American Detective

IT IS HER DESTINY TO DIE. CAN SHE CHANGE IT? A letter shatters her world. A sacrifice she isn’t willing to make. A man with an agenda of his own. Felicia Wingate has her life planned. She’s going to work with underprivileged children. Until she receives a letter on her twenty-first birthday that sends her careening into the dark belly of evil. Hunted by a fanatical cult leader, she finds herself on the run with her mother, a woman she just met. During their flight, Felicia discovers that friends are not what they seem, and that her birth father is hunting her to further his own evil ...

Métis journalist Leo Desroches has just been released from jail. Fortunately for him, he is re-hired at the paper to write a popular column about crime. It’s summer; the city is hot and buzzing with mosquitoes, and it’s on track for a record number of homicides. Called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city, Leo witnesses some rocks falling out of the body bag, and he picks them up. At first he believes they are crack cocaine but discovers that the rocks are really rough diamonds.

A relentless gang war is the key to a shocking secretThe year is 1950. After graduating from college, Dapper Luoo stands at a crossroads. His parents want him to work in the family business, but he still dreams of becoming a private eye. Los Angeles is in turmoil. Mobster bosses Mickey Cohen and Jack Dragna are battling each other for control of the city’s underworld rackets, and Dapper is drawn into the fray when he’s given the unenviable task of finding a Chinese gang leader’s missing son. As Dapper gets closer to the truth, family secrets are laid bare, and he’s made privy to an ...

What does a woman have to do to prove she belongs in the paranormal world called The Undercity? Sure, Babylonia Delilah Jones is unclassed and only half paranormal, but that doesn’t mean she can’t compete with the big bad boys and solve cases too. Since the established Private Investigators of The Undercity won’t acknowledge her right to a territory, she’s decided the only way to prove herself is to take the dangerous jobs from whoever is willing to hire her. That means working for a witch to spy on Zaid, the Head of the Vampire House. Baby can hear flowers sing, can make grass grow...

Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives, she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random, to right and left, was trivial and distracted. Yet, the dinner was an unimportant one. It had been given with an eye more to the menu than to the guest list, which was characteristic of Natalie's mental processes.

England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues.

When Claire Fontaine learns that her ex-husband, Simon, is marrying again, to a woman with a teenage daughter, her blood runs cold. She is sure that years ago Simon molested her own daughter and was responsible for her mysterious death. She can't let him get away with it a second time. Vandalism, harassment; whatever it takes, Claire will expose him. Simon doesn't know where Claire got this delusion from; her daughter's death was ruled a suicide, but she has always blamed herself - is she just lashing out?

Shadows of Truth By Harold and Carmen Laski They thought their days of danger were behind them. They were wrong. Gabriel Santiago and his wife Isabella had planned to leave their investigative days behind, but when a desperate whistleblower exposes a pharmaceutical giant’s deadly secret, they are thrust back into a world of danger and deception. As they pursue a trail that spans continents—from the sunlit streets of Miami to the shadowy corridors of power in Europe—they uncover a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of global finance, politics, and corporate greed. With every ...