“Missing Mona has it all.”-San Francisco Book Review -5 STARS
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Sharp dialogue, dangerous secrets, and a heroine who can solve almost anyone’s problem except her own. Start The Kit Calder Files with Book 1 for just $0.99, also available in Kindle Unlimited.
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Hollywood is hell on earth—and Dick Moonlight is about to discover just how deadly it can be.

When private investigator Dick Moonlight and his professional Elvis impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, discover the severed head of a beautiful blonde beneath the floorboards of an unfinished luxury home, they uncover a nightmare buried beneath the glitter of Hollywood.

The trail leads to a husband-and-wife construction team with dreams of becoming filmmakers. But they’re not making romantic comedies. They’re producing snuff films—and their next production could feature Fat Elvis.
With Fat Elvis positioned to infiltrate the operation, Moonlight is recruited by the police to go undercover and bring the filmmakers down. But what begins as a murder investigation soon exposes something far more dangerous: a snuff film empire financed in part by Mexican drug cartel money.

Now Moonlight is caught between ruthless criminals, corrupt Hollywood wannabes, and a body count that keeps climbing.
In Hollywood, everybody wants to be a star. Some will kill for the part.

For fans of hard-boiled private investigator fiction, crime thrillers, noir, and fast-paced action, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri delivers another explosive Dick Moonlight PI thriller filled with murder, mayhem, dark humor, and nonstop suspense.

“Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!” –Publishers Weekly $0.99 on Kindle.

Darkly funny, lean, and loaded with salty and sharp dialogue and sudden violence, The Beekeeper’s Bad Day blends rural noir, deadpan humor, and hard-edged suspense into a thriller where everybody is lying, nobody is safe, and the beekeeper may be the last man anyone should have cornered. $7.99 on Kindle.

Hunted by a killer. Trapped by the wild. In Yellowstone, everything wants you dead.

When Jane witnesses her father’s murder during a routine wolf?research trip, she’s forced into a deadly race for survival through blizzards, bison, and a stalking predator who knows the terrain better than she does. Teaming up with Colm—another target—may be her only chance, but the wilderness is as ruthless as the man hunting them.

The Kill Line delivers a fierce, breathless fight to stay alive in America’s most dangerous park. $4.99 on Kindle.

THE EMBALMER IS DYING TO DATE YOU. QUESTION IS, ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR A DATE WITH HIM TOO?

You might think that a guy with the name of Steve Jobz would be one lucky man. That he’d be rich and have the world at his fingertips. But instead, Jobz (which is short for Jobzynski) is barely making ends meet at the New York State Department of Unemployment Insurance Fraud. A former cop who was forced to retire early after shooting a young man during a convenience store holdup, Jobz has since resigned himself to wasting away his days in a four-by-four cubicle inside an office space that’s more boring than watching the paint dry.

However, when his overbearing boss and best friend calls him in on a job that the Albany Police Department is heading up, Jobz has a chance to get out of the office for a while. But what he doesn’t realize is that he’s about to come face to face with a serial killer who embalms his victims alive. What he is also about to face down, is his own worst nightmare come true when that serial killer turns out not to be a stranger. $0.99 on Kindle.

Hatta Mcfarlane & her pet Yorkie, Sprout, take on an evil force that is dead set on acquiring ranch land in the beautiful Salmon, Idaho area to create a resort for their wealthy friends & political allies. Every time the evil group noses around someone gets murdered.

The team has the support of Grumpy but supportive Sheriff, Earl Hobbs, and the community at large, especially the leading women who make sure Hatta eats right (mostly sugary pastries) while investigating. Cade Weston, a local handsome rancher provides moral support and is very protective, which comes in handy when evil men decide Hatta is a liability and would like to get rid of her.

A sample review from for book one of the series:

I loved this book! The story captivated me from the beginning to the end. Hatta is living in California when she learns she inherited a flower shop and home from her grandmother in Salmon, Idaho. The inheritance comes with a stipulation: she must live there and run the shop for 90 days. She is barely settled in when the community’s most hated and feared man is killed and some are looking at her suspiciously. Her grandmother’s spirit is there to help and guide Hatta while letting her find her own way.

The characters and atmosphere are what makes this book really special. I finished the last sentence with a feeling of warmth and love and acceptance from the book.

Thanks to Lily Briar for allowing me to read this ARC.

Cozy down with this series and you won’t be disappointed.

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With society collapsing and his loyal dog at his side, Frank begins a desperate journey across a lawless West Coast. Every mile brings new dangers, and time is running out.

The grid is down. Civilization is gone. And Frank may be his grandchildren’s only hope. $0.99 on Kindle.

1928 Chicago. Court reporter Belle Stefano faces a growing shadow of danger after her husband’s death. To solve the mystery surrounding her, she accepts help from her Uncle Archie and his friends. Can Belle outrun her adversaries? Step into murder, mystery, mayhem, and the glitz of the Jazz Age and Prohibition-era America.
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Step into the gilded, high-stakes world of Unionville horse country, where old money hides dark secrets behind manicured hedges and centuries-old traditions. On the eve of the prestigious Willowmere Hunt, the prestigious Blackwood family faces a silent, devastating unraveling. When a four-million-dollar insurance claim on a dead elite stallion starts falling apart, and the family’s younger son mysteriously vanishes into the dark night, leaving behind a chilling warning (“Don’t trust the paperwork”), the fragile architecture of the estate begins to collapse.

Enter Maren Kane, a sharp, unyielding insurance investigator from Sentinel Equine who refuses to be fooled by pedigree or privilege. As Maren digs deeper into the forged manifests, the silent groom, and the surgical legal fraud engineered from the inside, she uncovers a terrifying web of manipulation, betrayal, and corporate greed.

Key Highlights
The Blackwood Legacy: A proud dynasty built on horses, land, and an unbreakable performance of permanence—now facing a second mortgage and a ruthless internal enemy.
A Missing Heir: Carter Blackwood’s sudden disappearance forces his mother, Caroline, to confront the chilling realization that the greatest danger to her family lives under her own roof.
High-Stakes Deception: From elite country club verandas to secret roadside meetings, the lines between protector and predator blur in a world where everyone has a price.
Discover a gripping tale of ambition and family betrayal where the most dangerous lies are written on clean paper. Free on Kindle.

What starts as a routine search for a missing Elvis impersonator drags Cal through Sin City’s back streets, collectors who value memorabilia over morals, and people who’ll do anything to keep the King’s secret buried.

Part mystery, part misadventure, and as dry as the desert air, this is noir with a wink, for readers who like their Vegas gaudy, and who like their private eyes just smart enough to stay on the right side of the law.
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Sometimes it’s not the devil you know…

When the disfigured body of a missing teenager is found in an unmarked grave in northern Maine, FBI agent Gus Wheeler and his partner arrive to investigate. They discover a second grave, but these remains are so badly burned, identification proves difficult. Yet the two bodies have something strange in common: a large lead cross laid upon each chest.

The locals are uncooperative, and the rural law enforcement is two steps behind. Enlisting help from a theology and biblical studies expert, they discover the murders are lifted straight from ancient scripture and the burials consistent with an archaic religious practice. Connecting the victims to a specific church adhering to a strict doctrine of the Old Testament creates more confusion than clarity.

As the investigation widens, the agents face threats and suspicion. Then someone inside the church begins leaving them clues, but are they friend or foe? With time running out, Gus must determine if their secret guide is leading them toward the answers or deeper into an underworld of twisted dogma and ancient rituals. $0.99 on Kindle.

When Marina “Rina” Delaney inherited the Compass Rose, she got a Victorian porch, a scone-stealing seagull named Gerald, and a cat who answers to no one. What she didn’t expect was a boatful of suspects, a murder investigation, and an exposé that threatens to sink her grandmother’s legacy faster than a nor’easter.

Travel blogger Trevor Bliss checked out of room seven with a smirk and a secret. Hours later, he’s found dead on Captain Derry’s sunset cruise — and the Compass Rose B&B is front and center of the story he never got to publish.

Now, with ChowderFest in full swing, she’s got cancelations flooding in, and a handsome detective telling her in no uncertain terms to stay out of it, Rina does what any self-respecting innkeeper would do: she asks a lot of pointed questions, takes very good notes, and keeps one eye on Gerald — who has a knack for causing chaos.

In Beacon Harbor, everyone has a motive, no one has a clean alibi, and some secrets are buried deeper than the harbor itself. $4.99 on Kindle.

When Frankie Montesi spots Santa Claus hauling a drowning girl from the frigid surf, he thinks it’s the strangest thing he’s ever seen. Even stranger, when he reaches the shore, Santa has vanished—and everyone insists Frankie saved the girl.

From that night on, miracles (or madness) stalked him. Every day, like clockwork, Frankie stumbles into another rescue—always in the right place at the right time, always hailed the hero. But as Christmas Eve creeps closer, Frankie wonders: is fate playing games, is someone—or something—guiding him, or has he finally lost his grip on reality?

Between dodging a nosy reporter who smells a story, flirting with a sharp-tongued police officer who may arrest him or kiss him, and untangling the mystery of the disappearing Santa, Frankie is caught in a holiday riddle where the line between magic and madness is as thin as tinsel.
A Cozy Christmas Mystery with a twist of romance, a dash of humor, and a sleigh full of secrets—perfect for readers who like their holiday stories spiked with suspense.

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That’s the second problem: Inmate #78903 in the notorious level-four Washington State prison known as Horseneck Bay. Then there’s the money. Two million dollars of stolen military payroll, supposedly buried in some remote and mysterious south-Texas mountain range called Los Despoblados, or The Uninhabited, which sounds to Oreny like one of those places his Mama Maybell always told him to avoid. But he’ll worry about that later. He has to get there first. Problem number three.

That’s when he brings those two smoldering dynamite sticks he’s attached himself to—his Luke-boy and Jaime—on board to help his tired old body break out of Horseneck and go dig up that money and then hightail it across the border into Mexico. And when they do break out, and Luke decides to bring his girlfriend Lauren along, and her enraged ex comes after them, and then the manhunt starts multiplying faster around them than those cancer cells inside him, Oreny still thinks he can control them. The problems, that is. At least, until Cade arrives.

Cade, the prison investigator Oreny knows is dangerous and unpredictable as a six-foot-two wolverine on eight gallons of adrenalin gone bad. And who won’t stop until he catches them and does to them what Cade does best. Cade, Oreny knows better than anything else, is their biggest problem of all…”Simultaneously brutal, bloody and beatific, this is crime fiction done right. A relentlessly paced, unpredictable page-turner powered by well-developed characters.” Kirkus Reviews Free on Kindle.

An ancient religious sect long believed extinct has reemerged—with a mandate written in blood.

When a string of high-profile politicians are executed in chillingly precise assassinations, INTERPOL scrambles for answers. A failed hit in D.C. unleashes a second assassin— one more disciplined, more calculating, and more dangerous. He doesn’t rush. He studies. He adapts. He’s never failed.

His target is a powerful figure with a fatal flaw: when he escapes to Lou Gault’s remote wilderness lodge, he insists his security detail remain behind. For him, the lodge is a sanctuary. For the assassin, it’s the perfect kill zone.

Lou has hosted influential guests before. He knows how to manage egos, secrets, and the occasional threat. But this time, the danger has been invited in.

The body count climbs as illegal border crossings, covert cyber breaches, shadowy terrorist networks, and deceit all converge.
The action in this high-stakes thriller keeps the pages turning.
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On his remote Colorado farm, James has what most people don’t: food, animals, and a hand-pumped well that still delivers clean water. He also has four grandchildren depending on him, while his two daughters are stranded hundreds of miles away.

Ashley wakes in a shattered Los Angeles with dangerous men on her trail and eight hundred miles between her and her little girls. Georgia is trapped in Alabama, where a private menagerie has become a killing ground. Both women have only one destination: home.

But as desperate survivors discover James’s well, the farm changes from sanctuary to target. To reunite his family, James must hold the land. To reach it, his daughters must cross a country where mercy can get you killed. $0.99 on Kindle.

Frustrated by her boss’s dismissal of her controversial theory, Dr. Sarah Brenalen secretly injects lab mice with potential Alzheimer’s drugs of her own design. She’s stunned when one of her experiments goes horribly wrong. Fade to Blue is a high-tech, fast-paced, cat-and-mouse game played for keeps. | “An engaging medical mystery … a swiftly paced thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews Free on Kindle.

… Hayden’s life was normal until she fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is not on any map and is home to a family she never knew she had. The town is enchanted and charming, and the amazing mansion she lives in changes to meet the needs of the people who live there, including her! Every day she discovers a new enchantment.

But something is amiss. Hayden gets an ominous warning from a strange woman, who promises to tell her the town secrets and give her a package – if she’ll meet her at the mysterious ferry that lacks a published destination. The ferry visit is cancelled, but the package is delivered. Once it arrives, someone turns up dead. Then the suspicious episodes start, too many to call them coincidences. She and her family are targeted and in danger.

Who or what is causing the chaos? All signs point to the mysterious disappearance of her mother – way back when Hayden was just two days old. Can she identify and eliminate the threat before another person in her life is stolen away? Can she learn more about the secrets kept for her lifetime? With the help of her sassy sidekick cat, and a host of new family and friends, Hayden finds herself surrounded with support as she solves the mystery of the death and learns secrets about herself. Free on Kindle.

“I read 150+ cozy mysteries every year – this is by far the most unique storyline I’ve read.”

“An absolutely ingenious idea for a paranormal mystery!”

“This absolute gem has me hooked—it’s going straight to my favorites list.”  Free on Kindle.

SOMETIMES EVEN THE CIA NEEDS HELP.

Escorting an exotic dancer across Europe, a former CIA special operator is targeted by a terror organization.

Start reading this intense thriller featuring a hero who serves the American people by going where others won’t and doing what others can’t. $4.99 on Kindle.

Some Secrets Get Buried. Others Get Buried Alive.

Former prison warden turned private investigator Jack Marconi thinks he’s simply proving yet another case of an unfaithful wife. Instead, he stumbles into a ruthless conspiracy where corrupt lobbyists, Russian mob enforcers, political power, and millions of dollars collide in bloodshed.

When witnesses start disappearing and bodies are buried beneath the foundations of a massive Adirondack casino project, Marconi becomes the next target. Armed with only his instincts, his Colt .45, and a stubborn refusal to back down, he’ll have to expose the truth before he becomes a permanent part of the concrete foundations. $0.99 on Kindle.

Lucy Moore vanished in thirty seconds. Her mother spent ten years inside the network that took her — rising through it, earning trust she means to betray, one wrong word from a bullet. She’s closer than ever to finding Lucy. But the girl she’s fighting to reach may not be the daughter she lost. $0.99 on Kindle.

Her father’s paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left.

The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead mother’s money on bunkers and guns. Charlie called it a prison and broke out at sixteen.

Then the disaster came, the kind that proves a paranoid man was just a prophet nobody believed, and everything his obsession stole from her became the only reason she lived.

In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, the father she ran from is the only reason she’s still alive. $0.99 on Kindle.

A young server falls to her death at a Charleston estate party, and professional crisis fixer Mateo Reyes is called in to contain the scandal. For years, powerful families have trusted Mateo to clean timelines, manage witnesses, and shape public narratives before the truth catches up. But when this scene fights back, small contradictions fracture the official story and reveal a massive system built to protect itself at any cost. Ghost Debt is a dark, fast-paced institutional thriller about influence, loyalty, and the dangerous moment a professional fixer realizes the real threat is inside the system itself. $2.99 on Kindle.

Mail carrier Charlotte Meyers has already lost her husband. Now the grid is down, war is spreading, and her daughter is somewhere in the chaos. $0.99 on Kindle.

Tommy escapes a life of text messages by chasing his grandad’s dream of cruising Route 66 in a Barracuda. A fortune teller’s tarot card, a Cadillac in hot pursuit, a sex crime, and a deep family secret hop in the car beside him.

So, Tommy does what any good private eye would do when the stakes are high and he’s running out of time.
Protect the client.
Follow the money.

“He’s[Tommy’s] the kind of character an actor would build a career around: resourceful, slightly out of his depth, impossible to dislike.” 5/5 Stars Manhattan Book Review

“Losing Lenore delivers: a real mystery, a real road, real stakes. Nothing decorative.” – Los Ángeles Book Review 5/5 Stars
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GOD DOESNT ALWAYS CREATE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. SOMETIMES HE CREATES PURE EVIL!

When a massive, almost prehistoric gator infiltrates a privately owned South Florida, Ultra Maximum-Security Prison and begins its mission to feed on both inmates and corrections officers alike, panic ensues. Since permanent lockdown isn’t a sustainable option, especially since the gator is big and strong enough to breach the cells, the prison warden has no choice but to enlist the prison’s two toughest criminals to kill the horrific beast. Their names are Harry Steele and Blood. $0.99 on Kindle.

A mystery from USA Today Bestselling author, P.D. Workman that will keep you turning the pages!

An abandoned apartment holds deadly secrets.

When Graham Hall, owner of “Hall it Away” junk removal services, steps into an abandoned apartment, he expects to take out the trash—literally. But what he uncovers is anything but garbage.

What he finds sends chills down his spine: personal items like family photos, passports, and essential medication that no one would leave behind willingly. As he digs deeper into the job, he uncovers a hidden journal filled with entries that suggest a growing threat.The apartment is riddled with contradictions—priceless electronics and jewelry untouched, neighbors and landlords offering conflicting accounts of the tenants’ sudden disappearance. Graham’s curiosity spirals into obsession as he pieces together the unsettling puzzle.

Praise for P.D. Workman

“I’ll read anything by P. D. Workman that I can get my hands on.””Every book by PD Workman that I’ve read has been a gripping one, however different the genres are, going from lighter mysteries to really dark ones… this is one of my favourite, most dependable authors.”

“[P.D. Workman’s] stories are so believable and you can’t help but feel like you know these people. You find yourself crying, laughing and feeling the characters emotions. Now if an author can make you cry and feel every emotion in a story, she is one hell of an author.”

“P. D. Workman, does not shy from probing the deep psychological scars of childhood trauma, mental illness, and addiction. Also characteristic of this author, these extremely sensitive issues are explored with extensive empathy, described with incredible clarity, and portrayed with profound insight.”

Immerse yourself in this gripping thriller where every discovery leads to more questions than answers. Will Graham unravel the mystery before it’s too late? Or will his pursuit of truth trap him in a dangerous game he never signed up for? Perfect for fans of suspenseful reads that keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

Dumpster dive into this suspense-filled thriller today and uncover whether truth or danger awaits at every turn!

Keep coming back to Bleeding Hearts Valley to uncover more dark secrets. But before moving in remember, you can never trust your neighbors. $3.99 on Kindle.

Sonny Marshall, a gifted saxophonist with a past haunted by violence, lives his life between soulful nights on stage and the quiet discipline of martial arts. But when a friend’s chance sighting reopens the cold case of a girl kidnapped seven years ago, Sonny is drawn into a darkness that melody can’t touch. His unofficial investigation pulls him from the neon glow of jazz clubs into a sinister underworld of child exploitation and ruthless criminals. With the police investigation stalled, Sonny must rely on his own code of justice, where the lines between right and wrong blur into the shadows.

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The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile.

When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, the victim of a drugged-up killer.

That night, during a gig, Sonny Marshall watches helplessly as his band’s guitarist collapses mid-set, brought down by a drug no one can identify, his body locked in euphoric paralysis. The incident rattles Sonny, but the news about Kat hits harder. When he learns she was among the victims, he drops everything to be at her side.

Kat is more than a casualty—she’s the woman he loves, and the one person still holding him to the right side of the line.
As he begins to connect the dots, a chilling truth emerges: two designer drugs, no less deadly, created by the same phantom chemist.

Sonny isn’t a cop. He’s a blues saxophonist with a bad knee, a worse Oxy habit, and a white knight complex he can’t shake. With Kat recovering and chaos spreading, he steps outside the law—guided by a code the courts don’t recognize and a team that doesn’t ask for forgiveness.

As Sonny teeters on the edge, one question haunts him: How do you stop a killer no one can see—without becoming something you don’t recognize yourself? $0.99 on Kindle.

In this mystery novel, Dart is a private detective whose life is falling apart. Driven by guilt, unable to see the path ahead, he stumbles awkwardly forward.

Suddenly he is confronted by two deaths. A boy hires him to discover why a woman walked into a bay and never stopped before killing herself. Then Dart’s ex-wife desperately needs his help in dealing with a murder.

Facing twists and dangers, Dart must seek to heal himself before he can save those who desperately need his help.
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Some secrets are buried so deep, it takes a skeleton to unearth them.

When a construction crew demolishing an old warehouse uncovers human remains hidden beneath the floorboards, Detective Sergeant Ben Winters knows someone went to great lengths to make sure those bones were never found. Before he can learn whose skeleton it is, Parker City is rocked by something far more urgent — a cop killer is on the loose. Three officers gunned down in cold blood, and Winters and his partner Detective Tommy Mason have nothing but dead ends.

But the dead have a way of talking.

As the investigation deepens, a chilling truth emerges. The bones beneath the warehouse and the bullets tearing through the city’s finest may be separated by twenty-five years, but they share the same dark origin — a story rooted in the glittering backroom corruption of 1950s small-town America, where one incorruptible police officer got too close to the truth and paid for it with his life.

Someone has spent a quarter century making sure that story stayed buried. Now that it’s coming to light, they’ll do whatever it takes to keep it that way. $2.99 on Kindle.