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The Murder Hobbyist
0“The Murder Hobbyist is a clever and twisty meta-mystery where fiction and reality blur as an author-turned-suspect races to solve two murders—including one he didn’t commit. With sharp twists and intriguing characters, this is a must-read for mystery lovers!” – NewInBooks.com/
Frank Lazarus is an author whose novels include “The Murder Gambit,” and the “April Fools” duology. In his new book, THE MURDER HOBBYIST, Lazarus puts down his pen and picks up a gun.
Lazarus murders an ex-boss in Philadelphia. Upon his return to Hilton Head, he learns he is a suspect in his girlfriend’s murder. Lazarus elects to investigate to find her murderer.
As the two investigations progress, Lazarus encounters characters from his previous novels and “103 First Dates,” creating an intriguing meta-narrative.
This cross-genre concept cleverly merges true crime elements with fictional murder mysteries and the author’s real and imagined worlds collide.
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The Victim
0She thought she’d escaped. Now the nightmare continues. They find the man’s remains in a remote Australian waterhole. They discover he was murdered and link her to the crime. Now she is brought back from England to Australia, charged with murder. She refuses to say what really happened on that fateful day!
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Antimatter Blues
0Edward Ashton’s Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.
Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive―that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life. -
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The 24th Hour
0As enemies lurk in the shadows, “Tough-but-tender cop Lindsay Boxer” (People) leads the Women’s Murder Club in the high-profile murder investigation of a billionaire San Francisco couple—will Cindy, Claire, Yuki, and Lindsay still be standing when the clock strikes midnight?
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Alibi for Murder
0No Witness. No Clues. No Capitulation.
Four days before the election, a local judge running for Congress is killed outside his house, thrusting Lieutenant Detective Jenna Ferrari into a high-profile investigation. Motives and suspects abound, yet without witnesses, a murder weapon, or other conclusive evidence, confirming who did it proves daunting.
After wading through a troop of persons of interest in the case, Jenna’s gut tells her who the murderer is, except for the ironclad alibi. Can Jenna and her team find proof of who killed the judge and how they did it, or will the culprit get away with murder?
The twisty, astonishing plot of this impossible-to-prove crime will keep you guessing while Jenna and her wife Randi face the challenges of bringing a new life into the world. Whether you love watching a couple grow in their relationship or can’t resist a compelling “howdunit,” this realistic, sapphic mystery will captivate you from the first word to the last.
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The Fourth Girl: A Novel (Haven Cliff Book 1)
0On prom night, Caroline Winterfield walked away from the ruins of an abandoned mansion called Haven Cliff and into the woods…never to be seen again. Only her three best friends know what really happened. But a secret is a secret, and a promise is a promise—even when it shatters lifelong friendships.
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Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel
0Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
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Nowhere to Hide (The Tony Valenti Thrillers Book 7)
0In the seventh novel of the acclaimed Tony Valenti Thriller series, Tony battles to save his girlfriend’s recently orphaned nephew from the jaws of injustice. Will fifteen-year-old Kevin Tyler be ripped away from the only home he’s ever known? The ensuing legal battle sets the courts of Texas and the Canadian province of Alberta on a collision course.
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Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
0One of NPR’s “Books We Love” for 2024
A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature.
David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare.
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Her Best Friend’s Keeper
6TEN YEARS. THREE MONTHS. SIXTEEN DAYS.
—That was how long it had been since she had felt safe.
As a teenager Gabby Kendall witnessed the execution of her best friend’s family. Those images haunt her every day. Now… Now the killers are back. They know who she is, where she lives, and who her friends are. They know everything about her…