Ghost Mystery Crime

With his French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of seemingly unconnected misdeeds, disaffected detective DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth and attempts to find the missing link. As the arrival of an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory - and his ego - Austin resorts to illogically effective tactics to protect those who matter most.

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: When the stagecoach lady gambler, Miss Pandora Parson, and bareknuckle boxer, Corey Callaghan, are riding in breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they think that all they have to worry about is food, water, and finding a way to civilization. They have no idea that something more sinister awaits them and their fellow passengers in the old mining ghost town they take shelter in and no way to know that not all of them will be walking out again.

Grandpa Hirsch decides I need an intervention. A fact made particularly awkward since he died in Vietnam fifty years ago.He has arranged for three Christmas ghosts to guide me through my life and improve my perspective. Grandpa didn't need to go to so much trouble. A simple gift card from Heaven would have been enough. Our paranormal team scoops an incredible story for the next book. Sadly it is the end of the journey for one of our crucial ghost hunters. A local octogenarian is charged with the murder of her husband, and I'm assigned her defense. Just because they found him buried on their...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Grey Ghost by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell, read by Scott Brick. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence.

Two detectives are killed in a bust to stop the black market sale of infants. The detectives are dead but are not gone from this mortal coil. Now they must stop the black market sale of babies and find their way among the mortals and perhaps a way home - wherever that is.

Leningrad, 1951. The shadow of war lingers. Revol Rossel - once a virtuoso violinist with a glittering future - is now a humble state militia cop, forced to investigate desperate crimes in this desperate era. But when five frozen corpses are found neatly arranged between railway lines, Rossel is faced with the most puzzling - and most dangerous - case of his career. His hunt for the truth leads him to the dark heart of Leningrad’s musical establishment, and, ultimately, to the highest levels of the Kremlin itself.

Having lived his life suspected of being a serial killer, Carl Louis Feldman begins his journey into old age at a nursing home in Texas. Though he was never charged with any crimes, the staff aren’t sorry to see him go when his estranged daughter arrives to take her father on what could be his last road trip. When Carl protests that this is not his daughter at all, the nurses are all too ready to excuse it as a product of his steadily deteriorating mind. But were those old suspicions about him true? And if he is an honest man, who has just driven him away from safety?

Justice Tonner’s life is a wreck, fraught with serious legal troubles, raging alcoholism, and crippling anxiety. That all changes when he stumbles upon $150,000 in cash, a dead woman’s body, and a mysterious diary. Now, as the prime suspect for the woman’s murder, he must hide in the shadows and evade the authorities, all while attempting to use the diary to expose a ruthless drug and sex-trafficking cartel, and rescue a girl from their clutches.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter. Mary receives a call from her mother telling her that her father had died. Mary and Russ go back to Mary's home town and discover more than the heart attack that was reported. They dig into the death and find it was murder.

Stevenson's brilliantly macabre yet profound story of a man seemingly trapped in evil.

A Haunted Village, Rattling Chains and Ominous Moans Eden Patterson and her ghost team are called to investigate disturbances in a small town filled with craft shops, antiques, and a rich history. Rattling chains, yelling and moaning are causing the town's shopkeepers nightmares as tourists and customers turn tail and run. But are these disturbances evil, angry or sad? Find out as Eden faces a spirit unlike any she has before.

The Green Ghost - magician sleuth George Chance - returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed - for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I.V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!

And high-ranking members have taken an interest in FBI Special Agent Megan Luchek. Money Makes It Deadlier: Agent Luchek steps into high heels and deep danger when she gets assigned to investigate a bank. Revenge Makes It Sweeter: Megan gets a late-night summons to the hospital to speak with a gunshot victim. Christmas Makes It Chaos: Agent Luchek goes to Philadelphia for an antiterrorism conference only to face off against real terrorists. Treachery Makes It Tense: Megan gets an unlikely ally in the desperate fight to save Dan’s family from a madman.

For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from Agatha Christie. Acknowledged the world over as the undisputed Queen of Crime, in fact she dabbled in her early writing career with mysteries of a more unearthly kind - stories featuring fantastic psychic visions, spectres looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, eerie messages from the Other Side, even a man who switches bodies with a cat....

Kate and Jackson - the girl who talks to ghosts and the Protector - are back in a fifth supernatural mystery. No good deed goes unpunished. Roxi thought the Balinese mask would make the perfect gift for her brother Jackson and his girlfriend Kate. Unbeknownst to her, a deadly curse was part of the package. A young woman slaughtered during a massacre haunts the mask. Her spirit wants revenge, and she’s determined Roxi is the only one who can get it for her.

The remote village of Imber - isolated, lost and abandoned. The outside world hasn't been let in since soldiers forced the inhabitants out, much to their contempt. But now, a dark secret threatens all who venture near. Everyone is in danger, and only Harry Price can help. Reluctantly reunited with his former assistant Sarah Grey, he must unlock the mystery of Imber. But will Sarah's involvement be the undoing of them both?

Amateur detective, Zendaya knows where she wants to begin her career. Fifteen years ago, the quaint town of Telluride was shaken by tragedy, and Zendaya is determined to use her new title to get her hands on that old case file. Her plans are halted, however, by the sudden appearance of a dead body: Jane Doe who turns out to be Zendaya's childhood friend. Together with a retired policeman and a host of quirky townspeople and with the unexpected help of a friendly ghost Zendaya sets her focus on solving this mystery that has become more of a puzzle than a crime. But will finding answers today...

As an ex-spy rumoured to have gone insane after being held captive by the KGB and tortured for a decade, Agatha Witchley has seen her share of strange cases over the years. But none compares to the faked autoerotic asphyxiation of billionaire Simon Werks, and the sudden trail of death tracking after the American industrialist’s family. Now that Agatha and her friends from the security services are being targeted hard to stop the investigation, she’s taking it personally. Unfortunately for the British agents in peril, so are the ghosts Agatha Witchley’s convinced are helping her – ...

When a body is discovered in a mine shaft, high in the mountains above Quandary, Sheriff Breckenridge "Breck" Dyer and Deputy Jenny O'Hara follow the evidence to a cryptocurrency conference at the ski resort. It’s a strange mix of high rollers, hipsters, CEOs, and tech gurus from all over, but the investigation hits a snag when their main suspect disappears—and the only witness won’t talk. Complicating matters, Breck is under investigation himself in an election year, and he has to prove to both the district attorney and the people of Quandary that he isn’t a corrupt cop.

Your life has ended abruptly. The reason and cause unclear. There can be no eternal rest until you know how and why this happened. Where would you start? Who is to blame? Was it avoidable, inevitable, an accident or murder? Follow Scott as he tumbles uncontrollably through a confusing array of experiences, each fragment piecing together a revealing picture of himself and the key players in his world. The final realisation emerges like a knife in the darkness, ready to tear apart the truths he had built his life upon. The Unseen by Chris Cloake takes the reader on a personal journey of ...