Mystery Anthology

1st place winner of the 2023 Dragonfly Book Award for Collection of Short Stories! Get ready to test your detective skills with Crimes, Covens & Curses: Volume One in The Curious Case Mystery Series! Dive into a captivating world of intrigue and challenge yourself to crack ten cunning mysteries. This book is designed to engage and hone your problem-solving abilities, allowing you to showcase your talent for unravelling intricate puzzles. Inside this enthralling volume, you'll find meticulously crafted short mysteries filled with clues waiting to be discovered. Immerse yourself in the ...

A collection of Smith's apace adventure stories featuring Captain Volmar, including the never before published novella, "Red World of Polaris."

This bundle includes books seven, eight, and nine of the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series.

The Christmas Tree of Tales is a collection of short stories that span the festive season.There are plenty of.carols , snow , fir trees and mystical strangers ,some who are benevelant and Some not so! There are memories of treasured past christmases that come back as a child from 1961 returns in adulthood to his home town.The freezing gales howl around a mystery one Christmas Eve in a snowbound castle in the Mearns in the north of Scotland.Someone is alone with their memories and old carols at Christmas with only the wild sea for company.while mysterious children visit an old woman during ...

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books has published over 60 volumes in its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring Noir Series stories from: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, and more.

Secrets, Adventure, Fear, & Love : Book One is a collection of six stories by a team of very talented authors. The Deep by Kevin Bouchard “The Deep came to call one pitch dark night…” Thus begins a rhyme from Joe Burden’s childhood, a verse that came into being following a night spent on a beach, watching the sky. To most people the rhyme is a childish chant and nothing more. But to all those in attendance that fateful night it is a grim reminder that unspeakable evil may indeed lurk in the dark caverns of the universe. Night Tide by Award Winning Author Karen E Rigley is a romantic...

STARCALL 2: An Anthology of Novelized Radio Dramas & Teleplays, written by Bob Bello since 1980 for teens and adults in easy-to-read International English. Over 700 short stories of all genres: speculative fiction, military sci-fi, time travel, alternate history and prehistory, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk and steampunk, action/adventure, mystery and supernatural, suspense and thriller, etc. A little bit of everything for everyone, written in the tradition of “The Outer Limits” TV series and the “theater of the mind” style of storytelling. Each printed volume contains...

STARCALL 5: An Anthology of Novelized Radio Dramas & Teleplays, written by Bob Bello since 1980 for teens and adults in easy-to-read International English. Over 700 short stories of all genres: speculative fiction, military sci-fi, time travel, alternate history and prehistory, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk and steampunk, action and adventure, mystery and supernatural, suspense and thriller, romance and drama, etc. A little bit of everything for everyone: 10 “episodes,” illustrated by the author with Dramatic Personae (portraits of the main characters), written in the ...

The Man in the Brown Suit is Agatha Christie at her best, as a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station. In Agatha Christie’s classic crime adventure novel, They Came to Baghdad, a bright young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained for when a wounded spy expires in her hotel room.

The fourth book in the acclaimed Queen of Spades Thriller Series featuring former Italian mob boss Eva Santella. When an American girl goes missing on spring break in Cabo San Lucas, her desperate mother turns to the Queen of Spades for help. Drunk tourists on spring break are a dime a dozen in the popular resort town, but nobody who lives there wants to help find the missing girl. Including the police. Eva finds that nothing is as it seems on the Baja Peninsula. If she is going to find the girl, dead or alive, Eva must travel a twisted and dangerous path and risk it all.

In The Red Thumb Mark, the doctor works to clear young Reuben Hornby of stealing a parcel of diamonds from his uncle's safe, despite the apparently damning evidence. Then, in The Eye of Osiris, an amateur Egyptologist abruptly goes missing, leaving behind a strangely vexatious will. In The Mystery of 31 New Inn, Thorndyke's long-time collaborator Dr. Jervis consults his mentor regarding a mystery who may be being slowly poisoned. And in A Silent Witness, someone is making very determined attempts to murder inoffensive newly-qualified Doctor Humphrey Jardine.

You Can Check In, but You’ll Never Leave Alive. The Moskovitz family thought their new home in a secluded, gated community just outside NYC was a fresh start. They were wrong. Watched by an unseen presence, they’re trapped in a town cut off from the world—where every house is identical, every rule is unbreakable, and every mistake is fatal. In this spine-chilling addition to the Chillers book series, one slip means disappearing forever. Welcome to a nightmare you can’t escape. What Readers Are Saying: ★★★★★ "Creepy as hell! The suffocating vibe of this town had me paranoid...

Over the Appalachians, FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying his Cessna with a very important passenger: renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean; their destination is Washington, D.C. Upon their arrival, the FBI will protect the doctor - and ascertain just who wants him dead.

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that explore the darkness lurking within ordinary lives. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over the next twenty-four hours, Brian will face a horrifying truth about his father—and himself. Rewind A man wakes in a decaying apartment, hooked to a mysterious machine, a dead body in the next room—...

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping. And lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.... This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season, from unexplained disturbances in the fresh snow to the darkness that lurks beneath the sparkling decorations.

In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night.... He's a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with teeth—lest he extract retribution. When young Diogenes Pendergast loses a tooth, however, his skeptical older brother Aloysius is determined to put the legend to the test...with dire consequences.

This bundle includes Basil of Baker Street, Basil and the Cave of Cats, Basil in Mexico, and Basil in the Wild West.

What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know. In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker. For Nameless, the case is breaking down his defenses, and it may force him to face his memories.

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders; and much more.