Mystery Church

Who is Louis Reeves? He was the pastor of Fairfield Community Church for three years but he simply disappeared without any notice to the church. In comes Tony Stevens as the new pastor and it's his first position as a senior pastor. This story covers the first two years of Tony's role as senior pastor and the continued reoccurrence of the name, Louis Reeves. Who is he and why did he leave so abruptly?As the story winds it's way along, we read how Tony allows the Lord to breathe life back into this church. Louis Reeves had brought a spirit of deadness in his three years as pastor and was ...

Ruby is a vlogger, a rising star of YouTube and a heroine to millions of teenage girls. And she's missing.... But she's an adult - nothing to worry about, surely. Until the video's uploaded...Ruby, in the dirt, pleading for her life. Enter Detective Inspector Kate Riley: the Met's rising star and the head of a new team of investigators with the best resources money can buy. Among them Detective Sergeant Zain Harris, the poster boy for multiracial policing. But can Kate wholly trust him? And, more importantly, can she trust herself around him?

You never forget your first case.... Police Constable Jane Bennett is back on the beat after a spell away from the force. Working with the Serious Case Team, she's witnessed some of the worst crimes and endured them all. With her eye on promotion, Jane attends each call-out without complaint, determined to show her superiors her dedication. However, nothing could prepare her for this next case. Behind the ordinary façade of someone's home, she discovers a truly chilling scene.

Katherine’s life was once filled with love and new beginnings. But she’d given up her hopes and dreams of marriage and a family and instead buried herself in her big city career and her small home in its quiet home-town like neighborhood...then everything changed. Follow the lives of Katherine, Tom, and their growing circle of friends as they deal with real everyday challenges, life changing choices, romance, an unexpected mystery, and the magical promise of second chances. If you enjoy clean romance and inspirational feel-good women’s fiction filled with love, family, friendship, new...

Summary Brothers Troy and Tre Evans have been on a collision course since a tragedy separated and forced them into foster care. When they reunite as grown men, tensions and jealousies rise as Troy faces the challenges of a preacher’s life, while Tre gets pulled deeper into the pimp street life. When one woman is forced to choose between them, the brothers draw a line in the sand. Their competition for power, love, and money sets the stage for sibling rivalry, treachery, and unimaginable heartbreak. When reconciliation seems likely, a shocking family scandal could either draw the brothers ...

For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won't stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past the red church every day, where the Bell Monster hides with its wings and claws and livers for eyes. But the biggest problem is that Archer McFall is the new preacher at the church, and Mom wants Ronnie to attend midnight services with her.

After serving nine years of a life sentence for the manslaughter of a former beauty queen, Shona Pickton returns to her home town of Felixstowe, exonerated after an appeal quashed her conviction. She has always protested her innocence - despite being tried and convicted by the media long before her trial. Determined to clear her name, Shona insists that one man can corroborate her story: well-known police informer Karl Cuskie, her alibi for the night Cassandra Norton died. But then Cuskie is found dead, throwing the reopened case wide open.

The festive season is in full swing - parties, champagne and Christmas crackers abound. You're having a breather at the hotel bar when a stunning young woman catches your eye. Could she really be interested in you? She flutters her eyelashes and takes your hand. Her Christmas party dress glitters with sequins. What you don't know is that your life is now in her hands - as she leads you up to her room there's only one thing that will determine whether you live or die. Are you a good person? Are you really?

It was weird, but then he told me that he loved me more than anything in the world, and if he couldn’t be with me, he needed me to always remember that. The serene life Willow Braxton has carved out begins to unravel with a series of unsettling events, starting with a shocking encounter with Deputy Conroy and his parents that thrusts her deeper into a world she's been trying to escape. As they find themselves entangled in the mysterious disappearance of Elise Gratz's husband, Willow's past as Susan Hampton and her skills as a detective become increasingly difficult to hide, especially ...

No. 7 in the Olympia Brown Mysteries. Olympia accepts a winter contract in a picture-book church on Cape Cod, but someone in that idyllic setting is watching and waiting. When Olympia is trapped inside the old church along with her stalker in a killer New England blizzard, husband Frederick is too far away to help, and the police can't reach her. Olympia becomes both the hunter and the hunted, and only she or the predator will survive the night.

In peaceful Dulwich Village, a group of elderly residents meet every week for Bridge Club. Green cloths are laid over square tables, the deck is carefully dealt, and every beady eye is on the lookout for cheating. Amateur sleuth Beth Haldane has never understood the rules, but she’s drawn into the drama when her mother’s bridge partner Alfie Poole is found dead. He was last seen heading out for a breath of fresh air after a particularly tricky hand. Beth knows poor Alfie was a sweet old man, but when she learns he was poisoned it’s clear someone wanted him gone.

Maggie has everything her sister Rose always wanted. A handsome husband and two adorable children, Emily and Elliot. But what Rose doesn’t see is that Maggie is struggling. Every day is a fog of sleep loss and mess made by two tiny children. Left alone in her distress by husband Stephen, Maggie drifts ever closer to the edge. When Maggie finally cracks, walking out one day and not returning, Rose is right there to step into the breach.

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Into the Water by Paula Hawkins, read by Imogen Church, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Weyman, Rachel Bavidge and Laura Aikman. The addictive new psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times Number One best seller and global phenomenon. In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn't pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help.

The Reverend Olympia Brown is offered free room and board on a small cruise ship in exchange for being a guest lecturer, but the dream-come-true trip turns into a nightmare when she learns an elegant and persuasive male passenger is targeting wealthy, single, gullible ladies for personal and heartbreaking gain. Olympia realizes that despite cruise companies' best efforts, they can't always keep their guests safe and happy because for some of life's miscreants a ship is a self-contained hunting ground where the unsuspecting prey are like fish in a barrel. Luckily for all, Olympia makes it ...

Rev. Olympia Brown has been invited to the island of Martha’s Vineyard to officiate at the wedding of a young woman she christened twenty years earlier. The groom is the eldest son of the sixth generation of the admired and respected island Adams shipbuilding family, and everyone concerned is delighted with the match. As the date approaches, everything is going according to plan...until it doesn’t. In a worst-case scenario, Mother Nature and an alienated and disillusioned childhood friend of the bride coincidentally join forces with near cataclysmic results. ... And the “Best Laid ...

SOMETHING'S DIFFERENT ABOUT JONAH Other Civil War re-enactors thought all along there was something different about Jonah the way he corrected the placement of a line of Confederate riflemen, the way he took apart and reassembled an old cannon with ease, the way he walked over the battlefield like he'd been there before. Their suspicions were confirmed when he started firing live ammo into the Yankee lines. Find out if there are any additional casualties at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads more than 150 years after the last shots were fired. WHERE DID HE COME FROM? In the deepest mud at the...

Everyone tells her she's a survivor. No one knows she's dead inside. Six years ago Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. She coped by locking away her memories, burying herself. The man responsible was caught and convicted. Even his release from jail won't derail her new life. She's a survivor after all. Then the body of another woman is discovered in identical circumstances. Like Melody, she has blond hair and green eyes. Like Melody she is found holding a gold bird cage chain.

At age fifty, Rev. Dr. Olympia Brown is at a turning point; shall she continue working as a College Professor or leave the Ivory Tower for good and become a Parish Minister. An invitation to serve as Summer Chaplain at a seaside conference center in Maine provides the ideal opportunity to get away and think things through—except it doesn’t. On the day she arrives a distraught (and closeted) crew members tries to hang himself. Despite the tragedy the conference center must open on schedule. Olympia Brown is called to minister to a ravaged community while trying to keep up the appearance ...

John Callahan is a good man with a bad past — and his past will not let him live in peace. Against the odds, he matures from a teenage Belfast street thug and an IRA killer to a happily married man and expectant father. Then fate snatches away his wife, his unborn child—and his world—in the flash of a tragic accident for which he feels responsible. Years later, just as he begins to find peace and serenity again as a monk in a rural Irish monastery, a vindictive superior banishes the handsome young priest to a derelict parish in New York City. Ripped away from his quiet, cloistered ...

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice. Or just the kind of person MI5 needs....