Fantasy Detective

There's no place like home for the holidays - or for having you darkest secrets revealed! Can Rafael Jones manage to find the missing girl, build on his romance with agent Clara Thomas, and still keep his parents thinking he's living a normal life instead of being living dead? And will working for the forces of Heaven strengthen Rafael's faith or shake it? Wizards, witches, angels, and pixie dust bring their own surprises for Rafael's Christmas.

Jäger, uno de los terroristas más peligrosos de la Tierra, ha llegado a la ciudad lunar de Ilarki con el propósito de destruirla. Por suerte, ha sido aprendido y ahora cumple condena en prisión. Por lo menos su cuerpo está en la cárcel, su mente ha conseguido huir y eso es lo único que necesita para cumplir con sus planes. Seb Damon, tras salir airoso de su primer caso, deberá enfrentarse a esta extraña caza del terrorista. Para ello, contará con la ayuda de Kurt y Bianca, pero también con su nuevo ayudante y un policía enviado desde la Tierra para atrapar a Jäger.

Santana Sokolov - John "Dick" Chambers' client and a woman he wouldn't mind getting to know much better. Well, if her opinion of him wasn't already so low, it had to look up to see the bottom of her boots. His case is moving forward, but for every two steps forward, it seems someone is trying to kill him. That gets annoying after a while. Make a little head-way, dodge bullets, get into a fight, run for your life. Wash, rinse, repeat. Atlantica isn't giving up her secrets easily, and others are now playing in the game.

From of the author of The Silk Code, winner of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, comes another intriguing blend of science fiction and hard-boiled police-procedural mystery.

A fourteen-year-old girl disappears on the small island of Föhr, and Detective Lena Lorenzen is called in to investigate. When the girl’s bloodied body is found on the beach with vicious wounds to the wrist, Lena immediately suspects that what’s been made to look like suicide was in fact a brutal and calculated murder. But the local residents - even the girl’s own parents - won’t cooperate with her investigation. The devoutly religious islanders are clearly hiding something. But what ungodly secret could possibly lead to the murder of an innocent teenage girl?

In the derelict house next door to a building site, Dawn lives with a young woman who says to call her Mum. Dawn loves the hole in the roof, where she can always see blue. She loves her book of birds and she loves Mrs Goring, the old lady who lives on the ground floor. But when Dawn's medicine runs out and Mrs Goring disappears, Dawn begins see the world as it really is. Next door, the new facility to hold children like her is almost finished. But Dawn wants to live. Can she escape, find Mrs Goring and the truth about her family before the doors to the Sparehouse open?

Private Detective Alan Blades can't count on a regular paycheck, but he can always count on his gut. His gut just convinced him to accompany his ex-wife’s sister on a cruiser to Orion - a good thing, considering there’s a killer on board. Throw in a femme fatale, some space pirates, and an eccentric collection of suspects, and you have the makings of the first Alan Blades Adventure.

"Ich bin der Hüter des Schatzes", so beginnt das Tagebuch des jungen Revolutionärs Josef Maderspacher im Jahr 1849. Über 150 Jahre später werden seine Aufzeichnungen neben einer Leiche im Schauinsland-Bergwerk bei Freiburg gefunden. War es Unfall oder Mord? Gibt es eine Verbindung zwischen dem Tod des Unbekannten und der Lebensbeichte Josefs, der sich einst im Schauinsland versteckt hielt? Léon, Sohn des ermittelnden Hauptkommissars, glaubt fest daran.

For my birthday, my best friends Gilly and Pippa signed us up for a weekend at the Central Midwest Spa Convention. Yay. Massages, fine dining, maid service, and best of all, as long as we attend a few workshops, the weekend is a tax write-off. It should be all sunshine and roses, right? Wrong. My former intern at Belliza Beauty aka the Job Stealer, Carmen Carraway, is a featured presenter. Yuck. Throw in an ex-boyfriend, a number one fan, a brewing scandal, and a dead body, and my relaxing birthday weekend is DOA.

After discovering a man’s body in the Rotherhithe tunnel, Alice Carter embarks on one of the most unusual cases she will ever encounter. Politicians and civilians are dying in odd circumstances and it leaves her mentor, Max Greenstick, scratching his head. Why are they being targeted, and what links the outlandish deaths together?

He's back! One of pulpdom's all-time favorite heroes, Jim Anthony, Super Detective, in three fast-paced action adventures. From the dense, hot jungles of Guatemala to the dark alleys of New York City, Jim Anthony and his associates battle the forces of evil and injustice.

All three novellas feature Washington, D.C. Homicide Detective John "Black Jack" Morrison and his travails as he gets sent out to the super-secret spy facility known as Area 51 to solve a series of murders. Jack can't stay out of trouble with the chief of detectives back home, mostly due to his drinking, and his cockups get him sent to the Nevada desert as punishment. But it's not the murders that bother Black Jack, so much as the evidence he finds about the events from Roswell in 1947.

Detective Sergeant Ignatius Brown was on holiday. His leg not yet recovered from his last brush with death. Still plagued by "night terrors", he was glad of the opportunity to get out of London and join his two cousins on the airship for a quiet cruise. All is not as it seems when a notorious gunrunner is murdered.

A missionary woman has disappeared in Spitalfields, one of London's most dangerous districts. When Sherlock Holmes is called on to find her, he discovers enormous, highly intelligent rats have made their home under the streets of London. Holmes is forced to confront the horrors of his past and science gone mad. Word of this phenomenon draws the attention of rising zoologist G. E. Challenger, who decides he must meet the creatures' creator, one Dr. Moreau.

Feisty seventeen-year-old Lilith Lane has a dreamy boyfriend, a wicked tongue, and a talent for solving mysteries. When her little sister, Beth, goes missing, that talent is put to the ultimate test. And when Lilith's only lead is a reality-bending rooftop portal to an alternate universe, she's willing to make the leap. Aided by local mad scientist Dr. Hammer, Lilith searches for clues in a parallel version of her hometown, Mirabilis, racing against the clock to rescue her sister from whoever snatched her.

Six best-selling novels together in one omnibus, including: The Mystery of the Walking Statue (The Robot Twins, Book 1). When a priceless - and cursed - Egyptian statue suddenly disappears from a collector's home, Rick, Jed and their ingenious robot, Meek, are determined to find out the facts.

Mentre sta lavorando sotto copertura in una insolita e caotica Londra vittoriana, Irene Winters, spia della società segreta la Biblioteca Invisibile, scopre che il suo assistente Kai è scomparso, rapito dalla fazione dei fae, creature fatte di caos e magia, capaci di mutare forma e provocare disordini nei mondi corrotti. Considerando il legame di Kai con i draghi, acerrimi avversari dei fae, le ripercussioni del suo rapimento potrebbero essere fatali, non solo per il suo amico ma per interi mondi: Irene deve salvarlo e scongiurare l'Armageddon a ogni costo.

Fifteen-year-old Laurel Goodwin wakes up to find her older sister Ivy missing from their Airstream trailer in the Oregon redwoods. A recurring nightmare convinces her that Ivy was abducted, but no one takes her dream seriously, including her mom. Laurel, a loner, has to learn to ask for help, and Jasper Blake, a mysterious new kid who shares her love of old books, quickly becomes her ally. Together they find their quiet town holds a deep secret and is the epicenter of a dark prophecy.

Yesterday they were five ordinary friends. Today they are all that stand between us and extinction... Havenbrook, Iowa. Typical small town America, nestled in the rolling plains of the Midwest. Life is simple here. But for high school senior Jay Anderson, it's about to get a whole lot more complicated. Accused of a crime he didn't commit, he is shocked to become an outcast throughout this small community, and becomes suspicious of the townspeople's suddenly strange behavior.

Rafael Jones is always a little out of his depth in rural settings, but he's not just a detective, he's also undead. He can't ignore the call from the Saratoga County coroner when she mentions the bite marks found on several drowning victims during the spring and summer of 1947. However, he knows his weaknesses (sunlight, running water, and a woeful lack of country manners), so he isn't working alone. His slowly developing powers and quick wits may not be a match for something old, strong in magic, and completely cursed.