All the books featured here are available FREE from
DS Tom Guthrie Short Story
Get your FREE copy of Wrung Out
Jock Bishop is attacked after walking his girlfriend home from a night out. He dies from the beating in the early hours of the morning. His girlfriend is the ex of a local thug. Is there a connection? Guthrie thinks so and uses old school methods to get the information he needs, but goes too far when using the same tactics with another witness.
Wrung Out is a short story prequel to the Tom Guthrie Trilogy which takes place in the county of Angus in eastern Scotland. The second prequel is Murder in the Sma’ Glen and is based on a true murder mystery. The first full-length novel, Tools of the Trade was published in 2016, with the second in the trilogy, Wind Damage, due to be released later in 2019.
Welcome to The First
Get your FREE copy of The First
Is the ancient directive that has once again reawakened in the hearts of those who hide.
Kill Her!
Is the frantic command of those who fear their rise.
Aelia returns from a vacation that did not go quite as she expected, to a life she does not feel at home in but that is, at least, hers. Or so she thinks. Within days of returning she is targeted by a hitman and she has no idea why.
But then neither does he. All Kyle Rhys knows is that to protect humanity, this woman must die. At least, he thinks, killing her will be easy. After all, the organization that has raised him has prepared him for her death his entire life.
So why can’t he kill her?
In an impossible turn of events, both killer and target find themselves on the run from those who would stop at nothing to destroy them, to those who hold a truth that would overturn their entire world, taking their very identities from them forever.
Sometimes, the past is best left alone…
Available on Amazon: May 2019
An infant found dead in the bed and his sister gone missing.
A mother who kills herself and a father on the edge.
The past beginning to resurface, darker than ever.
Sometimes, seeking the truth can be a bad idea.
“Edge of the seat stuff! Brilliant.”
Subscribe to L.B. Carter's newsletter and receive special offers, new release details, and a welcome giftdelivered right to your inbox.
A free thriller/horror exclusive from L.B. Carter for Newsletter subscribers!
What makes a nation believe a lie?
Download your copy of The Sky Fall Conspiracy
What makes a nation believe a lie?
William Stephenson is an expert in mass media persuasion and propaganda. He watched the rise of Hitler on a mountain of lies, but Stephenson also believes that the Nazis can be undone by the same power that created them; propaganda.
There is just one problem.
All foreign broadcasts are illegal in Germany. At best Stephenson will have a day before the Nazi soldiers storm his radio station. It took Hitler over a decade to change the beliefs of the people; one day is not enough.
Then something incredible happens.
The Orson Welles scare convinces millions of Americans that the world is ending, and it takes less than an hour.
Now, Stephenson races against the Nazis to discover the secrets of the Sky Fall before the Second Great War begins.
Some say the War of the Wolds scare never happened, others promised it would never happen again.
Dive deep in the history and science propaganda of persuasion as this conspiracy unfolds.
The legend of Voodoo Lucy
Get your FREE copy of Tupelo Gypsy
Six Stories of Cold War Noir
Get your FREE copy of Welcome to the Hotel Yalta
Six Stories of Cold War Noir
An heiress who can’t seem to keep her legs closed. A Russian plan for dominating the space race. An assassin with a penchant for rich food and sadistic murder. When you’re alone in the cold, passion and betrayal are commodities and love hangs on by an icy thread. From the author of The Bone Church and Cold, comes a white knuckle tour de force of Cold War noir.
Two Englishmen have dreams of setting up a business in the sun, but trouble follows them.
Their first brush with death came at Bangkok’s airport on Nick’s first day in the Kingdom.
Action laughs, romance and tears follow as the story moves at a breathtaking pace.
Violence and tender moments collide as the gullible pair meet a dodgy ship’s engineer, two lovely French girls more interested in dogs than romance, and a tall Welsh man, with a very chequered drug background who leads them all into more trouble. The last person they need to encounter is a lesbian newspaper reporter with a deadly family secret.
The tale unfolds into an action-packed finale.
“I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry,
all very worrying.” Janet Brookman
“How can anybody have so many
worries on a paradise beach?” Tim Mellish
Published by dark-novels.com
Ever wonder how your favourite PI became an investigator?
Get your FREE copy of End of the Road
Here it is, Tallahassee private investigator Sydney Brennan’s origin story! Well, a piece of it at least.
This short story takes place in 1995, approximately nine years before the first Sydney Brennan novel, Back to Lazarus. It opens with Sydney arriving—
What am I saying? You’ll just have to read it to find out.
elixa – exclusive download
The year is 1178, and in the remote, mountain community of Abadía del Torcal a young girl, Elixabet Luz, witnesses a startling lunar event. She begins to unlock the mysterious healing powers of the stones that have been sent to earth, but in just a few short weeks she must forsake the young hunter she loves and be married off to a local nobleman.
As she struggles in the little time she has left to convince those around her of the wondrous gift from the skies, she falls foul of a fanatical monk, who accuses her of heresy and witchcraft.
Now she faces the worst fate of all: to burn at the stake.
The Angst of Arthur Boyd [short story] awaits…
introducing the Chicago St. Clairs…
The St. Clairs of the Clarion Division—an elite twenty-second-century agency of investigators of technology misuse—have recently arrived back in time, Chicago, October 8, 1871, to be precise.
Meet River, the female medical examiner and district coroner disguised as a man and her brothers: Archer, the severe police inspector, and Quinn, the Division’s lead bio-intelligence engineer. The murder of Arthur Boyd is their first case since being displaced in time.
With a cast of quirky characters and an intriguing mystery, THE ANGST OF ARTHUR BOYD is steampunk sci-fi short story for fans of alternate histories, time-travel fantasies, and Victorian mysteries.
Everyone has a dark side.
Get your FREE copy of Vigilante Lane
Claim your free short story now! And meet the Chicago St. Clairs today.
READ THIS SHORT STORY IN THE KILLER INSTINCT SERIES WHERE LANE TARGETS A PEDOPHILE.
She’s not evil, but she has certain. . . urges.
Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. Afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.
Why?
Because she might be one herself. Lane channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals and delivering justice when the law fails.
Civil War mystery short stories
Get your FREE copy of Under Investigation
A stand-alone crime story introducing a tough new character in a contemporary urban setting.
Get your FREE copy of Spalding’s Groove
Ex-state cop Dan Spalding isn’t looking for trouble when a broken TV star walks into his record store.
But Tommy Stack’s vinyl collection isn’t what it seems to be, and that fact might cost Tommy his life.
And death is always bad for business.
A Missing Treasure. A Suspect Suicide. A Mystery Unsolved
When an eccentric millionaire presents at the Dublin Coroner’s Office to report a found treasure, Benjamin Stirling sends him on to the National Museum. It is only when the man is found dead on his land on Tarrow Island and no treasure is mentioned when Stirling begins to get suspicious.
Aged and recently widowed, Stirling makes enquiries but is stumped at every turn. He decides to take matters into his own hands and find out the truth once and for all. Heading down to the Atlantic West Coast of Ireland, he intends to find out what happened to Nicholas Sparks and the vanishing Spanish Armada Gold he claimed to have unearthed
Local police, councilmen and other officials are no help to him and Stirling must rely on his own wits and the local people for his answers. The more he finds out the more determined he is that Spark’s death was no suicide. Something much more sinister is at work here.
She never changed sides, she just changed lanes.
Get your FREE copy of Spin Drift
She never changed sides, she just changed lanes.
Sloane Romano never dreamed she would leave the pampered life of a crime bosses’ daughter. Betrayal by her husband undid her cloistered life and sent her running into a world she never knew existed.
Finding herself at a Mossad training facility, alone and uncertain what her future would bring, a test was thrown into her path. Succeed and a shadowy world of espionage and danger would test her at every turn.
Fail, she was dead.
Who knew justice had long legs and carried a badge?
Get your FREE copy of A Night On The Town
Trouble they say loves company. On this particular night, trouble stands just under two meters tall and is visiting the popular Neon District.
A beautiful clone, Sarah normally doesn’t go looking for the company of trouble. But on this night, the long-legged detective plans to take advantage of the badge she carries. Trouble won’t like it when Sarah finds it while out for A Night On The Town.
What makes a nation believe a lie?
Download your copy of Broken Protocol Conspiracy
What makes a nation believe a lie?
That’s the question Jay Nichols has been trying to answer since he first experienced widespread mass hysteria as a child. A question that started when Orson Welles put millions across America into a panic in less than an hour.
Now, his PhD work is attracting the attention of world powers, secret societies, and dark organizations. Only they don’t care if he can answer the question. They just want him to build a weapon.
After Nichols refuses all the recruiters, a stranger shows up at his apartment with a warning. As the student’s life becomes ever stranger and more dangerous, Nichols is dragged into the world of secrets, lies, and espionage. Unsure of whom to trust, the final question he has to ask himself is what kind of person he wants to be, while the spies around him try to ensure he picks their side.
The acclaimed British historical genealogical mystery series has a brand new prequel…
Get your FREE copy of The Asylum
nathandylangoodwin.com/books
The job presented to forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier, ought to have been simple and easy. But the surprise discovery of an additional marriage to his client’s father leads Morton on an enquiry, revolving around a mysterious death in the county asylum. Requiring his various investigative genealogical skills, Morton must work to unravel this complex eighty-year-old secret and finally reveal the truth to his client.
This is the first story in the Morton Farrier genealogical crime mystery series. There are a further eight stories in this series:
Hiding the Past
The Lost Ancestor
The Orange Lilies
The America Ground
The Spyglass File
The Missing Man
The Suffragette’s Secret
The Wicked Trade
Praise for the Forensic Genealogist series:
‘Hiding the Past is a suspenseful, fast-paced mystery novel, in which the hero is drawn into an intrigue that spans from World War II to the present, with twists and turns along the way. The writing is smooth and the story keeps moving along so that I found it difficult to put down’
The Archivist
‘The Lost Ancestor is fast-paced, not plodding, and does well-building mystery… The author’s depictions of scenes and places are vivid; the characters are interesting and intriguing. In toggling back and forth from past to present, Goodwin shows how the deeds of long-dead ancestors are haunting their descendants’
GenealogyMagazine.com
‘The Orange Lilies sees Morton for once investigating his own tree (and about time too!). Moving smoothly between Christmas 1914 and Christmas 2014, the author weaves an intriguing tale with more than a few twists – several times I thought I’d figured it all out, but each time there was a surprise waiting in the next chapter… Thoroughly recommended – and I can’t wait for the next novel’
Lost Cousins
‘As in the earlier novels, each chapter slips smoothly from past to present, revealing murderous events as the likeable Morton uncovers evidence in the present while trying to solve the mystery of his own paternity. Packed once more with glorious detail of records familiar to family historians, The America Ground is a delightfully pacey read’
Family Tree
‘Author Nathan Dylan Goodwin has given students of the Second World War, and avid family historians another great genealogical read in The Spyglass File’
Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
‘Nathan Dylan Goodwin has once again written a thrilling page-turner in his latest book The Missing Man… Definitely, a must read in the latest series of Morton Farrier, the Forensic Genealogist’
Baytown Genealogy Society
‘I can thoroughly recommend this book, which is a superior example of its genre. It is an ideal purchase for anyone with an interest in reading thrillers and in family history studies. I look forward to the next instalment of Morton Farrier’s quest!’
Waltham Forest FHS
“[I]f you’ve not yet discovered Tamsen Schultz’s books, it is time to start.” – Between my Bookendz
Get your FREE copy of Sampler Set of The Windsor Series
This is a Sampler Set of the first 4 books of The Windsor Series.
Start reading the first 1-3 chapters of each book to fall in love with Tamsen’s writing style.
A TAINTED MIND – The Windsor Series #1
Silence can be deadly
Dr Vivienne DeMarco and Deputy Police Chief Ian MacAllister have just discovered there’s a serial killer haunting the small town of Windsor, New York. Vivi had never set foot in the small town before she happened across the first body. So why do all the victims bear a striking resemblance to her?
THESE SORROWS WE SEE – The Windsor Series #2
Sometimes redemption can be deadly
Finding a dead body was not something Matty Brooks had anticipated when she’d agreed to housesit for her estranged brother in Windsor, New York. Neither was the sexy local veterinarian, Dr Dash Kent. But when Matty discovers her brother has gone missing along with a whole boatload of money, she and Dash discover that redemption is easy, survival is the hard part.
WHAT ECHOES RENDER – The Windsor Series #4
Will she burn for the sins of others?
Jesse Baker thought she’d buried her husband’s betrayal the day of his funeral. Arson investigator, David Hathaway thought he’d left his complicated life behind when he moved to sleepy Windsor, New York. But when Jesse’s husband’s past comes back to haunt her, the two must stop a killer intent on making Jesse burn for the sins of others.
THE FRAILTY OF THINGS – The Windsor Series #4
How much is one life worth?
Kit Forrester and Garret Cantona share an explosive attraction that goes far deeper than just a bit of fun. But when the hunt for a killer leaves Garret no choice but to throw Kit back into her broken and damaged past, even his unshakable faith in what they have together might not be enough to keep them from shattering into a million pieces.
Get your FREE copy of The Mystery of Ruby’s Sugar Sample
Christmas, 1934.
The snow lies heavy around Pauncefort Hall. Dress designers Ruby Dove and Fina Aubrey-Havelock leave behind their Oxford exams to rescue Lady Charlotte’s wardrobe. But what Lady Charlotte doesn’t know is that Ruby is on a mission—a mission to avenge her family and bring down an empire.
As the weather worsens, Ruby and Fina are drawn into the intrigues of Lady Charlotte’s other guests, who include a princess, a furiously left-wing don, a West End starlet—and, it seems, a murderer. After the two resident cads are poisoned, Ruby and Fina must find the culprit and still carry out their secret plans—all before the law arrives. But Pauncefort Hall can remain snowbound for only so long.
The Mystery of Ruby’s Sugar is the first book in the Ruby Dove historical cozy mystery series.
If you like Barbara Neely, Rhys Bowen, and G.M. Malliet, then you’ll love Rose Donovan’s fashion-spy-amateur sleuth heroes, Ruby Dove and Fina Aubrey-Havelock.
Pour yourself a warm beverage and nestle down with The Mystery of Ruby’s Sugar this evening.
