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Can murder ever be justified? When a prominent judge is found stabbed to death on Valentine's weekend in what appears to be a crime of passion, homicide detective Maggie Novak knows her skills are about to be put on trial. Bobby Russell is everybody's favorite judge, and at first Maggie is hard-pressed to find anyone with anything bad to say about him, let alone someone harboring a hatred so deep that they will kill him over it.

Once you cross the line between love and hate, can you ever go back? When a young woman is found dead at a popular island party spot, in what appears to be an accidental drowning, homicide detective Maggie Novak knows her weekend is about to get interesting...In the eyes of her parents, Christie Coleman is a good girl. But her siblings know her better. Christie has dark secrets and a string of boyfriends with shady pasts. And now her family must face the real possibility that Christie's murder is the result of her dallying with danger one too many times.

In the course of my more than 15 years of experience as an attorney, I’ve worked on billions of dollars’ worth of public construction projects, and I’ve seen them succeed and fail. The general lack of prior experience that many public officials have, when properly acknowledged, can be a great asset, rather than a significant detriment. How is that so? When you come into a project without the burden of prior assumptions based on previous project experience, you can reenvision what a successful project should be, and what your goals should be.

A summer with terminal patients wasn’t what Sonia had in mind when she signed up for her school’s nursing internship program. With no previous exposure to death or dying, Sonia joins the ragtag team at Tender Hands Hospice (Your Best Last Resort) and becomes the center of attention to the oddball nurses who work in end-of-life care.

FBI Agent Joe Roberts and his fiancée, Dr. Madeline Pierce, must track down a rage-producing nano-drug before it devastates the nation, in this fourth book of The Chemical Attraction Series. Staying in Detroit with the FBI, Madeline works to develop an antidote from the confiscated journals. She clashes with the women from Joe’s past. In West Michigan, Joe hunts for the bio-weapon. With a history as a player, he’s worried his relationship with Madeline is at risk. Working apart, they attempt to focus on the threat.

A murder has taken place at Brian's Burgers. After a waitress is found stabbed in the back, the police discover a connection to a local B&B owner, who just happens to be Brian's girlfriend. When botched surveillance places Angie in danger, a most unlikely hero comes to her rescue. With three marriages—one in Las Vegas—and spirits visiting the B&B, the stage is set for a rollicking adventure full of unexpected twists and turns. You'll also discover how Rachel and Joe originally met, married, and became parents—all amid the challenges of youth, doubts, and hurricanes.

When a big city Private Investigator, Ember Morgan gets tossed into a small town murder mystery, will she be able to solve the case, or will she crack under pressure? Hoping to leave behind her troubled past, Ember packs up her belongings and moves to a quiet town on the edge of Washington. What she doesn't know is the small town is on the brink of collapse, as tales of deception and deceit are long overdue. Teamed up with the towns handsome deputy, she'll embark on a journey even bigger than herself.

Rachel and Joe, who retired to a 50-plus condo, must exercise tough love on their only child Angie after she leaves an ashram, searching for her purpose - again. At the insistence of Joe, Angie finds a job at a burger joint on the shores of Daytona Beach. She is dating Josh, the son of a man living in the condo with connections to gambling. After being harassed at work by a man who turns up dead, Angie suspects Josh is the murderer, and she and Rachel begin sleuthing.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Joanna Ford abandons a 20-year career and moves to rural Makah Island in the Pacific Northwest to care for her ailing wife. She takes a job at the weekly local paper to pay the bills, and it’s as mind-numbing as the endless overcast days - she’d trade all the coffee in Seattle for one more shot at a real story. But when she finally gets that break, she discovers that gravel back roads lead to dark places and devastating secrets.

These six stories mark a turning point in Joseph’s work and overflow with the the mystery surrounding death, passion, and the desire to live forever or die in the attempt. David Joseph is a writer of astonishing passion and honesty - his pen set on describing the world as seen through the eyes of a world traveler that has experienced tragedy. Yet the ability to see what dwells in the hearts of ordinary people.

Meet Cindy Mayfield, ex-Forest Recon Special Operations marine. She is a correctional officer at California Medical Facility assigned to the hospital team. She’s beautiful and professional, but because she was kidnapped by a serial rapist when she was a girl, she now makes her own rules. As the murders occur, indicators point to Cindy Mayfield, but the real plot has its roots in a shadowy, top secret CIA-funded project called MK-Ultra.

Krista Marlow has traveled to a cozy cabin in the snow-shrouded woods of Huron Station, Michigan for a winter vacation. But a turn down a desolate road through the woods brings her to a horrible site. The body of a man hung from a tree, the arrow that pierced his heart like a push-pin in a streaming map of blood. The victim, a hunter, may have been killed by a radical anti-hunting group. A blood-soaked sign with the words “Stop the Kill” scrawled on it was positioned under his body.