Crime Town

It ain’t all about soda shops and busted scams. Sisters have to stick together and Jade and Violet know it’s always sista’s before mista’s. After a failed go at Crazy Train Soda Shop, half-sisters Jade and Violet head to Vegas and try their luck with another business venture.This time, it will be the Crazy Train Bar – where chaotic cocktails are half price on Tuesdays.But the hustle and flow of the big city does nothing to calm them down. Things only get more complicated when Jade's ex-husband is caught and points the finger at Jade.Can the con sisters get Jade out of another ...

My summer escape to Camp Willow Creek promised campfires and marshmallows, not murder and mayhem. If my clumsy arrival to camp, designed for recovery and relaxation, wasn’t enough, then unpacking to a dead body in the woods certainly didn’t help. Being the first at the scene, Detective Harper, makes me his prime suspect. The camper’s whispers about Donnie’s untimely death makes my curiosity run deep; there’s no way I’m sitting this one out. Biscuit, my trusted sidekick mutt,and I sniff out clues. What we uncover is a web of secrets slicker than the murky lake bottom. The other ...

When Corrie Wright is informed by the Chief of Police and Nolan Porter, the high school principal for whom she formerly taught, that Nolan’s missing daughter’s car has been found in the river and they want Corrie to sub at the school in hopes of finding information that will help them find his daughter. She is wary, but agrees to help solve the cold case. She and Nolan must learn to work together to find justice for Nola, his daughter.

It is a cold January morning, and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man - loner and simpleton Magnus Tait.

If it had been me, she would not have stopped until there was justice. The third instalment in the East Belfast detective series. Just as DI Harriet Sloane turns forty, an old case reopens from before she was born. In the late 1970s, Karen Ward was a teenager when she was murdered just yards away from her Belfast home. At the time, people thought they saw Karen with a man, but time has moved on and now witnesses are thin on the ground. With the help of the victim's sister, Sloane must travel back in time, while her own family evolves and someone from her past resurfaces. Codes, and rules, ...

When family recipes come with a side of danger... Isabella Rossi has spent her life perfecting her craft as an Italian fusion chef, pouring her passion and heritage into her newly opened restaurant, Semolina. But when her lifelong rival, Giuseppe Bellano, collapses at her restaurant’s wine dinner—poisoned, no less—Isabella’s culinary dreams quickly spiral into a nightmare. Accused of murder and faced with a family feud dating back generations, Isabella teams up with her quick-witted best friend, Vee, to uncover the truth. The key lies in an ancient recipe—guarded for centuries—...

Jodi Weathers was stunned when the mayor of Sandy Shoals offered her the job of police chief. She had grown up along the coast of Georgia and it would mean returning to an area she loved, but her first inclination was to refuse. She didn’t feel qualified even when the mayor described her duties as writing reports and shaking hands. “The Sheriff’s Department will take care of the real police work,” he assured her. “You’ll be handling public relations.” At the time the mayor had no warning of the approaching hurricane, and he couldn’t have foreseen finding a dead woman on the ...

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel - the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly-born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine.

Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the navy and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D. L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are.

City Developer Murdered at Historic Castle Anna's Cafe is flourishing. But the town of Dolphin Bay is in uproar as a city developer proposes new construction on the scenic Coastal Walk. Locals flock to the town meeting to protest. Hours later, the man is dead, stabbed to death in a room full of people. The police face a big challenge since everyone present had a motive to kill. When Anna’s friend and local resort owner Charlie Robinson becomes the top suspect, she reluctantly steps in to help. Can she ignore his sordid reputation and trust he is innocent? New secrets are revealed and ...

A young radio reporter solves a murder in his New England hometown while the world is focused on Sputnik and the 1957 World Series

The town of Sarlat is staging a reenactment of its liberation from the British in the Hundred Years’ War when the play’s French hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Is it an unfortunate prop malfunction—or something more sinister? The stricken man happens to be number two in the French intelligence service, in line for the top job. Bruno is tasked with the safety of the victim’s daughter Claire, as well as her father's old Silicon Valley buddies, ostensibly in town for a reunion.

When Abigail agreed to move to Soap Lake, Washington, for her husband’s research, she expected old-growth forests and craft beer, folksy neighbors and the world’s largest lava lamp. Instead, after her husband jets off to Poland for a research trip, she finds herself alone, in a town haunted by its own urban legends. When a young boy runs through the desert into Abigail’s arms, her life becomes entwined with his and the questions surrounding the death of his mother, Esme.

A boxed set of books 9-12 of the full-length Morelville Mysteries series novels featuring Sheriff Mel Crane and Agent Dana Rossi. You get: Book 9: The Turkey Tussle - The old-fashioned country village of Morelville Holds a secret. Faye Crane has the perfect life as a homemaker, farmer’s wife and grandmother…or she did until her daughter-in-law Dana went and stirred up a mysterious murder, never resolved and long buried in the Lafferty family lore – before Faye ever became a Crane. Now she’s been reminded of some startling questions about her families past that she’s not sure she ...

I’m not a good man. Not even in your f*cking dreams. I find my peace at the bottom of a bottle. The sound of gunfire is music to my ears. Years in the Army Rangers made me into a lethal weapon. My club, the Kings, keep their fingers firmly on the trigger. Just the way I like it. There’s only one time in my life where I thought different. It was with her. Selena. And her kid. Her jagged edges fit my broken life like a perfect match in a jigsaw puzzle. Soul-shaking sex, dangerous curves, and a wicked smile -- no one else has ever measured up. With her, having a family didn't sound like ...

School counselor Avery Novak wants to find her fiancé, who disappeared ten years ago while they were students at Millwood Academy. When she learns that Josh Bryant is now a detective with her and Colin’s home town Red Ridge Police Department, she asks him to help her. Josh also wants to find his friend Colin, but when Avery’s life is threatened, the question becomes whether he can put aside his long forbidden attraction for her that has kept him away from his friend’s fiancée all these years. Can he keep her safe, find Colin—and protect his own heart?

Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven’t seen each other in years, but that’s about to change when they receive a rare call from their older brother’s wife. “Mack is dead,” she says. “He died of a seizure.” Five minutes after they hang up, Liv and Gabe each receive a scheduled email from their dead brother, claiming that he was murdered. The siblings return to their family-run resort in the Northwoods of Minnesota to investigate Mack's claims, but Leech Lake has more in store for them than either could imagine.

A Charming Yet Mysterious Tale of 19th Century Stonemarket Small Town Mystery is a gripping tale that transports readers to the quaint and mysterious town of Stonemarket, nestled deep within the serene English countryside of the late 19th century. Secrets and Shadows Amongst the Rustic Charm This intriguing mystery novel spins a complex web of deceit and crime around its central characters, the successful partners Anthony Babin and Milford Rutherford. Their usual routine is disrupted by the arrival of a ghost from their past, the elusive Swanson, whose intentions of revealing an old, hidden...

Amber’s back in another humorous romantic mystery. This time it’s a case of music, mayhem and murder! The Rosemont Music Festival is packed with thousands of partying people, all of whom could be in danger if Amber doesn’t find who has it in for one of the festival’s top acts – the pop star Prima Donna. Kidnappings, murder attempts, death threats, theft and arson – they’re all in a day’s work for Amber when she’s working on a case. Unfortunately, in this instance, Prima Donna has been such a bad girl that there’s a pretty hefty list of people who might be tempted to stop...

Owen Sanger ~ Becoming an Army Ranger was all I ever wanted. After years of devoting my life to the Army, I’ve found a great job where my skills are put to good use. Life was good, but seeing Lori, my longtime friend again, changed everything. She was my best friend, my confidant, my neighbor, and one day on a boat, my lover. I went away after that, and we lost touch. Now, here she is with her daughter, and suddenly, everything I ever wanted seems trivial. She was the one I let get away, and I’ll never forgive myself for that. Lori Matthews ~ Nothing in my life has been more rewarding ...