brings you a mystery unlike any you’ve ever read before…
Detective Evan White knows this: his wife is dead, and he will do anything to find who killed her.
“CRIME SEEN by Michaelbrent Collings is one of those rare books that deserves more than five stars.”
– Top of the Heap Reviews
So when a stranger calls and says he has information, Evan is more than interested. But within moments of meeting the stranger, it is clear that this may be not merely someone who knows about the killing… he may well be the killer.
“It’s rare to find an ending to a novel that is clever, thought-provoking and surprising, yet here Collings nails all three….”
– Ravenous Reads
Now Evan and his partner, Angela Listings, are after the killer. A madman who slaughters at a whim. A murderer bent on destroying everything and everyone Evan loves.
“With an ending that will keep you guessing until the last chapter, I would definitely recommend this book…”
– Horror Drive-In
But the deeper Evan gets into his investigation, the more he begins to question whether he really wants answers. Because the deeper he digs, the more it seems like the man he is hunting… may already be dead.
It started as a subtle whisper. It grew into a roaring, laughing maniac. The voice inside Jonathon Browne’s head grew so loud that it took him over, both mentally and physically. The worst part is he knows who the voice belongs to, but can do nothing to stop it. His mental intruder hijacks his body, takes it to his his top-secret government office, and spills blood. With a looming battle within, Jonathon must get control and escape from his own team before they execute him. Will a life in exile be his only choice? Or worse?
A drug lord fathers his lesbian niece’s child, but not in the usual way!
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
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Walk into the life of Colin and Scout to reveal The Silhouette in the Dark City
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Thirty-three-year-old Colin Fowler and his dog Scout are simply detectives of smaller works. Drug busts, maybe a few missing people cases. It’s what makes up their life.
Thinking things can’t get any harder than a past that haunts him until this day, Colin can’t be further from wrong.
With five dead officers, and a serial killer who hides amongst the shadows, Colin is drawn into a blood curdling investigation.
With no witnesses, no evidence, and a killer who simply slips between their fingers, can Colin and Scout even begin to uncover the mystery? Or will they end up at gunpoint as well?
Tantalizing tales of terror from Award-Winning author Arjay Lewis
Here is a collection of stories designed to give you nightmares:
VOWS: A story of devotion that extends beyond death itself
SIREN: A Sci-Fi fantasy of a condemned prisoner lost in space
DREAMCATCHER: A walk in the woods…but you are not alone
THE TRAVELER: What do you do if your flight is delayed…forever
INTO THE ABYSS: A makeup artist gets the dream job…at a cost.
These stories have been published in Weird Tales, The Ultimate Halloween, and H.P. Lovecraft Magazine of Horror. If you tried to get them from their original source they would cost over $20.00. But you get them for FREE!
Hallowmas by Chad Schimke – Kids decorate a haunted house for a holiday get-together on the spookiest night of the year. They’re unaware that a creeping stranger is watching them through the window. On All Hallow’s Eve… a night when supernatural entities roam free. Read ‘Hallowmas’ today!
It is the only name that he has ever known, the best of the best can’t have names after all. At least, that’s what they tell him. A ruthless killer trained to hunt down and eliminate the threats to society that no others seem capable of handling.
When the local Sheriff’s daughter gets caught up in a string of murders, Anonymous is the only one who can help make her safe again. In the course to learn about his mysterious past and solve the case, the Sheriff seems hellbent on keeping Anonymous from taking the lead. The question is, is it merely pride that has the Sherrif so twisted, or is he perhaps keeping much bigger secrets?
Beware the dark web. You might not make it out alive.
From hitmen for hire to human trafficking, everyone knows the dangers of venturing into the darkest pit of the deep web. But if you run into The Silent Red Room, you won’t come back alive.
Dale simply wanted to rebound from a failed relationship. Now he’s fighting for his life.
Jessica let her curiosity lead her into The Silent Red Room. She admired the show from afar…until she found herself sucked in.
Will these perfect strangers survive being pulled into the dark web? Or is their fate sealed by The Silent Red Room’s sinister emcee?
‘Netted’ will entangle you in its horrifying web as you face the deadliest show on the wrong side of the internet. Can you emerge unscathed?
Get book 1 of the horror suspense series, A Dark Web Horror Trilogy, today!
In a haven for artists on a small island in the Caribbean, Ella Sapphire has finally found a place where she belongs. But as her art flourishes, her funds flounder. Desperate to remain in paradise, she accepts a job that is too good to be true, plunging her into the dangerous world of an island cartel.
On his 25th birthday, Beaujean Ali meets a beautiful artist who makes him yearn for a life less complicated than his own. When the stranger sets him up to be attacked, he must find out which of his friends is really a foe, while protecting the artist who has stolen his heart.
If you like heart-pounding action, tropical settings, and star-crossed lovers, then you’ll love Angel Vane’s The Hidden Threat.
Vivified by Chad Schimke – When a young father doesn’t have access to his car, he decides to take a train ride. No biggie, he’s a successful business man used to making hard decisions. But a deadly incident will force him to reexamine what’s truly important. Living his best life, and then … dead. Find out what happens next in this weird paranormal short story. Read ‘Vivified’ today!
A terrible tragedy struck Kerry Manor in 1901. Decades later, two young women will glimpse the evil that took the lives of the Kerry Family. Step into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane…
Meet Solomon Stone. Loner turned shadow agent.
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When Tom Brook offers a lift to a man walking along a darkening country road, he has no idea who he’s let into his car. What he does know is that he’s made a mistake, evident in the immediate fear he feels in the man’s presence. Before long, Tom is offered a dark bargain by the stranger: a simple audition to wipe out his debts and begin a new life under a new identity. The identity: Solomon Stone. The mission: to track down individuals of interest and dismantle their lives.
A quiet Sunday – A vicious assault – One man’s resurrection is another’s good luck.
When Alfie set out on his morning cycle ride, the last thing he expected was to be the only witness to attempted murder. The perpetrator of the crime was the only person who knew Alfie had seen him at the scene. And Alfie was easy to find. Scared out of his wits, he kept his head down and waited, as a weird sequence of events unfolded.
This short mystery story will give you a taste for the trilogy ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND.
Horrors Next Door is a collection of Short Scary Stories which will arouse your senses and puzzle your mind. Some of the stories are inspired by true events. Find out which ones inside this scary collection.
A new monster is here to keep you up at night. In the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes a killer with an appetite.
Harry Lightman, known as the Daylesford Devil by the press and dubbed “Lucifer” by the locals, has been sitting in a prison cell for the best part of 20 years, sentenced to life imprisonment for the torture and murder of 14 women. Each one had been preyed upon by a monster that fed on the flesh of his victims, the peaceful country towns reeling from the terror that had stalked their communities. Now, on the eve of the first victim’s 20-year anniversary, a new killer has taken up where the Devil left off, his victims dying in the same horrific circumstances as his predecessor’s, the trademark signature announcing its horrific return with bloody consequences. But is it really a new killer or does Lucifer have the perfect alibi?
The authorities have no leads, no clues and no time as they enlist the help of the original police officer, Jim Lawson, now a respected and sought-after psychiatrist, who felled the devil the first time. Has Lucifer truly returned, killing from behind the walls, or is another vying for his title? Only Jim can face the devil and hope to learn his secret. Together with the young and beautiful police constable, Stephanie Connor, Jim is fighting the devil, the clock and the hierarchy, to piece together the clues and end the killing before another fall’s victim.
Does the Devil have his final alibi?
A Druid king locks in fierce battle near Stonehenge.
Midwinter by Chad Schimke – When the first edge of the setting Father Sun touches the horizon, the High Priest lights fire to the wicker man. A Teryn stands on the shoulders of his ancestors during Winter Solstice on Salisbury Plain. Follow the tale of the lone pine, from the bluestone cliffs of South Wales, to the hamlet of Feldmid. Read ‘Midwinter’ today!
A Story… Inside a Story… Inside a Story???
Oswald ‘Oddy’ Taj loves stories. And tonight is a perfect night for a spooky tale. But little does Oddy know, after this story, things are never going to be the same for him again…
“Interesting, engaging and beautiful! Totally recommend it.” – Amazon Customer
“Well written and keeps you engaged all the way to the end.” – Bookbub Reader
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A STORY… INSIDE A STORY… INSIDE A STORY???
The Story: When a DIABOLICAL village sage schemes to have the great old NAYNAB TREE in the south-west corner of the village CHOPPED down for personal gain, a DEFIANT young boy must find a way to save the tree . . . and maybe more!
. . . Inside a Story: OSWALD TAJ, age ten, who everyone calls ‘Oddy’, was a PECULIAR young boy — sorry, man (Oddy hated it when people called him a boy). Oddy thought he was too old for stories — at least regular ones. But Oddy loved BIZARRE tales of ADVENTURE, MYSTERY, and SCARE like the ones Grandpa told. Tonight was a perfect night for a SPOOKY tale. But little did Oddy know, TONIGHT was going to be different . . . because after this tale, things were NEVER going to be the same for him again!
. . . Inside the Story: The NAYNAB have been around for millennia. Most people see them as regular trees. But some know that the NAYNAB hold many SECRETS. Fewer still know that the NAYNAB may very well be at the heart of the most TERRIFYING SECRET of them all — and of an age-old EVIL which will stop at nothing until it takes over the WORLD . . .
The GHOSTS IN THE TREES is a short story and the first book in the SHADOWS, TREES & ODD MYSTERIES series that follows the MYSTERIOUS myths, ODD occurrences and TERRIFYING tales that revolve around the little-known Naynab trees.
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“A beautiful, wonderful book that’s for all ages.” — Amazon Customer
Elijah Cone’s doctor said he could help him. His doctor lied.
Hiding from a traumatic past, Elijah spends his remaining days in the Rose Haven Retirement Home avoiding contact with the other residents, desperate for death to relieve him of his all-consuming guilt.
Elijah isn’t the only one with a secret, Doctor Perry has one too. The charismatic doctor employed by the rest home loves that his elderly patients have been abandoned by their families, because nobody asks any questions when the lonely disappear.
Forced into action, Elijah and the other retirees soon learn that under Doctor Perry’s care, death is the easy option…
A SECRET SOCIETY. A DEADLY CONSPIRACY. A RACE AGAINST TIME.
Sam Cleave, reporter for a small newspaper, has seen better days. After his partner was killed during an undercover investigation, he lost his passion for work and living.
But when a resident of a nearby assisted living home is tortured and murdered in a barbaric manner, he starts investigating. He is especially intrigued when a mysterious box is given to him that belonged to the dead man, but he needs help to interpret what it means.
He teams up with Nina Gould, an expert in World War II history. Soon the two of them realize that they are about to discover one of the best-guarded secrets of the war, It dawns on them that this would be the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value, and a discovery that men would kill for.
They join an expedition, sponsored by an eccentric billionaire, hunting for gold and breathtaking art buried deep below the Antarctic surface. Instead of gold and stolen art, they find something terrifyingly disturbing beneath the eternal ice.
A team of Nazi scientists has made an amazing discovery. But experiments have gone terribly wrong. The situation gets out of hand, and before long the expedition members find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul. Nina and Sam realize that their only hope for survival is to unlock the secrets of Ice Station Wolfenstein.
Ice Station Wolfenstein leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Ice Station Wolfenstein is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.
She’s gorgeous, she’s sexy, she’s smart…and she’s the devil.
Half orphaned and struggling to survive, a broken young man risks everything to save his family with a drug that enhances his feeble powers. With mounting obstacles threatening and surrounding him at every turn, Tzun fends off one enemy only to discover his gravest challenge is worse than anything he could have imagined.
With a gritty, sweeping tone, engaging prose, and a dark flare that fans of Stephen King and M. Night Shyamalan have learned to crave, Slice is a coming of age story that blends urban fantasy, the criminal underground, and a shocking twist.
A Murder Mystery unfolds as Cyclone Tracy destroys Darwin
Mercenaries, misfits and criminals on the run thrived in the chaos that followed Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The perfect environment to turn a mixed-up teenager into an outlaw.
As Aedan struggles with adolescence and school, a cyclone destroys his city and any resemblance of normal life disappears. He leaves home, buys a motorbike and is thrust violently into adulthood, in a wild, lawless environment. Then he meets Eva, the woman of his dreams and a gifted lady who attempts to guide him through the obstacles.
But Darwin is full of very dangerous people and as an impressionable youth, Aedan keeps bad company and is led into violent crime. When their local dealer is murdered, Eva becomes involved, putting both her and Aedan squarely in the crosshairs of a vicious killer, who now has them on his list.
“Aedan and Eva are well-developed characters, strong, and knowledgable. The storyline is well written and has lots of suspense, drama, action, violence, murder, and mystery.” Amazon Reviewer
A murder mystery with a real outback Australian flavour.
Heading toward the capital of Malawi, three foreign aid workers, are forced to stop for an unauthorized roadblock set up by rural villagers.
After the villagers converge upon the vehicle, they pull one of the workers from the SUV and execute their ruthless savagery.
As journalists Leo Bronson and Vivian Thomas investigate the aid worker’s brutal death, they uncover a heinous plot born of rumors, rage, and a centuries-old superstition involving bloodsuckers.
But, did the villagers attack because they feared the worker wanted their blood? Or, could they have been coerced into carrying out the violent act?
If you love a thrilling mystery with danger and a touch of romance, then you’ll enjoy The Secret Rival! Start reading today!
His friend has been murdered, but he can’t be responsible… Can he?
Clay has arrived back in London and rekindled the spark with Belinda, his flame-haired ex. However, one night he suffers a terrible nightmare. He dreams that he brutally murders one of his best friends.
The next morning – horrifically – he learns that said friend has indeed been slaughtered.
His dreams continue and each dawn there’s another fresh body. Desperate, Clay and Belinda investigate. Each horribly aware that Clay himself is the number one suspect!
Will he discover the terrifying truth? And can he do it before his next gruesome nightmare?
F.R. Jameson’s debut novel – a supernatural thriller of ambition, lust and death – is available exclusively today!
Behind the Walls by Chad Schimke – Distant communities try to come together after the Die Back. But every time, the story ends up the same way. Food ran out, brigands attacked, or people couldn’t stand living together again, after the apocalypse. Why not here? At Litogot Township. An ex-military man makes it his mission to find out. Read ‘Behind the Walls’ today!
It was meant to be a nice family holiday… but family holidays can be deadly…
Jake Hawkins wants nothing more than a week away with his family. Their destination, the Elk Lake Cabins Resort, nestled amongst the magnificent Texan wilderness.
That was, until his sister’s new boyfriend, Garret Watts, tags along for the trip.
But Garret has a dark past and even darker cause. A cause he will kill for.
In the space of an evening, the Hawkins’ family holiday is transformed from tranquil to nightmare, where they must confront peril at every turn and find themselves in a desperate fight for survival.
Elk Lake Cabins is the fast paced, unputdownable page turner sure to keep you up at night and get your insides churning…
“Thoroughly intriguing! A real page-turner.” — Zoe Sharp, author of the bestselling Charlie Fox series
On a dare, grad student Jessica Evans writes a thriller, creating a nightmare scenario based upon the theory that the speed of light is not a constant one that has a dark application. Her protagonist (the fiance of a scientist killed in a car crash) is pursued by those who want to use the theory to create the world’s most powerful weapon.
Jessica’s research into the science stirs up concern from an extremist group intending to use it for evil. Before long, Jessica’s life mimics that of her protagonist, as she runs from terrorist conspirators who suspect she may try to stop them from causing a major disaster. As the clock ticks down, Jessica must put the pieces together and avert a global catastrophe.
A drug lord fathers his lesbian niece’s child, but not in the usual way!
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.
CIA agent Danielle “Dani” Williamson never stops believing that one day she’ll find the man who killed her parents and stole her childhood. And when the nightmare she relives in her dreams is played out in carbon copy and linked to a group the CIA believes is planning a terrorist attack in the US, Dani thinks she might finally have her chance.
Detective Ty Fuller loved being a Navy SEAL, but after seeing one too many innocent children killed, he was no longer able to stomach the world of politics, manipulation, and death. Now, as a detective with his local vice squad, he likes to think he’s helping kids by keeping drugs off the streets—local problems, local solutions.
But when Dani and her team arrive, they bring a case bigger than anything Ty’s small New England town has seen in decades, drugs in exchange for weapons-lots of them. And as the case unfolds and the tensions simmer between them, Dani and Ty discover that all is not what it seems. Uncovering a web of manipulation that spans the globe and reaches all the way to the US president, they know the price for justice will be high, risking not just their fledgling relationship, but their very lives.
“Love this book! Perfect mix of suspense, romance, and exceptionally well-researched writing. It was very hard to put down. I had to restrain myself from reading it all in one sitting. Tamsen Schultz is a fantastic writer!” – Amazon Review
A broken widow. A deadly search. An impossible choice.
A year after her fiancé’s sudden death, geologist Dr. Cassidy Kincaid barely finishes a brutal week of field work on Volcán Arenal when a call from an estranged family member turns her world upside-down. Cassidy’s stepbrother, Reeve, has gone missing in the nearby party town of Tamarindo.
But going after Reeve isn’t so easy, and brings back the guilt of abandoning him years ago despite promising her father she would look out for him. Knowing she can’t turn her back on Reeve this time, and hoping the victory of finding him might make her strong again, Cassidy sets off to find the stepbrother she blames for straining the bonds of her broken family.
However, as the mystery draws her deeper into the darkest corners of paradise, Cassidy discovers a shocking truth about the stepbrother she never understood. And when suddenly, the tables are turned and she becomes the hunted, Cassidy is forced to make an impossible choice: save Reeve, or save herself?
Rescuing Reeve is a twisty tale of suspense and danger. If you like heart-thumping action, exotic settings, and broken heroines, then you’ll love Amy Waeschle’s captivating novel. Download Rescuing Reeve to experience this dark mystery today!
Running Is Easy. Facing Your Mistakes Can Be Deadly.
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It’s 1995. Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable around women, so he takes him to a strip joint outside their air base in Okinawa, Japan. But when the stripper he lets loose on his romantically challenged friend is brutally murdered, Connor must solve the mystery to keep him from a life in prison. . .
Connor is just a regular guy trying to straighten out his crooked path. His wife is angry and suspicious. His ex-lover is trying to win him back into sexual adventure. And his children don’t get enough of his time.
Now, to keep his friend out of Leavenworth, Connor must assume the role of amateur detective, while steering clear of military police and dodging the local Yakuza. Most threatening of all, his ex-lover’s husband is lead agent on the case for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and intends to send Connor to federal prison with his friend.
With the military police questioning his every move, the Yakuza hunting him down and his secret lover’s Special Investigator husband trying to make him an accessory to murder, Connor has to give his all to find the real killer.
Can he outsmart the Special Investigator who wants to make him pay? Will he survive the vengeance of the Okinawan Yakuza? Or has he become of victim of his own foolishness — a plan to help his friend “Eugene Garboski get comfortable around women?”
From the newest of Montana mystery authors, a 1990s mystery story full of sexual betrayal, loyalty and redemption set in tropical Okinawa.
A brilliant hacker on the run. Can she save herself while trying to save the world?
Helen is on the run from a deadly enemy. But as she heads into the slums of New Kowloon looking for refuge, things are only getting worse. Now local thugs and the triads are trying to hunt her down too. The problem is—she’s got the world to save.
An abyss of temptation promises dark and boundless thrills.
Joy Burton, twenty-three and a Ph. D. candidate, works as a research assistant for Dr. Draven Blackmoor—a handsome guest professor who studies serial killers. Joy has fallen for his dark charms.
Draven crosses boundaries as if they don’t exist, and he attempts to drag Joy into his boundless abyss to explore the heights of passion and power.
Joy must decide if she will cross the final bridge.
But if she does, can she cross back?
Revel in the wicked world of Wine Valley today. Series available on Amazon.
“The HOME Saga will get under your skin.”
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Chadwick and two other survivors of Saw Creek venture back to his chosen home, Brooklyn, unprepared for the state of civilization upon their return. Will Chad carry on the legacy of The Disruption as Hazel and Juni intended? He may not have a choice.
Let Go is Book Nine of Syd West’s twisted thriller saga, Home, each written in an episodic format to be enjoyed in a single sitting. Released by PulpBoom: Bingeworthy Books.
Living with Saci is set in the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo, Brazil. It tells the story of Teresa da Silva, an overweight, depressed, drink dependent, and her struggles in the city. Estranged from her daughter, who lives with the ex-husband in England, life seems to constantly deal Teresa a bad hand. She begins to wonder whether the mischievous character from Brazilian folklore, Saci, might have something to do with it. Events seem to be taking a turn for the positive when she meets Felipe, who asks her to marry him. But when he disappears, Teresa finds that she is the object of suspicion.
A terrible tragedy struck Kerry Manor in 1901. Decades later, two young women will glimpse the evil that took the lives of the Kerry Family. Step into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane…
When 17-year-old Reese first moved to the wealthy, lakeshore town of St. Clair, she never expected someone like Charlotte Walters to take her under her wing. Charlotte is everything that Reese is not: rich, gorgeous, and carefree. But when Charlotte goes missing, Reese must dig through all of St. Clair’s secrets–and Charlotte’s–to find her.
“A thoroughly enjoyable read. Readers will be waiting with anticipation for future volumes.” –Kirkus Reviews
When 17-year-old Reese first moved to the wealthy, lakeshore town of St. Clair over five years ago, she never expected someone like Charlotte Walters to take her under her wing. Charlotte is everything that Reese is not: rich, gorgeous, and carefree, living with her enigmatic older brother and her parents in a mansion at the top of the lake.
But when senior year starts, everything seems off. Reese notices that Charlotte’s older brother Aiden keeps coming back from college to hang around on weekends, stoic and grim. And Charlotte’s parents seem more distracted, almost lost. Meanwhile, Charlotte keeps insisting to Reese that nothing is wrong, and decides to host a Halloween party with the theme of “missing girls.”
That night, at the party, Charlotte goes missing.
Everyone who attended becomes an instant suspect, from Charlotte’s brother (who argued with Charlotte earlier that night), to Charlotte’s field hockey teammate (who wasn’t invited to the party in the first place), to Reese herself (who was the last person to see Charlotte alive, out near the lake).
With the clock ticking, Reese must unravel what happened to her best friend, and dig through the layers of secrets protecting people in St. Clair. Because now, being the quiet sidekick won’t cut it. And maybe only an outsider to St. Clair can truly confront all of the town’s dark mysteries.
ABOUT
L.C. Warman is the author of spooky young adult mysteries. She grew up in New England, in a town where real estate contracts stipulated that you couldn’t back out if you discovered your new place was haunted. She currently lives in a Michigan lakeside town with her husband and two dogs.
FULL REVIEW from Kirkus Reviews :
A high school senior attempts to unravel the truth behind her friend’s disappearance in Warman’s debut YA mystery, the first in a series. Reese’s best friend, Charlotte Walters, is “stunning, smart, charismatic, everything and anything that a seventeen-year-old wished to be.” She’s a beautiful, All-State field hockey player with a 4.0 GPA and a “talent for painting,” so she gets plenty of attention from her fellow classmates. Reese, meanwhile, is known primarily as Charlotte’s sidekick—something between an assistant and a confidante. Charlotte values her for her loyalty but doesn’t realize that Reese secretly resents her big house, rich parents, and army of admirers. When Charlotte decides to throw a Halloween party with a “ghosts of dead girls” theme, Reese helps her plan it—even going so far as to get Reese’s former crush, Riley Gallagher, to procure a beer keg. Reese quickly grows tired of Charlotte’s spooky antics, though, especially when she runs down to the lake to try to hear the ghost of local urban legend “Screaming Stella.” But when Reese arrives after her, she sees a boat rowing away from shore and can’t find Charlotte anywhere. Reese quickly summons help—the cops; Riley; Charlotte’s brother, Aiden—but it’s clear that Charlotte has disappeared. Everyone expects Reese to have some insight into what happened, but maybe she doesn’t know her friend as well as she thought. Throughout this novel, Warman’s taut prose is pitched perfectly for her subject matter, managing to make the high school drama feel high-stakes and creepy by turns. For example, here’s how she portrays Reese’s wonder at Charlotte’s huge trove of gossip: “part of me felt that the source of her knowledge was deeper, more mysterious, that Charlotte Walters knew everything because she was the town, or everything that St. Clair liked to think of itself as.” The author’s sharp senses of pacing and character make this a thoroughly enjoyable read. Readers will be waiting with anticipation for future volumes. A captivating teen mystery in a secretive lakeside town.
FIVE KNIVES welds the intensity of Jack Bauer’s “24” to the scorching heat of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST.
“The author is a great talent.” — Aaron C. Brown, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer
When a man plummets to his death from an apartment tower, Will Finch’s shock soon becomes a nightmare. As he studies the open windows above the corpse, Finch notices a lamp blinking erratically behind a drawn curtain on the eleventh floor.
When he investigates the distress signal, Finch discovers a woman handcuffed to a bedpost. Over the following week, he uncovers a conspiracy that ties the murder to a series of bombshells. The victim’s bankruptcy. A global stock fraud. A murder spree that began in Baghdad and is now haunting the citizens of San Francisco. Is this the work of a serial killer, a copycat — or both?
Five Knives is the prequel thriller in the Will Finch crime series — a novel that opens on the first day of Will Finch’s journalism career. Everything that Finch learns about crime reporting begins with Five Knives.
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One Grand Ship. Two love affairs, decades apart. An idyllic summer resort town torn apart by class struggles, tragic loss, betrayal and murder.
An Amazon #1 selection for Mystery Thriller & Suspense.
Amazon Five Star reviews for The EmmaLee Affairs
– “… a great combination of romance, drama and mystery.” – “…an absolute delight!” – “…the perfect summer read!” – “… beautifully written!”
Jonathan McKendry, the son of a local boatyard owner in a 1940’s northern Michigan resort town, is falling in love with Emily Compton, the daughter of a wealthy family who summer in Charlevoix and own the grand ship, the EmmaLee. As class differences and family pressures threaten any hope of the relationship succeeding, a shocking crime shatters their dreams of being together and throws them into a desperate search for a brutal killer.
In a parallel story in present-day, Sally Thomason, a descendant of the Compton’s, is thrilled to join the Charlevoix community in welcoming back the family’s old yacht, the EmmaLee after decades away. When she meets Alex Clark, the new owner of the ship, her life takes a drastic turn that threatens her current relationship and dredges up past memories of a tragic event that continues to haunt her. As Sally and Alex grow closer, they search for common ground to move beyond the past and build new lives together.
The EmmaLee Affairs plays out against a beautiful scenic backdrop and compelling historical context while exploring the deep emotions of tragic love and loss, and the chilling effects of evil that often lie just beneath the surface of our fragile lives.
A story of Massachusetts greed: the Big Dig, the Mob, politicians and sex — living together at Serpent Point
Inside the Big Dig tunnel beneath the streets of Boston, a roof collapse kills an innocent motorist and suddenly questions are being asked: Was the construction shoddy? Did the unions cut corners? Were Boston’s politicians all paid off to look the other way?
Tom Pyle, owner of the huge construction firm that built the tunnel, knows he’s in trouble. So he hires a rough-and-tumble, no-nonsense manager in Jack Dunne to come in and try to save the company.
The threads Dunne begins to pull all seem to lead right back to Pyle’s own exclusive Cape Cod oceanfront neighborhood, a place called Serpent Point. Living there, in gated luxury, are several who had some kind of role in the Big Dig project: the famous senator gearing up for his own presidential run; a wealthy retired musician and impresario with strange tastes; and the head of one of New England’s most powerful crime families whose main concern is keeping tabs on his own sixteen-year-old daughter. And is Dunne trying to save the company, or take it over for himself?
Author Caleb Clarke has created a story for our time, and it’s located on Serpent Point.
There’s one thing more dangerous than testifying to a crime—staying silent.
Locked in the ruins of a California Mission, Abby Travers watches helplessly as a girl dies outside her window. As she struggles between her moral obligation to come forward as a witness, and her commitment to a Medieval religious practice that requires her to retreat from the world, the situation spins out of control.
Abby’s hesitation starts a series of catastrophes. She finds herself at the center of a deadly cover-up where every minute counts and indecision could be fatal. She questions all her beliefs and everyone she knows becomes suspect. To save herself and those she loves, she must break free from her self-imposed prisons of stone and fear.
The Sanctity of Sloth is a taut, psychological thriller that answers the question: What happens when a good woman does nothing? Fans of Paula Hawkins and A.J. Finn will enjoy this third book in Greta Boris’s Seven Deadly Sins Series – Standalone novels of psychological suspense.
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Three stories on the fear and the lure of unknown journeys
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Three humanoids run away from a trade exhibition in Shenzhen, an expat Chemistry teacher in a Bangkok international school experiments with an unsavoury invention and two middle-aged women on a wine tour in Ontario encounter an unexpected detour. Three stories on the desire, fear and the lure of unknown journeys.
Two criminal oligarchs—one Mexican, the other French—secretly join forces to make their extensive logistics and distribution networks available to global terrorists…for a price. Their instruments are a mercurial Venezuelan known as Fósforo (like the match you strike to spark a flame) and a young Stanford-educated engineer named Graciela Montoya.
Standing between them and the deaths of thousands of innocents is FBI Special Agent Porfirio “Pete” Cortez, whose once promising career is now in serious jeopardy, as vultures in blue suits circle in for the kill. As if that isn’t bad enough, a crazed drug enforcer with an eye toward revenge wants him dead.
RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA is the first book in Bill King’s mystery/thriller series about a fifth-generation Texan whose sense of right and wrong sometimes brings him into conflict with the leadership of his chosen profession. Set amid the gritty landscape of south Texas, between Houston and the border with Mexico, RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA straddles the delicate balance between modern and traditional Texas.
If you enjoy idiosyncratic characters from authors like John Sandford and Elmore Leonard, you’ll love Pete Cortez.
A thief and a sex worker’s paths cross in an unexpected way that threatens their lives
Max is a thief who prides himself on being so stealthy that it’s like he was never there at all. He doesn’t find many things in life to be worth doing if a payday isn’t involved. Skye is a sex worker in Amsterdam’s red light district who dreams of a better life. When she walks into the same coffeeshop as Max on a rainy day in Amsterdam, they discover that their lives are connected in a way that threatens them both. Max must choose between his “every man for himself” mentality and saving the one person he thinks can make him a better man. A story of love, loss, and redemption in the unlikeliest of places.
Internationally-bestselling author Michaelbrent Collings brings you a thriller unlike any you’ve ever experienced…
Get ready, because you’re about to meet the world’s most dangerous hitman. You’re about to meet Mr. Gray.
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A killer has come for Amy’s autistic son.
Known only as Mr. Gray, he has no mercy, no remorse. He cannot be bargained with, he cannot be turned from his mission. He is the world’s most dangerous hitman, and he has never failed to complete a contract.
Aided by an ex-cop who lost his family to the same assassin, Amy and her son are on the run, trying to stay alive long enough to figure out who Mr. Gray is, why he wants Amy’s son dead, and maybe – just maybe – find a way to kill someone who can seemingly appear and disappear anywhere, anytime… and who may be something not entirely human.
“What an outstanding read… This is one you will not be able to put down and one you will remember for a long time to come. Very highly recommended.”
From hitmen for hire to human trafficking, everyone knows the dangers of venturing into the darkest pit of the deep web. But if you run into The Silent Red Room, you won’t come back alive.
Dale simply wanted to rebound from a failed relationship. Now he’s fighting for his life.
Jessica let her curiosity lead her into The Silent Red Room. She admired the show from afar…until she found herself sucked in.
Will these perfect strangers survive being pulled into the dark web? Or is their fate sealed by The Silent Red Room’s sinister emcee?
‘Netted’ will entangle you in its horrifying web as you face the deadliest show on the wrong side of the internet. Can you emerge unscathed?
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A Dark Web Trilogy
Book 1: Netted- The Beginning
Book 2: Netted- Inside Out
Book 3: Netted- The Crash
When the Standing Ones sent us on a journey to explore the darkness far from the sun’s light, I never expected to find monsters there.
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, published 2019.
From small-town tragedy to earth-shattering adventure Dr. Jonathan Drake, Pataphysician, takes on a two-fisted supernatural mystery.
Disgraced humanities professor, Jonathan Drake, is enjoying his life as an occult shop owner and part-time detective when a bizarre case is dropped in his lap. Unfortunately, his partner, Pearl White, decides it’s time for the pair to expand the shop, The Imaginarium, and for her to take a larger role in the consultancy end of the biz. Throw into this Chicago Detective Henry Modine, family troubles, an old friend turned enemy, Eduard Zhoutai, along with a motley crew of psychopaths and reality takes a nosedive into the pataphysical end of the pool.
The science of imaginary solutions (pataphysics) may be the only hope of solving the terrifying mystery of The Taklamakan Skull before the Fourth Axis takes center stage in a new apocalyptic two-step.
Join Jonathan, Pearl, and Henry as they race through this occult mystery toward a dark confrontation in a Ukrainian cemetery. The Taklamakan Skull is book 1 of The Pataphysician.
Pick up your copy today! Bullets, femme fatales, and a cursed skull — this supernatural thriller has it all.
This is volume 1 of a tetralogy.
She’s gorgeous, she’s sexy, she’s smart…and she’s the devil.
In this small town, keeping secrets is a matter of life or death…
East St. Louis deputy Patrick O’Shea is tired of living in the line of fire. So when he gets a chance to transfer to his wife’s small hometown, he doesn’t hesitate to load up the moving van. But his family’s bags are barely unpacked before their newfound peace and quiet shatters in a surge of demonic voices…
The deputy has faced his fair share of evil, but nothing quite like this. Normally the first into the fray, he worries they’ve unearthed a force not even his special training and inner-city experience can combat…
Can Patrick protect his family from supernatural foes, or will a festering evil consume the ones he loves most?
Note: This is a sample featuring the first four chapters.
The intersection of sanity and revenge. Anna Hanks, relentless.
Laurel and Jeremy Calloway have longed for a new life away from the chaos and confusion of New York City. Driving along a country road in New Jersey with a young real estate agent in the back seat, they almost miss it: a small house in the woods for sale. Laurel immediately thinks this could be the house for them, the house of their dreams, where a simpler life awaits. Laurel can finish her debut novel. Jeremy can look for a job in Philadelphia just an hour away. Stopping to take a look at the property, they meet the house’s caretaker, Eileen, and within a few weeks they find themselves the very lucky owners of their ideal home. But who are the mysterious old couple who’d put the house up for sale, having moved out months ago? Is Eileen more than a friendly neighbor? Who are the townspeople they meet, who all seem aware of the young couple now living in the house in the woods? And is it the house of their dreams, or of their nightmares?
His house is bleeding, and he can’t fight the urge to taste the blood.
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Will woke up one day to find that his walls were bleeding. It didn’t take long to learn that he was the only one who could see the blood…and smell the rot.
It’s been months, and the blood hasn’t gone away. And now, Will is overcome with a strange urge. He wants to taste the blood. He needs to.
And if he gives in, his hell will begin.
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Trinity has one week to find her friend, or she’ll be the next to go.
When the harvest is over, tradition dictates that the weakest teens be culled from the camp. None of them are ever seen again.
Last year, they took Trinity’s only friend. She’s spent every spare moment scouring the woods, searching for him. She’s close to finding him, but the year is over. The harvest is done.
She sneaks into the forest for one last attempt to locate her friend but she’s barely left camp when the first call of Guards on hunt shatters the air.
She can’t let them catch her but she has nowhere to hide. A strange creature lurks in the water, following her down the river and something stalks her from the woods. Every minute brings the Guards closer. Soon, she’ll be surrounded. Forest or river. Which enemy should she choose?
A GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN’S STRUGGLE TO RECOVER FROM A HORRIFIC RAPE
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RAPE IS EVERY WOMAN’S NIGHTMARE, BUT NO ONE EVER EXPECTS IT TO HAPPEN TO THEM. HOWEVER, FOR ONE YOUNG WOMAN IT DOES. NOT ONLY IS IT THE DESPICABLE SAVAGE ACT, BUT HOW IT LEAVES HER AFTERWARDS. WHEN RECOVERY IS LONG AND HARD. SHE WONDERS IF SHE HAS THE COURAGE TO PULL THROUGH, OR WILL SHE SINK INTO A DARK ABYSS? Donna, a beautiful young woman scarred by an unhappy childhood, is brutally raped by a masked assailant on her way home from her job as a statistical analyst. Unable to return to work due to the trauma, she sinks into a deep depression. When her boyfriend leaves her and her parents are unable to deal with her problems, she attempts suicide. This culminates in her spending a lengthy spell in hospital. There her recovery is slow, but when she is befriended by a male nurse, a relationship begins to develop. Once she leaves hospital to live with the male nurse’s parents, their relationship blossoms, and Donna thinks all her troubles are over. However, on her honeymoon on the Spanish island of Torrelino, Donna discovers that she may have married the man who raped her. Could he be about to silence her for good or is Donna mistaken?
Meet Solomon Stone. Loner turned shadow agent.
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When Tom Brook offers a lift to a man walking along a darkening country road, he has no idea who he’s let into his car. What he does know is that he’s made a mistake, evident in the immediate fear he feels in the man’s presence. Before long, Tom is offered a dark bargain by the stranger: a simple audition to wipe out his debts and begin a new life under a new identity. The identity: Solomon Stone. The mission: to track down individuals of interest and dismantle their lives.
Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island’s supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it.
Tales of dark pulp fantasy and horror.
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One man’s quest for the Light leads his love to embrace the Darkness
Pyritum feels drawn to the crystals he discovered in the caves by his home town. He is captivated by the light he senses pulsing within them. He is ready and willing to pay any cost to unlock their mysterious power.
However, in his quest to discover the Light within, he pushes his lover to embrace the Darkness that is slowly consuming her. Feeling neglected and abandoned, Azeria stops at nothing to seek revenge on Pyritum for his betrayal.
Each one embraces the power they have sacrificed to discover. The Light transforms Pyritum and his followers into crystal creatures of light and beauty. The Darkness twists Azeria and her followers into wraiths of mist and shadow. The conflict between them destroys their city and gives birth to the Crystalline Kingdom.
Horrors Next Door is a collection of Short Scary Stories which will arouse your senses and puzzle your mind. Some of the stories are inspired by true events. Find out which ones inside this scary collection.
The mind-bending prequel to the Chrome Valley Thriller series.
How would it change your life if you knew what everyone else was thinking?
Merrick Whyte has used such a talent to profit from the world of high finance and business mergers. He puts it down to psychology, the study of body language and good background research.
But the game is about to change. Someone is seeking his skills for a different purpose – one that leads him into the clandestine world of the occult.
After falling foul of the law, he learns that discerning between friend and foe is not an easy task, especially when reality gets turned upside down. As he discovers the true extent of his psychonautic talents, he struggles to keep his enigmatic girlfriend, Lotus from being sucked into a conflict that spreads to Eastern Asia.
In an apocalyptic convergence of events, only Merrick and his Outcasts stand between a powerful enemy and the ultimate prize – dominion of this world and the realms beyond the Gateways.
After being offered a babysitting gig which seems too good to be true, nineteen-year-old Ryan finds herself in the throes of a strange family tradition.
Commuter horror short.
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It started as a subtle whisper. It grew into a roaring, laughing maniac. The voice inside Jonathon Browne’s head grew so loud that it took him over, both mentally and physically. The worst part is he knows who the voice belongs to, but can do nothing to stop it. His mental intruder hijacks his body, takes it to his his top-secret government office, and spills blood. With a looming battle within, Jonathon must get control and escape from his own team before they execute him. Will a life in exile be his only choice? Or worse?
“The HOME Saga will get under your skin.”
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Chadwick and two other survivors of Saw Creek venture back to his chosen home, Brooklyn, unprepared for the state of civilization upon their return. Will Chad carry on the legacy of The Disruption as Hazel and Juni intended? He may not have a choice.
Let Go is Book Nine of Syd West’s twisted thriller saga, Home, each written in an episodic format to be enjoyed in a single sitting. Released by PulpBoom: Bingeworthy Books.
Hear the fear!
Sully is 6’6″ and 260 lbs. of mean cop – complete with a cybernetic right eye and left hand. He has no use for corrupt politicians, killers, and idiots. All of that tough exterior and blunt demeanor hides a heart of gold.
Sent to the developing planet Beta Prime to clean up its corruption and crime, Sullivan is saddled with a wet behind the ears rookie detective for a partner. An already difficult job is made more so by the haunting presences of a mysterious young woman.
A crazed serial killer and the theft of life saving drugs are just the start of Sullivan’s troubles. Betrayal by his own police force just might finish him off.
Faced with solving multiple crimes at once to save himself, who can Sullivan trust in his new home, the eternally cold Capital City?
an ex-con cabbie
a priest who knows too much about crime
the owner of a neighborhood tavern and diner with a shady past
a mysterious beauty who haunts Sullivan from his past
his idealistic and naive young partner
Desperate for redemption for mistakes in his past, can Sullivan even trust himself?
The debut novel from K.C. Sivils, The Predator and The Prey is a crime thriller set in the gritty urban setting of Capital City 200 years in the future. Fans of cross genre storytelling such as Joss Wheadon’s space westerns and Alex P. Berg’s Urban Fantasy/Crime noir stories should enjoy the adventures of Inspector Thomas Sullivan as he seeks to deliver justice to the innocent citizens of Capital City and the planet Beta Prime.
The DataMind meditation app has revolutionized the world, making people smarter, happier, and more productive. But a programming glitch in the final update causes billions of users to experience uncontrollable rage and aggression.
Nick, an ordinary high school senior in Fairbanks Alaska, is suddenly thrust into this life or death arena. He and his brother must escape the zombie-like hordes of blood-thirsty maniacs and seek refuge north of the arctic circle.
The four-hundred-mile journey tests the boys, their wits, and their trust in each other. They think they’re fighting to stay alive; but little do they know, they’re fighting to save mankind.
Dean is an Australian author whose books are loved by readers who enjoy crime drama, murder suspense, psychological thrillers and mystery romance. The Longo Files is about a female investigative news reporter by the name of Jennifer Longo. She is an inquisitive individual who thrives on getting the real story. To achieve this, she will do whatever it takes! With 5 Star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and BookBub, I am sure these books will have you captivated until the very end. For more information, search The Longo Files on Facebook.
Twenty years prior, primary school aged Penny Drew is subjected to a horrifying ordeal at school camp by the hands of bully Amy Woods and a number of her friends.
In the present day, the abduction of schoolgirl Sally from a public swimming pool in the usually quiet town of Heathcote causes a panic among the local residents.
Head of the Missing Person’s Taskforce, ageing Detective Alex Johnson is notified and heads to Heathcote to investigate.
Aspiring career driven investigative journalist Jennifer Longo, receives the first of many anonymous internet links which leads her to Heathcote Swimming Pool, coincidentally, the town of the first of many abductions.
Detective Johnson and Longo inevitably cross paths in their investigative enquiries in endeavouring to uncover the truth about who is responsible, along the way, developing an interpersonal love hate father daughter relationship.
As more children are abducted, the pair realise that working together may be a logical tactic, however Longo’s new love interest and Detective Johnson’s prime suspect appear to be the same person – Jason Drew.
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Our hero leaves his backdoor Russian town and heads to Moscow, never to be poor again. With each day, he grows more and more desperate until he meets an old geologist with an intriguing and surprisingly profitable offer: to join him on his trip to the depths of Siberia, the largest forest on the planet, and become a “black digger” – one of those who find and excavate mammoth tusks with the purpose of selling them as ivory to the highest bidder.
With nothing much to lose, our hero agrees, venturing to the edge of the Earth, beyond the borders of civilization and into the untouched wilderness. There, thousands of miles from home, in a race against the clock before the cold seals the ground, he has to face nature, other diggers, his inner demons and, most importantly, the enigmatic “Master of the Forest” – a prehistoric creature and the origin of all local legends, who ferociously protects his domain.
A new monster is here to keep you up at night. In the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes a killer with an appetite.
Harry Lightman, known as the Daylesford Devil by the press and dubbed “Lucifer” by the locals, has been sitting in a prison cell for the best part of 20 years, sentenced to life imprisonment for the torture and murder of 14 women. Each one had been preyed upon by a monster that fed on the flesh of his victims, the peaceful country towns reeling from the terror that had stalked their communities. Now, on the eve of the first victim’s 20-year anniversary, a new killer has taken up where the Devil left off, his victims dying in the same horrific circumstances as his predecessor’s, the trademark signature announcing its horrific return with bloody consequences. But is it really a new killer or does Lucifer have the perfect alibi?
The authorities have no leads, no clues and no time as they enlist the help of the original police officer, Jim Lawson, now a respected and sought-after psychiatrist, who felled the devil the first time. Has Lucifer truly returned, killing from behind the walls, or is another vying for his title? Only Jim can face the devil and hope to learn his secret. Together with the young and beautiful police constable, Stephanie Connor, Jim is fighting the devil, the clock and the hierarchy, to piece together the clues and end the killing before another fall’s victim.
Does the Devil have his final alibi?
Are You A Drull?
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Synopsis – Three kingdom wards are sent to investigate the reclusive “Rainbow People” of the shifting desert.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Notorious highwayman Samuel Shanklin is stretching his luck, while the noose of Tyburn gallows threatens to stretch his neck. But one final robbery before he hangs up his pistols puts him on a slippery path with the woman of his dreams … who may just prove to be the stuff of nightmares. With his gang turning against him and his family unraveling like the stitches on a stolen purse, Shanklin must fight to swing the odds in his favour before he winds up swinging from the wrong end of a rope.
Meanwhile, young Jack Hunter watches helplessly as his sister gradually goes insane. Charlotte speaks of seeing auras, smelling colours and tasting sounds and her obsession with Tyburn’s hanging days forces Jack to seek a cure. But their dying mother only encourages her daughter’s ‘talents’ even further. Does Charlotte possess a once-coveted ancient power, or is it simply the fractured mind of a fragile adolescent? As his sister creeps closer to madness, Jack must find the courage to save her before she’s lost to the darkness forever.
A WOMAN RIPE WITH DARK, SENSUAL SECRETS FLEES FOR HER LIFE … A BRILLIANT MAN ENCASED IN THE MACABRE WORLD OF THE DEAD AND DYING WHO WANTS HER … A FLEDGLING KILLER TESTS HIS WINGS … AND AN INSPECTOR WITH HIS UNLIKELY ASSISTANT START TO HUNT THE KILLER DOWN.
Six dead bodies with one disturbing similarity. An illicit genetic experiment.
Sometimes science breaks bad.
DEA Special Agent Peter Malloy is no stranger to the devastating impact of drugs. So when six bodies turn up with surgical ports in their spines, he’s sure a potent new opioid is the culprit. But when lab tests show zero evidence of any known narcotics, he fears something far more sinister.
Allison Stevens thought she knew everything about her boss. But after he turns fugitive to flee federal charges, she’s stunned to discover his secret genetic research in pain tolerance. Although the FBI watches her every move, she’s obsessed with finding what else he’s hiding … despite the unknown dangers.
Their search for answers leads them to a dark, disturbing cult, where true believers seem perilously addicted to suffering, devoted to becoming Pure.
The Pain Colony is a riveting dark suspense novel that moves at an unrelenting pace—you’ll be plunged into terrifying twists of modern science, chilling tension, and shocking revelations that will grip you long after you finish the book.
Buy The Pain Colony today and read what thriller fans are hailing as the best ending since The Sixth Sense!
A Murder Mystery unfolds as Cyclone Tracy destroys Darwin
Mercenaries, misfits and criminals on the run thrived in the chaos that followed Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The perfect environment to turn a mixed-up teenager into an outlaw.
As Aedan struggles with adolescence and school, a cyclone destroys his city and any resemblance of normal life disappears. He leaves home, buys a motorbike and is thrust violently into adulthood, in a wild, lawless environment. Then he meets Eva, the woman of his dreams and a gifted lady who attempts to guide him through the obstacles.
But Darwin is full of very dangerous people and as an impressionable youth, Aedan keeps bad company and is led into violent crime. When their local dealer is murdered, Eva becomes involved, putting both her and Aedan squarely in the crosshairs of a vicious killer, who now has them on his list.
“Aedan and Eva are well-developed characters, strong, and knowledgable. The storyline is well written and has lots of suspense, drama, action, violence, murder, and mystery.” Amazon Reviewer
A murder mystery with a real outback Australian flavour.
DI Ruth Hunter’s dream of escaping the murderous streets of South London to the rural peace of Snowdonia has come true – until a brutal killing turns it into her worst nightmare.
Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales. But Ruth has barely settled into her new position in North Wales Police, when the body of a brutally murdered woman is discovered…with strange symbols carved into her skin. Teaming up with an obstinate deputy, Ruth struggles to eliminate anyone from a long line of suspects. When another slain victim is discovered with the same cryptic markings, she’s forced to re-think the investigation.
Has Ruth got what it takes to solve the case before the murderer attacks again?
The Snowdonia Killings is the first book in the DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller series and set against the majestic backdrop of Snowdonia, a timeless land of Arthurian legend, folklore and myth.
If you like dark police procedurals, psychologically complex characters, and shocking twists, then you’ll love Simon McCleave’s pulse-pounding debut novel.
His friend has been murdered, but he can’t be responsible… Can he?
Clay has arrived back in London and rekindled the spark with Belinda, his flame-haired ex. However, one night he suffers a terrible nightmare. He dreams that he brutally murders one of his best friends.
The next morning – horrifically – he learns that said friend has indeed been slaughtered.
His dreams continue and each dawn there’s another fresh body. Desperate, Clay and Belinda investigate. Each horribly aware that Clay himself is the number one suspect!
Will he discover the terrifying truth? And can he do it before his next gruesome nightmare?
F.R. Jameson’s debut novel – a supernatural thriller of ambition, lust and death – is available exclusively today!
These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books – all either set in the United Kingdom or with a strong connection to the green and pleasant land. Available for free for a limited time.
An innocent man sent to prison for life. A lawyer gives him a second chance. Can they overcome an unfair system to clear his name?
Gareth Dawson is innocent. He’s not a murderer. His main problem is that the British justice system doesn’t agree with him. He might be a reformed thief guilty of many things in his past, but not murder. In the space of a few short months, Gareth has gone from being married to the woman of his dreams to facing a life sentence.
Inside Her Majesty’s Prison Whitemoor, a Category A prison in Cambridgeshire, Gareth’s got all the time in the world to go over the events that led to the guilty verdict. The guilty verdict which cost him everything in the world that he loved. His dignity. His freedom. His wife.
Gareth is approached by a lawyer, Paul Dewar, who claims to have information that will vindicate him. But is it enough to set him free? As threats against Gareth increase on the inside, Paul Dewar’s challenge, and Gareth’s fight for freedom, begins.
A South American travel adventure. A trip to die for.
A bumbling backpacker. An exotic South American street dancer. When their travels lead them into the hands of the Colombian underworld, he has one last chance to get something right – and save their lives.
Confronted with their imminent murder he delves into his deepest memories searching for any clue that might provide a means of survival. Should he follow his logical mind or his gut instinct? He has three seconds left to decide.
What the Amazon reviews say…
Travel & Razor’s Edge Suspense – Don’t Miss This!
Excellently written story mixing travel & suspense. A “don’t miss” with a great twist. Highly recommend!
Gripping, a Must Have
Once you pick this up you won’t put it down. Both gripping enthralling this book has you captivated from the first line. A must-have for anyone travelling to South America as well as those who just simply enjoy a well-told story of life’s less predictable events.
Charming. gripping and thoughtful.
This is very enjoyable writing. This true travel account has an interesting structure, humour, pathos and a thrilling tense conclusion.
No More Heroes-#1 Dystopian Thriller Heroes Series is a fast-paced, dystopian thriller.
Ben Jackman’s world has gone mad. Riots and looting have brought soldiers onto the streets. Terrorism is the norm. And the boy who married his childhood sweetheart, the boy he once called a friend, wants him to babysit a long black sports bag jam-packed full of trouble.
When his ex-friend is found dead, battered and dumped in the vacant land adjoining Ben’s squat, the Law and the owners of the bag invade Ben’s world looking to ask questions.
He turns to his childhood sweetheart but that is his first mistake. Losing the bag is his second.
Ben must find the bag, find the killers of his old friend, and live happily ever after with the girl. Alas, two out of three is the best he can hope for.
No More Heroes, #1 Dystopian Thriller Heroes Series. If you love fast-paced adventure, engaging characters, a load of intrigue with a dystopian setting to wet your pants, then you’ll love the first installment of Roo I Macleod’s page-turning thriller series.
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
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Indiana Jones wannabe finds adventure a little tougher than she expected.
Indiana Jones wannabe finds adventure a little tougher than she expected.
It’s 1987. Sam Harris has a problem. She’s a geologist at a time when women are recently entering the male domain of mining and finding strong resistance. Undeterred by the difficulties this presents, she is determined to overcome her inexperience and naivety to make her mark in a man’s world.
Desperate for her first job, she accepts a contract with a dodgy entrepreneur exploring for gold in the remote rainforests of Sierramar. When she uncovers a clue to a treasure buried deep within the jungle, she is sent on an expedition to find it, but one of her colleagues is plotting to seize the hoard and will kill to get his hands on it.
Will Sam find the treasure or will her first adventure be her last?
If you like gutsy heroines, exotic locations, and complex characters, then you’ll love PJ Skinner’s thrilling novel.
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Jane Child’s new boss – dishy, delectable Damien Trotter – is a man who has it all; rockstar status, charm, wealth, and dashing good looks. But Damien has a dark side, a secret known only to mysterious Matt, the homeless man across the street.
As Jane falls under Damien’s spell, she finds herself trapped in a web of intrigue, vile secrets… and murder. Suddenly, even her most private moments are no longer her own.
Now she must confront the shadows in her past and the deeper, darker shadows in her present. Shadows that may cost her the man she loves, her happiness… even her life!
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If you like Inspector Morse – you’ll love DI Jack Gilbert – a hard nosed traditional British copper with old fashioned principles and a personal life about to become a nightmare. It’s the swinging sixties. The new regional Mid-Anglia Constabulary is about to be formed and Detective Inspector Gilbert is appointed to head up a new team.
In his last case before the move Jack hunts a cold-hearted killer. The man is prowling the streets of Peterborough at night. He is addicted to a special kind of pleasure. Young women are disappearing, their bodies frozen.
This exciting prequel to the best selling DI Jack Gilbert series of British detective mysteries is by Amazon author Michael Saunders, an exciting new voice in sixties crime fiction. THE ICE MAIDEN is perfect for fans of Colin Dexter, L.J. Ross, Ian Rankin, and Stuart Macbride. Grab your FREE copy today and discover the icy truth.
What was the Guardians origins & how they evolved ?
This series talks about the history of the guardians and their origin. How they use their power and how they are feared in the whole kingdom, who the key guardians are and their roles.
The main character, Rachel is the daughter of a poor farmer. Her mother is dead and she lives with her father and little sister. She was in the house one day when she felt stronger than she was and her claws came out and retracted and she realised that she now had the power of a guardian(some guardians had died and new ones were chosen). She was then traced by two key guardians and brought to the Guardians’ mansion for training.
Based on a true story and inspired by the authors real-life undercover days and bestselling memoir, his debut crime fiction story brings to life Steve Regan, a laid-back badass undercover cop in the Steve Regan Undercover Cop trilogy.
Based on a true story and inspired by the author’s real-life undercover days and bestselling memoir, his debut crime fiction story brings to life Steve Regan, a laid-back badass undercover cop in the Steve Regan Undercover Cop trilogy.
The title of Book One in the series is a nod to identity confusion often experienced by cops who are deep undercover.
As Regan goes deep undercover, he starts to have problems separating reality from fiction. He works in a world of duplicity leading to the ultimate question: How does Regan know people are who they say they are?
Tempted by the riches of drug smuggling so he can help a loved one, Regan wonders whether he can go ‘rogue’ and cross the line.
Regan infiltrates a South American cartel headed up by a Miami-based Mob-connected drug lord. Becoming involved in a million-dollar cocaine deal escalates the dangers of working undercover.
On his return to the United Kingdom from Miami, Regan discovers a plot to kill a leading barrister. Is this linked to the Mob and drug cartel?
Faced with a race against time through London to prevent the barrister’s murder, Regan is confronted by more questions and threats to his life. Just how far will the Mob go to protect its interests? You will be shocked to discover the measures these gangsters will use to stay free and out of jail.
If you like hard-boiled crime fiction or are a Jack Reacher fan, this book is for you. Original-concept crime fiction about an undercover cop written by a former undercover cop!
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“I knew when I read the author’s first book Undercover: Operation Julie although non-fiction that he could make the transition to writing fiction; I was right. He has an ease of language that lends itself to storytelling; he tells it as if he was there in the plot and why shouldn’t he having been an undercover cop in the real world?” – Pat McDonald, British Crime Author
Jessie is an angry teenager, on the run with a fortune in drug money
She knows the money will change her life. She trusts no one, and has learned to protect herself – but her heart is frozen, her mind set on revenge.
What can possibly go wrong?
DI Redwall suspects that Jessie has been abused, but to help her, he has to find her before the drug cartel dispense their own brand of harsh justice. For Jessie, coming-of-age is not just a traumatic process, but highly unlikely…
Two gangs collide. Two hit-men square off. A baby boy tips the balance.
When two gangs go head to head in the battle for priceless stolen art, East London’s most feared hitman, Leo Stone is awoken. But when Leo’s family are threatened, somebody will pay with blood.
If you enjoy gritty, crime thrillers, with action, humour and savage brutality, then you’ll love Stone Breed.
Stone Breed is the prequel to the hugely successful, 12 book Stone Cold Thriller series by J.D.Weston.
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A nail-biting thriller juxtaposed with romantic comedy
‘Returning from a “self-detox” ex – Society girl Melani stops over in Barcelona to catch up with old friends. On the final leg of her trip home to London. A pair of lost and found shoes in the Barcelona airport turns out to be too irresistible to walk away from until she discovers that the lucky find is not so lucky. Even though old habits die hard, can Meleni’s newfangled self-get her out of the trouble that her old ego created
A Gripping British Mystery Thriller – Anna Burgin Book 1
London. 1993. Investigative journalist Clare Woodbrook goes missing on the brink of unveiling her biggest-ever story. Is it kidnap? Murder?
Worse still, the police investigation into her disappearance is being headed up by a corrupt DCI – himself the subject of one of Clare’s current investigations.
Clare’s researcher Danny Churchill sets out to find her, and enlists the help of his flatmate – feisty fashion photographer Anna Burgin. But they soon realise that nobody can be trusted. And as the search becomes ever more desperate, suddenly their own lives are very much on the line.
Packed with intrigue, twists, conspiracies, and dark humour, Cold Press is a hugely entertaining British thriller, with a sting in the tail.
David Bradwell is a former winner of the PPA British Magazine Writer of the Year Award and has written for publications as diverse as Smash Hits and the Sunday Times. Cold Press is his first novel.
A deranged serial killer. An ambitious young detective. A case that could destroy everything he holds dear.
When a young woman is found raped and strangled along the Thames River path, it looks like a personal vendetta by an enraged ex-lover. Then two more women die in the same manner and it becomes clear that a deranged serial killer is on the loose. All three women were engaged to be married. Could this be the link between them?
The case is assigned to DI Rob Miller, a young, ambitious detective, whose job it is to catch the killer before any more women are murdered. Rob throws himself into the investigation to the detriment of his own fiancé who is trying to plan their wedding. When Rob begins to hone in on the killer, his fiancé disappears, and Rob knows it’s only a matter of time before the killer makes this personal.
A small-town murder. A big city detective. Can she unravel the grisly trail of clues before the killer strikes again?
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DI Ruth Hunter’s dream of escaping the murderous streets of South London to the rural peace of Snowdonia has come true – until a brutal killing turns it into her worst nightmare.
Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner’s mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police officer trades in the crime-ridden streets of London for a more peaceful life in rural North Wales. But Ruth has barely settled into her new position in North Wales Police, when the body of a brutally murdered woman is discovered…with strange symbols carved into her skin. Teaming up with an obstinate deputy, Ruth struggles to eliminate anyone from a long line of suspects. When another slain victim is discovered with the same cryptic markings, she’s forced to re-think the investigation.
Has Ruth got what it takes to solve the case before the murderer attacks again?
The Snowdonia Killings is the first book in the DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller series and set against the majestic backdrop of Snowdonia, a timeless land of Arthurian legend, folklore and myth.
If you like dark police procedurals, psychologically complex characters, and shocking twists, then you’ll love Simon McCleave’s pulse-pounding debut novel.
The gripping British political thriller (PI Karen Andersen series)
Exposing the secret world of British politics at grassroots level and uncovering the clandestine operation of Jihadi operative Zinah Al-Rashid, is Britain’s answer to Lisbeth Salender, Karen Andersen. Don’t miss this thrilling mystery which will have you twisting and turning page after page.
Post-Referendum Britain and a country on high alert for terrorist attacks.
When a young political activist goes missing in London, an off the wall Private Investigator Karen Andersen is put on the case.
In her search, she uncovers secrets of a party system which prizes loyalty above truth, a serial killer and a female Jihadi plotting deadly revenge on the British government.
A behind-the-scenes political thriller and bullying story of poignancy and compassion. The author has had experience of both having been a national candidate during the 2015 General Election as well as the founder of an anti-bullying charity during the scandal which rocked the Tories after the tragic death of a young activist later that year.
Louise Burfitt-Dons is a former journalist, playwright, and screenwriter of thrillers. This is her first crime novel. All characters and places are imaginary.
A teen accused of murder. A cop running from her past. Is she his only salvation?
Bex thinks she might find peace in London, away from painful reminders of her husband’s death. Instead she’s met with suspicion and misgiving from her new team who fiercely contest her every move. That doesn’t stop her taking neophyte detective Reuben Richards under her wing as she investigates a teen accused of murder.
She’s about to teach her British cohorts that she’ll never stop fighting for justice. Not for herself, but for those who can’t fight for themselves. But with an investigation yielding more questions than answers, is she fighting for the wrong cause?
You’ll love this realistic police procedural mystery in a shorter package you can binge read in one night!
A Cat, a Ghost, and a Zombie walk into the room…
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Cassie Dune is an agent of the Independent Necromancers’ Bureau and the most powerful necromancer in the Northern Hemisphere. She lives in a world of myth and magic, where ghosts pop over to cook her breakfast, and zombies terrify the living.
In Till Death, when some uninvited guests show up at a wedding, Cassie must fight to stop them. With the aid of Detective Inspector Luke Baron, she works to overcome a rampaging horde of zombies before it’s too late. An act that causes her to learn more about her power and its origins.
When Dylan turns up at Cassie’s house just before sunrise in A Matter of Death, she knows something is up. Anything that bothers a two-hundred-year-old ghost, is sure to be bad news for Cassie. A necromancer has imprisoned the spirit of Dylan’s friend Elizabeth. Can Cassie find her and save her soul?
A troubled relationship, a damaged past and a bottle of wine mixed together make a volatile cocktail for Sophie. Her journal documents the destructive descent into the grips of alcohol addiction. Sophie Brown likes to work hard and play hard. Trapped in a relationship she can’t escape from, alcohol becomes her best friend. Unable to accept she has a problem, she becomes increasingly dependent on booze. Full of remorse and afraid of her own behaviour, Sophie finally agrees to accept help and enters rehab, where the road to recovery begins. When one of the friends she makes there disappears, Sophie knows she is up against time to find and save her. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes poignant, this funny yet sad novel shows you a real glimpse into what happens when the life of a promising, talented young woman spirals out of control.
Natasha Dawson is a lucky woman. Her career as a fashion photographer has taken off magnificently. After her imminent marriage, she will have a stable future to look forward to and a loving husband in the funny and generous Luke Stevens. Everything is very nearly perfect. But her ex-boyfriend has disappeared, and, try as she might, she can’t forget about him. Some part of her feels she’s about to marry the man of the wrong person’s dreams. The other man in her life is handsome, engaging and passionate, and Natasha is deeply in love with him. But he also has a terrible secret, and Natasha may have to risk everything if she wants to uncover it…
Once again chefs are dying and it’s up to Kate Stark and her team to stop it.
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“Fast and furious from start to finish. A sexy fast-paced thriller.”
“A high-octane Jilly Cooper-esque romp with tyre squeal and sex appeal.”
Jake Golding is a kind hearted family man. Taking his son racing seems like a good idea until Max is scouted, and they find themselves catapulted into the prestigious British Championships.
Thrust into the adrenaline-fuelled world of motorsport, where wealth and corruption go hand in hand, marriages are made and shattered and sex is a weapon as well as a hobby for bored wives, Jake locks horns with Fat Frankie Finch, a notorious East End gangster whose son is vying for the title, determined to win.
Driven to the edge of bankruptcy and breakdown Jake is surrounded by cut-throat parents and team bosses who threaten to destroy everything he holds dear. Will Jake and his family be devoured? Or have they got what it takes to thrive and survive?
Mario DeLuca wanted to be a police officer for as long as he could remember. His first beat was the New Orleans French Quarter, on foot. He met business owners and learned street scams from the best con-artist.
Mario befriended Lucinda Jones who picked up a nick name of Voodoo Lucy later in the True Blue Detective Series. The first day she met Mario she had something to offer the undercover cop.
She soon found herself looking down the barrel of a gun by a local thug that liked beating on woman. Lucy left Tupelo Mississippi with her mother Wanda to escape an abusive father who beat on her mother sometimes just because it was a Tuesday—he didn’t need a reason.
It was risky for Lucy to take on an abusive woman beater drug dealer but that was Lucy. With her new found police officer friend they set up their own con to put this thug behind bars.
This story is a prequel, taking place immediately before the events in the first book of the, True Blue Detective series.
This story is filled with action, drama, mystery, relationships, and crime. It’s a front-row seat to see New Orleans from a cop’s perspective: cruising the streets, dealing with injustice, while also visiting local businesses to interact with the interesting people in this unique, historic city.
The Mummifier´s Daughter returns us to the land of pyramids, mummies and pharaohs.
Egypt, 1233 BC This is Young Neti-Kerty‘s dream: To follow in her father’s footsteps and become the first female mummifier in all of Egypt. Shabaka, the secretive Prefect, the Pharaoh’s special envoy charged with combating crime in the capital of the Pharaoh’s empire, also often makes use of Neti Kerty’s special talents. With her powers of deduction and knowledge of the dead, she has already helped solve many crimes.
But then the unimaginable happens. Her parents are cruelly murdered, and Neti-Kerty’s small, idyllic world shatters. Together with Prefect Shabaka, she embarks on the search for her parents‘ murderer. Surviving many shared adventures, they stumble upon a monstrous conspiracy …
The Mummifier’s Daughter carries us back to a land steeped in gods, god-kings, ritual and magic. It paints for the reader a detailed picture of Pharaonic Egypt in all its shadowed glory. Faithfully recreating one of the most remarkable eras in Egypt’s history, bestselling author Nathaniel Burns weaves a shudderingly ominous tale of ancient Egypt’s mysteries with a cast of characters the modern reader will recognize even though millenia have passed.
So light up the incense, sit close to the light and draw back the curtains on the shadowed past with this gripping tale of love and intrigue among the living and the dead in one of history’s most intriguing civilizations …
Meet young Joe Horseman. How much will he risk to save his dead hero’s honour?
Horseman idolises rugby captain Seru, who plucked him from the crowd of hopeful freshers to place him in his Fiji university’s top team. So when Horseman finds Seru’s corpse in the changing shed he vows to help investigate. But the police refuse to pass him the ball. Even his friends and Coach send him to the sidelines. Could his idol have feet of clay? To save Seru’s honour, Horseman defies the rules and charges ahead.
Death of a Hero is the prequel to the Fiji Islands Mysteries series. Set in 1990s Suva, the young Horseman’s first case is not only a twisty whodunit that will have you reaching for your thinking cap, but a sensitive coming-of-age story that will touch your heart.
If you enjoy tropical islands and brain-bending mysteries, you will love B.M. Allsopp’s gripping tale.
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This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, to be published 2019.
The legend of Voodoo Lucy begins when twenty-eight-year-old Lucinda Jones leaves Tupelo, Mississippi, and her alcoholic, abusive, father behind to start a new life in New Orleans. In the city where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn and no one ever seems to sleep, Lucy falls in love with the eccentric, distinctive characters of the French Quarter, but soon runs afoul of a criminal gang boss and his crew. Lucy herself is no saint—she’s long gotten by through running small-time cons, but when she dreams up a profitable voodoo-laced scam and dares to testify against a killer, Lucy’s life starts to spiral out of control. With friends on both sides of the law and a drug gang who wants her dead, can Lucy scheme her way out of danger and into the life she’s always dreamed of?Fans of Vito Zuppardo’s “True Blue Detective” series will enjoy this story, which takes readers back to Mario DeLuca’s rookie year on the beat and Zack Nelson in action as a NOLA PD homicide detective, as well as the early days of the infamous Cornerview Gang and the other unsavory characters that prowl the colorful, charming French Quarter. Grab a beignet and a cup of chicory coffee and get your copy now!
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LAPD Detective Gabi Longoria returns home one night to a nasty surprise—her husband has been brutally killed. Her captain refuses to let her join the murder investigation, so Gabi decides to do her own. Convinced the reason for her husband’s death can be found at the New York health club where she met him, she goes undercover as a trainer there.
As she seeks the truth, she befriends a handsome, mysterious man who claims an evil corporation killed her husband. What’s worse, he also claims they’ve developed a master race to replace all of humankind. Before Gabi knows it, finding her husband’s killers is the least of her problems. Not only is someone trying to have her killed, too, but people around her are mysteriously killed. And she strongly suspects the stranger has something to do with it…
What can stop the rise of a Fourth Reich on American soil?
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When former Navy SEAL, Jack Kennedy, came to the Kamamalu Island to celebrate his anniversary with his closest friends and family, he could have never known the web of deceit he was walking into. While on a scavenger hunt through the beautiful jungle on the island, Jack is treated to a few clues that seem misplaced. What unfolds is a series of events that will change Jack’s life forever.
Internationally-bestselling author Michaelbrent Collings brings you a thriller unlike any you’ve ever experienced…
Get ready, because you’re about to meet the world’s most dangerous hitman. You’re about to meet Mr. Gray.
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A killer has come for Amy’s autistic son.
Known only as Mr. Gray, he has no mercy, no remorse. He cannot be bargained with, he cannot be turned from his mission. He is the world’s most dangerous hitman, and he has never failed to complete a contract.
Aided by an ex-cop who lost his family to the same assassin, Amy and her son are on the run, trying to stay alive long enough to figure out who Mr. Gray is, why he wants Amy’s son dead, and maybe – just maybe – find a way to kill someone who can seemingly appear and disappear anywhere, anytime… and who may be something not entirely human.
“What an outstanding read… This is one you will not be able to put down and one you will remember for a long time to come. Very highly recommended.”
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When Harvey Beckett discovers a body in a neighborhood garage, she has no idea how much that moment will shift everything in her world.
Not everyone can be grateful for a murder, but Harvey Beckett almost can. With the help of her friends and her own gumption to make some changes in her life, Harvey sleuths out the killer . . . and her own adventure.
If you enjoy cozy mysteries, inspiring woman sleuths, and the city of San Francisco, you’ll love A Novel Crime. Enjoy this prequel for the St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery series set in a waterside town in Maryland.
Cakes, kittens and… killers? The English countryside isn’t all it seems!
The rural village of Heathervale has everything Arrina Fenn wants – a cozy cottage, a cake-filled café, and a cute silver kitten to curl up with.
A dead body is not part of her plans.
When fingers point in her direction, hard-working Arrina Fenn must find the real killer before she loses her home, her job and the cozy life she dreams of in this idyllic English village.
This is the prequel novella of The Heathervale Mysteries, with more twists than a country lane and a cast of cozy characters you’ll be right at home with.
FIVE KNIVES welds the intensity of Jack Bauer’s “24” to the scorching heat of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST.
“The author is a great talent.” — Aaron C. Brown, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer
When a man plummets to his death from an apartment tower, Will Finch’s shock soon becomes a nightmare. As he studies the open windows above the corpse, Finch notices a lamp blinking erratically behind a drawn curtain on the eleventh floor.
When he investigates the distress signal, Finch discovers a woman handcuffed to a bedpost. Over the following week, he uncovers a conspiracy that ties the murder to a series of bombshells. The victim’s bankruptcy. A global stock fraud. A murder spree that began in Baghdad and is now haunting the citizens of San Francisco. Is this the work of a serial killer, a copycat — or both?
Five Knives is the prequel thriller in the Will Finch crime series — a novel that opens on the first day of Will Finch’s journalism career. Everything that Finch learns about crime reporting begins with Five Knives.
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A quiet Sunday – A vicious assault – One man’s resurrection is another’s good luck.
When Alfie set out on his morning cycle ride, the last thing he expected was to be the only witness to attempted murder. The perpetrator of the crime was the only person who knew Alfie had seen him at the scene. And Alfie was easy to find. Scared out of his wits, he kept his head down and waited, as a weird sequence of events unfolded.
This short mystery story will give you a taste for the trilogy ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND.
You’ll want to read all 3 novels.
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Why is the young mistress of a senior Chinese military leader under constant surveillance? What intelligence is she offering the US? Based on a cryptic note from the US Embassy in Beijing, Mac Ambrose is called back to duty for a last-minute assignment. To uncover the mystery, Mac must trust her intuition and look past Macau’s glitter, into the perilous shadows. She’ll be forced to rely on wits and grit to get the job done.
This is a 65-page short story. To quote Stephen King: “A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
A young boy wakes up from a nightmare and knows he is someone else.
His terrified mother is sure that her son is possessed.
Sara Caine has done everything to quash her paranormal gifts, wanting nothing to do with that world. She’s pushed away everyone who helped her, especially Father Johan Luken.
When Sara Caine and the small family collide in a Venice, California alleyway, the paths of their lives inextricably change course as they delve deeper into the mystery of the missing soul.
A Gripping British Mystery Thriller – Anna Burgin Book 1
London. 1993. Investigative journalist Clare Woodbrook goes missing on the brink of unveiling her biggest-ever story. Is it kidnap? Murder?
Worse still, the police investigation into her disappearance is being headed up by a corrupt DCI – himself the subject of one of Clare’s current investigations.
Clare’s researcher Danny Churchill sets out to find her, and enlists the help of his flatmate – feisty fashion photographer Anna Burgin. But they soon realise that nobody can be trusted. And as the search becomes ever more desperate, suddenly their own lives are very much on the line.
Packed with intrigue, twists, conspiracies, and dark humour, Cold Press is a hugely entertaining British thriller, with a sting in the tail.
David Bradwell is a former winner of the PPA British Magazine Writer of the Year Award and has written for publications as diverse as Smash Hits and the Sunday Times. Cold Press is his first novel.
Al Nadir has transformed terrorism. Through a sophisticated, corporate approach, they dominate global terror. The leader, Al Douri, has created an infiltrating and influential world power with vast destructive potential. His second in command, Sabena Sanantoni, is an evil and remarkable force. Her sadistic habits and savage behavior have coined her The Slayer. Even her closest allies cannot predict her next cruel move. But nobody doubts her status.
Sabena Sanantoni is the most dangerous woman in the world.
MI6 operative, Matthew Kinley, has dedicated his life to his country. But now his government has asked for a level of commitment that even he struggles to grasp. As a double agent, his duty is to walk the thin line between loyalty and betrayal. Kinley is thrown into a world of grey. The dark hole of Al Nadir pulls him one way and the bright torch of patriotism pulls him the other.
Can he walk the line without losing his soul?
Kinley’s brother in arms, Sam Noor, must also face the demands of British Intelligence. Both men have left their families at home, ignorant to their dangerous career path. They live in the space between two worlds. One is the domestic, loving home, and the other is the harsh and fierce duty of their jobs. But as the reality of Al Nadir infiltrates into the lives of UK citizens, these worlds gradually combine. When those they love are in danger, Sam and Kinley must face the ultimate question.
What sacrifices will they make to protect their country?
In a hidden London location, a potentially terrible, possibly brilliant, yet infinitely risky operation is being formulated. An operation to bring down Al Nadir. It’s a mission shared only by the hushed voices of four men. The future is in their hands, holding a plan that will change UK history forever. But the multiple, shifting factors needed for success are flaky and volatile.
Can some cosmic force shift the balance in their favour? Or will their good intentions only knock Earth into further darkness?
In a blackening world, it is the one beacon of hope: Operation Snowdrop.
AMAZON Bestseller! A Killer Who Likes to Talk. A Cop Who Likes to Listen. A Climax that could leave The Killer, The Cop, or both men dead!
What Readers are saying about Patterson’s newest Serial Killer Thriller: “Graphic and relentless!”…”Great from start to finish!”…”Dexter Fortune is my new book crush!”…”I was on the edge of my seat!”…”So many delicious plot twists kept me on my toes!”…”I couldn’t put it down…kept me wondering what next!”
It’s a slow Monday at Manhattan’s Midtown North Precinct when NYPD Detective Dexter Fortune answers the phone. Recently returned to active duty, the restless cop is willing enough to be amused by what he thinks is a crank call. After listening to the man describe how he’s already killed two women and promising more to come, Fortune soon realizes the call is no joke. Reunited with his partner, Detective Gabriella Fernandez, the two race to stop a devious serial killer terrorizing New York City and intent on adding to his body count. Taunted by late-night phone calls from the man they call The Chatterbox, a sleep-deprived Fortune is seduced by the killer into making the chase personal. Coming face-to-face with a predator he realizes he’s seriously underestimated, Fortune is lured into a violent confrontation that could leave him, The Chatterbox, or both men dead!
She never wanted to be the center of attention. But sometimes you don’t always get what you want.
Quinn Reynolds was happy learning to live a simple life. On the surface, she was a struggling writer living by modest means without the entanglements of being involved in a steady relationship. Things change when a stranger comes calling with some information that could change her life, and she may be forced to confront her past.
Bryce Owens is a complicated man with a mysterious past. He wants Quinn to take on a insurmountable task. To kill the man responsible for killing his fiancée five years ago. Then and only then, will he reveal the origin of the photograph.
Will they be able to work together or is everything not is as it seems? Can what was written in blood ever be wiped away?
When Alfie set out on his morning cycle ride, the last thing he expected was to be the only witness to attempted murder. The perpetrator of the crime was the only person who knew Alfie had seen him at the scene. And Alfie was easy to find. Scared out of his wits, he kept his head down and waited, as a weird sequence of events unfolded.
This short mystery story will give you a taste for the trilogy ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND.
You’ll want to read all 3 novels.
Sometimes a trip down Memory Lane can be bittersweet
A familiar scent turns into a trip down Memory Lane. An odd photograph reveals a long hidden secret.
When Agatha Bailey and Rider Jameson pull into an empty parking lot for a break during a long road trip, they decide to go on an impromptu photographic adventure in an abandoned farm building. Inside, Aggie smells a familiar aroma that sends her on a trip down Memory Lane; but where is the smell coming from? Outside a storm is building and Rider is anxious for them to be on their way, but it’s always “just one more photo.”
A lonely, unseen figure watches the friends from the shadows. Risking discovery, he cautiously follows as they photograph their way through the cobwebs, piles of junk, and old equipment. When he notices one of the friends in sudden danger, he acts with no concern for himself. But, his secret has already begun to unravel.
Get to know Aggie, Rider, and their new friend, and discover Old Man Smell for yourself.
The only indie novel EVER nominated as a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award!*
It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol. But when a serial killer targets them for a dark, disturbing game, the night turns into a high-speed chase where there is no prize for second place.
“[K]eeps you guessing till the end, and in the end the twist will leave you shocked.” – Dread Central
They have to find a killer before he murders the next one of their friends.
“Absolutely outstanding!” – Novel Ink
They have to find a killer before they are caught and charged for the murder of the men he’s already killed.
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, published 2019.
Dean Torres is a medium for hire. For years, he’s been careful to keep his personal and professional lives seperate, insulating his family from the supernatural elements he deals with on a day to day basis. But when a ghostly encounter on a deserted highway leaves him in a bind, he has to choose between keeping his secret and saving a life. The repercussions may haunt him forever.
This is a short story set in the Grant Wolves universe.
When a legendary assassin questions his memories, life gets messy for his brotherhood. But is reality less plausible than the memories he accepts?
When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career.
When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe little teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career. But will the reality he unravels be less believable than memories he never questioned?
Although short, this novella packs a punch as it explores the inevitable challenges of a futuristic world where memory implants, memory erasures, and maybe even magic are a reality. Action packed with carefully researched world building, Assassin Hunter will leave your brain scrambling to vainly guess the ending while hanging on the edge of your seat. Fans of X-Files and Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files are in for a treat as they meet Vaya Sage and the craftiest nemesis he’s encountered so far. Blurring the lines between dark fantasy, science fiction, and crime thrillers, this novella is uniquely poised to become a favorite.
Horrors Next Door is a collection of Short Scary Stories which will arouse your senses and puzzle your mind. Some of the stories are inspired by true events. Find out which ones inside this scary collection.
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I can’t even get my common-law husband to look at me these days. It’s like he’s so freaking busy bringing dinosaurs back to life that he can’t even be bothered to look at his saucy, bodacious wife, much less to do hot sex things to me. But everything changes when he takes me along to visit his private island full of abominations to the Lord, when our helicopter crashes in the middle of the sea and my life is saved by a pterodactyl- a sexy, well hung pterodactyl at that. Now my loyalties are divided between a negligent husband who doesn’t give a damn about me, and three bisexual polyamorous dinosaur studs who want nothing more than to bury their bones in me. It’s a problem that every woman faces at some point in her life, but I’m so unsure whether I truly have the nads to handle it…
Ten years ago, Jack the Ripper killed my sister. Now someone’s murdering the city’s prostitutes. One of them, my friend, has been kidnapped and I fear she’ll be the next victim.
A mysterious young woman may be the key to solving the crimes. Except I’m no longer a detective inspector investigating the case. I’m just a tavern owner who happens to be a vampire.
Because I know something about the Ripper no one else does. If that young woman is his daughter, they’re more dangerous than anything the police have dealt with.
What would you do if you found a suitcase in the woods?
What would you do when someone came looking for it?
Out of prison, but still on parole, Max just wants to keep his head down, go to work and maybe grab a cold beer at the end of his shift. He doesn’t even care that the program stuck him in Essex – a nice, but nowhere small town. With his head already full of bloody and painful memories, he’d like it just fine if his past and future stayed nice and quiet.
Too bad the present just got really messy.
A body in a tree. A missing briefcase. A Russian hit man. A DEA agent bent on revenge. Not to mention a sheriff with dangerous ambition and some pissed off bikers. Things are suddenly very interesting in sleepy Essex county. Bodies are turning up. Secrets are coming out. Questions are being asked.
It’s not good being the new guy in a small town.
A string of grisly murders; a scared and superstitious populace; an investigator desperate for redemption
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When murders in the poverty-stricken Liberties begin to be credited to a savage dark beast with the soul of a recently deceased serial killer, Alderman James knows he must take on the case. He sees an all too human hand at work and is determined to win over the people he once let down so badly.
With only the duplicitous and deceitful Hellfire Club member, Mr Edwards, for assistance, James ventures out in the cold, snowy streets in search of the true killer. Can he solve the case and redeem himself once and for all? Or will the fear and anger in the streets finally boil over into chaos?
If you like serial killer and detective stories in a historical setting, you’ll love this book.
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Chadwick and two other survivors of Saw Creek venture back to his chosen home, Brooklyn, unprepared for the state of civilization upon their return. Will Chad carry on the legacy of The Disruption as Hazel and Juni intended? He may not have a choice.
Let Go is Book Nine of Syd West’s twisted thriller saga, Home, each written in an episodic format to be enjoyed in a single sitting. Released by PulpBoom: Bingeworthy Books.
Hear the fear!
Are You A Drull?
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Synopsis – Three kingdom wards are sent to investigate the reclusive “Rainbow People” of the shifting desert.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
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They decided to survive…
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People together in close quarters – fraternization naturally follows.
A military VR trainer, wanting to keep her relationship with a fellow scientist hidden, must pass a security inspection in her lab by the vicious Atlas Crusade that has swept to power.
When the leader of the security team demands an unusual VR request in her lab, Prof. Meliss must decide between keeping her lover safe, or secretly undertaking a consciousness swap that could end the Crusade’s five-year long relentless rule. A rule that has co-opted all scientific research to aid their global expansion, rendering Prof. Meliss and Prof. Lauren expendable, as legions of other researches wait to step into their lab if either woman dishonors the great Crusade.
A victim engulfed in flames. A psychic series of clues. Can a PhD with incredible mental powers stop a real-life firestarter?
Years after a tragic car accident claimed his fiancée, Dr. Leonard “Len” Wise is just coming to terms with his demons. Now sober, the countless drunken nights helped him cope with the pain while he studied his newly-acquired psychic abilities. When a friend enlists him to deliver a lecture on parapsychology, he never expected it to end with a strange invitation: a police consult on a case of spontaneous human combustion.
With no-nonsense Detective Bill McGee by his side, Len deduces the victim may have been murdered by someone with similar abilities to his own. But when an enchanting suspect catches fire before his eyes, the PhD becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name and protect the people he loves, Len must take his powers to the next level before he too is engulfed in flames.
Fire in the Mind is the first book in the Doctor Wise series of paranormal mysteries. If you like complicated heroes, incredible abilities, and supernatural twists, then you’ll love Arjay Lewis’ award-winning psychic detective novel.
Social Media meets the supernatural in a bid to dominate the world.
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Social Media meets the supernatural in a bid to dominate the world.
Twenty years ago, Special Agent Rachel Vaughn’s parents were brutally murdered. Still searching for answers, she buries her pain under a hard facade and a mountain of work.
When a series of social media outages disrupt global commerce, Rachel’s uncanny instincts make her the perfect choice to go undercover.
From the moment she meets her contact, strange coincidences start piling up. Before long, Rachel begins to wonder if something supernatural is at work.
As the global outages escalate and she moves closer to the truth about her parents, she suspects her contact knows more than he’s saying. How much does he know, and whose side is he really on?
The Vaughn Algorithm is an epic tale of good vs evil and the quest for power. If you like supernatural thrills, page-turning suspense, and deep, character-driven action, this is the story for you.
Dustin Graves was never a fan of human sacrifice. Hell, he was one. A knife in the heart changes a man, but Dust survived, awakening to the eldritch gift of shadow magic.
Then one night, he stumbles upon a nocturnal ritual, a cult ceremony he stops with the help of his sentient sword Vanitas. But there was one small thing the two of them hadn’t considered.
What if the girl on the altar was the real danger?
My name is Lucius Samuel Stockhelm. I’m an inspectre, a paranormal detective with a ghost sidekick. I work out of my home in New Cross, Ohio. As far as I know, I’m the only non-professional inspectre conducting supernatural investigations. You can find me in the Harken, just ask Toledo the barkeep. Believe it or not, I’m not even sure why I’m doing this kind of work.
I have learned a cross is a powerful weapon but anointing oneself while confronting a demon isn’t that easy. Oh, and let’s not forget holy water and salt; the two most used items in my arsenal against the demonic. Yes – these are the tools I’ve been given to defeat the occult.
With being fired from the post office and a decent night’s rest becoming an issue of some importance, I need work, and soon. A distraught call to my neighbor, a professional inspectre, starts this line of dominoes, making me believe things are looking up, but they are about to go from worse to terrible. Someone is leveraging dark supernatural forces to commit a series of horrific murders. Tracking a multi-killer takes me into the dangerous underbelly of New Cross, from shady characters to demons, while I try and defend myself with archaic tools against the unholy of unholys.
In this supernatural mystery series, you’ll find more than ghosts and demons. There’s an array of interesting characters with deceitful behaviors, a plethora of occult activities, with a historical backdrop to boot. Come along and have a look – it’s just what you need to brighten your evening. Turn on your gaslamp, but make sure it’s low so you don’t spook the visitors. Now it’s time to take a peek behind the cover and see what’s on the other side of the mirror.
Paranormal Detectives Charmaine and Jessi Joliet get pulled into a bizarre new case, the murder of a young socialite allegedly by supernatural creatures. When a bestselling horror author shows up insisting he has answers, the sisters get interested. He is adamant that not only are his fictional monsters responsible, but they’re after him, too. The two skeptical sleuths take him on as a client, happy to cash the rich guy’s big checks. They’re going to prove he’s either nuts or a faker just after publicity. A sudden spike in the ghostly population of New Orleans changes their plan. They sort through a web of lies and long-buried secrets to stop the madness… and keep more bodies from piling up.
Convicted killers. A crashing plane. And people paying to watch it on TV …
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It’s a race from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Mexico, culminating on a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean. Army Ranger reconnaissance photographer Stephen Quintana is tracking an international group of investors who create illegal high-end movies of their darkest murder fantasies. They’re the same men who funded the kidnapping and on-camera attempted murder of movie star Julia Travers. Luckily for Julia, Stephen made sure he was there to save her before they succeeded.
Now Stephen has uncovered the group’s latest underground project: forcing convicted killers to fight to the death for the audience of high-rollers paying big bucks to gamble on the outcome.
But before Stephen can uncover their identities, they shoot him and leave him to die—or so they think. Stephen survives, and now he’s even more obsessed with exposing the group. And being “dead” is the perfect cover for digging deeper and infiltrating the show.
The only person who knows everything is Julia Travers. She’ll do anything to keep Stephen safe, even if that means sabotaging his undercover investigation. In the second book of the Quintana Adventures, Stephen suffers deception, betrayal, and brutal attacks but never wavers in his determination to expose the most insane reality show ever created.
Synopsis: There are monsters roaming the neighborhood, but sometimes you need to go outside for ice cream.
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A man with a past. A village with a secret. A murder without mercy.
Meet Domingo Armada. A haunted man searching for redemption in a lawless land.
For those struggling to survive in the countryside of 17th-century Spain, Armada is their only hope of finding justice. For those hiding their crimes in the countless villages that lay beyond the reach of city authorities, he is their worst nightmare.
In this first mystery, Armada is sent to the coastal town of Salobreña, where a migrant worker has been brutally murdered during the harvest. At first it seems an act of petty revenge, but as Armada digs deeper he uncovers a conspiracy involving the disappearance of a mysterious woman from long ago, and someone in town is willing to kill to keep it hidden.
A Murder Mystery unfolds as Cyclone Tracy destroys Darwin
Mercinaries, misfits and criminals on the run thrived in the chaos that followed Cyclone tracy in 1974. The perfect environment to turn a mixed up teenager into an outlaw.
As Aedan struggles with adolescence and school, a cyclone destroys his city and any resemblance of normal life disappears. He leaves home, buys a motorbike and is thrust violently into adulthood, in a wild, lawless environment. Then he meets Eva, the woman of his dreams and a gifted lady who attempts to guide him through the obstacles.
But Darwin is full of very dangerous people and as an impressionable youth, Aedan keeps bad company and is led into violent crime. When their local dealer is murdered, Eva becomes involved, putting both her and Aedan squarely in the crosshairs of a vicious killer, who now has them on his list.
A murder mystery with a real outback Australian flavour.
A troubled relationship, a damaged past and a bottle of wine mixed together make a volatile cocktail for Sophie. Her journal documents the destructive descent into the grips of alcohol addiction. Sophie Brown likes to work hard and play hard. Trapped in a relationship she can’t escape from, alcohol becomes her best friend. Unable to accept she has a problem, she becomes increasingly dependent on booze. Full of remorse and afraid of her own behaviour, Sophie finally agrees to accept help and enters rehab, where the road to recovery begins. When one of the friends she makes there disappears, Sophie knows she is up against time to find and save her. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes poignant, this funny yet sad novel shows you a real glimpse into what happens when the life of a promising, talented young woman spirals out of control.
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, published 2019.
WORRY NO MORE
“Siamese twins?”
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When a legendary assassin questions his memories, life gets messy for his brotherhood. But is reality less plausible than the memories he accepts?
When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career.
When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe little teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career. But will the reality he unravels be less believable than memories he never questioned?
Although short, this novella packs a punch as it explores the inevitable challenges of a futuristic world where memory implants, memory erasures, and maybe even magic are a reality. Action packed with carefully researched world building, Assassin Hunter will leave your brain scrambling to vainly guess the ending while hanging on the edge of your seat. Fans of X-Files and Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files are in for a treat as they meet Vaya Sage and the craftiest nemesis he’s encountered so far. Blurring the lines between dark fantasy, science fiction, and crime thrillers, this novella is uniquely poised to become a favorite.
Walk into the life of Colin and Scout to reveal The Silhouette in the Dark City
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Thirty-three-year-old Colin Fowler and his dog Scout are simply detectives of smaller works. Drug busts, maybe a few missing people cases. It’s what makes up their life.
Thinking things can’t get any harder than a past that haunts him until this day, Colin can’t be further from wrong.
With five dead officers, and a serial killer who hides amongst the shadows, Colin is drawn into a blood curdling investigation.
With no witnesses, no evidence, and a killer who simply slips between their fingers, can Colin and Scout even begin to uncover the mystery? Or will they end up at gunpoint as well?
A quiet Sunday – A vicious assault – One man’s resurrection is another’s good luck.
When Alfie set out on his morning cycle ride, the last thing he expected was to be the only witness to attempted murder. The perpetrator of the crime was the only person who knew Alfie had seen him at the scene. And Alfie was easy to find. Scared out of his wits, he kept his head down and waited, as a weird sequence of events unfolded.
This short mystery story will give you a taste for the trilogy ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND.
You’ll want to read all 3 novels.
A small-town murder. A big city detective. Can she unravel the grisly trail of clues before the killer strikes again?
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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.
Six dead bodies with one disturbing similarity. An illicit genetic experiment.
Sometimes science breaks bad.
DEA Special Agent Peter Malloy is no stranger to the devastating impact of drugs. So when six bodies turn up with surgical ports in their spines, he’s sure a potent new opioid is the culprit. But when lab tests show zero evidence of any known narcotics, he fears something far more sinister.
Allison Stevens thought she knew everything about her boss. But after he turns fugitive to flee federal charges, she’s stunned to discover his secret genetic research in pain tolerance. Although the FBI watches her every move, she’s obsessed with finding what else he’s hiding … despite the unknown dangers.
Their search for answers leads them to a dark, disturbing cult, where true believers seem perilously addicted to suffering, devoted to becoming Pure.
The Pain Colony is a riveting dark suspense novel that moves at an unrelenting pace—you’ll be plunged into terrifying twists of modern science, chilling tension, and shocking revelations that will grip you long after you finish the book.
Buy The Pain Colony today and read what thriller fans are hailing as the best ending since The Sixth Sense!
Chapter Excerpt: the murder of a church janitor hides disturbing secrets uncovered by newly-promoted detective Mickey Stanislawsky.
Meshelle “Mickey” Stanislawsky has been a detective for one hour before she gets her first murder case. The victim? A janitor at the New Birth Free Pentecostal Church. No blood. No visible wounds. Just one very dead body discovered by a deacon’s wife in the church pantry.
As Mickey begins her investigation, it’s apparent some people know more than they’re revealing—the reverend, the grieving widow, church members, and even Mickey’s detective partner. She soon discovers the man in charge of keeping God’s house clean has some dirty secrets of his own—secrets someone will go to any length to protect. When the case appears to have a link to her late father, Mickey soon realizes her first homicide case may be personal . . . and deadly.
A cold case from the roaring twenties. A psychic detective haunted by the past.
Armour Black has a psychic connection to the roaring twenties he can’t escape. He drives a Model T, wears vintage suits and shuns all modern technology. The ultimate technophobe.
When a skull is found in a vacant field Armour is sucked into an infamous cold case from his favourite decade.
He is haunted by visions of the brutal slaying. He can feel the murderer’s fingers around his throat. The only way he can make the visions stop is by solving the mystery.
Only problem, the trail has gone very…very…cold.
But when Armour starts to dig into the past of a prominent family he suspects is connected to the crime, things start to heat up awful quick.
Will Armour solve the decades old crime?
Will he free himself of this psychic trauma?
Or will the icy cold grip of the past choke the life out of him?
The Baby’s Worth a Million is the first installment in the Armour Black Mystery series. If you like fast paced, noir style mysteries with a paranormal twist you’ll love this hard-boiled thriller from Warren Court.
Seven-year-old JP Torn witnessed a murder. Eighteen years later he attempts to clear the name of the man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder, only to discover a string of lies that lead to more painful, DEADLY SECRETS.
Seven-year-old JP Torn witnessed a man shot to death. His secret haunted him for eighteen long years. In an attempt to clear the name of the man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder, he discovers an unforgiving brother, and a string of lies that lead to more painful, DEADLY SECRETS.
This is Max at the beginning, a young man growing up in Boston as Michael Sullivan. Michael has special skills. Skills that bring him to the attention of Carter, a dangerous man with dangerous ambitions.
But Michael has his own plans. Maybe they can help each other. But at what price?
In a world where secrets hide in codes, a terrible fate rests in the quiet echoes of the night.
A framed man, a criminal history, and clues to a deadly plan.
After an impromptu assault sends him on the run, Neil Gatlin finds himself stranded in a small Illinois farm town where he learns to trust no one and fear all.
With no friends and little money in his pockets, Neil is desperate to return to Indiana and his pregnant girlfriend, Sunshine. But Neil’s journey back to her hits a terrible roadblock that changes his life forever.
As clues start to reveal the truth behind his unimaginable fate, he overhears schemes threatening to pull him into greater trouble. As the only one with the skills to uncover a deadly plan by hardened criminals, Neil must take matters into his own hands and secretly decipher the messages.
But as Neil comes closer to the truth he must choose between doing the right thing and risking all he loves.
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“Numerous twists made The Invisible Cipher an even more interesting and suspenseful story. The situation that Neil found himself in could happen to anyone, giving the story a realistic feel.”
You are told to forget everything you think you know about serial killers. Forget the films you’ve watched, the TV documentaries you’ve pored over, every killer thriller you’ve ever read. Wipe your mind. Begin again.
You are told to look around you. At that weird neighbor you had a bad feeling about, or the guy who passes your sitting-room window at the same time every day and always slips a sideways glance through the window, or maybe the one who cuts you up at the junction and glares like it’s your fault.
You probably wouldn’t call any one of those a killer just based on that stuff. Killer’s a harsh word and a cruel accusation and thankfully not many bear the accolade. But you are told you’d better be ready to believe that one of them might. Because it’ll never be who you think it is.
Detective Cass Fletcher knows all this. She knows never to stereotype the criminal mind, knows how foolish that would be. So why is it then that despite her experience and training, she feels so utterly unprepared to sit across the table from the first serial killer she’s ever looked directly in the eye?
NOT THE TYPE is a standalone novella based on the Hoskins & Fletcher crime series
A receipt for two cups of coffee in the gutter near a body leads Detectives Zannos and Wong to the New Delhi Donut shop.
Four days before Thanksgiving, the dead body of a paralegal is found dumped on a residential street in Midtown Detroit. A receipt for two cups of coffee in the gutter near her body leads Detectives Zannos and Wong to the New Delhi Donut shop. Questions arise – why was her body moved? Who broke her fingers?
Heading toward the capital of Malawi, three foreign aid workers, are forced to stop for an unauthorized roadblock set up by rural villagers.
After the villagers converge upon the vehicle, they pull one of the workers from the SUV and execute their ruthless savagery.
As journalists Leo Bronson and Vivian Thomas investigate the aid worker’s brutal death, they uncover a heinous plot born of rumors, rage, and a centuries-old superstition involving bloodsuckers.
But, did the villagers attack because they feared the worker wanted their blood? Or, could they have been coerced into carrying out the violent act?
If you love a thrilling mystery with danger and a touch of romance, then you’ll enjoy The Secret Rival! Start reading today!
The legend of Voodoo Lucy begins when twenty-eight-year-old Lucinda Jones leaves Tupelo, Mississippi, and her alcoholic, abusive, father behind to start a new life in New Orleans. In the city where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn and no one ever seems to sleep, Lucy falls in love with the eccentric, distinctive characters of the French Quarter, but soon runs afoul of a criminal gang boss and his crew. Lucy herself is no saint—she’s long gotten by through running small-time cons, but when she dreams up a profitable voodoo-laced scam and dares to testify against a killer, Lucy’s life starts to spiral out of control. With friends on both sides of the law and a drug gang who wants her dead, can Lucy scheme her way out of danger and into the life she’s always dreamed of?Fans of Vito Zuppardo’s “True Blue Detective” series will enjoy this story, which takes readers back to Mario DeLuca’s rookie year on the beat and Zack Nelson in action as a NOLA PD homicide detective, as well as the early days of the infamous Cornerview Gang and the other unsavory characters that prowl the colorful, charming French Quarter. Grab a beignet and a cup of chicory coffee and get your copy now!
Why would you suddenly sacrifice your entire life?
Why would you suddenly sacrifice your entire life?
The murder of your best friend?
Being set up as a suspect?
Realizing those in authority are deceitful and corrupt?
Joan and Alen Arny are dealing with a set of unimaginable circumstances in different ways.
Alen, blocked from doing his job as sheriff when his best friend is murdered, feels frustrated and helpless but that’s nothing compared to what he feels when the murderer is revealed.
Joan uses her time off from being a 911 operator to do what Alen can’t and investigate one friend for the murder of another. She’s realizing that being on the front lines of agony and despair is slowly destroying her faith in humanity as she witnesses the increasing level of depravity in society.
Will they survive the investigations that will leave them either victims or suspects? Is there a single solution to heal them both?
Read it today, because we love a cozy mystery where the good guys prevail.
Corrupted in Corpus Christi is the short prequel to the series.
A clean cozy mystery. No graphic violence, sex, or strong language. Available in Large Print.
The House Sitters Cozy Mysteries will take you on adventures and land you in the middle of crimes in different international cities in each book. Enjoy travel photos and recipes from each destination along with charming dogs in each country. Look for corresponding journals. Each book can be read as a standalone and you can read them in any order.
Will Rick manage to solve the crime before time runs out?
When a teenage girl is mysteriously murdered in cold blood in Brownwood Crescent, a rookie detective will find himself thrown headfirst into a mysterious homicide case.
Fresh out of police training where he graduated as the best student in his class, Ricky Bluewaters had joined the City Police Force with wide-eyed optimism and dreams for a glorious career in law enforcement.
But fate had other plans for him.
Attached to the team that investigated homicides and deadly crime cases, Rick’s career honeymoon phase came to an abrupt end. Amidst his disillusionment setting in with his role as a rookie detective in cases he’d prayed he wouldn’t have to be involved in, Rick was tapped by the police chief to head the case.
With his career on the line, and tensions running high in the neighborhood, as well as the dead girl’s boyfriend and brother willing to take matters into their own hands, Rick must find a way to bring the murderer to justice.
Will Rick manage to solve the crime before time runs out?
Breathless is the first part of the Brett novella following the adventures. If you’re a fan of fast-moving crime thrillers and mystery novels with a gripping plot and unforgettable characters, then you need to grab your copy of this exciting mystery by Samantha Gordon!
Hacker and Mary Jane are in Scotland for the Open at St. Andrews. But a dead golf official sets off a chain reaction, with Russian mobsters, stuffy aristocrats, Mi5, an alcoholic caddie, an anti-golf professor and even a flamboyant American developer creating a Royal & Ancient mystery for the ages!
London, 1995. PC Ruth Hunter is a young, ambitious female PC working the streets of South London. Can solving a brutal local murder give her the edge to progress into CID and become a detective in the masculine world of London’s Metropolitan Police Force?
The Merchandiser by Chad Schimke – When a merchandiser becomes preoccupied with decorations, he gives in to his chilling obsession. Second best will have to do, but he makes the most of it. Fear meets perfection in this unnerving tale, set against a backdrop of stark film noir. Read ‘The Merchandiser’ today!
That house holds her lost memories and it doesn’t want to share.
Twenty-eight year old schoolteacher, Claudia Cabriati, has no memory of her life before the age of eight. This is not something she thought unusual, until a strangely familiar woman possessing knowledge of that life, is shot and killed in the grounds of Claudia’s home.
Another brutal murder follows, along with the heartbreaking revelation of an unimaginable family conspiracy. Claudia crumbles into a world driven by fear and the irrational need to run and hide.
Why were people suddenly dying around her? Were any of her family, particularly her much-beloved Papa, involved in their deaths? More importantly, would her life be next?
With her trust challenged by those she loves, Claudia turns to the mysterious and enigmatic Saul Reardon. Together they embark on a dangerous journey in search of answers.
But is the past sometimes better left buried? Set amongst the natural beauty of Australia’s eastern coastline and its richly forested hinterland, Forgotten is a fast-paced mystery thriller that explores the controversial nature of family love and protection, loyalty and self-preservation.
What would you do if you found a beheaded body in your hotel room closet?
All Rita Avery wanted to do was put on the perfect wedding for her daughter Zoe. But finding a headless torso in her hotel room 3 hours before the guests will arrive foils that plan!
When the victim’s head shows up at the resorts golf equipment shack, Rita decides to get to the bottom of it. A good look at the guy’s social media makes Rita wonder if a wife murdered her husband as revenge for infidelity. Or did a secret admirer decide to liberate the wife from her scoundrel husband? Worse, is Zoe in life-threatening danger . . . again? And will Rita and her husband escape the trap in which the murderer snares them?
Murder and a passel of twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Zoe’s wedding is the most exciting you’ll ever attend!
In a haven for artists on a small island in the Caribbean, Ella Sapphire has finally found a place where she belongs. But as her art flourishes, her funds flounder. Desperate to remain in paradise, she accepts a job that is too good to be true, plunging her into the dangerous world of an island cartel.
On his 25th birthday, Beaujean Ali meets a beautiful artist who makes him yearn for a life less complicated than his own. When the stranger sets him up to be attacked, he must find out which of his friends is really a foe, while protecting the artist who has stolen his heart.
If you like heart-pounding action, tropical settings, and star-crossed lovers, then you’ll love Angel Vane’s The Hidden Threat.
Detective Chance must solve a murder. Locksmith Cassie was at the scene at the time. He cant believe Cassie’s involved. But can he prove it?
Cassie Jenning’s job as a small-town locksmith often puts her in odd and scary situations.
In this story, she was behind the Lilliput Bar when the owner was shot. Now Sheriff Ben would like nothing better than to solve the case quickly by arresting her.
Homicide Detective Chance Martin burned out on violence in Minneapolis, so took a small town job thinking he’d find peace. Instead, he’s in charge of solving this murder. He meets Cassie and can’t believe she’s involved. But can he prove it?
Internationally-bestselling author Michaelbrent Collings brings you a thriller unlike any you’ve ever experienced…
Get ready, because you’re about to meet the world’s most dangerous hitman. You’re about to meet Mr. Gray.
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A killer has come for Amy’s autistic son.
Known only as Mr. Gray, he has no mercy, no remorse. He cannot be bargained with, he cannot be turned from his mission. He is the world’s most dangerous hitman, and he has never failed to complete a contract.
Aided by an ex-cop who lost his family to the same assassin, Amy and her son are on the run, trying to stay alive long enough to figure out who Mr. Gray is, why he wants Amy’s son dead, and maybe – just maybe – find a way to kill someone who can seemingly appear and disappear anywhere, anytime… and who may be something not entirely human.
“What an outstanding read… This is one you will not be able to put down and one you will remember for a long time to come. Very highly recommended.”
Nothing much shocks veteran NYPD Detective Sylvia Harbinger anymore, but the latest murder scene in a coffee shop comes close. Answers only lead to more questions, especially when she finds out this murder isn’t the first, and that all the victims had WHISPs. Why did one of the connections have to be the creepy, grey shadows of her nightmares?
A gripping psychological thriller filled with mystery, suspense and intrigue, that keeps you guessing from beginning to end.
On a rainy September morning baby Cassandra is kidnapped while her mother cowers in a closet. Shea is a victim of post-partum depression.
When Detectives Darby and Mel begin to dig the truth becomes more and more murky. Ugly secrets from the past emerge. No one is above suspicion, least of all Shea, herself. In her desperation to find her baby who can she trust? Someone is watching . . . And nothing is as it seems . . .
Prequel to the True Blue Detective Series. Have you met Mario?
Mario DeLuca wanted to be a police officer for as long as he could remember. His first beat was the New Orleans French Quarter, on foot. He met business owners and learned street scams from the best con-artist.
Mario befriended Lucinda Jones who picked up a nick name of Voodoo Lucy later in the True Blue Detective Series. The first day she met Mario she had something to offer the undercover cop.
She soon found herself looking down the barrel of a gun by a local thug that liked beating on woman. Lucy left Tupelo Mississippi with her mother Wanda to escape an abusive father who beat on her mother sometimes just because it was a Tuesday—he didn’t need a reason.
It was risky for Lucy to take on an abusive woman beater drug dealer but that was Lucy. With her new found police officer friend they set up their own con to put this thug behind bars.
This story is a prequel, taking place immediately before the events in the first book of the, True Blue Detective series.
This story is filled with action, drama, mystery, relationships, and crime. It’s a front-row seat to see New Orleans from a cop’s perspective: cruising the streets, dealing with injustice, while also visiting local businesses to interact with the interesting people in this unique, historic city.
When her neighbor Donna disappears all of a sudden, Nicole is certain that Donna’s husband Henry is to blame. With the local sheriff not believing Nicole, she’s forced to investigate on her own.
The picturesque town of San Fallon has become the hunting ground of the Notorious Wolf: a serial killer who displays his victims as fairy tale characters for the police to find. After months of searching, he’s finally found his Sleeping Beauty.
Helena Sussex is everyone’s dream of a homecoming queen, with the quarterback boyfriend to match. The world is hers for the taking: whatever her looks and charm wouldn’t hand her could be earned by her quick wit. It’s left her bored and hungry for more, and she’s made a game out of controlling those around her. As long as no one realizes it was her constant manipulations led to the suicide of fellow cheerleader Wadelyn Fairchild, she can have it all.
Follow Helena’s path as she’s stalked by the Notorious Wolf to see if it leads to salvation, or if his Sleeping Beauty is denied her happily ever after.
Everybody trades for a better deal, but some trades are murder.
Post Vietnam, Jackson Trade has lost a job and a wife, and he’s picked up a relationship with bourbon. It’s his moment-to-moment solution.
But when an acquaintance is arrested for murder, he’s tasked with finding something—anything—that gets the accused off. The problem? His cleverness implicates the very man he’s working for.
As each successive discovery turns the investigation inside out, Jackson has to face the fact that he’s been used to paint a false picture. Can he get to the truth before an innocent man pays? And can he stay sober long enough to do it?
Trader is the prequel novella to the Campus Noir series featuring Jackson Trade.
Claire is beautiful. Claire is famous. Claire has a handsome husband and a house to die for.
But Claire doesn’t know any of that. Claire isn’t even sure who she is…
When Claire Wright wakes in hospital, she sees a stranger staring back at her in the mirror. With no memories from before the devastating car accident that left her and her father with life-changing injuries, she must navigate the life of a stranger along with all the mistakes her former self left behind.
As Claire discovers the person she used to be she must also unravel the mystery that surrounds the accident. But the more Claire uncovers, the more she will be forced to face up to the dark secrets from her life before…
Join Jennifer Longo as she endeavours to assist Police Detectives in solving crimes while unavoidably becoming intertwined with attractive, sexy, male characters.
Twenty years prior, primary school aged Penny Drew is subjected to a horrifying ordeal at school camp by the hands of bully Amy Woods and a number of her friends.
In the present day, the abduction of school girl Sally from a public swimming pool in the usually quiet town of Heathcote causes a panic among the local residents.
Head of the Missing Person’s Taskforce, ageing Detective Alex Johnson is notified and heads to Heathcote to investigate.
Aspiring career driven investigative journalist Jennifer Longo, receives the first of many anonymous internet links which leads her to Heathcote Swimming Pool, coincidentally, the town of the first of many abductions.
Detective Johnson and Longo inevitably cross paths in their investigative enquiries in endeavouring to uncover the truth about who is responsible, along the way, developing an interpersonal love hate father daughter relationship.
As more children are abducted, the pair realise that working together may be a logical tactic, however Longo’s new love interest and Detective Johnson’s prime suspect appear to be the same person – Jason Drew.
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When a baby is stolen from a local hospital, DS Whitney Walker enlists the help of a local journalist, who’s convinced it’s the work of an international baby smuggling ring.
But Walker’s plan backfires and she fears they’re running out of time.
If you like intense UK crime fiction, you’ll love The Night Shift, Sally Rigby’s page-turning prequel novella to her Cavendish and Walker series. It can be yours FOR FREE.
Moonlight is hired to investigate the brutal murder of his lover. But he has blood on his hands. Her blood…
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In MOONLIGHT FALLS, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri asks the question “If you knew your life could end at any moment, how far would you go to prove you murdered your lover? ” Albany, New York, is the dark setting of this paranoid thriller (in the Hitchcock tradition) about Richard “Dick” Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator, who believes he killed Scarlet Montana – his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss, Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. Problem is, despite the blood on his hands, Moonlight doesn’t remember what happened.
From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Vincent Zandri, comes the first in the Thriller and Shamus Award Winning series. For fans of bestselling hard-boiled mystery and suspense writers like Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, Don Winslow, and Charlie Huston.
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“Sensational…Masterful…Brilliant.” —New York Post
“The action never wanes.” —Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal
“Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting.” —Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Six Years
“Tough, stylish, heartbreaking.” —Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages
“Non-stop action.” —I Love a Mystery
“Vincent Zandri nails reader’s attention.” —Boston Herald
“(Zandri) demonstrates an uncanny knack for exposition, introducing new characters and narrative possibilities with the confidence of an old pro…Zandri does a superb job interlocking puzzle pieces.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
FIVE KNIVES welds the intensity of Jack Bauer’s “24” to the scorching heat of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST.
“The author is a great talent.” — Aaron C. Brown, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer
When a man plummets to his death from an apartment tower, Will Finch’s shock soon becomes a nightmare. As he studies the open windows above the corpse, Finch notices a lamp blinking erratically behind a drawn curtain on the eleventh floor.
When he investigates the distress signal, Finch discovers a woman handcuffed to a bedpost. Over the following week, he uncovers a conspiracy that ties the murder to a series of bombshells. The victim’s bankruptcy. A global stock fraud. A murder spree that began in Baghdad and is now haunting the citizens of San Francisco. Is this the work of a serial killer, a copycat — or both?
Five Knives is the prequel thriller in the Will Finch crime series — a novel that opens on the first day of Will Finch’s journalism career. Everything that Finch learns about crime reporting begins with Five Knives.
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She never wanted to be the center of attention. But sometimes you don’t always get what you want.
Quinn Reynolds was happy learning to live a simple life. On the surface, she was a struggling writer living by modest means without the entanglements of being involved in a steady relationship. Things change when a stranger comes calling with some information that could change her life, and she may be forced to confront her past.
Bryce Owens is a complicated man with a mysterious past. He wants Quinn to take on a insurmountable task. To kill the man responsible for killing his fiancée five years ago. Then and only then, will he reveal the origin of the photograph.
Will they be able to work together or is everything not is as it seems? Can what was written in blood ever be wiped away?
A shocking and exhilarating new crime thriller
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“An explosive and visceral debut with the most terrifying of killers. Wes Markin is a new name to watch out for in crime fiction, and I can’t wait to see more of Detective Yorke.” – Bestselling Crime Author Stephen Booth
School should be the safest place in the world. Not this winter.
Detective Michael Yorke faces his most harrowing case yet.
When 12-year-old Paul disappears from school, Yorke’s only clue is a pool of animal blood. Fearing the worst, he turns toward the most obvious suspect, recently released local murderer, Thomas Ray.
But as the snow in Salisbury worsens, Ray’s mutilated body is discovered, and Yorke is left with no choice but to journey into the sinister heart of a demented family that has plagued the community for generations. Can he save the boy? Or will the evil he discovers change him forever?
The shocking and exhilarating new crime thriller will have you turning the pages late into the night.
Read what everyone is saying about One Last Prayer for the Rays:
‘A pool of blood, an abduction, swirling blizzards, a haunting mystery, yes, Wes Markin’s One Last Prayer for the Rays has all the makings of an absorbing thriller. I recommend that you give it a go.’– Bestselling Author Alan Gibbons
‘Wes Markin has created a really high energy novel that I just want to rave about everywhere.’ Jessica Rachow, 5 stars
‘It’s a stunning book, and a true testament to wonderful crime writing.’ Radzy Writes, 5 stars
‘Bam it’s go go go and it feels like you are on a rollercoaster that you don’t know if it is ever going to end.’ Zoe-Lee O’Farrell, Zooloo’s book diary, 5 stars.
‘Having just finished this book my head is still reeling, and my heart is still thumping,’ Goodreads Reviewer,5 stars
‘Jeez Louise, the opener hit bull’s eye straight away and nothing could stop me from being dragged into the story,’ Els, B for Bookreview, 5 stars
‘A WOW evoking opening and keeps the wows coming throughout. Shocking and at times disturbing, this is an intense, disconcerting and gripping tale.’ Bookworms Corner Blog Spot, 5 stars
‘One Last Prayer For The Rays is a dark and chilling read. There were lots of parts that are left to the imagination that shocked and horrified me but I so enjoyed them all.’ Sarah Hardy, By the letter book reviews.
‘An incredibly strong debut… I actually mistook it for one that an author with more published stories behind them would write. There was a moment when I thought wow, I’d so love to read everything this author has written – and I went on Goodreads to see what else is out there. That’s how good it is.’ Dora, Swift Coffee Blog, 5 stars.
‘It’s twisty, dark, gritty, gripping and exciting, the characters are eclectic, complex, sinister, deeply flawed but wow do they get under your skin,’ Dash Fan Book Reviews, 5 stars.
Marcus, Nick, & Sam is a short story detailing characters in my novel A Murder Among Friends, a crime novel about the murder of a pregnant surrogate for a gay couple. Read about the beginning connections between Marcus, his childhood friend Nick, and his husband Sam. Get the free story when you sign up to my mailing list for periodic giveaways and sporadic updates.
If you like Inspector Morse – you’ll love DI Jack Gilbert – a hard nosed traditional British copper with old fashioned principles and a personal life about to become a nightmare. It’s the swinging sixties. The new regional Mid-Anglia Constabulary is about to be formed and Detective Inspector Gilbert is appointed to head up a new team.
In his last case before the move Jack hunts a cold-hearted killer. The man is prowling the streets of Peterborough at night. He is addicted to a special kind of pleasure. Young women are disappearing, their bodies frozen.
This exciting prequel to the best selling DI Jack Gilbert series of British detective mysteries is by Amazon author Michael Saunders, an exciting new voice in sixties crime fiction. THE ICE MAIDEN is perfect for fans of Colin Dexter, L.J. Ross, Ian Rankin, and Stuart Macbride. Grab your FREE copy today and discover the icy truth.
5 Killer Tropical Thrillers!
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Tidal Wave – A Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller Prequel
A thrill ride from Vegas to New Orleans with a dead body to boot…
Troy Bodean is a rambling man traveling the U.S.A. on a mission to find some peace and quiet.
Afghanistan brings a ransom plot trading the victim’s fingers for money (one by one.)
Vegas brings a romance with a secretly married stripper whose mafioso husband isn’t too happy about it.
New Orleans brings a new job on a shrimping boat. Only problem is the current captain might have killed the previous one.
Troy just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry laughing, and then you’ll laugh some more.
Havana Fury – A Ryan Bodean Tropical Thriller PrequelA thrilling action/adventure to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico…
Looks like Ryan “R.B.” Bodean has taken a page from his brother’s book and is out to find his fortune at the bottom of the ocean. And he needs good fortune to shine on him in the worst way…
Enter Megan Simons. She’s got a lead on a wreck that might be something more valuable than gold. But the bad guys from 90 miles south of Key West have other plans—namely, the kind of plans that won’t end well for R.B. and Megan.
R.B. just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Ryan Bodean Tropical Thriller series. You’ll laugh, you’ll hold your breath, and then you’ll hope to hell he survives for another adventure.
Finding Prosperity – The Prosperity Spartanburg Files Prequel
What started out as a Funeral Services degree has turned into something she never expected…
Prosperity Spartanburg was like any other girl. Any other girl who formerly worked as a cocktail waitress at Tail Spinners strip club, found a dead body in an AirBnB while working there as a maid, and who dropped out of her funeral services degree to return months later and find her spot taken by another student.
What’s a girl to do? Switch to forensic pathology and find that she has a real talent for learning the secrets of the dead.
Prosperity just can’t catch a break until her new degree changes everything. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Prosperity Spartanburg Files series. You’ll fall in love with Prosperity, you’ll wonder how she solves all those crimes, and then you’ll hope to hell she survives for another adventure.
Rogue Enemy – A Chris Collins CIA Thriller Prequel
Chris Collins had it all. Great job as Deputy Director of the CIA. a loving wife at home, and a really nice boat until…
It all went away in a flash. The CIA’s best Deputy Director, Chris Collins had it all. And then came the case that made him go rogue. After his last successful bust ended with two gun-smuggling, drug-running, crooked politicians behind bars … he thought he could close the file.
But the higher-ups in the cartel had other plans. And before Collins knew it, he was headed south of the Southernmost Point in the Continental United States … without a game plan, without the blessing of the CIA, on his own. (Except for Ned. There was always Ned.)
Chris Collins just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Chris Collins CIA Thriller series.
A Death In The Afternoon – The Southermost Mystery Series
At twenty-four years old, I was dying a slow and painful death.
My tombstone would read:
Here lies Mallory Hemingway. Gone Too Soon. Died of Boredom.
I scrolled past the government jobs, the work from home jobs, and the delivery jobs hoping to find that gem that stood out, when suddenly I sat straight up, the back of my chair bouncing back and forth like an overzealous jack in the box.
Wanted: Night-time Caretaker for Hemingway Home in Key West, FL.
Responsibilities: Live on-site for security purposes, locking gates, ensuring house is properly secured, tending to the many cats that live on the property, and being a point of contact for police or emergency personnel if needed.
Salary: $25,000 a year. Room and board included.
Ok, so the salary wasn’t much, but it was just me. And if I wasn’t paying for room and board, then how much money did I really need?
I googled Key West taking in the size of the island, the culture that oozed personality, and the tight, narrow streets that cut through the main areas. I wouldn’t need a car to navigate such a tiny place, so I could sell mine and use the money to help me move. Real estate there was astronomical, so not having to pay for a place to stay would give me the room in my budget that I needed in order to write during the day.
It didn’t seem like they’d need me to do much, so I was basically being paid to sleep. I could get up early and write every morning, just like Hemingway did. Surely, my last name and distant relative status would be a mark in my favor.
My hand hovered over the receiver of the Harmony Times phone, when I stopped cold. What was I doing? I couldn’t break up with Andrew, leave my parents, and move to the southernmost point of the United States, could I?
Find out if she will in the newest cozy mystery sensation, A Death In The Afternoon.
An email received by accident. An agent on the verge of a meltdown. The two neighbors cooperate to save their careers and their lives.
Emily Turing receives a threatening email by mistake. She tries to learn who wants to get rid of her and why. She co-founded a successful startup in a male-dominated world, and she’s torn between her loyalty to Jessica, her boss and co-founder, and Mike, her co-worker and new love.
FBI Agent Bob Alexis’s life crashes when he discovers Lisa, his wife, wants to leave him. He’s married to his job. When he discovers she had an affair—it becomes unbearable, and he almost loses his mind.
When Emily, Bob’s neighbor, turns to him for help—it might be too late for both of them.
Never Reply All is the fast-paced prequel novella to the award-winning thriller Don’t Dare to Dream. Here you can learn more about Special Agent Bob Alexis’s life and investigations.
Dan Friedman’s debut crime thriller Don’t Dare to Dream won the 2019 Reader’s Favorite Mystery Gold Medal Book Award and was a finalist thriller in the National Indie Excellence Award. If you enjoy gripping suspense, twists and turns, and unpredictable characters—you’ll love Dan Friedman’s thrilling ride.
Reviews
“Loved the book, looking forward to continuing the series. I didn’t want the book to end,” Amazon reviewer
“Highly entertaining action that keeps you turning pages! A great fast paced thriller that I read from cover to cover and would highly recommend. Interesting twists and plenty of action!” Amazon reviewer
“A thrilling novella with two neighbors, one being threatened and the other is an FBI Agent. A short book with a huge storyline, will keep you enthralled!” Goodreads reviewer
Who knew justice had long legs and carried a badge?
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.
A contract killer with a difference. A police detective out to prove himself. Their lives coincide with explosive results.
A contract killer with a difference. A police detective out to prove himself. Their lives collide with explosive results.
Amelia Johnson is a contract killer with a difference, she picks and chooses her targets. She eliminates the worst of humanity. Michael Moran is a failed police detective. He stumbles across a case that looks like a hit. Is this the chance he has been waiting for to get his career back on track.
Amelia must keep one step ahead of Michael. Will she have to break her one rule and dispose of Michael to keep her secret safe.
Before she can make that decision, events take a tragic turn and Amelia must decide whether to save Michael’s life or let him die.
Will keeping her secret win against her own humanity.
“Debbi Mack crafts a taut narrative with crackling dialogue.”
A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend.
With her career and life on the line, Sam’s search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives.
She’s over fifty, over weight, and having the adventure of a lifetime!
On an around the world cruise to escape a life-changing event, fifty-something Patricia Fisher soon finds herself caught up in murder, mystery, mayhem, and all manner of other shenanigans as she unsuccessfully tries to stay out of trouble.
The Patricia Fisher series of books are as warm-hearted as they are action-packed. Truly cozy in nature, you will find no cussing, or unnecessary descriptions of sex or violence. What you will get is hard to solve crimes, twisting plots that give you a glimpse of the solution and a large helping of humor as Patricia and her cast of on-board friends tackle far more peril that they ought to expect.
Killer Cocktail is set between books 2 & 3 but you can read it without concern for spoilers.
I know you are going to love Patricia Fisher.
Review from Amazon:
‘Steve Higgs has yet again struck gold with his new heroine, Patricia Fisher. She’s over 50, feisty and oh so clever at solving murders. This first book has so many twists, turns and red herrings the reader has to pay close attention to catch all the clues. My only disappointment with this read, is having to wait until the first of August to purchase Book 2.’
‘Love Steve Higgs’ books and this new series did not disappoint. Patricia started out as a betrayed wife and moved into a strong, smart woman role. I love her and her side kicks already and this is only the first book. Can’t get enough of Steve’s stories and wait anxiously for the next to publish in all of his series.’
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The 1922 Club Murder is a prequel novella to the Riley Sullivan Mystery Series. Meet Riley before she becomes a private investigator, and spy in on her early relationship with Det. Luke Morgan.
Chef Andre Mouton is dead. His body found at the infamous 1922 Club, once a roaring speakeasy during Prohibition. Today, it’s a social club, and Chef Mouton is the club’s executive chef, until someone stabs him to death with his own knife. Chef’s life isn’t all that it appears on the surface and his secrets might have gotten him killed.
Crime reporter Riley Sullivan is the woman for the story. Smart, cagey and an even better investigator than writer, Riley uncovers clues even the cops haven’t found. The only problem, she’s one-upping her boyfriend – lead detective Luke Morgan. Luke isn’t a fan of her digging around his investigation, but the information Riley uncovers might just be the breaks in the case he needs to bring a killer to justice.
With every turn, there’s another secret revealed about Little Rock’s most famous chef. Everyone close to Chef is a suspect, and they all have motive.
A proposition of murder. A chance for freedom. But at what price?
Wolverhampton, 1862, and Nettie’s husband is drunk. Again. With rent unpaid, food scarce, and money-lenders on the prowl, professional slaughterer, Russell Taylor, offers to help. But what does his devilish plan involve, and who is watching from the shadows?
As she fights for survival, Nettie must discover the real cost of life, death, truth, and lies.
The Butcher’s Wife is a Victorian gothic thriller, part of the Convenient Women Collection, and is available exclusively to the Delphine Woods Reader’s List.
If you like nail-biting suspense, twists and turns, and complicated characters, then you’ll love this debut novella.
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One of the most marvelous and suspenseful mysteries I have read in a long time.
Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all. But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems, and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.
When Sandy Bay’s crème de la crème congregate to raise money for charity, Meghan Truman is proud to have her tasty desserts the talk of the party. She’s not so proud when the wealthiest couple in Sandy Bay are discovered dead and rumors circulate around town that her brownies are the cause of this tragedy.
This murder case casts a dark shadow over Meghan’s budding romance with handsome Officer Irvin who’s disappointed that she’s once again at the center of another murder investigation.
With everything to lose, Meghan must work hard to clear her name, restore broken relationships and solve this murder mystery before everything she’s worked so hard to build comes crumbling down.
Book 2 in the Sandy Bay Cozy Mystery series, which can be read in one to two hours! Can be read as a standalone, but enjoyed better as part of a series. Perfect for a lunchtime read. If you love cozy mysteries with an amateur female sleuth, mouth-watering culinary desserts and a gripping murder mystery, then you’ll love Meghan Truman and the quirky characters in Sandy Bay!
Jack is a down and out Las Vegas magician. But he never believed in all that hocus pocus anyway. Now he grinds out a living as a smuggler, counterfeiter, and debt collector for a California crime boss. And tries to stay off of everyone else’s radar.
Unfortunately, keeping a low profile just isn’t in the cards for the Jack of Spades.
A working vacation to the isle of Saipan turns deadly when eight card-like tiles of ancient origin draw the attention of syndicate enforcers, undercover agents, and mythical forces beyond imagination.
“A great pulp noir piece involving casinos, gunfights, and a dash of magic reminiscent of Big Trouble in Little China. Fun, exciting fiction that reads like my favorite movies from the ‘80s.” – Barbarian Book Club
The Grit & Shadows Collection: Dark magic, crime noir, and The Twilight Zonehad a baby. And she’s tragically beautiful.
A Long Walk Down a Dark Alley – Four tales of temptation and terror.
Kiss of the Maiden – Five stories of gritty heroes and bloody resolve.
One-Eyed Jacks – Novel of urban fantasy, crime noir, and Asian myth.
Jack is a down and out Las Vegas magician. But he never believed in all that hocus pocus anyway. Now he grinds out a living as a smuggler, counterfeiter, and debt collector for a California crime boss. And tries to stay off of everyone else’s radar.
Unfortunately, keeping a low profile just isn’t in the cards for the Jack of Spades.
A working vacation to the isle of Saipan turns deadly when eight card-like tiles of ancient origin draw the attention of syndicate enforcers, undercover agents, and mythical forces beyond imagination.
“A great pulp noir piece involving casinos, gunfights, and a dash of magic reminiscent of Big Trouble in Little China. Fun, exciting fiction that reads like my favorite movies from the ‘80s.” – Barbarian Book Club
The Grit & Shadows Collection: Dark magic, crime noir, and The Twilight Zonehad a baby. And she’s tragically beautiful.
A Long Walk Down a Dark Alley – Four tales of temptation and terror.
Kiss of the Maiden – Five stories of gritty heroes and bloody resolve.
One-Eyed Jacks – Novel of urban fantasy, crime noir, and Asian myth.
Made: The Frankie Finch Story
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If you love ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Legend’, you’ll love ‘Made: The Frankie Finch Story’.
“Fast-paced, hard-hitting and wickedly funny.”
It was never Fat Frankie Finch’s intention to become a gangster. In fact, he just wanted a nice life, a bit of razzle-dazzle and to be able to treat his Linda once in a while.
Until one fateful morning when everything changed.
Once a cop, now on the wrong side of the thin, blue line….
Jake Stankovic has been flying below the radar for years, dealing safely in stolen property crime with his two-man crew. But times are tough, so he decides to step up to the big money with a drug deal. Everything that can go wrong, does. The deal goes bad, a vengeful detective sets his sights on Jake, one of his crew might be a turncoat, and a woman from a long past affair suddenly reappears. All of this would be complicated enough on it’s own, but for Jake, it’s even worse.
The woman is the detective’s ex-wife.
And Jake Stankovic used to be a cop.
Now Jake must face new problems and old vendettas in an all-in proposition with lives on the line. He has to find a way to get his money back, keep the girl, and beat everyone involved…At Their Own Game.
*This is book one in the SpoCompton series. The next, IN THE CUT, is out in January 2020 from Down and Out Books.
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, to be published 2019.
WORRY NO MORE
“Siamese twins?”
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The mind-bending prequel to the Chrome Valley Thriller series.
Navy SEAL Neil Cox would do just about anything to find his father’s body. He wants to give the missing FBI undercover agent a proper burial.The Irish-American mobster suspected of committing the murder has never been caught, thanks to his co-opted sources in law enforcement. But when Paddy O’Hurley seeks Stinger missiles for the IRA, he becomes a serious national security threat. As the body count grows, the FBI Special Investigations team in Washington concocts an ambitious “double strike” plan on two continents with the help of the CIA. First order of business is to break Pádraig O’Hurley’s connection to IRA terrorists, so that peace negotiations can begin in earnest in Northern Ireland.Jaded by his most recent assignment, CIA Officer Rand Morgan reluctantly agrees postpone his return to America in order to pose as a priest and shadow Father James on his religious pilgrimage through Italy. Morgan’s mission takes a desperate turn at the Sanctuary di Oropa, when he unexpectedly discovers Father James is stalked by vicious contract killers. No one really knows why the mobster wants him dead, but it’s clear the priest is on O’Hurely’s hit list.Meanwhile, the FBI is out to crush O’Hurley’s criminal empire in New England, where the sadistic megalomaniac is publicly lauded as a modern day Robin Hood. To do that, they enlist Neil Cox, knowing he would do anything to avenge his father’s murder. Once Cox manages to provoke O’Hurley, with the help of some of his Navy SEAL buddies, the harrowing international chase is on. Will O’Hurley get his hands on those Stinger missiles and disrupt the peace talks? Find out in this epic stand-alone thriller!
5 Killer Tropical Thrillers!
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Tidal Wave – A Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller Prequel
A thrill ride from Vegas to New Orleans with a dead body to boot…
Troy Bodean is a rambling man traveling the U.S.A. on a mission to find some peace and quiet.
Afghanistan brings a ransom plot trading the victim’s fingers for money (one by one.)
Vegas brings a romance with a secretly married stripper whose mafioso husband isn’t too happy about it.
New Orleans brings a new job on a shrimping boat. Only problem is the current captain might have killed the previous one.
Troy just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry laughing, and then you’ll laugh some more.
Havana Fury – A Ryan Bodean Tropical Thriller PrequelA thrilling action/adventure to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico…
Looks like Ryan “R.B.” Bodean has taken a page from his brother’s book and is out to find his fortune at the bottom of the ocean. And he needs good fortune to shine on him in the worst way…
Enter Megan Simons. She’s got a lead on a wreck that might be something more valuable than gold. But the bad guys from 90 miles south of Key West have other plans—namely, the kind of plans that won’t end well for R.B. and Megan.
R.B. just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Ryan Bodean Tropical Thriller series. You’ll laugh, you’ll hold your breath, and then you’ll hope to hell he survives for another adventure.
Finding Prosperity – The Prosperity Spartanburg Files Prequel
What started out as a Funeral Services degree has turned into something she never expected…
Prosperity Spartanburg was like any other girl. Any other girl who formerly worked as a cocktail waitress at Tail Spinners strip club, found a dead body in an AirBnB while working there as a maid, and who dropped out of her funeral services degree to return months later and find her spot taken by another student.
What’s a girl to do? Switch to forensic pathology and find that she has a real talent for learning the secrets of the dead.
Prosperity just can’t catch a break until her new degree changes everything. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Prosperity Spartanburg Files series. You’ll fall in love with Prosperity, you’ll wonder how she solves all those crimes, and then you’ll hope to hell she survives for another adventure.
Rogue Enemy – A Chris Collins CIA Thriller Prequel
Chris Collins had it all. Great job as Deputy Director of the CIA. a loving wife at home, and a really nice boat until…
It all went away in a flash. The CIA’s best Deputy Director, Chris Collins had it all. And then came the case that made him go rogue. After his last successful bust ended with two gun-smuggling, drug-running, crooked politicians behind bars … he thought he could close the file.
But the higher-ups in the cartel had other plans. And before Collins knew it, he was headed south of the Southernmost Point in the Continental United States … without a game plan, without the blessing of the CIA, on his own. (Except for Ned. There was always Ned.)
Chris Collins just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Chris Collins CIA Thriller series.
A Death In The Afternoon – The Southermost Mystery Series
At twenty-four years old, I was dying a slow and painful death.
My tombstone would read:
Here lies Mallory Hemingway. Gone Too Soon. Died of Boredom.
I scrolled past the government jobs, the work from home jobs, and the delivery jobs hoping to find that gem that stood out, when suddenly I sat straight up, the back of my chair bouncing back and forth like an overzealous jack in the box.
Wanted: Night-time Caretaker for Hemingway Home in Key West, FL.
Responsibilities: Live on-site for security purposes, locking gates, ensuring house is properly secured, tending to the many cats that live on the property, and being a point of contact for police or emergency personnel if needed.
Salary: $25,000 a year. Room and board included.
Ok, so the salary wasn’t much, but it was just me. And if I wasn’t paying for room and board, then how much money did I really need?
I googled Key West taking in the size of the island, the culture that oozed personality, and the tight, narrow streets that cut through the main areas. I wouldn’t need a car to navigate such a tiny place, so I could sell mine and use the money to help me move. Real estate there was astronomical, so not having to pay for a place to stay would give me the room in my budget that I needed in order to write during the day.
It didn’t seem like they’d need me to do much, so I was basically being paid to sleep. I could get up early and write every morning, just like Hemingway did. Surely, my last name and distant relative status would be a mark in my favor.
My hand hovered over the receiver of the Harmony Times phone, when I stopped cold. What was I doing? I couldn’t break up with Andrew, leave my parents, and move to the southernmost point of the United States, could I?
Find out if she will in the newest cozy mystery sensation, A Death In The Afternoon.
The Great Depression has wrecked Japan’s economy, leaving thousands unemployed, desperate, and angry. Dark rumors swirl around the city, hinting at an impending coup d’é tat against the civilian government. Inspector Kenji Aizawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department must go undercover and infiltrate the Kusanagi Society, one of the right-wing groups that are threatening to overthrow the government. As Aizawa goes deeper into Tokyo’s underworld, he meets Masaru Ryusaki, the leader of the Kusanagi Society and a key figure in a vast conspiracy involving the Imperial Japanese Army. Aizawa must thwart Ryusaki’s plot or risk Japan being thrown into chaos.
The exciting prequel to the Reiko Watanabe/Inspector Aizawa series, Conspiracy in Tokyo dives into an often overlooked period in Japanese history filled with danger and intrigue.
The picturesque town of San Fallon has become the hunting ground of the Notorious Wolf: a serial killer who displays his victims as fairy tale characters for the police to find. After months of searching, he’s finally found his Sleeping Beauty.
Helena Sussex is everyone’s dream of a homecoming queen, with the quarterback boyfriend to match. The world is hers for the taking: whatever her looks and charm wouldn’t hand her could be earned by her quick wit. It’s left her bored and hungry for more, and she’s made a game out of controlling those around her. As long as no one realizes it was her constant manipulations led to the suicide of fellow cheerleader Wadelyn Fairchild, she can have it all.
Follow Helena’s path as she’s stalked by the Notorious Wolf to see if it leads to salvation, or if his Sleeping Beauty is denied her happily ever after.
Moonlight is hired to investigate the brutal murder of his lover. But he has blood on his hands. Her blood…
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In MOONLIGHT FALLS, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri asks the question “If you knew your life could end at any moment, how far would you go to prove you murdered your lover? ” Albany, New York, is the dark setting of this paranoid thriller (in the Hitchcock tradition) about Richard “Dick” Moonlight, former APD detective turned private investigator, who believes he killed Scarlet Montana – his illicit lover and wife of his ex-boss, Chief of Detectives Jake Montana. Problem is, despite the blood on his hands, Moonlight doesn’t remember what happened.
From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Vincent Zandri, comes the first in the Thriller and Shamus Award Winning series. For fans of bestselling hard-boiled mystery and suspense writers like Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, Don Winslow, and Charlie Huston.
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“Sensational…Masterful…Brilliant.” —New York Post
“The action never wanes.” —Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal
“Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting.” —Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Six Years
“Tough, stylish, heartbreaking.” —Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages
“Non-stop action.” —I Love a Mystery
“Vincent Zandri nails reader’s attention.” —Boston Herald
“(Zandri) demonstrates an uncanny knack for exposition, introducing new characters and narrative possibilities with the confidence of an old pro…Zandri does a superb job interlocking puzzle pieces.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
London, 1995. PC Ruth Hunter is a young, ambitious female PC working the streets of South London. Can solving a brutal local murder give her the edge to progress into CID and become a detective in the masculine world of London’s Metropolitan Police Force?
Who knew justice had long legs and carried a badge?
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.
Can she find her mother’s killer? Or will he find her first?
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When Kirin Lane’s father dies, it means nothing to her. Why should it? It’s been thirty years since he abandoned her after her mother’s death. But when her house is ransacked and sinister men pursue her, Kirin is forced to look to the only thing he left her for answers—a tattered Marine Corps field manual.
Inside, she discovers clues that could unlock the mystery surrounding her mother’s murder, if only she can follow the cryptic information. She finds an ally in the charming and mysterious Sam Neal, who both infuriates and awakens feelings she can’t resist. But can she trust him?
Sam Neal is determined not to fall for Kirin. He can’t. It’s a clause in his contract, and he never breaks a promise. But he knows too much about her. Her strength and sexy pigheadedness drive him crazy in the best of ways. Suddenly, Sam’s thinking less about obligations and more about allowing a certain woman inside his world.
But with nothing as it appears and her life on the line, can Kirin untangle what really happened to her mother thirty years ago?
For rookie park ranger, Matt Holmes, life couldn’t be better. He’s met the woman of his dreams, lives in picturesque Thunderbird Falls, and spends his days working in nature’s majesty. But Matt’s picture-perfect life is about to take a turn for the surreal when his investigation into a string of accidental deaths reveals terrifying similarities with a series of fatalities seventeen years prior, including the drowning of his mother.
Pagan ceremonies, unexplained occult rites, and a mysterious preacher are just a few of the difficulties Matt, girlfriend Colleen, and fellow ranger Andy Zimmerman must face as they uncover the source of an evil which has fed on the town of Thunderbird Falls for generations. The only question remaining. Can they stop it?
Lydia Harris knows her marriage to Dean has problems, but when she finds a box of news clippings he took great pains to conceal, the problems go from disappointing to dangerous. Nation-wide murders… in cities where he has traveled. She doesn’t want to believe him capable of such violence, so she searches for clues to explain the hidden clippings.
As the evidence begins to mount, Lydia is torn. Dean seems to be trying to rekindle their lost spark, and she yearns for what they’d once had. But can she look past her own feelings to uncover the truth, or will she be next on his list?
Dean’s List is a USA Today bestselling title and a nail-biting psychological thriller. Pick up your copy today!
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Titus Ray tries to recruit a nuclear scientist in Tehran. Days later, he goes on the run from the secret police.
CIA intelligence officer Titus Ray has been in Iran trying to recruit assets willing to feed him intel on the Iranian opposition. When he unexpectedly meets Amir Madani, one of Iran’s premier nuclear scientist, he can’t resist the opportunity to pursue him as a CIA asset.
Although Chaman, a beautiful Iranian socialite, warns Titus to stay away from Madani, he ignores her advice and befriends the nuclear scientist. The consequences prove disastrous for Titus, and, as the secret police close in on him, he’s forced to find shelter with a group of Iranian Christians, who risk their own lives to save his.
One Step Back, a Titus Ray Thriller novella, is the prequel to One Night in Tehran, Book I in the Titus Ray Thriller Series.
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“The characters are very well-developed and believable. I enjoyed the way the author described Titus Ray’s internal struggles and character flaws creating a very authentic main character. The story was action-packed and one is left wondering how the author could be so knowledgeable of the CIA and the work of their covert operatives.” -Amazon review
A COMING OF AGE TALE ABOUT HOW A YOUNG MAN FINDS HIS TRUE SELF AFTER LOSING HIS WHOLE FAMILY
A LITTLE GIRL’S TRAGIC DEATH DEVASTATES HER FAMILY. WILL THEY EVER GET OVER LOSING HER AND FIND THE STRENGTH TO CARRY ON WITHOUT HER?When twelve-year-old Billy’s eight-year-old sister is diagnosed with cancer, it shatters their happy and loving family. To see her suffer for months before a painful death tears them all apart. Billy’s father takes to drink, his mother has an affair and Billy is left to grieve on his own.When Billy’s father he finds out about his wife’s infidelity he is heartbroken. He begs her to stay, but unrepentant she leaves him for her lover and asks Billy to come with her. But he opts to stay with his dad.A year later having heard nothing from his mother, they receive a letter in post from her solicitor filing for divorce. The settlement forces them to sell the house and move into a bedsit, which Billy hates. He is now torn between his mother and father but it seems his mother is more interested in her partner than him.After losing his job, Billy’s father hit’s rock bottom and again turns to drink. Then out of the blue he announces they are to move in with his mother again. Is this true, or is something more sinister going on?
A new monster is here to keep you up at night. In the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes a killer with an appetite.
Harry Lightman, known as the Daylesford Devil by the press and dubbed “Lucifer” by the locals, has been sitting in a prison cell for the best part of 20 years, sentenced to life imprisonment for the torture and murder of 14 women. Each one had been preyed upon by a monster that fed on the flesh of his victims, the peaceful country towns reeling from the terror that had stalked their communities. Now, on the eve of the first victim’s 20-year anniversary, a new killer has taken up where the Devil left off, his victims dying in the same horrific circumstances as his predecessor’s, the trademark signature announcing its horrific return with bloody consequences. But is it really a new killer or does Lucifer have the perfect alibi?
The authorities have no leads, no clues and no time as they enlist the help of the original police officer, Jim Lawson, now a respected and sought-after psychiatrist, who felled the devil the first time. Has Lucifer truly returned, killing from behind the walls, or is another vying for his title? Only Jim can face the devil and hope to learn his secret. Together with the young and beautiful police constable, Stephanie Connor, Jim is fighting the devil, the clock and the hierarchy, to piece together the clues and end the killing before another fall’s victim.
Does the Devil have his final alibi?
A family is rocked by the tragedy of war. They get a letter from the army base on the date their son should have returned and discovered they’ve made a grave mistake – and it’s not by letting him enlist in the army.
Harvey Traynor is the family’s golden child, but he is nothing quite like his family. His path is that which many fear to tread, but he decides to live for more than himself and takes the boldest step of his life joining the army.
He takes this decision for himself, as he is eager to prove himself and still to live in his parent’s shadow. He understands the value of human life and is keen on dedicating his life to protecting his fellow men.
He is loving every minute of his experience and is getting used to the highs and lows of paramilitary training. He shortly meets a friend in the person of Vijay, and the two develop a friendship, bond, and trust so true, the whole camp is aware.
Harvey sees Vijay, nicknamed ‘Brother’ as the confidante and trustworthy companion he never had, and the two go amazing lengths for one another, forging ahead in their loyalty and allegiance to one another.
A while later and the worst tragedy has struck, and try as he may, he can’t hide the truth forever. Knowing the kind of family and background, he comes from, he is anxious to know their verdict. Ad all things now hang on the decision they make. Harvey must now come to terms with the brutal reality of what he has to face; his legacy or his family.
What will he decide to do? And what is it going to cost?
Decision Time: Run him over, or not? A short military thriller about one man’s critical decision.
Captain Mike Drake, four combat tour veteran and 38-year-old new father of twin girls, just retired. He’s traded in his Company of M1 Abrams tanks for a silver Hyundai Sonata.
He retired because he’d had enough of death and split second thinking.
Now, situational awareness firing on all cylinders, he must make an instant life or death decision.
Run him over, or not?
He wanted peace. He found a life-changing adventure…
He wanted peace. He found a life-changing adventure…
Tristan Blake’s time in the army left him scarred and broken. Now that he’s home from war, the atheist bishop’s son wants nothing more than the peace and quiet of the New Zealand coast. When a Maori priest named Rau offers him a lift, neither of them expect a ride that could change their lives forever.
On a beach up north, a mysterious man scores Rau a colossal snapper with no bait. As Joshua joins the atheist and the priest on their journey to the heart of the nation, Tristan is surprised by his provocative friendship. As word of the jean-sporting guru spreads, the prime minister and Tristan’s father take notice…
Tristan is left with a choice: follow a man who demands love that could transform his life, or thwart Joshua’s influence by doing the unthinkable…
A New Kind of Zeal is a spiritual and psychological suspense novel for people of all walks of life. If you enjoy compelling characters, a new take on ancient teachings, and stories with a New Zealand flair, then you’ll love Michelle Warren’s book of faith under fire.
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The legend of Voodoo Lucy begins when twenty-eight-year-old Lucinda Jones leaves Tupelo, Mississippi, and her alcoholic, abusive, father behind to start a new life in New Orleans. In the city where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn and no one ever seems to sleep, Lucy falls in love with the eccentric, distinctive characters of the French Quarter, but soon runs afoul of a criminal gang boss and his crew. Lucy herself is no saint—she’s long gotten by through running small-time cons, but when she dreams up a profitable voodoo-laced scam and dares to testify against a killer, Lucy’s life starts to spiral out of control. With friends on both sides of the law and a drug gang who wants her dead, can Lucy scheme her way out of danger and into the life she’s always dreamed of?Fans of Vito Zuppardo’s “True Blue Detective” series will enjoy this story, which takes readers back to Mario DeLuca’s rookie year on the beat and Zack Nelson in action as a NOLA PD homicide detective, as well as the early days of the infamous Cornerview Gang and the other unsavory characters that prowl the colorful, charming French Quarter. Grab a beignet and a cup of chicory coffee and get your copy now!
The Merchandiser by Chad Schimke – When a merchandiser becomes preoccupied with decorations, he gives in to his chilling obsession. Second best will have to do, but he makes the most of it. Fear meets perfection in this unnerving tale, set against a backdrop of stark film noir. Read ‘The Merchandiser’ today!
As bad blood threatens the old order, a restless new generation rise from their fathers’ shadows, ready to stamp their own identity on the city streets…
Billy “Curtains” Wright overcomes a dysfunctional home life by winning the respect of the local Muirhouse gang, before rising to a key position within Edinburgh’s ecstasy scene. After falling for Lyndsay, a privileged girl from the other side of the tracks, his underworld ambitions are called into question. He accepts a contract to kill a dangerous rival before finding more than he bargained for, forcing him to confront his brutal childhood and the father he wants gone.
George “The Bull” Donaldson was the hardest in the playground, then the streets of Muirhouse. Now he’s a debt collector for his heroin kingpin father. After being taught a cruel lesson, he partners up with best pal Billy, but when family tensions erupt tough choices have to be made.
After being dragged into the middle of a feud between the uncle who mentored him and the father who just walked free from jail, Sean “Preemo” Donaldson is forced to choose a side. A letter from his estranged mother reopens old wounds and he contemplates the unthinkable.
As each man arrives at his own perilous crossroads, what path will he take?
Pure Angst is a gritty crime noir novel set within 80s and 90s gangland Edinburgh, and one of it’s roughest housing estates. It charts the changing face of the drug scene from a heroin and AIDS epidemic to the explosion of MDMA and rave culture…
That house holds her lost memories and it doesn’t want to share.
Twenty-eight year old schoolteacher, Claudia Cabriati, has no memory of her life before the age of eight. This is not something she thought unusual, until a strangely familiar woman possessing knowledge of that life, is shot and killed in the grounds of Claudia’s home.
Another brutal murder follows, along with the heartbreaking revelation of an unimaginable family conspiracy. Claudia crumbles into a world driven by fear and the irrational need to run and hide.
Why were people suddenly dying around her? Were any of her family, particularly her much-beloved Papa, involved in their deaths? More importantly, would her life be next?
With her trust challenged by those she loves, Claudia turns to the mysterious and enigmatic Saul Reardon. Together they embark on a dangerous journey in search of answers.
But is the past sometimes better left buried? Set amongst the natural beauty of Australia’s eastern coastline and its richly forested hinterland, Forgotten is a fast-paced mystery thriller that explores the controversial nature of family love and protection, loyalty and self-preservation.
In a haven for artists on a small island in the Caribbean, Ella Sapphire has finally found a place where she belongs. But as her art flourishes, her funds flounder. Desperate to remain in paradise, she accepts a job that is too good to be true, plunging her into the dangerous world of an island cartel.
On his 25th birthday, Beaujean Ali meets a beautiful artist who makes him yearn for a life less complicated than his own. When the stranger sets him up to be attacked, he must find out which of his friends is really a foe, while protecting the artist who has stolen his heart.
If you like heart-pounding action, tropical settings, and star-crossed lovers, then you’ll love Angel Vane’s The Hidden Threat.
Credo’s Hope
A fresh, funny, tough cop who skates on the edge of the law in her quest for justice
Meet John Paul and CJ Morgan, a typical suburban couple. Nice house, good jobs, however, life is a bit boring—okay, it’s a total bore. That all changes when the couple meets a few mob members who are just as bored. Faced with violence and rape, John Paul and his wife fight back. What starts out as a normal evening, turns into a saga of murder, drug dealing revenge, and a deadly game that normal people like the Morgan’s don’t have a chance of surviving.
Filled with feral violence, incredible escapes, and occasional laugh out loud humor, They All Fall Down is a thrill-a-minute story that will keep you up all night.
What would you do if you found a suitcase in the woods?
What would you do when someone came looking for it?
Out of prison, but still on parole, Max just wants to keep his head down, go to work and maybe grab a cold beer at the end of his shift. He doesn’t even care that the program stuck him in Essex – a nice, but nowhere small town. With his head already full of bloody and painful memories, he’d like it just fine if his past and future stayed nice and quiet.
Too bad the present just got really messy.
A body in a tree. A missing briefcase. A Russian hit man. A DEA agent bent on revenge. Not to mention a sheriff with dangerous ambition and some pissed off bikers. Things are suddenly very interesting in sleepy Essex county. Bodies are turning up. Secrets are coming out. Questions are being asked.
He told her to leave and never look back. That’s exactly what Brooke Clarke did. Her only possessions being the clothes on her back and an old Ford, she arrives in the city of Whitestead.
Hoping she can slowly build a new life for herself, she soon realises she’s not out of danger. Without knowing what is really happening, and who is after her, Brooke gets pulled into an underground world of money, guns, drugs, and murder.
Desperate to reunite with the man who sent her away, her best friend and partner, Brooke finds herself sinking deeper and deeper into a life where you always have to watch your back, and never trust anyone.
Apart from maybe the man whose job is to protect her at all cost…
A secret smuggler’s warehouse. Bikers with big guns. Walt’s wildest assignment yet.
If you like Travis McGee, Jack Reacher, and Doc Ford, treat yourself to the instantly entertaining adventures of Walt Asher.
Just when infomercial writer Walt Asher has a perfect Sunday afternoon lined up, his plans get blown to hell. That’s when hell-raiser extraordinaire DG calls to cash in an outstanding favor. No questions. No answers. It’s not a request. Walt’s ride has arrived…
Whisked away to the woods along Florida’s Gulf coast, Walt finds himself in a secret smuggler’s warehouse, surrounded by bikers with big guns, and facing the strangest assignment of his life: Write an infomercial selling DG’s eleven ton mountain of marijuana.
Illegal? Yep. Insane? Yep. Impossible? Not for Walt. He always finds the right words to sell. But when bullets start to blast the studio apart, will Walt find the right words and weapons to make it out alive?
Nothing much shocks veteran NYPD Detective Sylvia Harbinger anymore, but the latest murder scene in a coffee shop comes close. Answers only lead to more questions, especially when she finds out this murder isn’t the first, and that all the victims had WHISPs. Why did one of the connections have to be the creepy, grey shadows of her nightmares?
Something creepy happened on that abandoned stretch of desert highway.
When Alex Thompson is pulled over by a squad car in the middle of nowhere, the police officer acts downright bizarre. She’s positive something’s not right about the whole situation.
Years later, a mass grave is discovered in that same area, and she knows she came close to being one of the victims. So why did the killer let her go?
Cody Oliver is a small-town detective. His department can’t handle a case this huge. When a mysterious woman, Alex, appears from the past, it stirs something in him.
Could a chance encounter a million years ago have been that important? Could a short, random meeting he’d dismissed as soon as it ended be the key to stopping a serial killer?
Give me a “hell yeah” and pick up this book with one click, because if Cody and Alex can’t unravel this demented mystery, the desert will continue to fill up with bodies.
The Elite power is supreme, but love brings them to their knees!
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I always knew she’s my soul mate, and yet I force myself to wait.
This wild need compels me to claim her and drives me insane.
My heart aches, my soul rages, and I refuse to have her near.
I can’t crown her my queen; thus, the kingdom is not at peace.
The danger and intrigue shroud the Elite!
The wrath of war is in the air, and a woman’s scorn a power to fear.
Lady Yvette Kaiser
I pray he forgets his past deeds, his fears and believes in the greatness that he is.
No matter what he thinks, no matter where he goes, I keep my eye on him, waiting for his call.
I wait, I dream, I think of him.
I place my heart in his hands, knowing that he’s my man.
I only know that we belong, and our souls are fated to be one.
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The Elite power is supreme, but love brings them to their knees!
A 1920s showgirl will teach the gangsters who destroyed her family a lesson in blood…by spilling theirs.
Fans of The Godfather and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, as well as those who love historical fiction with a twist, will love this feminist take on Prohibition gangster history!
In the 1920s, a woman’s place was in the home, or in supporting roles in the workforce, or, if you’re 21-year-old Mia Angela Scalisi, on stage inside glamorous supper clubs and theater stages, living the high-life with the world at your fingertips.
It is definitely not calling the shots for a blossoming bootlegging operation, or ordering hits on your enemies. That is, unless, you’re Mia Angela Scalisi…and tragedy forces you into your biggest, most challenging role yet: Mafia princess.
Content to turn a blind-eye to big brother Nick’s criminal dealings, Mia, an orphan and former gambling-hall hustler, loves fancy clothes, loud parties, high-stakes poker games, and New York Sours with family friends Al Capone and Johnny Torrio. She carries big dreams of fame and fortune, and gracing the silver screens as the Italian Lillian Gish.
Her plans never included bloody retribution.
But tragedy and betrayal have a way of striking at the worst times, and her Sicilian blood demands three things: omertà, loyalty, and vengeance.
Whether or not she can rise to the challenge in a world she never wanted to be a part of will determine whether or not she survives.
Because when you step into the criminal underworld, all bets are off.
Join Mia Scalisi in this page-turning, unputdownable first installment of the SCALISI FAMILY series set inside the glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties!
She never wanted to be the center of attention. But sometimes you don’t always get what you want.
Quinn Reynolds was happy learning to live a simple life. On the surface, she was a struggling writer living by modest means without the entanglements of being involved in a steady relationship. Things change when a stranger comes calling with some information that could change her life, and she may be forced to confront her past.
Bryce Owens is a complicated man with a mysterious past. He wants Quinn to take on a insurmountable task. To kill the man responsible for killing his fiancée five years ago. Then and only then, will he reveal the origin of the photograph.
Will they be able to work together or is everything not is as it seems? Can what was written in blood ever be wiped away?
The picturesque town of San Fallon has become the hunting ground of the Notorious Wolf: a serial killer who displays his victims as fairy tale characters for the police to find. After months of searching, he’s finally found his Sleeping Beauty.
Helena Sussex is everyone’s dream of a homecoming queen, with the quarterback boyfriend to match. The world is hers for the taking: whatever her looks and charm wouldn’t hand her could be earned by her quick wit. It’s left her bored and hungry for more, and she’s made a game out of controlling those around her. As long as no one realizes it was her constant manipulations led to the suicide of fellow cheerleader Wadelyn Fairchild, she can have it all.
Follow Helena’s path as she’s stalked by the Notorious Wolf to see if it leads to salvation, or if his Sleeping Beauty is denied her happily ever after.
At the turn of the twentieth century, a massive theft puts a town in jeopardy. Eighteen-year-old Charlie wants to set things right.
In this prequel to the Emmie and Dessa Mysteries, follow Emmie’s Uncle Charlie and her mother Irene on the adventure of their youth.
It’s the last day of the nineteenth century and a massive theft, a sabotage of a cotton mill, has rocked their small town and put their livelihood and the livelihoods of so many others in danger. Charlie has his own ideas about who may be responsible. The police want him to leave it alone, but he can’t do nothing while his family and neighbors may be kicked out of their homes.
The straits grow more dire when Charlie and Irene learn the mill has defaulted on its insurance payments. If they can’t recover the stolen machinery, the mill will fold. And with it the whole town’s economy.
Charlie and Irene race to find the mastermind behind the theft as the clock ticks closer to the new year. Will the century change be a marker of hope? Or will it be the end for their home?
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, was published 2019.
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“Siamese twins?”
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Can a cruel twist change everything?
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His partner of eleven years is brutally abducted. Pictures of her in a doll-mask are sent to his phone. When ex-police officer Nathan Cribbing finds a booby trap doll that almost blows his head off, he knew his troubled past was coming for him.
Meanwhile, former colleague Lisa MacNamara, in her desire to help him, rekindles longings she thought were buried in the past.
Cribbing, in a desperate race against time, must get to his girlfriend before it is too late? Or will a cruel twist change everything?
“Don’t miss the most dynamic and exciting debut novel since Jack Reacher said, ‘I’m that guy’.”
Natasha Dawson is a lucky woman. Her career as a fashion photographer has taken off magnificently. After her imminent marriage, she will have a stable future to look forward to and a loving husband in the funny and generous Luke Stevens. Everything is very nearly perfect. But her ex-boyfriend has disappeared, and, try as she might, she can’t forget about him. Some part of her feels she’s about to marry the man of the wrong person’s dreams. The other man in her life is handsome, engaging and passionate, and Natasha is deeply in love with him. But he also has a terrible secret, and Natasha may have to risk everything if she wants to uncover it…
When Sandy Bay’s crème de la crème congregate to raise money for charity, Meghan Truman is proud to have her tasty desserts the talk of the party. She’s not so proud when the wealthiest couple in Sandy Bay are discovered dead and rumors circulate around town that her brownies are the cause of this tragedy.
This murder case casts a dark shadow over Meghan’s budding romance with handsome Officer Irvin who’s disappointed that she’s once again at the center of another murder investigation.
With everything to lose, Meghan must work hard to clear her name, restore broken relationships and solve this murder mystery before everything she’s worked so hard to build comes crumbling down.
Book 2 in the Sandy Bay Cozy Mystery series, which can be read in one to two hours! Can be read as a standalone, but enjoyed better as part of a series. Perfect for a lunchtime read. If you love cozy mysteries with an amateur female sleuth, mouth-watering culinary desserts and a gripping murder mystery, then you’ll love Meghan Truman and the quirky characters in Sandy Bay!
The Merchandiser by Chad Schimke – When a merchandiser becomes preoccupied with decorations, he gives in to his chilling obsession. Second best will have to do, but he makes the most of it. Fear meets perfection in this unnerving tale, set against a backdrop of stark film noir. Read ‘The Merchandiser’ today!
London isn’t ready for the investigative skills of New York Detective Bex Wynter…
A teen accused of murder. A cop running from her past. Is she his only salvation?
Bex thinks she might find peace in London, away from painful reminders of her husband’s death. Instead she’s met with suspicion and misgiving from her new team who fiercely contest her every move. That doesn’t stop her taking neophyte detective Reuben Richards under her wing as she investigates a teen accused of murder.
She’s about to teach her British cohorts that she’ll never stop fighting for justice. Not for herself, but for those who can’t fight for themselves. But with an investigation yielding more questions than answers, is she fighting for the wrong cause?
You’ll love this realistic police procedural mystery in a shorter package you can binge read in one night!
A troubled relationship, a damaged past and a bottle of wine mixed together make a volatile cocktail for Sophie. Her journal documents the destructive descent into the grips of alcohol addiction. Sophie Brown likes to work hard and play hard. Trapped in a relationship she can’t escape from, alcohol becomes her best friend. Unable to accept she has a problem, she becomes increasingly dependent on booze. Full of remorse and afraid of her own behaviour, Sophie finally agrees to accept help and enters rehab, where the road to recovery begins. When one of the friends she makes there disappears, Sophie knows she is up against time to find and save her. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes poignant, this funny yet sad novel shows you a real glimpse into what happens when the life of a promising, talented young woman spirals out of control.
Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim?
Graysie Castellanos is ready to take her final bow. When the traveling singer inherits a rundown mine, she thinks it’s her golden opportunity to provide her adopted daughter with a happy childhood and a prosperous future. But their bright new beginning crumbles underfoot when the townsfolk of the Sierra Nevada mining town start dropping dead of mysterious causes.
If Nathan Russell had listened to his gut, he’d have cleared out of Grass Valley before the first corpse turned cold. But the Aussie-born adventurer refuses to abandon the gorgeous singer and her young child to their doom. And when his old rival arrives in town looking to stir up trouble, he only gets pulled deeper into the mystery of the dark forces taking control.
With no choice but to press forward, Graysie and Nathan must solve the riddle of the deaths before the shadowy culprit adds their names to the tombstone.
Poisoned Legacy is the first book in the absorbing Of Gold & Blood historical mystery series set on the California frontier. If you like accurate details, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a glimmer of romance, then you’ll love Jenny Wheeler’s sparkling saga.
London, 1995. PC Ruth Hunter is a young, ambitious female PC working the streets of South London. Can solving a brutal local murder give her the edge to progress into CID and become a detective in the masculine world of London’s Metropolitan Police Force?
Five people are invited to a funeral but none of them has any idea who the deceased is…
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Mary receives an invitation to a funeral, but she has absolutely no idea who the deceased is. None at all.
She rings the solicitor who sent the invitation and explains her confusion. He tells her that the guy who died invited her and five other people to his funeral ON HIS DEATHBED, and he’s very keen for them to attend. So, intrigued and confused, she heads off to a dilapidated old farm house in a remote part of Wales. When she gets there she discovers that none of the other people knows who the deceased is either
NO ONE GOING TO THIS FUNERAL HAS EVER HEARD OF THE DECEASED. WHAT IS GOING ON??
Who is this guy and why are they there?
The book moves between Mary’s story in the modern day, as she and her fellow funeral goers try to work out whose funeral they are at, and the story of the man who has died and what his life was like, and why he wanted these people he’s never met at his funeral.
This is a stand alone book. It can be read without having read any of the earlier books.
“Adore this author, found this book Mysterious as the title suggests. Love the fact that the book ended with a massive punch of Bernice humour – with Mary getting the wrong train seat and the poor chap who covered himself in coffee – can’t wait for the next book x”
“Mary Brown is sweet, adorable, and a ton of good fun. And so are the scribblings of her talented creator, Bernice Bloom. I am totally enamored with the both of them. “
“This was a humorous and entertaining read.”
“Totally my type of book and beyond beyond beyond recommended!”
“I love a book that teaches me something! The historical aspect of the story is really strong and I did not know that during the war Italian prisoners of war were sent to Wales to help the farmers.Then they are told that they have 20 hours to work out why they have been invited in order to inherit a million pounds.”
Prequel to the True Blue Detective Series. Have you met Mario?
Mario DeLuca wanted to be a police officer for as long as he could remember. His first beat was the New Orleans French Quarter, on foot. He met business owners and learned street scams from the best con-artist.
Mario befriended Lucinda Jones who picked up a nick name of Voodoo Lucy later in the True Blue Detective Series. The first day she met Mario she had something to offer the undercover cop.
She soon found herself looking down the barrel of a gun by a local thug that liked beating on woman. Lucy left Tupelo Mississippi with her mother Wanda to escape an abusive father who beat on her mother sometimes just because it was a Tuesday—he didn’t need a reason.
It was risky for Lucy to take on an abusive woman beater drug dealer but that was Lucy. With her new found police officer friend they set up their own con to put this thug behind bars.
This story is a prequel, taking place immediately before the events in the first book of the, True Blue Detective series.
This story is filled with action, drama, mystery, relationships, and crime. It’s a front-row seat to see New Orleans from a cop’s perspective: cruising the streets, dealing with injustice, while also visiting local businesses to interact with the interesting people in this unique, historic city.
In post-Soviet Russia, crime fights you.
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Rowena Halley has spent all her money and her last winter break before her dissertation defense to visit her fiancé Dima in Moscow. But instead of planning the wedding, he’s focused on fighting crime. An opposition journalist, Dima is used to attracting trouble. This time around, though, he may not be the only target. In the Wild, Wild East, crime fights back, and Rowena may be its next victim.
Set against the backdrop of the Euromaidan revolution and the turbulence of the North Caucasus, “Foreign Exchange” tells a story of the clash between love, honor, and international politics. This 20,000-word novelette is a prequel to the Doctor Rowena Halley series, but can be read as a standalone work.
The legend of Voodoo Lucy begins when twenty-eight-year-old Lucinda Jones leaves Tupelo, Mississippi, and her alcoholic, abusive, father behind to start a new life in New Orleans. In the city where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn and no one ever seems to sleep, Lucy falls in love with the eccentric, distinctive characters of the French Quarter, but soon runs afoul of a criminal gang boss and his crew. Lucy herself is no saint—she’s long gotten by through running small-time cons, but when she dreams up a profitable voodoo-laced scam and dares to testify against a killer, Lucy’s life starts to spiral out of control. With friends on both sides of the law and a drug gang who wants her dead, can Lucy scheme her way out of danger and into the life she’s always dreamed of?Fans of Vito Zuppardo’s “True Blue Detective” series will enjoy this story, which takes readers back to Mario DeLuca’s rookie year on the beat and Zack Nelson in action as a NOLA PD homicide detective, as well as the early days of the infamous Cornerview Gang and the other unsavory characters that prowl the colorful, charming French Quarter. Grab a beignet and a cup of chicory coffee and get your copy now!
Running Is Easy. Facing Your Mistakes Can Be Deadly.
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It’s 1995. Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable around women, so he takes him to a strip joint outside their air base in Okinawa, Japan. But when the stripper he lets loose on his romantically challenged friend is brutally murdered, Connor must solve the mystery to keep him from a life in prison. . .
Connor is just a regular guy trying to straighten out his crooked path. His wife is angry and suspicious. His ex-lover is trying to win him back into sexual adventure. And his children don’t get enough of his time.
Now, to keep his friend out of Leavenworth, Connor must assume the role of amateur detective, while steering clear of military police and dodging the local Yakuza. Most threatening of all, his ex-lover’s husband is lead agent on the case for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and intends to send Connor to federal prison with his friend.
With the military police questioning his every move, the Yakuza hunting him down and his secret lover’s Special Investigator husband trying to make him an accessory to murder, Connor has to give his all to find the real killer.
Can he outsmart the Special Investigator who wants to make him pay? Will he survive the vengeance of the Okinawan Yakuza? Or has he become of victim of his own foolishness — a plan to help his friend “Eugene Garboski get comfortable around women?”
From the newest of Montana mystery authors, a 1990s mystery story full of sexual betrayal, loyalty and redemption set in tropical Okinawa.
Middle aged Professor Ollie Stratford’s been hounded by a psycho realtor, outrun by a bunch of grandma’s, taken advice from sock puppets, stuck in a brimming toilet bowl, and almost run out of college by a drunken professor. How is that for her first few days in a quiet little Texas town she never wanted to live in?
Thrust into the middle of a murder mystery with a dwindling pile of cash and very few leads Ollie starts digging. Along the way, she teams up with an oddball reporter, a dreadlocks flashing lawyer, a grandma who teaches mixed martial arts, and a stray dog named Bodie. Can she discover the identity of the killer in time or will she end up being the next victim?
If you like cozy mysteries, clever animals, southern charm, and coffee, you’ll love Texas Troubles, the first in a fun series of Ollie Stratford Murder Mysteries set in a small Texan Hill Country town, with all its quirky inhabitants. Pick up this page turner today!
“… a hard-to-put-down psychological thriller that also offers a nuanced look at a damaged woman.“ -Library Journal
Amanda Sinclair has to fight harder than most for everything she has after fleeing the cult that left her brother dead at her mother’s hand. Amanda works a quiet job in quality control for a small cosmetics company, trying to leave her past behind heruntil she learns that her mother has committed suicide in the mental ward where she’s been locked away for the past ten years.
But when Amanda receives her mother’s personal belongings, she finds a troubling connection to the upcoming parole hearing for cult leader Patrick Collier. And then troubling things begin happening to Amanda herself. Teaming up with her mother’s psychologist, Amanda starts to peel away the layers of secrets that she’s built between herself and her own past, and what she finds is a truth that’s almost too big to believe.
Tidal Wave – A Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller Prequel
A thrill ride from Vegas to New Orleans with a dead body to boot…
Troy Bodean is a rambling man traveling the U.S.A. on a mission to find some peace and quiet.
Afghanistan brings a ransom plot trading the victim’s fingers for money (one by one.)
Vegas brings a romance with a secretly married stripper whose mafioso husband isn’t too happy about it.
New Orleans brings a new job on a shrimping boat. Only problem is the current captain might have killed the previous one.
Troy just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry laughing, and then you’ll laugh some more.
Havana Fury – A Ryan Bodean Tropical Thriller PrequelA thrilling action/adventure to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico…
Looks like Ryan “R.B.” Bodean has taken a page from his brother’s book and is out to find his fortune at the bottom of the ocean. And he needs good fortune to shine on him in the worst way…
Enter Megan Simons. She’s got a lead on a wreck that might be something more valuable than gold. But the bad guys from 90 miles south of Key West have other plans—namely, the kind of plans that won’t end well for R.B. and Megan.
R.B. just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Ryan Bodean Tropical Thriller series. You’ll laugh, you’ll hold your breath, and then you’ll hope to hell he survives for another adventure.
Finding Prosperity – The Prosperity Spartanburg Files Prequel
What started out as a Funeral Services degree has turned into something she never expected…
Prosperity Spartanburg was like any other girl. Any other girl who formerly worked as a cocktail waitress at Tail Spinners strip club, found a dead body in an AirBnB while working there as a maid, and who dropped out of her funeral services degree to return months later and find her spot taken by another student.
What’s a girl to do? Switch to forensic pathology and find that she has a real talent for learning the secrets of the dead.
Prosperity just can’t catch a break until her new degree changes everything. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Prosperity Spartanburg Files series. You’ll fall in love with Prosperity, you’ll wonder how she solves all those crimes, and then you’ll hope to hell she survives for another adventure.
Rogue Enemy – A Chris Collins CIA Thriller Prequel
Chris Collins had it all. Great job as Deputy Director of the CIA. a loving wife at home, and a really nice boat until…
It all went away in a flash. The CIA’s best Deputy Director, Chris Collins had it all. And then came the case that made him go rogue. After his last successful bust ended with two gun-smuggling, drug-running, crooked politicians behind bars … he thought he could close the file.
But the higher-ups in the cartel had other plans. And before Collins knew it, he was headed south of the Southernmost Point in the Continental United States … without a game plan, without the blessing of the CIA, on his own. (Except for Ned. There was always Ned.)
Chris Collins just can’t catch a break. Read all about it in the prequel to the hit Chris Collins CIA Thriller series.
A Death In The Afternoon – The Southermost Mystery Series
At twenty-four years old, I was dying a slow and painful death.
My tombstone would read:
Here lies Mallory Hemingway. Gone Too Soon. Died of Boredom.
I scrolled past the government jobs, the work from home jobs, and the delivery jobs hoping to find that gem that stood out, when suddenly I sat straight up, the back of my chair bouncing back and forth like an overzealous jack in the box.
Wanted: Night-time Caretaker for Hemingway Home in Key West, FL.
Responsibilities: Live on-site for security purposes, locking gates, ensuring house is properly secured, tending to the many cats that live on the property, and being a point of contact for police or emergency personnel if needed.
Salary: $25,000 a year. Room and board included.
Ok, so the salary wasn’t much, but it was just me. And if I wasn’t paying for room and board, then how much money did I really need?
I googled Key West taking in the size of the island, the culture that oozed personality, and the tight, narrow streets that cut through the main areas. I wouldn’t need a car to navigate such a tiny place, so I could sell mine and use the money to help me move. Real estate there was astronomical, so not having to pay for a place to stay would give me the room in my budget that I needed in order to write during the day.
It didn’t seem like they’d need me to do much, so I was basically being paid to sleep. I could get up early and write every morning, just like Hemingway did. Surely, my last name and distant relative status would be a mark in my favor.
My hand hovered over the receiver of the Harmony Times phone, when I stopped cold. What was I doing? I couldn’t break up with Andrew, leave my parents, and move to the southernmost point of the United States, could I?
Find out if she will in the newest cozy mystery sensation, A Death In The Afternoon.
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, to be published 2019.
WORRY NO MORE
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Seven-year-old JP Torn witnessed a murder. Eighteen years later he attempts to clear the name of the man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder, only to discover a string of lies that lead to more painful, DEADLY SECRETS.
Seven-year-old JP Torn witnessed a man shot to death. His secret haunted him for eighteen long years. In an attempt to clear the name of the man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder, he discovers an unforgiving brother, and a string of lies that lead to more painful, DEADLY SECRETS.
A legend buried for 2000 years. A woman compelled to uncover the truth.
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210 BCE, CHINA. The most powerful emperor China has ever known is on the brink of death. In desperation, he sends his most gifted alchemist and sorcerer on a quest for the mythical elixir of life.
His fleet never returned….
NOW, world-renowned archaeologist, Georgia Lee is compelled to hunt for a mysterious man who may hold the secret to the greatest discovery in human history.
Her search takes her on a thrilling journey from an ancient tomb in China, through traditional Japan, to the blistering Australian outback, and the dizzying heights of verdant mountains in tropical Taiwan. But what begins as an investigation into an archaeological riddle turns into something very sinister. Georgia starts to suspect that perhaps she is the one being hunted instead….
Meticulously researched, this is a tale interwoven with rich historical facts to recreate all the drama, intrigue and mystery of East Asian culture.
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Remembrance, Revelation, and Revenge – The Descendants Trilogy
Years later, she returned to the scene of the crime to try and solve that murder.
That set into motion a series of events that took her from a coastal cottage to the White House.
One of the few magical Descendants of Charlemagne, protected by an ancient cadre of guardians, Emlen learns that power can give life – and take it away.
Come enjoy the series that has captivated the imagination of many and makes you think there maybe some reality to magic.
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.
If you like Inspector Morse – you’ll love DI Jack Gilbert – a hard nosed traditional British copper with old fashioned principles and a personal life about to become a nightmare. It’s the swinging sixties. The new regional Mid-Anglia Constabulary is about to be formed and Detective Inspector Gilbert is appointed to head up a new team.
In his last case before the move Jack hunts a cold-hearted killer. The man is prowling the streets of Peterborough at night. He is addicted to a special kind of pleasure. Young women are disappearing, their bodies frozen.
This exciting prequel to the best selling DI Jack Gilbert series of British detective mysteries is by Amazon author Michael Saunders, an exciting new voice in sixties crime fiction. THE ICE MAIDEN is perfect for fans of Colin Dexter, L.J. Ross, Ian Rankin, and Stuart Macbride. Grab your FREE copy today and discover the icy truth.
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Prequel short story to the Red Heeled Rebels series
She’s the underdog everyone loves to hate. Then she commits a crime.
This is the beginning of a globe-trotting suspense thriller that will immerse you in exotic locations and unthinkable crimes with a kickass team of heroines who stand for their rights and fight for their lives.
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The Red Heeled Rebels Series
In a world where justice no longer prevails, six iron-willed heroines from five nations rally to seek vengeance on the traffickers who stole their humanity.
This is a story where the thrill of Kill Bill meets the wrath of The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo.
If you like gripping tales with flawed but gutsy heroines, vigilante action in exotic locales and twists that leave you at the edge of your seat, you’ll love these books by multiple award-winning Canadian novelist, Tikiri Herath.
Taylor Quinn has it all—at least by millennial standards. A good job, a home in the city, and someone she loves to share life with.
But when her mom dies unexpectedly, she doesn’t hesitate to drop everything for her family. With a baby sister still in high school, an elderly grandfather at home, and the family quilt shop to run, she knows where she needs to be.
Belle, Taylor’s sister, fears their mom’s death is her fault. She thinks her birth mom may just have wanted her back badly enough to kill.
To lay Belle’s fear to rest, the Quinn girls search out exactly what happened the night of the accident. But in doing so, Taylor finds herself tangled in a mess of secrets, envy, and small town gossip that threatens to unravel the family she loves.
Ripping out the stitches that hold her family together may be the only way to keep their lives from falling apart.
Running Is Easy. Facing Your Mistakes Can Be Deadly.
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It’s 1995. Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable around women, so he takes him to a strip joint outside their air base in Okinawa, Japan. But when the stripper he lets loose on his romantically challenged friend is brutally murdered, Connor must solve the mystery to keep him from a life in prison. . .
Connor is just a regular guy trying to straighten out his crooked path. His wife is angry and suspicious. His ex-lover is trying to win him back into sexual adventure. And his children don’t get enough of his time.
Now, to keep his friend out of Leavenworth, Connor must assume the role of amateur detective, while steering clear of military police and dodging the local Yakuza. Most threatening of all, his ex-lover’s husband is lead agent on the case for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and intends to send Connor to federal prison with his friend.
With the military police questioning his every move, the Yakuza hunting him down and his secret lover’s Special Investigator husband trying to make him an accessory to murder, Connor has to give his all to find the real killer.
Can he outsmart the Special Investigator who wants to make him pay? Will he survive the vengeance of the Okinawan Yakuza? Or has he become of victim of his own foolishness — a plan to help his friend “Eugene Garboski get comfortable around women?”
From the newest of Montana mystery authors, a 1990s mystery story full of sexual betrayal, loyalty and redemption set in tropical Okinawa.
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Grieving the loss of his best friend, while covering for colleagues killed and wounded by the unknown Haymarket bomber, Sergeant Billy Doran is not a happy man.
The rookie he has thrust upon him to complicate his working and personal life only adds to his frustration, but when a madman appears from the shadows to stalk his city and endanger his own family, Doran knows he must find a way to work with his new detective if they are to catch the killer, or it will be more than the city of Chicago that will lie in ruins.
A gripping psychological thriller filled with mystery, suspense and intrigue, that keeps you guessing from beginning to end.
On a rainy September morning baby Cassandra is kidnapped while her mother cowers in a closet. Shea is a victim of post-partum depression.
When Detectives Darby and Mel begin to dig the truth becomes more and more murky. Ugly secrets from the past emerge. No one is above suspicion, least of all Shea, herself. In her desperation to find her baby who can she trust? Someone is watching . . . And nothing is as it seems . . .
All Mason Dixon wants is to mix classy drinks for classy people…
Mason owns a bar, and he’s not getting any younger. He wants nothing more than to retire in peace, fishing and drinking with the locals.
But his past as an assassin is catching up with him.
Mason moonlights as an assassin, taking jobs to remove “marks” from the playing field. It pays well, and he’s good at it.
So when he makes a mistake, things quickly get out of hand and he finds himself racing against the clock to save a life he inadvertently put into danger.
“Sure to be the new Jack Reacher…”
“In a word, unputdownable”
If you’re a fan of Lee Child, Douglas Preston, and James Patterson, you’ll love this new series!
Something creepy happened on that abandoned stretch of desert highway.
When Alex Thompson is pulled over by a squad car in the middle of nowhere, the police officer acts downright bizarre. She’s positive something’s not right about the whole situation.
Years later, a mass grave is discovered in that same area, and she knows she came close to being one of the victims. So why did the killer let her go?
Cody Oliver is a small-town detective. His department can’t handle a case this huge. When a mysterious woman, Alex, appears from the past, it stirs something in him.
Could a chance encounter a million years ago have been that important? Could a short, random meeting he’d dismissed as soon as it ended be the key to stopping a serial killer?
Give me a “hell yeah” and pick up this book with one click, because if Cody and Alex can’t unravel this demented mystery, the desert will continue to fill up with bodies.
Natasha Dawson is a lucky woman. Her career as a fashion photographer has taken off magnificently. After her imminent marriage, she will have a stable future to look forward to and a loving husband in the funny and generous Luke Stevens. Everything is very nearly perfect. But her ex-boyfriend has disappeared, and, try as she might, she can’t forget about him. Some part of her feels she’s about to marry the man of the wrong person’s dreams. The other man in her life is handsome, engaging and passionate, and Natasha is deeply in love with him. But he also has a terrible secret, and Natasha may have to risk everything if she wants to uncover it…
Eighteen months after coming across a stranger waking along a darkening country road, Tom Brook’s life has radically changed. In his old life, he was a nobody, drifting towards middle age – broke and chronically alone. In his new one, he is Solomon Stone: a shadow agent who tracks individuals of interest and dismantles their lives. Stone’s new assignment takes him to a remote region in the north of England, tracking a man who has betrayed the organisation he works for: a rogue entity offering his skills to the highest bidder, irregardless of their agendas. Stone’s mission is simple: to locate the man known as ‘The Ghost’ and go to work on dismantling his life before too many secrets are spilled, and too many people get hurt.
In the spy game, some secrets are too hot to handle
Dark Haloes: Kindred (Dark Haloes series Book 1/3)- A suspenseful international spy thriller with a touch of romance
In the spy game, some secrets are too hot to handle…
After their brutal confrontation with the Black Raven terror group, Arella and David finally score some much needed R&R. But their romantic cruise through Europe is cut short when Mossad and the CIA intercept an encrypted Black Raven signal.
Another deadly attack is imminent… and this time the target is somewhere in Europe. The pair of operatives battle their way across the continent, taking on a cabal of terrorists and killers. But before they can stop the group’s sinister plan, David’s secrets finally catch up with him…
Wounded, on the run, and hunted by an army of assassins, the two agents can only trust each other. As their attraction grows deeper, Arella and David must risk everything, putting both their lives on the line to strike back at their enemies. But Arella has secrets of her own, and she is shocked to discover that the Black Ravens ultimate plan may hold a clue to the fate of her missing family… Fans of Tim Tigner, Daniel Silva and Brad Thor will love this steamy,
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Credo’s Hope
A fresh, funny, tough cop who skates on the edge of the law in her quest for justice
Beth seems to have it all, a beautiful home, adoring young son, successful husband – what could go wrong?
One night, Beth gets a call from a stranger saying her best friend has been violently attacked. This triggers memories she’s tried hard to forget.
In her quest to bring the attacker to justice she encounters a world of violence, lies and deceit. Cracks start to appear in her perfect life – or was it so perfect?
Lethal Intent is the prequel novella in the Beth Papadakis Thriller series.
Psychologist Deanna Young has spent decades trying to overcome her own fears and phobias—a legacy of insecurities handed down by her neglectful mother.
But when her mother dies suddenly, Deanna uncovers a shocking secret that turns her life upside down, and casts doubt on everything she thought she knew—about her mother, about her friends, and even about herself.
It’s a secret someone else knows, too. And would kill to keep it hidden.
As Deanna begins to untangle the sticky web of the past, what lies in wait for her there could end both her sanity and her life.
Torn between fear and her desperate need to know, Deanna must decide if uncovering the truth is really what she seeks, or if it’s better left buried—either in her mind or in a shallow grave.
“[I]f you’ve not yet discovered Tamsen Schultz’s books, it is time to start.” – Between my Bookendz
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This is a Sampler Set of the first 4 books of The Windsor Series.
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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.
A new monster is here to keep you up at night. In the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes a killer with an appetite.
Harry Lightman, known as the Daylesford Devil by the press and dubbed “Lucifer” by the locals, has been sitting in a prison cell for the best part of 20 years, sentenced to life imprisonment for the torture and murder of 14 women. Each one had been preyed upon by a monster that fed on the flesh of his victims, the peaceful country towns reeling from the terror that had stalked their communities. Now, on the eve of the first victim’s 20-year anniversary, a new killer has taken up where the Devil left off, his victims dying in the same horrific circumstances as his predecessor’s, the trademark signature announcing its horrific return with bloody consequences. But is it really a new killer or does Lucifer have the perfect alibi?
The authorities have no leads, no clues and no time as they enlist the help of the original police officer, Jim Lawson, now a respected and sought-after psychiatrist, who felled the devil the first time. Has Lucifer truly returned, killing from behind the walls, or is another vying for his title? Only Jim can face the devil and hope to learn his secret. Together with the young and beautiful police constable, Stephanie Connor, Jim is fighting the devil, the clock and the hierarchy, to piece together the clues and end the killing before another fall’s victim.
Does the Devil have his final alibi?
A gritty tale of bent pride, fighting and loss in small-town England
Adam Smith’s star is on the rise – he’s a talented young rugby player with a wife, a child on the way and a future. He also likes a fight. All that is about to change when a drunken Saturday night leads to a confrontation with a man who is prepared to go the distance – at any cost.
As a private investigator located in the worst part of town, Max Dunne has had his share of weird cases and had seen quite some shady shit, but nothing prepared him for what was about to come…
He shouldn’t have picked up that phone call, he was just about to call it a day.
The voice on the other side had a different plan for him.
In this suspenseful, nail biting cat & mouse game, Max is taken on a twist-full investigation – adventuring from location to location, only to end face to face with his worst nightmare.
Join Max on this psychological page turning thriller as he struggles to fill in the pieces of who is playing with his mind. What he finds out will shock his existence and change his life…forever!
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A bumbling backpacker. An exotic South American street dancer. When their travels lead them into the hands of the Colombian underworld, he has one last chance to get something right – and save their lives.
Confronted with their imminent murder he delves into his deepest memories searching for any clue that might provide a means of survival. Should he follow his logical mind or his gut instinct? He has three seconds left to decide.
What the Amazon reviews say…
Travel & Razor’s Edge Suspense – Don’t Miss This!
Excellently written story mixing travel & suspense. A “don’t miss” with a great twist. Highly recommend!
Gripping, a Must Have
Once you pick this up you won’t put it down. Both gripping enthralling this book has you captivated from the first line. A must-have for anyone travelling to South America as well as those who just simply enjoy a well-told story of life’s less predictable events.
Charming. gripping and thoughtful.
This is very enjoyable writing. This true travel account has an interesting structure, humour, pathos and a thrilling tense conclusion.
Introduction to a nail-biting new thriller series which will have you on the edge of your seat! Perfect for fans of Lee Child, J. B. Turner, Mark Dawson and David Baldacci.
Manchester, England 1996 When ex-Royal Marine and Firefighter Adam Sterling rescues Kim from an inferno, she reminds him of someone in his past. Kim is being targeted by a violent arsonist, but why? She’s in witness protection but even Eddy Arkwright, the policeman investigating her attack can’t find out why. Adam feels compelled to help her, but can he keep her out of the clutches of the people hunting her? He has to use all his abilities as a firefighter plus some older skills as he fights to survive and save Kim.
“A thrilling, scary, rollercoaster of a ride.”
“gripping and truly frightening.”
“characters incredibly believable with intriguing back stories.”
