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“I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much blood.” LAPD detective Sam Leroy returns in one of his most disturbing cases. Leroy and partner Ray Quinn are called to a murder scene in affluent Malibu. At the scene even Leroy is taken aback by the savagery of the crime. Furthermore, there appears to be no motive, and no obvious suspect. Leroy believe the two victims hold the key to their own murder, and begins his investigations with them. Before long, the trail leads them to the island of Catalina, and a children’s home which has held a terrible secret for a generation…

The SEVENTH Sam Leroy thriller! North Hollywood Monday 9:00am, and Gabriella Marcos is brutally assaulted and slain in her bedroom. Almost at the end of a shift, an exhausted Leroy and Quinn are called to the scene, to find they have a murder with no apparent motive, and very little in the way of clues. They begin by looking at the background of the victim herself, especially as she worked at the mayor’s office. The trail eventually takes them over the border to Mexicali, where they discover the victim led a very complex life and may not have been what she seemed. In the meantime, Sam has...

Twenty-four of the greatest science fiction stories of all time in this fourth sci-fi short story collection, including works by Jerry Dunham, Emmett Dowell, James Causey, Gordon Randall Garrett, James A. Cox, Phyllis Sterling Smith, Richard A. Sternbach, Robert Sheckley, E. G. Von Wald, Keith Laumer, Jerome Bixby, Frederik Pohl, Roger Dee, Arnold Marmore, James H. Schmitz, Lester del Rey, Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

Murder on the streets. But who was the target? Sam Leroy and his team are called to a hit and run, which has left two dead and more injured. It soon becomes a murder investigation when street cameras show the vehicle was driven deliberately onto the sidewalk. Leroy looks at the case from two angles, one being to identify the vehicle and its driver, the other being the victims themselves, and who is most likely to be a target for murder. One victim stands out from the rest: his personal and professional lives suggest he is the most likely target, but when Leroy and his team begin to delve ...

Investigative reporter Jack Richardson returns once more, this time in a gripping story that begins in a tiny Romanian backwater and ends in the centre of London’s seedy underworld. Jack is working on a story when he receives the tragic news that his brother-in-law has been found dead in his car, after having taken his own life. Jack has reservations about the verdict of suicide, and so he starts to probe the circumstances, soon finding similarities between his brother-in-law’s death and the story he is working on, both connected to a chain of events which began three years earlier, and...

“‘You looking for the Angel? Be careful,’ he whispered.” Hard-nosed investigative reporter Jack Richardson, whom we first met in Don’t Go Out in the Dark, is assigned to a story involving sleaze and a prominent Member of Parliament. During the investigation, Jack receives a call relating to an old case, one involving the murder of a twenty-year-old girl, suggesting that this case might not be as closed as everybody thinks. Torn between his assigned story, and one where there might have been a terrible miscarriage of justice, Jack must make a choice. His decision leads him into a ...

“I’m so sorry; she died under the train…” Librarian Tom Raymond takes a phone call from the last person he expected to hear from: his ex-wife Lisa. She says she needs to talk. She can’t say what it’s about, and it has to be face to face. However, Lisa does not show up for their meeting, and later that night Tom finds she apparently met with an accident earlier. Tom later finds that his doubts about Lisa’s accident are shared by attractive but shy Amy Spicer, who worked with Lisa at CitiMarket - a market research company. He and Amy form an unlikely partnership as they try to ...

Suppose your wife leaves work but never arrives home; you call, only to find nobody there has heard of her. If she doesn’t work there, where has she been going? Matthew Gibbons thought he had it all – a house in a leafy Boston suburb, his wife Ruth and a beautiful son. But when one evening, after texting him ‘leaving now’, she doesn’t arrive home, and the staff at her office say they have no Ruth Gibbons working there, he sees his whole life collapse around him. What could have made Ruth walk away from her home and her family? When Matt tries to piece together his wife’s life, ...

#followthetrail Tower Bridge, London It is two in the morning, and a young student is seen diving off the bridge into the dark, icy waters below. When his body is recovered from the river, it is found to contain high levels of the drug Ecstasy. The dead student shared a house with the niece of investigative reporter Jack Richardson, who decides to retrace the student's last few days to establish the true story behind his death. However, as Jack follows this trail, he encounters dark forces, and a perilous outcome for both himself and his niece...

The City of Los Angeles holds its breath as LAPD detective Sam Leroy pits his wits against a cruel and brilliant serial killer. Seven years ago, Leroy shot and killed Harlan Cordell, and breathed a sigh of relief that the reign of the infamous Pentagram Killer was over. But now, the killings have begun again. The police believe they are dealing with some fanatical copycat, but these new murders share a small detail with those before, which only the police and the killer would know. How can today’s killer know the intimate details of seven years ago? Or, as he fears, did Leroy kill the ...

Go back to the beginning for LAPD detective Sam Leroy in the engrossing mystery thriller LAST TO DIE. Los Angeles, late September, and the hot Santa Ana winds are blowing, covering the city with a thin layer of dust from the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. That night, there are three mysterious and unexplained deaths. The official view is that they are unrelated. The fact that they occurred on the same night is coincidental. The deceaseds had no apparent connection, and all died in different parts of the city. The cases are assigned to Leroy, who disagrees with the official view, and ...

“For God’s sake, look away! Just look away!” It began on a Sunday. An ordinary Sunday, and a family trip to the mall. Will Carter takes his five-year old daughter to the bathroom, and there he is witness to a deadly assault on an innocent stranger. Over the next few days, Will tries to put the experience behind him, but when he sees one of the attackers outside his home, he becomes more and more involved, and soon passes the point of no return. Becoming drawn deeper and deeper into something he does not understand, Will feels increasingly out of his depth and is soon asking if the ...

A car crash: was it an accident? Or was it murder? And if it was murder, who was the intended victim? The first story featuring investigative reporter Jack Richardson. Jack is enjoying an evening with his girlfriend, Lucy Ryder. They run out of wine: Jack is over the limit, so Lucy goes out to the local store. She borrows his coat and car. Lucy never returns: within minutes, Jack’s car is rolling down an embankment before exploding. Jack’s instincts tell him this was no accident. Believing there is something in Lucy’s life that is connected to the crash, he opens her laptop. What he ...

The third Sam Leroy thriller, and a severed head is found beneath the Hollywood Sign. Fresh from wrapping his previous case, LAPD detective Sam Leroy is called to the scene. Now he and partner Detective Ray Quinn are tasked with identifying the victim, and finding the rest of the body. Not necessarily in that order. Following up on the few leads they have, Leroy and Quinn find themselves unravelling a complex puzzle, one which began a thousand miles from home, and which involves sex, drugs, extortion, and ultimately murder. And as if that's not enough, while Leroy follows the trail, he is ...

Phil reads his Substack posts (so you don't have to). Listener. Learner. Thinker. Communicator. A pastor and spiritual director exploring the sacred threads between mystery, inner work, and the beautiful mess of becoming.

“It’s too late! The rains have come…” A SMALL TOWN Davenport, Florida. Population 2952. Nothing ever happens here. Or does it? A TERRIBLE SECRET Young. Wealthy. Hedonistic. Single. Adam Williams sits in a bar with a local girl. Then he disappears without trace. THE TRAIL Adam’s brother Craig arrives in town to join the search; but within hours, he is drawn into a dangerous game where people may not be who they seem, and where he no longer knows whom he can trust. It is a deadly game of cat and mouse... But who is the cat and who is the mouse? Praise for ‘After the Rain’… ’...

“You see them everywhere, don’t you? But nobody ever really notices them.” Newspaper reporter Jack Richardson is assigned to report on a murder trial, in which twenty year-old Jaylon Soji is accused of the brutal and frenzied killing of a teenager. Attending the trial, and meeting Jaylon himself, Jack becomes convinced of the boy’s innocence, and is determined to prove this. Then Jaylon changes his plea to guilty…