Time Detectives

Investigating the disappearance of local antiques dealer Harry Jones is not high on DI Ian Drake’s priority list. He has more important things to spend his time on than looking for a man who has probably just walked out on his wife. Until they find Harry’s dead body. Drake knows they are dealing with a cold-blooded killer. But the valleys of Snowdonia are an unlikely place for a murderer to hide out, and Harry an unlikely victim.

A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan, has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and Black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies. The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His children—suspicious of law enforcement’s treatment of Muslims and afraid of reprisal—hire Charlie Mack and her team of investigators to find their father’s murderers.

Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful supercollider and largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate. At the same time, a dead body appears washed up on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City - one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career.

DI Joe Faraday is called to the scene of a brutal death: the remains of a body have been chained to the railway line at Buriton tunnel, just north of Havant. Faraday has no name and no obvious leads to follow. DC Paul Winter is ordered to trawl through the missing persons list and comes across a missing man he suspects has fallen victim to foul play. Two men, one dead, one missing. Two detectives looking for them. Two stories entangled in the most bizarre and compelling ways.

A run-of-the-mill haunted house is one thing. A murderous soldier on horseback is quite another. Artful Doyle and Darrish Fox, the only two members of the newly-minted "Ghost Division" at the Bureau, are sent to investigate an isolated manor reported to be haunted. But when they lose their way in the woods, and then meet with a terrifying horseman, they find themselves driven straight into the dark unknown... “The Road to Davisham Manor” is the third book in Alydia-Rackham’s fast-paced “Bureau of Investigative Time-Travel” series. If you like steampunk intrigue, immersive plunges ...

She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery... There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had no choice but to trust a family friend with his own share of secrets to keep them safe from a mysterious and threatening danger. But was her heart safe from him...was it ever? Addie ...

Rickie Alleyn, son of the famed detective Roderick Alleyn had taken to the peaceful Channel Island village of Deep Cove to write his book. However, soon enough the tedium of provincial life threatens to send him packing until, that is, he finds a dead stablehand and sleepy community's world is upturned. His father is called to take proceedings into hand, but as a darker side to island life emerges, one of illegal drugs and smuggling, Rickie goes missing. Will Ngaio Marsh's stalwart detective be able to find his son in time?

This collection of stories focuses on the thoughts, passions, hardships, and tragedies of often overlooked Americans: the average working people who toil in the margins of society. Readers may recognize many of the characters in these tales, whose storylines play out in every corner of the country.

This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, uncovering his unique comic musings on everything from his school-trousers to malt whisky and from the letter Y through to his own nose, via atheism, hangovers and fried eggs. These hilarious collected writings reveal the warmth, enthusiasm and ferocious intelligence behind this most English of comic writers; a man who was virtually an unofficial member of the Monty Python team.

In search of Kayla and on the run, Kiera and her friends make a race against time across the Cumbria Mountains. With vampires predicting their every move, the trust among Kiera and her friends starts to waver. From the desolate monastery set high in the mountains, to the mysterious lake and the caves beneath the fountain, Kiera must discover the connection between the vampires and her mother, Isidor, and Kayla - all while trying to resolve her feelings for Potter and Luke.

Time is running out to save her sister. Will she find her before it's too late?Haylee has been held captive for what feels like an eternity, but she refuses to let Peter Dumont break her will. She has a plan to free herself from him, but she's playing a dangerous game. She tries to earn his trust by pretending to be falling for his attempts to convince her to stay with him forever. How long can she keep it up before she begins to fall victim to her own deception? And will Dumont continue to believe her lies or will he see through them and punish her again for being dishonest with him? After...

Johns are dying in Barnstow. It was bound to happen eventually, in a city where legal prostitution is a big part of the tourist industry, but not so many so fast. And of course, if there are dead bodies in Barnstow, Detective Jimmy Delaney isn’t far away.

Action-packed Clean Time Travel Read! **What if someone could go back in time and stop the Pandemic before it started?** Since we really don’t know what caused the COVID virus, BIG MAC could be right: it was his bio-dad. Big Mac, a mixed-race third-generation time traveler, comes back from the future to 2015 to see if he can find his no-good Viking sire and stop him from releasing the virus. What he finds is that he arrived a little too early and may have ruined the timeline continuum by interacting with his grandparents. And then there’s the complication of the post-Civil War slave who...

What’s scarier than a vampire? That’s right physics. Add both together, add a murder mystery, some time travel, a battle between two classic muscle cars and you have a story. Another body was found in the park. Same details as the others, odd clothing from centuries ago, no ID, and all of his blood had been drained. Detective Dani Foster put the puzzle pieces together and realized this serial killer was not only hiding in the distant future, he used his ability to time-travel as a weapon. This body was different. It was a message. She would be the killer’s next victim. What this ...

The horribly crushed body that crashed onto the Manhattan pavement has at least two names, several passports, and an address book full of important friends - among them, a millionaire roué; his exotic, deadly mistress; and his coolly beautiful wife - all of whom seem to have forgotten him very abruptly when he became a corpse. No one is talking, so it is up to Captain Corrigan, the man with the eye patch and a way with crime, to solve a violent puzzle of lust, greed, high espionage - and the worst kind of murder.

Wer ist der erdrosselte Obdachlose, dessen Leiche in den Clifton Downs bei Bristol gefunden wird, und warum musste er sterben? DS George Cross kann mit sozialen Konventionen nichts anfangen, für seine Kollegen ist er oft schwierig im Umgang. Doch dank seiner Besessenheit für Logik, Muster und jedes noch so kleine Detail, ist seine Aufklärungsrate die beste der ganzen Einheit. Und so hegt er sofort Zweifel, als seine Kollegen nach einem Leichenfund in einem Bristoler Park zu dem Schluss kommen, dass der Tod des Mannes die Folge eines Streits unter Obdachlosen sein muss.

Ex-federal agent turned vampire detective, Samantha Moon, finds herself investigating one of the strangest cases in recent memory. An unsuspecting client finds out he was murdered in a past-life...by one of the most notorious killers in history... Jack the Ripper. Now that same evil entity is back and chasing her client through time, ready to kill again. But the Ripper is no ordinary killer. With help from her best friend, Allison, and boyfriend, Kingsley, Sam delves deeper into the world of black magic than she ever has before to save her client's life. With time running out, the killer ...

Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in but must work under. He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend and an old flame reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves.

Once upon a time, in a bustling city filled with towering buildings, winding streets, and a rich tapestry of history, there lived a little mouse named Detective Mouse. He had a keen eye, a sharp mind, and an insatiable curiosity that set him apart from the other mice. Detective Mouse had always been fascinated by mysteries, always seeking answers to the questions that danced in his inquisitive little mind. One day, while exploring the attic of his family's cozy home, Detective Mouse stumbled upon a forgotten treasure - an antique clock that had been passed down through generations. ...

All Dylan wants is mojo. What is mojo? It's power. The ability to command respect. It's everything Dylan doesn't have. He gets no respect at school, and when he finds the dead body of a classmate, even the police push him around. All the thanks he gets for trying to help the investigation with his crime-drama skills is a new nickname at school: Body Bag. So when Dylan hears about a missing rich girl from the other side of town, he jumps at the chance to dive into this mystery. Surely if he cracks a case involving a girl this beautiful and this rich, he'll get the mojo he's looking for.