Seconds to Midnight by Philip Donlay
Donovan Nash and Michael Ross, are on a routine Eco-Watch flight above northern Canada studying a powerful solar flare in history, when they narrowly miss colliding with a Boeing 737 that shouldn’t be there. The 737 is forced to make an emergency landing on a frozen lake. But the damaged aircraft breaks through the ice and begins to sink, as it does, a figure escapes and climbs up onto the ice. Reaching the survivor, Donovan discovers it’s a young woman. She blacks out but not before delivering this message: “Don’t let them know I’m alive—they’ll kill everyone.” Donovan races to get to the bottom of the mysterious crash and the woman’s warning. Arms dealers, spies, sex traffickers, and Russians are all tied to this woman, to the plane, and to whatever terror awaits the world. Fast paced, exciting and pulse-pounding this book is filled with James Bond style gadgets, cliffhangers, and a story readers won’t forget.
Murder off the Page by Con Lehane
Raymond Ambler, librarian and sleuth, receives a note from his good friend and bartender, Brian McNulty, about a murder and which sets him off on another investigation–reluctantly. A second murder, however, convinces him he’s doing the right thing because the second victim is a friend of McNulty’s making him the prime suspect. The victim has led a double life – one as a hard-drinking promiscuous denizen of the city, the other as a devoted wife and mother and physician. But no matter what else he turns up, his friend always turns up at the chief suspect. An exciting tale and, if you like New York City, a doubly good read. Librarians aren’t the dull unadventurous types they have been thought to be. This book will show you why.
Blood on the Chesapeake by Randy Overbeck
A good mystery mixed with a ghost story, and some romance, this book will grab your attention and keep you engrossed. In a quaint shore town on the Chesapeake, Darrell Henshaw wants to get a new start. It’s idyllic until he learns there’s an ugly secret in town centered around a thirty-year-old murder in the town’s high school. And then there’s the frightening ghost stalking his new office. He’s had his fill of the spirit world and doesn’t want to get involved, but when the ghost hounds him, he decides to help. He follows a trail that leads to the civil rights movement, and more. When two locals helping him are murdered, Darrell must decide if he is willing to risk his life to expose the killers of a woman he never knew.
Out of Time by Cathi Stoler
The assignment was to be simple and quick for Marina DiPietro and Nick Donahue. They find themselves protecting Marina’s client, Adnan bin Haddad, protect his racehorse, Devil Wind, from those who threaten to kill the stallion if millions in “protection money” aren’t paid. Guard the horse and catch the predators. That was it. But the threat against the horse is a ruse to get into bin Haddad’s lab to steal his latest invention. Nick must stop the perpetrators, ISIS, from getting their hands on the ultimate weapon of war—a cloaking device, that could tear the world apart. Things spiral out of control until both Marina and the daughter of bin Haddad’s closest friend are kidnapped and Nick is caught in a web of betrayal and deceit. ISIS is determined forcing Nick to use all skills and subterfuge his gambling career has taught him to discover the “tell” that will help him turn the predators into prey. Well written and plotted, this is a thriller you can’t help but enjoy. The pace will have you breathless and the characters are lively. Readers and fans will delight in the settings and the characters. You’ll keep your favorite reading nook occupied for hours as you race to the finish with Nick and Marina.
Deadly Labors by Neil Placksy
Can Hawaiian native Ikaika Kahale turn his life around after studying the hula in a special program at San Quentin and then returning to the Aloha State? Or is the new murder he’s accused of going to stop his plans in their tracks? Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka is on a temporary leave and his mother asks him to investigate Ikaika’s case. As he is a childhood friend and schoolmate, Kimo takes the case. Working undercover, Kimo follows the leads around what seems like an accidental death in a fight at the bar where Ikaika worked as a bouncer. Who was it that had fought with the victim before Ikaika intervened delivering a deadly punch? Kimo’s investigation takes him into the hills of the Windward Coast of O’ahu, and along the trail, he finds that he requires the help of his partner, his friends and his loved ones. All coming together to demonstrate what the word ohana (Hawaiian for family) really means. Fans of this series will be happy to have another adventure to share with Kimo and his friends. Characters, old and new, will delight readers as they race through this well pace, well written mystery. Kimo’s realizations, hard won, will have readers discovering new sides to their favorite member of the HPD.
Revenge is Sweet By K. George
Tally Holt has opened a new candy store in the tourist town, Fredericksburg, Texas. Unfortunately murder is never sweet. Tally has poured everything into thie vintsge candy shop and hasused her grandmother’s recipes for an authentic vintage taste. And the tourists love it. Her next door business neighbor, Yolanda Bella, also becomes a fan of the tasty sweets and everything seems to be going along nicely until they discover local handyman Gene Faust, dead in Tally’s kitchen, stabbed with Yolanda’s scissors. Gene was the town gigolo handsome but always short of cash. He borrowed from just about every woman he dated and that group includes Yolanda. Lots of other candidates for wielding those scissors live in town—including his family and women he dated and flimflammed. But with Yolanda’s scissors the weapon, she’s the prime suspect. Unless Tally can clear her. A great setting and fun characters make this well-written book one to look out for. The pacing is good, the setting most cozy, and the characters will keep you entertained. The treats from the candy shop are delectable and you’ll be wanting some of that sweetness as you work your way through this mystery.
