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Accidental Eyewitness

by Alice Zogg Kurt Nobel, known as "The Real Estate King," invites a mixture of odd guests to his mansion on the Isle of Ease for a week of snorkeling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and general fun in the sun. The occasion is to celebrate the millionaire's recent marriage to his new young wife, singer Barbie. But all is [...]

The Company She Keeps

by Diana R. Chambers A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as "E"-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of espionage, with its intrigue, glamour, and danger. That world will mark her-and she [...]

Evil at Shore Haven

by Alice Zogg Antoinette LeJeune, better known as Andi, is now in charge of the private investigating business. When she is hired to look into the so-called drowning accident of Kitty Ralph, a resident of the upscale senior community Shore Haven, Andi sweet-talks R. A. Huber into coming out of retirement to pose as an elderly [...]

The Journey Through Illusion

by Glenn Willoughby Jamison Everett is an ex-cop struggling to put his life back together after a series of tragic events cost him his career. Drifting through life, he is hired by his late grandfather's distribution company to locate Michael Reyes, a corporate analyst who has missed a crucial research deadline. At first, every lead [...]

Diddlywick

by Marmaduke Balzac An ancient, haunted mansion perched high on a cliff above the Hudson. A centuries-old curse. A family of whacky eccentrics. Three ghosts with a problem. A tribe of dispossessed Indians with a grudge. An evil oil baron who wants the family's land. Into this menage steps a naive young governess determined to [...]

Halloween Night Fever – End of the Long Walk

by Dan Graffeo Willy Hynes can't understand how he pulled a patch of caribou skin out of his dream. Willy's mentor, Vince, explains that other residents of Sleepy Owl have had similar dreams. It is a sign to join the Pniese, a secret society formed for Halloween, when the undead are allowed to cross over. [...]

The Case Files of Roderick Misely, Consultant

by J. P. Rieger Roderick Misely wants desperately to pursue a career as a lawyer. He needs only to find an attorney mentor with whom to "read the law." But a scandal that unfairly sullied the family name has caused an absolute drought in apprenticeship opportunities. Instead, Misely is eking-out a living as a "consultant" [...]

Seven: Tales of Terror

by Michael P. Raff "The Door" - in 1963, two young, Catholic boys, Tommy Stockton and Roger Bartlett, discover an old, locked, metal door hidden beneath a stage in their school auditorium. Tommy suffers through two horrifying nightmares warning him that there is something evil behind it. Roger finds a key to open the door's padlock [...]

Stinger

by Diana R. Chambers An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us into a world of danger, a world of spy versus spy, where hidden [...]

Final Stop Albuquerque

by Alice Zogg Twenty four-year-old Elena Campione seemed to have vanished into thin air. She had apparently left her South Pasadena residence suddenly, without telling a soul. The police traced her to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she had boarded the shuttle bus to the Balloon Fiesta Park on the last day of the annual balloon festival, [...]

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