Mystery/Crime

Welcome to the chat room A place to talk about relationships. A place to make connections. A place to ... meet your stalker? Faye joins the chat room to relax and make friends. She ends up getting more than she bargained for when one of her chat buddies steps off the computer screen and into her office. Ray thinks he might just be the man of Fay's dreams, but instead Faye and her husband find themselves in a nightmare.

Part-time GED instructor Kendra Clayton's spring break is proving to be anything but relaxing. First her best friend, Lynette, suffers a major panic attack days before her wedding and vanishes. Then her sister, Allegra, who craves attention the way Kendra craves chocolate brownies, arrives in town determined to land an interview with screen legend Vivianne DeArmond for the TV show Hollywood Vibe. But Allegra's interview plans hit a glitch when she discovers the diva's lifeless body in her dressi... more info>>

"Bitty's ex-husband was dead. Very dead. I found him in her closet." Middle-aged and divorced, Trinket Truevine moves home to live with her aging parents in genteel and historic Cherry Hill, Mississippi. The Dixie Divas, a rowdy group of local belles, embrace her like a lost sister. Trinket soon finds herself and the Divas in the middle of a murder mystery surrounding the death of their pal Bitty's ex-husband, a philandering senator. Fun, fast-paced and very southern, this light-hearted mystery ... more info>>

What happens when a hit man suffers burnout? He's upgraded. Hollis Taylor's latest assignments are beneath his expertise-a lowlife drug dealer and a wife batterer. The days when he pitted his skills against the Mafia or KGB are gone due to cut-rate competition. The head of the secretive agency he moonlights for offers him a senior courier promotion to keep him in the fold. But a crisis the first day in his new job, and he's once more back in the hunt. Independent yet needful, hard as nails, yet ... more info>>

Gloria Trevisi, editor of the Plattsford Sun, is hard-working, competent ... and about to get her rabies shots, a result of the discovery of a dead retired farmer and a live rabid dog while taking photos for what was supposed to be an uplifting holiday feature for the Sun's Christmas edition. Someone, indeed, is suffering from rage, not the rabid kind, as health officials and police puzzle over this unexpected outbreak of a deadly epidemic in Ramsbottom Township. Gloria wants no part of it, espe... more info>>

John J. Malone had had some peculiar clients in his past, but never a 550-pound carnivore. He was hired to protect Leopold, a large circus lion. Someone has been murdering the circus's lions, and the suspects are all carny folks. Malone was going to put himself between a ferocious lion and a killer. Only he didn't no which one was more dangerous! A vintage detection tale from 1953.

Two retired schoolteacher pals get together again, for a Caribbean Mystery Cruise. After their fun in the sun in Charleston those intrepid gals, Bernadette "Bernie" North and Michaela "Mike" Rosales, think a mystery cruise is just the thing--seeing they are seasoned detectives with one solved mystery under their belts. What could possibly go wrong on a self-contained ship out in the middle of the Caribbean? Plenty. Michaela is a trouble magnet, and the misery begins before she even gets to the ... more info>>

"As far as I'm concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes." --Robert J. Randisi For four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private ey... more info>>

Want to get rid of your wife? Easy. Find a lookalike, send her out of town and then take care of business. But what happens when the lookalike decides to take over for the wife? Then what?

When Nancy Gilbert's sister, Tanya Stowell, is murdered, the person she turns to for help is former Company agent Tom Casey. Afraid for herself and her family, Nancy hires Tom to protect her from her ex-husband who's just gotten out of prison. Believing Drew Harland, the ex, killed her sister, she panics when he suddenly turns up in town. What Nancy, Tom, and his associates don't realize is that someone else is in the background with murder on the mind. When some of the main players, including t... more info>>

While on an exercise walk, spunky Maxcine and Isabel find loot stuffed in a pillow case and become involved in a crime wave. But they aren't about to turn the jewelry over to the cops, as that would mean thwarting a pending adventure?

Downsizing demotion, and lay-offs are not the only things branch manager of a national travel company, Prudence Peters, faces when a murder stalks her office.

"The bad man's coming." Those were the exact words four-year-old Jamie Weston cried only moments before witnessing the gruesome murder of her parents. But Jamie is still alive, and "the bad man" wants her dead as well in order to claim Weston Corporation and all it's worth. Solomon and Leon Cavanaugh, two staring attractions of a carnival oddity show, rescue young Jaime Weston from her parent's killer. Hiding her within the closed world of the carnival, as Jacey Travis, Leon's niece, they will d... more info>>

Enjoy solving these four mysteries: Caller ID by Douglas Allan Dean High profile civil rights firebrand, Reverend Gil Tartlot, slumps dead upon his desk. His letter opener is the weapon and his bloody finger (and matching phone keypad) leads researcher Addison Craig, girlfriend Jennifer Lu, and detective Sal DeNunzio to Tarlot's last living act: dialing a phone extension. With more 'un-subs' than the Million Man March, Addison and the NYPD must discover the link between a string of numbers and ... more info>>

Dreamspell Mystery Volume 2 -- Edited by Lisa Rene' Smith. Enjoy solving these four mysteries: Blue Pills and Murder by Randy Rawls The blue pill is touted as a boon to society, but could it also be an accessory to murder? P.I. Tom Roberts takes on a case that is strange, even for South Florida. Thanks for the Memories by Alyssa Lyons Sometimes after betrayal and murder, all that is left are the memories, and a chance to live. The Eighth Handbag by Gilda A. Herrera A hard-boiled police ... more info>>

Surrogate mother Shelby McDougall just fell for the biggest con of all--a scam that risks her life and the lives of her unborn twins. Shelby McDougall, recent college graduate, is facing a mountain of student debt and carting a burden she'd like to exorcise. A Rolling Stone ad for a surrogate mother offers her a way to erase the loans and right her karmic place in the cosmos. Within a month, she's signed a contract with intended parents Jackson and Diane Entwistle, relocated to Santa Cruz, Cali... more info>>

He ran a Harlem Brothel and age 15. Girls, to Duke, meant cash before pleasure. In his vice-ridden world they rated lower than liquor or marijuana. He ran his gang of teenage hoodlums with fists, feet and a gun. His operations included rape, murder, pimping and smuggling dope. He made his own law. And his code was the savage code of the slum-jungle that was the only home he knew. This novel is shocking--and true. It is the day-to-day story of the life of a teen age Harlem gang boss. It is grim a... more info>>

It takes two to tango--but only one to murder. Lead-footed single mom, Laurel McKay, agrees to learn a foxtrot routine for her best friend's wedding. After she trips her instructor, crashes into a pair of dancers and breaks the heel of her new shoes, she thinks her evening can't possibly get any worse. Then she stumbles over another dancer. A dead one. With her broken shoe heel stuffed in his mouth. The action moves from the California Gold Country to Lake Tahoe as Laurel searches for the kill... more info>>

When her dating service turns deadly, Laurel must race to find the killer before she becomes the next victim? Not sure if she is looking for Mr. Right, or Mr. Every Other Saturday Night, recently divorced Laurel McKay reluctantly joins THE LOVE CLUB, a matchmaking agency advertised as the safe alternative to on-line dating. After Bachelor one decides he wants her for dessert, Laurel dispatches him with her cell phone. The next day she discovers her drop dead gorgeous date has literally dropped... more info>>

Who murdered a popular high school drama teacher? Angie Deacon always thought the gene that produced maternal instinct was missing from her DNA. Till she meets Kiana Smith: beautiful, personable, talented and?grieving, because her mentor, Gwen Forest, the drama teacher has been murdered. The principal of Carlson South High School begs Angie to come supervise a production scheduled for that weekend. The play, written by Kiana and her friend Evan, is a fundraising effort to save the school's floun... more info>>

Lauren Ryder can't explain her nightmares after seeing her own face in a four-hundred-fifty-year-old portrait in a museum. And where are the first eighteen years of her life? Adam, her law-enforcement consultant husband, searches for rational answers. But only a leap of faith can save their relationship, and Lauren's life.

In 1963, famed photographer Alix Whittaker has problems -- hallucinations from a head injury, a broken leg, an ex-husband with a new fiancée, a job with a third-rate archaeological dig, an unexpected murder and an overly attentive new suitor. Then she sees a very real ghost, and her problems really begin!

All cops envision themselves catching a serial killer, rescuing a child from a burning building, or collaring an armed bank robber red-handedly. Detective Jack Helton has done all three. As the most decorated homicide detective on the force, Jack Helton is the lead investigator on all homicides. However, when a security guard is found mortally beaten at the city dump, all of the evidence points to Jack Helton as the person responsible. It's later revealed that the security guard hid a priceless ... more info>>

A collection of prize-winning mysteries from ebooksonthe.net.

Three women gone missing from a small town in Wisconsin. The police chief seems indifferent to his people disappearing. His buddy since high school, the mayor, says, 'People wander off sometimes.' Jessica Tyson is called in from Seattle to use her powers to search for foul play. She receives a 'sign' of murder at each woman's home. While in pursuit of the serial killer Jesse discovers more disappearances and long sought answers to her own past and future.