Africa Mystery

Taz is the ruthless leader of an elite group of bandits who rule the streets of Oklahoma City. No one has met the mysterious boss who gives them their orders via laptop, but the arrangement works for everyone involved. Their criminal enterprise keeps them rolling in dough, allowing them to purchase property and businesses all over town. When Taz falls in love with Sacha, an ambitious young lawyer, he makes an unexpected enemy. Cliff, another lawyer at the firm, wants Sacha for himself, and he'll stop at nothing to win her back from the thug she's with.

The year is 1994, and South Africa is in political turmoil as its first democratic election looms. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence, traumatized artist Yolanda Petersen returns from the Appalachian foothills to the land of her youth at the behest of her mother. While there Yolanda longs to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Ingrid, the product of an illegal mixed-race affair with a white man. But Ingrid is missing, and as Yolanda quickly discovers, she isn’t the only woman in Cape Town desperate to protect her own.

"Dizzy & Gillespie" unfolds as an emotionally rich mystery, intertwining the lives of a devoted daughter and her aging mother. Within their once-grand, now-fading New York City apartment, they face the relentless challenges of poverty, the encroaching tides of gentrification, and the relentless passage of time. Their bond, tested by life's struggles and their community's transformation, finds a glimmer of hope with the arrival of two rescue kittens, Dizzy and Gillespie. However, the actions of a new neighbor soon set off a chain of events that will alter their lives forever. This story ...

An Agatha Christie style mystery meets Isabel Allende. 1846. In the heat of West Africa, the French navy uncovers the corpses of two French soldiers. Inspector Maurice Leroux arrives at the island of Gorée. It seems death has come to this small colonial outpost off the Senegal coast, home to the prosperous mixed-blood women known as the signares. The navy suspects that the Bambara people, emboldened by approaching emancipation, may be out for blood. While confronted by the locals’ strange magical beliefs, Maurice remains skeptical. Does malevolence play a part, or are these deaths ...

Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he can’t avoid it. All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia. A tape recording of a man’s death may finally help Houser make a case against the firm. Calling in Alexis Greenspan, a.k.a. Nina Coles, the top sales associate in the company, Houser is determined to use her to find out the company’s secrets.

Florida, 1955... Two men are missing. The sudden disappearance of Pete Demopoulos is front-page news. A bloody crime scene points to violence, and everyone wants to know what happened to the successful husband, father, and heir-apparent to his family's chain of grocery stores. Hucklebuck Jones is missing, too. When he's not doing odd jobs for pocket change, Hucklebuck, a Negro deaf mute, lives alone in the swamps. Despite his cheerful demeanor, Hucklebuck scares folks. His disappearance goes unnoticed. If only the truth were known. Maryland, 1960... Twinton County has never seen the likes ...

In the beautiful county of Luxaha on the coast of the Notaro Bay shores above the Tomosa river in the city of Winterly, Virginia sits the luxurious home of the wealthy African American Dorrance family who propitiously struck gold in the oil and gas industry. Inside the extravagant mansion covered on lush, opulent grounds—filled with amenity and high-end living—lies a dark secret waiting to become unfold. When Deane Dorrance arrives home one night to find that a seemingly accidental death had taken place on the staircase like the incident on the staircase that had taken place seven years...

In this follow up to Fatal Beauty emotions run high while tempers flare out of control. From the brutal actions of a woman scorned to the husband and mistress that drove her into rage- a binary fury savagely on the rise. Violent repercussions stir the pot of a dish on the menu called revenge that in this quandary is best when served either hot or cold. Nothing held back, and no one is spared from the deadly wrath of a mother hell-bent on payback for the vicious/malicious attack on her beloved daughter, Delilah Jaxon.

Aspen is an artist with a hidden talent one that goes beyond his paintbrush and easel. While he is successful in his work life as a cartoonist and comic book illustrator loved by both his sister Amiyah and his best friend Xander he suffers immensely in his personal life. Aspen has no luck with the ladies. Women that he finds interest in have no interest in him. They paint him out as one who they could not picture themselves with and there is no shortage to them expressing their unkindness and showing him their cruelness. Fed up with the constant mistreat and disrespect from the objects of ...

What is lurking in the clear waters of Lake Cahuilla in upstate White Oaks, New York? It seems when those that dive in for a cool splash or to take a rejuvenating swim, they do not always make it out of the loch alive. In such a lovely, inviting atmosphere there at the Backwater Summer Lake Resort And Water Park- where there is luxury lodging at the Red Brick Villa, luxury dining at the Lakeside Hideaway, luxury coffees and pastries at Cahuilla Lakeside Café, luxury entertainment and drinks at the Swinging Cahuilla Cocktail Lounge, luxury lake boat rides on the Brave-Waters Expedition, ...

Bambi is a trusted therapist who clients put their money and trust in. They share to her their innermost feelings and spill their deep darkest secrets. Bambi thought she had heard and seen it all until this one unusual client comes in for a session and manages to get inside to pick her brain. Bambi eventually starts to lose her grip and begins to wonder who the therapist is and who the client is. In a head game of truth and revelation, will this new client serve as a hard nut to crack- or will Bambi end up the one to crack up enough to kill?

A marriage made in heaven, or a marriage made in hell Ask Paisley Cresswell as she has taken one of her vows extremely seriously—until death we part. Paisley does not plan to stay around for bad or for worse or for in times of sickness or prospering health. Some people get married for love, some people get married for security, some people get married because of pressure from their family, and some people get married for show. Paisley got married to tie up loose ends. Yet at the end of a plan to cut all ties—a means to an end becomes a knot not so able to be loosely untied.

Welcome To the Tantalizing Tales Collection: Toya’s Titles of Terror, Treachery, And Suspense Shorties Volume Three--Enjoy the ride! Story One: The Demons Tricia Newman moves into her new apartment to find out that she is not the only one occupying residence there. At first, she believes she is just burdened by unwelcome four-legged guests of the rotund kind to find out something more sinister is lurking behind the scenes. Mice and rats are the least of Tricia’s problems when she discovers a host of monstrous creatures running around to horrifyingly wreak havoc and wrestle her into ...

In the picturesque suburb of Olney Ville, young mother Chloe Donnelly believes she has it all: a loving husband, a charming home, and an adorable baby boy named Jake. But when Jake begins to exhibit unsettling behavior—moments of uncanny awareness and whispered words in the night—Chloe’s idyllic world spirals into uncertainty. With mounting concerns for her son’s well-being, Chloe finds herself drawn into a web of family secrets, each thread unraveling truths that threaten to shatter her fragile reality. At the heart of it all is her mother-in-law, a woman whose seemingly sweet ...

Though surrounded by loved ones and friends Arlette Bardot feels old, lonely, and bored with her life. Filled with nostalgia she yearns for the times of long ago when her beauty reigned, and she blossomed in her youth. Perceiving herself as burnt out and over the hill Arlette seeks rejuvenation in the wrong place. A mystical remedy to cure her discontentment teaches her a lesson about searching out of her zone for restoration in a tabooed setting. Arlette learns too late that she should have been grateful for the life she already had instead of chasing behind a fleeting illusion that ...

Welcome To the Tantalizing Tales Collection: Toya’s Titles of Terror, Treachery, And Suspense Shorties Volume Four In this fourth volume and final installment there are four entertaining tales— in the beginning, find out what happens to the characters from the first story in volume three before the chapters enter and develop into its own addictive chaos. Afterward, two more tormenting tales to indulge in. Enjoy the ride! Story One: Ersha’s Eyes Haunted by puzzling, cryptic, tormenting visions Ersha Bigelow becomes a victim of circumstance. Something chillingly hovers over her in the ...

Welcome To the Tantalizing Tales Collection: Toya’s Titles of Terror, Treachery, And Suspense Shorties Volume Two In Volume two of this series two separate stories take place—the first a continuation from Book one that moves into its own tale of torture. And the second, a standalone that moves in line with another one of its own quirks and craziness. Enjoy the out of the ordinary ride! Tale One: Secret Admirer Bryce Brandon has found the love of his life—the only woman for him—but someone else is looking to take this lovely lady’s place. Watching and waiting behind the scenes for ...

The Bledsoe Clan- Occult Power in The Bloodline From Caul births to the calling of the Orishas into the pathways of the Yoruba religion to the mystical powers that inhabit the universe. Festivity, food, fashion, creative celebratory culture. Living a lifestyle aligned to their nature. Unorthodox, unapologetic, and unafraid. Wishing well are wishes that come true as they do for Emery Bledsoe. In her rich culture and heritage, she learned early what she was able to do. The enigma to attract what she wanted had uncannily come as an advantage throughout her unusual, extraordinary life. In what ...

From the horrors that occurred from behind bars to the unexpected danger that lies ahead Keiran is in for more than his psyche will allow him to handle while he is on the verge of losing control in this gripping shocking psychological thriller. Out on parole after twelve years of serving time for a mistake during his youth, Keiran George struggles to find work and restart his life. With the support of Freya Cassius—his new girlfriend—and psychiatrist—Dr. Jahmir Yael, Keiran tries to move on and forget about the past but old wounds come back to haunt and disturbingly unfurl. Just when ...

Who is murdering the young students that attend Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita Preparatory School? As the bodies mysteriously build up shock and scandal erupt on the grounds of a private parochial school affiliated with the neighboring church and convent that serve and inspire the community. Is the killer the obvious suspect or the one that everyone least expects committing these awful, brutal crimes? Will the true killer escape capture? Or will the innocent person pay the penalty for the sins of another? Or could it just be the one suspected at the start the true murderer there right ...