Genres : 150-320 Pages

Everything a detective novel should be--gripping, clever, and filled with deep characters.Ninety-nine shovels of dirt on the grave, ninety-nine shovels of dirt…Brilliant but troubled Detective Kacy Lang and her partner, Dave Capello, aren’t the perfect detectives, but they are the perfect team. When the body of Kacy’s twin brother washes up from the icy depths of the Chicago River she’s positive she knows who did it. The same man who buried her alive two years earlier. A killer more ghost...

MMA champ-turned-FBI Special Agent and BAU specialist Dakota Steele is as tough as they come—and as brilliant, too, able to crack serial killers that no one else can. But this new case is unlike anything she’s seen, and Dakota, weighed down by the demons of her own past, may have just reached her breaking point.“The plot has many twists and turns, but it is the ending, which I did not see coming at all, that totally defines this book as...

With a career-ending injury, Olympic kickboxer Sheila Stone is forced back to her small hometown, where her older sister, the local sheriff, offers her a spot on the police force. Sheila, struggling to face past demons, must draw on her fighting skills when a deadly serial killer surfaces, pitting her against an opponent unlike she’s ever encountered….“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.”—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐SILENT GIRL (A Sheila Stone Suspense Thriller—Book 1) is Book #1...

“This is an excellent book… When you start reading, be sure you don’t have to wake up early!”—Reader review for The Killing Game⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Detective Meg Thorne, haunted by the years of cold cases she could not solve, retires early, in her 50s, feeling stifled by the limits of the law and determined to do whatever she has to to solve them on her own, stop these killers, and rescue any victims. Outside of the red tape, she will be free to...

Penrose and Pyke go together like fire and kerosene in this first-in-series Victorian era mystery.Trouble’s brewing in the Devil’s Half Acre. A death in an alleyway, a tragic accident in a factory, rumours of a murderer loose on the streets. It’s enough to give a genteel lady a fit of the vapours. Fortunately, Grace Penrose isn’t one to swoon at the sight of blood. All she wants is the chance to become the first female doctor in the colony. Instead,...

All she wants is the truth. Someone else just wants revenge. Daphne Sullivan wants the truth about the mother she never knew and the visions she was told were dangerous—visions that make her suspect her mother was murdered. After her father’s death, Daphne moves to her mother’s old cottage determined to find the answers he never gave her.In beautiful Rosemary Mountain, she finds the love and community she’s always wanted. Her elderly neighbor, Fiona, a feisty herbalist who knew her...

After fifteen years in solitary confinement, Victor Thomas Janko—the notorious Baby Carriage Killer—is eligible for parole. Determining his release is Dr. David Rothberg, the new prison psychiatrist. Struggling with demons of his own, David slips into the psychological quicksand of this disturbed inmate, his manipulative girlfriend, and a brutal guard.As he fights to atone for a mistake made earlier in his career, his passion for justice turns him from psychiatrist to detective.But the question remains—is he as smart as he...

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE IN DOWNEAST MAINEEach book in the Paradox Murder Series is a "Stand-Alone" story.Steve Wilson, a recently retired senior auditor at one of our nation’s largest banks travels to Downeast Maine to unwind, enjoy the coastal scenery and write a murder mystery novel. Little did he know his curiosity about a deserted lobster boat, a dead lobsterman and three missing photos would put his own life in danger.

Tea, tarot, and trouble.Abigail’s dream of owning a tearoom in her California beach town is about to come true. She’s got the lease, the start-up funds, and the scone recipes. But she’s out of a tearoom and into hot water when her realtor turns out to be a conman… and then turns up dead.Not even death puts an end to the conman’s mischief. He rented the same space to a tarot reader, Hyperion. Convinced his tarot room is in the...

A brutal murder. A missing athlete. A detective with everything to prove…Working his first homicide case since relocating from the United Kingdom, Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon must prove he’s got what it takes to perform in the heat of tropical Northern Australia.A mutilated body washes up on the edge of a mangrove forest with wounds in keeping with a frenzied crocodile attack, which, to begin with, seems a straightforward incident—death by misadventure.However, when Lisbon and his partner Detective Claudia Taylor...