First Mystery

Mit einem milliardenschweren, geheimen Waffenprogramm will das Pentagon für klare Machtverhältnisse im Nahen Osten sorgen. Doch der Versuch geht nach hinten los: Tristan Nazir, der Empfänger der Zahlungen, treibt ein doppeltes Spiel mit den USA. Er nutzt das Geld zur Gründung einer Terrormiliz des Islamischen Staats. Ex-Delta Dewey Andreas wird nach Syrien geschickt, um Details über den Verrat ans Licht zu bringen - bis seine Tarnung auffliegt. In letzter Sekunde gelingt es ihm, Einzelheiten nach Amerika zu übermitteln.

Kaum noch Waffen und zunehmend außerirdische Touristen aus Goni auf der Erde. Widerstand formiert sich, es braut sich was zusammen. Ehemaligen politischen Hardlinern, Militärs, Geheimdienstlern und Gangstern gefällt das neue friedliche Dasein auf der Erde gar nicht. Sie planen Anschläge auf Gonim, erwischen sie beim Wasser- und Schneesport und töten sie. Sie wollen ihre Waffen zurück. Selbst vor Raketen-Anschlägen auf Herbert schrecken sie nicht zurück.

In his most personal case yet, astrologer/detective David Lowell is presented with a briefcase containing one million dollars in cash and the promise of another million upon success, by Dr. Ethan Williamson, to find his dying son’s twin for a life-saving kidney transplant. A rare blood type has made a successful donor impossible to find, and time is running out for the boy.

Twenty-one-year-old Luke Edwards is struggling to cope with the death of his parents and the loss of his best friend. Shortly after losing those close to him, he chooses to take matters in his own hands to help those in need. Several months after living in the slums of a city ravaged by poverty and food rations running low, Luke stumbles upon a stranger who rekindles his desire to continue his promise to avenge those he loved. With a renewed purpose, a world revolution is ignited in the hearts of millions versus the wicked faction known as the Children of Iscar.

"The Silence of Sherlock Holmes" has both Holmes and Watson battle murder in a library, but when Holmes becomes a critical patient, can Watson rise to save the day? "He Who Would Be Holmes" reveals the capers of their northern counterparts. The impersonators have flair and panache, but not the ability to solve cases quite as well as those who occupy of 221b Baker Street. Holmes is ex circus and Watson may have only seen one doctor in his life. When an American woman turns up promising retirement money, the pair can’t resist.

Jack Lamburt is out for blood. After a brutal terrorist murdered his pregnant wife, he’s sworn not to allow another innocent soul to suffer a similar fate. So how can he say no when an old flame in the CIA recruits him for a covert mission to stop an extremist plot to butcher thousands? Flying under the radar, the pair sets course for a Cuban hot zone and Lamburt’s first taste of battle.

Epidemiologist Giselle Quick is a happy woman. After being lured away from the CDC to work in the private sector, she now has it all: Fulfilling work, a great paycheck, and time to spend with her sons. And seriously, who wouldn’t like getting paid to play diabolical games all day? That those games save lives makes it perfect. Inside the BG Group’s laboratories, Giselle and her team game out all the possibilities of biological warfare and natural pandemics. Her Red Cell makes sure they’re prepared should the worst happen. It may be for profit, but it’s good work.

“When girls go missing here, no one says a word"...Twenty-four year old Lila has disappeared without trace. It’s the kind of case that ex-military loner Grant Fletcher would normally be happy to take on - he will always seek justice if someone has the money to pay him. But this one he’s doing for free. This one’s personal. She last called her father from a small town called Daversville, in rural Georgia. A place - Fletcher discovers as he checks into the only motel - where folks are proud to keep themselves to themselves.

Garack Bloodfist is an orc. A former bandit, warrior, monster hunter. His name is legend in the country of his birth. In the year since they were forced to relocate to Summervale, Virginia, Gary has made it his mission to help his extended family of orcs and goblins assimilate into American society. When he learns of a job opportunity with a construction company, Gary wastes no time in securing the positions for some of his fellow orcs. But he soon learns there were only openings because something had happened to the old crew.

You may not know who I am, but you know what I’ve done. I’m the one who altered human conception around the world in an unimaginable way, unimaginable to all but me—a seed planted while I was young. People had to be punished for what they did. The punishment had to be specific. I became a medical doctor, researcher, and vindicator of the verbal, physical, and sexual assaults perpetrated against women by men for eons. Including me. I’m not alone in my work. A great number of women share my ultimate goal. All except one. I’ll find the betrayer. Until then, men are beginning to pay for their sins against us. And I’m just getting started. Dr. Katherine Eris Barnes—remember my name. Although, I don’t know how you’ll be able to forget it.

Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with, and worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy.

Sloane Osborne is a paranormal real estate agent in the business of selling haunted houses, but, in truth, she’s only searching for one ghost. And her time is running out. It’s the 366th day after her fiancé’s death. Michael used to like putting things off for “a year and a day” - so tonight’s the night. Sloane will do anything to make contact with him before the clock strikes midnight.

Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their respective love of Christ and Beckett. When Anna becomes pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout when it finally comes is shocking, cruel, and violent. Over 30 years later, Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned.

Earl Sommers is in hot water. An agent with the Speer Galleries, he's been caught cheating with Speer's wife as well as stealing from the gallery. So when an old friend turns up in a suicidal mood, Earl agrees to find him a gun in return for one last favor....

Years ago Gideon Synn tried to save Faith Bloodstone from a deadly family curse in upstate New York. He failed and Faith died at the hands of a mysterious blood-drinking fiend. Synn ran from his failure and became a world traveler, joining the French Foreign Legion and eventually becoming a mercenary in China. Now, years later, he has opened a security firm with his sister Kathy. Charity Bloodstone, Faith's younger sister, comes to him for help against the same curse.

As a child, Bailey Browne dreamed of a knight in shining armor swooping in to rescue her and her mother. As she grows older, those dreams transform, becoming ones of a mysterious stranger who will sweep her off her feet and whisk her away from her ordinary existence. Then, suddenly, there he is. Despite the 10-year difference in their ages, her working class upbringing and his of privilege, Logan Abbott and Bailey fall deeply in love. Marriage quickly follows.

While assisting Holmes in an embezzlement case in Falmouth, Watson is called to aid Mrs. Ranstead, the survivor of a shipwreck. She and crewman Cluney were the only survivors from a ship that was transporting an ancient meteorite from St. John's to Falmouth.

Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything to make sure his son's dreams come true. Now it is Simon's chance to rise as high as those dreams allow...Ray Gould was born to the back streets but raised with pride-a quality matched by a sharp intellect and the desire to attain the impossible...Andrew Fraser was raised by a soccer hero turned politician. Now it's his turn for heroics, whatever the cost. From strangers to rivals, four men embark on a journey for the highest stakes of all—the keys to No. 10 Downing Street.

Brother Cadfael meets Walt Longmire. Everyone has an inner life.... Father Ambrose found a simple, worthwhile path leading a secluded spiritual community in Northern California. He spends his days happily focused on guiding the farming and teaching meditation. Then, someone dumps a body in one of their orchards.

The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence. From the bench at Manhattan Supreme, she has seen the most hardened killers pass through her courtroom. But there’s something about this trial―a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman―that affects her as no other case ever has. Her chaotic, stressful home life only adds to her mounting feelings of panic and fear. She’s also harboring a secret that could have far-reaching ramifications, personal and professional. And now, unbeknownst to Alice, her daughter has begun a search for her biological father.