THE RIPPER GENE

Dr. Lucas Madden is a neuroscientist turned FBI profiler who first gained global recognition for cloning the ripper gene and showing its dysfunction in the brains of psychopaths. Later, as an FBI profiler, Madden achieved further notoriety by sequencing the DNA of the world’s most notorious serial killers and proposing a controversial “damnation algorithm” that could predict serial killer behavior using DNA alone.

Now, a new murderer, the Snow White Killer is terrorizing women in the Mississippi Delta. When Mara Bliss, Madden’s former fiancée, is kidnapped, he must track down a killer who is always two steps ahead of him. Only by entering the killer’s mind will Madden ultimately understand the twisted and terrifying rationale behind the murders and have a chance at ending the psychopath’s reign of terror.

AUTHOR: MICHAEL RANSOM

TITLE: THE RIPPER GENE

GENRE: Fiction, Medical Thriller

Recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ripper-Gene-A-Novel/dp/0765376873

LAY DEATH AT HER DOOR

Twenty years ago, Kate Cranbrook’s eyewitness testimony sent the wrong man to prison for rape and murder. When new evidence exonerates him, Kate says that in the darkness and confusion, she must have mistaken her attacker’s identity. She is lying. Kate would like nothing better than to turn her back on the past, but she is trapped in a stand-off with the real killer. When a body turns up on her doorstep, she resorts to desperate measures to free herself once and for all from a secret that is ruining her life.

AUTHOR: ELIZABETH BUHMANN

TITLE: LAY DEATH AT HER DOOR

GENRE: Thriller, Mystery Thriller

Recommendation: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17991758-lay-death-at-her-door

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VICTIMS OF THE SAME GUN

 

On a sultry summer afternoon, Paramedic Zoe Chambers responds to a call and finds a farmer’s body hanging from the rafters of his hay barn. What first appears to be a suicide quickly becomes something sinister when Zoe links the victim to a pair of deaths forty-five years earlier. Her attempts to wheedle information from her mother and stepfather hit a brick wall of deception, one that brings into question everything Zoe knows about her late father, who died in a car crash when she was eight. Or did he?

Police Chief Pete Adams fears Zoe’s inquiries are setting her up for deeper heartbreak and putting her in danger. As Zoe and Pete inch closer to the truth, they discover that a missing gun links the crimes which span more than four decades. But the killer isn’t done. Two more Vance Township residents fall victim to the same gun, and when tragedy strikes too close to home, Zoe realizes her family is in the crosshairs.

AUTHOR: ANNETTE DASHOFY

TITLE: LOST LEGACY

GENRE: Mystery

Recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Legacy-Chambers-Mystery-Volume/dp/1940976243

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THE DIRTY DEED

In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager’s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney.

The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn’t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete’s body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it’s up to Hamish to discover who’s responsible for the dirty deed and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.

AUTHOR: M.C. BEATON

TITLE: DEATH OF A CHIMNEY SWEEP

GENRE: Mystery

Recommendation: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7993967-death-of-a-chimney-sweep

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Chimney-Hamish-Macbeth-Mystery/dp/0446547409

DANGER LURKS EVERYWHERE

 

A year to the day after his daughter’s death, Dax is faced with two cases involving some very unique elements. His good friend and Special Victims Unit detective, Janet Meehan, asks his help to determine the identity of a serial killer who has been murdering Catholic nuns in one of the poorest areas of the Bronx but only nuns who still dress in the old style veiled habits.

At the same time, his tyrannical boss, the Police Commissioner, Jeremiah Gallagher, orders Dax to drop everything to determine why the P.C.’s daughter, a rookie cop, is suddenly suffering from episodes of near catatonia. The medical experts have determined there are no physical reasons, and the psychiatric community is baffled. The revelations, both discovered and deduced by Dax, considered by many as the Sherlock Holmes of the NYPD, never stop coming. 

AUTHOR: JACK HARNEY

TITLE: SIX

GENRE: Mystery, Detective, Serial Killer

Recommendation: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27259378-six

MY GIRL BY JOHN W. HOWELL

SYNOPSIS

John J. Cannon successful San Francisco lawyer takes a leave of absence from the firm and buys a boat he names My GIRL. He is unaware that his newly purchased boat had already been targeted by a terrorist group. John’s first inkling of a problem is when he wakes up in the hospital where he learns he was found unconscious next to the dead body of the attractive young woman who sold him the boat in the first place. John now stands between the terrorists and the success of their mission.

 

AUTHOR: JOHN W. HOWELL
TITLE: MY GIRL
GENRE: Thriller,Fiction,Terrorism
Recommendation Links: http://www.johnhowell.com
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KILLER IMAGE BY WENDY TYSON

SYNOPSIS

Philadelphia image consultant Allison Campbell is not your typical detective. She’s more familiar with the rules of etiquette than the rules of evidence, prefers three-inch Manolos to comfy flats and relates to Dear Abby, not Judge Judy.

When Allison’s latest Main Line client, the fifteen-year-old Goth daughter of a White House hopeful, accused of the ritualistic murder of a local divorce attorney, Allison fights to prove her client’s innocence when no one else will. But in a place where image is everything, the ability to distinguish the truth from the façade be the only thing that keeps Allison alive.

AUTHOR: WENDY TYSON
TITLE: KILLER IMAGE
GENRE: Psychological Thriller,Mystery,Fiction

HIS REVENGE BY JOHN W. HOWELL

SYNOPSIS

America loves John Cannon, its newest hero, and the President wants to present him with the highest civilian medal for bravery for saving the Annapolis midshipman from a terrorist plot to destroy them. While in Washington for the award ceremony, John unwillingly becomes an accomplice in another plan by the same group to attack credibility of the US President and stability of the worldwide oil market. There is no way out as John either becomes a traitor to America or causes thousands of innocent people to die if he refuses.

The second John J Cannon Thriller moves from a barrier Island off the coast of Texas to Washington DC, then to Northern California, and finally to Ecuador. John is on the receiving end of an offer he cannot, refuse. His avowed enemy Matt Jacobs now wants John to help him shake reputation of the US in the world political arena. If John refuses, Matt plans to murder innocent Americans including John’s latest relationship. John’s only way out is to pretend to go along with the plan and hope for a miracle.

 

AUTHOR: JOHN W.HOWELL
TITLE: HIS REVENGE
GENRE: Fictional thriller,Adventure Fiction,Suspense,Thriller
Recommendation Links :  http://www.johnhiwell.com
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DYING BRAND BY WENDY TYSON

SYNOPSIS

When an image consultant Allison Campbell attends an award ceremony to honor a designer friend, she’s thrust into a murder investigation. Only this time, it’s personal.

A former boyfriend is dead, slain on the streets of Philadelphia. His widow claims he was meeting with Allison, yet Allison hadn’t spoken to him in years. Nothing about his death or life makes sense. When compromising photos from their past arrive at Allison’s office, they raise more questions than they answer.

Driven to find justice, Allison deconstructs the image her ex had created for himself, looking for clues about the man he’d become. As her hunt for the truth unveils secrets, Allison’s past and present collide with deadly results.

 

AUTHOR: WENDY TYSON
TITLE: DYING BRAND
GENRE: Mystery,Fiction,Suspense,Thriller
Recommendation: http://www.watyson.com
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DIMEBAG BANDITS BY CRAIG FURCHTENICHT

      ( Deadly Trade )

 

SYNOPSIS

When Kori Woodson’s stepfather gives his entire college savings to a religious zealot’s campaign fund, he takes matters into his own hands. He steals drugs from his employer, who also happens to belong to the same church, and sells them to the board housewives in the neighborhood. When he is eventually caught he finds himself expelled from school, fired from his job and facing jail time.

Now his parents plan to travel the country on a mission to “Save the world from itself” with the church that has shunned him. With no other place to stay, Kori is forced to return to his real father’s home in rural Iowa;Within hours of returning home, Kori gets caught up in the dangerous and potentially deadly trade of robbing drug dealers of their wares. He soon realizes that the people they work for can be even more of a threat than the people that they steal from.

 

AUTHOR: CRAIG FURCHTENICHT
TITLE: DIMEBAG BANDITS
GENRE: Mystery,Thriller,Crime
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CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE BY ANNETTE DASHOFY

SYNOPSIS

Zoe Chambers, paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township, has been privy to a number of local secrets over the years, some of them her own. But secrets become explosive when a dead body is found in the Township Board President’s abandoned car.

As a January blizzard rages, Zoe and Police Chief Pete Adams launch a desperate search for the killer, even if it means uncovering secrets that could not only destroy Zoe and Pete, but also those closest to them.

 

AUTHOR: ANNETTE DASHOFY
TITLE: CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE
GENRES: Mystery,Fiction,Thriller
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SILENT SCANDAL

Reporter Jane Ryland is tracking down a candidate’s secret mistress just days before a pivotal Senate election. Detective Jake Brogan is investigating a possible serial killer that may be hunting down Boston’s young women under the city’s bridges. As the body count rises and election looms closer, it becomes clear to Jane and Jake that their cases are connected and that they may be facing a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to silence a scandal.

AUTHOR: HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN

TITLE: THE OTHER WOMAN

GENRE: Mystery, Serial Killer, Detective Thriller

Recommendation: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538878-the-other-woman

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THE OLD THEATRE WITH SECRETS

Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouse’s future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes by its past. Nicknamed “The Old Deep and Dark” because of the Prohibition era double murder that occurred in the basement then a speakeasy there are a wealth of secrets hidden inside its walls. And, to her shock and horror, Cordelia discovers that there is also one present day body literally buried in a basement wall. Cordelia immediately calls on her best friend, P.I. Jane Lawless.

Although Jane is already in the thick of another investigation she’s embroiled in a well known country western singer’s family scandal she agrees to help Cordelia out on the side. But show-biz is a small world, and as Jane starts tracing the trails of two separate investigations, she’s surprised to find they might not be as unconnected as she thought.

AUTHOR: ELLEN HART

TITLE: THE OLD DEEP AND DARK

GENRE: Mystery, Crime, Fiction

Recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/The-Old-Deep-Dark-Mysteries/dp/1250047692

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BONDS OF BLOOD

The Dane family’s roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn’t keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago.

When one of Lucy’s few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls,the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn’t protect. Everything changes when Lucy stumbles across Cheri’s necklace in an abandoned trailer and finds herself drawn into a search for answers. What Lucy discovers makes it impossible to ignore the suspicion cast on her own kin.

More alarming, she suspects Cheri’s death could be linked to her mother’s disappearance, and the connection between the two puts Lucy at risk of losing everything. In a place where the bonds of blood weigh heavy, Lucy must decide where her allegiances lie. 

AUTHOR: LAURA McHUGH

TITLE: THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD

GENRE: Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Mystery

Recommendation: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228386/the-weight-of-blood-by-laura-mchugh/

THE HARD RIGHT

Four years as a Ranger, followed by three in prison, Nick Stallman just wants to be left alone to do his job as a bartender in a small town bar called The Hard Right, but people won’t let him be. Everyone wants to dump their problems on the head bartender and beer psychologist. 

Trying to settle into a quiet, mundane existence becomes even more complicated when a young woman arrives in the midst of a torrential rain; her car broken down and dead in the street and a cell phone buzzing relentlessly. This new arrival drags the chains of a past that won’t let her go and a trouble to the small town and The Hard Right like it’s never seen before.

AUTHOR: REGGIE TURK

TITLE: STOLEN CARS

GENRE: Crime, Mystery, Thriller,

Recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Reggie-Turk/e/B00EATRWVM