English Detective Noir

ORIGINAL STORY, WRITTEN BY A HUMAN The irrepressible Detective Ange Watson is back for the gripping second instalment of the Saltwater Crimes Trilogy. Ange’s return to her beat in Byron Bay certainly doesn’t go to plan. Some deep soul searching is needed when her reputation is left in tatters. Her fixation on the criminal syndicate behind the Namba Heads tragedies leads her to adopt the persona of a shady cop and head north to the glittering Gold Coast. All that glitters is definitely not gold! With some newfound surf buddies to keep her company and aided by a surprising and thrilling ...

The line between good and evil is a very thin one, indeed . . . Does he have the courage to cross it? George Archer has a big problem. After being gunned down in front of his family, George finds himself stuck somewhere between life and death, but definitely closer to death. He finds one person in the world that he can communicate with. Enter, Andrew Flowers, a Homicide Detective who is recovering from a gunshot wound of his own. An unlikely alliance is formed and the pair set out to find George's killer and the tormenter of his family. In doing so, they discover a grisly string of murders ...

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Private investigator Gary Maddox scratches out a living doing personal injuries surveillance. A mother asks him to find out who killed her drug-dealer son. The son deserved to die. But the mother deserves justice and offers Gary a lot of money. Soon he's battling drug dealers, corrupt cops, hit-men and murderers. They try to rub him out. But he's well-armed, and not dead yet.

It’s a case unlike anything detective Mina Dabiri has seen before. A woman trapped inside a magician’s box, with swords pierced through. But this time, it’s not a magic trick. It’s murder. Knowing she has a terrifying killer on her hands, Mina enlists the help of celebrity mentalist, Vincent Walder. Only he can give her an insight into the secret world of magic and illusions. Mina and Vincent soon discover that the murder victim has the roman numeral III engraved on her leg. The killer is counting down.

Book 2 in the Romantic Paranormal Mystery Trilogy: Celestial Blues Fifty years ago, Griffin Shaw and his wife were both murdered. Now a minor angel, Grif’s been granted permission to solve the mystery of his own death . . . if he helps the Pure angels guide those souls who might otherwise be Lost. First case: Jeap Yang, a drug addict in his final moments of life. Grif knows death is coming for the young man, but he cannot intervene. Yet Grif’s mortal lover, reporter Katherine “Kit” Craig, isn’t bound by angelic protocol … and if she can save a life, she will. However, Kit’s ...

It’s just another morning on the fifth of July. The country is another year older; Gus is a touch hungover, the coffee in his office is stale, and all Gus wants to do is go home and start over again on July sixth. Unfortunately Father Xavier visits the sheriff’s office and he’s brought along a gift. He has a green jacket that should have been put in the church’s lost and found. The father suspects it belongs to a missing girl named Erica Torres which is odd given the jacket is marked as belonging to E. Rossi. Erica went to school one day and never came home. She was picked up by a ...

Sydney private investigator Gary Maddox is asked to find a missing accountant. He doesn't expect any trouble. After all, the guy is just an bean counter. But he's dead wrong. Powerful men have dispatched a posse of thugs to kill the ledger lurker. Gary is soon counting bodies and trying not to become a ugly statistic.

After four years of hard work, deputy district attorney Tim McAndrews claims the title of his office's top prosecutor. He's young, handsome and smart and his life is ticking along at a satisfying pace, until he sees a beautiful young woman dancing down the last few steps of the James Street parking garage.Tim realizes his life is missing something: love. He's surprised by his sudden and overwhelming attraction to Daniela St. Clair, a wealthy heiress and philanthropist. Love on his mind, he returns to his office to find the Medical Examiner, Kathy Hope, a long time friend waiting in his ...

In the third thrilling instalment of the Murder in Helsinki series, Detective Superintendent Topias Torikka is called to a crime scene in the city’s wealthiest district. What initially appears to be a theft gone awry soon unravels into a much darker and more complex case that threatens to shake Helsinki to its core. As Torikka plunges deeper into the investigation, he unearths a connection to a centuries-old mystery. But someone else has already discovered the secret and will stop at nothing to achieve their aims—no matter the cost. Time is running out; Can Torikka outsmart the criminal...

A homecoming should be a happy event. Not an opportunity for betrayal. For Inspector Thomas Sullivan, a man who trusts few people, returning home only to find those he calls friends have kept dark secrets from him, accused him of multiple murders, and are plotting against him is an act of betrayal. Worst of all, one of those people is his partner and girlfriend, Sarah. Sully's universe has been turned upside down in this tale of betrayal, murder, and political intrigue in Capital City on the frozen world of Beta Prime. On the run, alone, and with a price on his head, can Sully survive long ...

A hard-boiled ex-San Diego PD homicide detective turned ride-share driver finds herself embroiled in a series of murders related to the southern California cannabis dispensary trade.

When a neighbor finds a grim discovery in the waterways of Venice Beach, Linx Maxwell gets an unexpected visitor in the form of a new ghost. The only problem? Her new ghost doesn't see eye to eye with her old one. Detective Frank Bogle doesn't know what to make of the young victim. Haunting Linx is his job, and he doesn't want company. All the same, he can hardly deny that the excitement of an unsolved crime intrigues him. The new ghost claims he was murdered - and the trail leads right to the home of Linx's new client.

Private Investigator Dirk Slade is looking for the killer of his best friend, as well as a missing teenager--the son of Dracula. Along the way he encounters the Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster and his former bride, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Leech Woman, the Invisible Man, Wasp Woman, and a host of other old horror movie characters. That's because Monster Town is set in an early sixties ghetto of Hollywood, where the monsters of black and white horror films have taken up residence, now that they're no longer in vogue. In this existence, monsters played themselves in the movies. THEY were the ...

Claire Perrigaux a clandestine SOE agent during WW2 operating from Saint Brieuc in Northern France,has a past life she doesn't like to talk about. In 1925, the world was a different place. As a child prodigy, Claire Lane, a Professor of Mathematics at London’s prestigious St Anne's University. Her specialty- scientific study of probability. In other words, the likelihood that an event will reoccur. Chief Police Inspector Ralph McGinniss of Scotland Yard is sent down from London to investigate these heinous crimes, and enlists the skills of Claire Lane to help him. A team is forged. How ...

When wealthy industrialist Harold Thorndyke dies suddenly in his bed, it’s ruled a tragic heart attack—just another casualty of his failing health. But when private investigator Blake Lowry is hired by Harold’s sister, Margaret, to dig deeper, he discovers that the truth is anything but natural. What this the perfect murder? With the glamorous yet volatile ex-cabaret girl Lila Thorndyke, Harold’s much younger widow, at the centre of the scandal, Blake must navigate through a maze of lies and infidelity. From shadowy cabaret backrooms to high-society mansions, his search for answers ...

"This clever depiction of hell explores the lies that people tell, both to others and to themselves... Zeltserman has developed a rich world with a complex protagonist, and the stated stagnation of hellish eternity doesn’t stop his story from moving briskly along." Publishers Weekly Hell can be a tricky place with all of its rules. Mike Stone, hell’s lone practicing private eye, thinks he has it figured out, and more often than not, solves the cases that come his way. It’s not easy, though. Not with the fact that everyone in hell lies. And not with having to worry about a barbaric ...

The Final Book in the Supernatural Romantic Mystery Trilogy: Celestial Blues After learning that his wife, Evelyn, survived the attack that killed him fifty years earlier, angel/PI Griffin Shaw will risk anything to find her—an obsession that comes at a steep cost. Grif has had to forsake his new love, journalist, Katherine “Kit” Craig—the woman who made his life worth living again—to find a woman he may no longer recognize. Yet when Kit is attacked again, it becomes clear that both mortal and divine forces are determined to safeguard the dark secrets of the past. To survive, Grif...

An intense thriller set in the streets and courthouses of Ibiza, this book will captivate readers from the first few pages. Eduardo Ribas is tried and convicted for killing a nurse (Ana López Demichellis). Neither Raúl Ballesteros, a prestigious, politically incorrect attorney, nor the victim’s sister (Raquel), a lovely and sensual young woman, is convinced that Ribas is guilty. Together they decide to hire an eccentric private detective (Álex Zarco), gifted with acute deductive skills, to try to unravel the truth. At the onset of the investigation, the first detail that leaps out at ...

Martinique. Memories. Murder. A mystery is abound and the government has called in by special invitation the world’s greatest detective by study and trade, Whisky Hernandez, to help and assist the local police and solve the case fast, making use of her language proficiency in French and Creole. Full-time hygienist and part-time sleuth, this licensed private investigator, daughter of a talented New York and New Jersey former police detective, utilizes the help of her humorous photographer partner to get to the bottom of the mystery that is revealing itself on this island of flowers. These ...