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In 1950s Los Angeles, prolific "people-finder", RICK YOUNGE must find an embezzling mob accountant, a missing dead husband (who might not be so dead after all), a mystery by-mail 'secret admirerer', and his own kidnapped dog, all while trying to keep the lights on for another month and stay sober long enough to ponder what life's all about in this debut adventure for L.A.'s most 'by-the-seat-of-his-wrinkled-pants' private detective.

Now complete! ~~~ Ella Lewis is dead. Someone must pay. “I loved Ella. Now she’s a corpse, cooling off in the morgue with a noose-shaped bruise around her neck. The cops say it’s suicide. It wasn’t suicide. I don’t know who killed her, and I don’t know why. But I’m going to find out, no matter what it takes. And when I’m face-to-face with the man who broke my world, I’m going to break him.” In this tough-as-nails noir crime novel set in Auckland’s dark underbelly, 17-year-old Jack “Spade” Miller must traverse a web of violence, love, and illicit sex in his search for justice. Only one thing is guaranteed: no one is walking away unscathed. ~~~ This book is available now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. Find out more at www.harrystjohn.com. Thanks for reading!

Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain... Check out my debut YA novel here: http://www.blackrosewriting.com/childrens-booksya/thegraveyardgirlandtheboneyardboy Follow me on Facebook @MartinMatthewsWrites

When you're powerful and you want something done, you call Charlie Talbott. He will ask only the basic questions and give you the best results. There isn't a better fixer in town, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have an agenda of his own. In this collection of short stories you'll see the inner workings of a broken, unequal system, the privileged few who fully depend on the status quo and the people who profit from it all.

Chase Dagger is a private detective with no past, a sometime fiancée, a scarlet macaw with a brain and an attitude, and a beautiful assistant named Sara. Sara witnesses the murder of a woman whose identity she doesn't know until she sees a picture of Rachel Tyler at the Tyler mansion. Rachel couldn't be dead again, or could she? Dagger seems to inherit the most unusual cases. To tackle these cases requires unusual assistants. Einstein is a macaw with a photographic memory. Sara is a shapeshifter with extraordinary abilities. Together they are either the driving force behind Dagger Investigations or they are going to drive Dagger crazy.

Lenny Parker is a roadie, bass player in a metal band AND a private investigator. He's not that good at the whole PI thing but he's got a lot of heart and some good friends to help him out. In this story he is hired to find out where a young girl gets her money from. He might not like the answer though...

"I'm not a detective, just an alligator in a vest." --Tim L. Gator *** Tim the alligator has to find his former boss, Amelia Watson, after she retired with many unanswered questions. Using a time-traveling clock she left behind, Tim jumps across the timelines, checking clues and anomalies, meeting absurdly powerful entities who may help him out--or not. Failure means no more Ame; even in memories. *** All Hololive references (characters, settings, famous scenes) belong to COVER Corp. This is just a homage (with my own twists) for all holomems, especially Amelia Watson. Thanks for the memories, Ame.

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” -- Alexandre Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo"

How far would you go to help a friend in trouble? Ben Perkins might go so far as to risk his job, but with a friend like David Telano, in the kind of trouble he's in, he'll wind up risking his life. With the encouragement of his girlfriend Jessie, a 24 hour a day weed smoker, Ben is soon mixed up in a war that's going on just beneath the surface of his quiet Ohio town. On one side is a former newspaper editor, radicalized by the murder of her girlfriend, and on the other is a wealthy businessman running a drug-smuggling operation from a private airfield. In between them is Ben, who starts out trying to help a friend but ends up just trying to stay out of jail and continue breathing.

Fatally bound... by one decision with deadly consequences. Hannah opened the backdoor of her house and walked inside, closing the door behind her and locking it. Out of the dark his massive left arm wrapped around her chest like a vice followed by his right hand pressing a soaked rag to her face. Gasping for air she breathed in the fumes from the rag. She convulsed and thrashed but the man was immense and she couldn't break free. Fatally bound... by one killer with deadly intentions. A brilliant, methodical and vicious killer is on a mission leaving a trail of women's bodies behind with little or no evidence. The hunt for the killer will put Mac McRyan and Dara Wire in harm's way testing their partnership, resolve and endurance like never before. Fatally Bound... A suspenseful and nerve-fraying murder mystery with an ingenious plot. NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, Roger Stelljes has crafted another addictive pulse-pounding thriller filled with his trademark twists and turns. Vince Flynn described Roger Stelljes as "A powerful new thriller voice." THE MYCRYAN MYSTERY SERIES: (Copyright © Roger Stelljes) First Case The St. Paul Conspiracy Deadly Stillwater Electing To Murder Fatally Bound Blood Silence Next Girl On The List Fireball The Tangled Web We Weave First Deadly Conspiracy - Books 1-3 Boxset Mysteries, Thrillers and Killers - Books 4-6 Boxet Stakeout - Short Story AGENT TORI HUNTER SERIES: Silenced Girls The Winter Girls Books in the series are available at major online retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple iTunes, Kobo, Google Play, etc. Thank you for supporting self-published authors! ** Follow me for new content releases on Wattpad **

A mystery and thriller novel with a touch of adolescent love. A mercenary group on a mission to eradicate a business tycoon. A new transfer student in school. A stage and gamble between love and war, vengeance and romance. Truth and falsehood. Blood against blood, will fire eat out the fire? War to decide what the last seven seconds of your life will recollect.

After a hit-and-run occurs outside of his favorite bar, Retired Detective turned Private Eye Josh Slim is asked by the owner to find out the details of the employee's death. While the police are ruling it out as a simple hit-and-run, Slim knows better. When he finds out the victim was quite the ladies' man, Slim teams up with the victim's sexy, single female college professor to find her student's killer.

An alcoholic, a loner, a police detective on suspension: Max Hendricks is busy hitting his lowest point when he agrees takes on a favour in his spare time to track down a young ex-con who's disappeared with some money that doesn't belong to him and a lot of secrets along with it. But there are other people looking for him, too -- people with murder on their minds and a bitter, tangled past at their heels...

Five years ago, the whole country knew Howl as the face of a national public safety initiative that encouraged kids to say no to drugs, keep away from firearms, and not talk to strangers. He had just made a dramatic exit from the corrupt pit of the Hot Type City Police Department and kicked off his own private investigative agency. He was geared up to start helping people for real. Then some punk put Howl's nephew in the dirt, and everything came to a screeching halt. Now, after a long downward spiral, Howl is one half-empty bottle of scotch away from complete destitution. His shot at redemption comes just in time when a former model struts off the page of a golden-age girlie mag and into his office. Her missing son's disappearance knocks Howl back into a world full of the drugs, guns, and predators he wasted his youth fighting. This time it will be different. He's got nothing to lose but something to prove. This time, he will win.

Max Palmer is on the case, and this one involves the wrong body showing up at a funeral.

Tamara Perkins, a Las Vegas based private detective finds herself in the middle of a cover up when her latest missing person's case concludes with a body in a cheap motel room. In search for answers Tamara finds herself with a target on her back and a case more complex than she ever imagined. This is a high adrenaline mystery/thriller that will be released in twice weekly instalments.

Get out of the way, heroes and heroines: it's the losers' turn to save the world! Agatha is an ill-tempered boarding school student inside whose mind a secret has been implanted by the secretive Order of Remembrance; Tristan is a clumsy dreamer looking for his occasion to perform heroic deeds. Keeping fugitive Agatha safe for a single night seems Tristan's great occasion, but he doesn't know he's going to get way more than he bargained for. For nineteen centuries, the ancient machines called Faraway Bridges have connected the Lands Beyond, the remote places where mankind dwells, but now the Bridges are dying and crossing them is almost lethal. Hiding in fortified abbeys, the Libraries, the Order of Remembrance has the mission of finding a way to heal the Bridges before they become impassable, but the Awakening League wants to seize control of the Bridges for its own plans of conquest, and is storming the Libraries one by one to steal the Order's knowledge. Caught in the crossfire of the centuries-long war between the Order of Remembrance and the Awakening League, chased by monsters and machines across lands and skies, Tristan and Agatha embark on a quest to unveil the secret inside Agatha's mind, and end up realizing that Agatha is the key to an ancient power that can heal their dying world.

Thriller| Comic| Action In the guts of a decaying city, a baby is found in an alley-surrounded by insects, embraced by vermin, and utterly unafraid. Raised in shadows by a reclusive elder, Malachi learns the language of the crawl. When violence shatters his fragile world, he unleashes the creatures that dwell beneath the streets. Born of filth, forged in fury, he becomes STINK-urban myth, reluctant savior, and the city's final reckoning. Not all heroes wear capes-some come wrapped in decay.