Domestic Noir

'Incredible story with amazing characters developed so well I felt like I knew each one.' Amazon reviewer 'I recommend this book to anyone looking for a psychological thriller with a young, witty edge.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love twisty thrillers and this was as twisty as it gets.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book is one of the best I have ever had the pleasure to read, and believe me, I've read thousands. I was gripped from start to finish, I didn't want it to end!! I read this in one afternoon, in between cooking, cleaning, etc so I think that says it all. Lorna Dounaeva is a hugely talented ...

An engineer is dead. His friend has been charged with his murder. How many lives would the conspiracy take before it is unveiled to its roots? Blake Turley grew up in a series of foster homes and joined the police force in Page, Arizona to give back to the community. The community of native Navajo people around and the city of vendors and employees of power plants was bewildered by the murder of a young engineer. The evidence pointed towards his colleague and his sole friend in the city. Blake was not convinced about all the evidence, though. The accused claimed of a deeper conspiracy that ...

A devastating fire. A hospital full of immobile helpless patients. A power shifting conspiracy. Can Shreeja and Shiuli get to the bottom of the corruption of power? A fire broke out in a superspecialty hospital in the city. The patients were asphyxiated, choked to death by the fumes while waiting to go home just the morning after. The event brought trauma and despair to the lives of the city. Shreeja started digging what caused the fire and why the rescue operations were insufficient. Shiuli followed the system and hit a wall so big that she doubted if she would ever be able to dig a hole ...

The campus went crazy when a final year student was found murdered. Can Shreeja and Shiuli get to the murderer before anyone else gets hurt? Monali Santra was the topper of the mathematics department. Shiuli was upset when she was assigned to investigate the murder of Monali Santra in the university campus where she studied mathematics two and a half decades ago. She was petrified to know that the campus dynamics did not change at all. Her colleagues came in her support and Shreeja shared the weapons with her. She took the war path to cleanse the system that had been taking lives of ...

Miguel was doing time for offenses that he did not commit. Will he be the free man of honor again? Detective Alexis Kawarski of Azusa Police Department was all for catching the criminals and helping the victims of crimes. When she found a body inside the closet of Benjamin King, she was not surprised, but sad. Nobody in the neighborhood was willing to come forward to testify against Benjamin. Alexis needed to search for roundabouts as all straight paths seemed closed for her. An assistant in the office of a defense attorney tried to trade favors with her, in exchange for proving her husband...

A dead bride and a missing maiden - in a small town, surrounded by loved ones. Can detectives save lives and bring the killer to justice? Detective Danielle Hall believed in the goodness in everyone. When her best friend found the dead body in the bridal suit she was about to rent for her own wedding, Danielle had no option other than finding the killer in their small town community. She discovered that one of the bride’s maids disappeared. Danielle felt that the bride was not killed because she was hated. She risked her personal relationship with her town folks to get to the bottom of ...

'This has been one of my favorite series and I definitely recommend this series and this author to everyone looking for a great read.' Amazon reviewer.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Wow, talk about an action packed, intense and captivating read.' Some will live. Some will die. This is the bitter end The mug slips from my trembling fingers and smashes onto the floor, hot tea splattering the newly mopped tiles. Tears blur my vision as I struggle to contain the emotions threatening to engulf me. I do my best to hide it, but I'm still trying to piece together the shattered fragments of my life...

'Great plot, greater characters. Super ending. Satisfying read.' Amazon reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'This was a great series. I enjoyed that it was fast paced, but had substance. I honestly could not put these books down while reading them.' Goodreads reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'The story twists and turns, and even though you have an idea of how things will end, it's still a surprise. Very well written.' I'd do anything to protect my family... My name is Jody, and in these gritty East London streets, I defy the odds and do well at school. But on one treacherous, ...

It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die.... The sixth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s best-selling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. There’s a face at the window. A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He’s watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last - play him a nursery rhyme - make him pay.

Lives in the city are all under attack. Can she nab the killer or the attackers before they hurl on another life? Young yet respectable Keira Jones is a detective in the Collinsville Police Department in Illinois. Each case appeared before her as a new challenge as it is difficult for others to accept that her eyes are as sharp as those of the eagles. The difficulty deepens when she is asked to take part in a joint investigation with the federal agents. To prove her smartness she always needed to move fewer steps ahead of her partner from the federal agencies. The stress pushed her on the ...

Almost a dozen missing girls. Bags full of unidentified body parts. Can Shreeja prove that the police are ineffective? Can Shiuli prove Shreeja wrong? One morning Shreeja’s ride was stopped at a traffic stop. As a street ripe crime journalist she started digging what the police were searching in all those vehicles. Her meeting with police detectives led her to almost a dozen missing girls. Shreejs started asking uncomfortable questions. The police were weaving a net with the news reports, with the news media response to the abduction of girls and other evidence against the suspect. Can ...

I never believed I’d see my daughter again. Until a mysterious girl arrives at my door in the middle of a snowstorm. My five-year-old daughter Riley disappeared from a playground ten years ago, moments after I opened a cryptic letter from what the police believed was a deranged fan. In the aftermath of Riley’s disappearance, I tried to create a safe place for myself. I live alone in a secluded cabin in Montana, writing horror novels and hiking with my dog. Until Miranda knocks on my door, half frozen, telling me an unbelievable story. There is no reason for a young girl to be out in a ...

Arabelle's beloved town matriarch, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, is snatched from her car, held for ransom, and propped up to the sympathy of thousands online. Her leaked ransom video might have been enough to placate the headline-starved, but for the endlessly bored detective, Robert Ellery, the ticking time-bomb, Alice Daniels, and for Mrs. Thomas herself, a simple headline could never unfurl the secrets they keep from the lies they tell. There is far more to this story than meets the eye. There is more to the dueling towns of affluent, picturesque Arabelle and impoverished, crime-riddled Wood's...

In a small fishing village on the Devon coast, Lucy Locke has built a life that anyone would envy. She and her husband, Daniel, own successful businesses and live with their two children in a picturesque home overlooking the harbor. But everything changes one morning when, following a monumental storm, the family yacht is found empty—and Lucy’s husband is nowhere in sight. As the search for Daniel mounts, so does Lucy’s sense of dread, raised to a fever pitch when another more terrifying revelation pushes her storybook life to the brink of total destruction.

Karin and Kai are looking for a pleasant escape from their busy lives when they accept an offer to stay in a luxurious cabin in the Norwegian fjords. Instead of finding a relaxing retreat, their trip becomes a reminder of everything lacking in their own lives, and when they meet the couple from the neighbouring cabin, Karin tells a little white lie – a lie that grows ever bigger, entangling her and Kai in a nightmare series of deceits with absolutely no means of escape.

University professor Nina is at a turning point. Her work seems increasingly irrelevant, her doctor husband is never home, relations with her difficult daughter are strained and their beautiful house is scheduled for demolition. When her daughter decides to move into another house they own, things take a very dark turn. The young woman living there disappears, leaving her son behind, the day after Nina and her daughter pay her a visit. With few clues, the police enquiry soon grinds to a halt, but Nina has an inexplicable sense of guilt and begins her own investigation.

Everyone has a secret. How much would you pay to keep yours? Lee wakes from a coma to find himself on trial for double homicide. His lover is dead. His wife is dead. His lawyer is hot! His girlfriend is jealous. And, to make matters worse, the Alphabet Killer remains at large. Find out what ensues in this the fourth instalment of The Adulterer Series. Praise for Sam Anthony: "If Stephen King were to write a psychological thriller, this would be it." "This is my favourite thriller read of the year so far." "Not my usual read ... but the ending ... Wow!" "This was funny, engaging, fascinating...

What if the man you buried came back… but something deep inside you whispered he wasn’t yours? Ten years after her husband was declared dead, Claire Palmer opens her front door to the impossible: a man who looks, speaks, and remembers everything like the husband she lost. Michael is back. Or so he says. At first, Claire is swept into the miracle. Her son believes. Her friends are stunned. Even her new husband begins to doubt. But behind Michael’s familiar eyes is a silence she cannot explain… and a scar that should be there is gone. As unsettling clues stack up, Claire faces a ...

Fast-paced, electric, and barbed with nerve-shredding thrills, Wicked Sharp is exquisitely addictive—every page drags you deeper into the hidden world of serial killers. A thriller for fans of Caroline Kepnes, Gillian Flynn, and Lucinda Berry. A mountain hike with your serial killer father. Good Samaritans who aren’t as innocent as they appear. What could go wrong? Poppy Pratt is the perfect daughter. Agreeable. Highly intelligent. Most importantly, she’s excellent at keeping secrets—the kind of secrets that give other eleven-year-olds nightmares. Her father’s perfect too…on the...

Nunca debió estar en el barco. Cuando las circunstancias chocan con el destino, la aburrida ama de casa Patricia Fisher se encuentra sola en un crucero alrededor del mundo, pero lo que podría haber sido un período tranquilo de reflexión personal pronto se convierte en algo mortal. El cadáver de un ladrón hace pensar en una joya de valor incalculable desaparecida hace tiempo y Patricia fue la última persona que se vio con la víctima. Acusada de su asesinato, debe convertirse en detective para encontrar al verdadero asesino antes de que acabe en la cárcel. ¿Pero la encontrará él ...