Old Suspense

Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned, Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past 50 years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship, he gets closer to discovering the tragic truth behind the official's demise. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret in Society.

She's pregnant with my baby, now she's on the run. Nicolette was supposed to be a one night stand. She's the daughter of my brother's sworn enemy. But a few nights in a fancy hotel room changes everything. I heard Nicolette left town, running from the man that knocked her up. Except I'm the only man she's been with. If she's going to be the mother of my child, she belongs to me. I don't care how long I have to hunt her or what it takes to keep her. Nicolette Calvino will be mine. Savage Prince is the fourth book in The Valenti Crime Family series, featuring a morally grey anti-hero that ...

Did you ever wonder what it was like to live 500,000 years ago? Jump into the savannah and join the Logok tribe in a primitive world full of peril in a time when humans were at the mercy of the wrath of nature and fellow humans alike. For all the love, loyalty and courage in the tribe, hatred, wickedness and treachery was on the rise and threatened the lives of all. War, disease, famine, and the vile deeds of villainous traitors abound in the ancient world. Can one man stand against it all? Can the Keeper of the Flame save what is good in humanity before all is lost? Only the tales of the ...

Zane was 24 years old, living in the big city, and doing very well in his career as a stockbroker. He was handsome and athletic, and he didn’t have a problem hooking up with sexy women. But something was missing, even though he couldn’t quite put a finger on it. Then he started to think about 63-year-old Helen. He found her very attractive in the photos he'd seen, and he was about to meet her in person for the first time when he flew home to Kansas for the long holiday weekend. When they finally met, Zane realized that what he really wanted deep down inside was to get with an older ...

After serving as a nurse in the Crimea, British-born Celia Davies left her privileged family for an impulsive marriage to a handsome Irishman. Patrick brought her to San Francisco's bustling shores but then disappeared and is now presumed dead. Determined to carry on, Celia partners with her half-Chinese cousin, Barbara, and her opinionated housekeeper, Addie, to open a free medical clinic for women who have nowhere else to turn.

After the great civil war, misfits, criminals, uprooted families and gold seekers streamed west. The Indian wars were over, and the losers were sent to reservations. Some refused. John Daisy, a White Mountain Apache, escaped the reservation by traveling into the vast, open land of the Great Plains with his white blood brother, known simply as Kid. They lived an idyllic life, traveling, hunting and living free. If they needed money, they captured wild mustangs, broke them and sold them. Then they came upon a burned-out wagon with the family laying where they had died. All but the two sisters...

Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice - and ultimately threaten Sophie's life.

Catch up with the Devil’s Riders for some (mostly) wholesome Valentine’s Day fun! This is a brand new novella length story in the Devil’s Riders Universe. Enjoy! Xoxox, Joanna

Maigret uncovers some troubling family politics in this new translation, book 33 of the Maigret series. When a charming elderly widow appeals to him for help, Inspector Maigret travels to a seaside village in Normandy - uncovering a lost fortune and some poisonous family politics.

LET NOTHING HOLD YOU BACK. A companion novel to the Sleeping Lotus series. Loren Stone wasn't always a powerful general. Once, he was simply a victim. And Lassyne True wasn't always the Thorns' most hated spy. Once, she was the heir to a duchy and a fortune... and the favorite target of a murderous lunatic. They have so much in common. They've both been kept in a cage. Lassyne knows this, because she was there. As a child, she saw what happened to Loren... and for ten years of her life, she has watched him from afar, obsessing over a future that they'll never have. But when her parents ...

Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called "Lost Camp" of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism. Benton tells Kelly he has stumbled upon an amazing find: the diary of one of the victims.

I’ve been sold to the Mafia after my father lost a high-stakes poker game. To repay my father’s gambling debt, I’m given a perilous mission by the ruthless Lucian Stravos: disguise myself as an employee, hack, and destroy. The target: casino billionaire Lorenzo Morelli, a sizzling one-night stand from my past. Lorenzo, who’s ten years older, is an alpha with a godlike physique, piercing blue eyes, and a chiseled jaw. With Lorenzo as my new boss and enemy, our relationship is tumultuous as I fight to keep my raging desires for him at bay. Now, as my hacking mission unfolds, my dance ...

In this riveting crime thriller, a shooter rocks a small-town school and vanishes like the wind. The sheriff calls the FBI for help. New to the profiling unit, Tim McAndrews is assigned to the team sent to the crime scene. When the evidence doesn’t fit with a typical school shooter, Tim develops a theory that the unknown subject is an older man with military or law enforcement experience—an assassin, and maybe one of their own. But who would target high school teens for such a fate and why? It’s up to Tim and the profiling team to find the shooter’s identity despite interference ...

The Road Beasts: Finale Part 2 – The Explosive Conclusion 💀 She’s chasing the truth. He’s hiding in the shadows. When their worlds collide, will love be their greatest risk? 💀 Mia Donovan lives for the next big story. As a fearless journalist, she’s spent years exposing corruption, crime, and the secrets people would kill to keep buried. When her latest investigation leads her straight into the orbit of the Road Beasts MC, she’s determined to uncover the truth—no matter how dangerous it gets. Gopher is the club’s tech mastermind, a ghost in the system who sees everything...

Join the world's greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves three mysteries! Perfect for young listeners, this long-running chapter book series encourages children to problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve cases. Nate the Great, Where Are You?: Can a detective get a day off? Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, want to take a break from solving cases. So, they hide out in the woods. But soon, they hear familiar voices shouting, "Nate the Great, where are you?" There are many mysteries to solve!

After ten long years as a private detective, Stockton native Jake Carter is finally closing his LA agency. In just a few days he’ll put the missing teens and cheating spouses behind him and join the city's corporate world full of cushy jobs and hefty paychecks. But when his former partner is found dead in a Stockton homeless camp, murdered by a ruthless serial killer who’s targeting the city’s most vulnerable population, Carter will put his dreams on hold and return to his hometown to find the madman responsible before he strikes again. But solving this case won’t be so easy. ...

It's a headline-making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. Ren Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but curator Chris Norgren is wary. Vachey is notorious in art circles for perpetrating scandalous shams; not for profit but for the sheer fun of embarrassing the elite and snobbish "experts" of the art establishment. And thanks to the web of strings attached to Vachey's donation (e.g., no scientific testing permitted), even Rembrandt expert Chris is uncertain as to whether or not the painting is authentic.

When my best friend Tina had to get a job out of state, I offered to let her 18-year-old Patrick come live with me and my husband, Ray, since Patrick didn’t want to move away from all his friends. My husband was always away on business, and Patrick was usually out with his friends, so the house was typically empty. But one day, I came home early from shopping, and I was surprised to hear some very sexy noises coming from upstairs. It was obvious that Patrick had a woman over, and he was really giving it to her! It sounded so hot, and even though I knew I shouldn’t, I went up there to ...

In this unabridged recording of the third original 1927 edition of the Hardy Boys Detective story The Secret of the Old Mill, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy exchange some one-dollar bills for a five-dollar bill with a stranger at the train station. Later, when they try to use the bill to buy some pie plates, they are told the five is a counterfeit! Frank’s girlfriend, Callie Shaw’s cousin Pollie, accepts a counterfeit fifty from a customer, and the Hardy Boys’ mother does the same when selling an old carpet!

Andy Adams (1859-1935) was born to pioneer parents in Indiana, worked in Texas for a decade driving cattle, and settled in Colorado Springs, where he penned his cowboy narratives. The Log of a Cowboy chronicles a five-month drive of three thousand head of cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana. This classical work of fiction provides fascinating insights of everyday life on the Great Western Cattle Trail with a team of 12 cowhands, a cook, a horse wrangler and a foreman.