suspense fiction

A rice farmer-turned-poacher whose cousin has been killed and a documentary filmmaker dedicated to preserving wildlife find their views challenged by the violence of a brutal escaped elephant.

Jeremy Logan, an investigator of unnatural phenomena, travels to a remote writers' retreat in the Adirondack Mountains to work on a book but soon learns that a dead hiker has been discovered there whose body has been mauled beyond the work of a bear. The attack occurred during a full moon and many are worried about a werewolf. Scientist Laura Feverbridge shares her research with Logan and he begins to think he's up against something he hasn't seen before.

Joey Getchie has been property of the state for longer than he was in custody of his parents. His life is awful, but he has a plan. He will graduate high school and get out of the foster care system if it kills him. However, just when he had met a cute fellow foster child, Trisha, Joey clashes with his foster father and is forced to take residence at his workplace, Huntzel Manor, where he has to clear his name of many false accusations.

A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.

Half-blind, isolated, broken, and disillusioned, LeAnne Hogan used to be a rising military star in Afghanistan. Now a final blow comes in the form of the death of Marci, her hospital roommate. Compelled to find closure for her death, LeAnne travels to Marci's hometown only to find that Marci's eight-year-old daughter has vanished. Then LeAnne finds herself "adopted" by the town's dark, strong, inscrutable stray dog, and together woman and dog set out to find the missing child.

After Esther Vaughan disappears from her Chicago apartment, her roommate finds a haunting letter addressed to someone she can't identify. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Alex quickly befriends a mysterious woman who appears in the coffee shop where he works. As the people in Esther's life search for answers, Alex's relationship with the woman turns dark and sinister, and nobody is safe from Esther's murky past.

During Eleanor and Anthony Edevane's 1933 Midsummer Eve party, their daughter, Alice, a budding writer, falls in love for the first time. However, the night is fated to be remembered in tragedy as Alice's infant brother, Theo, is kidnapped from his crib. The Edevane family abandons the country house, never to return. Seventy years later, Detective Constable Sadie Sparrow discovers the overgrown house, and seeks out the now-elderly and famous Alice for answers and the uncovering of old secrets.

Cree Thunderboy, a young blues guitar player, risks everything when he signs on to pick winning horses at the racetrack for a violent mobster.

This hi-lo novel follows Sergeant Ray Robertson's efforts to find a killer who is murdering young women in Juba, South Sudan amidst a backdrop of poverty and a civil war.

When suspended cop Bish Ortley finds out a bus his daughter was on was bombed he rushes into action, vowing to find out who nearly took his daughter's life. The primary suspect is a teenage girl form one of London's most notorious crime families. To find her, Bish has to earn the trust of the girl's friends and family, and in the process he uncovers shocking secrets about past crimes still unaccounted for.