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Star Children

Genres: Science fiction, General

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Star Children?is a work of Science fiction that was written as a fast-moving adventure with building mystery and many twists involving genetically engineered (alien/human) children attempting to save themselves and Earth in the process.

Dillinger's Deception

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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Pushing a '40 hot rod Ford to the limit, sensible Freddy, wise guy Rafferty, and the incandescent Neal McCord race over the border to borrow a Canadian flag but run smack into a wicked brooding mass of ugly, stone-faced Mafiosi wanna be's. In a 'refusing-to-die' game, they end up with a bank bag that leads them to the Jungle Inn Casino. Although the notorious Purple Gang, John Dillinger, and gangsters from all over the country no longer visit the former gun-turret protected safe haven, the sprawling building creates chaos.

Body Traffic

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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Prostitution, biker gangs and a corrupt forensic lab are at the heart of criminal activity in Winnipeg, Stan Bolenko's old home town. When his cover is blown in Vancouver, he returns to the city to investigate potential criminal activity in the forensic lab.

John Alker Returns

Genres: Thrillers & suspense, General

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Chief Inspector John Alker was inside his home when a large section just vanished, with him inside. A gas explosion was the official conclusion, but Billy, a good friend to John, knew better, he suspected that the time machine had taken the house and John away, but where?

At long last he accepted that John would not be returning, lost in the annals of time.

Inspector Lynda Summers, John's old Sergeant, was handed a case of several bodies found in what appeared to be an old, air raid shelter. Her gut told her it was not the case.

Revenge

The Damien Palmer Investigations - Book 3

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Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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Employees go missing every day. Some return to their desks, others don't. So the call from the Managing Director of Castle Point Systems did not particularly intrigue Damien Palmer. He was more interested in the missing laptop computer and the software it contained.

As Palmer begins his enquiries it soon becomes evident that a sinister force is at work. Clearly there is more to this missing employee than had seemed to be the case at first. This and the other cases Palmer is working on create the perfect recipe for deceit, intrigue and murder.

Rite of Death

The Damien Palmer Investigations - Book 2

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Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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To Damien Palmer, the request seemed pointless. The police had found Heather Burnston standing over the body of her husband. The kitchen was covered in his blood and she was still holding the murder weapon when the police knocked the door down. Yet she protested to her solicitor, John Manning, that she was not guilty. So it was that one morning in early spring, Damien Palmer decided to accept the solicitor's request to investigate this hopeless case.

Alibi

The Damien Palmer Investigations - Book 1

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This book was added or last updated on 26 February 2022

The Galileo Project

Genres: Thrillers & suspense, General

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In 1999 several billion internationally are invested in counter measures to combat the much anticipated, widely dreaded world-wide Y2K computer virus.

Amidst these counter measures several banks in New York and London take the daring precaution of secretly stashing several billion in cash in armored cars in secret locations around the cities in anticipation of their computers collapsing at midnight on New Year's Eve.

When the virus doesn't materialize and the armored vans are recalled the next day all but one of them returns.

The Wolves of Calabria

Book 2 in the Operation Underworld trilogy

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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The Italian Wolf, also known as the Apennine Wolf, was originally described in 1921 as subspecies Canis lupus italicus by Italian zoologist Joseph Atobello. However, following WWII it was believed to be extinct. It was not.

After the war the wolves spread west from Sicily to the island of Corsica and then on to Southern France and finally across the Atlantic and into the United States through New York City.

By 1946 the wolves, led by a cunning and ruthless leader, were planning to devour the youth and disenfranchised of the U.S.

The President's Wife is Missing

Mirror-Walker I

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Genres: Science fiction, General

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David Malone is a private detective with a unique specialty??"he can find anyone, anywhere in the world providing he has a picture of them, he knows their name, and they are near a mirror. They have to be near a mirror because he finds them by staring into the special mirror on his bedroom wall and coming out near them as a mirror walker.

The South African Connection

Genres: Literature

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A 747 was on final approach into Heathrow from Johannesburg, a woman screamed as the passenger next to her slumped in his seat dead.

A case for Chief Inspector Alker of New Scotland Yard. During the autopsy it was discovered that he died from a massive dose of cyanide, and that he had 2 million pounds worth of uncut diamonds in his stomach. Cyanide works in seconds yet there were no puncture wounds in his body so it wasn't injected, nor had he eaten anything for the last hour.

The Zone

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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John Collins was born with the proverbial silver spoon. He was trained and coached from birth to take over the company business but while in college something happened. John Collins, II, heard the call. He veered from the path chosen for him and joined the Army as an officer. That got him disowned by his father but not his grandfather.

The old man made sure that John would have his share of the money generated by the giant company. The old man went as far as holding stock in trust for John.

The Cruise

Genres: Adventure, Action

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What does an elite Russian KGB hit team do when they retire? What does a news anchorman and his gambling lush of a wife do when they retire? They take an Atlantic cruise of course.

Both couples have problems and they're not so different. They need each other but the past may get in the way.

Add a former female Prime Minister, targeted for termination, by a rogue assassination team and you have an explosive mix. But someone has an even bigger prize in mind.

The Headless Horseman

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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This is a police detective yarn but it is also a celebration of love and friendship. Furthermore it is a character study of some very odd characters.

A hard-charging city chief of police, a perplexed county sheriff, some incompetent deputies, an evil crime boss, and well meaning friends just to mention a few.

"Headless Horseman" takes place in the small to medium-size town of Mapleton. The chief of detectives of the two person squad is Justin Hackler.

Boxwood

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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Detective Cody Ridges left his former employment under a dark cloud. He found himself employed in a much smaller police department. The Boxwood County Sheriff was willing to hire him but it was a tremendous step backward career-wise for the big city detective.

Suddenly his bad luck changed to good the moment he saw Catlin Talent a beautiful lawyer.

He had not even settled in to his new home, which was in a barn, when he was baffled by a series of home burglaries, a killing of two innocent people, a jail escape and one crime right after another.

Rick Click

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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When Rick Click gave up his tenure as a city police detective he expected some big changes. But nothing like the changes that happened when he met Joy Mount. The tiny woman barged into his office and his life like a whirlwind and nothing was ever the same again.

Rick was asked to investigate the murder of the city mayor's estranged wife when it became obvious that the police were not actually trying to solve the crime.

Flying fists and flying bullets from that point on. Don't worry because Rick and Joy are on the job.

Requiem For A Bubble Head

This book was added or last updated on 10 October 2012

Gregor The Fey's Jig

This book was added or last updated on 30 July 2011

Murder At Cold Springs

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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Marc Rich felt his world had collapsed and then suddenly like a bolt of lightning from the blue he was invited to help locate a rich man's missing wife and that task took him to Jackson County Tennessee.

He arrived and started his investigation and soon found himself involved in murder and mayhem. He met some interesting characters, but none more so than Rachel Green, Sheriff of Jackson County.

Marc also met the Wolf family, a group of Cherokee Indians living in a place known as the Ash Hopper. The crimes are most foul and the sex is sizzling in this epic yarn.

Barney Collins, Pi

Genres: Mystery & detective, General

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Barney Collins was being chased by someone he`d been following. That`s when he ran into Andi, Sheriff of Mayberry and that`s how Barney ended up looking for Andi`s missing husband.

Harold William Taylor had been missing for nearly a year, despite police attempts to find him. So Barney set out on a cold trail, a trail that led to the Firebird Arsenal plant, where Barney begins to uncover just what Taylor was involved in; but finding him was going to be a different matter ...