Short Stories Crime Suspense

Tales is a collection of six short stories by Montana author Dave Lloyd.

Online media is now a part and parcel of our daily life. Making friendships via online media is not forbidden but you need to know him or her very well before making a decision of how much of a friendship to make with him or her. People of all ages may make a mistake in this lucrative media. This true story is an example of that.

A collection of five short stories, now available in audio format.

Five short stories now available in audio format!

Dead Even features 15 stories highlighting major and minor characters from the River City series, including series favorite Katie MacLeod, Detectives Finch and Elias, hard-luck Officer Paul Hiero, and transplanted gangster Dominic Bracco.

Alcoholism is a serious problem, but then again so is murder. A gruff detective investigates foul play in these four one-act thrillers revolving around addiction. These stories take place in seemingly safe settings like a laundry room, a rehab, a hospital, and a dream, all of which become insidious deathtraps.

How does witnessing a crime change a person? This powerful collection of stories by a star-studded roster of contributors examines this very question.

These four stories were previously offered as stand-alone pieces. I've compiled them into one collection. Bill Bernico is the author of more than 200 short stories including 33 stories featuring his 1940s Los Angeles detective, Matt Cooper.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

In the bustling town of Larkspur, Detective Raymond "Ray" Marshall is known for his unwavering pursuit of justice. But when a series of mysterious murders plague the town, even Ray is baffled by the elusive shadow orchestrating these crimes. As he delves deeper into the investigation, the lines between personal and professional blur.

A police investigation into an accident on a country road takes an unexpected turn for Inspector George McKlinnon.

After the smoke clears from the gym, Coach Andy Zuelke is found dead on a bench press. Niki Dupre must sort through the stories given by the boys, and their coaches, with the help of Livingston Parish Detective Hardee Wild. She discovers the two assistant coaches were about to be fired. They rise to the top of the suspect list.

Join Sergeant Frank Hardy and Mette Hardy in three more gripping mysteries set in late-19th-century New Zealand: Dead Shot, Lying Under Water, and Come to Grief.

A compilation of five short stories, including: "A Dish from Wales", "Time Capsule", "Surf's Up", "Did I or Didn't I", and "The Trip".

A dying billionaire offers Tanner contracts on numerous targets, people who are the worst of the worst. Instead of going after them alone, Tanner gets help from a few of his friends.

Zoe Doyle is a police constable doing her best to keep things calm in a locked-down London. When a vicious killer begins dismembering bodies in Brixton, there are inevitable comparisons to "Jack the Ripper". While working her beat, Zoe receives a voice message, learning, to her horror, that "The Corona Ripper" has selected his next victim: her mother.

Jack is hired to find a missing woman, a woman who has been missing for 20 years. Did she just run off the way the client's father told him, or was she murdered? Jack and Kathleen brave the Chihuahua Desert to find out.

Rebirth is a dramatic thriller short story, which narrates about a gang group of feminine individuals who were programmed from their youth to do crime. The story reflects the hypocritical lifestyle versus the lifestyle of truth. A conversion from gangster-ism to Christianity. It all started with a puzzling dream Ellen had, which caused her to be isolated for a while because it troubled her. Ellen searched for meanings through the Internet to understand a revelation of a message contained in a dream.

You are a huge fan of author Lawrence Block and you would do anything to meet him and get his autograph. Would you die for it? That's probably carrying things a bit too far, but hey, this is fiction. Let's see what happens at one of Lawrence Block's book signings...

Alex is looking forward to the next chapter of his life as a special agent with Homeland Security. In his last week with the Glynn County Police Department, he volunteers to return to the bike patrol on Saint Simons Island to help out during the Fourth of July festival. He's once again paired with Steve Albright, his one-time best friend and now estranged brother-in-law. When a shooting on the island pulls them into a manhunt, the two must work together to find the suspect before anyone else is hurt.