Fiction - Crime

In the course of a single week, everything Sam Reeves believed in, everything he knew, everyone he trusted, all would be put on the line. For a family he never knew he had. Detective Sam Reeves, a 34-year-old martial arts instructor, has a solid...

An erotically intimate glance into the lives of five kindred spirits forever linked through love and devotion as they travel through a maze of deceit and mischief from the upper echelon to the underbelly of Atlanta. From the sandbox to the grave. That's the...

The Cold Poker Gang consists of a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives getting together once a week to play cards and work to solve cold cases.Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers stand at an unmarked grave in the desert, about ready...

The retired Las Vegas detectives in the Cold Poker Gang work hard to solve cold cases. Sometimes, those cases bring back personal nightmares.Deciding to tackle one of the coldest cold cases in the files, retired detectives Lott, Rogers, and Andor uncover far more than...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns with a new novel in his popular series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.When retired detective Bayard Lott offers to help retired detective Julia Rogers search for...

Would you like a gift? Five little words ... They should have meant nothing, just a proposition made by a man Luna Santiago didn't know for reasons she didn't understand.Five little words was all it had taken to open her eyes and see the...

A tortured and extraordinarily gifted veteran (Black Cloud) reluctantly teams up with an Agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (John Hernadez) to solve a string of kidnappings of Native American women. After having to deal with the tragic results of his actions and...

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED College is everything but normal for Sakura and Jenna. Both women attend the same university. They form a bond that leads to a close partnership. They find themselves involved in outrageous incidences and immersed in a city of mysterious crimes. Sakura's...

THE SIXTH KITT HARTLEY MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF BETTY ROWLAND AND FAITH MARTIN'A 2020 Miss Marple' Woman's Way************ Private investigator Kitt Hartley and her twin sister Rebecca are preparing for a holiday in Scotland when cruise ship entertainer Errol Jackson appears at the...

Who knows your darkest secret? After every parents' evening, friends Nina, Bel and Rachel look forward to their regular debrief at the pub. But there will be no clinking Prosecco tonight. They are discussing an anonymous note that has been left in a child's...

'Stunning' - Sunday Times Claire Askew won the Scottish Debut Crime Award with her debut All the Hidden Truths, praised as 'A meticulous and compelling novel' by Ian Rankin. 'What if I told you, ' he said, 'that I believe my mother's life to...

This book is about Rubin who owns his own company and is going to Russia to promote it and do more business. He is being watched while he is in Russia. Now, he is kidnapped and made to work illegally for the KGB on...

First published in 1890, "A Matter of Millions" is a detective novel written by American novelist Anna Katharine Green. The story revolves around a dying man who, having no living relatives, leaves his fortune to someone who resembles the woman whom he loved. The...

SET IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC, DYSTOPIAN NEAR FUTURE, Jack Lanigan is a traumatized Former CIA agent working as a security guard in Polaris - a powerful security agency that acts as its own nation-state within the city of Chicago. When Jack accidentally mistakes the president...

An irresistible wine country crime caper.Beckett Jensen has lived honorably for the last fifteen years, but the mistakes of his youth are about to overturn his idyllic life as the owner of a successful winery in Paso Robles. Unruly former acquaintances arrive under the...

This is the story of Will Rawlins, a gifted physician and scientist derailed by his passion for an enigmatic young woman who wields her sensuality as a weapon. Damaged and directionless, he drifts southward into Mexico, where he is forced to flee prosecution for...

Author: Brent AbrahamISBN-10: 1524569925ISBN-13: 9781524569921Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/17/2017Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d

D. B. Cooper Is Dead: A Solomon Starr Adventure follows the adventures of Solomon Starr, Private Investigator, as he tries to protect a young movie star and solve the murder of her sister. In the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Robert Parker, Sol Starr...

I was Dead. When the medical examiner cut away the clothes that covered my lifeless corpse to perform the routine autopsy, he saw the warning that I had etched into the cold dead flesh that was once the skin that covered my flat stomach:...

Disgraced undercover agent Bromo Perkins becomes a reluctant sleuth when he tries to unmask the people threatening to release revealing pictures of his past life. An alluring blonde who interrupts his coffee break brings death and mayhem in her wake and he is soon...

Beneath the pink wafers lurks death...Pippa Parker never wanted to move to the chocolate-box village of Much Gadding in the first place. When she meets the locals, she's absolutely sure. There's just one problem; she's eight months pregnant.The village is turned upside down when...

In Cry Me A River, T.R. Pearson writes of murder and its consequences in a small southern town. By book's end we of course know who done it and why, but the greatest pleasure lies in Pearson's own investigations into carnal relations, sexual jealousy,...

"King of a Small World" is widely considered one of the best poker-themed novels ever published. This is its sequel. "Pinocchio" Joe Moore finds himself caught up in the consequences of other people's mistaken sense of "the truth." A home game is robbed; Baltimore's...

Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as ''young adventurers''. Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find documents that, if they were known to the general...

In The House of the Arrow we once again meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Hanaud is called in to investigate when the wealthy...

When career criminal Jack Dempster gets caught and put away for five years in prison, he finds time to seriously reconsider his chosen line of work. Before he can make any serious decision, some old acquaintances track him down with a proposal. They want...

Originally banned in the UK, this is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those who knew and loved...

It happened in Hotel Duarte, a bullet length from the Great White Way, where life begins at eight-forty-and often ends by midnight with a couple of murders. For instance, the murder of a dumb welterweight who took his dive-and got paid off in lead....

HELP ME FOR GODS SAKE Later the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer. Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.Author: Charles EinsteinISBN-10: 1515425479ISBN-13: 9781515425472Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 268Format: HardcoverWeight:...

THE KINGDOM OF KILLAIN- -that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the cross 'roads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make-all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf-a flick of his...

A collection of six classic tales featuring hard-boiled ex-cop Donny Donahue, who now works for the Interstate Detective Agency. These stories ran in Black Mask magazine between 1931 and 1932. This collection was originally published in 1950.Author: Frederick NebelISBN-10: 1515425134ISBN-13: 9781515425137Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage:...

The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence-Man was seen...

The Dead Secret (1856) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written in the aftermath of Antonina (1850), his successful debut, The Dead Secret finds the author honing the trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease that would make him a household name around the...

"An Inconvenience in a Convenience Store" A story I thought of as I was waiting out side of a convenience store for a friend pay for the gas I had just pumped. It's a short story following the awkward adventures of a character named...

It's been two decades since Charlotte set foot in Montgomery, Alabama. But when a family tragedy sends her back to her childhood home, it's almost like she never left at all. While reconnecting with her old friend Mary Kate, she quickly finds her place...

The stakes are high as Private Detective Frank Rozzani races against time to save the love of his life. Will Frank rescue her from the terrible man in the trench coat or will this man end the life of yet another person that Frank...

A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn't commit--or did he? Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting headache to find two cops in his room, who...

In the early 1970's Detective Marc Anthony Bryant is responsible for the investigation of all deaths in his suburban Dallas department. The discovery of two Dallas men, tied up and shot gangland-style in his town puts him on the trail of a veteran organized...

CHARLIE CHAN BOOK 1: Romance, love, beauty mingle with the sound of the breakers on the beach of Waikiki. It is no place for murder. Yet in a spot of exquisite beauty Dan Winterslip, the genial old reprobate, is stabbed to death. And Honolulu...

"It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are."―Anne Beddingfeld, The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie (1924)The Man in the Brown...

Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 - 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of detective fiction.Fletcher...

Long time grifters Sam and Rachel love two things: each other and the grift. On the run from the mob, the two lovers move from one con to the next, winning some and losing others, but always finding a way to survive. Episodes 16-18...

Sophie DeMusa had plans. Finish college. Go to med school. Save the world. She never planned to be in a hospital bed, in a coma after ingesting too many pills. The homicide detective standing over her didn't plan to be there either. After all,...

There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available with the...

Deserted soldiers struggle to accept the violence that surrounds them. A boy wrestles with guilt over the death of his brother. And a man's morality is challenged in the hope of saving his daughter's life. The men and women found in the stories of...

Through the process of an unusual murder investigation, the rural Tennessee Homicide detective, Ron McCarthy, confronted not only many colorful characters, who seemed to have reason to commit the crime, but also learned the effects of fast-changing times, resulting in generation clash and personal...

FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES CODY'S WAR BIG TROUBLE IN CHINA Cody's mission: locate and extract a defecting physicist, Dr. Kwan, creator of the ghastly mega-weapon, Dragonfire. But the mission goes south almost immediately when a US...

THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES TAKES YOU TO CAMP DAVID Camp David ranks with the White House and Air Force One as the most secure military site in America. Located in the rugged hills of Maryland 6o miles northwest...

Three women are found smothered to death in front of their televisions in a curious manner: each was found staring blindly at the screen while Claire Hunt, the host of "Home Mall, encouraged them to pick up the phone for the deal of the...