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Featured Book: Saving Face by Frank Morin

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Rent a new body . . .

Sounds perfect. Unless your body is the one getting rented.

Sarah is a top model, making tons of money to let other people live in her skin. But she feels like she’s losing her identity. Time to get out.

Her employer decides to sell her body instead.

Sarah plunges into a terrifying race to escape with body and soul intact. Failure means becoming the ultimate orphan. As she scrambles for any possible salvation, she finds an unexpected ally who is definitely not who he pretends to be. [Read more…] about Featured Book: Saving Face by Frank Morin

The Fleeing Pursuer by Aman Ahmed

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A Homage to Classic Noir

The Englishman, clean shaved, wearing a suit and having wounds on his face, is sitting in front of the police officer. The Officer takes out a roll of money, two passport sized photos of a woman, a torn piece of female clothing, some bottles of beer, a bottle of chloroform and a screw driver out of the Englishman’s bag. With each item connected closely to the Englishman and his tale, what is he going to tell the officer which may be able to prove him less accountable?

This story is influenced by the classic noir fiction and noir films. It also points out some ambiguities that come in a human mind and the path of self destruction due to the toxic values and morals. If you are an admirer of tales related to crime, mystery, thriller, and non-linear storytelling, this book is definitely for you.

Targeted Age Group:: 16+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I have been experiencing crime fiction for many years. Then, my interest diverted a little towards the noir sub genre. I thought why not explore it. When I found myself enjoying the noir fictions and the themes they have, I thought about writing one. It took me a year to learn all about the writing stuff and finishing my novel and now here it is.

A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz

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A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz

In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man Ray to inhabit the younger man Marcus’s body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years. When Ray finds a way to exchange identities while still alive, both men struggle to navigate their new lives and relationships while under attack by Ganymede, the architect of the consciousness swapping technology, and the Tribe of 23, a human supremacist organization that has targeted Marcus because of his and his wife’s advocacy for AIs to have equal rights with carbon based humans.

Their moral and emotional development is informed by the resourceful women who love them, one an accomplished journalist, the other a teacher who guides AIs to perceive and feel human emotions.

Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz

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Shared Madness by Rick Moskovitz

A psychiatrist treating a psychotic patient descends into madness and finds himself at the nexus of a deadly plot. Can he trust anyone in his struggle for survival and his quest to regain his sanity? Can you guess who murdered his patient and what drove him mad? Share his hallucinations and terror through his eyes and try to unravel the mystery.

Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz

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Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz

A woman plunges into consciousness in the midst of what seems like someone else’s life, sending her on a quest to discover who she is and to craft an identity that makes sense within her current circumstances. As she digs into the mystery of her life, she uncovers a top secret government organization plotting world domination and a clandestine vigilante organization dedicated to destroying it and is caught between these warring factions. Nobody in her new world is exactly who they appear to be, including herself. Identity, she learns, is complicated and inseparable from the body in which it resides.

The Creators by Rick Moskovitz

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The Creators by Rick Moskovitz

A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving Creationism in A Stand-in for Dying. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the Creators’ civilization. In the course of successive visits to their watery world, she finds herself transformed, a bridge between our world and theirs.

The conflict between Ganymede and Mandala, the warring factions of Brink of Life is rekindled, sweeping Natasha into the middle of it in a pursuit that crosses the boundaries of worlds and time.

Featured Book: Flight of the Tarantula Hawk by Michael Allan Scott

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If you like those hard-boiled anti-heroes, wait until you meet Lance and friends. A reluctant police consultant, Lance sees murders before they happen. It’s a curse, and only his dead wife can save him.

An IndieReader Best Book, with an oddball cast of enduring characters, it’s one of the stand-alone Lance Underphal mystery/thrillers as seen on NBC. Intelligent, intense, it’ll have you guessing—a keep-you-up-nights binge read.

Looking for a clever twist on an inventive theme? This unpredictable novel will grab you by the eyeballs and won’t let go. Hard to read. Harder to put down. Treat yourself to a harrowing flight, tonight.

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Featured Book: Bad Medicine by James Cohoon

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From busy hospitals in San Diego to the barren deserts of Arizona, this tension-filled thriller, the second installment of The Medical Students series, follows the life and death challenges, the surprising twists and turns, and the ethical dilemmas of two young doctors in their quest to rid the profession of bad doctors who practice bad medicine resulting in bad outcomes.

Book One, Do No Harm, introduced Torrey Jamison and Matthew Preston. Torrey, with her genius IQ, gained acceptance to Stanford Medical School to pursue her dream of becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon in honor of her little sister, Leia, who died of brain cancer. At Stanford, she met her future husband, Matthew, who pursued medical school for the sole purpose of becoming a prison doctor in order to gain access to—and kill—his father’s murderer who was incarcerated in San Quentin. As their relationship deepened, Torrey was forced to confront the potential value and moral ambiguity of vigilantism.

In this page-turning, stand-alone suspense sequel, Bad Medicine, newlyweds Torrey and Matthew have graduated from medical school and are now new doctors at Kaiser hospital in San Diego. While there, they learn of a friend’s young niece who has fallen victim to a doctor who is running a phony cancer treatment center. Putting their careers and marriage in jeopardy, Dr. Jamison and Dr. Preston agree to help their friend’s family seek the ultimate revenge.

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Featured Book: Surreal Absurdity by Jim Lively

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What is it about Charles Pierce that makes people want to kill him?
He’s retired from his law practice, does pro bono work for non-profits, and has turned all his attention to focus on his art. He even rented a studio, as part of a gallery where exhibitions are well attended and the wine flows freely.
So why does a mysterious and hostile young man threaten him, while the woman who tried to poison him last year shows up at an exhibition to purchase one of his abstract paintings?
Charles can’t seem to avoid associating with criminals. Even Detective Gonzales believes he is somehow involved in a series of local murders because his business cards are found at the scene.
No one, least of all Charles, can explain it, but the more he seeks clues and answers, the more he finds the whole situation to be a Surreal Absurdity.

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Featured Book: Suite Suspicion by J.T. Kelly

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More insidious deeds are afoot in Suite Suspicion. If you crave heart-wrenching suspense and crime mystery, this third installment of the International Thriller series will keep you mesmerized with every twist and turn.

After the legal affairs of the slain Hugo DeMann are settled, his family proceeds with the development of DeMann Suites hotel on the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee in northern Indiana. During the construction of a new luxury pool, bones of ancient Potawatomi Indians are disturbed and fears of spirits are rising.

Two teenage sisters have now gone missing from DeMann Suites. Their father was the judge in the trial of DeMann’s murderer. Criminal elements may still hold a grudge against him for his role in their crony’s life sentence. Could they be behind the girls’ mysterious disappearance?

When the investigation moves to Europe, Interpol searches for a nefarious organization in Berlin. Intel from the CIA leads them to the masterminds behind the production of radioactive bombs. Suspected Nazi sympathizers involved in this dangerous scheme must be stopped before their weapons are delivered to the hands of Middle Eastern terrorists.

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