Valentines Mystery

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?

Lenore Calder threw herself into her work three years ago as a historian at Briarport's local museum and never looked back. Aside from her day-to-day tasks, she uses her resources to continue her research on the infamous Coastal Killer, hopeful that one day the victims will see justice. When the cold case draws an FBI agent to town, Lenore can't pass on the opportunity to see this project through to the end.

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.

A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremes - even cold-blooded murder - to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. While Gerry flies to Atlantic City to suss out DeMarco’s secret, Valentine stays in Vegas and teams up with an aging grifter.

Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count. What started as a conman's deathbed confession turns into a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during the world's biggest poker tournament.

Lucy wants to breathe new life into her family's Boston-based matchmaking company. But how? Even though she comes from a long line of ancestors blessed by Cupid with psychic abilities, a freak accident left Lucy with only one special skill: Finding things. Car keys, socks in the dryer, needles in haystacks...and now, in a stroke of professional genius, lost loves!

Augie Sweetwater is a brilliant 11-year-old with a gift for inventing amazing things. Coop Cooperlick is the new kid in town, a 14-year-old with a passion for rock climbing and a knack for quick action. Mika Deerwood is a lovely 13-year-old Native American attending the prestigious Anacortes School with Augie and Coop. With the help of a rather special dolphin named Leo, they solve the mystery of disappearing families in the San Juan Islands of Washington state.

For ex-cop Tony Valentine, life in balmy Florida provides little R&R. In fact, he’s in demand now more than ever. Armed with a special grift sense, Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash. But when his son, who was...

A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and then disappeared. But the missing dealer...

For ex-cop Tony Valentine, life in balmy Florida provides little R&R. In fact, he’s in demand now more than ever. Armed with a special grift sense, Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash. But when his son, who was...

Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City–and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a ’92 Honda, Tony is low-profile, old-school, and has...

Valentine Orphanet had an fairly ordinary life until one grey day, she saw that advert in a news agent's window: "Position of employment offered for a researcher/assistant in the field of occult resolution." It seemed more interesting than basic paperwork and filing, but no where did it say anything about exposure to witches, gnomes, fae, creatures of the night, or vampires that share our world with us without our knowledge.

Jack Bailey is just a few weeks away from beginning his dream career as Forest Ranger in the upstate New York town of Angel's Bend. Jenny Rudea, veterinarian in training, is madly in love with Jack, and the animals she cares for. On the way home from her house one night, Jack takes an unanticipated detour to Hosner Lake. While there, he encounters something that raises the hair on the back of his neck. What is out there, on the other side of the lake? Is it a shadow, a hunter, a wolf?

What is an extreme haunting? Cyndi has been pursued since childhood by a ghostly presence known as the Shadow Man and cannot escape his creative cruelties. Emily has been sadistically tormented for years by her violent ex-husband - even after his death. Both of their persecutors have one thing in common: They send their victims valentines. Can noted ghost hunter Professor Douglas Adair and white witch Brenda Wedge help Cyndi and Emily escape this terrible curse?

The popular Augie Sweetwater saga continues in this second installment as Augie, Mika, and Coop use their wits, and of course Augie’s incredible inventions, to solve a pair of mysteries that have long baffled the police.