Time Noir

Jack Manson is missing, but then again, so is the city's biggest crime boss. Roger York and others search, but no one can seem to figure out who is behind the disappearances. But there is one man - a private eye in the gritty fifties. His name is Dillon Sheppard, and he is on the case. Also, girls are being abducted and murdered. Vinnie Van Johnson and Lips Malone are running the streets.

Ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt und eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine Stadt, die vor allem eines ist: keine Sekunde langweilig. 13 Kurzgeschichten, 13 Blickwinkel, 13 Stadtviertel–und 13 faszinierende Teile eines größeren Puzzles. Das Verbrechen zieht seine blutige Spur vom noblen Grunewald bis in den tiefsten Wedding, vom beschaulichen Altglienicke über das bunte Kreuzberg bis ins lebendige Friedrichshain, spürt den tödlichen Geheimnissen der Geschichte nach und setzt die Gegenwart als dunkel schimmerndes Kaleidoskop neu zusammen.

We are driving on Street Runs Road now. This is the road the place where it happened, the birthplace of my journey, the crossroads, the crux of time where the line between life and death merged. It is the place where I was forever changed. In July of 1983, JC Pezzini and his parents were involved in a deadly hit-and-run car accident. A mysterious Good Samaritan referred to as She was the only reason JC survived and finding She has become his all-consuming passion in life. More than twenty years later, JC is a filmmaker, a voyeur, and a man haunted by his past. With the help of his ...

A man wakes to find himself below ground in the abandoned subway stations of New York City. He has no idea how he got there, no idea who he is. In his pocket he finds only a wad of blood-stained cash and a deck of playing cards. Once above ground, he rents out a cheap apartment, previously occupied by an enigmatic artist named Max Leider who’d left most everything behind—books, clothes, personal letters. But most peculiar are a series of paintings, each one of a mysterious woman hidden behind a curtain.

1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger that fill the latest issue of Secret Romance. She is deeply envious of her neighbour, Leonora, a beautiful art student who lives the life of excitement and intrigue Maite craves - so when she disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite jumps at the chance to uncover Leonora's secrets. Maite is not the only one searching for the missing girl.

Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in her boyfriend's flat. Despite the best efforts of the Crown Prosecution barrister, Sarah Newby, it seems possible that the boyfriend, David Kidd, may be acquitted. Should her family tolerate this? Or seek their own form of justice through revenge?

These are 10 of my hottest stories published in 2018, available in this one bundle collection. These stories are inspired by events from my own kinky life and include Double-Dom scenes, kinky discipline, BDSM, and much, much more. Stories include: "A Dom in Shining Armor", "Taming the Bitch Boss", "Her Master’s Voice", "Submission on the High Seas", and many more.

A year after helping the AI called the Infinet save the world from a deadly computer virus, Oreste Pax just wants things to go back to the way they were. Back to being the head of Omnitech, the biggest technology company in the world. Back to connecting the Univiz—the mixed reality glasses he invented a decade earlier—to a brain-computer interface, in hopes of transforming human cognition. When Lila Kendricks, one of the UV-BCI alpha testers, suddenly discovers she can manipulate real-world objects using just her mind, things finally seem to be back on track.

It’s the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore, and the town is teeming with tourists. Sebag and Molino, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day’s misdemeanors and petty complaints at the Perpignan police headquarters. But then a young Dutch woman is found murdered on a beach at Argelès, and another one disappears without a trace in the alleys of the city. Is it a serial killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. The media senses fresh meat and moves in for the feeding frenzy.

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

A lonely boy who always smiles, and a computer that cannot frown or smile.

Inspired by pulp fiction, comic books, and real life, Romance Stories is a swoon worthy, entertaining, addictive collection of love stories, ranging from the epic to the intimate, including time travel and supernatural romances, film noir love stories, love at first sight stories, steamy encounters, and much more. Love American Style meets The Twilight Zone in Romance Stories. James J. Caterino is the author of over one-hundred published works including Musical Poetry, Reviews and Essays, True Stories, The Anti-Matter Girl, Pop Star, The Promise, and Time Travel Stories.

In BDSM Bedtime Stories, you get five kinky stories about male dominance and female submission. For some of the women in these stories, submitting to a man is what they've always wanted. For others, they didn't know they needed it until it was already happening. No matter they ended up at their masters' feet, it is where they belong.

When a young woman who calls herself Suzie Q. approaches Luke to find her missing cat, Luke takes the job and winds up getting hold of a Magic 8 Ball that correctly predicts the future and answers any question, so long as it has nothing to do with lotto picks or love.

In this new anthology offered by Blunder Woman Productions, you’ll take a trip down twisty roads into forests, back alleys, and even across the border between life and death. Together these tales are funny, creepy, weird, contemplative, traditional, and speculative. The characters in these stories might take a wrong turn, but it’s the right move for any fan of thrillers and mysteries.

Peter Brandt is a war-scarred news service reporter who has seen more than he can bear to remember. Returning to the States, he discovers his former wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, brutally murdered and the local cops doing nothing to find her killer. Driven by guilt and regret over his failed marriage, Peter sets out with an old friend, retired cop Matt Banyon, to find Robin's killer.

These six sweet but raunchy sexual romps are just what you need before bed, or any other time of day for that matter. They tell the stories of women finding passion and excitement in the embrace of other men. They seek it because their marriages have become dull, because they need an encounter with an aggressive alpha male, because they want to get pregnant, because they need to feel what it’s like to have multiple strange men use them at the same time, and because their husbands know that a wife’s pleasure has to come first.

An A&R hotshot fell in love with them upon hearing a few of their songs, and suddenly all the sweat and soul-draining self-promotion seemed worth it. The band got a call asking them to bring their haunting mix to Manhattan for a label showcase. It was the break of a lifetime. Out of cash and desperate to make it, they set themselves on a collision course with New York. It's a decision that forces each band member to consider just how badly he wants that record deal, and what he's willing to do to get it. No one will stand in their way. Not even each other.

The way Inspector Hanzō Shimura had it figured, it was just another case. Sure, it was sick, twisted, but those were human traits he’d grown accustomed to. A hardened veteran of two wars, there was little left on Earth that could faze a man like him. But what didn’t sit well with him was that this case’s blood-trail led him home. All the way to Nagasaki, where he’d lost his wife and daughter to the atom bomb, nine years before.

These stories are inspired by Alexandra Noir's own ridiculously slutty escapades and include Double-Dom scenes, wax play, bondage, kinky discipline, BDSM, and much, much more. In Forgive Me, Master, for I have Sinned a professional dominatrix must pay penance to her Master for the things she does to submissive men. In Boss by Day, Sub by Night a ball-breaking female executive seeks to lay down her burdens by sexually submitting to men she would never normally consider as partners...These and other stories are available in this diverse collection of kink!