1989: What Happens When A Killer Returns For Revenge
A Penny For Your Thoughts: A Small-Town Serial Killer, Back From the Grave For three years a serial killer known as the Penny Murderer terrified Monroe, Georgia. His signature was leaving a note on the body starting with “A penny for your thoughts.” Detective Mike Allen and his team tracked down and arrested Samuel Johnson for twelve murders. Throughout the trial and even after his conviction Johnson always proclaimed his innocence. The controversial trial divided the city, and things exploded when he was found dead in his cell shortly afterward. A cover-up? Old ghosts are awakened almost thirty years later when two people are murdered on the same night using the Penny Murders calling card. One of the victims had a connection to the old case and the other was Sergeant Allen’s new partner, Marcus Jones. Sergeant Allen now must work with a new partner, who questions his every move and the actions taken during the original trial, to stop this new killer before they kill again. Is this a new killer?
A Passion for Murder
Another heinous crime occurs in Alaska. With no time to heal from the last brutal case of The Snowman, and Stowy Jenkins, Detective Quaid returns to his job. PTSD, a former lover, and an odious villain test his mettle and sanity.
Anguished (JD Pickens Mysteries – Vol. 4 Book 1)
Murder and mayhem hit close to home for Sheriff JD Pickens. Someone viciously attacked his father from behind, and his best friend, Leroy Jones, was shot in the back and left for dead. Several other attacks forced Pickens to seek outside help, not only for solving the crimes but for his peace of mind. Never before had Pickens and his deputies had to deal with so many harsh realities of life.
POPPY: My Little Wife
The Bestseller no. 1 in Germany: Poppy is a six-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a run-down suburban neighborhood. One day, they move into a luxurious mansion with her mother’s new partner. Poppy’s mother is happy. She can finally buy anything she wants. This new ‘Daddy’ or “Mr. Rich”, as the young girl calls him, makes Poppy’s every wish come true. He showers her with gifts, washes her hair three times a week and takes her on long journeys in his big car, just the two of them. He calls her his little wife.In fact, everything would be just great, if it wasn’t for one thing … Critical Reviews: *Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” (German newspaper): “One of the most powerful and daring novels of the year, based on a true story. This tale of mind games, abuse, and resilience is heart-warming as well as unbearable, powerful, and extremely alarming, and all at the same time is inspired by its lovable heroine.” *Stadtspiegel (German Newspaper): “In Poppy, Astrid Korten gives abuse a voice and successfully uses her light yet cutting tone to allow readers to imagine the unimaginable. She illuminates a dark topic and knows how to use humour to tell a harrowing story.”
Reportedly Murdered
Gregory Thackery is a would-be reporter drowning in political intrigue, career stagnation, marital problems, and a deadbeat brother naked on his couch. Throw in one dead body and you have all the fixings for a fun ride through the ugly underbelly of small-time newspapers and back-stabbing community boards.
The Counsel of the Cunning
Roger Viceroy faces a return to the FBI and a life he vacated long ago, until a knock on his front door announces the presence of billionaire and former U.S. Senator, Jürgen Sandt. The past has come back to rear its ugly head. Sandt stands on his threshold for a reason: a decade prior the senator’s only son disappeared into the jungles of Guatemala, and Sandt has come to convince Viceroy that further investigation is now necessary. A package left mysteriously outside the family estate, opens the door to the possibility that his son is still very much alive. Viceroy and his team agree to take on the hunt.
The Falcon
Six Degrees of Separation Theory stipulates all people on the planet are connected to every other person through a chain of acquaintances consisting of no more than five intermediaries. If this theory were true, one must then ask, could six random and isolated events happening on the world stage also be connected through five unrelated intermediaries? But first, we meet the central trio: Sam Mulcahy, the CIA operative working undercover in Beirut, Lebanon, who uncovers part two of the 9/11 attacks; Jamal Abboud emerges on the scene as the leader of the Al-Qaeda team plotting an attack somewhere in the US; and finally, Sasha Kopytina, completing the third leg of the triangle. How fate and circumstances worked to get Sasha to play a pivotal role in putting Sam and Jamal on their collision course remains to be seen. As each event concluded, it set into motion additional events—events that would lead to death and destruction, and test the limits and stretch the boundaries of relationships, friendship, and even the true meaning of love. But more importantly, this tangled sequence of events raises a critical question; if a person kills evil to prevent evil, does that make them evil?
The Keelman’s Fortnight
Wesley Harding is a law student, studying in Galway City. He’s a loner, a misanthropist with grand ideals, who obsesses over his beautiful classmate, Myia Dawkins. When tragedy strikes, Wesley flees to Achill Island, where he joins the primal scream therapy commune, The House Of Novalis. It is here where Wesley flourishes, becoming their undisputed spiritual leader, his teachings causing The House Of Novalis to become an international sensation. Detective Sergeant Jimmy Daniels is at the end of his rope. Based in Galway City, he’s been suspended for doing his job properly, now his superiors are using everything in their bureaucratic power to crush him. He contemplates whether he’s up to the job anymore, has the criminal mind evolved? Or has cancel culture and the technological age gotten so ridiculous that he simply can’t do it anymore?
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
My name is JALEN PENN and I went on a camping trip on the recommendation of my girlfriend STACEY who I made my fiancee` during the trip. She was excited and so was I, but before we could celebrate, nature called. I went into the woods to handle my business and maybe I should have held it, but I really had to go. The forest was dark and cold and naturally at night creepy. I didn’t handle my business on the account I heard twigs snapping and growling. I was attacked by a large furry animal with glowing red eyes and bitten on the arm, but manage to get my pocket knife and stabbed the monster in the neck several times. It released me and ran off. I made it back to camp and Stacey drove me to the hospital. After that night my life change forever: eating habits, appearance, and I even alienated my family. I would find out from the papers and news that something bad had happened after visiting that place.
What’s Past Is Prologue
Jessica Menotti is frightened by a recurrent dream in which she’s chased through a maze by an unseen assailant. Hoping to escape the fears, she moves to Niagara Falls and takes a job as an Assistant District Attorney. Soon, though, she seems to be running through a real-life maze.
Zero Recall
Imagine what it would be like if every single fragment of your memory is erased and all you know is that someone is trying to kill you. When Jason Harper wakes up in hospital, he has no knowledge of who or what he is and, more importantly, who had tried to kill him and caused the bloodbath at his house. It seems that a bullet fragment lodged in the brain does that to you. He has been informed of his name and that he is a psychiatrist by a disturbingly attractive detective sitting by his bedside. He assumes that he must have had patients, but knowledge of family and friends, colleagues, his past and his future is a total blank. He has nothing other than grim determination to help him piece together the puzzle that is his former life. A suspenseful, frightening road of unravelling his past and the people populating it, enfolds with many unsuspecting twists and turns. Some information comes as a shock and it is only when he delves into the darker side of his past that he is able to make some sense of the present. Harper will be profoundly tested on his ability to stay alive as well as his mental capacity to emotionally deal with his past.