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Featured Book: Death of the Saltwater Blonde by J.C. Ceron

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About Featured Book: Death of the Saltwater Blonde by J.C. Ceron

A tropical getaway. A body in the ocean. Will his single-minded pursuit of the truth reel in a murderer?

Jamaica. NYPD detective Miles Jordan’s sharp sense of justice doesn’t take time off. So during a glass-bottom boat tour crowded with passengers, it’s his eagle-eyes that spot a naked corpse submerged in the clear blue waters. And after the female victim is identified as an American, he shrugs off his vacation and agrees to help the locals solve the brutal homicide.

Wary of the police’s motives, Miles is skeptical when a suspect is quickly apprehended and he’s ordered to sign off the case. But his instincts push him to continue the investigation on his own… even as his precinct boss threatens to revoke his badge.

Can the relentless cop net the culprit before he loses his career?

Death of the Saltwater Blonde is the breezy first novella in the Miles Jordan Vacation Mysteries series. If you like intelligent heroes, perplexing puzzles, and lavish destinations, then you’ll love J. C. Ceron’s killer holiday.

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Featured Book: Death in the City of Bridges by J.C. Ceron

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About Featured Book: Death in the City of Bridges by J.C. Ceron

A deadly plot. An informant gunned down. An officer’s hunt for justice placing him at the wrong end of a killer’s barrel…

NYPD Detective Miles Jordan puts work above everything, even his health. Joining an international task force entrusted with catching a renowned terrorist, the driven investigator flies to Venice to foil an assassination attempt on the visiting Israeli Prime Minister. But their plan to trap the cunning radical shatters when a key sleeper agent is shot dead in broad daylight.

Determined to track down the sniper disguised as a monk, Miles clashes with the local commander when he’s accused of aiding the shooter. But with less than a week until the suspected hitjob and tensions rising in the team, the dedicated policeman is left with no other option than to put his own life on the line.

Can one of New York’s finest outsmart the plans of a cutthroat gunman?

Death in the City of Bridges is the first book in a gripping thriller series. If you like smart protagonists, suspenseful action, and spectacular European backdrops, then you’ll love J. C. Ceron’s high-octane mission.

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Featured Book: TOO PRETTY TO DIE by Willow Rose

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About Featured Book: TOO PRETTY TO DIE by Willow Rose

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Four women went on a weekend of fun to Miami. Four best friends who were inseparable.
No one returned.

The story made national headlines, and even after weeks of searching for them, they were never found.
What happened to them?
Are they still alive?

Ten years later, the teenage children of those same four women decide to take a trip together against the wishes of their families.
They are followed by a TV crew doing a true crime show. They’re returning to Miami to find out what happened to their mothers.

When they unearth the mutilated body of one of their mothers, they know they are in way over their heads, and soon they realize nothing is what it seems as this vicious killer is getting ready to chase them down.

FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is called in to help when the second body is recovered from the trunk of a burnt-out car in the swamps outside Miami, bringing her old flame Matt to help.

Soon, she realizes she is hunting down a serial killer unlike any other she has encountered, who will next come after someone she loves.

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Featured Book: The Rebirth: A Dark Noir Thriller by V.P. Evans

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About Featured Book: The Rebirth: A Dark Noir Thriller by V.P. Evans

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It’s been ten years since Jason and Mark last saw each other when a murder brings them together one night. Trapped in Chicago now, they must follow a secret path in the city by analyzing the works of some of the greatest minds in history to reveal the darkest scandal of all time. But each minute, their chasers are closing in, and haunting memories are coming to the surface, reminding them of the shadiest aspects of the human soul. And . . . soon, their last hope to alter the fate of the world seems to fade away . . .

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Featured Book: Black Plume by Anne Mikaitis

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About Featured Book: Black Plume by Anne Mikaitis

Jenna’s life is messy, but she’s young and it’s the summer of 1996. After she and her friends survived a tragedy six years ago, she figures they deserve to simply work hard and play harder, especially if they get to stick together. Then one of them is murdered.

As they try to cope with their fresh loss, yet another victim is found. In the small Indiana town of Lewton, it seems that the murders must be connected. But the only links the police seem to find are Jenna and her friends.

While Jenna is desperate to believe they’re all innocent, she can’t ignore the nagging doubt filling her mind as bodies pile up. Dubious of local law enforcement’s abilities, Jenna tries to figure out who has the best reasons to want them dead as macabre clues surface. Will the killer be caught before another one of her friends dies? Or is one of her closest allies a murderer?

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Featured Book: The Hunt for the Peggy C by John Winn Miller

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About Featured Book: The Hunt for the Peggy C by John Winn Miller

This gripping novel full of action and suspense, a semifinalist in the Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition, introduces Captain Jake Rogers, a hardened smuggler transporting contraband through the U-boat-infested waters of the North Atlantic in the beginning phases of World War II. Rumored to have fled America because of a murder before beginning his career at sea, Rogers takes on cargo few other captains would be willing to carry—if the price is right.

But after witnessing the oppression of Jews in Amsterdam, Rogers agrees to take on the most dangerous cargo he has ever transported: a Jewish family fleeing Nazi persecution. Pursued by Oberleutnant Viktor Brauer, a brutal U-boat captain who will stop at nothing to send Rogers and his crew to the bottom of the ocean, the normally aloof Rogers finds himself drawn in by the family’s warmth and faith, and increasingly willing to do whatever it takes to get them to safety.

A thrilling, beautifully written story of adventure and compassion in the time of an unforgiving European world war, “The Hunt for The Peggy C” not only creates a fascinating, believable, and visual world of its own but keeps readers on the edge of their seats from page one through the shocking, unpredictable end.

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Featured Book: Silence in the Land of Gold by James Finch

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About Featured Book: Silence in the Land of Gold by James Finch

George Wilford is a long-time foreign lawyer in Burma and has been hired by a new firm in town headed by Seth Drake. When George is tasked by Seth to fix a mistake that threatens to bring down the firm, he is led to an intrigue over a fortune lost in an air crash involving the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army. With the help of Molly Durberville, another lawyer in the firm, George must solve the mystery of the air crash in order to save his own life—and Molly’s.

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Operation White Out: A Mac McDowell Mission by Robert Williscroft

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Operation White Out: A Mac McDowell Mission by Robert Williscroft

Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying SOSUS arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica. Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak. Teuthis discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island and is tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89. Teuthis is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs. Will Mac and Teuthis complete their mission, or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain?

Featured Book: Blood on the Mountain by James Dain

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About Featured Book: Blood on the Mountain by James Dain

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A dead skier. A missing phone. And a dangerous hit man.

Ski patrol thinks Kayla Sweet’s death is an accident—but her fiancé, snowboard instructor Mag Cutbank, believes differently. Kayla was too good a skier to simply fall off a cliff.

Broken with grief, Mag enlists the help of his disabled brother to help solve the mystery of her death.

But what was on Kayla’s cell phone that got her killed?

And what chance does a snowboard coach have against the brutal hit man trying to stop Mag’s investigation at any cost?

Mag is about to find out—the hard way.

And he will not rest until he brings Kayla’s killer to justice.

Set high in the Colorado Rockies, this suspenseful thriller combines an authentic snow resort background with twists and turns that will keep you reading far into the night. By James Dain, “Best Novel” winner at the Los Angeles Neo-Noir Festival.

“Just wow! James Dain writes stories you can’t put down!”
(Charles Anceney, author of The Boy in the Boat)

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Featured Book: So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon

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About Featured Book: So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon

Free from 1/24/2023 through 1/31/2023

Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon’s new intergenerational tale set in present-day Kentucky, four decades after the rise and fall of the Cornbread Mafia.

When Ruth Hannacker finds a “just-in-case-anything-happens-to-me” letter among her mother’s things after she was killed in a tornado, it opens a new chapter in the family’s decades-long, fraught, and often tragic story with Righteous Weed.

The letter from Jessica Monaghan Hannacker tells of the Tree House, a propane tank buried in the ground where Willie Ray Taggart stashed his marijuana money back in the heyday of the Cornbread Mafia. When Ruth finds the Tree House, she discovers $75,000 in cash and quart jars of Righteous Weed seed, the finest strain of marijuana ever developed.

Over the protests of 72-year-old Riley Hannacker, the only remaining living member of the original Cornbread Mafia, the family decides to grow an indoor crop, illegal in Kentucky, so they can patent the strain and get a license to grow in one of the 11 newly legal states. They plan to market it as a premium boutique cannabis, appealing to the nostalgia of the smokers’ first-time high.

But as so often happens with the best-laid plans, things quickly go awry. Jealousy, resentment, anger, greed, and deeply buried feelings from long gone wrongs resurface and wreak havoc with what is left of the family.

So Shall The Tree Grow is the fourth and final book in Ninie Hammon’s new Cornbread Mafia series, a fictional story inspired by the real Cornbread Mafia that sprang up in picturesque Marion County, Kentucky, and grew into the largest illegal marijuana-growing operation in U.S. history.

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