Before Sunrise

International Mystery & Crime
Author: Rick Mofina
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Before Sunrise

In Before Sunrise, Will Fortin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is on patrol in southern Alberta. It’s a lonely region where the sky meets the land on even terms, where the landscape exaggerates or diminishes your place in the world. If you’re lucky, trouble would never find you there. If you weren’t, this was your battleground.

This is where Fortin experiences the worst any cop can face, the taking of innocent lives while under fire in responding to a violent call at a farm involving a gun. His life destroyed his guilt unbearable, Fortin, a good man, struggles as a haunted soul, aching to redeem himself.

Years after the shooting, Fortin is assigned to escort a murderer from a Canadian prison to trial in Seattle, Washington. When their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains, Fortin is presented with his last chance at redemption.

Cold Press: A Gripping British Mystery Thriller – Anna Burgin Book 1

Mystery > Traditional Detectives
Author: David Bradwell
FREE

Cold Press: A Gripping British Mystery Thriller - Anna Burgin Book 1

Clare Woodbrook is the enigmatic head of the Special Investigations Department at Britain’s leading daily tabloid. Her exposés are legendary, but she’s not without her enemies. And now she’s gone missing on the verge of unveiling her biggest ever story.

Her car is found abandoned, and evidence emerges of enemies plotting her downfall. Worse still, the police investigation is being headed up by DCI Graham March – the embodiment of police corruption and the subject of one of Clare’s current investigations.

Clare’s researcher, Danny Churchill, sets out to find Clare, and enlists the help of his feisty flatmate – fashion photographer Anna Burgin. But they soon realise that nobody can be trusted – especially the police. As the search becomes ever more desperate, suddenly their own lives are very much on the line.

Our Father (Johann’s War Book 1)

Thrillers > Historical
Author: James Farner
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Our Father (Johann's War Book 1)

The Second German Reich has collapsed in the flames of World War I and the country is in chaos. Republicans, rogue soldiers, and communists are rampaging through the cities and villages of Germany. Faced with destruction, the nationalists fight back against their enemies, turning the country into a battlefield.

In Munich, Erich and Johann Brandt are a pair of impressionable teenagers just trying to get by. When Erich falls under the sway of young speaker Adolf Hitler, he joins the party without a second thought. Erich drives further and further into Hitler’s inner circle, which all culminates in a deadly march through the heart of Munich.

Horrified at his brother’s fall into National Socialism, Johann does what he can to fight back against the spell that Hitler has placed the country under.

The Darkness Deepens: A Milo Porter Halloween Mystery (Milo Porter Mystery Series)

Mystery > Private Investigators
Author: S.D. Thames
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The Darkness Deepens: A Milo Porter Halloween Mystery (Milo Porter Mystery Series)

Private eye Milo Porter has heard more than enough about full moons, ghosts, and goblins. With Halloween season finally coming to a close, he can’t wait for the false alarms and fake frights to get off his doorstep and out of his life. So when his pastor shows up concerned about his missing niece, Milo’s confident it’s a harmless teenage prank… until he learns about the girl’s suspicious new boyfriend.

After the private eye discovers that the missing teen’s sweetheart plays guitar for a Goth-metal band, he descends into an underworld of gruesome performances and evil rituals that put his faith to the test. When a cryptic text brings his deepest fears into reality, he starts to believe that the devil may be in more than the details. Can Milo track down the girl before a trick-or-treat turns deadly?

A Single Step: Book 1 of The Grayson Trilogy – a series of mysterious and romantic adventure stories.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Georgia Rose
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A Single Step: Book 1 of The Grayson Trilogy - a series of mysterious and romantic adventure stories.

Shattered by her daughter’s death and tormented by her husband’s infidelity, Emma Grayson seeks refuge in solitude. As she slowly re-enters the real world, she takes on work at the sprawling Melton Estate’s stables. Initially distracted by her painful healing process, she realizes that the property’s handsome manager carries his own sadness…

When Emma is thrown from her horse and badly injured, Trent provides tender, selfless care. She doesn’t want to appear ungrateful for the lonely ex-RAF man’s support, but her anxiety keeps her silent. After his secretive past surfaces and events take a dramatic turn at the estate, she can’t help but feel violently unsaddled all over again.

A Melody for James (Romantic Suspense) (Song of Suspense Series Book 1)

Christian > Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Hallee Bridgeman
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A Melody for James (Romantic Suspense) (Song of Suspense Series Book 1)

Melody Mason has the hottest female voice in the country music scene. But the cheers of throngs of adoring fans mean little in the absence of the handsome stranger who rescued her years before. Widower James Montgomery has never forgotten her. He prays God can bring her back.

Incredible events finally bring them face to face again. Together at last, they realize the bond between them has miraculously risen to a crescendo, melodiously marrying them like strong symphonic chords. Uncannily, they learn they share more in common than they could have ever imagined. They know God reunited them for a purpose.

Sinister forces threaten to destroy their new found happiness. The couple must work in close concert, placing all their faith in God as they solve the deadly mystery that ties their lives inexplicably together.

Blue: A Novel

Women’s Fiction > Sagas
Author: Danielle Steel
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Blue: A Novel

Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills—until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe.

Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident—and wrestling with the lure of death herself—she meets a boy who will cause her life to change forever yet again. Thirteen-year-old Blue Williams has been living on the streets, abandoned by his family, rarely attending school, and utterly alone. Following her instincts, Ginny reaches out to him. Leery of everyone, he runs from her again and again. But he always returns, and each time, their friendship grows.

Thicker than Blood

Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: Madeline Sheehan, Claire C Riley
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Thicker than Blood

Leisel and Evelyn lost everything. Husbands. Families. Friends. Lives that made sense. All they had left was each other, and a friendship that could withstand anything… Even an apocalypse.

Until one fateful night, the marginal safety they’d come to rely on comes to a vicious and brutal end. With the help of Alex & Jami, both unlikely allies, Leisel and Evelyn are able to escape their shattered sanctuary only to find themselves face-to-face with a much altered, much crueler life where they have to find the way—and the will—to stay alive in a world they no longer recognize.

Traveling across a broken and infection-ridden country; the road-weary group are pitted against endless violence, improbable circumstances, and the ultimate loss.

Everything comes at a price—especially safety, the cost of which could very well strip them of the one thing they’ve tried so hard to cling to: their humanity.

Off Sides (The Off Series Book 1)

Romance > Sports
Author: Sawyer Bennett
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Off Sides (The Off Series Book 1)

Ryan Burnham is the privileged son of a U.S. Congressman and captain of his university’s hockey team. While he is on the verge of fulfilling his dreams to play in the NHL, his parents want him on a different course. One he is expected to accept for the sake of his family’s public image.

Forced to abandon her music career after the heart breaking death of her parents, Danny Cross exists on the opposite side of the tracks from Ryan. She is struggling to make her own way, working two jobs, attending college part time and volunteering in a homeless shelter. She is on a mission to build her own success.

Die Noon (Goodnight Mysteries Book 1)

Mystery > Supernatural > Ghosts
Author: Elise Sax
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Die Noon (Goodnight Mysteries Book 1)

Matilda Dare can’t sleep. Her insomnia is one more reason to move to the quirky small town of Goodnight, New Mexico after she inherits a house, a small newspaper, and two old dogs there. But despite the Goodnight name, Matilda still spends hers wide awake, and she has good reason after a reporter is murdered. With a mystery to solve, she begins to investigate the town and uncovers more suspects than she knows what to do with. Meanwhile, the hottie cowboy sheriff is doing his own investigation into Matilda, and the mysterious, handsome stranger, who just happens to live with her, is showing up in all the wrong places.

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: A Novel

Literary Fiction
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: A Novel

After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well—though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband…but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress.

Subhuman (A Unit 51 Novel Book 1)

Science Fiction > Exploration
Author: Michael McBride
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Subhuman (A Unit 51 Novel Book 1)

THEY ARE NOT HUMAN.
At a research station in Antarctica, five of the world’s top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human . . .

THEY ARE NOT NATURAL.
Deep beneath the ice, the submerged ruins of a lost civilization hold the key to the strange mutations that each scientist has encountered across the globe: A misshapen skull in Russia. The grotesque carvings of a lost race in Peru. The mummified remains of a humanoid monstrosity in Egypt . . .

The Catalain Book of Secrets

Fantasy > Magical Realism
Author: Jessica Lourey, Tony Van Den Einde
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The Catalain Book of Secrets

Faith Falls is a snug little Minnesota town constructed over a mystery, a place where the most impressive building is a gorgeous Queen Anne with turrets, cantilevered gables, and a wraparound porch. In a concealed room beneath the Queen Anne’s twisting stairs lies the Book of Secrets, the repository of the wisdom the Catalain women have gathered since the beginning of time.

Ursula Catalain, current keeper of the Book of Secrets, is content to concoct spells in her garden cottage until the soul of the man she killed decades earlier appears at her door as a wickedly sexy bluesman. His resurrection pulls Jasmine, Ursula’s daughter, back into the fold. Once the most potent of the Catalains, Jasmine foreswore her family and her power to bury a shameful secret.

Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Vol. 1)

Fiction > Mythology & Folk Tales
Author: Robin Hobb
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Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Vol. 1): Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles

After many years, dragons have hatched again outside the ancient city of Cassarick. But something is wrong with the creatures; each is inferior or weak in some way, and many die. Tending these stunted dragons has left the people of the surrounding area weary. The Traders Council, the city’s leadership, fears that if the Rain Wilders stop providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampage and destroy Cassarick. To avert catastrophe, the council rules to relocate the young dragons to “a better location” up river, and residents are recruited to escort the valuable yet fearsome creatures on the arduous journey.

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