Poison Town (Crittendon Files)
By Creston Mapes (David C. Cook)
Release date: February 1, 2014
There’s More Than One Kind of Poison in This TownPeople are sick and dying. Rumors are swirling. Some claim chemicals leaking from a manufacturing plant are causing the cancer that’s crippling people on the poor side of Trenton City, Ohio. Yet nothing at the plant appears amiss. The problem remains a mystery until reporter Jack Crittendon’s long-time mechanic falls ill and he investigates.
Poison: A Novel (Bloodline Trilogy)
By Jordyn Redwood (Kregel Publications)
Release date: January 23, 2013
Five years ago, Keelyn Blake’s armed, mentally ill stepfather took her family hostage in their house in rural Colorado. She and her half-sister Raven made it out alive, but others did not. Authorities blamed the father’s frequent hallucinations about a being named Lucent, but in the end, even the best of the FBI’s hostage negotiators failed to overcome the man’s delusions and end the standoff peacefully. Now, Lucent is back, and he’s no hallucination. In fact, he is a very real person with dangerous motives.
Poisoned Secrets (Love Inspired Suspense, No. 139)
By Margaret Daley (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: March 10, 2009
Maggie Ridgeway has spent years searching for her birth mother. And now, thanks to an anonymous tip, she’s finally found her. Taking the apartment across the hall from her mother’s family, Maggie is determined not to leave until she gets some questions answered. Who is her father? Why did her parents abandon her? And what item in her new apartment is provoking multiple burglaries? After an interrupted break-in leaves Maggie unconscious, the building’s owner, Kane McDowell, promises to protect her. But then he learns who she really is.
Pompeii: City on Fire: A Novel
By Tracy L. Higley (B&H Books)
Release date: June 1, 2011
Pompeii, a city that’s many things to many people. For Cato, it’s the perfect escape from a failed political career in Rome. A place to start again, become a winemaker. But when a corrupt politician wrongfully jails Cato’s sister, he must oust the man from power to save her. For Ariella, Pompeii is a means to an end.
Poor Mrs. Rigsby
By Kathy Herman (Multnomah Books)
Release date: June 23, 2004
CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it’s work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally’s new crowd skews toward the elderly—ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for instance, whose dementia comes and goes with her gold-digging son and grandson’s visits. Elsie’s not going to tell those vultures where she stashed her money. Still, she’s not getting any younger, and someone besides her needs to know.
Portrait of Vengeance (A Gwen Marcey Novel)
By Carrie Stuart Parks (Thomas Nelson)
Release date: August 8, 2017
“Rich characters, a forensic artist’s eye for detail, and plot twists—Carrie Stuart Parks hits all the right notes!” —Mary Burton, New York Times bestselling authorAn unsolved case. A tempest of memories. The future’s at stake—and time is running out.
Possession: Pay Now – Or Lose Everything
By Rene Gutteridge (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.)
Release date: January 1, 2011
In the aftermath of investigating the D. C. sniper case, police detective Vance Graegan is burned out on life and love. Hoping to save his marriage, he quits the force and moves his wife and son to the other side of the country. But when the movers decide to hold his belongings for ransom, Vance is determined to ensure that his family’s new beginning is not ruined.
Power Play (Capital Intrigue)
By Rachel Dylan (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: June 1, 2021
When State Department attorney Vivian Steele witnesses two ambassadors collapse as if poisoned at a diplomatic dinner in Washington, DC, she is recruited to be a member of a joint FBI task force assigned to investigate. But she soon finds her by-the-book ways clashing with a special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, Jacob Cruz. A former Navy SEAL and in charge of the event’s security, Jacob takes the attack personally and is driven to act quickly, even ahead of the rules and regulations. As Viv starts to work her diplomatic sources, her past as a State Department lawyer comes back to haunt her, and secrets held tightly by the government thrust her into a web of danger. Afraid, Viv turns to the one man bent on protecting others.
Powers: A Novel
By John B. Olson (B&H Books)
Release date: December 1, 2009
“Bury me standing. I must be buried standing. ”Powers, the follow-up to John Olson’s Shade (“a must-read for those who enjoy Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti” —Publishers Weekly), introduces a sheltered Gypsy girl named Mariutza. Her grandfather utters a mysterious last request before dying in her arms after being shot by ten cloaked men. Those same men die before her eyes, but strange powers continue to pursue Mari through the swamps of southern Louisiana where she has always hidden from “the Badness.
The Practice of Prying (The Sidekick’s Survival Guide Mysteries)
By Christy Barritt (Independently published)
Release date: July 6, 2020
Apprentice P. I. Elliot Ransom has almost lost her life, her family is being targeted by bad guys, and her love life is a confusing mess. Can anything else go wrong?
Her newest case has her posing as an assistant coach for a local charity softball game in order to figure out if the previous coach was murdered. The problem is that Elliot, who grew up in the jungle, knows nada about softball.