Lightning Caused, by Roger Lynn Howell

Lightning Caused, by Roger Lynn Howell Acting Sheriff Ada Reed comes across an entire family dead in their home in the aftermath of a raging forest fire. It appears they just sat down and let the flames consume them. They weren’t drunk, nor were they dead before it overtook them. Their car was gassed up,…

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Lambs to the Slaughter, by David Carlson

Lambs to the Slaughter, by David Carlson For Sophia Demetrios, in prison for a murder she can’t remember committing, the thought that the past isn’t what she’s been told gives her what she has most lacked hope.  But is allowing herself to hope only a prelude to further despair? For ex-homicide detective, Christopher Worthy, being…

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The Fall of Vivaldi, by Reed Bunzel

The Fall of Vivaldi, by Reed Bunzel On a rainy night across Europe, several seemingly unrelated incidents unfold in quick order: These random, disparate scenarios all eventually will go through one man: former assassin Rōnin Phythian. One year after shutting down the murder-for-hire outfit known as the Greenwich Global Group, he now is pursuing justice…

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The Coffin Maker’s Apprentice, by Chris McGillion

The Coffin Maker’s Apprentice, by Chris McGillion Timorese police investigator Vincintino Cordero is assigned the case of two youths, rival gang members, found a week apart with their throats slit and a betel quid placed in their mouths. The case distracts him from spending time with FBI Agent Sara Carter before she completes her INTERPOL…

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Off Season, by Clive Fleury

Off Season, by Clive Fleury Detective Ramesh Ryan’s career with Sydney’s prestigious Organized Crime Unit is on the up, until he loses a court case against the city’s most powerful drug dealer. In disgrace, the detective is relocated to the tiny Australian beach town of Barton. It is off-season in Barton—when its few criminals usually…

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Bone Whispers, by Rosalind Brackenbury

Bone Whispers, by Rosalind Brackenbury Nessa, now in her seventies, is back in England from the US to take care of her inherited house on the coast of Dorset. She arrives to hear news of human bones—a woman’s bones—dug up on the beach, after a cliff fall. As she walks the paths of her childhood…

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Suffer the Children, by David Carlson

Suffer the Children, by David Carlson On the night of a tragic fire at an orphanage in Canada that takes the lives of three boys, the orphanage director, Father Robert Porter, is found passed out in an alcoholic haze. Although he isn’t blamed for the fire, Father Robert is recalled to his monastic order’s motherhouse…

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Epiphany, by John A. Vanek

Epiphany, by John A. Vanek While investigating a haunting at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Father Jake Austin encounters the “Night Nurse,” the ghost of a woman killed in a fiery car crash decades earlier. The evidence suggests she was murdered, and Jake tracks down her killer in the coldest of cold cases. The Superior General of…

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Always Something Sings, by Roger Lynn Howell

Always Something Sings, by Roger Lynn Howell Ada Reed stands in as sheriff of a backwoods county in Idaho when her husband is recalled to the Army. The war in Korea won’t last but a couple of months, and it would be simpler this way—”less trouble,” the businessmen whisper. But a young woman found beaten…

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Indigo Road, by Reed Bunzel

Indigo Road, by Reed Bunzel While still slinging drinks fulltime at The Sandbar in Folly Beach, Jack Connor works a side gig as a licensed bounty hunter. While transporting his latest bail skip named Willis Ronson back to jail, his SUV is ambushed by a team of gunmen, killing Ronson instantly and seriously injuring Alisha…

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