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Crime and criminals keep getting in the way of Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West's personal life. The woman he loves is living in his house, in his spare bedroom. It should be simple, but it isn't. He has a solution. A romantic weekend away, in a lighthouse on Clare Island. A stunning place, a beautiful woman. What could be more perfect? When one of the islanders dies in a bizarre and a tragic accident, West is roped in to help. But it isn't an accident,...
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This killer takes no prisoners... Recently promoted to Detective Sergeant, Nasreen Maqsood is given the case of a brutalised body found dead in a car park. When they discover the victim was dragged around the car park by a pick-up truck and the killer recorded the murder, Nasreen realises she has her work cut out. She also has a new partner, Alicia Weekes, and the two detectives don't get on. When the victim is identified, the case takes an interesting...
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A Kind Assassin. A Stupid Prime Minister. A Prime Assassination.Leaders die.Assassin Brooklyn Collins manages children's football. She reads at nursing homes. Brooklyn plots a death.The UK's future depends on Brooklyn.A gripping, tense, unputdownable crime story readers will love.BUY NOW!
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An Election. A Far-Right Threat. One Woman To Solve It.An election needs fixing.Piper fixes elections. She discovers a far-right plot. Piper knows innocent lives hang in the balance.Can she stop the plot in time?If you enjoy enthralling gripping mystery crime short stories, you need to read this one!
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An Assassin. A Strange Group. Deadly Secrets.Reggie dies today.Assassin Reggie Lordwood stalks a target. He watches bright snow. Reggie feels growing darkness.Reggie faces shocking truths.A gripping, enthralling, shocking crime story hooking readers from first to last word. BUY NOW!
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An Assassin. A Local Gangster. A Dying Neighbourhood.Bullies must die.Assassin Lily Hamilton arrives in a dying neighbourhood. She sees fear rip through the community. Lily needs the local gangster to die.The fate of a neighbourhood rests on Lily.If you enjoy enthralling, fast paced crime stories. You'll love this one!BUY NOW!
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A Captured Prime Minister. An Impossible Situation. A Country In Trouble.Every country needs a hero.Former MI6 Officer Abbie arrives at a dire crisis. She sees police everywhere. Abbie knows she can help.The fate of the world depends on Abbie.If you love suspenseful, high-stake mystery stories. You will love this one!BUY NOW!
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It is about an English-style detective novel.
On 29 of October 2003, Ms. Carol Tompkins, an antique dealer, finds herself involved, for a strange twist of fate, in the murder of Sally Barnes, who was killed by a slit to her throat. Superintendent Baxter investigates the case, collecting countless clues about the victim and the people that were part of her life. Many are the leads to follow, and it is plausible that behind the murder there are financial...
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A Trapped Wife. A Loveless Marriage. A Chance At Freedom.
Sometimes stealing is survival.
Annie Franklie hates her imprisoned life. She wants freedom. Annie plots her chance.
Can Annie steal her chance at freedom?
If you love enthralling, suspenseful crime mysteries, read this short story!
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Menacing texts lead to murder in an English village, in this unmissable, witty mystery by the Dagger Award–nominated author of A Most Unusual Demise.
May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she-and everyone else in the shop-receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation-and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead.
Meanwhile, May's elderly mother,...
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FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS, A HEARTSTOPPING MYSTERY FROM YOUR NEW CRIME FICTION OBSESSION: BIBA PEARCE.A serial killer who dumps the victims' bodies in Soho Square. A sleepless detective thwarted by his box-ticking boss.Detective Rob Miller thinks he's seen it all, but this murder scene takes his breath away.The victim is bound and gagged, with whip marks on his back. The location is one of the busiest squares in London. The cause of death appears to...
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A gifted psychic but an emotional wreck, Rosetta Barrett is much more than a simple Detective seconded to a sleepy, rural English constabulary. She's part of the International psychic CID, and a high-ranking member of EPIS (Elite Paranormal Intelligence Services) a super-secret, Inter-Governmental, global organization, based underground in Dulce, USA.
EPIS is tasked with dealing with the new realities of the twenty-first century — the rise of AI...
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Detective Hanlon is addicted to violence. She likes the rush, the danger, the losing control...
When Hanlon is suspended from the force for assaulting a suspect, she escapes to the remote Scottish island of Jura, home to the mysterious Corryvreckan whirlpool.
But wherever Hanlon goes, violence is sure to follow.
As soon as she checks into The Mackinnon Arms, Hanlon senses something isn't quite right about the staff at her home for the week.
Sure...
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It's different when it's your daughter.
DI Gravel's daughter Emily has landed her dream job working for high profile solicitor Charles Turner. But the job turns deadly when she attracts the attention of a serial killer.
Gravel is already on the case, the bodies are piling up and the killer's sick fantasies are enough to give the detective nightmares. However, the killer's obsession with Emily raises the stakes.
Can Gravel and Emily survive the...
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He's inside her home.
Successful novelist Mia is being stalked. Photos of her and her four-year-old daughter arrive in untraceable emails that demand Mia perform various tasks or else . . . Terrified, Mia tries to escape, but the killer follows her all the way to Italy. In desperation, she returns home, but nowhere is safe.
Meanwhile, DI Gravel is investigating the murder of three women. The detective's last case pushed him to new extremes. Now...
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Real-life domestic partners and stars and producers of the new hit reality home renovation show Domestic Partners, bestselling mystery author Peter "PJ" Penwell and actor JP Broadway are enjoying work and life in their sleepy Detroit suburb of Pleasant Woods-until a suspicious death makes an unscripted appearance . . .
After a successful first season of Domestic Partners chronicling the renovation of their historic Craftsman Colonial, Peter and...
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Award-winning author and playwright Frank Anthony Polito continues his debut cozy mystery series featuring a gay couple who solve crimes while renovating houses as part of their hit reality show Domestic Partners. Set in suburban Detroit, it's Hart to Hart via HGTV! The perfect combination for fans of home repair and cozy mysteries.
Peter's first play is having its world premiere at Pleasant Woods's community theater. His handsome one and only,...
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Mr. Isaac Atkinson, the current owner of The Star of Sierra Leone, a 968-carat diamond, takes it with him onto The Contessa, an elegant new cruise ship headed to West Africa. The Star invites many problems and puts the little jeweler in some very serious situations, such as narrowly escaping death at the bottom of a large trash bin aboard the vessel. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Sierra Leone are facing Ebola, they die by the dozens every day. The...
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Detective story writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Hugh Payne are asked to travel to Devon in order to prevent a murder on Sphinx Island, but they are far from enthusiastic as they suspect an elaborate joke. And when they hear that one of the house party guests is Romaine Garrison-Gore, another crime writer, they have no doubt that they will walk into a rather tedious variant of the Murder Weekend. After all, it is their tenth wedding anniversary...
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