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It all starts with stealing from the cookie jar. Crime books of all shapes and sizes. One of them will be the culprit for a good evening’s read.

Barefoot in the Parking Lot by Vineet Verma

Convinced that no one was present, she sneaked towards the front door, weapon ready for attack if the need arose.

When a dead body is discovered lying barefoot in a restaurant parking lot, detectives Angela White and Paul Conley are called in to investigate the strange and disturbing crime. The victim turns out to be Jay Sharma, the hotshot CEO of a famed AI company and tech powerhouse. Jay’s distraught wife can’t imagine who could want to kill him. But the deeper White and Conley wade into the evidence, the longer the suspect list grows.

The detectives soon come face-to-face with the dark and sordid world that lies just under Silicon Valley’s polished and pristine exterior. From jealous ex-lovers to rival tech giants, Jay has created powerful enemies, all of whom would be happy to see him dead–and all of whom have solid alibis.

White and Conley hit dead end after dead end. And when blackmail schemes and copycat murders come into play, finding Jay’s killer becomes increasingly more urgent. Can they catch a break, or will a murderer go free in Silicon Valley?

 

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FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT by Robert E Smith 

San Francisco Homicide detective Chuck Winters, accidentally strikes it rich with his criminal software database program, retires and takes his money and runs. He soon gets caught up with a nemesis character that spews death and destruction, hiding throughout the world like a chameleon—causing Winters to leave his serene retirement and take chase.

 

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New York Homicide by Tom Turner

A Charlie Crawford Mystery Prequel (Charlie Crawford Palm Beach Mysteries)

“Don’t miss it, it’s Turner’s best crime thriller yet.”

For fans of Elmore Leonard, John Sandford, Carl Hiaasen, and Stuart Woods comes the prequel to the Charlie Crawford Palm Beach mysteries.

It’s the year before he heads down to the Sunshine State… and CRAWFORD’S LIFE IS A DISASTER!

His marriage is on the rocks, his partner’s a drunk, and a psycho killer is loose on the streets of New York.

One reader said “once again Turner hits it out of the park! Should be the start of a Netflix series.”

 

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IMPOSTURE by Ray Clarke 

The dark side of the internet comes to disturb a sleepy Northern town

David Hunter and his wife are found dead in a small Yorkshire village. The apparent victims of a hit and run. They led successful and quiet lives, so police are stumped when looking for a motive.

DI Stewart Gardener and DS Sean Reilly have their work cut out and soon some suspects emerge: a group of four closely connected individuals who are proving hard to trace.

Convinced this was not a random killing, the Leeds detectives venture into unknown terrain, the web of lies, fake identities and cyber crime called the internet.

But when one of the suspects in the investigation is identified and found, the police are dismayed someone else got to them first. Dying from a nerve agent, he won’t be much help to the investigation.

The race is on to catch up with all the persons of interest. But dealing with skilled hackers who know how to move without leaving a trace, will stack the odds against the detectives.

IMPOSTURE is the sixth book by Ray Clark in a bestselling series. It can be enjoyed on its own or alongside the others. The full list is as follows:

1.IMPURITY
2.IMPERFECTION
3.IMPLANT
4.IMPRESSION
5.IMPOSITION
6.IMPOSTURE

These books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. The previous books are available, as IMPOSTURE will soon be, as audiobooks.

 

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Summer Club by Katherine Dean Mazerov

Murder meets the absurd in the sizzling thriller Summer Club, a new novel by award-winning journalist Katherine Dean Mazerov.

Normally, politics and parent drama, drunken soirees and sex-capades reign at Lydia Phillips’s swim and tennis club. Now, a strange car following the club manager, a break-in at Lydia’s home, and a shocking discovery on the club grounds have this stay-at-home mom dusting off her newspaper-reporting skills to unravel the mystery.

Then, a body surfaces in the river, and Lydia’s life gets a whole lot more complicated—and dangerous.

In one moment, readers of Summer Club will be laughing at the colorful characters’ outrageous antics. The next moment, they will be riveted as the story reveals a troubling, complex scheme involving fraud and murder.

Perfect for parents balancing career and family, Summer Club casts a beam of dark humor across the hidden reality that makes “domestic” life—raising children and volunteering for community and school groups—sometimes more harrowing than the most cutthroat of corporate jobs.

 

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