Mystery Crime Fantasy

Violet Veil is ready for her next big case, and with trouble afoot at the Grecian Theatre, Violet and her dog, Bones, are hot on the trail. But just who is the mysterious fortune-teller, Lady Athena, whose predictions keep coming true? Is it all just a case of smoke and mirrors? Or is there something more sinister going on?

Is she a cop with a cause or a devil in disguise? Terra Kris failed when she was supposed to look the other way during an assignment. For that act and her unrepentant attitude, she has powerful people gunning for her. Now, someone has decided to use a new AI-embedding program snuck in during an emergency operation. Where she goes, they can follow. Until she figures out what is going on. Then there will be hell to pay.

"الصبية والسيجارة" علامة من علامات أدب الديستوبيا، أدب المدينة الفاسدة، في القرن الحادي والعشرين، ولكنّها دستوبيا ساخرة تعرّي بخفّة تهافت عالم من المثل والأحلام والقيم حتّى تغدو صنوًا للثقل ويصبح الكائن لا يحتمل.

Daisy Linden and her sister, Frederica, arrive by airship in Santa Fe, capital of the Texican Territories, determined to search for their missing father. But two surprises await them - the authorities' baffling refusal to help and a not-so-chance meeting with snake-oil salesman William Barnicott. To their joy, the Lindens find that their father has indeed been seen in Santa Fe. To their horror, it was an assignation with a cancan dancer in the dead of night.

Imagine, you are lounging on your couch, sipping coffee, and suddenly from nowhere a naked corpse of a woman appears in front of you. You get rid of the corpse somehow, without informing the police, but a few days later, you meet the same woman, alive and thriving. This is exactly what happens to Rehan. There is a serial killer on the loose with the means to dump his victims across time and space. Rehan makes saving the woman and catching the killer his mission. What's more, the police have an inkling that he is involved in the case somehow.

Imagine a world devoid of violence - a world where fists can’t hit, guns don’t kill, and bombs can’t destroy. In this tantalizing novel of possibility, this has - suddenly and inexplicably - become our new reality. The US president must find a new way to wage war. The pope ponders whether the Commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is still relevant.

A superstar American athlete is on the cusp of breaking an iconic sport’s record when he is gunned down! The murder is declared a hate crime, but no suspect is ever captured. His tragic shooting is the last straw; public upheaval forces the country to divide into two massive states: the super-progressive Frontier State and the ultraconservative Pilgrim State. Sixty years later, Pilgrim State’s Detective Merit decides to crack the historic shooting. Can this gun-toting, God-fearing detective survive the culture shock of Frontier’s lawless society in time to unravel the mystery?

Que ferons-nous quand notre planète en aura assez? Le monde se meurt. Face à la pollution galopante, à la surpopulation et à l'élévation du niveau de la mer, l'élite dirigeante élabore un plan audacieux, mais terrible. Lorsque le cerveau de ce plan fait marche arrière et cache au monde entier ce plan ingénieux, sa vie est soudainement menacée par un facteur des plus inattendus.

Left without parents in a post-apocalyptic world, 15-year-old Parker tries to provide for himself and his little sister - but he faces obstacles even more challenging than merely finding food. In this lawless new non-society, Parker tries to navigate around criminals, despots, and desperados, while trying to make or find a place suitable enough to call home. When he discovers a gift that he never knew he had, it only complicates their lives, making it both harder and sweeter for the both of them.

USA Today best-selling author Jaye Wells pens urban fantasies brimming with nonstop action and wit. When a dirty-magic coven leader is found murdered, Detective Kate Prospero must hunt down the killer - but it's the nosy reporter with an axe to grind who may be the greater threat.

When a woman from his past turns up looking for help in clearing her name, Abraxis Wren must set aside his memories of their past encounters to unravel the mystery of the Black Brigade. An elite and deadly squad from the Last War is being murdered one by one. The trail of blood leads to untold treasure - if Wren can only reach it before the murderer does! 2008 Scribe Award winner Paul Crilley returns to the world of Eberron with a dark adventure full of murder and mystery.

USA Today best-selling author Jaye Wells pens paranormal thrillers brimming with nonstop action and wit. There's a blue moon rising in Babylon, putting Detective Kate Prospero and the rest of the city on edge. When she learns a rogue wizard stole deadly potions to build a dirty magic bomb, Kate must locate him and defuse the bomb - before the city surrenders to chaos.

Hipopotamia es una colección de desvelos y un manual de contradicciones. Sexo, violencia y sangre fluyendo a través de las alcantarillas de la psique colectiva, esa que carece de puentes con la lógica o el sentido común. En estos diez relatos, el lector podrá encontrar lugares sórdidos, amores raros, atmósferas inquietantes y un buen puñado de alucinaciones. Puede, incluso, que en estos diez relatos el lector corra el riesgo de encontrarse a sí mismo.

He was just another man with a drinking problem, only alcohol transformed him into a violent pork-beast named Piggly Swiggly, and since he's always drunk, his human side hasn't seen the light of day in years. After yet another rampaging bender, Piggly wakes up in a jungle metropolis full of floating crocodiles, greasy bacon addicts, and worse: prohibition. Trapped in this strange teetotaled town, he must keep his buzz going or else revert to his weak and vulnerable human form. But even then, Piggly Swiggly's depravity may prove to be his own undoing.

Almost 100 years ago, a major terrestrial event reshaped the Earth’s coastlines. Goodbye entire cities. Goodbye entire states. Goodbye entire countries. And when the authorities outlawed salvaging from these underwater cities, why say hello to a new breed of criminal: Underwater reclamation specialists. Even 100 years later, there’s still a whole lot of loot for the reclaiming. But it’s not theft if you put it back, right? After cracking an underwater vault in their first major heist in the Seattle Isles, Isa and her crew think they’re on easy street again.

If the tragic shipwreck isn't bad enough, the megadome suffers a horrid murder-rape, and Dog Breakfast co-op must bring the culprit to justice. Nyssa and Shepp follow the perp to LA where they rescue young women from vicious sex traffickers. But funds are running low, so they're joined by Griz and Jen. All four travel to Tijuana where they part $750,000 from strip-club bettors. The quartet follow the rapist to Quito, Ecuador where they must face two-dozen mercenaries and armored-robotic cyclops.

The day Tracy Seavers dies, Detective John Peters arrives on the scene of the car accident to find she has miraculously walked away. An impossible conclusion, had the same thing not happened to him five years before. John suspects Tracy is now host to an alien entity with incredible healing power, and sometimes sinister needs. John wants Tracy almost as much as the entity inside him yearns for the new alien hiding within the beautiful brunette. The last time John got involved with another host, though, it ended in disaster.

Schottland, Mai 1963. Ein grausamer Dreifachmord erschüttert die altehrwürdigen Mauern Houston Halls. Anthony Houston, der letzte Überlebende seiner Familie und erfolgreiche Anwalt aus Edinburgh, kehrt zum elterlichen Landsitz zurück, um dem Verbrechen auf die Spur zu kommen. Doch die Stagnation der Ermittlungen und seine Angst vor den unbekannten Tätern lassen ihn zu einem anderen, einem vergrämten, paranoiden Mann werden, der niemanden mehr an sich heranlässt. Es braucht eine mutige, schlagfertige Frau, um den alten Anthony wieder zum Vorschein zu bringen.

Northeast England, 2046. Daniel is scavenging for treasures in an old landfill. His cousin Michelle is making ends meet with a little coding here, a little hacking there. When a nuclear explosion sends shockwaves around the world, Cameron Silvera, a.k.a. the SimCavalier, knows exactly who’s behind it. The Argentum Associates team mobilizes to secure nuclear facilities. Daniel, helped by Michelle’s creative hacking, starts working with them when he lands a job at his local power station. Stakes rise when a body is found floating out to sea, silenced by the cybercrime syndicate.

Haley Ramos left the world of hacking to protect her son. But when she goes back to her old tricks to shut down a human trafficking ring, she’s drawn into the very situation she most feared: her son’s life in exchange for a ransom only she can produce. Even for her, stealing the digital crown jewels to some of the most powerful and high profile organizations in the world is likely to put her behind bars, or worse, in the grave. Racing against time and through cyberspace, Haley is backed into the darkest corners of the internet to meet the kidnapper’s demands.