Short Stories Crime Suspense

Cooper Times Three consists of the following short stories: "085 - Nut Job:" Somebody's breaking neighborhood merchants' windows with a slingshot loaded with nuts. "089 - The Hollister Story:" Back story on L.A.P.D. policeman, Dan Hollister and his son, Dean. "090 - Hell Is Other People:" Gruesome killer is stalking victims in Hollywood. Cooper tries to find him.

Here are thirteen short Cooper Stories compiled into one novella.

"Till death us do part." Those words she’d sworn never to break. Jill didn’t want a divorce, but the violence had to stop. One way or another, her marriage was going to end. "How to Get Away with Murder" is one of seven sinister tales featured in this genre-hopping collection of short fiction from Frank J. Thomas.

Tyler Morlin spends his nights coding and cramming for MIT exams—until a vicious crime boss kidnaps his best friend, Hank. Now Tyler faces an unthinkable dilemma: Hack the FBI by dawn or say goodbye to Hank forever. With the clock ticking, Tyler pushes his intellect to the limit. But surviving will take more than just brains. It’s do or die when the villain puts him to the ultimate test of courage and loyalty. To prevail, Tyler must transform from an ordinary college student into an extraordinary vigilante overnight.

Six short stories compiled into this one collection. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Six and the City and experience the compelling world of these mystery, thriller, and suspense short stories.

With hold-your-breath suspense and shocking endings, the five short stories in this collection will put you on the edge of your seat and get your brain and blood pumping.

Grieving over a past tragedy, troubled ex-con Zack Taylor has spent a lifetime in the shadows. He has finally found a measure of peace in Maine, helping others as a way of dealing with his grief, guilt, and rage. But he finds even simple problems have unintended consequences, and danger lurks in the most unlikely places. In these three tales, Zack encounters murderous individuals who hide below a surface of normality. He uncovers more than he bargained for at every turn, and must deal with the fallout of taking on deadly people willing to kill.

Cheater's Dozen consists of the following 10 short stories.

A collection of five short stories now available in audio format. These stories include Man Overboard, Try to Focus, I Know You're Lyin', No One to Blame, and You Can Save Her.

A compilation of five short stories, now available in audio format. Stories include Now Who's the Boss, That's One Cool Cat, The Great Life, Somewhere Over, and Curb Alert.

Five short stories available in audio format. Stories include: "Bad Boys", "Hook Me Up", "Music Hath Charms", "Fur Sure", and "Goodbye, Me".

Nine short stories in audio format.

A collection of five short stories. This collection includes: "A Pussy Did Him In", "Touche", "The End", "Mr. Wonderful", and "Bag of Bones".

Some people take fishing too seriously. Retired Admiral Bobby Burns did, and it cost him his life. There is no shortage of suspects. His wife, Pattie Grace, is also accused of the murder. Niki Dupre, the most famous private investigator in Louisiana, doesn't believe her former Sunday School teacher could kill her husband. Soon, the case turns from fishy to dangerous. But who killed the admiral?

Detectives Finch and Elias have seen a lot - murders, assaults, rapes, missing persons - but they've never investigated a missing mummy before. Follow the two partners as they sift through a half dozen different suspects and try to solve the mystery of a stolen child mummy from the River City museum. Part whodunit mystery, part procedural, with more than a little wise-cracking along the way, The Bastard Mummy has a little something for all kinds of mystery listeners, set in Frank Zafiro's River City universe.

An original and entertaining selection of crime stories all committed on the railways. Authors include Baroness Orczy (most famous for The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Maurice Leblanc (most famous for Arsene Lupin.)

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

This audiobook is a collection of the following 11 short stories, "A Perfect Match", "Alice Visits a Psychiatrist", "Automated 9-1-1", "Blood Bath", "Camouflage", "Deja Vu", "Rude Rudy", "Stella and the Chief", "The Ten-Grand Stunt", "It's a Dog Eat Dog World", and "With This Face".

Twigg Tidwell fits the identity of a killer, though he is only 16 years old. Niki Dupre does not believe Twigg is guilty, but must overcome sloppy police work and predetermined biases to prove it. After another murder takes place, the trail leads back to the son of the dead man left in the parking lot. But who really committed the murders?

Theft doesn't pay. Unless you take a roll of lottery tickets and one of them hits the jackpot. John David Netterville found said tickets on the ground outside a gas station. Unfortunately, they had been stolen. When the cashier identifies him as the thief, trouble ensues. Niki Dupre must prove Netterville's innocence, despite the evidence stacked against him. But did he really do it?