"A moody, enveloping crime thriller." (SPR Editorial Review)An 'Amazon Hot New Releases' NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER!----------------------------------------------------A Murderer on the Loose.A Detective Haunted by the Past.A Race Against Time.DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire...
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Ex-Special Forces operator Tom Keeler is a rambling man. He’s just passing through the town of Alencourt, France, and in less than an hour, someone tries to kill him. Nice place, nice try.But it’s a case of mistaken identity, and they picked the wrong guy.The French police can’t be trusted,...
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2023 WINNER OF "READER'S FAVORITE" PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SILVER AWARD_____________________________________________________________________________WHEN FRANK DEVLIN WALKS INTO JUSTIN WRIGHT'S OFFICE, the renowned New York City clinical psychiatrist makes the decision to take on one of the most...
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2020 KINDLE BOOK AWARDS SEMI-FINALIST - HORROR/SUSPENSE https://www.thekindlebookreview.net/2020-kbr-winners/ When Wade Rooker gets a confidential referral to an Achievement Seminar, he thinks it may be a great chance to help him move up the professional food chain. But soon after the conference...
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Cancer survivor Hannah Ives looked Death in the eye . . . and walked away victorious. But the terror she once felt in its shadow pales before the ice-cold fear that now grips her heart in the wake of an unthinkable crime: the kidnapping of Hannah's innocent grandson.One-year-old Tim...
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It’s our planet. But it’s their war...On New Year's eve 2022, unknown flying objects appear over Europe and ignite an inferno of violence among themselves. Debris from one of the spacecraft falls on Athens, turning the city center into a smoking crater.The destroyed remnant of the former...
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FAITH FRANKLIN IS BACK! If you've gotten to know Faith in the 1st four "Slice of Paradise" stories and you're hungry for more...IT'S TIME! Join her in her 5th adventure, Pecan Flan Murder Plan! It's gonna be "Flan-tastic!" Faith Franklin is over the moon about the grand opening of Paradise Falls, a...
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'Tis the season to be suspicious.Christmas is a time for families and friends to come together and celebrate love. But when Becky Stratton receives a mysterious package, strange things begin to happen. The small town of Sanctuary is known for its secrets, and this one hurls Becky and her family...
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Village Fetes can be murder.When Fi's electrical powers cause her to be fired from her job, the last thing she wants to do is help the Witches', Wizards' and Warlocks' Institute host the annual Halloween Fete. But when a judge collides with her, she's thrown into a murder investigation...as the...
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Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very different theme. "The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard" is a volume collecting 8 short stories first published in 1896 by George Newnes Ltd. Other Brigadier Etienne Gerard's stories were collected in...
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Serialized in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 through April 1902, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the third of the Sherlock Holmes crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."The Hound of the Baskervilles" is a brilliantly written mystery set on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West...
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Bravery, courage, fear, treachery and love in a time of war.A chance meeting draws Sabine Faure into the shadowy world of the French Resistance. Whilst acting as courier she meets four youths of her own age who wish to also join the Resistance. She is drawn to one in particular, Hérisson, who...
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New for the Secret Library cozy mystery series!Laura Lee and her friends are helping Mrs. Thornberry host a charity event for the local hospital. The dinner is a flurry with music, dancing, and celebrity guests. Everything seems to be going splendidly, including healthy donations piling in, until...
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*** Best Suspense Novel - 2021 New York City Big Book Awards ****** 1st Runner-up - 2021 TopShelf Magazine Book Awards ***"In all the psychological thrillers I've read, never have I come across a creepier predator than Duke, trained by his even creepier father." "The creepiness quickly evolves into...
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Emotions run high when a Dublin language school becomes the focus of a murder inquiryA young woman’s lifeless body is found in an old shed on the banks of Dublin’s Royal Canal.When detectives find out that the victim is Spanish, attention falls on the language schools in the area.With her...
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"I start with zero. Nobody dies today."The strange note delivered to Howard County, Maryland Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller proves to be a warning shot. Soon Peller and his protégés Detective Sergeants Corina Montufar and Eric Dumas are pursuing a cunning killer basing murders on the Fibonacci...
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‘After the pandemic, people hugged, friends and families reconnected, but a few short years later we were back to shooting each other.’David Miller is an amnesiac war veteran struggling to put the pieces of his life back together and adjust to civilian life in 2049's PortCity.His life is turned...
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First published in 1905, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The novel is the first in a series of tales that follows the fictional main character infamously known as the Scarlet Pimpernel.The story is set at the time of the French Revolution, which occurred in the latter...
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The grim discovery of a body brings up a past that threatens to rip a community apart.Whilst a farmer is tearing up trees near the boundary of a reclusive commune in the Welsh hills, he unearths the remains of a man, clearly buried years ago.DI Winter Meadows grew up within this unusual community...
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First published in The Strand Magazine in September 1917, "His Last Bow" is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle and the final work in his classic mystery series about the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes.Unusual for a Sherlock Holmes story, “His Last Bow” is a short spy story as...
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Meredith is a divorced empty-nester who bakes brownies for cash. In her tiny rural town of Merryville, the last thing she expects is to stumble upon a dead body. But that’s what happens.And what’s worse is she dreamt about it the night before it happened. To avoid being a suspect, she must...
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A small-town Christian cozy mystery with a hint of romance.Freshly opened and ready to go.Bailey has high hopes for her new sand art store. To complement the grand opening, she enters the Whelk Island Sandcastle Competition hoping to showcase her artistic talent. Everything is going great until...
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Devious developers. A web of lies. A fatal flaw.Nurse Christie Taylor quits her job to care for her cantankerous father. But her decision to return home puts her in direct conflict with the Webster Group—developers who won’t take no for an answer. When Pop’s old friend, Curtis Altgelt, finds...
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Is “Confessions of Eden" drawn from today’s headlines, or are the headlines drawn from what little is visible of Eden’s highly classified footprints?WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Spy ThrillerWINNER: Literary Titan Book Awards - Gold Medal~~~“For fans of crime and espionage...
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He’s already murdered eight women. Now, he’s coming for me.We find her on a grey November day on Dartmoor, England.I’m excavating a Bronze-Age cairn, expecting to find a burial urn and maybe some bronze tools if I’m really lucky. And then I see her fingers poking through the soil as if...
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A posh hotel, guests with secrets to hide and a mysterious dead body.Ivy Stone is excited to begin her first day as a maid at London’s Hotel LaFontaine, but from the moment she arrives, nothing goes as planned. She insults a guest, is snubbed by the other maids, and finds a dead body, all before...
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Scrumptious sprinkle cake, bookstore chickens, and seeing double...Third in the Belle Harbor Cozy Mystery series!Tilly Griffin is on top of the world. With her newfound freedom in quaint Belle Harbor she is learning to love life again. Her plans for an epic birthday bash for her cherished and kooky...
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The ice is melting. The fuse is burning.Nashville's pro hockey team is on the verge of unveiling their brand-new arena. But celebrations turn to terror as a string of bomb threats and fan-related crimes send fear rippling through the city.Whispers point to a shadowy fringe group on the city's east...
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THE PRICE OF NORMALCYHoping to cure his curse and return to his fiancée, Jason Wolfe agrees to command a corporate monster-hunting unit. But the team isn’t exactly what he had in mind…A priest, a ninja, a zombie, and a guy who looks like he should be working crew on the carny circuit. To be...
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When a trip to Scotland ends in tragedy, travel guide Lana Hansen must sleuth out who murdered her guest before she ends up paying the piper.Lana hasn't seen her ex-husband, Ron, since their divorce was finalized eight months earlier. So when they bump into each on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, she...
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"GREAT START TO A NEW SERIES!""EXCELLENT READ."************* A body is reported lying on an isolated country road. The Stone County Sheriff's Department sends out its newest homicide investigator - Dan Cutter. Cutter discovers a baffling scene that leaves him with few clues and no obvious motive....
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The annual Chestnut Fair brings visitors from far and wide to the sleepy village of Trecchina. This year, one will be coming to die.The moment Vanda Riccardi makes the grisly discovery in the forest, a blow to the head knocks her cold. By the time rescuers find her, the corpse is gone. Did she...
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Murder, mystery, mayhem, dragons--and mutants!If anyone can tell the difference between monsters and humans, it's Dahlia Nite. For nearly a century, she's hunted one to protect the other; safeguarding humanity from the creatures that slip through the torn veil between the worlds--creatures like...
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Cold-brewed Murder.Barista, Paige Palmer has escaped the drudgery of academia and is settling into what she hopes will be a drama-free, ordinary life in the small New Hampshire town of Dunforth. Things go awry for her, however, when a stranger comes in for coffee and leaves her with a puzzling...
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INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESSWith his time as the Blue Wolf winding down, Jason knows well the dangers of looking past the next mission. And Legion has just been called to its most challenging one yet.In a closed kingdom in Southeast Asia, a town of 5,000 people has disappeared from the map. Victims...
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Secrets and scandal are the spices of this cruise when Classic Style Network chooses the Helio as the location for a cut-throat cooking competition, and it’s up to Kennedy to keep things from boiling over. Old and new friends are also on this mouth-watering cruise: the Gents from Breezy Bayou...
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From the streets of Mexico to mountains of Wyoming, Juan Velasquez does what is needed to survive and to prosper.His belief in the rule of law is trumped by his belief in the pursuit of justice, a trait that is passed down to his daughter, Elizabeth, and his granddaughter, Elaina.Assassination...
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WHERE THE DEAD WON’T DIEDays from a cure for his lupine curse, Jason takes an urgent mission.A medieval invader has returned to a remote corner of Eastern Europe. Backed by seven undead knights and a zombie horde, Lord Drago threatens the region’s oldest province with ghastly force.Drochia is...
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Walker West is in trouble. Caught in a dangerous explosion, he saves a woman from death, only later to discover that she is under arrest for murder.Determined to help her, West faces danger, the challenging control of his wealthy Aunt Agatha, and a group of suspects who are even more angry at him...
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Here is a selection of tales that fit the "pulp crime" theme to perfection. They feature private investigators, police officers, and even everyday men and women pushed into extraordinary situations. From lowly bars to city streets to suburbia, no place is safe from the pulp crime writer -- and here...
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