Mystery-Crime
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Man Who Came Back 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 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 ...
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 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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "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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Enter the series at any book - each is a complete standalone mystery!
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Enter the ...
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 ...
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!
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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!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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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?
Pineapple Lies Featured
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As an orphan adopted by one of Florida's 55+ communities, Charlotte ...
Angel of Mercy Featured
Note to readers: All the Angel of Mercy Series books are standalone novels. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Girl Who Wants Featured
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Pineapple Disco Featured
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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 ...
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 ...
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Kilty As Hell Featured
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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USA Today Bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you murder, mayhem, and a second chance at love! Mystery, food, and a Siamese cat named after Miles Davis, too.
It's not easy doing Public Relations for Catmmando Tom, a famous cartoon cat. When they find a dead body at the foot of Catmmando ...
Miles O'Malley wants out of Christmas in the city. He rents a primitive cabin in the north woods of New York State, looking for peace quiet away from the incessant bell-ringing and endless ghastly songs. He's not expecting to stumble on a heinous crime, but when he does, his special forces training takes over. He's not expecting to find the love of his life, either, and he's much less efficient at ...
A stalker. A liar. A dead man. But which is which? A mysterious letter-writer causes havoc on the idyllic Bader University campus. After a professor receives numerous poison pen letters, more and more threatening in nature, Josie Tucker is on the case...grudgingly. All the grumpy food blogger wants is to be left in peace with her dog, her man, and her laptop. She certainly doesn't need her ...
One determined detective. One thorough medical examiner. And the serial killer that brings them together. Connecticut State Police Detective Wesley Dawson will stop at nothing until this maniac serial killer is locked up and put away for good. With bodies piling up and his older sister living on the streets, Wes refuses to let anything get in his way. The crimes are gruesome, and nobody is safe wi ...
Trust no one and keep running, or they will find you… When Liam, lead singer of The Fury, falls for enigmatic Bella, little does he know that she is hiding a dangerous secret. After a photograph of the couple, taken outside a London recording studio, circulates, Bella prepares to run. But Liam enlists the help of Stephanie and together, they uncover a crime within a crime, and Bella must decide wh ...
Where her daughter had played Gretel in front of a cheering audience, only two faint stage lights remained. The theater was deserted and eerily silent; the only sound she could hear was her own heart, pounding in a frenzy against her chest. She rushed outside and stopped sharply at the top of the stairs, stunned, her blood turned to icicles. Darkness had fallen, thick and filled with ocean mist, l ...
A brand new female vicar. An accident-prone nun. Two friends. Two killings. Annabelle and Mary are best friends. But when one gets framed for murder, can the other one save her? Assigned to St. Clement's Church in an inner-city borough just outside Hackney in London, Reverend Annabelle Dixon brings an enthusiasm and drive to her clerical position that baffles her mentor, Father John, but which soo ...
The Pineapple Port crew takes a road trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina, only to discover “body bits” in their vacation home. The nursing home next door is run by some suspicious characters and one of their residents is missing.
Hmm...
Former ADA Alastair Maddox pursues Prohibition Chicago’s most dangerous monsters after witnessing the deaths of his parents and grandparents as a boy. When a former colleague in Chicago PD comes to ask Alastair for help, he comes face to face with the mysterious Alexandra DeLane. But something’s off. DeLane is way too calm and her eyes are the color of blood. After she escapes, Alastair goes on th ...
1955. In the sleepy seaside town of La Jolla, CA, rookie cop Jake Stirling saves the life of infamous crime writer Raymond Chandler, earning the respect of his hard-nosed captain, Wade Lennox, who served with Jake’s father, a police detective whose suicide two years earlier shocked the town and shattered Jake's family. Jake gets called to the Hotel Del Charro, a luxury hideaway for the rich and ...
The brutal murder of her best friend sends Gwynn Reznick racing against the clock to find the assassins and stop a deadly conspiracy that threatens a catastrophic oil and gas disaster. Corruption, betrayal, murder and romance collide as horrifying events mount, and place Gwynn on the perpetrator’s radar—targeted for death.
MYSTERY, HISTORY, AND ADVENTURE ON THE OUTER BANKS! Where is Port Starbird? Read this quirky & engaging tale and find out! Friends help you move; best friends help you move the body! Storm 'Ketch' Ketchum, a damaged emigre to the coastal town of Avon on North Carolina's Outer Banks, likes to mind his own business and isn't any kind of detective - until he's forced to become one by extraordina ...
Trapped in a bunker in Ukraine's war zone with her family, five-year-old Vira is thrown into an adult world where terror awaits around every corner. Encouraged by her faith to be optimistic, Vira sees angels working for her good. A short story from the award-winning anthology "Children of War." Children of War is a fourteen-author-anthology created to support child survivors of war in Ukraine. If ...
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, ...
Her beautiful face, serene and immobile, resting on her folded arm. Her long, luscious hair, undulating gently in the evening breeze. Her eyes half-closed, a hint of a smile on her pale lips, as if to welcome an unseen lover.
When the body of a young woman is found in her own backyard, a week after her disappearance, evidence leads investigators to a chilling conclusion. Sh ...
Emma Rand can't understand people who consider the countryside a dumping ground for whatever they no longer want. Living on ten acres outside of Casper, Wyoming, she's seen everything from pets to appliances dumped along her fence line but when she spies something propped against her fence after a blizzard, she never expects to find a body. When the police investigation stalls, she and her husband ...
Accident? Or Murder?
Four years ago, Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller's wife Sandra died on a country road. The driver who rammed her car vanished without a trace, leaving police stunned and baffled. But it wasn't murder. It was a freak accident, and the statute of limitations has run out. Now a bungled robbery raises new questions. As Detective Sergeants Corina Montufa ...
Ah, Autumn! Crisp weather, colorful leaves, cozy fires, and Halloween, with candy, costumes and … corpses?! Newly-widowed Bunny Elder draws solace from the fall season as she recovers from the shock of her pastor husband’s accidental death. With a new home, new job and renewed relationships, she is groping her way to stability, only to be jerked off the healing path by the dead bodies and body ...
There’s more to this game than dodging paintballs… a killer is on the loose. Newly licensed private investigator Fen Maguire gets his next case — to investigate an extortion ring putting the squeeze on loggers in the piney woods of East Texas. Working undercover at a local university, Fen traces the clues to a neighboring county's championship paintball team. To prove it, he must first gain th ...
The sexually abused body of a young talented actress is discovered at Lake Mohegan, in wealthy Fairfield, Connecticut. Detective Frank Gianni’s sixth sense screams serial killer the minute he lays eyes on her. This erotically charged thriller calls upon the synergism of Detective Gianni and rookie Detective Brenda Corrino to find the killer before he strikes again. With the help of the new Medical ...
This simple job just went way off the rails. Lenny wants to get into the good graces of the guys who have connections. He's willing to do anything. His cousin, Eddie, sets him up with a simple job — drive a classic red convertible from Boston to Brooklyn. Nobody told him there would be a dog involved. Or a girl. And when the girl's husband shows up, Lenny is in way deeper than he ever wanted. It ...
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 ...
Holy Parrot is a captivating mystery that seamlessly weaves elements of culture, religion, science, and human emotion. Set in the idyllic Caribbean coast, the novel resonates with truths that may be lies and secrets potentially never revealed. Australian scientist, Leo, must either protect Maria and her astonishing claim or reveal the truth in his head-spinning tale of divine intervention.
What if you could talk to people from the past? Lincoln. Churchill. Gandhi. Your dead mother. Josh Brodsky is at the top of his game. At his new Silicon Valley job, he's on the verge of an invention that uses artificial intelligence to bring back the greatest leaders in history. But his top-secret code becomes encrypted by a devastating ransomware attack--was the malware planted by Josh's troubled ...
A Murdered Judge. A Dark Secret Silenced. Rookie reporter James Lalonde is bored. And, he isn’t a journalist. He’s an all-round dogs-body, to editor-in-chief, Rhys Kelly. But, his luck has finally changed. After eavesdropping in on the morning editorial meeting, James learns he has his first-ever story. There’s one catch. If the story gets too complicated, it will be taken away from hi ...
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 ...
Attorney Sabre Brown runs from a horrific assault and loses her memory of it with every step. When a dead man turns up in the same area, Sabre blames herself. Did she witness the murder? Or worse--did she kill him? Before Sabre and her private investigator, JP, can solve that mystery, a minor client, Angela, disappears near the murder scene. Sabre must find her. But as Sabre’s memory slowly return ...
Garrett and Tiffanie Bate had it all—youth, money, and a perfect marriage. Until Tiffanie is killed in a suspicious accident. Neither the police nor the insurance investigators can prove she was murdered and the case turns cold. Two years later the insurance company asks an intern—former college professor turned private eye Ray Courage—to reopen the investigation. He uncovers lit ...
As Georgie Shaw can tell you, it's not easy doing Public Relations for Catmmando Tom, a famous cartoon cat. When they find a dead body at the foot of Catmmando Mountain in Marvelous Marley World's Arcadia theme park it's a PR nightmare! Still, Georgie loves working at the "Cat Factory," but when someone frames her for murder more than her job is at stake. Who's out to get Georgie? Can she and the ...
Cooper Shaw lives his life under a pen name and enjoys the anonymity it provides during his journeys across the globe as a seasoned writer for a travel magazine. When his job lands him in his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts to cover the famous Festival of the Dead, he soon realizes that he can’t stay invisible forever as he faces ghosts from a past he’s been trying to forget ever since he left. ...
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 p ...
Twelve years gone… Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back. In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow... The family hasn’t given up their hope for revenge, or at least ...
From USA Today Best Selling Author Delta James comes a breathtaking series where history, romance, and the paranormal converge. He's a respected DSI with Scotland Yard; she's a dishonored history professor running from a scandal. Five years ago, Rachel Moriarty was caught up in gossip that resulted in losing her job as a tenured professor. She's in London, focusing on building her exclusive tour b ...
Jeff Frazier is a racehorse trainer whose talented colt has a bright future, until his horse becomes the motivation for murder. An elite jockey is killed, and the racing world is in chaos. When an innocent man is arrested, the fate of three families depends on finding the truth. As the trial date nears, the killer is torn between what he believes was a just murder and the morality of allowing an ...
In an action-packed tale of secrets and lies in small town America, Chet Walker is a man forced to make decisions that will affect his future and the life of the woman he loves. Witness to a car crash and in receipt of a cryptic message from a dying man, traveling musician, Chet Walker, reaches the picturesque lakeside town of Lucky Shores. He faces hostility and suspicion from the locals and lear ...