eBook Listing For Genre "Crime and Mystery"

People are predictable. That’s what makes them easy to kill.

Detective Chief Inspector Prosper Snow is in charge of an investigation into a serial killer called The Oracle who turns his victims into macabre works of art. But Prosper harbours a dark secret of his own. He and his old school friends were members of a group called The Kult who made a pact to dish out their own form of vengeance on bullies. Now a member of the group puts their friendship to the test when he makes a far darker request: that they murder someone that raped his wife.

To get away with murder, the friends decide to blame it on The Oracle, but events take a chilling turn when the instigator turns up dead, his body fashioned into a disturbing work of art. Now, one by one, the members of The Kult are being hunted down.

Just when Prosper thinks things can’t get any worse, his wife is kidnapped and he knows that if he goes to his colleagues for help, he risks his dark deeds being unearthed. If he doesn't, he risks losing all that he holds dear.

John Oxman, a down and out, ex merchant seaman who works as a night clerk in a seedy, downtown Seattle hotel, comes to the rescue of a beautiful, wealthy woman who has violated and on the run. Little does he know that she has been implanted against her will with bioengineered, nanotechnology and a lot of powerful people are after her. Relying upon just a few friends and his brawling, maritime instincts, he ventures into a web of corporate intrigue and deceit, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Set mostly in Thailand.

4th in The Preston Andrews Mysteries series! Press is angry, heart-broken, depressed, and--yes--he's downright pissed! He's lost his woman, his plans for the future, his ability to get along with anybody, even his dad.

Lt. Wallace is watching the Virginia Beach PD's homicide squad implode, as Press takes his anger out on everyone in site. Press is put on leave of absence and told not to return until he is released by the department shrink.

Well--that went over well!

Press packs for a trip; Jones packs his own bag to go along. The pair head off for Maine. They arrived just as the first victim is found! Why does a killer always get in his way?

A Poe-inspired cat cozy mystery novelette.

Librarian Penny Copper and her cat, C. Dupin, never expected to find bodies in the book returns. Dupin reluctantly assists Ms. Copper as she attempts to solve the mystery of the murders in the Reed Moore Library!

The Trouble With Change is a suspenseful crime story about a college student, Sondra Taylor, who dreams of being the first in her family to graduate from college. With little money in and a meager scholarship to school in the city, she sets out against the odds to do so. Between temp jobs and her dwindling saving, she is barely scraping by and Sondra can hardly afford to eat when she unknowingly meets a charismatic and generous streetwise pimp, Vick.

Clayton Albrecht has lost his best friend, mentor, and the only man he could trust. Having avenged that murder he must learn to deal with the friend's wife, who will be his new handler. He knows her well; he has slept with her and is aware of her deviousness.
The woman Clay loves is married to another man, but that hasn't stopped him from forcing a relationship with her and his son. Before he is finished he will destroy her.
Clay is recognized as one of the top assassins in the country; but to earn that reputation he has broken many of the principles he naively adopted. His long list of victims attest to his proficiency as well as the ruthless methods he employs. In his nightmares they draw him into a maelstrom and drive him near the brink of insanity.
More changes are coming that will impact all facets of his life in ways that will nearly destroy him. Come along and learn who Clayton Albrecht is.
All of the author’s proceeds from Reverse Metamorphosis will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project to assist our disabled military personnel and their families.

DANGEROUS TIMES is a contemporary noir crime-thriller with dark humor and the pull of the unpredictable. This book is not for the squeamish. It begins as a creepy slow burner that leads to sex, violence, murder, and betrayal.

Frank Moore's impish playfulness makes him an alluring antagonist — a criminal who has come up with an outrageous, malevolent plan. After a frustrating search he has finally found the key to its success. Frank has found his look-alike, a close-enough double: John Kirk. In San Pedro, auto mechanic John Kirk leads a troublesome life, common troubles that escalate to the dreadful when Frank Moore comes to town. John Kirk, hunted down and pegged for death without knowing why.

A Southern California self-storage unit filled with medieval instruments of torture…

A modern-day Torquemada hell-bent on updating the Spanish Inquisition…

An investigative reporter racing to connect the lurid dots…

Deadline has a whole new meaning.

Tyler West, suspended Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the San Diego Sun, is desperate for a scoop that will save his career. Defying a spiteful publisher and a vindictive homicide detective, he investigates the baffling deaths of several of San Diego's powerful, rich and famous. Police call the murders unrelated, but Ty uncovers a common link: torture devices last used during the Dark Ages, including the Iron Maiden, the Pear of Anguish, and the most sinister of all—the Scavenger's Daughter. Ty is plunged into a mysterious world of medieval torture scholars, antiquities collectors, museum curators, and sadomasochists. Aided by photojournalist Melina "Mel" Koric, a former Bosnian War refugee, Ty must break the brilliantly conceived series of slayings that has cast a dark shadow over a city better known for its sun, sand and surf. The elusive killer goes by the name Friar Tom, in tribute to his hero, Tomás de Torquemada, the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. As Ty scrambles to unmask the monstrous zealot, he must juggle his investigation with his personal life: He pursues his lost love, Jordan Sinclair, an assistant district attorney, and continues to mentor inner-city kids at his youth golf clinics. With the city caught in an escalating nightmare of medieval mayhem, Ty is drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse that could cost him everything.

The soon-to-be Mrs. Ella Westin doesn't remember adding 'solve a murder' to her bridal to-do list but when she stumbles over the dead body of her matron of honor, it looks like she'll have no choice.

Especially as her groom is the one and only suspect. Throw in bad weather, a deaf hairdresser, a ruined wedding cake and a not so retired pirate and it's enough to make Ella want to throttle everyone in sight.

Can she catch the killer before the wedding is called off? Or will she be Married To Murder?

A new 21st century treasure hunt action adventure book - with explorers racing to get the treasure first - with constant action from the start - and a movie-style layout, plot, and setting - set in an ancient desolate haunted castle!
The lost treasure is buried away for centuries, and the only clues to its whereabouts are an ancient riddle: where the last dwell, markings on a tomb, and legends.
A group of people are forced into staying at the castle, for a week, to explore the immense castle, and vast estate - as they are fanatical with hunting and getting their hands on the treasure, which they believe has been left there by the late owner - even after two major murders, and televised police investigations.
The treasure is found, where nobody anticipates it to be, and though they guess where the killer will strike next, and catch him, they are astonished at who it is.

For twenty-five years, Diana Ferguson’s killer has gotten away with murder. When rookie obit writer and newsroom editorial assistant Kris Langley investigates the cold case of the artistic young cocktail waitress who was obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology, not only does she fall in love with Diana’s sexy nephew, but she must also fight to stay off the obituary page herself.

When a hospital executive gets a scary phone call, he is shocked to learn the caller's identity. Hospitals attract all sorts of flotsam and jetsam along with the pearls and stars. Mixed in with the medical magicians and do-gooders, are the disgruntled employees, sexually obsessive psychiatric outpatients, all kinds of broken hearts and bewildered psyches. What is the caller's story?

Sam Jenkins never thought about being a fish out of water during the twenty years he spent solving crimes in New York. But things change, and after retiring to Tennessee, he gets that feeling. Jenkins becomes a cop again and is thrown headlong into a murder investigation and a steaming kettle of fish, down-home style.

The victim, Cecil Lovejoy, couldn’t have deserved it more. His death was the inexorable result of years misspent and appears to be no great loss, except the prime suspect is Sam’s personal friend.

Jenkins’ abilities are attacked when Lovejoy’s influential widow urges politicians to reassign the case to state investigators.

Feeling like “a pork chop at a bar mitzvah” in his new workplace, Sam suspects something isn’t kosher when the family tries to force him out of the picture.

In true Jenkins style, Sam turns common police practice on its ear to insure an innocent man doesn’t fall prey to an imperfect system and the guilty party receives appropriate justice.

A NEW PROSPECT takes the reader through a New South resolutely clinging to its past and traditional way of keeping family business strictly within the family.

Is there a link between the brutal murder of a young woman in her home and the disappearance of her best friend in a town over 2000 miles away?

Sven Sven Olafson and Matt Blair, a yacht delivery crew, pick up a client's boat at an isolated anchorage in the Bahamas. Even before they board, the body of GULL's boat keeper turns up in her dinghy.
Menacing Cubans board GULL at night and threaten to tow her away to be dismantled in search of a mysterious object hidden aboard, but the crew outsmarts the aggressors and escapes with their charge intact.
The pursuit begins--now joined by a second group of spooks in faster boats--and is complicated when a derelict boat surrenders a beautiful woman, who may be a victim of the same shadowy groups--or not.
Wounded by a midnight encounter, GULL limps across the Gulf Stream to safety. But safety for the boat is not safety for the crew--for now they know too much....

A classic mystery and detective novel by Anna Katharine Green.

A classic mystery tale by Green.

It’s another typical day in the life of Ms. Aggie Underhill…

Moving into an extravagantly decorated condo in Palm Springs, attending the funeral of a well-known plastic surgeon, investigating a haunting, and last but not least, the murder of a maid.

Naturally curious, Aggie can’t help but be nosy. Despite the warning from her daughter to mind her own business, Aggie takes detective matters through the world of gossip into her own hands.

If you like sassy, independent, crime solving women then you’re in for a treat. You’ll love the Ms. Aggie Underhill Mysteries.

Follow the trials and tribulations of Scots criminal lawyer Robbie Munro as he heads up his fledgling law firm in the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow. Assisted by a keen, if inconveniently ethical, legal trainee and a formidable secretary, Robbie joins battle in the fight for truth and justice - hoping truth and justice don’t win too often or Munro & Co. will be out of business.

Relatively Guilty

Credit may be crunching all around but crime is booming and to add to busy caseload come instructions in a homicide. A policeman with a caved-in skull, his young wife found clutching the blood-stained murder weapon; it all looks pretty open and shut until Robbie detects the faint whiff of a defence and closes in on a witness who might cast a precious doubt on proceedings.

So why is it, the nearer he gets to the truth and a possible acquittal, that Robbie’s murder client becomes more and more eager to opt for a life sentence?

In the midst of these hectic trial preparations, complications arise in Robbie’s personal life. His love life may not be DOA but it’s in a high dependency unit, his brother, a former soccer legend, has carelessly killed the daughter of a Glasgow gangster and has a price on his head while Robbie finds himself in the dock on a counterfeiting charge that looks set to end his career in the law.

If only his life were as simple as that of the folk of the Vendee where Robbie’s search for his elusive witness takes him and where, on the salt marshes of the Loire estuary, he hears the tale of the mythical Twinfish and suddenly everything seems a whole lot clearer.


Also available on Kindle: "Duty Man".

"The bones were tiny. They lay in his hand like a set of pearls, translucent and fragile. When he turned them to the light, he could see their fractured ends and hollow cores. They were light as a feather, as brittle as chalk. And as easy to break as a straw..."
CLAWS is a short novella from award-winning British crime writer Stephen Booth, featuring one of his main series characters, Detective Constable Ben Cooper, on assignment to the Derbyshire Rural Crime Squad and tackling the problems of wildlife crime.
In the wild crags of the Dark Peak moorland, a ruthless conflict has been raging for years. The discovery of an illegal haul from the bedroom of a terraced house is a clue to what might be at stake - perhaps the entire future of one of the most prized landscapes in the Peak District National Park.
For Ben Cooper, his assignment to the Rural Crime Squad means stepping into the middle of the conflict, without being quite sure whose side he's on.
The predators come in all shapes and sizes. And in this battle, not all the victims will be human...
The Cooper & Fry series has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including two Barry Awards for Best British Crime Novel and the Dagger in the Library for "the author whose books have given readers most pleasure". Stephen Booth has also been a Gold Dagger finalist, an Anthony nominee, and twice shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. DC Cooper reached the finals of the Sherlock Award for best detective created by a British author. There are 11 full-length novels in the series, the latest being THE DEVIL'S EDGE.
"Booth is a modern master of rural noir" - The Guardian
"One of the elite British mystery writers" - Washington Times
"There are few, if any, contemporary writers who do this as well as Stephen Booth" - Arena Magazine
"Booth delivers some of the best crime fiction in the UK" - Manchester Evening News

A hard boiled thriller set in Naples.

Someone is chasing Amy Watson in the small western Florida community. After running into an adorable man named Mark Dallas at the beach, she realizes he's not all he seems to be, becoming almost like a superhero to her. He has bodyguards from his business—a gaming software company named Madcap—and seems to know all the big shots in town. But when she confronts him, he just says he's an ordinary programmer. When a dead body is found in Amy's apartment, it's time that Mark sets the record straight, leading them on a scavenger hunt around the nation to find out why Amy's being targeted. Could it be because she's collaborated with the NSA to tell them how to do their job, or maybe her ties to the Department of Homeland Security to explain how to find terrorists without racial profiling? Or maybe it's a simple game of cat and mouse, hunting for something long lost. Regardless, Amy and Mark are on the run, to save her life while she gains the infamous glass slipper in Mark Dallas' world.

Police Detective Rebecca Storme, and her husband, veteran Detective Sergeant Peter Storme, both married more to the badge than each other, have inevitable conflict within their marriage, and their careers are put to the test when a psychopathic killer invades their peaceful Southern California community and turns it into a hotbed of fear and outrage.
By Don and Linda Pendleton.

How do you change the channel when reality TV turns to murder? After starring on a hit game show set aboard a Tall Ship, personal trainer Cassidy Novak discovers that she has attracted a stalker. Can she trust Zach Gallagher, the gorgeous newspaper photographer assigned to follow her for a local series? As things heat up with the stalker and with Zach, soon Cassidy will need to call SOS for real.

Artist Joe Salas' big problem? Convincing the police that his home-nudist neighbor, Dee Dee Turner-complaining about dead people in his shed-is crazy. Detective Croy thinks she's telling the truth. When Joe's long-lost cousins, Roy and Eddie Vega show up, things get desperate. Roy and Eddie have their own family secret. It runs in the blood.