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Partners #1

Detroit Homicide Detective Herbert Vale has a secret...Herbert Vale has been a homicide cop for a long time, and he has seen a lot. But what he has seen the most is bad people get away with bad things. But now he has a new partner, one that is helping Herbert bring those bad people to justice. In an unspeakable, horrifying,and quite messy way.Detroit Homicide Detective Herbert Vale has a secret...Herbert Vale has been a homicide cop for a long time, and he has seen a lot. But what he has seen the most is bad people get away with bad things. But now he has a new partner, one that is helping Herbert bring those bad people to justice. In an unspeakable, horrifying,and quite messy way.Tag along with Detective Herbert Vale in this new short story from Christopher Lee Cousino, author of the superhero novel HOMELESS and the ZOMBIE HERO series. Meet his secret partner, but just try not to look too appetizing when you do.
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In Dark Company

From the New York Times bestselling author of DOWN A DARK ROAD comes Linda Castillo's IN DARK COMPANY: a short story about an injured young woman with amnesia who seeks Chief of Police Kate Burkholder’s help to remember her identity—and her attacker. It’s the middle of the night in Painters Mill, and Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to a scene where a mysterious young woman, battered and terrified, has sought shelter at an Amish farmhouse. She can’t remember her name or where she’s from, but she knows one thing: someone was trying to kill her. Kate suspects that “Jane Doe” remembers more than she’s letting on, but when Jane is attacked again on Kate’s watch, Kate resolves to find the truth. As Jane’s memories start flooding back and Kate dives deeper into her murky past, they must race to discover what Jane was running from—and who is still pursuing her.
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Angels Unawares

Joshua Earl wants to die at home, but he has no one to care for him there. In a desperate last attempt, he asks a social worker to contact his ex-wife Laura, whom he has not seen for over thirty years. And Laura says yes to his request, setting off a series of events that turns his dying into a new life, not only for him but also for the numerous others that appear at his bedside.Short story in which YOU are the monster, as you roam your lair killing and eating all who enter. That is until he shows up.Inspired by the sword and sorcery fantasy gaming books by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. A story told as if YOU are the monster.If you read this story then why not leave me a review to tell me what you thought. Any feedback (be it good or bad) is always most helpful.
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Dog's Green Earth

A murder in Steve Levitan's gated community is bad enough—but when someone puts out rat poison that innocent dogs could consume, he's fired up to track down the villain and make his world safe for people and their canine companions.With over 20,000 trade paperbacks and e-books sold, and hundreds of glowing reader reviews, it's clear that Rochester, the hero of Neil Plakcy's Golden Retriever Mysteries, has captured the hearts of dog lovers and mystery fans.When his golden retriever Rochester discovers a body during one of their nightly walks, reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan must look to his neighbors for suspects. Could a killer be lurking along the oak-lined streets?Steve inherited his townhome from his father, and it's more than just a house to him—it's the place where he recovered from the loss of two miscarried babies, the pain of losing his parents and the misery of his brief incarceration. Now that he has a new sweetheart, and a...
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Shock Wave

The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Talk about risky business. The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: the local merchants fearing for their businesses, and the environmentalists predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project down, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage—and they do. Who's behind the bombs and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed.
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Blood Hollow

When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is innocent. In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Some he knows all too well -- small-town bigotry and bureaucracy foremost among them. What Cork isn't prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment hailing from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated. And that's when the miracles start happening....
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Kitty Saves the World: A Kitty Norville Novel

Kitty Saves the World: the final novel in the New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn It's all come down to this, following the discoveries made by Cormac in Low Midnight, Kitty and her allies are ready to strike. But, when their assassination attempt on the evil vampire Dux Bellorum fails, Kitty finds herself running out of time. The elusive vampire lord has begun his apocalyptic end game, and Kitty still doesn't know where he will strike. Meanwhile, pressure mounts in Denver as Kitty and her pack begin to experience the true reach of Dux Bellorum's cult. Outnumbered and outgunned at every turn, the stakes have never been higher for Kitty. She will have to call on allies both old and new in order to save not just her family and friends, but the rest of the world as well. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Off the Wild Coast of Brittany

An unforgettable story of resilience and resistance set during WWII and present-day France on a secluded island off the coast of BrittanyNatalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany.But then Francois-Xavier breaks things off with her without warning, leaving her flat broke and in the middle of renovating the guesthouse they planned to open for business. Natalie's already struggling when her sister, Alex, shows up unannounced. The sisters form an unlikely partnership to save the guesthouse, reluctantly admitting their secrets to each other as they begin to heal the scars of their shared past.But the property harbors hidden stories of its own. During World War II, every man of fighting age on the island fled to England to join the...
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Wildflower Ridge

In the spring, both flowers and love are blooming...Natural Born LawmanTexas lawman Justin Adams has always played by the rules. Until one day the deputy catches a petty thief attempting to steal a bottle of baby medicine. The imploring eyes of desperate single mother Patsy Longhorn—not to mention those of her feverish little boy—just might make him reconsider.After breaking off relations with her husband, Patsy Longhorn is wary of men in general, and facing police deputy Justin Adams should have had her running for cover. But somehow this man makes her wonder if maybe the time has come to stop running—if maybe Justin is what she's been waiting her whole life to find.The Unclaimed BabySharon Adams once thought she had her whole future planned—until her dreams were snatched away and she was left running her family's convenience store. Then on a fateful snowy night she...
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No Rest for the Dead

When Christopher Thomas, a curator at San Francisco's Museum of Fine Arts, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in Berlin, his wife Rosemary Thomas is the prime suspect. Long suffering under Christopher's unfaithful ways, Rosemary is tried, convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, becomes convinced that the wrong person was put to death. Along with financier Tony Olsen, he plans to gather everyone who was there the night Christopher died and finally uncover the truth about what happened that fateful evening. Could it have been the ne'er do well brother Peter Hausen, interested in his sister's trust fund having got through his own; the curatorial assistant Justine Olengard, used and betrayed by Christopher; the artist Belle who turned down his advances only to see her career suffer a setback; or someone else all together?No Rest for the Dead is a thrilling, page-turning accomplishment that only the very best thriller writers could achieve.
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