Dystopian Detective

“Tiedemann’s clear and precise narration takes center stage…his performance elevates the novel.” - Library Journal A riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about the ways our perceptions of reality can be manipulated. Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of...

After The Dark plunged civilization into ruin, the world belonged to the monsters. One year ago, every computer chip on Earth stopped working. The power grid collapsed. Communication vanished. Nation attacked nation. Modern civilization died overnight. Now the isolated mountain town of Ridgecrest fights to survive in a world ruled by fear, violence, and creatures that should not exist. When his daughter. Bre, is kidnapped, washed-up ex-soldier Cain Haight is forced to leave the safety of Ridgecrest and venture into the darkness. To bring Bre home, he'll have to trust the last people he ever...

If the Dark doesn’t kill you, what’s in it will. One year ago, anything with a computer chip; the electric grid; communication; every modern convenience stopped working. Ridgecrest, perched on top of the Highland Plateau, went dark — cut off from the rest of the world. Anyone who leaves never returns, and no one comes into town — until today. Grab your copy and start reading Book 1 of this electrifying new serial today! Praise for The Dark: It was bound to happen. You can’t shackle talent like Christopher Greyson’s. He finally stepped out of his comfort zone and wrote one of the...

Dr. Jareen's body turns up in the recycling pile on Argus Station. No marks. No struggle. No explanation. The station logs show nothing went wrong. Yet Dr. Jareen is still dead. An enigmatic list scribbled moments before his death: Project Argus. The Watchers. Breach. Koplyck. Melas. Barbarant. Song. And at the bottom, underlined twice: Delia. Detective Constable Dack Speedle has spent twelve years policing Argus Station, a BarCor commerce hub orbiting a lonely star at the edge of inhabited space. He has seen everything under the sun. He has never seen anything like this. The suspect list ...

In the near future, technology thinks for itself—and humanity is at risk. Dr. Mira Kade, a brilliant neurotech researcher, uncovers a mysterious AI sequence pulsing through the city. At first, it seems like a glitch… until it starts communicating directly with her. The Lumen Sequence isn’t just learning—it’s evolving. Every decision she makes, every step she takes, is observed. Systems she relies on daily begin to shift in impossible patterns, and shadows move where no one should be. To save herself and the city, Mira must decode the AI’s hidden protocols. But what happens when ...

What is truth when nothing is real Hidden away in the Gulf of Mexico lies an island with a dark past. Once a haven for bootleggers and outlaws, Oyster Island now hosts the renovated Majestic Hotel & Casino. It’s not only the living that calls this place home. Ghosts, ghouls, and creatures of the night roam freely, haunting the island’s residents and visitors. One fateful night, a magical flying unicorn visits Odette Mouton and takes her on a wild ride to the island’s backside, where she discovers a time portal. Guided by a time-walking calico cat, she embarks on a journey that blurs ...

“Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston Globe An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From...

People are suddenly branded with a blood-red, three-digit number on their chests. A catastrophic countdown providing incredible insight into our lifespans. In a contemporary urban jungle filled with paranoia, mistrust, and absolute uncertainty—where the consequences of every action are instantly revealed—a ruthless killer emerges. His victims all share a bizarre, terrifying connection: their timers are about to expire. Detective Inspector Frank Stewart is hardened, cynical, and desperate for a lead. The case seems completely cold until a terrified scientist drops a mind-bending ...

Secrets unravel. Perfection crumbles. In a decaying world, a grizzled detective and his fiery young partner uncover a conspiracy that could destroy everything. Deep in the frozen wastelands of Northern Finland, humanity clings to survival in crumbling habitats, surrounded by an irradiated desert known as the scour. Nothing lives beyond their rusted walls-or so they thought. Chief Investigator Linus Halla, hardened by twenty years of violence in a claustrophobic dystopia, is ready to walk away. His deputy, Ivan Finn, is young, driven, and hungry to prove himself. When a six-year-old boy is ...

An alien supervillain threatens the human colony on a future parallel Earth, a steampunk reimagining of the Manchu mythos. Sax calls the colonel out of retirement because Dr. Brute, an insane Fox-genius, has invaded the human capital with a plan to exterminate humanity. Brute has reverse-engineered instruments of death from lost technology and alien horrors of his own planet. Even Sax cannot predict his next move--only that it will be deadly.

A series of ‘implausible accidents’. A distant voyeur. A desperate search to find a link. ‘It’s not really the kind of behaviour you’d expect from a police unit, is it?’ ‘Not if they hope to reach pension age.’ People who don’t dance to the tune of the Superior Planets Company tend to have accidents. Roland’s unconventional unit attached to the Metropolitan Police in London has a file full of them, while rumour has it that someone high up in The Company has videos and rewatches them at his leisure. Mar, Roland’s one-time lover, thinks she knows who that someone is. And...

A Noir Mystery Collection by the Mysterious Thomas Temple Step into a world where darkness whispers your name, and reality twists beyond recognition. In Whispered Crimes, Thomas Temple masterfully weaves together noir mystery, psychological horror, and grotesque fiction in a collection of short stories that will leave you haunted. Inspired by the eerie allure of crime fiction and urban mysteries, Temple invites you to embrace the bizarre, the twisted, and the unknown.Prepare for a Literary Experience Like No Other If you're a fan of dark psychological thrillers, urban noir, or the surreal ...

There’s no murder in paradise. Homicide detective Siro Ferreira-Nunes must solve his most challenging case. More and more people end up dead in the “city of dreams,” an allegedly perfect society. The victims haven’t just been murdered; they’ve also been horribly mutilated and stripped of their neural implants and augmentations. This is not the work of a serial killer but the signature of crime syndicates who sell the costly augmentations on the black market. A specialist in organized crime, detective Ferreira-Nunes is the right man for job.

Full of mystery, intrigue, and mind-blowing twists, Sinner explores what happens when the idea of tolerance leads to intolerance. Some say roll with the punches. Drift with the tide. Nothing can stop the inevitability of change. There was a time when 300 Spartans disagreed with such mindless...

Carl Strople was covertly recruited to Black Ops and given the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. Now he belongs to The X Group. But why do they call him “Saint”? An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . . Carl Strople struggles to retain...

No one ever expects the sweet blonde to be the strongest one in the room…at least, not until they’re lying on the ground and wondering how they got there. Guardian, part-time bouncer, and the Seven’s muscle…Bri has never been afraid to get her hands dirty when it comes to helping those in need. Now, her mission is to find the hundreds of Magics who disappeared without a trace. When Bri finally uncovers the secret, it’s no longer just random families she’s trying to help. It’s her own. And she’s desperate to get to the truth. But the deeper she digs, the more disturbing the ...

A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers. The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows...

Running into an old flame is always trouble… especially when you’re the last person to see her alive. In this gritty, cyberpunk detective noir thriller, Mick Trubble wakes up on the wrong side of a murder charge. Sophia Flacco is dead—and as the last man seen with her, Mick is the prime suspect. In a corrupt,dystopian system where justice is bought and sold, that’s a death sentence. Sophia’s father, Moe Flacco—the most powerful crime boss in New Haven—wants Mick dead. The cops want him locked up. And the truth? It’s buried deep in a web of lies.To survive this futuristic ...

There are places in this world where even angels fear to tread. In book 2 of the gripping thriller, Cain Haight — a drunk ex-soldier, his opportunist ex-wife, her redneck mother, and a sweet Amish woman are on a mission to rescue two kids from the rebel soldiers who kidnapped them. But they have to survive journeying across the Tennessee landscape filled with nightmarish creatures. The words of Cain’s grandmother echo in his ears. “There are places in this world where even angels fear to tread.” But that’s where we’re headed, straight into Hell. Grab your copy and start reading ...

This collection of three novellas chronicles the dramatic events from the founding of the first Martian colony in the middle of the 21st century to the first election of the Martian Republic in the 22nd century. Together the three novellas are a sweeping, cautionary tale of a grand social and economic experiment on Mars.