Twisted Thrillers

A social media shaming. A killer with a message. A deadly combination. When the body of a man is left in the city centre set up as a realistic police crime scene, DI Hannah Robbins is forced to enter a world that can break a person, a case and a reputation. Social media platforms light up, and Hannah is pitted against the raging online monster and a killer who has already lost everything. Can she catch the killer and put him behind bars, or will she become part of his sadistic game?

Submitted for your approval…. The introduction to the old television classic serves equally well as a key to unlock the doors of imagination to these Twisted Tales. Here a child’s toy, a code of honor, and a marble angel are among the signposts along the path to a place where “What If” rules the day.

Hunter has no idea what he has just got himself into when hiring a young, attractive female to be his secretary. He is just trying to get himself caught up on the workload in the office now that his wife is dealing with cancer, and can no longer take care of that side of the family business. Teagan seems to be a great choice for a secretary. She is early to work and goes the extra mile to help out. But underneath that sweet smile is a very cunning woman who is out to get what she feels she deserves....

Wallace, a master British storyteller, creates a fascinating tale. It tells of the fictional mystery author, John Lexdale, who is caught in a plot concocted by an unscrupulous millionaire. The fictional author is entrapped in the strange circumstances, becomes charged with murder and sentenced to prison. At one point he is told his wife has been killed and pledges revenge.

This was supposed to be simple. Make a nice dinner for the Chemist, a ghoul with a penchant for stand-up and utterly obsessed with all things alchemical, and fulfill my promise. But it hasn't gone according to plan, and now corpses are littering the streets - although they're getting eaten pretty rapidly too. I'm not exactly in anyone's good graces either, as it's partly my fault, and my whole life is being turned upside down and inside out.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window.

In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his 13-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer’s captive on a crime spree - culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas, "skeleton murder" trial of 1935.

Twizzle Twist isn’t your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. The faerock vein in St. Mo marks the local fae in uncomfortable ways. Twizzie’s gimpy wing and bum leg are the least of her worries when she’s hired to show a cute new resident homes for sale in St. Maurice.

A missing elderly man shows up dead on his son's front porch, his pockets full of acorns. Pierce isn't certain if she's investigating a murder or one of the strangest natural deaths she's ever encountered. The investigation brings her into contact with the adult children of people with dementia and leads her to a strange remote wonderland. When the missing are found, often questions remain.

As Micah drives his family home from a much needed vacation, the unthinkable occurs; a flat tire with no spare. Hours pass by without help, extinguishing hope and darkening the fond memories of the trip, but finally, their savior arrives. A grizzled mountain man tows the car and family back to his shop up in the California mountains, but they quickly question his motives. With lies and deception plaguing the family at every turn, Micah is forced to face his own dark history to keep his family safe.

Akira Hamada is driven by past failure. Two years earlier, she had a chance to kill her greatest enemy - Kaito Mitsui. Instead, the Yakuza boss forced her to become an assassin in his employ. Now, Akira carries out the bloody business of the notorious crime syndicate and hates herself more each day. When Mitsui hears that his sister’s murderer will be on the cruise ship Starfish, he immediately tasks Akira with eliminating the man once and for all. This is what Akira has trained for, but a series of strange events on the ship tests her resolve and shows her a way to redemption.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband.

No great surprise, her eccentric great aunt's teaching methods are just as unorthodox as the lady herself. Certainly not approved by the International Criminal Witch Police. Which is a problem, since Lina's neck deep in another murder investigation. Lina has to juggle her great aunt's idea of witch training as she helps the ICWP solve a rather unusual murder…one that's been linked to Lina's magic.

Dr. Watson is startled to find his friend Sherlock Holmes there, disguised as an old man apparently trying to extract information from the addicts in the den. Holmes is on the scent of a man who is living a double life. This story in unique among Holmes tales in two ways. First, it turns out that no crime has been committed and there is no villain Secondly, and unlike in his other stories, Holmes does not explain how he solved the mystery, but leaves it to the intelligent reader to work it out.

Imagine yourself as an EPA agent on a beautiful autumn morning hiking through the rough mountain terrain of Montana. While bent over, you can hear nothing but the sound of the powerful, flowing river. You are retrieving a water sample from it. In a matter of seconds your life will change. You’ve been snatched up from behind then blindfolded, brutally raped, and left for dead. Your will to survive surpasses anything that you have just experienced that day.

Bonnie’s life is fairly conventional until a nasty bout of writer’s block threatens to derail the cushy life she’s built for herself. She’s convinced she’ll never write again—until she meets an unusual typewriter with a talent for romance novels. Once she publishes the best novel of her career—thanks entirely to the typewriter’s efforts—a suspicious book critic’s curiosity launches a chain of events that gets the author arrested for a murder she would have been happy to commit, but didn’t.

Ten stories of thrilling terror from the deepest depths of the psyche. So light the bedside lamp, draw the bedcovers close, and prepare for a rare treat of a book whicc will have you reading into the early hours of the morning.

Ten stories of thrilling terror from the deepest depths of the psyche. So light the bedside lamp, draw the bedcovers close, and prepare for a rare treat of a book which will have you listening into the early hours of the morning.

The compelling small-town series continues with an escalating body count in the hundreds while the aftermath of the discovery of cave kids and another serial killer stirs up more secrets, conflict, guilt, and irony. A new arrival introduces new tension for the Farmer family.

In the dead of winter, she makes the unusual decision to visit her sister, Carrie, and her family for the weekend. An ill-fated event prolongs her stay, during which time she discovers the flaws and cracks within this "perfect" family-opening the door to getting the unwarranted revenge she's been seeking for decades.