International Mystery & Crime

Featured Book: Troubled Sea by Jinx Schwartz

Action-packed adventure on the high seas!
A cruising couple live a life many only dream of aboard their 42-foot boat in Mexico’s hauntingly beautiful Sea of Cortez. But their chosen sea has a serpent: Mexico’s out-of-control drug trade.
After witnessing a drug-deal gone wrong, they set off a deadly chain of events that lands them in a sea of intrigue involving a best friend, the Mexican Federal Police, the DEA, US Coast Guard, the INS, and a nasty drug cartel.
This fast-paced adventure is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of cutting the lines and shoving off to adventure.

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Featured Book: Rippling Red by Brigid George

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Behind the friendly laid-back facade of Darwin, Australia’s northern capital, a crocodile roams the waterways in search of revenge and evil ripples in the hearts of humans.

The suicide of Cody Bongiorno is devastating to those left behind. But was this gentle young man manipulated into taking his own life? Is there a link between Cody’s death and the horrific crocodile attack on his comical friend, Jerry Lucas? Following on from her stunning success in solving the murder of a famous Byron Bay resident, amateur sleuth and investigative journalist Dusty Kent is once again determined to bring resolution to the families left behind in the wake of these tragedies.

Rippling Red, the third novel in the Dusty Kent murder mystery series, unfolds against a backdrop of spectacular sunsets as layers are stripped away to reveal twists, surprises, shocking truths and finally, the dark secrets that lie beneath still waters.

Brigid George is the pen name of JB Rowley, author of Amazon #1 best sellers Whisper My Secret and Mother of Ten.

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Featured Book: Deadly Investment by Jill Paterson

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It was an accepted fact that Beatrice Maybrick, owner and operator of the Maybrick Literary Agency, accidentally fell to her death. Or did she? Esme Timmons thought not, her suspicions fuelled by a letter she received from Beatrice following the tragic incident. Faced with this dilemma, Esme takes steps to find the killer.

Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn commences his investigation into the suspicious death of entrepreneur, Preston Alexander. With robbery ruled out as the motive, Fitzjohn is drawn to Preston’s investment portfolio and the Maybrick Literary Agency.

Finding an antiquated establishment where uncertainty prevails following the demise of its owner, Beatrice Maybrick, Fitzjohn asks himself two questions. Why did the high flying investor, Preston Alexander, invest in such a business, and did it lead to his death?

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Featured Book: Vanished? by Christer Tholin

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“He could only hope he’d get out of here in one piece.”
Hunt across Sweden

To come to terms with his recent divorce, Martin, an attorney in Berlin, plans a peaceful vacation – two weeks in a Swedish summer house seem to be the solution. It won’t be peaceful, however, and those two weeks will change his entire life. He takes a liking to Liv, a Swedish woman whom he meets in the neighbourhood. Unfortunately, they don’t get to have their first date – Liv disappears under mysterious circumstances. Martin begins his search but soon realises he can’t find Liv in a foreign country by himself. He hires two private investigators, and their discoveries make everything seem even stranger.
The complexities in this suspenseful criminal case lead to a hunt across Sweden. Martin comes close to finding answers, but his search lands him in very real danger, eventually leading to the first deaths. Soon he’s wondering if he can get Liv and himself out of this situation alive.

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Featured Book: Covert Dreams by Michael Meyer

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It’s as if she never existed–and neither Saudi Arabia nor the United States government will investigate…

A simple trip to the Middle East for Stan and Valerie Halsey ends in chilling confusion and despair as Valerie seemingly falls off the face of the earth, leaving no trace of her existence behind.

Back in the States, B.J. wakes up night after night in a cold sweat from the exact same torturous nightmare that takes place in a country he has never been to. Both B.J. and Stan suspect that they have been sucked into a conspiracy that threatens to consume them and everyone they love.

With time running out fast before they can get answers, they have unwittingly entered into a very dangerous game…one that they may not survive.

If you love fast-paced international thrillers, then take on COVERT DREAMS. It is like “reading Robert Ludlum and the Bourne series” – Dale Roberts, mystery writer.

“Don’t start reading this book on an evening when you have to get up early the next morning, because you’re going to find it hard to put down!” – Nick Russell, NY Times bestselling author of BIG LAKE

From the author of DEADLY EYES, a thrilling Caribbean mystery.

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Buyer’s Guide: Nick of Time A Nick Donahue Adventure by Cathi Stoler

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Targeted Age Group:: 25+
Category: International Mystery & Crime
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Print book: 7.99
Audiobook:
eBook: .99 cents to 2.99

About Nick of Time A Nick Donahue Adventure:
NICK DONAHUE, an American gambler living in London, is in Venice enjoying life at the blackjack tables when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman, MARINA PIETRO. Marina seduces Nick, then reveals she is an undercover insurance investigator in desperate need of help in recovering a cache of stolen jewels and capturing the thieves, an International gang headed by a man named “Clouseau.” She tells Nick that his friend in London, NIGEL PHILLIPS, has suggested he could be of service.

Smitten with Marina, Nick contacts Nigel, who has ties with various government agencies and who vouches for Marina and her scheme. The plan entails Nick pretending to be a desperate gambler losing big at the Palazzo Ducale Casino and going to Guillermo Gennaro, the managing director, and known fence for the gang, to ask for credit. Gennaro obliges Nick with a loan, but demands a quid pro quo in return: Nick must deliver a small package to Prague.

The next day, Nick leaves on the fast train to Rome and transfers for the train to the Czech Republic carrying Gennaro’s package. When he arrives, he travels to the address he was given and waits while the people there examine the package. Moments later, he is assaulted and taken prisoner. Nick realizes the package of jewels he was transporting must have been switched during a brief encounter on the train. He believes it was Marina’s doing and that she has betrayed him. Nick is held captive and beaten. He believes he will be killed when he’s suddenly released with a warning from Clouseau for Marina, who Nick now realizes has given back the jewels to save him and has disappeared.

Dumped in the woods outside of Prague, Nick doesn’t know what to believe as he makes his way into the city. Calling on his brother ALEX, a banker at SuisseBank in Geneva, for assistance, Nick soon finds himself involved in Alex’s own problem – the murder of his boss Didier Schneider who Alex believes uncovered the bank’s involvement in a worldwide money-laundering scheme. Nick, Alex and Alex’s girlfriend Simone, discover a clue Didier has left: a link to his safe deposit box in the Bank du Roget & Cie in Basel. They travel to the bank where Nick poses as Didier and retrieves the damning information the banker has hidden. As Nick is exiting the bank the receptionist is gesturing for two of its guards to follow him. He knows they’re onto him and he becomes frantic. Rushing outside, Nick is surprised as a car screeches to a halt in front of him. He jumps in and finds Alex and Simone, who hands him a letter from Marina. She has saved him once again.

Back in London, Nick tries to find Marina but she has disappeared again. He goes to Nigel with the information Didier collected and they blow the whistle on SuisseBank. Its main client, the New York mob, is none too happy with his interference or their loss of revenue. Somehow, the head of the New York family, Tomasso “Tommy B” Bonnanniao has found out Nick was responsible and approaches him with an ultimatum: get their money back and destroy the head of the bank, Florian Emminger, in the process, or Marina, who he is now holding captive, will die.

Tommy B proposes that Nick follow Emminger to Monte Carlo, where the banker has fled and where he is scheduled to play in a ten million dollar winner-take-all game of Baccarat at the Hotel Metropole Monte Carlo. Tommy B will provide the one million dollars that each of the ten players must put up to buy into the game.

Nick has no choice but to agree and makes his plans. Disguised and under an assumed name, he arrives in Monaco and deposits his stake in the casino. Facing off against the other nine players, he uses all his gambling know-how to stay in the game until only two players remain: himself and Emminger. It has come down to one last hand and with the flick of a card, Nick wins. As an enraged Emminger leaves the table, Nick thinks he sees Nigel in the casino and realizes the game must have been fixed. He collects the check for his winnings and turns it over to Tommy B’s associate hoping that the mobster will keep his promise and let Marina go.

Nick walks through the city looking for Nigel and finally decides to returns to his hotel, hoping for news of Marin

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Gift Guide: Deadly Eyes by Michael Meyer

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Targeted Age Group:: Adults
Category: International Mystery & Crime

About Deadly Eyes:
INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK TWO – from the author who takes you from Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia in Book One, COVERT DREAMS.
Something unique: This book has TWO alternative endings, one of which is much darker than the other.

#1 Amazon bestseller in International Mystery & Crime, September 2013

James Cuffy, better known as Cuff, is living in paradise with his spunky girlfriend, Rosie, on the small Caribbean island of St. Croix, where the sky is as blue as Cuff’s eyes, the ocean as pretty as feisty little Rosie’s cheeks, where the gentle lapping of the waves is a lullaby, and the swaying of the palm trees is a dance. The sandy beaches are as white as sugar, and the horizon is a world away. St. Croix indeed is paradise, the perfect place for living, laughing, and loving.

But the sandy beaches and the turquoise sea can provide no cover from the deadly eyes of the unknown stalker pursuing Cuff. Murder leads to murder as he attempts to untangle the terrible web in which he has suddenly become entangled.

The twists and turns are many, the roads of the fast action leading in all directions, but time is running out, and Cuff, his faithful Rosie at his side, knows it.

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Featured Book: Revenge For What Is Sacred by FJ Harmon

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A nuclear power plant and a nuclear arms depot book ends to a deep-water port, add a terrorist seeking revenge, what could go wrong? Mossad agent Amirrah Kohen is about to find out. She starts her new assignment as the Eilath anti-terrorist presence in Gaza with Palestine on the verge of Peace, but a bizarre partnership between a Zionist politician and a Muslim Jihadist ignites Gaza, and forces her to choose between saving the one she loves or stopping a disastrous terrorist assault.

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Featured Book: Nick of Time by Cathi Stoler

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In this fast paced international suspense thriller, Nick Donahue, an American gambler living in London, is in Venice playing Blackjack when he meets a beautiful woman in desperate need of help. Nick obliges and is soon embroiled in a whirlwind of mystery and intrigue.

He is kidnapped by jewel thieves, then released and dumped in the woods outside Prague. Calling on his brother Alex, a banker at Zurich’s SuisseBank, for assistance, Nick soon finds himself juggling Alex’s problem: the murder of his boss and a world-wide money laundering scheme the bank has been running. When Nick blows the whistle on SuisseBank, its main client, the New York mob, is none too happy with his interference and their loss of revenue. They demand revenge and restitution, which only Nick, with all of his gambling tricks, can provide.

This contemporary mystery novella provides plot twists and terror, revenge and romance, and just the right touch of humor.

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Death Is Overrated by Jeff Perren @JeffPerren

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HOW DO YOU INVESTIGATE YOUR OWN MURDER?

Professor Thomas Payne didn’t intend to wind up dead on his caving vacation, and in truth he wasn’t the victim. But proving his identity to the police becomes tricky after they pull his passport off the lookalike body.

Things go from bogus to baffling when a mysterious phone call at the crime scene leads to the arrest of the young scientist. His fate seems sealed when the victim’s fingerprints match the professor’s work visa.

Intervention by the police inspector’s daughter frees Thomas to search for clues to prove his innocence. So, it’s off around the UK with sculptress Terri, one jump ahead of the authorities — and running from his estranged sociopathic father. One slip and claustrophobia will be the least of their problems.

Thomas’ journey soon becomes as much about healing his troubled past as recovering his present self. Along the way, he’ll battle betrayals by his envious staff, romance the rebellious artist, and suffer harrowing misadventures at historic sites in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Travel — even to find yourself — was never so perilous.

Targeted Age Group:: 16+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
“DEATH IS OVERRATED” had several influences, but the chief one was an old film called DOA. The protagonist is poisoned and has 48 hours before dying to discover who gave him the fatal dose.

 I spun that idea into a scientist on a caving vacation who is accused – through mistaken identity – of killing himself. He has to prove he’s neither the victim nor the murderer. That combined with my insatiable travel bug led to the characters and plot of this romantic mystery story.

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