Third Batch of Tuesday Free Books 11-20-2012

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Vigilante (VIGILANTE Series) by Claude Bouchard

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 88 votes

Category:  Mystery, Thriller, Police Procedural

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Book 1 of the VIGILANTE Series

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Montreal . . . the long, hot summer of 1996. . . and in the dark of night, moving like a shadowy wraith, a vigilante prowls the city's streets. The targets of his bloody rampage: the worst of the worst. Murderers. Gangbangers. Rapists. Six months. Sixteen murders. The harried police are still without a clue . . . until the day they receive an email from the assassin himself. Lieutenant Dave McCall, head of Montreal's Special Homicide Task Force, needs help to crack the secrets of the killer's taunting message. He calls on an expert--Chris Barry, who runs a security firm specializing in computer communications. Together, McCall and Barry launch a grim quest to track down a man who preys on predators--an urgent quest to bring this remorseless killer to justice. But whose justice will prevail: theirs--or the vigilante's?

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Mind Games (VIGILANTE Series) by Claude Bouchard

Rating: 4.4 Stars with 15 votes

Category: Mystery, Thriller, Police Procedural

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Book 3 of the VIGILANTE Series

Montreal is plagued by a string of vicious sex slayings...

Captain Dave McCall and his Special Homicide Task Force are in a frustrated frenzy as they try to bring an end to the savage butchery...

Assisting officially is noted psychiatrist, Doctor Samuel Bowman and unofficially, computer genius and multi-millionaire, Chris Barry...

With each passing day, McCall works his way closer to the truth...

Unaware that they are heading deep into the deadly core of...

Mind Games...

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Dance With A Gunfighter by Joanne Pence

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 12 votes

Category: Historical, Romance, Western

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The Price of Vengeance

Gabriella Devere wants vengeance. She grows up quickly when she witnesses the murder of her family by a gang of outlaws, and vows to make them pay for their crime. When the law won't help her, she takes matters into her own hands. Jess McLowry left his war-torn Southern home to head West, where he hired out his gun. When he learns what happened to Gabriella's family, and what she plans, he knows a young woman like her will have no chance against the outlaws, and vows to save her the way he couldn't save his own family. But the price of vengeance is high and Gabriella's willingness to sacrifice everything ultimately leads to the book's deadly and startling conclusion.

This is a harsh and gritty tale of the old West, somewhat reminiscent of Charles Portis' True Grit or Nancy Turner's These is My Words.

[This novel was previously published under the pseudonym JoMarie Lodge.]

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Why (A storyteller's diary) by Michael Edward

Rating: 3.9 Stars with 7 votes

Category: Non Fiction

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I am a storyteller who just finished a six part epic story that I have been working on for more than half my life. It has affected my family and friends in ways that I am sometimes embarrassed by. It has affected my health mentally and physically, so when I wrote THE END it was a feeling that one rarely experiences. Like the birth of your children or the first time you meet the love of your life. It was an experience, an accomplishment. I pushed my chair back and stared at the computer. For a reason I still cannot explain I pulled up to my desk and grabbed my keyboard. I blacked out and twenty-three hours later this is what I had written.

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Fifth Batch of Thursday Free Books 9-27-2012

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Gene Search by Kathleen Steed

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Mystery
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In Gene Search: A Collin Carter Mystery an independent private investigator, Collin Carter, discovers a greedy group of geneticists willing to experiment with human life to gain a buck!

The services these laboratory rats offer cost the people involved more than just the millions of dollars they are willing to pay for a perfect baby.

When the initial genetic experiment goes horribly wrong the Gene Search project moves out of the country. Collin talks Lily, his wife, into a vacation in paradise: A trip to the beautiful tropical island, Rarotonga. There he continues his investigation into Gene Search and his struggles to save the day!

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Beyond Control by Rebecca M. Senese

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Science Fiction
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A genetically engineered Assassin, working for the Gemini Corporation, Nadia prepares for her latest job: the “accidental” death of another company’s doctor. But a simple reconnaissance reveals rivals for her job. As she races to intercept them and complete her mission, Nadia finds herself questioning her orders... and her life. Includes a preview of “Beyond Reach: Book 1 of the Beyond Saga.

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Strangely Sober by Essa Alroc

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 9 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Mystery, Romance
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Angelica Salvatori, aka Sal, is anything but sober. As a hard partying and even harder living criminal, she considers her status as mastermind not just a job, but a calling. Between running her crew, trying to burn down her bar, and dealing with her occasional breaks with reality, she has enough on her plate. When she finds out that she has a twin she didn’t know about, one that may be in serious danger because of something she did, Sal reacts by doing what any good delusional sociopath would do. She goes on a violence packed, cross country crime spree to find out who’s hunting them and why.

When security consultant Cole Warner is hired by Sal’s sister to track her down and keep her safe, he gets a lot more than he bargained for. While pursuing Sal through a series of explosions, gun fights and meetings with drug cartel, he starts to wonder if the woman he’s trying to protect needs to be protected from herself. The more he gets to know Sal, the more he thinks that the self declared evil genius may have a death wish. At the same time, he also finds himself having more fun than he's ever had in his life, so she must be doing something right.

Sal and Cole soon find themselves drawn into the illicit underworld of human trafficking as they try to solve the mystery. With the help of Sal’s diverse family, a suitcase full of explosives, and a recurring Gary Busey hallucination, the two will embark on a journey to confront a kingpin who may be as dangerous to Sal as she is to herself.

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Chalk Valley by D.L. Johnstone

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Mystery, Thriller, Police Procedural
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In a remote mountain valley in British Columbia, a human monster preys on innocent lives. After teenagers discover the body of a missing girl in Chalk Valley, searchers find the remains of two more victims secreted deep in the woods. A serial killer is at work.

Chalk Valley police detective John McCarty is picked to lead a task force to find the murderer, but inexperience, politics and McCarty’s own inner demons quickly overwhelm him and the investigation falters.

Meanwhile, on a dark, lonely highway many miles from Chalk Valley, RCMP Sergeant Dave Kreaver comes across a van crashed at the side of the road. The driver is anxious to leave the scene but Kreaver discovers an unconscious teenaged girl in the van. Kreaver feels in his gut that the driver could be the serial killer everyone’s looking for, but his inquiries are ignored. The task force is in well over its head, buried by thousands of leads and potential suspects. His supervisors tell him to back off and let the task force do its job.

Kreaver finds himself in a deadly cat and mouse game with a murderous psychopath, a race against time with innocent victims in play. Operating alone and without official sanction, can he stop the Chalk Valley Killer before he claims more lives?

It's based on extensive research in consultation with world class experts in modern serial murder investigation. One of my technical consultants, Detective Staff Sergeant Richard Pellarin, OPP Behavioural Sciences Section, said the following : “CHALK VALLEY captures the essence of the ‘serial murder’ investigation through a combination of police techniques and behavioural sciences. Johnstone did an excellent job in portraying this from both the killer’s and police point of view.”

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Third Batch of Friday Free Books 8-3-2012

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GOTU by Mike McNeff

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 30 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Police Procedural
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When a drug cartel attacks a cop, the rules apply. When they attack a cop's family, there are no rules.

Sergeant Robin Marlette's special narcotics squad has killed a dangerous drug courier and the brother of a prominent Mexican drug overlord. When Marlette's daughter is kidnapped as an act of revenge, it's a race against time to save her. Marlette and his team are very good at what they do-but are they good enough to defeat a drug cartel on its own turf?

Written by a 40-year law enforcement veteran, GOTU puts you side by side with the law enforcement brotherhood as they battle the world's most vicious criminals. GOTU will have you rooting for the good guys and turning the pages well into the night.

Praise for GOTU:

"GOTU is an action-packed roller coaster of a story about a team of tough cops waging war on the biggest drug cartel in Mexico. The book has the hard-hitting realism only a SWAT cop like Mike McNeff can write about because he spent years busting drug smugglers crossing the Ariaona/Mexican border." -Bob Mayer, New York Times Best Selling Author and former Special Forces A-Team Commander

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South Beach Central - Homecoming by Sophia Leigh

Rating: 3.5 Stars with 8 votes
Category: Non Fiction, Romance, Short Story
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Homecoming has a double meaning in this short story involving relationships of high school science teachers. Bailey Starr didn't think it was possible to reconnect with her first love after more than a decade of life changing events. Brad Fox was contemplating a relationship with a fellow teacher Abigail Harlow. Will Bailey's homecoming to South Beach Central ruin Brad's chances with Abigail at the homecoming dance?

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Lily Out of Bounds by Andrea Montalbano

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Children's
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Lily James is a Soccer Sister. With the Brookville Bombers, her super competitive - and super skilled - soccer team, 13-year-old Lily plays hard and wins big. She and her teammates, including best friend Vee Merino, have hit the top of the league by running fast, passing straight, and following the Soccer Sisters Code, a list of ten unbreakable rules that keep the game clean and the victories sweet.

But when Colby Wrangle joins the Bombers, everything changes. Colby's got crazy soccer skills, dyed hair, fake tattoos, and tons of attitude. She's the coolest thing Lily's ever seen - and on the field, she'll do anything to win. Off it, she'll do anything to have fun. Soon Lily is sneaking out, lying - and trying to remember what made soccer so beautiful to begin with. With a huge tournament in Montreal looming, she's got tough choices ahead. They'll affect her family, her friends, the game she loves...and the future of the Soccer Sisters Code.

Lily Out of Bounds includes a special message from soccer icon Brandi Chastain, the official spokesperson of the Soccer Sisters Series.

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Blue Mercy by Orna Ross

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Contemporary, Literary, Mystery
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Mercy Mulcahy has devoted her life to protecting her daughter, Star, from neglect and cruelty – especially from the tyranny of her father, Star’s grandfather. Now she stands accused of killing this elderly man. An assisted suicide? Or something more sinister?

The only person who knows the truth, Mercy's boyfriend Zach, has left town and rather than try to plead her innocence, Mercy turns to writing a book about her complicated relationship with men. But will any of this serve her when she has to stand up in court and give testimony against the person she loves most.

As Star recoils in shock, and Mercy feels a trap closing round her, how far is this mother willing to go? And just who is she protecting?

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Bargain Book! Huntress Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

Huntress Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

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From Thriller Award-winning author Alexandra Sokoloff: Book One in the Huntress/FBI series: HUNTRESS MOON

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Francisco when he witnesses an undercover member of his team killed right in front of him on a busy street, an accident Roarke can’t believe is coincidental. His suspicions put him on the trail of a mysterious young woman he glimpsed on the sidewalk behind his agent, who appears to have been present at each scene of a years-long string of “accidents” and murders, and who may well be that most rare of killers: a female serial.

Roarke’s hunt for her takes him across three states...while in a small coastal town, a young father and his five-year old son, both wounded from a recent divorce, encounter a lost and compelling young woman on the beach and strike up an unlikely friendship without realizing how deadly she may be.

As Roarke uncovers the shocking truth of her background, he realizes she is on a mission of her own, and must race to capture her before more blood is shed.

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"Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Alexandra Sokoloff’s talent brings readers into the dark and encompassing world of the unknown so completely that readers will find it difficult to go to bed until the last page has been turned. Her novels bring human frailty and the desperate desire to survive together in poignant stories of personal struggle and human triumph. But the truly fascinating element of Sokoloff’s writing is her deep dig into the human psyche and the horrors that lie just beneath the surface of our carefully constructed facades." -- Fiction Examiner

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Second Batch of Monday Free Books 6-11-2012

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Heart of the Demon Slayer by Freya Rochelle

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Category: Fantasy Romance
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Shailah hopes that every demon she meets is the one she is looking for, but is she really going to find it in this tiny little town on the base of the Rockies? Or will she find she has been wrong all along...

Lunchtime Reads publishes short complete books that allows their readers to escape into a fantasy world during their lunchbreak, daily commute or even in the bath.

Freya Rochelle was born in the United Kingdom but moved to New Zealand as a teenager with her family. When she is not writing Freya spends time wandering windswept beaches with her husband and German Shepherd dog. Demonic Muse was Freya's first novella and this book is the second one in her Demonic Romance series.

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Bold Counsel by Tim Vicary

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Thriller
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What happens if a barrister falls in love with a killer?

When Sarah Newby presents her first case in the Court of Criminal Appeal, it seems her career is looking up. But at the same time her marriage hits the rocks, and to the despair of her former admirer Detective Inspector Terry Bateson, Sarah embarks on an affair with a handsome property developer, Michael Parker. All goes well at first, but then a body is discovered in one of Michael’s cottages. As Terry Bateson investigates, his suspicions fall upon Michael. But is Terry just jealous, or is Sarah’s new lover really a murderer?

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IRREFUTABLE by Dale Roberts

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 37 votes
Category: Thriller, Mystery, Police Procedural
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Life as detective Alex Mendez knew it came to an abrupt end two years ago with the murder of his wife. Now he is raising his teenage daughter alone. The demands of his job and the fact that his wife’s case remains unsolved have been a strain on both of them, but now a new case threatens not only what’s left of their fragile relationship, but their very lives.

When three local women are brutally raped, the case consumes Alex. His daughter, feeling abandoned, unknowingly befriends a looming shadow from Alex’s past.

DNA evidence found on the first two victims leads Alex to his suspect. It looks like an open and shut case until DNA from the third victim is matched to Alex. Now, to clear his name he must face the demons from his past and reveal a long kept secret that could disprove the evidence against him, but doing so would not only devastate his daughter, it could destroy them both.

Whisper In The Pines by Donald Wells

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Mystery, Suspense
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In 1959, a woman was found lying on the bank of a Pennsylvania river. She was nude, strangled and left for dead. Doctors soon realized that the woman was in a coma, they also discovered that she was pregnant.

John Harmon is that woman's son, the miracle baby born to a mother who would never know him, never hold him. He has searched most of his life to discover his mother's identity and to find the person who assaulted her. His only clue is a black & white photo found clutched in his mother's hand. After decades of searching, he's finally led to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey where he will not only discover his mother's identity, but will also unearth her killer and face death square in the eye.

Fifth Batch of Sunday Free Books 6-10-2012

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Renegade Reprisal by J.C. Fiske

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 8 votes
Category: Epic Fantasy
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Freshly given his new Renegara title, Gisbo Falcon is back, but for how long? On the desert plains of Flaria, Gisbo continues his training under his Class Master, Falcon, while dodging Spike Slithers, getting reacquainted with a long lost family, and preparing for a tournament to face off against his greatest rival yet, Malik Strife. But that’s the easy part.

A fiendish cult known only as The Holy Chosen has recently risen out of the ruins of Cledwyn City, once home to Vadid the Valiant and the Flarian race. Now, a shadow of its former self, the new city seeks to open the sands of Flaria once again to the horrors of war.

A great battle is coming, but Gisbo hasn’t been himself lately. A dangerous, repressed memory in the form a door, bolted, and chained on all sides has been rattling within Gisbo’s mind, clawing day and night like a caged beast, a beast, if freed, could change our good-hearted hero forever.

To The Stars by Thomas Stone

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 36 votes
Category: Science Fiction
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TO THE STARS is the first book in a science-fiction trilogy concerning an intrepid group of space explorers in the year 2107. Harry Irons dreams of escaping poverty and an over-crowded Earth by gaining employment with the Braithwaite Corporation. After proving himself in a series of tests, Harry gets his wish and soon enough finds himself struggling to survive on an alien world. TO THE STARS was written for a general audience and is sure to satisfy both younger and older fans of alternative fiction.

River Ghosts by B.R. Robb

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 12 votes
Category: Mystery/ Police Procedural
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From the author of The Widow's Son - a Kirkus Starred Review Literary Mystery:

Which is right: the eyewitness testimony of an eight-year-old boy or exculpatory DNA evidence?
Sixteen years after Richard Hill testified in court that he crouched under the kitchen tablecloth and saw Henry Clayton rape his white momma and murder her and his black poppa, a DNA swab earns the prisoner a pardon and his freedom. Returning to Red River Falls, Clayton claims that he has been reborn and offers to help Hill, now a patrol officer, identify who really killed his parents. Hill, who relives the family horrors every day, doesn't believe him. But how can he prove DNA evidence wrong? An ingrained distrust of everyone except Doria, the aunt who raised him, has led Hill to distance himself from his squad-car partner Jack Harter, and his mixed parentage has alienated him from members of both races. When he leans on radio reporter Sydney Brey for help, the search for truth puts Sydney on the railroad tracks as a train heads for her, leaves Auntie Doria bleeding on her bedroom floor and makes Hill the target of bands of good old boys with swastika tattoos. Ultimately, his childhood memories hold true but bring the disturbing possibility that the perfect science can be corrupted while racial enmity festers undercover.

The pseudonymous Robb, an attorney, writes with the chilling clarity of Alice Sebold. Read it and weep. (Kirkus starred review March 2008)

From ForeWord Magazine Reviews (May 2008) - Its frightening insight into the best and worst of men and their institutions, thoughtful intrigue, and superb attack upon preconceptions make River Ghosts a mystery devoid of coincidences or tidy endings, that will grip readers from the stunning opening to its powerful last page.

Haole Wood by Dee DeTarsio

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 8 votes
Category: Mystery/ Romance
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When San Diego weathercaster, Jaswinder Park, is mysteriously summoned to the island of Maui in Hawaii to help her grandmother, she ends up losing her job. This fair-haired, light-skinned foreigner, called haole by the natives, decides to stay in Maui for a couple of days until she can figure out what to do with her life. She realizes that her quick trip to Maui may not be all she’s hoping for when:

-She has to bail her Hawaiian/Korean grandmother out of jail for possession of pakalolo.

-The only thing she can understand her grandmother say is: “Not that.”

-She can’t decide which hurts worse, her sunburn, hangover, or memories of the night before.

-She’s labeled the “Liquor Licker” on the front page of the Maui News in a photo that shows her doing a shot of tequila with a hunky Hawaiian who’s been found dead.

-It seems she’s had orgasms that have lasted longer than her career.

-She scrapes the bottom of the barrel to find her guardian angel.

Beautiful fabric found in her grandmother’s closet unfolds a future for Jaswinder as she designs sensuous silky wraps called sunshminas that provide sun protection. She tries for a Hollywood connection, but her company, Haole Wood, has some growing pains. From trying to find a killer, to selling her sunshminas, to lusting after Dr. Jac, the island dermatologist, to trying to ignore her so-called guardian angel, can Jaswinder learn to embrace the island way of life? Aloha!

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Loss by Glen Krisch

Rating: 4.4 Stars with 10 votes
Category: Paranormal Thriller
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After Angie Chandler's husband dies in a car crash in which she was driving, her life comes undone. Though her soul mate is gone, her memories of Paul linger as she tries to recover at their secluded wooded estate. Ostracized from Paul's family--the only family she has really known--Angie's life spirals down a dark path of alcohol and pills. In the blur of constant self-medication, Angie is in no position to know what is happening to her.

Is Paul haunting her?
Has she gone mad?
Or is there another possibility, something far worse?

A 29k word (or about 110 printed pages) novella of psychological horror

Dark Horse by J.R. Rain

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 62 votes
Category: Mystery, Police Procedural
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When high school student Derrick Booker, the only black student at a posh Orange County high school, is accused of killing his white girlfriend, ex-college football hero and detective Jim Knighthorse is hired to dig a little deeper into the murder. It doesn't take long for Knighthorse to realize that not all is as it seems at tranquil Huntington High, from a band director who preys on the innocent to a vice-principal with a secret agenda of her own. Not to mention someone's hired a professional killer to keep Knighthorse permanently off the case.

As the investigation continues, Knighthorse's personal life is shattered by the discovery of new evidence relating to his mother's unsolved murder, a murder dating back twenty years. Reeling from the discovery, a determined Jim Knighthorse sets out to bring two killers to justice.

Sexy in Stilettos by Nana Malone

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 13 votes
Category: Romance, Chick Lit
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What’s worse than having to watch your sister marry your ex fiancé? How about when that fiancé fires you from the family business?

Hyper-organized, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux is used to doing things by the book and never making waves. It’s a strategy that’s served her well until she finds herself in failure alley with no fiancé, no job and her thirtieth birthday looming. Maybe it’s time to change her methods. Starting with an unlikely date to the wedding from hell.

The only thing that can tie carefree, playboy, Alec Danthers down is his formidable step mother. When she calls him home to help find his wayward brother, he never imagines an uptight, list making, sass-talking woman would make him think about putting down roots.

Can Jaya put the lists down long enough to enjoy the ride that is Alec? Will Alec stop running long enough to recognize true love?

Warning: Sexy, sass talking women will make you laugh, cry and want a pair of killer footwear.

The End of the World by Andrew Biss

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 20 votes
Category: Science Fiction
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An Odd, yet Oddly Touching Tale of Life, Death, and the Space In-Between by Award-Winning Author Andrew Biss

Are you prepared for what comes next?

Accustomed to a life of cosseted seclusion at home with his parents, Valentine is suddenly faced with making his own way in the world. His new life is quickly upended, however, when he's mugged at gunpoint. Finding shelter at a mysterious inn run by the dour Mrs. Anna, he soon encounters a Bosnian woman with a hole where her stomach used to be, an American entrepreneur with a scheme to implant televisions into people's foreheads, and a Catholic priest who attempts to lure him down inside a kitchen sink. Then things start getting strange...

In this story based loosely around the state of Bardo from The Tibetan Book of the Dead - an intermediate state where the dead arrive prior to rebirth - dying is the easy part. Getting out of Bardo and returning to the land of the living is a far more perilous proposition, and unless you know what you're doing...you might never leave.

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Superman's Cape by Brian Spangler

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 61 votes
Category: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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When Sara Connely is asked what life is like today, she answers with the simple words, 'life goes on.' The life she and her boys enjoyed the last dozen years is gone. Sara struggles to cope with the death of her husband and doing so with two young boys, and no money, is almost too much to ask.

Life does go on, but when Sara's oldest boy becomes lost in Croatan National Forest, life comes to a stop.

Twelve-year-old Kyle Connely doesn't know the woods. He doesn't know the wildlife. He doesn't know how to get home. Lost in the wilderness, he faces dangers the likes of which he has never seen. Kyle's time is running out. A hurricane is looming, and in its path is the coastal forest he is trying to survive.

Jacob Hanson has a gift. An intuition. An insightfulness. And it has helped him find success. But his gift turns into a curse as he becomes an unwilling participant in Kyle's plight.

What Jacob Hanson doesn't know is he also holds the key to Sara's past and the lifetime she lost with her

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Healthy Fast Food by by Angie Sansom

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Category: Non-fiction
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Although preparing and cooking meals can be fun it can also be a chore if you live a hectic and full lifestyle. In today’s modern times when both partners may well be working there is a tendency to turn to ready-made processed meals. These do save time but they come with a downside often being packed with extra salt, fats and sugars.

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Fifth Avenue by Christopher Smith

Rating: 3.9 Stars with 180 votes
Category: Thriller
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Look beneath all the power and all the wealth that represents New York City's Fifth Avenue, and you'll find greed, blood, revenge. In the international best-selling thriller "Fifth Avenue," each intermingles within a revered society that is unprepared for what's in store for it when one man finally strikes in an effort to destroy another man for murdering his wife thirty-one years ago.

Louis Ryan is that man. George Redman, his wife, two daughters and their close friends are his targets. Both men are self-made billionaires who came from nothing to stake their claim to Fifth Avenue. But when Louis Ryan hires an international assassin to literally rip the Redman family apart, a series of events that can't be stopped catapults them all through a fast-paced, hard-edged thriller in which nobody is safe.

Secrets are revealed. Sex lives are exposed. The Mafia get involved. And George's two daughters, Celina and Leana Redman, come to the forefront. More than anyone, it's they who are caught in the throes of their father's past as Louis Ryan's blind desire to kill them all takes surprising turns in his all-out effort to see them dead.

THE BRIMSTONE MURDERS by Jeff Sherratt

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 22 votes
Category: Mystery/ Police Procedural
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Robbie Farris stabbed his junior college professor twenty-seven times.

At his arraignment, Robbie pulls a gun and escapes. After his mother is found murdered in her shabby house trailer, Robbie's lawyer, Jimmy O'Brien, is led into the seemingly unrelated worlds of high-profile, religious evangelism and old-fashioned Mojave Desert borax mining.

Jimmy fights the clock, the cops, and the DA in his effort to find and return Robbie before he himself is charged with Section 187-murder in the first degree.

Fourth Batch of Thursday Free Books 5-31-2012

The Winner of the May $50.00 Amazon.com Gift Card is Beth-Ann T.!  

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Weston by Gregory Attaway

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Historical Saga
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Benjamin Camden lives a life of reckless abandon, paying little heed to the consequences of his actions. A powerful Hollywood trendsetter, he gives birth to some of the most shocking, controversial films of his day. Multiple marriages fail as he turns his back on his father and adopts his mother’s maiden name as his sole moniker. Rumors of drugs, alcohol, and infidelity follow him everywhere.

But everything changes with the birth of his daughter, Cara. No other woman – mother, sister, or wife – could make him change…but she can. He may never be able to escape the scandals of his past, but he resolves that Cara will never see him the way the rest of the world does.

A Husband for Margaret by Ruth Ann Nordin

Rating: 3.3 Stars with 31 votes
Category: Historical Romance
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When Margaret Williams posted an ad for a husband, she expected Paul Connealy to arrive, but instead, his older brother, Joseph, came...and he brought four children with him.

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Coming Home by Julie Sellers

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 18 votes
Category: Drama
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When Lillian's husband learns he's the cause of their infertility, he's gone before morning. Lillie does what any self-respecting woman would do, she turns to Ben and Jerry's and refuses to leave the house. Eventually, she has to venture out to replenish her supply of Phish Food, and runs into her mother-in-law, struggling with the care of her special needs niece.

Ashamed by her self-indulgent behavior, Lillie finds strength she didn't know she had to create the family she'd always wanted. Later when Jonathan returns, Lillie hopes to find the closure she lacked from his speedy departure. But instead, he needs a favor and Lillie's the only one who can help. She knows the best thing to do is to forget the past and put her crumbled marriage behind her...or is it?

Sometimes coming home, isn't to a place on the map...but a place in your heart.

Enemy in Blue by Derek Blass

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 90 votes
Category: Thriller/ Police
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The streets aren't safe when your enemy wears a blue uniform and a gold badge.

What if the good guys weren't good?

What if a cop went rogue and killed an innocent man?

What if it was all caught on video and the cop would do anything to cover it up?

Chase this lawless cop through the streets and to a scintillating series of showdowns with Cruz Marquez, a young attorney trying to nail down his enemy in blue.

Will justice be served?

Third Installment of Tuesday Free Books 5-29-2012

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'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy by Leslie Langtry

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 22 votes
Category: Romantic Suspense/ Chick Lit
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From Publishers Weekly
For wisecracking single mother/professional assassin Gin Bombay, who comes from a line of career killers stretching back to ancient Greece, an invitation to the family reunion brings problems that go well beyond Aunt Jean's unappetizing potato salad. For starters, reunion business will include the mandatory blood initiation of Gin's five-year-old daughter, cementing her to the family business; on top of that, Gin's been assigned to eliminate a spy within the family, who may be her beloved younger brother. Things only get worse when she finds out that one of her marks is a client of her brand new boyfriend, a hunky Australian bodyguard. The beleaguered soccer mom/assassin concept is a winner, and Langtry gets the fun started from page one with a myriad of clever details, like the Hello Kitty phone perched in our heroine's death lab. The book's chief flaw is in Gin's one-liners; unlike the gracefully underplayed wisecracks of Janet Evanovich's like-minded bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Gin's are one-joke affairs—all assassination, all the time—that quickly become grating. (Aug.)
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Natural Causes by James Oswald

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Mystery/ Police Procedural
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The body of a young woman is found walled up in the basement of an old Edinburgh mansion. A prominent local figure is brutally murdered. An illegal immigrant cuts his throat in a city centre pub. As violence descends upon the city, Detective Inspector McLean must think the unthinkable. An ancient evil has been freed, and only if he accepts that it can exist will he be able to stop it.

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When Edinburgh police find the killer of a prominent city elder less than twenty-four hours after the crime, they are justifiably pleased. So the murderer has killed himself; that just saves the time and cost of a trial. But a second murder days later bears haunting similarities to the first, even though once more the murderer swiftly confesses and kills himself.

Detective Inspector Anthony McLean is investigating the discovery of a dead girl, walled up in the basement of an old Edinburgh mansion. She has been brutally murdered, her internal organs removed and placed around her in six preserving jars. The evidence suggests this all happened over sixty years ago, an attempt to re-enact an ancient ceremony that by trapping a demon in the dead girl’s body would supposedly confer immortality on the six men who took one of her organs each.

McLean’s grandmother – the woman who raised him after his parents were killed when he was a young boy – dies after months in a coma following a stroke. On top of this he has to investigate a series of unusual, violent suicides and a cat-burglar who targets the homes of the recently dead. But as another prominent Edinburgh businessman is killed, he begins to suspect that there may be a connection between the murders, the suicides and the ritual killing of the girl found in the basement. The same names keep cropping up. He just can’t find a rational explanation as to how that connection works.

As he digs deeper, and as the coincidences stack up, McLean is forced to consider an irrational explanation. Could there really be something evil stalking the city he has sworn to protect? And if so, how on earth can he hope to stop it?

Reported unsettling violence. Sensitive Readers beware.

A Time to Love by Barbara Cameron

Rating: 4.1 Stars with 53 votes
Category: Christian Romance
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War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man . . .

Always the Baker, Never the Bride by Sandra D. Bricker

Rating: 3.5 Stars with 211 votes
Category: Romance
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From Booklist
When diabetic Emma Rae Travis wins the prestigious Passionate Palate Award for her innovative crème brûlée wedding cake, she is thrilled to be offered the position of pastry chef by the new proprietors of the Tanglewood Inn, an Atlanta institution being renovated into a five-star wedding-destination hotel. She is also attracted to its CEO. But Jackson Drake is still mourning his beloved wife’s untimely passing and is unable to reconcile his burgeoning feelings for Emma Rae with his loyalty to Desirée’s memory. Although both consider themselves blessed with supportive family and friends, Emma Rae and Jackson would rather be spared the well-meaning efforts at convincing them to return to their childhood faith. And when Emma Rae’s unappreciative former boss and her ex-boyfriend—the cad and his fiancée are about to become the Tanglewood’s first wedding clients—both suddenly want her back, Bricker’s contemporary inspirational romance really heats up! Topical recipes, menus, and how-to tips entice the reader with an insider’s perspective on the lucrative business surrounding all things bridal. --Lynne Welch

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The Axeman's Jazz by Julie Smith

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Mystery/ Police Procedural
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The second book in the Skip Langdon mystery series by Edgar Award-winning author Julie Smith.

"Gritty and Witty ... Langdon is a splendid female heroine ... The Axeman's Jazz is a mesmerizing story." -People

It's a steamy August in New Orleans and a murderer has borrowed the name of the Axeman, a serial killer who roamed the city in 1919. The modern-day Axeman has strangled a young woman and stabbed an elderly man, beside whose body a teddy bear is found. The letter "A" is scrawled near both corpses in lipstick and in blood. Both victims, it develops, were members of 12-point recovery programs modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous; the killer may be using the groups' anonymity as a shield.

A most appealing heroine, social-misfit Skip Langdon, is now a homicide detective assigned to the Axeman team. Risking her life, Skip must get close to suspects, among them beautiful but ditzy Di, a New Era devotee; the very angry Alex, "a walking testosterone bomb" who writes self-help books; Sonny Gerard, a stressed-out second-year medical student; and Missy, Sonny's overmothering girlfriend. As Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder. And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a deadly murderous, and dangerously attractive -- psychopath....

"With an acute ear for New Orleans speech and a sharp eye for the city's social stratification, Smith keeps the reader's heart palpitating to the end of this mystery of unusual depth." -Publishers Weekly

"The Axeman's Jazz is the kind of book that leaves you torn between running out and devouring all the other mysteries in the series, or spacing them out as periodic special treats. Julie Smith garnered great attention, including an Edgar for Best First Mystery, with her initial entry in this series, the 1990 publication of New Orleans Mourning featuring police detective Skip Langdon ... in New Orleans, of course. The Axeman's Jazz is the second of the series and even better than the first." -BookLoons Reviews

If you like Laura Lippman, Sue Grafton, Linda Barnes, Nevada Barr, and Marcia Muller, Julie Smith’s your new best friend.

My Last Blind Date by Susan Hatler

Rating: 3.5 Stars with 63 votes
Category: Contemporary Romance
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My Last Blind Date is a contemporary romance short story (25 pages, 6000 words):

It’s Valentine’s Day and Rachel Price has a choice: Stay home and watch TV with her loveable doggy or let her best friend, Ellen, set her up on a blind date. What to do….

Ellen says the guy is a “10,” but the last guy she set her up with was a “–5.” Rachel’s been flirting with coworker Noah Peterson and she’s hoping he’s noticed. Then, she finds out Noah has big plans. Even worse, he advises Rachel to go on the blind date!

Should she play it safe and spend the Hallmark holiday with her loyal pooch, Chester, or risk another dating disaster by trying yet again for love?

Shadow Keeper by M. K. Yarbrough

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 7 votes
Category: Horror
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Brendon Alexander was a normal high school kid until his dead grandfather appeared in the flames of a fire and told him of the gift he inherited: He has the power to force a demon from an inflicted body and send the creature back to Hell.

Lisa Stratton, the new girl at school, has a secret of her own—her father is possessed by a demon. She recognizes the scar on Brendon’s chest that brands him as a protected one, but she must discover if he has the ability to cleanse the evil from her father’s body.

The closer Brendon gets to Lisa, the more he uncovers buried secrets from the past. Not hers, but his—his father’s death and the creature that killed him, and the legacy handed down to him from beyond the grave. Burning curiosity and frightening nightmares thrust Brendon deeper into his past while Lisa urges him forward into danger—and into his destiny.

Coming About by Jan Tilley

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Drama/ Romance
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Rachel Robinson is drifting along comfortably. She’s completely unaware that her entire world is about to be turned upside down. Rachel was not prepared for the pain as her only daughter leaves for college. Her suffering is only compounded when her husband asks for a divorce.

With no place else to go, Rachel turns to her new friend, Sadie. As the women unveil secrets from their past, it triggers a chain of events that will change their lives forever.

With nothing else to lose, Rachel sets sail on an unforgettable journey where she finds that true love has been waiting for her all along. Coming About will speak to any heart that’s ever had a change of course.

Sometimes the path we’re on is not where we are destined to be. It takes a twist of fate and a leap of faith to redirect our future. Never give up hope, just come about…