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A Line Intersected

David Grant Urban

2018 Finalist
422 Pages
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Fiction - Thriller - General

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2018 IAN Book of the Year Finalist
2018 American Fiction Awards Finalist
2018 Readers Favorite Finalist
2018 Florida Book Festival Runner-Up Winner
2018 Wishing Shelf Awards Finalist
2018 Hollywood Book Festival Honorable Mention Winner
2018 Beach Book Festival Honorable Mention Winner
2018 New England Book Festival Honorable Mention Winner
2018 London Book Festival Honorable Mention Winner

 
In this literary noir thriller, San Diego architect Michael Collwood must dodge the police and corrupt politicians to find the men who brutally killed his wife. His only ally is an eccentric, homeless old man who believes he is living in the 18th century. 
 
"David Urban is a dark poet. With seductive grace and powerful prose, A Line Intersected transforms the postcard vistas of San Diego into a barren landscape of murder and betrayal. A terrific debut novel."  - Tim Maleeny, bestselling author of Stealing the Dragon and JUMP
 
"David Grant Urban writes with grace...The protagonist is a deeply wounded man and his quest for revenge comes across just so naturally to readers." -Romuald Dzemo, Readers' Favorite (5-Star Review)
 
"Great plot, great character development, skilled writing - this book has all of that...I'm ready to nominate this one for an Edgar Award." - Don Houts, MenReadingBooks.com
 

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The History Major

A Novella
Michael Phillip Cash

2018 Finalist
130 Pages
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After a vicious fight with her boyfriend followed by a night of heavy partying, college freshman Amanda Greene wakes up in her dorm room to find things are not the same as they were yesterday. She can't quite put her finger on it. She's sharing her room with a peculiar stranger. Amanda discovers she's registered for classes she would never choose with people that are oddly familiar. An ominous shadow is stalking her. Uncomfortable memories are bubbling dangerously close to her fracturing world, propelling her to an inevitable collision between fantasy and reality. Is this the mother of all hangovers or is something bigger happening?

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An American Cage

A Prison-break Psychological Thriller
Ted Galdi

2018 Honorable Mention
330 Pages
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"Your best friend can be your worst enemy"

Danny Marsh is a good guy, and also an escaped felon. He has twenty-four hours to make it to freedom in Mexico. Along the way, he must evade the rabid Texas authorities, and even deadlier, the schemes of one of his closest allies, who isn't who he seems.

Do you like the gray areas between good and evil?

Do you like characters who play mind games?

Do you like endings you never saw coming? 

Then you'll love An American Cage, the second novel by Ted Galdi, an Amazon #1 bestselling author who's won Reader Views and Readers' Favorite awards, and been featured by FOX, ABC, and iHeartRadio.

Get your copy of this hit book today and go on a page-turning manhunt through the depths of Texas with a freedom-hungry convict society may hate, but you're sure to love.


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This action-packed psychological thriller is loaded with suspense, mystery, twists, and grit, all while having heart. 

The story follows Danny and his two escape partners on a journey of self-discovery and redemption as they weave through a rocky landscape of family issues, guilt, betrayal, and questions about the nature of good and evil.

You'll meet an eclectic supporting cast, including a renowned neuroscience professor, a car thief, a young female hitchhiker, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood, and a local cop with national ambitions.

An American Cage is enjoyed by lovers of popular crime fiction and psychological suspense, a police chase book just as much as it is a psychological manipulation book. 

A hard-boiled police procedural, this Amazon #1 bestseller follows traditional detectives and police officers as they hunt the three escaped prisoners across a bevy of small towns and big cities in Texas. 

At the same time, the novel evolves into a work of sociopath crime fiction as the true intentions of characters come to light, which are unexpectedly dark, disturbing, and scary, involving kidnapping, ransom, and even murder. 

Soon, Danny is fighting for a lot more than his freedom. His life, and those of the ones dearest to him, are at stake. 

Vengeful, he battles to right wrongs and keep himself and the innocent characters safe within the cyclone of devious machinations swirling around him.    

This edgy thriller culminates in a surprise ending sure to leave you both stunned and satisfied.

With echoes of the upmarket novels of writers like Dennis Lehane, An American Cage goes deep into its characters' psyches while remaining fast-paced, gripping, and wildly entertaining.

It's a must-have for fans of Kindle Unlimited suspense thrillers, especially the psychological thrillers Kindle Unlimited offers.

Ted Galdi is also the author of the novels Elixir and Lion on Fire, and the short stories A Road to Nowhere and Hazel Is Missing.


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Baby Grand

Baby Grand Trilogy Book 1
Dina Santorelli

2018 Honorable Mention
359 Pages
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Runner-up, 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition
Honorable Mention, Genre Fiction, 21st Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards


A compelling, fast-moving contemporary thriller: In Albany, New York, the governor's infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib at the Executive Mansion. Hours later, newly divorced and down-and-out writer Jamie Carter is abducted from the streets of Manhattan. Jamie is whisked upstate, where she is forced by her captor, Don Bailino, an ex-war hero/successful businessman, to care for the kidnapped child in a plot to delay the execution of mobster Gino Cataldi - the sixth man to be put to death in six years by hardliner Governor Phillip Grand. What prevails is a modern-day thriller about family ties, loyalty, murder, betrayal, and love that's told in deftly interweaving narratives that follow the police investigation of the missing Baby Grand, the bad guys who took her, and the woman who must find the strength to protect her.

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Cachibache

Book two of the Director series
Zach Fortier

2018 Bronze Medal
192 Pages
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Camp Baroota has fallen, and The Director has moved on. Forming a replacement- Camp Cachibaché. He has a new psychotic camp director, new security team and an impenetrable remote location. The Director is back in business. However, before the camp is even up and rolling The Wild Card has begun his vengeful hunt for The Director. The Hunter had become the hunted. Nick Hudson is back, more motivated, angry and mentally unstable. He's now committed to a no holds barred death match. A final violent confrontation with The Director. Fate however has another plan for Nick, as he and Nõnkos Zia, the only other survivor from Camp Baroota begin their quest to crush the elusive Director. The Battle has begun for Nick and Nõn. Cachibaché is full of unexpected twists and turns that set Nick into a downward spiral. Hold on tight and avoid the wrath of The Wild Card.
Cachibaché was named to the Short list finalist in 2017 Chanticleer Clue book awards contest.
Cachibaché was chosen as an "Official Selection" in the Psychological Suspense category of The New Apple Annual Book Awards!
Cachibaché was awarded a Bronze medal in the 2017 Readers Favorite International Book contest in Suspense genre
Cachibaché was awarded a Bronze Medal in the 2018 Readers Favorite International book awards contest in the Thriller genre

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The Butcher's Bill

The Linus Schag, NCIS, Thrillers Volume 2
Martin Roy Hill

2018 Silver Medal
282 Pages
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2017 Best Mystery/Suspense Novel (Best Independent Book Awards)
2017 Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller (Chanticleer International Book Awards)
2018 Silver Medal for Thrillers (General) (Readers Favorite Book Awards)
2018 Winner, Adult Fiction (California Author Project)
 
Meet William Butcher, aka The Butcher, former Navy SEAL, now a disgraced ex-NCIS agent.
 
Those who stole $9 billion in cash from Iraq want him dead.
 
The cops want him for murder.
 
Butcher's only hope is his former NCIS colleague and closest friend, Linus Schag.

Together Schag and Butcher tear away the veil of conspiracy,uncovering a criminal enterprise reaching into the highest levels of government.

Ripped from today's headlines, this sequel to Martin Roy Hill's highly praised The Killing Depths takes the reader from the California mountains to the coastal waters of the Pacific into the dangerous world of war-profiteers and international mercenaries, and is guaranteed to keep readers on edge until its final, explosive climax.

"Those who like their thrillers gritty and charged with unpredictable twists will relish the different directions chosen by Bill and his friend in this engrossing saga . . . "
--D. Donovan, Mid-West Book Review

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Dead Lemons

Finn Bell

2018 Gold Medal
278 Pages
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WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

In the far south a young girl goes missing, lost without trace in the wilderness beyond her remote family cottage. A year later her father disappears in the same place. Then nothing. At all. Eventually the years grow over the grief. The decades wear away the questions, life flows past the forgotten tragedy. 

Until Finn moves into the abandoned home, looking for a fresh start.
A place to heal himself far from his old problems. But rebuilding life is complicated by chance encounters and odd occurrences leaving Finn with the growing suspicion that the people here are harboring a terrible secret. Suspicion turns to obsession the deeper Finn digs while also facing steadily escalating dangers in the here-and-now. Soon Finn's own journey of recovery becomes inextricably linked with his need to unravel the mystery. Past and present finally collide when Finn starts to learn the truth about this place and himself. 

Now he must choose between exoneration and condemnation, justice and vengeance.

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High Alert

The Project Book 14
Alex Lukeman

2017 Gold Medal
290 Pages
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WINNER of the Best Indie Book Award, 2017
When an American missile submarine is sunk in the Sea of Japan, it's the opening move in a madman's plan to plunge the world into war. A day later the Chinese ambassador to Washington is assassinated. Meanwhile, the unstable leader of North Korea prepares to attack America with a terrible weapon.

The U.S. President calls in the Project, a deep black ops unit that goes places and does things others can't or won't do. They've had tough assignments before: but this time they're up against an unknown enemy, a man bent on vengeance against all of humanity. He won't rest until the world is turned into a radioactive hell... and when it comes to the Project, it's personal.

Can the Project team find him before he unleashes nuclear Armageddon?

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The Sage Wind Blows Cold

Mac Crow Thrillers Book 1
Clint Hollingsworth

2017 Silver Medal
160 Pages
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FAST-PACED ACTION AND INFUSION OF WILDERNESS SURVIVAL WITH THE THRILLER GENRE.  If Bear Grylls worked for a bounty hunter agency . . . 

Bagging a killer should have been the end of it, but it was only the beginning. 
Young tracker Mackenzie Crow, working at his uncle's bounty hunting business, is ambivalent when an old flame pleads for help. His intuition tells him to scram and not look back, but Mac's conscience won't allow him to say 'no' to finding a lost child in the woods. Not sure where he stands with Kailee, Mac soon finds out: she is married to his old rival and has kept this from him in order to solicit his expertise. A little bit of information is a dangerous thing.

Once in the woods with the Search and Rescue team, Mac comes into his element and within a short time has found the child's trail. He also finds something completely unexpected: a strange set of tracks following the girl.

It's clearly the day for unwanted surprises. 
  
Deep in the woods, desperately following the trail, Mac comes upon an SAR volunteer face down in the forest with an arrow in his back. Little does Mac know, this is just the beginning of his problems. 

Before this is through, Crow will be hunted by a psychopath and cadre of foreign mercenaries, all wanting to remove this Mother Nature's son from the land of the living.

WILDERNESS ACTION THRILLER, 1st Place Chanticleer 2016 Clue Awards Thriller/Suspense, silver medal finalist 2017 Readers' Favorite Awards. 

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Waking Up in Medellin

Intrigue, Romance, and Suspense in Colombia
Kathryn Lane

2017 Silver Medal
270 Pages
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Named Best Fiction Book of the Year, 2017, by Killer Nashville!

Handsome Colombian men and life-threatening danger were not normally a part of Nikki's auditing job, but this assignment was anything but normal. Despite her emotional wounds, she accepts the challenge as a way to overcome the loss of her young son in a tragic event.

In the midst of the male-dominated business world in Colombia, she investigates mismanagement allegations and uncovers a sinister plot involving fraud . . . and possibly murder. She also discovers an attractive man who seems to have feelings for her. As her relationship with him grows deeper, so does the level of danger she finds herself in. When the guns come out, Nikki realizes it will be up to her to find a way to survive . . . but is she up to the task?

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