A sadistic killer stalks the summer beaches of Oregon, striking at random locations and then the small coastal city of Cutter Point. As newly hired Cutter Point police chief Kevin Kearnes battles for control of his dysfunctional agency, fighting corrupt city officials and members within his own department, an accidental meeting with a beautiful and secretive woman leads to a second chance at love. That is, until an old horror from his past resurfaces, manifesting itself in the same murder cases he's investigating, and Kearnes is about to learn that the most dangerous secrets to keep--are the ones you don't know you have.

Little Blue Whales

Literature & Fiction

Lewis, Kenneth R.

Literary

Krill Press

A maniac is terrorizing Baltimore. “The Wishing Well Killer” is depositing his victims like they were the kitchen trash…stuffing their bodies in plastic garbage bags and throwing them down abandoned wells in the Maryland countryside. For veteran homicide detective Phil Jenkins and FBI agent Megan McKenna of BAAT, the Baltimore Aggravated Assault Task Force, the net they first cast to try and catch the killer with seems to have only hauled in a dead end. An insidious, under-the-table scam in the Maryland State foster care system involving unscrupulous lawyers. But when the madman they are chasing surprisingly surfaces in the middle of it all, Megan McKenna realizes that they know each other―and still have some deadly, unfinished business between them. Megan calls FBI profiler, and former lover, agent Reese Ditrapano in on the case to try to get inside the warped mind of the killer before another victim goes down a well. But Reese’s old feelings for Megan, and Phil Jenkins’ new ones, create friction in the investigation…the perfect diversion needed for the lunatic killer who’s finally found the perfect well. For Megan McKenna.

The Well Meaning Killer

Walker, Miranda Phillips

Genre Fiction

Things are never how they seem, especially in police work. John Testarossa is an LAPD cop with an NYPD attitude, and he has seen it all. The dead, the dying and the decomposing are all in a day’s work for the red-headed Italian from New York. When an arm rolls up on a Santa Monica beach, and the dead body on which the arm was once attached is discovered, John and his partner, Alex Ortiz, enter the world of college sports, athletes, and the illegal drugs that enhance their performance. Rage and revenge come together in a toxic cocktail John is all too familiar with. John knows rage. It came to define him as a young boy, and ultimately as a man. He carries a dark secret, and it is through his narrative, and a compelling back-story, that the true man is discovered. And in the beautiful Dr. Karen Gennaro—a woman with a few secrets of her own—John finds a soft place to land. But he knows all too well what falling in love with a cop can do to a woman. What sustains this hard-boiled detective is the bond he shares with his brave and dedicated partners. When that bond is destroyed in a senseless act of violence, will his past, and a desire for vengeance, destroy him? In Los Angeles, where Venice Beach, Marina del Rey, and the dream of Abbot Kinney’s Venice Canals paint a picture of bliss, Testarossa will take you on a deeper, darker journey.

Testarossa

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Julie Dolcemaschio

Mystery

REVISED AND RERELEASED AS DECEPTION AT DEVIL'S HARBOR.It's bedlam by the bay, chaos on the coast, another dustup in Devil's Harbor. Thanks to reporter Molly Donovan, the person who killed The Big Grabowski is in jail, but things are hardly back to what passes for normal in the quirky coastal community. With the aging sewage treatment system at its limit and huge penalties looming, the mayor orders extreme water conservation. Townspeople complain, but comply; they make every flush count. But when local doomsayer Elspeth Hunsaker spots an ethereal image scorched into a breaded crab cake served up at the Devil's Food Cafe and raises the cry that it is a sign that Devil's Harbor and its sinful flock must repent, swarms of pilgrims descend on the town and the mayor, despite threats of impeachment or worse, plants a portable toilet on every lawn. Only selling timber from town trust land can supply funds to fix the sewer system. But a tree-sitting activist for hire keeps loggers at bay. When someone takes a chainsaw to his perch, Molly discovers the fall alone didn't kill him-he was poisoned, strangled, and struck with a blunt object. Who did him in? The mayor? The girlfriend he cheated on? The environmentalist he defrauded? Loggers with their payday on hold? While Molly delves into the dead man's past, hoping to untangle a snarl of lies and name the killer before Sheriff Greg Erdman and others chart stranger courses-her father falls for a shady lady, Henri undertakes an extreme makeover, Adam flees to the forest, Elspeth sees the light, Icky becomes a writer, and Shelley takes bold steps to turn back the tide of tourism.

Sometimes A Great Commotion

Mike Nettleton Carolyn J. Rose

Mike Nettleton

Humor & Satire

Moving from Wisconsin to sunny Los Angeles was the frosting on the cake of Annie Graceland's perfect life. Her boutique bakery business was blossoming, she was happily married to a handsome, ambitious actor, and they were planning to have a baby. Besides her derelict friends, the only thing that got Annie in serious trouble was her smidge of psychic ability: feeling other people's sensations in her own body. She hated experiencing someone else's peanut butter addiction, foot fetish, or murderous rage. Thank God, her psychic curse only kicked in when she was stressed. When Annie discovers her husband is possibly cheating with oh-so-famous, self-help author, Dr. Fuller, Fuller ends up dead, poisoned with one of Annie's signature cupcakes, and she becomes a prime murder suspect. When the not-so-good Doctor's ghost doesn't pass to the After-Life and is stuck on earth, Fuller decides to recruit, (aka, haunt), a live personal assistant to investigate and bring his killer to justice. Who bett

Cupcakes, Lies, and Dead Guys

Pamela DuMond

In the aftermath of having survived an encounter with pedophile serial killer Uriah Beek almost three years earlier, two still healing couples reconnect at Christmas time in the small Oregon coast city of Cutter Point. Kevin Kearnes, the city's former police chief, now a special agent with Homeland Security, is returning to Cutter Point with Britt McGraw and his two young sons to marry Britt on the same beach where he first kissed her. Thud Compton, Kearnes' old sergeant, and now Cutter Point's new chief, has invited them to stay at the Compton home. However, the Kearnes' are not the only ones traveling to Cutter Point for the holidays. Some very bad men are coming to town and instead of bearing gifts; they are planning on taking one for themselves, an old military sword from WWII rusting away inside its display case in the local library which after 9/11 is now worth a million dollars on the world black market for war artifacts. Russian mobsters "Little Nikki" Kravchenko and Vlasi Voronov will happily accept half that much in payment from Phillip Peeters, the man who has hired them to steal it, but to college student Darius Ono, who has already failed at one attempt to take it, the sword is priceless and reclaiming it will restore honor to the name of his dead great uncle "The Emperor's Sparrow." Although they don't yet know it, Kevin Kearnes and Thud Compton are about to face their greatest threat ever when they are forced to pursue the murderous men who have stolen "The Sparrow's Blade."  The Sparrow's Blade is a 2012 Eric Hoffer Award winner for Commercial Fiction!  Read the Award Winning prequel to The Sparrow's Blade: Little Blue Whales - Winner of The 2010 Public Safety Writers Association First Grand Prize For Fiction!

The Sparrow's Blade

A shape bends over a drink at the end of the bar in Big Emma's on Oakland's Jack London Square, looking like a bundle of black clothes someone has left on the barstool. Full red lips that match brightly dyed hair provide the only color, as if an artist had begun to colorize her just before she walked out of frame in a 40's noir movie. Her name is Susan, and she is there to hire PI Jim Wolf to find the killer of her husband, and to protect her from a man called Red. Wolf takes her case, but Susan herself is then murdered and Red attempts to kill Wolf...and the hunter becomes the hunted. With the help of two very different, but important women in his life, Lori Mazzetti, his former lover whom he can no longer live with, but can't seem to survive without, and Connie Hernandez, an investigative reporter for the Oakland Tribune, Wolf sets out to track Red down. Now it's personal. The bullets fly, and the blood flows, but Wolf is just getting started. Like the alpha predator of his namesake, private investigator Jim Wolf is the last guy you'd ever want to see coming behind you, following in your tracks. Or at your door.

No Time to Mourn

Wohlforth, Tim

Eight teenagers escape imprisonment at a work camp to brave the  wilderness. Tested to their limits, they struggle to survive their terrifying  dash for freedom.  After the total collapse of the world economy, the United States could not stand together. So they failed separately. In the small region-state of Winnkota, poverty and greed are turning the idyllic Northwoods of Minnesota into a barren wasteland of clear-cut forests and over-fished lakes. Every able-bodied teenager is conscripted into a labor force and sent to work in harsh, prison-like conditions. They are enslaved young so they never learn to think for themselves. But Penn is different. He's determined to win back freedom-for himself, his friends, and someday for his homeland.  On a cold autumn night, the group makes their dash for freedom north of the border. The fugitives endure a series of difficult wilderness challenges while pursued by the ruthless camp guards. They weave through dense forest, scale cliffs, swim through the bitterly cold lakes, and otherwise try simply to survive.  Pushing his friends to the breaking point, Penn guides the fugitives through a harsh, but ironically beautiful, backdrop of amazing Northwoods scenery. Adversity and loss abound, all while an unexpected physical attraction leads to a burgeoning love story.  Should any of them survive to reach the border, will the freedom found equal all that they expected?

Fugitives from Northwoods

Children's Books

Bostic, Chris

Action & Adventure

Be careful what you wish for...Mary Beth Trace has had about all she can take of her lazy husband¿s irresponsible behavior. Between her full-time job, taking care of the kids and the house, and cleaning up Gerry¿s messes, she has little free time for anything but daydreaming about a better life. Without Gerry. Now Gerry is missing, leaving a blood-spattered car and a trail of angry clients. And the police have confiscated her laptop, bulging at the seams with catty emails and a personal journal containing her most private, damning thoughts. Tom Kelly, the seasoned detective on the case, knows something is fishy about Gerry¿s law practice, and that Gerry is not an innocent victim. Can Kelly uncover the real truth behind Gerry¿s disappearance before his ambitious captain orders Mary Beth arrested for murder?How Mary Beth copes with the police, three young children, the Mother-in-Law from Hell, an incontinent dog, and the rigors of her job while coming to terms with Gerry¿s betrayal and her own conscience, will test her faith and set the course for her family¿s future.

Barely a Trace

Clasby, Vickie

Sierra Scott stepped away from her marriage, and straight into murder. Sierra loves the chance to help others with their problems, especially if it means she can procrastinate over fixing her own. On vacation in western Ireland, Sierra knows her marriage is in crisis mode and the smartest thing she could do is sit down with her husband, Marcus, and talk things out. However, she's just not ready to face what could very well be their final days together. From Shannon airport to Galway, they find themselves surrounded by Ireland's relentless green and gray, and more than a little overwhelmed by Ireland's misty and chilling spring weather. Marcus hopes to find new clients for his dying business, while Sierra hopes to find adventure to brighten their dying marriage. It doesn't take long before nothing on this trip goes as planned. After listening to a tale from a local shopkeeper about an unsolved murder involving two long ago lovers, Sierra offers to help solve the mystery. Marcus knows she is avoiding the inevitable confrontation over their marriage but feels he has no choice but to help Sierra, if only to keep her safe. To believe in the old shopkeeper's story is one thing, but when strange things start to happen, Sierra and Marcus soon find that they are in over their heads. Will they be able to set aside their own heartache to find a way out of the trouble that is sucking them in even deeper? Can they survive being pulled into hidden secrets, past hurts, old enemies, and revenge? This young couple, so unlucky in love, are going to need the luck of the Irish just to survive.

Emerald Wiles

Franklin, Sylissa

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