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The Expendable Sous
Camille Mercier is more than a master of French cuisine; he’s a master of manipulation. Using his culinary prowess, he draws out his patrons’ deepest desires – until he crosses paths with ‘Crave,’ setting off a tumultuous clash with his talented sous chef, Timothee Emmeric.
Power can be intoxicating, and for Camille, almost irreplaceable. Yet, how far will he descend to maintain it? In a dark world of blackmail, confinement, and unspeakable crimes, every choice Camille makes weaves him deeper into a web of his own narcissistic design. His hunger for recognition in the culinary world sets him on a collision course with Timothee, whose talent and ambition are equal to his own. As tensions rise, Camille must confront an age-old truth: sometimes, getting everything you wish for can be the most dangerous thing of all. Will he learn the value of humility, or will he lose himself entirely?
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The el Toro Problem and Other Stories
Larry Carmody, private investigator, lives in a nighttime world of 1930s crime noir, a world of bottomless cynicism, triple standards, and scathingly black humor. There is no doing good in the world of Larry Carmody. There is only the cynicism and black humor needed to stay alive in the midst of convoluted plots and the nighttime world of crime. For some, that is. The accomplished and lucky ones. The rest perish.
In the world of Larry Carmody, you have to get the low-down. And you have to find a way out. Otherwise someone will show you the foolproof way out, by means of force-feeding you lead with an equalizer.
Larry Carmody himself says: “A case can sometimes be opened and shut in no time. It doesn’t often go down that way, but when it does, you can most often exchange the word ‘shut’ for the word ‘shot’. And I am not speaking of a shot of whisky in an instance such as this. I am using the word ‘shot’ in the sense of the main player in the case having been shot to death. Usually my client.”£8.99 -
The Effects of Betrayal
In the dark world of drug trafficking, to know a secret that the mafia wants you to keep forever, is a synonym of death.
Based on the true story of an unfortunate executive, The Effects of Betrayal is a thrilling tale of one young man and a CEO, who after accepting financial help from a cocaine cartel, suffers an implacable chase.
Sotomayor’s misfortune begins at the pinnacle of his profession. His fast climb as a boss at an international company augured a bright future for him; however, in time, his life collapsed like a castle of cards. His wife and mother were involved in a car accident, which left his wife dead and his mother critically injured, falling into a vegetative state just days later. These circumstances forced Sotomayor to lose everything, including his morals.
Sotomayor, in his longing for financial security, is forced to go into the dark world of drug trafficking where he would come to know Falcão and would start to work as his accountant. That would quickly lead him to know through the accounts books, the secret relationship between Tancredo Moreira, a corrupt politician, and his boss, Falcão.
Months later, the politician in the process of sharing the money from cocaine sale, ordered his hitmen to murder Falcão and his bodyguards, an event to which Sotomayor was unfortunately a witness.
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The Dutch Institute
Survive long enough and you become the problem.
Dr. Marten Keyser has incurable cancer. With nothing to lose he survives by pursuing a drug regime of his own devising. Already unpopular with the powerbrokers in the dystopian healthcare system, he then develops a light-based therapy, but his low-cost innovation threatens the power balance and a cat-and-mouse game of survival ensues. In the face of mounting intrigue aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, Marten and his wife delve into high-level corruption, struggle to save their relationship, and build new alliances that might offer them a safe future.£9.99 -
The Dream Institute
Leif Hjernø, a psychologist of Argentine and Danish descent and the son of Danish immigrants, and his secretary, Olga Tretkova, share a common passion for exploring the mysteries of the subconscious mind through their membership in IASD (The International Association for the Study of Dreams). When Olga is tasked with writing a biography of Leif and his institute, she turns to his renowned dream archive for inspiration. As they collaborate on the project, an unspoken attraction between them grows.
However, their peaceful work environment is shattered when a man is found murdered in one of the dream cabins in the institutes cellar. The victim is none other than the person Leif despises the most, and the evidence points to Leif as the prime suspect. With his fingerprints found on the murder weapon, one of his own kitchen knives, Leif’s reputation and career are at risk. Olga must use her expertise to help clear his name, but the deeper they delve, the more they uncover secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
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The Double Edged Sword
Rhia Bryant’s partnership with Jimmy Grant is an explosive affair. Considering their union to be the key to everything her adolescent heart had desired she was mortified when her lover told her he was moving to Germany to unearth a stolen painting. Unhappy with Jimmy’s wish to seek her father’s aid in his search Rhia looks to the past to help with the future.
As the pathway to uncovering the painting grows darker, and her father’s own past comes to light, danger stalks her journey. To keep one step ahead of the challenges she faces, Rhia once more brings deception into the equation.
The twists and turns of her personal life, forged by one Hans Parker, lead her into a year of deceit, lies, and a secret that threatens her very existence.
A rollercoaster of a read that questions the fabric of life.
Can a deceiver be deceived?
When is the moral high ground destroyed?
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The Domino Factor
Two worlds collide! It is 1941, eighteen-year-old Katerina documents her harrowing flight from Ukraine and the Nazi occupation in her personnel journal.
81 years later, her grandson Ivan Kross and long-time friend Nikolas, meet after five long years. During a friendly game of chess, discussions turn to Ivan’s preoccupation with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, triggering a chain of events irrevocably changing his life.
Ivan and his family are drawn into a thrilling vortex of political intrigue, cyber-attacks, AI drone surveillance and covert infiltration. From Geneva to London to Moscow, his path crosses, retired British special forces Lieutenant Colonel Roger Aitkens and his SAS Black OPS team, as well as, outlawed, independent Russian journalist, Arianna Nekraslova, who’s audacity and resources will prove invaluable in navigating through the back alleys of Moscow.
The riveting chronicle unfolds into a shattering domino effect, shaking the foundations of the Kremlin and setting in motion ramifications threatening the rule of a Russian Federation on the brink of nuclear armageddon.
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The Djinn's Retribution
In 1936 and at just 17years old, Yusuf Abbas murders two desert travellers for their camels and worldly goods. In 1950 and now calling himself Sheikh Yusuf Abbas, he murders a British Ambassador and the members of a British oil exploration company, shortly afterwards, when a neighbouring Sheikh and his family are poisoned, he merges their lands to create the Sabba Oil empire.On the other side of the world, Richard Neilson, a sickly 14-year-old is devastated when his beloved father (whilst working in Egypt) is decapitated by Arab fanatics. He vows to avenge his death. Two years later, and having thrown himself into a gruelling fitness regime, he enlists in the army and eventually wins selection into the SAS.Najeeb Abbas (Yusuf’s son) is a malevolent, unremorseful psychopath who, upon leaving Cambridge University with a degree in nuclear physics, persuades his father to fund a desert research facility to tackle global warming. But beneath the façade, his intentions are much darker and the consequences of his actions prove fatal for his remorseful father and potentially devastating for the Gulf of Mexica and Canadian Cantrell’s oilfields.Fate throws these two polar opposite lives together, and once again Richard’s family is threatened by Abbas’ deep-rooted intentions to destroy. Will he succeed? Or will Richard finally get the revenge he’s spent most of his life planning?Discover for yourself in this dark, gritty, and electrifying world of Al-Qaeda, terrorist conspiracies, SAS heroes, M16 agents, suicide bombings, assassination plans and desert ops – where revenge stops at nothing.
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The Distance Between Us
Will Farmer is mourning the murder of his only daughter, Daisy, but he becomes frustrated with the slow progress shown by the police. Aided and abetted by Meg, whom he befriends after he discovers she too has lost a daughter in similar circumstances forty years ago, he uncovers a few unpalatable home truths and reveals secrets of his marriage that should stay secret, for the sake of sanity. At the end, a big twist exposes the real villains, who live right under his nose in plain sight. Read it and be very scared…
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The Disappearance of Amaryllis August
In 1957, Amaryllis August, the daughter of wealthy parents, disappears from her home. There is no ransom demand. Her body is never discovered. Will the truth about what happened to Amaryllis August on that fateful day ever be revealed?
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The Devil’s Ferryman
Detective Inspector Jimmy Nicholls is an outstanding young police officer in the Met who is leading the investigation into the brutal murder of four drug-addicted lowlifes, killed on the doorstep of one of the most notorious crime bosses in London. As he begins his investigation, he finds himself being warned off investigating the crime boss by the Met Commissioner, who also happens to be the father of his girlfriend, and a man he has known most of his life.
With no leads and little in the way of forensic evidence, the case doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. That is until the killer gets in touch with Nicholls in a completely unexpected way and warns him not to speak to anyone else, or his life will be in danger.
Nicholls initially has no choice but to comply with the killer’s demands but as more details are revealed, Nicholls learns some grisly details about his own family’s past that leads him to question who the real criminals are.
Nicholls and the killer begin to form an uneasy alliance as they work together to uncover some shocking truths about the relationship between organised crime and corruption in London. As the machinations of power are slowly revealed, Nicholls learns of a nefarious plot by the criminals to take control of the government. It is down to him and the killer to stop it.
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The Devil's Tea Party
New York is being tormented by an artistically creative serial killer with a taste for beautiful brunettes and satanic symbolism. To catch a murderous mastermind, one man has learned how to think like a killer. That man is Jake Cannon, a handsome and gifted homicide detective with a reputation for breaking hearts and breaking the rules.
Desperate to protect the citizens of his beloved city, Jake turns to attractive young police psychologist Felicity Monroe, and flamboyant billionaire art mogul Damian Burgundy, to help him build a profile of the sadistic serial murderer known as ‘The Ladykiller’.
As Jake delves into the sexually depraved high society in which the Ladykiller stalks his prey, he soon realises that there is more to the recent wave of murders than meets the eye. To catch the killer, Jake must confront the demons of his own past, and uncover a sinister truth which threatens to tear his world apart!
Paul Michael Campbell’s debut thriller is a nail-biting feast of sex, suspense and explosive twists which will leave you on the edge of your seat! You are formally invited to The Devil's Tea Party.
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