Contemporary Detective Mysteries

Years ago, when Micah Jordan-Wells was born, a rift was created between two worlds. Today, Micah is a detective in New Jersey, a local hero for bringing the merciless killer Silky to justice. But Micah's world is about to be turned inside out by a monster from another dimension, one with whom Micah shares a terrifying link.

Ghost hunters, an exorcism, and a ghostly grey tabby Mad River welcomes a pair of ghost hunters and their television show to town only for a murder to occur as the cameras were rolling. Now Shelby's ghost friends are being accused of the dirty deed and the good reverend is calling for an exorcism. Can Shelby find the killer before the pastor exorcises her spirit friends away from the only homes and town they've ever known? Find out in the Mad River Mystery Series.

Having mastered the power of the Board of Air, Jenna travels to Jerusalem to find the Board of Water. She is accompanied by Simon Monk, who seeks the Boards on behalf of the Vatican. Jenna doesn’t trust Simon, but he’s her only source of information about the Boards. In Jerusalem, Jenna meets Saduj, a local guide who claims he can help them find the Board they seek. Simon is suspicious, but Jenna finds herself strangely attracted to Saduj. Jenna must find the Board before it awakens and causes unimaginable destruction.

At twenty-one, Jessie feels lost. Trapped between worlds, neither of which seem to fit. Life has handed her an abundance of blessings, but something is missing. So when the trust fund her late father bestowed upon her matures on her twenty-first birthday, she is left uncertain of what she wants to do with her life. Dragging her oldest friend to Savannah, Georgia, for a beach vacation, Jessie is unprepared for a friend's crisis or the ghostly secret she uncovers while doing some serious soul searching. Can a group of young people uncover the truth while seeking solace in faith? Coming of age...

Father Christian Hyman, a village priest in St. Francis Hill, South Carolina, loves Misty Sumner with all his heart, yet his dedication to his calling means that he cannot ever have her. Christian must discover what has happened to his dear friend, why she's afraid to leave her house and won't even look out the window that overlooks the steep valley beyond. Misty's life is unrecognizable to her since moving out of her house and into a cottage that sits at the edge of town overlooking the valley. When she learns of a nun's death, thrown from the high abbey wall into the very woods ...

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 ...

In this romantic mystery, twenty-eight-year-old Misty Sumner, aspiring writer and librarian of St. Mary's School, abandons her dream of becoming a writer one day, quitting the writer's group that meets at the library Tuesday nights in favor of joining the sisters who raised her. Growing up an orphan at St. Mary's, love and belonging are worth more to Misty than her dream of one day becoming a best-selling novelist. Since sweet romance is not in the cards for Misty, she will become a nun. But in order to do that, she must prove her good intentions and convince her priest that she is serious....

The Fireweed Moon is part of a trilogy, but each part is a standalone novel that can be read in any order. Forty-four-year-old Willow Trudeau has lost her mojo, her career as an artist in New York City is floundering, and she decides to pick up and move to the small town of Weeping Willow, Ohio (for which she is named) where her father, Leon Ziemny, still lives. When she arrives, she’s surprised to find that he has a houseguest, a stranger from her late grandmother’s past, who’s on a mission to find his murdered pastor brother’s long-missing Bible, a treasured family heirloom passed...

Two Million Dollars of Lost Gold. A ninety-year-old murder. Can an unassuming scientist untangle the enigma before his life is forfeit?Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Microbiologist Eric Douglass is content with his humdrum existence. But when a lighthearted hypnosis session leaves him with waking nightmares of a decades-old killing, he’s compelled to search for answers to get his normalcy back. And when the clues drag him to Chicago, he stumbles across a connection to a long-forgotten robbery plot dating to 1933. Discovering corrupt politicians of the time may have been involved in the ...

Sam, James and the gang are off to 4th grade science camp. When they arrive, Sam discovers his brand new iPod in his suitcase–which is against rules. He hides it and hopes the camp counselor doesn’t find out he has it. Later he discovers it's missing. Now Sam, James and the others have to find it before camp is over or he may never see it again!

Detective Joe Lazarus works for the Dying Squad, solving crimes the living police can't. When the Generation Killer starts wiping out Manchester's innocents, Joe and his new partner Bits have mere hours to catch the murderer. A young woman's life depends on it. Joe's former partner Daisy-May has her own problems. Children are going missing in the afterlife, and she's the only one who seems to care. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vast, it threatens both the living and the dead.

Lyanne glanced sideways at her handsome new husband Michael as his car sped them north to his home in Scotland, and wondered why those words made her feel vaguely uneasy. It wasn't long, either, before those fears became even more dominant in her thoughts, especially with the arrival of Jason and his shocking revelations which Michael had never bothered to mention.

Die Zwillinge Myles und Beckett Fowl führen ein sorgenfreies und etwas langweiliges Leben auf einer idyllischen irischen Insel. Der Rest der berühmt berüchtigten Familie Fowl ist abwesend, das elektronische Abwehrsystem Nanni beaufsichtigt die beiden. Die beiden Brüder könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Während Myles am liebsten geniale elektronische Geräte entwickelt, ist Beckett den ganzen Tag in der Natur und spricht mit Pflanzen und Tieren. Der alternde Bösewicht Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye ist vom Jungsein besessen.

He's skirting the edge of trouble, but apparently steering clear of it. Fifteen-year-old Benjamin Torres is known around town thanks to his dog, which everyone gives a wide berth. Still, the teen was spotted at the scene of an accidental fire, so questions about his involvement circle the case file. God presses Detective Samuel Campos to get involved. He's arrested too many teens in the last six months to sit idly by, but he's uncertain that his plan is viable or will be allowed by his superiors. As he works to know Benjamin and his family, more questions about the fire come to light. ...

A war wages for the kids of Silver Heights, and he won’t stand for it. After arresting two teens for arson last fall and finding the body of a missing girl in the spring, Detective Samuel Campos determines to do more to protect the local kids. When he hears rumors about a man called Felipe, his curiosity is piqued. He senses there is more to the story than is being told. But, is this a master criminal manipulating kids or a clever alias for local trouble? Sam digs in, asking questions and pulling evidence from cold cases. However, the more he discovers, the more questions he creates. Even...

She’s missing. No one knows why. Seventeen-year-old Isabel Moreno fights with her grandfather about going to a friend’s house to study. The next morning, she’s gone, an honor roll student well liked by everyone. No one knows of trouble at home or at school. Friends are upset, and the family is distraught. What happened? Detective Samuel Campos is assigned to the case. Every person he talks to seems sincere, but good kids don’t just disappear. As he struggles through the never-ending questions surrounding Isabel, God talks to him in a way he’s never experienced before. Or is his ...

Twelve weeks before Leah Eady arrived in France, her husband disappeared. Early one morning, he walked out the door and never came back. All he left behind was a scrumpled note in a cereal box, leading her to the bustling streets of Paris. Once she arrives, she discovers a mysterious unfinished manuscript written by her husband and set in the very same city. Hoping to uncover more clues, Leah takes over a crumbling bookshop with her two young daughters, only to realise that he might just be closer than any of them ever imagined...but what if he doesn’t want to be found?

Detective sergeant Carol Murphy and constable Donna Dixon have the most important case of their careers: the deaths of two middle-class women who appear to have taken their own lives. The deaths turn out to be staged, and more violent attacks soon take place. On the hunt for the killer, the investigators suspect that he is capable of hiding his inner monster behind a façade of a perfect family. Determined to end the serial killer's reign of terror, Carol and Donna search high and low for clues and leads. How much horror can the murderer unleash before his killing spree comes to an end?

Tokito - Stadt aus Blut und Schatten. In der Megastadt Tokito herrscht das Gesetz der Clans. Nur wer für einen der sechs Clanfürsten arbeitet, hat die Chance zu überleben. Die rebellische Erin hat ihren Job beim Lotusclan verloren und ist nun schutzlos. Als sie auf der Straße verschleppt wird, lässt sie sich auf einen Deal mit einem Dämon ein, um ihr Leben zu retten. Der Dämon verleiht ihr übernatürliche Kraft, versucht aber auch, die Kontrolle über Erin zu erlangen.

Wenn du als Einzige sehen kannst, was anderen verborgen bleibt... Stell dir vor, in deiner Nachbarschaft verschwindet eine Villa samt ihrer Bewohner und nur du kannst sie noch sehen. Was würdest du tun? Vor allem, wenn du dich zu einem der geheimnisvollen Nachbarn stärker hingezogen fühlst, als es gut für dich ist? Effie findet sich genau in dieser Situation wieder. Als sie Eden begegnet, spürt sie, dass sie sich lieber von ihm fernhalten sollte. Aber es gelingt ihr einfach nicht. Ihre Neugierde und ihre Gefühle sind stärker als ihr gesunder Menschenverstand.