Criminal Mystery

No one ever expects the sweet blonde to be the strongest one in the room…at least, not until they’re lying on the ground and wondering how they got there. Guardian, part-time bouncer, and the Seven’s muscle…Bri has never been afraid to get her hands dirty when it comes to helping those in need. Now, her mission is to find the hundreds of Magics who disappeared without a trace. When Bri finally uncovers the secret, it’s no longer just random families she’s trying to help. It’s her own. And she’s desperate to get to the truth. But the deeper she digs, the more disturbing the ...

It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky enough to win the prime job - running messages for Squizzy Taylor, the most dangerous gangster in Melbourne. But things start to get a little too hot for Charlie, so he decides to take the money and run....

Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She’s known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay. But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: Her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she’s still grieving her father’s recent death.

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ This was a perfect story for now, due to the virus pandemic. I could really relate to the story and some of the issues that the isolation has caused. - Amazon Reviewer ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Al Macy voiced many of the fears I'm experiencing, strictly sheltering from COVID-19. It helps to see them in writing & know that I am not alone! - Amazon Reviewer Attorney Garrett Goodlove has a strong bond with his twin sister, Carly. They’re soul mates. Doesn’t mean they always get along. Over the years, Garrett has found that the only way to tolerate his reckless and headstrong sibling ...

Adam Dalgliesh debe investigar el asesinato de la señora Bolam, la antipática administradora de la clínica Steen, un selecto centro psiquiátrico donde ingresan pacientes adinerados que valoran en igual medida la atención médica y la discreción.

To the average citizen, the Lion of Salvador was a national hero, a military general of such renown that his accolades spanned two continents. To those in the know, however, the man was the cruelest of drug lords, a savage despot building an unstoppable empire that ranged from the Central American jungle to the bustling streets of New York.

Northern Midwest winters are often as harshly bitter and confining as the iron bars of the old Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis. In the fall of 1887, three brothers were inmates there. It was an era of notorious outlaws, but unlike the gangs of Jesse James or Cole Younger, the story behind these brothers has been lost to history—until now. Theirs is a complex story of passion, betrayal, danger, heartbreak, and tremendous loss. Trials ensued. Convictions followed. Sentences passed. Justice would be served . . . but was it?

Doro hat das große Los gezogen. Ihr Vater schickt sie nach Valeggio sul Mincio am südlichen Gardasee, um für seine Fernsehreportage passende Orte, Rezepte und Geschichten aufzutun. Ihr Freund Vinc soll sie dabei unterstützen. Italien, bezahlter Urlaub – nichts wie los. Vor Ort sind Vinc und Doro dann die heimlichen Stars, jeder will von der Reportage profitieren. Doch plötzlich herrscht Alarmzustand. Ein Tourist wurde vergiftet, und das kurz vor dem berühmten Tortellinifest auf der Ponte Visconteo. Polizei, Festkomitee und die gesamte Gastronomie sind geschockt und in heller Aufregung.

Gourmetköchin und Hobby-Detektivin Doro Ritter aus München ist unterwegs zu einem Undercover-Einsatz ins wunderschöne Bardolino am Gardasee und fragt sich bereits jetzt, worauf sie sich da nur eingelassen hat. Enzo, Hausherr des Weinguts Buccelli, leidet darunter, dass sich seine Frau Paola seit geraumer Zeit von ihm distanziert und hinter seinem Rücken regelmäßig große Summen vom Familienkonto abgehoben hat. Er will endlich wissen, was dahintersteckt, und hat Doro engagiert, um ihm zu helfen.

Mr. Govich returns to take you deeper, darker inside the dreadful places. The ones he said that he would never look back into them again. Forbidden zones you should never enter alone. It's treacherous there. You go inside, and you can’t tell where the grey ends and the black begins. Places where you can drift away and never even know you were gone. They were too unpleasant for him to recant.

Lester Caine, a highly decorated New York City Detective Lieutenant, retired after twenty-five years now in the Private Eye cop business, living in West Palm Beach Florida. He thought it was the perfect place for him, his Cadillac convertible and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The murder of Palm Beach Judge Desmond Vanderbilt (from book one, Lester Caine Private Eye-Murder on Palm Beach) drew Lester into the dark side of hunting a Nazi war criminal.

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.

Hidden Behind the Robe is a tapestry of stranger-than-fiction scenes, observed over Matt Graham’s 43-year career in the criminal justice system. The story traverses the unexplored and overlooked inner workings of the raunchy, salacious, often hilarious, behind-the-scenes happenings of Los Angeles justice. Combining issues of privilege, race, and sexual misconduct, Hidden Behind the Robe provides a raw, behind-the-scenes perspective, and insight into the legal system that could only have been written by a Judge who has seen it all.

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor The future has arrived, and everyone is losing their inhibitions in this 6,000-word erotic science-fiction adventure story! Gina Mavis is a lusty detective working deep undercovers. The street-wise woman has a heck of a hankering for some stud attention, and that will be just what she gets when she teams up with alpha male private investigator Lon Bradford! These two hungry lovebirds are ...

When Amanda Cooper steps foot out of jail, she's determined to never go back. Two years behind bars means she's missed her daughter, Taylor, turning into a teenager, and she doesn't want to lose another moment with her. But as a convicted con artist, Amanda has few options for getting out of Los Angeles and securing her dream life: predictable, boring, and bordered by a white picket fence. The trouble is Amanda's not the only one with a con. At every step of the way, someone is trying to pull her back into the game.

UN surgeon Rachel Forester is posted at a remote medical clinic deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With violence escalating in the region, Dr Forester risks her life by remaining to tend an injured child while the rest of her team evacuates. On the cusp of her final desperate chance to leave, a soldier is carried into the camp by three other members of his unit, his condition so critical, his airlift must take priority over hers.

Alexandra Destephano, a registered nurse and legal counsel for CCMC is concerned about inadequate staff and safety issues in the Pavilion and enlists former husband, dashing surgeon Robert Bonnet to assist her to battle Lester Whitset, the odd and often bizarre Pavilion administrator. In the meantime, staff and patients are being brutally beaten and killed at Crescent City Medical Center and Alex must set aside her feelings about the chronic under staffing at the hospital and work with Jack, Robert, and others to bring the perpetrators to justice.

In All Monsters, Dane Curse’s very first short story, a young woman’s been kidnapped by unknown assailants, and if the former super villain turned PI doesn’t find her before the sun comes up, she’ll succumb to a deadly illness. But nothing’s ever easy, or straight-forward, in Gold Coast City. Especially when the dame’s a wealthy heiress, her father is one of the most powerful men in town, and the main suspect is a crime boss with the knack for killing capes. Add that to a mysterious motive, missing art, and a cadre of criminals, and it’s a nearly impossible task… Will Dane ...

A murder committed by somebody who had never before met the victim, has no criminal record, steals nothing, and tells no one, might be a perfect crime. According to criminologists and scientists, this casual definition of a perfect crime does exist. Faction is a term used in creative writing to describe a work that blends elements of fact and fiction in a seamless manner. By combining factual information, with fictional elements, the writer can create compelling narratives that entertain, inform, and challenge listeners.

For Vanessa, Pairs is a nightmare come true.But she tries her best to keep the creepy and downright terrifying down by being a fixer. So when she gets a job by the famous Madame VanGelder to retrieve stolen property its just another chance at two hundred francs a day and a pint of O negative every fourth day. Wrong. Buy Your Copy Today