Police Small Town Mystery

Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire is a paradise on earth. A perfect place to unwind—until a ruthless killer starts taking innocent lives. Following a horrific double homicide, the small communities surrounding the lake are wondering who the next victim will be and what the killer wants. Russian-American police officer Vanya Petrova is enraged that someone has shattered paradise on her lake community. She seems to be the central figure in this murderer's bloody rampage. Vanya suspects she's somehow acquainted with the sick man responsible for the bloodshed.

"Great story! Good Suspense!" -Goodreads review In the midst of tragedy, Willow Morgan, an aspiring journalist, meets former policeman and private detective, Nate Parker. Draper Island, Virginia will never be the same. A serial killer with a penchant for rhymes has brutalized the town, and it seems, he's not done yet. Willow wants more than anything to break the story wide open by discovering the killer's identity. But in order to do that, she must rely on help. After meeting Nate his first night in town, Willow is impressed. But Nate cannot say the same. Determined to find the killer ...

STALKING A KILLER takes readers on a spine-chilling journey from the rocky shores of Lake Stevens near small town Pinehill, Texas to the teeming streets of Dallas and sweltering beaches of Miami as aspiring PI Amanda Mason fearlessly stalks the killer who is letting her father take the blame for murder. Single mom Amanda Mason thinks she’d make a pretty good Private Investigator. Trouble is, she doesn’t own a cell phone or a computer and her old green Dodge only starts when it wants to. Plus, she’s stuck at home with a precocious five-year-old, and looking after her elderly father who...

Book 4 - Get Your Murder Running A Harley and Davidson Mystery It's the Wild West. Or it might as well be. Cowboys, longhorns, and outlaw bikers still roam the land of the free. But not all are brave. Hank Davidson is retirement-challenged. Apparently, he's not good at anything but being a cop. But there's still one retirement dream he hasn't realized, and he hopes hitting the open road on his monster V-twin HOG will help alleviate his boredom. Agatha Harley needs another hot case for her next novel. And when rival outlaw motorcycle gangs show up in their small Texas town, she thinks it's a...

Roccabusambra. Paesino dell'entroterra palermitano, fine anni 70. Un paesino tranquillo viene scosso da un delitto di una efferatezza inaudita. Il ritrovamento del cadavere di una ragazza all'interno del confessionale dell'unica chiesa del paese è un fatto che sconvolge l'intera comunità sia per le modalità del delitto sia per l'età della ragazza, 17 anni. Il fatto criminoso porta in paese un'ondata di curiosi e giornalisti. I carabinieri non riescono a trovare il colpevole, anche se i sospettati sono in molti.

In a small town in rural America, murders of little girls have been going on for a long time. Can the FBI stop him before he kills again?

A Loco Bride To Be, Meddling Aunties, and Eli's Old Girlfriend The wedding is only a few short weeks away and Lily is about to explode. Her Aunts want to help, but their meddlesome nature is causing the bride heart palpitations. Not only that, but Lily's venue is changed out from under her and Eli's old girlfriend is in town to cause a stir. And when items go missing, is the culprit friend or foe? Find out in this latest installment of the Sweet Home Mystery Series.

Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy and live with their 16-year-old daughter Amber in the Dungeon House. But Malcolm begins to disintegrate psychologically, and when Lysette tells him their marriage is over, he snaps, and takes out the old Winchester rifle. In the present day, Hannah Scarlett's cold case team are looking into the three-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Lily Elstone, whose father was Malcolm Whiteley's accountant. Their investigation coincides with the disappearance of another teenage girl.

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Hallowe'en. In 1914, a young woman's corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Hallowe'en. Five years ago, another woman was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries. Daniel Kind becomes fascinated by the old cases, and wonders whether the obvious suspects really did commit the crimes.

In this romantic mystery, twenty-eight-year-old Misty Sumner, aspiring writer and librarian of St. Mary's School, abandons her dream of becoming a writer one day, quitting the writer's group that meets at the library Tuesday nights in favor of joining the sisters who raised her. Growing up an orphan at St. Mary's, love and belonging are worth more to Misty than her dream of one day becoming a best-selling novelist. Since sweet romance is not in the cards for Misty, she will become a nun. But in order to do that, she must prove her good intentions and convince her priest that she is serious....

Chance Morgan, career firefighter, suspects he'll never take that long overdue honeymoon with his wife, Annie, of seven years. Thanks to an emergency on date night, he is forced to put his first responder skills into action. Trouble finds him of all places at the symphony, where a suspicious death requires his attention. And the dying wish of an old man forces them far from their much anticipated honeymoon. Their personal plans must now take a back seat to their new destination of Highlands, North Carolina. But once again, Morgan is forced to pull another dead body from a house fire, ...

Ike Schwartz, former spook and erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, has his vacation interrupted when an old CIA buddy asks him to look into a pilot's disappearance. What looks like a simple missing person's case soon catapults Ike into an international thriller with intimations of terrorism that might threaten the nation and its leaders.

A DS Glyn Capaldi Mystery. DS Glyn Capaldi is in hospital recuperating from concussion and the after-effects of a car crash. But, worse than that, a young woman is dead. She was the passenger in the car, whom he was bringing in for questioning following a night operation in a remote rural location. Glyn is initially riven with guilt and self-recrimination. Until he starts to question the possibility that it may not have been an accident. But, if not, who had been the target?

Be very Afraid when the Ghosts are Spooked! When Shelby's sister Harriet isn't acting herself and the ghosts of Mad River Old Town are in hiding, she knows something isn't quite right. Follow that with two inquisitive strangers, Shelby's in the fight for her sister's life. Just in time for Halloween! Join Shelby along with the ghosts of Mad River as they tackle an evil entity set to take over someone's body and soul.

Luc Verlains delikatester Fall. Hinter dem Glanz der schönen Welt kulinarischer Hochgenüsse entdeckt Luc Verlain eine raue Wirklichkeit voll Neid, Konkurrenz und brutaler Arbeitsbedingungen. Es ist der Höhepunkt der französischen Gourmetsaison: Die Spitzenköche und Restaurantbetreiber fiebern der Vergabe der Sterne des Guide Michelin entgegen. Ausgerechnet in der renommierten "Villa Auguste" wird der berühmteste Restaurantkritiker des Landes noch während der Vorspeise vergiftet. Dabei sollte seine Höchstwertung doch die Karriere des legendären Auguste Fontaine krönen.

Sean McCarthy lives with the guilt of his father's failure to solve a crime. Years back, a child was abducted, and as a boy Sean witnessed the abduction. He always remembered the vehicle. Now 40 years later, he sees it again. If he cannot unravel the mystery, a heinous crime will go unsolved, and he will never have closure.

He came out of the woods at the back of the rural bank in upstate New York. He was wearing a baseball hat, sunglasses, and a balaclava. Nothing of his face was visible. He was also wearing nylon basketball warm-up pants with snaps to allow for easy removal while standing and a loose-fitting nylon top. He went around the side of the small stand-alone building, avoiding the drive-through window on the other side. No customers were in the bank. The manager and her assistant were at the two teller windows.

A Fort Worth detective finds contentment as a small-town police chief. Orin Cage left a 15-year career with the Fort Worth PD to become Chief of Police in the small North Texas town of Rather. Glad to have escaped the high-pressure of the Metroplex crime scene, Cage takes a laid-back, but still effective, approach law enforcement.

He was a CPA with a practice run from his house. He lived quietly with his dog Lucy. Friendly guy, but secretive about his life. A very private person with no local friends except Danny Osgood, a neighborhood kid who played video-games on the CPA's high-speed computer. He had little contact with the neighbors or folks in town. How did he end up with two bullet holes in his head? A simple murder in a small upstate NY town - or something much bigger? The extent of the crime goes far beyond this quiet town. Other states come into play. Then, outside of the country.

DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fiction. DS Glyn Capaldi, exiled to the big, empty middle of Wales to atone for past sins in Cardiff, is called in to investigate a human skeleton that has been uncovered during the excavations for a wind farm in a remote valley. The body is missing its head and its hands. Identity erasure or a ritual killing? Glyn's assertion that there must be a local connection is overruled by his superiors.