she demands a divorce he threatens to kill her if she files._,

Sandy McFersons husband has been cheating on her for some time now. She finally confronts him and gets the beating of her life. When she demands a divorce he threatens to kill her if she files._,

Admitted to the hospitals medical unit for overnight observation after experiencing minor cardiac irregularities, the patient suddenly and unexpectedly dies. The autopsy cannot determine the cause of death. During the hospitals death conference, the Director of the Department of Cardiology notes that blood taken at the autopsy showed an unexplained marked elevation in one of the blood electrolytes. This begins a search for the method, reason, and political considerations that lead to the patients murder. The plot weaves its way from the hospital wards, boardroom and executive offices, and hideaway and sex lair of the guilty parties, up to the Washington, D.C. office of the US Senator for New Jersey._,

Detective Frank Demura, of NYPD Manhattan South, smells trouble when he reaches a crime scene, and investigates the murder of a Catholic brother whose body washed up from the East River. Soon Demura receives cut-and-paste notes from an unknown killer. After two more murders another note arrives predicting that the big one comes off when purple and rose converge._,

Recovery Undercover is a story about good cops and bad guys, laced with a divenely appointed love affair, it is also about sober alcoholics, those special people who trudge the road of happy destiny,

The Green Berets always win...... In the late 1950s and early 1960s the ultimate training in fighting and self defense methods were the Green Berets. When Matt Wilson was stationed in Okinawa he discovered Karate and found it to be the perfect compliment to his military training. One summer, Matt returns to the USA to visit a friend in Alabama. When the KKK discovers Matt, a Catholic visitor, in their town they decide to get rid of him. Unfortunately for them, the local KKK chapter has no idea who they have decided to cross. As the Klan unleashes a series of crimes, including murder, against Matt and his friends, Matt sets up a well thought out defense against them. When he realizes the Klan will not quit he decides the only solution to protect him and his friends is a definitive Preemptive Strike! Preemptive Strike A Matt Wilson Novel_,

A rash of opened graves begins to appear across three towns in the peaceful West African country of Sub-Sahara. Simultaneously, people are being found bludgeoned, bruised and weak. The local police investigations had failed to turn up any useful leads-hindered largely by local traditions, and corruption. The Federal Intelligence Agency (FIA) was finally called in to assist. Leading their efforts is a special agent named Ben Omara, also known as BO. He was trained in New York City, and considered one of the best investigators in the FIA. Part of the storys backdrop is an eerie abandoned farm, considered by local residents to be haunted by evil spirits. It is the disappearance of a twelve-year-old boy named Usman Cone, into the farm that provides the key to the mystery._,