Cat Mystery Thriller

A jewelry thief. A stray cat named Harvey. A missing sapphire bracelet. With a thief lurking among the elderly residents of Pepperton Assisted Living, the only one who may be able to save them from being robbed blind is the stray cat they’ve befriended. This cat-crime-solver short story is fun and heart-warming.

When ex-sheriff and watermelon farmer Bud Shumway and his wife, Wilma Jean, head to Montana to pursue Bud's dream of learning to fly-fish, Bud never guesses he'll soon be deeply involved in trying to solve the mystery of a missing lunch lady he's never met, as well as trying to stay off the radar of a strange religious cult that believes in immortality while plotting to kill people. Set in the magnificent Absaroka Mountains near Yellowstone National Park, this mystery will have you mystified and on edge.

At just fifteen years old, Veronica Fancourt is already turning heads with her compelling stories, inspired by her vivid dreams. Her latest publication is a gripping tale of heists and cathedrals, entitled "The Countess's Keep." It's captured the imagination of everyone who chances to read it, including someone for whom it is no mere fantasy. Meanwhile, an employee of a coffee roaster in Trieste discovers her bosses are more than ordinary businessmen. She finds herself tied up in a dark warehouse as bait for a sister she insists she doesn't have.

Tess Alessandro is living a dream: she was selected for an incredible exchange program in Rome, where she's spending the summer taking in the beautiful sights and sounds and tastes of Italy. Her Italian counterpart, Sofia, is staying with Tess's family while she's away. Sure, her host parents barely speak English, but they seem cool enough. Until that morning when Tess's hosts make her join their video chat. Sofia is standing over Tess's sleeping parents, and she's brandishing a knife. "Do everything we say, or they will die."

Martin Alcott, an out of work IT Engineer, can't shake his recurring nightmares of skyscrapers and cathedrals. This morning's dream was different, though: he's now certain he's being watched. Halfway up London's newest high-rise, Martin arrives promptly for his first job interview in weeks, only to find the office empty in more ways than one.

When Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a call to fly into Utah’s remote and mysterious Maze District to help recover the body of a man wearing a tuxedo, he has no idea that it’s only the beginning of a series of strange happenings, from a missing symphony orchestra to a ragtag boatman who seems to be from the long-ago past.

When a Mountie shows up in Sheriff Bud Shumway's Utah office and accuses him of aiding and abetting a possible murderer in Canada’s Yukon Territory, Bud is mystified, especially since he doesn't even know the guy. And when he receives a gold-mining claim transferred to his name and a cryptic message telling him to come to the Klondike Cafe, Bud is soon on his way, even though he has no idea where the cafe is or why his help is needed.

When a shadow-government agency executes an entire town in East Africa because of what was seen, visiting anthropologist Gabe Turpin is also targeted and pursued by a ruthless assassination team across the Great Rift Valley. Turpin begins to unravel the web of lies and cover-ups, to discover a profound secret...and a dark plot. Then, Turpin, a female geneticist and Judo player, and a mysterious mountain ascetic must race against time to derail the plot to steal the souls of the world's religious leaders and 30 million holy men as they congregate on the Ganges.

The city is destroyed by a monster werewolf, and an epic battle ensues between the monster werewolf and the military, with the werewolf holding the upper hand. Hauck and his friends are trapped underground by the werewolf and must fight for their lives.

Cultural anthropologist Gabe Turpin - while on holiday in Kenya with his adult daughter - comes between SEAL Team Six and Somali pirates. In the bloody aftermath, they, a Maasai Shaman, and an old spymaster, form an unlikely team to derail a terrorist, nuclear attack on a U.S. Carrier Strike Group that will be the tipping point for a financial attack, and a collapse of the U.S. economy.

US Air Force Lt. Richard Silva's hell on earth begins in the fall of 1970, when his plane is shot down over North Vietnam. Silva is captured and taken to a POW camp where he is turned over to a shadowy interrogator who specializes in the systematic torture of American prisoners. Miraculously, Silva survives and returns to the US.

Axel Stone is a porn star, a highly successful porn star. Now semi-retired and frigidly cold, Axel stumbles through life the only way he knows how - lots of booze and women. With more than 1,500 movies over his short career, Axel has slowly removed himself from filming, opting instead to “train” woman for the industry resulting in their near stardom as they emerge onto the adult film sets. Every director wants one of Axel’s girls because Axel’s girls make money. And Payton Knight needs money.

A savage Russian werewolf rips apart the city of Detroit while being hunted through its streets by a team of mercenaries.

In a desolate Michigan ghost town, two men discover a lost Tesla technology. Now they are on the run from the Russian mob, a Chinese spymaster and a ruthless old woman who will stop at nothing to possess the technology.

When a fellow partygoer is poisoned while bobbing for apples, Francie needs to get justice for her friend. But just days after the crime, she gets devastating news: the Jibbleson sisters’ fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. Even though most (okay, all) of their inventions explode, Francie knows they’d never commit murder. She promises to get them out of their jail cell and back to their workshop faster than you can sing the Monster Mash.

The last thing 11-year-old Robin wants to hear is that his mother and her new husband are extending their honeymoon indefinitely. The members of the school gang are insisting that he complete a dare before they let him join the group. They want Robin to kidnap Mrs. Nordling’s prize-winning cat when no one is home. Getting into the Nordling’s house is easy, and Robin manages to find the cat and put him in his bag. As Robin is leaving, however, he stumbles upon a terrifying scene - Mr. Nordling leaving the master bedroom with blood all over his body.

Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town. Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'. He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family history hides a secret he can't resist investigating.

On October 12, 1967, British European Airlines Flight 284 left Athens, bound for Cyprus - it never arrived. Mysteriously destroyed, the British government did not explain why, only saying it was due to sabotage. Despite pleas from family members of the victims for more information, the British government sealed the records until 2040.

In this first installment, on a typical day in Anna's somewhat-perfect life, a book-signing event turns her world upside down. Is it a case of mistaken identity or was she just being paranoid? After being stalked for weeks, Anna quickly finds herself literally "tied up", fighting for her life, and desperate to get back home to her cats; all while unwittingly falling in love with the detective who was trying to save her. How she finds her way out of this mess is anyone's guess!

A horned monster attacks a woman in her home, a statue comes to life and attempts to strangle a man, and this is just the beginning....