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Featured Book: Into the Suffering City by Bill LeFurgy

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Baltimore, 1909. The city is jumping with danger and excitement. Cars, cocaine, ragtime music, and moving pictures are new. But some things are as old as the city itself: murder, corruption, and the painful divisions of race, class, and gender. Dr. Sarah Kennecott is brilliant and on the autism spectrum—a trait that is unidentified and unappreciated at the time. After getting fired for looking too closely into a showgirl’s killing, she refuses to back down from the investigation. She forms an unlikely bond with Jack Harden, a down-on-his-luck private detective suffering from a wartime emotional trauma. Despite their many differences, Sarah and Jack develop a rare mutual understanding and form a potent team. The pair pursue the murder case from gilded mansions to seedy barrooms while doing their best to avoid a cast of devious characters, some of whom have secrets worth killing to keep.

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Featured Book: Surreal Absurdity by Jim Lively

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Charles Pierce has some bizarre situations in Dallas to navigate in Surreal Absurdity. He desperately needs a guardian angel to watch over him. Jamie Simon is arrested for theft and murder after trying to poison Charles because she held him responsible for her husband's death. Charles does not want to relive the demons of his past and is reluctant to testify in court against her. Detective Gonzales informs Charles that he will be charged for failing to report an earlier confession by Jamie to him if he does not testify and help get her conviction. Then a mysterious stranger threatens Charles at an art gallery opening. Charles's business cards start popping up at crime scenes which leads to him being arrested for homicide. To make matters worse, someone tried to kill him in a drive-by shooting. Is Charles a victim, murderer or both?

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Featured Book: Alchemy Of Revenge by Athan Noel

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Leo has been betrayed,
Kira has been deceived.
Torn apart, love manipulated into hate, their world is irretrievably shattered as Leo is condemned to a hellish existence.

Dead to the world…
BUT NOT DEAD

A charismatic Israeli ex-assasin and a ruthless drug lord hold the key to Leo’s salvation. The decade-long machinations of an alchemy transforms despair into REVENGE on those who stole Leo’s life.

Will he be able to generate hope from hopelessness and rekindle love from the ashes and reunite his lost and destroyed family?

Newly released by Trimark Press, author Athan Noel creates a compelling adventure of a man who witnesses the loss of his family, business and life, stolen by those he trusted the most.

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Featured Book: Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Gold

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FREE — JULY 11-12, 2021
The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette, changing his and Catherine’s life forever. Doug’s mysterious behavior afterward forces Catherine to escape to The Osprey Cove Lodge, where she finds something even more valuable. The series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations, from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau Lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An exciting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The description of the lodge is so inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there.

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Featured Book: Fallen Empire by Marc Edelheit

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The rebellion is over. The First Galactic Empire has fallen. Entire star systems have been ravaged by war. Trillions have died and humanity has been plunged into darkness. Eighteen years after, Keira, a mechanic raised by former Imperial Marines struggles to make her way on an inhospitable planet. She finds herself a fugitive hunted by the government and the militia. What valuable secret have the marines been keeping from her? The road ahead is dangerous, but a path destined for her and her alone.

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Featured Book: Pandora’s Gardener by David C Mason

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What do a gardener, missing accountants, and a Detective Inspector on the verge of retirement have to do with a grand plan by an evil mastermind for world domination?

Who are the mysterious Society?

All is revealed in an adventure spanning from London to the seaside as the disparate threads are drawn together for a grand finale.

“..a fun and fast paced thriller that tows the line between the serious espionage of James Bond and the absurd escapades of Austin Powers.”
Literarytitan.com Silver Award

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Featured Book: Zombies For Everyone: A Jenna Sutton Supernatural Cozy Mystery – Book 1 by Kimberly Wylie

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Jenna Sutton is nothing like the iconic vampire slayer of TV fame.

She’s the antithesis of a cheerleader. She’s not peppy. And she sucks at gymnastics. She has nothing in common with the fictional Buffy, other than being blonde and in high school…

Oh, and occasionally she kills vampires for a living as well as other things that go bump in the night

Following an attack on an English teacher at a nearby school, it becomes clear this wasn’t an ordinary coyote bite. The gray-green Lichtenberg-like webbing of streaks making their way up Ms. Pruett’s arm can mean only one thing—zombies.

But this isn’t a normal zombie attack. The victims seem to be hand-picked.

Can Jenna complete her investigation without the school administrators figuring out she’s actually a high school student from another school? Will Jenna be able to find out who’s behind these attacks before a full-scale zombie outbreak overtakes the town? And, perhaps most importantly…

Why did her best friend kiss her after all of these years?

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Featured Book: SUCH A GOOD GIRL (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 9) by Willow Rose

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A new release from the Amazon best selling mystery series available for $0.99 for a limited time only (6/25/2021-6/29/2021). Can be read was a stand-alone

FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.
A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.
Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls.
He is accused of killing her, but the FBI struggles to find enough solid evidence to convict him.
They have a witness, someone who was in the apartment when it happened, but she doesn’t want to talk to them.
She’ll only speak to one person, ex-FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas. The problem is, Eva Rae Thomas has no interest in talking to her.
As a matter of fact, she’d rather see this woman dead than have to face her.
But Eva Rae Thomas isn’t someone who can leave a case alone, especially not when she starts to ask questions and things aren’t adding up.
As she digs in deeper—with the entire world watching—she soon finds herself in too deep and realizes she can’t trust anyone’s motives.
But by then, it is too late, and the killer is already tracking her down.

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Featured Book: Black Jade – A Daiyu Wu Mystery by Gloria Oliver

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Could an old-fashioned ballgown be used to commit murder?

Daiyu Wu is aware that fear of the Yellow Terror has made her nationality a rare breed in the Lone Star State. Being Chinese and blind makes her doubly unique in 1930 Dallas. Despite these impediments, anyone who dismisses her for either fact does so at their peril.

One day, at her family-owned laundry business, Dai detects the scent of burned garlic. With the help of her companion, Jacques, the source is soon discovered. It is a green ballgown. The gown has money pinned inside it to pay for the cleaning, but oddly, it came with no address label to identify its owner. Her extensive knowledge leads Dai to believe someone has committed murder using arsenic. The perpetrator is trying to use White Laundry to hide the evidence. But no mention of foul play turns up in the newspapers, and there’s not enough proof to convince the police there’s been a crime.

Her curiosity and intellect stimulated like never before; Dai ignores the possible consequences and sets out to solve the mystery with the help of her canine companion, Prince Razor, and her confidant, Jacques Haskins. It’s either that or let the killer get away with it — assuming a spoiled popinjay, his jealous self-appointed girlfriend, and Dai’s overprotective parents don’t get in her way.

A Daiyu Wu Mystery – Book 1

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Featured Book: Death Mask by Nora Delzelle

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Ghosts, gods, and cursed relics are at the heart of this thrilling debut novel by Nora Delzelle. Death Mask is a modern re-imagining of the battles between Horus and Set, ancient deities that represent order and chaos. Alex Kincaid is a young woman who gets caught in their deadly feud by placing a bid on an eBay auction for a golden mask. The relic confers protection and ageless power to the owner, but there is a price. If Alex survives, she is in danger of losing her soul.

This Science Fiction Fantasy book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

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