Time Detectives

One man wants her behind bars. The other needs her dead. Jax Duncan lives in a world of privilege. But no amount of money can compensate for a distant alcoholic mother and a stepfather with wandering hands. Desperate for freedom, she leaves home only to witness a high-profile mob murder and make herself the next target. Fleeing both the hitman and the FBI agent who thinks she pulled the trigger, Jax moves from city to city in search of safety. But when they track her down, a bloody confrontation seriously wounds the federal cop, forcing her to care for the man who’s sworn to put her away....

How do you kill someone who cannot die? The wrath of Poseidon is falling upon land and sea. In Mera's search for a way to destroy him, she returns to the kingdom she once abandoned. Atlantea. Meanwhile, Bast tackles the frail political balance in Tagrad, and tries to regroup with his soulmate. He will do anything to see Mera again, and she will do anything to protect him. Even if the price might be her own life. The stakes have never been higher, and the fall has never been steeper. Poseidon is here. And it's time to end it all.

Crime Time is a collection of nine crime stories from author Dell Sweet. From short stories to near novel length... ... When a man tells you he has the moral flexibility to include murder in his life if he deems it necessary this is probably not a man you should be hanging out with. Jeff Johnson had reminded himself of this fact about Robert Biel more than once, yet every day he found himself hanging around, giving him lifts to do job searches, parole, where ever he needed to go: Even hanging around with him at night... Nine stories that are hard edged, entertaining and good, fast rides ...

Detective Jack Kohl has a simple plan for a most complex problem: Use the witch, Morgana’s, time travel device to return to New Orleans in 1863 and kill the woman. While simple on the surface, the plan quickly goes south the moment Jack steps through the time rift. Jack’s first problem is that Morgana does not wish to be killed and will do everything in her power to prevent it. Second, Jack has landed right in the middle of a Jack the Ripper-style murder case. The Slasher is carving up women indiscriminately throughout the city. No one is safe, not even the people assisting him. Jack ...

Death at South Hills is a gripping English murder mystery set in the picturesque coastal town of Lynden Sands during the 1920s. Immerse yourself in a tale of intrigue, deception, and family secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end. When Mark Northbridge and his sister Stephanie arrive at the newly opened hotel in Lynden Sands, they are unaware of the dark mysteries that lie ahead. Their family estate, South Hills, stands at the center of unresolved tensions and a haunting disappearance. Garrett, their nephew, has been missing since the war, leaving a void filled with ...

Two dead fathers. Siblings as close as folded paper. Keeping secrets and confessing lies. DI Heather is back solving crimes on the Beechwood Estate. The selective community spirit is still alive and kicking, with a lot of rotten apples festering amongst the good. Born gangster Frankie Thompson’s counterfeit operation is about to tumble, but who will do the time? Homophobia is still rife. But is DI Heather’s marriage to Gareth one of inconvenience now that she’s considering a second time around relationship with her old boss Martha Moss? From the writer of Jamie’s Story. Gripping and...

So you want to play with magic? There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room ...

This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, uncovering his unique comic musings on everything from his school-trousers to malt whisky and from the letter Y through to his own nose, via atheism, hangovers and fried eggs. These hilarious collected writings reveal the warmth, enthusiasm and ferocious intelligence behind this most English of comic writers; a man who was virtually an unofficial member of the Monty Python team.

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

Can a by-the-book lawyer outwit dirty cops who'll do anything to keep him quiet? Houston, Texas. Tom Meyers believes rules keep chaos at bay. But the brilliant defense attorney is bored with his recent slate of cases. So when a woman is accused of murdering her abusive husband, he takes her as a pro bono client, convinced that a high-profile acquittal will make him a household name. As he digs for clues to the dead man's past, Tom dispatches his offbeat investigator to Baton Rouge, where she discovers the deceased had a whole other family and a job dealing drugs. But when she disappears ...

Ava Storm’s day isn’t going great. Her good deed of caring for a stray cat turns into a disaster when she discovers that cat is actually her ex-husband magically transformed into an orange tabby. Then, when she is assigned her first actual police investigation in the field, a senior detective claims he’s already solved the case. But Ava doesn’t think he’s right, so she digs into the case teaming up with her ex-husband’s gorgeous brother to uncover a world of deception in the supernatural underbelly of Los Angeles. This is a stand-alone mystery novella.

The world is often full of bamboozling headlines and numbers that don't add up. But don't panic. Within these pages you will transform into a Truth Detective, hunting down the truth about the world around you. You will meet heroic truth detectives, such as Florence Nightingale who started a revolution with a pie chart. You will encounter dastardly villains who have tried to trip us up with dodgy data and misinformation. And you will learn how being smart and savvy with numbers, will help you be smart and savvy about everything else in life too.

It's 1906. Far from England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid 11 is on the verge of imploding. Rival Great Powers, especially Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany, sit watching like crows on a fence, ready to rush in to carve up the vast territories, menacing England's vital overland routes to her Indian possessions. At his medical practice in London's Marylebone, Watson receives a mystifying telegram. It's from Holmes.

Kellerman is back, bigger, bolder, and tougher than ever. Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hardcore as they come. In Hard Time, Kellerman faces the most dangerous challenge of his career. The love of his life and ex-cop Maria Lopez is serving short time in a country-club prison for white-collar crime. With just four months left on her sentence, Maria is falsely accused of murdering a male guard and whisked off to a maximum security prison where she faces ten or more years of hard time. Kellerman will go to any lengths to prove ...

Walking home from a dance on a foggy autumn night in rural New York, Marly Shaw sees a flash of approaching headlights. A pickup truck stops, and two men get out. One of them is her stepfather. She runs. They follow. Minutes later, gunshots ring out. Two men are dead, and one terrified girl is running-for the rest of her life.

After crossing paths with a banshee in Ireland, Samantha Moon and the gang continue their whirlwind European tour... Next stop: Loch Ness. Sam books a two-hour tour of the infamous Loch with her friends and family. And even makes a Gilligan's Island joke or two. However, fun and games end when Allison accidentally sends the boat back in time... Seventy million years back in time, when plesiosaurus ruled the Loch. However, these gentle giants don't quite rule the Loch; indeed, something bigger does. Something nasty, huge and hungry. It's going to take all of the gang's combined skills to not...

Orthia demands that Finn participate in Project Kronos. This gives Finn's team a chance to counterattack. Finn's time is slowed instead of running back when they tamper with Project Kronos. Meanwhile, Project Kronos malfunctions and threatens to destroy New York. This is Book 5 of "Orthia" - the second series of the "Orthia Labs" saga. Book 1- Quantum Paradox Book 2- Critical Mass Book 3- Gone Rogue Book4- Singularity The first series - "Project Orthia"

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happened to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

Nothing that is secret can remain secret forever. But is it possible that some crimes are better left undiscovered? Join Holmes and Watson as they travel from London to storm-wracked Bedfordshire, where the great detective finds himself uncovering the grisly truth concerning a half-century old murder.

Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book Series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that became some of the greatest films of the silver screen. Among these are Robert Louis Stevenson's horrifying tale that was later turned into the iconic movie The Body Snatcher, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff; and "Cyclists' Raid", the short story that formed the basis for the legendary Brando film The Wild One.