First Mystery

In the mid-20th century, a routine mission to the moon resulted in an unmanned rocket missing its mark and tumbling toward the sun. The rocket was presumed lost. Life went on. A century later, the rocket came back. Believed at first to be a piece of space debris, it was soon confirmed to match the description of the ship from the long-lost moon mission. It looks like our rocket, it feels like our rocket, but it is not our rocket. What is it? How did it get here? Who sent it? And why... Debris is a science-fiction story full of mystery, adventure, and contemplation on the human condition and...

I’ve always been in love with my best friend Lissy’s HOT Uncle Drake. And when I draw his name for Secret Santa, I take a chance and make him an X-rated calendar, filled with pictures of me and my innocent curves. I sure hope he likes it … *18 and older only

Magic, murder, and mischievous pixies - just another day in Elderberry Grove As a third-generation magical pest control witch, Juniper Green thought she'd seen it all. Pixie infestations? No problem. Garden gnome uprisings? Just another Tuesday. But when a routine call from Elderberry Grove's most difficult client ends with Juniper finding a dead body in the herb garden, she realizes some problems can't be solved with a simple banishing spell. With her trusty familiar Iris by her side, Juniper reluctantly teams up with the town's non-magical sheriff to investigate the murder. But as they ...

After a hiatus to allow his damaged shoulder to heal, Patrick Moses is put in charge of an investigation into the lynching murder of a young black boy. No one in the mostly-Irish section of town knows anything; Chicago's black community is horrified. The same day, Moses receives news from his former home at Holy Trinity Orphanage that a young female resident has disappeared. Fear is she has been abducted. The aldermen John Coughlin and Hinky Dink Kenna return to the precinct to complain about the murder of Albert Butross, the owner of Lustland, a prominent brothel. The alleged killer, a ...

This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.

With tensions at an all time high, the team is divided, pulled in different directions as they hunt different prey. Jamie doesn't know which way to turn, but when the killings begin, things become blindingly apparent. They're not just dealing with a killer doing this out of necessity, but one doing it out of pleasure. He's skilled, experienced, and he knows who is chasing him, and seemingly, how to avoid them at every step.

On a quiet seafront in the middle of the afternoon the sun sets, the clouds part and something like a pale, elongated human figure appears on the horizon. For Maria, watching from the beach, it’s proof that she should never have dared to return. Five years earlier, her life shattered by the arrival of the Stone Man, she’d fled the country. But now she can’t escape: suddenly, there are news reports of ‘Empty Men’ materialising all around the coast, and the roads are gridlocked. The Empty Men are killers, and they’re heading inland.

Look out, London! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to see Big Ben, ride the London Eye, and tour Madame Tussauds wax museum. Then big news hits - someone has stolen Queen Elizabeth’s jewels right outside Windsor Castle! The friends head to the castle to check for clues. But can three kids from Green Lawn find evidence that Scotland Yard has missed?

In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth's electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission to return mankind to the moon.

The town of Northfall, Minnesota, will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon. John Frontier returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government.

The Chicago Mysteries: A Silas Quinn Historical Mystery Series Step into the shadows of 1890s Chicago, where science meets suspicion, and justice walks a crooked line… Detective Silas Quinn—college-educated, scientifically trained, and unrelenting in pursuit of the truth—is a new kind of policeman for a new kind of city. In a booming, corrupt, and combustible Chicago, Quinn applies logic and innovation to cases where the line between man and machine, labor and capital, crime and conscience blurs beyond recognition. Book One: The Cold Science of Murder When the body of a disfigured ...

Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.

During 1967 and 1968, when he was subject to nonstop surveillance and harassment from both human and supernatural spooks, intrepid Fortean investigator John A. Keel made extensive field notes concerning the phenomena he was confronting in West Virginia and New York: UFOs, Men in Black, creature entities, ultraterrestrials, and odd coincidences and synchronicities. The result was a series of concise, thematically related reports, many of which were incorporated into magazine articles for Saga, Fate, and Flying Saucer Review.

The last thing a covert CIA operative wants is to become an overnight sensation. But once President Cahill exposed him on social media for killing an international drug cartel kingpin, this became Kelley’s new norm. Coming to Senator Frank Beemer’s aid after a diabolical shooting on the MAX, Portland’s metro-transit train, Garris is now on everyone’s radar.

Jack McClure lost his daughter. Now it's his job to make sure the president-elect doesn't lose his. A new administration is on its way in, but the president has a few power moves left to see his legacy solidified. Moderate conservative Edward Carson is taking the reins, hoping to set America on a new course. But weeks before Inauguration Day, Carson's daughter, Alli, goes missing from her college dormitory.

A shifter's secret, an agent's mission, and a love that defies the odds in a captivating tropical escape. Violet I rose above my past to become a famous pop star, only to have my secret identity as a wolf shifter exposed on social media. Desperate for peace amidst the chaos, I retreat to the idyllic Casa del Lobo, a tropical resort owned by a trusted friend. My path unexpectedly crosses with a captivating masseuse, and our instant connection is impossible to comprehend. In a world where fated mates no longer exist, trusting the bond is a risk that may be too dangerous to take. Jesse As a ...

In the autumn of 2020 Ned Boulting (ITV head cycling commentator and Tour de France obsessive) bought a length of Pathé news film from a London auction house. All he knew was it was film from the Tour de France, a long time ago. Once restored it became clear it was a short sequence of shots from stage 4 of the 1923 Tour de France. No longer than 2.5 minutes long, it featured half a dozen sequences, including a lone rider crossing a bridge. Ned set about learning everything he could about the sequence – studying each frame, face and building – until he had squeezed the meaning from it.

Michael has been alone in the fight of good verses evil since the beginning of time. A member of the royal first family of light and darkness, he represents the only chance that the rest of humanity has against the darkness, except that he is not human. Michael is the son of Cain, grandson of Adam, and he represents good and evil. Michael begins writing a declaration to the world to expose the evil that Cain represents as well as the name that Cain was cursed with when he was cast out of the first family.

While watering the tree on Christmas Eve, I can’t help but notice my 18-year-old brat's Secret Santa gift to her boyfriend. Curious about what the young bastard is getting from the sexy, innocent girl I raised, I carefully peel open the envelop and read her words, then immediately burst into expletives. There’s NO WAY she’s doing that to some guy she’s known for a few months. I don’t care how good he is to her. Damn it, I’m the one who raised her. So I’m the one who should be the lucky recipient of her dirty Secret Santa present. And I plan to cash in on this gift tonight.

Sienna & Pierre’s relationship, having moved from enemy to frenemy to steady date, is on the back-burner since tragedy has mysteriously hit her bakery. Like never before Sienna's mystery-solving skills are desperately needed… but this time it’s personal. Local police, still short staffed, have contracted with licensed PI's and one has it in for our favorite amateur sleuth, Sienna Monroe. Committed to not getting burned again, Sienna must go toe-to-toe with the professionals before it’s too late in this captivating cozy culinary mystery.