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1 + 1 = Murder. Joy Rocco. 2012. 146p. (Also published under the title Secrets and Scandals of a Single Mom) CreateSpace.
Contrast Mallory Eton’s fairytale existence, envied by many, with Jane Somersby’s life, pathetic and to be avoided: Mallory, a teen-aged movie star born into a wealthy family and Jane, a plain drugstore clerk born into a single-parent impoverished home. After seeing a movie in the local movie theater, Jane became fascinated by the similarity in looks of she and Mallory. Determined to meet her doppelganger, Jane’s clandestine investigation exposed secrets harbored by both families and unlocked a chasm of secrets thought hidden forever. Horrifying details sent two families plunging into an abyss of murder, deception and wickedness. Life became an explosion sliced deeply by the shrapnel of truth.
Abducted. Don Burrows. 2014. 287p. (Kindle eBook) D Burrows.
A student gives up her child for adoption after the child’s father is killed. She regrets this when the child is seven she kidnaps the child. The child’s adoptive father looks for her and the child and finds them.
Abducted to Breed. Aaron Pery. 2012. 73p. (Kindle eBook) A Pery.
When his sister vanishes on her way to school one morning her Brother, Henry Russell, a detective in the Santa Monica Police, dedicates himself to the task of looking for her and other missing persons, and becomes renowned as such. Although five years had elapsed since Amy had vanished without leaving any trace, he never gives up hope of someday finding her. He retires from the police to open his own detective agency after being offered a contract from the FBI to search for missing persons. On his last day at the job, as had been his custom for the past five years, he searches various police departments’ computers for live or dead Jane Doe’s, the term used to name an unidentified woman, and nearly faints when Amy’s face appears on the screen—five years older, but definitely that of his sister. Henry calls a detective friend of his at the Bakersfield Police and asks him for details on this Jane Doe. He finds that she was discovered in a trailer of a large truck—nearly dead from loss of blood caused by an amputated hand, about five months pregnant, and suffering from total amnesia. Henry drives over quickly and verifies that the woman is indeed his sister. Amy does not recognize Henry at first, but when she does she tells him what had happened to her once she was kidnapped. It is a horrific story, as she was kept literally caged for five years and served as a breeding mare together with other young women, for what she was sure was a high priced adoption agency. She was finally able to escape by hacking off her cuffed hand after finding an ax to do it with. Using some of Amy’s descriptions and details about the breeding farm, Henry and the crew he assembles manage to trace the kidnappers’ location and their identities, and rescue all the women involved in the reprehensible operation.
Abduction. Robert Kilroy-Silk. 2011. 775p. (Kindle eBook) Wordhouse Associates Ltd.
When Laura Rainsford finds her husband in her bed with her sister, she never expected that the discovery would result in her imprisonment and the forced adoption of her son, Felix. Similarly, when Ben Knowsley is accused of indecently assaulting a fourteen-year-old girl, he never anticipated that it would have such serious and devastating consequences for himself, his wife, and his daughter, Grace. And when campaigning journalist, Emily, brings them together, she never imagined that they would involve her in a conspiracy to “rescue” the two children. What should they do? Accept the situation? Attempt to get their children back? Then what? Go on the run? Forever? Escape abroad? Find out what happens in this gripping, emotional thriller, based on facts, with its dramatic and truly shocking finale.
Above Temptation. Karin Kallmaker. 2010. 256p. Bella Books.
From the Back Cover:

For Kip Barrett, a secret commission from her boss’s boss’s boss, CEO Tamara Sterling, shows that the respect she’s earned for her integrity and intelligence as a fraud investigator is justified. All she has to do is what she’s done successfully before: Follow the cyber-trail, find the high-tech thief, and document it so that justice prevails.

This time, however, the embezzler is one of their own. Sterling Fraud Investigations has an unblemished reputation for ethical conduct and security. Kip must find out who and how, as soon as possible, and no one but Tamara can know what she’s doing.

As Kip gets closer to discovering the embezzler, her clandestine meetings with Tamara grow more frequent. It doesn’t help that her admiration for Sterling’s work is compounded by an undeniable physical chemistry. But SFI has an iron-clad no fraternization rule, and Sterling investigators never break the rules. She needs to wrap up her findings before anyone including her emerging prime suspect Tamara Sterling realizes Kip is not above temptation.

Follow the passion—and the money—from Seattle to Nassau in the latest page-turning story from Lambda Literary award-winning author Karin Kallmaker.

About the Author: Karin Kallmaker’s nearly thirty romances and fantasy-science fiction novels include the award-winning The Kiss That Counted, Just Like That, Maybe Next Time and Sugar along with the bestselling Substitute for Love and the perennial classic Painted Moon. Short stories have appeared in anthologies from publishers like Alyson, Bold Strokes, Circlet and Haworth, as well as novellas and short stories with Bella Books. She began her writing career with the venerable Naiad Press and continues with Bella.

She and her partner are the mothers of two and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is descended from Lady Godiva, a fact which she’ll share with anyone who will listen. She likes her Internet fast, her iPod loud and her chocolate real.
Admit to Murder. Margaret Yorke. 1990. 267p. Mysterious Press (UK).
From the Dust Jacket: When Louise Vaughan disappears one night on the way home from choir practice, her parents and their dear friend Norah are devastated. Her adopted brother, Malcolm—jealous, unstable, violent—clearly has a great deal to hide, but there is no evidence to incriminate him. As the years pass, and Louise’s parents continue to grieve, no clues emerge, not even about the most puzzling aspect of the case—where is the body?

Then Detective Marsh, returning to the district as superintendent, rekindles the investigation, informally at first. But as he explores the many threads of the case, he finds that there are no simple answers to the questions raised.

With a keen understanding of the secrets tucked in the tidy cupboards of even the finest families, and a vivid portrait of a cozy village as it yields to modern suburban sprawl, Margaret Yorke presents an intricate and irresistible tale with an ironic, strangely satisfying conclusion.

About the Author: Margaret Yorke served in the WRNS from 1942-1945. Since then she has been a school secretary, a bookseller and worked in two Oxford college libraries. She has been a full-time writer for many years, and through research for her novels has become interested in penology and law reform.

She was Chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association from 1979-80, and in 1982 won the Swedish Academy Detection Award for the best translated crime novel with The Scent of Fear.

She has lived in Buckinghamshire for more than thirty years and has a daughter, a son, three grandsons and a granddaughter.

By the Same Author: The Price of Guilt (1999, Little, Brown), among many others.
“The Adopted Daughter”. Melville Davisson Post. 1916. Originally published in the June 1916 issue of The Red Book Magazine. (Subsequently published in The Illustrated Sunday Magazine [May 13, 1917]; Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries [1918, D. Appleton & Co.]; & 13 Ways to Kill a Man [1965, Dodd, Mead & Co.]; among others).
From “From Darwinian to Biblical Lawyering: The Stories of Melville Davisson Post” by Francis M. Nevins, St. Louis University School of Law (Legal Studies Forum, Volume 18, Number 2 [1994]): The [“Uncle Abner”] tales are set in the remote western area of Virginia around the middle of the 1800s, before the Civil War split off that region into a separate state, and their radiant center is Abner, a huge, bearded, grimly austere and supremely righteous countryman who smites wrongdoers and mends destinies as if he were a Biblical prophet magically transplanted to the New World. ... He is a landowner and cattle raiser and, though not trained as a lawyer, he seems to have a vast fund of legal knowledge on which he draws as the occasion demands. ... “The Adopted Daughter” pits Abner against yet another prototype of the Holmesian “bad man” demanding his legal rights, the disputed property this time being a young octoroon woman whom Sheppard Flornoy had bought but never formally adopted nor legally emancipated. Upon Sheppard’s sudden death, his dissolute brother Vespatian claims the woman. “[Sheppard’s] adopted daughter—sentimentally, perhaps! Perhaps! But legally a piece of property, I think, descending to his heirs....” (305) As in “The Age of Miracles” Abner defeats the evildoer’s legal claim by proving that he murdered his brother.
The Adopted Son: A Novel. Nanci Brownlow. 2007. 322p. iUniverse.com.
From the Publisher: Can death be stalking the only remaining heir to the Carlson fortune? If the death of her brother was not a suicide and the death of her mother and father was not an accident, could her own death be the next step in a plot to eliminate her family? Megan Carlson is a young woman trying to solve a mystery that could threaten her life. Can she find the missing pieces to the puzzle before the stalker ends the game? Each of the people who love Megan hold a part of the puzzle that can solve the mystery, but years of secrets have locked them into silence. An old friend of the family is the only person who knows the biggest secret about the adopted son. Sometimes what you don’t know can be deadly. The remarkable twists in the plot of The Adopted Son compel the reader to rush to the end to discover who survives this remarkable game of cat and mouse. The cat or the mouse?

About the Author: Nanci Murphy (nee Brownlow) has worked in High Tech for over 30 years and felt the need to reach beyond her office desk and create fiction. She lives in Norfolk, MA, with Harv.
Adoption. Christopher Stone. 2015. 303p. Authorhouse.
From the Back Cover: Christine Sawyer has been missing for two months. The discovery of her mutilated body will propel Chief of Police Ron Kosciak into a race of life and death with an adversary so evil that even Hannible Lector would tremble in fear. Frustrated by an increasing body count and no clues, Kosciak relies on every investigative procedure he knows, as well as his gut instincts, in an attempt to discover the killer’s identity. Will he be able to rescue the killer’s latest adoptee, or will she be added to the list of victims? Who will be safe? Who will die when the pieces to the puzzle begin falling into place?

About the Author: Christopher Stone is a Vietnam veteran, grandfather, and great-grandfather who lives in southern Massachusetts. After years of writing songs and poetry and oil painting, he wrote his first book, a mystery thriller titled Adoption, in 2015. Before this first book was released, he had already completed the manuscript for Poetic Justice. Stone says he loves to tell a good story and plans to keep on writing: “I’ll never be a Robert Lewis Stevenson, but I will spin a good story.”

The Adoption Conspiracy. JE Sayles. 2014. 204p. Mundania Press.
You are invited into a world of madness, inside the gates of a home known as Brookledge Manor. Within its locked doors lies the world of a high-society family with many secrets. Father is the all-powerful godhead; Mother the society matron, ever-concerned about protecting the family’s image, which young Raven Brookledge senses has already been tarnished—and that she is somehow to blame. Why else would she be kept much like a prisoner, hidden from the world beyond? Lorna is the ever-present voice whispering in Raven’s ear, telling her that being the lone colored adopted person in their family makes Raven a misfit; that she was never loved or wanted. Raven struggles to understand why the family adopted her, leading her on a search for her biological family. Her father provides the answers she is looking for ... or does he? As Raven’s search for answers progresses, she finds that she is in a battle against time, for all who live at Brookledge Manor seem destined to perish before their time. The house itself holds the secrets, but will it manage to claim all of its inhabitants as penalty for her quest?
After Dark. Beverly Barton. 2000. 379p. Zebra Books.
From the Back Cover: WHEN A SHOCKING SCANDAL EXPOSES SOUTHERN SECRETS ...

As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble’s Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems—and never will be again. Lane Noble Graham stands accused of murdering her ex-husband. And the one man who can help, Johnny Mack Cahill, vowed never to return to the town that scorned him—or the woman whose love he knew he didn’t deserve.
... NO ONE IS SAFE FROM COLD-BLOODED MURDER

From the rusted-out trailers on the wrong side of the river to the stately pillared mansions along Magnolia Avenue, everybody has something to hide—but one secret could make Lane and Johnny Mack the next targets of a twisted killer, who's struck once and is bent on striking again...

About the Author: USA Today bestselling author Beverly Barton has written over thirty contemporary romance novels and created the popular “The Protectors” series for Silhouette’s Intimate Moments line. This sixth generation Alabamian is a two-time Maggie Award winner, a two-time National Reader’s Choice Award winner, and a recipient of a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Series Romantic Adventure. She is currently working on her next novel of romantic suspense for Zebra Books.

By the Same Author: Out of Danger (1991, Silhouette Books); Every Move She Makes (2001); and As Good as Dead (2004), among many others.
After That Night. Karin Slaughter. 2023. 432p. (Will Trent #11) William Morrow.
From the Dust Jacket: After that night, everything changed ...

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her.

Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who’s been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper’s assault is uncannily linked to Sara’s.

And the past isn’t going to stay buried forever ...

About the Author: Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. She is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels, including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and standalone novels The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. An international bestseller, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Karin Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta. Pieces of Her is now a #1 Netflix original series starring Toni Collette, Will Trent is now a hit television series starring Ramón Rodríguez on ABC, and further projects are in development for television.

By the Same Author: Triptych (Delacorte Press, 2006); Fractured (Delacorte Press, 2008); Undone (Delacorte Press, 2009); Broken (Delacorte Press, 2010); Fallen (Delacorte Press, 2011); Criminal (Delacorte Press, 2012); Unseen (Delacorte Press, 2013); The Kept Woman (2016); The Last Widow (2019); The Silent Wife (2020); and This is Why We Lied (2024), among many others.
Against the Law. Michael C Eberhardt. 1994. 314p. Headline (UK).
From the Dust Jacket: Hawaii is shocked by the slaying of its Governor, found brutally stabbed in a Waikiki hotel room. Alongside him lies another victim: a beautiful twenty-one-year old call-girl.

Deputy attorney Dan Carrier is asked to prosecute the State’s prime suspect in this assassination. He is Peter Makai, the wealthy but ailing leader of the Hawaiian Sovereignty independence movement. But Makai is an old friend, so Carrier refuses deciding to personally investigate this case in order to exonerate the defendant.

Then Makai dies during the proceedings, and Carrier discovers that the murdered prostitute was in fact his illegitimate daughter who had her own tangled past and a claim to the Makai fortune.

Motivated now by desire for retribution, Carrier begins to suspect that Makai’s son might have perpetrated the double murder, then set up his own father.

As the islands erupt with political unrest, the prosecution becomes hell-bent on a rapid conviction and Carrier is forced to unravel a mystery that could topple the State government and destroy his own family.

About the Author: Michael C. Eberhardt is a criminal defence lawyer who has practised for almost twenty years. Among his cases is the longest American murder trial ever to result in an acquittal—a “no body” case that inspired his first novel, Body of a Crime (also published by Headline).

Mr. Eberhardt lives in Lancaster, California, but for twenty-five years he has enjoyed close connections with Hawaii, whose history and lore, volatile social-ethnic mix, and stunning locales form the vivid setting for this second novel.
Age of Consent: A Novel. Joanne Greenberg. 1987. 277p. Henry Holt & Co.
From the Dust Jacket: Daniel Sanborn is a saintly, enigmatic figure, a surgeon who travels the Third World repairing disfigured faces. But in Spain, on his way home to New York, the car in which the doctor is riding with the Archbishop of Malaga is ambushed; Sanborn and two assistants are killed. Were the bullets that everyone assumed were meant for the Archbishop in fact aimed at Sanborn? As his sister Vivian sets out to fill in the puzzling gaps in Daniel’s life, the question of why he was killed becomes almost more important than who killed him. Who was he really? Even his past is a mystery. Vivian knows only that he was a waif from Jerusalem brought over to America by her wealthy Jewish parents. Daniel’s adoptive parents were well intentioned and generous, but never asked for nor received consent to this new life. His real mother, an embattled woman, gave him away without his consent. Because he was unconsenting, Daniel Sanborn had no capacity to love. What can a good man do when he cannot love?

The more Vivian finds out about her adopted brother, the more troubled she becomes. Why did he leave most of his money to a tawdry nightclub comedian, Jack Ripstein? To add to the mystery, Ripstein—“Jack the Ripper”—at first pretends that he never knew Dainiel Sanborn. Finally, she must confront the biggest question of all: Was Daniel Sanborn really the great man she took him for?

About the Author: Joanne Greenberg is the author of such novels as I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (as Hannah Green), A Season of Delight, The King’s Persons, In This Sign, and Simple Gifts. She and her husband live in Colorado.
Akin to Death. Caroll Lachnit. 1998. 372p. Berkley Prime Crime.
From the Back Cover: Blood ties can never be broken—except by murder...

Ex-cop Hannah Barlow, now a lawyer, has just joined a new firm—working with her former law school study partner, Bobby Terry. Their first case is to finalize an adoption. It’s supposed to be a formality—but when a man bursts into their office, claiming to be the baby’s biological father and demanding his child back, Hannah and Bobby must take a closer look at the case.

What they find is an elaborate web of deceit. The child’s birth mother seems to be lying about everything—her marital status, the baby’s father ... even her own name. The man who insists he is the child’s father has a shady past that he hasn’t completely escaped. Meanwhile, the adoptive couple grows more desperate to keep their new baby—no matter what it takes. And when two people involved in the case die suddenly, Hannah delves deeper into the mystery—and finds that he lies are just beginning...
Alert. James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. 2015. 368p. (Michael Bennett #8) Little, Brown & Co.
From the Dust Jacket: New Yorkers aren’t easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly. Why? After two crippling high-tech attacks, the entire city is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI’s Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility—but they’re as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking havoc.

When a shocking murder in broad daylight points to killers both skilled and coldblooded, Bennett begins to suspect that these mysterious events are just the prelude to the biggest threat of all. Soon he’s racing against the clock, and against the most destructive enemy he’s ever faced, to save his beloved New York—before it’s lights-out for the city that never sleeps.

Alert is the most explosive, action-packed Michael Bennett thriller yet by James Patterson, the writer Lee Child hails for his “amazing natural storytelling talent.”

About the Author: James Patterson’s books have sold more than 300 million copies, and he has had more #1 bestsellers than any other author. He lives in Florida with his family.

Michael Ledwidge is the author of The Narrowback and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. He is also the coauthor of the Michael Bennett series with James Patterson.

By the Same Author: Michael Bennett Series: Step on a Crack (2007); Run for Your Life (2009); Worst Case (2010); Tick Tock (2011); I, Michael Bennett (2012); Gone (2013); Burn (2014); Bullseye (2016); Haunted (with James O. Born) (2017); Ambush (with James O. Born) (2018); Blindside (with James O. Born) (2020); The Russian (with James O. Born) (2021); and Shattered (with James O. Born) (2022).

Other titles featuring Michael Bennett: Chase (2016) and Manhunt (with James O. Born) (2017).

Other Books by James Patterson: Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar (with Lisa Papademetriou; 2013); Private L.A. (with Mark Sullivan; 2014); and Private India (with Ashwin Sanghi; 2014), among many, many others.
Alexander’s Ring. David W Walker. 2013. 272p. (A Clay Latham Mystery) CreateSpace.
Small town detective Clay Latham finds himself in the case he’s always yearned for, but can he survive it? The mystery and mayhem abound, with: * A madman with fifty years of obsessive desire leaving a trail of dark violence, * A sadist dwarf whose skill with torture haunts the shadows, * A beautiful, mysterious and brilliant Romani professor, * A traveling circus where deadly peril awaits, * A southern graveyard where the tombs of Gypsy Royalty are secretly feted by the faithful, * A dead woman’s tarot cards that may hold a key to a glittering secret. With plots and counter plots; secrets within secrets, who can Clay Latham trust and who will claim the Ring of Alexander? This is David Walker’s fourth novel and the first in the Clay Latham Series. It’s a fast-paced mystery with an unlikely private investigator set in the Southern U.S. This is the Author’s 4th novel and the 1st in the Clay Latham series.
Alibis and Lies. Ilsa Mayr. 2010. 218p. (An Avalon Mystery) (Reissued in 2013 by Worldwide) Avalon Books.
From the Dust Jacket: The matriarch of the MacNiall family hires Cybil Quindt, apprentice PI, to find her illegitimate, illegally adopted granddaughter who inherited major shares. Whoever finds her will wield unprecedented control.

Concentrating on the missing heiress, Cybil uncovers lies, forgeries, illegal adoptions, blackmail and multiple murders, including attempts on her life.

About the Author: Alibis and Lies is the fourth Cybil Quindt mystery and Ilsa Mayr’s tenth book for Avalon. The first three Cybil Quindt mysteries, A Timely Alibi, Banker’s Alibi, and Alibi for a Cold Winter’s Night are also available from Avalon. The romances, Serenade, Summer Flames, Portrait of Eliza, Gift of Fortune, and Dance of Life are also available.

By the same Author: Gift of Fortune (2003), among others.
All I Did Was Shoot My Man. Walter Mosley. 2012. 326p. (A Leonid McGill Mystery) Riverhead Books.
From the Dust Jacket: Eight years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend Minnie Lesser. Just days before, $58 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices were near the law offices where Zella worked.

Zella didn’t remember shooting Harry with her father’s pistol, but she didn’t deny it, either. The district attorney was inclined to call it temporary insanity—until the police found $50,000 from the Rutgers heist hidden in Zella’s storage unit.

When Zella is finally released from prison, Leonid McGill finds himself unexpectedly pulled back into the case. For reasons of his own, he is convinced of her innocence. And his life has gotten more complicated of late. His wife is drinking more than she should. His older son has moved in with his girlfriend, an ex-prostitute. His younger son is working for him, and his daughter is involved in a relationship McGill disapproves of. And McGill’s father, who he thought was long dead, has turned up alive and living under an alias.

When Zella hires McGill to do a job for her, he discovers that the sins of the past are not so easily forgotten, and that the truth behind what really happened eight years ago is more complex than he knew. A gripping story of murder, greed, and retribution, All I Did Was Shoot My Man is also a poignant tale about what it means to be a family.

About the Author: New York Times-bestselling author Walter Mosely is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. His work has been translated into more than twenty-one languages. The winner of an O. Henry Award, a Grammy, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Mosley lives in New York City.
All My Enemies: A Novel. Barry Maitland. 1996. 309p. (A Brock & Kolla Mystery) Hamish Hamilton (UK).
Just before D.S. Kolla is to start her new job in the Serious Crime Division at New Scotland Yard, a young woman is found viscously murdered in a leafy, well-heeled suburb, and the grotesque details of the slaughter appear to be well-rehearsed, even theatrical. Assigned to the case, Kolla’s only improbable lead draws her to a local amateur drama group. Once in their orbit, she is lured into a piece of theatre over which, increasingly, she has little control. In All My Enemies, Brock and Kolla find themselves in a tangled web of deceptions in a case wherein a corpus of plays becomes a template for murder.
All Risks Mortality: A Novel. Peter Cunningham. 1988. 284p. Little, Brown & Co.
From the Dust Jacket: A taut, breathlessly paced thriller pivoting on an insurance fraud of major proportions, financial double-dealing on Wall Street, and the threat of nuclear devastation in Israel, All Risks Mortality explores the deepest nature of good and evil, and introduces Peter Cunningham as a new master of pace and pilot.

Cornucopia is said to be the greatest racehorse of all time. Surpasser of all records, and now a stud after his final triumph at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Cornucopia is insured for two hundred million dollars, the biggest all risks mortality on a racehorse ever placed. Two and a half years later, the young horse, in his prime, suddenly dies of cancer.

Matt Blaney, insurance adjuster for insurance Fidelity, is assigned to investigate Cornucopia’s death and save the company their one-million-dollar share of the liability. It appears impossible. But after a brutal attack on his girlfriend, intended to scare him off, Blaney instead resolves to unravel the elaborate, devious cover-up that pits him against:

Carlo Galatti, the wealthy anti-Semitic owner of Cornucopia, who trades with the Arab states, and is facing financial ruin as the oil prices slump;

An American bank president who, against all logic, authorizes a loan of two hundred million dollars, and covertly buys up stock in Galatti’s company;

A pair of Mossad Nazi hunters closing in on their most wanted criminal: A top Israeli scientist who smuggles plutonium out of a secret nuclear plant;

And a homemade nuclear bomb rigged to a car outside the Knesset.

In a vivid, superbly timed plot that sweeps from France to the Middle East, New York to the Caribbean, All Risks Mortality brings to life unforgettable, often ruthless characters gambling for stakes they prize higher than life itself. With consummate skill and panache, Cunningham enthralls the reader with each twist and turn in this story of international intrigue.

About the Author: Peter Cunningham has worked in Paris, London, and New York, and lives now with his wife on a farm in County Kildare, Ireland, where he is writing his next novel.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold. Linda Law. From and idea by Lucy Killebrew. 2015. (A Nikki Smithson Mystery) CreateSpace.
This first in a series featuring Nikki Smithson, Private Investigator, combines the talents of two writers. A couple hire Nikki to find the son of one of them, whom was give up years ago. Nikki finds more than she bargained for in the hunt for the child. Child abduction, human trafficking, and political corruption, among other offenses. Life in Envious, Tennessee is never dull, but this case takes excitement and suspense to a new level.
All the Blood Relations. Deborah Adams. 1996. 242p. (A Jesus Creek Mystery) Ballantine Books.
From the Back Cover: For Meredith Bradley—Jesus Creek’s most successful businesswoman—life has been no bed of roses even though she’s the proprietor of the Back Door Florist shop. Now, while other Jesus Creekers are partying at the grand opening of her daughter-in-law’s New-Age tea room, Meredith Bradley is murdered. Who did it? And why? Warmhearted cop Kay Martin hasn’t a clue. Perhaps Meredith’s illegitimate daughter is the culprit. Perhaps members of the mysterious Brotherhood of Strength. Or one of the mayor’s extraterrestrial friends. With Chief Reb Gassler gone fishing and the rest of the J.C.P.D a tad short on brains, Kay has a hard row to hoe, especially since she’d do anything to help the bereaved family. Anything at all. Except cover for a killer....
All the Things You Are. Declan Hughes. 2014. 278p. Severn House.
About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming an actress abandoned, there’s no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Clare Taylor has settled. A wild week in Chicago may have shaken things up a bit, but as she turns the key in her Madison, Wisconsin home on the eve of Hallowe’en, she knows that what happened with her ex was nothing more than a distraction, that this is where her life is. Except it’s all gone. The furniture gone, the house stripped, her husband Danny, her daughters, all gone; no message; no note; nothing. Outside in the dark, searching for a sign, she steps in one: the eviscerated body of the family dog. By dawn next morning, her supposedly mortgage-free home has been foreclosed against, one of Danny’s childhood friends lies dead in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe’en night, 1976. A nightmare that reaches its terrifying climax thirty-five years later. About the Author: Declan Hughes is the author of five novels in the Ed Loy series. His debut, The Wrong Type of Blood, won the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, and he has also been short-listed for the Edgar, Shamus and Macavity Awards, and the Crime Writers’ Association’s New Blood Dagger. Declan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and the co-founder of Dublin’s Rough Magic Theatre Company. He lives with his wife and two daughters in South Dublin, Ireland.
All the Wrong Places. Elaine Pinkerton. 2017. 200p. Pocol Press.
From the Dust Jacket: Adoptee Clara Jordan moves from the east coast to Red Mesa, New Mexico, and begins a teaching year at the American Indian Academy. Shortly after the start of a new semester, headmaster Joseph Speckled Horse is found dead on Clara’s classroom floor. Both teacher and students are shocked. Clara deals with her students’ grief and her own frustration by daily running in the rough hills surrounding the academy. Carnell Dorame, a talented student and Clara’s favorite, uses the Internet to trace the identity of her birthmother. The school’s computer teacher Henry DiMarco invites Clara out for a date and they end up becoming lovers. Henry, however, is not what he seems. His real business is smuggling pottery, an enterprise that is tied in with the death of Speckled Horse. When Clara begins to suspect Henry’s dual nature, he decides that she is in the way and breaks up with her. She runs to a remote arroyo and underground cave studying petroglyphs that might lead to her birthmother’s identity. But it seems she is not alone. ... Will adoptee Clara Jordan be able to learn about her family tree or will she die trying?

About the Author: Elaine Pinkerton lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is the author of seven books, including fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. She began life as an orphan. Adopted at age five by a college professor and his wife, she grew up in the East and graduated from the University of Virginia.

A writer since age ten, she has freelanced, taught school and worked as a children’s librarian. Twenty years after her first book, Santa Fe on Foot, she found her true theme, adoption. The Goodbye Baby-Adoptee Diaries appeared in 2005, as did her novel Beast of Bengal. All the Wrong Places features adult adoptee Clara Jordan, a character searching for where she belongs.

By the Same Author: The Goodbye Baby: An Adoptee’s Diary (2012, AuthorHouse) and Santa Fe Blogger: Life After Adoption Recovery (2014, self-published).
All Things Return. WH Harrod. 2011. 292p. CreateSpace.
All Things Return is a story of two young men caught up in the mayhem created by an international criminal cartel willing to destroy an innocent man’s life for selfish gain. Howard Douglas vows to seek revenge against a member of the cartel as he goes searching for a son he never before knew existed. Terrance Butler, a young man living in Kansas while working as a newspaper reporter, has no idea that a two decades old criminal vendetta is heading his way. Learning that he has become the target of the cartel, Terrance plans his escape. Yet things are not as they seem. Terrance discovers that finding out the truth about his past requires him to face his fears, trusting that the unknown past he has sought for so long will show him the way.
Alma’s Daughter: A Child Possessed. Don Jones. 2011. 390p. CreateSpace.
Journalist Billy Caldwell thought he knew all there was to know about his legendary Aunt Alma. But when summoned home to his dying mother’s bedside he learns that his mother’s beautiful younger sister, known locally as “Crazy Alma,” was not his aunt at all, but his birth mother. And just to make matters worse, her possessed daughter Bonnie May was his half-sister. The proof, his father proclaims, lies in a journal where over the years he had chronicled not only Alma’s bizarre story, but Bonnie May’s as well. Born in eastern Kentucky in the mid-fifties Alma’s gifted, yet often spiteful “child of the hinterland” had a remarkable secret. For residing within this troubled adolescent’s id lived a bizarre and malevolent entity. Always ready for a little “fun and games,” this creature of darkness would often defy even its pubescent host in order to take on a life of its own. Then like a demon from hell-first in Kentucky and then later in California-this nightmarish creature would become virtually uncontrollable, destroying whatever Bonnie May, or it, wanted destroyed. Realizing that his father’s unfinished manuscript has raised more questions than answers, Billy heads out across the country to try and find the woman who gave him life; and if possible, to confirm, or deny, his father’s remarkable tale.
Alone. Kendra Elliot. 2014. 352p. (A Bone Secrets Novel) Montlake Romance.
One rainy night in the woods outside of Portland, Dr. Victoria Peres is called to the site of a haunting crime scene. Six beautiful young girls—all in white dresses and arranged in a perfect circle—have been left for dead. Only one girl, fighting for her life at a nearby hospital, has survived the carnage. Things get stranger still when Victoria and the police discover that the disturbing arrangement of the bodies—as meticulous as it is mysterious—is straight from the pages of a decades-old cold case. Victoria is called on to do what she does best, read the bones of the dead for clues ... while dealing with the surprise return of her first love, medical examiner Seth Rutledge. Only this time she must figure out how the two cases, fifty years apart, are connected. In the fourth book in her heart-pounding Bone Secrets series, best-selling author Kendra Elliot sends readers on a dark and thrilling journey as forensic anthropologist Victoria Peres races to solve a horrific new case while confronting the secrets of her past.
Along a Dark Path. Velda Johnston. 1967. 220p. (A Red Badge Mystery) Dodd, Mead & Co.
From the Back Cover: Susan Sayre did not know what awaited her at Tate House. But she had a strange premonition that whatever it was would somehow open the locked doors of her mind and release the dark secrets she had long ago imprisoned there. She was filled with icy foreboding.

From the moment she arrived, her head swirled with questions that seem to have no answers, and answers that had no reason. Then, suddenly, she stumbled upon the shattering truth about her long-lost childhood and realized she had gone too far into the past to turn back.

About the Author: Velda Johnston was raised and educated in California and now lives in New York. She and her husband divide their time between a Manhattan apartment and a nineteenth-century home in Sag Harbor, Long Island, the setting for many of her novels.

By the Same Author: The Stone Maiden (1980) and The Fateful Summer (1981), among many others.
The Alpine Menace. Mary Daheim. 2000. 293p. (An Emma Lord Mystery) Fawcett Books.
From the Back Cover: For once, Emma Lord, editor-publisher of The Alpine Advocate, isn’t thrilled by having an inside track. The Seattle murder of Alpine native Carol Stokes is generating headlines, but the accused killer is Emma’s long-lost cousin Ronnie, who swears he was out drinking when his girlfriend was strangled. But he can’t prove it, and neighbors claim they heard the couple fighting moments before the murder. Now Emma and supersnoop Vida, the Advocate’s house-and-home editor, must find another suspect. Someone who hated Carol enough to write a tragic ending to her life story. Someone who is preparing to edit Emma and Vida right out of existence....

About the Author: Mary Daheim is a Seattle native who started writing at the age of eight. The Alpine Menace is the thirteenth novel in her Emma Lord mystery series. The author is married to David Daheim, a retired college professor. The Daheims have three daughters: Barbara, Katherine, and Magdalen. Mary Daheim is a member of the Authors’ Guild and Mystery Writers of America.

By the Same Author: The Alpine Yeoman (2014, Ballantine).
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