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Rope Burn

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Bruce W. Most

A former big-city detective battles rustling and murder in modern-day cattle country in this award-winning whodunit

Leaving behind a troubled past, former Baltimore detective Nick DeNunzio hires on as a Wyoming stock detective to stop a brutal string of cattle thefts. Chasing rustlers ought to be a lark even for a city-slicker cop. But when people start turning up dead, Nick realizes it’s not just cows being led to slaughter.

To catch the rustlers and stop the murders before he is the next victim, Nick must solve a seven-year-old crime, confront his own dark past . . .

. . . and become a cattle rustler himself.

The City of the Gods: Silver

Zach Erwin

Raymond Chandler meets early 1960s Marvel Comics.When a god is murdered in front of Private Investigator Skip Gibson, he finds himself at the heart of a storm brewing in Empire City, especially since the victim was Skip's best lead in the disappearance of a brilliant rocket scientist tied to the U.S. space program.Now, with the other gods turning vengeful and the city on the brink, Skip is pulled into Empire's shadowy depths. A secretive cult, mass graves hidden beneath the streets, and a conspiracy decades in the making threaten to consume everything in their path.With divine wrath tearing the city apart, Skip must rely on a patchwork crew of unlikely allies to uncover the truth, stop the c...

The City of the Gods: Gold

Zach Erwin

Raymond Chandler meets Stephen King in a world like 1950s DC Comics. As the scars of T-Day fade into memory, Empire City braces for a new nightmare brought forth by the sudden disappearance of Bonnie Connor, daughter of the enigmatic Theodora Connor. Reluctantly returning to her Scarlet Sparrow persona, Theodora seeks aid from the demon who bestowed powers upon her. As the devil inside takes control, she grows weaker and more disconnected, slowly losing her life and soul to her demonic savior.In his search for Bonnie, rookie detective Skip Gibson unexpectedly unearths a chilling truth—a sinister cult consisting of Empire City's most affluent socialites, intricately woven into Theo's d...

No Time for Murder

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Bruce W. Most

When the widow of David Dartman’s best friend demands he prove her husband’s suicide was in fact murder, he reluctantly agrees to “look into it.” Not only does the former investigative reporter believe her suspicions are unfounded, he doesn’t have time in his rat-race suburban life for murder. But his investigation and a string of bizarre, brutal killings unearth uncomfortable truths about his friend’s death—truths that jeopardize David’s marriage and force him to recognize that life is more than one long to-do list.“Wow! Not a book you can easily put down!”“A page-turning thriller with a lesson for the rat race in which we live today.”“Masterful plotting and skillf...

No Hill to Die On

Martin Roy Hill

A brother lost in war. A shocking claim. A deadly truth. Former war correspondent Peter Brandt’s childhood innocence died the day his older brother, Keith, died in Vietnam. Now, a quarter of a century later, Keith’s former fiancée, Rhonda White, comes back into Peter’s life with an incredible claim—Keith may still be alive.Twenty-four hours later, police find Rhonda’s body floating in San Diego Bay. Is it murder or suicide?Rhonda’s death and her claim about Peter’s brother set him on an investigation ranging from the beaches and foothills of Southern California to the mountains of Costa Rica. The deeper he digs, the more mysteries he finds: Marines who fought alongside Ke...

Promise to Eddie

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Kurt B. Ellis

CONTENT WARNING! This book contains depictions of alcoholism, child abuse, cults, homophobia, graphic violence, murder, necrophilia, pedophilia, physical abuse, profanity, racism, rape, sexual abuse, and sexual assault. This book contains mature, adult (18+) content. Therefore, it should not be read by children or minors.A group of intergenerational secret society sadistic pedophiles targets and brutalizes poor young boys in a rigidly conservative southern rural, small-town community. Five victims endure horrific childhoods and become close friends, and all but Eddie grow into men. Two things are in common with the survivors: they want revenge against their abusers and to avenge the death of...

All Money Ain't Good Money

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Tracey Lampley

The Private Detective As a sexy, novice, private investigator, Jinx Curry could f*ck up a wet dream. But as an experienced PI, she hates her job. The single mom spends her days spying on cheating wives and husbands, but she aches for more importance. When her boss, Capricorn Hayes, finally assigns Jinx a missing person’s case involving a congressman's missing granddaughter, Jinx jumps at the chance. Not only to solve it, but to earn the fifty-thousand-dollar bonus that would pay her bills and get a menacing creditor off her back. But the investigation proves more dangerous and costly than Jinx believes. After an unknown individual in a black Corvette nearly runs Jinx down an...