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Inspired by author Lance Anderson's own years working in a medical examiner's office and as a paranormal investigator, Life in the Morgue is not a typical murder mystery, romance, or even crime drama. The novel is focused on the people who work in the morgue, offering listeners stories that are at times funny, at times sad, and always intriguing.

The series opens in the near future. Matt Deal's 15-year-old daughter, Mercy, is the glue in his rocky marriage. His life is changed forever after Mercy is brutally assaulted on a Destin beach leaving her in a coma. Trusting the local detectives to bring the rapists to justice, Deal concentrates on his Florida gym business, only to have his world further explode on learning the rape suspects may escape justice. Deal is isolated and at his wits’ end after his mob-connected father-in-law sends death threats blaming him for all these ills.

Twenty years after the fact, ex-CIA operative Ellen Renzo picks up the cold trail to find the person she now blames for her sister and father's death. Is she right? Is she wrong? It really doesn't matter because she's obsessed and will do anything to have her revenge. She's led from Quincy to Charlotte to Atlanta and finally to New Orleans bringing all of her formidable skills to bear. But has she bitten off more than she can chew?

The vampire thought he knew Marcel. He didn't. Neither do you. What the vampire Christian Beauparlant believes to be a sad, dutiful visit to a dying friend, Marcel, takes an unexpected turn. The affable, island bartender is much, much more than he appears, and in the blink of an eye, he changes the vampire's world forever.

What would any of us do for love? Vampire and brilliant scientist, Dr. Desmond Ashcroft pushes that concept to the extreme, traveling through time over and over again trying to save the love of his life. Even though his efforts put the very future of the world at risk, nothing will stop him. Nothing, perhaps except the ancient Roman vampire, Titus Acilius.

Author Billy Blaine escapes to St. Martin with the hope that his writer's block and his anxieties will melt away in the warm Caribbean sunshine. Despite ample help from his friends on the island, things take an unexpected turn. Alone, Billy ends up having to face his greatest fear and being forced down a path he's been hiding from for years. An exciting and quick listen from the author of the award-winning Blood Trilogy (featuring the 2,000-year-old vampire Titus Acilius aka Julian Brownell aka Christian Beauparlant) and Into the Light (Dave Richards Mystery series).

In the latest Lou Corso mystery, Lou Corso, a hard-drinking, hard-living ex-cop is confronted with a chance for a new life. When Lou's client Connie Terwilliger is threatened by her vicious husband Victor, Lou and the group of Good Samaritans who help him shelter battered women rescue Connie and put her in a safe house. After Connie is murderously attacked, Lou finds himself pulled between his current commitments and a decade-old list of cold cases involving murdered or missing women.

Two-bit thug Jimmy McKinnon navigates the mean streets of Quincy, Massachusetts. He's roiling internally and would do anything to escape the prison his hometown has become for him. How far will he go and who will he betray to get his hands on a three-million-dollar payday? How will he deal with his junkie hairdresser girlfriend and his overbearing mother? How will he elude Fat Mickey, his gang's second-in-command, and the private eye who's following him? Does a street punk like him stand a chance in outsmarting Quincy's crime lord, Smiling Bobby D?

A series of mysterious disappearances in the city of Boston has Cort on the edge. There are rumors that the missing have fallen victim to a computer virus known as “The Demon” which causes those infected to exhibit violent behavior. As people continue to vanish or fall victim to the violence, it becomes harder for Cort to pretend that "The Demon" is just an urban legend spread on the internet.

Sometimes being a vampire isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Julian Brownell, a 2,000-year-old vampire, is learning that the hard way. The depression and divorce in his banal, pretend-human life were bad enough. But when he decides to burst back onto the vampire scene, things go from bad to worse as he finds himself firmly in the sights of the deadliest vampire hunter of all time.