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Brian Klingborg: Kill Devil Falls
Gold in the hills U.S. Marshal Helen Morrissey is annoyed. She’s been assigned the mundane task of prisoner pick-up and transport. Worse, she has to drive to the town of Kill Devil Falls to get her. Virtually abandoned for years, the town has only a few people within its borders of contaminated water and sink holes.…
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A. J. Devlin: Cobra Clutch
Tight Squeeze Her name is Ginger and she’s a sleek beauty. She’s being held for ransom and her owner, Johnny Mamba is frantic with worry. Owner? Ginger is a snake, a python to be exact, and the kidnappers want $10,000 for her return. Jen “Hammerhead” Ounstead, creator of the infamous Cobra Clutch move, used…
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Kelley Armstrong: City of the Lost
Yukon Safe A place only rumored about. A place of safety for the good and the bad. A place called Rockton. Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with an act of murder in her past. Now the mobster family of her victim is on her trail. To add to that, her best friend Diana…
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From the Archives – Michael J. Clark: Clean Sweep
Escape A prostitute with a ledger she shouldn’t have. The man who wants it back, and the hunters he sets against her. One man, Pastor Tommy Bosco, who can help her disappear. Considering that one of the hitmen is his father and the woman was once responsible for putting him in prison, Bosco wonders if…
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Jordan Harper: She Rides Shotgun
Weave & dodge She’s learned how to take a punch, how to strangle, how to manipulate. Granted it was all there inside her, an anger roiling like spoiled milk in her stomach. She pushed these feelings down as she dealt with the bullies at school. Life can be hard at eleven. Polly is on…
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William Lashner: A Filthy Business
A writer & a psychopath Walk into a bar A man who searches may find himself, but won’t necessarily like the result. Phil Kubiak is a fixer on the wrong side of the law. He does what he’s told as much as he can. Always the outlier, Kubiak can’t help deviating from instructions. On the…
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C.J. TUDOR: The Chalk Man
Chalk Figures Stalking horse Five young friends discover the dismembered body of a girl in 1986. The path to her remains, was drawn by someone using the chalk figures code which the friends devised to communicate with each other. Eddie Adams stayed in Anderbury, while some of his friends moved on. He lives alone…
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Review of 2017: June Lorraine Roberts
The ‘Amazing Brit” Vic Watson has kindly allowed me the last word prior to her 2017 Annual Review