Urban Crime Fiction

The Magic is Changing. The Land is Turning. And in the Shadows, Something Stirs. The Hollow is quiet—but only for now. Weeks after blood was spilled and secrets laid bare, the Reilly family tries to mend what’s left. Sean wrestles with his new form and the weight of his legacy. Erin sees enemies where there is silence. And Donovan—once the mountain’s fiercest protector—knows all too well that stillness in the hills never lasts. As moonshine operations spread like wildfire and tempers simmer, an old alliance between coal barons and the New York mob begins to sour. But a darker deal...

As summer winds down in Chicago's Levee District, the crime rate continues to soar. With the murder of an entire prominent family, in what appears to be a robbery, Patrick Moses must look for a killer who had left very few clues. With the prosecution of the Old Lady Murders still looming, Moses finds his time is limited and his nerves are frayed. On top of that, someone has started brutally murdering Chicago's street cops.

Finding a dead body isn’t terribly unusual for Hailey Arquette. She’s a psychic private investigator. All bets are off when she discovers her partner’s classmate stuffed in a hollow tree, burned beyond recognition. When a second student disappears, Hailey and her partner follow the trail of a ruthless criminal mastermind intent on capturing seven other students from the Gifted Elite School. Things are never as they appear in this twisted tale of murder, mystery, betrayal, and romance. Spirits, psychics, and shifters join forces to protect psychic students from the clutches of the ...

TREASURE falls for PAIN, a street nigga who lives by the motto "Get rich or die hustling". Pain is nothing like any of the bad boys she's dated before. He's a gentlemanly thug that knows how to treat a lady, between the sheets and in the streets. This relationship is like a dream come true for Treasure. That's until one night of infidelity turns the couple's world upside down and sends it spiraling out of control. Will Treasure forgive Pain for his cheating? Or will his one-night stand bring their relationship to an end?

Detective James Wolf earned the nickname Lone Wolf from his inability to work with a partner. He's a hard cop who doesn't mind bending the rules to the breaking point to make a case, which is why Internal Affairs is digging in his backyard, looking for buried bones. People are starting to wonder which side of the law the Lone Wolf really hunts for. With his career hanging by a thread, he needs a major show of good faith to stay employed and out of prison. That's when he gets the call....

"The gritty, first-person narrative drives the reader back into their seats and is compelled to read more about Patrick Moses and his partner, Krause." –A Reader's Heaven After a shocking kidnapping case in New York City, Patrick Moses is summoned back to Chicago to help on an equally disturbing matter. Someone is murdering older women, using their own bed sheets to tie and bind them while suffocating them with their pillow stuffings. Other than similarities in the cases, there are no hard clues. What Patrick does find is that his old nemesis Christian Hanson is back in Chicago, operating...

After the fallout between Bird and Tre, The Commission looks as if it might be falling apart. The brotherhood has been broken beyond repair and it seems as though everyone is scrambling to chose sides. It's hard to trust anyone, but like always life goes on and so does business........ The heat is on for Tre and his team after the Tasker Street massacre. Everyone is looking for a place to hide out at except for Tre. He doesn't change up his lifestyle one bit even though he knows he's a wanted man. He and Diana continue to have their every night get high parties at their beach house. That is...

The story follows Karma, an ambitious yet troubled woman working as a stripper in Atlanta. Despite her beauty and confidence, she struggles with low self-esteem, trust issues, and a cocaine addiction. She navigates complicated relationships, particularly with Smoke, a married man who financially supports her but fails to provide emotional fulfillment. Seeking stability, Karma crosses paths with Onan, a powerful and wealthy drug dealer. Despite his reputation and dominance in the streets, he shows interest in her and offers her a different kind of relationship—one based on honesty and ...

Some people will do anything for family … even kill. After a frantic missing persons case goes wrong, private investigator Thomas Blume is facing a wrecked car and a disastrous winter when a mysterious invitation arrives, promising a big payday with only one catch … he must solve the case of a murdered billionaire. But when Blume realizes something far more valuable than money has been taken from the victim, he finds himself battling across country mansions, dark alleyways, and through layers of intrigue, family feuds, and corporate conspiracy, to enter a dangerous world of ...

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May.

What is truth when nothing is real Hidden away in the Gulf of Mexico lies an island with a dark past. Once a haven for bootleggers and outlaws, Oyster Island now hosts the renovated Majestic Hotel & Casino. It’s not only the living that calls this place home. Ghosts, ghouls, and creatures of the night roam freely, haunting the island’s residents and visitors. One fateful night, a magical flying unicorn visits Odette Mouton and takes her on a wild ride to the island’s backside, where she discovers a time portal. Guided by a time-walking calico cat, she embarks on a journey that blurs ...

Keisha didn’t have a, chance growing up in the hood with a, carefree mother. She’s the youngest of her two older sisters in to street life. They are her role models, and her father has his own business and family besides her. She’s taught by her hood, money hungry mother to go for the guy with the most which for Keisha is a, drug dealer named Glen BKA G. He starts relentlessly pursuing her. Keisha is a, square in to school, poetry, reading and watching wrestling on Wednesday nights, so. She’s scared of him on all levels. However, she couldn’t deny their chemistry it was undeniable...

Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch.

Down on your luck doesn't always mean down and out When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires P.I. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women - or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.

This is the third and final novel of The Plain Field trilogy. Uncle Jimmy is severely injured and on the run. He has kidnapped several Djinn babies. For what purpose? Angela is desperately trying to return her life to normal. Charlie is gone, but revenge runs hot in his son’s blood. Connor will do anything to retrieve his Djinn babies and avenge his father’s death. The ShadowTwins, Dakota/Takoda are growing stronger, making friends at The Collective and showing signs of individual personalities. The Council is trying to recover from some severe blows to its organization. Dr B. Thomas ...

The story is about Jarrett who loves cruising around in his car to meet, greet, and often pick up men who he finds to be attractive, interesting, and adventurous. When Raul, who is a handsome street thug, hears that Jarrett pays men for their company, he approaches him on the street. They quickly get to know one another, and Jarrett's life becomes more quite adventurous. Disturbingly, however, Jarrett eventually learns things about Raul that he shouldn’t know. More than that, he discovers information about Raul that he doesn’t want to know. Jarrett becomes extremely confused and ...

I'm employed by Lucas Esposito Jr., the infamous mafia boss of the Esposito Crime Family. His girlfriend Lexis disappeared while I was on duty. During my search, I've taken up residence in a three-star hotel on Chicago's North Side. While I should keep my focus on my task at hand, this vixen somehow managed to slip her way into my life. Will our connection prove to be a fleeting flame or an unbreakable bond?

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Back in 1989, a young thug named Bad Boy steals five million dollars from Kiko Dunbar, one of the most feared kingpins in California. He buries the money in his mother's backyard under the lemon tree. With the ruthless kingpin hot on his heels, Bad Boy is forced to kill the bloodthirsty Kiko Dunbar and ends up paying the ultimate price as a result; a life sentence in prison. Nearly two and a half decades later, Bad Boy makes the fatal mistake of revealing his secret to his cellie, a young street savage named Wicked, who gets out of prison hellbent on finding out if there is any truth to the...

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch.