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Rings of Smoke
Diane O'Toole - 2012
Neither has a clue of the devastation and heartbreak their actions have caused. Neither understands the damage they have done to their own offspring; one by deserting her family, one by staying. But both are the same; greedy and demanding. They both wanted more, and they pushed their husbands to the brink to get it. Rings of Smoke is a crime thriller set in 1970's northern England, where the Fallon family, recently emigrated from Ireland, now live. When the mother, Helen, leaves her husband for another man, eldest daughter Erin sets off to search for her, unaware that she has been stalked by a serial killer for the last six weeks. All Erin wants is to find her mother and bring her home. What she encounters is Leonard Fitch, an eminent surgeon with a deep, dark secret. Now, in a secluded forest ranger's lodge, Erin must fight to survive or never see her family again.
The Glass Cook
Gavin Reese - 2018
Dry Creek Patrol Officer Alex Landon is about to be promoted to Narcotics Detective. With only a few weekend graveyard shifts left in his Patrol tenure, he learns DCPD’s narcotics unit and the DEA believe the source of a high-grade methamphetamine is operating in Dry Creek. Alex has already seen how the cost of powerful addictions are measured in lives lost: victims addicted and overdosed, conspirators and rivals killed, informants murdered. When Alex and his mentor, Javier Ramirez, are tasked with helping track down the meth source, they go about the nasty business of wading through society’s gutters. Few lives in that underworld survive the mere perception of betrayal or weakness, and Alex fears their time is running out to prevent a new wave of death and despair from spreading across central Arizona. The Enemies Series: Book 1: Enemies Domestic Book 2: Enemies Foreign The Alex Landon Case Files: Book 1: The Glass Cook Book 2: Room Number Three Book 3: The Debt Collectors Book 4: The Misery Merchant VISIT WWW.CYANIDEPUBLISHING.COM AND DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE CRIME / MYSTERY STARTER LIBRARY
The David Rivers Series: Books 1-3: Greatest Enemy, Offer of Revenge, and Dark Redemption
Jason Kasper - 2018
Now an international bestseller.
Book 1: Greatest Enemy
Army Ranger David Rivers enters the covert underworld of ex-special operators for hire. His new team serves a faceless mastermind known as the Handler. But as the stakes continue to rise, he learns that his new employer is more ruthless than anyone he's faced in combat—and he just might be David's greatest enemy.
Book 2: Offer of Revenge
David Rivers wants vengeance. But to get it, he must join the secretive organization that slaughtered the only family he had. Sent into battle against a savage force of enemy fighters in Somalia, David realizes that someone inside the organization seems to know his true purpose…and has been waiting for him all along.
Book 3: Dark Redemption
The path to revenge leads David Rivers into a labyrinth of twisted loyalties in the violent slums of Rio de Janeiro—where he learns the betrayal of his team was just the beginning. And nothing in David’s murderous past can prepare him for what happens when he finally meets his greatest enemy face-to-face.
The Entrepreneurs
Patrick Kelly - 2014
. . Amateur boxer turned executive Joe Robbins moves his family to Austin, Texas, to join a startup and get rich. At his first company party, Joe witnesses a young woman commit suicide. She leaves no note . . . no motive . . . and the image haunts his dreams.But the company is busy writing software and making sales and everyone is going to get rich! Employees careen around Austin like bats.When the market crashes, the company falls apart, and the paper riches evaporate. Then a director is found murdered, and the police figure Joe for a prime suspect. Two more executives are murdered, and Joe might be next.Forced into the role of an amateur detective, Joe falls back on what he knows: facts, logic, and analysis. If the going gets rough, he’ll use his fists. Whatever the approach, he’d better work fast because he’s facing a long stay in prison or a short trip to the morgue.
The Assassins series, Part 1/2 (Face Off & The Cleaner): A crime action thriller series
P.J. Mercedsen - 2015
One, new to the game, sees himself as a gift to the world of assassins. The other, a veteran of the craft, is a feared and respected hitman for one of the biggest crime families in the city.When their worlds collide, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Every hit has to be carefully prepared – but they never planned on each other.Don't miss the first in a five – episodes serial full of thrills, conflict and intrigue! Episode 2: The CleanerTwo killers. One brings death. The other is Death.A Mafia’s score – settling went wrong. Two hitmen who have nothing in common must partner to handle it, despite their mutual contempt.Assassins don't usually work in pairs, and Eddie is no different. Worse, Eddie boss's boss puts him with Liam, an impulsive young hotshot who almost screwed up his last case, and neither one is happy. When Eddie finds out that the mark is an old friend, he has to decide where his loyalties lie – but if he makes the wrong decision, Liam will be there to fix it by any means necessary. That is, unless they kill each other before the hit.Don't miss the second installment of this five – episodes series of murder, mayhem and mystery. Buckle in as things take off for our protagonists, setting things in motion that will change their lives forever.-- The Assassins series --Enjoy suspenseful crime fiction with some dark humor and irony? Check out The Assassins, a fast-paced fun series about the “bad” guys.In the vein of LT Ryan’s Jack Noble series and Remington Kane’s Tanner books, action-packed The Assassins series introduces readers to Eddie and Liam. Fans of anti-heroes from early Tarantino movies like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs will enjoy riding along with these two gritty hitmen.Warning: this material contains strong language and violence. Recommended for mature audiences only.Note: This bundle is Part 1 out of 2. It contains episodes 1 and 2 of the Assassins series. It’s a free preview of the five-episodes series. If you enjoy it, you can complete the experience with the three remaining episodes (The Target, Killing Floor and Face Off) in a go, and at a discount rate here: www.amazon.com/dp/B013J9QX7C (just copy and paste into your browser).(You can also read them for FREE with Kindle Unlimited)." This story had me turning the pages and I was disappointed when it ended. You're going to want to read the next one! It's certainly a thrill ride and plenty of insight into the characters to build the series." ~Amazon Reviewer, Nickinic – Ebooks Galore (Ep. 1 - Face Off)" Very tense and full of action. I look forward to reading more of this series." ~Amazon Reviewer, Saintly1 (Ep. 1 - Face Off)" A good read. Fast, good action, great characters." ~Amazon Reviewer, Moser (Ep. 1 - Face Off)"Really enjoyed this book, it ended at the right time (not over done drawing it out). I was pretty gripped throughout, but towards the end I literally could not put it down.
The Complete Survive the Fall Series (A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller, Books 1-5)
Derek Shupert - 2021
Warm Canvas: An adult crime thriller
Joice - 2015
Missing for about six weeks, she was repeatedly raped, but that is not all. Her assailant left her with a permanent reminder of him. It is something so unique and beautifully grotesque that it is beyond belief. Local detective Kathy Dradin and her partner get the case and soon other women start to turn up, victims of the same rapist.On the other side of the country a man is found with a pocket knife in the side of his neck. The FBI is on the trail of a serial killer. Unknown to Kathy the serial killer strikes close to home and the FBI are now searching for their man in her backyard. Over the course of twelve days these cases overlap more and more until they intersect. Are they one case or two?Fast paced and full of surprises you won’t put it down.
Blue Blood Runs Cold
M.A Wallace - 2015
When the blizzard passes that collapsed the roof of Ravney Hall and claimed the life of a student, a storm of even greater danger is only just beginning to brew. Students rebel. A cop is killed. Detective Michael Ross of the Shippensburg Borough Police Department and his partner, William “Billy” McGee, are called to the scene. It appears as an open-and-shut case, but soon it becomes a discovery beyond what anyone ever imagined possible at this small university in Pennsylvania. It seems whoever steps foot on “The Ship” has a chance of never making it back out alive… including Michael Ross.
Shoot Down
Mark A. Hewitt - 2014
Witnesses claim the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile; the government insists a mechanical malfunction brought down the airplane. An old CIA file is uncovered which details the President was warned-to preclude commercial airliners from being shot out of the sky either pay a ransom or suffer the consequences. Just as the Agency identifies the shadowy man responsible for the shoot down of the airliner, the Libyan dictator Gaddafi is overthrown, sparking a race between the CIA and terrorist networks to win the ultimate terrorist prize-hundreds of man-portable, shoulder-launched, anti-aircraft missiles. Duncan Hunter and his top secret airplane once again team up with an expert crew to find the anti-aircraft missiles ahead of the al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood, and kill the man who shoots down airliners for profit.
Perfect Pawn
Andrew G. Nelson - 2013
For retired NYPD Detective, James Maguire, the pieces of his life were finally starting to fall into place. He was running his own lucrative private security firm catering to Fortune 500 companies and had just met Melody Anderson, a highly successful business woman from Long Island's posh enclave of Southampton. Everything, it seemed, was looking up. That was until the morning newscast reported that his former high school flame was missing from a one car accident on a rural country road in upstate New York. Arriving back in his old hometown Maguire must come to terms, not only with his past, but the fact that no one seems interested in pursuing the investigation into Patricia Browning's disappearance, including the missing woman’s husband, the local sheriff. As Maguire struggles to put the clues together in time, he is drawn deeper into a game where people are as expendable as pieces in a chess game and the only goal is to take down the king. A crown Maguire unwittingly wears.
Hit Squad
Donald Wells - 2013
White dead and masses his army of street soldiers against him in a battle that will test White’s considerable skill at survival.Although Sierra possesses the sheer numbers that would overwhelm most men, Mr. White is not most men, and may very well be the most dangerous man alive.
The Target H
Lionel Derrick - 2000
heroin trade. Mark Hardin... He'd learned how in Vietnam: Infiltrate the enemy's position, determine the plan of action and then strike swiftly, taking out as many key men as possible, wreaking destruction, leaving chaos in your wake. He is a new breed of warrior, without uniform, without rank - dedicated to the American way of life, and pledged to fight anyone who seeks to destroy it. On either side of the law. That's why he's in Los Angeles. Just the beginning of a long and lonely series of brush fire wars.
The Cannibal's Daughter
Mitchell Nelson - 2014
She’s a nobody. And that’s the way she likes it. Her father, on the other hand — Hank Keeling, the serial killer and occasional cannibal better known as the Pork Chop Killer — has just gone viral. Thanks to a prison guard’s error, a cell phone video of Keeling’s botched execution is quickly becoming an internet sensation. After watching her father die in all his pixelated glory, Caroline is taken off-guard when Keeling himself shows up at her front door, looking very much not dead. And he has a plan. A plan involving Caroline. A plan Caroline is going to take part in whether she wants to or not. Success means wealth beyond her dreams. Failure means death. Soon Caroline is whisked away from her bland life to face down killers, gangsters and a well-meaning cop in a hunt for long-lost fortune. Deceit, avarice and unrelenting violence collide in a coming-of-age story like none you’ve ever read.
Newton: A Life of Discovery (The True Story of Sir Isaac Newton) (A Concise Historical Biography)
Alexander Kennedy - 2016
He wrote the Principia Mathematica which transformed our understanding of the physical world, invented calculus, and was knighted by the Queen of England. Enjoy the surprising and entertaining true story of Isaac Newton and rediscover one of history's most prolific figures.
The Missing Boxset: A Riveting Mystery Collection
James Hunt - 2019
The Secret Letter Victoria Owens's life takes a sudden turn after she receives an unexpected chain letter about her upcoming high school reunion. She's quick to dismiss the letter and focus instead on her busy day, amidst a preoccupied husband and eleven year-old-daughter. But the letter is only the beginning of a series of anonymous gifts, each more bizarre than the next, which shed light on a past long forgotten. Suspicious of her newfound admirer, Victoria soon finds herself trapped in a dangerous game of vengeance and betrayal, where her survival hangs in the very balance with every move that she makes.