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C. G. McDaniel

From Charleston, S.C. and Jupiter, Florida to St. Bart’s, Aruba and Jamaica, three friends ¬ the “Krewe-of-Jupiter” -- take flight ¬ literally ¬ in C.G. McDaniel’s Nautical Contraband. Aboard a rickety old Catalina PBY-5A flying boat named Lady Orleans, the Krewe takes readers on a surreal journey throughout Southern Florida and into the Caribbean in search of an ancient map and a lost treasure once stolen by Stede Bonnet, The Gentleman Pirate. And that’s just part of the plot …. McDaniel’s South Florida mystery is filled with eccentric and exotic characters, including an ex-Seabee computer hacker who lives in a forgotten underground bunker, the priest of a snake-handling tent revival, and a sexy Cuban ex-socialite. He weaves a fast-paced tale of adventure where three friends, graduates of The Citadel, who meet up again after twenty years in Jupiter, Florida and find themselves drawn together in hot pursuit of a stolen ancient heirloom. In their quest for the ultimate ‘nautical contraband,’ they stumble upon long-forgotten religions, pirate castles, island strip bars and fishing yachts and find themselves confused by the bizarre and unexplainable side of the tropics in their island adventure.

C.J. Paus

Grisly murders are being committed in Madison, Wisconsin and it is up to Lt. JJ Johnson to assemble a task force and solve the horrible crimes. Lt. Johnson meets a woman during the investigation, falls in love and they marry rather quickly. Both are happier than they have been in a long time and then tragedy strikes. Unless you read the last page before you actually get there, you won't know how this story ends! Take a great mystery, a little romance and headless bodies and you have the recipe for a book that will keep you awake at night with the lights on!

David T. Boyd

A woman dreams a mysterious man in black terrorizes her while whistling "London Bridge is Falling Down", proving true evil "whistles while it works."

John Richard Lindermuth

Who shot Captain Isaac Schlussel and why? That question is at the core of this novel set in the early 19th century in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields.

Ken MacLean

The Mind Keepers is an experience and research- based novel centrally involving the micro-pulse wave technology of manipulation of the brain by electronic means, popularly called "mind control." Its protagonist is a retired Army Intelligence officer and later FBI Agent, Michael Neilly who has gathered information about and been victimized by pulse wave technology though most of his mature life. Contact with a pulse-wave Defense facility and the murder of a friend lead Neilly to unravel the pulse wave threat and the Killing. A reviewer has called it "a murder mystery with real substance."

Laurie Loveman

Memories begins the Firehouse Family series with the tumultuous, passionate, and forbidden love affair of Jake McCann and Laura Darvey. After leaving the New York City Fire Department in 1932, Jake and his friends, Freddy Pratter and Mickey Justini, reunite in Woodhill, Ohio to accept positions in the fire department. The three friends all suffer from emotional, personal demons. Jake falls in love with Laura, a married woman whose husband is a bootlegger and operator of a protection racket. The affair causes the three friends to become tangled in a series of horrifying crimes that force them all to unexpectedly face their demons.

Laurie Loveman

A scroungy palomino horse brings Glynis Hampton, daughter of dairy farmer Ben Barneshill, into a chance meeting with Woodhill Fire Department Captain Freddy Pratter at the scene of the horse owner's death. Freddy falls in love with Glynis even as his investigation into a series of arson fires leads him to suspect a member of her family could be the serial arsonist who has killed twice and could kill again in his thirst for revenge.

Laurie Loveman

New troubles are developing in the small town of Woodhill. The town is faced with the possible closing of the local quarry that employs many in Woodhill. Mining expert Aaron Chandler is hired to evaluate the quarry's future, but in doing his job he is brought face-to-face with a devastating secret from his past. When Aaron's good friend, Boris Hegerty, is injured in an explosion at the quarry, Boris's life-threatening injuries inadvertently unite Aaron with his past, and create questions about everyone's futures.

Steve Haberman

Murder Without Pity is a mystery set in a contemporary Paris tumultuous with fog, riots over police killings, and Far Right extremists.

Gil Smolin

A farmer in Nepal notices a sudden rotting of his fingers, followed by pneumonia then a horrific death. Thus begins a medical thriller that takes archeobiologist Michael Cohen and his former lover, Dr. Alice Morgan-Wright, from San Francisco to the Himalyas to the Arctic Circle. As a virulent, drug-resistant leprosy epidemic spreads, the two set off on a danger-filled quest for a cure. Stalked by unknown assailants, their only protection is each other and the mysterious amulet of the Order of St. Lazarus. Their hope: to unearth the frozen remains of a medieval corpse destroyed by the Black Plague.

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