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Book #1 in the VanOps Thriller Series: DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this award-winning thriller that #1 NYT bestselling author James Rollins called, “A book that defines ‘page-turner.'” Spain 1057: During a thunderous battle, the first King of Aragon wrestles Alexander the Great’s priceless Egyptian weapon from the...

Book #2 in the VanOps Thriller Series: DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this multi-award-winning and #1 best-selling thriller that combines intrigue, history, science, and mystery into pulse-pounding action. A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she and the VanOps team decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a...

When the owner of the business next door is found dead in his office, Alene Baron’s first feeling is relief. She’s been suspicious of the food supplements her neighbor has been selling, not to mention the smoothies he’s been hawking, which are much inferior to the ones Alene sells in...

Lark Chadwick is back. The scrappy reporter for The Pine Bluff Standard is embroiled in another tale of intrigue. WHILE DOING BATTLE WITH an unscrupulous real estate mogul—and against the advice of her friend and mentor Lionel Stone—Lark impulsively flirts with diverting her career into broadcast journalism. But, as Lark...

Gutsy reporter, Lark Chadwick once again finds herself at the wrong place at the right time: front-row center when the White House press briefing room is suddenly attacked. The president is missing, the first lady's life is at risk, and Lark's personal life is falling apart when the man she...

When popular First Lady Rose Gannon dies suddenly (and mysteriously) during an interview with White House correspondent Lark Chadwick, Lark is thrust into the midst of a media-bashing frenzy. Lark, still reeling from the death of her photographer boyfriend, finds herself covering a grieving president struggling with his pain while...

Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arrive, they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek, Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for “him” among...

Book #1 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: When a young girl is found dead in the mountains near Timber Creek, Officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo must track down the killer. With help from veterinarian Cole Walker and his daughter, Mattie uncovers hometown secrets that place...

Book #2 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: Threatened by the first blizzard of the season, Deputy Mattie Cobb, her K-9 partner Robo, and veterinarian Cole Walker investigate the disappearance of Deputy Ken Brody’s sweetheart; but the hunters become the hunted when they find themselves caught in a killer’s...

Book #3 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo find a missing girl dead on Smoker’s Hill behind the high school. Before they can catch the killer, one of Cole Walker’s daughters goes missing, and Mattie and Robo must lead the hunt...

Book #4 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: Colorado’s Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called in to spearhead...

Book #5 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb and Cole Walker reeling into the night, where they discover a burning van and the body of local outfitter. As the investigation ratchets up, Mattie and her K-9 partner Robo discover another...

Book #6 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: A deluge floods the high ground near Hanging Falls, but heavy rains aren’t the only menace in Timber Creek. After Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 Robo find a body floating at the edge of a lake, she delays her trip...

Book #7 in the Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Series: The past and present collide when Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are torn between investigating her father’s cold case and the death of a young mother whose body is found near Timber Creek. As a deadly storm batters...

A compelling mystery/thriller by Nick Chiarkas If it moves away from you, it*s food; if it moves toward you, you*re food. The 1957 murder of an undercover cop in a New York City housing project has unexpected ties to the unsolved disappearance of a young father walking home in those...

When Maddie McGuire finds herself tumbling over a cliff while hiking The Cotswold Way, she uncovers much more than ancient woods. Terrified by her shocking discovery, she returns to the safety of her international internship at the Roman Baths only to find competition in the form of the tittering, aristocratic...

Bar owner Una has no idea that breaking up a late-night brawl will lead to murder. Anxious to save her critically wounded mentor, she rushes headlong into a terrifying night of chases through the inky blackness of Arizona’s mountains. Her situation goes from unbelievable to horrific as she learns secrets...

Oxford, England 1993. An awkward American grad student hits a gorgeous English undergrad with her bicycle. She’s embarrassed. He’s intrigued. They go their separate ways, but neither forgets. Chicago, Illinois 2013. Successful novelist Cress Taylor starts receiving anonymous threats that undermine her world. When a figure from her past turns...

Book #1 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: Lindsey Alexander, publicist to the stars, was a ruthless, backstabbing manipulator, but when handwriting expert Claudia Rose is hired to examine her suicide note, she doesn’t find it so easy to write off, her former friend’s death.

Book #2 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: Annabelle Giordano, a troubled fourteen-year-old, becomes an important person in handwriting expert Claudia Rose’s life, and the chief suspect in a horrific crime.

Book #3 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: Dating habits of the rich and feckless—Claudia Rose meets Baroness Grusha Olinetsky who runs an expensive dating club where members are dying to get in.

Book #4 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: Time is running out for a missing 3-year-old in a religious cult. Handwriting expert Claudia Rose, one of the few outsiders to be invited inside the Temple of Brighter Light, must hurry to uncover their secrets before a terrifying prophecy is fulfilled.

Book #5 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: Explosive drama erupts when the life of a teen with a tortured past is jeopardized by her secret tattoo. Handwriting expert Claudia Rose joins forces once again with Detective Joel Jovanic, who is investigating a firebombing, a young woman found dead in...

Book #6 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: After being attacked in court by a defendant, a traumatized Claudia (handwriting expert) accepts an invitation to lecture in the UK. There, she gets in trouble with New Scotland Yard and the FBI (local office) when she becomes acquainted with a guy...

Book #7 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: When handwriting expert Claudia Rose travels to Maine to interview convicted serial killer Roxanne Becker, she learns a shocking secret about a group of grad students dubbed “Maynard’s Maniacs.” Was Professor Maynard—herself brutally murdered—conducting unethical research that turned deadly? Swept up in...

Book #8 in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series: Eighteen-year-old Monica has lived a sheltered life. Joining an archaeological dig in Egypt was a dream come true, and romance an unexpected bonus. But when she goes missing with an archaeologist whose shady past spills into the present, the desperate search takes...

Book #1 in the Beyond the Veil Mystery Series: Imagine waking on a train with no recollection of how you got there, no idea who you are…no name, no memories, no life. All you know is, you cannot tell anyone. When this young woman runs into someone who knows her...

Book #2 in the Beyond the Veil Mystery Series: After recovering from amnesia five years ago, Jessica Mack never told anyone she had started hearing voices from the spirit world. Now, forced to use her “gift” to help find missing four-year-old Ethan Starkey, she can no longer ignore the voices.

Now free! When identical twins inherit a Victorian mansion from a stranger, the bequest changes everything they knew about their past. The house at Herron Pond is no stranger to tragedy. Accidental death. A devastating fire. Suicide. Are the reports of supernatural activity the persistent gossip of visitors and staff?...

Book #1 in The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series: World-famous Egyptologist Dr. Winston Thornsley died suddenly two months ago in disgrace. His widow, Ida Thornsley, knows her husband was falsely accused of stealing an ancient burial urn he discovered in Egypt last summer, but local and federal law enforcement officers...

Book #2 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series: In 1945, Isabela de Cordoba’s great-grandfather, silent movie actor Lorenzo de Cordoba, mysteriously hid a legendary, multimillion-dollar emerald somewhere on the family’s sprawling estate. Nicknamed the “Green Curse,” the emerald is blamed for the family’s numerous, untimely deaths. Enter, the Botanic...

In his first short story collection, Tim Chapman explores behaviors that are at once familiar and bizarre, while introducing us to an odd assemblage of characters. A reformed hit man has to kill to save the love of his life. An advertising executive deserts her family to find happiness as...

When Fay Ramsey is found dead, Morgan Jewell’s entire world crumbles. Years later, Morgan is a homicide detective still haunted by the abrupt end to her best friend’s life. She’s failed to put the crooked puzzle pieces together. Nothing makes sense. The leads have run dry. Until she requests access...

Book #1 in the Circle of Nine Series: Kindle Book Award Finalist, Readers’ Favorite Book Award Finalist, & Gotham Writers’ YA Novel Discovery Contest Finalist, B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree “Since I was a little girl I’ve been labeled a freak in my small town. There’s no blending in when your mom...

Book #2 in the Circle of Nine Series: Descended from a legendary Celtic tribe that guards the secrets of the ancient stone circles, the Quinn women have a great responsibility to protect their pagan rituals and way of life. As members of the formidable Circle of Nine, they celebrate the...