Science Fiction Detective

Yesterday they were five ordinary friends. Today they are all that stand between us and extinction... Havenbrook, Iowa. Typical small town America, nestled in the rolling plains of the Midwest. Life is simple here. But for high school senior Jay Anderson, it's about to get a whole lot more complicated. Accused of a crime he didn't commit, he is shocked to become an outcast throughout this small community, and becomes suspicious of the townspeople's suddenly strange behavior.

When Detective Domenica Kiernan solved the murder of a mayor’s aide—killed by a vampire—she never imagined she’d find herself at the vanguard of the NYPD’s latest special squad: the Supernatural Crimes Unit. Tasked with closing cases involving magic and monsters, the SCU has dealt with a shape-changing domovoy committing assault in Chelsea, the murder of a kappa on City Island, a thieving Taotie in Chinatown—and their latest: two murder victims whose corpses have been liquefied by a powerful spell.

Eiko is sent away to boarding school at the prestigious St. Ambrose. Soon, she discovers the school is a cruel and terrible place. The place is filled with sadistic nuns, rampaging bullies, and no hopes of escape. She embarks on a quest to uncover the mysteries of St. Ambrose with nothing more than a friendship that is shaky at best.

Private Detective Alan Blades can't count on a regular paycheck, but he can always count on his gut. His gut just convinced him to accompany his ex-wife’s sister on a cruiser to Orion - a good thing, considering there’s a killer on board. Throw in a femme fatale, some space pirates, and an eccentric collection of suspects, and you have the makings of the first Alan Blades Adventure.

Miss Mary Morstan has been receiving pearls and she knows not why or from whom. Now she receives something else: a letter that promises to reveal the mystery and to "right the wrongs" against her. "If you distrust me," continued the correspondent, "bring two friends." She brings Sherlock Holmes and Watson.

The entity is ancient. It has taken form before, in other places, other guises. This time the place is Buffalo. The form is that of a magnificent woman...created from the dreams of a child. The eternal hunger is immense. The entity must feed. And it's prey is human. Psychic detective Ryerson Biertgarten is appalled at the savagery of the first killings. Far worse lies ahead, for the detective as well as the city. He is falling in love with a wonderful woman - but Joan will die - unless he can stop... The Devouring...

Detective Sergeant Ignatius Brown was on holiday. His leg not yet recovered from his last brush with death. Still plagued by "night terrors", he was glad of the opportunity to get out of London and join his two cousins on the airship for a quiet cruise. All is not as it seems when a notorious gunrunner is murdered.

Hazel is a regular teenager growing up in an irregular world overrun with zombies. She likes music, perfume, freshly baked muffins, and playing her Xbox - everything that no longer exists in the apocalypse. Raised in the safety of a commune, Hazel rarely sees Zee anymore, except on those occasions when the soldiers demonstrate the importance of a headshot to the kids. To her horror, circumstances beyond her control lead her outside the barbed wire fence and into a zombie-infested town.

A missionary woman has disappeared in Spitalfields, one of London's most dangerous districts. When Sherlock Holmes is called on to find her, he discovers enormous, highly intelligent rats have made their home under the streets of London. Holmes is forced to confront the horrors of his past and science gone mad. Word of this phenomenon draws the attention of rising zoologist G. E. Challenger, who decides he must meet the creatures' creator, one Dr. Moreau.

Feisty seventeen-year-old Lilith Lane has a dreamy boyfriend, a wicked tongue, and a talent for solving mysteries. When her little sister, Beth, goes missing, that talent is put to the ultimate test. And when Lilith's only lead is a reality-bending rooftop portal to an alternate universe, she's willing to make the leap. Aided by local mad scientist Dr. Hammer, Lilith searches for clues in a parallel version of her hometown, Mirabilis, racing against the clock to rescue her sister from whoever snatched her.

Already ragged and on-edge due to the unrest in the area, Captain of the guard Kieran MacLeod feels obligated to keep the troubling woman from the future who appeared in the castle safe—not only from the bandits attacking but also from her own reckless behavior. He isn't used to dealing with someone so strong or independent, and Sarah refuses to listen to him or his warnings, which leads to heated arguments and even hotter attraction.

Temporal waves can now be detected and traced back to the time and place of their origin, even making it possible for one to travel back in time - or at least for one's consciousness to appear in a projection of one's body. Only three countries have the apparatus to make this event possible: the United States, Germany, and Japan. But now, scientists have been killed, followed immediately by the detection of a time displacement wave - the signature of a time traveler trying to change the past. There are only two days to rectify the situation, or else history settles into a new pattern.

Was haben ein Filmproduzent, Feen und ein Magier gemeinsam? Aillard Blackwood, Berater für das New Scotland Yard und Vollzeitmagier stellt sich genau dieser Frage. Nachdem seine Partnerin, Sergeant Paxton, ihn in Londons bekannteste Filmstudios zitiert, gerät er in ein ebenfalls filmreifes Netz von Lügen, Gewalt und Intrigen. Blackwood muss sich ohne seine Magie durch dieses undurchschaubare Gewirr, das eher einer Telenovela als einem gewöhnlichen Fall gleicht, kämpfen.

A darkly irresistible new fantasy set in the infamous Gomorrah Festival, a traveling carnival of debauchery that caters to the strangest of dreams and desires.

Bram Stoker portrayed Dracula as a terrifying creature of the night: heartless, soulless, preying on the pure and innocent. Fred Saberhagen, bestselling coauthor of the official movie tie-in for Bram Stoker's Dracula, shows another side to Dracula as the vampire is summoned by Dr. Watson to rescue Sherlock Holmes.

Jake Fletcher is an ex-exorcist. No, that wasn't a stutter. Once upon a time, he evicted ghosts for a living, at least until he got killed and became one. Now he works the streets as a phantom detective, offering his services to lost souls trapped between this world and the next. But will good deeds buy him a ticket to the Good Place, or is he destined to walk the Earth as a phantom for all eternity? In the spirit of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, mystery, scares, and the paranormal collide in this bizarre noir.

How far would you go to uncover the truth? Would you risk everything to save time itself? What if Jack Frost were your lab partner? A year after Kelsie Robertson’s tragic death—and Jane Clari’s unexplained disappearance. Linda Waters is consumed by grief. Isolated and numb, she clings to her quiet routines until her enigmatic new science partner shatters her world with a secret: he’s Jack Frost – yes, that Jack Frost. When Linda discovers the transcript of a sacred text of Father Time, she stumbles upon a clue to a powerful missing relic that secures the timelines of the universe.

Twelve-year-old Tuva couldn’t imagine living anywhere other than the Stockholm archipelago and her island home of Harö. Even if she mostly keeps to herself at her small school. Even if she sometimes gets kind of lonely. But when a classmate goes missing, Tuva finds herself at the center of the mystery, along with Rasmus, the new boy at school. Neither one of them can understand what they saw that day in the woods near the water: Is something magical at work? Something evil?

In 17-year-old Dakota Kekoa's line of work, a job can go bad in a split second. And when a job goes bad, people die. Suspended from working as a tax collector in her draconic family's protection racket, Dakota is assigned a secret mission from her grandfather. A foreign queen has offered a grave insult to Dakota's grandfather by running a vampire dinner cruise off the coast of the Mabiian Islands, and his retribution must be swift.

It's normal for Charles Bainbridge, chief inspector of Scotland Yard, to be called to the scene of a crime, but this is the third murder in quick succession where the victim's chest has been cracked open and their heart torn out. Bainbridge suspects there's a symbolic reason for the stolen hearts, so he sends for supernatural specialist Sir Maurice Newbury and his determined assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes. Unfortunately, neither of them are in much shape to take the case....