Urban Crime Thriller

The bayou is burning, the battle is just beginning - and Luce Boudreau is smack in the middle of no-man's land.... Life as a cop in Canton Town, Mississippi, is never dull - particularly when hiding deep within you is a demon bent on the apocalypse. Luce is doing her best to pretend her two worlds aren't crashing into each other, but what should be a routine arson investigation takes a shocking turn when Luce discovers a link between the suspects and her own dark secrets. There's no turning back, even though her search for the truth threatens to burn her old life down around her.

Barely out of his 20s, Chester Hines knows the score. He's just another bug crawling through the streets of Detroit, waiting to be squashed under the heel of a system meant to keep a brother down. But with his old lady on his back, his only options are on the wrong side of the law. He didn't need a fortune-teller to tell him that sooner or later he'd end up in a system more brutal than the one that forced him there.

In a city haunted by the past, two families collide in a desperate search for the truth. LIVERPOOL, 1981: DS Leigh Borrowdale has a problem with justice. Or rather the lack of it. Not only has she just watched a man she’s convinced is a killer walk free from court, but she must also try to...

Kylah Porter trusts her partner Matt, but his special agent skills? Not so much. When vampire murders in the Fae realm get mixed up with human sorcery, it’s clear there’s a serial killer on the loose. Faced with a reformed bloodsucker cult and a quirky bookshop where the written words have a life of their own, can Matt prove he’s not a walking disaster and worthy of his Departmental status before chaos reigns, or is it drips, over everything? Or will his luck, and his relationship with the amazing captain Porter, finally run out?

An offbeat suspense tale about an unemployed man who is mistaken for a professional vampire slayer. Lost and frustrated after missing out on a job interview, Ryan is offered a job by a mysterious woman in the office parking lot. Only one hitch, the woman thinks that Ryan is a hitman and the "job" is killing her sister-in-law whom she insists is a vampire.

A major new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestsellers The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors. It looked like an abattoir when they found the mutilated body of the young journalist inside her car. And if Carson Ryder and his...

Apenas a sus dieciocho años, a Carlitos Villaurrutia lo mata una bala perdida, en mitad de una trifulca que se desata en el puesto de piratería de su familia. Para su amigo List, el duelo se convierte en horror cuando, meses después, recibe un mensaje instantáneo de Carlitos. Un mensaje que no debería existir. Así, entre el espanto y el absurdo, List se lanza a una investigación que es todo menos profesional para seguir el rastro de los chats de su amigo muerto. Un camino de pistas surreales, personajes tan cotidianos como extravagantes y recuerdos de una infancia compartida.

The legendary urban lit author returns with a new character, a new city, a new series, as AUWA Books makes its first foray into fiction. Toussaint Batiste is returning home to the City of Brotherly Love hoping he can, for once in his life, outrun his nickname: Trouble. Toussaint has been in...

The son of a hustler, it’s no surprise that Power has followed in his family’s footsteps and made a name for himself as one of the most respected hustlers on the streets of New York. Along with his best friend and partner Kane, the duo create a super group that sets out to take the streets and hip-hop world by storm. But soon Power finds himself in the middle of a love triangle gone wrong with a label owner and his lead singer, Egypt, which threatens the freedom and livelihood of everyone involved.

Acapulco, 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. She wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table and a man with an AK-47 coming through the door of her hotel room. She needs all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. After a car chase, she is captured by a Mexican drug boss who exploits her radiant beauty and ruthless expertise to eliminate an inconvenient member of the government.

Trust no one, not even those closest to you, the brothers you grew up with on the corners, the woman who lies beside you at night. Make the mistake of trusting them, you die or they die, because the only way for two people to keep a secret is if one of them is in the ground. Same as it ever was. When a new power rises up on the streets the game changes. Othello announces himself in furious violence, taking down the old gods and gangsters of the city. His crew are at his side, his is the man, but unseen around him fractures are forming, loyalties breaking.

Background: Alex is an average person struggling to make a living in the city. He is intelligent, resourceful, and has a knack for problem-solving.

Kingston “King” Vale is back. After five years behind bars, the once-feared name of Eastbrook returns to the block with a mission: reclaim his throne. But the streets have changed. New crews. New codes. And a ruthless rival named Scar running the empire King once ruled. As King navigates betrayal, blood ties, and deadly alliances, he's pulled back into a war he thought he left behind. A war where love is a weapon, loyalty is currency, and power demands sacrifice.

The Black Violet Agency is all that stands between the city and the shadows swallowing it whole. Operating from a hidden office beneath the L train, three women carry on the legacy of a fallen founder—facing corruption, murder, and conspiracies so deep they’re practically fossilized. When a murder reopens a case their founder died for, the team is pulled into a deadly spiral involving a secret organization, buried intelligence, and a ruthless assassin who knows their every move.

Be ready for some action, humor, and mystery in this anthology with short stories. You’ll listen about gangsters, witches, magic potions, interrogations, werewolves, and murder. Several stories have a murder victim, while others are all about theft or robberies. But in many cases, they spark the imagination and make up for a great way to sit back, relax, and read or listen to stories from a completely different world.

In the gritty landscape of Philadelphia, The Capital tells the story of two societal outcasts who launch a financial services company to prove their worth. Their ambition, however, plunges them into a high-stakes world of fast money, prestige, and dangerous crime. More than just a rags-to-riches tale, The Capital is a powerful exploration of an enduring friendship between two unlikely individuals, tested to its limits and beyond.

La “costa brava” de Madrid es un conjunto de barrios del sur de la capital donde los índices de delincuencia son superiores y la esperanza de vida inferior a la media del resto de la ciudad. Por ellos pululan, entre colillas apagadas, chabolas hiperpobladas y pisos rebosantes de inquilinos desahuciados, los protagonistas de esta novela, Israel Cruz, un perdedor nato con una última misión que cumplir; Fraile, el tipo más espabilado de todo Madrid, jugando a mil bandas, siempre viviendo al filo; Santos, un policía con mil secretos y otros tantos confidentes.

James Dual, inspired by the racially integrated punky ska revival in England, starts the ON Klub, a ska, soul, and reggae club at the rough and ready pre-gentrified Silver Lake end of Sunset Blvd. He and partner in crime, Drea Dresden, try their best to make the transition out of the '70s in one piece. A journalist friend brings a mob-related music man connected to Bob Marley to visit the club, who becomes obsessed with the charismatic young Jamaican singer Loraine Sulley, who is performing that night.

Why can't they just leave Christmas alone? Kris Kringle left behind his mercenary life to atone and accept the responsibility of delivering presents to the children each year. The children will smile on Christmas morning at all costs. Someone has set a trap for Kris Kringle - but the problem is, Kris is willing to go anywhere to get those gifts to the children. Including to his dark place. Be careful, world. You don’t want to piss off Saint Nick.

Tired of the tales of vampires, werewolves, and fairies, and her part in them, Allison Petrovsky struggles to find her place in the world of the supernatural. She longs to be normal. With the deaths of family members and friends and a mysterious group on the rise, Allison’s boyfriend, Connor DeSalvo, is implicated in a murder. After Connor is forced to go into hiding while he struggles to prove his innocence, Allison discovers her best friend Scarlett is seemingly dead. Allison isn’t sure how much more she can handle.