By Kira Peikoff
THE TENTH SAINT is a debut thriller by DJ Niko, a journalist, author, editor, and self-proclaimed modern nomad who has spent the better part of two decades traveling the world. In the novel, she takes readers to the Ethiopian highlands, where a secret that could save the earth is buried within an ancient mountain kingdom. Ethiopia’s holy men have kept it hidden for centuries, but archaeologist Sarah Weston discovers the obscure inscriptions that could expose it. Caught in a deadly conspiracy, she risks everything–her reputation, her career, her life –to follow her convictions and bring the ancient secret to light and prevent the ultimate destruction.
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By C. B. Worth
Award-wining, bestselling author Vicki Hinze likes to delve into the deepest fears that most of us face at one time or another. Her quest is for her characters to face these fears and then seek constructive solutions. When asked what fear inspired her most recent novel, NOT THIS TIME, the third book in her Crossroads Crisis Center series, she sighed and said, “Can a person get to a point beyond redemption? Mess up so bad that he or she can’t get back? That’s what I’m wondering.”
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Need a thrill to keep the chill of this winter? David Wood’s novella ICEFALL, the fourth installment in the Dane Maddock Adventure series, is fast-paced thrill ride through a frozen winter landscape. The theft of the bones of the Magi from a German cathedral send Wood’s heroes, Dane Maddock and “Bones” Bonebrake, on a quest to uncover an ancient conspiracy.
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By Don Helin
In his latest novel, The Jihad’s Messiah, author Nick Daniels unleashes a plot so fiendish that New York Times Bestselling Author Joel Richardson says, “The Jihad’s Messiah is a thrilling ride into a very probable future. No other apocalyptic novel brings the current events in the Middle East so close to the biblical prophecies about the last days. This book will both entertain and enlighten you, leaving you hungry for more. Nick Daniels is simply a fantastic author. I am already eagerly awaiting his next book.”
The Jihad’s Messiah takes the reader to a future where world power has shifted to the Middle East, and the Arab nations have signed a seven-year peace treaty with Israel.
A radical Iraqi leader—known as Al-Mahdi, “the Awaited One”—rises to power promising to convert the world to Islam.
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by Gary Kriss
So there I was, ogling Lady Gaga’s left upper arm and thinking about James Barney.
Yes, that James Barney, the one whose debut novel, The Genesis Key, will be released by Harper on June 28.
And, yes, that Lady Gaga, the one who has already been released.
It was her tattoo that conjured up Barney, the one in German with the following advice for writers: “’In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?‘”
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By Diane Holmes
Former legal secretary Yvonne Anderson’s debut novel is a fascinating blend of Space Fantasy and Speculative Thriller, with a running thread of The Gospels.
“Yvonne Anderson is an amazing talent. Her stories remind me of what I love best about Madeleine L’Engle’s writing…depth with subtlety. Yvonne has a fan in me for life.” — Gina Holmes, best-selling author of Crossing Oceans
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Are you in the mood for a puzzle? Do you enjoy ancient mysticism married to contemporary thrills? Mysterious. Exotic. And even contentious. Meet The Witch of Babylon’s author D.J. McIntosh.
Here’s the cover copy for her forthcoming June release:
Out of the searing heat and sandstorms of Baghdad’s infamous summer of 2003 comes The Witch of Babylon, a gripping tale rooted in ancient Assyrian lore and its little known but profound significance for the world. John Madison, a Turkish-American art dealer, caught between his brother’s obsession to save a priceless relic and a deadly game of revenge staged by his childhood friend, must find the link between a modern day witch and an ancient one.
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If ThrillerFest doesn’t have a Dynamic Duo category, it ought to, and Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore should be the winners. This writing team has once again produced a thriller that will excite conspiracy theorists, while the rest of us can sit back, enjoy the many surprises of the well-crafted plot, and be thrilled by the fast-paced action.
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By Don Helin
In her latest novel, According to Luke, Rosanne Dingli unleashes a romantic story of secrecy, symbols, faith and forbidden love. It takes the reader on a quest for an ancient truth so powerful it disturbs the Catholic Church: a truth so explosive it attacks violent separatists and demands a ransom of millions. Readers will follow a chase that charges from Venice to Malta, and then to Ravenna; a chase that escalates to disaster in Damascus, until a solution in found in the Victorian countryside of Australia.
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Vicki Hinze has published more than two dozen thrillers and suspense novels in various subgenres, including romantic suspense and military romantic intrigue. Lately she has shifted her focus to Christian thrillers. She has won numerous awards and her books have been published in nearly a dozen foreign countries. When her deadlines permit, Vicki lectures and conducts workshops on writing craft. Her latest Crossroads Crisis Center thriller, Deadly Ties, has just been published.
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In Davis Bunn’s The Black Madonna, antiques expert Storm Syrrell is in desperate need of cash. When an nameless, faceless client calls her with a request to track down a non-existant antique rumored to bear miraculous healing in its being, Storm should say no. But the man’s pockets are deep. What desperation leads a man to pay millions for a glimpse of hope? Storm hopes the answer won’t be the death of her business…or her.
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By Aaron Brown
The first pairing of FBI Agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin in Raymond Khoury’s The Last Templar spent 11 weeks on the hardcover New York Times Bestseller list and was a Number 1 bestseller overseas. It has been translated into thirty-eight languages, published in over forty countries, and became the basis for a television mini-series.
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By J. H. Bográn
The Ten Commandments, even if not accepted as God’s word by some people, are still accepted as general guidelines for decent behavior in any society. Always one of the Sunday school favorites: Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the Decalogue tablets, then destroying them upon finding the people of Israel worshipping a Golden Calf. The remains were gathered inside what is known as The Ark of the Covenant, since lost in the realms of History.
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By Aaron Brown
In 1979, a scientific study tested whether psychics could actually “remote-view” the location of Cleopatra’s lost palace. Amazingly, they succeeded.
Inspired by this incredible true story, David Sakmyster created The Morpheus Initiative, an exciting new team of psychic archaeologists who seek out the world’s most enduring historical mysteries and mystical artifacts. The first book in a new series, The Pharos Objective, has the team pursuing the fabled treasure of Alexander the Great beneath the ruins of the Pharos Lighthouse, while contending with diabolical traps and an ancient society called “The Keepers”.
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