2006 proves to be a deadly year for journalists and dissenters in the Russian Federation. Hard-hitting investigative reporter Mara Belovskaya was shot and killed in the lobby of her apartment building. Her friend, Russian defector Karol Malenkov, was poisoned in a London sushi bar while investigating her murder. Evidence points to the Russian government. Mara has left behind a computer disk containing damaging information for Russia. When a list of double agents also surfaces, the FBI hires Private Investigator, Matt Dawson to find and retrieve the computer disk and the list before they fall into the wrong hands. There are very powerful people with dubious motives who also want to take possession of the CD and the list. Unfortunately, they all know that the only person standing in their way is Matt Dawson. Return to Darkness, is the third book in the Matt Dawson series about a disbarred lawyer turned private investigator, whose exciting adventures take him to exotic, far-away places.

Picking up right where Deep in the Darkness left off, Dr. Michael Cayle returns from near death to rescue his wife and daughter, who have been taken captive by the Isolates, the aboriginal creatures living in the woods behind his home. Will he find them alive, or dead? Or…worse? “Dead Souls is creepy, atmospheric, and explosive—keep a light on and a gun loaded when you crack this baby. Another outstanding thriller from Michael Laimo." - Douglas Preston, author of The Monster of Florence “Michael Laimo can stand proud next to Clive Barker and Stephen King.” - The Horror Review “One of the best and most refreshing horror novels you’re likely to read…” - Gary Braunbeck, on Deep in the Darkness

When a chance discovery leads the Guardians of the Heart Forest to learn they face a new threat, they must once again use their Animental powers to defend the forest from attack. But their new enemies, led by the evil Queen Thymera, have far more than simply capturing the Heart Forest in their sights... They want the world - and every living creature on it.

Schoolboy David's life is changed for the better by an encounter with the guarded and mysterious headmaster of his school. A storyteller and mystic, he opens the timid boy's eyes to the reality of 'other worlds' beyond our own. Twenty-five years later, having returned to Pembrokeshire, David embarks on a quest that will take him deeper into these alien realms.

“Fans of Roberto Bolaño will feel right at home in this globetrotting tale of misfit poets and ultraviolent drug lords . . . A page turner” (Miami Rail). Manuela is a woman haunted by a troubled childhood that she tries to escape through books and poetry. Tertullian is an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society. Ferdinand Palacios is a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past, now confronted with his guilt. Rimbaud was the precocious, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration. Along with Juana and the consul, these are the central characters in Santiago Gamboa’s “complex, challenging story that speaks to the terror and dislocation of the age” (Kirkus Reviews). “Action-packed plotting . . . examines the movement of people across the shifting geopolitical landscape, the impossibility of returning and the potential redemptive power of poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review “An unsettling and brilliant document of contemporary life; highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review) “Gamboa possesses considerable talent at creating energetic scenes that spiral off in intriguing directions.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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