European Thriller

While she was out enjoying her senior prom, Sarah Brighwater's mother was murdered in their home. The serial killer was known to the police but never caught. Now, 15 years later, Sarah is an FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit tracking down killers like the one who killed her mother. When a new string of murders begins and bodies are dumped near her old home town, Sarah wonders about the reemergence of her lifelong tormentor. Could it be him?

When tyranny tightens its grip, ordinary people rise up. Maidan Revolution is a searing work of historical fiction inspired by the real-life events of Ukraine’s 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity. Set during one of the most explosive uprisings in modern European history, this powerful novella follows a disillusioned American war photographer who returns to Kyiv—a city he once loved—only to be swept into the firestorm of a nation’s fight for freedom. Through the lens of his camera, he documents more than just conflict—he captures courage, sacrifice, and a people’s refusal to be ...

A killer who stages his victims like art. A message hidden in a dead man’s throat. And a detective on the edge of breaking. The footsteps stopped on the stone floor. Then came a low, scornful laugh. A blade traced her calf. “Mariella, my beautiful one... It’s time.” In the sun-drenched vineyards near Stuttgart, Germany, a brutally mutilated corpse is found—slashed, disemboweled, and theatrically posed. Chief Inspector Lola Lindberg and her team are stunned. But the horror doesn’t end there. Inside the victim’s throat, forensic pathologist Hettkamp discovers a chilling message ...

April 20th, 1968: Enoch Powell, MP for Wolverhampton South West, gives a speech that shakes a community and Britain to its very core. Words that provoke, that divide...that profoundly affect the lives of those they touch. Mrs. Georgina Verington-Delaunay is an administrator working in the Conservative riding office of Enoch Powell. Frank and Christine are art students inadvertently caught in an undercurrent of intolerance. Nelson and his aunt Irene are Jamaican immigrants striving to make a life for themselves in a turbulent atmosphere.

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, predetermined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way - accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.

Christmas with the family? Penny Küfer is quite surprised when she is invited to a fancy celebration with her estranged mother, of all people. Waldenstein Castle, the party location and home to Penny's latest stepfather, turns out to be a palace right out of a fairy tale. The assembled guests, however, seem rather eccentric, and what's more, one of them is a ruthless killer. But he hadn’t reckoned with Penny....

A famous Hollywood director arrives in Bologna to remake a cult film and the city's renown cinema archive decides to mark the occasion with a screening of the original, only to discover it has disappeared. After English detective Daniel Leicester follows the trail of Love Upon a Razorblade to an apparent murder-suicide, he begins to suspect there may be more at stake than missing negatives—could the film contain a clue to one of the city's most enduring mysteries?

Susan has everything she ever wanted. A loving husband, an angelic daughter and the cottage of her dreams in County Cork. Her picture-perfect life seems too good to be true. And it is. At a housewarming party with their new neighbours, her daughter Amelia goes missing. As friends become suspects, Susan’s life spirals out of control. And when Amelia’s yellow cardigan is dredged from the lake, every parent’s worst nightmare suddenly seems horribly real. In the aftermath of Amelia’s disappearance Susan and her husband Paul are not themselves. Someone is hiding something.

An unethical banker suffocates. A diamond dealer slits his wrists. A media magnate freezes in the snow. A disgraced CEO inhales exhaust fumes. Four unpopular businessmen, four apparent suicides. Until Interpol find the same DNA at each death. Beatrice Stubbs, on her first real case since "the incident", arrives in Switzerland to lead the investigation. But there’s more to Zurich than chocolate and charm.

Fast paced, exciting historical drama with surprise ending... When the charming but penniless Pierre Dupres departs 17th-century France in pursuit of fortune, heartbroken Clare resigns herself to marrying his dull elder brother Jacques. Descended from a long line of midwives, she must bear a daughter to carry on her rewarding ancestral profession with its many secrets. Jacques reluctantly allows Clare to restore Maison Dupres, a crumbling chateau rumoured to be haunted, as their family home but clearly disapproves his wife’s decision to continue pursuing her career, even after the birth ...

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, predetermined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way, accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London and her crew sail into the beautiful northern city of Oslo, admiring its gorgeous archipelago of islands and its local architecture and cuisine. It is the perfect stop - until, on a fishing outing, London reels in not the local cod, but a dead body.

All is lost. The Gods decided to reward Wortimer and punish Ash, and the future of Britannia is hanging in the balance. In the darkness of a prison cell, through pain of torture, Ash tries to remember how everything has gone so terribly wrong. Wortimer defeated his father and conquered Londin. He took Rhedwyn into his chamber, and threw Ash into the deepest dungeon. His armies are rampaging throughout the province, killing Iutes and Saxons wherever they can find them. It seems nothing and nobody can stop the new Dux of Britons from fulfiling his mission to destroying the Iutes and cast all ...

FBI Agent Sarah Brightwater and journalist Tyler Ford must team up once more to stop the evil machinations of mass serial killer Dwight Spalding. Two sets of unrelated murders in Virginia begin to become entwined as Spalding's web begins to be unraveled. Sarah is working both cases but can't let the link be known for fear of being taken off them and losing her chance to catch the man who killed her mother. Tyler's involvement in the case become more personal than he imagined possible. Will he be able to escape the plans of the vile murderer who is using him a plaything?

Historical Adventure Novel, A mystery set in Europe during the late 19th century. Immerse yourself in the sweeping intrigue of "A Dangerous Proposal," a thrilling mystery that takes you deep into the heart of 19th century Europe. Unravel the secrets, deception, and political machinations surrounding the sudden disappearance of Prince Roel of Rapsberg, set against the picturesque yet perilous mountains of the Carpathians. The novel begins with Minister Gersdorff commissioning the skilled Herr Galabin from their intelligence bureau to investigate the enigmatic disappearance of the prince. ...

Lily Young is fighting a war on two fronts. One is against Mussolini's Blackshirts, who hunt her relentlessly, and the other is against her own body, as she carries Luigi's child in the midst of war-torn Italy. Living in hiding at Casa del Sole, Lily is determined to protect her unborn child and maintain her love for Luigi. But when an unexpected accident forces her to deliver her baby prematurely, Lily's world turns upside down. As she navigates the difficulties of motherhood in a war zone, Lily begins to realize that even the innocent are not safe. The horrors of war threaten to consume ...

Sophia leads an ordinary life in her quaint home in Richmond-upon-Thames, content with her role as a wife and mother. But when she stumbles upon a wartime mystery surrounding her great aunt Lily, her world is turned upside down. Through a collection of letters, journals, and old photographs kept by Lily during World War Two, Sophia uncovers a tale of forbidden love between her aunt and an Italian man named Luigi Leoni. As the letters grow increasingly intense, Sophia watches as Lily's chances for happiness slip away, leaving behind only secrets and regrets. Determined to solve the mystery ...

Tariq Khan is a Pakistani born and raised in Norway. An outsider in his own country - adrift between two worlds divided by class, race, and culture - he’s always been searching for home. Alongside a flock of other streetwise young men, each looking for direction and each easily susceptible, Tariq finds his cause in the Muslim revival. Idealistic, driven by faith, and empowered with purpose, he’s drawn to radical Islam - his last resort for achieving a sense of belonging. It’s only when he enlists in the war against Assad that Tariq’s eyes are truly opened.

A vengeful renegade is targeting rogue mercenaries against the city of Florence. Can a young lawyer foil the sinister scheme? Renaissance Italy, 1465. The first hint of trouble comes from Nico Argenti's sister, who tells him that boys are going missing from the orphanage. She prevails upon Nico to look into the matter, but before the young lawyer can do so, he is dispatched to Bologna on an official mission to investigate rogue mercenaries in a neighboring province near the Florentine border. While in Bologna, Nico unearths a connection between the missing boys, the mercenaries, and a ...

"Wars, an embargo, and forbidden love in this once peaceful city..." With the drums of war just weeks away, Omar invites all those closest to his heart for lunch at his lavish villa overlooking the Tigris River of Baghdad. He can't help but smile at the faces that have graced his eventful life that spans from an interesting childhood, the two Gulf Wars, and the inhumane embargo that crippled the nation. Loved ones come together, probably for the last time, in the city their ancestors called Baghdad or Baghdadu, "God’s Gift." Memories upon memories linger in Omar's head. He has survived ...

Gertrud and her foster sister, Hanna, used to be inseparable. But as the years pass, Hanna becomes the beautiful one while Gertrud remains plain. Their once unbreakable bond is strained by jealousy - until Gertrud is brutally murdered and Hanna disappears without a trace.