Krimi & Thriller

While traveling to Azmon's tomb, Riona is joined by Sinead -- who has introduced herself as Riona's future wife. Rather than falling for Riona, however, Sinead finds herself in love with Inara. While Riona and Sinead fight for Inara's affections, Ava and Liadan head deep into Wildoras, there to summon the Godga in dragon form and destroy her once and for all. Don't miss the final installment of this lesbian romance series!

Reynolds is a down on his luck private detective who spends his days touring dive bars. His life is as tepid as the old drunks sitting next to him until Lucille walks in to the bar. Someone is stalking her and it isn't just an ordinary person. It is a vampire with a grudge...something that Reynolds knows all too well.

Paradoxical DanceAutore: Viktor A. KingIntroduzione:Benvenuti nel mondo di "Paradoxical Dance", il nuovo romanzo avvincente di Viktor A. King. Conosciuto per le sue trame avvincenti e la sua prosa coinvolgente, King si è affermato come uno dei maestri del genere noir. "Paradoxical Dance" rappresenta l'ultima opera di un autore che continua a stupire i lettori con la sua capacità di intrecciare mistero e suspense.L'autore:Con una formazione letteraria solida e una vasta esperienza nel mondo della scrittura, Viktor A. King si distingue per il suo stile unico e la sua capacità di creare mondi oscuri e avvincenti. Da appassionato del genere noir, King ha sempre cercato di portare innovazione e freschezza alle sue opere, conquistando il cuore di numerosi lettori in tutto il mondo.Il romanzo:In "Paradoxical Dance", King ci porta nel cuore di New York, una città vibrante e caotica dove nulla è come sembra. Qui, il detective Adam si trova ad affrontare una serie di omicidi legati da enigmi dalle sfumature religiose. Mentre il conto delle vittime aumenta e i misteri si fanno sempre più intricati, Adam si immerge in un gioco pericoloso che mette alla prova le sue abilità investigative e il suo coraggio.Temi:Al centro di "Paradoxical Dance" si trovano temi universali come il bene e il male, la fede e la redenzione. Attraverso la narrazione avvincente di King, esploriamo i labirinti della mente umana e ci confrontiamo con i dilemmi morali che caratterizzano la nostra esistenza. In un mondo in cui la verità è una danza paradossale tra luce e ombra, ogni pagina ci spinge sempre più vicino al cuore del mistero.Conclusione:"Paradoxical Dance" è un romanzo avvincente che cattura l'immaginazione e tiene il lettore con il fiato sospeso fino all'ultima pagina. Con la sua scrittura coinvolgente e la sua trama intricata, Viktor A. King conferma il suo status di maestro del genere noir, regalandoci un'avventura indimenticabile nel cuore della notte.

A dogged investigation... Lord Julian Caldicott is summoned to the country home of a family friend to look for a prize foxhound who's gone missing. The purloined canine turns out to be only the tail of a series of puzzles involving family secrets, slander, blackmail, and fraud. Matters grow more baffling when Julian is told to drop the investigation, though suspects abound, motives are multiplying apace, and a large sum of money has come into play.Hounded by mischief... Julian survives an attempt on his life, and endures slights to his honor rather than give up on his objective. Before the truth is revealed-and the hound brought safely home-he will have to choose between protecting his only surviving brother from ruin, or allowing a scoundrel to get away with the next thing to murder.

A collection of three uneasy, disquieting tales (plus asides) written "in the direction" of ghost stories...Includes audio CD 'They Who Do Not Speak' by Unsong, created from processed field recordings made at Chillingham Castle, "Britain's Most Haunted Historic Castle."

Sid Emerson goes missing while trying to determine what mysterious cosmic force lies within Death Valley's wilderness-a force that draws in such an odd mixture of eccentrics, societal outcasts, alien conspiracies, and those seeking hidden truths to ancient earth mysteries. Sid's niece hires local desert rat Paddy Darwin to find her uncle. However, she soon discovers that strange things happen when the lost search for the lost, especially within a harsh alien landscape filled with clandestine "patriots" chasing shapeshifting alien Lizard People, a media-seeking crackpot who believes his dead-body-detecting machine can locate additional victims of the Charles Manson murders, and an overworked sheriff who continuously recovers withered and desiccated bodies from Death Valley's enchanting yet brutal landscape. The journey forces Paddy to face his troubled past in ways that provide a few lizardly twists and turns of their own.

Logan has never wanted to hear the dead. He wants nothing more than to ignore the haunting whispers and the strange things that only he can see. But he can't ignore a woman in danger, and the enigmatic Salome Trasmoz is undeniably haunted by an evil spirit that seeks to do her harm.No good deed goes unpunished, and in helping Salome escape her spiritual stalker, Logan discovers not everyone shares his reluctance to meddle in the supernatural. Some seek out powers beyond their control, and don't care who has to die along the way.

Passionate, wounded, and fiercely alive, Leeanne Hessinger has never felt free. She wants something more, something bigger than the life she's stumbled into, but fleeing to a town unknown to her with a single promise in mind-to finally write a novel-comes at a very high price.When she's found brutally stabbed to death a year later, a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront as the sheriff investigating the crime covers up her own treacherous involvement with the dead woman.Full of twists and turns, WHO KILLED LEEANNE? reconstructs a year in the life of Leeanne Hessinger, as she walks the brink of her own destruction and inches closer and closer to death. The cost of freedom, for Leeanne, is ultimately her life.Fans of Mindy Mejia's Everything You Want Me To Be and readers who enjoy mystery novels that portray deeply drawn characters, voice-driven narratives, and controversial subject matters will likely love this novel.

The first in the Alphabet Soup Mysteries and opening night is here!One recipe is included in each book!Opening night of Chef Jessica Vasquez's new restaurant: The Crock Pot. With the media spotlighting the opening on the evening news and food bloggers featuring the restaurant online, the pressure is on.At the end of the night, The Crock Pot is a smashing success and Jessica is beaming with pride. That is until she realizes her Sous Chef, Earl, is missing. After a short search, she finds him by the dumpsters, shot to death.Suspicion is cast on Jess. She doesn't want to be compared to her father, so that thrusts her into the role of sleuth to clear her name and save her business. As she digs into the murder, her business is vandalized, and she's harassed by an unknown source.Along with her two besties, Sawyer and Vee, they find the murderer may be closer than they thought.

An old white man is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Seeking a last bit of freedom, he decides to take a road trip to the Grand Canyon. He has no living relatives, and his wife is dead. Along the way he meets a young black woman at a truck stop who is working as a prostitute. Although they spend the night together, he pays her to simply be with him...not to have sex. In the morning, he hires her to be his companion. He is a Vietnam vet, an ex-Marine, and he has acquired lot of wealth from a successful career as a statistician. They share stories about their lives with each other and, gradually, they begin to trust and depend on each other. He knows his time is limited, and his close proximity to death changes his perception of life.

Summertime, 1986. A stripper is found dead on Woodland Beach and Crystal doubts that the crime is burning a hole in some detective's desk over at the local precinct. She knew the victim and because of it, Crystal is determined to find out who killed her.As news of the murdered woman sweeps through town, an entire Christian congregation is shaken. Hadn't the victim just started attending their Sunday services? And why is one of their youngest members, a boy named Seth, the only person in their small seaside town who the police have been questioning?Seth can't stand the other teenagers from the Kids for Christ program his uncle has been forcing him to go to. At home, he doesn't get along with his executioner uncle, though he thinks it's cool Robert kills people for a living. It's even cooler when Seth sees a man walk straight out of the sea and introduce himself as Thomas. Why the police have gotten it in their heads that Thomas is the prime suspect is laughable.Having no faith in the police, Crystal steps her investigation up into high gear. Even when it means getting close to the boy's uncle, who happens to be one of her regulars at the club. Even when it means infiltrating the church to find out if the killer is there. And even when it means that Crystal herself could be the next to die. ¿THOMAS FROM THE SEA is a stand-alone novel filled with dark wit, clashing cultures, and unsuspecting tenderness. If you enjoy mystery novels, clean language, and happy endings with a twist of magical realism throughout, you will likely love this novel for its levity, sharp voice, and powerful, spiritual message.

An outlaw plowman falsely accusedAn alchemist's virgin who is more than she seemsA fiendish murderer hiding in plain sight Cathar country, (now) southern France, year: 1200. When the woodcutter's only daughter is murdered, the citadel's bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees. To prove his innocence, the desperate plowman runs to a master alchemist and his professional virgin, Flowia, for help. Bertwoin must find the brutal killer while the grieving woodcutter, the relentless bailiff, and righteous monks pursue him. His search for clues takes him to the corpse room inside an abbey, to a torture pit near the Devil's Doorstep, and to the accursed home of a heretic priest. When monks capture Bertwoin, wily Flowia rescues him from the dungeon and hides with him where no one would think to look for them. To save his own life and another life as precious as his own, Bertwoin must outwit the fiendish murderer. But now the sadistic killer also hunts them . . . and he knows how to find them.

Es una novela que se remonta a los años 1840-1865, tiempos de esclavitud y liberación de esta época cuando el señor Abraham Lincoln ganó las elecciones presidenciales de los Estados Unidos de Norte América y lastimosamente también su deceso. Trata la historia de una niña raptada, esclavizada y liberada por sí misma, a través de un esfuerzo sobrehumano de supervivencia. Su futuro le depara muchas sorpresas, unas muy dolorosas y otras muy felices. En el transcurso de la narración descubrirás un secreto que obligatoriamente debe ser revelado, pero que, a su vez, debe permanecer oculto. Una bonita secuencia de sucesos que mantienen al lector intrigado, pendiente, deseoso de conocer el desarrollo y final de estos.Hechos que te harán sumergirte en la lectura, encontraras actos obscuros de venganza, olvido quizá, pero habrá justicia. De la misma forma, verás a través de sus páginas sufrimiento, tristezas, aunque también encontrarás superación, esfuerzo, alegrías, y felicidad. El escritor Rigoberto Fernando Amaya te muestra detalles ficticios y reales, algunos de ellos tan específicos que te harán confrontarlos con la vida misma.

Leira and her new Best friends Addy and Skye are thrilled when Leira's Mom, Mrs. MacGregor invites them to Arizona to visit her sister for winter school vacation. Skye has never flown on an airplane and Addy has never stayed at a hotel. However, that is only the beginning of the adventure. In Arizona, the girls receive an invitation to spend three nights in the mountain camping with Leira's eighteen-year-old cousin Luke who is an eagle scout. The adventure bring them in contact with Indian lore, reptile, animals and much more. However, the trip turns into a nightmare when the group confronts mysterious happenings and a tragic accident find them in a mortal danger!

This is a collection of stories that will take you searching for gold in the desolate desert. Seeking ghosts from the past who want you to pay a debt long past due. Then you can become a king who fights ancient corruption and hatred that challenges his honor and genuine love. But for those of you who want a more modern twist where money, drugs, and sex are the villain, there is that. So remember gold, ghosts, and murder just for you. The best of systems are flawed, especially those contrived by man.

Tammy Mitchell is a geriatric nurse in the care ward of Grand Forks Hospital in British Columbia. She lives in Midway, in the house she inherited from her mother when she passed five years previous.Michael Bransen is in the Royal Canadian Dragoons, focused on a personal mission of finding what his father took. While on medical leave to recover from an "accident" that happened when he was stationed over in Syria, he has been brought back to Canada for treatment and ends up in Tammy's ward due to lack of extra beds in the main hospital.The last time they had been together was that fateful September night when she had been twelve and he fifteen. He disappeared with his mother and little brother, and she'd been left standing in the driveway, alone, hurting, and afraid her heart would never heal. She never forgot about him, nor he her, and now after nearly forty years, they have been thrown back into each other's lives because of the very same reason they had once been torn apart.His father's poor judgment in trying to pay off a gambling debt to a Canadian Mafia family may very well have cost Canada the chance to stand with her head high among the great powers around the world. The bad guys will do whatever it takes to stop the brothers from trying to right that bad choice, including hurting the ones they love."How is it that one person's bad decision so long ago could affect so many lives, even today? Include multiple countries and span years in the fixing of that same mistake?" Tammy wonders, "Anything we do now will also affect others for years to come. Can I live with that? Yes, if it serves to help my country; makes things better for my friends, new and old; and saves the life of the one man I've never forgotten."

The Dark Plague infection has spread rapidly across the globe! On a late evening of a deadly outbreak in Glendale, Arizona, Jonathan Strain suffers from the tragic loss of his beloved wife, Melanie. A year after Outbreak Day, he loses his sanity, eventually becoming a ruthless killer for a savage group known as the Marauders. Throughout many dark years, Jonathan has stolen, tortured, and killed alongside their leader, Tyron Morales, a ruthless man with a vision to restore order to this "new world" he desperately craves to build and control.Eventually, Jonathan leaves them behind along with his dark past, then travels to Nevada, where he partners up with four other survivors. During their struggle for survival, they hear about a safe community in Virginia known as New Haven. As they try to escape the ruined state of Nevada, Jonathan's past catches up to him. After his capture, Jonathan suddenly finds himself responsible for a fourteen-year-old girl who joins alongside him on their journey across America. Unfortunately, their expedition will not be so easy with Tyron and the Marauders on their tails because of Jonathan's heroic actions against the group of savages.

Der Gelegenheitsdetektiv Benedikt Davis hat sich nach den letzten Ereignissen eigentlich zur Ruhe gesetzt und verzichtet seitdem darauf, für die Polizei bei der Fallaufklärung mitzuhelfen. Damit ihm nicht zu langweilig wird, verbringt er Zeit mit seinem Freund Kai Decker, welcher eine Anstellung bei einem kleinen Theater gefunden hat. Aufgrund von finanziellen Schwierigkeiten beschließt der Theaterleiter, mit der nächsten Aufführung für einen gezielten Skandal zu sorgen und so auf sich aufmerksam zu machen. Dass es bei der Aufführung von ¿Othellö aber zu einem solchen Verbrechen kommen würde, konnte niemand vorhersehen. Nun kann sich auch Benedikt nicht länger zurückhalten und beginnt sofort mit der Aufklärung des Falls, welcher längst zurückliegende Wunden wieder zu Tage fördert.

Neugierig auf ein romantisches Sword & Sorcery Abenteuer? Dann folge einer jungen Nomadin, die sich in der Wüste von Dschanor gegen Dämonen, Wüstenräuber und Sklavenjäger behaupten muss.Das Leben ist wunderbar, denkt die 17-jährige Thiyya. Heiraten und die Herrin im eigenen Zelt werden sind verlockende Aussichten für die Zukunft, vor allem als der junge, elegante Amenai um ihre Hand anhält.Doch kurz nach seiner Ankunft überfallen die berüchtigten Schakale der Wüste das Lager ihrer Familie. Unversehens finden sich Thiyya und Amenai auf einer gefahrvollen Reise durch die Wüste von Dschanor wieder, die sie auf die Spur des magischen Smaragds der Kriegsgöttin führt.Wird es ihnen gemeinsam gelingen, allen Gefahren der Wüste zu trotzen und mit Hilfe des Smaragds das Rätsel um Amenais verschwundene Eltern zu lösen?

In the first of a thrilling new series, FBI Special Agent Meg Jennings and Hawk, her loyal search-and-rescue Labrador, must race against time as they zero in on one of the deadliest killers in the country . . . Meg and Hawk are part of the FBI's elite K-9 unit. Hawk can sniff out bodies anywhere-living or dead. When a bomb rips apart a government building in Washington D.C., it takes all of the team's extensive search-and-rescue training to locate and save the workers and visitors buried beneath the rubble. But even as the duo are hailed as heroes, a bomber remains at large, striking terror in a widening spiral of unpredictability. As more bombs are detonated and the body count escalates, Meg and Hawk are assigned to a task force dedicated to stopping the unseen killer. It will come down to a battle of wits and survival skills between Meg, Hawk, and the bomber they're tracking to rescue a nation from the brink of chaos."Tense and exciting, Sara Driscoll has created a new power couple, Meg and her FBI K-9, Hawk."-Leo J. Maloney, author of Arch Enemy

The Beach of Dreams (1919) is a novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. Although he is more widely known for his novel The Blue Lagoon (1908), which inspired the 1980 hit drama starring Brooke Shields, Stacpoole was a prolific bestselling author whose dozens of literary works allow the reader to enter the world of nautical adventure. "It was as though deep in his being lay a blazing hatred born of injustice through ages and only coming to light when upborne by balloon-juice. On these occasions a saloon bar with its glitter and phantom show of mirth and prosperity sometimes called on him to dispense and destroy it, the passion to fight the crowd seized him, a passion that has its origin, perhaps, in sources other than alcohol." In his youth, Henry De Vere Stacpoole sailed across the South Pacific as a ship's doctor, gathering the raw imaginative materials that would inspire dozens of romance and adventure novels. In The Beach of Dreams, a yacht collides with a fishing vessel in the middle of the South Pacific, leaving few alive. The survivors-a rich woman and a pair of weathered sailors-attempt to survive on a nearby island, but soon the men prove impossible to trust. In her darkest hour, Cléo de Bromsart encounters Raft, a brash and brave fisherman with striking red hair and a hatred of injustice. Together, they form an alliance against the elements and await their day of rescue. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry De Vere Stacpoole's The Beach of Dreams is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

When Nora Alexander drives into Piney Woods, Texas, to fulfill her dying mother's last wish, she has no idea what awaits her. First she is run off the road, then the sealed letter she delivers turns out to be a scathing rebuke to the town's most beloved citizen and favored candidate for Piney Woods Pioneer: Adam Brockwell. Next thing you know, Adam has been murdered in a nasty knife attack. Suspicion instantly falls on Nora, one of the last people to see him alive. After all, everyone in Piney Woods loved him. Or did they? Turns out Nora's mother had a complicated past she never shared with her daughter. Told not to leave town by Tuck the flirty sheriff, Nora finds a job with Tuck's Aunt Marty trying to get the rundown Tunie Hotel back in the black. The old hotel was Piney Woods' heart and soul in its heyday as an oil boomtown. Now the secrets it harbors may be the key to getting Nora off the hook. She's going to need to solve the mystery quickly to avoid arrest, or worse: becoming the killer's next victim.Book 1 in the Piney Woods Mystery series.

Parker City, 1985 . . . A picturesque spring morning takes a disturbing turn when the frozen body of a young woman is discovered in a field on the outskirts of the city. As Detectives Ben Winters and Tommy Mason arrive on the scene, they have no idea upon what type of an investigation they are about to embark. With no identification, no breadcrumbs to lead them to the girl's origins, or even a cause of death, they face a daunting task ahead as they take on their latest case. As the investigation lingers in limbo, a surprise revelation connects it to a mysterious chapter from Parker City's past. One that Tommy's own uncle was a part of four decades early as a debonair private investigator working for the venerable Stride Detective Agency, tenaciously searching for the missing daughter of a former diplomat. It's a connection that binds two generations of detectives in an intricate web of intrigue. In this captivating new installment of Parker City Mysteries, both investigations unravel simultaneously, forging an unbreakable link between the past and the present. As Ben and Tommy navigate their way through the case, they must confront the truth to a secret that has remained concealed for far too long.

Ein neuer Auftrag führt die Detektivin Editha Wend in ein von brutalen Anschlägen bedrohtes Luxushaus auf Sylt. Denn ihr bester Kunde, der Horror-Schauspieler Birger Hemsen, hat das stylische Anwesen zu Marketingzwecken erworben.Und er benötigt dringend Hilfe.Denn seitdem erlebt der Prominente jeden Tag vermeintliche Neidattacken und rohen Vandalismus.Verdächtigt wird ein sonderbarer Mann, der nachts mit einer Schweinsmaske seine Bahnen durch das Wohnviertel zieht.Ein gruseliger Leichenfund verkompliziert die Angelegenheit. Und alle Hinweise führen immer wieder zu einer leerstehenden Gästepension auf Sylt.Wurden hier wertvolle Kunstgegenstände gestohlen?

Seine Liebe ist Gift. Aber ich folge ihm. Bis zum Ende. Ein Badboy mit harter Vergangenheit. Eine Frau, die immer mehr wollte. Ein Paar, das sich gegenseitig nur zerstören kann. Summer Williams ist alles, aber kein braves Mädchen. Und sie sucht alles, aber keinen braven Jungen. Genau genommen will die Studentin nur einen: Mason Black. Und der ist alles andere als brav. Rau, tätowiert, geheimnisvoll ¿ mit Blicken, die sich in ihre Seele graben. Seit einem Jahr ist Summer absolut besessen von dem mysteriösen Badboy und ihr dunkelster Traum geht in Erfüllung, als er sie endlich anspricht. Sie hat keine Ahnung, worauf sie sich einlässt, als sie das erste Mal auf sein Motorrad steigt. Aber schon bald verläuft sie sich in seinem toxischen Labyrinth und findet nicht mehr hinaus. Denn Mason hat sich unter ihre Haut tätowiert. Sein Name fließt durch ihre Adern und nach dieser Abwärtsfahrt wird Summer nie wieder dieselbe sein. Genau so, wie sie es gewollt hat. Oder? Sie dachte, er sei ihre Nacht. Aber eigentlich ist er ihr Ende. Teil eins der Ride Or die Dilogie. Tauche ein in das heiße Saint Louis und lerne abgefuckte Gangster und motorradfahrende Badboys kennen. Doch Vorsicht, die Machtspiele werden nicht nur die Protagonisten an die Grenzen treiben. Starke Frauen, die stark bleiben müssen, toxisches Verhalten, das auch dich vergiften wird, und Grenzüberschreitungen, die du lieben und hassen wirst. Mason Black hat eine harte Vergangenheit, doch das hält ihn nicht davon ab, sich Summer einfach zu nehmen. Sie wollte ihn schon immer ¿ aber wollte sie auch seine Zerstörung?

Kaum erholt möchte Ruby schon wieder kämpfen. Sie kann nicht dabei zusehen, wie die Menschheit weiterhin unter der Sklaverei der Xal leidet. Um den ewigen Krieg der Welten zu beenden, scheint es nur eine Lösung zu geben: Die Prophezeiung. Aber als sie herausfindet, dass der Rubin gar nicht der Schlüssel zum Frieden ist, kommen ihr Zweifel, ob die Rebellion überhaupt eine Chance hat.