Crime Fantastique: Stories of Mystery and Suspense - format ePub

Short story master David H. Hendrickson spins eight riveting tales that combine mystery and suspense with elements of the fantastic. Filled with heart, imagination, conflict, and occasionally humor, this...

In 1968, at the height of the Civil Rights struggle, Jessie Stackhouse leaves home to break the color line at an elite, all-white prep school. He arrives filled with dreams of winning championships and...

"Rabbit" Labelle excels at high school sports, despite being five-nothin', hundred-nothin' and in way over his head after his family moves from their small rural town to the big, bad city of "Lynn, Lynn,...

From the mean streets of "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin" to the sleepy suburbs…From the grime of the Boston subways to a tavern in the afterlife…From sandy ancient Israel to the plains of the Serengeti…Award-winning...

"Rabbit" Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside and unlikely basketball player in Offensive Foul, continues his high school sports journey in Bottom of the Ninth.While struggling...

What penalty must be paid when an otherwise good cop looks the other way? Can he still claim innocence? Or does the guilt of the cop gone bad damn them both?Maybe Hell is having your heart ripped open...

“Rabbit” Labelle, the charismatic and improbable football star of Offside, returns in Offensive Foul, where he faces even stiffer odds on the basketball court. While battling to secure his place on the...

Have you ever dreamed of an entire school reading your book? Would you like to double (or more!) your writing income?  This book shows you how.  Drawing from his own first-hand experience, David H. Hendrickson...

Shimmer, the legendary female impersonator, haunts the Key West cabaret she made famous and the pale imitators who try to fill her stilettos. They inevitably fail, until a new contender to her throne...

Huram, the Phoenician, crafts bronze masterpieces for King Solomon's temple. When the two most highly prized pieces disappear, suspicion falls on the only three Israelites in the camp. With one of them...

From a little blue fuzzy monster in a Casanova's pants... to a movie star wannabe raising money for her boob job.From rival Key West female impersonators... to the wife of the Biblical King David.From...

Nothing much happens in Fernville, New Hampshire—aka Sleepyville, USA. Eventually even cops there turn soft, like marshmallows. When murder comes to Sleepyville, the case falls to the softest marshmallow...

“I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of...

Second-rate comedian Earl Weatherbee uses his AI to translate his culturally dependent jokes into what evokes laughter among the bumpkins far out on the galactic fringe. So when the rubes turn to throwing...

Already one of the world's great concert violinists, Julia Chu strives for ever greater perfection. Nothing else matters. Especially not romance. She learned the hard way years ago that romance threatens...

How did the kid who was always falling down achieve his dream of playing college hockey? How did he finish as co-captain on a team that enjoyed the best season in the program's history? Hendu's Story...

What happened thirty years ago was never an accident. And now, it's happening again.As Shea and Liam prepare to start their lives together, their lives become a haunting mirror of the past. The violent...

A cold, dark dungeon, a tug on her heart, and a position in a court that isn't her own.Lyra Blackwell will survive- and she will beat the death king at his own games.Welcome to Aerenthia, mortal...and...

With the future of House Nuada in peril, and her Otherworld reputation in tatters, Dr. Rosie Parker-Fitzpatrick, aka Lady Mac Nuada, joins her beloved Tax Man on a rookie "spy mission" into the foreboding...

In reality, the world is not as we expect it to be, and sometimes the truths we take for granted are not true after all. What would happen if your reality were invaded by a world of magic and forests...

Willow Donovan has spent her entire life moving, following her father's military career wherever it takes them. When her father is suddenly reassigned to a remote lighthouse in the Pacific Northwest during...

Gabby:My father always told me I was his princess.In his eyes, I could do no wrong.  He said I was destined to have anything I wanted in this world.All I wanted was the undying love of one man. Dominic...

The truth is coming... Black Crown continues with Corbin and Yuliya's story next.

In the quiet town of Oburon, where dignity and hardship walk side by side, Nartey and Adjoa Kojo live a life stitched together by silence, practicality, and the slow ache of longing.He is a man of muted...

The Adventures of a 21st Century Bootlegger Extraordinaire" is a veiled memoir told through the lens of literary fiction—because sometimes the only way to tell the truth is to disguise it.Mae was born...

Humans went underground to 'save themselves' for over twenty years after causing two Great Catastrophes that nearly ended the world. However, the preternatural entities have survived and thrived, except...

One haunting photograph. Two continents. A lifetime of untold stories.When Anne discovers a second journal hidden within Skyline Mansion, she thinks she's prepared for more family revelations. What she...

Kristina Volarevich finds herself on a baffling case for Vullich Investigations that smacks of the supernatural. Here she meets Frank Black and his granddaughter Molly, the troubled teenager with too...

In a world where land is power and justice wears a nobleman's cloak, Stela unveils a gripping tale of defiance, hope, and survival. At the heart of a hillside village, where whispers of rebellion rise...

I was summoned to a fantasy world by the Demon King because I was full of negative energy.Demon King: "Servant hiding dark power, tell me your talents!"I said, "I... am an accountant!"Demon King: "What?"Hello,...

A novel of war, wings, and well-cooked nonsense.In the shadowy corners of post-Soviet absurdity lies Follygrad—home to bombers that never fly, generals who mistake maps for menus, and one revolutionary...

In the land of Vael'arith, memory is power—and war is never clean.The Kaedrim crusade marches east, driven by faith and fear, determined to erase the dravhen from history. For Captain Valen and his weary...

Egypt, November 7, 1828 Kalaan Fébus, Count of Croz, unexpectedly finds himself on the shores of the ancient city of Tell el-Amarna alongside none other than the renowned scholar Jean-François Champollion....

In the 1940s Mark Peckett's father wrote a number of unpublished stories with themes deriving from the then only too recent world war and the future possibilities for Earth's civilisation coming from...

Ein Familiengeheimnis. Ein Diebstahl an Weihnachten. Die letzte Hoffnung ist ein Privatdetektiv. Privatdetektive lieben Weihnachten und Verbrechen. Bettie liebt ihre Familie. Sie erhält einen seltsamen...

 Falling for My Travel Buddy is a clean travel romance about second chances, emotional healing, and the unexpected magic of finding love on the road.After heartbreak shatters her belief in love, Veronica...

Book description  *The Blue Stone*A gripping journey deep beneath the African earth uncovers more than just precious diamonds — it reveals the intertwined stories of hope, humanity, and transformation....

Tianman Continent flourished with vigorous martial arts.Youngster Su Yi, accompanied by Myriad Demonic Beasts, staged a counteroffensive rise.He soared above millennia-old aristocratic families one by...

What happens when your mind becomes a maze you can't escape?In this raw and introspective novel, RMF takes readers deep into the disoriented mind of a narrator teetering on the edge of reality. Time fractures....

Ein gefangener Privatdetektiv. Ein Weihnachtskrimi. Wenig Hoffnung auf Rettung.Eine Frau, die in der Dunkelheit gefangen ist.Privatdetektivin Bettie English sieht die Dunkelheit. Sie spürt, dass etwas...

Ein kaputtes Auto. Eine erfundene Tradition. Eine Frau, die sie rettet.Manche Straßen sind seltsam.Privatdetektivin Bettie English hat mitten im Nirgendwo eine Autopanne. Sie hört in Panik geratene Stimmen....

Ein Weihnachtsmahl. Erstaunliches Essen. Ein Betrüger beim Abendessen.Ein Ehebrecher liebt Weihnachten.Privatdetektivin Bettie English genießt das Weihnachtsessen. Sie beobachtet einen Ehebrecher. Sie...

Ein gefangener Privatdetektiv. Ein Weihnachtskrimi. Wenig Hoffnung auf Rettung.Eine Frau, die in der Dunkelheit gefangen ist.Privatdetektivin Bettie English sieht die Dunkelheit. Sie spürt, dass etwas...

What if the one you were waiting for… was actually you? "Please, Come Back One Day" is an emotionally rich and soul-stirring story that takes you through the quiet ache of love lost — and the powerful...

Paradise wasn't meant to be compassionate but to contain.In the near future, the world has outlawed traditional prisons, replacing them with Eden—a vast, flawless virtual reality where condemned minds...

Every time he dies, the world resets, but only he remembers.Leo never asked to be a hero. In fact, he was perfectly fine being a nobody, until he woke up in a strange fantasy realm with a sarcastic goddess...