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noir

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Confinement

by Gabriella Murray

Set in an experimental hospital for the criminally insane in the 1950s, CONFINEMENT is loosely based on the author’s one year residency in a psychiatric center, when lobotomies and other equally cruel treatments...

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Teen

CON TEST

by Rahiem Brooks

William Fortune is a novelist that has created spine-jolting and masterful crime thrillers that catapults him to the Best Seller’s List and blockbuster films. His prismatic life is being chased down by the...

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african american

street lit

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Sangre Falls

by Sandra Madera

Alexis Adeluna has a secret... She is a vampire. While exploring one of her favorite haunts, she finds a body and discovered a gift she never knew she had. She can see the dead. Now, she can't rest until she...

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FIRE POINT

by John Smolens

In a small Michigan town, a young woman struggles to rebuild her life. "Innocent lovers are subjected to an onslaught of jealousy and hostility on Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula in a sensitively observed,...

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police corruption

Lake Superior

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Noir - Case of the Dead Pediatrician

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

After a pediatrician's dead body crashes through his office window, Bruce Howard begins an investigation that leads him to believe that maybe this man is better off dead. Should he even bother trying to find...

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Noir - Case of the Sphinx

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

The second installment in a short story series featuring Bruce Howard; the lady-killing private investigator. In this case, one of his “bed buddies” comes to him for help when a serial killer has targeted...

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Noir - Case of My Missing Love

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

The first in a series of short stories chronicling the cases of Bruce Howard, a charmingly intelligent private investigator that has more heart than he realizes. In this case, his young neighbor, Timmy, asks...

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case

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The Betrayal of A Hero

by David Armstrong

Tim is an ex British Army soldier from Newcastle Upon Tyne. After finding it difficult to survive after leaving the army he enters into business with his best mate and an acquaintance who eventually destroys...

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betrayal

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THE ADVENTURES OF FRED AND ME Episode 4 LIFE IS ALL ITS CRACKED UP TO BE

by David Halliday

A surreal comic novel (in the tradition of magic realism) about a young writer in the throes of a messy marital breakup and his subsequent drifting into madness. Plus his talking cat, Fred. This is episode 4...

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murder suspect

magic realism

inspired by ta true story

Exile Corporation

by Mark McClafferty

Global warming, famines and natural disasters threaten the world. Seventy six million people are retiring at a rate of ten thousand a day in America. Its social security programs and hospitals are failing, while...

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Classmate Murders

by Bob Moats

Someone is murdering woman from the class of '67 and it's up to Jim Richards, who has reluctantly just turned sixty, to stop him. Jim's life is in the dumps and then late one might he receives an email from...

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Far Beyond the Pale

by Daren Dean

In this darkly comic novel Nathan “Honey Boy” Kimbrough narrates a boy’s search for a father and his mother’s search for a "good man" in the mid-1970s. Honey Boy is a thirteen-year-old, four-letter-spouting,...

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The Seventh Lost Tale of Mercia: Hildred the Maid

by Jayden Woods

In 1005 A.D., a terrible famine strikes Engla-lond. When a poor young woman named Hildred grows desperate enough to break the law for her survival, a rising thegn named Eadric takes her fate in his hands. “The...

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lost tales of mercia

seventh lost tale

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The Hound of the Baskervilles Retrained

by Artemis Conyn Doyle

A Shyrlock Holmes story. When Dr Mortimer asks for the help of famous consulting detective Ms. Shylock Holmes and her stalwart companion Dr Joan Watson, they may have expected some dark family secrets to be...

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Sherlock Holmes

gender switch

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The Defective Detective : Cat Chaser

by Adam Maxwell

It's the first case for Clint, probably the world's only narcoleptic detective, and everything should be going really well. To be brutal, it probably would be going a lot better if he'd managed to stay awake...

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defective detective

dark comedy

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Somebody Somewhere

by Tom Lichtenberg

Some psycho kidnaps his would-be girlfiend, gets chased by the cops halfway across the state, runs out of gas right outside your house, where you and your spouse are enjoying a quiet evening at home, and now...

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