September 26th, 2023 by Melanie3101

The third and final novel in the latest PI investigator series.

 

Detective Eva Roberts is determined to find her missing client, a retired policeman who was abducted from his own home in the dead of night. Peter Mountjoy was getting close to the heart of a drug smuggling mystery – and as Eva follows in his footsteps, the danger is heading her way…

When a body is found in the Cliff Gardens journalist Gemma Cassidy calls on Dan Bradley for help. The latest murder soon becomes a case for Inspector Rowntree and his team. But when Rowntree discovers that Roberts and Bradley have beaten him to the crime scene, he invites them to join the investigation. Dan soon suspects his motives.

Elsewhere, the temperature is rising… Gemma Cassidy gets closer to Dan as they dig into Rowntree and Martin’s past, looking for skeletons and secrets.

It’s a murky business…
But there is another hand at work, running the show, choosing who lives and who will die.

This game must soon come to an end.

Lost and Found – Solomon Carter

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September 26th, 2023 by Melanie3101

One Private Eye. One Case. One sackful of trouble. When Jake agrees to take a package across America, he doesn’t know if he’ll live to tell the tale. If the CIA, the Feds and the British Secret Service don’t get him then the mob will. How’s a cowardly private dick going to survive in these bloody times? The Case is a stand-alone pulp noir novel. A wry take on the jaw-dropping violent side of private investigator life by Leopold Borstinski, writer of the six-book Lagotti Family series. Grab your copy today. Author’s WarningThis stand-alone pulp fiction novel flits around Jake’s life weaving a tale which spreads from the 1940s to the 1990s as he tries to piece together the clues to discover what is so valuable that government agencies and organized criminals might want to get their hands on a crummy old case. Before the story is over, Jake witnesses incest, robbery, kidnapping, torture and murder: a typical day in the life of a private dick. Contains violence, some profanity and surprisingly few scenes of a sexual nature.

The Case (Jake Adams PI) – Leopold Borstinski

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September 26th, 2023 by Melanie3101

In the third instalment of this classic British crime series, the return of an old friend and the arrival of a new cousin spell yet more danger for the Lancefield family of Penwithen.

Five months have passed since revenge led to murder at Salvation Hall, home of the reclusive Lancefield family, and no one – least of all the victim’s family – expected to see the killer walk free. So, when news of the unwelcome verdict reaches the Cornish village of Penwithen, DCI Ennor Price can only brace himself and wait for the fallout.

Five hundred miles away in Edinburgh, the discovery of a young woman’s body behind an elegant Georgian town house looks like a murder without a motive to DCI Alyson Grant, until the chance sighting of a van leaving the crime scene offers her the slimmest of slim possibilities. But when that van turns up in Cornwall, and Grant asks Price for help to trace the driver, she isn’t prepared for his response.

Because Price doesn’t agree that the murder lacked a motive, any more than he thinks that the murderer will stop at one victim.

But is he right to think he can draw out the killer without overplaying his hand? Or will he risk unleashing a tragedy from which the Lancefield family – and Price himself – might never recover?

Hemlock Row – Mariah Kingdom

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September 26th, 2023 by Melanie3101

Murdering a city guard is a treasonous act, punishable by death.
And when Laurel Gunderson finds herself in that exact situation, she knows a quick death would be a mercy. For if the King of Axtria learned of the existence of a halfling-elf, there would be no telling what atrocity he might inflict upon her.
One action, one job, throws Laurel’s life into utter turmoil. The careful choices made throughout her life to remain a secret are at risk. There is only one option. Laurel and her closest confidant, Cole, choose to flee for their lives.
But when the open road cannot offer Laurel and Cole the sanctuary they need, they’re presented with an offer neither of them knew existed. A proposal from Laurel’s ex-lover.
A resistance is growing, gathering in the shadows across Axtria, working to undo the laws laid down. The aim is to return Axtria to a place of liberty. Something Laurel has dreamed of all her life.
Taking a stand with those who oppose Eberlim, Laurel and Cole face their greatest challenges yet. Protecting those who cannot defend themselves. Risking it all for a chance of freedom. With her life on the line, can Laurel resist the man she’s never stopped loving, to continue living a life of fear and secrets or will her heart win out?
Without risk, there is no reward.
Without the resistance, there is no future.

 

In The Cover of Darkness – Jozanne Morgan

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September 26th, 2023 by Melanie3101

A brilliant start to a quirky new paranormal mystery series.

A death.
A divorce.
A perfect house with a less than perfect past.

Jess and Libby have been through the wringer. Jess’s husband has died and Libby’s husband suffers the mother of all midlife crises.

With no money and three kids to support, the friends combine forces to buy a house together. They only have one choice -the notoriously haunted house of St. Sebastian.

Moving in doesn’t solve their problems… it’s just the beginning. Seeing the resident ghost, a long-dead mortician, changes everything.

When word gets out that Jess and Libby can see the mortician, Libby gets a job offer that they desperately need, but it comes with a caveat. She can have the job, but only if she solves the mortician’s murder. What choice does she have?

Everything has a price, but how much are they willing to sacrifice to solve a decades-old murder?

Dead Companions – A.W. Hartoin

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