Mystery-Crime
Bad Girls (An Eden Mystery) Featured
Bad girls can be victims, too. Only eighteen years old, Marnie Becker has an unknown and absent father, an alcoholic mother, and drinking problems of her own. Her uncle, Cal Becker, a former Chicago police officer, has been the only responsible adult in her life, but now that she’s legally an adult, he worries that he won’t be able to keep her on the straight and narrow. So he’s pleasantly surp ...
Shee McQueen lives in her father’s hotel for ex-military mercenaries. Life is never easy...and never boring.
Bounty hunter Shee and her second-chance love / ex-Navy SEAL, Mason Connolly, are sent to the middle of Florida to protect the family of a retiring small-town drug lord, only to find the man’s dead wife on her way out on a gurney. When the “accident” feels more like murder a ...
Shee McQueen Mystery Thrillers Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.” — ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Shee McQueen series is a wildly entertaining, wholly unique tour de force of action, psychological drama, and wit from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling a ...
Sherlock Holmes Letters from Jack Featured
Herein lies an excerpt from Letters from Jack: Sherlock Holmes laid the letter on his lap and smoothed the wrinkled sheet. He took a cleansing breath, “Thank you, I’m fine.” Holmes said, regaining his composure. “I think we both could use a brandy,” Watson left his seat and went to the cabinet. He filled the two glasses a third full and brought them back to their sitting area. Watson regained his ...
Get a box set with the first 6 books in the Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series! Emilia Cruz is the first and only female police detective in Acapulco. She's a good liar, a fast thinker, and a mean kickboxer in a department that didn’t want her and is still trying to break her. Perfect for murder mystery series fans of books by Jo Nesbo, Louise Penny, and Ann Cleeves. Readers of Don Winslow's ...
Without Mercy Box Set Featured
A body in the garden. A killer on the loose. Three young women inherit a fortune. Winter 1923 was the last time Mercy Harris and her adopted daughters celebrated Christmas together. The following spring, Mercy is found murdered. The Black Hen, the family guesthouse, is thrown into mayhem. The Hen, as it is known, caters to adults with adventurous sensual appetites. Mercy’s three surviving daugh ...
Black Sun Rising Featured
Only recently has Dr. Noah Jobes slipped out from beneath the dark cloud under which he existed since the brutal unsolved murders of his wife and daughter. On tour promoting his latest novel, Noah finds himself in the crosshairs of a powerful corporate executive who is systematically perverting American democracy as part of a global power play. Aided by his father’s lifelong friend, a patriotic Ma ...
The Fatal Family Function Featured
Jamie Sharpe is adoring her new role managing the Terrowin Hotel. But Grandpa Sharpe has alluded that the mysterious hotel, a legacy passed down from her uncle, could contain secrets and treasures too dangerous to unearth.
When she’s invited to a gathering at the historic Story Mansion for the Gloucester family reunion, she eagerly accepts. Jamie is hoping to get the e ...
All the Rage in Texas Featured
Al Quinn’s quiet life as a retired sheriff’s department detective gets challenged when a driver’s road rage leads him to shoot at Al’s sister-in-law Bonnie and her baby, and being Bonnie, she shoots back. It doesn't end there. The shooter and five like-minded pals go all out after Bonnie. Al’s wife Fergie, a retired Austin police detective, and Al’s brother Maury are all in the path of enraged pay ...
Welcome to the Party Featured
An apolitical Vietnam vet still adjusting to life stateside, Patrol Officer Vincent Bayonne has no interest in helping a sheltered politician who only cares about blazing a campaign trail, but when Bayonne and his partner discover a body in the snow and realize a blizzard stranded them at the VFW, they have no choice but to protect the seedy candidate from a neighborhood mob interested in booze an ...
The Contract Featured
So Lou and Cassidy, his beautiful, fierce, and fiercely loyal sharp-shooter wife, head for New York, bringing Lou's unique brand of one-man gang warfare. He'd have been happy to talk it out. He asked nice, but they wanted a war. So they got Lou, who’s always way more trouble than anybody's ever expecting. Even with a bum ankle, Lou’s still the best street fighter in Chicago. And in New York, he’s ...
Pineapple Port Mystery Series Featured
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean and gore-free small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller.
As an orphan adopted by one of Florida's 55+ communities, Charlotte never expected life to be wild. Golf cart racing with her surrogate mothers Mariska a ...
Murder On The Brazos Featured
He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder. When Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago Newman County was clean and safe. But the dead drug dealer found floating down the river says things may be changing… and not for the better. Fire engulfs the dead man’s home, and all evidence points to the new sheriff’s father. Fen, however, knows there ...
The Axe Featured
Sweethearts Eric Leidheldt and Desiree Chauveau are spending a weekend at his uncle's cabin when they encounter two strangers cutting wood. Eric is knocked unconscious, and Desi is viciously attacked. The following day two police officers come to their apartment to arrest Desi. Her assailants are dead, murdered with an axe, and her fingerprints are on it. She confesses—but is she really guilty? Er ...
Pineapple Lies Featured
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Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series!
As an orphan adopted by one of Florida's 55+ communities, Charlotte ...
Books 4-6 of the Pineapple Port Mysteries - money-saving three-book pack!
Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY Best-Selling author Amy Vansant introduces you to even more wonderfully lovable Pineapple Port characters in books FOUR-SIX of the hilarious mystery series keeping readers on the edge of their seats! The Pineapple Port Mystery Series is both sweet and edgy, and always hilarious!Stranger Danger Featured
FINALIST, National Indie Excellence Awards “You won't be able to tear yourself away…I love this series!” Lisa Regan, international multi-million-copy bestselling author... Lauren Beck left the police force for personal reasons, but crime knows where she lives. Longing for the closeness they had while she was recovering from Hodgkin’s disease, Lauren drives cross-country to visit her father ...
The End Game Featured
One deadly explosion. One burned body. One teenaged suspect. One week-long race for Gabrieli to save his kid brother's neck. Former lawyer turned private investigator Gabe Gabrieli can name a hundred places he’d rather visit than Cheakamus, British Columbia. But a promise is a promise. The trip should be a cameo appearance: check in, attend a christening, check out. Two days max. What could go wro ...
Paint Me A Murder Featured
Writing thrilling mysteries is a fun and exciting job until a real life murder mimics fiction. Fiona Fowler, a bestselling mystery writer known for her captivating werewolf detective novels, finds herself thrust into a real-life murder mystery during a fateful, full moon. When a prominent artist is brutally killed in her small town, Fiona becomes the prime suspect due to the eerie resemblance b ...
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A Day for Bones Featured
Bones litter the street…
A catastrophic flood in Ellicott City leaves more than damaged buildings in its wake: a human skeleton now lies scattered along Main Street. Did a colonial settler wash out of his grave? Or is it murder? As Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller and his team investigate, the descendants of James Ferring, a local business icon from a bygone era, become ...
The War Photographers Featured
1943 – Bletchley Park, England Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who’s on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. As war rages around her, Mae's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls in love with the enigmatic New Zealand war photographer Jack Knight. Their relat ...
Murder Illustrated Featured
Americans have always loved a good murder story—even more so when accompanied by pictures of the murder. Publishers in the 19th century were quick to learn that their readers had an insatiable appetite for murder stories, and an artist’s rendering of the crime enhanced the story’s appeal. From the moral instruction of the early murder pamphlets to the shocking sensationalism of the yellow journali ...
Defenseless Featured
A murdered woman, a powerful politician, and a witness who’s no longer willing to stay in the shadows. Eighteen years ago, Bela Houseman became a loose end. The powerful man who murdered her mother knows who she is and exactly what she saw that night. Giving up everything she’s ever known, including her own name, is the only way to protect herself. Now, as the lead cyber security expert at HICC ...
Gillespie Field Groove Featured
When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for, as ...
Pineapple Valentine Mystery Featured
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant finds romance deadly in the latest installment of the fun, thrilling, twisty Pineapple Port Mysteries!
When Matchmaker Lady Venus drops dead on the Pineapple Port community center's stage during a Valentine's event, Charlotte and the new detective agency she's started with her fiance Declan are called to the scene.
As dange ...
Judged For Revenge Featured
Nobody heard the shots. When a corrupt detective is found dead in the police station with four bullet wounds lodged in his chest, the entire police force is flooded with rumors. The victim had no shortage of enemies Tasked with unravelling a shady web of secrets and uncovering who could have carried out a murder on their doorstep, Lead Detective Nicole Clayton starts piecing together the clues. Wi ...
The Nut Case Featured
Solve the mystery of how it all started! How did two sisters in their thirties, living in a peaceful beachside community, become involved in a world of mystery and crime? This prequel to the Sister Sleuths Mystery Series is a whodunit that will keep you guessing until the end. A fascinating explanation of how the siblings evolved into amateur sleuths by cracking a case full of nuts!
Pineapple Turtles Featured
Newly-minted detective Charlotte Morgan discovers a mysterious box in her attic, the contents of which lead her to a hotel packed with strange characters and a link to her family's past. Trusting the crafty, Yorkie-toting manager will be as difficult as tracking down a missing child...and the woman who might be her aunt...
Back in Pineapple Por ...
Angel of Mercy Featured
A Mystery Novel About Dignity in Life and Death: Veterinary surgeon Jim Briggs has assisted the suicides of ten Chicagoans. Briggs is an angel of mercy to the residents of the Lazy Acres homeless community. He cares for their dogs for free and provides those in need with a pain-free exit from the city's harsh winters and brutal life on the street. About to leave Chicago for a new job in Portland, ...
Central City Featured
A KILLER ON THE LOOSE. A CITY ON THE BRINK… ***** Kane Kulpa is an ex-con with a conscience. Vincent Bayonne is the troubled detective that put him away. Now, cat and mouse are thrown into an uneasy alliance when their streets are stalked by a vicious serial killer targeting lonely men. As Kulpa and Bayonne realise they can trust nobody but each other on their hunt for the murderer, the dang ...
Pineapple Maids Featured
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The Pineapple Port crew goes undercover in an assisted living community in the latest Pineapple Port Mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
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The Girl Who Wants Featured
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A murdered mistress. An accused mob boss. Can two detectives put their differences aside to find the real killer?
Angelina Bonaparte is starting from square one. After a messy divorce, the middle-aged librarian put down her books and picked up a new gig as a private investigator. When a mob boss heads to jail for his m ...
Ballast Point Breakdown Featured
The fourth novel in the Rolly Waters mystery series. On a cool winter evening, a speedboat hurtles across San Diego Bay and crashes into the Admiral’s Club where a farewell party for the Navy’s top-secret Dolphin Divers program is underway. As guests flee the ensuing fire, a woman named Janis Withers crawls from the inferno and screams her last words – Arion has returned! Guitar-playing private de ...
The headless corpse of a young woman, discovered in the woods of Northern Kentucky in February 1896, disrupted communities in three states. The woman was Pearl Bryan, daughter of a wealthy farmer in Greencastle, Indiana, and her suspected killers, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, were dental students in Cincinnati, Ohio. How her decapitated body ended up in the Highlands of Kentucky is the subjec ...
Border Field Blues Featured
"A potent dose of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" (ForeWord Magazine) Murder, sex, politics, and classic rock guitar collide in this original and compelling mystery set in the backcountry along the San Diego-Tijuana border, when a violent encounter between a young border-crosser and an angry bandit creates a secret and shocking bond between the boy and the bandit’s dumbfounded daughter. But when re ...
LOVE HATE LAW Featured
Can Opponents in the courtroom become lovers in the bedroom? An insurrection occurs at the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan. A young woman is trampled to death by the rioters. The woman's father retains a rookie lawyer from small-town Saline, stunningly beautiful Andrea Kramer, to sue the state of Michigan and the former governor who contested the recent election and inspired the insurrection. A ...
Murder at Tranquility Featured
After almost seven years as Lunar Enforcement chief, Jared Pearce has come to enjoy life on the moon. The small town atmosphere and low crime rate are just what he needed after a twenty-year career with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. When he learns that his son and daughter-in-law, shuttle pilots Joel and Wanda, will be allowed to have the first baby born on the moon, it is cause for ...
Checkmate Featured
A 1500-year-old mystery. A warrior’s lost saga. A businesswoman’s fight to survive. 455 AD, Central India The marauding Svetahunas take prisoner Harshavardhan, a fearless warrior and a devoted son. In captivity he fashions a combat strategy with black and white pebbles, waiting for the day when the Svetahunas and his people face-off in battle—a war that will determine the future of ancient I ...
The Girl Who Found Joy Featured
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Pineapple Disco Featured
SECRETS OF THE PAST ARE UNRAVELING IN PINEAPPLE PORT...
"Just the right amount of wit, humor and bad buys/gals to keep me reading to the very end, and it has a cracking good mystery, too. I loved the wacky characters of the Pineapple Port community, and who knew a 55 and over community could be so exciting? Dang, now I gotta go back and read the ones I've missed... Highly recommende ...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Edge-of-your-seat thrills, touches of ...
A Convenient Death (An Eden Mystery) Featured
Two murders—too many suspects. When Tracy Andrews, the promiscuous night clerk at the Eden Quick-Mart, is murdered along with an elderly customer, there’s no shortage of suspects. But when Eden police detective Jo Valentine takes a closer look at the elderly man killed with Tracy, what she doesn’t find surprises her. *The books in the Eden mystery series do NOT have to be read in order.
Desert City Diva Featured
In this third installment of the award-winning series, guitar-playing detective Rolly Waters investigates a secret code hidden in a curious one-string guitar, connecting it to alien artifacts, bohemian desert dwellers, and a hidden cache of gold. Can he solve the musical puzzle and save his newest client from the suicide cult trying to claim her?
A destitute young man. Wanted dead by a criminal mastermind. Will he prove to be the downfall of the psychopath? Dylan Roche is shocked. The twenty-five-year-old management trainee is astonished by the visit of an attorney. After years of blissful ignorance of his heritage, he is leery of the invitation to visit his wealthy maternal grandmother. Wishing his mother was alive to advise him, Dy ...
Lost in Little Havana Featured
Each brush with death Makes their shared desire harder to ignore Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez her whole life. When his partner is gunned down in a Miami Beach nightclub, she has a new secret to keep. Trey can’t know that she’s working for Internal Affairs—just like he can’t know that she’s always loved him. But when their lives are on the line, she ha ...
The Other Murder Featured
Sometimes, the most dangerous thing . . . is the truth. For disgraced cable news producer Hannah Hawthorne, covering the shooting of a pretty NYU sophomore is a chance for redemption. When the story snowballs into a media circus, Hannah’s reporting fans the sensationalistic flames and earns her acclaim. The tragic murder prompts protests and vigils that further magnify the story. Meanwhile, ...
The Girl Who Was Forgotten Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.”— ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Police detective Jen Dillon has a lot on her plate. Between finding a brutal serial killer who is preying on her city’s women and raising a son on her own, she doesn’t have time for a man. But when FBI Special Agent Will Anderson joins the hunt for the killer, she starts to reconsider. Will’s focus is on the killer. He believes him to be the son of a serial killer he caught years before. But wh ...
The Girl Who Saw the Truth Featured
A thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
The team at the Loggerhead Inn—the perfect family of troubled mercenaries searching for redemption—are left to pick up the pieces after their leader's murder.
Shee and Mason go undercover to investigate who's using a local port for nefarious dealings. After a shark-ravaged body washes ashore ...
The Girl Who Killed You Featured
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - the most fun you can have holding a Kindle Reader!
When Mick and his retired military gun-for-hire “fixer” service is hired by a United States Senator to find his missing son, he enlists the help of his daughter, Siofra “Shee” McQueen. An experienced tracker, Shee quickly ...
A Murdered Professor. A Priceless Manuscript Stolen. A Journalist Caught in the Crossfire. This was not the reunion James envisioned. His friends are squabbling and keeping secrets. At the centre of the drama is a medieval manuscript. Moments after James discovers a secret code on the pages of the manuscript, a hooded figure murders a professor and steals the manuscript from Oxford University. Whi ...
Black's Beach Shuffle Featured
The first novel in the award-winning mystery series from "A powerful new voice on the crime-fiction scene" Rolly Waters is a recovering rock musician and part-time private eye. One night his band performs at a blowout party for EyeBitz.com, a fast-rising Internet startup that has the city of San Diego talking. When Rolly returns after hours to retrieve his guitar from the host’s mansion, he finds ...
When you hear the word “criminal”, what comes to mind? A cold-blooded killer? A professional burglar? Perhaps someone peddling drugs? People who indulge in illegal activities everyday. But sometimes it’s just regular Joes like you and me. Men and women who do honest work, staying within the limits of the law, until one day they can’t take it anymore and they commit a crime. But what is it that mak ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted time travelers bent on destroying humanity.
She doesn't remember ...
Pineapple Cruise Featured
When Mariska trades the brisket she won at “meat bingo” for three tickets on the new Gulf Voyager cruise ship, she, Darla, and our detective Charlotte enjoy a ladies' cruise to Key West. But when passengers start dropping like anchors, they find themselves afloat in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico...and a murder mystery.
Charlotte notices th ...
Pineapple Trivia Night Featured
The Pineapple Port crew have quick minds and slow pets in the latest Pineapple Port Mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
Enter the series at any book - each is a complete standalone mystery!
Newly engaged private investigators, Charlotte and Declan, are hired to go undercover in a high-stakes trivia contest at the castl ...
Echoes Featured
“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michel Foucault In 1999, the Kahuna was The Man on Oahu’s west coast. The coolest guy at the wildest parties, with the coolest posse, the best weed and the most beautiful girlfriend. Then he disappeared. Fifteen years later, that girlfriend is no longer a high school senior. She is FBI Special Agent Vane ...
Poison Featured
Wesley Dawson and Ali Jenson once again team up to solve a brutal murder that leads them down a dark and twisted path. As they delve deeper into the investigation, Dawson and Jenson realize that the case is more complex than they could have ever imagined. They are forced to confront their own fears and demons as they race against time to catch the killer before they strike again. With tension m ...
A Honeybun and Coffee Featured
Surprised into hiding in a men's room stall at work, Angie Peterson, owner of the Dunk and Run Coffee Shoppe, overhears two men talking about killing someone named Alastair Honeybun. Picturing a frail, helpless old Englishman, Angie rushes to warn him. There's only one, small problem, Alastair Honeybun is six foot two inches of yummy man, who's perfectly capable of taking care of himself. But when ...
A strong fateful wind blows Phoebe Clay, a multi-lingual espionage agent for the US government, from her assignment in Sri Lanka to the Oregon coast on a rescue mission. Her Great Aunt Helen's text about a historic family catastrophe has Phoebe hopping on the next plane home. On arrival, she discovers the disaster is just a missing family cat. Now she must decide: return to duty and complete her u ...
A wronged assassin seeks revenge.
A global conspiracy unfolds against America.
Dan Roy is an elite black ops warrior. The kind Washington looks to when all avenues are closed, and action is the only option.
But in his latest mission, Dan uncovers a plot that threatens to destroy him, and everything he has ever believed in...
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An art historian finds – then loses – a portrait by Johannes Vermeer in this thrilling art mystery set in Munich, Heidelberg, and Amsterdam. When Zelda Richardson investigates a new lead about a missing portrait by Johannes Vermeer, no one expects her to actually find the painting in a retired art dealer’s home in Munich, Germany. Not her parents visiting from America; her boss, private detective ...
Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re searching for a missing girl and the ruthless killers who snatched her. The girl: gone A teenage girl is boldly kidnapped from her school, ...
When Lalla and her dad take a trip to Arizona to inspect her new property, Dad disappears. Panicked that he's lost in the desert, Lalla enlists the help of a local tracker and finds him unharmed at the bottom of a mine pit. But dad has company. A very dead local police chief. And within a stone's throw, a young artist will be found strangled in her bed. What're the chances that these two murder ...
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Every day, Sissy goes to the same restaurant at the same time and orders the same thing. No one knows why. Until the day a stranger from a mysterious, haunted town arrives. And nothing will be the same.Jared Pearce never wanted to go to the moon. After a twenty year career with NCIS, he thought he would become a small town cop. But Sequent Mining recruited his wife Karen with her PhD in Geology. And to entice her, they offered him an "obscene" salary to become chief of Lunar Enforcement. The worst thing any of his officers deal with is a drunken brawl. Then an unattended death turns out to be mu ...
Dani Silver is the daughter of a legendary old con artist Leroy Amadeus Logan.
After conning her fiancé out of 1.2 million dollars, she’s hoping he’ll come after her.
Dani is going to set up the first self-financed long cons. With old members of Leroy’s gang, and new members of her own, Dani’s out to pull of some of the most outrageo ...
What would you do if someone murdered your child, but the justice system let you down? Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in her boyfriend's flat. Despite the best efforts of the Crown Prosecution barrister, Sarah Newby, it seems possible that the boyfriend, David Kidd, may be acquitted. Should her family tolerate this? Or seek their own ...
Harlem is deadly cold the night private eye SJ Rook arrives home to find his own apartment building is a crime scene. With his pal NYPD Detective Archie Lin working the case, Rook join the investigation into the death of his neighbor. Nomie George was a gentle, unassuming city bureaucrat, with few friends and no apparent enemies. Could her lonely death be a suicide? Or might a brutal murderer be o ...
Ivan Sorokin is missing. Who wants him out of the picture—his wife, his business partner, or the stripper who holds his heart? Can grouchy food critic, Josie Tucker, unravel the puzzle with more twists than Lombard Street and find the missing software entrepreneur? Chinatown. Dim sum. Murder. Josie’s perfect ingredients for adventure.
Logan loses it all. Then her best friend’s charged with murder. Time’s running out and a deranged killer wants her dead....
Laurel Beacham made working solo a personal success story and is known for her nerve, instincts, and ability to do whatever necessary to return each priceless masterpiece safely intact. As the world’s leading art recovery expert, she’s thwarted more heists than the average law enforcement professional. Museums applaud her skills. Thieves admire the cunning way she operates. Her last job landed ...
When former football player turned etiquette author, Edward Harlow, arrives at Inglenook Resort to give a lecture about all things genteel, the discovery of a corpse in the guest room next door sends his ordered world spinning out of control. His loyal secretary and brother, Nicholas, scrambles to keep the author's reputation unsullied by this ultimate breech in manners, but soon the investigat ...
Janet Ennis tragically died five years ago in what the police labeled an accidental fire. But Janet’s mother, Nora, believes it to be murder and arson. And she’s hoping ex-cop Michael McLaren can prove it quickly, for she’s losing her memory to dementia. As McLaren pokes through the case details, he becomes emotionally involved with the dead woman. Yet, Janet isn’t the only person who threatens me ...
Peter, a brain-injured veteran with a motive, is arrested for murder. The victim bullied Peter throughout his youth, and, on the night of the murder, he discovered the bully stole his fianceé while Peter served overseas. Detective Luca leads the investigation but believes the marine's inability to recall events on the fateful night are injury related and not an attempt by Peter to hide the ...
Captain Hunter believed watching Tessa Scott’s children for one night would be an easy assignment while she traveled to the airport in Reno to pick up her parents. What he hadn’t considered was how much they resembled miniature, domestic terrorists. The former Delta officer discovers, outmaneuvering the Taliban was child’s play compared to keeping three kids from falling victim to a group of not-s ...
In the space of one moment, the night turns from joy to confusion…. How did it happen? How were they all robbed, at once… without anyone seeing a thing? When Vancouver’s elite convenes in the prestigious Four Seasons Hotel to celebrate and fund the new British Columbia Children’s Hospital, it is a night of free flowing champagne, high class regalia and more flash than a m ...
They call me an abomination. A mutant. A curse on their kind. I don’t let it bother me. Much. My name is Holly James, and what they say is true. I’m a freak of nature—a null. My mere presence zaps the magic from Others, rendering them powerless. That’s why they hate me. But here’s the kicker: I’ve found a way to profit from my lack of mojo. Whether it’s ac ...
A missing sister. Her lying twin. Their estranged father. Her brother doesn’t know where to turn or whom to trust. Attorney JD Thompson leaves his practice in a small town to trace his sister across Texas. He can’t believe she would run away. She was always the good twin, something the story of her twenty years, the friends who aren’t, and the enemies who might be now call into question. An attemp ...
A murdered business partner. A hundred million dollars. A client who claims his innocence. Coop’s client is a renowned scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. The pending charge is the murder of his business partner, and a hundred million dollars provides the motive. As an arrest looms, the desperate client seeks Coop’s help to uncover the real murderer. All evidence points to the mild-man ...
Agnes Lockwood is no stranger to crime scenes, but even she is shocked when she finds the body of a man lying on the floor of the ladies' room. With her partner Alan - the local DCI - they set about tracking the murderer. This time, they are joined by her friend Sandra. But is one of them holding back something that could further their inquiry? As Agnes begins to pull the loose ends together ...
An investigative reporter, she’s tough and smart. Her husband, a hardnosed homicide detective who won’t give up. The first corpse, a Realtor found murdered in a vacant house, her body decomposing, her mind adrift. A freelance crime scene photographer, who saw it through the eyes of a Tarantula Hawk. Outside the box of King and Koontz, it’s one of a new breed of mystery thrillers. As seen on NBC. D ...
A GRIPPING, SUSPENSEFUL LAS VEGAS THRILLER Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re hunting for a killer. The girl When a beautiful, young girl is killed in the high-roller Pleasur ...
A Realtor, she’s smart and intuitive. A private investigator finds her uncle dead in his home. Haunted by the uncle’s bizarre past, Lance Underphal, a friend and freelance photographer steps in. With the help of Lance’s dead wife, serial killers are exposed. Outside the box of King and Koontz, it’s one in a new breed of mystery thrillers. As seen on NBC. Dark. Different. Cinematic. A murder myster ...
It's mystery and murder, suburban scandal and little league baseball! Sexy and a bit snarky, Open Season is full of small town crazy and more suspects than can fit in a dug out. Here's the pitch... (ha ha) Little league head coach Wayne Savage is at the top of his game. A big personality with a bigger ego, he's both respected and reviled by a good many players, parents and coaches. But love him or ...
Solving crimes and chasing bad guys is what Cassie Hart does best ... on paper. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect to do it in reality. Sean Hedley and Neil Armstrong both have ulterior motives for trekking into a rainforest with Cassie. Bullets fly and she is left with partial amnesia, wondering who is friend and who is foe. But who is she, and why would someone want her dead?
Wildfires swept across California wine country in 2017, destroying thousands of homes and businesses and killing dozens of people. Law school grad and single mother Tara Rezeck finds herself in the middle of the catastrophe. She has to evacuate with the rest of of the staff of Sonoma's most award-winning winery. When she returns, she finds her employer’s body in the ashes. The question that challe ...
When Elizabeth Grant sees her childhood friend, she is thrown into a world of secret societies laced with conspiracies. Elizabeth has been plagued with visions since the disappearance of Loralie. When she returns to the small town of her childhood, she’s unaware that she’s walking into the middle of what killed her friend. Unknown to the rest of the world, T ...
My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer's bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me. Fifteen years later, I'm back where it all happened. I just want to forget, but the past won't leave me alone. Now, I'm asking a woman who I left broken-hearted twenty years before to catch my wife's killer. I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic priest, and I'm playing with fi ...
The perfect family… The perfect murders… A family massacred. A village in mourning. Can anyone sleep safely while a killer is on the loose? Laura Percival, owner of The Stables, notices something wrong at her friend’s house when out on her morning ride. Further investigation reveals scenes she’ll never forget. While the police are quick to accuse, Laura is less so, defending those around her as sh ...
A collection of short stories, "A Therapeutic Death", blends mystery, crime, noir, and comedy. The pace is fast. The work mixes micro-fiction with longer pieces. This book is a heartfelt examination of life after war, while remaining a page-turningly-fun read. The violence is raw. The comedy is laugh-out-loud funny. The prose is tight and well-constructed. This entertaining collection will leave t ...
She fought to leave her past behind her, but for Charlotte, there is no escape. New Orleans Homicide Detective, Charlotte Pierce, was on the hunt for a sadistic serial killer who was known for slicing his prey, when she nearly became his ninth victim. In an effort to leave her past behind her, she walked away from her profession to start a new life, until a copycat killer hit too close to home. No ...
One woman’s quest for revenge unearths a fatal secret from her past. Astrid Jensen holds one man responsible for her mother’s suicide, and she’ll do whatever’s necessary to get close to Daniel Holst and destroy his life – even if it means sleeping with him to gain his trust. Astrid knows he’s not who he pretends to be. But before she can reveal his dark secret, people from her mother’s past start ...
No good deed goes unpunished as Gracie Andersen, owner of Milky Way Kennels learns. Who knew offering hospitality and volunteering at the library would land her in a murder investigation? A valuable Civil War knife, one very frozen body, some "funny" accounting, and a mysterious stalker are adding up to big trouble for the Deer Creek Library. Gracie is determined to track down the murderer during ...
After a tiresome year of computer programming, Zelda Richardson is back on the road – destination Panama and Costa Rica. Learning to scuba dive, exploring Central American rainforests, and climbing a volcano sounded like the perfect antidotes to Seattle’s spring rains. When a banana farmer tells her about the Disquís spheres he found on his property, she can’t resist going to the site. Her visit p ...
A missing baby. A teenage mother suspected of murder. A jaded detective whose reputation is on the line. A signing gorilla destined for the auction block. A scientist who is about to lose everything. Will the revelation that a gorilla is the only witness to the crime save or doom everyone involved? The character of Neema, the fictional signing gorilla, in this series is based largely on everything ...
When Special Agent Finnegan O'Reilly gets shot, and the news brings on his father’s heart attack, he decides to take leave from further undercover assignments. The O'Reilly has suffered enough and Finn can’t be the cause of more distress for this beloved old rascal. Then his boss forces one more case on him - to take place in their own pub. Acting as the target to expose serial, suicid ...
Everything seemed to be going fine in their lives; at least, that's what it seemed like from one's perspective. Despite them being strippers at the local strip club, The Kitten’s Purr, that group of friends and peers were living a great life. They were making money; they were happy to be alive, living day after day with each other; and, nothing seemed to bother their peace. But, just when everythi ...