Mind Crime

Welcome to the world of Steamboat Willie’s Whistlestop Puzzle Mysteries! It’s the 1920s, and you’re the new first mate of a steamboat, the SS Wilkinshire. Willie is a talking mouse who you’ll encounter on your first mystery! Together, the two of you will solve crimes. And there’s a lot of them! The SS Wilkinshire is a magnet for unfortunate events: murder, blackmail, thievery. There’s always a puzzle that needs to be solved. If you think playing detective is going to be easy, think again! These puzzle mysteries are tricky. It takes a very sharp eye to recognize the clues, so ...

There's no spy like Nicole King. She infiltrates, she dominates, and she moves up the ladder toward the ultimate prize: the Spymistress. But with so many submissive, suggestible women just begging her to hypnotize them, will Nicole's libido distract her? And when she finally meets the Spymistress, will her own deep desire to surrender turn her into the ultimate double agent?

The city of Queensport belongs to Hypnotica. Using her powers of hypnosis, she vanquishes millionaires and steals their things...while having some fun with their guards, of course. Even the city's hypno-defender, Mesmera, is unable to stand against Hypnotica for long - partially because she's so eager to submit to the pleasure of her company! All's well until something unexpected happens to the city. Now Hypnotica's going to have to deal with a new kind of problem: too much success!

From the unexplained disappearances of historic expeditions to the mind-bending theories of some of the world's most puzzling cases, this book takes listeners on a journey through the most fascinating mysteries of our time. With insights from the latest research and the mind of an AI, this book offers new perspectives on well-known cases, such as the disappearance of the Mary Celeste and the unexplained death of Elisa Lam.

Afraid to travel alone to a faraway country she knows little about, Sandy chooses to go there with someone she met online. But that turns out not to be such a good idea. When she goes missing while trekking in a remote mountain region, Patrick, her father, embarks on a frantic search. Then, just as he is about to learn what has happened to Sandy, his second daughter goes missing and he becomes caught in a race against time to find her before it’s too late. If you like page-turning action and fast-paced suspense, then you’ll love to read 'The Travel Mate'.

What if you saw something? Something heinous. Something the police have no clue about, but should? Kyra knows she's seen the killer. Actually seen him walking around the Slip Mire before and after his kills. She needs to get her information to the cops. She kissed Det. Gabe Nichols in an alley weeks before, believing they'd never cross paths again. The idea of seeing him again puts butterflies in her stomach. But not sharing her information means she'll have blood on her hands when the killer strikes again. Gabe has his own problems. Dealing with the anniversary of his brother's ...

Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.

Society couple Michael O'Neill and Stuart Rattle had it all - their lavish country property, their interior design business - until Michael bludgeoned Stuart to death with a cooking pan. Akon Guode intentionally drove into a lake, leaving three of her children trapped in the car to drown. Geoff Hunt, pillar of the local community, shot dead his wife and their three children before killing himself. From feuds on the farm to the infamous Lindt Café Siege in Sydney, Mind Behind the Crime profiles Australia's most horrific, and often most unlikely, killers.

Finn is contacted by a federal agent who asks for his assistance in a delicate case. A piece of equipment disappears from a government-funded secret lab. The nature of the experimental equipment is so secretive that not even the agent knows what exactly it contains... This is Book 2 of "Orthia" - the second series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

Murderous Minds, Volume 3: Stories of Real Life Murderers That Escaped the Headlines is the latest offering in a series that takes you inside the lives of killers who committed cold-blooded murder, for a glimpse at events that drove them to kill. Authored within a historical context, each chapter is an unbelievable venture inside the dark and twisted world of cannibal killers whose names and crimes might not be familiar to you.

In a story that will blow your mind, a fugitive billionaire and a former spy must stop an insidious plot to control the population through high-tech mind reading. Chase and Wen are trapped in a maze of illusion, reality, and secrets, as they struggle to overcome an enemy so powerful, their very own thoughts are used against them.

Bundy's story is a tale of intrigue, mystery, and the murders of what could have been well over 100 women. As a listener, you will journey through the sick mind of Ted Bundy, traveling from one gruesome scene to another. You will hide with Bundy, watching and waiting for his next vicious attack. As Bundy prepares his defense, goes to trial, and is eventually electrocuted for his acts of violence, you'll be beside him, sharing in the experience.

A secret from the past holds the key to saving the future. Calla Cress, top government codebreaker, thought she had defeated the world's most dangerous man. But when she made the fatal mistake of letting him live, she never could have imagined what would follow. The billionaire criminal mastermind, locked away in a high-security prison, is now luring the globe's smartest minds into his cell, where they emerge in comas and his lethal hacks infiltrate government systems worldwide. As a museum curator turned undercover agent, Calla is at the center of a dangerous game. She holds a secret, ...

Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a 'Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter'—whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell—a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century 'mindhunters' got to work. From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyse the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (who analysed the bumps on his head to determine his character), each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made?

From the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair comes a darkly immersive, emotionally gripping domestic thriller where deception is survival, truth is a weapon, and the cost of keeping secrets may be higher than anyone is willing to pay. If you passed me on the street, you wouldn't look twice. I have it all—the husband, the kids, the house on the hill. Hell, I even have the white picket fence. I am the American dream. But here's the thing about dreams: they shatter. Beneath the surface, my life is coming undone. One mistake—one decision I never should have made—has set off a ...

Nicole has been captured by the sexiest, most entrancing spy she's ever met. Her hypnotic conditioning wiped from her mind, she is finally free to enjoy perfect obedience to a powerful Mistress...but how long can that last? When the tables turn and trouble catches up with them, Nicole's new Mistress will fall under the Spymistress's deadly hypnotic power herself. And unlike Nicole, she doesn't have any defenses...

Dark Minds, Bloody Hands is Wayne Clingman's follow up to The Life and Times of Frank Balistrieri. Moving from the mafia to the realm of serial murder, Dark Minds, Bloody Hands explores the phenomenon of serial sexual killers through case studies on Jack Unterweger, the Vampire of Barcelona, Luis Garavito, and America's first sexual serial killer: Earle Nelson.

When the Standing Ones sent us on a journey to explore the darkness far from the sun’s light, I never expected to find monsters there. Like something out of the scary tales my son so loved, they captured us while I slumbered. I woke with my crew, locked away in a cold thundercloud colored cage. The others looked to me for escape but all my plans had ended in failure and pain, so much pain. At the same time, the monsters began to take them away one by one. Pushing past those failures and the pain, I plotted my escape, I was born problem solver after all. I needed to warn my people of what ...

We’ve all had that nightmare. You wake up in a strange place with no memory of how you got there. There’s blood on your hands, and you’re overwhelmed by fear — until you realize it’s not yours. It’s then you see your victim in a pool of blood, you’re holding the murder weapon, and your only relief is waking up with a scream trapped in your throat.

A gift turns into a curse, drowning in the uncontrollable horror of his abilities, can Tommy save his classmates from a hidden killer? Tommy Harris is in turmoil. Although his new abilities to view thoughts and teleport were exciting two years ago, now they’ve become a source of ongoing panic. When a nightmare figure from his past returns, the shaken ten-year-old struggles to suppress his growing powers so as to avoid the murderous specter. Ignoring Snowy, his magical cat’s urging to reach out to those in need of help, Tommy discovers his deceased father’s good luck charm can ease his...