Fiction - Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery

Jaf Daskal's got it made at last.Officially an unofficial spy, Jaf's natural sneakiness and flexible ethics should make success a snap in the world of shadows! Even better, the small-time crime boss from his old hometown may hand over his empire to Jaf -...

Troubled by a reality he can't fully comprehend and a life he no longer believes he can return to, Jens is forced to pick sides. Does he choose to support his friends in a crusade he's unsure he's ever supported? Or does he join...

How to murder someone on a space station and get away with itHoyle Station is a murder mystery with a cast of thousands, some of them human.And there are many questions. How has a member of Earth's Historical Guild so completely vanished? Are the...

A hidden fortune. A forgotten past. A discovery that turns one woman into a target.Set in 1992, the story opens in Boston, where Alison Palmer, a 28-year-old Executive Assistant to the Mayor, ends her week with a simple Friday-night drink with her girlfriends. But...

A decades-old death. A hidden crime. A machine that refuses to look away.In a near future shaped by real forensic science and emerging artificial intelligence, ORION-9 reopens a case ruled a natural death nearly forty years earlier. A microscopic anomaly reveals what no human...

She was found on the shore of Lake Geneva.Alive. Unharmed. Missing two years of her life. When neuroscientist Eline Dahl is discovered on a Swiss lakeshore with no memory of the past twenty-six months, the doctors are baffled. Her brain shows no injury. Her...

A master of short fiction, Sean Monaghan's sci-fi stories enthrall and challenge and even toss readers the occasional laugh.In this remarkable collection, resourceful, human characters find their limits tested and their patience running thin.Seven stunning tales of moments gone wrong and worlds aflame. A...

A secluded town.A government secret.Once you enter, you can never leave.What family secrets lie in this forbidden town? A young mother will do whatever it takes to save her children.An inheritance leads Eva to a small secluded town in the mountains for a fresh...

When Maya Chen arrives at Blackmoor Vale to investigate a sudden death, she expects a puzzle. What she uncovers is something far more dangerous. Buried beneath the estate lies a hidden system-one designed to map, manipulate, and exploit the deepest human vulnerability: grief. Working...

In a small Southern town in the 1990s, a young couple struggles under the weight of mounting debt while raising their baby girl. Desperate to provide for his family, the father takes a better-paying job out of state as a prison guard-leaving his wife...

Lauren fights for justice. And survival. Lauren Kutyna works as a private investigator in the solar system's darkest corners. Corrupt politicians rule the colonies. Greedy megacorporations hide lethal secrets. Lauren hunts the truth.She once served as a highly trained security officer for the Astra...

Thermonte Electrik was only a boy when his father was murdered by the most feared crime family on Chotis. The killers walked free, and Thermonte never forgot.Years later, he has risen from poverty to power, building a criminal empire across the stars while hiding...

In 1704, in a remote Welsh mining village, Ewan descends into the bowels of the earth... and uncovers something that should have remained buried forever.Deep within the mine, the Stone of Vortigern whispers to him, offering the one thing he cannot live without. But...

Some cages shine, but pretty doesn't mean safe.When Lauren Kutyna runs into Yadira Tanaka-once her zero-g partner, now a polished wife with a bruise on her cheek-her instincts flare. A quick hack into a private hospital server reveals a disturbing pattern of "accidents," pointing...

On Hillwire Street, nobody is innocent.When a young woman is attacked in a back alley, a mystery man steps out of the shadows and leaves her attacker fighting for his life. Overnight, the gas station on the corner becomes the center of a media...

"Breaking Stupid" is a sidesplitting compendium of interconnected comedic tales that revolve around the uproarious escapades of the Tramp family. As they relentlessly chase riches through increasingly absurd schemes, their journey takes them from cryptocurrency conundrums to reality show ruses, and even a peculiar...

Chicago runs on power, loyalty, and blood.Dominic Mancini was raised to rule the city's most powerful crime family. Control is his weapon, strategy his shield, and weakness is something he cannot afford.Seraphina Valenti was born into a rival empire built on secrets and quiet...

In the quiet hours of the night, The Midnight Signal is more than just a late-night radio show-it's a lifeline for the sleepless, the lost, and the seekers of the strange. Host Jack Monroe has spent years guiding his listeners through eerie tales, conspiracy...

One tenacious cop. One amazing artist.There's a big operation underway and DS Karen Thorpe is feeling left out.Then she meets Emma, with the talent of memorising faces, and Karen's reenergised with her potential crime-solving contribution.But she's not the only one.A body turns up. Karen's...

The 4th thrilling volume of the Lazarus Men Agenda begins.Stranded and near death, fallen Lazarus Man Carter Gaetis finds himself trapped on a primitive planet where the population is being strangled by two opposing gangs. Carter is forced to take sides, knowing time is...

The Lazarus Men make their triumphant return with Daedalus Unbound!Carter Gaetis is a wanted man. After betraying the man responsible for giving him a new lease on life, He heads to the frontier planet of Inverness, hoping to lay low enough for the heat...

The mission was simple: save those who had already given up. But in a world of time travel and alien alliances, the cost of survival is higher than anyone imagined.In the gripping sequel to Suicide Con, the relocation of humanity to the sister planets...

Deep in the swamps of southern Louisiana, a broken and reclusive man named Jack LeBlanc is desperate for a second chance. When he enrolls in a cutting-edge clinical trial for Obsidian, a revolutionary tissue-regeneration drug promising to heal permanent scars, it seems like a...

Ancient Egypt. 1400 BCE. A murder that will shake the foundations of power.Meretseger, priestess of Sekhmet and trained physician, has always walked a difficult path. In a world where women are forbidden from practicing medicine, she secretly continues her late father's work-healing the sick...

Twelve chefs. One killer contest. Who will make it out of the kitchen alive? After the murder mansion, Jack realizes there's more than his life on the line. The invaders inside the tower are seizing level after level as the corruption virus spreads to...

Some retirements just don't stick... Miles Kim thought returning to a normal life in Seraph would be easy. He was wrong. When the city's precious metals exchange becomes the target for a daring heist, Miles is the only one who can connect the dots....

Dangerous vigilante Jax Marlin and the copper pursuing her, Special Inspector Pedroni, are both dead. Jax paid the ultimate price for her crimes, while Pedroni succumbed to unfortunate events while in pursuit. At least, that's what everyone in the known galaxy believes. By playing...

No escape. No memories. And there's a killer on the loose. When Jack and nine other contestants wake up outside a mansion with no recollection of how they got there, the game begins. Solve a murder. And only one winner gets to leave. It's...

A shipwreck on an isolated island. No food. No comforts. And only one player wins. Jack's back, and in the thrilling conclusion to the End-User Jack series, his nemesis Mr. Smiley has thrown him into the deadliest contest yet. He's up against a new...

London in the early 1980s. A city of bookmakers, booming markets, hard men and harder consequences. For brothers Joss and Wayne Archer, the betting rings of White City and Walthamstow are their empire. Their bravado is legendary, their pitch the most vibrant in the...

In a town that shouldn't exist, faith doesn't save you...it feeds.Slaughterhouse Cross is a literary horror novel about belief, control, memory, and the violence we disguise as devotion.Hidden somewhere between forgotten highways and broken radio signals, Slaughterhouse Cross was once a church, then a...

Xavion and I emerged from the same womb, yet our father's choices fractured what should have been unbreakable. While I inherited wealth and the promise of dominion, my twin was left with scraps. None of it signified until she arrived. Sha'ree became an obsession-a...

**What if heaven isn't a reward-but a system?**And what if the people who disappear and end up there were never meant to be found?When thousands of people begin vanishing without a trace, a powerful organization known as The Throne knows the truth: the missing...

A dictator rises. A covert team is sent to bring him down.When Ganbold Khulan seizes control of Mongolia through fear and violence, the world finally responds: a UN warrant for crimes against humanity. Now the mission falls to Delta Nine - an elite special...

HOLLOW VEINThe world didn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ended with a song.When the Spires first breached the Earth's crust, they were hailed as a miracle-towers of obsidian and light that promised to solve every human crisis. They offered a world...

Some killers follow impulse.Others follow ritual.This one follows math.When a series of murders begins unfolding across Texas, each death meticulously timed and placed according to a hidden numerical pattern, law enforcement is left chasing shadows. The victims appear unrelated. The crime scenes offer no...

A high-tech Forensic Crime Thriller by Dr. Sohil Makwana. Get two gripping books in one convenient paperback-no bulky box set! Enjoy a seamless reading experience with both titles bound together in a single, beautifully designed volume. MURDRUM 1: A horrifying decapitated head.A CBI intern...

Witness the Ultimate Battle of Dharma and Adharma Across MillenniaFrom the sacred banks of the Yamuna to the towering peaks of the Himalayas, from the age of Mahabharata to the bustling present-day Shivgarh, an ancient secret threatens to unravel the very fabric of existence.When...

Two thousand years from now, the Milky Way Council charters V.A.S.T.-the Vessel & Archive Salvage Taskforce to do what no one else will: map the unknown and recover what history lost. They don't keep what they find-every black box, data core, and relic transfers...

London in the early 1980s. A city of bookmakers, booming markets, hard men and harder consequences. For brothers Joss and Wayne Archer, the betting rings of White City and Walthamstow are their empire. Their bravado is legendary, their pitch the most vibrant in the...

When a Silicon Valley programmer dies by suicide after confessing his love for an AI companion, psychologist Liam Cole and journalist Sophia Chen are drawn into a deadly game.An anonymous organization known as the "Urban Conscience" sends them seven logic puzzles-each tied to a...

You didn't buy this book. You picked up a Node.Inside are pocket universes, quick tales that open like doors. Each one drops you into a different room with different lighting, different stakes, different rules. A wet New Orleans street where paperwork has teeth. A...

Ink-Bound CovenantWhen visionary artist Eli Navarro mixes his own blood with ink, he unleashes a seductive, memetic force known as the Siren-a song that can turn imagination into a contagious virus. As the Siren's crimson threads begin to corrupt the city's art, technology, and...

When fantasy collides with reality, what happens next?What's Got Into Geronimo? is an excellently crafted Scottish crime thriller in the film noir mould and laced with sharp dialogue, sardonic wit and colourful and quirky characters. Chaos is never far away.Charlie Brock is a world-weary...

One by one, the gods are vanishing from existence, their temples crumbling overnight. When you investigate, you find a single mortal responsible-someone who has discovered the secret to unmaking deities. But why are they doing it, and what happens when the last god falls?Author:...

October 14, 1925.Forty feet below the waterline of a rising lake, Arthur Thorne is digging a grave-not for a man, but for a secret.Driven by the desperation of a crumbling family legacy, Arthur has returned from the Congolese interior with a biological impossibility: "The...

When the ancient diary in Hartley Manor began to write its own future, the quiet coastal estate was thrust into a battle against a force that feeds on fear-​the Shadow. Evelyn Hart, a seasoned author haunted by loss, discovers that the diary's crimson ink is...

When a devastating back injury ends his oilfield career, Loyd finds himself with a fortune from an insurance settlement... and no idea what to do next. Drawn to the mystique of New Orleans, he settles in the heart of the French Quarter, a place...

When justice has teeth, someone always bleeds.Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Josephine Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland-and discovers something that shouldn't exist. Something massive. Something waiting.The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts.In...

Life was never meant to be owned.In a near future shaped by climate collapse, humanity's biological legacy-seeds, embryos, genomes, even extinct species-has been sealed inside cryogenic vaults across the planet. Built to preserve life beyond disaster, these vaults were designed to remain neutral. Untouchable....