A Deceit to Die For

10 best books like A Deceit to Die For (Luke Montgomery): Eirelan, Eliot, Gyges the Terrible, Dante's Journey, The Lost Stones, Covert Dreams, Murder Takes Time, Nowhere to Hide, Killer in Sight, Mindbenders

Eirelan
AuthorLiam O'Shiel
ISBN1463569327
"As Uinseann often says, we must be content with life and love and the beauty of the Earth. All the rest is dust in the wind." - Liadan Conmaicne Laigain.

Enter into a familiar world that is unfamiliar, a friendly world that is threatening, a world where honor and sacrifice are expected of all....
Eliot
AuthorMichael Wood Jr.
ISBN1470099845
What defines justified transgressions? No two people will agree on what is acceptable, moral, right, wrong, deserving, heroic, or criminal in Eliot and that is what pushes us to truly look inside our own souls. Do you see the actions of the vigilante killer set on revenge, the drug dealer just trying...
AuthorAdam Wasserman
What would you be like if you could do anything you wanted and feared no punishment?

This is a futuristic Earth, a dystopia. Drugs are a commonplace amusement and unemployment is a capital crime. Freemocracy camps exist for those who make trouble, and most of us try and escape the boredom of our...
Dante's Journey
AuthorJ.C. Marino
ISBN1935188097
A flash of light and Detective Joe Dante steps through. No longer on the cobblestone streets of 1961 Boston, Joe finds himself in a horrifying new world-Hell itself. Joe was in hot pursuit of his family's killer, drug lord Filippo Argenti, when both were killed, and isn't about to let a little thing like...
The Lost Stones
AuthorPaul Rimmasch
1600s Mexico- The Aztec Prince Ixtililxochitl writes that the first people to inhabit his land came from the Tower of Babel at the dividing of tongues…Scholars dismiss his writings as myth.
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1800s Mid Western United States- Settlers dig into ancient burial mounds and discover thousands...
Covert Dreams
AuthorMike Meyer
What if the government said that your missing wife never existed?

A business trip to the Middle East for Stan and Valerie Halsey ends in chilling confusion and despair as Valerie seemingly falls off the face of the earth, leaving no trace of her existence behind.

Back in the States,...
Murder Takes Time
AuthorGiacomo Giammatteo
Nicky Fusco thought he knew right from wrong, living by an oath of friendship & honor with his three best friends. But life took them down separate paths, and the oath was broken. Secrets were kept. Years later they are reunited and the bonds of their friendship are brutally tested, putting them on...
AuthorJoan Hall Hovey
Nowhere to Hide won an Eppie award as the Best Thriller

Val at "You Gotta Read" Reviews has given Nowhere to Hide by Joan Hall Hovey their highest rating, You Gotta Read!

You Gotta Read - Our highest rating - very few books will earn this award.

Val says, "This is one heck of an exciting,...
Killer in Sight
AuthorSandra Carrington-Smith
ISBN0985555807
When a young woman is found murdered in a public park, it is up to RPD detective Lt. Tom Lackey to locate her killer. With the help of his longtime girlfriend and professional photographer, Kathy Spencer, Lackey unravels a mystery laden with psychosis and unexpected revelations. While Tom is busy following...
Mindbenders
AuthorTed Krever
If you could hear the thoughts of every person for three blocks around–the regrets, rationalizations, commercial jingles, the lies that hide what they can’t bear to think—how could you ever trust anyone? And if you could make them believe anything you wanted, how could you ever trust yourself?

Max...
Nine Lives
AuthorGeorge M. Moser
Michael Merlino lives a charmed life with a successful career, beautiful wife, and beloved son-until his dear father passes away; then things turn strange. Michael can't seem to shake this weird feeling, but maybe he just misses his dad, his mentor. He ignores the feeling that something is wrong.

One...
AuthorJohn Avery
HE DIDN'T MEAN TO OVERHEAR ... but he did.

HE ONLY HEARD A FEW WORDS ... but he heard too much.

HE RAN ... but he was followed -- a mistake that would turn thirteen-year-old Aaron Quinn's, and his beautiful, courageous, single mother, Ashley's, worlds upside down.

THE CLOCK...
AuthorMichael Parker
The current edition of NORTH SLOPE (May 1st. 2012) has been re-edited because of editing problems that were highlighted on Amazon's pages. The paperback was also re-edited. It could be said that the version now available is the second edition, but nothing has changed with respect to the story. The reviews...
The Scavenger's Daughter: A Tyler West Mystery
AuthorMike McIntyre
"A superb writer"--Los Angeles Times

Disgraced journalist Ty West is desperate for a scoop that will save his career. When he investigates a series of shocking murders among San Diego's elite, he uncovers a common link--torture devices last used during the Spanish Inquisition.

Plunged...
Wolf Hunt: The Burning Ages
AuthorSebastian P. Breit
ISBN1463570104
2024. The world we know is crumbling. A devastating war in the Persian Gulf has left the global economy in ruins, and civilization itself is beginning to crack under the strain. When a war-weary task force of NATO ships races against time and a rival fleet to prevent Brazil's descent into a murderous civil...
The Geronimo Breach
AuthorRussell Blake
The Geronimo Breach is a breakneck-paced thrill ride that pits the world's most unlikely protagonist against the deadliest adversaries on the planet. From the corridors of Langley to the sweltering jungles of Panama, from the hills of Pakistan to the cocaine trails of Colombia, a clandestine scheme...
The Bet
AuthorDavid R. Brown
ISBN1477529705
Richard Kepperman was on top of his game until blowing the whistle on his high powered Atlanta accounting firm. Black balled from the financial arena, on the verge of bankruptcy, he returns to his roots in coastal Georgia to be near his aging grandfather, Clayton. Frustrated and underemployed, he is...
The Sky Conducting
AuthorMichael J. Seidlinger
ISBN1937865169
Fiction. America died while no one was looking. All that remains is the skeleton of a land riddled with demise and what had once been referred to as domestic symmetry: those commodities we once called our friends, our colleagues, our neighbors.

"Michael Seidlinger's terrific new novel pruned...
The Butterfly Forest
AuthorTom Lowe
He hid the old pencil-drawn map for 40 years.

The guards never found it.

After 40 years in San Quentin, Luke Palmer leaves with a state-issued suit, $100 dollars to buy a bus ticket, and a map that will lead to a promise and into the heart of a dark forest.

"The Butterfly Forest...
Myth Man
AuthorAlex Mueck
ISBN1450247245
A serial killer is on a killing spree of the religious in New York City, and a seasoned police detective is the only one who can stop him. He is a lion, and the religious cattle his prey. A serial killer is focused on severing religion's stranglehold on humanity in order to cleanse the world of superstitions,...
AuthorBob Sanchez
ISBN0595407706
Retired cop Mack Durgin used to bust perpetrators in Massachusetts, but now he's widowed and living in Arizona. When a FedEx driver drops off an urn filled with his friend's ashes at his front door, Mack reluctantly knows he must fulfill George Ashe's final wish: to have his remains spread over the Grand...
Matinicus
AuthorDarcy Scott
ISBN1936447231
Praised by Kirkus Reviews as "The kind of book readers will tear through, only to find themselves hungry for more," this century-spanning double mystery steeped in Maine island lore pits a renegade fishing community against an unhappy child-bride of the 1820s, a defiant twenty-first-century teen,...
AuthorPaul Wornham
Twelve people. Five days. One fortune.

Johnston Thurwell, one of the world’s richest men, dies unexpectedly. His family expects to inherit his wealth, but instead discover the dying philanthropist has spent his last days planning something called The Danse. The twelve most important...
AuthorRoger Radford
'Unputdownable' - London Evening Standard

AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner Nazi. Fugitive. Murderer. Sadist. Who is the real Hans Schreiber?

Two journalists conduct a desperate search for Schreiber in this riveting thriller about bringing unimaginable secrets...
The 19th Element
AuthorJohn L. Betcher
ISBN1451521014
Terrorists plan to attack Minnesota's Prairie River Nuclear Power Plant, but they’re not your typical band of Islamic extremists. True, there’s an al Qaeda connection. But the heart of the ‘terror cell’ is homegrown, right here in the United States.

James "Beck" Becker is a former...
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