True Thrillers

I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones.... My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 25 years ago. As a child I witnessed his crimes. Everything is different now. I have a new identity. I’m a mother. I am finally free. Until that podcast. I should never have listened. They’re linking a recent disappearance to the crimes of the past. They know who I am. They’re calling me Little Bones again. They say I’m a villain, but I’m not. I’m a victim. You believe me, don’t you?

Lydia's life spirals into chaos when her son is abducted, forcing her to confront dangerous secrets from her past and battle her manipulative ex-husband in a race against time.In this gripping psychological thriller, Lydia’s world is shattered when her son, Lance, vanishes from a crowded restaurant in a chilling kidnapping. Battling her ruthless ex-husband and his manipulative family, she’s thrust into a twisted murder mystery where every clue leads deeper into danger. As secrets from her past collide with the present, Lydia must unravel the truth before time runs out.

On the heels of a divorce, a mid-list mystery writer returns to his hometown in Central Connecticut and is dragged back into a decades-old unsolved case involving former missing classmates to expose the horrific secrets of a quaint, idyllic New England town. Fusing the modern domestic psychological thriller with popular unsolved mysteries (Girl on the Train meets In Cold Blood), this meta blend of true crime and fiction plays with expectations and perspective before its mind-blowing conclusion.

At a dive bar in San Francisco’s edgy Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is drinking whiskey and looking for an escape from her desperate lifestyle. When she is approached by a Russian businessman, she thinks she might have found her exit. A week later - drugged, disoriented, and wanted for robbery - Emily finds herself on the run for her life. When cop Leo Elias - broke, alcoholic and desperate - hears about an unsolved bank robbery, the stolen money proves too strong a temptation.

"Clear your schedules and grab the tissues before even turning the first page of this stunner and get ready for an absolute rollercoaster of emotions!! One of the best books I have ever read!!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Could you raise the son he had with his ex? Lila may not have been the love of her husband’s life, but they’ve built an enviable life together. Lila goes back to school shopping for her daughters and manages her thriving at-home baking business. Her husband Ryan is on partner track at one of Los Angeles’ top law firms. But then Ryan comes home with some disturbing news: he had a...

Nominated for Commonwealth Short Story Prize & Masters Review Winter Short Story Award. "I don't wanna die in the hospital... I just wanna stay with you at the final stage of my life!" 'Becoming lonely it's hard to find peace and happiness'... Actually, Mr. Smith is gradually realizing it after losing his wife to leukemia but wants to live peacefully at his Avon Park duplex with his dearest pets. His pets Raegar and Mular watchfully safeguard him from all the dangers even from the threats of filthy thugs. This wicked give him two options, either he got to hand over his hard-earned pension ...

Verity is telling lies. And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder. Serena has been lying for years. And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable. Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her. So will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves? Everyone lies. But whose lies are going to end in tragedy?

It's Rembrandt Stone's last chance to get things right - and to apprehend a killer who promises tragedy for him in the future. But one mistake in the past might cost him everything he's worked so hard to save.

Jack McCreesh. A high school student who feels a powerful calling to be a priest. Due to family circumstances, he decides to take time for discernment and join the military. Years as a Navy corpsman and working with the United States Marines have toughened Jack, but it may not be enough. He's heard the whispers, like everyone else. He's seen the news and it makes his blood boil to know evil has permeated the sanctuary. With good in his heart, he enters the seminary to battle dark forces and the Lavender Mafia. What Jack doesn't know is that he's in the minority.

An unfathomable double murder in the local ice cream shop. A small, Southern town in shock. And in denial. Fingers are pointed, and accusations leveled. Fifty years later, the questions remain. And no one is seeking answers. Until they have no choice. The answers find them.

It's the run-up to Christmas, 1998. On the Isle of Mull, Sergeant Ivor Punch is losing himself in his vinyl collection, a tragic anniversary and too much single malt whisky. But news of a missing child soon brings him back to his senses. And as word spreads of more strange disappearances, an aircraft vanishing from the sky and a famous classical musician gone with it, it seems a sinister plot holds the island in its grip. Punch thought he knew the secrets of this place, its people and stories.

A group of university students hold a Book Club, essentially as another excuse to eat takeaway food and drink copious amounts of booze on a Friday night, once a month. The latest ‘Book of the Month’ is titled ‘Geoffrey’ and they are highly critical as it failed to exploit the powerful relics highlighted in the book; a missed opportunity in their opinion. One of the students suggests that since they have all become such critical, literary experts, they should each write a short story to show how these relics could have been used in a more exciting and dramatic way. In the drunken ...

Can an aging detective from a city police department make it as a special agent? The pulse-pounding action continues to escalate in Detective Patrick MacKenna's world. As an investigator in Major Crimes, he's been immersed in the darkest depths of criminality for four long years. Perched on the supervisor's list, time seems suspended in the frozen confines of the City of Syracuse Police Department in Central New York. Amidst this chaos, a glimmer of hope emerges in his personal life as he reunites with his one true love. Yet, doubt lingers among his loyal comrades On the Job, casting ...

Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha’s panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha’s best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine, might know the truth, but she is being unhelpfully tightlipped.

WHEN WIZARDS WAR Deep in the woods lives a wizard called the Professor. In the depths of the Depression, the residents of Fester, Pennsylvania call on “powwowers” such as the Professor to heal ailments, tell fortunes . . . and exact revenge. When an upstart powwower threatens to horn in on the Professor’s business, he starts making plans for his own revenge. The sinister forces he sets in motion spiral out of control, and soon threaten to consume the leading citizens of the town.

"The one rule is, don’t mess with the past". But he did, and now ex-detective Rembrandt Stone is reaping the devastation of ignoring those words when he traveled back in time to solve the one case that had haunted his dreams. Yes, he solved the crime. Yes, he saved lives. But Rembrandt returns to find the unthinkable has happened and his life has shattered. There’s only one answer: Break the rule again. Go back in time once more, fix what went wrong, save what went right, and yeah, in his spare time solve another brutal crime.

"Elsu, my love, our people have faced countless hardships, but together, we have always found a way to survive. We must hold onto hope and fight for our future, we mustn’t handover our only land to the US Army." "Gentlemen, the time has come to rid ourselves of these savages once and for all. These natives are mere obstacles standing in our path to wealth and prosperity." The year was 1885, Elsu, a courageous Red Indian warrior, yearned for a tranquil existence alongside his beloved wife Tayen, childhood friends, and their people. The heart of California cradled their last village, ...

Injured in a seemingly pointless war, Captain Nathan J. Northland returns home to Lorehaven to an uncertain future. He doesn't know what to expect, but it certainly wasn't being posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he’d never felt before. Feelings about fangs. When Viscount Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn’t been sure what to expect either. It certainly hadn’t been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf.

A tsunami of murder on the Gold CoastMurder on a college campus is only the first in a series of homicides circling Dean Talley, a cop with his own version of criminal justice. Set against the Gold Coast of southern California, Dean and Laura Talley continue their carnage against evil introduced in ‘Deadly Talley’. They balance resolving the campus murder while diverting attention from their own court of no appeal. A hard-boiled tribute to the pulp writers of the 1930’s, ‘Dean’s List’ jolts you from the first scene and never lets go.

In the early of investigating the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Mark Fuhrman uncovered evidence destined to become the cornerstone of the prosecution's case in the trial of O.J. Simpson. But as the elaborate legal epic unfolded, Fuhrman himself-his character and professional conduct - far overshadowed the impact of his evidence.