Ghost Mystery Crime

Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult, this anthology of 13 true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric Tombe, whose body was located because of a recurring dream in which his mother saw Eric down a well; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, in the early 19th century by the nocturnal appearance of a "ghost"; and much more.

Everyone tells you that there's a Heaven and a Hell when you die. What no one tells you is that Hell isn't full of flames and demons. For Mike Reese his Hell is reliving the death of his family over and over again. After being accused of their murders and sentenced to death, Mike must now live out his afterlife reliving that day as punishment. The only problem is, he wasn't the killer....

Privatdetektiv Vic Baskerstreet bliver inviteret ud på et slot, hvis ejer er hunderæd. Han siger, at slottet bliver hjemsøgt af et genfærd, og at han er bange for, at det vil ham til livs. Vic og hans trofaste hjælper Edgar går straks i gang med den uhyggelige opgave at finde ud af, hvad genfærdet vil have, hvis det da overhovedet er virkeligt! Mesterdetektiv Vic Baskerstreet er byens bedste sporhund. Hans assistent, Edgar Poulardrovsky, er godmodig og pligtopfyldende, men måske ikke lige "den skarpeste kniv i skuffen"...

When a disgraced politician is found dead at his London flat, there are few people who mourn his demise. George Dent’s reputation was in tatters, and his suicide surprises nobody - except one. Dent’s childhood friend Peter Timms is certain the MP’s downfall was a set-up; why else was he being stalked in the weeks before his death? Timms can even name the culprit - the only problem is, he’s been dead for seventy years. But broke PI Kenny Gabriel can’t afford to be cynical. He agrees to round up Dent’s old school gang, although some of them are less than keen to be found.

It’s 1805, and as a result of two tragic incidents, the legend of the ghost of Bowdoin College is born. Over a century and a half later, Bowdoin graduate Vincent Mark, a young lawyer who works for The Sterling Works in New York City, is reeling from a series of suspicious deaths of the senior officers at Sterling.

In this mind-bending twist of events, Benjamin Brinkley, a New York Times best-selling author, experiences a most horrifying duel with death after purchasing a typewriter at a local bookstore. Benjamin quickly realizes the machine was typing the chapters of his novel on its own. Not only was the malicious gadget typing by itself, the events from the manuscript came to life, threatening and snuffing out the lives of friends and foes alike.

With his French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of seemingly unconnected misdeeds, disaffected detective DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth and attempts to find the missing link. As the arrival of an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory - and his ego - Austin resorts to illogically effective tactics to protect those who matter most.

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman’s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Shenagh Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries.

Trouble finds its way from Boston to the door of the Green Lady Inn in Salem, Massachusetts. Jake buys an antique box not knowing there are stolen diamonds hidden inside. A woman and her child are running from an abusive husband. Lucinda puts in her two cents' worth from the spirit world, and it's up to Megan to figure out her strange messages.

Attacked at home by an unknown assailant, meek Lucille Stevenson should be dead, but she isn’t. She should have called the police, she should have told her family, she should have done a lot of things, but she didn’t. Because what Lucille did to her attacker went far beyond self-defense. It was cold, brutal, and vicious; and if anyone found out, her life would be over. Unfortunately, her biggest problem isn't getting rid of the body; it's that she really enjoyed killing the man and can't wait to do it again...

A serious street-cop, Brett O'Shea wants to make detective. Brett's no-nonsense belief in the supernatural world is put to the test when a ghost, Al, appears and announces that he's been sent to help Brett catch a serial killer. Brett is forced to work with the unpredictable ghost, much to his annoyance. As the pair go after the killer, they quickly discover the killer has unnatural abilities. With his sergeant breathing down his neck, Brett needs to figure out how to work with his ghostly partner and eliminate the threat before loved ones are murdered.

I wasn’t a woman who ever saw herself like this, the sheriff’s badge hanging heavy over my heart. I didn’t want to wear the damn thing, but all the men feared putting it on. I hoped the silver star would lead me to a day of reckoning, despite the nightmare it would bring. Because sooner or later the man I’ve been waiting for would return. And that would be a dark day indeed.

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking that someone is out to get him. With his marriage already on the rocks, he suddenly finds his private life plastered across the pages of a tabloid. And then a woman already linked to Skinner by tragedy is found dead, with her young son a kidnap victim. Skinner finds himself at the centre of a deadly maze of conspiracy and unless he can clear his name he stands to lose everything.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of the Cold Cases, and with his ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, and their new partner, Mary Cohen, they have to solve cases to allow victim's ghosts to go on to the hereafter. They take on a case of murder of an escort service Madam who was blackmailing her clients. The Ghost Squad finds they have too many suspects and now have to narrow the list down to one. Will they find the killer?

Blood. Whiskey. Pink. A voice. Someone who loved her. Someone she loved. A killer. And death. So much death. Convinced that her chaotic flashes of memory are real Amy keeps pushing forward despite what it’s doing to her. But the further she goes, the more her memories reveal a dark past that isn't finished with her yet...

Justice Tonner’s life is a wreck, fraught with serious legal troubles, raging alcoholism, and crippling anxiety. That all changes when he stumbles upon $150,000 in cash, a dead woman’s body, and a mysterious diary. Now, as the prime suspect for the woman’s murder, he must hide in the shadows and evade the authorities, all while attempting to use the diary to expose a ruthless drug and sex-trafficking cartel, and rescue a girl from their clutches.

Marines Robert Flynn and Izzy Khan are fed up with being pinned down by machine guns with no air support. Now back in the U.S., they create "ORION" a platoon based weapon system utilizing quadrocopters and precision guided mortars. They soon discover the problem with ORION - it's too cheap and too effective. Undeterred by the powers that be, they embark upon a mission to prove ORION, a misguided quest so dangerous it will take more than ORION to save them. Ride with them as they fight their way into the badlands of Southwest Afghanistan.

Whilst searching a windswept mountainside for the fabled ghost moth fungus, a young Tibetan boy unearths a mysterious relic. Moments later the People’s Liberation Army of China marches into his isolated village in the valley below and begins to dismantle an ancient way of life. As the brutal oppression grows, the boy’s precious find becomes first a symbol of hope for the villagers then a tool of survival for a people and a religion. It must be preserved at all costs.

Imagine getting the chance to solve your own murder. For Sarah, the prospect becomes a reality after finding her dead body in the morgue and deciding that the injuries sustained indicate she was murdered. She won’t let being a ghost stop her from tracking down the murderer and stopping him from killing again. However, she’ll need help from someone living. She finds that help in the form of Steve, a near recluse who sees ghosts and isn’t thrilled at the idea of Sarah appearing in his house whenever she feels like it.

What if two murders, spaced nearly fifty years apart, turn out to be linked to a safe deposit box, whose contents hold the key to decades-old secrets and threaten national security? The second exciting novel in Mike Dennis' Key West Nocturnes series, The Ghosts Of Havanais a tale of old vendettas that will not die. Mike Dennis continues to lift the veil off Key West, revealing it as a true noir city, on a par with Los Angeles, New Orleans, or Miami.