Funny Thriller

A lot can happen on the open road… Wade I’ve earned more than my fair share of regrets on the road. You'd figure I'd be ready to dodge out of the way when trouble comes barreling down the highway marked clear as kerosene and just as dangerous. … You don’t have to take me far … I'd never seen Olivia de Los Santos before she ran in to me, literally, in a diner at three am. I didn't need trouble. Or more regrets. I've never been very good at avoiding either. Liv Trouble seems to follow me around, no matter how hard I try to outrun it. And I've been trying damn hard for the past week....

Partners in Crime and Conspiracy in Crime are the first two books in the Partners in Crime Thrillers series, a humorous, edge-of-your-seat romantic adventure series. Partners in Crime Piper Landry walks out of the redwood forests of Northern California in the middle of the night with no memory and no clothes. She knows only two things. The first is that her name must be Piper Landry because that’s what’s written on a tag bolted to her ear. The other is that she’s richer than Midas. Peter Bolton is a spy, but he’s up for a career change. He makes Jack Reacher look like an amateur, ...

ORIGINAL STORY - WRITTEN BY A HUMAN This intriguing prequel novella introduces Detective Ange Watson, tracing her first steps into the world of crime-solving and revealing how she became the tenacious investigator readers will grow to love. A Routine Case… or the Start of Something Deadly? Constable Ange Watson’s policing career is fast unravelling. After calling out a superior for recklessly putting her life at risk, she’s been sidelined, labelled as a whinger, left questioning whether she even belongs in the force. With her resignation email drafted and her finger hovering over "...

Eli’s asked to perform his magic act at a swanky charity gala, the Zombie Ball - a former zombie pub crawl which has grown into an annual high-class social event. What begins as a typical stage show for Eli turns deadly when two of the evening’s sponsors are found murdered under truly unusual circumstances. Compounding this drama is the presence of Eli’s ex-wife and her new husband, Homicide Detective Fred Hutton. Under pressure to solve the crime before the 800 guests depart, Eli and his detective nemesis go head-to-head.

Ever since Piper walked out of the Redwood Forest, naked and amnesiac, she’s been desperate to find out who she is and why so many people want her dead. Now, engaged to be married to the love of her life, she’s about to discover the truth of her identity. Will it derail her plans, her relationship, and her happiness, or will she finally get her happy ending with a fresh beginning? Surrender in Crime is the fourth and final book in the Partners in Crime Chronicles series. It is a funny international action-adventure romantic suspense.

The third case of Lisa Becker and Fabian Zonk is the strangest one so far: Roxana von Kalln is found dead in her family vault – wearing fake vampire teeth, with two bite marks on her neck, and not a single drop of blood left in her body. The traces lead to the family castle, to a scary couple in the Neukölln Rollberg district and to the vampire club “Carpe Jugulum”. And Roxana will not be the only bloodless body with vampire teeth. In the meantime, the relationship between Lisa and Fabian has to weather first storms. The chief inspector has doubts whether her colleague really is the ...

"A lively, good read ... I couldn't put it down" - Kingdom Books You never know what's beneath the surface. When Seattle native Tish Yearly finds herself fired and evicted all in one afternoon, she knows she's in deep water. Unemployed and desperate, the 26 year old ex-actress heads for the one place she knows she'll be welcome - the house of her cantankerous ex-CIA agent grandfather, Tobias Yearly, in the San Juan Islands. And when she discovers the strangled corpse of Tobias's best friend, she knows she's in over her head. Tish is thrown head-long into a mystery that pits her against a ...

How far would you run to escape your past? Hal and Clunk fly halfway across the galaxy, putting their earlier mishaps, disasters and angry customers behind them. It's a chance to start anew. To rebuild their reputation. To actually complete a cargo job without destroying the lot. Unfortunately, they chose the wrong planet ... The Hal Spacejock series features humorous science fiction, adventure and action. They're clean books with very occasional swearing (mild).

Retired spy. Trained killing machine. Pacifist. Retired MI6 spy Mason Nash moved to a sleepy English town so he could leave his former violent life behind. He soon learns that past transgressions have a way of catching up with you. When hired killers invade his peaceful new existence Nash is forced to fall back on his old ways to find out who sent assassins after him and why. What he uncovers sends him on a globetrotting quest involving old friends, a new clandestine spy agency and a world-wide conspiracy where no one is quite who they seem. Nash finds out how hard it is to adhere to non-...

Time has run out for Atticus Wolfe. October 1964 The two most formidable superpowers the world has ever seen are on the precipice of all-out nuclear war; and it’s all Atticus Wolfe’s fault. A twenty-first century spy trapped in the swinging sixties, Atticus has a lot on his plate. While the Soviet Union and the USA prepare for an unthinkable war, Atticus must face the man responsible for swerving history from its path into all-out annihilation. And that’s not all he has to deal with. How do you fight a war when you can’t even trust yourself? With every corrective action pushing the ...

Time is not on Atticus Wolfe’s side. May 1964 Thrown from present day into the swinging sixties, Atticus Wolfe is on the trail of a Soviet spy set on a path to divert the course of history. He knows how history will play out and will do anything to ensure the USSR is victorious. That’s not all Atticus is battling. He must confront the terrorist who sent him back sixty years, and he’s not quite the man Atticus remembers. As the fight to keep history on track intensifies, Atticus must call on the last group of people he thought he’d ask for help – his crime lord family. Cut off from...

This collection of the best crime and mystery short fiction of 1999, gathered from around the globe and including more award-winners and stories than any other comparable volume, fills the void for those with a hunger for the best international mystery and suspense stories.

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

On the hunt. On the run. Mason Nash thought he’d retired from the spy game until a new and deadly private spy agency, Tartarus, came to hunt him down. When Nash discovers Tartarus have double agents in every legitimate spy agency on the planet, there’s only one place he can go—into the shadows. On the run, Nash has few he can trust. Is his new ally Eva Destruction everything she appears to be? And then there’s the new arrival, Charles Bishop, a man with a past even darker than Nash’s. Together they battle forces around the globe to take down the malevolent organisation before it ...

Peter and Piper are in love and enjoying a life of leisure that only millions of dollars can buy. But when Peter is contacted by his spy agency to do a final mission, the couple jump at the chance to save the world one more time. After they’re called in to investigate a spike of radiation in Russia, they discover an international conspiracy that threatens to unleash World War Three. An unspeakable evil from the past comes out of the shadows, and Peter and Piper must stop it. From Russia to Italy to Hawaii to South America, they travel around the world, determined to stop the ticking time ...

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, Giant Snakes, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, Giant Snakes, Pirates, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

Zack Walker is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. But now that Zack's incessant plotting can no longer be hatched from the comforts of his own home, he must be ever more vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or his own imagination. Zack is ready - or so he thinks.

This is where it all ends. Mason Nash was retired. He was a pacifist. He was trying to be a good man. Then Tartarus came after him – and now he has nothing left to lose. Tartarus is a private spy agency who have fooled world governments into believing they’re benevolent and honourable. Mason Nash knows otherwise. Framed for Tartarus’ misdeeds, Nash and his partners – Eva Destruction and Charles Bishop – are the most wanted ex-spies on the planet. Now they’re all that stands between Tartarus and their ultimate victory. Hunted by every secret service agency around the globe, ...

After inheriting Mr. Livingston’s mansion and solving the death of his estate lawyer, I’ve settled in Picklesquare quite nicely as Detective Grey’s partner against crime. However, the tragic death of a town ruffian shatters my short-lived tranquility in this usually sleepy town. Soon, the town is buzzing with rumors of the man that mysteriously returned to Willowbrook, just in time to stumble on the dead body. I sense there's more to this murder than meets the eye and I must rely on my cat to lead the way. With a mixture of empathy and curiosity, I delve into a world within our world,...