Sabrina, Sabrina by Tom Baker
In this wild, outrageous, sexy thrill-ride of a novel, a young man is kidnapped by his dream woman for a violent night of sex, crime, madness, and terror. This culminates in an explosive finale of tragic murder ripped straight from today's headlines! C'mon! Hop in! The ride's just getting started…
Sacha Dumont's Euro-Mysteries: Amsterdam by Bob Biderman
Sacha Dumont, the author and protagonist, is a British journalist of French and German extraction assigned to cover the emerging Europe of the 21st century by comparing stories of past and present. This adventure focuses on Amsterdam, where Sacha lived as a young man and where a close friend, an artist and bohemian, has been accused of murdering a prostitute. Following a twisty path through history, Sacha is led on a heady journey of discovery giving the reader a unique insight into the contrasts and contradictions from which the new Europe is being constructed.
Sands Beach Aquarius by Ed Matthews
The skeleton that has gone undetected by countless beachcombers for over fifty years is unearthed within minutes during a devastating hurricane that hits the Eastern shore of Virginia. In its wake, the hurricane reveals the remains of FBI agent turned co-ed, Maggie Walther. Many in this seaside community who might have remembered her are long gone themselves, or are they? It’s up to Jack O’Brennan to find Walther’s killer, putting his own life in danger. The pursuit of a killer brings O'Brennan in contact with lawyers, professors, and reverends, some helpful, others menacing. Brutally assaulted and his life hanging in the balance, O’Brennan’s guardian angel comes in the form of his wife, Jeanette. While fighting to save her husband's life, Jeanette decides to take up Walther's case, placing her own life in jeopardy.
Scalp Bounty by Frederick Marshall Brown
Ravaging Myths Book 2 begins in the Apache Nation with the mysterious death of an Apache soldier. The death rocks the Intertribal Council and the Apache Tribe Council representative, General Andrea Cochise of the Apache Nation military is determined to track the killer down.
The Scar by Sean Ellis
Pulp hero Secret Agent X, the original man of a thousand faces, is about to face his greatest challenge and a villain preparing to unleash a wave of death. But first he must unlock the mystery of a strange scar on his hand...from a wound he cannot remember. As he follows the trail of clues, the Secret Agent will discover that he has lost more than his memories. Added 11/4/09.
The Scheme by James Ellison
Jimmy Sinclair wants his gold-digging wife Kathy killed. He hires a hit man named John Farran who has an agenda of his own. He meets Kathy, his "hit" and they hatch "the scheme" -- a plan that turns the tables on Jimmy Sinclair.
Sea of Fire by Phil Bradley
A tightly plotted and genuinely suspenseful, geopolitical thriller that combines page-turning action, with the role of technology in fighting terrorism, and the broader implications of the risks to world stability posed by maritime terrorism.
Seattle Quake 9.2 by Marti Talbott
Wealthy Evan Cole thought his wife was lost at sea until he spotted her one-of-a-kind wedding ring in a New York City pawn shop. The detective agency he hired to find her was about to make a positive identification, when a powerful earthquake trapped her on the 43rd floor of a Seattle highrise.
Shadow of the Templar: Double Down by M. Chandler
"Hypothetically, I was wondering how you'd feel about working on the side of the good guys. On a purely contractual and highly erratic basis, mind you." Little did Simon suspect the explosive consequences that would arise from his offer. Because now Jeremy Archer has a double: another thief with skills and abilities eerily similar to Jeremy's own. When this mysterious double falls afoul of Simon and his team, Simon asks for Jeremy's help, because who better to catch Jeremy Archer than … Jeremy Archer? If Jeremy Archer is anything, however, he's unpredictable--and there's more at stake here than Simon could have imagined. Because in the halls of the FBI 'double' has another meaning… The second book in the Shadow of the Templar series. Contains adult content. To read, click on "The Novels."
Shadow of the Templar: High Fidelity by M. Chandler
A fellow FBI agent with an old grudge picks Simon as the instrument of his revenge. And he knows the hidden truth behind one of Simon's closest-kept secrets... or does he? On the other side of the world, two steps ahead of a ruthless, implacable foe accidentally set on his trail by Simon, Jeremy Archer is running for his life... or is he? Now Simon finds himself torn between his job and his responsibilities, forced to make the ultimate choice, and no matter what he decides, he'll lose something important... or will he? Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity... or Jeremy? The fourth and final novel in the Shadow of the Templar series. Contains adult content. To read, click on "The Novels."
Shadow of the Templar: The Morning Star by M. Chandler
Simon Drake is an up-and-coming young FBI hotshot, an agent with a personal track record so outstanding that it borders on unbelievable. Not yet thirty, he's already the leader of his own special ops team; a ragtag bunch of talented but nigh-uncontrollable lunatics, it's true, but under Simon's inspired leadership they're a force to be reckoned with, a team with an unparalleled success rate, a team with an almost unblemished record--until now. Jeremy Archer is the brilliant and unpredictable scion of a long line of international art thieves, simultaneously a phenomenally wealthy English socialite and one of the most infamous criminals in the world. At twenty-seven years old he's already wanted on nearly every continent for thefts totalling more than ninety-one million dollars, and yet no one has ever come close to catching him--until now. Now? May the best man win. The first book in the Shadow of the Templar series. Contains adult content. To read, click on "The Novels."
Shadow of the Templar: With a Bullet by M. Chandler
For Jeremy Archer, it all starts with a simple phone call from halfway around the world. For Simon Drake, it all started three years ago... Now a madman from Simon's past is on the loose, claiming his revenge on Simon and his team, one member at a time … and no one who stands in his way is safe. No one. The third novel in the Shadow of the Templar series. Contains adult content. To read, click on "The Novels."
The Shift by Alessandro Girola
Milano, anno 2013. Mentre la città è attraversata da una serie di attentati e manifestazioni di natura anarchica e no-global, un anziano docente universitario riceve una mail da un vecchio amico, Filippo Candreva, misteriosamente scomparso quattro anni prima e ora prigioniero di coloro che hanno forse orchestrato il suo sequestro. E' una richiesta di aiuto molto stringata ed enigmatica, che obbliga il professor Martinelli a chiedere aiuto a due studenti del suo corso, Erika e Giovanni, per cercare di capire che fine ha fatto il suo amico, e studiare un modo per liberarlo. E' così che Erika Circe si trova coinvolta in una ricerca che la fa imbattere in un manoscritto del '600 che incredibilmente cita il suo nome, nonché in un anziano ricercatore americano che le revela l'esistenza di una "guerra segreta" in cui il desaparecido Candreva sarebbe coinvolto dal momento della sua scomparsa. Per scaricarlo cliccate sulla copertina.
Shotgun One by Kerry Plowright
A military thriller. Vostok Station, the coldest recorded place on earth, a Russian research facility deep in the Antarctic interior that sits on a dome of ice over 12,000 feet deep. A place unique, not just because of record cold temperatures, but because of what lies beneath the ice, Lake Vostok, a fluid mass larger than Lake Ontario, nearly 2000 feet deep. Renegade Russian and Chinese scientists drill through the ice into the lake, discovering a secret that has been trapped there for millions of years.
Silent Lynx by Sylvia Hubbard
Spoil, defiant Tanae would like nothing better than her father to leave her alone and let her do what she wants to do despite his warnings that her life could be in jeopardy. One night she sneaks away from home, but before long she's in the hands of a strong powerful kidnapper who would like nothing more than to ring her neck. (The first story from the Heart of Detroit Series.)
The Silent Treatment by Larry Tyler
Brad Navaski, a social worker at a hospital in Portland, Maine is dealing with a series of murders, a clinic fire, a frantic chase through the woods and a re-kindled romance.
Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank's in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he'll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucatán to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption - and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.
Snow Angels by Barbara W. Klaser
A van skids off a snowy mountain road. . . .Tess returns home to bury her dead. There an old flame rekindles, promising the warmth of a winter romance, while Tess begins to suspect her family was murdered.
So Dark the Night by Cliff Burns
Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalk are operatives employed by After Hours Investigations, a detective agency open from dusk ’til dawn. Their odd hours attract a mixed and eccentric clientele and, inevitably, they find themselves involved in cases that have paranormal and occult overtones. Zinnea’s the brains and Nightstalk supplies the brawn and as a team they’re practically unbeatable. Their relationship is fractious, bittersweet, and together they make up the most attractive and likable tandem since Holmes and Watson trod the mean streets of Victorian London. So Dark the Night is a supernatural mystery, an homage to film noir, cult TV and pulp fiction. Imagine a weird hybrid of Raymond Chandler, the films of Val Lewton and “The X Files”.
Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder
What if you could bank your money for your next life? Smart-aleck and computer security expert Scott Waverly is skeptical of his new client's claim that they've been tracking souls for almost twenty-six hundred years. Is it a freaky cult or a sophisticated con job? As Scott saves Soul Identity from an insider attack, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people's lives.
Soul View by Jeff Inlo
Dr. Jim Sagacity is a Marriage and Family Therapist who has the special ability to see deep inside other people. He can see their souls. He volunteers at a Philadelphia hospital in order to be as close to death as possible, for during most fatalities he watches the spirit of the recently deceased depart this world in a display of pure joyous wonder. Throughout his life he celebrates his ability in secret, focusing on the sheer elation of these transitions, until one day he is shown that not all souls are willing or able to take that all important step to the next realm. Weaker souls, small and dim to Jim’s eyes, face a darker fate. With a new understanding of what death might mean, Dr. Sagacity joins a group of other specially gifted people in hopes of assisting those spirits he believes lack the strength to move on to a new existence. He finds that not everyone shares his views, that the truth can often be distorted, and that the world he lives in can be a very difficult and dangerous place.
The Spice Garden by Michael Vatikiotis
Christians and Muslims fall upon one another in horrific killing sprees in this white-knuckle thriller about religious violence. This tale, based on true accounts of the religious violence that has erupted in the Malaku archipelago since 1999, explores the motives and effects of Islamic militancy as it clashes with a strong Christian community in a new era of religious conflict that afflicts the world today. "An engrossing narrative...and a valuable contribution to the literature of the archipelago." Time Magazine, January 4, 2004.
Spireclaw by Huw Langridge
When Kieran Whyteleafe starts to see little coincidences happening around him he decides to investigate their meaning. The coincidences seem to centre around the word Spireclaw. Why does the word keep appearing in places only meant for Kieran's eyes? Is it connected to the suicide of his old school friend? And what is the significance of the archive boxes that turn up mysteriously at his work?
The Spirit of Lake Glimm by HATS Elves
When Drew Harmon moves into the old Copeland place on Glimm Lake and meets Samantha "Sam" Stetson, a certified lake-monster fanatic in town for the 50th annual "GlimmyFest", he thinks she's crazy for believing in mythical creatures that can't be proved. But before the week is out, they will team up to solve a centuries-in-the-making mystery involving family secrets, ancient rituals, and things that loom under the dark waters of the lake... a mystery that will put both their lives in danger.
Stain of the Berry: A Russell Quant Mystery by Anthony Bidulka
Everyone has their Boogeyman. But who -- or what -- is scaring Saskatoon locals to death? Private detective Russell Quant is roused from sleep only to fall into a nightmare case when the family of a suicide victim hires him to uncover the real cause of death. But what is real and what is imaginary? Quant works to narrow his list of suspects only to find the number of victims growing. Russell is mystified as the trail of fear connects him to a vast landscape of people, including an elegant potash miner, dubious trailer park denizens, reticent farm folk, the Pink Gopher choir, and a gaseous psychiatrist.
Stinga by David della Sabbia
A body is discovered in a remote North Queensland farmhouse and Detective Steven 'Stinga' Miles is ordered bush to investigate - what appears to be suicide could be murder. As Stinga uncovers a sinister web of crime and corruption, he isn't expecting to be diverted by the possibility of romance.
Stop Talking by Sam Johnston
Fresh from teacher training college, Tom Langston finds a job at a seemingly calm and pleasant school in southwest England. Soon enough, however, he discovers that the pupils within its walls have lost all respect for authority and are running riot in classrooms - verbally and physically abusing teachers and each other. A few weeks into term, a body is found at the bottom of a nearby crevice, mutilated almost beyond recognition. The police go into the school to question pupils, and Tom volunteers some information that he thinks might help. He’s seen coming out of the room. That’s when the reprisals begin…
Storm by William Badke
Scott Horsely, police detective in a small town, finds that the bizarre suspect to a series of murders is someone as damaged as himself.
Sundowner Ubuntu: A Russell Quant Mystery by Anthony Bidulka
Offered by Insomniac Press. A mother's pain. A million dollars. A missing son. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russel peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic childhood violence. Tracking Matthew's life from the schoolyard drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships and tinder box safaris of Africa, Russell finds much more than he was looking for. Ever adept at making both friends and foes, Quant runs a gauntlet of uncharted danger as worlds collide. Thrust into the unfamiliar role of bad guy, stymied by seemingly unsurmountable distrust and base fear, Russell cuts a blistering swath through covert threats and overt bullets. But as he searches for his Canadian needle in an African haystack, the brutality escalates.
Swain's Lock by Edward A. Stabler
In 1995, Vin Illick is at loose ends after relocating to suburban Maryland with his fiancee Nicky Hayes. Scavenging planks from an abandoned shed near the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, he finds a cryptic note from a 1920's canal hand that alludes to killings at Swain’s Lock and the burial of victims and money at the base of three joined sycamores. Nicky wants him to search for a job, but Vin becomes determined to find the burial site. Pursuing threads in the note, he encounters clues that seem intended for him. His investigation turns life-threatening in the woods and he suspects that Kelsey Ainge – a young widow associated with two accidental deaths – is stalking his search. Why? What Vin doesn’t know is that one of his ancestors helped rape and drown a teenage girl along the Potomac River while building the C&O Canal in 1831. In retribution the girl’s Native American mother issued a curse: for ten generations, her spirit would rise with the river to drown a son of her killers. Vin is generation number seven, and so far she’s six for six. Added 10/12/09.
Sweet Ginger Poison by Robert Burton Robinson
Virginia “Ginger” Lightley is the owner of Coreyville Coffee Cakes, a popular bakery in East Texas. Customers drive from miles away to visit the little shop for a taste of her original creations. It's a shock to the whole community when a young man drops dead across town after eating one of her famous cakes. The newly appointed police chief promises to solve the case quickly. And Ginger wants to help him—until he accuses one of her employees of murder. She rejects the crime scenario laid out by the young police chief and secretly determines to solve the crime herself.
Tapas on the Ramblas: A Russell Quant Mystery by Anthony Bidulka
Offered by Insomniac Press. Charity Wiser, matriarch of the Wiser clan by virtue of her wealth and power, is an indomitable provocateur ... and private detective Russell Quant's newest employer. There is more than a single rotten apple on this family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his client. To help him sleuth out the evil culprit, Charity Wiser arranges a family reunion aboard the opulent Friends of Dorothy Cruiseliner as it tours the most exotic ports of the Mediterranean. But smooth-sailing is short-lived as undercurrents of clashes -- local and tourist, gay and straight, trendy and traditional -- offer Russell insight into the Wisers and reveal a family simmering with rage and greed. He begins to wonder: who doesn't want Charity Wiser dead?
Technofarm by R.J. Raskin
Offered by Black Apollo Press. A strange disease is killing off the residents of Cambridge. Could it have to do with an agricultural research station experimenting in bio-genetics? Or does it involve something equally sinister - the distribution of tainted cooking oil that caused hundreds of deaths in Spain. The clock is ticking as famed epidemiologist, Peter Grant, races to solve the mystery before the city succumbs to a serious plague. Timely and terrifying as today’s headlines!
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
Offered by Random House and Sony eBook. Requires download of free Sony eBook Library software and registration. See "How It Works" at the top right of the screen. The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was-and its true nature could change the modern world. Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts-and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he'd left behind. It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton's former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who's far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century.
Ten Thousand Suspects by Rayanda
A hiker plunges to his death, a child is kidnapped and a man has his throat slashed to keep him from telling secrets that lure stolen art sleuth, Rane Lavita, and her pal, Chanlee, into the labyrinthine underbelly of the murderously lucrative world of forgeries and porn. A world where fakes are terrifyingly real, love is threatening and mundane realities like baseball caps and innocent smiles become sinister weapons in a to-the-death struggle to outwit 10,000 suspects.
Thin Blood by Vicki Tyley
The price of this novel is $3.97 to download, but until Nov. 15 it is FREE on Smashwords by entering coupon code QE49Q at the time of checkout. A stockbroker’s wife disappears. Blood on his hands and an adulterous affair with the missing woman’s younger sister sees him charged with murder. With no body and only circumstantial evidence he walks free. Ten years later, journalist Jacinta Deller decides to investigate, only to become embroiled in a warped game of delusion and murder. Thin Blood is a suspense-filled mystery in a contemporary Australian setting. Webmaster's note: highly recommended. Added 10/14/09.
Threat! by Kit Wharton
A terrifying glimpse into the near future and a light-hearted look at the subjects of international terrorism, war, torture and chemical weapons. If you want to know what you will be doing in a few years time - read this book!
Tread by Clayton Lindemuth
Reclusive, fifty, and hunted by the FBI for his role in the killing of an undercover agent, Nat Cinder is a rough-hewn secessionist with enough weaponry cached across Arizona to start a revolution. He finds stark blackmail photos of Arizona governor Virginia Rentier. She wants them back. After Rentier's dirty-jobs man kills the patsy who stashed the sex shots, he targets Cinder and his son - a cocky seventeen-year-old linebacker who doesn't know Cinder is his father. Rentier pardons a death row inmate and sends him on a mission. The FBI is closing in on Cinder's trail. Betrayed by the woman he's with, and driven by guilt over his wife's death sixteen years before, Cinder discovers the photos are in his hands because his former father-in-law believes he will assassinate the governor. When he learns why, it will take all his courage not to. Novel is complete and author will be updating weekly.
Trouble In Trinidad by William Manchee
At an important trade conference in Dallas, Kevin Wells, an alert high school student who is participating in a ROTC color guard, foils an assassination attempt on the life of the Prime Minister of Trinidad-Tobago. As he sees the assassination attempt unfold he doesn't hesitate to throw himself in front of the Prime Minister. Immediately he feels the assassin's bullet piecing his back and falls to the ground, near death. When Kevin finally regains consciousness he's become a national hero. While in the hospital the President visits him to express the Nation's thanksbringing with him Kiran Shah, the Prime Minister's beautiful daughter. Filled with gratitude because Kevin has saved her father's life, she honors Kevin with a kiss. For weeks Kevin can think of nothing but Kiran as he's convinced she his perfect woman. When he goes to Trinidad to find out if she is really his soul mate, he is unaware that the rebel NDC party, responsible for the assassination attempt, has a contract out on his life.
Twice Tempted by William Manchee
Fred Fuller is a poor but ambitious college student with dreams of a future in politics. He sees himself as being an honest and moral person but when confronted with the chance of a lifetime, not once . . . but twice, he discovers the shallowness of his morality. While on his job as a messenger for Bank USA he goes into a deserted bank and is confronted by an open vault filled with millions of dollars. The first time, unprepared to take advantage of the situation, he calls his boss to report it. But when it happens again, Fred's moral values are shattered as he takes the money and attempts to flee the country. Twice Tempted, Bill Manchee's first novel, was inspired by actual events that occurred to the author. Sex, greed, and moral ambiguities are the choice ingredients in this thriller set in California in the sixties. A wild ride of an adventure, for both Fred and the readers.
The Two Mrs Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne
Offered by The Book Depository. His mother was blueblood Society. His father was a bank president and a friend of the King of England. But privilege spoils. Their son was tall and handsome. He was also weak and shallow. Billy Woodward had a thing for showgirls. He married one of them -- and, in 1955, after dinner with the Duchess of Windsor, she shot and killed him. Murder? Of course not; Ann Woodward had children, and her mother-in-law didn't want them traumatised by scandal. Better to say that Ann mistook Bill for a prowler. Better that Ann never stand trial for murder. But there are other ways to convict a killer. Rumour is one. In 1975, Truman Capote lightly fictionalised the story and sold it to Esquire magazine. Ann Woodward, ultimately shamed, overdosed on sleeping pills. "Well, that's that," her mother-in-law said.
Underlife by Robert Finn
Being a thief makes it difficult to meet the right girl. And when you do, something always gets in the way. Like finding yourself trapped underground, caught in a shoot-out,with the police after you and only a supernatural killer to protect you. And if you somehow survive all that, you've still got to persuade her to part with her phone number. Underlife is a fast, short, sweet, tense runaway train of a thriller.
Unscripted: Katie's Debut by Jennifer Brown
Film making has always been a passion for Michael Baker. From setting up props for a widely successful Haunted Path documentary, to filming the aftereffects of a devastating plane crash, Michael is inspired to start his own independent file company. But as it is with life, the unexpected always occurs, making it totally unscripted. Michael can't resist the offer when he's asked to film a documentary for actor Steve Vince. As he gets into the project though, he learns about Katie Vince, the long time missing and assumed dead sister of Steve's. When emails come to Steve from his hometown claiming a girl that could double as Katie's twin has been spotted, singing at a local club, it drives the documentary to take a different direction - to introduce the public to Steve Vince's sister and try to uncover the mystery behind her disappearance.
Untitled Thriller by Mike Attebery
A completed online serial thriller detailing the goings on inside and outside a Seattle university’s Health Sciences Research Building during a hostage crisis involving academic researchers, a hapless research editor, and the world’s third wealthiest man.
When Graveyards Yawn by G. Wells Taylor
Fifty years ago, at the end of the last Millennium we expected something bad to happen, but we never expected the Change. People stopped aging, the dead rose from their graves, it started raining and it’s been raining ever since. Things looked so bad that everyone thought it was the end of the world, but a guy’s still got to make a living doesn’t he? A dead lawyer enters the office of Wildclown Investigations and hires the detective to find his killer. Wildclown and his dead sidekick Elmo soon find themselves entangled in a battle for control of a secret that offers either hope or doom for humanity. When Graveyards Yawn takes the reader to a unique setting that mixes gothic horror with the two-fisted pragmatism of a hard-boiled detective novel.
Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath
Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a VERY bad week...Jack's live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has maxed out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself "The Gingerbread Man" is dumping mutilated bodies in her district. Between avoiding the FBI and their moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner Herb must catch the maniac before he kills again...and Jack is next on his murder list.
Worlds Apart by Max Salt
Survivor of a brutal stabbing and sexual assault, Shailene Campbell has the ability to see homicidal sociopaths for what they are. Now, just out of the Army, Shailene is trying to rebuild her life. She has a job as a computer geek, a small and secure apartment in a quiet neighborhood, and even a new friendship — possibly more — with a gentle architect named Mike. Things are going well, until the bodies of four young boys are discovered in New Jersey's Pine Barrens.Keeping her boss and Mike in the dark, Shailene takes emergency vacation and goes to Trenton, hoping she can find the killer before another boy ends up in a shallow grave.
Worlds Collide by Max Salt
Psychologically damaged and tormented by the memory of an attack on her and her family when she was fifteen, Shailene Campbell lives her life by two rules: Avoid violence, and Be ready if it comes for her anyway. Rule one has held for nine and a half years, but that’s about to change. Facing another long, lonely Saturday afternoon, she goes to the mall to escape her one-room apartment, but while shopping for something to read she experiences a painful flashback to her rape. This has happened before, and she thinks she knows what triggers it. Her first impulse is to get home as fast as possible and lock herself in, but refusing to be ruled by fear she instead goes looking for the flashback’s trigger.
The Wrecking Crew by Mark Chisnell
Phillip Hamnet left port at the helm of the MV Shawould, apparently master of his vessel and his destiny. But others had a different agenda on that evil night in the South China Sea. Drug warlord Janac has turned to piracy to fund his control of the Australian narcotics trade, and now Hamnet is faced with one brutal choice after another... The sequel to The Defector follows the bad guy. It's a tale of modern-day piracy that sweeps from the teeming ports of Singapore and Bangkok, deep into the jungle valleys of the Golden Triangle and back to the lawless seas. Added 10/14/09.
You Don't Know Me by Lori A. Mathews
The night of the New York City Policeman’s Ball is shattered by the murders of a young officer, the police commissioner’s wife and Lorna Story, the wife of rising star Detective Owen Story. How can three murders take place in shouting distance of a room full of cops? Devastated by his loss, Owen delves into his wife's death, discovering he didn’t know her at all, that she had led a life involving secrets, sex, power and domination and had been strangely involved with Simon Chandler the ambitious police commissioner who drops the hammer on Owen, turning him into the most wanted criminal in the city. With the help of an old friend and his partner, Owen manages to discover the killer—who was yet not the killer.
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