Valentines Mystery

This is the first Street Lit book to be written in reverse! Thuggz Valentine is the story of a modern day Bonnie and Clyde, natural born killers who go out in a blaze of glory after taking on the city's police force. Step by step, listeners relive Ebony and Bless's last day together...Valentines Day. The day, however, starts nothing like it ends, and as time goes back, hour by hour, the two lovers are unable to avoid destiny. Fate brings them together in a most bizarre way, and the couple realize the day is not about winning, it's about embracing the moment.

You'll never hear anyone who knows me say, "Boy, that Sunny Haddock sure is a quitter.” I’m no defeatist. But, lately, it hasn’t been easy to see the glass half full. I’m weeks away from having a baby and trying really hard to marry the father and love of my life, and it’s been one catastrophic disaster after another. Between a waxing disaster (you know what I mean, ladies!) and the theft of our weddings bands, it appears our union is doomed. But ever the optimist, I’m determined to figure out who or what is trying to sabotage my Valentine's Day nuptials.

Valentine's Day, a pet pig, and smugglers just don't go together. It's happened again, pet-sitter Polly Parrett is embroiled in another mystery. The romantic Valentine's Day weekend she's been looking forward to with her number one guy turns into a fiasco. There's a body of course, characters who may or may not be trusted, danger, and snow - lots of snow. Then something happens that causes the usually mild-mannered Polly to find her inner tigress, and woe betide the person she turns her claws on.

Viola Roberts is down in the dumps after discovering her boyfriend, Lucas, is snowed in back east. Her best friend, Cheryl, agrees to substitute a girl’s weekend for the romantic Valentine’s Day he had planned. Massages and mani-pedis for the win! That is, until the hotel guests start receiving venomous Valentines, and one of them ends up dead. In a remote resort on the wild Oregon coast, it’s up to Viola to get to the bottom of things before any more guests fall to the killer’s poison pen.

Twenty-year-old Jessie Warfield is branded a disgrace for riding as a jockey on her father's racehorses, wearing men's clothing, exposing her skin to the sun and, in general, not acting like a lady at all.

Wer in der Vergangenheit gräbt, muss damit rechnen, auf einen Killer zu stoßen ... Das einsam an einem See in den Wäldern gelegene Camp Lost Lake wurde vor siebzehn Jahren zum Schauplatz einer schrecklichen Mordnacht, in der drei Menschen grausam starben. Seitdem traut sich niemand mehr, das ehemalige Ferienlager zu betreten. Doch bevor es abgerissen wird, fasst die junge Olivia sich ein Herz und sucht auf dem unheimlichen Gelände nach Hinweisen auf ihren leiblichen Vater. Dort trifft sie auf Reagan, deren Mutter bis heute im ganzen Land für die Camp Lost Lake Morde gesucht wird.

Becky Tibbs is very adept at helping recently departed spirits with their unfinished business in Asheville, North Carolina. Her antique store, located in the River Arts District, is the perfect place for her side-business. However, now that she has a boyfriend, she wonders if she can juggle her professional life with a new romantic personal life.

It's Valentine's Day and 20-year-old Emma Wright just wants her crush to take notice of her. But Colby Davidson, the K9 search-and-rescue deputy, only thinks of her as a kid sister. When her veterinarian boss calls her to pick up a cat at a potential crime scene, she finds herself at the house of the richest woman in Ridgeway. Her father - the sheriff - and Colby are there. They both dismiss the untimely death as a heart attack, but Emma finds clues that it might be something more. Did the software billionaire die of natural causes, or was it murder?

With romance and Valentine's Day as a backdrop, hear these dozen tales about ghosts, witches and a variety of weird entities, as well as unearthly and often cruel twists of fate in times and places that range from Liverpool, to London, from 1960s San Francisco and the heart of England's countryside in modern times as well as the Victorian era.

Here is the most famous of all tales of vampirism and an enduring classic. Jonathan Harker's journeys to Transylvania and the discovers the un-dead Count Dracula. Upon his return to England, Professor Van Helsing joins the dark struggle to overcome the evil Count. Only with a pursuit back to Transylvainia can the battle between good and evil finally prove decisive.

Private investigator Geneva Pomolo and her partner Iris Reeves are busier than ever. An old foe has challenged them to a contest to see which pair of friends can take the most one-day courses at the local community college. Never one to shirk from a challenge, Geneva now has her hands full three evenings a week learning the basics of sailing, baking, watercolors, Olympic sports, and mystery writing.

As Violet waffles over whether to stick with her cheating fiancé, she and her friends must cater his formal military dinner. When an officer is found beaten, and not with a whisk, her fiancé is the prime suspect and temperatures rise in and out of the kitchen. Can Violet and the handsome investigator crack the criminal before the tension boils over?

On February 14, 2018, a day for love has turned into a day of death for the city of Fort Worth. Thaddeus King, the city’s most elite detective, must embark on his most dangerous case. A blood thirsty killer is on the loose and he is far from anything Detective King has seen in his 30 years with Fort Worth P.D. Will King be able to stop this vicious menace before another citizen is slaughtered?

Valentine Pescatore, the dashing ex-US Border Patrol agent, finds himself back on American soil, investigating the merciless killing of a group of women in a motel room. At first, the crime seems to be a straightforward case of gangsters battling for territory. Soon, however, the motive is revealed to be much deeper and more sinister: a single witness who knows too much is being hunted, at any cost.

1963. When Eleanor meets famous young poet Lyndon Chance, he offers a way to flee her abusive father. In return, she must pretend to be Lyndon's wife. He takes her home to a Tudor manor on the Camel Estuary in Cornwall, where she finds herself in the middle of a feud between Lyndon and his twin brother, Oliver. It's soon clear that the old house hides many dark secrets. But could they be a threat to Eleanor?

Clara's last year at school is looking pretty uneventful, apart from the stress of uni applications. Until one day, classmate Ty (on whom she happens to have a pretty big crush) asks for her help. His computer genius brother has just disappeared, leaving behind a laptop to which access is granted only when you answer a maths question—and maths isn't exactly Ty's strong suit.

Ashton is an electrician. Julie waits tables. Both are broke and trapped in their dead-end jobs, rundown apartment, and bitterly cold hometown of Fridley, Minnesota. There’s nothing they could want more than to escape to someplace warm and sunny. So, when they find an ad in a magazine offering them one thousand dollars each and an all-expenses paid trip to a “tropical destination” for participating in a research study, they both jump at the opportunity.

When a homemade, heart-shaped valentine with no signature shows up in Rose Larrabee's mailbox, she is surprised to say the least - as a widow and mother of two young children, she has little time for romance. It becomes clear that each valentine is not the gift of a secret admirer but a warning from the madman who is getting all too close to the very heart of her deepest, darkest fears...

A midwinter bicycle race brings hometown enthusiasts into contact with serious-minded gamblers. When suspicions circulate about the race being fixed, it infects all of Woodland Park.

Hard-boiled ex-cop Tony Valentine has a new profession: spotting casino cheats and exposing a casino's flaws to the owners. Now he must unravel the mystery of an amateur player impossibly raking in the dough on blackjack. However, his investigation stirs up a hornet's nest worth of problems.