Urban Crime

Jon Gilligan is the only man with a pulse in a city of the undead. It's his job to maintain order between the factions of walking corpses and disembodied spirits. The workload has been driving him a little insane, leading him to take on the persona of a noir detective. He narrates his adventures, casting himself as a hero to all those under his watch.

The Silver Manticore - to some he is nothing more than an urban legend rising from the fears of cowardly criminals. To others he is a masked mastermind of evil cutting into the biggest schemes, helping himself to the largest share. And then there's the truth: that the Manticore, unknown to both the law and the underworld, is a force of good merely posing as a crook! Regardless of what those who know of the mysterious figure believe, the Manticore has come into contact and conflict with allies and enemies.

Cole Blake is more than just a roguish ladies' man. He's also a dedicated worker - so dedicated, in fact, that he's willing to blackmail his boss with a falsified sex tape in order to keep his job. And his proactive efforts don't end there. After hours, he uses his Dynari abilities to moonlight as a vigilante, keeping his neighborhood safe from drunks, dealers, and would-be thieves.

Idyllic and newly minted Detective Michaels learns more than betrayal lies behind the badge. Midnight Blue is about mystery, intrigue, and mistrust. As Michaels' embark upon one investigation, the book is certain to challenge your own intuition!

Conch Republic takes us into the world of Nate Nevwas, a crime-fighting oaf with a loveable nature. Follow Nate as he fights crime, writes novels and takes a liking to the ladies. Follow Nate as he goes to war with the mob and discovers gold hidden under the seas of the Florida Keys....

Three years and 11 months. That's how long Lizzie Wells has been banged up inside Holloway prison, serving time for a crime she didn't commit. Six months. That's how long it's taken Lizzie to fall in love with her fellow inmate, Scar. Now they are both finally free, and together they are about to embark on a vengeful search to find those who framed Lizzie...and to make them pay.

Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again - and runs straight into trouble. Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine. But like most posh ladies of Ben's acquaintance, this one isn't what she seems.

Six women. Six abductions. Six souls in peril... London is in the grip of a barbaric serial killer, dubbed Herod by the tabloid press. Four pregnant women have been abducted in quick succession, their bodies mutilated and dumped. When a fifth pregnant woman, Julia Caton, is taken from her home in the dead of night, DCI David Rosen knows that time is running out to save her... Then Rosen gets a mysterious phone call from Father Sebastian Flint, an enigmatic priest who seems to know rather too much about the abductions.

Two nights ago a young woman brought her husband into the emergency room of the Sriphat Hospital in Thailand, where he passed away. A guard thinks she remembers her coming in before but with a different husband - one who also died. Ladarat Patalung, for one, would have been happier without a serial murderer - if there is one - loose in her hospital. Then again, she never expected to be a detective in the first place.

Madeleine Karno is an ambitious young woman eager to shatter the confines of her provincial French town. Driven and strong headed, Madeleine is set apart by her unusual occupation: assisting her father, Dr. Albert Karno, in his job as a forensic doctor.

When Gilgamesh Young loses one of his best friends to police violence, he finds himself having a hard time coping with the trauma and the memories of that fateful night. He turns to his boyfriend, Trap, for comfort, who suggests that getting high off Dramamine will be just what Gilgamesh needs to clear his head. During the high, Gilgamesh plays with an Ouija board and summons a demon that decides it doesn't want to go away.

Things started out so sweet. Everyone was going to be rich. All because of Trunk Man. He was the guy Papa and his meatheads stuffed in the back of a stolen Nissan and drove to a forest preserve outside Detroit. He owed Papa big-time. To save his own sorry neck, Trunk Man made an offer: a million dollars in bonds tucked away in a safe. Boost it, split it, and toss Trunk Man from a roof. Easy.

Young billionaire Sebastian Montero has hunted killers for 700 years, the murder of his baby brother still haunting his dreams. After a teenage girl is ritually butchered, Sebastian joins the LAPD in their search for the man known as "the Voodoo Killer".

En un tiempo ignoto (mayo de 2007) y en un Madrid terrorífico, roto en zanjas por las excavadoras y con la población presa del pánico por la gripe aviar, el protagonista de esta historia vaga de cuerpo en cuerpo intentando averiguar su propia identidad, intentando no enamorarse de una muchacha hacia la que sus distintos cuerpos lo llevan, intentando ver una película en la que sorprendentemente se hallan las claves de lo que le ocurre e intentando que no suceda un crimen del que ya ha sido testigo y del que conoce casi todo: el asesino, el arma homicida, el día y la hora. Todo menos la víctima....

Set in the scorched cityscape of the Reagan-era Lower East Side of Manhattan, The Lotus Crew is Stewart Meyer's harrowing yet humorous tale of loyalty and betrayal in the face of heroin addiction. Two street junkies, the introverted Alvira and the gregarious Tommy, team up to spark a street-retailing crew pushing the best heroin in town. In the abandoned buildings and back alleys of an Alphabet City that is as dangerous as the Wild West, the stamp of the Triad crew on a glassine bag of dope means it's a smoker.

He hunts the most dangerous prey alive! His mission: To fight criminals and villains who are out to destroy our society! Beware all who commit evil! For you shall feel the sting of the Silver Manticore! Created and written by P.J. Lozito, The Sting of the Silver Manticore is an homage to classic pulp masked heroes and other such archetypes that populate pulpdom!

Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth - and she's not afraid of bending the rules to get there. When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in her South London home, all eyes are on her ex-husband - the notorious gangster Danny Shapiro. Determined to expose Danny as a cold-blooded killer, Beth obsessively pursues him. But in her hunt for the truth, her family are set to pay the ultimate price.

In a period of just three days, everything changes for young painter Eduardo “Tato” Simmone, who has never sold a painting. During the funeral of Tato’s renowned and beloved mentor, Aníbal Marsotti, Tato meets two people who will determine his fate: a beautiful young woman who may be a vampire and a major dealer of art forgeries. Tato gets caught up investigating the theft of famed Italian figurative painter Amadeo Modigliani’s tombstone, and all signs point to Curitiba, Brazil - Tato’s hometown.

In The Saga of Eruption, the tyrant of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, is tormented by a premonition nightmare revealing a hidden darkness within Islam and foretelling the imminent collapse of his regime. Desperate for answers, he turns to his estranged wife, Khojasteh, who knows of a long-imprisoned deaf-mute oracle named Zāl who can help decipher the ominous dream. Zāl's enigmatic prophecy sets off a series of transformative events that will change the lives of Iranians forever.

Annabelle Décor is a woman betrayed who is on a mission to punish infidelity, marking her victims with the makeup of those they have deceived. From his position of power, Death watches the story unfold before his eyes. Is this merely a woman driven crazy or a possession by an old and vengeful god?