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Someone is killing the citizens of Hildebrandt, Texas, and carving perplexing numbers on the bodies. Police Officer Marla Adams has never wanted to be the lead investigator of a major crime, but when her father, the police chief, struggles with mental illness and second in command, her husband Detective Crosby Adams, battles his own demons with drugs and alcohol, she is pressed to take control. Everyone expects her to fail.

Marla charges headlong to save her community from destruction and chases leads near home, across Texas, and halfway around the globe to Montenegro. But Marla is losing the battle and her will. The town is right. They're doomed. She doesn't stand a chance of finding the killer.

Until a secret is revealed. One that might break the case wide open and place her squarely in the sights of the monster taking lives in her backyard.
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Justice... Such a subjective thing.

A UN worker intent on revolution, a serial killer bent on revenge, and, between the two, an increasingly disillusioned Met detective. All have their own ideas of what justice should look like – even if DC Brook Deelman was only hoping for a quiet pint when events intervened.

Now, three people with very different goals are on a collision course in London. A situation that will hit closer to home than anything Brook has ever known.

When the stakes are high enough, people will go to great lengths to see their version of justice triumph.

Within the law or outside it.

Authorised... or Unauthorised.

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Praise for Unauthorised:

”Confident, assured, tightly and cleverly plotted.” (Goodreads) ??????????

”Brilliantly written, fast paced and intricate.” (Amazon) ??????????

”Ed Church… writes in a way that captivated this reader.” (Amazon) ??????????

”A thrilling detective novel… gripping and devourable.” (Goodreads) ??????????

”I have flown through this whole series in less than 2 weeks.” (Goodreads) ??????????

”Buy this book. Bar the door. Surround yourself with snacks.” (Amazon) ??????????

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When Sir Law stumbles over a dead body, he and Cormac the minstrel join forces in their first mystery together!

Scotland, 1424. Returned from war wounded and with nothing to his name, Law is thrust into a mire of treachery and lies when he takes a job to find a nobleman's runaway wife. He is none too sure that a minstrel can help, but Cormac is hard to turn down. Soon, they discover nothing and no one are what they seem as they navigate the deepening mystery. And they did not expect the bodies to pile up—or for their lives to be on the line.

Fans of historical mysteries will love this thrilling tale of intrigue and betrayal. If you enjoyed "Dissolution" by C. J. Sansom, you won't want to miss this page-turner.

A missing nuclear bomb. A ruthless conspiracy. And a plot that could ignite global war.

Half-buried in the sand, an enormous black casing bears the faded markings of its former owner—USAF. Lost just off the Georgia coast more than sixty years ago, the now-legendary nuclear weapon resurfaces, discovered by two young boys and their scheming father.

But the bomb won’t be returned to the military.
It’s going to The Cause.

Led by former Texas governor Margie Franks, the secret cabal known as The Cause plans to use the weapon to destabilize global markets by targeting critical energy infrastructure. As their plan unfolds, British intelligence intercepts chatter pointing to Oxford University as a hub for a radicalized terror network—led by a legendary extremist known only as The Wolf.

The FBI turns to Special Agent Frank Deal and his elite WMD team. To avoid tipping off the enemy, Deal deploys his most unorthodox asset: four talented American students posing as exchange scholars. When the group uncovers next-generation drone prototypes capable of delivering nuclear payloads across the UK, the threat becomes terrifyingly real.
With time running out, Deal and his allies must unravel a hidden link between The Wolf and a broader conspiracy—one more ambitious than spreading terror alone.

And as they close in, a single question lingers:
Have they been misled by the mastermind behind The Cause’s endgame?

If you enjoy the global stakes of Brad Thor, the grit of Vince Flynn, and the layered conspiracies of Robert Ludlum, you’ll be hooked byWolf Deception.
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Life in beautiful Santa Barbara County will never be the same for two grieving widows. One is serving a lengthy sentence for the bizarre tractor death of her much older, land-rich husband. The other is convinced her late-husband did not take his own life.

During Madeline’s four-month convalescence, infamous jailbird Steven Ridley—acting in his new role as California prison reformer—enlists Mike’s help to see if inmate Lindsay Bartholomew has been set up to take the fall for someone else’s depraved actions.

Santa Barbara D.A. Conrad Adams makes a personal appeal to MDPI on behalf of Natalie Sheckle, hoping Madeline and Mike can determine whether her husband died by his own hand, or if someone has stitched him up for his own murder.
Never ones to shy away from longshots or lost causes, the duo dives straight into two nearly hopeless cases. Now it’s up to them to figure out what secrets these two husbands have taken to their graves.

The Trouble With Paradise is the fourth book in the Madeline Dawkins series.
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