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Publication Date:  November 17, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Fantasy Narrator:  Vas Eli Publisher:  Damocles Blade Press Length:   12 Hours 08 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Legend tells of a city of gold on a phantom island. The wealth of that city could end the American Revolution. But the only person who knows the island’s location is the world’s deadliest assassin. And he’s not giving up that secret without a fight . . . The world’s oldest family of high-profile assassins, the Firefaxes, have been killing off dignitaries—and being well-compensated to do so—for centuries. The family is thrown into turmoil by their patriarch’s death and the return of their cunning, cruel prodigal, Murdoch. With their father dead, Murdoch is the only one who ...

Publication Date:  December 31, 2023 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   Fantasy Publisher:  Subterranean Press Length:   115 Pages Buy:  Kindle   Synopsis For modern-day detective Mallory Atkinson, being trapped in the body of Victorian housemaid means overcoming endless obstacles. Her current challenge is winning over the suspicious young parlormaid, Alice. Mallory’s plan starts with teaching the girl to make Molotov cocktails, which is a perfectly valid science experiment and not at all a desperate ploy to gain Alice’s attention. Before the lesson can begin, though, Alice receives a letter that has her slipping off in the night. Concerned for her safety—and naturally curious—Mallory follows. Mallory finds Alice at...

Publication Date:  April 24, 2015 Format:  Audio book  Genre:   Police Procedural/Mystery Publisher:  BookOutre Length:   8 hours 17 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Even the darkest secrets can't stay buried forever.  Five figures gather 'round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken, but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood.  Years later a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders that shock the Black Country.  But when human remains are discovered at a former children's home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed. DI Kim Stone fast realizes she's on the hunt for a twisted individual whose k...

Publication Date:  August 1, 2023 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   Memoir Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Length:   319 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors’ credit cards. Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She learns that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and  Lord of the Flies . Furniture is made from tampon boxes and Snickers bars are currency. But Lara quickly finds the rules and brings love and healing to her fellow inmates as she climbs...

Publication Date:  June 13, 2023 Format:  physical book Genre:   mystery  Publisher:  Random House Length:   371 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower—he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can’t. But it also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people. Everything changes after Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasn’t spoken a word since her arrest five years before. When P...

Publication Date:  November 7, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Mystery   Narrator:  Jennifer Jill Araya Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   12 Hours 26 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman Byrd’s legendary estate. She’s closing in on the damning evidence she needs for a high-profile client.    An aspiring PI, Cora was trained by her father, a former prison guard at the notorious Pelican Island, where Cora grew up surrounded by hardened criminals.   Which is why she recognizes Jack Yates as soon as he walks through the door. The last time she saw him was on an ill-fated night that chang...

Publication Date:  August 8, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fiction   Narrator:  Dominic Hoffman Publisher:  PenguinAudio Length:   12 Hours 21 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heav...