Criminal Mystery

DEAD BROKE is the first in a gripping new crime series. A desperate gumshoe... A stolen antique... Jefferson Cole is about to find out that being a Private Investigator can be murder... Introducing the first book in a thrilling new crime series that will keep you on the edge of your seat! If you're a fan of LJ Ross, JD Kirk, Mark Dawson, and Ian Rankin, then DEAD BROKE is the book for you. Meet Jefferson Cole, an American Private Eye in London who is down on his luck and running out of funds. But when a wealthy client offers him a job to recover a stolen Chinese antique, Cole thinks he's ...

PENNINE CRIME - Four Crime Tales from the North of England 1 - The Revenge of Darian Devlin: Darian Devlin, the most merciless job centre adviser for miles around, is not amused when he leaves work to find that his car has been tampered with. He sets out to ascertain which of his reviled customers might be responsible and on narrowing his list of suspects down to three he hits back with a vengeance, unleashing a spiral of retribution that soon gets out of control. 2 - A Singular Murder – My Grandfather’s Secret crime: When young Tom Turnbull’s grandfather gives him a large envelope to...

Where Is Justice? Who will listen to the innocent pleas of a high school teacher accused of an unspeakable crime? When a pillar of the community turns vigilante and begins killing drug dealers in his beloved hometown, who will defend him? Can a tech giant take the home of a defenseless widow just because they have the money to make it happen? Adam Dupree, the former corporate lawyer, becomes the only lawyer in the small town of White Owl, Washington who can defend the vulnerable. But public opinion is fickle and one wrong choice can easily turn a hero into an enemy. If you like JOHN GRISHAM...

It is almost Christmas and yards glow with twinkling lights. But more than chestnuts are roasting. A raging fire sweeps through the decorated landscape of Sled Run, destroying the home of Chief Deputy Oren Rosenberg and killing two. An accident? Or did something toxic fuel the flames? Sheriff Piper Blackwell and Detective Basil Meredith believe Oren was targeted and are tasked with finding motive and means before more than the holiday burns bright. With many clues reduced to ashes, can Piper and Basil catch the culprits before they strike again? Or is this blaze just the start of the most ...

Beware of Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing! When Max Harmon took the detective job in Rohm, he figured it was a nice little all-American town and a great place to spend his days until retirement. Boy, was he wrong! When a hitman comes to Rohm and assumes the role of the parish priest, something just doesn’t seem right. When everything you do is an uphill battle, sometimes the wise person reaches a point where enough is enough. As Max stands at a crossroads, he is faced with the daunting task of deciding to stay with the friends and colleagues he has taken him in, and face the continued Good ...

HIDDEN TREACHERY presents two riveting mysteries where nothing is as it seems and deadly secrets lurk beneath carefully crafted facades. In FINAL PERFORMANCE, retired detective James Woodward confronts the case that ended his career when a young actress is murdered at Seattle's historic Orpheum Theatre—posed identically to a fifteen-year-old cold case. As Woodward and his team unravel decades of secrets hidden within the theater's walls, they discover a sinister network of illegal adoptions and separated twins. With the Hunter's Moon rising again, Woodward races to unmask the killer ...

A marijuana mystery, the story of Rolland Greene. Rolland Greene, a local writer, and his friends find themselves wrapped up in a complex paper chase. Rolland Greene takes you to the heartland of Northern California and reveals the mind and heart of a Mendonesian caught up in high strangeness. Rolland spends his time writing his political treatise, but suddenly finds himself trying to survive the tumult surrounding his lifestyle and friends. Rolland and his buds all find themselves tormented by bad luck when criminals begin pursuit of a treasure unique to Mendocino, the guidebook to crime. ...

Filius Thoreau, arch-benefit fraudster and jaunty raconteur, celebrates the silver anniversary of his induction into the world of the workshy with his candid, but not too candid, autobiography in which he celebrates the unique and sinuous path he has steered through the minefield of work-obsessed modern Britain. From the dark days of the Poll Tax through the laissez-faire nineties to the ghastly government work schemes of the new millennium, Filius has marched onwards to the sound of his own personal drummer and constructed a uniquely apologist philosophy along the way.

Hometown Murders & Mysteries Pulaski County Volume 1 is a series of 7 murders and mysteries that occurred in Pulaski County, Kentucky, between the early 1900s to the mid-1950s. The stories include the retelling of the only two electric chair death sentences to be carried out on Pulaski County citizens, a small-town kid getting into big trouble in Queen City, a tragedy at the old Virginia Cinema, an ax murder, a poisoning, and a story involving Lake Cumberland when it was first established.

When Melissa Cruz falls hard for a dreamy-eyed photographer named Jake, she can’t resist the urge to run away with him. The problem is that she already has a boyfriend, a rising star in his family’s crime organization. Betrayed and humiliated, Chris isn’t going to just let her go. To find Melissa, Chris turns to Lucky Wilson, one of his family’s professional assassins. But Lucky has his own problems. After years of lying about his day job, his marriage is in shambles and he suffers from relentless panic attacks. He’ll do this job if Chris will let him out of the killing life.

Monty and Ellen head to Medellin, Columbia, to investigate a haunted castle. They’re hired to protect its priceless museum exhibits from the annual rampage of the ghost of El Castillo. However, when Ellen is attacked by the spirit, things take a scary turn. While Monty uses his hi-tech instruments to track the entity, Ellen, a psychic, communicates with the dangerous spirit via a translator. When they begin to make a connection between the angry spirit and his shady history, they must trust a notorious man in order to identify the ghost... But the past hides a grim secret—a secret that ...

The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of a more relaxed way of life, Wexford misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a detective superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case.

California, 1922. Terror grips the growing coastal city of San Diego. A serial murderer has dumped the remains of his latest victim in the lake beneath the Cabrillo Bridge. Police have discovered no suspect or motive to explain the violent deaths nor any link between the victims.

Rip-offs are a dangerous game, but heist man Miles Keller thinks he’s found a good strategy: rob rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word’s out about his true identity. New town, new name, no worries. Retirement can’t come soon enough, though. The NYPD is investigating him for the shooting of a hit man named Jack Deen, who was targeting Lucy Gates - a former police informant and Miles’ ex-lover. Miles thinks shooting hit men counts as altruism, but in any case a murder charge would make life difficult.

Jake Scarne has retired. But he has mixed feelings about it. He suspects that there is more to life than golf outings and sojourns down the Jersey Shore. Little does he know that some of his old skills will come in handy when the Staten Island Ferry he is on is hijacked! The hijackers claim they are terrorists. But their real motives are more venal. Scarne avails himself of possibly the most unusual ally he's ever had. But there is death and tragedy in this twisty tale that reminds some critics of two classic movies: DIE HARD and THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE-TWO-THREE. “IF YOU LIKE HARD-...

In the shadowy world of international diplomacy, death is rarely what it seems. When Inter-Agency Liaison Investigator Derek Thomas arrives at the American Embassy in Brussels, he's told he's replacing a diplomat who committed suicide. But Thomas knows better—Lucius Briggs was murdered, and his death is just the first move in a deadly game. As Thomas unravels a conspiracy targeting a landmark African oil agreement, he discovers an assassination method so elegant it borders on artistry. The perfect crime, untraceable and seemingly impossible. His investigation leads him to Heidi McNamara, ...

An Ice Pick Murderer Is Terrorizing San Francisco San Francisco is reeling from a series of brutal icepick murders, and Cole Sage is distracted when his secretary and sidekick, Hanna, takes in a troubled teenage girl. The girl is on the run, and as it turns out is hiding things Hanna should know. Cole works with Lt. Leonard Chin to find the perpetrator of the savage killings terrorizing the city. As Cole and Hanna try to protect the girl, they find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where every answer leads to more danger. With the body count rising, Cole must navigate a ...

Alice Crowley's erotic smut just keeps getting better and better! Reader reviews: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~Multiple Fans In this thirsty, hungry, 12,000-word sexy suspense novel, a married woman named Sophie is claimed and dominated by an alpha undercover cop. Sophie lives the high life with her neglectful husband in an opulent penthouse suite. One day she gets hungry for some titillating action, so she takes her body to the wrong side of the tracks. Now a gang of relentless alphas has her held captive and will not let up as they ...

Un'organizzazione nascente, spietata e sanguinaria, dalle periferie cerca la conquista del cielo. Tre giovani eroi maledetti, che hanno un sogno ingenuo e terribile. Un poliziotto molto deciso, un coro di malavitosi, giocatori d'azzardo, criminologi, giornalisti, giudici, cantanti, mafiosi, insieme a pezzi deviati del potere e terroristi neri. E il piú esclusivo bordello in città. Una storia epica, di straordinaria potenza. Il primo grande romanzo dell'Italia criminale.

(NOTE: This story is a revised edition of an earlier story, The Adventure of the Assassino Pazzo . If you have already purchased that story, do not also buy this one. Just chose another New Sherlock Holmes mystery.)Sherlock Holmes and I were standing under the balcony of a London hotel when a woman’s body fell from the top floor. The insane Napolitano, recently escaped from Broadmoor, had struck again. Strangely, every one of his victims was a French official living in London. Every day he was murdering and mutilating another victim. France was angry. The treaty with England was at risk. ...