Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

In their final year of high school, Laura McGonogle and her brilliant friends JW, Vaughn, and Stace are on the brink of something extraordinary. Armed with cutting-edge tech, a secret lab, and funding beyond their dreams, they’re ready to unlock the ultimate mystery—decoding the thoughts of Laura’s quirky, beloved wombat, Whizzzer. But just as success seems within reach, trouble barrels in from all sides: a no-nonsense new principal tightening the rules, an unexpected visitor from Whizzzer’s homeland, looming threats from federal wildlife authorities, and the return of a long-buried secret that could splinter their team. As emotions run high and Whizzzer begins to show signs of slowing down, the pressure to finish what they started becomes overwhelming. With friendships tested and time running out, Laura must decide how far she’s willing to go to give voice to the creature who changed her life—and what she’s willing to sacrifice to do...

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Fame, Fortune... and a Clever Thinking Wombat! High school seniors Laura McGonogle, Vaughn Arnold, and JW Winstead thought that inventing groundbreaking technology would be the hard part. Turns out, surviving fame is even trickier. Thrust into the global spotlight, they juggle nosy reporters, scheming corporations desperate to steal their invention, and job offers that sound too wild to be real. All while pretending they’re just ordinary high school students trying to survive another year of homework and cafeteria food. The three are forced to convince the world they have retreated back to their high school studies and are uninterested in working on anything new. But that is not true. With support from their mentor, they have constructed a laboratory in a secret location where they develop a breakthrough way to read the wombat’s thoughts But behind the scenes, in a hidden lab with the help of their trusted mentor, the...

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Laura McGonogle and the Wombat-O-Matic What if one small, fantastic event could transform a shy teen into a national sensation? When fourteen-year-old Laura McGonogle encounters a crippled wombat on a dark roadside, she’s driven to help. With the support of her friends, JW and Vaughn, she invents the Wombat-O-Matic — a revolutionary device that gives the wombat, Whizzzer, a second chance at life. Laura hopes to showcase her invention at her high school science competition, but her groundbreaking work attracts unexpected attention, catapulting her into the spotlight at a national competition. There, a jealous rival sabotages her efforts, turning her dream into a public disaster and threatening everything she holds dear. Now, Laura must find the courage to defend her invention, restore her reputation, and protect Whizzzer against the odds. Filled with unforgettable characters, heartwarming support, and the unshakable strength of a young inventor, Laura McGonogle and the Wombat-O-Matic is...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

Two people are dead. One ravaged by poison. One tied to a fence and left to bake in the Arizona sun. And the evidence points to one unusual suspect - fourteen-year-old Jessica Ann Cooper. The nation celebrated Jessie Cooper as the Young Artist of the Year, mesmerized by her disturbingly captivating paintings. Accolades hailed her as a savant and artistic genius. But maybe a more chilling title would be cold-blooded killer. And now, like a shadowy vapor, Jessie Cooper has disappeared. Private Investigators Jake Steiner and Mallory Dimante are about to find out how disturbed the teenager is when, out of their past, Jessie Cooper and her brother Michael come crashing back into their lives. And teenager Jessie Cooper carries with her a twisted, personal secret so deeply buried that when revealed will threaten not just Jake and Mallory’s lives but that of their infant daughter too. In this riveting...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

Private Investigator Mallory Dimante knows one thing… The film she holds in her hand is going to get her killed. Three people have seen the film. Two are already dead. A film so explosive that its existence, believed to have been permanently destroyed, might answer long-asked questions about a certain 1963 Presidential assassination in Dallas, Texas. The Seventh Reel, the fifth book in the Diamond and Stone series, throws Private Investigators, Jake Steiner, Mallory Dimante, and Surai Chanthara deep into the Hollywood world of film. Old film. Unknown film. The type of film that holds secrets the world would like to know and has been waiting for. And would kill for. But only if Jake, Mallory, and Surai can stay alive long enough to show it to the world. Award-Winning Author C.J. Booth’s Mystery Thriller rips through assassination conspiracy theories twisting to a haunting and never to be forgotten reveal.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

Michelle McNamara and her ten-year-old daughter, Linda, are stopped on a lonely Oregon road. It is their first… … and last mistake. Linda begs her mother to go, to drive, because in the harsh moonlight, she has seen something… someone beside the side of the road. And now whoever or whatever it is, has reappeared behind their car. A white-gloved hand, already stained in red, is working its way toward the driver’s door. In a few minutes, an incident will occur, and Michelle McNamara will be gone. And the only evidence of what happened will be locked inside the only witness, young Linda McNamara. Ten years later a young woman, claiming to be Linda McNamara walks into the Seattle office of Diamond & Stone investigations. And the tale she tells embroils Investigators Jake Steiner and Mallory Dimante and their assistant, Surai Chanthara, in a bizarre, baffling, and terrifying trip into...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

It was the perfect job for newly engaged Private Investigator Mallory Dimante and she thought so… … right up until the moment the black bag was slipped over her head. The instructions for the job had been simple. Attend a will-reading. Observe the heirs. Report back their reactions. It had to be a female investigator, to blend in, the letter had said. And the expenses were all prepaid. It would only take… a few hours. Simple. She and partner Jake Steiner had been warned about the vindictive fervor and irrational devotion of the followers of Honorable Honey Stern, the former Presidential candidate, whom Mallory had months ago exposed to the world as a serial pedophile. But time had passed. Nothing had occurred. Preparing for her wedding, Mallory’s security precautions against vengeance had faded. Yet hate doesn’t die in those scorned. It simmers with an acid-like loathing. And the Widow Black...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

The weight of a wicked past grinds and grinds and grinds until it is satisfied. A phone rings at 5:07 AM in a Seattle houseboat… but to a number that shouldn’t exist. A man, wire-bound to a kitchen chair, is discovered in the ruins of a burned-out house. A woman, sexually abused when she was a young girl, names a Presidential candidate as her abuser … and a naïve landscape gardener, relentlessly pursued by hit men, holds the key to it all. What started as a straightforward missing person case for Private Investigators Mallory Dimante and Jake Steiner now has them racing to work out the connection between these events. When they do, they find themselves locked in a scheme to blackmail the future President of the United States. C.J. Booth’s latest in the Diamond and Stone mystery series, Honey Suckle Rose, is a spiraling journey of twists and turns...

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback

GIRL NUMBER FOUR, the first in the Diamond & Stone Mystery series, is a suspense-filled, page-ripping gem of a thriller 17-year-old Alison Adams never saw the person who threw the acid. Prom night. Alison Adams zipped herself into her prom dress and was finishing the final touch up on her salon-coiffed French wave when she heard her date’s knock. Checking herself in the floor length mirror, she smiled and opened the door. As her mother had long promised, she would remember this night… forever. Ten years later. A scarred and disfigured Alison Adams begs Private Investigators Mallory Dimante and Jake Steiner to solve the seemingly unsolvable cold case. Claiming her life has been ‘gratefully reborn’, she only wants to find and forgive the person responsible. Sympathetic but wary, Dimante and Steiner reluctantly agree. However, as their investigation propels them back to that very prom night and the backstabbing turmoil of...

Genres: General Fiction, Romance, Short/Flash Fiction Collection

Reviewed By Lit Amri for Readers’ Favorite The Silver Moon and the Evening Tide (A Collection of Short Stories) by C.J. Booth with Elizabeth Booth is a mixture of eclectic themes; revenge, betrayal, familial bonds, crime, death, domestic abuse and much more. Featuring 25 stories－including the short ones that Booth deemed as “almost tone poems”－“You Never Call, You Never Write” starts the collection. It’s about a famous Hollywood actress who’s confronted by someone from her past. It’s nonsensical but entertaining. After all, it’s Hollywood. “A House On Fire” is a story of a wife who found out that her house has a dark secret. It’s a chilling tale that I would love to see come alive visually. “Number 5” is my favorite; a surprisingly funny macabre story about a flower seller. Elizabeth Booth’s writing makes its first appearance in the collection with “How Much Is A Penny Worth?”, a poignant...

Genres: General Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

ANGEL PARK, the final book of C.J. Booth’s Park trilogy, is an edgy thrill ride to a heart-rending end that no one will see coming. Detectives Stan Wyld, Jake Steiner and Mallory Dimante struggle to unravel the mystery of the murder and dismemberment of Hollywood film director James Marston but all they find are more mysteries… Why has Anna Chase, an eleven-year-old middle-schooler living in a small town in New Jersey, seemingly partnered with Ilsa Pokovich, a 50 year-old California felon, to commit murder… Why has the original detective on the Olive Park case remained quiet all these years… And why does the answer to everything seem to lie in a stuffed bear rescued from the burned-out trailer of serial killer Ruby Everheart. What Wyld, Steiner and Dimante find propels them back into a treacherous and dark past. It shakes what they think they know about who they can trust...

Genres: General Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Part riveting police thriller, part spellbinding mystery, CRIMSON PARK is a cleverly crafted, must-read, tale of ruthless revenge and retribution. Rife with stolen identities, two-faced witnesses, and headless torsos, nothing is as it seems in the second novel of C.J. Booth’s Park series. Following their spectacular success in solving California’s worst serial killer case, a case that had languished unsolved for 15 years, Sacramento’s newly formed cold-case division detectives - Stan Wyld and Jake Steiner with I.T. expert Mallory Dimante - find themselves the toast of the town. Anxious to move on from the rampant publicity, they take on a simple missing person case. But their search for missing Hollywood film director James Marston pitches them headlong back into the malevolent world of serial killer Ruby Everheart - and into the lives of the killer’s last intended victims, 14 year old Michael and his younger sister Jessie Cooper – two...

Genres: General Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

WINNER - Bronze Medal-Popular Fiction-2012 E-Lit awards WINNER - Best Mystery 2012-Global E-Book awards NAMED - Top 5 Mystery of 2012 - Reader's Favorite Awards Imagine 1997 - Olive Park, California - the bodies of three children are found buried in shallow graves. The most intensive investigation in California history fails to find any trace of the killer and the case goes cold. 15 years later, veteran detectives Stan Wyld and Jake Steiner's newly formed Ongoing Investigation Division, is tested with its very first case, the Olive Park Murders. And they have only three clues with which to work Abandoned graves in a sunlit clearing... A clown's picture in a black frame... Two quarters clutched in a dead child's hand... And that's all, until their new I.T. expert, young and ambitious Mallory Dimante, discovers the one chilling piece of evidence- a freshly knotted rope- that proves Olive Park is no...