When private financial investigator Seamus McCree returns to Cincinnati after a routine business trip, he discovers that his home has become a crime scene. A brutal murder has occurred in his basement. The victim, an acquaintance from a previous corporate investigation, has endured bullets to both of his ankles, knees and elbows before the final shot to his forehead that put him out of his misery. But no one has seen an “IRA six pack”…
A mild-mannered introvert named Horace Gray was always on a schedule, a routine. Every day like the one before.. And part of Horace’s routine was a morning visit to the automat around the corner from the office where he wrote reports no one would ever read for an insurance company. Then, in Cristina Martin‘s psychological thriller “The Automat” Horace becomes obsessively enamored with a woman who stares at him from behind the automat wall. And…
Washington, D.C. lawyer Breecie Lemay has been called to the aid of her father, who has suffered a debilitating stroke. But not long after her arrival, she makes a startling discovery at her father’s home. She fears the gun she has found hidden in a secret compartment in her father’s staircase is the same weapon used to kill her mother years ago. In search of the truth, she’s thrust into a world of her father’s…
A respected physician in Cordoba, Spain, receives a mysterious phone call – a request to attend to the ailing daughter of a wealthy but secretive family in Madrid. What seems to be a routine house call quickly turns into a disturbing labyrinth of intrigue and mystery, and a fight for the girl’s life, in Birgitte Rasine‘s novel “Verse in Arabic.” The outcome of the battle will impact the doctor – and the journalist interviewing him…
Sometimes to get the measure of your life you just need a break from being yourself. In Garrett Addison‘s novel “The Traveller” a family man struggling in his pursuit of a work-life balance embarks on yet another trip at the whims of his tyrannical bitch of a boss. But on this trip he is a world apart from his usual self. Suddenly confident, capable and unafraid of his manager, reclaiming his life becomes less about…
Psychologist Barb Stark’s dapper Atlanta lawyer, Eldee Dupree, is being sued. So despite a heavy workload at her practice back in Duncan, Tennessee, Barb decides to sit in on a couple of depositions to help Eldee — and also to spend a few relaxing days at her Atlanta estate. Soon, though, in Margaret Koch‘s suspense mystery “Cauldron,” Barb finds herself deep in a national forest staring at burned bodies — and dodging bullets on the…
