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Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFederal agents, Alexis Grumman and Jeremy Wade track down a current day vigilante, whose fingerprints match those of a Korean War veteran. Author Kyle Keyes uses characters from two previous novels, to promote a theory that particle energy formats with a quantum root system, that can bypass time and space... -
![The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell]()
The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKilling is her art, and she's about to paint her masterpiece! Madisun has returned home to New Orleans, almost a year to the day her family was murdered. The people who did it are still free. The man who betrayed her is still alive. Justice is coming to the criminals of the city, justice without mercy. Welcome home, Madi. Try not to burn the whole city down...Categorized as:
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![Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver]()
Bombing in Belgravia by Samantha Silver
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThings are about to blow up for Cassie... When an ambassador's children are killed in a deliberate gas explosion in the middle of the night, Violet Despuis is on the case. Right from the start, not everything is as it seems, as Cassie confirms at the crime scene that one of the victims had been poisoned beforehand... -
![Blood of the Faithful by Michael Wallace, Arielle DeLisle]()
Blood of the Faithful by Michael Wallace, Arielle DeLisle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that their latest battle is over, the religious residents of Blister Creek are dealing with their losses and trying to heal—physically and spiritually. Their leader, Jacob Christianson, now feels the full burden of the responsibility and finds himself at a crossroads: keep the believers isolated, or see what lies beyond Blister Creek’s borders... -
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![Helicoprion by Michael Cole]()
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
![The Rescue by Sophie McKenzie]()
The Rescue by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe third title in a thrilling new series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House Book Award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie... -
![Missing by Francine Pascal]()
Missing by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNobody knows where I am. Nobody knows how to find me. Nobody knows my real identity.Including me... -
![Naked by Francine Pascal]()
Naked by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been stripped of a home. Stripped of a family. Stripped of a life. I have almost nothing left to lose.Except the one I love most... -
![Lost Bullet by Malcolm Rose]()
Lost Bullet by Malcolm Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the rotting slums of London, Luke and Malc are called to investigate the shocking murder of an attractive young doctor. The investigation eventually leads Luke to a bizarre cult called the World Church of Eternal Vision whose members believe that the entire medical profession is interfering with creation... -
![Tears by Francine Pascal]()
Tears by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI am fearless. I am not afraid of pain…But I can still feel it... -
![Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee]()
Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOut Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion... -
![The Thief (Medusa Project #2.5) / Walking the Walls by Sophie McKenzie, Chris Higgins]()
The Thief (Medusa Project #2.5) / Walking the Walls by Sophie McKenzie, Chris Higgins
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe events in this special story take place between The Hostage and The Rescue, but The Thief can be read as a stand-alone story.The Thief stars the four Medusa teens, Nico, Ketty, Ed and Dylan. Following the explosion that ended The Hostage, the teens are sent to a boot camp in Spain - to learn some discipline, but also for their own protection... -
![The Persona Protocol by Andy McDermott]()
The Persona Protocol by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe latest thriller from bestselling author, Andy McDermott. For fans of Tom Clancy and Matthew Reilly.Adam Gray is the ultimate spy.As the lead agent of the US government's top-secret Persona project, he is its most valuable weapon in the War on Terror... -
![Android: Golem by Mel Odom]()
Android: Golem by Mel Odom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping... -
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![Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez]()
Wealth of Time by Andre Gonzalez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow much would you sacrifice to learn the truth?Martin Briar drags himself through life. The 54 year old has lost the will to live since the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter two decades ago.Unable to pull the trigger on himself, again, he later encounters a time-traveling antique dealer who offers him the chance to find out what happened to his only child... -
![Doctor Who: Grand Theft Cosmos by Eddie Robson]()
Doctor Who: Grand Theft Cosmos by Eddie Robson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'Here's to crime, Doctor!'The Doctor and Lucie visit nineteenth-century Sweden and become embroiled in an attempt to steal the infamous Black Diamond.But the stone is guarded by forces not of this world.. -
![Doctor Who: Sisters of the Flame by Nicholas Briggs]()
Doctor Who: Sisters of the Flame by Nicholas Briggs
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe richest man in the galaxy has just bought a backwards planet with no obvious mineral wealth in the outer reaches of the universe. An obscure mystical sect has been revived after centuries of neglect. A new race of aliens are hunting for prey... -
![Bad by Francine Pascal]()
Bad by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI FINALLY HAVE SAM. I FINALLY HAVE A FAMILY. I FINALLY HAVE A WAY OUT... -
![Love by Francine Pascal]()
Love by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI thought I loved Sam. He betrayed me. Now he's gone. I thought I loved my uncle. He doesn't know what love is. He only wants to use me... -
![Soul Intent by Dennis Batchelder]()
Soul Intent by Dennis Batchelder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA VILLAIN’S REQUESTIn 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul’s rebirth. A GRIM RESISTANCEFlora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold... -
![Lost by Francine Pascal]()
Lost by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNow that things are insane again they’re finally back to normal. Dad’s in a coma. And I’m going out of my mind. Oh, one more thing…Sam’s back from the dead...Categorized as:
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![The Thousand-Headed Man by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
The Thousand-Headed Man by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith a mysterious black Chinaman, Doc Savage and his amazing crew journey to the jungles of Indo-China in a desperate gamble to destroy the infamous Thousand-headed Man. To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes... -
![Smoke by Donald E. Westlake]()
Smoke by Donald E. Westlake
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDue to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. This condition has clear-cut advantages for a man in Freddie's profession, but now everybody wants a glimpse of Freddie. But Freddie doesn't dare show his face, his shadow, anything. Because Freddie Noon has gotten a taste of invisibility--and he can't quit now... -
![The Escher Man by T.R. Napper]()
The Escher Man by T.R. Napper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA cartel enforcer across South-east Asia must escape a world of paranoia and violence to save his family in this cerebral and multi-layered cyberpunk science fiction novel, from the award-winning author of 36 Streets. Perfect for fans of William Gibson's The Peripheral and Five Minds by Guy Morpuss.Your name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101... -
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![Never Love a Stranger by Harold Robbins]()
Never Love a Stranger by Harold Robbins
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHarold Robbins' very first novel is also one of his most powerful. Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in New York's Hell's Kitchen. From that confused and belittling start, Frank works his way up, choosing the wrong side of the law to make a name for himself... -
![The Opal by Michael Siemsen]()
The Opal by Michael Siemsen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMatt Turner grew up witnessing first-hand the worst crimes imaginable. At age 9, he discovered his special ability to “read” the emotional imprints people leave on objects. Against better judgment, his police detective father used his son’s talent to help him solve crimes... -
![Legacy by Matthew Farrer]()
Legacy by Matthew Farrer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legendary rogue trader charters: Imperial warrants of unimaginable antiquity, which can bring their bearers wealth and power barely imaginable. Now that Rogue Trader Hoyyon Phrax is dead, his charter is being brought to the great fortress-system of Hydraphur to be ceremonially bequeathed to his son, and already the vultures are circling.Shira Calpurnia does not want the charter... -
![The Elysium Commission by L.E. Modesitt Jr.]()
The Elysium Commission by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsL.E. Modesitt returns to SF with a whole new future world on the brink of destruction.A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ours --and a utopian city on one of the planets... -
![Nightside City by Lawrence Watt-Evans]()
Nightside City by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the dawn, Nightside City would die. But someone was willing to kill to keep Carlisle Hsing in the dark...Nightside City was built on the dark side of the Epimetheus, back when everyone was sure that the planet had stopped rotating. Now, slowly but surely, Nightside City was moving toward the dayside--and doom... -
![Anywhere by Jon Robinson]()
Anywhere by Jon Robinson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'We're miles from anywhere, and we don't have a clue where we're going'Deep in a snow-covered forest Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa have escaped from prison. Now they're being hunted.They quickly realise they have a special talent - they can control the world around them.Now they must use this skill to stop themselves falling into greater danger... -
![Marcher by Chris Beckett]()
Marcher by Chris Beckett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharles is an immigration officer with a difference: the migrants he deals with don’t come from other countries but from other universes...Categorized as:
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![Archform: Beauty by L.E. Modesitt Jr.]()
Archform: Beauty by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFour centuries in the future, the world is rich—nanomachines watch the health of the wealthy and manufacture food and gadgets for everybody—but no utopia, as we see in the lives of five very different people: a singing teacher, a news researcher, a police investigator, a politician and a ruthless businessman... -
![異變13秒 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾]()
異變13秒 by Keigo Higashino, 東野圭吾
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard]()
Clouds of Venus by Jeff Tanyard
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDale Kinmont is a college student in post-catastrophe America. He's lucky; he lives in one of the walled cities for the nation's elite, and life is pleasant. He expects to graduate and find employment in his uncle's company.Everything changes when he's framed for murder. He's tried, convicted, and sentenced to hard labor in the prison colony on Mercury... -
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![A Matter of Time by Glen Cook]()
A Matter of Time by Glen Cook
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMay 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret... -
![The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams]()
The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case... -
![Terminal Event by Robert Vaughan]()
Terminal Event by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn Antarctic research team discovers a perfectly machined gold canister, 2500 feet below the surface of the ice. There are strange, and unrecognizable markings on the canister. How did it get there, and where did it come from? It is sent back to a research center in the U.S. where it is opened in an environmentally controlled room... -
![The Return: A Novel by Joseph Helmreich]()
The Return: A Novel by Joseph Helmreich
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYears after a scientist is abducted on live TV, a graduate student tracks down the mysteriously returned, yet reclusive man, ultimately uncovering a global conspiracy.During a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse, renowned astrophysicist Andrew Leland is suddenly lifted into the sky by a giant spacecraft and taken away for all to see... -
![Off Rock by Kieran Shea]()
Off Rock by Kieran Shea
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJimmy Vik works for a galactic mining company, with his ex-flame as his boss. When he discovers a significant gold pocket during a routine shaft demolition procedure he feels his luck has changed- though smuggling the gold off rock won t be easy. With the help of a scrounger and gambler and his sidekick, Jimmy puts together a plan... -
![Tek Lab by William Shatner]()
Tek Lab by William Shatner
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, begun with TekWar and continued in TekLords. Jake Cardigan is ecstatic when his ex-wife's lover, powerful TekLord Bennett Sands, is finally incarcerated. But when Jake's son and Sands' daughter disappear, Jake must enter the ruins of a 21st-century London and confront a deranged killer in a showdown to the death. Entertaining!--Locus... -
![TekLords by William Shatner, Ron Goulart]()
TekLords by William Shatner, Ron Goulart
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKnown to millions as "Star Trek's" Captain Kirk, actor-director and bestselling author William Shatner returns to the stunning future world he created in "TekWar." Ex-cop Jake Cardigan is back. A synthetic plague is sweeping the city. And a top drug-control agent is brutally murdered by a reprogrammed human "zombie, " deadlier than an android assassin...
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