Fiction - Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery

During his thirty year career, Lester Dent created several outstanding characters, starting with the immortal Doc Savage, but also including Black Mask's Oscar Sail, Genius Jones, and others. One of the most successful was the Gadget Man, who appeared exclusively in the pages of...

There is a quiet, deadly evil haunting the lush reservation surrounding the Godfrey family's estate and the town of Temple Falls, Vermont. An evil born of a curse that was never broken...until now.Author: Nathalie L'h GoldstonISBN-10: 8887032467ISBN-13: 9798887032467Publisher: Litprime SolutionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2023Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight:...

It's the event of the generation, the century, the millennium: the lowest of low tides laying bare the original streets of Tarry-by-the-Sea for the first time in living memory. Sea creatures splash for cover as the city's human residents descend for an epic, once-in-a-lifetime...

Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her artwork seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her...

What happens when you're pulled into an alternate version of your life?Cassidy Marchand is abandoned, on the run, and out of money. She's just gotten arrested for stealing, but that's the least of her worries. When she wakes up, everything seems normal-at first. She...

A New Beginning, Maybe? is a fast-moving crime drama and is the 3rd installment of the adventures of the crime-solving team of twin sisters, Captain Jane Sparks of the SFPD and Special Agent Fran Morris of the FBI. This book takes the sisters into...

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When...

The fate of India lies in the hands of a young street urchin and the alien living inside her head in this rollicking sci-fi adventure from the author The Lives of Tao Ella Patel--thief, con-artist and smuggler--is in the wrong place at the wrong...

Book 1 The Backrooms: No Way OutJoin a lone explorer as they navigate the inescapable maze known as the Backrooms - an infinite expanse of rooms and corridors. Their quest for freedom grows urgent as the dread of eternal entrapment becomes ever more palpable....

Who murdered a popular law professor on a northern Michigan college campus?Judge Rosaline Maxwell is living the good life. Retired from the circuit court bench, she now lives in the home of her dreams, lakefront in scenic Harbor Springs, Michigan. She's written a fascinating...

Tim Major delivers an intriguing murder mystery that pays homage to Asimov's seminal robot stories and also to the classic detective tale. Investigator Abbey Oma is dispatched to a remote and failing Martian colony tasked with solving the murder of scientist Jerem Ferrer. The...

2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Thriller & Suspense Long List for 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation--but the end doesn't come. In fact, it isn't an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops...

In this reality-bending thriller from the author of The Shining Girls, a grieving daughter's search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities.It was a game they played; the other worlds, the other lives. It was part of her mom's grand delusions. It...

Delve into the lawless underbelly of the vast city of Varangantua in this fantastic Warhammer Crime novel. Within the vast sprawl of Varangantua lies the Spoil. It is a broken crossroads, forsaken by the Lex, abandoned by the city's uncaring masters, where the only...

Khalifa's life couldn't get any worse. He's a 30-year-old detective drowning in debt, struggling to quit smoking, and still living with his parents in Dubai. But when he stumbles upon a string of global killings with a mysterious connection, he sees a chance to...

Khalifa's life couldn't get any worse. He's a 30-year-old detective drowning in debt, struggling to quit smoking, and still living with his parents in Dubai. But when he stumbles upon a string of global killings with a mysterious connection, he sees a chance to...

A New York Times Bestseller.A Washington Post Bestseller.A USA Today Bestseller. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in...

The Renegat Renegades finally learn their fate in New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades, the gripping new novel in her award-winning Diving series and an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award winner.As the surviving crew of the Renegat...

"A MAN AT THE END OF HIS ROPE MUST UNRAVEL A MYSTERY IN A FAR-FLUNG SECTOR OF THE GALAXY. THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY IS TIGHTLY WOVEN, AND JOHN ABBOTT IS BUT ONE MAN FIGHTING THE DARKNESS. John Abbott is all in. He's up to...

In this action-packed sci-fi thriller from the bestselling author of the Sol Saga, a man is on a mission to stop his family's killer no matter what-or when. Andrew Frost had been gone no more than fifteen minutes. It was just supposed to be...

West Haven has its secrets of legendary proportions.When Jack Taylor goes missing, a tight-knit group of high schoolers decide to take matters into their own hands. None of them believe the media stories after seeing the crime scene. Something super natural might be happening...

West Haven has its secrets of legendary proportions.When Jack Taylor goes missing, a tight-knit group of high schoolers decide to take matters into their own hands. None of them believe the media stories after seeing the crime scene. Something super natural might be happening...

Death Makes Great TV.Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie--a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big--agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she...

The Mediterranean Mystery There is bloodshed and hysteria when an unknown man of Mediterranean appearance is murdered on Brighton beach. His body is discovered under a towel by Winnie, who herself is later found battered and left for dead.Experienced DCI Harry Webb and new...

Spontaneous Human Teleportation, otherwise known as Unexplained Temporary Temporal Displacement is an event that very few have experienced and for those that have they are not oft believed. Stephon King is one of those seeking to meet those unfortunate souls who for unknown reasons...

It is 1962 and Will Johnstone is sent back to his twelve-year-old body. What's more, he is about to escape his abusive father ... by committing suicide. Will recoils from the act, resuming his troubled but jarringly changed life. Helped by unexpected allies, he...

Part-time constable Ella Manning never thought she'd have to investigate her ex-fiance 's murder. But that's exactly what happens when tech entrepreneur Lincoln Shan is found dead in his study the morning after a controversial product launch - with the door locked from the...

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one...

"Delicately weaves generations of women to the lasting wounds of nuclear destruction and the hubris of war. A unique and unforgettable novel." --Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of LightA literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history...

The Renegat Renegades finally learn their fate in New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades, the gripping new novel in her award-winning Diving series and an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award winner.As the surviving crew of the Renegat...

The main character is a hateful, dirty, and disgusting individual, which makes your stomach upset as you read it. This story is based on some true events at Manhattan's center in the early 2000s. After making successful investments, a middle-class hard-working immigrant family was...

Cowboys, magic, and murder. Roger Anderson is a member of the most notorious gang in the West. As he's growing increasingly tiresome and conflicted with his life as an outlaw, he's confronted with the death of his sister. Likely killed by another member of...

Thaddeus Andrew Cain grew up in a cold, narcissistic household with a twisted view of life. He learned manipulation and murder at the hands of his father and sexual perversion under the tutelage of his mother. He was brilliant. So ingenious, he was able...

As humanity's bloodiest conflict ends, those left behind struggle to carve a path free of its shadow, but old hates die hard. Under the weight of this new future, a former soldier and a young psionic girl fight to scrounge up enough credits to...

Gregory D. Davis, best-selling author of Blood Related Tomorrow Never Came, presents us with Blood Related True Crime. Blood Related True Crime is a fictionalized true-crime story about a bizarre case in Arkansas where the directors of a failing funeral parlor hired a killer...

They call it The Cascade.Ajay Andersen has heard rumors. The darkest corners of the network have mentioned something so dangerous it could threaten his granddaughter's life. He doesn't know what it is, and he doesn't know how to fix it.But he knows he's going...

A farm girl out in the big city. The drug dealing black sheep of the family. And a hippie chick guiding them on a mushroom trip. What could go wrong?(A Psychedelic Sci-Fi Short Story) Bella Erdmann's time had come. She was made to leave...

Laura and her family love the little cottage in the village from the day they move in and it seems the perfect place for a happy family to grow up. When the lights appear across the field the children have no idea what they...

In 2045, following the collapse of the Federal Government, the United States has fragmented into an uneasy alliance of sovereign city states, living side by side in nervous apprehension. As crime runs rampant in New Philadelphia, drastic measures are considered to ensure the survival...

Fourth Volume in the acclaimed mystery series!For years Connor Whiteley has written plenty of compelling, suspenseful, best-selling mystery short stories spanning multiple subgenres and selling to top magazines like Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. For the first time ever, Connor Whiteley collects 100 mystery short stories...

Allison's problems were just beginning. After an argument with her father, she goes looking for Mr. Molly, her cat. Instead of finding him, she finds a dead body in the pump house. She runs to get her father and when they return, the pump...

Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor...

Park Ranger Pete Chavez is murdered in an ancient ruin at Chaco Canyon as he makes his nighttime security check. Santa Fe Police Detective Fernando Lopez is sent to investigate and soon realizes there may be a connection between the Chavez murder and the...

Some people deserve to die. Marci Kov當s chooses who. Budapest, AD2132. In a city this big, opportunities for promotion are rare unless you're willing to do anything, and Kov當s is. As an Adjudicant, he oversees state computer MARTHA's Employee liquidation program. The winners get...

STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WITH A HARD-BOILED NOIR TWIST BY BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LARRY CORREIA, LAURELL K. HAMILTON, AND MORE! "Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights." --Raymond Chandler In a world of criminals, thugs, con artists,...

Fifty years ago, a new civil war fractured the United States into a mosaic of polarized nations. Ever since, Harmony "Bibi" Cain has isolated himself: from society, from technology, from family. A powerful empath weary from the constant intrusion of others' emotions, he's finally...

Rosella Tolfree is an exemplary agent of the USRM (United States Ranger Marshals), serving as Special Agent in Washington DC. Rosella is highly intelligent in her observations, making her an asset to the USRM-ISB. One that caught the eye of the Field Marshal. Rosella...

Thaddeus Andrew Cain grew up in a cold, narcissistic household with a twisted view of life. He learned manipulation and murder at the hands of his father and sexual perversion under the tutelage of his mother. He was brilliant. So ingenious, he was able...

After Jack's death, the young Legends of West Haven are forced to face the changing landscapes of their lives.A mysterious stranger called Ashby is selling promises of self empowerment to the town's misguided youth via a mysterious drug which seems to be doing more...

There is a devastating loss of lives on Earth. So many were Gaia speakers the loss was felt by those on Adelphi. The council requested several from that world travel to Earth and convince a young woman Bizaan Ayaa Wolf, to take her position...