Detective Romance Mysteries

A rainy night in east Texas leads to murder When private detective Buck McDivit inherits his murdered aunt’s fishing camp on Caddo Lake, he quickly learns all isn’t right in this primordial paradise dripping with antebellum mystique. To retain his inheritance, he must take on a white supremacy group in the nearby racially-torn east Texas town of Deception. Will Buck prevail or become gator bait beneath the coffee-colored surface of the mysterious lake? Ghost of a Chance is Book 1 of Eric Wilder's gripping Paranormal Cowboy Series. See what Amazon readers are saying about Ghost: "...

A young mother with a troubled past seeks help from Mel and Dana but is their effort to assist her too little, too late? Hannah Yoder appears on Dana and Mel’s doorstep late one night with her teenage friend Katie and Katie’s newborn baby in tow telling the couple the girl and child are in trouble and have no place else to go. Dana and Mel offer refuge for the night and a firm promise to talk about the future. Plans are barely made when first one mysterious tragedy strikes and then another leaving Mel, Dana, Hannah and the Crane and Rossi families with few clues and little hope. Mel ...

You aren't free to love until you realize you can't make someone love you back. When feisty, confident psychologist, Zoey Donovan, returns from work dazed after being accosted by a madman in the hospital corridor, she finds solace in the understanding nature of Pete Banks, the attractive and brooding owner of the construction company heading up the remodel on her house. As Zoey unloads her worry and fear on Pete, he's torn between his sympathy and attraction to Zoey and his loyalty to his roommate, Thad Dalton, who took a bullet for her. Knowing Thad would do anything to save a civilian, ...

Their job is dangerous. Their chemistry is explosive. But can love survive the line of fire? New York narcotics detectives Lucas Manning and Danny DeRossa have been chasing the Valdez cartel for over a year—and now the case is finally blowing wide open. With the Valdez brothers behind bars and their enforcer ready to flip, it should be time to celebrate. But a brutal ambush changes everything. When Lucas is kidnapped by a violent cartel loyalist, it’s Danny who risks everything to bring him back. Their daring escape only plunges them deeper into a deadly conspiracy involving sacred ...

A woman, imprisoned for manslaughter, disappears without a trace during transport between states and it’s all up to Dana to find her. Sheila Ford traveled to Tennessee planning to commit an act of pre-meditated murder on her husband. Her lone shot at him misses and kills his lover instead. After pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge, she’s locked away in a Tennessee prison for women. Everyone back home in Ohio wrote her off. She wasn’t eligible for a parole hearing for seven years. When Jennifer Coventry calls begging Sheriff Mel Crane to bring her ailing mother home to Ohio to ...

Sixteen-year-old Day Connor views life through the lens of her camera, where perspective is everything. But photographs never tell the whole story. After Day crosses paths with Julian, the world she pictures and the truths she believes - neatly captured in black and white - begins to blur. Julian is not the "armed and dangerous" escapee the police are searching for, but his alibis don't quite add up, either. There is more to his story. This time, Day is determined to see the entire picture...whatever it reveals. Did he? Or didn't he?

There's no fool like an old fool. Ernest "Dutch" Webster was known throughout Teller County as a pillar of the community - successful businessman, active in charitable organizations, politically connected, and a family man. That all changed when Darcy Harrison came into his life. Dutch's friends all saw trouble when he left his wife, and began squiring young Darcy around his favorite watering holes. Only Dutch was blind to the obvious truth that Darcy was using him to revive a failed development project that his connections might possibly save. Long-time Teller County deputy Sarah Fromholz ...

When you’re blind to the danger right in front of you, who will you listen to before you get hurt? In a small town in rural Pennsylvania, nothing is as simple as it seems. Secrets lurk behind every corner, dying to be exposed. No one will make it out unscathed. Addie is a teenage girl that seems to have it all figured out. Starting high school can be hard, but not when you’re one of the popular crowd. Addie has all the boys wrapped around her finger, but what fun is there in that? All is not what it seems when her life outside of school is exposed. She makes it look easy, but dealing ...

The Sovereign Order of Monte Cristo begins with a condensed retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, related through the voice of Sherlock Holmes. It includes exhilarating new adventures, characters, and ideas, carrying the reader through books I and II and into book III of an ever-expanding new series based on the classic. The author consulted the original French as well as the oldest English translations of The Count of Monte Cristo, but the style of the retelling, in the distinctive voice of Sherlock Holmes, constitutes a new work. Books II and III, incorporated herein,...

Enchantress witch Elle returns in an epic magical adventure with the Witch Detectives, her witchy mom, two loyal henchwomen, and their new client, Skye. What begins as a goblin handfasting quickly spirals into a quest to protect a young girl from her dangerous birthright, as would-be usurpers plot to seize the goblin kingdom. Meanwhile, Skye has an unusual problem—a wyvern dragon that’s invisible and stuck to her back, thanks to a cursed harp. To save the day, Elle and her team must navigate a mysterious maze with a secret standing stone that could reveal their deepest secrets—and ...

Running a paranormal detective agency out of your dad's garage: cool. Even though you don't believe any of it: still cool. Getting the biggest case of your life: astonishingly cool. Being forced to partner with the new guy in school: not at all cool. Even if he makes your knees weak: still wildly uncool. Finding your own obituary in your locker: Least. Cool. Of. All.

When two patrolmen shoot and kill a woman in the shadows of Seattle's industrial district, the question isn't who did it but why? It's a question that private investigator Shane McPhearson unwittingly begins to unravel after discovering an abandoned 8-year-old named Jacob in Lincoln Park. What begins as a simple attempt to find Jacob's guardian reveals a wide-spread web of lies, cover-ups and deception woven throughout Seattle's Eighth Precinct with ties to organized crime — and Jacob knowing the secret that threatens them all. Not knowing who to trust or where to turn in order to keep ...

After 17-year-old David is forced to stand trial for his girlfriend's death, he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle and their young daughter, Lily, to avoid the media frenzy. But all is not well at his relatives' house. His aunt and uncle are not speaking to each other, and Lily seems dead set on making David's life a torment. And then there's the issue of their older daughter, Kathy, who died under mysterious circumstances a number of years back.

Rachel has just finished shooting her documentary on Havana for her thesis project. She is celebrating on her small ship with her professors, when a drenched beautiful woman climbs through her cabin window identifying herself as a CIA agent, and pleads for Rachel's help getting a mysterious package to her partner in Florida. Rachel shares a meal, and more with the woman. She finds herself unable to shake the encounter and soon finds herself in a completely foreign situation, surrounded by spies, and dangerous politically radical forces. All for the sake of a single moment of fleeting ...

It's the season of joy, happiness, and everything! This Christmas, treat yourself with fun adventures set not just in Manhattan but a whole new dimension! This set features five Christmas paranormal cozy mysteries including: Wicked of the Christmas Past Wicked as a Christmas Fruitcake I'm Dreaming of a Wicked Christmas All I Want for Christmas is Wicked Merry, Bright, and Spirited Away Enjoy four Christmas stories featuring Mandy, her ghostly pal Jackie, and the super-hot FBI agent turned into the COO of the world's leading security company Rick Rowling! And... Meet Peridot "Riddy" ...

“Find out what evil really lurks inside all of us...just when you think a character is likable…” -Skinny Leopard Media “A complex, interesting web. You could never be sure who to trust.” -Reedsy Discovery *** Forensic Scientist Penelope Washburn has the bad habit of finding herself in the middle of other people’s messes. Unfortunately, she’s too nice to say anything about it. She also has an Achilles heel, ex-boss Detective Jose Ortega, who also happens to be an ex-love interest. When Ortega gets tangled in a multinational crime involving COIL, a powerful cult, along with the ...

The second Perfect Gentlemen novel from the New York Times best-selling authors of the Masters of Ménage series. Privileged, wealthy, and wild: They are the Perfect Gentlemen of Creighton Academy. But the threat of a scandal has one of them employing his most deceptive - and seductive - talents...Recruited into the CIA at a young age, Connor Sparks knows how dirty the world can be. Only when he’s with his friends can he find some peace. So when an anonymous journalist threatens one of the Perfect Gentlemen, Connor vows to take down the person behind the computer.

How do you survive when you become the one thing you despise? It’s vamps like Roric who make humans believe vampires have a right to live in human society. As leader of the Vampire Enforcement Agency, his job is to find and capture the vampires who betray humans’ recently-earned trust. Until one human woman tempts him to break all the rules. When Roric intercepts a rogue vampire attack and finds Caroline dying, he can’t resist her blood or her beauty, and in a moment of passion, he does the unthinkable. But Caroline despises the monsters who killed her parents, and she’d rather die ...

If there was one piece of advice Olive Crisp always followed, it was that "one should never attempt to solve a crime on an empty stomach..." 1970s. Cambridge, England. A LIZARD, A MONKEY & A MURDER: When a tyrannical businessman is murdered Olive discovers that half the citizens of Cambridge wanted him dead. And finding which one actually killed him is like trying to find a poisonous needle in a murderous haystack. A COSY COMMUNITY: Events take a turn for the bizarre when the victim’s son begs Olive to rescue his kidnapped lizard. Are the two crimes connected? As Olive delves deeper into ...

Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for. Margot’s mother left for a reason.