by admin | Apr 11, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
An Antarctic rescue mission unearths an ancient evil in the acclaimed author’s thriller series debut mixing science and the supernatural.When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing an enormous cave system, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost.Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained commandos, along with a team of scientists, are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what went wrong. Meanwhile, the alluring petrobiologist Aimee Weir is sent to follow up on the detection of a vast underground reservoir. If the unidentified substance proves to be oil, every country in the world will want to know about it—even wage war over it. Or worse.Once suspended into the caves, Alex, Aimee, and the others can’t locate a single survivor—or even a trace of their remains. Only specters of the dead haunt the tunnels. But soon they will discover that something very much alive is brewing beneath the surface. It is a force that dates back to the very dawn of time—an ancient terror that hunts and kills to survive . . .
by admin | Apr 11, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
A mystery/pulp thriller with a strong female lead for fans of J.A. Jance, L.T. Ryan, Steven Konkoly, Lisa Gardner, Robert Campbell, Nic Pizzolatto, Daniel Pyne.A disgraced former DEA agent haunted by her dark past must defeat drug lords in Hollywood to rescue her kidnapped daughter.Carla Cruz is a medicated single mother, and former DEA agent, living a quiet life with her teenage daughter. When she is invited to a Hollywood party, she meets two film investors who turn out to be drug lords—and one of them is the man who murdered her DEA husband ten years earlier. When the drug lords realize who she is, they force her to search for sixty million in cash stolen by her husband. They kidnap her daughter as leverage, frame Carla for murder, and give her a deadline.Getting help from the kinds of criminals she used to arrest, Carla must race across the country to track down clues in the dying small town where she and her husband were raised, digging up secrets about her painful family history so that she and her daughter will have a future.Chased by the police and the cartel, Carla must confront her past, overcome her fears, rely on criminals for help, fight the side effects of her anti-psychotic medication, and defeat the drug cartel to rescue her daughter—and herself—before they are both killed.A Memory of Fire is first in the Carla Cruz series, followed by Shooting Stars, but all books in the series can be read as standalone novels.Bruce Balfour is the national bestselling author of The Forge of Mars (Ace), its sequel, The Digital Dead, and 2024 Amazon Charts #1 bestseller Deadfall (as B.J. Balfour), and 2024/2025 Amazon Charts #1 bestseller, The River of Eternity, among other novels.
by admin | Apr 11, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
***WINNER, 2022 Mystery of the Year — Best Thrillers Book Awards*** “An exhilarating, can’t miss, one-sit read that’ll stay with you long after turning the final page!” — Ryan Steck, The Real Book SpyTen years ago, legendary author Riley Cannon produced three of the best-selling thriller novels of all-time. Then, she vanished, leaving the final three books of the saga unfinished and producing the biggest mystery in the history of publishing. Now, a decade later, there is word from her mega-agent, the glamorous and powerful Topaz Kennedy, that a new Cannon novel is all-but-finished. But, Topaz knows the truth: Riley Cannon hasn’t even started the book. With the clock counting down to the publication date, desperate measures are needed…Meanwhile, in the sunrise-side town of Hampstead, Michigan, thirty-five-year-old Kaj Reynard emerges from Lake Huron on a cool June night and falls face down on the beach next to a fading bonfire—with a knife stuck in his back. Who murdered him? And why?Enter veteran Hampstead P.I. Obadiah Ben-David, a man who has never taken on a case that he couldn’t solve. But this mystery is different. The only piece of evidence is the knife, which has no prints. Not a soul saw or heard a boat that night, and the woman sitting by her bonfire did not see anyone else in the water. It is almost as if the deep blue waters of Lake Huron killed Kaj Reynard, and the Huron breezes blew him to shore.With Hampstead in jeopardy of losing its summer revenue from vacationers who are chilled to their bones of a murderer on the loose, Ben-David takes on an apprentice—a computer coder, Rachel Roberts, who lives down the beach from where Kaj came ashore. Bored by her solitary existence behind a screen all day, Rachel thinks that becoming a P.I. would be a welcome sea change in her own life. But neither of them can foresee the tangled web of lies, treachery, and danger they will encounter.For when the summer Huron breezes arrive, the blood boils, the inhibitions disappear, and no one is safe.If you are a fan of James Patterson, Janet Evanovich, Robert B. Parker, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, Nora Roberts, John D. MacDonald, Lisa Gardner, John Grisham’s Camino series, or the TV series Castle, you’ll enjoy Huron Breeze and Landon Beach’s Great Lakes Saga.
by admin | Apr 11, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water . . . Second in the Black Horse Campground Mystery series from the author of End of the Road. Every year, Corrie Black ushers in the summer season by opening the campground’s pool and hosting a private party for employees and friends. This year is no different—except for the corpse found floating on the surface the next day . . . It turns out that a bunch of graduating high school seniors snuck onto the grounds late that night for a little private party of their own. After arguing with both her current and past boyfriends, Krista Otero never made it home. Suspicion falls on her bad-boy ex—especially when an autopsy shows that Krista was dead before she hit the water. With the Black Horse looking more like a crime scene than a campground, Sheriff Rick Sutton is up to his neck in suspects and motives. And it will take Corrie’s compassion and courage to stop an undertow of evil from claiming even more victims . . .
by admin | Apr 11, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Enjoy this enchanting first installment in the Haunted Haven cozy mystery series by award-winning author Ada Bell!Since inheriting her grandfather’s hearth magic, Emma’s chores have never been so much fun. Her house sparkles, dishes wash themselves, and her pancakes…Well, she’s a witch, not a miracle worker. Emma’s mansion would make a perfect bed-and-breakfast, if only she could deliver on that second “B”. It’s time to hire someone who can prepare a meal without burning the place down. Everything is going great until Emma’s new chef turns up dead and police shut the venture down practically before it opens.Determined to get back on track, Emma takes the investigation into her own hands. With magic, a talking cat, and ghostly grandfather, solving the murder should be a breeze, right? Wrong. Being incorporeal and tied to the mansion makes Grandpa Walter less than an ideal partner. The cat is as helpful as, well, your average house cat. And local police don’t appreciate Emma’s assistance one bit. Can she find the murderer or will she be forced to start over yet again?Unfinished Witchness is a paranormal cozy mystery set in a small town, with ghosts, witches, and a talking cat. Oh my! Fans of Angie Fox, Amy Boyles, and Annabel Chase will love this bewitching series.
