Roadworks
Page 26
Later Hugh realises that while all traffic inside the city is at a standstill, Wellens, a local crimelord who helped the Africans, has embarked on his own traitorous plans which he hatches with a mole in the Transport Authority.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Roadworks.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/Roadworks
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00440DR70
* * *
Site 13
Wayne Winkle
{Futuristic Thriller}
Terance Wolfe knew what it was like to lose everything. In the space of six years, he lost his freedom, his business, his wife and son. Then he got his freedom handed back to him.
What could he do?
In this time of severe water crisis, all he could do was go to work for the one corporation that seemed to be searching for water successfully: The Bennington Corporation, BenCor. And in the only place water could be found: Antarctica.
There he faced not only the terrible conditions under which he had to survive, but also the specter of a mercenary army hired by another corporation to seize the water found by BenCor--and to get the $30,000,000 of government money that went with it.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Site-13.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/Site13
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008HACO7C
* * *
Skin Game
David R. Addleman
Diane Atkins has had a crush on Buddy Talbert since she was fourteen and watched him set a national record when he won the 100-meter backstroke at the Indianapolis Nationals.
So why doesn't she recognise him just a few months after finally meeting in person at one of her swim meets?
Buddy had been quite attracted to the graceful nineteen year old, and her enthusiasm for the upcoming Regionals where she is to swim gives him the perfect excuse to seek her out again. So imagine his surprise when Diane misses her own event!
Diane's best friend Sue informs Buddy that Diane had gone missing for a few weeks and when she came back she was cold to her friends and family, and acted like she didn't even know her own coach!
Buddy' concern increases when he runs into Diane on the street and she doesn't know who he is! Not only that, the beautiful grace that he so admired when he watched her move at the University has been replaced by an odd physical awkwardness.
The mystery deepens as they find Diane is not the only one acting strangely. Diane's new housemate Jerome Whitely, also disappeared for a few weeks only to return and not know his friends and suddenly started acting cold to his previously close family.
Buddy and Sue discover both swimmers had recently stayed at "The Retreat" in Palm Desert right before their sudden personality change.
A competitive masters swimmer, Mr. Addleman makes full use his swimming background in this novel. �"Skin Game" is a mystery/thriller, but never it also wanders too far from the water.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Skin-Game.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/SkinGame
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B006BLH9A6
* * *
The Gauntlet
By Michael A. Hobren
{Futuristic Mystery}
When�Russell Williams--an unwitting pawn in a high-stakes power game--is forced to kill several Florida vacationers, a master plan is set in motion, and the only person who can save Williams from death row has no notion of the forces pitted against him, or just how high up the pyramid the conspiracy goes. Set against a backdrop stretching from scenic Daytona Beach to the halls of power of Washington, D.C., The Gauntlet is a story of greed and corruption, of serpentine trouble in paradise.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/The-Gauntlet.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/TheGauntlet
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003Y74NE0
* * *
The Kaye Berreano Mystery Series
Christine Duncan
{Mystery}
Book 2: Safe House
Thanksgiving is coming up fast and the snow is starting to fall, plunging Colorado into a winter wonderland.
But who has time to celebrate? Certainly not battered women's counselor Kaye Berreano. With two teens, a job that tends to claim all of her attention and a new relationship with police investigator Pete Farrell, Kaye is more than a little overwhelmed.
When a kid she has known since birth turns up dead and her own son, RJ becomes a suspect, Kaye is forced into an investigation that leads her from the safe house to her own house.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Safe-House.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/SafeHouse
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B004FGLS2E
Coming Soon:
Book 1: Safe Beginnings
* * *
The Shepherd Sleeps
By Wallace Brown
It is 1969. In the back alleys of the French Quarter, where the dance of good and evil swirls behind a thousand masks, a young man searches for his future. Searches to find himself.
Drawn from the edge of death by the hand of a beautiful and mysterious woman, he becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game of high-stakes espionage. A pawn that will soon challenge a king.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/The-Shepherd-Sleeps.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/ShepherdSleeps
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003ZHVEB4
* * *
The Show Photographer
Peter Woodruff
Within twenty-four hours she loses her job, her niece is brutally murdered, her house burns to the ground and her life is threatened--all because of a photograph.
Jill Hathaway, a professional horse show photographer, never expected to capture the murder of an international dressage competitor. Nor did she expect to put her family in mortal danger, be forced to run for her life and hide in a remote, northwoods cabin.
Jill is relentlessly pursued by a trio of murderous gangsters determined to destroy the only evidence of their crime. Her only hope is to trust the courage and resourcefulness of a police detective and a surly, adolescent boy. But Jill learns trust is not enough. Friends can be bought, and betrayal is deadly.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/The-Show-Photographer.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/ShowPhotographer
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00422LG3C
* * *
TIES That Blind
By Dee Lloyd
{Romantic Mystery}
A body in a garage. A revolver in a locked car. A chance meeting of two old friends on a plane. Is this a happy reunion or a devious frame up for murder?
The Risa Vitale that Adam Taggart remembers as a skinny daredevil kid who trailed him around the ski club didn't show any signs she would become the attractive woman who greeted him as he lined up to get off a plane. His uncomplicated happiness at their reunion, however, ends shortly after she offers him a ride. Finding a revolver under his seat and a pool of blood in the back of her van doesn't encourage romance. Then he discovers his stepsister's dead body in Risa's parents' garage!
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/TIES-That-Blind.html
Amazon: http://myBook.to/TIESThatBlind
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01JRE4276
* * *
Tony Mandolin Mysteries
By Robert Lee Beers
{Noir Fantasy [Supernatural Creatures]/Mystery}
Book 1: A Slight Case of Death
Vampires don't exist, do they? That is a question Private Detective Tony Mandolin finds himself pondering as the evidence piles up in a case involving a string of dead redheads and the usual dose of weirdness San Francisco has to offer. To complicate things, Mandolin has to deal with
the perception that he has become the latest golden boy of the fog city's crime boss. Then there's his cross-dressing friend Frankie...Just another day in San Francisco.
Dive into an exhilarating new noir fantasy series where nothing is as it seems.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/A-Slight-Case-of-Death.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/TonyMandolin1
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B006HYH4J8
Book 2: One Last Quiche
Someone is poisoning San Francisco's foodies. Tony Mandolin, the fog city's only Private Eye with a view into the supernatural, has been retained to find out whom and why. Unfortunately this brings him to the attention of Medb, the Queen of the Unseelie Court and it seems that Tony's only hope of survival lies in the hands of Landau Bain, the alcoholic wizard, and Bain is cranky.
This is the second volume of the Tony Mandolin noir fantasy series.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/One-Last-Quiche.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/OneLastQuiche
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0079J4DQM
Book 3: What the Puck
San Francisco's only PI with an eye into the supernatural, is having one of those months. His bad mood drives him to his local pub where he encounters his latest client, a Leprechaun who's lost his adopted niece, a runaway Dryad, and that's where the problems begin.
Some days it pours and when Landau Bain, the city's crankiest wizard arrives on Tony's doorstep he knows what's coming down isn't rain.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/What-the-Puck.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/TonyMandolin3
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01C4G7Z3M
Book 4: Hair of the Dog
Families sometimes have problems, but when the family is a clan of Eastern European vampires led by an extremely wealthy viscount with his own imported castle, only Tony can solve the problem.
In his last case, Tony Mandolin, San Francisco's only PI with an eye into the weird, ran into trouble with a pregnant werewolf. Now someone is burning the city's more corrupt citizen alive from the inside out and the city fathers are not pleased.
Taking on a case involving the vampire Viscount seemed piece of cake easy, compared to other gigs, but when a wealthy guest of the Viscount goes poof in the middle of a costume ball, things heat up really fast.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Hair-of-the-Dog.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/TonyMandolin4
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01CVUFGOG
Book 5: Lucky Stiff
Someone is messing around with luck, and in a city with some of the largest underground gambling mobs in the world, it isn't long before Tony finds himself neck deep in
Cartels, Triads and Russians, oh my. Soon our hero winds up in a card game where the loser gives up a whole lot more than just his chips.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Lucky-Stiff.html
Amazon: Coming Soon
AmazonSmile (US Region): Coming Soon
* * *
Trapdoor
By Ariana Overton
How do you hide from a serial killer who knows where you live, who you are and has the Internet to help him track you, get to know you and move into your life?
When Briana Kilmer decides to change her life and write a novel about a serial killer in St. Louis, Missouri, she has no idea the monster really exists. She sends her story to an internet group of writers only to have the real killer read her work and decide she knows too much of the truth. He comes for her, sending gruesome body parts as presents to prove he is real and can get to her.
Briana calls on the talents of her Internet friend, Hank, a retired cop, her son the computer hacker and her daughter-in-law to help her find out who the killer is, what he wants and how to stop him. The group finds themselves on a hot trail littered with bodies from the Arch of St. Louis to the ancient burial mounds of the Cahok Indians in Illinois. When they do catch up, the killer is waiting for them and he has more than a few surprises left for them when they get there.
Trapdoor will launch you into a world where no sane person can survive. Murder, insanity and terror await you below the trapdoor.
Publisher Book Page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Trapdoor.html
Amazon: http://mybook.to/Trapdoor
AmazonSmile (US Region): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00KSVGMXK
Return to Contents
* * *
Table of Contents
Prologue Brussels, Belgium
Chapter One TWO WEEKS LATER
Chapter Two 6.05 a.m. EIGHT MONTHS LATER (D-DAY)
Chapter Three 7h10 am
Chapter Four 7.45 a.m.
Chapter Five 7h56 am
Chapter Six 8.10 a.m.
Chapter Seven 8.45 a.m.
Chapter Eight 8h59 am
Chapter Nine 9.24 a.m.
Chapter Ten 9.44 a.m. (2 hours 45 minutes to OPA deadline)
Chapter Eleven 10.09 a.m. (2 hours 20 minutes to OPA deadline)
Chapter Twelve 10.34 a.m. (1 hour 55 minutes to OPA deadline)
Chapter Thirteen 10.57 a.m. (1 hour 33 minutes to OPA deadline)
Chapter Fourteen 11.24 a.m. (1 hour 5 minutes to OPA deadline)
Chapter Fifteen 12.16 a.m. 14 minutes to OPA deadline
Chapter Sixteen 12.30 p.m. (OPA DEADLINE)
Chapter Seventeen 2h45 PM
Chapter Eighteen 3h15 PM
Chapter Nineteen 4h07 PM
Chapter Twenty 4.21 p.m.
Chapter Twenty-One 4h53 PM
Chapter Twenty-Two Nearly a year later.
Chapter Twenty-Three