Sick of Happily Ever After? Want some blood in those heart-shaped cupcakes? Kit Renard is the anti-hero you’re searching for. When her love life goes askew, Kit embraces an altered reality that leaves an increasingly blood-soaked path down the aisle. It’s a killing spree that won’t stop until she has both the groom and wedding of her dreams. Free on Kindle.
Free: K-Town Confidential
Murder Fest Key West: Cam Derringer Series (Book 4)
When Cam Derringer’s old friend, bestselling author Cody Paxton, comes to town for a writer’s convention, Murder Fest Key West, he unwittingly brings with him a script of murders and someone is following it to a Tee. Each book in his bestselling series plots a brutal, heinous attack in the prologue.
Time isn’t on his side as Cam has only five days to prevent eleven murders. It seems he is always one step behind the diabolical butcher. With the whole town filled with thriller writers, it appears impossible to flush out the one responsible and it looks as if the law has no jurisdiction when it comes to fictitious bloodbaths.While trying to save his own life and that of his beautiful daughter Diane, Cam is sidetracked by a mob boss who would like nothing more than to see him dead.
With attacks coming from every angle, Cam can’t let his guard down for even a minute or it might be his last. Powerful women, Wild Turkey, and pure survival instincts guide Cam closer to the beast who lives among them. Can Cam be unbiased when all clues point to some of his best friends? Edge of your seat twists and turns right to the final, horrifying end. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Alter
A CIA paper-pusher. A bloodthirsty monster. One man’s nightmare just came true.
James Hyde feels like a failure. His dream to become a field operative has fallen into ruins through his botched training. Sidelined to monitor the comms, he listens with terror when an ambush murders everyone but him.
Declared a mole by his boss, Hyde escapes despite his injuries. But the wound triggers a dormant power. Something dark. Something dangerous. Something that could turn him into a fugitive for life…
Can Hyde control the beast inside and find out who killed his team, or will his new power end both of his lives?
The Alter is a mind-bending espionage thriller with supernatural elements. If you like twists on myths and monsters, deep conspiracies, and darkly-twisted plots, then you’ll love JB Knox’s action-packed novel. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Dead Don’t Talk
Vanishing Point
Bereft from the loss of an old friend, Sutton Mills has fallen into disreputable habits.
That is until Fin finds a case for him to look into: the mysterious hit-and-run of a young man called Christopher Masters.
Chris didn’t have any friends, any hobbies, and he certainly didn’t have any enemies. Why then does it seem that his death was no accident, that someone intentionally ran him over?
What at first appears like an accident soon turns into a strange, tangled web of lies, deceit, greed, and murder. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Burden of Sweetberry
Free: The Servant Girl Murders (Book 2)
America’s first serial killer is on the loose…
It’s 1885 in Austin, Texas, and a string of grisly murders has put the entire country on edge. Eight murders have happened within city limits, each in eerily similar circumstances, and the police are no closer to catching the culprit than when they started. Austin needs a hero to put an end to this brutal reign of terror, and fast. Free on Kindle.
Taking on Water
James is a social worker with a troubled past who meets Tucker, a down-on-his-luck New England lobsterman. The two men and their families live in a New Hampshire coastal town that’s caught amid a squall of drugs and violence. As James and Tucker become close, their fates, and the fate of their loved ones become entangled as the town boils over. $0.99 on Kindle.
Native Blood
The ritualistic killing of a young Apache girl plunges Sheriff Zeb Hanks into a snake pit of suspects. He must partner with an old rival to unravel the mystery and bring the killer to justice. Fans of Longmire and Tony Hillerman will enjoy getting to know Zeb Hanks, a modern lawman who strives for justice but doesn’t always play by the rules. $0.99 on Kindle.
Before Poughkeepsie: Living with a Body Collector
You must read this book if you ever wanted to know about a Serial Killer before they descend into their murderous ways. This is your chance to see what happened before thirty-year-old Wendy Myers disappeared in October 1996. People familiar with the case and who later became familiar with Kendall François believe that this rape and eventual murder was the beginning of his crimes. They found Myers and seven more victims in what some refer to as François’ “body dump.”
Eight women in all were found. The victims are all women with a history of drug abuse and selling sex as a means to get by. It’s not clear why he chose these women. How does the universe create an evil so vile that women who are already victims of addiction and considered by society to be wretched vagabonds, become the stalked prey for his animal lust? Why is it that when the lust is over, a shame overcomes him so powerful that he must do as psychologists explain of pedophiles and other sex offenders and destroy the victims? He did both. That leaves us with the question; “why did he collect trophies?”
It defies all reason if you don’t know Kendall Francios. I know Kendall François! I know how he chose his victims. That is why I believe his fetish for collecting bodies began…before Poughkeepsie. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Un-Making a Murderer: The Framing of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey
“Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up” – Brad Dassey
Innocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the authorities conspire to frame them. That’s what happened to Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, who were convicted of murder and are serving life sentences.
Un-Making a Murderer is an explosive book which uncovers the illegal, devious and covert tactics used by Wisconsin officials, including:
– Concealing Other Suspects
– Paying Expert Witnesses to Lie
– Planting Evidence
– Jury Tampering
The art of framing innocent people has been in practice for centuries and will continue until the perpetrators are held accountable; turning conventional assumptions and beliefs in the justice system upside down, Un-Making a Murderer takes you on that journey. Free on Kindle.
No Reason to Hide
Evil knows your name, he extends his hand, and charms you into the abyss.
Navajo cop Jessica Akee finds the body of a young male sprawled in the weeds behind a convenience store on the Reservation. What at first looks like just another gang killing is a far more disturbing murder. On loan from the Phoenix PD, top cop Charlie Stone partners with Jessica to find the killer. She harbors a dark secret, but Charlie isn’t going to let her keep it.
Jessica’s younger brother runs with a Native gang, dabbles in rituals best left alone, and ignores Jessica’s pleas for him to turn away from the razor’s edge between good and evil.
When her brother lifts the veil between the two worlds, the Shadow Warrior slips in seeking revenge. All that is human of Ricky is stripped away, and Jessica believes the last card has been played, but the Shadow Warrior turns his vengeance on her. Can Charlie save her before the demon claims Jessica as his own and returns to the bottom of the abyss? $2.99 on Kindle.
Lake Girl
Free: The Black Heart: A Dark Disturbing Cannibalistic Murder Thriller
Free: Hill of Secrets
On a blooming May morning, the five bodies of a religious family are found in their apartment in the quiet suburb of Samuel’s Hill (Giv’at Shmuel).
Detective Hadas Levinger, the renegade atheist daughter of a religious family, is put in charge of the police investigation. Slowly and skillfully she peels away the shell protecting this unique community and reveals hard and painful secrets.
Free: Missing Persons
Detective Inspector Rafferty never could say no. If someone asked her for help, she gave it. No ifs or buts.
When a troubled girl from Rafferty’s past calls asking for help to find her missing boyfriend, Rafferty can’t stop herself rushing to the rescue. She has to find him, get him home safe, and do it before Morton loses patience.
It wasn’t the first time Rafferty went out of her way to help somebody.
Free: Out of a Dark Reflection
Murray’s most frightening case to date…
Letho, Fife, 1816: Murray and his guests all have good reasons for not attending Edinburgh’s winter season, even down to the new maid. But then an old woman is found dead in the village, and murmurings of witchcraft are abroad. Suddenly everyone seems to have the darkest of secrets – but who would kill to keep theirs? Free on Kindle.
Gaviota: The Nude Beach Murders
When a series of murders occur at a southern California nude beach and the local police seem indifferent, hunky physical trainer Jeff Ross and beautiful, sexy horse trainer Nikki Desjardins decide to take matters into their own hands and catch the killer and determine his or her motive as well.. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Saving Texas
From KIRKUS reviews. “Texas reporter-turned-editor Annie Price once again finds herself immersed in deceit, political conflict, and murder in Stancill’s (Saving Texas, 2013) thriller. Even if she’s not a crime-solver, the beguiling protagonist should attract readers just as much as she attracts trouble and men.” Free on Kindle.
Circled
Mash Up
When a suspect dies on his watch, failure pushes Alaskan detective Qigiq to San Francisco–the land of magical technology–to regroup. His new fast-driving partner, Kandy Dreeson, calls at dawn: a beautiful avant-garde violinist is at the station freaking out about an Amazon box–and her missing roommate. Thus begins the hunt for a killer who leaves behind a torrent of body parts, videos of heinous crimes, and deadly explosions. Qigiq and Kandy enter a world of cybercrime he doesn’t understand–but is determined to master. Dodging attempts on their lives with each new bit they decipher, they grow ever closer to a dangerous force that trades money for murder, and music for privacy. Closer with each Amazon delivery. Closer with each new victim. Suspenseful and grisly with humor and seduction, Mash Up is a riveting read of intertwined action from the first sentence. High-speed chase suspenseful, exploding with power-struggle intrigue, and awash in Silicon Valley innovation; Mash Up captures the enchantment of the Internet Age, and the deadly power of a file copy. $0.99 on Kindle.
With Full Malice
Free Crime Fiction: Carnies and Wildcats: Ulciscor
Murder and Revenge in the Deep South
In November 1980, one week after the crosstown competitors squared off for their last game of the season, someone raised the stakes beyond the realm of petty vandalism and theft and committed a cruel, monstrous act. The carnival was in town with its rides, games, and sideshows and was finishing its last night in Valdosta before returning to Florida for the winter.
After the carnival closed for the night, people leaving the back gate discovered twelve-year-old Allison Pritchard’s bloody, lifeless body in front of the back gate’s ticket booth. Her throat was cut from ear to ear. Hanging around her neck was a sign, painted in her own blood:
“We Hate Carnies and Wildcats”
The murder was never solved. Thirty years later a mysterious man buys an old downtown hotel, and for some citizens of this small city things will never be the same. Free on Kindle.