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Tag Archives: Prologue Books

Detour – Helen Nielsen

2016-01-31

Kid hitchhiker Danny was making his big break for Mexico when the kindly old man giving him a lift is murdered. Danny sets out on the lam, trapped by circumstantial evidence.

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Obit Delayed – Helen Nielsen

2015-05-29

When a young woman is killed in a small desert town, the only person not yet ready to condemn her ex-wife is the plucky journalist Mitch Gorman.

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Something in the Shadows – Vin Packer

2015-03-06

When his cat is slain by a hit-and-run driver, Joseph Meaker transforms from serene intellectual to crazed killer as he sets out to have his revenge.

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Dead, She Was Beautiful – Whit Masterson

2014-11-26

P.I. Mort Hagen is hired to tail a cheating wife, only to discover it’s his ex. But before he can quit this job, she winds up dead… with Mort the prime suspect in her murder.

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Shell Game – Richard Powell

2014-07-24

Vacationing ad-man just wants to roam the beach and collect seashells… until he’s dragged into a murder investigation by a beautiful woman.

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Don’t Speak to Strange Girls – Harry Whittington

2014-05-20

In the midst of depression brought on by the death of his wife, aging Hollywood star Clay Stuart falls into an obsessive lust for a dangerous young woman…

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The Captain Must Die – Robert Colby

2014-02-10

For twelve long years they remembered. For twelve long years they plotted. And now Captain Driscoll was going to pay for what he had done to them during the war.

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Case of the Deadly Kiss – Milton K. Ozaki

2013-12-17

He bruised their mouths with a brutal kiss and then he strangled them… slowly. Every one of them was young and lovely, every one of them a cop’s wife or sweetheart.

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A Shot in the Dark – Richard Powell

2013-09-19

Johnny Edwards arrives too late to save his friend Tony, but he can still avenge him. And with reckless abandon Johnny chases after a smuggling gang.

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Case of the Cop’s Wife – Milton K. Ozaki

2013-07-13

Pregnant policeman’s wife is nabbed along with the loot following a massive department-store heist; she’s now a hostage, as her husband fights against time to find her.

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Flashpoint – Dan Marlowe

2013-07-01

Ex-criminal turned government agent Earl Drake is the target of Middle Eastern terrorists, and sets off after them to New York to disrupt their nefarious scheme.

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