Angel Detective

If you look at any listing of the ten most important books of detective stories published in the United States, chances are you will find Uncle Abner on most of them. It is generally recognized as one of the most important contributions to American dectective fiction between Poe and Hammett. In fact, there are some critics who call it the single finest collecton of American detective stories ever written.

Deck the halls with wows of wicked! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! A romantic getaway to a posh spa with her devastatingly sexy boss seems like a Christmas miracle to FBI special assistant Amanda Meyer, but when you work for the bureau’s Paranormal Cases Division, disaster never takes a holiday. Bestselling author Carina Christien is dead, her apparent suicide covered up for a year. There’s no shortage of suspects, but this is one case that won’t be wrapped up neatly. Confessions ring false, intrigue runs high, but even a bevy of disgruntled ghostwriters is no match for the girl they call ...

El primer título de la serie Inspector Kurt Wallander, un personaje imprescindible del género policiaco. En este histórico primer encuentro con sus lectores, el inspector Wallander debe resolver un caso casi tan complicado como su vida personal.

'This book kept me up all night!! I just couldn't sleep until I finished the book. Realistic characters who are slightly flawed, just like the rest of us!' Amazon reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'This author has a wonderful way of grabbing you early in the book and compelling you to keep reading!' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'A very well written, interesting and emotive story. The characters are well thought out, flawed, interesting and could be your neighbours. A riveting read by a talented author.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It's every parent's worst nightmare… When my ...

Welcome to Stargaze, home to a secret community of friendly zombies—or are they? The Fall Gala is the crown jewel of the festival season in Stargaze, and Addie can hardly wait to help Aunt Kate host a charity tea and attend a fancy dinner with her not-quite-boyfriend, Bennett. But when the MC of the Gala turns up dead, Addie begins to uncover a plot to expose the secret supernatural community that includes her aunt and new friend Marvin. If that happens, the special local magic that gives Addie her psychic abilities and keeps her aunt alive will disappear forever. Now the race is on to ...

The arrest of a Finnish contract killer and the subsequent murder of an Edinburgh reporter seem unconnected—until a ghost from the past appears in the investigation. The horrors of past misdeeds in Northern Ireland, contract killers, military secrets and organised-crime feuds collide on the streets of Edinburgh and the Irish Republic, drawing Detective Grace Macallan into brutal score-settling on Dublin's streets and a life-or-death race against time.

‘On no consideration will I pay a penny.’ James Ronald, Stories of Crime & Detection Volume Five contains a novel, a novelette and a short story: The Dark Angel Elderly Elspeth Brownrigg devotes her life to supporting.an orphanage, but receives a letter threatening her with death unless she pays £5,000 within 48 hours. Elspeth calls in her nephew Norman who works for Scotland Yard and they liaise with the blackmailer, hoping to catch him in the act. This is unsuccessful, and soon the extortion expands to other persons who receive a similar letter from the same source, always signed by ...

To investigate the death of Griffin Knight’s old friend from the NYPD, he must trade the Windy City for the Miami heat. Opposing Griffin is the charismatic and ambitious leader of a deadly gang who seeks to expand beyond his tiny slice of Miami. While looking into his friend’s suspicious death, Griffin becomes embroiled in a complicated web of lies, a cold case, and a spate of road rage murders across the city. Who is behind them and how are they connected? Was his friend really murdered? Will the truth ever come to light? When the determined private detective faces off against an ...

In the clutches of a pervert, Daisy fights back 1967 in Swinging London. The Beatles had just released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park the hippies staged sit-ins to legalise marijuana. And even though she was blind since birth, it did not escape Daisy Hayes’ attention that “The times they are a-changin’…” But just as she reached middle-age and the height of her powers as an artist, Daisy was visited by a ghost from her past. An accomplice in an old story of revenge appeared at the opening of her new sculpture exhibition and made demands ...

It’s been years since the fragmented Mayweather clan was all in one place, but the engagement of Addison and Mason’s mom to the dad of their future stepbrother, Theo, brings the whole family to sunny Cancún, Mexico, for winter break. Add cousin Natalia to the mix, and it doesn’t take long for tempers to fray and tensions to rise. A week of forced family “fun” reveals that everyone has something to hide, and as secrets bubble to the surface, no one is safe from the fallout.

The city of Alyon is in trouble. Its citizens are turning into monsters. Not the good kind of monsters—terrifying, bloodthirsty, flesh-rending, citizen-killing monsters. When Grak’s favorite barkeep tells him that he will get a lifetime supply of free alcohol if he can figure out why the bar’s patrons are disappearing, Grak is on the case! Grak - Private Instigator is a humorous supernatural detective fantasy about a down-on-his-luck orc who solves crimes with his fists.

The first fatality in a bizarre series of killings is a Captain of the Second Life Guards, found in the River Thames with a war medal wedged between his teeth. Then a dead Egyptologist is discovered with a scarab clamped between his molars. When a young soldier is found dead in the saddle (this time a locket is the dying mouthful), Sholto Lestrade is forced to impersonate a barrack-room lawyer.

When Howie Cummins, Mick Brunner, and Adam Trexler open the MAC detective agency, they are determined to handle any case that comes their way. When their first customer comes through the door requesting they find her lost cat, the three young men initially feel that they could be investigating more important things. Little do they realize they are about to be thrown into a world filled with missing persons, lying relatives, theft, deceit, and a possible satanic cult.

Haley Dickens se entera de la muerte de su amor platónico del instituto, quien nunca le había tomado atención salvo el primer día de clases, un año atrás. El día después de su muerte, Haley no tendrá ni idea de que Tyler Ross estará junto a ella por azar del destino. ¿Por qué ella? Pues quizás porque juntos se complementan, quizás porque Haley es su ángel de la guarda y tiene la misión de traerlo a la vida. ¿Podrá conseguirlo? Ahora ya nada es lo mismo, las cosas han cambiado, las personas tampoco son las mismas.

This is Volume Two of Samuel Light, Spiritual Detective: The Angel Files Sam is a detective who specializes in helping people with supernatural, occult, or spiritual problems. Sam is given the toughest case of his life: discover the identity of a mystery girl that both he and his partner have fallen for, who the mysterious military organization that is after them is, and what in the heck is a hundred foot tall angel doing in the middle of Area 51. In this second book the heat is on for Samuel to get his act together. He is being pursued by his past, a secret government military organization...

Sharlene Gallagher's back. As a guardian angel in training, Sharlene is still learning the Guardian Code, but she has already learned one thing: Her cases always involve murder. It's her job to stop the murder before it happens. This time, though, her case is more complicated.

Grak is just an orc trying to get by. He also happens to be a private investigator. Who solves crimes with his fists. Join Grak on his many misadventures in this omnibus edition of the Orc PI series. Included in this complete edition are Grak - Private Instigator, Grak - Orc on Vacation, and Grak - Gnomercy. Grak - Private Instigator The city of Alyon is in trouble. Its citizens are turning into monsters. Not the good kind of monsters--terrifying, bloodthirsty, flesh-rending, citizen-killing monsters. When Grak's favorite barkeep tells him that he will get a lifetime supply of free alcohol ...

Howard Drew, an unrelenting LAPD homicide detective assigned to the Open Unsolved Unit, investigates the murders of victims long dead. He prowls moral fault lines and assumes the perspectives of his victims and their killers. Drew waits, poised to listen when guilty people divulge information and tired people fold and betray their secrets. Drew also listens to the chorus of forgotten voices and speaks for them because the collective dead demand it. In 2000, a friend discovered Anastasia Stepanchikov, a pretty 29-year-old prostitute from the Ukraine, beaten and shot to death inside her ...

The serenity of a Baltimore church courtyard . . . Is broken by the corpse of a priest. Who would commit such a terrible crime? Another reverend hires private investigator C.T. Ferguson to solve the case. C.T. learns the murdered man was popular with a wide range of church and community members. Someone clearly hated him, however . . . and the killer focuses on C.T. When he uncovers questionable connections in the priest’s history—ranging from local gangs all the way to City Hall—C.T. wonders why so many people might want a man of the cloth dead. As soon as C.T. thinks he has an angle...