First Mystery

NYPD homicide detectives Mike Stoneman and Jason Dickson are preparing to testify at a high-profile murder trial. They busted the Broadway director, who poisoned his leading actor to collect the insurance money on his doomed show. Or did he? The director claims the evidence was planted to frame him and that Mike and Jason developed tunnel vision. If they did, can they live with themselves, knowing that an innocent man might be convicted . . . and someone else got away with the perfect crime?

A dusty old theater that was shut up for years is coming to life again, and the Aldens are there for opening night! They're excited to help out backstage with a brand-new mystery play. But the Trap-Door Theater has mysteries of its own - with rumors of ghosts, disappearing props, and even a haunted seat! What secrets lie behind the scenes?

The gripping first bundle in the next great detective series. Book one: Mack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own PI shop and hires out to local attorneys - until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling, a stunner in designer khakis. Trouble has arrived, she explains, in the form of a gang general from the West Coast. He's galvanizing the drug trade using vicious strong-arm tactics, and the police can't identify him.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how you will be able to use astral projection. It will also help you to learn some quick tips that will enable you to overcome fears and mental blocks as you attempt to begin your astral journey. Astral projection is an adventure that not many get to experience. It will empower you, teach you about yourself, introduce you to astral entities, and possibly convince you of proof of an afterlife.

Multiple murders in a quiet midwestern town had Detective Riley Willoughby's mind constantly spinning. There had not been murders like this in decades in the town of Woodlake. With the help of her partner, Jake Maxwell, they are on the journey of hunting down a killer. All the victims are women, and the killer begins leaving sinister notes with the bodies that are directed at Riley.

Joss McMillan’s perfect life crashes down the night he witnesses his sister’s murder - at the hands of a vampire. He then finds out his family’s secret heritage: They are part of the Slayer Society, a group whose mission is to rid the world of vampires. Joss is their new recruit. As Joss trains, bent on seeking revenge for his sister, he discovers powers that could make him the youngest, strongest Slayer in history. But there is a traitor in the Society, one whose identity would shake Joss to the core... if the traitor doesn’t kill him first.

Tausende deutschsprachige Einwanderer erhalten von der US-Regierung kostenloses Ackerland in der scheinbar endlosen Prärie. Geschäftsleute mit großen Träumen gründen mitten in den frisch besiedelten Landstrichen kleine Städte, die sich schon bald zu ländlichen Zentren des Wohlstands entwickeln sollen. Himmelsfeld ist einer dieser Orte. Doch der friedliche Name täuscht.

Dylan First, brilliant psychologist turned FBI agent, is trying to forget the horrific discovery of her past: that her mentor and father figure, a brilliant psychiatrist and professor, was secretly a serial killer. Though behind bars, he haunts Dylan’s psyche, and when a new killer turns up, seemingly targeting people from her mentor’s past, the FBI desperately need Dylan to solve the mind games that only a brilliant criminal psychologist like her can.

A down-to-earth forensics expert has just discovered a crime scene that is out of this world. In criminal forensics they train you to uncover evidence, no matter how brutal or bizarre the murder. But what if one night you encounter a crime scene so terrifying that no one on earth can explain it? It begins deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, at the site of a reported shoot-out. Investigator Colin Cellars cannot find a trace of perpetrator or victim - or even confirm that anyone has been killed.

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Angelina's boyfriend believes she will come back with the right amount of coercion if he gets rid of her "friend." Charley is willing to come along for the ride and the chance to do what he does best. Terry must realize that humans have free will and do not react well when you make decisions for them. He can't protect those who want to protect him, so what does Terry do? Nothing intelligent until he deals with Angelina's feelings. It might just be better to face the alien without his pistol.

The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes…but only for a minute. When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the community will be changed forever.

Professor Colin Ayres has spent years researching the strange story of Galina, Arizona, a sleepy border town ripped apart by violence and paranoia after the outbreak of a mysterious illness in 1960. Colin is certain the Galina Incident was simply a case of mass hysteria. But when his partner, Alonzo, starts exhibiting strange symptoms, Colin is shocked to realize they are the same as those that emerged in Galina decades ago.

A love story serves as backdrop for The Map of the Sky when New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells's War of the Worlds. What follows are three brilliantly interconnected plots to create a breathtaking tale of time travel and mystery, replete with cameos by a young Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time.

During the height of the escalating cold war between the Superpowers, strange events are occurring on the Welsh coastline, an area that would later become known as, The Welsh Triangle. On the opposite side of the country, even more disturbing occurrences are unfolding in Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk, England, which separates the twin airbases of RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters, occupied by the USAF The event is now known as The Rendlesham Forest Incident.

رحلة الدم لم تنتهِ إذن..بل إن الدم أكثر وأغزر.

Stories about demons are rising in pop culture, but accounts of their manifestations have been bubbling up throughout history. Paranormal investigator Richard Estep explores this societal fascination as he strives to identify exactly what demons are and where to find them. Consulting with experts ranging from an ordained Catholic exorcist to a medical doctor, Richard scrutinizes the history of demonology and infamous instances of possession, including the case that inspired The Exorcist. With all the facts at your fingertips, you can decide the truth for yourself.

When the seven-year-old grandson of a US senator vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother, who whispers, "The lights took him," and then never speaks again. As the FBI and National Guard launch a massive search, the boys' grandmother Lynn Roseworth fears only she knows the truth. But coming forward would ruin her family and her husband's political career.

Marci Simon lives a double life: conservative professor of English by day, and controversial blogger of aliens by night. But when a classified document lands in her lap, her two worlds collide in an explosive revelation of shocking and deadly secrets. Despite imminent danger at every twist, Marci embarks on an unstoppable quest to expose the terrifying truth. Only she never anticipated the entangled nebula of dark lies, nor the never-ending wormhole the government would spiral through to silence her forever.

Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything - including her memory - to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it.