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It begins with a chance meeting in a bar... Temporarily homeless, Neal MacIntyre is invited by a charitable stranger to spend the night at his apartment. "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone else," Neal says to his new acquaintance. "I always thought of myself as an honest man. I would have said a man of principle..." And with those words, Neal introduces an eerie tale of betrayal that leads to murder...

Front-page news in the quiet town of Dumont, Wisconsin, where former Chicago reporter Mark Manning runs the town’s Daily Register, involves the annual exhibition of the Midwest Miniatures Society and new zoning laws for an adult bookstore. But murder becomes the headline when “King of Miniatures” Carrol Cantrell, the nation’s foremost expert, is found strangled in the guesthouse of a local shop owner. It seems Cantrell was leading a double life. He was having an affair with Doug Pierce, Dumont’s closeted sheriff and a good friend of Manning’s.

During Prohibition a shamed wrestler named Butch "The Butcher" Cardinal is framed for murder and subsequently hunted by the cops, the mob, and a mysterious cabal who are eager to acquire a stolen trinket that might very well be as magical as the men claim. During the frame-up Butch came into possession of the piece and the cabal will do whatever they can - including murder - to get their hands on the object.

El amante alemán, primera novela del poeta y narrador Julián Martínez Gómez, es un libro que divierte, emociona y sorprende en cada página. A través de dos historias paralelas que trascienden el espacio y el tiempo, 'El amante alemán' habla de la distancia, de la familia, del retorno a los orígenes y, sobre todo, del amor: un amor sin límites capaz de vencer cualquier adversidad.

Nash is okay with things staying simple and small-town, until the person of interest shows up in a city of seven million, with old friends and older scores to settle. And then the war begins.

Decisa a cominciare una nuova vita, Ebba fa ritorno a Valö, la splendida isola della sua infanzia affacciata sulle casette bianche e le rocce scoscese di Fjällbacka, nell’idillio dell’arcipelago svedese. Vuole rimettere a posto la colonia che le appartiene e che non ha più rivisto dal giorno in cui, una vigilia di Pasqua di molti anni prima, la sua famiglia scomparve nel nulla, lasciando dietro di sé solo una tavola apparecchiata a festa e una bambina di un anno che vagava smarrita. Nessuno li rivide più; nessuno fu mai in grado di stabilire cosa fosse realmente accaduto.

The Award winning short story 'The Cellist ' follows the story of a young musical protege Adolphina, as she attempts to evade the the clutches of the Gestapo in war torn Paris. Is she part of the resistance? Can she trust her mentor, lover and confidante Claudia? What dark family secrets has her Uncle kept from her?

Featuring two strong protagonists (Von and Director Guy) living in one body along with the intelligent, beautiful girl friend, Julia, who assists in unwinding the entire mystery, we have a story that takes us through ESP, peer pressure, exorcism, LSD, voodoo, and even time travel. Hang on because it’s a FUN trip. Enjoy.

Lucy’s friend, Supreme Court Justice Iona Martin, is missing, her law clerk found dead in her chambers. The new POTUS has received a personal warning from Justice Martin, advising her to contact Lucy if anything happens. Lucy is ordered to Washington, DC, and when Armando reveals his former boyfriend is a Supreme Court law clerk, he is called upon to join her.

Bobby Gene is a man who stands out even among his people. Guided by the knowledge of his heritage as a backwoods shaman and more perceptive than many, he's grown to be a valuable asset to those he knows. While he isn't surprised to be the first to know when the woods around him begin to show clues that something isn't right, he doesn't expect just how much these omens and signs will prove to foretell something far more sinister to come.

Maddie Wells’s life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back. Befriending the murderer’s wife is the first stage in Maddie’s plan to make him pay. The Language of Bodies probes the seduction of vengeance using vivid, sensual imagery to explore how love transcends the particulars of body parts and how revenge blurs the line between victim and perpetrator, hero and villain.

Even as a child growing up in a small Southern city, Jon Wren frequently faced death. Before he’d even started school, he had played in the family parlor, where first an uncle, then a grandfather, lay in repose, their caskets positioned in front of the picture window. With their Instamatic cameras, several family members took photographs of well-dressed corpses. In his 30s, Jon fell in love with Ryan Armstrong. When you’re head over heels, who thinks of death? And when you make a commitment for the long haul, death feels remote. Something that happens to other people.

The only thing that lazy liberal arts graduate Maya García can find any purpose in, is video games and her part time position at the Mexican Society of Archaeology. Since she was born, she has had the strange ability to sense buried things. Cursed to, she would say. From lost keys buried by overexcited dogs to dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period, Maya can find anything, anytime. An abrupt invitation to a potential site near Aztec ruins then pulls Maya to Isla Cozumel, just off of the coast of the mainland.

Devin Murphy wants to leave his violent past with Piper Monroe and find a happier, calmer life; he can only accomplish this by being a key witness in a court case against the man. When two undercover officers try to take him to a safe house before the trial, Devin finds both men dead in a restaurant’s restroom and runs for his life. Molly Basset, owner of adult shop The Pleasure Hole, finds Devin on a park bench, crying. She gives him a job and helps him start a new life.

Rick and Ernie found the perfect apartment on Chicago’s West Side. Before they’re settled, Rick begins having all-too-real disturbing “dreams”. Each time, an emaciated young man with sad brown eyes appears, terrifying and obsessing him. From their next-door neighbor Paula, Rick learns about Karl and Tommy, who lived there before them. When she shares a photo of her with Tommy and Karl, Rick is shocked and troubled. Tommy is the man who appears to him in his dreams. The ghostly visitations compel Rick to uncover the truth about Tommy’s disappearance.

In Our Darker Angel, the mystery begins with FBI Agent Rick Clark's investigation into a series of murders committed by a terrorist group identifying itself as ARC, Anarchists for Real Change. Terrorism has become a personal issue with Clark. Two years earlier, his daughter perished in a bombing orchestrated by EMMA, an acronym for Emergent Movement of Militant Anarchists. The ARC murders bear a striking resemblance to the killings by EMMA, as they, too, target the rich and powerful and morally bankrupt.

Before it all went haywire, Amyra’s life was blissfully centered. As the comely daughter of a West Coast socialite and pillar of her law school's LGBTQ-collegiate society, nothing could stop this rising L-gunner; that was…until that fatal-night after being convicted for her involvement in her biracial girlfriend's accidental death, causing insatiable media frenzies and death threats to ensue.

Detective Adam Potter can’t be happier having Patrick move in with him. But there is a downside. Adam had asked his aristocrat to unpack his bags and boxes, and Patrick is accustomed to having servants do everything for him. Patrick Valdez is truly on cloud nine when Adam asked him to move in with him. But he is finding the transition into Adam’s world taxing. He misses having other people at his beck and call when he needs something done.

Robert Barton was born a boy who loved to dress up as a girl. That was his only crime. When he was 16, five high school football players and a man raped and brutalized him for hours before dumping him in a vacant lot. The day after he is found alive, the bodies of his assailants start stacking up in the morgue.

Edward Langdon’s hallucinations have been haunting him his whole life, and even though they hide beneath the memories of an innocent children’s TV show, they fill him with a morbid desire to commit murderous acts, and they are getting worse.