Mystery Collection

Listen and relive exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Learn about children who borrow their uncle’s time machine to get desserts and a boy who hunts for his lost teddy bear at bedtime, along with other stories about mystery and adventure.

It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?

As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on Dartmoor will be the centerpiece of a new historic-crimes exhibit—exactly Kate’s kind of mystery. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring the man who donated the dress.

Collection includes the first three Darkness Unbound novellas.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour -- comes three powerful short stories. In "Fast," Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance. In "Game," a...

Christian Sands, an FBI profiler with unique abilities, is called upon, once again, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several children from their homes over one night in the small town of Swanton, Vermont. It's been a year since the disappearance, and the town is swamped with media frenzy, law enforcement, and paparazza from every walk of life with their own spin on the disappearance. And as others are discovered mutilated in the nearby forest, the town is a powder keg waiting to explode.

Download this fun and lighthearted witch cozy mystery collection of three books! Contents: Book 1: Potions and Commotions: Lola, a friendly young witch in the magical town of Warlor, has just opened up the town's first potions shop, along with elderly man-fairy, Pim-Pim. After Lola is asked out on a date by the handsome warlock, Detective Dereck, Lola's best friend, Nawfar (who happens to be a mermaid), is accused of murder! Also featuring: Book 2: Witch Way Out; and Book 3: Rats and Bats.

Conceived as a potential radio vehicle for Alfred Hitchcock to direct, Suspense was a radio series of epic proportion. It aired on CBS from 1942 to 1962 and is considered by many to be the best mystery/drama series of the golden age. Known as Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, it focused on suspenseful stories starring the biggest names in Hollywood. Early in the run, the episodes were hosted by the 'Man In Black' who, from an omniscient perch, narrated stories of people thrown into dangerous or bizarre situations.

The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva! The last place Suze Simon expects to find herself during Valentine’s Day is a cemetery...

From young women to elderly matrons, from the savvy sophisticates to the socially inept, the characters in these stories depict life's defining moments, where one calculated move cements the unalterable fate of another and the inescapable consequences of karma and conscience.

Marine veteran Jerry McNeal was born with a psychic ability that allows him to know when something will happen before it happens. Jerry can also see and speak with spirits, making for some "lively" conversations. The series starts when, one fateful night, while on patrol as a Pennsylvania State Trooper, Jerry finds himself aided by the ghost of a K-9 police officer. Without the dog's help, a woman would have died. With each book that follows, their unique partnership grows as they navigate their next adventure.

One man had the courage to stand up for what was right against the tyrants of the New American Republic. The name of Bodhi Haskins became a rally cry for patriots everywhere, giving them the will to fight and take America back from those who seek to destroy her. Bodhi’s wife, Cassandra, finds herself in the midst of a war zone after Bodhi returns to Texas to fight for freedom alongside his former teammates. She’s forced into action to save their family when NAR forces arrive, attempting to cut off the head of the Resistance and end the war.

Many hybrid forms of the mystery-crime-thriller genre exists. All of them are narratives that keep one in suspense about what is about to happen. The thriller also shares a literary lineage with ancient epic and myth populated by monsters, terror and danger. Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, and Robert Ludlum are some of the masters of the genre.

Auf dem Flughafen Frankfurt greift ein Passagier aus Teneriffa Fluggäste an. Der Butler, dort mit dem Aufbau seiner neuen Organisation beschäftigt, eilt selbst zu Hilfe. Mick Bondye steht seinem neuen Chef zur Seite und entdeckt dabei Verbindungen zu seiner eigenen Vergangenheit. Die beiden Agenten unternehmen einen verhängnisvollen Trip zu den Kanarischen Inseln.

Even in a human world, small creatures can be big heroes. Sam Longtail and his partner Tracy Limbjumber solve mysteries big and small.

Secret Agent X returns! Pulpdom’s premier spy returns via Airship 27 productions Secret Agent X Volume 6 in three new pulse-pounding adventures. "The Man of a Thousand Faces" is confronted with the most threatening challenges to America imaginable. Only his incredible talents as a super spy can overcome each, from destroying a spreading world plague launched from a giant airship to stymieing Nazi subterfuge at a mountain enclave and then having to fight dead men under spell of an evil mystic. All in a days work for the Agent X.

This is a collection of scary stories and mysteries. Some of them are even true stories. Some are also based on legends. Some are made up...or are they? Some happened and some didn't. Some of the stories are based on our experiences, and some are our imagination. We have lived in numerous haunted houses. We have seen and felt many spirits. This is a collaborating between mother and daughter.

The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exoticsubculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold ""killer eyes"" cannot soothe Decker's...

This is a note to readers; this book is NOT a fairytale by any means. There is no happy magical end. This is dark truth and for those who are squeamish or easily triggered, I encourage you to read no further... However, if you do, what you find in these short stories may surprise you. Not all of these stories end badly, some are lighter. But be warned, fact and fiction are well blended.

PI John Cooper's favorite actress was Melissa Bright, but she died much too young, and John can't accept the official version of how she died. He suspects foul play and sets out on his own to get to the truth. The movie studio, as anyone from the Hollywood area knows, wields more power than some countries, and if anyone gets in their way, well, let's just say they have a record for making their problems disappear. In this, my third Cooper novel, John gets so far in over his head that someone plants a bomb under his car. Want to see how it comes out? Listen to it.