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New Badge. Old Blood. In the High Lonesome where secrets kill, the only thing shorter than a rookie Sheriff's term is his life expectancy. Nick Drake has traded his wildlife ranger uniform for a Sheriff’s star—but the unforgiving territory doesn't offer election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a brutal double homicide meticulously staged to look like a tragic murder-suicide. It’s a convenient lie designed to keep the peace, but Nick isn’t buying it.

Fifteen amazing authors. Fifteen tales with “cemetery plots”. Welcome to the 2021 Capitol Crimes Anthology. A cadre of superlative judges selected the best of the best to put in this audiobook. With a foreword by best-selling author Catriona McPherson, delve into the creative minds of Capitol Crimes members. The setting: Northern California. The theme: that place we all finally must visit, the cemetery. The plots and characters are as diverse as the authors. And their stories will touch your spirit where adventure and fear intersect.

Patrick Flint is about to make the most harrowing climb of his life. When the body of Patrick's beautiful young climbing partner floats up dead in the creek behind the Flint home, rumors about the two of them explode, thrusting Susanne into the role of the woman scorned and the crosshairs of the police.

Officer Jax Diamond doesn’t always play by the rules, and he’s in the hot seat again with the captain of his precinct. So, when a brazen little puppy alerts him of a crime, Jax is ordered to stand down or get canned. On the city streets, broke and alone, Jax beats himself up for making the wrong decision. Even the little tramp who keeps trailing him everywhere can’t lift his spirits. But crime never stops in New York City and a string of deadly Christmas capers spirals out of control.

Jessica Ramirez must die. The three men behind the villains in Chasing Vega and Chasing the Captain send the world's most deadly assassin to dispatch Jess for foiling their plans. When the killer turns up dead, events escalate and Jess faces the greatest challenge of her life, without her identity and with no memory of who she is.

Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he? Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes criminals into submission. Well, maybe not. But the two of them are a whole lot smarter than they look. And they have their hands full when a playwright’s death is declared natural causes, and his new manuscript— worth a million bucks—goes missing.

When psychic Suzanne Cash witnesses the aftermath of a young woman who takes her life in Paris, she is horrified. But when similar tragedies happen repeatedly, Suzanne’s sixth sense kicks into high alert. Are Gen-X suicides on the rise? Or is there something more sinister going on?

Welcome to the second anthology by the chapter members of Sisters In Crime North Dallas. The city of Dallas and surrounding locales offer great fodder for mystery writers—and listeners. These inspire the stories contained in Reckless in Texas: Metroplex Mysteries Volume II.

Abigail Evans spent a lifetime outrunning her turbulent past. Her ordered existence keeps her hidden, knowing interference could ruin her plans for retribution. However, nothing can stop the dark winds of the past, from sweeping through her future.

Badge 112 is the story of a restless boy orphaned in high school, and his unlikely passage from juvenile delinquent to decorated police officer. A 29-year-old rookie, Stipe left his mark, combining instinct, orientation, and superb fitness to catch criminals and save lives. He confronts the memory of his own mother’s death by handling the suicides of several more victims, many to gunfire. His negotiation skills spare the lives of many more.

A killer blizzard has hit tiny Buffalo, Wyoming, where Dr. Patrick Flint is trapped inside the hospital with his family, trying to save the life of a prominent local citizen. An injured drifter shows up at the door, and Patrick takes him in. When the power and communications go out that night, people start dying, and the drifter is nowhere to be found. Patrick is caught between his duty to his patient, his loyalty to his family, and his fear for all of their lives. With the storm still raging, will there be any survivors left in the hospital when help finally arrives?

Angela Hamilton, a television game show contestant and a highly skilled physical therapist, has broken up with her fiancée and lost the lease on the building housing her clinic. Although she’s given up on love, she hasn’t given up her dream of building a new therapy clinic, and she turns down an offer by an obviously wealthy older woman to manage a new clinic and instead becomes a contestant in a television game show.

In Jessica Ramirez's second outing, she's once again a fish out of water, chasing the bad guy who got away. When forced to witness a questionable execution, Jess follows a tiny thread across the Atlantic, linking up with DI Liyanna Evans, a cop with London's Metropolitan Police. The two quickly discover that their antagonist's reach is both worldwide and deadly.

Mamie Garrison is a story of an ordinary woman who goes to extraordinary lengths to do what she knows is right. Everything in her young life has led her to this moment, this decision. She will embark on the greatest adventure of her life. Approximately 150 years later, her ancestor, Bella Garrison, inherits a house from her grandmother and finds Mamie's journals in a trunk in the attic. Bella with the help of her historian boyfriend, Andrew, will follow Mamie's journey to find out more about this intrepid woman and what she achieved. However, someone is trying to stop them.

When a young man with Down syndrome witnesses a bank robbery, Jessica Ramirez discovers that the detectives investigating the case are underestimating the most observant eyes in the room. As she gleans information from Cody Harris, the two perps begin to figure out that Jessica is working with the one witness who could send them to jail.

Imagine being shot, thrown into a pool, and left for dead. But by some miracle, you survive - only to be tormented by visions of young women being murdered.... When Suzanne Cash’s dead fiancé, Jack, appears during her near-death experience, she credits him for saving her life. But when he keeps reappearing, hijacking her sanity, and insisting she revisit her past, she questions his motives. Why would he lead her into the lair of a serial killer? And what is his connection to the victims?

This audiobook highlights stories of women who have felt invisible at some point and now open up to share how they went from "invisible" to "invincible". Not all of the stories are about domestic violence, but it is rampant throughout the world, and we want to put a spotlight on some of the staggering statistics relating to domestic violence. Here's one thing to consider, not all domestic violence is against women. Men are abused in their relationships, too. This audiobook isn't about bashing men; it's about empowering oneself to come out of the darkness and into the light.

It may have changed its name, but the KGB is up to its old tricks, only this time with a new puppet—the American Public! Steve Nguyen, a newly minted homicide detective with the San Francisco Police Department, is cut loose on his first solo case—the mysterious death of a young accountant with a public-interest foundation.

What happens if an attempt to create a cure for the psychosis inside a killer’s mind goes awry? In a sprawling tale that takes us from a Dallas, Texas suburb to the darkest corners of the Russian Federation, Terry Shepherd ponders the frightening possibilities, when good intentions lead to bad outcomes.

Based on a true story. An unsolved murder has stumped a small town Sheriff for years... But when young women start turning up dead, killed in the same grisly way as that previous crime, the Sheriff starts pointing the finger at Agent Houston, the new guy in town.