Mystery/Crime

It was almost a perfect caper. Except when Wally the driver got shot. If he had died right away, it would of simplified things. But cold-blooded Oscar, the brains of the caper, had a simple solution. He just needed a knife. But now that the caper was over they could enjoy their money--until Wally's widow showed up for her dead husband's cut.

Nikki Zenas, Eden Fane, and Wack Leone have barely begun their senior year when Mr. Trout, their beloved computer teacher, is found in the swamp... with poisonous bite marks covering his dead body. Soon a second bite-ridden corpse surfaces. And this time, it's a Ridgeton High classmate named Jon. With the help of their science teacher, who is Mr. Trout's ex-girlfriend, Nikki and Eden learn that the lethal bites might have been made by a certain breed of spider. Then Wack is contacted by a myster... more info>>

Some family history is too dangerous to be revealed. Sarah Baker's search for the truth about her adoption uncovered a tangled web of deadly secrets? A phone call from a blackmailer turned Sarah's life upside down. The man claimed to know the circumstances of her illegal adoption thirty years ago. He also revealed some shocking facts about her real parents. Rather than have the blackmailer go public with the information and risk her husband's career, she agreed to a one-time payoff. Their situat... more info>>

Family secrets are revealed when Nina Sellars is charged with murder for pushing her car into Lake Brandt with Cap, her drunken screenwriter husband, inside.

Gretchen Waller arrives at the remote estate, Mill Hollow, eager to begin her job as assistant to handsome author John David Honeycutt. Amid the snowbound wild of the haunting north woods she finds deception and danger as John's investigation into his family's history stirs up dark secrets--secrets which have already led to murder. Drawn to John, Gretchen soon takes up his quest to uncover the truth. Can they solve the crime before the killer strikes again or will Mill Hollow claim more victims ... more info>>

First Publication of New Joe Cullen Mystery. Prize-winning crime writer, Jerry Oster brings back one of his most unforgettable characters, Joe Cullen of the hardcover and paperback bestseller Internal Affairs. The fuse for this explosive new thriller is lit when a woman is gang-raped while a man is murdered before her eyes. Later the same day, homicide dick Joe Cullen sees a man shot to death before his eyes during a St. Patrick's Day Parade. At first they appear to be two separate cases, but as... more info>>

When Jack, a Philadelphia bounty hunter, goes to Texas to bring back a young bail jumper named Billy, he has no idea he's being trailed by the chief enforcer for a major mobster. Is it because Jack roughed up the mobster's brother, or is it because of what Billy did before he skipped town? In trying to stay alive and do his job, Jack also has no idea he'll get tangled up in a legend of the Old West that turns everything he knows on its ear. A new novella of humor and crime from the author of T... more info>>

A young animal activist who calls herself Rima frees shelter dogs to save them from being destroyed, thereby setting the stage for a deadly encounter.

When is a river or an ocean or a cabin in the woods more than just what it appears to be on the outside? When these locales are channeled through the storytelling talents of award-winning author Tara L. Masih. Whether it's the dusty prairie tying together two centuries in "Ghost Dance," the fears that accompany pregnancy that are further inflamed by the heat of a Mexico border town in "The Dark Sun" or a future as dark as the coal mine the narrator seeks to distance himself from in "Where the D... more info>>

One rain-soaked evening, John Ray Horn runs into an old flame. Rose Galen played the female lead in his second movie. Young, beautiful and improbably talented for her B-movie surroundings, she had a shining quality to her. Now, years later, Rose is a shattered creature, drink-sodden and heavy with sadness. Something happened to her years ago, before Horn first knew her, something so terrible that it would eventually leave her broken. Hoping to uncover her long-held secret, Horn goes to visit Ro... more info>>

Alastair Archibald, Whiskey Creek Press Number One Bestselling author, pens two short stories of mystery, suspense, and fantasy in this edition of the WHISKEY SHOTS short stories series. Frozen Stiff (Mystery-Suspense): Jack Forster is a cold, hard-hearted man. When the end of the world comes, he prepares to face it with his customary sang-froid. But all is not as it seems? The Last Laugh (Mystery-Fantasy): Business executive Stirling Arthur has had a busy day. After losing his precious, painsta... more info>>

At night Sandi's perfect life seems less than perfect. The only child of a well-to-do family that runs an art gallery, in the light of day she's beautiful (although she doesn't think so), and engaged to a successful stockbroker. But at night, there are the whispers… Are the whispers trying to say something, or is she simply insane? Sandi doesn't understand, and is sure her family and fiancé won't either. She changes her major from art history to psychology to look for answers. Then, one evening ... more info>>

Late night danger lurks for the fallen angels in London's Whitechapel district. Jack the Ripper is stalking his victims and cutting them open with his oh, so sharp knife. Who is this monster? Chief Inspector Lionel Diggings knows the answer. Coping with his own personal demons he must track down this vile killer before Saucy Jack strikes again. Del Garrett's WHISPERS IN THE WIND has it all: murder; historical setting; finely drawn characters. The book is a graphic and well researched novel about... more info>>

Zach is back! In Book 2 of the Zach Taylor Adventure series, a legendary cache of Nazi white gold buried in a treasure ship deep beneath the waters of the Caribbean holds the key to a secret alliance between crime families in New York and Europe. When the daughter of Miami crime lord Don Carlos Santiago is kidnapped from her honeymoon retreat and held for one billion dollars ransom, there's only one man tough enough and brave enough to find the gold and rescue her--Zach Taylor.

The fake priest doesn't bother lawyer Chambers Elliot, but his story does. Why the sudden interest in a thirty-year-old murder. And why, if the Portello Crime Family really was involved, was there a body at all. Elliot suspects a scam. What he doesn't know is that he'll find himself in the midst of a very new murder.

Acting on a bit of inside information, two London crooks break into a safe and make off with the contents. The mood in both their homes is buoyant as the amount they have got away with is extremely substantial. However, when the newspapers announce that on the night of the robbery Mr Nettles the owner, was viciously gunned down, not only do they now have their wives on their case and the police after them for murder, but there is also another gang who have discovered who opened the safe and wil... more info>>

Inability to get along with family members is a given when it comes to being together for Thanksgiving, but is it possible to be so dysfunctional you accidentally kill someone? This short story appears in the Thanksgiving mystery anthology THE KILLER WORE CRANBERRY.

Marielle Jones has been hired to drive eight-year old Tyler, his ten-year old sister Mickey, and their maternal grandmother on a camping trip across Oregon. When Tyler claims someone pushed him into a river, she doubts it. But when their party is shot at in a lava cave and Tyler's horse is spooked while he's riding on the Oregon dunes, Marielle begins to wonder: What's going on here? Who wants Tyler dead? And why? Add the mystery of the kids' missing mother, the suspicious actions of their gran... more info>>

Forced to accept an early retirement from the FBI due to her questionable professional ethics, Aya Morell enters the world of private securities. Her new employer, Neuetech, a high profile pharmaceutical conglomerate with offices in Arizona, requires an extra hand solving a recent case of industrial espionage. But as Aya plunges into the investigation, she begins to suspect that the true reasons behind her hire are not at all what they appear to be. Finding a way to recover the stolen research d... more info>>

The very first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel finds the debonaire sleuth investigating the strange case of the corpse in the bathtub...who may not be who he seems!

When the ladies of Short Mountain Mortgage clock out, chaos clocks in. Why Rita Hates Monkeys follows Vicky, Rita, and Lynette as their vacation in a Mexican rainforest goes horribly wrong. The aggressive bats are frightening and nobody can identify the dinner meat, but the trip becomes a real adventure when a monkey flings a hand at them. Their guide Elsa asks them to find the hand's owner. Their options are to help, or a local tribe will have them for dinner. And then later for a midnight snac... more info>>

A shadowy figure seen lurking on the widow's walk is only the beginning of Laura's strange and frightening experiences in her creepy old house? Money reversals after Davis Chandler's death in a fiery plane crash force his widow Laura to move into a crumbling Victorian house she inherited and hopes to restore and sell. When she learns that Davis' first wife committed suicide there, and that his death might not have been an accident, Laura sees the strange things that have been happening in a m... more info>>

Elena Jarvis is an officer committed to her duty at the Los Santos, Texas department of Crimes Against Persons. Not that anyone is helping her though, not when her ex-husband is in the next room, her boss treats her like a little girl and her partner thinks women shouldn't leave the kitchen. Elena always knew there would be obstacles in her job, she just figured they would come from the criminals. It was a punishment from God, declared Boris Potemkin's fair-weather widow, but it wasn't a thunder... more info>>

Book #2 in The Jenny McNair Cozy Mystery Series. Jenny McNair Campbell, reluctant assistant to her private detective father, moves into the craftsman cottage she has inherited from her beloved bohemian artist great aunt, Winnie. The day she arrives in her new home, located on beautiful Anamcara Island in the Pacific Northwest,she digs up a skeleton in her rose garden. She also discovers that her aunt had enemies. Jenny attributes her unawareness of this to her aunt's ability to see the best in e... more info>>

Private detective Richard Dick is back, fresh from his sleuthing success in the runaway international bestseller BITE THIS! In his latest case, Dick finds himself once again mixed up in wacky trouble including magical onions, a mouse who won't kiss him, a witch who loves to turn people into frogs and, of course, a gorgeous woman. Can Dick solve the case without getting hexed himself? This is #2 in the Richard Dick short story series.