Mystery Anthology

Five haunting tales from Benedict Ashforth, the best-selling author of Abbot's Keep.

Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the third volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It includes Wellman's "Judge Pursivant" and "Sergeant Jaeger" stories, as well as a lost classic from Strange Stories (1939).

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet", King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early “lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them.

Welcome to Parsons Where the Ghosts Are Burly and Tattooed and the Witches Commune With the Dead Kacie Thatcher likes to use her powers to speak to the dead and pad her wallet at the same time. However, when she's called back to her hometown to settle her estranged dead sister's affairs, she discovers a world of enchantment and murder. While not wanting to stay, one herbal potion witch, a fae, and her dead sister's familiar, a crayon kitty, persuade her to remain in town. A muscular and bald ghost also implores her to stay and help him where her dead sister left off. When a murder occurs in...

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 ...

Set in the biggest small town in the country, Susan and Mike travel to St. Louis for their son’s Match Day ceremony. At the reception, the dean of the medical school drops dead under mysterious circumstances. Susan smells foul play. Teaming up with the detective’s mother, it's double trouble as she and her new bestie uncover secrets worthy of murder in Murder is Medical. In Murder is Universal, Susan and Valerie are on a flight when they discover the passenger in the middle seat dead on arrival. The dynamic duo is convinced it was murder. The dead passenger, owner of a successful ...

Robert A. Heinlein's The Long Watch is a powerful and emotional science fiction short story that explores themes of duty, sacrifice, and the moral courage of an individual standing against tyranny. First published in 1949, this story is part of Heinlein's Future History series and remains one of his most poignant and enduring tales. The story follows Lieutenant John Dahlquist, a young officer in the Space Patrol, who finds himself in a critical moral dilemma.

Following the culmination of the most recent murder case, things feel normal in Heaven Springs for the first time in a long time. Jonathan and Mandy are together, Charlene found romance of her own, and Angelica and Marshall finally went out on a date together! Colin is seething somewhere, plots revenge for what happened, but Mandy is sure that they’ll be able to handle him when that time comes. However, everything falls like a house of cards when someone close to Angelica is found murdered. He leaves behind a note written in red ink. I’m sorry, Angelica. He was always here. With her ...

Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses. Major Heathcliff Lennox, and his batman Greggs, are told to report to their new HQ. They set off on a sunlit day to fly the distance, but the enemy is never far away, and disaster strikes. They're sent crashing to the ground behind enemy lines, where life, death, and love await.

Retirement is bliss—or is it? Newly retired music teacher Susan Wiles puts her natural nosiness to work and discovers a talent for solving murders. In Murder is Collegiate, Susan and hubby Mike visit their old friends, Emily and Henry Fox. They no sooner hit the Vermont border when they are greeted with a dead body, stolen jewelry, and a barn full of secrets. In Murder is Chartered, Susan Wiles is driving home on a winding mountain road, late at night when she runs over the assistant principal at a school where she volunteers. About to admit guilt, Susan wonders if this was accident or a ...

2 Complete Series Sweet Western Romance collection in one boxed set! Grab your spyglass and catch the train to Colorado, for a crazy adventure. Meet Amelia, Bradley Walker and all them friend as we delve into this mystery, and continue The unknown challenges of southeast Oklahoma Territory in the late 1800s test the faith, grit, and determination of three sisters relying on their hopes of finding true love as they travel westward as mail-order brides. Unforeseen challenges confront them every step of the way - from the Jesse James gang to the challenges of the rugged wilderness. Journey ...

This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry’s chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems.

This bundle includes Charmed Offensive, Poetry in Potion, and Cloaks and Daggers.

A short ghost story from the best-selling author of Abbot's Keep. A photographer reluctantly agrees to take images of an abandoned manor house on the Dorset clifftops only to find the building is not completely empty.

Sharon Shinn's Twelve Houses books have fascinated fans and critics alike with their irresistible blend of fantasy, romance, and adventure. Now in Quatrain, she weaves compelling stories in four of the worlds that fans love in "Flight", "Blood", "Gold", and "Flame".

Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood. They’re her secrets—as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills. In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds.

In the heart of gangland London, Reverend Digby Rolf witnesses a chilling prison execution, the condemned man's life ending with a snap. But it's not just a man's death that haunts him; it's the divine message he sees in its aftermath: "Vengeance is mine sayeth the lord." Driven by an unwavering faith and a sense of duty, Digby embarks on a perilous quest for justice, despite the dangers lurking in the shadows of the late 1950s underworld. As he delves deeper into the murky depths of London's criminal society, Digby must confront his own naivety and navigate a treacherous landscape where ...

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

CHASING THE TIDE TO STAY ALIVE Caught in a dangerous maelstrom of accusations and death, Cam Derringer is fighting to stay afloat. The haunting shock of a body found on his boat, smeared with his own DNA, sends him spiraling into a desperate quest for truth. Unexpectedly, a woman shrouded in enigma emerges from the shadows with problems of her own. Together, they venture upon an adrenaline-charged journey against the backdrop of the resounding ocean and towering mountains that is as unpredictable as the woman herself. Can he trust her? Or will his instincts prove correct that this threat ...