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Kill the Quarterback
Kill the Quarterback Jim Stovall
When a star quarterback is killed before his senior year, hardboiled reporter Mitch Sawyer must battle personal and professional demons in order to track down a killer before he strikes again.
Mitch Sawyer likes a good murder. A good murder means his stories will probably land on the front page of the Nashville Daily Tribune. But this one is different. This one is Jimmy Chin Lee, brilliant quarterback at Vanderbilt University and possibly -- probably -- the next Heisman Trophy winner. But two weeks before the season is to begin, Lee is found dead in his west side apartment, victim of a gunshot wound.
No clues, one suspect -- but the police can't find her. She finds Mitch. After that, nothing goes right for anyone.
Mitch Sawyer likes a good murder. A good murder means his stories will probably land on the front page of the Nashville Daily Tribune. But this one is different. This one is Jimmy Chin Lee, brilliant quarterback at Vanderbilt University and possibly -- probably -- the next Heisman Trophy winner. But two weeks before the season is to begin, Lee is found dead in his west side apartment, victim of a gunshot wound.
No clues, one suspect -- but the police can't find her. She finds Mitch. After that, nothing goes right for anyone.
Supply And Demand
Supply And Demand C.C. Edmonston
Amid the backwaters of 18th century Essex, an outlaw is tasked with collecting an overdue debt. But tanneries can hold secrets far worse than they smell ...
Samuel Shanklin has seen the darker side of life since the day he was born. Putting fear in folk from the moment he learned that fear can put food on the table tends to come easily to a man who knows that a knife is more than a tool for slicing bread. So when his employer wants unpaid rent from a recluse tenant living a long ride from the familiar stench of London, Shanklin and his sidekick seize the opportunity for some country air. But it might just be that the air ain’t so fresh where leather’s being made and the pair soon find themselves tasting some of their own foul medicine.
Twisted historical fiction at its finest.
Samuel Shanklin has seen the darker side of life since the day he was born. Putting fear in folk from the moment he learned that fear can put food on the table tends to come easily to a man who knows that a knife is more than a tool for slicing bread. So when his employer wants unpaid rent from a recluse tenant living a long ride from the familiar stench of London, Shanklin and his sidekick seize the opportunity for some country air. But it might just be that the air ain’t so fresh where leather’s being made and the pair soon find themselves tasting some of their own foul medicine.
Twisted historical fiction at its finest.
A masterfully crafted short story. The characters are dastardly but endearing. The plot is quick and twisty. The action and detail are delightfully devilish. This quick read will have you feeling in short Supply of such engaging historical fiction, and Demanding more from author C.C. Edmonston!
Deadly Sins: an organized crime thriller
Rabbit Hole (White Rabbit Trilogy Book 0)
Rabbit Hole (White Rabbit Trilogy Book 0) Desiree Moodie
The plan was simple. Do one job. Make enough cash. Get out.
One rainy night and a terrible accident are all it takes for Logan to find himself suddenly orphaned.
Fighting to take care of his two younger brothers while working a low-wage job is proving to be a bigger struggle than he anticipated. And his prospects for improving things are more than bleak since he has zero marketable skills.
Except for one.
Given a computer and a secure internet connection, Logan discovers he can do almost anything. And soon his services are in high-demand ... with all the wrong people.
All it takes is one critical mistake to cost him everything and make it all but impossible for him to make a clean break.
Desperate and out of time, He's left with only two choices. Either he burns bridges with his enemies and puts himself and his family even more at risk. Or he burns bridges with those he loves in order to save his skin and theirs.
One rainy night and a terrible accident are all it takes for Logan to find himself suddenly orphaned.
Fighting to take care of his two younger brothers while working a low-wage job is proving to be a bigger struggle than he anticipated. And his prospects for improving things are more than bleak since he has zero marketable skills.
Except for one.
Given a computer and a secure internet connection, Logan discovers he can do almost anything. And soon his services are in high-demand ... with all the wrong people.
All it takes is one critical mistake to cost him everything and make it all but impossible for him to make a clean break.
Desperate and out of time, He's left with only two choices. Either he burns bridges with his enemies and puts himself and his family even more at risk. Or he burns bridges with those he loves in order to save his skin and theirs.
Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy: A Dystopi...
Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy: A Dystopian Science Fiction Adventure George Donnelly
The United States is in slow-motion economic collapse. The Three Strikes Act funnels the unemployed masses into a national network of work camps for the most trivial of infractions.
Lando Cruz is a scrappy rebel who risks his final strike on the streets of Philadelphia by trading illegal currencies under cover of a burrito stand. He spends his days bribing dirty cops, fending off undercover federal agents and shepherding his little sister through adolescence.
Lando is getting by until beat cops seize his savings and kidnap his sister for ransom. He has thirty days to raise the hard cash he needs to free her before she is sold into sex slavery. His only chance is a lucrative job offer from the black market rebellion's paramilitary startup, the Core. He risks both his life and his principl
Lando Cruz is a scrappy rebel who risks his final strike on the streets of Philadelphia by trading illegal currencies under cover of a burrito stand. He spends his days bribing dirty cops, fending off undercover federal agents and shepherding his little sister through adolescence.
Lando is getting by until beat cops seize his savings and kidnap his sister for ransom. He has thirty days to raise the hard cash he needs to free her before she is sold into sex slavery. His only chance is a lucrative job offer from the black market rebellion's paramilitary startup, the Core. He risks both his life and his principl
Least Wanted
Least Wanted Debbi Mack
Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's busy, but orderly life as a Maryland lawyer takes a chaotic turn when two clients are accused of murder. A poor, black girl is accused of killing her mother. A young man suspected of embezzlement is accused of murdering his boss. The cases collide in a bizarre way around girl gangs and computer porn. A maniac killer stalks Sam, who must learn the truth or die trying.
The First Time
The First Time Mike Winter
Tom Black is the Government's newest recruit. He is an agent working for a top secret anti terrorist group. Troubled by his past, Black enters the dark, cold world of espionage vowing to make up for his past misdemeanours by serving his country.
Black's first mission is to locate a consignment of weapons, and those responsible for smuggling them into the country.
He will soon learn that his new occupation is filled with deception, and those who control him will stop at nothing to ensure the job is done.
Black's first mission is to locate a consignment of weapons, and those responsible for smuggling them into the country.
He will soon learn that his new occupation is filled with deception, and those who control him will stop at nothing to ensure the job is done.
The Confessional
The Confessional Tom Fowler
A corpse. A curious blogger. A priest with the wrong history. A novice PI trying to figure it all out.
Near a Baltimore church, a man is found murdered, stabbed a dozen times in the chest. A publicity-hungry blogger injects himself into the case. When the blogger gets arrested, he asks unconventional private investigator C.T. Ferguson to help him.
C.T. uncovers the victim's history of abuse by priests—including the one stationed at the church where his body was discovered. He also learns of plans to build a new church . . . plans that could be threatened by a corpse turning up.
With the priest reluctant to talk about the past and enforcers hounding him, can C.T. sort through the priest's and the victim's histories and figure out what happened? Download The Confessional for free!
Near a Baltimore church, a man is found murdered, stabbed a dozen times in the chest. A publicity-hungry blogger injects himself into the case. When the blogger gets arrested, he asks unconventional private investigator C.T. Ferguson to help him.
C.T. uncovers the victim's history of abuse by priests—including the one stationed at the church where his body was discovered. He also learns of plans to build a new church . . . plans that could be threatened by a corpse turning up.
With the priest reluctant to talk about the past and enforcers hounding him, can C.T. sort through the priest's and the victim's histories and figure out what happened? Download The Confessional for free!
This was a great read, well-developed plot, believable characters and lots of suspense.
I'll be looking for more from this author!
This plot looks super-suspenseful. Can't wait to read this one!
DEATH ON PARADISE ISLAND: A Fiji Islands Myst...
Dragon Lords
Dragon Lords Chris Turner
The fabled Dragon Lord trove is a thing of legend. No one has penetrated the old Dragon fort deep in the heart of the Behundrian desert, sealed a thousand years ago. Vetravincus, sword for hire, finds himself embroiled in intrigue in the lawless town of Dragonskull. Fortune, or curse, brings him into mortal conflict with local brigands; also, in the company of a persecuted half Thrule, who claims to know where the lost treasure is...
Writing about martial skills that no longer exist is always a challenge, and Chris Turner pulls it off with his swordplay descriptions. Nice when characters have depth, showing different personalities.
Violence In The Blood
Violence In The Blood Mark J Newman
Malkie Thompson's got ambition. He'll do whatever it takes to get to the top and nothing's gonna stand in his way.
Violence in the Blood documents Thompson's rise to power from the backstreets of Glasgow to the industrial heartland of the Midlands. Join the rampage as Malkie and his crew blaze a trail of mayhem and destruction north and south of the border.
There will be blood, murder and mayhem. You’ve been warned.
Violence in the Blood documents Thompson's rise to power from the backstreets of Glasgow to the industrial heartland of the Midlands. Join the rampage as Malkie and his crew blaze a trail of mayhem and destruction north and south of the border.
There will be blood, murder and mayhem. You’ve been warned.
Like all the author's stories I have read so far, Paid In Full is written in a style that is so fast paced and urgent that it left me almost breathless - I found it hard to put down. A real honest-to-goodness pulp-fiction read (and I mean that in a good way) that recalls the best of classic gangster fiction. Loved it!
The Heist
The Heist Leopold Borstinski
Baltimore 1967. Frank has a dream: to go to California with his girlfriend, Mary Lou. First he must rob a bank to pay for it.
With the help of his Shylock uncle, Frank assembles a crew to take the bank out, but when gang members disappear and Mary Lou falls in love with their inside man, Frank can't figure out who to trust and who will come good for him. Before long, he's putting on a balaclava, walking into the bank and demanding the money. But will he get out alive - and with the cash?
With the help of his Shylock uncle, Frank assembles a crew to take the bank out, but when gang members disappear and Mary Lou falls in love with their inside man, Frank can't figure out who to trust and who will come good for him. Before long, he's putting on a balaclava, walking into the bank and demanding the money. But will he get out alive - and with the cash?
Rock Island Lines
Rock Island Lines Dean Klinkenberg
Curiosity killed the cat, and it may kill travel writer Frank Dodge, too. Dodge and his buddy, homicide detective Brian Jefferson, have a fascination with gangsters. Dodge gets a tip that a student in Davenport, Iowa, named Miguel Ramirez could be the last surviving descendant of a long-dead gangster named John Looney. Dodge, disgruntled and desperate for a story, concocts a plan to meet the man.
When Ramirez is found floating in the Mississippi River, Dodge finds himself without a story and wondering if he's next. As Dodge and Jefferson go over the unnerving events of the night Ramirez died, clues about his death will come from an unlikely source: the victims of gangster John Looney. Can Dodge put the pieces together in time, or will he be another victim of Looney's legacy of vengeance?
When Ramirez is found floating in the Mississippi River, Dodge finds himself without a story and wondering if he's next. As Dodge and Jefferson go over the unnerving events of the night Ramirez died, clues about his death will come from an unlikely source: the victims of gangster John Looney. Can Dodge put the pieces together in time, or will he be another victim of Looney's legacy of vengeance?
Welcome to the Hotel Yalta
Welcome to the Hotel Yalta Victoria Dougherty
An heiress who can’t seem to keep her legs closed. A Russian plan for dominating the space race. An assassin with a penchant for rich food and sadistic murder. When you’re alone in the cold, passion and betrayal are commodities and love hangs on by an icy thread. From the author of The Bone Church and Cold, comes a white knuckle tour de force of Cold War noir.
Who does not love a book about an assassain who is sadistic?
In the opening chapter of Welcome to the Hotel Yalta we accompany Paha Tarkhan on a train journey through the Czechoslovakian countryside. Dougherty employs her writing skill to inform much about Pasha, his life, and his character throughout these opening lines. A native from Georgia, we learn he cannot return home for fear of being ousted by his mother as a traitor to the Soviet Union. He is to rendezvous at a safe house run by Miss Bick. She was once his mistress. Pasha, as it turns out, has many mistresses. When convalescing from chest pains brought on by nothing more sinister than indigestion, he has a fling with Aprilia his nurse. On this journey, he is accompanied by Brandy France, a diplomat's wife, and she is not shy of passionate interludes, regardless of the circumstances. Dougherty's style is crisp and uncluttered with a natural flow. At the time of this review, Welcome to the Hotel Yalta is offered as a free download on Amazon. A recommended read while this free version is on offer.
Great story! Read the story and find out how exciting this is!
Hardline: A Suspenseful Crime Thriller in the...
Hardline: A Suspenseful Crime Thriller in the Classic Noir Tradition (Gavin Holder Series Book 1) R.M. Galloway
When a motel stakeout turns into a gun battle, Special Agent Gavin Holder stumbles across a vast and deadly gang-related conspiracy, including a secret stockpile of stolen money, drugs and jewels.
The search for the treasure hoard leads Holder into a hunt for his own past, a woman who may hold the key to the missing millions – and to Holder’s own darkest secrets.
As his past closes in on him, Holder must find a way to take down the criminal gang, find the missing money, save the woman he loves... and not get caught. Or has he underestimated the magnitude of what he’s up against?
A suspenseful crime thriller in the classic noir tradition.
The search for the treasure hoard leads Holder into a hunt for his own past, a woman who may hold the key to the missing millions – and to Holder’s own darkest secrets.
As his past closes in on him, Holder must find a way to take down the criminal gang, find the missing money, save the woman he loves... and not get caught. Or has he underestimated the magnitude of what he’s up against?
A suspenseful crime thriller in the classic noir tradition.
No Time To Bleed
Forgotten
Breaking Good
Breaking Good Mike B. Good
It was 1971, Nixon was President, war was in Vietnam, and pot was seeded and illegal. Something had to be done. When Lizardo returned from Hawaii with Kona with the world's best pot, Mike Good, mild-mannered revolutionary,avid surfer, knew what it was.
He made a list: End War; overthrow the government; grow enough Hawaiian pot to raise world consciousness. Also, enjoy a life of fun and adventure.
Actively opposed to Mike's plan: President Nixon, pesky drug laws, the Police, the FBI, rip-offs, the cannibals next door, hungry tiger sharks, the U.S. Army, and the CIA's newest secret weapon.
Will Mike remain unbusted and unconsumed long enough to change the world? If you love zany crime capers, quirky characters, hilarious dialogue, and exotic locations, read Breaking Good and find out!
He made a list: End War; overthrow the government; grow enough Hawaiian pot to raise world consciousness. Also, enjoy a life of fun and adventure.
Actively opposed to Mike's plan: President Nixon, pesky drug laws, the Police, the FBI, rip-offs, the cannibals next door, hungry tiger sharks, the U.S. Army, and the CIA's newest secret weapon.
Will Mike remain unbusted and unconsumed long enough to change the world? If you love zany crime capers, quirky characters, hilarious dialogue, and exotic locations, read Breaking Good and find out!
Great cover.
I love the world of the wacky...wacky places and wacky characters. In the first story, a character suggests finding a beach town without a port...My kind of stories
The Haberman Virus
The Haberman Virus Phillip Strang
A remote and isolated village in Afghanistan is wiped out by a virus unlike any seen before.
A mysterious visitor checks his handiwork clad in a space suit; an American female doctor succumbs to the disease.
The genetically-engineered virus that the visitor has developed has given him the means to force the Israelis to redress the imbalance of the occupier and the occupied in the Palestinian homeland.
Millions have died, millions more will unless Steve Case and his team can stop Sam Haberman.
A mysterious visitor checks his handiwork clad in a space suit; an American female doctor succumbs to the disease.
The genetically-engineered virus that the visitor has developed has given him the means to force the Israelis to redress the imbalance of the occupier and the occupied in the Palestinian homeland.
Millions have died, millions more will unless Steve Case and his team can stop Sam Haberman.
Murder in Blue Moon Bay
Murder in Blue Moon Bay Constance Hope
This freebie is Chapters One & Two from my new Blue Moon Bay Cozy Mystery Series, Book One: Murder in Blue Moon Bay.
I've switched genres from Romance to Cozy Mystery and only hope that you enjoy reading these books as much as I do writing them. The books in this series will all be stand-alone books, no cliffhangers. But there will be a cast of recurring characters and many will reappear in each subsequent book. Some are introduced in this first book.
I'm actively recruiting for an ARC team, so if you're interested please email me at: readconstancehope@gmail.com. We'll be having contests & freebies, all sorts of fun, so sign up today!
As a bonus, I will also be including at least two wonderful Southern recipes at the end of each book. Nom nom!
I've switched genres from Romance to Cozy Mystery and only hope that you enjoy reading these books as much as I do writing them. The books in this series will all be stand-alone books, no cliffhangers. But there will be a cast of recurring characters and many will reappear in each subsequent book. Some are introduced in this first book.
I'm actively recruiting for an ARC team, so if you're interested please email me at: readconstancehope@gmail.com. We'll be having contests & freebies, all sorts of fun, so sign up today!
As a bonus, I will also be including at least two wonderful Southern recipes at the end of each book. Nom nom!