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Who’s Killing All My Old Girlfriends

Charlie North visits his old girlfriends for a story in his blog. After each visit, somebody murders the old girlfriend. Charlie quickly became the top suspect with cops in LA, Chicago, and Miami. Desperate, Charlie investigates the first murder. To help him, he hires a private detective, Reggie Parker, the daughter of a retired LAPD friend. As they dig up clues, Charlie dutifully reports their findings in his blogs. The blogs go wildly viral, shaking up the investigations of all three murders.... [Read More...]

Harbor City Homicide

Early morning. The concrete forecourt of a Los Angeles motel you wouldn’t check your family into. The owner, a man with a past who was planning a particular future, has been shot in the back. Career detective Helen Freitag’s investigation of the murder takes her into the underworld of LA’s gangs, as racial tensions and arson attacks rise across the sweltering city. Looming in the background is an official inquiry into her questionable shooting of a bank robber, as well as increasing traum... [Read More...]

The Stars Forgot Us

Fifteen-year-old Jacob Kelly would love to go back to simpler times. Before his parents’ divorce and the onset of his older brother’s schizophrenia. But when he returns to his hometown, things feel off. After a series of strange occurrences in his new house, Jacob fears the house is haunted, or even worse, he is losing his mind. To his surprise, Jacob discovers a mysterious teenage runaway, Sanctuary Daniels, living in the house. She reveals she has been kept by a figure known only as Mothe... [Read More...]

Cradle

When pigeons fall from the sky and farmers start dying in South China, Dr. Tina Walker, a world expert in the H7N9 flu strain, knows that the world is out of time. Tina lives in Athens, Greece, raising her family while trying to end a toxic affair. Now she must race against the clock to convince the populist anti-science government to secure vaccines before global supplies run out. She will find the most unlikely allies in Lucia—a criminology student turned vigilante—and Yara—a teenager t... [Read More...]

Free: Witch Charm (A Mackenzie Coven Mystery Book 4)

Lexie and Luna are going back to school. A witch is dead and if Lexie doesn’t find the killer soon, she risks ending up in a roasting pit. It could be worse and it is…the Lauriston Academy for Ladies & their Feline Companions has a dress code: White dress with puffy sleeves. Feline Companions: non-optional white. Humor, fun and magic and mystery. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife

A dead midwife. His mother accused of the murder. Can Sherlock solve the case before she hangs? A sudden call back to the family estate only weeks into his first term at Eton, puts Sherlock’s nerves on high alert. When he learns his mother has been accused of murder, he’s pushed to solve the crime with or without his father’s permission. His mother’s life may depend on it. Another death and attacks on other villagers pit Sherlock against the village constable. Unable to leave his mother... [Read More...]

Free: The Mother

After The Lamb absconds taking D.C. with them, Kate Monroe and Detective Inspector Halifax are tasked with tracking them down and investigating the shady operations surrounding “The Blazing Crucible”. Soon they discover far more than they bargained for, as The Lamb finds themselves in as much trouble abroad as they are at home. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: The Prometheus Man

The Prometheus Man is a thriller about last remaining frontier in the world: ourselves. The story begins as a manhunt for a serial killer and explodes into a race to uncover an experimental program that would rip apart humankind. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, The Prometheus Man is about characters going all the way to the edge of existence—then staring in horror as they realize they’ve reached the pitface of the abyss. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Die Back

Ritual death. Young life. Can the one woman from the outside curb the bloodletting liturgy? Dakota Jones lives and breathes the strange. Unorthodox and willing to follow clues no matter where they lead, the forthright private eye is relentless in her pursuit of the truth. So when a member of a remote society off Tasmania’s coast washes ashore dead under suspicious circumstances, the determined detective goes undercover to bring the victim justice. Delving deep into the isolated culture only t... [Read More...]

Across a Dark River in Palermo

Layer by layer, brick by brick, author and journalist Domenic Marinelli builds quite the story in his latest novel…one that’ll keep you guessing and turning those pages as quickly as you can. Join Henry O’Shaughnessy as he takes a trip to Palermo, Italy and uncovers quite the gruesome details about his new vacation spot. What he finds there is likely to change him and get him to recall the events and cases that shaped him as a cop and now private investigator. What does he find in Palermo... [Read More...]