“Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill.” — Parade

The next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and After That Night! 

One toxic family.

Eight suspicious guests.

Everyone is guilty.

But who is a killer?

For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

A murderer in their midst

Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will and Sara investigate the McAlpine family and the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying….Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves.

Who killed Mercy McAlpine?

It soon becomes clear that normal rules don’t apply at McAlpine Lodge, and Will and Sara are going to have to watch their step at every turn. Trapped on the resort, they must untangle a decades-old web of secrets to discover what happened to Mercy. And with the killer poised to strike again, the trip of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…

I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car.

My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.

So why do I still see his face everywhere I go?

The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie is an utterly addictive, unputdownable, nail-biting, absolutely gripping psychological thriller novella with a shocking, breathtaking, heartstopping, spine-chilling twist that you won’t see coming, will leave you stunned, and will literally have you picking your jaw up off the floor and bringing it to the nearest hospital for major facial reconstructive surgery.

Or they may make it worse. Far worse.

No one predicts the abrupt and disastrous environmental changes of 2054.

In the early 2050s, the world watches as stunning technological and scientific achievements better humankind.

Human genetic therapy becomes widely available, abolishing most disease and genetic conditions. Genetic engineering replaces evolution’s role in advancing human capabilities. Evolution is relegated to the dustbin of history. Molecular biologists still study evolution using engineered viruses in highly contained labs.

More sensitive MRIs finally map and characterize all the circuits of a human brain. This map allows construction of the first fully sentient supercomputer. This miraculous development makes the world far safer by replacing illogical human decisions with logical computer thought.

These marvelous developments in unrelated fields are uniformly expected to dramatically improve life on Earth.

But these expectations prove drastically wrong. Unexpected consequences of these two advancements unleash the apocalypse.

DEVO is a near future, pre- and post-apocalyptic thriller packed with understandable technology, accelerating action, unexpected twists, and four distinct main characters, one a sentient computer. In a two-million-year romp, DEVO reminds us that technology has both upsides and downsides, and that our “advancement” depends on the environment. The end result raises the oft considered question of what it means to be human.

America is under attack. Thousands lie dead after simultaneous strikes across the country. The day will come to be known as Bloody Monday.

Jason Trapp, codename ‘Hangman’, was a covert operative whose feats became the stuff of legend. He was the tip of the spear—the man his country unleashed when all hope was lost.

Six months ago, someone sold him out. The Agency listed him as killed in action. He lost everything—and everyone—he held dear.

But Trapp’s not that easy to kill. As his country reels from the deadliest terrorist attacks it has ever witnessed, Trapp’s personal vendetta leads him right back to where he started: duty to his country. The violence, the terror, the assassination of his partner… It’s all connected.

And now the Hangman is coming for the guilty.

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“Fans of Ryan, Reacher and Bourne will love betrayed CIA operative Jason Trapp, who stars in a pulse-pounding revenge thriller in 2019’s breakout hit.”

Note: Dark State was previously published as Deep State.

Richard Chance: former Special Agent in Charge DOS Diplomatic Security–DSS, now head of ENIGMA an international security/intelligence firm, faces three life-threatening challenges. A deadly game of betrayal. From Los Angles, to Las Vegas, to New York, to a private Caribbean Island. SIN ISLAND.

During a high-stakes poker game he meets an alluring high-priced call girl/grifter who enlists his help in finding her lost 15-year-old little sister who’s runaway to New York. And is promised a modeling career with SABRINA’S TREASURES by a mysterious rich woman.

On assignment at a Beverly Hills afterhours Oscar Party, he meets four people who will plunge him into a nightmare world of jeopardy and intrigue.
Gillian St James: British socialite, charming, refined and treacherous. Lover and accomplice. And at night?

Julian Karswell: Psychic and astrologer to the stars, who is secretly a freelance MI-6 operative charged with retrieving a an incriminating tape involving a member of the Royal Family. A Prince. He is also a master hypnotist and stage magician and esoteric authority.

Danny Steinberg: Billionaire financier and close confidant to presidents, British Royalty, bankers, and celebrities. And the secret mastermind of an international blackmail operation. Who uses his trappings of wealth and success to ensnare and victimize the innocent.

Gillian introduces Chance to a fashion mogul during the line’s fashion show, Saul Goldman, CEO of Sabrina’s Treasures a popular lingerie line, who is also Danny’s main client. Chance is hired by Saul Goldman to compile a dossier on Steinberg. To finish him off!

Dasha: Alluring Russian vixen who is a deep cover operative who seduces Chance. Chance finds out too late that she has her own hidden agenda.

Chance Finds himself drawn into a shadowy world of spies, lies, and extortion.

He and Karswell are kidnapped by MOSSAD, he is hunted by a NEO-NAZI hitman who feels no pain!

Finally in a last-ditch effort to rescue the missing teenager and her fellow captives from Danny’s clutches, he and Karswell are forced to come face to face with pure evil on SIN ISLAND.

YOU ENJOYED THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF: LINCOLN AND CHILD’S PENDERGAST SERIES AND DEAN KOONTZ, AND DAVID BALDACCI SERIES, YOU’LL LOVE THIS THRILL RIDE.

Kirkus Reviews: Jaw dropping, fast paced, action packed thriller, giving new details on the Jeffrey Epstein case through the medium of fiction.

Author’s inside knowledge having been an actual federal agent with inside information lends to the authenticity of the story.

Houston Chronicle: Cross genre thriller in the tradition of Dean Koontz. He blends a noir, hard-nosed hero with a splash of the supernatural.

Good Reads: Detailed plot that hurtles down the road at breakneck speed. Espionage, mystery, and thrill fest all in one.

AMAZON REVIEW: INTRIGUING WITH SURPRISE PLOT TWIST AT THE END!

The Las Vegas desert.

A once famous pop singer lies dead.

The only clue to her murder—a bizarre disfigurement.

Only one thing to do.

Call in Parker and Steele.

To avoid the hassle of a media frenzy, the local police sergeant decides contact his old mentor, Wade Parker, and ask him to consult on the case.

After nearly dying eight months ago, Miranda Steele can’t wait to get back to real detective work.

Nobody deserves to die that way.

But this one isn’t so easy. If she can’t solve this case, not only will she fail her destiny, another psycho killer might get away with murder.

Meanwhile, Parker harbors secret reservations about their new venture together.

Especially when he suspects there might be more to this murder than meets the…eye.

You’ll love this intriguing mystery full of twists and turns, because it’s the start of many more adventures.

Get it now.

THE MIRANDA’S RIGHTS MYSTERY SERIES
Someone Else’s Daughter
Delicious Torment
Forever Mine
Fire Dancer
Thin Ice

THE MIRANDA AND PARKER MYSTERY SERIES
All Eyes on Me
Heart Wounds
Clowns and Cowboys
The Watcher
Zero Dark Chocolate
Trial by Fire
Smoke Screen
The Boy
Snakebit
Mind Bender
Roses from My Killer
The Stolen Girl
Vanishing Act
Predator
Retribution
Most Likely to Die
(more to come)

MAGGIE DELANEY POLICE THRILLERS
Chicago Cop
Good Cop Bad Cop

Jerrol Haven serves his king without question. When he finds evidence of corruption and is attacked, the loyal soldier’s mind spins after his touch of a sacred tree awakens the dormant spirit of a three-thousand-year-old protector. But he fears he has failed after the crown prince accuses him of treason and orders his execution…

Fleeing the city, Jerrol is stunned when the goddess appears to him, appoints him captain of her warriors, and charges him with a quest to find artifacts that can save the realm. And as he runs into danger and more betrayals, the steadfast hero discovers a rare gift that may be the world’s only hope…

Can Jerrol rally the forces of good to stop a rising evil?

Sentinals Awaken is the first book in the Sentinal epic fantasy series. If you like endearing characters, immersive world-building, and gritty conflict, then you’ll love Helen Garraway’s award-winning tale.

Buy Sentinals Awaken to restore the guardians today!

Mercer Mann, a popular writer from Camino Island, is back on the beach, marrying her boyfriend, Thomas, in a seaside ceremony. Bruce Cable, infamous owner of Bay Books, performs the wedding. Afterward, Bruce tells Mercer that he has stumbled upon an incredible story. Mercer desperately needs an idea for her next novel, and Bruce now has one.

The true story is about Dark Isle, a sliver of a barrier island not far off the North Florida coast. It was settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, and their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave. That last descendant is Lovely Jackson, elderly now, who loves her birthplace and its remarkable history. But now Tidal Breeze, a huge, ruthless corporate developer, wants to build a resort and casino on the island, which Lovely knows, deep down, is rightfully hers.

Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns Dark Isle, taking on Tidal Breeze Corporation, its lawyers, lobbyists, and powerful Florida politicians. But Lovely knows something about the island that could seriously cloud the dollar signs in the developer’s eyes: the island is cursed. It has remained uninhabited for nearly a century for some very real and very troubling reasons. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present, and the fate of Dark Isle—and Camino Island, too—hangs in the balance.

“Fans of Outlander’s Claire Fraser will enjoy Lawhon’s Martha, who is brave and outspoken when it comes to protecting the innocent. . . impressive.”—The Washington Post

“Once again, Lawhon works storytelling magic with a real-life heroine.” —People Magazine

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.

Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.

Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.