In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked, and solving the murder is the key to unlocking both cases. […]

A secret society. A deadly conspiracy. A race against time. A 97-year-old man is murdered in a Scottish nursing home. What looks like a random killing turns into something far more disturbing, the victim was a high-ranking Nazi scientist, protected by the British government for decades. The trail leads to a myth that was never […]

Two time zones. Same body count. DI Liam McLaughlin thought he’d left murder behind in Derry. The body found in a field under a full moon was bad enough, savaged, staged, and whispered about as something not quite human. But when McLaughlin travels to Egypt for a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter, death isn’t […]

The last thing Gilded-Age New Orleans needed, stumbling forth from the Civil War and now controlled by a corrupt political machine, was a butchering monster (or monsters?) stalking her midnight streets…but that’s exactly what she got. And now who’s to save her? Who dares step forward to track down whoever or whatever it is on […]

Shanna McGuire is convinced a strange man is following her. When he approaches her on the street, he shocks her with a story that makes her question her family history. She asks Simm to investigate the man’s claim. A simple case of genealogy and the search for a possible treasure are perfect for Simm, a […]

She thought she left mystery-solving on screen and in the past. But someone is bringing her darkest role to life. Violet Asher, former star of Lilly-Bell,Teenage Detective, fled Hollywood at seventeen, desperate to bury a career she hated and a past that haunted her. Ten years later, she’s finally found peace in the quiet coastal […]

A love letter to libraries. A puzzle for the ages. A fight for the future. A stolen book. A cryptic note. Retired reporter Marvin MickleThwait knows something’s wrong—and librarian Gloria Thanh is his only hope. Their search plunges them into a long-forgotten part of the library’s underground stacks, where they discover a code hidden behind […]

His social skills won’t win friends. He doesn’t care. But when in trouble, the ruggedly handsome cowboy, Jake Shepherd, is the man to have on your side. A topnotch PI and former FBI agent with a Yale law degree, he can shoot the wings off a mosquito at 100 yards, read a suspect like a […]

A map for murder delivered in a story-writing competition. Willowcroft’s Quirk-Off festival lives by its motto: Celebrate the strange, the silly, and the splendidly odd. When writer Tammy Rumbelow agrees to judge the flash fiction contest, she does not expect a story describing an all-too-real forty-year-old poisoning, where “The truth is buried three feet deep, […]