Holiday Sale Guide – Mystery & Crime

There’s nothing like being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

An innocent outing lands FBI Special Agent Katie Freeman and her partner, Michael Powell, on the trail of a kidnapper whose greatest pleasure is torturing women. When a college freshman is reported missing, everyone assumes she ran away. But when her body turns up in a cornfield not far from where she went missing, a different story begins to emerge.

Kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead, she clings to life, and now it’s up to Katie and Michael to uncover who did this to her. When a second woman goes missing, the two agents begin a search that has a very different ending. 

In the hot summer before the millennium, seventeen-year-old twins, Kate and Ben, go on vacation from England to the United States with charismatic American twins of the same age. They fail to return. Their devastated parents, Sarah and Alec, try to discover where their children are and why they haven't been in touch.

Various clues lead Alec to suspect the twins have joined a fundamentalist sect. He goes to the States, determined to find them. Sarah knows in her heart she will never see her children again. Their different response to the disappearance of the twins leads to the disintegration of their marriage and they begin to lead separate lives.

Dylan is a regular guy, but he just can't seem to get ahead in life. All of this changes when Dylan has an experience that he knows you won't believe.

When Dylan moves to San Francisco to get away from his claustrophobic upbringing, he is full of hope that his work ethic and enthusiasm will pay off. He receives an opportunity to start his own business when he meets a wealthy woman with the same desire for synthetic opiates as he has. 

In exchange for pharmaceuticals and peculiar favors, she helps Dylan build his personal training business.

When Miriam Solomon, the love of David Greenberg’s life, phones him at his antiquities gallery in St. Louis, the black hole at the center of his heart shudders.

Twenty years earlier, Miriam had inexplicably run off to Israel with his best friend, Solly, a brilliant but nerdy young scientist. Now she tells David that Solly has committed suicide and she needs his aid on a secret research project Solly left unfinished: to acquire the one remaining nail from the crucifixion of Jesus. Is she telling the truth? And why does that nail have such significance?

After four years of hard work, deputy district attorney Tim McAndrews claims the title of his offices top prosecutor. Hes young, handsome, and smart, and his life is ticking along at a satisfying pace until he sees a woman dancing down the last few steps of the James Street parking garage. Tim realizes his perfect life is actually missing something: love.

He's surprised by his sudden and overwhelming attraction to the beautiful Daniela St. Clairwealthy heiress and philanthropist. Love on the brain, he returns to his office to find his best friends from the old neighborhood, Kathy and Scott. They have grim news: two young women have died as a result of a toxic mix of antidepressants and alcohol.

Similar Transactions is the dramatic, literary award-winning true story of the author’s seven-year quest to solve a 20-year-old murder. 

In 1987, Michelle Anderson, a teenage girl from the author's neighborhood and a classmate of her children, goes missing. The author, S. R. (Sasha) Reynolds, a professional social worker, knows the detective assigned to the case and is concerned that he isn't fully investigating Michelle’s disappearance. Then Reynolds moves out of state. Yet the case continues to haunt her. 

Ten years later she's watching a forensic show on TV and there is Michelle's story. 

Young women are being murdered and left dressed in fairy-tale costumes. Detectives Brick Henson and Timothy Daniels are at their wits end with no leads and no useful evidence.

Fifteen-year-old Delilah was born with a gift: she can see what people are dreaming. Delilah’s gift turns into a nightmare when she taps into the dreams and memories of a serial killer, known as the Huntsman. She knows who the Huntsman is, and she knows all of his secrets…secrets he will kill to protect.

America's game… 

A global spectacle of triumph and anguish.
A grand pageant of violence and drama. 
And now with its first female superstar…a spectacular experiment that may change the world! 

“This futuristic thriller will appeal to a wide range of readers.” Amazon Self-Publishing Review

In a world secretly ruled by an organized crime pyramid with strange and mystical powers, crime lord Gigi Salerno is the sinister hand casting the ultimate fate of victory or defeat.

In Bangkok, everyone gets the chance to start over. Few questions are asked.

When American criminal defense lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen took a bundle of cash from a murdered client and moved to Thailand and a new life, he thought his troubles were over forever. 

For seven years, Glenn enjoys the life of a wealthy expat, forms friendships and seeks love, spending much of his time at the mysterious NJA Club where he pursues the beautiful Noi. This pleasant life is turned upside down when American agents come calling, pressuring him to kidnap a Russian gangster, a dangerous task for which he is woefully unprepared. 

A role-playing game staged in the remote woods of the North East Kingdom, turns into a deadly pastime when a killer uses the game as a means to seize his victims.

A dead body is discovered in the woods by Samantha Tremblay, a Forest Ranger who works at Maidstone Lake. The locals call her Sam. She swears to bring the killer to justice for the victim but soon finds herself in over her head, as she works alongside New Hampshire Trooper Zachary Gerard assigned to the case. More bodies turn up and motivation to solve the crimes mount.

Old secrets get in Sam’s way, and she isolates herself from others. Haunted by unanswered questions about the past, she lives with cracked relationships—between herself and her father—her friends. 

When a local wildlife ranger goes missing in the rugged mountains south of Aspen, Colorado, the local sheriff launches a massive manhunt. Buck Taylor volunteers to help in the search and what the searchers uncover will shake this small mountain town to its core.

With years of hard-earned experience, Senior Agent Buck Taylor from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation will need to use all his talents to help solve a murder, unravel a series of years old kidnappings and solve several, decades-old serial murders with a current twist.

As talented a sleuth as there ever was, Buck is known for his dogged determination. Buck’s last case—a Mexican drug cartel attempting to set up shop in a small mountain town- had served as a productive distraction from the grief etched into his heart by the death of his wife of thirty-five years.

Brutally beaten and psychologically broken, her body is readied for the stroll and the pleasures of men.
 
PI Harry Touchstone loses his young research friend to a violent killer and watches as his beautiful Native assistant gets brutally raped by a gang of thugs. When he learns that she has been abducted to work the stroll in nearby Vancouver, he stops at nothing to get her away from the Hell's Angels-affiliated bikers. Harry stands alone against overwhelming odds as he tries to free the girl from a life of horror. 

The Fraud Murders is the first book in the “Harry One-Sigh” thriller suspense series. If you enjoy the rough and gritty side of the mysteries of Karin Slaughter and Dennis Lehane, you'll love Gar Mallinson's page-turner.

Ron Olson is a reluctant newcomer to Deer Falls. Adjusting to this small Colorado town is tough for Ron, who has been torn away from his father, his friends, and his soccer team.

His situation takes a frightening turn when a mysterious woman in black is released from a buried chest that imprisoned her. This ancient and powerful evil descends upon Deer Falls and a series of unexplained deaths follow. No one is safe. Anyone in the town could be next.

Ron is soon targeted by the centuries-old malevolent witch as she spreads terror and death upon the town. Can Ron and his new friends find out the truth about the deaths that have plagued Deer Falls and stop the witch before more people die?