Dark Crime Thrillers

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

Framed for murder he didn’t commit. Hunted by his own. Can he uncover the truth before it’s too late? A British Army general is assassinated in broad daylight. Top-secret intelligence vanishes. The world is on edge. And Stirling Hunt is the prime suspect. With the full force of British intelligence hunting him down, Hunt does something he’s never done before—he disappears. On the run, cut off from his allies and outgunned at every turn, he must uncover the real killer and retrieve the stolen intel before it falls into enemy hands. From the corridors of Washington to the streets of ...

The Island: A Beautiful Deception This is a Sci-Fi tale of murder, mystery, and horror. When Harrison Thomas accepts the position of Inspector in charge of the police force on the tropical island of San Lacruz, he leaves the United States for a new life. He also rejects the painful memories of a marriage that didn’t work and a world that seems increasingly cold and callous. Tropical paradise seems like a good place for a new start, and dealing with drunk tourists is much easier to handle than the daily tragedies he sees on the mainland. San Lacruz most certainly seems to offer that second...

Maui is sacred places, ancient artifacts, and the dark lava of deepest passions.

Nothing ever goes easy for detectives Lei Texeira and Michael Stevens. An investigation into heiau desecrations must take a backseat to the emergence of an enemy who targets those closest to them, leaving shrouds as a calling card. Lei and Stevens face challenges of the body, mind, and heart in this seventh in the best-selling Lei Crime Series.

Dark Trade by Harper Stanwick, Sr.is a gripping mystery thriller set in Victorian London. This historical fiction novel plunges readers into a world of intrigue, dark secrets, and psychological suspense. Follow Larry Myrick, a city alderman and potential future Mayor of London, as he navigates a labyrinth of deceit and murder in the fog-laden streets of London. Experience the chilling atmosphere of Victorian society, from opulent mansions to shadowy alleyways. Uncover a web of secrets involving high-ranking officials, mysterious women, and enigmatic characters that will keep you guessing ...

A demented killer believes he’s doing God’s work — and a teenage boy with dreams of getting his license becomes his next target. Elliot Cross doesn't just hate ambitious dreaming — he sees it as sin. In his twisted mind, anyone reaching for more is disobeying the First Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. When he volunteers to give Timmy, his daughter’s fatherless classmate, a driving lesson, it’s not a gift — it’s a trap. And the road ahead leads nowhere safe. The Driving Lesson is a short story of religious delusion, power, and cruelty — a standalone ...

The residents of Wilmington, North Carolina are facing an unseen menace. A predator is walking in their midst. As he secretly divines whispers from another realm, this killer picks his victims and their mode of death. Detective Bob Standish is the city's only hope. His supernatural gift of hearing the voices of the dead has helped him solve crimes in the past. But will it help him this time? As Bob chases this criminal, his inner voice begins to overwhelm him. He begins to wonder if his gift is helping him to close in on the killer, or is it consuming him and turning him into the killer? ...

It's not good to live in the past; even worse to die in it Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas awakens from a vivid dream in his French Quarter apartment. He finds an antique double-moonstone pendant placed in his hand by the ghost of a voodoo mambo. One of the two moonstones is missing, and both gemstones are needed to make the pendant magical. The rightful owner of the pendant is a supernatural fairy named Maurelle. Someone chopped off Maurelle’s wings and buried her alive in the ruins of a French Quarter Creole townhouse. A mystical beast still haunts the grounds of the estate. Now, ...

She’d been running for so long, it felt like her legs were on fire. Her heart was pounding so hard, she was sure it would give out. Around her, the snow was falling, casting an eerie silence over the town. A crack behind her, a foot snapping a branch, it warned her that he was still coming. She whipped around and saw the knife gleaming in his hand....

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that explore the darkness lurking within ordinary lives. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over the next twenty-four hours, Brian will face a horrifying truth about his father—and himself. Rewind A man wakes in a decaying apartment, hooked to a mysterious machine, a dead body in the next room—...

After receiving an unexpected gift following her college graduation, aspiring journalist Adele Plank returns to the Pacific Northwest’s beautiful and isolated sea and shores landscape of the San Juan Islands, where she soon finds herself immersed in the shocking mystery of a young woman’s brutal murder. The deathly discovery rocks the island community, stirring doubts about their new sheriff and turning old friends into new rivals. Adele must determine who she can trust and who she cannot, even as a mysterious stranger provides her a critical clue.

A year has passed. Marine and security specialist Domino Taylor does not work anymore. His days and nights are spent shadowing the Lambert family; the guilt he feels for the tragic events that unfolded in western Pennsylvania haunts him without mercy. When someone from Domino's past contacts him, she begs him to take on one last job: Find and return her kidnapped son.

The Vigilant Doctor Crofton is a gripping psychological thriller that delves into the dark and complex world of Dr. Catherine Crofton, a highly trained and skilled psychiatrist, who also has her own dark side, Set in the striking backdrop of New York City, the story follows Dr. Catherine Crofton, who meticulously navigates a delicate balancing act. She goes back and forth, from her professional life during the day, helping her patients with their mental struggles, while at night, taking on different personas to hide her identity while seeking out those responsible for the heinous crimes ...

What He Didn't Know (Based on true crime stories in Greece!) Set in Athens, Greece, during the 1980s and 1990s, Kostas and Nikos are twin brothers who find themselves abandoned by the adults in their lives. After a traumatic childhood filled with loneliness, heartache, crime, foster homes, abuse, and forced child labor, they find opposite paths in life to cope with the painful scars inflicted. Kostas becomes a cop to tilt the scales of justice in the right direction, while Nikos seeks to right the wrongs of their childhood with his own brand of vengeance. In the ultimate tale of nature ...

Paris is a city of sin. But at the Sapphire Club, pleasure has a price… and some never make it out. Simon Sinclair built the Sapphire Club into an empire, a palace of luxury and desire. But when financial struggles force him to sign a lucrative deal with a secretive group known as The Consortium, his club becomes a hunting ground. Girls are vanishing without a trace. Alina Carter isn’t here for pleasure. She’s here to hunt. A French Intelligence agent, she’s spent years chasing the monsters who traffic in flesh. The trail has led her straight to the Sapphire’s doors—and to Lucas...

Monty and Ellen Drew’s vacation in the South Seas takes a spooky turn when their cruise ship loses all power. And the temperature drops...unnaturally. Ellen believes an evil presence has taken over the ship...except Captain Norris doesn’t believe her. But with the ship dead in the water—and no rescue happening—the captain asks Ellen and Monty for assistance in overcoming possible supernatural forces. When the crew and passengers begin to mysteriously fall asleep and don’t awaken, Ellen and Monty must discover how the entity is holding the ship hostage... And why no rescuers can ...

A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful roller-coaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations and unexpected twists.

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well: In the criminal underworld, if you’re offered more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he’s bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate need of cash to hire a kidnapper to snatch Ronnie’s two-year-old son back from her ex. The whole thing is pretty complicated and has Junior on edge.

She's the one I never knew I needed. And I'll raise hell to claim her. I'm cold, calculating, ruthless. My loyalty belongs to my brothers in the MC. I defend my club with bullets and blood. And then a woman in need turns my life upside down. Violet doesn't want to be mixed up in the MC life. She's a good woman with a troubled past looking to start over, All she wants is to run her bar in peace. But when she winds up in the cross hairs of another MC, I'm the only man dangerous enough to keep her safe. Protecting her could start a war. But I can't ignore the heat in her eyes when she looks to...