Mystery Crime Drama

In the charming Southern town of Monticello, justice is just a performance—and the real drama unfolds behind the bench. When three powerful women—a judge, a clerk, and a magistrate—form an unholy alliance to embezzle thousands from the courthouse they run, no one suspects the smiling faces behind the corruption. But as their greed grows bolder and their schemes more brazen, the town busybody with a vendetta starts sniffing around, and secrets that were meant to stay buried begin clawing their way to the surface. Murder in Monticello is a taut, gripping Southern legal thriller brimming...

Sheriff Gus gets exactly what he wants for his birthday: to be left alone. Sadly, this perfect gift doesn’t last for very long when his daughter surprises him with the rather odd present of twenty sessions with a sex therapist. After all, it’s not like he needs it or anything. But Gus decides to humor his daughter and pays a token visit to the doctor. The visits take on much greater meaning, however, when a sex maniac starts preying on the lonely residents in Gus’s rural county. Problems continue to multiply for the sheriff when he gets a call to jury duty, faces down the horrors of a...

Book #2 in the Thailand Fiction Series - Thailand's Sickest HELL TO PAY is full of non-stop action. You should read book #1 first, it has sold 26,000+ copies! Hell To Pay is the second in the "Thailand's Sickest" series. If you haven't read the first book, you should probably do that. If you want to read them out of order, it's possible, but probably not the best reader experience. Hell To Pay is set in Thailand - Surat, Krabi, Ubon, and Pattaya. Fact and fiction blurs a bit in this story. The author writes from a first-person perspective about events that happened after publishing the ...

Prepare to question every notion you hold about truth, innocence, and the power of accusation in this riveting collection of true crime stories. Within these pages, you will discover 33 astonishing accounts of individuals who found themselves ensnared in webs of deceit—people framed for crimes they never committed. Each chapter unveils a gripping narrative of injustice, unraveling shady evidence, sensational media coverage, and twisted law enforcement tactics that nearly sealed innocent lives behind bars forever. • Experience the shock and outrage as misidentified suspects are ripped ...

What would you do, if a menacing stalker was threatening your life? For Kathy Meadows this isn’t a philosophical question, but a fact of life. A psychotic madman who calls himself, The Doctor, is stalking her calling her at all hours, day and night. When famous rock star Joel Garland learns of the danger he steps in to protect her, and enlists his cousin, Nicholas Stone, to help capture the creep. Disgruntled at having been roped into chaperoning her three teenaged nieces to a Garland Rose concert, Kathy Meadows is not happy to be there. The only positive aspect in having been so ...

A past love returns. A friend’s relative is murdered. A new mystery is solved. Word of another suspicious death in Happy Hills, Arizona, is spreading like a hot summer wildfire. Why would anyone want to murder the uncle of Detective Emma Porter? Not only is Oscar hunting down a murderer, but fate intervenes when Oscar and Mr. Porter’s service dog discover a connection to their human past. Both are determined to find the strength to forgive and go on. Pour your favorite beverage, power up your e-reader, sit back and enjoy seeing the world through the eyes of Oscar, the doxie detective. ...

Terri and Eryn were in NYC for an event. Eryn was excited to celebrate with her best friend until someone from her past called. Against her better judgment, she secretly met the one man who almost ruined her life, not knowing of his sinister motives. Paul was running out of time, and his only hope was his ex-wife, Eryn. He knew borrowing money from a Don wasn’t good, but he had no choice. When Eryn refused to help, he took extreme measures to save his own life while risking Eryn’s and the lives of her family and friends.

Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept and burning their house to the ground. When the case lands on barrister Neve Harper’s desk, she knows it could make her career. A matter of days before the case, as Neve is travelling home for the night, she is approached by a man. He tells her she must throw the case or the secret about her husband’s disappearance will be revealed. Failing that, he will kill everyone she cares about, until she does as she is told.

If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child, she’d be Sophie… What would you do if the crime you were hired to solve tugged at your heartstrings? Private investigator Sophie’s latest case weighs heavy: someone has desecrated the nesting grounds of the majestic Laysan Albatross on Oahu, the murder of a generation of endangered birds—and the outrageous crime appears to be spreading to other islands. Sophie teams up with Sergeant Lei Texeira on Maui to search for killer whose brutal activities outrage the public. Meanwhile, deadly assassin grandma Pim Wat continues...

What’s amateur detective Vett Brayborn to do when her Aunt Mary’s multi-millionaire boyfriend, Hollice, is strangled to death, and two weeks later, her aunt is murdered in her home, and all clues to the shocking murders lead to “six good blended" adult family members?” She sucks it up, moves forward, probes into their lives, and finds a mystery pulling at all of them like gravity. Vett, fifty-three years of age, has investigated hundreds of cases and solved them all during her illustrious career. She has learned all too well that predators with fangs and claws are not only in other ...

Eliza thought she came to The Haven for answers—but the mansion’s secrets are more dangerous than she ever imagined. What begins as a search for the truth about her sister Claire’s death quickly turns into a sinister game of cat and mouse. At The Haven, a luxurious yet eerie retreat, whispers of missing guests, hidden passageways, and buried scandals haunt every corner. When Eliza discovers Claire’s journal, detailing cryptic clues and paranoid warnings, she realizes her sister’s death was no accident—and the same unseen enemy is now watching her. As Eliza uncovers a web of lies...

This is the 3rd of Tony Bertot's Assassin Trilogy. The Legacy of the Assassin picks up where The Heart of an Assassin left off. Follow Tyler Santiago as he starts to unravel the mystery surrounding his father while at the same time Felicia Giordano puts a contract out on the assassin and anyone that may be connected to him. You won't be able to put the book down as the characters come to life before your very eyes and you find yourself rooting for the bad guys.

Sadie Wilson’s heart stops the moment the phone rings. Deep in her soul, she knows what’s coming, and the voice on the other end only confirms her fears: Emma never made it to school. Her sweet, scared five-year-old climbed onto the bus for her very first day of kindergarten…and then vanished.

Amy jumps at the opportunity when she's offered a nannying job in picturesque West Cork. The assignment is for the welcoming Carroll family, whose stunning house is situated on a stretch of remote and rugged coastline. It's the perfect chance for Amy to start over - far away from her life in Dublin she is trying to escape. With two adorable children to oversee, a pair of generous employers and a lavish new home, everything seems wonderful. So why can't Amy shake a creeping sense of unease?

Trace is a prosecutor whose world revolves around putting criminals in prison...until the love of his life that he lost long ago appears as one of his Defendants. Will he betray his office or allow her to go to prison?

Stay-at-home mom Yvonne Landis enters her kitchen one day to meet a huge surprise: Seated on a chair is her son, Gabe. He went missing when he was ten years old, more than three years ago. It turns out he was abducted by pedophiles who made his existence a living hell. Yvonne is determined to heal Gabe. Her husband Ben is not completely on board with that idea, especially since Gabe stabbed him with a fork shortly after they were reunited. Then disturbing things happen to their younger son, 9-year-old Joseph, and Gabe may be behind those, too....

A deadly satellite combined with an unstable president could prove fatal. (Saga 2 of 10). Can Detective Blackhawk save Earth from destruction? In this spell-binding thriller, an overheard conversation leads to three deaths in one night. Det. Blackhawk has no choice but chase a killer to Mars in the 25th century. Updated -5/18/24 Be sure to get the ebook, Best Friends, an outtake companion story of Alex's early life. #B07VVMQLQ6 Next in the Domino Series: Crossroads #B01E9N6FPW

An addictive small-town thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn, Carolyn Arnold, and Karin Slaughter, Shadow’s Keep is a mind-bending exploration of obsession, desperation, and how far we’ll go to protect those we love. "Dark, intense, and addictively twisted.” ~Bestselling Author Kristen Mae WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE CAN KILL. Deputy Sheriff William Shannahan doesn’t feel like a detective, at least not like the ones he admires on TV. Not that he needs to be; the small town of Graybel, Mississippi, is a peaceful place, with acres of farmland, neighbors who always take care of their own, and ...

Racy, vengeful, black humored crime mystery thriller. Justice or revenge? Find out why Detective Chief Inspector Ash and his Murder Investigation Team - Chen, Lance, and Jane - opt for both when an iconic, American erotic sculptress is found dead in her luxury British hotel suite. From England's beautiful West Country though France's Champagne region to the Great Barrier Reef the hunt is on, with final pit stops in Monaco, St. Moritz, and Geneva. Three retired SAS specialists affectionately known as G, B, and H help Ash out. Enjoy.

Where truth and justice collide, love becomes the ultimate verdict. Stranded by snow, bound by truth, and ignited by passion. Snowed-in love story! Where truth and justice collide, love becomes the ultimate verdict. A ruthless murder trial threatens to destroy Salvatore Gallo's life, and his attorney Mary Taylor must navigate treacherous underworld ties and startling revelations. But fate has other plans. When a fierce snowstorm forces Mary to take shelter at a secluded Aspen cottage, she finds herself snowed in with a grumpy stranger. As the storm rages on, their mutual attraction grows, ...