Short Stories Crime Suspense

Simon Harris is plagued by demons and darkness. As a young boy, Simon witnessed a crime so heinous that is caused him to dissociate, trapping him within the dark confines of his own mind. His only salvation is a girl named Lizzy, but can Simon hold on long enough to find her? My Name Is Simon is a companion novelette which gives listeners a glimpse into the psyche of Rainfall's most despised character.

A compilation of five short stories, including: "A Dish from Wales", "Time Capsule", "Surf's Up", "Did I or Didn't I", and "The Trip".

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?

Deer hunting is not dangerous - unless the hunter becomes the prey....When young hunter John Rowinski goes missing from his deer stand, Niki Dupre volunteers to help find him. When she finds a pool of blood and no body, the plot thickens.

Berlin does not make it easy to write noir fiction - or perhaps Berlin makes it too easy. Noir tradition casts a long, influential, and even daunting shadow. Neither Döblin nor Benn, Brecht nor Lang, catered to any crime fiction traditions. They merely steeped their literary projects in a great deal of noir. And so it is with most of the stories in our anthology: they do not necessarily follow the usual patterns of crime fiction, but regard noir as a license to write as they wish, a certain way of approaching the city, and a prism through which its nature is viewed....

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member.

A small jet with only one pilot onboard crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Local authorities are unsure whether the cause of the crash is a bomb or a violent storm. The case seems like it will be an easy one to solve for former NYPD Homicide Detective Lincoln Rhyme to solve. The evidence is inside the cockpit, but there is one problem. The wreckage sits at the bottom of the Puerto Rican Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean that stretches to 28,000 feet. The plane can't be raised.

From the introduction by James Thompson: Finland, the myths and truths. Internationally, it has a reputation as perhaps the best place in the world to live. A great economy. A low crime rate. Good and nearly cost-free health care. The needy are provided for by the state and live in reasonable comfort. Finns: peaceful and quiet people, living in the perfect example of a social democracy functioning as it should. A tourist, or even a person who has lived here for a length of time, might well view Finland as such.

It's been twenty years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School. It's a night that shattered the lives of Lindsay Farrell, Kirsten Daniels, and Rachel Alsace. It's a night they'll never forget. A killer will make sure of that....

He's touching the front of his coat, feeling the shape of the gun. Should have got rid of it. On any other night, any other job, he would. This isn't any other job. This, he intends, will be his last... It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow's biggest criminal organisations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest - and bloodiest - manoeuvres are yet to come...

There's a full house...the lights are dimmed...the audience is seated...and the best seat in the house is saved for you! Created by master pulp author G. T. Fleming, Diamondstone the Magician was a seasoned sleight-of-hand artist and stage illusionist who dabbled in the investigation of crime as an amateur detective. Aided by his friend and assistant, Absalom, Diamondstone uses his skills, tricks, and wits to confound, confuse, and capture criminals who believe that they can outsmart justice using smoke and mirrors!

A collection of five short stories. This collection includes: "The Amulet", "I Dream Of", "Key of Imagination", "OIC", and "I Remember Oscar".

When a girl's body is discovered with a missing toe, her father hires Niki Dupre to find the murderer. With prostitutes, pimps, a rehab clinic and a mysterious huge man all involved, Niki has to delve deep into the Baton Rouge underground to solve this one.

After the cards were dealt, one player didn't make the cut. At a local poker tournament, a player is murdered after the first game day. A suspect is booked for the murder, but something doesn't add up. To root out the real killer, Niki joins the tournament. But is the deck stacked against her?

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".

Local thug Hector Gomez has a score to settle with Niki Dupre. She has upset his profitable businesses, and there will be hell to pay. After she's lured to a vacant warehouse, Niki discovers the corpse of a young girl. Soon after, two goons are after her. But now, it's the strawberry blonde's turn to wage war on Hector, as she goes after his pay-for-protection scheme and illegal warehouse. Can Niki bring Hector to justice and stop his operation - and avoid collateral damage?

It started with a hostage and an odd ransom demand. After the members of the rescue team are killed trying to overcome the abductor, the real action begins. Bombs start going off in the yard, and when armored tanks fail, Niki is called on to free the hostage. As the hostage crisis becomes a circus of errors and miscalculations, is Niki's skill and expertise enough to keep her alive?

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements.

In Agatha Christie’s short story “The Kidnapped Prime Minister”, Poirot investigates the mysterious disappearance of the British prime minister during wartime. Apparently carjacked on the way to a peace conference, Poirot must overcome subterfuge and misdirection to solve the mystery.

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four and each centreing around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it. Prefecture D continues Hideo Yokoyama's exploration of the themes of obsession, saving face, office politics and interdepartmental conflicts. Placing everyday characters between a rock and a hard place and then dialling up the pressure, he blends and balances the very Japanese with the very accessible, to spectacular effect.