Fast Paced Mystery

She’s an executive with a highly classified secret. He’s the CEO’s mysterious son. He’s coming to save her, but she’s not going to wait around to be rescued. Revital Shilon never thought her classified executive job at GENESIS BIOTECH would get her drugged, kidnapped, and held at gunpoint. The men who took her want to bring her before “The Viper” – the fearsome international terrorist. He wants something, something to do with her company’s top-secret project. Something that only she knows. It all started when she met Jonathan Moore: the charismatic and enigmatic son of the...

An exhilarating adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an art theft, knocked unconscious by a forger, threatened by the mob, or stalked by drug dealers. To make matters worse, a Croatian gangster is convinced Zelda knows where a cache of recently pilfered paintings is. She must track down an international gang of art thieves and recover the stolen artwork in order to save those she loves most....

Shot point-blank in the chest. Paul Kaye collapses onto the gleaming tile of his luxury home. His killer vanishes into the predawn darkness. Fast-paced. Riveting. Unforgettable. Paul and Lisa Kaye’s marriage is unraveling, their dream home in Encino unable to hold together what success and status can’t mend. Paul finds solace—and purpose—with his much younger girlfriend, while wondering if there’s any way back to the life he built with his wife. Until he’s murdered. Detective Tom Stone dives into a labyrinth of secrets—fractured friendships, shady business dealings, jilted ...

High in the Italian alps, cut off from the outside world, sits a chapel battered by winds and icy blizzards. The priests who guard this sacred place have sworn to protect the dangerous treasure that lies within their walls. But when Joe Mason and his team are called to the remote church, they find its ancient stones reduced to rubble, the priests murdered in cold blood and their precious cargo stolen.

After the tragic death of her husband, Evelyn Marks returns to her childhood home of Harbor Point with her young son, desperate for a fresh start. But the peaceful coastal town she remembers is cloaked in secrets as thick as the fog that rolls in each night. When an anonymous letter suggests her husband’s death was no accident, Evelyn’s fragile world is shattered. Seeking answers, she turns to Thatcher Caldwell, the kind-hearted local pastor whose unwavering faith becomes her anchor. As they unravel the mystery, they uncover shocking truths about her late husband's involvement in a ...

A high-rise building collapses with 102 occupants crushed beyond recognition. Should the guilty be punished? A Chilling Tale of Serial Murder and Vengeance. A 12-story steel and concrete building in the town of Oceanside, Florida, collapses for no reason, with its unsuspecting occupants crushed beyond recognition. The death toll is staggering, with 102 men, women, and children instantly killed. Buildings Don’t Fall Down in America! Survivors of the victims want revenge. Who is responsible for this tragic loss of innocent human life? The architect…the steel supplier…. the building ...

Maggie Thomas P.I. While Maggie is trying to keep her private investigating agency afloat, she gets a cause that could make or break those chances. Stolen identities, shady characters, and a handsome rival private eye all pose a big problem for Maggie though, making her feel as if she’s just treading water. With the help of her spunky geriatric assistant Maggie dives in deep to solve the case.

The confetti's barely settled from his son's wedding when private eye Jamaica Biltmore finds himself embroiled in his most explosive case yet. Just as Jamaica and his wife, FBI Agent Julie Waters, enjoy a rare moment of calm, the celebration takes a shocking turn. The FBI agents at the wedding are called into action, revealing a heart-stopping truth: the governor of New York has been kidnapped. Adding a layer of unwelcome drama, the governor's wife, Jamaica's ex-wife who vanished when their son was an infant, insists he be brought in on the investigation. Against his better judgment, ...

Dru has only 24 hours to save the world. It’s definitely going to be an all-nighter.Being the world’s only crystal sorceress means no vacation time, lousy pay, and zero benefits. But what’s worse? Finding out there actually is another crystal sorceress—who happens to be wickedly powerful and also dead-set on destroying the world. When she breaks into Dru’s shop, sets the place on fire, and steals an apocalyptic amulet, it’s hard not to take things personally. What’s a girl to do? Hit the road in a high-speed chase to get that amulet back before the seas boil, the stars fall ...

A psychopathic hacker and a technophobic FBI agent must team up to solve a high-profile murder committed with an autonomous car in this provocative tech-noir thriller. On a coastal highway in California, a self-driving SUV crashes and kills its lone occupant: the CEO of Asimov Automotive, one of the most prominent driverless vehicle manufacturers in the world. Suspecting foul play, the board of directors brings in whitehat hacker Isabella Cray to assist the investigation. Cray is a high-functioning psychopath, using her calm, detached nature to solve problems while restraining her darkest ...

Dangerous or not, Logan Hendricks plans on being a lot more involved in his newly-formed detective agency’s current investigation. A brazen crime has already been committed and he wants to be part of finding out who’s responsible. As always, his grandsons have a different view of how things are supposed to work. They want him to sit back and manage everything that needs to be done to identify the individual responsible for the violent attack on the Ingramm Research Center in Alaska. He wants to be in the thick of it, doing the detecting his detective agency is meant to do. And that ...

The gripping new action thriller novel from the #1 bestselling author of the Joe Hawke series and The Hunter Files. JED MASON RETURNS! Ex-soldier and MI6 operative Jed Mason is the ultimate reluctant hero. He is a man who wants nothing more than to leave his old life of killing behind and start over on his Portuguese olive farm, but trouble follows him everywhere like a shadow. Usually big trouble. Then Boston University's Dr Holly Hope gives him a call and asks for his help. She tells him their mutual friend Wesley Baxter, a private investigator from Los Angeles, was hired by a senator's ...

I’m Tracy Belden and, unless murder interferes, I’m marrying my best friend! The sun is shining. Birds are singing. And I have five days off for a Tahoe honeymoon without a body in sight. Life is good…. Until my son finds the best man’s army buddy floating in a nearby pond. With our best friend suspected of murder, the honeymoon is off. Now, I have to find the killer and solve the case to clear my friend and finish my wedding-themed crossword puzzle. If you like fast-paced, humorous cozies, dive into the Crossword Puzzle Cozy Mysteries! Available in e-book, paperback, and on Kindle ...

"In The Shadow of the Reaper" is the thrilling second instalment in the Digby Rolf Mystery series, where Digby, now the incumbent Vicar in his picturesque village of Wickham Bumpstead, finds himself thrust into the role of amateur detective once again. The tranquility of the village is shattered by a string of perplexing murders, leaving the locals in fear and the police stumped with no discernible motives. Digby's quest for answers takes him across the English Channel to France, where he unravels the threads of a dark mystery dating back to the harrowing days of World War Two. The haunting...

A missing manuscript. A dead author. And a mystery that’s anything but fiction. When reclusive novelist Ashton Blackwood is found dead in the aisles of Shelf Indulgence, chaos erupts in the quiet town of Bloomsville. With a missing manuscript and a long list of literary enemies, the case reads like one of Blackwood’s own thrillers. Florist-turned-sleuth Grace Thompson teams up with forensic specialist Chloe Sutton and her ever-observant Westie, Rosie, to dig through a plot tangled in ambition, betrayal, and buried secrets. From rival writers to bitter editors, the suspects are as ...

She must protect the apocalypse scroll, or else the world will come to a fiery end. No pressure or anything.Crystal sorceress Dru Jasper has become the unwilling guardian of an ancient instrument of destruction. Its world-ending power is held in check by only a single wax seal. Which seems like maybe a huge design flaw, but whatever. Now insidious spirits who can kill by touch are trying to get their clutches on the apocalypse scroll and break the final seal. To stop them, Dru needs a rare crystal older than the Earth itself. But it’s hidden in a meteorite crater deep in the desert, and ...

The Rapture has occurred, America is devastated and the Islamic Messiah, the 12th Imam, is moving quickly to establish his ultimate control over the world. Soon all will be in place according to the plans of the Antichrist. As America attempts to recover from the trio of a nuclear explosion in the nation’s capital, an EMP attack on the electrical grid, and the disappearance of millions of people across the globe, over in Iran the Islamic messiah known as the 12th Imam takes advantage of the ensuing chaos. To consolidate his power, he quickly divides all the nations into ten distinct ...

“Betray me, and I’ll destroy everyone you care about before I come for you.” New York private investigator Lacey Green brushes off the cryptic TikTok message—until her father dies suddenly. Then, one by one, her closest friends and family begin to fall prey to chilling “accidents.” Could it be tied to her viral TikTok exposing a twisted fetish brothel in Flushing, the conspiracy behind the chilling wave of self-harm, or the brain-chip tech giant with ties to Communist China? Backing down isn’t in Lacey’s DNA. She’s determined to uncover the truth and get revenge for her ...

A cold spring day brings murder to the Oregon coast. No one is safe—and someone dear to Logan may be the next to fall. What starts as a peaceful run on the Oregon coast with her rescue dog Dixon, turns into a nightmare when Logan McKenna stumbles upon a shocking murder at a local dog training camp. The victim is a stranger, but Logan’s new friend, Oletta Hartley—the camp's owner and skilled dog and horse trainer—becomes the prime suspect. Determined to clear Oletta's name, Logan delves into a tangled web of lies where everyone has something to hide—and a reason for murder. As ...

Iðunn – the fountain of eternal youth or an instrument of death? Iðunn once granted the Norse gods eternal youth and immortality. But she took her secret to the grave long ago. Now, a reckless expedition is following in the footsteps of this myth, summoning great disaster. A mystical storm costs the lives of two expedition members, and the group's leader disappears without a trace. What the sole survivor reports sounds incredible: an archaic warrior of superhuman strength guards Iðunn's grave and will not rest as long as her heritage is in danger. A divine power that would have been ...