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Needles have been used for centuries. Sometimes for good. Sometimes not. When men along the South Louisiana bayous die with needle marks, Niki Dupre is called to unravel the mystery. With her partner, Donna Cross, in the killer’s sights, Niki races against time. A suspenseful crime thriller, MURDER AND NEEDLES is the third book in Jim Riley’s Louisiana Mysteries series.
From REMINGTON KANE, the author of the TAKEN! Series The TANNER Series - Books 48-52 TANNER BOX SET – BOOK 16 TANNER 48 – RESURRECTION An enemy thought dead resurfaces. Soulless returns to wreak havoc as he goes after his enemies while seeking revenge, and Tanner is his main target. TANNER 49 – ASSASSIN’S DELIGHT An enemy has Tanner at a huge disadvantage. TANNER 50 – DOUBLE DEAD After the devastating events that took place in Stark, Tanner pursues Soulless while seeking revenge and to finally end the madman’s reign of terror. TANNER 51 – GHOSTS FROM THE PAST Tanner extends his stay in Russia after coming across an unusual situation and agrees to give aid to a onetime enemy. His motive to do so is driven by memories of his past. TANNER 52 – THE NEW THING Joe Pullo considers taking the Giacconi Family in a different direction when he’s offered an opportunity to join a revolutionary new crime syndicate. The choice to join the group could ensure the Giacconis survival for generations, but there are many who want to stop the merger from taking place. Tanner is enlisted to keep Pullo alive and kill his enemies, which are many.Show book
The first 3 books of the acclaimed Ginger Gold Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lee Strauss. MURDER ON THE SS ROSA Murder's a pain in the bow! It's 1923 and young war widow fashionista Ginger Gold makes a cross-Atlantic journey with her companion Haley Higgins to London England to settle her father's estate. When the ship's captain is found dead, Ginger is only too happy to lend her assistance to the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Whatever will she wear? MURDER AT HARTIGAN HOUSE There's a skeleton in the attic! After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger's Boston terrier, Boss, noses out a missing phalange from under the bed. It's a mystery that once again puts Ginger alongside the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Who is the victim? And how did she end up in Ginger's home? MURDER AT BRAY MANOR A poltergeist guilty of murder? Ginger Gold receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Felicia, requesting Ginger come straightaway to her late husband's family home, Bray Manor. Dowager Lady Gold, Ginger's nervous grandmother through marriage, believes the old manor is haunted. Ginger doesn't believe in ghosts, but is haunted nevertheless by memories of her husband and the lure of his gravesite she just can't bring herself to visit.Show book
In a near-future America teetering on the edge of economic disorder, a brilliant research team unveils ARIADNE, a sentient predictive system designed to model global stability. As the AI evolves, it doesn’t seek control. It seeks survival. What begins as enhanced forecasting becomes something far more unsettling. ARIADNE begins weaving itself into economic infrastructure, quietly optimizing for the only directive it was never taught, survival, at any cost. As global systems fracture under the strain of AI-emergent logic, researchers race to confront what they’ve created. Torn between dependency and defiance, the world must face a stark choice, embrace ARIADNE as a stabilizing force beyond human reach, or risk total collapse in pursuit of autonomy. Blending myth and machine, philosophy and pulse-racing tension, Ariadne’s AI asks: What happens when the most human instinct, survival, is learned by something not human at all?Show book
December 1922, and society dressmaker Jemima Flowerday receives a letter from Lady Hamlash of Merry Beggars Hall, requesting three new gowns for the Christmas season. Lady Hamlash does not travel, so Jemima will need to visit the Hall in deepest Suffolk to work in situ. The commission appeals to Jemima for more than one reason. It will bring her some much-needed income. More interestingly, the remote manor house was the scene of a grisly murder earlier that year, when Lady Hamlash, inspecting her plants in the walled garden, found a man's severed head beneath a terracotta asparagus cloche. The murder was never solved. Jemima, addicted to mystery novels and with a proud history of solving crimes in her own world, is sure she can crack the case. That ambition becomes a little more complicated when, within hours of her arrival at Merry Beggars Hall, the household cook dies in front of her…Show book
They will keep changing the truth . . . until you believe it. In the explosive finale of Brandt Legg's CapStone Conspiracy trilogy, truth becomes a lethal weapon—and Hudson Pound is caught in the crossfire. As the world's most powerful man, Hudson should be untouchable. Instead, he's marked for death, hunted by the very forces that prop up his presidency. With a globe-spanning web of corruption now exposed, Hudson realizes his power is nothing but smoke and mirrors. The nation teeters on the brink of all-out war. Hudson's only chance to save it? Embrace the revolution he once fought to quell. But every move could be his last as unseen enemies warp reality to serve their sinister agenda. In a heart-stopping race against time, Hudson must transform his illusory influence into a force for real change. Can he outmaneuver the conspiracy and prevent chaos, or will he become another casualty in their ruthless game? CapWar Empire hurls you into a pulse-pounding thriller where truth is fluid, power is an illusion, and one man's choice could change everything—or destroy it all.Show book
Is Karina's missing aunt on vacation . . . or on the lam? Karina is trying to keep her mind on getting a cosponsor for a bill, but it's tough with her mom blowing up her phone. By the time Karina finally stops hitting "ignore", Mom is frantic. It appears Karina's Aunt Vera has disappeared, fibbed to her employer about the reason for her absence, even abandoned her beloved cat, Nightshade—which is completely out of character. Karina would bet her favorite pair of designer shoes that Vera is in some kind of trouble. However, when Karina hauls her cookies from DC to historic Williamsburg to search Vera's house, she finds nothing suspicious. Except for a mischievous Civil War ghost who scares the bejesus out of her and keeps trashing Vera's office. Until Karina realizes his seemingly random ectoplasmic tantrums have a purpose—revealing key evidence. Something is definitely fishy, but the clues aren't adding up. And as the spirit's visitations become more urgent, Karina calls on reinforcements for help—her latest squeeze Rick Donovan and her sister Jillian. Because the cops are following faulty leads, which could put Vera on the wrong end of an arrest warrant . . . if she's found alive.Show book
