Funny Thriller

A lot can happen on the open road… Wade I’ve earned more than my fair share of regrets on the road. You'd figure I'd be ready to dodge out of the way when trouble comes barreling down the highway marked clear as kerosene and just as dangerous. … You don’t have to take me far … I'd never seen Olivia de Los Santos before she ran in to me, literally, in a diner at three am. I didn't need trouble. Or more regrets. I've never been very good at avoiding either. Liv Trouble seems to follow me around, no matter how hard I try to outrun it. And I've been trying damn hard for the past week....

ORGINAL STORY - WRITTEN BY A HUMAN This intriguing prequel novella introduces Detective Ange Watson, tracing her first steps into the world of crime-solving and revealing how she became the tenacious investigator readers will grow to love. A Routine Case… or the Start of Something Deadly? Constable Ange Watson’s policing career is fast unravelling. After calling out a superior for recklessly putting her life at risk, she’s been sidelined, labelled as a whinger, left questioning whether she even belongs in the force. With her resignation email drafted and her finger hovering over "send...

Piper has disappeared. Just as Peter was going to take their relationship to the next level, she ran away. Or she was abducted. Now, Peter will stop at nothing to get her back, no matter what the consequences. Divided in Crime is the third book in the Partners in Crime Chronicles series. It is an international action-adventure romantic suspense.

Partners in Crime and Conspiracy in Crime are the first two books in the Partners in Crime Thrillers series, a humorous, edge-of-your-seat romantic adventure series. Partners in Crime Piper Landry walks out of the redwood forests of Northern California in the middle of the night with no memory and no clothes. She knows only two things. The first is that her name must be Piper Landry because that’s what’s written on a tag bolted to her ear. The other is that she’s richer than Midas. Peter Bolton is a spy, but he’s up for a career change. He makes Jack Reacher look like an amateur, ...

Zaftig Chief Inspector Lisa Becker and her laid-back partner Fabian Zonk are back into the arena. This time young men in Berlin get found in their beds – dead, naked and ravishingly beautiful... The trail leads to Fandango, the alternative artists‘ house similar to the infamous Tacheles. Oh man... how to find an insane killer in a whole building full of eccentrics, narcissists, sexaholics and total crackpots? Lisa and Fabian are getting closer to become an actual couple. But is Fabian the right guy for that?

The third case of Lisa Becker and Fabian Zonk is the strangest one so far: Roxana von Kalln is found dead in her family vault – wearing fake vampire teeth, with two bite marks on her neck, and not a single drop of blood left in her body. The traces lead to the family castle, to a scary couple in the Neukölln Rollberg district and to the vampire club “Carpe Jugulum”. And Roxana will not be the only bloodless body with vampire teeth. In the meantime, the relationship between Lisa and Fabian has to weather first storms. The chief inspector has doubts whether her colleague really is the ...

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, Giant Snakes, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

Retired spy. Trained killing machine. Pacifist. Retired MI6 spy Mason Nash moved to a sleepy English town so he could leave his former violent life behind. He soon learns that past transgressions have a way of catching up with you. When hired killers invade his peaceful new existence Nash is forced to fall back on his old ways to find out who sent assassins after him and why. What he uncovers sends him on a globetrotting quest involving old friends, a new clandestine spy agency and a world-wide conspiracy where no one is quite who they seem. Nash finds out how hard it is to adhere to non-...

Time has run out for Atticus Wolfe. October 1964 The two most formidable superpowers the world has ever seen are on the precipice of all-out nuclear war; and it’s all Atticus Wolfe’s fault. A twenty-first century spy trapped in the swinging sixties, Atticus has a lot on his plate. While the Soviet Union and the USA prepare for an unthinkable war, Atticus must face the man responsible for swerving history from its path into all-out annihilation. And that’s not all he has to deal with. How do you fight a war when you can’t even trust yourself? With every corrective action pushing the ...

Time is not on Atticus Wolfe’s side. May 1964 Thrown from present day into the swinging sixties, Atticus Wolfe is on the trail of a Soviet spy set on a path to divert the course of history. He knows how history will play out and will do anything to ensure the USSR is victorious. That’s not all Atticus is battling. He must confront the terrorist who sent him back sixty years, and he’s not quite the man Atticus remembers. As the fight to keep history on track intensifies, Atticus must call on the last group of people he thought he’d ask for help – his crime lord family. Cut off from...

Meet Mason Ezekiel Barnes, former NFL tackle turned successful author. Mason is obsessed with winning a Pulitzer and is thwarted by his fellow author and nemesis, the twerpy little gnome Conrad Bancroft. Mason spends his days writing at a local cafe, Perk Noir, the one-of-a-kind jazz coffee shop. He's obsessed with the life of jazz great Earl "Lightning" Perkins, former owner of the Perk Noir. One day, unexpectedly in walks Shelly, a fan of Mason's books. Shelly has a mysterious pocket watch she recently inherited. She convinces Mason to assist her in unraveling its history.

Zack Walker is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. But now that Zack's incessant plotting can no longer be hatched from the comforts of his own home, he must be ever more vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or his own imagination. Zack is ready - or so he thinks.

On the hunt. On the run. Mason Nash thought he’d retired from the spy game until a new and deadly private spy agency, Tartarus, came to hunt him down. When Nash discovers Tartarus have double agents in every legitimate spy agency on the planet, there’s only one place he can go—into the shadows. On the run, Nash has few he can trust. Is his new ally Eva Destruction everything she appears to be? And then there’s the new arrival, Charles Bishop, a man with a past even darker than Nash’s. Together they battle forces around the globe to take down the malevolent organisation before it ...

This is where it all ends. Mason Nash was retired. He was a pacifist. He was trying to be a good man. Then Tartarus came after him – and now he has nothing left to lose. Tartarus is a private spy agency who have fooled world governments into believing they’re benevolent and honourable. Mason Nash knows otherwise. Framed for Tartarus’ misdeeds, Nash and his partners – Eva Destruction and Charles Bishop – are the most wanted ex-spies on the planet. Now they’re all that stands between Tartarus and their ultimate victory. Hunted by every secret service agency around the globe, ...

Peter and Piper are in love and enjoying a life of leisure that only millions of dollars can buy. But when Peter is contacted by his spy agency to do a final mission, the couple jump at the chance to save the world one more time. After they’re called in to investigate a spike of radiation in Russia, they discover an international conspiracy that threatens to unleash World War Three. An unspeakable evil from the past comes out of the shadows, and Peter and Piper must stop it. From Russia to Italy to Hawaii to South America, they travel around the world, determined to stop the ticking time ...

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

I was living the life of a normal ten-year-old until it all changed. The very moment it changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully Bull, but it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One moment I was just Rocky and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time to collect all the pieces to lock up Mr. Moon the diabolical genus. If we fail life as we know it will be gone… Oh, and mystical creatures, Zombies, Giant Snakes, Pirates, and the Angel of Death is all a part of the journey.

NEWSREAL is a political comedy that explores the real consequences of fake news. Big-city reporter Alecia Troust writes a weekly column for The Gruffington Buzz. Her hopes of promotion are dashed when her make-it-or-break-it article is lost along with her laptop. Instead of playing a victim to circumstance, Alecia instead submits an even more compelling story. However, this new story—regarding homegrown terrorism and containing “evidence" of an execution on American soil—is a fabrication. It is fake news. Although she initially receives national attention, Alecia’s lie draws the ...

This collection of the best crime and mystery short fiction of 1999, gathered from around the globe and including more award-winners and stories than any other comparable volume, fills the void for those with a hunger for the best international mystery and suspense stories.

Eli’s asked to perform his magic act at a swanky charity gala, the Zombie Ball - a former zombie pub crawl which has grown into an annual high-class social event. What begins as a typical stage show for Eli turns deadly when two of the evening’s sponsors are found murdered under truly unusual circumstances. Compounding this drama is the presence of Eli’s ex-wife and her new husband, Homicide Detective Fred Hutton. Under pressure to solve the crime before the 800 guests depart, Eli and his detective nemesis go head-to-head.