Valentines Mystery

Ashton is an electrician. Julie waits tables. Both are broke and trapped in their dead-end jobs, rundown apartment, and bitterly cold hometown of Fridley, Minnesota. There’s nothing they could want more than to escape to someplace warm and sunny. So, when they find an ad in a magazine offering them one thousand dollars each and an all-expenses paid trip to a “tropical destination” for participating in a research study, they both jump at the opportunity.

Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count. What started as a conman's deathbed confession turns into a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during the world's biggest poker tournament.

A murdered food critic… a missing lion… and chocolate covered strawberries… all in a day’s work for detective chef Guy Vanduex! Valentine’s Day is a day away and Sylvia Parker is excited to receive a box of chocolates with a note from a secret admirer. The note tells her to go to the bar at the Red Lyon Inn with a red rose – her secret date will bring a white one. But when Parker discovers everyone at the bar has a red rose, she is supremely disappointed. Especially since many chefs and former cooks received the same note, even Guy Vanduex. Vanduex and Parker were partners in ...

Five dishonored soldiers. Former Special Forces. One last mission. These are the men of Hard Ink. Ever since hard-bodied, drop-dead-charming Shane McCallan strolled into the dance club where Crystal Dean works, he's shown a knack for getting beneath her defenses. For her little sister's sake, Crystal can't get too close. Until her job and Shane's mission intersect, and he reveals talents that go deeper than she could have guessed. Shane would never turn his back on a friend in need, especially a former Special Forces teammate running a dangerous, off-the-books operation.

Hostages are being snatched all across Europe. They come from different countries and different backgrounds, but they all have two traits in common: They're Jewish, and they're rich. German intelligence is close to solving the mystery when an asset - a professor of Middle Eastern studies - is kidnapped in Brussels. Sterling McQueen is dispatched by the Strategic Support Branch (SSB) in the US to assist in the case. McQueen discovers he’s dealing with an unconventional kind of terrorist group. Their plan could totally realign the power structure of the world.

Maria Capello is a celebrity chef like no other. A household name, an inspiration, an icon. Her dozens of cookbooks and weekly television show, broadcast from her beautiful Italian-style kitchen, not to mention her line of bestselling supermarket sauces. And of course there's her history. Once just the timid wife of famous chef Damien Capello, she stepped into the spotlight after Damien's mysterious disappearance twenty years before. An event she's never spoken about publicly until now, when she decides it's time to publish her memoirs.

Comatose merman. Amorous vampire. Rabbit-conjuring doctor. Just another Valentine's Day for our favorite chaos witch. Frankie's idea of romance? Not watching her boyfriend Zane play Sleeping Beauty while a love-sick vampire tries to woo her with roses and bubbly. Talk about a thorny situation. With Zane down for the count and no magical cure in sight, Frankie's more likely to be caught dead than caught in a candlelit dinner. Unless it's to strangle the ever-persistent Dominik. Hey, a girl's gotta have hobbies. But Frankie's not just any damsel in distress. Armed with a hodgepodge of powers ...

A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremes - even cold-blooded murder - to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarco’s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter.

Amazing news is spreading like wildfire across the Scottish countryside: the most famous of all Highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, is planning to marry at last! Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Hamish's newest constable and blushing bride-to-be. While locals think she is quite a catch, Hamish has a severe case of pre-nuptial jitters... after all, if it wasn't for the recent murder of a beautiful woman in a neighbouring village there wouldn't be a wedding in the first place.

She thought it was just a house. But the bone-chilling mysteries lurking within the walls have plans for Claire…and they don’t include letting her leave alive. When Claire Montgomery inherits a historic mansion, she expects a quick reno and hefty profit. But disturbing events suggest a sinister spirit lurks within the walls. Seeking answers, Claire turns to rugged contractor Jed, who knows ghosts all too well. As eerie incidents escalate, they edge toward the dark truth while fighting their sizzling attraction. Can Claire crack the century-old mystery before she becomes the next target?...

Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City, and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a '92 Honda, Tony is low-profile, old-school, and has seen it all, until he meets the luckiest man on earth.

Ex-Cop Paxton “Tank” Sokolofski’s life is shattered—first by a bullet, then by a woman. Now he passes his days tracking down cheating spouses. Not his idea of a good time. When Cori Transue moves in next door, things get a little more interesting. She’s a sultry little firecracker, and the way she looks at him definitely gets his attention. However, he doesn’t need a woman added to the mix, especially one with even more baggage than he has.

Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost and appointments get moved without her knowledge. And when she finally does get pregnant, someone breaks into her house and steals the ultrasound photograph of her baby. But despite everything she's gone through, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.

Wer in der Vergangenheit gräbt, muss damit rechnen, auf einen Killer zu stoßen ... Das einsam an einem See in den Wäldern gelegene Camp Lost Lake wurde vor siebzehn Jahren zum Schauplatz einer schrecklichen Mordnacht, in der drei Menschen grausam starben. Seitdem traut sich niemand mehr, das ehemalige Ferienlager zu betreten. Doch bevor es abgerissen wird, fasst die junge Olivia sich ein Herz und sucht auf dem unheimlichen Gelände nach Hinweisen auf ihren leiblichen Vater. Dort trifft sie auf Reagan, deren Mutter bis heute im ganzen Land für die Camp Lost Lake Morde gesucht wird.

In the rugged isolation of Montana, city-boy turned rancher Vince is confronted by a chilling legacy: wrathful spirits of the unjustly killed disrupting his new life on Valentine Ranch. The cruel twist? He's the sole individual capable of perceiving these ethereal figures. Tasked with untangling his family's dark mysteries, Vince must guide these tormented souls to peace before they unleash their fury, obliterating everything he's come to cherish. In this high-stakes race against time, every secret unveiled could tip the balance between tranquility and destruction.

St. Mary's Marsh Campground, where the fun never stops... Except for that time in 1979, where the bullied young boy came back for revenge. Or when they tried to reopen the camp six years ago, and the murderer had returned. Oh, or the time after that, when the hikers went missing. Or the hunters that were mauled by what the authorities said was a bear. A bear that used a bladed weapon...For Ellie Cartwright and her friends, it's just a campfire story. But if the story turns out to be true...has a lifetime of watching horror been enough?

Almost everything about Valentine's Day is fancy... especially with Fancy Nancy! Mystery is in the air when Nancy receives a valentine from a secret someone. Join Nancy as she follows the clues to find out who it is—all in her trademark fabulous style, of course. Gorgeous stickers included!

Most people spend Valentine’s Day with roses and chocolates—I’ll be spending mine dodging bullets and slicing up billionaires. This year, I’ve got a date with a target who deserves Cupid’s deadliest arrow—a tech billionaire with a god complex and a list of sins long enough to make a priest blush. Taking him out should be simple enough, but of course, nothing ever is. Turns out, my latest target is tangled up in a web of lies, power plays, and one of my exes who’d love to see me six feet under. Toss in a midnight swim that could end in disaster, and you’ve got the makings of ...

Ex-cop Maxwell Fear knows all too well what can happen to a witness of a violent crime—which is why he has no choice but to protect her. Sloane Robertson is no longer the woman he met at a dinner party, or the woman he kissed at the front door. She’s a client, a job, nothing more than a person who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong damn time.

Una novela impactante, rápida, dentro del género de misterio y thriller, donde lo sobrenatural cobra un nuevo sentido para el lector, donde la fantasía en un entorno urbano real como Nueva York, en la actualidad, se hace creíble y apabullante.