Contemporary Detective Mysteries

In the thought-provoking crime novel, "The Body at the Battery," Detective Sergeant Fiona Madden and her dedicated partner are thrust into the heart of a remote and haunting South Connemara landscape. Their mission: to uncover the chilling truth behind the discovery of a murdered young woman, cruelly discarded in this desolate region. However, as the Garda Technical Bureau's SCI team delves into the investigation, a web of secrets unravels. The victim's identity and the motives behind her murder lead them down a complex path. With initial suspects emerging, Madden and Tracy are faced with a...

All is not as it seems. Is it possible to be so unlucky in love and so lucky with money? In Charlie’s absence, Peter Hatherall steps in to assist Simon with a new case. Lucy Lewis has asked him to prove her father didn’t kill his girlfriend. The problem is that Peter isn’t convinced he’s innocent. Neither are the police. Neighbours heard Rob Lewis violently arguing with his girlfriend around the time of her death. He has no credible alibi for the evening, and he’s set to inherit a fortune. Just like he did after the violent death of his first wife. Simon stubbornly believes Lucy ...

Suzie Whitsett loves Kyle Jones and when he gives her an amazing necklace for their two month anniversary, she is over the moon. Twenty-four hours later, it's gone and Suzie has to find out who took it before everything she has with Kyle falls apart right before New Year's...and their first New Year's kiss. Attention Funeral Crashing Fans! Make sure to check out the BONUS SCENE at the end of the book that details Kait and Ethan's New Year's Kiss! Although the characters from the Funeral Crashing Series make an appearance in this novella, it is a standalone cozy romantic mystery story. The ...

All homicide detective Dylan Collins wants is a few hours of pleasure to take his mind off of the case haunting him. A serial killer is stalking the streets of Charleston, SC—a killer who calls himself The Grim Reaper. When the woman he'd just spent the night with turns up and offers her services as a psychic consultant on the case, his ardor quickly cools. Last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a con artist.

Just when I think my happily ever after is within reach, I find out I’m accidentally married. To make matters worse, a serial killer is blackmailing me into tracking down an antique shotgun stolen from his family. Not only am I eleventy-million months pregnant, but now I’ll have to track down gun dealers, pawnbrokers, and a very eccentric “collector” to find the item. Did I mention dodging lions and landmines in the process? I finally get things under control, but a welcome home party leads to a major misunderstanding. My family is ripped away. The bad guys misjudged my willingness ...

For fans of Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars, and female teen sleuths! Kait Lenox is officially Ethan Ripley's girlfriend and she might even be kinda sorta becoming non enemies with her ex-bff Ariel Walker. Everything is going great! That is until Kait stumbles across another suspicious death at her favorite coffee shop, Wired. Not able to help herself, Kait sets out to investigate! Suddenly Kait's problems go from whether or not she should say the L-word to fears that the murder she's investigating might not be murder at all. Should Kait follow her gut or is she just chasing murders? The Funeral ...

Former Crime detective and University Professor, Claire Lane has joined the SOE – Special Operations Executive. Has she intentionally run away from Daroonga Castle and Lord Ralph McGinniss? In France, Aunt Avery is running a successful brothel in Saint Brieuc, next door to the German Radar Station. Ralph mounts an operation to rescue his wife from the beaches of Brittany. Have the commandos made a mistake and who have they brought back to England? Claire or a German informant. And what are those two children doing in the Library at Daroonga? Will the Lady Margarethe welcome them with open...

Family, friends, and strangers from around the country find sanctuary in the mountains of North Carolina as they wait out the tempest of the storm…Tempest of the Storm is the continuing story in the Home to Clare Harbor series of family, friends, and strangers who are drawn together by forces over which they have no control. They have weathered what many believed to be the storm of the century. Now they face a storm of another kind that could pose an even greater threat to all of them. Senator Gareth Dyersen knows that the threat he and all those who have taken refuge in his mountain home...

Welcome back to Bayview High.... It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a game of truth or dare. But this is no ordinary truth or dare. This game is lethal. Choosing the truth may reveal your darkest secrets, accepting the dare could be dangerous, even deadly. The teenagers of Bayview must work together once again to find the culprit, before it's too late....

Sometimes Murphy’s Law rears its ugly head, throwing mishap after mishap at you, turning your world into total chaos. If it had been anyone besides Kathleen McClusky, they would have thrown their hands in the air and yelled, “I quit!” But not Kathleen, she was too much like her father, even when it seemed the world had turned against her and death was imminent.

Amazon Best-Selling Author Bronze Medal winner--Global Book Awards Haunted by obscure clues Hunted by a madman Faced with an impossible choice Tabitha Black is ecstatic. The man of her dreams, Charles London, Scotland Yard’s best Detective Inspector, needs her to drive him to Ghost Haven so he can recuperate from a bullet to the head. Her mind imagines witty conversations and maybe a stolen kiss or two. But on the drive down, he makes it very clear that he wishes she wasn’t driving him. Later at Ghost Haven when he collapses from his head wound, Tabitha is forced to approve emergency ...

Second chances don't come often...what matters is what we do with them...In the midst of a seemingly standard investigation two police detectives come across information that one of them believes may be connected to a forty-year-old unsolved crime. As they move forward in their pursuit for answers they find that for some of their questions there are none. And that some of the answers they obtain are not at all what they would have expected in the course of a normal investigation. Life is a series of choices. One man spends half a lifetime trying to redeem a choice that wreaked untold ...

Seventeen-year-old Leah MacKenzie is heartless. An artificial heart in a backpack is keeping her alive. However, this route offers her only a few years. And with her rare blood type, a transplant isn’t likely. Living like you are dying isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But when a heart becomes available, she’s given a second chance at life. Except Leah discovers who the donor was - a boy from her school - and they’re saying he killed himself. Plagued with dreams since the transplant, she realizes she may hold the clues to what really happened.

A skeletal demon stalks a Louisiana golf course. A groundskeeper's job—and life—hang in the balance. Only faith can survive what teenagers have unleashed. When Salty calls Holy Lake Investigation about violent supernatural attacks terrorizing his maintenance crew at Court Villa Country Club, Catholic-sanctioned paranormal investigators Hibbs and Ling expect another routine blessing. Instead, they discover a malevolent demon feeding on guilt and growing stronger each night—summoned by local teenagers using an ancient bone wand hidden in the building's walls. Armed with blessed weapons,...

Mr. Channing is devoted to his garden, but it is his youngest daughter Christine who is truly the apple of his eye. When Christine’s fiancé breaks off his engagement to her at the request of his grandfather, Mr. Channing is persuaded by his wife and other daughters to take Christine to Portugal for a holiday. They are charmed by the country where they soon make many friends. Among them, the Baronesa Narvão who invites them to stay in her luxurious mansion. But the Baronesa is not all she appears to be.

Trucks of nuts are being hijacked; Accusations are flying; Greed is running rampant; What starts as a simple case quickly becomes threatening.If you like intriguing mysteries, witty heroines, and ruthless villains, you’ll love the first book in this high-octane cozy mystery series! Truckloads of high-priced pistachios are being highjacked, putting drivers’ lives in danger. A beleaguered grocery store owner hires Lea and Maddy to find out who is behind the malicious thefts. Is it black market vendors, local thugs at their worst, or an inside job? After plunging wholeheartedly into their ...

The second Perfect Gentlemen novel from the New York Times best-selling authors of the Masters of Ménage series. Privileged, wealthy, and wild: They are the Perfect Gentlemen of Creighton Academy. But the threat of a scandal has one of them employing his most deceptive - and seductive - talents...Recruited into the CIA at a young age, Connor Sparks knows how dirty the world can be. Only when he’s with his friends can he find some peace. So when an anonymous journalist threatens one of the Perfect Gentlemen, Connor vows to take down the person behind the computer.

Shadowseer: London (book one) tells the story of Kaia, 17, an orphan coming of age in the Victorian London of the 1850s. Kaia yearns to escape her horrific orphanage, to discover who her parents were, and to understand why she can sense shadows when others cannot. Yet the streets of London are as brutal as the orphanage, and for Kaia, there is no easy way out.

A park ranger is haunted by the memory of the woman, left for dead, whose life he’d saved 20 years ago. He is haunted by the rape and attempted murder of a young woman, who was left for dead in a national park .She survived, but police were unable to solve the case and eventually stopped looking for the perpetrator. Shlomki, the park ranger’searnest and naïve demeanor leads him into conflict with the local security forces, who are used to bending the rules. He is determined to pursue the investigation, discovering much more than he’d imagined about the people who control the area. ...

Humanity’s soul is under threat. The Magic Intelligence Agency tightens their hold on the Mixed. Normals are murdered as a deadly struggle ensues between mages racing for control over magic’s highest power. As the United Wizarding Federation increases the MIA’s presence in the Mixed, Bonnie and Cy’s abilities to solve crime are put to the test. Amid a UWF run impact study on how best to harvest Normals’ souls, Bonnie and Cy find a murder victim with unique burn markings and a star pattern in his eyes. All signs point to an illegally attempted soul harvest. As Bonnie’s ...