A Private Investigator. A Missing Assistant. A Case To Find Sarah. Evil people kidnap others.Private Investigator Leo Ashley likes their assistant. They like laughing, solving crime and making the world a better place. Leo arrives to find Sarah missing.Leo realises Sarah's life hangs in the balance.A surprising, suspenseful, enthralling mystery short story about friendship, hope and kidnapping.BUY NOW!Also available in Mystery Short Story Collection...

"Mystery fans will be delighted by this first installment in a promising new series." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When a social media star washes up dead on a sleepy island, the residents are forced to confront their own secrets - the money, murder, and lies behind the idyllic small town façade - as a wave of fans descends. Pete Brown is a retired pro-surfer looking to live the perfect beach bum life and put the trauma of a career-ending...

A story ripped from real-life headlines. A police detective is found in an alley, standing over the body of an unarmed African-American boy. Groggy from a concussion, he has no memory of what happened, and he is literally holding the smoking gun. To the Baltimore County Internal Affairs division, it's a slam-dunk. But various forces push psychotherapist Kate Huntington and her P.I. husband to investigate behind the scenes, and what they find doesn't...

BETRAYAL REAPS A BITTER HARVEST Private Investigator Dorothy Dennehy is approached by a potential client who tells of a crime not yet committed. She dismisses the rants of a disgraced winery estate partner, preferring to focus on the running of Maxwell's Bar and Grill. Her right-hand investigator, HB, has taken over much of the caseload for Quail Investigations, but before long Dorothy is pulled into a strange kidnapping case and a dysfunctional family...

If your daughter went missing, how many years would it take for you to admit she's never coming home?Betsy Blake was only four years old when she vanished outside her family home in Dublin.Her father – wracked with guilt for the past seventeen years – still can't bring himself to admit the search is over, despite the fact his wife has moved on and police have closed off the investigation.When he is informed he must undergo major heart surgery...

"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction." -Booklist (starred review) on What You Want to See The Stories You Tell is Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Macavity Award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka's heart-pounding third novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats with her signature twists and mile-high stakes. A late-night phone call is never good news, especially when you're Roxane Weary. This one is from her...

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail...

Murder in Hilden Heights?Was Hattie Baker the victim of a serial killer?On a balmy, late summer morning in Hilden Heights Hattie Baker is found dead in her pool, and she wasn't the first. A socialite and successful business owner, Hattie was an excellent swimmer. Even so, her death was ruled an accident. Her boyfriend, Mason Willis, however, doesn't believe it was an accident. He thinks she was murdered and goes to Harry Starke for help. Thus begins...

June, 1943 Betty Ahern isn't a novice PI anymore. After solving several dangerous cases, she is hired for what she hopes will be simpler one. A soldier home from Europe on medical furlough wants her to find his birth mother. Left at a church and raised an orphan at Father Baker's Home for Boys, his only clue is a silver St. Christopher medal with a French inscription on the back. Betty tracks down the unmarried daughter of a wealthy businessman...

Marco Flynn is a throwback gumshoe detective that's good at his job and claims downtown Indianapolis as his stomping grounds. Currently, he's struggling to make ends meet from his business and sees himself as a relationship killer. Marco's life gets put into a blender when he stumbles on a body in the canal. The problem, other than the dead body, is Marco knows who it is and they were buried two years ago. On top of that, his brother brings him...