Paranormal Crime Mystery

Fifty-something Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished martial artist, linguist and musician, Shona is thrilled when selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a one-week mission in 19th-century Russia: to pair up the beautiful, shy, orphaned heiress Lidia Ivanovna with Sasha, a handsome young man of unexplained origins — and all in a gorgeously Tolstoyan setting.

Pat Lancaster continues to earn her living helping the many police precincts to solve their most difficult cases.

Ever since the death of her fiancé, Nela Farley has found herself plagued by a sixth sense: she understands the thoughts of cats when she looks into their eyes. Nela knows that what she's experiencing is completely irrational and tries to convince herself that she is simply transferring her own thoughts that she doesn't want to face. When her adventurous sister, Chloe, goes on a trip and asks for a favor, Nela welcomes the distraction and agrees to substitute at Chloe's job at a charitable foundation.

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 ...

Has anyone seen Andreas? Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But its not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time he saw his friend - they had been following an old woman, an easy target for some quick cash, and Andreas boldly followed her into her home brandishing his knife, the next moment he was gone.

Young billionaire Sebastian Montero has hunted killers for 700 years, the murder of his baby brother still haunting his dreams. After a teenage girl is ritually butchered, Sebastian joins the LAPD in their search for the man known as "the Voodoo Killer".

John Ridley is an acclaimed screenwriter and best-selling author. His first novel featuring LAPD mutant hunter Soledad O'Roark, Those Who Walk in Darkness, was an instant hit. Soledad's second adventure finds her hunting down a vigilante who is murdering metanormals indiscriminantly. She has no love for the mutants, but no one is above the law. So with her modified sidearm at her hip, she hits the pavement, determined to dish out some street justice.

Was haben ein Filmproduzent, Feen und ein Magier gemeinsam? Aillard Blackwood, Berater für das New Scotland Yard und Vollzeitmagier stellt sich genau dieser Frage. Nachdem seine Partnerin, Sergeant Paxton, ihn in Londons bekannteste Filmstudios zitiert, gerät er in ein ebenfalls filmreifes Netz von Lügen, Gewalt und Intrigen. Blackwood muss sich ohne seine Magie durch dieses undurchschaubare Gewirr, das eher einer Telenovela als einem gewöhnlichen Fall gleicht, kämpfen.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Grey Ghost by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell, read by Scott Brick. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence.

A woman witnesses from her bedroom window a violent assault on her elderly neighbor, and becomes embroiled in something much larger involving a criminal gang. They want her eliminated. DCI Allison has his work cut out as he tries to close his file on Kelland and Paulson, in the sex trafficking case, together with a number of other crimes linked to the OCG.

Kadmon wants to open the portal between our world and Hell, to create a twisted, demonic version of our world over which he will reign supreme. Now, Morgan and her partner — Jake Timber, the enigmatic agent who recruited her for ARKANE — are on the run. From the holiest cities in Israel to underwater cities lost to history, they must follow this trail to the end. To find a way to stop Kadmon before he offers the final sacrifice.

It’s summer in Adders Fork. The sun is out, the sky is blue and things are going swimmingly for Rosie Strange. The Essex Witch Museum has been relaunched with a new Ursula Cadence wing and picnic grounds. Then developers roll into the sleepy village to widen the road. When the centuries-old Blackly Be boulder, said to mark the grave of a notorious witch, is moved, all hell breaks out. Within hours a slew of peculiar phenomena descends, and when a severed head is discovered atop the boulder, the locals storm the museum to demand someone take action.

It was a typical February night in 1951 when she stepped into one of Nashville’s many dives and into my life. The blonde asked for my story, wanting to know what had me drinking. She had no idea it was the same thing that had me working at nights, hunting down the monsters that stalk the back alleys of my city. Back in ’31, the job was just supposed to be another bank heist - in, then out, then we'd be rich. But along with the money, we found that cursed ruby, and nothing was the same again.

Something is exciting and chilling about a pursuit to identify the remains of a murdered victim and the victim’s murderer—especially when the crime was committed 49 years ago in a small Southern town. The remains were found on Great Aunt Hannah’s property after she died, and Vett Brayborn, Great Aunt Hannah’s most trusted niece and executor of her estate, works as an amateur investigator to solve the murder mystery. The mystery must be solved before the sale of Great Aunt Hannah's properties occurs because an unsolved murder has a way of devaluing properties. Needless to say, the ...

He woke up in a cave with no memory and smelling of sulfur. All he knows is that his name is Christopher and that he can see monsters. Now he's caught between humanity and the creatures of the night while he tries to find answers to the mysteries of his own past.

Missy Masters inherited more than the usual genetic cocktail from her estranged grandfather. She also got his preternatural control of shadows and his enduring legacy as the legendary vigilante superhero, Mr. Mystic. After a little work the costume fits okay, but Missy is far from experienced at fighting crime, so she journeys to China to seek the aid of Lung Huang, the ancient master who once guided her grandfather.

Vivvy Bouchet, respected scientist and reluctant psychic, saved a boy's life after a premonition when she was a child. That boy is now a Texas police officer. He convinces Vivvy to help him solve a high-profile cold case, working alongside detective Jesse Sharp, a sceptic of anything but fact. Three-year-old Lizzie Solomon disappeared in broad daylight from her home. A body was never found, but the child's mother, Nicolette, is in prison for the disappearance, loudly proclaiming her innocence.

Jake Hughes cannot run from the fact that he is entering a head on collision with the Mob! Six weeks earlier Jake Hughes was living the quiet life in America with his wife Emily, They decide to take their annual vacation, walking in England. A chance meeting during the walk awakens a hidden memory in Jake, dragging him into direct conflict with a powerful Mafia Family, catapulting him into a a game of cat and mouse, challenging life or death! He teams up with, Jonty Ball, a retired detective inspector, between them they thread the pieices of an unsolved murder twenty years earlier. Is it ...

Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. It's no surprise therefore that when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for the bones of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating.

Salem is a private investigator hired to find a young girl abducted from her school in the middle of the school day. Local authorities have had zero leads and no good suspects for months and have hit a dead-end. Salem has his own theory, but it leads down a much darker path than he anything the local police could imagine or are equipped to deal with. His investigation is nearly cut short before it could really get underway, when on his first night in town, he finds himself trapped at the beginning of a murder investigation; the killer working very hard to make sure he's the prime suspect.