HURT MACHINE by Reed Farrel Coleman

At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his ex-wife and former PI partner Carmella Melendez. It seems Carmella?s estranged sister Alta has been murdered, but no one in New York City seems to care. Why? Alta, a FDNY EMT, and her partner had months earlier refused to give assistance to a dying man at a fancy downtown eatery. Moe decides to help Carmella as a means to distract himself from his own life-and-death struggle. Making headway on the case is no mean feat as no one, including Alta?s partner Maya Watson, wants to cooperate. Moe chips away until he discovers a cancer roiling just below the surface, a cancer whose symptoms include bureaucratic greed, sexual harassment, and blackmail. But is any of it connected to Alta?s brutal murder?

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THE SILENCE by J. Sydney Jones

The new book in the Viennese Mystery series - Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the young man appears to be alive and well in another country. But when a friend of Hans – a journalist who wrote a number of articles claiming the councilman who committed suicide was corrupt – is found dead, also from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Werthen fears that sinister forces are at work . . .

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FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, archaeologist Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar novels, return in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to 1700s Mexico-and possibly beyond.

What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous-and so unsettling-that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization?

What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drug and launched a vicious, uncompromising pursuit to possess it?

In Raymond Khoury's million-copy-selling Templar novels, Reilly and Tess traveled the globe to unravel ancient mysteries with present-day ramifications. In The Devil's Elixir, they find themselves dragged into a race-against the clock, against a brutal drug kingpin known as "El Brujo"-the sorcerer-and even against government authorities-to merge two divergent trails, one several hundred years old, the other as current as a heartbeat, that could drag humanity to the brink of self- destruction.

Packed with the nonstop suspense and unexpected twists Raymond Khoury fans delight in, The Devil's Elixir is destined for bestseller lists everywhere.

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IF I SHOULD DIE by Allison Brennan

If I Should Die includes Allison Brennan’s chilling novella Love Is Murder, formerly available exclusively as an eBook!

A TRIP TO THE DARK SIDE

Aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her P.I. boyfriend, Sean Rogan, are heading to the Adirondack Mountains for a pleasant romantic getaway when they detour to help troubled friends, owners of a new resort who are battling malicious vandals. After Lucy and Sean pursue an arsonist into an abandoned mine shaft, Lucy stumbles upon an even more heinous crime—and the perfectly preserved remains of its victim.

The only thing more disturbing than the discovery of the corpse is its sudden disappearance. While the local police remain skeptical, Lucy is dead certain that there’s a connection between the sabotage at the resort and the murder—one that the less-than-neighborly citizens of Spruce Lake seem to have a stake in keeping hidden. Then, when a cold-blooded sniper targets Sean and Lucy, FBI agent Noah Armstrong enters the fray to ensure that more bodies don’t hit the ground. Now three outsiders race to untangle a violent conspiracy before they end up like the rest of Spruce Lake’s secrets: dead and buried.

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In the aftermath of a Category 5 hurricane in New Orleans, Private Eye Cliff St. James, a bare-knuckled ex-cop and mixed-martial artist, is stuck with the case of finding a missing person whose disappearance may have ties to Washington.

When a Category 5 hurricane devastates New Orleans, the fresh murder of a politically-connected bar owner gets swept under—literally—until in the gritty aftermath of the city’s recovery a bare-knuckled ex-cop and mixed-martial artist attacks the case like a hungry dog chasing a meat truck. With no forensic evidence, a destroyed crime scene, and no corpse, Cliff St. James uncovers possible CIA involvement and learns that his duplicitous client, as well as each of his other suspects, are guilty of—at the very least—multiple felonies. It’s New Orleans, after all. With a contract on his head as Fat Tuesday dawns, Cliff calls in every chit and breaks every rule to solve the murder and end a new wave of murders.

Visit the author's website: Ed Kovacs

Time of Death is a page-turning, film noir flavored, supernatural mystery that juxtaposes the conformist fifties and the dark undercurrents of the supernatural.

It isn't easy being a strong, idealistic, independent young woman in 1952. Even harder when you re more interested in being a detective, than trying to live up to your mother s expectations and become a happy homemaker. Add that with seeing and speaking with every ghost in town and you've got Melody Rush's life.

After an encounter with the ghost of a murdered prostitute named Virginia Beal, Mel gives up all pretense of becoming a part of conservative fifties society and takes up the spirit s case. Eventually, another supernatural client puts Mel on retainer, namely the Grim Reaper. What does Death want from the young detective? Someone has stolen his mask, the one magical item that gives him the power to execute his dark duties, and unless it s returned before the last stroke of midnight on New Year s Eve, humanity s existence will be rung out with the last notes of Auld Lang Syne.

Can Mel solve this case while staying true to her promise to find Virginia Beal s killer with only her wit and a few spectral friends to call upon for help? Only time will tell and, unfortunately, time is the one thing that definitely isn't on Mel's side!

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THE RULES

To win, CLICK HERE or send an email to contest@gmail.com with "DECEMBER 2011 THRILLERS" as the subject. You must include your snail mail address in your email. All entries must be received by December 31, 2011.  One (1) name will be drawn from all qualified entries and notified via email.  The winner will receive a free autographed copy of HURT MACHINE by Reed Farrel Coleman; THE SILENCE by J.Sydney Jones; THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR by Raymond Khoury; IF I SHOULD DIE by Allison Brennan; TIME OF DEATH by Gary Madden; and STORM DAMAGE by Ed Kovacs, courtesy of International Thriller Writers, Inc.  All books will be sent directly from ITW. The e-book will be emailed directly from the author or her representative. This contest is open to all adults over 18 years of age anywhere in the world.  One entry per email address, please. Your email address will not be shared or sold to anyone.  All entries, including names, email addresses, and mailing addresses, will be purged after winner is notified.