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  Hack - Nik Byron Investigtion...

  Mark Pawlosky

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  When a top secret and powerful US surveillance technology is stolen and offered for sale on the black market, an exiled reporter races to expose the theft and untangle the plot—before the story is spiked, and he is silenced for good. Coming off a successful investigation into a major banking scandal, Newshound reporter Nik Byron arrives in Washington, DC, with high hopes for his career. But a disruptive corporate merger and a vengeful boss quickly dash his plans. Relegated to scut work and the graveyard shift, Nik’s career and emotions are in a tailspin. That is, until a late-night explosion levels a high-tech office park—home to some of the nation’s top clandestine programs—and provides Nik with an opportunity to reverse his fortunes. As Nik tries to unravel the mystery at the heart of the explosion, he suddenly finds himself confronting domestic terrorists, rogue American and Chinese spies, mercenaries, and a brilliant but temperamental computer expert. With the help of a small team of colleagues and his new girlfriend, Samantha Whyte—the chief investigator for the Northern Virginia Sheriff’s Department, who has her own secrets to conceal—Nik follows a bloody trail of bodies from DC to the upper Midwest. But as word gets out that what he has dug up threatens to expose the theft of highly sensitive US technology, now being sold to terrorists and repressive regimes, new enemies close in. How far is Nik willing to go for a story, and how much is he willing to risk to reveal the truth?

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  Sunsetter - A Novel

  Curtis LeBlanc

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  A fast-paced literary thriller that peels back the layers of small-town police corruption, drugs, and teen disillusionment to expose unlikely heroes and unexpected villains
  		 
  When two teens, Dallan and Hannah, attend the opening night of the infamous Sunsetter rodeo, they find themselves entangled in the suspicious deaths of their two closest loved ones. Driven by loss, rage, and their gut instincts for justice, they channel their grief and confusion into uncovering the criminal truth about their small town of Perron, a prairie community that has been long deserted by industry, leaving a ghostly emptiness of abandoned gravel pits, golf courses, and storefronts. They soon discover that Perron — with its population of bored and discontented youth, as well as police officers who are only looking out for themselves — is the ideal place for a mysterious and omnipresent drug trade to flourish. Soon enough, Dallan and Hannah are being tailed by Deputy Arnason, who has been tasked with protecting the reputation of the local police, even as his conscience screams in protest with every move he makes.
  		 
  Equal parts crime novel and literary fiction, Sunsetter is an unflinching story about the opioid crisis, teen isolation, police brutality, and the fickleness of late-stage capitalism.

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  Mistletoe and Murder

  Connie Berry

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  Five days before her wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, Kate Hamilton finds her friend Sheila in need of her help. Sheila, a soon-to-be bride herself, needs Kate’s help to get Carl Curtis, her fiancé, out of Venezuela. His passport was taken from him by the authorities, and they say he owes them money. Carl says it’s a bribe, but he’s unable to leave unless it’s paid. Sheila decides to sell her grandfather’s coin collection, including a valuable gold coin presented by Queen Victoria to her great-grandmother. Among her grandfather’s stored possessions is a letter from the Queen. When someone breaks into Sheila’s house, all signs point to even more foul play. As Kate deals with a disturbing number of wedding-plan hitches, a fire in town reveals a body. Unfortunately, the burned-out flat is next to the bridal salon where Kate’s dress is being altered. Can the cleaners really eliminate the odor of smoke? As the clock ticks down to Kate and Tom’s “I do”s, Kate goes to Sheila’s house to help her search for the royal letter, but she’s nowhere to be found. The house has been torn apart, and Sheila is missing. Could Sheila’s disappearance be connected to the death in town? Kate will have to piece together the clues.

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  The Brisling Code

  J.L Oakley

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  An experienced intelligence agent at 22, Tore Haugland faces certain danger when he accepts an assignment in occupied Norway knowing that his predecessor was killed by the Gestapo only a week before. The dying agent left a mysterious message in his interruption code that London calls the “Brisling Code.” London wants Haugland to find out what it means as well as to gather information on the expansion of the U boat base in Bergen. Haugland is sent to work at drafting office in a shipyard. His mission is jeopardized when a ruthless SS officer, Hans Becker, with his own secrets, is alerted to his presence by a traitor at the Verks. Becker will do anything to find him. If Haugland can’t discover the meaning of the Brisling Code in time, it could cost him his life and expose the members of the local resistance he works with. If he does, it could hurt the people he has grown to care about. But what if the message was written down wrong?

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  Guns and Attitude

  Michael Anderle

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  Jilted lovers, cheating spouses, treacherous business partners . . . All bread and butter that pays the bills for this dysfunctional Investigation team. 
   
   
   
  Unfortunately, the past is catching up with one of them. Vengeance with a capital V is as rare as it is dangerous and doesn't pay. Except that is what both of them want. What choice do they have when a federal agent promises to turn the pair into his personal sock puppets if they don't comply with his game? 
   
   
   
  Going undercover amongst the great and greasy of the city, things move from unprofitable to . . . well complicated. But for a chance at revenge, is any price too high? 
   
   
   
  Pain and Agony are once more caught between scumbags and a son of a bitch. Will their plans work? Hard to tell. But their exit strategy is guaranteed to be gratuitously violent. Occasionally at each other, more often against their enemies. 
   
   
   
  Shenanigans, shameful behavior, and a shower of brass shells should be expected when a "subtle infiltration" is left up to Pain and Agony. 
   
   
   
  But hey, if violence gets the job done and is fun along the way, what should the fed agent complain about? 
   
   
   
  Perhaps he shouldn't have engaged Pain and Agony.

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  Stepping in Blood

  Richard DeSteno

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  Lucius Bunk is a detective for the Las Vegas Metro Police. He is assigned a homicide case involving the murder of a casino blackjack dealer, that he has found very difficult to solve. He has been unable to obtain any substantial evidence against his main suspect. He seeks legal guidance from a friend and colleague of his, a blind woman Assistant District Attorney, Marlena Moreno. She provides him sage advice from both legal and ethical perspectives. Thereafter, he meets with her periodically as his investigation progresses, and she continues to guide him through the legal and ethical challenges that he faces. Meanwhile, Marlena is presented with her own challenges involving her derelict sighted brother who regularly asks her for financial support. Her generosity comes back to haunt her as it leads to a dramatic conflict between her brother and her long-term sighted boyfriend, which plunges her into a maelstrom of conflicting emotions. Ultimately, Marlena guides Bunk to a successful conclusion of his case as she copes with her own emotional stress.

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