Chapter One Inquisitional Prison, Toulouse Saturday, 24th January ‘You are a traitor?’ ‘No, my lord.’ The prisoner was not sure if he spoke out loud or answered only within his own ruined mind. Broken teeth and shifting bone, the taste of dried blood pooled in his mouth. How long… Read more
True crime master Ron Franscell returns in Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story to deliver a grisly and shocking account of love, murder and mayhem. CHAPTER ONE One morning, a new neighbor showed up in the space next to Gerald’s. A bigger trailer than his. No big deal, since folks who… Read more
In Richard Armstrong’s The Don Con, Joey Volpe is a bit of a has-been. He’s broke and unemployed after his short-lived appearance on The Sopranos, and his life only gets worse when a real mobster shows up in his autograph line and makes him an offer he can’t refuse. “So how… Read more
This e-short story introduces readers to Brian Panowich’s brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions (4/30/19). Before Like Lions publishes on April 30th, enter the world of Brian Panowich, where Gareth Burroughs runs McFalls County, in North Georgia, and all the criminal enterprises therein. Two of his… Read more
In Death on the River, bestselling true crime author Diane Fanning recounts a tragic kayak accident that left one man dead—and his fiancée arrested for his murder. CHAPTER ONE A brilliant sun warmed the air on a mid-April Sunday afternoon—a day that shouted with joy that spring had arrived at last. The… Read more
S.C. Perkins’ Murder Once Removed is the cozy debut in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster uses her skills to solve murders in both the past and present. Except for a good taco, genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves nothing more than tracking down her clients’ long-dead ancestors, and her job… Read more
Chocolate Cream Pie Murder is the next mystery in Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swensen Mystery series. In only weeks, Hannah Swensen goes from idealistic newlywed to betrayed wife, and meanwhile, a deadly mystery unfolds in Lake Eden. CHAPTER 4 “Sit down, Hannah,” Mike instructed, gesturing toward the couch. “Mayor Bascomb called… Read more
Steve Berry’s latest audiobook is not your typical thriller on audio. In The Malta Exchange, Berry once again teams up with Macmillan Audio to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer’s Cut edition of the story. This means that in between chapters read by beloved narrator Scott Brick, Berry himself chimes… Read more
Horse Latitudes is a tropical gothic—part thriller, part nightmarish journey into the corruption at the heart of US intervention in Central America. “When your life vanishes, how do you do anything but follow it?” Haunted by guilt and reeling from his shattered marriage, New York photographer Ethan flees south to… Read more
A Deadly Divide by critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan is the fifth book in the Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak series—a piercingly observed, gripping thriller that reveals the fractures that try to tear us all apart, from the once-tight partnership between detectives Esa and Rachel to the truth about a deeply… Read more
