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142 Wellington Place
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The suspense in this engaging crime narrative is riveting and keeps building up until it reaches a most unexpected climax filled with excitement and pathos.
Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call from Celia, the wife of his best friend, Don. It seems Don has been unfaithful, and the proof stands in the hallway of the couple’s home: Ada Hamilton, a young, fragile, pregnant girl who clutches love letters written in Don’s hand. Unfortunately, Don is in London, and Celia wants Ben to fi nd out if her husband truly is a liar and a cheat.
Ben heads up to London to confront his old friend and then returns to Celia’s house to deliver the sad news that Don has admitted to the affair. But then things take a strange and sudden turn. Two police inspectors arrive minutes later and reveal that Don’s body has been found in his rooming house at 142 Wellington Place. Whether his death was by suicide or murder, they can’t–or, more accurately, won’t–say.
The authorities open up an inquest into Don’s death, and Ben accompanies the police back to London, where they interview witnesses and gather evidence. Tracking down Don’s mistress complicates things and there is a great twist when a second ‘Miss Hamilton’ turns up. Something is certainly rotten at 142 Wellington Place.
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Alexis Sheppard
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Alexis Sheppard follows the life of a brilliant young African American woman and how she tries for live up to her father›s legacy by following in his footsteps. In this story we find out how Alexis and her mother Catherine deal with the loss of a loving father and husband. In the process of following in her father’s footsteps she finds inconsistencies surrounding her father’s death.
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Kevin VS The City of Heroes
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99In a world where heroes and superweapons are as prominent as the concrete they’re living on, a simple reporter takes a job with a sociopathic man with a dream. Getting thrown headfirst into a madness-fueled rampage to take the central city of Megatropolis — where the most powerful of Heroes and Villains alike reside — the reporter is forced to keep up with one of the lowest self-controlled people he’d ever thought he’d meet: The self proclaimed Supervillain Kevin “Motherfucking” Andréson.
With a plan, a group of equally crazy followers, and some extremely intelligent advisors at his back, this is the account of one man’s rise to becoming one of the scariest living things that anything would ever meet, told by a simple and mundane person. Let’s see what’s in store, shall we?
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The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue: England 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre, a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate, ambitious, conniving and predatory women, a vindictive husband, secret societies, the plague, closely kept secrets, man eating animals, and a spate of attempted and successful murders.
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The Malevolent Isle: Murder, Magic and Mystery: Yorkshire 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke’s first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This marquis is undermined by a rebellious son who openly supports the work of an outlawed Catholic priest-and indulges in shady land deals.
Luke’s investigation confronts a defrocked Anglican vicar, several promiscuous women and a series of murders whose motives may lie in the present, or in the distant past.
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The Spanish Relation: Murder in Cromwellian England
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Luke, Cromwell’s top agent spends late 1654 and much of 1655 in Somerset inquiring into the murder of an obscure squire. The victim’s family and village are deeply divided revealing a multitude of suspects-feuding relatives, corrupt politicians, Royalist supporters, Spanish agents, religious fanatics, a wanton witch, and a mysterious man in a golden cape
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The Frown of Fortune: A French Affair
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In 1653 Luke and his deputy Harry are sent to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king. They are separated and pursue independent investigations. Harry, who reaches the royal court attempts to solve the murders of two ladies-in-waiting, while a disabled Luke investigates the death of an aristocrat’s wife. The investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, an unscrupulous courtier, a Canadian adventurer, and a rampaging bear. Thee search for English Catholic treasure focusses everybody’s attention.
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The Angelic Assassin: Criminals and Conspirators
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In 1652 politicians secretly plan to disband the army. Its commander Oliver Cromwell sends Luke to foil these plotters, and find the murderers of three excise officers who stumbled across illegal ammunition that could be used against the army and its supporters. Luke uncovers a combination of corrupt politicians, powerful criminals, a bevy of would-be beautiful assassins, foreign agents and an unhinged religious leader whose various interests endanger Luke’s life, and threaten the army’s existence.
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The Black Thistle: A Scottish Conspiracy
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In 1651, a fatally wounded Scottish trooper is found by an English patrol. Before he takes his last breath, he reveals the details of a major plot being hatched against Scottish leaders and English generals within Clarke Castle the same castle where many kidnapped Scots are being held.
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We the Hunters
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Denver Colorado, 1878. A cold-blooded murder opens the gateway to Hell. US Deputy Marshal, Tom Wade’s wife and two children are murdered, then burned inside the torched house. Wade buries their remains, has his cry, then tosses his Badge into the ashes. Thus begins a determined hunt for the killers, believe to have been five. Based on suspicion, he tracks down one of them and beats a confession out of him. Gaining information concerning the remaining four, it is rumored Wade then killed the man and set out tracking the others. Back in Denver, Chief US Marshal Arch Steinberge, Wade’s longtime friend and 15 year boss, finds himself fresh on the trail of his ex-deputy; and not without grave apprehension.
Emotions run high and the dark power of blind-sided rage lay heavy on the minds of both men. But deep inside Senior Marshal Steinberge, there lies a dire, personal unrest; when their paths cross, the Law must override his Heart!
