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Chris Landrum’s trip to Nashville to visit his best friend Charles hits a sour note when they learn of the death of the agent who had persuaded Heather, Charles’s girlfriend, to move to Music City to seek fame and fortune as a singer. Tagging along on the trip is Cal Ballew, an aging country music performer and owner of Cal’s Bar and Grill on Folly Beach, South Carolina.

At the end of WWII, Phyllis Bowden, a young woman in military intelligence, is assigned to the Office of the Military Attache in the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway. Her official tasks include secretarial and intelligence duties, and finding families of lost loved ones. These office duties, as tough as they may be, pale when she’s faced with something that occurs outside the office. Phyllis finds a runaway child in a café bathroom one night.

Airship Nine is a tale rich in technological detail and vision, full of action, passion, and the eerie splendors of the Antarctic. Through their fading radio links connecting them to a dying world devastated by unbridled nuclear war, the men and women of Airship Nine—a new-era passenger-and-cargo blimp—and for those onboard the Soviet supply ship Primorye, the holocaust has suddenly and completely destroyed their homelands. The black clouds of nuclear winter are spreading rapidly across the globe, and their only hope for survival is in the white ice fields ahead.

Corruption, greed and politics, mix with four amazing women and their alcoholic lawyer to create a fast-paced crime mystery set in Miami Beach in 1968. Helen, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp; Rachel, who led 2,500 Jewish children out of Germany during World War ll; and their friends Mary, and Lilly have been living in Miami Beach for a decade when a greedy, ruthless real estate developer named “the Austrian”, together with the politicians that he has been paying off for years, try to evict them from their home.

What appears to be an accidental death on Grand Cayman Island turns suspicious when Jake Sullivan’s name is found on the body. As more deaths occur, Jake and Mike join the local police force as they hunt for the killers and a legendary treasure.

When the body of a woman is found in the mountains of Harney County, Oregon, Sheriff Josh Matthews is drawn from the longest night of his life to investigate. A suspect is quickly located and the case seems cut and dried. But there have been other murders in this sheriff’s county, and they remain unsolved.

Learning that nuclear weapons have been smuggled into the United States, Jake and Mike are charged by President Fletcher with finding them and the terrorists involved. Joined by an over-the-road trucker who has innocently become ensnared in the terrorists’ web, who provides Jake and Mike with vital information to aid them in their search, they follow lead after lead, some true and some false, ultimately finding themselves in the Arizona desert.

Russia has learned that the theft of two Pakistani tactical nuclear missiles will be used to spark a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. And that’s a problem. Because Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left it with just two friends among the world’s leading countries: China and India.

Learn the 'Inside Story' of a complex high-tech crime from years ago! Taking place in a pre-9/11 world of the 80′s, a former US submarine is hijacked in the Gulf, a floating aircraft carrier museum is hijacked from its dock in South Carolina, a Learjet and then a DC-9 are hijacked from New York shortly thereafter. The story is a vintage-era caper that involves gold, hostages and a memorable cast of noble and exceptionally nasty characters.

A jogger out for an early morning run discovers Nigel Butler, a hairdresser, dead, with a comb and scissors stuck up his ass, upside down in a trashcan in front of the Columbia Library. Jimmy Dugan, the only detective in the small Westchester town of Columbia, goes to the salon where Nigel worked and discovers that one of his former clients - a man he had a disagreement with - is Joey Davies, a “retired” mafioso and Columbia’s most prominent citizen. Jimmy’s investigation into the murder takes a twisting path with some unusual consequences.

Sam Sawyer is a fishing guide and part-time sleuth living in the Florida Keys. Sam’s life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers a pair of shoes lying next to a huge crocodile on a sandy bank deep in the everglades, and somebody’s feet are in the shoes. Sam discovers they belonged to a woman called Mable who lived reclusively on an isolated key in Florida Bay. But how did her shoes and feet end up back in the glades, and who was responsible?

Jack Sawyer is an ex-airline pilot turned into a reluctant private investigator. Recommended by his estranged wife Susan, he finds himself looking into the death of an airline copilot. Officially, the man's death was an accident but there are suspicions that could hint at something else. With his estranged wife and a growing caste of other friends and acquaintances in tow, Jack sets out to track down the real reasons behind the mystery and possible murder!

The seas were empty of all life. The Midwest was a desert. The western states fought wars over water as coastal cities sank under rising sea levels. What food was left was hoarded by the wealthy living lavish lives in the city states while those around them starved. Vin Tanner and the others in his settlement survived by scavenging the urban waste lands around the cities. There was no law except survival of the fittest in a civilization on the verge of collapse.

Meredith and Jonathan were on top of the world, living in luxury. Jonathan's crime shocked his family and friends, and threatened to destroy everything. With her husband in prison, Meredith looks for help from her friends, but can they support her, while dealing with their own secrets? Do your friends and neighbors really have it all? What is under the pristine blanket of snow?

Following leads discovered in their Cayman Islands adventure, Jake and Mike track down the whereabouts of the enigmatic Ernesto Truffant to the island of Hispaniola, trying to determine if Group 45 has a new leader, a new home, and a new plan of attack.

Chris Landrum and his friend Barbara Deanelli’s search for shark teeth abruptly changes directions when they discover a woman at water’s edge clinging to a surfboard. How she got there was a mystery - a mystery compounded when she doesn’t remember her name, her past, or who abducted her, and nearly sent her to her death in the mid-December waters off the coast of Folly Beach, South Carolina. Chris and a cadre of his quirky pals are determined to learn the woman’s identity and what happened.

Twenty years after the Holocaust and the Nazi reign of terror, Thor, a neo-fascist organization born out of the Nazi defeat in Europe, is ready to take over the United States. Rabbi Ben Zvi Kantorwicz, an escapee from Auschwitz, and his organization the Aleph Bet, is determined to stop them from achieving their objective - new world order of blond-haired, blue-eyed super people with a hand-raised American president as its Fuhrer, continuing the policies and philosophy of the Third Reich.

It's the 1880s. Clayton Carter, a Shakespeare-quoting cowboy, is on the run from a romantic misunderstanding. He finds himself in Pigeon Ford, a small Texas town. An inadvertent display of his ability with a pistol leads to an offer to be the town's deputy sheriff. But it soon becomes apparent that Pigeon Ford is not the peaceful town he had been led to believe it was. A series of events nearly cost Clayton his life, but only serve to reinforce his efforts to enlist friends to clean up the town.

There is a killer at large in the oak grasslands of southeastern Arizona whose weapon of choice is a deadly variety of southwestern rattlesnake. Deputy Sheriff Calvin Creede doesn’t like snakes, but he and his compatriots seek to find the mountain cave from which a collection of Mojave rattlesnakes recently was looted. Then he must determine which of a variety of suspects has taken them home. Was it the leader of a gang of border vigilantes? Was it a greedy developer who will stop at nothing to gain control of land and water for his business ambitions? Or could it have been a recently disinherited trust child?

Tom Ballard, a young Marine, had been fighting for his life in Vietnam less than 24 hours ago. Now he was on a plane escorting the body of his best friend home. Kate Newhouse had run away from her past to the mean streets of Los Angeles and Hollywood. She had survived and clawed her way up the first few rungs of the ladder to success, thanks to the man who had discovered her, Jack Reynolds, a World War II Marine now writer. On the long flight home Tom and Kate find themselves drawn together.