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Chicago 1968 saw more than its share of violence. Patrolman Mick Ivanov's beat is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the Windy City. While training hard to defend against rioters at the Democratic National Convention, Mick is looking forward to doing his part to protect the innocent. What he doesn't count on is a killer in the midst...

A vigilante killer, dubbed The Impaler, is terrorizing citizens on Mick's patrol. But his true agenda is a vendetta against Mick. He sets out to destroy the patrolman's career.

As they discover the multiple victims, Mick and his partner, Tom Peterson, search through Mick's murky past to find the key to capturing the madman. The search turns desperate when the unstoppable Impaler sets his sights on what Mick loves the most: his family!

Harry Doubt a brilliant tech geek, creator of the popular online game the Truth Seekers, launches a crusade to bring his online gaming followers to do missions in the real world away. His best friend Cristal Hernandez, a top programmer and gamer, unwittingly joins him only to discover that the real world is much more darker and dangerous than they thought it would be.

If you love TV series like J.J. Abrams' Fringe , you will enjoy reading Doubt, book 1 of the Among Us Trilogy.

Note: This copy is an advanced reader copy which means it has not gone through an editorial proofing yet. The official release of the book was November 13, 2013.

To Pre-order, please visit the official webiste: www.amongus.ca

So you thought every Thanksgiving Day is the same? Think again. This thriller will take you on a ride you've never been before.

The Author:
Scott Zarcinas is a doctor, writer, husband, father, public speaker, and very average soccer player. He lives in Adelaide with his wife and daughters.

What price would you pay to restore your honor?

Jim Hayes lives a quiet widower's life in Wisconsin. Unable to prevent the murder of his pregnant wife six years ago, Jim has trained in the martial arts and studied the warrior ethos, vowing that the next time he is called upon to act in defense of the innocent he will not fail, and his honor will be restored.

His estranged younger brother Mark, a career Army officer commanding a base in Afghanistan, approaches the end of his military career and wonders if civilian life will provide him with the same sense of honor he has found in uniform.

In lawless Somalia, terrorist chieftain Yusuf Shalita, tired of endless jihad, has decided to defect. Armed with intelligence about an imminent and massive attack planned against the US homeland, he tells CIA he will turn himself over to the only American he has ever known who was an honorable man: his old college friend Jim Hayes. This condition will bring the Hayes brothers back together in a way they never would have imagined.

Jim Hayes' time is now.

First mystery in the Detective Pat O'Malley Historical Mystery Series.  It won 1st Place in the Historical Mystery Category, 2014, at the Chanticleer CLUE Book Awards and was a Finalist in the eBook Fiction Category at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Join Detective Patrick James O'Malley as he returns from the Civil War to live in Poe Cottage in the Bronx.  He is visited by the ghost of Poe one night, and he also finds a strange note on the bed of Poe's deceased young wife, Elizabeth.  The note contains information that makes Poe believe that his former boss was murdered rather than accepting he died of natural causes in Baltimore.

This is a powerful mystery in three acts, and it established O'Malley as one of the most intelligent and interesting private detectives in crime fiction.

O'Malley must solve the murder of his former mentor, Edgar Allan Poe, and in this short mystery, he is pursued by one of the most heinous serial killers in 19th Century New York City.  This is the first in the trilogy (available on most major bookstore online sites).

Kelly Price believed her nightmare was over.  The man trying to kill her was finally dead.  WRONG AGAIN!  Her nightmare has only begun.

As she awakens from her nap after Tom has left, Kelly hears a tapping on her window and the window is streaked in blood.  She frantically dials 9-1-1 in the hopes of someone helping her.  The operator tells her to stay put until someone arrives.

When the deputy does arrive he discovers a gruesome scene and tries his best to shield Kelly from it.  Kelly had tried to reach Tom, but to no avail.

The person wanting her dead is still very much alive and Kelly is really running out of time trying to find out who it is before it's too late.  

With so many scenarios dancing through her head she has a hard time trying to decipher fact from fiction and friend from foe.  Will she ever be able to find someone she can trust?  Will she be able to discover who the sadistic stalker really is?  Find out the answers to these and many more questions in Theresa Mortimer's TO HIDE from DEATH II: When death comes stalking.

Three space craft, 240 colonists, 25 trillion miles and a discovery that will change everything.

This is the first novel in the Astronomicon science fiction series, charting the first human steps into interstellar space. A colonisation mission to Proxima Centauri is in danger of failing when the colonists discover that the extreme distance and harsh conditions are not all that stand between them and survival. What should have been a momentous landing becomes a near catastrophic crash.

A chance discover on their new home planet becomes the strongest evidence yet that mankind is not alone in the cosmos. The Astronomicon could become a source of information vital for mankind's ongoing survival, but only if the authorities can be made to believe its importance.

We also find out about some of the political machinations that are unfolding back on Earth, which threaten to end space exploration permanently. With established colonies on the inner planets and a thriving mining community on the Jovian moons, will everyone want to come home?

Dead Air is not your typical zombie apocalypse novel.
While most zombie books don't explain where the dead come from, Dead Air starts out by giving a realistic explanation of how they evolved. It then follows how the highly communicable disease they carry spreads rapidly across the United States, and then the world.
It features Steve Wendell, a manager of a radio station in Clearwater, Florida, who after reading a news story of a man attacking and biting hospital staff in in little Rock, Arkansas, gets an idea for an upcoming live show on Halloween. Little does he realize that the report is only the first of what will become a flood of people being infected, dying, and rising up to attack, kill, and eat their friends, neighbors, and relatives.
Then these people get up to do the same.
Taking refuge with 8 other people in the 15 story building that houses the radio station he manages, Steve and his fellow survivors barricade themselves and continue to broadcast live as the dead surround them and search for a way in.

The Origin of Murder is a suspenseful tour of the Galapagos Islands with a killer on board!  Roger and Suzanne take a vacation cruise through the islands, 600 miles west of Ecuador.  The biology of the islands is presented with introductory quotes from Charles Darwin.  Suzanne finds a dead body with a couple of bullet holes floating in the Pacific Ocean and we're off to solve another complex and deadly mystery.  Among the suspects is a mysterious Ecuadorian travel agent with an eye-opening secret, a cheerful bird watching couple from Germany, a happy honeymooning navy couple, two sensual sisters from San Francisco, and a couple from Uruguay seeing the wonders of the world.  Lurking in the background are a shadowy Ecuadorian Air Force general and a Paraguayan policeman.  

From a 5-star reader review, "When a luxury cruise ship full of hard to predict eco-tourists is confronted with a murdered passenger, survival of the fittest takes on a whloe new meaning."  FREE from Kindle Unlimited.

The Body in the Bed is a suspenseful whodunit mystery set in exotic Montevideo, Uruguay.  Murder and espionage are seamlessly mixed with the political and cultural aspects of modern day life in Uruguay.  The protagonists include Los Angeles-based private detective Roger Bowman, his wife, Biochemist Suzanne Foster, and Paraguayan policeman and international spy, Eduardo Gomez.  And, of course, the body in the bed, who we meet very early in the novel.  Who killed him and why?

The reader will not only enjoy a good mystery, but will smell and taste (at least virtually) the local foods and wines of Uruguay, visit the local attractions of Montevideo, and learn a little history of a small corner of South America half a world away from the United States.  The plot is carefully researched and based on real events occurring in today's news. 

The Body in the Bed is part of the author's South American mystery series, all e-books available on-line from Amazon's Kindle Store.  Each book in the series can be read on its own, in any order.  The series does feature recurring characters, so you can revisit the series to find out more about what happens to the characters, at least the ones who survive to the end of this thriller!