Crime Horror

A father kills his three young children and his wife and impersonates a disgraced journalist. Oregon's most famous murderer explains how her jail breaks show she's ready for parole.

What would you do for love? What would you do if only you knew someone you loved was guilty of murder? And: How far would you go for the one chance to be with the love of your life? What would you do if you learned your sister killed her husband to get out of an unhappy marriage, and no one else knows or even suspects? You believe your sister's husband died in a tragic accident, but shortly afterwards you learn your sister was seeing another man. You also learn that your sister was out with that man the night her husband died. Suddenly the husband’s death looks less like an ‘accident’...

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Roxy is a scorned housewife on a rebound road trip with her best friend Lena when the women pick up a ragged hitchhiker on the side of the highway. Only this man named Ricardo is no typical hobo or tramp. Soon the pair of lusty ladies learn that their new passenger is in fact an apex predator and a true alpha male -- a man who is not entirely human. Now Ricardo is on a collision course with the two women, only before he can ...

Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family. While Billy stalks Philadelphia, Detective Kevin Byrne is assigned to a series of bizarre home-invasion cases and is joined by his former partner turned assistant district attorney, Jessica Balzano.

Brad Johnson, a thief and lowlife, tortured and killed Kenneth Evans' beloved pet, Roxie, during a burglary. Kenneth wanted to exact revenge against Brad in the most horrific way possible, so he sought out Seth Coker, a notorious vigilante. Kenneth didn't realize the door he was opening would unleash a wrath of vengeance like no other. He was instantly drawn into Seth's world. A world of torment and terror equal to the horrors found in the deepest and darkest parts of Hell.

Contains the complete All the Lies trilogy: All the Lies, book 1; All the Secrets, book 2; and All the Doubts, book 3.

The Exceptional Crimes Unit stopped another criminal: Lucy Speckle. The brilliant FBI agent, Christian Windsor, pushed her to suicide....watching as she cut her own throat. It changed Christian, though, and those around him are starting to notice. He's darker. Harsher. Crueler. His partner, Luke Titan, couldn't be happier because he engineered the whole thing. If anyone knew Titan's true intentions, they'd call him a psychopath. They'd lock him up. They'd put him in the electric chair. Too bad his genius keeps him hidden in the shadows.

What dangers lurk beyond the edge of town? After getting lost on a dark country road on their way back to the city, a group of revelers decide the best solution is to stop at a local bar and resume drinking. But after a member of their group is dragged outside and attacked, their nightmarish evening has only just begun. Fueled by adrenaline and an angry desire to hand out justice, their search for the attacker takes them deep into a world they were never prepared to go. Torn Web is the length of a long short story.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the Iron River that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. The diamond fillings he wears in his left canine glimmer, distracting the men who sell the illegal firearms that enable the unspeakable violence on both sides of the map. Spotting the sparkle when “Charlie Diamonds” opens his mouth is often their first step toward life behind bars.

An ill-fated grave-robbery unearths a corpse with a most disturbing symbol on it. The very same sign is daubed in blood on the walls of Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, on the night that one of the patients is murdered. The mark in question? The mark of the devil. The prime suspect: Amy McGray, the asylum's most infamous inmate, a young woman who has grown up behind bars after she killed her parents many years ago. Her brother, Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray, knows the evidence is stacked against her. To prove her innocence, he needs the help of an old friend.

In the second book in the Dead Jack series, the zombie detective hits rock bottom, bingeing on fairy dust and formaldehyde 24/7. Reluctantly, he sets out with a fellow zombie, the narcissistic Garry, to find his long-lost soul. But a new threat emerges: a neo-Nazi group that hunts down the depressed corpse, believing his sidekick Oswald has the power to capture all the souls in Pandemonium. Again, the wicked world needs saving, but this time can Jack also save himself?

The Soul Redemption is a relentless psychological suspense novel that pulls you deep into the fractured world of a man torn apart by his past, and the terrifying rage that will not stay buried. A must-read for fans of The Silent Patient, Shutter Island, and American Psycho, this chilling thriller explores the darkness of institutional abuse, the fragility of sanity, and the haunting pull of revenge. Jacob’s descent into madness began long before he ever set foot in the Winebeck Hospital for the Insane. First, there was the sudden, unexplained disappearance of his parents, an event that ...

Forty years ago, triplets Miriam, Louise, and Edward were swept up in a case of rural mass hysteria. Coerced into fabricating unspeakable lies about their first-grade teacher and her adult son, they were complicit in destroying two lives. Ever since, they have believed they are being followed by a presence still seeking retribution for their childhood sins. Unless their guilty consciences are conjuring as many monsters as their innocent minds once did.

In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American Southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him toward final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father. These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl. Everything except the Brookline mansion and the multi-million dollar trust fund left to the three children. But what wicked stepmother couldn't get rid of three children?

More dread-creeping stories of suspense and horror... Werewolves! Planetary disasters! Hoarders! Vampires! Killer dolls! And if that wasn't enough, this volume of Twisted Tales introduces the devilishly dysfunctional family of Cain Custer, paranormal investigators. WARNING: These yarns aren't for the faint of heart. There be plenty of violent situations and Adam's Apple-bobbing uncomfortableness within.

A mysterious "fear disease" is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what's really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis.

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

H.H. Holmes: The Devil in Me, formerly titled Mulberry Lane, combines historical events and fictional reenactments based on the true events of termed serial killer H.H. Holmes. Following the events from his early childhood, to a student at University of Michigan Medical School, Holmes soon developed a taste for murder and the macabre. Mistreated and tortured in his childhood, Holmes quickly transformed into a cunning and ruthless conman and killer. Drawing on his rage and disregard for human life, Holmes moved to Chicago. After constructing and opening his hotel, during the Chicago World ...

If death is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to accept it. But if evil is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to kill it. It's been decades since Rebecca Underhill and her late twin sister, Molly, were abducted by a madman in the deep woods behind their farmhouse. It's also been many years since that madman was released from prison and went after Rebecca a second time. It's also been years since a copycat killer called The Skinner tried to murder Rebecca and her young son. Now sixty and alone, Rebecca is battling cancer. But soon she will encounter a third monster who...