True Thrillers

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 ...

Ventiquattro omicidi. Centodue feriti. La cruda contabilità della Uno bianca è quella di una strage. Novantuno rapine. Spesso per pochi spiccioli, per massacrare benzinai, zingari, extracomunitari, carabinieri, impiegati, semplici testimoni. Un eccidio pianificato. Una violenza bestiale per un rebus che pare senza soluzione. Un enigma complicato perché, questa volta, gli assassini vestono la divisa. Roberto Savi - ex attivista del Fronte della Gioventù, un uomo aggressivo, taciturno, schivo, che frequenta solo i fratelli e passa gran parte del suo tempo a giocare con i videogiochi.

Kwynne and Psalm were deep in it—young, in love, and certain nothing could break them. But when a sudden turn leaves one of them behind, everything they built is thrown into question with just one truth painfully clear: something broke, and love just might not be enough to fix it.

Death and Madness in Four Tales A. M. Arimont shows in his stories that true horror is always and everywhere lurking around us. Just where we feel safest, horror strikes hardest. Four tales in which horror unexpectedly invades the everyday world. Jack Ketchum: "I've read his stories, A.M.Arimont is talented!" Daybreak A new summer day begins in a quiet suburban town. Here, where house after house is lined up, there is still peace and order. But how well do you really know your neighbors? What if death and madness lived right next door? Tunnel vision You feel safe in your apartment, but ...

Hotels are a place that some people frequent. Business trips, conferences, getaways, and vacations. But these people have stories to share from their experiences at hotels that weren't quite what they expected.... As one patron has advised after a terrifying experience, if you are going to an unfamiliar area, ask about the history of the place before you stay there. You'll hear about a business trip with an unexpected ghostly twist and many others. Some hotel employees as well as patrons recount numerous terrifying paranormal experiences in haunted hotels.

Las Vegas, 1945. Reeling from her husband’s death, Thelma Miles sets out to tear down a mafia empire. As federal agents circle, rival gangs plot, and her father’s empire grows more powerful by the day, Thelma masterminds an elaborate ruse. To pull off the con, she assembles an unlikely crew: a Hollywood starlet who is more than she appears; a relentless reporter on a crusade to root out corruption, and her former boss who may or may not be undermining the whole operation.

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.

Foxy in Fall - STANDALONE Paranormal Romance (Shifter Seasons) 1 Foxy Shifter Ready to Woo + 1 Curvy Girl Ready for Love = A ‘Furry’ Hot Romance! Bubbly Susie Cyrus is ready for romance. And she’s excited to go on the vacation of a lifetime with her new boyfriend. But when she makes an unplanned visit to his office she gets a cruel surprise. Fox shifter Joel Rigby knows that Susie is his fated mate. But so far his feelings have not been returned. Can the hunky officer turn things around? Foxy in Fall is a BBW Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance. This is a standalone novella and the fourth...

Shawn Wallis earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology. Mr. Wallis currently resides in Zephyrhills with his Weimaraner puppy Samantha.

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.

"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." "I've come to realize that there are deeper forces at play in this unjust war. Forces that manipulate and exploit, bringing destruction upon innocent lives!" The year was 1885, Elsu, a courageous Red Indian warrior, ...

Kate Marshall's detective agency takes off when she and her partner, Tristan, are hired to investigate a cold case from more than a decade ago. Twelve years previously, a determined young journalist called Joanna Duncan exposed a political scandal that had major repercussions. In the fallout she disappeared without trace and was never found. When Kate and her partner, Tristan, examine the case files, they find the trail long cold, but they discover the names of two young men who also vanished at that time.

This book is based on a true story. It is a case of history repeating itself. An actual article in a Pensacola newspaper July 12, 1957, read; "While making his final check of the evening, the Roberts Cemetery groundskeeper found that a slab of concrete had been removed from one of the graves. The casket had been opened exposing the body of a young girl buried seven months earlier. Her clothes were disheveled and "her body had been re-positioned." .............. Three days later in the Whitmire Cemetery, it happened again. This time a husband who was visiting the grave of his recently ...

She was terrified...the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe...someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust. It was dark...and getting darker. Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family...not friends. Probably not an enemy. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a detective to recognize what he did hear... Fear. In a desperate moment of hope, a single number saved her life. Then a complete stranger opened his home offering safety yet Grace knew danger surrounded them...when the pain allowed her few ...

Twenty years ago 21-year-old Sophie Collier vanished one night. She left nothing behind but a trainer on the old pier - and a hole in the heart of her best friend, Francesca. Now a body's been found. And Francesca's drawn back to the seaside town she's tried to forget. Perhaps the truth of what happened to Sophie will finally come out. Yet Francesca is beginning to wish she hadn't returned. Everywhere she turns are ghosts from her past. The same old faces and familiar haunts of her youth.

Bestselling true crime writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives and partners of serial murderers who remained unaware of exactly who they had fallen for until after their other half's arrest or, in some cases, conviction. When finding out the truth, these innocents have to face the grim reality of betrayal and deceit and often experience guilt for not having recognized the killer in their home.

The great heatwave of 1916 has the East Coast in its suffocating grip. For those fleeing the city, the cool, blue Atlantic of the Jersey Shore is a promised oasis. But paradise is ripped apart when a swimmer is brutally killed in the surf. Authorities are quick to dismiss the death as a freak accident. But when the horror strikes again, relentlessly moving north, the truth becomes undeniable. A rogue shark with a taste for human flesh is hunting in the placid waters of the summer resorts. The panic that seizes the coast is nothing compared to what comes next. In a terrifying turn that ...

Now an MI6 operative, Snow must locate and rescue an old SAS colleague before an Al-Qaeda splinter cell can carry out acts of unprecedented horror. But who is covertly funding these new attacks, and why? Aidan Snow finds himself caught in a maelstrom involving East, West and Middle East that could have catastrophic results.

"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, ...

Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens - all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womanizer and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis "sons of whores." He is on record as saying he does not "give a shit" about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel.