When New York City's most famous man dies suspiciously, Homicide Detective John Keegan must follow a trail of corruption that may just lead to the top of city government...and the end of his career. Successful, rich people usually don't kill themselves. This is the thought that runs through Keegan's mind when he learns his partner, Rick Calhill, has scored them the Ronald Mullins case. Mullins had it all, money, power, and a beautiful wife. If anyone had a reason to commit suicide, it wasn't … [Read more...]
The Touch of a Shadow by Cheri Vause
Esther Charlemagne and Aiden “Mac” McManus have settled into their brownstone in Manhattan, enjoying their newlywed bliss, when a knock at the door sends them back to a grisly murder case they worked in 1959, five years earlier, while serving as detectives on the elite homicide squad of the NYPD. The FBI secures a very pregnant Esther, along with others involved in the case, in a safe house, while Mac returns to NYC to find the killer who has threatened to murder his beloved wife, … [Read more...]
Ashley on the Line by Ann Streetman
Ashley on the Line by Ann Streetman This is Book 2 of Love on Life’s Zip Line. Ashley is savoring being single in the city that she is claiming for herself one delicious day at a time. She is in control until handsome medical student Mark points at her and says, “You, call 9-1-1 now.” She makes the call and watches him give CPR to a passenger on their NYC subway train. He is focused on his career and haunted by the death of his lover. Attracted to him, Ashley wants to help him, but does not … [Read more...]
Petrocelli by John Rachel
Lenny Petrocelli had always been a slacker, a mediocre low-life, getting by on his good looks and street smarts. One day he woke up. Entangled by his gangland bosses in the web of child prostitution and human trafficking, he was being set up as the fall guy to take the rap, if the horrifying but lucrative enterprise went down. Seeing the violence and abuse young girls from Asia were subjected to in the gruesome world of sex slavery, Lenny did the most difficult but the most important thing … [Read more...]
Awake by Melanie Surani
In author Melanie Surani’s edgy thriller novel, opera singer Joshua Gray wakes in an eerie art museum exhibit. He comes to believe he’s been kidnapped and abandoned. And he isn’t the only one… As Josh and four others struggle to piece together their new realty, they discover the museum’s main building has been razed and the place is boarded with no obvious exit. Who left them in the museum and why? How can they escape? The only link that binds them together is a mysterious woman named Blair, … [Read more...]
Bargain Book for 10/20/2014: Violet’s Problem by Candida Martinelli
This book is bargain priced from 10/20/2014 until 12/31/2014 Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Nominee From the Historical Novel Society's Review of Violet's Problem: "...the heroine of Martinelli's slim volume won me over almost instantly, and the style had me snickering and sometimes laughing throughout." "I adored this sweet little book and look forward to continuing my acquaintance with Violet in the future." The Violet Strange Mysteries are nine detective stories for … [Read more...]
What Happened to Jenny? by Anne C. Ferguson @Anfer1
When Amanda Foster, 27, smart, talented, single, lead writer for The American Way newsmagazine meets Peter Richardson, 33 and widowed, they both feel an immediate attraction to each other. The problem is her assignment to do a story on the family, is a cover, her real purpose, to find out what happened to Peter’s first wife, Jenny, who died in a foot of water not far from the Richardson’s Cape Cod house. Amanda is thrown into a dangerous situation as she seeks to flush out a killer in the midst … [Read more...]
Undone (The Guardians #1) by Jessica Roe @JessicaARoe
Nicky is trying to be a good guy. With a past full of darkness and shadows, he's willing to do whatever it takes to change. He never dreamed his road to redemption would open his eyes to a world full of magic and mystical beings. All Gable wants is to be bad. Because only a bad person would do the things she's done and not even care. She's not looking to be saved, not from her world, not from herself. Not even by Nicky. At sixteen, they were in love, but eight years apart is a long time … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Bruce Zielsdorf @Bruceznyc
Author Bio: For almost 40 years, Bruce Zielsdorf has worked as a military journalist, newspaper editor and Army civilian public relations practitioner at locations around the globe. From drafting feature stories during the Vietnam era through coverage of the Lake Placid Olympics, he's documented airmen at work worldwide through his writing, editing and photographic skills -- an Air Force career that spanned 23 years. Today, Bruce lives in Killeen, Central Texas. What inspires you to … [Read more...]
Doha 12 by Lance Charnes @lcharnes
This book is bargain priced from 12/15/2012 until 12/01/2014 Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them. Jake manages a bookstore in Brooklyn. Miriam is a secretary at a Philadelphia law firm. Both grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other exists…until the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad uses their identities in an operation to assassinate a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in Doha, Qatar. Now Hezbollah plans to kill them … [Read more...]
