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DEAD SILENT
18 dark and edgy crime thrillers from 18 bestselling authors.
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Read more about each book below.
HER LOST ALIBI
DAVID BERENS
GRETA BORIS
MORTUARY SCHOOL
A little knowledge is dangerous, a lot is deadly.
Imogene Lynch, ex-hairdresser, wants to become a normal mortician. Unfortunately, she has a talent that’s anything but. She feels the final emotions of the deceased when she touches their hair.
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On her first day at Cavendish School of Mortuary Science, two cadavers are discovered in a casket built for one. In the ensuing panic, Imogene is knocked off her feet and falls hands first into the locks of the dead.
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She stumbles into more than the casket, however. The deceased man wants justice, and that knowledge turns perilous. Will Imogene end up on the wrong side of the grave?
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Imogene Lynch loves Colleen Helme’s Shelby Nichols series and, of course, Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennen books. If you feel the same, you and she could be friends. Why not take her out for coffee today?
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Mortuary School is a Mortician Mystery Novella
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ONE LAST BREATH
ELLERBY HARPER
A teen accused of murder. A cop running from her past. Is she his only salvation?
Still suffering from the devastating loss of her husband, New York Detective Bex Wynter turns her back on friends and family with a brand new life in the London Metropolitan Police, only to be snubbed and met with suspicion from the very officers she’s supposed to lead.
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But battling a team fiercely contesting her every move is forced into the background when the murder of a young woman crosses her desk. Taking neophyte detective Reuben Richards under her wing she investigates a teen ripe for trouble and accused of the murder. With office tensions escalating to an unbearable level, Bex has to teach her British cohorts that she’ll never stop fighting for justice. But with an investigation yielding more questions than answers, can she expose the uncomfortable truth or is she fighting for the wrong cause?
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You'll love this realistic police procedural mystery you can binge read in one night!
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TOM FOWLER
BLOOD ON CANVAS
The paintings are ugly, but the crime scenes are grisly.
When a local restauranteur hires private investigator C.T. Ferguson to look into a couple of art thefts, he’s confused. The missing paintings are hideous. Even the owner agrees.
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The thief, however, is willing to kill to keep C.T. off his trail.
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Following an arson and two brutal murders, C.T. searches for clues. When he risks his life to foil another crime, it finally earns him a break in the case.
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DEGRADATION
DWAYNE GILL
You're the predator right up until you're prey.
Daniel, a mammoth-sized enforcer for the Chicago mafia, nurses his wounds and a serious grudge after discovering he’s the sole survivor of an assault on his compound. His boss, the boss’s family, and everyone who mattered— is dead. Naturally, he wants payback, and he wanted it yesterday.
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Enter Calvin, a guy in the same line of work who Daniel runs into during his recovery. Calvin wants out of the mob, and he’s willing to share the best lead he has about the attack with Daniel. In return, Daniel will protect Calvin from Calvin’s ex-leader, Dean Talbert, a ruthless criminal who’s definitely going to take one of his men deserting personally.
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While Calvin’s lead pans out, his deal with Daniel puts both of them—and their friends—in Talbert’s crosshairs. Worse, Daniel’s habit of attacking first and asking questions later leaves him outmatched in a game of wills with the Windy City’s deadliest kingpin. Daniel needs to find an edge, fast, or his long road to revenge will be the least of their problems.
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JAMES HARPER
DIG TWO GRAVES
LOST DIAMOND GIRLS
L.K. HILL
Detective Gabe Nichols is ready to start fresh. A new city, a new job, a new life. After all he and Kyra have been through in the past year, they deserve it. His first day on the new job brings a bizarre case in which several victims around the city are targeted. They all have identical names.
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Detective Cody Oliver has moved from rural, small-town cop life to the big city. He and Gabe team up for a bizarre case. One that makes little logical sense and brings enemies from the past to the forefront of their lives again.
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When another victim with the same name goes missing, and they realize missing children may be involved, Gabe and Cody race to figure out what clandestine organization is behind the murders. If they don’t act fast, more innocent victims may be lost to the light forever.
MICHELLE MEDHAT
OPERATION OYSTERCATCHER
With the Pearl, he’ll control the world
Operation Oystercatcher is a no-holds-barred, lightning fast, techno-spy thriller featuring billionaire super-terrorist Dr Salim Al Douri getting his dirty mitts on a technology that will enable him to control and manipulate everything people do in 21st century life, and MI6 spy Dr
Sam Noor, is on his tail, ready to do anything he can to stop him from taking over the world.
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With the Pearl the world will be his oyster!
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JAY TINSIANO & JAY NEWTON
BLOOD CULL
A series of ritualistic killings.
A retired Detective Inspector desperate to save his wife.
A horrifying secret.
Detective Inspector Doug Brown has retired to Scotland, but when his wife falls ill, there is no choice but to take on a private contract offered by an old acquaintance.
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Soon he finds himself on a dark path, tracking down a ritualist killer of affluent men, who has so far eluded the police.
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But as the merciless killings continue Doug is unknowingly getting closer to unveiling a sickening conspiracy.
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Blood Cull is a slow burn page-turner to keep you guessing.
THE BARROW CASE
DAN PETROSINI
Regret is a little word that lasts forever.
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Most homicide detectives remember their first case. For Detective Luca, it was the second one that scarred him.
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A runner stumbles upon a girl in a park. Dragged off a jogging path, the teenager is dead.
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Luca’s ten years on the force did nothing to blunt the image of the kid's leaf covered body. He pledged to solve the brutal murder, believing it would help him unsee what he witnessed.
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But Luca was wrong, dead wrong. It wasn't the picture of the murdered teenager that would end up haunting him, but something else.
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Something that would frame everything going forward.
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It made Luca wish life had a rewind button.
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RELIC
FIONA QUINN
Digging For The Truth Can Be Deadly.
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Brian is ex-special forces.
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He’s working for a security group that only hires the best of the best. His job is fueled by danger and adrenaline, and he loves every minute of it. At least he did up until this minute. When Sophia walks into their briefing room, Brian’s heart stops.
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Sophia is the woman who spun his world and stole his heart then disappeared from his life.
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Now, she needs protection. Sophia is fighting to safeguard Syrian relics from being stolen and sold into private collections by terrorists. Her colleagues are being kidnapped and killed.
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The FBI doesn’t believe all is as it seems with Sophia.
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The Bureau thinks she's helping to sell conflict relics, funding terror, and putting America and her allies at risk.
This case will test Brian’s conviction, honor, and courage.
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Brian loves Sophia deeply, but which will win the war, his heart or his sense of duty?
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THE KIZAZI MURDERS
GAVIN REESE
CASEY'S CRUCIBLE
TOM SCHNEIDER
In a time of murder and deceit, love can be a trap.
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A MATTER OF VENGEANCE
K.C. SIVILS
Feel the "Heat" of Southern Noir.
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When local cops find the body of P.I. James Benoit Heatley, they have more than a few questions, especially upon learning the pair were at odds with each other.
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Needing to clear his name and avenge the death of his partner, Wolf Pfieffer, Heat does the only thing he knows to do, work Wolf’s last case.
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Searching for a missing daughter, believed to have been kidnapped for sale in the sex slave trade, Heat soon finds himself enmeshed in the dangerous world of gambling, human trafficking and prostitution.
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Bitter and angry from past experience with a woman, follow Heat as he risks everything to save a young woman and avenge his partner’s death.
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THE KILLING GAME
J.D. WESTON
The game is death. The winner takes all.
When Harvey Stone is blackmailed with photos of him killing a man, there is only one path he can take - he must leave no loose ends.
But when Harvey finds the blackmailer is a desperate teenage girl with a kidnapped mother and nobody to turn to, the rules change - the game is on.
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Find the girl’s kidnapped mother, kill the men who took her, or risk exposure to the world.
Harvey’s freedom is the prize, and the challenge is a daring hunt for the two kidnappers. Can he find the killer inside him? Will he risk everything he has? And can he win a game he wished he had never played?
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Set in the back streets of East London, this crime novella is a fast-paced story of suspense, action and mystery that delves into the complex mind of a killer and the knife-edged balance of right and wrong.
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GRAND CRU AND GANGS
SANDRA WOFFINGTON
Gang life—spill someone else’s blood to join, spill your own to quit.
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At six, Reed Steele witnessed a drive-by shooting that left his brother dead.
When the shooter, gang leader Enrique Otero, left prison, ready to ignite the biggest gang war in LA history, Steele showed up to stop him—even if the road led straight to hell.
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