Above the Bridge

above-the-bridgeNew York reporter Paige MacKenzie arrives in Jackson Hole to write a basic article about the Old West. However, a chance encounter with attractive cowboy Jake Norris soon sends her chasing a legend of buried treasure. Equal parts mystery, adventure, history, time travel and light romance, this cozy mystery will give both the “beach read” enthusiast and the armchair traveler an entertaining escape from the daily grind..

Death Is Overrated

death-is-overratedProfessor Payne didn’t intend to wind up dead on his caving vacation, but proving his identity to the police becomes tricky after they pull his passport off the lookalike body.

So, it’s off around the UK, one jump ahead of the authorities, to search for clues to prove his innocence.

A New Dawn Rising

a-new-dawn-risingTroubled ex-cop Sam Carlisle is trying to make a fresh start in life when he is suspected of the murder of his boss, forcing him to hunt down the truth to prove his innocence and bring the real killer to justice.

Only the twists and turns Sam encounters put his life in very real danger.

Blessings from the Condemned

blessings-from-the-condemnedA unique collection of amazing short stories by legendary Authors in one book. Each story is unique and different, a true statement and legacy of Horror. From Lovecraft till Howard and beyond, this book belongs in every book lover’s collection.

Dare to read, no dare to experience this book as it holds you from its first page till the very end and won’t even let go after you finish reading it. Dare to experience, a true Legacy of Horror.

Licked

lickedWhen sex crazy college undergrad Julianna Foster sets her sights on her new professor, she decides that trying to seduce him would be the perfect distraction from the pressures of her senior year. Unfortunately for Professor Kirk, the stakes are high with a new job and a new fiance. But the dean’s daughter always gets what she wants and couldn’t care less about whether her games destroy lives in the process.

Let Me Help You

let-me-help-youJeffrey is a dreadful person with no life, no looks and no personality. When he finally decides to change his situation, he stumbles into his local book emporium’s self help section. He picks out a painfully generic audio book title, and somehow manages to misinterpret its vague meaning, which leads him down a surprisingly dark path.

Victor is a bored, worn out small town detective. As Jeffrey leaves a trail of bodies with every self-help step he listens to, Victor is thrust into a storm of terror. With only a thin layer of confidence and a city in crisis, can he he handle the awkward killer harassing his once loved home?

Cruel Capers on the Caribbean

cruel-capers-on-the-caribbeanJoin Kate Huntington for a Caribbean cruise and a locked room mystery. Kate makes a new friend on board, only to find her dead two evenings later. The ship’s captain, anxious to keep things under wraps, declares it a suicide. But Kate isn’t convinced, and she feels awful for Cora’s teenaged daughter, who will be left believing her mother abandoned her over a lover’s quarrel. If it is murder, there are several viable suspects, but how did the killer get out of Cora’s cabin without setting off her door alarm?

The Shoulders of Giants

the-shoulders-of-giantsLife gets dangerous for rookie P.I. Jake Abraham when the missing college student he’s looking for shows up dead. It’s a hell of a first case.

Up against a ruthless serial killer who’s always one step ahead of the police, how can one inexperienced young P.I. hope to make a difference?

Deadly Circles

deadly-circlesThe pall of death hangs over two distinctly different valleys separated by eighteen-hundred miles. One a modest, unknown channel drained by a small cool-water stream and the other a magnificent gorge carved by a roaring river that separates two states. Unknown to a man, tormented by loss and intensifying anger, both valleys hold his fate.

A bloody mist suddenly fills a truck cab. It was not the shot but the seconds after that begins change for criminal investigator CJ Hand. Beset with his recent loss and pent-up anger he takes leave from a tangled bureaucratic mess. Trying to find self-worth he agrees to help friends by probing the accidental drowning of a friend’s son.

The image of an uncomplicated investigation is quickly shattered. CJ encounters a maze of deadly circles surrounding the death. He begins unwinding hidden tentacles of political power and personal greed gripping Elm Creek valley.

Affecting his personal life are two intellectual and intuitive women who help him come to grips with what he has been running from, or toward, for a decade.

DEADLY CIRCLES is a fast-paced novel exposing the ugly underbelly of insidious criminal activity.

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Stalking Jack

stalking-jackMadeline Donovan is a complicated woman, distressed and ready to abandon life as she knows it. A recent tragedy has left her without the vision or moral compass to go forward. She is not leading her own life at the moment, it is leading her. The journey she will take into London’s East side will show her sides of life she has never seen before and rather than being repelled by it, she is drawn into this dark side of London. After all, Jack must be stopped.

Sufficient Ransom

sufficient-ransomA mother’s search for her missing child takes her to the dangerous streets of Tijuana, to a drug smuggling tunnel on the San Diego/Mexican border, and into the world of evangelical Christianity. Other children have been disappearing in San Diego. Is her son’s situation related to theirs, or not? Read this page-turning debut novel to see if Ann Olson finds her son and if she can keep her marriage together, and if she can keep her from falling apart. No one in this multi-layered novel is who they seem. Read it to find out who is stealing the children….

The Fixer, Season 1, Episode 1

the-fixerJC Bannister’s clients think of him as a fixer. He calls himself a solutionist. The government? His enemies? A hitman for hire. If you can afford it, and if he’ll take you on, Bannister will find the solution to your problem.

But when the contract he’s asked to take on involves killing a US Senator, the problem quickly gets larger than even Bannister can handle. The LAPD is on his tail. So are the Secrect Service. Old enemies keep popping up and wanting to take him out. In the process, Bannister discovers he’s being setup.

Bannister must figure out the double-cross and who is behind it before his fix of the contract changes the future of America for good. Or gets his whole team, and himself, killed.

The Fixer is an exciting serial thriller by Rex Carpenter that will keep you turning pages until the last body drops.

Photofinish

photofinishPhotofinish is a suspense novel written in a tight, wide-appeal style for adults. The length is approximately 78,500 words, or 340 pages. 

SYNOPSIS and SETUP: Rory Kind I, a wellknown horse-trainer, is killed at night alone at his racetrack stable. His death occurs from a blow to the head, after a charity meet where heavy attendance and betting result in a myriad of suspects. The initial motive seems to be unknown; at first the police think he was kicked accidentally by a horse. But, Rory, his granddaughter, named for him, does not believe that. She begins to search, and uncovers something of both her past and her future as she proves his death was no accident.

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Continuance

continuanceTwo mysteries set over a century apart – and both connected by the remains of a murdered man found in a pirate’s tunnel in modern-day Savannah. Only one man had the answers – but he took them to his grave…

Target For Terror

target-for-terror“If you leave on your own, you’ll be dead by morning.” 

Critical Care Nurse Natalia Sokolova can’t ignore former FBI Agent Sloan Dryer’s dire warning. After the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia dies under her care, her house explodes in front of her eyes and now she’s found her best friends brutally murdered. Ironically, the only bright spot in this nightmare is Sloan’s bad Ukrainian accent and his willingness to protect her. 

Sloan is convinced that someone wants to kill Natalia and when he finds a link to her family, he’s not sure who they can trust. As they run for their lives, and from the passion simmering between them, they uncover a terrorist plot that could bring the nation to its knees. Time is running out. Can Sloan and Natalia save their country and their future, before it’s too late?

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Next of Sin

next-of-sinA series of murders dating back to the late 80’s and no one has even joined the dots….until now.

The vital clue has laid dormant, hidden away in a childhood memory – but suddenly that memory has been triggered and it want to be remembered.

When trying to solve the conundrum of a recurring dream, Gaby unleashes a tidal wave of intrigue and emotion which threatens to ruin everything she once called her life.

Knowing the law is not on her side, she must carefully and secretively seek the evidence that will be the undoing of her eminent and credible adversaries. Scared to trust anyone and knowing that those she brings into her confidence will be exposed to the danger, she will have to reosort to unconventional means.

Her quest for truth and justice will cost her her job, her marriage, her family life and very probably her life.

Can she tilt the scales of justice in her favour or do those who hold power always prevail?

A fast moving, engaging mystery that will shock at every twist.

Savior

saviorA father and son stumble into the secret world of the Santos Muertos, a crime cartel bent on global domination. The son must find his father and keep the secret of the ancient Mayan code underlying the creation of matter in the universe from falling into the wrong hands. 

A story of sacrifice and love.

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White Picket Prisons

white-picket-prisonsA group of friends with a penchant for goofy nicknames return to their hometown for a funeral and what had been a pleasant, albeit melancholy, reunion quickly escalates into a fight for their lives with an enemy they didn’t know they had. Putting up with each others quirks with good humor they must unravel a mystery that may have started thirty years ago. They unwittingly stumble and fumble their way into a life or death showdown that could kill them all. The question is not whether they will survive the bad guys, but will they survive each other? One reader likened the characters to “the kids from Stephen King’s classic ‘Stand By Me’ but grown up.” This story will make you miss those goofy high school friends from years ago.

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Jack Knifed

Jack-knifedHandsome Police Officer Jack Stratton is the “hometown hero cop with a heart of gold.” Constant nightmares have forced him to seek answers about his rough childhood, and the dark secrets that lay hidden there. With Replacement by his side, Jack travels to Hope Falls to solve a murder that occurred before he was born. 

Everyone in the small town remembers the unsolved murder of Steven Ritter, but after 27 years, no one thought that someone would look into it – They don’t know Jack. 

A heart-rending mystery-thriller about lost love, betrayal, and murder, Jack Knifed will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is a stand-alone novel featuring rogue hero Jack Stratton. Look for other books in the Jack Stratton Collection including “Girl Jacked” and “Jacks are Wild”. They can be read in any order. 

Christopher Greyson’s novel weaves a tale full of mystery and action with humor and suspense. His unique stories and no-nonsense style of writing will take you on a page turning rollercoaster ride of emotions right up until the end. Please go to ChristopherGreyson.com and sign-up for periodic updates on new book releases.

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The Blood Feud

the-blood-feudShelley Young’s The Blood Feud is the first book of the Dardian Dreshaj novels. 
Who would have thought that the death of an aging ex-mafia boss would start a war between law enforcement, the mafia and a secret criminal underworld organization known as The Association?

Homicide Detective Jesse Richards is facing the murder case of his career. With hardly any evidence, no witnesses and no identity of the murderer he’s looking for, for the first time he fears he’s been given a case that will end up in the cold files. Desperate to uncover the reason behind Vito Russo’s seemingly senseless death, he’ll stop at nothing to bring the killer he’s looking for to justice. Just when he believes the case has reached a dead end, he stumbles upon a not so lucky break. Could the ruthless killer he’s looking for be the same man who has stolen his daughter’s heart? 

Aaliyah Richards is the only good thing going for Dardian Dreshaj, and he would do anything to keep her safe. Dardian has made it known from the beginning, mess with him and he might excuse it, mess with Aaliyah and all rules fly out the window. They knew what he was capable of. They knew Padukshëm was not a myth. The reason they threatened her never mattered. What does matter is after he’s finished with them, they’ll know never to do it again.

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Scrapyard Blues

scrapyard-bluesSex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. How did one crazy night of excess end up with 25 years behind bars? 

Convicted for the brutal murder of an ex girlfriend, JD Smith is back on the streets a bitter and broken man. Now in his fifties, the once good looking, carefree, former musician in a post punk R & B band is left to reflect on the bizarre events that led to his long incarceration without right to appeal, where, despite maintaining his innocence, all the evidence continues to point to his guilt. 
Out on licence, Jack Smith is determined to find the real killer and bring them to justice. But before he can pursue the quest to clear his name, he first has to assuage the demons that reside inside his head and haunt his nightmares; rid himself of the darkness that continues to taunt, torment and test his sanity.

Other distractions come in the shape of a sultry female lawyer whose practice methods aren’t always entirely ethical. And a trip to India in search of an elusive butterfly, the daughter he hasn’t seen since she was two. 
Mistrusting of a legal system that has already failed him, Jack decides to take the law into his own hands, but unbeknown to him, someone else is on a mission to catch a killer… 

Scrapyard Blues is a pulsating story of one man’s quest for redemption and reconnection with a life lost.

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Mark of the Loon

mark-of-the-loonMark of the Loon is the first installment of the Gen Delacourt Mystery trilogy, and introduces Gen as an amateur sleuth who helps best friend Madison Boone unravel the puzzle hidden within the walls of her old stone cottage in Northern California.

The Customer Is Always…

the-customer-is-alwaysEveryone hates Monday. 

Including Vincent who, at 9AM, already wants his shift to be over. Ten long hours sit before him, tedious, boring, repetitive. 

Then he receives a phone call from Mr Pierce. A routine call at first, Mr Pierce becomes more aggressive and, eventually, violent and demanding. What started as a standard call has now turned into a deadly game of cat and mouse. As the call develops, it’s clear that Mr Pierce is psychotic and that anything could push him over the edge. 

You see, Mr Pierce has a secret to share with Vincent. A deadly, personal secret which shatters Vincent’s 9-5 world and could change his life forever.

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Natalie’s Revenge

Natalies-RevengeTWO MURDERS TWENTY YEARS APART

1988: Ten-year-old Natalie is devastated when police find her call girl mother brutally beaten to death in a New Orleans hotel. Like the dragon tattoo girl, Natalie wants revenge. She vows to find the man who killed her mother and punish him. After her unhappy teen years in Texas, her hunt for the killer takes her from dancing in New York City strip clubs to working as a call girl in Paris. And back to the Big Easy, with a gun.

2008: New Orleans Police Detective Frank Renzi investigates the murder of a VIP businessman in a French Quarter hotel. Is it revenge for the 1988 murder? When the killings continue, Renzi pursues the elusive Natalie. Is she the killer? Or just another call girl?

Don’t miss the exciting showdown between Natalie (armed, dangerous and determined) and NOPD detective Frank Renzi.

What to read after the dragon tattoo girl? Natalie’s Revenge! She’s smart, ruthless and deadly

Whether you file it under revenge mystery, dragon tattoo girl (yes Natalie has a tattoo), hard-boiled mystery, or New Orleans mysteries, Natalie’s Revenge will keep you reading until the last page.

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The Origin Of Murder

the-origin-of-murder

Enjoy the newest release in the same series as “The Deadly Dog Show”.

Somebody is murdering the passengers on a luxury cruise through the Galapagos Islands. Private eye Roger Bowman and his scientist wife Suzanne just happen to be in the right place at the right time (or is it the wrong place at the wrong time?) to be invited to help the local police solve this complex murder case.

As the passengers on their ship retrace Charles Darwin’s famous journey of discovery, natural selection comes at the end of a 9mm pistol. Only the fittest will survive. Will that include our detective couple? This fast-paced thriller presents a suspenseful whodunit set in one of the most fascinating places in the world.