Showing results by publisher "Amazon" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

An unbelievable but true white-collar crime story told by an average family man, Rick Norton. He gives a rare look into his own life as a young businessman in San Diego working as a financial planner, then falling into the life of being a business manager for professional athletes and gaining a front-row seat to their huge money and frequently dirty world. Used as a pawn by a powerful Fortune 500 company and exploited by the very professionals he was paying to help him, he tells of the difficult lessons learned along the way of meeting ignorance, greed, revenge, fear, and corruption.

The discovery of the body of a German war hero in a desolate wooded section of Rock Creek Park in Washington DC and the ghoulish portrait of a face on the internet are the catalysts which trigger this thrilling tale. Journalist Mike McCabe is drawn into the investigation which uncovers incidents of the Second World War, long kept secret by the US authorities and their modern security agencies determined to suppress any embarrassing disclosures.

The stable, grounded, Medical Examiner, Isabella Lancaster, has a secret history that suddenly erupts as unexpected and erratic changes. Jerry and Chichi challenge their assumptions about what they really know about her. They quickly find that her history is complicated and that everyone has been deceived about her past. A rough fugitive recovery agent shows up in town looking for a man who skipped out on his bail bond and headed for Key West. Detective Sharkey soon discovers that what is more dangerous than an unstable person are the shadows that he drags along behind him.

A jewelry thief. A stray cat named Harvey. A missing sapphire bracelet. With a thief lurking among the elderly residents of Pepperton Assisted Living, the only one who may be able to save them from being robbed blind is the stray cat they’ve befriended. This cat-crime-solver short story is fun and heart-warming.

This is the story of Claude Vincent, who meets with a dark and sinister stranger. The stranger challenges Claude to a chess match. As the game progresses, he in his mind's eye revisits his past life.