Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A Trifling Murder

The annual Robert Burns Birthday Dinner celebration is underway in the small Missouri town of Beaudin Trace. Guests gather to honor Scotland’s national poet with bagpipes and haggis and a trifle for dessert. But everything isn’t as smooth as Scotch whisky. The Society’s president and vice-president have a very public haggle over the haggis. And less than an hour later, one of them is found dead. And found by Kate Dunbar, owner of The Cookie Cutter Bakery. It wouldn’t be ... [Read More...]

Escaping Toward Freedom

THE HEART OF THIS STORY HAS MADE HEADLINE NEWS Escaping Toward Freedom is the fictional story of four teens who escape a human trafficking ring, each heralding from different states. Clarissa Maxwell, a key character in this thriller, is a former Navy specialist with friends in military special forces. Clarissa is vacationing in the Georgia countryside, deep in the woods, when she spots a girl hiding by her car, at the edge of her cabin. Sight of the girl trembling changes everything, strips Cl... [Read More...]

The Viper’s Nest: A Cobra McCoors Adventure

Cobra McCoors is back in “an exciting ride of action & adventure that leaves you wanting more!” Professional adventurer Cobra McCoors races deadly mercenaries across the hostile wilderness of Mongolia, all driven to discover the forbidden secrets of a lost, mystical power. When legends turn lethal, can Cobra and his team prevent their enemies from unleashing the ancient curse of the Viper’s Nest? Don’t miss this action-packed sequel to Snake in the Grass! $0.99 on Ki... [Read More...]

Free: Run For Your Life

With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd. But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in motion for five days of pure hell. Mitch’s sister, Marie, has gone missing without a trace. His date is canceled, and Mitch’s partner, Devon, and Liza also go ... [Read More...]

Free: The Aleutian Portal

A Russian cargo ship sinks in the shallow waters of the Bering Strait, and somehow vanishes without a trace. In the Colorado Plateau Desert, a cowboy follows a river of sand into an undiscovered ruin. A tunnel-boring operation between the Alaskan and Siberian peninsulas is stalled when its largest burrowing machine disappears into an abyss. Sam Reilly leads a search and rescue mission for the missing ship and crew. What should be a simple operation quickly turns into something much more dangero... [Read More...]

Temple of Shadow

When the famous archaeologist, Alexander Albright, passed away, his son discovered an old treasure map among his father’s belongings. Prior to entering his senior year in college, Michael convinces his closest friends to join him on one last, big adventure together. Legend claimed the pirate Roche Braziliano buried a chest filled with gold somewhere within the Amazon Rainforest. After hiring one of his father’s old South American guides to lead the expedition, Michael Albright and his frien... [Read More...]

Christabel

In this novel-length adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s classic narrative and Gothic ballad, reset to the year 1882, John Vance depicts the trials of seventeen-year-old Christabel, who, following the tragic death of her mother and her own near violation, is taken from her home in London to Twinehurst, an isolated manor house in the country. There she comes upon an alluring woman named Geraldine, who seeks refuge at the manor house. Who is this beautiful and beguiling lady? What powers do... [Read More...]

Chasing Shadows

When Detective Inspector David Angelis investigates the murder of a friend and neighbour, he uncovers a disturbing secret. It’s a secret that unlocks a profound and terrifying event that changed his life two years ago in Brighton. Does this secret now explain the mysterious insight he has into the minds of others? $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Sniper’s Nest

The ambush is in place, he takes aim, and shots ring out. Chicago is officially on notice, and a siege is underway on the city’s men and women in blue. Assigned to the task force investigating the shootings, Jesse McCord and twenty of Chicago’s top-notch detectives work day and night to track down the sniper whose agenda is apparent—to kill as many police officers as possible. Getting in front of the crazed assailant is the only way to stop him, but without a name, a face, or a witness to... [Read More...]