Crime Drama Fiction

She knew she should stay away from him, but she couldn't say no to this bad boy. So what, he's a criminal? The heart wants what it wants... Isabelle Turner lives a quiet life now, having put her wild past behind. She's learned from her mistakes and is sure she won't repeat them. Until a mysterious stranger shows up in her life...ragged, wounded, and oh-so-handsome. Ashton (Ash) Carter is on a run. With the help of his brothers, he has managed to escape from prison, but now his future is up in the air. Having a bullet hole in his shoulder does not help things either. And now this hot, ...

She knew she should stay away from him, but she couldn't say no to this bad boy. So what, he's a criminal? The heart wants what it wants... Isabelle Turner lives a quiet life now, having put her wild past behind. She's learned from her mistakes and is sure she won't repeat them. Until a mysterious stranger shows up in her life...ragged, wounded, and oh-so-handsome. Ashton (Ash) Carter is on a run. With the help of his brothers, he has managed to escape from prison, but now his future is up in the air. Having a bullet hole in his shoulder does not help things either. And now this hot, ...

She knew she should stay away from him, but she couldn't say no to this bad boy. So what, he's a criminal? The heart wants what it wants... Isabelle Turner lives a quiet life now, having put her wild past behind. She's learned from her mistakes and is sure she won't repeat them. Until a mysterious stranger shows up in her life...ragged, wounded, and oh-so-handsome. Ashton (Ash) Carter is on a run. With the help of his brothers, he has managed to escape from prison, but now his future is up in the air. Having a bullet hole in his shoulder does not help things either. And now this hot, ...

Terri and Eryn were in NYC for an event. Eryn was excited to celebrate with her best friend until someone from her past called. Against her better judgment, she secretly met the one man who almost ruined her life, not knowing of his sinister motives. Paul was running out of time, and his only hope was his ex-wife, Eryn. He knew borrowing money from a Don wasn’t good, but he had no choice. When Eryn refused to help, he took extreme measures to save his own life while risking Eryn’s and the lives of her family and friends.

Sheriff Gus gets exactly what he wants for his birthday: to be left alone. Sadly, this perfect gift doesn’t last for very long when his daughter surprises him with the rather odd present of twenty sessions with a sex therapist. After all, it’s not like he needs it or anything. But Gus decides to humor his daughter and pays a token visit to the doctor. The visits take on much greater meaning, however, when a sex maniac starts preying on the lonely residents in Gus’s rural county. Problems continue to multiply for the sheriff when he gets a call to jury duty, faces down the horrors of a...

Step into the gritty world of "Crossing Big Coal River," a pulse-pounding story set in the rugged hills of Boone County, West Virginia—a place where the coal runs deep, but the corruption runs even deeper. Quincy Ashford was just a regular sixteen-year-old boy, living life along the banks of the Big Coal River, a waterway that sustains—and takes from—the tight-knit community he calls home. But all that changes when a devastating mining disaster strikes, shattering families and forcing Quincy to leave his adolescence behind. Forced to become the man of the house overnight, Quincy ...

Jeffrey is turning 40. He has a good job, a loving wife, and a beautiful house. When the love of his life passes suddenly, his seemingly normal world turns upside down. The sudden death, along with his midlife crisis, causes Jeffrey to grieve the five stages in unnatural ways. He trades in his Toyota Corolla for a Corvette, smokes pot with the neighbor kid, and dresses up in cheerleader outfits with his pals William and Lena in order to feel young and beautiful.

Former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner has utilized his 36 years of law enforcement and investigative experience in writing fictional crime thrillers for readers to enjoy. This book contains three separate novellas, each providing drama, suspense, mystery, and at times intense action. Follow along as the police investigate and attempt to unravel the murders.In the first story, police must deal with a serial killer who has reappeared after a two-year absence to terrorize some of Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods. Frustrating police is the fact that the killer leaves a calling card ...

Murder, loyalty and vengeance collide in Jessie Keane's gritty fourth audiobook. Life is good for Gracie Doyle - running her Manchester casino keeps her busy. Until the police turn up at her door one day and her world is turned upside down. She is given news that her two estranged brothers have been viciously attacked. George is in hospital on a ventilator, and, worringly, Harry is missing. Gracie has no option but to leave the good life and dip her toe into the murky waters of her East End past.

Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. Cast out from her home, Carmen assumes a new identity and starts her life over, but she knows she can't outrun the sins of her family for ever.

Theater professor Nicky Abbondanza is directing a Sherlock Holmes musical in a professional summer stock production at Treemeadow College, costarring his husband and theatre professor colleague Noah Oliver as Dr. John Watson. When cast members begin toppling over like hammy actors at a curtain call, Nicky dons Holmes’ persona on stage and off. Once again, Nicky and Noah will need to use their drama skills to figure out who is lowering the street lamps on the actors before the handsome couple get half-baked on Baker Street.

Quincy Ashford will fight for his family and community. The stakes have never been higher. The heat has never been hotter. Quincy Ashford and the resilient people of Boone County fight the evil they face. Moonshine and its brewers and runners are a part of the history and the landscape. So why is somebody killing them? The law still needs to put the pieces together. Quincy already has. That gut feeling is telling him the truth. When Quincy finds himself in the crosshairs of a killer, the heat turns up. Family, survival, and service drive Quincy Ashford to be a man of integrity. Ignorant, ...

“Thought provoking!” How far will a man go to protect his family? When the director of Child Protective Services uses his position to exact a personal vendetta in removing three-year-old Ashley from the Blake’s home, Jeff Blake, a financial advisor, responds to the threats in the only way he feels he can – violently. By the end of the short encounter, three people are dead and Ashley, the daughter, is still taken and placed in temporary foster care, so the tragic fiasco gained Jeff nothing. Or, so it seems. Matters are further complicated when Amy, the wife and mother, winds up for ...

Book one in a trilogy following one family over 40 years on an East London estate, Blood Sister is nonstop drama, perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller. There are two ways out of Essex Lane Estate, better known as The Devil's Estate. You make good, or you turn bad. Jen Miller is determined not to make the same mistakes her mother did. She's waiting to find herself a good job and a decent man. Her younger sister, Tiff, is running errands for a gangster and looking for any opportunity for fun and profit.

A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift—the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

“Sharp and engrossing, Witness is pure suspense… an exploration of dark family secrets that reminds us that no lie is without consequence. Perfect for fans of gritty hardboiled mysteries.” ~Bestselling Author Kristen Mae A missing victim. A deceitful family. And a detective too close to come out unscathed. Detective Edward Petrosky has seen his share of horrors—abused children, terrified assault victims, and of course, the vicious predators who don’t stop killing until someone like Petrosky puts them away. It’s no wonder he needs a little whiskey to take the edge off. So he’s ...

One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back.

Recently divorced, and with two young children, Ellen Sutherland is up to her elbows in professional and personal stress. When she's invited to travel all the way to Cheltenham to hear the content of an old woman's will, she's far from convinced the journey will be worthwhile. But when she arrives, the news is astounding. Eudora Nash has left Ellen a beautiful cottage worth an amount of money that could turn her life around. There's just one problem: Ellen has never even heard of Eudora Nash.

It's 1969, and mankind has leapt up to the moon, but a young mother in small-town Australia can't get past the kitchen door. Louise Ashland is exhausted - her husband, Steven, is away on the road and her mother, Gladys, won't leave her alone. At least her baby, Dolores, has finally stopped screaming and is sweetly sleeping in her cot. Right where Louise left her. Or is she?

Lucie Girard ermittelt wieder. Regisseur Olivier Borbet lädt zu einem Treffen seiner ehemaligen Schauspiel-Kommilitonen in die Provence ein. Er will sie für einen Autorenfilm gewinnen, in dem sie sich selbst spielen. Obwohl die Sechs ein tragischer Vorfall verbindet, willigen sie ein. Der Dreh wird zu einer Abrechnung, jeder gegen jeden. Commissaire Lucie Girard gerät in ein Schauspiel, das sie an ihren detektivischen Fähigkeiten zweifeln lässt. Was war? Was ist? Und was wird geschehen?