Fantasy Detective Mystery

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times best-selling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni - a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online 24 hours a day, this connection is like oxygen - and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times best-selling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after. Everyone thinks 17-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string. They're wrong. Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future. He shouldn't. And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart. They're right.

Mary Winston is an English lawyer hired by Templeton & Moore in New York City, days away from becoming a partner. Busy with her legal duties, she spends little time relaxing, living life dispassionately and responsibly. George, her husband of only a year, playfully attempts to help Mary relax at their get-a-way cottage in upstate. He is all too successful, as he teasingly, lulls Mary to sleep and prods her dreams to expand into full-fledged-fantasies that refuse to release her. Mary suffers through an alternate reality that draws her hopelessly into the world of Leprechauns, whispering cats...

“Hex Kitchen transports you to a delicious world of culinary magic and fantastical, sometimes deadly, competition where every dish keeps you at the edge of your plate—wondering who will win the next move and what bite may be their last.” —Elizabeth Karmel, best-selling cookbook author, and Chopped and Iron Chef judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets The Hunger Games in this mouthwatering, magical, and murderous fantasy. Hex Kitchen is a once-a-decade tournament where contestants have to cook magical dishes that are to die...and maybe even to kill...for. Kenzie has perfected ...

In San Francisco’s darkest corners, magic is more than real—it’s deadly. And Bonnie Glock is the city’s last line of defense. As a hard-nosed P.I., Bonnie Glock knows how to take down the most dangerous criminals in the Mixed—where magic and the mundane collide. But she's hiding a dangerous secret of her own: Bonnie is a witch, a revelation that could destroy her if exposed. The city is spiraling into chaos. Rogue mages and shapeshifters are wreaking havoc, and the Magic Intelligence Agency has lost control. Only Bonnie stands between the city and anarchy, but her new partner—a ...

Down, down the Wicked hole… FREE on Kindle Unlimited! With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Rick and Mandy might have chocolate kisses and blushing roses in mind, but instead they’re drawn into a new case by NYC FBI Chief Hernandez when his daughter’s favorite author bites the dust. Up and coming graphic novelist Eve Wellington has been murdered, and no one’s more surprised than she is to find herself newly dead. The list of suspects who wanted to erase the self-styled cartoon diva includes rival artists, exhausted editors, and overworked assistants, but it’s the trail of...

Magic stole Caly’s family. Now it’s coming for her... Journalist Caly Cook has a stellar career, but nothing else. When a story breaks about two vanished girls, a painful wound is reopened - her sister’s supernatural abduction. Soon she is plunged into a world of supernatural nightmares where nobody can be trusted - especially not Knox, the gorgeous Prince of Wizards. Alone and hurting, she stumbles into a one-night stand with an irresistible shifter, and ignites a love triangle that could ruin everything. As an unimaginable evil threatens the missing girls, Caly must confront her ...

An undeciphered language in Crete. A rash of mysterious disappearances, from Bolivia to Japan. An ancient warning at the ruins of Babel. And a new spiritual leader, who claims that human history as we understand it is about to come to an end.

"Fun, fun, fun! Like the love child of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett!" Man plans, the Multiverse laughs! "It's like that book about anti-gravity. You can't put it down." "A story 14 billion years in the making!" "Finally, a treatment for readers suffering "Dirk Gently or Hitchhiker's Guide withdrawal!" "Not only is this case stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine." No other detective is quite like Dr. Ziegfeld Zaggar, Quantum Detective -- and that's probably for the best. Zaggar and his reluctant, obsessively linear-thinking sidekick, Jack Robbins, investigate the ...

Blue Bell has spent years hiding her mystical talents while running her candy shop, Sucre Bleu. But when a dead body appears outside new neighbor Ethan Moore's office, she finds herself drawn into a baffling murder. With help from her sarcastic talking cat Tiffany, quirky sister Pepper, and Ethan's slick investigating skills, Blue follows the clues. Her supernatural gifts give her an edge, but she risks exposing her secret witchy abilities.

Meet Simon Strong, an immortal detective about to enjoy a night out on the town. He’s planned this date for weeks and tonight is the night. When Tristan Montague, Simon’s partner and resident cranky mage, advises Simon against this course of action, Simon declares his freedom to see whomever he chooses. There’s only one problem. Her name is Michiko and she doesn’t share well.

Sweets Porter is having a tough time between keeping her grades up at the Paranormal Institute for Witches and running Bailey’s Bakery and Sweets while Char and Mr. Bailey are off on their honeymoon. When things take a shocking turn after the Bailey’s welcome home party, the Witch Squad is forced to intervene.

A witch on a bounty. A werewolf out for revenge. Their clash will wake the dead across Oklahoma. Red thought the money was good for her latest bounty until she learned how long she had. Then she wished she'd asked for more. Armed with sarcasm and silver bullets, she has 72 hours to hunt down a homicidal werewolf. ••• In its expanded second edition, this standalone novel throws the reader straight into a fast-paced dark fantasy world. It doesn't need to be read before A Witch Called Red, the first full-length novel of the Red Witch Chronicles, an urban fantasy series. The Red Witch ...

Deadly ingredients, earth-shattering recipes, and poisoned relationships abound in this tantalizing third installment of the Hex Kitchen series. The culinary magic world is at war with itself. A murderer with a vendetta has taken control of the all-powerful Gourmands. The first step in his recipe for domination: kill all his rivals...beginning with Braxton and Kenzie. New enemies are emerging from all sides, and the future of magic is at stake. Everything hinges on Braxton’s sister and her lover-turned-enemy. The problem is that Sofia is in jail, and Graham is being hunted by the police. ...

On a country lane in snowbound 1950s New Hampshire, a car goes skidding off the road. Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon escape unscathed, but their car is stuck, and they are forced to walk into town. Johnny doesn’t mind. A curious young man, he has fun anytime the professor takes him out, because he’s treated like an adult. Together they’ve gotten into all sorts of supernatural scrapes, and this winter night they’ll face their toughest challenge yet. When Childermass suddenly vanishes, Johnny is the only one who can find him.

When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch, including a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, a sulky teenager of indeterminate gender, and the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Moses.

For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They’re just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck. Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High, yet nobody’s talking. When Janie taps into a classmate’s violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open—but nothing goes as planned. Not even close. Janie’s in way over her head, and Cabe’s shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both. Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability…and it’s bleak, brutally bleak.

New to the city of York, Emma Grey is alone, haunted by a secret she can’t share. Desperate for work, she takes the first job she finds—assistant to a private detective. It seems simple enough. Until she learns her boss is a werewolf. Until her first case is a murder. Until she realizes the killer they’re hunting… is her. As the investigation deepens, Emma is drawn into a deadly conspiracy that threatens to tear the city apart. With enemies closing in and allies she’s not sure she can trust, she must unravel the secrets of her past before they consume her. Because the truth about ...

Con la oleada de disturbios en las distintas facciones, el día de la iniciación de Tris debería haber sido una celebración de la facción elegida. En cambio, terminó con un gran problema. El conflicto entre las facciones se intensifica y las ideologías se enfrentan. En tiempos de guerra, se eligen líderes, los secretos afloran y cada decisión tiene mayores consecuencias.

Down on your luck doesn't always mean down and out When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires P.I. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women - or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.