Crime Town

When historian Willie Clarke dies suspiciously of dehydration just outside of a touristy ghost town, private investigator Jim Knighthorse is hired to find answers. It doesn't take the ex-football hero long to discover that the historian's death is connected to one of the West's most bizarre murder mysteries ever―that of a cowboy found mummified in the desert a hundred years ago with a bullet hole in his stomach. A cowboy now propped up in a curiosity shop for all the world to gawk at. As the two cases converge, it's up to Jim Knighthorse to untangle not one, but two murders. The Mummy ...

Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy’s, a small island off the coast of Maine. Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy’s cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case - and face all she’s been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintery winds of Black Rock Bay usher Mia home again.

Cozies with a quaint Bed and Breakfast shouldn't be this suspenseful... When a former resident turns up dead at the local fall festival, Avery Jensen finds more than sticky caramel apples. She discovers a body. Shocked, Avery—owner of a cozy B&B—turns to her mischievous capuchin monkey for help. Known to slip jewelry and other shiny objects into his pockets, this kleptomaniac primate now busies himself collecting clues…or just more dead ends. But why murder a former resident? What secrets lie buried beneath this picturesque small town's charming façade? As Avery and her simian ...

I thought there was no way to escape my arranged marriage to a crime boss. Until my biker ex-boyfriend kidnaps me. I'm being forced to marry the heir to a criminal empire to save my family’s business. My fiance is filthy rich, diabolically ruthless, and my living nightmare. I'm trapped in hell with the devil himself. Until my ex-boyfriend appears. And kidnaps me. When I first met my ex, Jackson, he was just the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The forbidden crush my parents forced me to stay away from. Now he’s back. With the road name Bullet on his biker cut With tattoos, ...

Murder in the dunes: A new mystery series where dark secrets lurk beneath the surface, with a dash of humor to keep things afloat. A gruesome murder is committed in a meadow behind the dyke. However, the victim is not human but a sheep belonging to the recently deceased farmer Dietrichsen. It has been badly mauled. Enna and Pavel are deeply unsettled, knowing that someone capable of such cruelty towards an animal might not hesitate to turn their brutality on humans. Then, the long-awaited toxicology report on Dietrichsen arrives, revealing a shocking truth: the farmer had poison in his ...

Julie Wilder returns to her hometown of Cranberry Cove to live with her aging aunt, Emma Babbage. Julie's nursing career leads her to a position on the surgical floor of Oceanview General Hospital. After she encounters her high school friend, Lucas Ethridge, her former attraction to the handsome lawyer is reawakened. But when she begins to suspect Lucas of a murder that occurred fifteen years earlier, she recalls an incriminating photo she'd hidden in her aunt's antique desk. She searches for the evidence only to find that it's vanished. To add to her misgivings, she gets mysterious phone ...

Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero—is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can’t—or won’t—answer any questions. She won’t even tell them her name.

When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he decides to help Willow. The dead journalist had left the islands years before to pursue his writing career. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl. When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that the journalist was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn't want to come to the surface.

Where love purrs and danger prowls, every whisper reveals a truth. In the quaint town of Rubato, where the extraordinary is just another part of everyday life, BMC (better known as Psychic Cat) finds himself entangled in a web of mystery and romance that challenges his very understanding of souls and affections. When Bobby, a robot with a colorful past, vanishes without a trace, BMC's psychic senses are set ablaze. Aided by his faithful friend, Echo, he embarks on a quest to unravel the truth. But the investigation takes a complicated turn with the arrival of a captivating new feline whose ...

Detective Samson O'Brien is ready to settle down to a nice cup of tea, but it's not long before he's called on for help with a new case. In order to execute a recent will, solicitor Matty Thistlethwaite requires a copy of a death certificate for a young woman who died when Samson was a child. It should be straightforward, but things in Bruncliffe rarely are. Particularly when Matty insists that Delilah Metcalfe, with her wealth of local knowledge, works alongside Samson on the sensitive investigation.

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa's friends and peers. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research, James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. What emerges is a portrait of a community seething with dark undercurrents.

It's 1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend, Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he's made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics.

In the sprawling expanse of the Rocking W Ranch, high on top of Misty Mountain one woman's idyllic new start at life as a nanny takes a treacherous turn. Danica Cooper, recovered gambling addict and moving on with her life after helping bring down a crime boss, is now the nanny for the Dylan Wyatt’s twin boys. Dani hopes to find solace and purpose amidst the growing ranch. Little does she know that her picturesque world is about to be shattered by a sinister force. A mysterious man, lurking in the shadows, has cast a dark cloud over The Rocking W. His demand is simple but ominous – one ...

A gripping coming-of-age small town murder mystery in the backwoods-noir tradition of Stephen King's The Body (Stand by Me) and Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone. Knew your daddy, the sheriff whispered. Took the animal down myself. You look just like him, you know. Like a stray dog after a good beating. Nothing more dangerous. . . Ten year old Delbert and his mother return to the small factory town of Shady Creek tucked in the rugged foothills of western North Carolina where Delbert meets his father for the first time after his father is released from prison. With dark secrets festering ...

Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County Walt Longmire is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt’s grandfather’s time in Wyoming, as the revelations he learns about his grandfather come back to offer clues and motives for Walt’s investigation.

A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated - and sinister - than Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward, Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.

There's more than one kind of poison in this town. People are sick and dying. Rumors are swirling. Some claim chemicals leaking from a manufacturing plant are causing the cancer that’s crippling people on the poor side of Trenton City, Ohio. Yet nothing at the plant appears amiss. The problem remains a mystery until reporter Jack Crittendon’s longtime mechanic falls ill. As Jack investigates, he becomes engulfed in a smokescreen of lies, setups, greed, and scandal. The deeper he digs, the more toxic the corruption he uncovers.

In the heart-stopping thriller "Cowboy Hazard," Blair Oakley, an indomitable search and rescue worker, and her faithful companion, Diamond embark on a perilous mission to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of teenage girls in the eerie woods surrounding a small town. As Blair delves deeper into the chilling mystery, she unearths sinister secrets lurking beneath the town's tranquil facade. With the reluctant help of Maverick, a rugged cowboy renowned for his tracking skills, Blair races against time to follow cryptic clues and unearth the whereabouts of the missing girls. But as ...

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return.

When a young woman dies in a late-night restaurant fire, the owner, Bobby Carter, is charged with arson and murder. The evidence is stacked against him, but something doesn’t add up. And his only chance for justice rests on the shoulders of small-town lawyer Leland Munroe… Leland is convinced someone’s out to frame his client. But as the trial heats up, he realizes that he's facing more than just a legal battle.