Detective Horror

Forensic pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement, prompting great media excitement. But with horror, she realises that it's not as ancient as they thought - a very modern bullet is showing up on the scan. Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate and soon discovers a second - and then a third - mummified body. Who is this killer, and why does he preserve his victims so meticulously? And who will be the next to join his monstrous collection?

Growing up, Adrien and his sister, Grace, competed viciously for everything. It wasn't easy being the adopted sibling, but Adrien tried to get along; it was Grace who didn't want anything to do with him. When their scientist parents died in a terrible lab fire, there was nothing left to hold them together. Now, after years apart, Adrien and Grace are forced to reunite at the elite boarding school where their parents were teachers.

For Nora Mulgrew, the days between the end of Salem University’s summer session and the start of fall semester are the 'dead time'. The campus is deserted, and Nora is the only resident in eerie old Nightingale Hall, a ramshackle dorm whose dark past has earned it the nickname 'Nightmare Hall'. Nora hasn’t heard any of those rumors, but her own nightmare is about to begin. An education major, Nora has spent the summer working at a day care where her favorite pupil is a darling child named Mindy.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.

L'agente Sara Milani e il suo giovane braccio destro, Lauro, tornano a lavorare insieme per un'indagine all'ultimo sospiro... In un piccolo paese nella ridente e florida Val Vignè si aggira un pericoloso assassino, che nessuno riesce a fermare. Ma chi o cosa sarà questa creatura che uccide, per poi svanire nel nulla? Solo due veri esperti del brivido come Lauro e Sara potranno risolvere il caso, a patto di riuscire a sopravvivere alla misteriosa mano che colpisce ogni dodici del mese, senza lasciare scampo.

Dove sono finite le persone scomparse lungo l'autostrada sull'Appennino? Il mistero è fitto e l'indagine è affidata a due agenti molto speciali: Sara Milani, giovane poliziotta dal grande intuito, e Lauro Sebino, adolescente dotato di facoltà paranormali. Insieme hanno scoperto segreti inconfessabili, risolvendo i casi più complicati: questo non fa eccezione. Forse la chiave di tutto è nelle visioni di Lauro, infestate da occhi color del ghiaccio: a chi appartengono questi occhi letali? Per scoprirlo serve una nuova indagine... da brividi.

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1907, the Old Time English volume of The Lock and Key Library features ten classic mysteries and ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Robert Maturin, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray. This volume of The Lock and Key Library is sure to haunt and charm fans of ghost and detective mysteries alike.

Magical Girls meet Mad Scientists, Eldritch Gods, and then try to save the day. But what happens when this repeats itself for years without an end in sight? Well, the world adjusts. In the city of Markha, ex magical girl turned Police Detective Berrill Straw and her colleague Daniel are charged with investigating the grisly murder of a retired magical girl under protection. In a world where the evil eldritch god of the week bakes cookies in his off times, cultists pray every week at church, and ever-youthful magical girls sell merchandise to keep themselves afloat after decades on the job, ...

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor The future has arrived, and everyone is losing their inhibitions in this 6,000-word erotic science-fiction adventure story! Gina Mavis is a lusty detective working deep undercovers. The street-wise woman has a heck of a hankering for some stud attention, and that will be just what she gets when she teams up with alpha male private investigator Lon Bradford! These two hungry lovebirds are ...

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

Sometimes monsters are not just monsters - they are reflections of ourselves, mirrors of our own darkness and light. But do monsters only exist as a figment of our imagination, or are they real? In this late 19th-century crime fiction horror novel, Henry Blackshaw, the owner of a derelict manor, hires private detective Stephen Moore to investigate a series of strange disappearances on his property. As the detective and his team ponder who may be responsible for the missing victims, confronted with chilling evidence that makes their blood run cold, they come to a terrifying conclusion... ...

Everyone on campus hates Doctor Stark, the severe woman who seems to take sadistic pleasure from doling out D’s and F’s on her infamous chemistry exams. Never before has Shea had so much trouble in school, and never before has she considered something so awful as cheating, but this time she has no choice. Her scholarship is riding on the class, and losing the scholarship would ruin her. Shea sneaks into Stark’s classroom and, terrified, makes a copy of tomorrow’s exam.

"THE STORY BUILDS AND ENDS ON A CLIFFHANGER. BUT THANKFULLY THE NEXT IN THE SERIES IS ALREADY OUT!" ~ Der Wolff "ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Two randy detectives -- one woman, one man -- turn up the body heat as they unravel this fast-paced erotic sci-fi mystery! Hired by two trillionaires for competing purposes, gumshoes Gina Mavis and Lon Bradford know they are tempting fate and testing their limits. Soon it becomes clear that a metric ton of sexy action and sensual suspense will ...

Ask Aria Morse anything, and she must answer with the truth. Yet she rarely understands the cryptic words she's compelled to utter. Blessed - or cursed - with the power of an oracle who cannot decipher her own predictions, she does her best to avoid anyone and everyone. But Aria can no longer hide when Jade, one of the few girls at school who ever showed her any kindness, disappears. Any time Aria overhears a question about Jade, she inadvertently reveals something new, a clue or hint as to why Jade vanished. But like stray pieces from different puzzles, her words never present a clear picture.

Fourteen-year-old Jenna Samuels is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her mother spends all day in bed, her father has vanished, and her 16-year-old brother Casey tries to hold the family together. And Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day, Casey crashes driving her to the hospital. Jenna wakes up in the ER to find Casey beside her. But Casey didn’t survive the accident at all. Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother’s mysterious depression and father’s disappearance

In this exciting sequel to his popular "Devil Bat Diary," the author continues the adventures of intrepid journalist Johnny Layton and his wise-cracking partner 'One-Shot' McGuire as they travel to Hollywood to investigate a series of grisly and gruemsome murders of Hollywood movie agents.

When Dead Detective Seamus is asked to investigate the death of wealthy businessman William Dunbar, he's more than willing. Seamus finds the Afterlife pleasant but a little boring and looks forward to chances to return to Life and learn why murder victims died and who is responsible. This time there's an additional request: Will he take a detective-in-training along? Reluctantly he meets Mildred, who seems charming if a little headstrong.

Detective Carson is back on the hunt for a psychopathic serial killer who has the same psychic abilities as him. The killer seems to be one step ahead of Carson, but will he be the hunter or the hunted? Set in Miami, Carson is hired by a wealthy family to solve the murder of the cold case of their daughter.

Once, this world was dominated by the fallen, but humanity cast off their tyrannical rule and created a mighty empire with colonies spread out across the globe. The power of the metropolis is stronger than ever before, but its past is dark and its future cloudy. Old secrets are capable of destroying in one moment what took years to create. After all, nothing can save it from treason, not armadas of battleships nor bomb-laden dirigibles.

There is a harvest moon over Toulouse, but it’s going to be a very dark night. Eleven-year-old Micah Stevens intends to free the dogs from a puppy mill in the woods outside of town. Teenager Jenny Allard and her boyfriend Michael Kennedy have come up with a plan to get even with two of the school’s most notorious thugs. Gloria Downing is coming home after a decade running from her past. On this Indian summer evening in October of 1981, the little town is about to add several chapters to its long and bizarre history. Come along as award winning novelist, Chris Morrow, gives you the grand...