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Too shy to reply? The Comeback Kid will do it for you! In this hilarious take on the modern-day detective story, Frank "The Comeback Kid" Davenport has made a cozy living finishing arguments for people too embarrassed to speak up for themselves. But when a beautiful young woman hires him to tell off her dad, he quickly discovers that this job will be unlike any he's had before. If he's going to finish it, the unlikely sleuth will have to hunt her father down himself.

A group calling itself The Divine Essence Discovery Evangelists plans to expand its operations when it purchases The Tall Pines Ranch in the small Oklahoma town of Colby. The citizens are up in arms to prevent what they’re calling a cult from ruining their quaint little town. Someone must stop the cult at all cost. Enter - “The Widower’s Club”, four comical but loveable elderly gentlemen, inseparable friends, who develop a plan to stop the cult in its tracks.

Addie Spencer’s mother, Holly Spencer is dying of cancer. In the final moments of her life, 48-year-old Holly confesses a terrible secret to her daughter. A secret so shocking, it will cause Addie to question her very own existence. But before she can finish telling Addie the whole story, she dies, leaving 23-year-old Addie to begin a search for the truth.

When committed agnostic Gabriel Stone’s wife dies in an unlikely airline disaster, he pours himself into the writing of a story that has haunted him since his youth—a novel his devout wife had warned him never to finish. Inspired by a visit to the island of Patmos, he is fascinated with the visions beheld there by St. John The Divine while in political exile for his beliefs. Those visions included terrifying events delivered by what John described as “seven thunders,” which he was instructed to withhold, to seal up and “write them not” (Revelation 10: 4).

Shelton Williams' book, The Covey Jencks Mysteries: Love and Murder Deep in the Heart of Texas, is more than a collection of mysterious tales of murder and investigation. By bringing to life these characters, the author has highlighted global issues such as racism, political extremism, and human trafficking. In the midst of it all is our interracial protagonists, hell-bent on discovering the secrets lurking in the dark shadows of Odessa, Texas.

When Bell Towers decides to build their newest boutique hotel in Wharton County, Braxton establishes a hospitality program as part of their university expansion. Despite family ties to prominent citizens, a dispute over the proposed landsite pits citizens against each other. One takes matters into their own hands and slays the hotel magnate during the campus holiday party. As the list of suspects increases, long-lost family members are anxious to keep their secrets from being revealed, complicating Sheriff Montague's ability to determine the murderer’s true motive.

Surprising new family members. A hidden talisman. Deadly curses. Murder. Months after tragically losing a loved one, Kellan learns his relative’s death wasn’t an accident. Someone has discovered a cursed talisman, and a rogue government agent will stop at nothing to retrieve the heirloom. Unfortunately, it has already changed hands and found its way on campus. Moments before Braxton’s controversial art exhibition opens, Kellan stumbles upon another murder victim, and it appears he might be next on the avenger’s list.

NoLab is a novel with a comic bent; it's a crime story, a buddy "flick", an art world commentary, a love story. NoLab might be what happens when Lethal Weapon is crossed with My Dinner with Andre. Artists Ray Lawson and Victor Florian search for NoLab, a collaborative of artist provocateurs that has gone missing. Their search becomes a romp through the art and ideas of a progressive, conceptually oriented subculture of the art world.

So the question arises, what would happen if two serial killers suddenly found themselves thrown together by fate? Richard Michael Lamont has a conundrum when he picks up a woman named Savvy Cofield walking along a Tulsa street in a driving rainstorm. Everything he’d planned down to the last detail, has gone awry. Now he’s trapped with no way out. There’s no one he can call, especially not the police. Hoping to find a resolution to his present situation, while Richard and Savvy are hiding out in the small Oklahoma town of Colby, Richard comes up with a plan.

Ted Jacobs, his wife Marilyn, and their seven-year-old daughter Caroline are living what appears to be normal lives in the small Oklahoma town of Colby. On a hot summer evening, the Jacobs family disappear into the mountainous area not far from Colby, leaving behind a set of bewildering clues. An all-out search for the Jacobs family uncovers still more bizarre elements that raise the question, did the Jacobs disappear on their own accord, or is something more sinister at work?