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Frannie Rose backs her walker into the ladies' room at the Wolf Creek Senior Center. "It's a bitch," she says to herself, wincing as she bangs into the door. When she turns around, she confronts the bloody body of Elyse Crane protruding from the floor of a stall. As it turns out, Frannie could just have easily been referring to Elyse.

There is only one speck of land in the entire world where activities literally take place in the shadow of tomorrow. It is a remote island in the Arctic Circle, beyond the northwestern tip of the Aleutian Island chain, and located just east of the international date line. Beyond the west shore of the Bering Strait, on the other side of the date line, stands the mountains of the Kamchatka Peninsula. When the sun sets on a rare clear day, that mountain range, towering in the domain of tomorrow, casts a shadow over the small and remote island of today.

Detective Jock Mitchell, after serving eight years in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (DCPD), left DCPD to pursue a career as a homicide detective. He landed in the historic city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his wife, Latisha. After being named the sheriff department's only homicide detective, his work was largely relegated to solving B&Es and robberies. Detective Mitchell hadn't found the fulfillment he sought. On a cold winter morning in December, Detective Mitchell found himself at the center of a brutal and terrifying killing.

A Ritual of Innocence is a twisting international political crime story full of keen satire and rich character studies that paint a winding tableau that ranges from New York's crime-laden underbelly to the shadowed corruption of global businesses and political leaders. The assassination of the wife of the CEO of the world's largest energy company triggers intense interactions between a cadre of characters with diverse backgrounds, cultural norms, and motivations.

As members of the Royal Guards, Special Investigation Unit follow agents Marcus and Mikal as they go undercover to solve crimes against the country of Xylandria. This special unit was formed by King Wilfred when unsolved major crimes started rising. In Unity Bridge, someone keeps burning down the wooden pillars that are to be used to hold up the bridge crossing the Oklib River. King Wilfred promised the citizens of the newly annexed country of Zanderland that he would build the bridge to connect the two countries into one.

During the move back to Charleston, South Carolina after the death of her husband, Julia finds the name and number of a long-lost lover. With encouragement from her brother, Kevin, she agrees to try and find Adam. After a reinstatement into the FBI, Julia's adventures take her down a dangerous rabbit hole where she discovers Adam was not an artist, but a CIA agent who has been declared deceased (or is he?). She deals with multiple government agencies in the US and around the world-from Russia, Germany, Iceland, China, Italy, and the Cayman Islands as she chases romance.

After his wife’s murder, Cutter is transferred to a regional FBI department in the small town of Bullet, Georgia, in hopes this rehabilitative assignment will help him emotionally recover so he can return to Miami to hunt for his wife’s killer.

Welcome to the city of Greenville, where murder is never what it seems. Detective Lynn Pocker and her team are battling crime on several fronts: two serial murderers and a secret organization that has been pulling the strings of crime and justice for decades. Our heroine will have to fight this and her own personal struggles as she herself becomes ensnared in the game of foxes and hounds.

Grayton, a small fictional town community in western Tennessee in 1964, is unaware of the civil rights movement taking place across the nation.

No sooner than a 13-year-old child begs Lawrence Kingston to reinvestigate her mother's disappearance--a case still unsolved for eight years--the redoubtable botanist, professor, and sleuth receives news that an English rose, extinct for half a century, has been discovered growing on Alcatraz island, 5,000 miles from its former home.

On August 31, 1940, a beautiful warm summer night, a night when no one could have imagined that something so evil could happen, an innocent young White girl, barely 15, named Claudine Williams, was murdered under the White Bridge, in a small Southern town of Pixley, by Olin Chilton, a 14-year-old Negro boy who was immediately arrested, convicted, and forgotten until 14 years later when Jake Ross, a Yankee attorney, comes to town and lets it be known that he is there to prove that the Negro boy was innocent.

The Hourglass Pendant is a collection of short, interconnected mysteries narrated by Paul James, an understated detective trying to heal from PTSD after witnessing a school shooting. Hired by a mysterious international agency, he begins a cathartic journey across an American frontier filled with danger, romance, and strangely wonderful characters.

Glimpses 2 is the exciting addition to Glimpses. It unravels the mystery of who is attempting to murder Marcella and life's discoveries at the end of the tunnel of passion. The ladies discover what their hearts have been longing to reveal. They continue on the road of fate, unified and strong.

As Melanie Carson and Kim Foster board their flight in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, bound for Paris, France, they are giddy with excitement to be on their first international adventure - studying at the Sorbonne. They could never have imagined the horror that will confront them only weeks into their Parisienne adventure. When Melanie disappears from her room one night, Inspector Pierre Dubois is called in to investigate. His sharp instincts and experience, after a brief investigation, tell him she didn’t leave on her own but was kidnapped. But by whom? And why Melanie?

Roger and Ann Jacobson live in the gentle countryside of Massachusetts. Roger owns a successful accounting firm. He is demanding and domineering, attempting to control Ann's every move. Ann is a columnist at their local newspaper. Roger’s chief accountant, James Talbot, knows his ways with the ladies. Jim is rumored to be involved in a scandalous relationship with the wife of one of the firm’s biggest clients, Mr. Rathburn.

Reputed mobster Bennie DeSalvo, who was connected to Drummond, must tie up loose ends. He wants Drummond’s mistress Penelope dead. A mole in the police department provides him Penelope’s location. DeSalvo orders the kidnapping of Penelope, despite police security. The plan is successful. Penelope is kidnapped by DeSalvo’s main henchmen under the cover of a hospital bombing.

The novella takes place in the city of Greenville where a heinous murder occurs. The killer leaves messages for the police written in her victim's blood, maybe to annoy the police or maybe to leave a clue about the next murder. The point of views interchange betwixt the protagonist, Detective Lynn Pocker, and the serial killer. You are in for a treat. This is filled with action, seduction, lies, and deceit. If that's your cup of tea, then this is definitely the audiobook for you.

This Baltimore, Maryland–based thriller will take you on a journey to both domestic and foreign places in the quest for answers for Caron Tucker and Shelly Carson. Two young women forced into unthinkable roles, who somehow managed to turn the tables and exact the ultimate revenge in the story's shockingly violent conclusion.

The Ryukyu Islands, a center of diverse cultures, have absorbed martial arts techniques from various nations, giving birth to the distinctive and deadly Okinawan martial arts. This fusion, a product of centuries of trade and cultural exchange, has created a unique style forbidden for use except in self-defense. However, the question arises as to whether this tradition still holds relevance in Japan's current occupation of the island, especially in light of the Meiji Restoration.

Being recently promoted to full-time member at the Home Office was a highlight for Lord Edgar Cortland, but it was quickly overshadowed by a series of missions that first sent Lord Blakely off to America after a kidnapping, then Lord Davenport to identify the imposter that was now the spy, B. Edgar himself has been tasked with investigating the Twisted Rose Shipping Company as well as locating the Duke of Greaves’s errant daughter. After situating a recently returned school friend into a position at the Home Office, both young lords head out.