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A man of a prestigious real estate firm is found dead, his grave an empty pool on one of his clients' properties.
Richard, a friend and colleague, stumbled across the body in what seems a mere coincidence but leads to a trail of deceit and lies.
Michael has worked hard to earn her way as a well-known therapist in the greater Seattle area until she suddenly becomes a target, tied to the killing of her best friend Richard's colleague. Giving the police...
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Beneath the Earth is the new thriller by K. L. Dempsey, which features private investigator Alexandra Johnson. Alexandra has recently resigned from her job as an elite investigator for the successful firm of Kate Heller Patterson and has now opened her own agency in the alleged haunted library of Deer Valley, Illinois. Her delight in owning her own firm has suddenly put her face-to-face with the need to solve the tragic disappearance of the region's...
3) Innocent?
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Firefighter and devoted husband Matt Kingston is arrested for a gruesome murder. He denies having any guilt even though investigators find his DNA at the murder scene. His public defender, the neophyte lawyer Paula Peters, is assigned to defend him and tries her best to believe in his innocence. But the evidence seems overwhelming against her ever being successful. This story follows the investigation into the murder, who ultimately stands by Kingston's...
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TEDMUND AND THE MURDERED CHEERLEADER
Arriving in Tiryns, Tessa "Tess" O'Neil is on a mission to make amends for wrongs she committed as a teenager. In recovery from years of drug dependency, she decides to contact her former high school friends, the once cool kids of Aaron Burr High. She feels compelled to reveal the truth about the mysterious disappearance of a student, Walter Krol, which happened six years earlier.
On a trip to Tiryns for the...
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Justice for Elizabeth is K. L. Dempsey's newest thriller, which once again points out his unique talent for creating and defining his characters. The novel illuminates the dark corners faced by a smalltown lawyer Luke Black, whose modest goals in life are defined by his annual three resolutions:
That he will continue his long-term effort to destroy the popular belief that all lawyers are necessarily dishonest.
That his net worth will reach his...
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Six months in on her very first undercover assignment, a promising GACT agent Seleena (a global anti-terrorist unit) reaches a critical break in her case. After her boyfriend Victor Lassette, a thriving new club owner in Chicago and the subject of her investigation, is assassinated, Seleena finds her own life in danger. Facing the same fate as her artificial lover but refusing to drop the case, the interpol agent enlists the help of a closely knit...
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Maggie Matheson, an advertising executive in New York City, is forced to put her career on hold when she discovers her fiancé has been brutally murdered in his Long Island mansion on Christmas night. What was supposed to be a romantic weekend turned into a hideous nightmare for Maggie as she sets out to vindicate his untimely death.
She vows to make sure whoever killed her beloved Edward was brought to justice, even if it meant soliciting the help...
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Psychology professor and pop culture junkie Ashley McKennitt didn't plan to end up in the middle of a murder investigation. But when her best friend Cait's recently promoted homicide detective brother wants to pick her brain, Ashley jumps at the chance to gain real world insight into psychopathic behaviors. That's her first mistake. While Detective Jesse Malone is busy trying to validate his theory that a recent murder is connected to an unsolved...
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FBI Agents Terry Longfellow and Adriana Dickinson are called on to investigate a case that became known as "the Decapitator" at FBI headquarters. The agents track the serial killer from Jamestown, New York, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Moundsville, West Virginia, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and to Western Maryland, which becomes his killing field. The Decapitator leaves countless clues for Agents Longfellow and Dickinson, challenging them with...
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Spencer Martin was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated high school and joined the Army. He found only one problem with his service--he was teased about his size. He learned to be a pugilist in order to defend himself. When he finished his commitment to Uncle Sam, he returned home and joined the police force. After many years of dedicated service, he felt too confined. In 1941 it was time to become a private detective and make...
11) Isle Noir
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In a world gone mad, Isle Noir is a city rife with corruption and greed run by secret societies and criminal cabals. The police are either incompetent, corrupt, or severely overworked. For the average joe, the only hope for justice is to hire a private eye.
Brie Kerrygold is an art historian with a shaky employment record and an even worse dating history. Her last chance for a meaningful job is as a girl Friday for PI Jake Crane. Her shorthand may...
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When Ernie Fontaine, former cop-turned-PI, relocates to Duluth, Minnesota, in search of her missing fiancé, John Luciano, she plays right into the hands of powerful businessman, Genovio Palicelli, the Scorpion. Owner of Palicelli Portage and Freight (PPF), a Lake Superior shipping company and major Duluth employer, Palicelli also searches for John, who disappeared six years ago. Though not officially declared dead, John is assumed so by everyone...
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An ex-PI looks into the world of corruption within the insurance industry. She peeks the insider views of her local and state government by her claims. The structure of this layman did not set well with the upper elite.
The lesson she learns cripples her interracial marriage and sets a wall of fire against her and her White husband.
This PI learns the meaning of "the blue flu," a well-established phrase that the police use within their ranks....
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In the 1960s, Casey Lancon, a former New Orleans policewoman and now a successful detective in Lafayette, Louisiana, is retained to investigate a recent murder in Baton Rouge, while Bobby, her husband and a history professor at the local university, has befriended Rose Derouselle Chauvin, the wife of the man accused of assassinating a prominent politician in the halls of the state capitol during the turbulent 1930s. When Rose asks Casey if she would...
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Death before Its Time by K. L. Dempsey creates an extraordinary portrait of a woman caught in a labyrinth of revenge and evil by a man of God who is determined to destroy her and her family. Kate Heller Patterson, America's most trusted female investigator, first introduced in the novels The Unholy Vengeance and The Vanishing Pharmacist, now finds herself and her family being hunted by the same pastor she once successfully put in prison. Suddenly...
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In this episode our anti-anti-heroes are again messing with powers and circumstances that are out of their control. Neither of them and their minions are ever prepared for the intrigue and danger they encounter. But the oddity of their cases has begun to identify them. They can either run away and continue their careers with mundane assignments that neither pay the bills nor fulfill their thirsts for misadventure. Wait till you get a load of the ensuing...
17) Devil's Knob
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J. J. Jackson is an unscrupulous owner of an earthmoving construction company. It is hard times for such companies in Colorado in 1988. He drinks too much and has money problems. He cheats on his wife, who he hates him and is involved with a self-proclaimed environmental crusader. But he has a grand plan for solving his problems. There is a high-tech materials research company, Basin Technology, that is being decimated by Colorado Department of Public...
18) Blood Sisters
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Rex Bonner's next case began with the appearance of a strange and engaging woman. She arrived at the office with a very odd and unusual tale to tell. The roots of which began in war-torn Italy in 1944. A group of young girls who had banded together for their own safety, security, and survival received the support from an old and broken-down Catholic convent. There, they became revitalized and, with the advent of an old man's efforts and skills, developed...
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Spinning toward a devastating confrontation with his boss, the mercurial anchorman of The Weekly Reporter, Ethan Benson stumbles upon a story about the tabloid murders of three runaway girls that have dominated the headlines in New York City. At first, the assignment appears to be just another lurid crime story that Ethan has no interest in pursuing, but as he launches his investigation digging up the police reports, securing the court records, meeting...
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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
-Revelation 12:7—9
Late in the seventeenth century, in the eastern part of...
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