Modern Thrillers

In this modern-day retelling of Salome, Herod is a drug lord. Herod’s life is mostly the same until he marries his business partner’s wife and her daughter comes to live with him. If his wife is not trying to destroy him, his new stepdaughter is disobeying at every turn. Everything changes when Salome comes home from college and he has to use her help to clean up her mother’s mess with a snitch. Things change even more when he asks her to dance for his birthday. Things go totally to hell for Herod when he promises Salome anything she wants if she spends an entire week with him dancing.

A brand new, full-length novel starring the master of the mystic arts, the Green Lama. Written by Adam Lance Garcia, this wall-to-wall pulp adventure pits the Green Lama and his friends against the Nazis of the Third Reich and an ancient evil from beyond the stars. Soon to become a true pulp classic, this is an audiobook that belongs in every true pulp fan's library.

Audrey thought a weekend escape to her childhood friend McKinley’s viral wellness farm would mean organic smoothies, sunset selfies, and women empowering women style inspiration. Instead, she arrives to find McKinley crawling across the kitchen floor at 3 AM, hands raw and bleeding, chanting about being the “perfect modern wife.” As Audrey peels back the farm’s picture-perfect facade, she uncovers an insidious plot that threatens to trap every woman in its web of mind-bending rituals, sinister “treatments,” and cult-like devotion.

Phryne Fisher has gone missing in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Only her pearl-handled gun and a note arrive back home. She's left instruction that say that should she not turn up in six months' time, a letter must be sent to next of kin.

Two unscrupulous antiquity dealers, Hugh Underdonk and Alfred Bacon, hope to get their hands on the Dare Diary, a long lost journal written by Eleanor Dare, one of the original members of Roanoke Island's Lost Colony. Detective Weston Wolf is drawn into this web of deception and murder by a beautiful woman who claims to be a descendant of Eleanor. As the bodies pile up, Wolf must untangle this web to save his own neck.

Senior year already drains enough of spellcaster Sophie Morris’ time. But when her pre-law-student boyfriend discovers an underhanded corporate conspiracy to destroy a rival, she dives in to dig up the clues needed to expose the truth. And as soon as the corrupt conglomerate gets wind of her interest, Sophie and her sweetheart become the targets of their under-the-table heavies.

New York, 1938. The German consulate has been attacked, leaving all but one of the Nazi diplomatic corps brutally murdered. Only Jethro Dumont, the Green Lama, and his associates, Jean Farrell, Ken Clayton, and Lieutenant Caraway, can find out who's behind this horrible crime. But as the Green Lama's investigations deepen, he discovers a crime far greater than any ever committed by man and learns a secret that will define the course of his destiny.

A collection of short stories from such favorites as Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling are joined by others written anonymously in this anthology which will have you scratching your head and listening just a bit longer to discover the key to the mysteries.

A cruise ship crashes suddenly on Liberty Island. All onboard are dead by their own murderous hands. All but one. What secrets does the lone survivor harbor within her very soul? And what horrors does she bring? These are questions only the Green Lama can answer! Reintroducing the most unique pulp hero ever! In reality, The Green Lama is Jethro Dumont, a millionaire playboy who spent 10 years in Tibet and now uses his Buddhist training to pursue justice for those denied it!

The man, Eddie Bracchio, is a ruthless killer from a present-day criminal organization out of Brooklyn, New York. He returns to his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota and settles into the familiar Payne Avenue neighborhood, a small and diverse community on the east side of town. Upon his arrival, he meets and falls for a beautiful woman—a woman he cannot have. The woman is Kate De Luca.

Atunci când obsesiile citadine și singurătatea apăsătoare își dau mâna, un newyorkez constată că mișcările îi sunt urmărite. În acest joc periculos de-a viața și de-a moartea, descoperim ce înseamnă izolarea extremă și care sunt consecințele unei pandemii, totul într-o frescă proaspătă a lumii în care trăim. David Duchovny scrie un roman cât o respirație, un thriller camusian în care personajul principal își caută sensul, însă mintea începe să îi joace feste. Pe măsură ce misterul se adâncește, asistăm la o călătorie spre sine în care micile momente iluminate ascund adevărate capcane.

Nineteen-year-old Kim is finishing her first season of work around the beautiful lake. A dead body is found on the ferry, and the police are totally baffled and can make no further progress on the intractably difficult case. With immense reluctance, they call in the very unlikely assistance of a consulting detective, who single-handedly cracks open the puzzle and goes on to solve the case.

Kim, 19 ans, termine sa première saison de travail autour du magnifique lac. Un cadavre est retrouvé sur le ferry, et la police est totalement déconcertée et ne peut plus avancer sur cette affaire inextricablement difficile. Avec une immense réticence, ils font appel à l’aide très improbable d’un détective consultant, qui à lui seul ouvre le puzzle et continue à résoudre l’affaire. Comme toujours, il y a un peu d’humour ironique et un soupçon de romance flottant dans l’air.

Kim, de 19 años, está terminando su primera temporada de trabajo alrededor del hermoso lago. Se encuentra un cadáver en el ferry, y la policía está totalmente desconcertada y no puede avanzar más en el caso intratablemente difícil. Con inmensa renuencia, recurren a la muy improbable ayuda de una detective consultora, que por sí solo abre el rompecabezas y continúa resolviendo el caso. Como siempre, hay un poco de humor irónico y un toque de romance flotando en el aire.

An American TV actress adopts a little Russian girl in St. Petersburg in 1994. The actress, Molly McKay, arrives to find a Russia struggling to become a free market democracy. She also discovers that the TV show she starred in back in the ‘80s in the U.S. is now a big hit in Russia, complicating an already harrowing adoption journey. Then there are the two handsome princes, one Russian, one American, and all the other fairytale characters who help or hinder My Russian Clementine.

Rise of Modern Machines: Dawn of Humanity is short fiction inspired by AI's dominance in the world today and in the future. In recent years, as I’ve worked with various AI tools, an uneasy feeling about the future of humanity has grown within me. This apprehension doesn’t stem from AI’s occasional mistakes or hallucinations but from the astonishing speed at which it is improving. Tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E, Gemini, and Einstein have made remarkable progress, surpassing human error rates in many scenarios.

La diciannovenne Kim sta finendo la sua prima stagione di lavoro intorno al bellissimo lago. Un cadavere viene trovato sul traghetto e la polizia è totalmente sconcertata e non può fare ulteriori progressi nel caso intrattabile. Con immensa riluttanza, chiamano l'improbabile assistenza di una detective consulenza, che da solo risolve il mistero e va avanti per risolvere il caso.

The final story in a series of five adventures which re-work original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into our modern world. The murder of an aged rock star is initially blamed on a gang of burglars, but Holmes senses that his widow is hiding something. What is the formidable music mogul not telling about the night her husband died at their Gothic country home? And how will Watson and Lestrade face up to the life-changing decisions they both decide to make?

From the bestselling author of The Carousel and Daybreak comes a stirring, timely story of adultery and its impact on the American family. Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly...

From the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. "The easiest choices are the ones you make for other people." Claire Talbot is the...