Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Will Harper’s back at it again, as he makes a heartrending discovery: a gritty underbelly of modern-day slavery has been operating right in his own backyard. When Will’s informant, a terrified Guatemalan teenage immigrant who’s just escaped the elegant compound where she was enslaved as a maid, is forced to run from the hired goons sent to capture her, Will knows he has to investigate. With a network that includes corrupt farmers, ruthless coyotes, scheming Russian mobsters and countless ... [Read More...]

Nothing good happens in the morning. Case in point: the Turkey Trot 5K Race. For a night owl like Kenzie, the idea of dragging her bones out of bed to go running at the crack of dawn would typically be a nonstarter, especially on Thanksgiving Day. But her long-time best friend Blaise insisted, and the idea of disappointing him was even worse. Trotting along with a bunch of cheerful folks in full-on turkey garb is bad enough. But when several runners collapse without explanation, Kenzie realizes... [Read More...]

Jerria Danson isn’t an author. Tasked with preserving great-aunt Henrietta’s family stories, she reluctantly takes time from her busy life to attend a writer’s retreat in beautiful North Idaho. All she wants is peace and quiet to record the oral history for the family and maybe pick up a few writing tips along the way. Met with a happy surprise when she arrives, Jerria settles in for a productive, relaxing weekend. Although the other writers have their own motives for being there, she qui... [Read More...]

When two women mysteriously disappear within a few days of each other, is it random, or is there something–or someone–more sinister at play? Detective Griffin Knight was supposed to be at home recovering from the events of his recent investigation in Seattle, but his captain and police colleagues needed his help to find out what happened to the two missing women. In New York City, there could be any number of explanations. The clock is ticking; Griffin Knight must act quickly before someone... [Read More...]

Impulsive Detective “Duke” Wayne is stuck on admin leave from the LAPD, pushing papers across a desk. He desperately wants to rejoin Robbery-Homicide. When the Captain asks him to do a Field Investigation Report on an accidental death from bee stings, he thinks open and shut, this is my ticket back to the squad. But he is teamed with Kelso Bagley, a methodical Special Agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who specializes in the study of insects. Kelso is sure this bee-sting ... [Read More...]

Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop never wanted to come back to her hometown. But when a dead teenage girl is found with her tongue cut out, she must return. After all, that’s the same way Rileigh’s sister died. Reluctantly, she joins forces with the county sheriff to solve the brutal murder. The locals maintain a strict code of silence. The narrow mountain roads winding through Appalachia are fraught with peril. As Rileigh dives deeper into the case, she not only unearths connections between... [Read More...]