Dystopian Detective

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...

Collection of short stories featuring Delovoa and his life pre-Belvaille. Print Length: 66 pages Includes: -How Delovoa became so intelligent -How Delovoa first joined the military as a scientist -Early experiments with artificial intelligence -Where ZR3 came from -Meeting the Ontakians -Delovoa's advanced work with mutations -Delovoa's exile as a criminal -Early life on Belvaille and his unique, and pervasive, impact on the city NOTE: while the stories are stand-alone, it contains many references to characters and events in Hard Luck Hank novels.

When gumshoe detective, Daxon Steele, finds he’s ankle deep in more than a chewed up wad, he quickly uncovers a sinister plot that sets out to exploit and destroy not just the skink-pushers who hide in the shadows of the Flatpack District, not just the poor guys, gals and others shaking their hips at Shooters & Hooters Club, but the entire population of Bryunsville. Will Dax overcome his prejudice and accept Gaz, a former stripper-bot, as his partner?

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 ...

Collection of short stories featuring Hard Luck Hank and his early days on Belvaille. Print Length: 63 pages Includes: -Why Hank came to Belvaille -Hank's first job -Where Hank got his plasma pistol -Hank's first murder -Introduction of glocken -Where the Gentleman's Club and Athletic Club came from -Hank's first love -How and why Belvaille changed and became what it is today NOTE: while the stories are stand-alone, it contains many references to characters and events in Hard Luck Hank novels.

Read by Peter Kenny, award-winning narrator of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. In a ravaged near-future England, a private detective with psychic powers might be the last hope standing between mankind and total collapse. Mindstar Rising is the first cyberpunk thriller in Peter F. Hamilton's...

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 ...

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...

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...

“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...

This sweeping debut novel set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood. “I once had a family. At least, the earliest...

“Hex Kitchen transports you to a delicious world of culinary magic and fantastical, sometimes deadly, competition where every dish keeps you at the edge of your plate—wondering who will win the next move and what bite may be their last.” —Elizabeth Karmel, best-selling cookbook author, and Chopped and Iron Chef judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets The Hunger Games in this mouthwatering, magical, and murderous fantasy. Hex Kitchen is a once-a-decade tournament where contestants have to cook magical dishes that are to die...and maybe even to kill...for. Kenzie has perfected ...

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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...

Finding a dame’s missing leg might not be the strangest case Mick's taken … but it might be the one that gets him killed. In this sharp, fast-paced cyberpunk detective noir thriller, Mick Trubble is a down-on-his-luck private investigator drowning in debt, hunted by mobsters, and one bad decision away from ending up in a gutter. In a neon-lit, dystopian city where corruption runs deeper than the streets and justice is just another commodity, Mick works as a Troubleshooter—a fixer-for-hire taking on the kind of jobs that get people killed in this futuristic sci-fi world. When a ...

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 ...

The truth finally catches up to Mick … and it’s deadlier than anything he’s faced before. In this explosive cyberpunk detective noir thriller, Mick Trubble’s past comes crashing down in a city already on the brink of collapse. What should have been a quiet retirement turns into a nightmare when a deadly name resurfaces: Kilgore is coming. A ruthless adversary from Mick’s forgotten past, Kilgore arrives in New Haven with one goal—revenge. And in a brutal, dystopian city ruled by chaos, that means war. As the threat closes in, Mick uncovers a devastating truth about himself—one ...

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...

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 ...

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.