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After chess master Wilson Hopkins is found dead, the police dismiss it as an accident, but his brother Bosco is convinced it was murder. Bosco hires Vegas to uncover the truth. With her sharp-witted mother Eleanor and the ever-loyal Bassett Hound, Buttermilk, by her side, Vegas dives into the world of competitive chess—only to discover it's more dangerous than it seems.

Sheila and Russell Price found out the hard way that you need more than love to make a marriage survive. Pride, lust, anger, and greed has a way of creeping into a good thing and tearing it apart one situation at a time. They are racing against time, a game of survival, and the pressure is on.

Failing grocery store manager Larry Prescott just wants a quickie. With a frigid wife waiting at home, Larry decides to have some extramarital fun with an employee named Maxine Watkins. Though he has no way of knowing it, Larry is sowing the seeds for a crime spree that will be dubbed “The MegaSaver Massacre”.

In this gritty, hard-hitting story, a young mom gets caught up in a complex web of drug smuggling and money laundering, unwittingly putting her son's life at risk. She bravely and courageously faces down the bad guys and finds love in an unexpected place, with an unlikely partner.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines serial killings as a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone. This killer is eerily special and resents being pigeonholed. R.D. Blue shadows Detectives Spence and Swift as they follow a trail of blood and body parts that are so grisly, heinous, and meticulously orchestrated, that even the local press is reluctant to share with the public.