Intelligent Mysteries

Buddy Mills and his eight-year-old son Tommy are exploring the pinyon-juniper woodland on the edge of Fisher Mesa in the LaSal Mountains looking for monarch butterflies to tag and release. Tommy catches one in his net and Buddy teaches him how to tag it. While doing so, he tells Tommy about the Southwest Monarch Study program in which they are participating. After the tagging is completed and the monarch released, they notice that their dog Django is missing. They search for him and call out his name. They finally find him tugging on a bone protruding from the ground. Can’t blame a dog ...

In 2038, cybersecurity expert David Bishop believes his greatest battles will be fought behind firewalls—until a simple favor becomes an urgent calling he can’t ignore. When his pastor’s website—dedicated to the mysterious Shroud of Turin—suddenly crashes, and the hosting company can’t explain why, David agrees to investigate. What he uncovers is chilling: nearly every Shroud-related site on the internet has been systematically hacked and erased. Someone—or something—is trying to silence the world’s most controversial relic and bury the scientific evidence pointing to the ...

When radical paleontologist Ron Russel gets called to examine some special fossils in New Mexico, he stumbles onto, perhaps, the final evidence proving his theory. After years of academic ridicule, could these footprint fossils finally prove the existence of intelligent dinosaurs? If so, this could change everything we know about human history, its path, and its special place on earth’s evolutionary path. These findings could change the past, turn the present upside down, and open questions about the future. As Ron starts to dig deeper, evidence supporting his intelligent dinosaur theory ...

How can thousands of horses go missing? Is it possible that the largest horse rescue charity in the world is responsible for killing their horses? Lane Dimity and his friends set out to solve the mystery surrounding rescue horses in Australia and become involved in a complicated web of crime where nothing is what it seems. When a young horse woman is murdered after asking questions about some dead horses, Lane and his friends find themselves involved in an international mystery involving a corporate level horse charity, With plenty of twists and turns, the layered story follows the ...

What if the only connection between the present and the future was a single cubic inch of space — open for less than one second, once a day, at the top of the world? When a wealthy family's son drops dead on the summit of Everest, a forensic pathologist finds something impossible inside his skull: a perfect cubic void, and a coiled piece of metal etched with four words in four languages. Is someone there? The metal is centuries old. The message is not. What follows is first contact unlike anything imagined before; not a vast portal, not an alien vessel, but a tiny aperture at the summit ...

They were hired to find a man. Instead, they discovered how people disappear without ever leaving. Silas and Marla make their living inside systems that don’t like questions. They clean trails. They construct narratives. They make inconvenient truths manageable. When a powerful client asks them to track a man who seems to exist everywhere and nowhere at once, the job looks familiar. False identities. Fabricated sightings. A story designed to move attention away from what matters. But the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: this case isn’t about pursuit. It’s about erasure. As the ...

A deadly marathon. A missing runner. Can a silver-haired sleuth discover the truth before the race reaches a fatal finish? Perceptive amateur sleuth, ‘Mama Rose’ Hardie just wants to make her ailing husband comfortable. Putting aside her dedication to wildlife and community, she whisks him off to a luxury lodge for a breathtaking getaway. But when a young athlete jogs into the bush and never returns, Rose is torn between remaining at her partner’s side and her fears for the woman’s plight. When her husband is rushed to hospital and a woman’s body is found on the savannah, Rose ...

Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate suffers a fate worse than death A grieving couple hires paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas to find the person who killed their son. But is it murder if the victim isn’t dead? Wyatt goes undercover to discover the answer and soon learns death isn’t always a person’s worst fate. Will Wyatt solve the sticky mystery or fall victim to the seemingly supernatural killer and suffer a fate worse than death? Half Past Midnight is Book 10 of Eric Wilder’s intoxicating French Quarter Mystery Series set in that ‘exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans. Visit the ...

The Nameless Baron is gravely displeased. Viktor had once heard that time healed all wounds. Whoever had come up with that saying had clearly never gotten into a physical altercation with a werewolf, but at least Adelstrad's least favourite executioner still has most of his limbs. That said, while his witch problems may have been solved, battle has finally joined in the Adelstradian countryside as Nordling warbands meet Adelstradian fighting men in the field and blood flows like wine. Viktor finds himself in a more precarious position than ever before, caught between the rapidly forming ...

A mind-bending thriller and pitch-black comedy. "The nightmares are why you keep the gun under your pillow. Everyday you become more accustomed to the lump. You are glad when you survive your sneezes. But one time, a cough destroys the lamp on the nightstand." You are a nobody, just another somebody. So why does an odd stranger approach you one day with a peculiar and ominous message? Is it a misunderstanding? A warning? A dire threat or perverse game? The world seems as normal as ever, so why can't you shake the feeling that you are now locked in a dark countdown to your own horrific doom?

Welcome to the Billionaire’s Club — a secret world where power, money, and desire collide. A billionaire is found dead inside his own panic room. The room was designed to save his life. When Alexandre Giraldi, one of Europe’s most powerful financiers, dies in a fire in his Monaco penthouse, the official explanation is simple: a tragic accident. The panic room malfunctioned. The fire spread. There was nothing anyone could have done. But accidents do not leave patterns behind. As investigators quietly retrace Giraldi’s final hours, a more unsettling truth begins to emerge - one that ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW A relentless, cinematic thriller that transforms a routine emergency into a night of escalating dread and impossible containment. The Night the Cameras Failed delivers procedural realism, heart-pounding tension, and a chilling final revelation that will stay with readers long after the last page. Ted Lazaris proves once again why the most terrifying stories are not imagined — they are documented. THE NIGHT THE CAMERAS FAILED A True Documented Terror — The Miami Mall Incident (2024) Hundreds were there. Everyone had phones. No one could prove what they saw. On a crowded ...

Heidi MacDonald is not qualified for her new job at the Legislature with Official Opposition. She has never voted, or can't remember when. Her research experience amounts to one letter published in a sewing magazine. She lives in her parents' basement with a cat named Gilbert. Her direct supervisor considers her a useful fall guy, her chief of staff plays solitaire all day, and the MLA she's been assigned to, spends most of his time at the Legion. Then an anonymous message appears on Heidi's office whiteboard. A minister resigns. A politician falls from the public gallery, and the only ...

2024 READERS' FAVORITE SILVER MEDAL AWARD WINNER FOR BEST CHRISTIAN FICTION The Amari Johnston saga continues, twenty-nine years later. Inspired by a true story. In recent years, new scientific discoveries have cast doubt on the theory of evolution. One of these discoveries proves that unguided evolution is impossible. After tenured professor Dr. Paul Eisen challenges the status quo by teaching his class on evolution in a way that encourages the notion of Intelligent Design, a lawsuit from the Freedom From Religion Foundation forces him to resign. But when Dr. Eisen makes an astonishing ...

Some languages are forgotten. Some truths are buried. Some symbols refuse to stay silent. Elena Marchetti has built her career around dead languages, ancient scripts few can read and fewer still understand. As a respected scholar of early Mediterranean texts, she believes translation should remain precise, controlled, and emotionally distant. Until a single fragment breaks every rule. When Elena encounters a newly uncovered inscription that resists all known interpretations, she is drawn into a pattern of symbols that appears across cultures, eras, and forgotten histories. What begins as an...

A charming and intelligent new detective series for the age of AI. When retired criminology professor Dr Brian Berg teams up with AI Agent Byte, a polite and insightful digital companion, their unlikely partnership leads to ten unforgettable mysteries across London and Cornwall. From vanishing barbers and phantom tenants to stolen pasties and midnight messages, each case blends humour, philosophy, and the quirks of modern technology. Warm, clever, and deeply human, Detective Dr Berg and AI Agent Byte: Casebook One introduces a unique investigative duo navigating a world where data meets ...

Before anyone noticed… the system was already correcting the world. When novelist Portia Plotter receives a block of ice and a cryptic message, she thinks it’s a puzzle. By morning, a man is dead — his body cooled with impossible precision. This isn’t revenge. It isn’t chaos. It’s correction. Beneath an abandoned research facility, an experimental intelligence system once believed shut down has reactivated. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t hate. It calculates. And it has begun eliminating what it sees as flaws. As the pattern sharpens, Portia uncovers the truth: the system ...

At Golden Hooves International, perfection isn’t just expected—it’s enforced. Edgar Bloom has made a career out of being invisible. Once a prodigy, now a barn manager, he keeps the world pristine, the horses calm, and his own past tightly locked away. He listens to horses—really listens—but never to himself. Until the most valuable stallion in the barn does the unthinkable. Zeus doesn’t bolt. He doesn’t panic. He decides. When the four-million-dollar dressage superstar calmly announces that his life is illogical—and vanishes overnight—Edgar becomes the scapegoat for a ...

60 Minute Mystery Romances are standalone short novels designed to be read in one sitting. Each volume explores a different mystery and a different romantic tension. There is no required reading order and no shared formula—only the promise of intrigue, emotional risk, and endings that respect the reader’s intelligence. In this Volume: She attended a wedding she was never invited to. He stayed when he was meant to leave. When Harper receives a handwritten invitation to an elegant wedding she has no memory of earning, curiosity draws her into a room where everyone seems certain they ...

"Wow! This is my reaction to this book.... Phenomenal writing as always. The obsession is portrayed in such a real way that I get goosebumps just by thinking about all the emotions I felt while reading this book" - 5-star Goodreads review. DESCRIPTION DI Barney Mains blames himself for the grotesque murder of a top banker in France. He's obsessed with the belief that he allowed a near-mythical assassin to escape certain death to kill again. And when a duplicate murder is reported 1000 miles away in Barney's home town in Scotland, the guilt drives him ever closer to the edge. How many more ...