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From the Archives – Mike Knowles: Running from the Dead
Mike Knowles is one of my favourite writers, and this book is no exception to his craft. It’s been six years since Sam Jones has been looking for a missing boy. When he finds him, the truth is gut-wrenching. Lost in his actions the day Jones confronts the killer, he makes a mistake that he…
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Sam Wiebe: Sunset and Jericho
Available May 16, 2023: Pre-Order Here Dave is going through the motions at Wakeland & Chen. It’s good that the security side of the business has clients, as the private investigation cases are few and the compensation paltry. A call from the mayor’s office brings some movement. Her brother Jeremy Fell is missing and the…
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Ripley Jones: Missing Clarissa
Cam Muñoz and Blair Johnson are working on a journalism project assigned by their teacher. The subject, and how they choose to cover it, is up to them. Clarissa Campbell has been missing from Oreville, Washington, for more than 20-years. Muñoz thinks doing a podcast on this hometown girl could lead to fame and fortune,…
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Eryk Pruitt: Something Bad Wrong
Available May 1, 2023 Pre-Order Here Jess Keeler is doing a true crime podcast. It’s not just any crime, it’s about her grandfather, Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Ballard, and an unsolved double murder from 1972. A young couple went missing and their bodies were found tied to trees -it wasn’t pretty. “Big Jim” Ballard is assigned…
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Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood is an activist collective in the Lake Korowai area of New Zealand. The two principals, Mira Bunting and Shelley Noakes, are friends and ecological rebels in a comfortable mid-class village way. Bunting is the risk taker and the strident of the two. She likes to ‘borrow’ peoples land to do the groups…
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Leanne Kale Sparks: Every Missing Girl
Frankie is a great hockey player. The team welcomed her, with the exception of one player who felt she had stolen his spot. When Frankie disappears from her home town rink the search is on. Has she run away? It seems unlikely for her but you never know with teenagers. If someone took her they…
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Mary Ann Miller: Bones Under the Ice
Pre-Order Here Jhonni Laurent is the Sheriff of Field’s Crossing, Indiana, and unsurprisingly, the first female sheriff. Her patch is rural farm country and generally not much happens. During a blizzard the body of teenager Stephanie Gattison is found in a park where the city trucks dump the snow. Did she die in the park…
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George Albert Brown: Who Killed Jerusalem
Ickey Jerusalem is a noted poet in 1970s California. It’s somewhat incongruous then, when his body is discovered in an airplane toilet amid flight. Aboard the flight is Dedalus “Ded” Smith, recently divorced insurance claims adjuster. Sick over his divorce and tired to death of his dead end job. Upon deplaning in San Francisco, Smith…
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Mark Atley: A Bright Young Man
Charlie McQueen is a Hollywood stuntman and an aspiring actor. He’s just been given an opportunity to act in a movie about a murder that took place in his hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The movie’s producer, River Rhodes, is on a bit of vengeance trip with this production. The script is really the story about…
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Noelle Holten: 6 Ripley Avenue
Ripley House Approved Premises. It’s a probation hostel or perhaps halfway house in my parlance. Several ex-cons are resident here, and now one of them, Danny Wells, is dead. Jeanette Macey is the probation officer in charge of the house and it seems that the surveillance system has malfunctioned. Neglect, or by design? Either way…
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Jason Beech: Breaking Point
“My momma always said when poverty worms through your door, love jumps out the window.” From the first get go, Jason Beech gets our attention in this book of Crime Stories. Starting with Marley Anderson in Breaking Point, a man hiding in a cabin in the deep woods. Marley did some killing and it’s now…
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Aaron Philip Clark: Blue Like Me +Interview
‘My father always said becoming a police officer is one of the most self-destructive choices a person can make. He likened it to drowning in a lake.’ Trevor “Finn’ Finnegan is a PI on a stakeout. He knows there are dirty LAPD cops involved at the site, but when his former partner Munoz shows up…
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Eric Beetner: There and Back
The Truth Must Not be Unearthed It’s a team building exercise into the forest for 10 colleagues. Many don’t want to be there, but two promotions are available and they know this is a test. Things go wrong immediately. When crossing over a fast moving river, a rope bridge entangles one of them and it’s…
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Kevin G. Chapman: Dead Winner +Interview
The seemingly oblivious Rory and the femme fatal Monica. Thriller author Kevin G. Chapman is fresh off a five-book story arc in his Mike Stoneman Thriller series. Now, taking a break from that series, he has written a stand-alone novel called Dead Winner. We caught up with Kevin to ask a few questions about the…
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Debbi Mack: Fatal Connections
When does a Marine run from a fight? When she’s on probation and in anger management therapy. Called out in the middle of the night to meet with her social media influencer clients the Harcourts, Erica Jensen finds a death scene at their home. Detectives Meredith Sully and Thomas Gordan are suspicious but have no…