Society Mystery

They Never Left When disgraced journalist Rex Mallory returns to the small town of Whisper Ridge, he expects rust, rumors, and a few ghosts from his past. What he doesn’t expect is a missing woman, a mutilated corpse, and the burned remains of a notebook that points to decades of disappearances. As Mallory digs deeper, he uncovers chilling whispers of an abandoned asylum, a preacher with too many secrets, and a sheriff who doesn’t take kindly to questions. Every lead pulls him closer to a horrifying truth buried beneath the town’s sleepy surface—one the townspeople are willing to ...

After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside, the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry - "Nemetseva is dead!" When the dead ballerina's aristocratic lover comes begging for justice, Emily must apply her own set of skills to discover the rising star's murderer.

When the Paragon Society needs a situation contained, they call in their top battle mage, Lucy, a dual-blade-wielding, fireball-throwing kicker of butts. But a traumatic injury has fractured Lucy's psyche, leaving her trapped deep inside her subconscious. The Society and her friends are desperate to save her and are willing to try anything. The devised plan seems simple enough; Orson and the gang will get magicked into Lucy's mind, locate her, and bring her out. Yeah, right.

In The Adventuress, Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend, Jeremy, duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills to discover the truth and avert another tragedy.

Victoria Cross moved to Spirits Cove to take over her grandfather’s antique bookshop, much to her mother’s displeasure. The mystery-loving Vicky quickly sees herself involved in solving the murders of farmers she barely knows. Those deaths seem accidental or related to rabies-infected wolf attacks at first, but that is not the case. In the midst of this, she quickly becomes friends with the town’s police chief, her grandfather’s best friend, triggering gossip. Vicky is unaware of her heritage and her relevance to that town. She has no idea of either that town’s history or of its ...

In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence - burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a stranger is thrown to his death from the roof onto the marble palazzo floor.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried... When Liv returns to her grandmother Eleanor's Victorian mansion in Heartwood Haven, she expects to find solace among the herb gardens and faded memories. Instead, she discovers a body among the rosemary—Walter Pembroke, head of the Historical Society, clutching a mysterious document that could change everything. As Liv reluctantly steps into her inheritance, she finds herself at the center of a town divided between preservation and progress. The suspicious Detective Marcus Rivera considers her the prime suspect, while the Knitting Circle's whispers ...

Valley Falls is a strange little town where the unlikely and unusual happens more often than you would think. It’sa place of secrets and sinners, mysteries and mayhem. Join S.T.A.L.K., Valley Falls’ most popular ghost hunting group, and investigate…...a strange night time game played on the streets of Valley Falls....a chess match played by two retirees that may or may not determine the fate of the world....an abandoned radio station that still continues to broadcast....the tragic life of a circus fire-eater....an old farm plagued by an ancient enemy.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson take on the case of Mr Avery Quill, whose daughter has mysteriously disappeared. The investigation has hardly begun when her body is discovered, and Mr Quill is himself murdered in the same manner. The killer leaves visiting cards emblazoned with the head of the gorgon at the scenes of his crimes, and Holmes connects these to a strange club known as "The One Hundred per Cent Society". He learns little there, except that the members are all outcasts from noble families.

Meet Sky Sampson. She’s eleven years old, wildly curious, just a little mischievous, and definitely not the type to ignore a talking gnome or a mumbling garden. When strange noises start echoing from her neighbor’s overgrown backyard, Sky does what any aspiring mystery-solver would do: she grabs a notebook, a granola bar, and her unreasonably grumpy cat, Mr. Tiddles, and dives in—headfirst. But this isn’t just any mystery. Beneath the tomato vines and ceramic lawn ornaments lies something ancient, powerful, and slightly passive-aggressive. With the help of her best friend Jazz (and ...

When someone tells you who you are, do you believe them? The first question the cops asked me was if anything out of the ordinary happened to me lately. When I woke up this morning in the room of a mental institution I couldn’t remember a thing – not my name nor how I got there. Not how I left or how I ended up in that interrogation room.

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Francisco when he witnesses an undercover member of his team killed right in front of him on a busy street, an accident Roarke can't believe is coincidental. His suspicions put him on the trail of a mysterious young woman who appears to have been present at each scene of a years-long string of accidents and murders, and who may well be that most rare of killers: a female serial.

Nine physicists are dead. The medical examiner has determined that the victims died from drinking coffee laced with rat poison. The owner of the house, Professor Thaddeus Huntgardner, isn't suspected, but his claim that a piece of the debris from Roswell's 1947 UFO crash was hidden in Flagler might be true. Enter Luther "Luke" Stephens McWhorter, a Yale Divinity School-educated West Texas sheriff with all the right questions. Is the fragment real? If so, who's trying to locate it? And what has fueled the byzantine activities of Abbot County's two secret societies for the past 70 years?

Jo Slater has it all. The queen of Manhattan society, she has dealt successfully with a tricky period in which she lost her husband, her fortune, and her reputation. But she bounced back, and now, newly single in the greatest city in the world, there is not a cloud in the sky.

Three unforgettable journeys filled with danger, discovery, and destiny. Book 1: The Lost Ark – When an eccentric professor vanishes atop Mount Ararat, ex-National Geographic photojournalist Sam Ward is hired to track him down. But this search for Noah’s Ark turns deadly as Sam and archaeologist Faye Roberts stumble upon a hidden base with a sinister purpose. Now, they must outrun ruthless enemies while uncovering one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. A high-stakes thriller perfect for fans of Clive Cussler and James Rollins. Book 2: The Grail Quest – Mystery ...

Museum Nocturnus not only deals in high strangeness but puts it on full display for the world to see and admire. Exhibits have been carefully curated to tell the stories of serial killers, witches, madmen, cult members, and those who thrive in the darkness. It is a display dedicated to the weird, and the spotlights are all firmly pointed at the darkness. Accompany master thief, Max Garfield, on a job to steal an item of great importance from the Museum's newly-opened Hall of Monsters and learn the stories behind some of the gruesome artifacts displayed there. But, beware, the Museum has its...

(Continuation of the story from Murder on the Beach and the Westbourne Cottage Curse) Unravel the Mystery – Join Professor John Castellanos in a Battle of Wits! Dive into a world of intrigue and danger with A Premier Class Mystery, the captivating new thriller by K.R.M. Morgan. When retired psychology professor John Castellanos receives a chilling invitation from an ancient secret society known as the Illuminés, he is drawn into a deadly game that spans the shadows of Paris. As shadows from his past emerge – from a life-threatening encounter on a flight to a dead body marked with ...

SABOTEURS is the most critical and groundbreaking work to date by prolific investigative author Thomas Horn. From his earliest opus on secret societies and the occult to this new unnerving chronicle, Dr. Horn returns to Washington, DC to expose a harrowing plot by Deep State Alister Crowley and Masonic devotees that hold an almost unbelievable secret they do not want you to understand: American society is being manipulated through a Washington-based Shadow Government in quest of that Final World Order prophesied in the books of Daniel, Revelation, and on the Great Seal of the United States!

In this thrilling second installment of the Midnight Society series, the five childhood friends and their loyal dog, Whisp - must defend Earth from an unimaginable alien threat after gaining extraordinary abilities aboard a UFO. As gateways open between worlds, a rebel warns of an imminent invasion by the merciless Karnathians, launching the friends on a perilous mission that will determine the fate of worlds. Deep within a mysterious network of caves, they uncover a terrifying secret: enslaved humans have unwittingly built a doomsday machine that threatens Earth's very molecular structure....

A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: Both victims were part of a disastrous expedition to Iceland over 10 years ago where a group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted island.