Old Suspense

Roger Brinkman thought his home was safe. He was wrong. Life changed abruptly while Roger was away at school. When a band of thugs impersonating soldiers showed up intent on kidnapping his adopted brother Nik, the situation turned tragic. Nik escaped but their family did not. Their shared loss put the Brinkman brothers on wildly different paths in search of their family’s killer. They end up serving on opposite sides in the Civil War, placed in a position to kill each other to survive the horrible conflict. Was his family’s death destined to be written off like a casualty of war? The ...

Three men are kidnapped on the eve of their high school reunion and wake up trapped inside a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands. As a fierce snowstorm blows outside the cabin, the three men—Jay, Davie, and Iain—work to uncover the connection between the kidnapping and their own troubled past. It’s a past that goes back to when they were a gang of teenage bullies known as the Lads—a gang that delighted in torturing their classmates at every opportunity. The kidnappers are waiting outside. But who are they? Have the victims come back to turn the tables on the bullies?

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor There is only one way for Donna McBride to save her cheating husband, Tyson, and that is by going deep under covers to extract clues from wet and wild witnesses! In this 9,000-word suspense tail of domination, alpha males, and beastly demons, there is nowhere to run but in between the sheets. With the help of Lorraine, Donna's best friend, plus Lorraine's fist yoga coach Jasper and a dirty cop named Jeremy, the clothes are going...

A gripping, action-packed Thriller. Her past created a deadly psychic killer. Now, she tries to exit the assassination guild with devastating consequences. My name is Judith Elizabeth Morante. The first time I saw Lee was when I was still an active assassin. But now, I'm helping in a SWAT team raid that Michael and I are involved in. I must thank Captain Lee Bryce for keeping me on the straight and narrow after Michael went missing. Thankfully, Bryce had insisted that I train with his swat team in one of the FBI's HRT elite tactical units. This significantly improved my marksmanship skills ...

“Everyone, at some point, wants a second chance…” Everyone except Edie Black, Edie wanted nothing more than to check herself into hospice care, and check out of her life. It was all going according to plan, but then she woke up in 1986. She was young and healthy, and her young daughter was alive and well. Was it a dying dream? Or had she been given a second chance at life? Could she change the future and keep her daughter alive? Or was she destined to repeat the mistakes of her past?

Maddy and Rob were both attractive 36 years olds and married for nine years. They were very much in love, but they recognized that their sex life had gotten somewhat stale and routine. They started indulging in a variety of fantasies to spice things up in the bedroom, and they soon realized that they were both very into the fantasy of a three-way, especially Maddy, who really got off thinking about getting pleasured by two men at the same time instead of just her husband. The more he thought about it, the more Rob realized that he actually wanted to try something like that in real life. So ...

Lugh is not having a normal year. Someone is trying to frame him for a bunch of gruesome murders, his new girlfriend is way above his batting average, and there's a serial killer in the city, but the police won’t believe him. The drunken street performer knows more than he’s letting on and the macabre ghosts gathering around him keep on telling him they're real.

Grab your walker, secure your catheter, and make sure there's double adhesive on your dentures! Then hang on for dear life, because you are about to ride along with the covert Senile Squad -- a bunch of elderly cops who refuse to stop catching crooks. Fighting street crime the old-fashioned way is their modus operandi. The Ol' Blues, led by their cigar-chewing Sarge, bring justice back to the streets of Omaha by taking down a brutal Sudanese kingpin who thinks he's a powerful gang lord.

It was hate at first sight. The day that I met Carson, he was arguing with me for parking a little over the line. That sets the tone for our relationship and instead of being neighborly, we become enemies. We’re opposites in every way. He’s an uptight cop and I’m an optimistic artist. At least we’re on the same page about avoiding each other. She’s driving me crazy. I moved my nephew and I up to Seattle to get a fresh start. Instead, I got Bianca. She’s my flighty neighbor who is constantly doing things without thinking them through. She’s making me worry about her. She’s ...

"Winds of Fortune" is a historical fiction book set in New York during the early 20th century. Alluring with its layered narrative, it presents readers with an intricate mixture of personal rebellion, societal critique, and nail-biting adventure.The protagonist, Clement J. Restivo, is a resilient copyreader whose life witnesses a 180-degree turn, thanks to an unexpected inheritance of $500,000. Liberated from the stifling chains of his routine work, Restivo steps into a turbulent world, dominated by his determination and the whispers of his budding adventurous spirit. Setting & ContextThe ...

Nate the Great needs your help. Annie's dog, Fang, is missing! That's what Nate discovers when his friends throw him a surprise Happy Detective Day party. Where is Fang? As you and Nate track down clues - Fang was learning tricks for the party; he was seen running away from two tiny poodles and following a lady wearing fluffy-bunny shoes - Nate will share his expert detective skills with you so you can sharpen your sleuthing talents.

When Zach Tully leaves Los Angeles to take over as sheriff of Eternity, a tiny mountain town in northern California, he's expecting to find peace and quiet in his own private Mayberry. But he's in for a surprise. Curmudgeonly Mayor Abbott is a ringer for long-missing writer Ambrose Bierce. There are two Elvises in town, a shirtless Jim Morrison, and a woman who has more than a passing resemblance to Amelia Earhardt. And that's only the beginning.

Rose Aberdeen and Jahi Adams grow up half a continent apart. Rose in LA and Jahi in the small mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Haunted by a singular devastating loss as a child, the mysterious disappearance of her brilliant, mercurial father, Rose grapples with heartache and self-doubt. Forging ahead, she becomes a clinical psychologist and marries a handsome, renegade surgeon. But ten years and multiple losses later, and amidst a messy divorce, she starts afresh in the small town of Eureka Springs, near her mother and sister.

In April 1956, at the height of the cold war, Khrushchev and Bulganin leaders of the Soviet Union are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned to be the official bodyguard and to spy on the Soviets. Soon after, a Royal Navy diver is found dead in a mutilated state in Portsmouth Harbour. Troy embarks on an investigation that takes him to the rotten heart of MI6, to the distant days of his childhood and into the dangerous arms of an old flame.

Thrift shop til someone drops... Taking in donations at a thrift store could only bring good fortune, right? That is, unless there’s more than secondhand treasures in those boxes… Jessica Braun’s thrift shop is thriving, her first donations are coming in to resell, and the new neighborhood watch is a success. Add a date with an unexpected gentleman, and Jess’s first summer back in Minnesota is sweet as maple syrup. But when donated collectibles are stolen, a local woman lands in deep water. The deputy is ready to let Jess help investigate when the quiet town is turned upside down ...

London, 1910: Der junge Daniel Pitt, Sohn des berühmten Sir Thomas Pitt, nimmt seinen ersten großen Fall als junger Anwalt an. Russell Graves soll seine Ehefrau kaltblütig ermordet haben. Alle Indizien sprechen gegen ihn, die Verteidigung ist auf verlorenem Posten. Und tatsächlich wird Graves schließlich im ehrwürdigen Strafgerichtshof Old Bailey zum Tod durch den Strang verurteilt. 21 Tage Galgenfrist bleiben Daniel, um doch noch die Unschuld seines Mandanten zu beweisen. Eine Unschuld, an die er selbst kaum glaubt.

Actionreicher Cold-Case-Thriller mit cooler Frauen-Power. Old Bones – Das neunte Opfer ist der 4. Thriller der Bestseller-Autoren Preston & Child um FBI Agentin Corrie Swanson und Archäologin Nora Kelly. Ein Leichenfund in einer Höhle beschert FBI-Agentin Corrie Swanson ihren neuen Fall: Die beiden Toten gehören zu einer Gruppe von neun Wanderern, die 2008 auf ungeklärte Weise ums Leben kamen. Von einer winterlichen Rucksacktour in den Bergen von New Mexico kehrte keiner der neun zurück – doch man fand damals trotz intensiver Suche nur sechs Leichen.

There’s nothing unusual about a young bride entrusting Mandy Dyer with her wedding dress. Mandy runs a dry cleaners—her customers bring in gowns all the time. But when Mandy realizes the bride-to-be is marrying her womanizing ex-husband, she sees red—especially when she discovers the bride stabbed to death in her bridal suite. With Larry as the prime suspect, Mandy is up to her neck in her ex’s dirty laundry once more. Only this time, the stink of it is even worse.

Thrift shop til someone drops... Jessica Braun couldn’t be more proud of her friend and neighbor Freddie’s new job with the Mistletoe County Sheriff’s Department. When the first case Freddie works on leads the teen into more trouble than she deserves, she calls Jess for help, and they discover the unthinkable—a shallow grave and a rare collectible. From whispered secrets to shadowy storerooms, Jess and her friends follow the path of a killer, straight into danger and a hoard of hidden clues. What will happen to Jess—and to Fred’s new career plans—when the two of them are ...

Tanner and Romeo team up to protect an old friend from England whose husband has become a target. When the threat escalates, Tanner faces off against the London mob.