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The House Near Fallowfield by James Fillmore

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North of England, 1964.

The sombre clouds of the postwar are now in the past. But the shadows remain. After the recent death of her father, Frankie, a young English widow living in the US, returns home and becomes entangled in a war mystery. Strange men follow her, watch her and Frankie starts fearing for her life.

Looking for the answers, she meets Albert, a mystery author who lives nearby and ventures to help her. When they get themselves caught in the middle of a dangerous international plot they find out Frankie’s father was involved in a bizarre puzzle.
She is dragged in as the key to its solution.

“The House Near Fallowfield” is an exciting story of mystery, adventure, romance and betrayal set in the 1960s.

Targeted Age Group:: Adults of all ages

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
At the beginning of this novel, I describe a garden full of ponds, little windmills and garden gnomes. As a child, I lived for a short time near a house with a garden like this. I began writing about this and it inspired me to continue with the story which eventually developed into a novel.

Murder By Dissent by Patricia M. Muhammad

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Protests, riots and someone who hides under the flame that scorches the possibility of improving race relations in America during the Civil Rights era. Jacqueline Sadie Thompson is a detective in a coloured precinct in New York. Lieutenant Davidson assigns her and Johnson murder cases which occurred during protests. They visit the scene. Someone tosses a Molotov cocktail where they stand. The building collapses. Thompson’s British husband, William rescues her. Her partner suffers a coma. Johnson awakens. He recalls the disturbing notions his wife had concerning racial identity. Thompson faints at the station house and is put on leave. Her husband cares for her. Anderson, another detective, furthers their investigations. Johnson convinces one of his cousins to retrieve a book. The detective is aloof and does not disclose to anyone what he saw before the explosion. Jacqueline deduces a portion of it. Jacqueline is determined to solve the case. Her husband is determined to protect her. Who do they both need protection from?

The Treasure of Conquistador Haven: A 21st Century Treasure Adventure by Bruce Miles

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A university research team and a television crew discover the forest has more dangers than wild animals when they find themselves caught in a battle between outlaw marijuana growers and a group searching for Hernando De Soto’s fabled lost treasure in an unexplored section of the Ouachita National Forest.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The love of outdoors and adventures and a desire to bring the outdoors to people and hope to get them out and into it. There is much more to forests and the wild lands than people know so an adventure tale is one way to share and inspire.

Techno Ranger by Thomas Sewell

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Techno Ranger by Thomas Sewell

North and South Korea are on a collision course.

1LT Sam Harper wants to fit in on his new military intelligence new job supporting the Rangers, but the operators and local security bureaucrats get in the way after losing face.

A North Korean general sends a naïve Special Forces lieutenant and team across the DMZ. To steal technology from the lab Sam protects.

Will a traitor and a CIA temptress teach Sam the wrong lessons about who to trust?

Dedicated to Tom Clancy, David Drake, and Robert Ludlum.

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Pink Panthers: The Greatest Thieves in the World by Neboysha Saikovski

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Ocean’s Eleven meets The Sopranos and The Godfather in this real-life story thriller about the infamous Pink Panthers gang of diamond thieves which has it all, shocking war and political drama, sweeping dialogue, dark humor, well-placed twists and flashbacks, and sufficient heist action scenes and crime thriller suspense to keep you constantly engaged.A powerful blend of real-life situations and crime thriller. One elevates the other, making this novel’s theme all the more important in today’s world… In the end, you will wonder who are the real greatest thieves – diamond thieves or corporate and political elites?

After the thieving team of the Pink Panthers successfully carried out diamond robberies in Antwerp, London, and Tokyo, they are recruiting an elegant logistics expert and a top make-up artist to prepare for the robbery at the Diamond Biennale in Paris. After successfully completing the job in Paris, they carry out two more spectacular robberies together, at the Amsterdam airport and in Saint Tropez, after which discord and attrition occur within the gang over the division of the loot. If there is no reconciliation, the rest of the gang is forced to forgather and train a new crew for another robbery, this time in Dubai.

Targeted Age Group:: 13 – 103

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
This novel is the first part of a trilogy that deals with the socio-historical context of emergence, rise, and (temporary) fall of the famous and powerful international robber group, Pink Panthers. I have been writing my first novel “Pink Panthers: The Greatest Thieves in the World” for the last three years but I dreamt about writing it for the last 15 years since I read the reports of their first robberies.

By personalizing the functioning of criminal cartels, the horrors of war, the violent discord of country and pitiful dissolution of a family, and showing the results of these bold events have on individuals is the general theme I tried to dive into with this novel. The light form of adventure drama shows the correlation of organized crime, social anomalies, wars, and interests of the great who ruthlessly manipulate and destroy the lives of the small, from individuals to nations. The background story shows the entire process of the diamond business, how diamonds come to jewelry stores, from relentless exploitation of rich deposits of poor third-world countries and inciting bloody civil wars in them, to the intertwining of the diamond business with drug cartels, human trafficking, interests of banks, corporate and military-industrial magnates and diplomatic-political machinations.

If you’re curious what it’s like to be a Pink Panther, read this book. If you have the courage, dare follow the steps of our heroes, embark on an action-adventure with the Pink Panthers, and personally experience the world’s most famous diamond robberies. Furthermore, find out how diamonds are made and come to that array of glittering shops, from the hot sands of Africa where greedy corporations exploit human and mineral resources in collaboration with corrupt politicians, through shining modern Europe all the way to Dubai. Get to know the dark world behind all that glitter and glow of riches, touch the blood, sweat, and tears that they represent in reality.

Killer Instincts by Anna Lee Rose

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Killer Instincts by Anna Lee Rose

Emotionally scarred special ops veteran Jake Delgado comes home from Afghanistan only to discover that he’s been blackballed by his enemies. He becomes a hitman to support his family and is sent to Mexico to take out a notorious crime boss, but ends up falling for Hanna, his target’s captive girlfriend. She’s a beautiful, sexy woman and it’s instalove at first sight! His employer doesn’t want any loose ends and when Jake refuses to kill Hanna, they both become the target of another killer–a vicious one with ties to Jake’s own past.

Tesla by Jason Walker

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Tesla by Jason Walker

Darren Mathews, a former Australian SAS super soldier, is a loving father married to his soulmate, Anna Mathews. They are both devoted parents, living with their daughter, Dana, on a small island off the coast of Florida. They seem to have the perfect family life, but they are hiding a dangerous secret: they both work for the Orange Corporation, an umbrella company of the CIA controlled by the shadow government. From aliens to giants, they have seen all that the Hidden Hand has kept from the world. Almost.

When a routine recovery mission puts Darren face-to-face with original Tesla documents, he makes an impulsive decision which will alter the course of not only his own fate but the fates of his wife and daughter forever. What will Darren do with the Tesla notes and diagrams? Will the shadow government discover what he has done? And will Anna turn her husband over to the Hidden Hand, or will she stick with him for better or worse—until death do they part?

Amie African Adventure by Lucinda E Clarke

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Amie African Adventure by Lucinda E Clarke

Amie reluctantly agreed to accompany her new husband to go and live in Africa. Life was very different but she soon made friends and began to enjoy life. Then civil war broke out and she was left behind when the last plane evacuating the foreigners took off from the airport. Now, Amie was on her own, alone, and defenseless. To survive she sets out to walk to safety across the African savannah.

Crossword by Alan Bricklin

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Crossword by Alan Bricklin

By early 1944 Hitler’s general staff realized that they had lost the war. Hitler did not. In late 1943 Allied bombers destroyed the Norwegian power station that supplied power for the factory making fissionable material for Hitler’s drive to produce an atomic weapon. The remaining material was ordered to be brought to Germany under heavy guard, but a lone German general set into motion a series of events that threatened to alter the outcome of World War II.

A troubled OSS agent is sent behind enemy lines to prevent the development of the atomic weapon that could win the war for Germany; but Hitler and the Allies are not the only ones interested. There are secret forces at work in both the United States and Germany that want the fissionable material for their own reasons.

Alone and injured in Germany, the OSS agent must enlist the aid of a beautiful, young German woman to help him while he plays cat and mouse with his enemies, both known and unknown. An undertaking gone terribly wrong. Has it turned into a suicide mission?

Loss Of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

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Loss Of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

One Of The Most Disturbing Stories You’ll Ever Read!
Distant for many years, Franklin out of Pennsylvania and his step-brother Everon out of Nevada are connected by a single link: Their sister Cynthia.

Enter The Nightmare
A nuclear bomb is detonated in New York. Banker, wife, mother, Cynthia lives in New York. The military has quarantined the city, its bridges and tunnels destroyed or blocked. Easterly winds have forced the bomb’s radiation cloud out over Long Island. But the wind is about to change.

Franklin climbs mountains and truly understands people. Everon can fly anything. Cynthia’s brothers are determined to find her. If it were your sister, what would you do?

A ripping good tale of how intelligence and determination can overcome the near-impossible. And the true price of altruism.