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"Gleason mixes historical mysteries with current events and exciting technology-creating a fast-paced story that takes you on an action-packed ride!" -New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon In the tradition of Clive Cussler comes the first novel in an exciting series of thrilling adventure, high-stakes international threats, and lost treasures.... Moscow, 1560: A lost Byzantine library...last seen in the possession of Russia's Ivan the Terrible... Siberia, 1942: A World War II female fighter pilot crashes in the mountains of Siberia and is taken away by a small, mysterious tribe... United States, 2007: Four simultaneous earthquakes erupt across the United States in areas without fault lines.... Marina Alexander lives for adventure. She pilots small planes in order to participate in search and rescue missions with her dog, deep in the most dangerous caves on earth. She also studies antiquities at the University of Michigan, and is just about to depart on the most important trip of her career when she is swept into an adventure of high-stakes, international intrigue--for little does she know, she has a connection to a dangerous group of eco-terrorists that will bring her face to face with them--and leave her with a terrible choice. From the deep, dangerous caves of mid-Pennsylvania to the southern shore of Lake Superior, to the desolate mountains of Siberia and the slick urban oil center of Riyadh, Siberian Treasure will take readers on a fast-paced, thrilling ride. "...there's nothing better than a book by [C.M.] Gleason!" --Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Anna is trying hard to make the right decisions about caring for her mother, who has Alzheimer's. When her mother goes missing from her care home, the buried secrets about her mother's past are revealed and Anna is caught up in ever more frightening events as she comes to terms with the truth of her family and their lives, trusting that God will help her, however dangerous her world becomes... and it's about to get very dangerous indeed.

Newton is a film critic with an inconsequential existence witnessing the imaginations of others but never paying any mind to his own. That is until the enigmatic film director, Cristian Dartage, walks into his life with all of his insanity and his absolute quenching thirst for life and for feeling. Cristian teaches him to live his life wilfully, and without excuse or apology. He shows him what truly being alive really means. Cristian has been struggling to write the love story for his latest movie and asks Newton to help him. Little does Newton realise what this involves though. He is taken to an empty studio lot and to his amazement witnesses a real love story unfolding, but Newton can't understand what or who the love interest, Ava, is. Is she an apparition or is she the living product of Cristian's own imagination, as Cristian believes?

A disturbing, gripping thriller, Under The Elm is a story that explores the true nature of humanity, and just how dark family secrets really can be.

When Laurence Harford, a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly. After barely starting his investigation, uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled employees, a second killing occurs.Meanwhile, Laurence's nephew, Nicholas Harford, has his certainties in life shaken when he becomes a suspect in his uncle's death, and receives a mysterious gold locket that starts a chain of events unravelling his family's dark truths.

For a day Sweetwater acknowledged himself to be mentally crushed, disillusioned and defeated. Then his spirits regained their poise. It would take a heavy weight indeed to keep them down permanently. His opinion was not changed in regard to his neighbour's secret guilt.

Murder. It's a perennial problem. Verity Hawkes is a shut-in. After two years bunkered in her apartment, the only thing that gets her out is the disappearance of her beloved but eccentric aunt. As she takes over her aunt's landscaping shop, she'll need to go from hoarder to horticulturist in a hurry...Her new home of Leafy Hollow is quaint, except for her most obnoxious client. When a series of freak accidents kills the customer, all signs point to Verity as the killer. The hunt for answers is on, and Verity must question a tipsy carpenter, a bacon-peddling vegan restaurateur, and her dreamy landscaping competitor to keep her new life afloat. Failure to find the truth could put her back in a confined space for much more than two years...From Garden to Grave is the first book in a series of delightfully funny cozy mysteries. If you like lovably quirky characters, deceptively idyllic Canadian villages, and twists you won't see coming, then you'll love Rickie Blair's Leafy Hollow Mysteries series. Buy From Garden To Grave to plant a new seed of mystery today!

A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no-something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal-another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational ';poetics of failure' rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.

From the bestselling authors of R&J pick PEOPLE LIKE HER and Reese Witherspoon pick THE CLUB comes a darkly glamorous new novel.

A tale of triumph over adversity, self-discovery, and the power of loveSunderland, 2019. Eve Cummins starts looking into the history behind an old, homemade valentine found in a box of family memorabilia. Her search takes her to Canada, on to Shetland and back to Sunderland.Shetland, 1849. A young blacksmith, Gideon Thompson, makes the difficult decision to leave Lerwick, and the girl he admires, in the hope of earning enough to save his family from destitution. He travels far from his island home to the wilderness of Rupert's Land.As Eve follows Gideon's journey, accompanied by enigmatic rancher, Joel Baxter, she feels an affinity to the young blacksmith and discovers more than she could imagine.

"The judge described my crime as 'the most heinous' he had seen in his career on the bench. I wanted to shout, cry out and protest my innocence as my sentence was handed down. But honestly, I couldn't."Convicted of a crime he has no memory of committing, Eli Kelly is serving a life sentence in Stoutbliss Prison. After seven years as an inmate, Eli is resigned to his fate, but when a solicitor is sent to Stoutbliss as part of a government scheme to investigate potential miscarriages of justice, he finds himself contemplating a future beyond his prison cell. Working with a psychiatrist, Eli revisits his traumatic past, and as they delve deeper into his memories, Eli realises that, regardless of his guilt or innocence, he is yet another victim whose cries for help were ignored by the very services supposed to keep him safe. Will Eli finally remember what happened on that fateful night? Is he guilty? Or innocent? And given the circumstances, does it matter?

"You think you're fuckin' better than me?"A dead girl's words haunt a detective's broken life as he struggles to find her killer. Returning to work after losing his wife and unborn child in a horrific car accident, Detective Senan Maguire is rapidly thrown in at the deep end, with an intense murder case that hits a little too close to home. As Senan and his team investigate, revelations come to light that will change their lives forever, unravelling a world of deceit and corruption.

Sometimes you have to have the rug pulled out from beneath your feet to test your spine. The award nominated family suspense, Lake Laps is the broken fairytale of the family next door in a quiet little lakeside town. How far are you willing to go to slay the dragon that has threatened your princess? What do you trade? Who and what can you let go of in order to save your family? It's a tale of family bonds and retribution, a battle to find peace. This is the story of one mother who was willing to go that far. To save them, she danced with the devil himself.

She opens her mouth to scream, but no sound comes out. She clutches at her throat as thick foamflows from her mouth. Her eyes go wide, and she falls to the floor."Bertha's been murdered, or more correctly, assassinated."With a secret desire to become President of the United States, Senator Ralf Mudbottom calls anemergency meeting of the National Democrat Party's Election Committee, but the evening doesn'tquite go to plan.A serial killer is on the loose and as the race for the White House heats up, the murders increase -killing off key people from each campaign.No one is safe.Brothers, Lewis and Shelton Ledbetter, work together to find the killer which proves moredifficult than they could have ever imagined.A plot full of twists and intrigue which will keep you guessing right to the last page.

The criminal underworld clashes head on with the forces of law and order in this warts and all account of greed, vice, drugs and violence.in a police safe house in peaceful North Wales, Boris the Orange, informant and one-time translator for a criminal prostitution ring, is in hiding with his detective handler. But then an intercepted phone call blows the lid off their secret location. Within hours, the safe house is raided, the detective murdered and the informant kidnapped. Soon afterwards, Boris's tortured corpse is found in a nearby canal, manacled at the neck.Within the force, the number of unlucky and mysterious deaths among the ranks of CID is growing steadily. Coincidence is no longer a credible reason. Could someone close to one of the officers be a suspect? Someone who, while on the surface appears calm and harmless, hides a dark, disturbed past...

Frank Szatowski hasn't seen his daughter Maggie in years, and it breaks his heart every day. So when she calls him out of the blue, to tell him that she's getting married and he's invited, Frank is overjoyed.Maggie is marrying into one of the richest families in the country, and Frank finds himself overwhelmed by the social circle she now moves in. He'll do anything to reconnect, though, and arrives at their New Hampshire estate ready to bond however he can with Maggie's in-laws.But as the wedding weekend gets underway, it becomes clear to Frank that although they have spared no expense, there's something strange about Maggie's fiancé. And maybe he shouldn't be celebrating just yet...

When he was a child, Liam Granger never thought of being a serial killer. He overcame a series of setbacks in life, including the death of his parents, and managed to put everything behind him as he grew into a mid-twenties man. However, one final act re-ignited his suppressed emotions and pushed Liam over the edge of reason and into the abyss of revenge.So the killings began, regularly one every month. Along the way, Liam picked up the 'name' JASON.Detective Graham Tonnick was used to winning, but the JASON murders presented a new challenge - his team were struggling to crack them. His team were being made to look stupid and his frustration increased with the steadily rising body count. Then the murders abruptly stopped, only starting again six months later with the next victim particularly close to the detectives.Just over a year after it started, the team believed the tables had turned and they were finally closing in, but were they, or would Liam once again give them the slip?

As Michael Bolta and Jake Barton continue their work in civil litigation, they navigate perilous waters dealing with their clients' personal priorities, which occasionally place their own reputations in jeopardy.The transgressions of clients, friends and even family members continue to complicate their lives, but will they choose retribution or forgiveness? Jesus Christ's parable of 'The Prodigal Son', teaches that it is preferable to forgive the indiscretions of those who may have trespassed against you, rather than exact retribution, but not everyone can follow that moral lesson.

The story begins in 1950 with a murder in a remote Cornwall village. A cryptic message is discovered on the victim and the case is assigned to newly-appointed DI Harry Dillon of Scotland Yard. The mystery looks impossible at first with few clues and hidden names and disguises. All is not what it seems and two more murders follow the first. Dillon colludes with his friend, Jim Wilson-Smythe, and their two sisters as well as Harry's neighbour. Between them, they uncover terrible crimes and solve the intriguing case.

Shauna and Erin are celebrating their joint bachelorette party, living their best lives, drinking and dancing with a group of their girlfriends. One of the girls won't make it to the end of the night because on this - the best night of their lives - a killer lies in wait...Lt. Eve Dallas is on the case

For over forty years, former band members of Generation 27, a briefly successful band in the late seventies, have been haunted by the shadows of the group's collapse. Only when strangely familiar figures emerge from those shadows is each of them forced to confront their loss and regret.