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Divorced, aging, alcoholic legal investigator Vincent Malone loses his last client and decides to live out his years in Santa Fe. He takes a job as a shuttle bus driver for a new B&B, but when a high-profile LA sports agent is murdered and the deputy sheriff accuses Malone, Vincent has no choice but to investigate the murder himself. With some unexpected help from an ancient lawyer and the sweetest B&B owners in the state, Malone lifts the lid on something much bigger than a single murder… all while still driving the shuttle bus.
Santa Fe Mojo drops a hard-boiled detective in the middle of a cozy mystery and lets the sparks fly. What happens when a broken man is given a second chance? Will he sabotage himself again, or finally find his place in the world?
Arklight: Operation Nightfall (paid link)
Arklight, the best kept secret in the U.S. arsenal, stumbles upon a power that exists independent of time. While on mission to capture the world’s most wanted terrorist, Arklight’s Spear Team unearths a remarkable Nazi conspiracy. The mysterious interaction leads the team to locate a dangerous truth, including a sinister plot to locate a weapon of immense potential. An encounter beyond belief forces the team back in time, one day into the WW II Allied assault on Bizerte, Tunisia. They soon discover an extraordinary purpose, forming an uneasy alliance of necessity.
In 1943, Hitler’s deranged attempt to conquer Europe, and beyond, stands on the fringe of reality, but Arklight provides the world a chance to alter destiny itself. Broken men experience a brutal truth, unlike anything before it in human history, creating an incredible revelation.
Paul Worthington just confessed to a murder that never happened.
Magdalene Lynton died forty years ago: a vivacious teenager who fell victim to a grotesque, accidental drowning. The coroner’s office issued a verdict of death by misadventure and filed her case. The farming commune she’d lived within, splintered apart. Her body was left behind in a small, private cemetery encircled by acres of fallow ground.
Until Paul Worthington confessed to her murder.
Magdalene’s case lands with Ngaire Blakes, a Maori detective recovering from a brutal stabbing. After fighting for the resources to investigate, Ngaire discovers that Paul’s confession doesn’t fit with the facts of Magdalene’s death. The trouble is, neither does the original verdict.
Change is hard in a small Southern town, especially when it brings a side of murder.
All Harvey Beckett wants to do is help the residents of St. Marin’s find the perfect book for that moment, snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem, and be ignored by her cat Aslan. But when the small, waterside town’s newest resident discovers the body of the community’s persnickety reporter in her bookshop storeroom just before her grand opening, Harvey can’t help trying to solve the crime, even when it might cost her business and her life. The more questions Harvey asks, the more secrets she uncovers.
The Thrown Away post-apocalyptic saga concludes…with the final part in the series.
Alone in a cell once more, Jack waits for chaos to arrive.
All the pieces are in play, and all the players are converging.
The battle for The Facility, and the future of the people of the Junklands, has begun.
But can Jack survive it?
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she can’t marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it’s too late does he realize that he’s absconded with his boss’s bride. This bad boy isn’t looking to be anybody’s savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of them—a night too sultry to resist temptation.
Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is on her way to becoming Seattle’s domestic darling and he is past his hellraising days. Shocked to learn that he has a daughter, John’s determined to be part of her life.
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (Cat Who… Book 23) (paid link)
Deep Fried Homicide: Donut Mystery #13 (paid link)
Criminal Crumbs (The Donut Mysteries) (paid link)
Mortal Stakes (The Spenser Series Book 3) (paid link)
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.
Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn’t take long for Spenser to link Marty’s performance with Linda’s past…or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16.
America’s favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!
A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home (paid link)
Down in the dank basement, amidst my moldy, hoarded food and beloved worm-eaten books, I dreamed that my real home, the place where my story had begun, was out there somewhere, and one day I was going to find it.
Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life, that one day he will find his true home.
There’s Someone Inside Your House (paid link)
It’s been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, and she’s still adjusting to her new life. And still haunted by her past in Hawaii.
Then, one by one, the students of her small town high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasing and grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and the hunt intensifies for the killer, Makani will be forced to confront her own dark secrets.
Stephanie Perkins, bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss, returns with a fresh take on the classic teen slasher story that’s fun, quick-witted, and completely impossible to put down.
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