In this "prequel" to the popular David Mapstone mysteries, author Jon Talton takes us back to 1999, when everything dot-com was making money, the Y2K bug was the greatest danger facing the world, and the good times seemed as if they would never end. It was a time before David and Lindsey were together, before Mike Peralta was sheriff, and before David had rid himself of the sexy and mysterious Gretchen. In Phoenix, it's the sweet season and Christmas...

T.K. O'Neill received national recognition from the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Jackpine Savages-hard-boiled detective fiction in the tradition of Ross MacDonald and Robert B. Parker, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior. Carter Brown always wanted to be a private eye. Thanks to an inheritance from a well-to-do uncle and a mail order P.I. diploma, he realized the dream. When word spread of a homegrown P.I. in the backwoods...

Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they're having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake. Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it's too late?

In Hunting Spirits, they take on the case of an old moneyed Garden District resident. Something supernatural is creeping around her grand nineteenth-century mansion, and she wants it gone. On the outside, she's the picture of respectability and decorum. Yet within those stately walls lurk generations of dark secrets. Charmaine and Jessi find themselves caught in twisted plots, betrayals, and murder. They'll need every ounce of their paranormal skills...

In 1968 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Charlie Foxhawk Carter is, assigned to investigate an insurance claim for a murder. His childhood friend becomes the primary suspect. An otherworldly blonde, takes Charlie deeper into the circumstances surrounding the murder. A top-secret government agency, Charlie's former employer is, mixed up in the murder. But, how and why?

Marzo de 1945. Tras seis años marcados por la sangre y las lágrimas, la guerra estaba a punto de terminar. Sin embargo, para los prisioneros de guerra alemanes que estaban encarcelados en Island Farm, el campamento 198, el fin podría no estar tan cerca, por lo que decidieron escapar. Mientras todos huían a cualquier parte, uno de ellos, Kurt Schneider, fue encontrado manchado de sangre y con una pistola en la mano. Además, una mujer yacía muerta...

El alguacil Buck Olsen es un veterano de 29 años en la aplicación de la ley que lamenta la pérdida de su esposa el otoño anterior. Con el crimen en la casa de su infancia en el condado de Beaufort restringido a un licor de luna ocasional o un niño con una bolsa de hierba, está contento de tener un camino fácil hacia la jubilación. Poco sabe Buck que un asesino en serie merodea el área alrededor de su casa de Killer's Knob y ya ha cobrado...

It's often said college is where one "self" is discovered. But college can also be a place where one becomes lost between the rigorous courses, extracurricular activities, social networking, freedom...and secret fraternities. As the first installment in the Illusions of Ingilaef trilogy, Forged by Frost is an introductory course to a semester filled with suspense, scares, and dramatic flair. Daniel Elliott Jr. (aka June) is a sophomore desperate...

El cuerpo del joven Manuel Prieto aparece en el Cerro Garabitas de la Casa de Campo de Madrid el día de Nochebuena de 1952. Gonzalo Suárez, inspector de segunda del Cuerpo General de Policía, se hace cargo del caso. Un caso que, sin saberlo, cambiará su vida tal y como la conoce. El teniente Arturo Saavedra negocia los términos del acuerdo que permitirá a Estados Unidos establecer bases militares en España. Y lo hace por convicción, pero también...

R. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom's *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office. Fatal things keep happening to his phones. And who's been blabbing about his racehorse-doping past? The love of his life has made a ten-year vow of celibacy to the Virgin Mary. Tom's Goth daughter's girlfriend's obese sister has vanished,...