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  • Dead Inside - Noelle Holten - 3D book cover
    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    Dead Inside – Noelle Holten

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    ‘Dead Inside’ is Noelle Holten’s gritty, gripping, and captivating debut novel, not only introducing DC Maggie Jamieson but also featuring Probation Officers Lucy Sherwood and Sarah Hardy – and boy, what a dark and devious world we stumble upon! Maggie Jamieson Crime Thriller #1 Introduction When three domestic abuse offenders are found beaten to death, DC Maggie Jamieson knows she is facing her toughest case yet. The police suspect that Probation Officer Lucy Sherwood – who is connected to all three victims – is hiding a dark secret. Then a fourth domestic abuser is brutally murdered. And he is Lucy’s husband. Now the finger of suspicion points at Lucy and…

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  • Eat Your Heart Out - Shervin Jamali - Short story Image
    Short Stories

    Eat Your Heart Out – Shervin Jamali

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    It’s that time of the year again.. Halloween! Spooky, sinister, and spine-chilling tales are being told and you better watch out.. To celebrate Halloween, author Shervin Jamali has written this dark, disturbing, and yet funny and imaginative short story, Eat Your Heart Out.. Pizza will never be the same..! Introduction Charlie is a pizza baker who not only suffers from customers not showing up but also has to deal with his wife, Alice. She keeps nagging him and makes him look and feel a failure. The life he promised Alice and the lie she got.. not at all comparable, in her eyes. If you’d hear her, you’d think it was…

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  • In Harm's Way - Owen Mullen - 3D Book Cover
    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    In Harm’s Way – Owen Mullen

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    ‘In Harm’s Way’ is an expertly crafted and captivating psychological thriller! Fascinating characters, a viciousness that gives you goosebumps and makes you anxious to read on… Shocking, brutal, gripping.  Storyline A man wants a tour of an abandoned house. But he has no intention of buying it… We are privy to a few of his vicious thoughts and shiver. “The decision was already made. It was perfect.” Meet the siblings of the Darroch family: Adele, Gavin and Mackenzie. All three are married, to say ‘happily’ would be an overstatement. Adele and Blair don’t see eye to eye anymore and the tension rises, the birth of their daughter Alice has a…

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    Interviews & Guest Posts

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    Coming soon.. the fab new dark psychological thriller In Harm’s Way by Owen Mullen. Today I’ve got for you a sneak preview… Listen to what the author has to say! The Book What if someone you loved was in harm’s way? What if you were being stalked and no one believed you? What if you were abducted in broad daylight? What if you were held captive in a cellar? What would you do? Mackenzie Crawford screamed. What if your wife admitted she had a lover? What if she went out without saying where she was going? What if you discovered she’d left? What would you do? Derek Crawford fell apart.…

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    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

    Ledston Luck – Andrew Barrett

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    A gritty and gruesome thriller featuring CSI Eddy Collins. When his colleague is killed processing a murder scene Eddy is determined to catch the culprit Introduction Eddy Collins #4 I’m in shock after reading this captivating crime novel with a twist. Meet Eddie Collins a foul-mouthed no-nonsense CSI with a heart of gold. He is not good at socialising and has trouble facing facts even when they stare him right in the face. However, in his work he is simply the best: like a terrier, he gets his teeth into a case and does not let go until the crime is solved. Now he stands before what could very well be…

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    Savage Lies – Peter Boland

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    ‘Savage LIes’ is a brutal, gritty, dark and twisted thriller featuring John Savage, former SAS, used to kill people but devastated when the doom of death hits his family. His life is about to turn another angle and somehow, it is connected to a devious but rather dumb criminal transporting body parts through London… Introduction John Savage Thriller #1 Minchie has found a way to trade in his dull job as a debt collector for being part of a dark and criminal organisation. So better not mess up this important assignment, right? In the back of the (stolen) van, there are body parts wrapped in plastic for him to dispose…

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  • The Devil's Lieutenant - Shervin Jamali - 3D book cover
    Metaphysical & Visionary

    The Devil’s Lieutenant – Shervin Jamali

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    Dark. Twisted. Devious. Spine-chilling. Wow!! ‘The Devil’s Lieutenant’ is Shervin Jamali’s super strong debut novel – a book about the battle between right and wrong. The unbearable loss of his wife and little son and the subsequent immense grief force Michael in one direction: to a highly violent and immoral entanglement with the Devil himself… Introduction “All of us will die, and most of us will suffer before we do so.” – Nicholas Hardy Walter, anarchist, atheist, humanist (1934-2000) Five years ago, Michael was confronted with the greatest shock of his life: upon coming home he finds his little son’s lifeless body, covered in blood, his wife, Sara, next to…

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    Detective, Mystery & Thriller

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    An old lady battered to death – back in the past, in WWII, a captain of a German U-Boot involved in more than he wished for, in the present, a mining engineer trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together and his daughter who fears her father is in well over his head. Then there is the Nazi art theft and an abandoned Scottish mine… Introduction  ‘The Man Who Played Trains’ is a cleverly plotted thriller, spanning half a century with its two tales – one set in WWII, where U Boot captain Theodor Volker has no idea what he is getting into when a high ranking officer seems to…

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    The Ink Run is a novel of a life spiralling further and further downwards on a path of violence and cruelty through the gates of hell and beyond – to that dreadful void where hope has long gone. Introduction  A boy growing up in an abusive environment where happiness consists of him being in his shelter, his raft. A father who never misses an opportunity to express his disgruntlement at his son, Otis, being alive. A mother as dismissive as her spouse of her only child,. Somehow young Otis feels that, without his father, his mother would have been someone different – a loving mother instead of someone who neglects him and steps over…

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    Romance

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    Combine a London mobster with a feisty Hungarian pole-dancer, a soft-hearted male nurse and many more crazy, likeable, over-the-top characters et voilà you have ZENKA: a quirky, dark, and romantic comedy.  Introduction What have a London mobster by the name of Jack Murray, an exotic Hungarian pole-dancer named Zenka, a soft-hearted male nurse Nicholas, Trevor, a frustrated accountant and a couple of tough guys in common? And there is more… For instance, Jack never knew he had a son but sort of adopted a psychopath, Lloyd, a sadistic low life whose Jaguar is now owned by Nicholas! A script, heading for disaster. Zenka does everything she can to direct Jack…

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