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  The Actress - A Short Story

  Agatha Christie

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  A rising star. A buried past. A dangerous game. 
  Acclaimed actress Olga Stormer has captivated audiences with her performances, but someone in the shadows knows the truth—before she was a star, she was Nancy Taylor. When a blackmailer from her past resurfaces, threatening to expose a secret she thought was long buried, Olga faces an impossible choice: pay the price or lose everything. 
  As tensions rise, she turns to her trusted manager, but no amount of planning can prepare them for what’s coming. With her career and engagement to a prominent politician on the line, Olga must outmaneuvre a man who thrives on fear. But when the game turns deadly, who will come out on top? 
  In this gripping short story, Agatha Christie delivers a tale of suspense, deception, and a woman willing to risk it all to protect her future. 
  Can Olga outplay a master manipulator, or will the curtain fall on her career—and her life?

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  The Crisis - A Thriller

  T.O. Paine

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  She wants to quit smoking. 
  He wants to start a nuclear war. 
  They both want the girl with the cryptic tattoo. 
  Stuck working at a backwater convenience store in the middle of northern Florida, Mattie longs for a cigarette. She longs for her days as a marine biologist at the Queen Aquarium down south. She longs for her best friend-Hank the Manatee. Her colleagues blamed her for his death, and now, she blames herself. She should have done something sooner. 
  Today, a nervous couple enters the convenience store. The man is big, bald, and has a tight grip on the girl's arm. The girl is small, young, and has a number tattooed on her leg. It looks like a brand. 
  When they leave, Mattie finds a note on the floor. 
  ". . . Blue Honda mini-van going to Salt Springs. Someone named Stanley." 
  A similar thing happened to Mattie's cousin. This girl is being kidnapped. Trafficked. The note isn't enough for the police to care, but Mattie does. She jumps into her decrepit Toyota wagon and flies onto the highway, wasting no time. She's got to stop that mini-van before it reaches Salt Springs. She's got to save that girl before she's sold to the highest bidder. 
  Meanwhile, in Cuba, a militant rebel has sent his men to the US. He's been searching for a young woman with a cryptic tattoo on her leg for over ten years. When his men bring her to him, he'll finally have the negotiating power he needs to overthrow the Cuban government. He'll have the power to make the United States listen to Cuba for once. 
  It's only a matter of time. 
  His men are already in Salt Springs, waiting for her. 
  "The Crisis is a suspenseful thriller filled with vivid characters, mounting tension, and explosive twists that keep readers guessing until the final page." ★★★★★ - Readers' Favorite

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  Neighborhood Watch 9 - After the...

  E.E. Isherwood

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  Two weeks into the Apocalypse . . . and the world has gone red. 
   
   
   
  It's been a long couple of weeks since the power shut off, and life is only getting harder. Much harder. A quiet resignation has set in. The power is not coming back anytime soon. The last holdouts of shelter-in-place are emerging from their doomed homes to find they've missed the boat on prepping for THE END. Desperation follows. 
   
   
   
  And the world itself seems broken. Cities burn and throw their ash high into the atmosphere, painting the sky red. Libraries are torched. Food stores totally looted. Homes invaded. Every abandoned car has been picked clean. 
   
   
   
  Frank starts his day in the heart of this disaster, far from the calm of his quiet street. But home is where he must go, since every scrap of intel he's picked up suggests the forces of darkness have their greedy eyes on the region's last refuge of the old America, Clownfish Cove.

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  Leprechauns & Larceny - A...

  Lucinda Race

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  Enjoy this witty paranormal, cozy mystery by award-winning and bestselling author Lucinda Race. 
  Welcome to Pembroke Cove, where witches and murders are multiplying... 
  Bookstore owner and witch Lily Michaels has a never-ending list of to-do items as the maid of honor for her best friends’upcoming St. Patrick’s Day wedding. The last thing she has time for is another mystery. But with a missing wedding dress, the discovery of a pair of leprechaun boots, and a body in a bathtub, she’s ready to mesh her love of puzzles and a little magic to help solve the crime. Even if her fiancé —Gage Erikson of the Pembroke Cove police department— is determined to keep her out of trouble and safe. 
  Good luck with that. 
  Lily is going to need more than the luck of the Irish to solve the murder while a group of treasure hunters, friends of the deceased, are in town. Only they’re not grieving. They’re focused on finding a pirate captain’s gold, which—according to legend—the rocky coast of Pembroke Cove keeps hidden…and is only accessible during three days in March. 
  Will Lily’s luck hold with a wedding in shambles and a murderer skulking in the shadows? She needs to follow the clues to solve the case but can her witchy skills save her when the final clue leads her to the murderer? 
  Leprechauns and Larceny is the sixth novel in A Book Store Cozy Mystery Series, although each book can be read as a standalone—a sweet and clean cozy mystery with a guarantee that the culprit is caught.

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  The Superintendent Battle...

  Agatha Christie

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  A collection of works containing two classic mystery Agatha Christie novels featuring the redoubtable Superintendent Battle. Superintendent Battle's impassive expression misleads many new aquantances into underestimating the determined lawman - but it is not nothing that one of Scotland Yard's finest detectives is assigned the most volatile and mysterious cases of murder. In his first adventure, The Secret of Chimneys, the Superintendent is concerned with a missing packet of letters -- and their vital connection to murder and control of the throne of Herzoslovakia. In The Seven Dials Mystery Battle returns to Chimneys, the sprawling country house with a dark secret, to investigate the existence of a secret organisation and the numerous deaths linked to it.Contents:The Secret of ChimneysThe Seven Dials Mystery

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  Golden Retriever Mysteries 7-9

  Neil S. Plakcy

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  Book 7: Honest to Dog 
  Semi-reformed hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-solving golden retriever Rochester need to find the truth behind his colleges friend’s mysterious death…and Steve may have to risk his freedom to do it. 
  When his college friend Doug moves to Stewart's Crossing after an ugly divorce, reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan sees a way to pay forward the help he received under similar circumstances. But when Doug dies under mysterious circumstances, Steve and his crime-solving golden retriever Rochester have a new goal: Find the truth behind Doug's death, even if Steve has to risk the freedom he has fought so hard for to do it.Contains Ponzi schemers, a Quaker funeral and cute jump drives shaped like llamas. 
  Book 8: Dog is in the Details 
  As Steve teaches a class in Jewish American literature at Eastern College, he and Rochester nose out suspects and dig up clues to present-day crimes-and ones in the past which still influence the living. 
  As Steve teaches a class in Jewish American literature, he and Rochester nose out suspects and dig up clues to present-day crimes-and ones in the past which still influence the living. From the rabbi's Talmud study group to a homeless shelter in Trenton, our two intrepid sleuths are on the trail of someone with deep secrets, and the will to kill to protect them. 
  Book 9: Dog Knows 
  When Steve Levitan learns that a high school friend is accused of three murders, he and his clue-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are on the case. Could sweet, ambitious Peggy Doyle be guilty of killing three husbands? Is she “The Black Widow of Birch Valley?” 
  Can he and Rochester dig up the clues that might acquit Peggy, while avoiding the slippery slope of hacking that could cause him to lose everything he cares for? Trust Rochester to keep Steve on the straight and narrow, and bring the real killer to justice.

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