Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or ‘the Sweeney’. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys’ club, and Jane’s new colleagues make it clear that they don’t think a...
Against the ominous backdrop of America’s entry into World War II, the navy still reels from the devastation wreaked at Pearl Harbor and the crushing defeat of US ground troops in the Philippines.
On the home front, scientists at the...
Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what...
An unexpected meeting and a simple landscaping job swiftly pull Miguel into a dangerous new world...
This story originally appeared in Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don...
Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that...
Private Beijing is ripped apart after an attack leaves three agents dead and the head of the team missing.
With the Beijing branch in turmoil, Private’s owner and global head, Jack Morgan, immediately gets on a plane from LA.
Soon after...
Larry had started happily on his shipboard honeymoon... his bride a ravishing, exotic girl.
But now, ashore in the tropics, he found a devil in the woman.
Why had her guardian tried to stop them — for his sake?
What strange language...
The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark...
In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen’s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a hotel full of...
Cat Catledge is a happy man. A self-made millionaire at 50, he has a loving wife and a beautiful teenage daughter. And after years of hard work, he is taking his family on the ultimate dream sabbatical: a two-year cruise to the South Pacific via the...