First Mystery

It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she’s not running away from the darkness—she’s running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives. But when Mia finds the monsters she’s been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along. To escape their clutches, she’ll have to reckon with her mother’s harrowing past and confront a painful truth: that they might be more alike than she ever imagined.

Auggie is starting his first year at Wroxall College. It’s a punishment, and he’s determined to make his way through the year, prove himself, and earn the right to go back home. Theo is a grad student recovering from a terrible car accident. He’s lost his husband and their daughter, and he’s trying to figure out how to keep going. When both are tangled up in a murder, though, they have to set their personal problems aside and work together — first to clear their names, and then, when the killer turns his attention on them, to survive.

Welcome, welcome, I can only guess you are here to read about my wonderful adventures. Oh, you don’t know who I am? Well, I’m Foxx Honeywell. An adorable, fierce vampire with a kink for violence. Anywho, this marks the beginning of my story. A story of violence, blood, possibly pain, and love. Though the love part is not so apparent at first. So how does this story start you may ask. Well, it starts with a simple… Okay, maybe not so simple, law change, and a new job.

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common.

Members of a certain book club are dying in the small town of Mercer Island. One woman drives off a cliff. Another one drops dead in her peach cobbler at the St. Claire Inn making Julia Applegate, the inn's owner, the prime suspect. Never one to flinch from a challenge, Jula recruits her “sixty-something” group of older women friends to launch their own investigation. Together, this group of loyal friends track down a group of sex traffickers to save the life of a young mother and her baby. Do you like dog heroes? We have those. Do you like older women who are fearless? We have those. ...

Jealousy breeds betrayal. A young woman is strangled in her bed. The door is smashed in and the apartment ransacked. Is this a robbery gone wrong? A random attack? A jealous lover? Or, a serial killer? It’s up to Detective Erin O’Reilly, her K-9 Rolf, and the rest of her Major Crimes squad to find out the truth before anyone else dies. It’s a simple case; or is it? Erin has been able to keep an uneasy balance between her personal and work lives. She’s always known it was risky to let herself fall for a gangster.

She came home to heal. She didn’t expect to be accused of murder. After years of burnout in New York’s high-stakes culinary scene, Caroline Baker returns to the charming small town of Milburn, hoping to trade kitchen chaos for comfort. But when a prominent local drops dead during one of her catered events, Caroline’s dream quickly curdles into a murder investigation—with her as the prime suspect. With gossip spreading faster than butter on biscuits and her new life falling apart, Caroline must rely on more than just her baking skills. Armed with a spatula, a sharp wit, and the ...

Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come…

"Prepare to be swept away by Admit to Mayhem (Lillian Dove Mystery Series Book 1), a thrilling blend of mystery and humor. Lillian Dove is determined to turn her life around. But her plans are derailed when she stumbles upon a house fire and becomes a witness to arson. Caught between a determined detective, a crime ring with secrets to protect, and her own shadowy past, Lillian must use her sharp wit and keen eye for detail to unravel the mystery. As she delves deeper into the case, Lillian finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. With each clue she uncovers, the danger ...

Death hits close to home for Elizabeth “E. M.” Danniher - or, rather, close to Hovel, as she's dubbed her decrepit rental house in rustic Sherman, Wyoming. Her elderly neighbor has killed a man apparently after her Western artifacts. As a former top-flight national TV reporter, Elizabeth knows self-defense can satisfy the legal system, yet leave her neighbor in danger. Doing what she does best - asking questions - Elizabeth sidesteps her boss to inquire into an eccentric billionaire.

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.

When Detective Mark Jackson agreed to help a colleague solve the murder of Bill Walker, a strip club owner, he didn’t know he would be challenged by three gorgeous women. Walker’s daughter Nora was an innocent but fiery girl and Mark fell hard for her. Nora’s elegant stepmom Sophie stole his heart with her grace and charm. Riley, the club’s top stripper, was a busty beauty no man could ever resist. The problem was, of course, they were all suspects. Could Mark put his lust aside and focus on work, or should he let go of his moral qualms and enjoy his luck with the ladies?

It's fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the internet, the paparazzi, and the government - and with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father's leaks are a hoax and wants nothing to do with him.

Ex-football star. Smart-mouthed PI. Last hope for a kid accused of murder. Jim Knighthorse doesn’t take cases he doesn’t believe in. So when a lawyer begs him to prove a high school football player didn’t murder his white, wealthy girlfriend in the middle of suburban Orange County, Jim says yes... despite the evidence, the racial tensions, and his own better judgment. Knighthorse knows Derrick Booker is no killer. But try convincing the cops, the school, or the girl’s grieving family of that. As Jim digs deeper, he uncovers a web of lies, old money, teenage secrets, and a murdered ...

Seventeen-year-old Noelle Layne knows horror. Every trope, every warning sign, every survival tactic. She even leads a successful movie club dedicated to the genre. Who better to throw the ultimate, most exclusive Halloween party on all of Long Island? With some of the top influencers in her school on the guest list, including gorgeous singer-songwriter Archer Mitchell, her popularity is bound to spike. She could really use the social boost for an upcoming brand expansion. Nothing is going to ruin this party.

Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. To some, he is a do-or-die war hero. To the other half of the galaxy, he’s a pariah. Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four where he’s now Deputy VP of Corporate Security, protecting a high-tech military company on the corporate battlefield - at least, that’s what the job description says. Really, he’s just there to impress clients and investors. It’s all relatively low risk - until he’s entrusted with new orders.

Two brothers. One dead, executed by extremists on a grainy video. The other forged into a top undercover agent. But now, Sam Capra has reason to believe that his brother, Danny, may be alive. And if Danny has been living a secret life these past years, where has he been - and what has he become? Sam's desperate search for his brother leads him into a modern heart of darkness: The Russian elite inner circle, a group of ruthless ex-KGB billionaires who owe fealty to Russia's corrupt president, Morozov. One of these men wants Morozov dead. And Danny will be the one to kill him.

Lieutenant James Shelley, who has an uncanny knack for premeditating danger, leads a squad of advanced US Army military tasked with enforcing the peace around a conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. The squad members are linked wirelessly 24/7 to themselves and a central intelligence that guides them via drone relay - and unbeknownst to Shelley and his team, they are being recorded for a reality TV show.

Scout Randall’s life has turned from bad to worse. With her boyfriend’s murderous mother on the loose, that means she’s a target. But where will the attack come from? Scout thought they would have time to figure things out, time to regroup and come up with a plan. She was wrong. The next enemy is on their doorstep.

When a woman claiming to be August St. Clair returns to the quiet coastal town of Loss Landing—ten years after her presumed death—the community is thrown into chaos. Clay Moorehouse, August’s former boyfriend, has spent a decade in prison for her murder. Now, with this woman showing up, everything the town thought it knew begins to unravel. Set against the sweeping beauty of the Pacific Ocean and the rugged life of a dairy farm, The First Rains of October is a deeply moving Christian thriller. As long-buried secrets rise and loyalties are tested, the story explores justice, truth, and...