Gripping Fiction

Five friends went to Corfu. Only four came home. That was ten years ago. The police called it a tragic accident. A drunken fall from a jetty. A body pulled from the Ionian Sea at dawn. Rowan lost her boyfriend, Chris, that night. She also lost every memory of what happened. Now, Chris's twin sister Daphne has announced she's getting married at the family villa in Corfu, and she wants everyone there. Rowan. Shay. Zora. Back to the island. Back to the place where everything fell apart.

After the body of a brutally murdered young woman is recovered from the Gulf of Mexico far from shore, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett is called in to assist with the profiling of the murderer. Although only one body has been found, every detail about the gruesome crime points to the work of a serial killer. Have there been others left to die far at sea, where no one will ever find them? Is there a connection to be found, or is Tess searching for evidence that doesn’t exist?

All she ever wanted was to dance. Then the war came for the man she danced with, because he was Jewish. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1942. On the stage of the Amsterdam Ballet Theater, Edda Van der Valk is untouchable. When she dances with Ash Hoffmann, a young dancer who fled Vienna, the whole audience holds its breath. She despises her father’s pro-German views and pours her anger at the occupation into her diary, but dancing comes first. Fighting is for others, like her fierce neighbor, Tante Riet. But as the occupation tightens its grip on Jewish Amsterdam, Ash’s world shrinks, until one...

She was four steps from the gate when the dog crossed the road. Ravensbrück, 5 March 1945. Two thousand women are stood on a road for three hours and walked past a bored man who looks at each of them for a second and a half and says one of two words. Left, and you go back to the block. Right, and nobody sees you again. Nina Farkas is sent right. And then seventy kilos of Great Dane comes ninety metres across that road, stops dead in front of her, and will not move. She lives. Nobody can say why. And it will take her fifty-one years to forgive it. — Budapest, 1944. Nina is twenty-two, a ...

2024 LITERARY TITAN GOLD BOOK AWARD Anna’s Shadow will make a dramatic and thoughtful impact on its readers and is a highly recommended book." Reader's Favorite (5 Stars) "An unusual historical romance set in two time periods." ~ Kirkus Reviews "Vivid imagery and compelling setting... appealing especially to those who cherish 20th-century backdrops. ~ Literary Titan (5 Stars) Sofia Rossi, a Canadian-Italian orthopedic surgeon on leave from Doctors Without Borders and staying with family in Verona, is volunteering at the Club di Giulietta ―Juliet's Club ―to answer letters written by ...

“M.G. Cole is a brilliant new addition to the echelon of British crimewriters.” Peter James "Dark, grim, tense. A compelling new voice." PAUL FINCH, author of the Detective Mark Heckenburg novels. Books 1-9 - plus a prequel novelette - of the thrilling DCI Garrick crime series. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Holy crap what a way to end a book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn’t put it down! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you want to get in at the beginning of a good series, this is the one! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I can't wait to read the next in the series ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A refreshing change. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Will keep you ...

A BRAND NEW, TWIST-A-MINUTE THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL SENSATION LOVE, MOM. Josie Boots messed up. Really badly. So she returns to her small hometown of Burnville to care for her ailing grandmother. It's been twenty-five years since an unspeakable crime rocked Burnville. Twenty-five years since her grandmother's trial. Twenty-two years since her mother's death. Six years since Josie was called the "bad seed.” Two months since she proved them right. Josie just can't catch a break. Maybe, finally, she can find peace in Burnville.

Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, Kingdom, Kansas, with plans never to return. But five years later, the new life she built is falling apart. Lizzie knows she's being followed, and she's certain the same mysterious stranger is behind the...

BESTSELLER IN KINDLE STORE for Murder & Psychological Thriller! Deep in the backwoods dark secrets lie hidden. When a decomposing body is found in the woods, it’s identified as an elderly woman who was buried in the cemetery weeks earlier. Who stole her body? Why? What is buried in her coffin? The discovery inside the coffin leads Police Chief Becker to interview an array of suspects, including a clown, a mortician, and a male stripper. Five orphan boys who live in a church have information about the dead woman, but they’re too scared to talk. Complicating her investigation, a young ...

Inspired by true events, Christy Hall of Fame author Cathy Gohlke delivers a powerful new historical novel weaving together the discovery of insulin―a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine―and one woman’s brave fight to cling to her family and hope against unspeakable odds. New...

When a single bullet misses its mark, it triggers a deadly chain reaction that threatens to expose the darkest secrets of a powerful political dynasty. Governor Jeffrey Riley will stop at nothing to secure his re-election — and eliminate the man having an affair with his wife. Enter Broderick, a disgraced ex-marine turned hitman, tasked with a seemingly straightforward assignment. But when his bullet finds the Governor's wife instead of her lover, Broderick becomes the state's most wanted man — and the only person who knows too much.

In the dark days of war, who can you trust? When journalist Marlene Villeret parachutes into Nazi-occupied France by moonlight, her role is to observe the French way of life until her departure at the next full moon. With swastikas draped around Paris and families torn from their homes in front of helpless friends and neighbours, Marlene wants to do more with her short time in the city. But when she forms a bond with Niklas, a German soldier, she has cause to question all that she thought she knew about the war. With every passing day, Marlene is drawn further into danger. When she is ...

Uncovering her husband’s family secrets could cost her everything… Ally’s perfect marriage to Tim Hawthorne is crumbling under the weight of one trial after another. Forced to visit Tim’s mother on her secluded island off the coast of Maine, Ally uncovers a sinister secret: years ago, a member of the family was the prime suspect in a young woman’s disappearance from the same island. Now, history is repeating itself. Another woman has vanished without a trace. Ally digs into all the dark secrets of the Hawthorne family’s past, but what she discovers may cost her more than her ...

A fictionalised retelling of the Wirecard scandal, Marked To Fail fuses financial thriller with geopolitical espionage to expose the hidden machinery behind a billion-dollar lie. When a delivery boy is killed in New York, no one imagines the death will matter. But buried inside a routine police report is a detail that points to something far larger: a London fintech darling quietly routing millions of everyday payments through a shadow network tied to Iran’s missile program and Hezbollah.

To save the man she loved, she walked into Nazi headquarters in Paris and became personal physician to the Gestapo chief. Paris, France, 1942. Océane Bell, daughter of the famous surgeons of In Picardy’s Fields, is a young doctor in Paris and hopelessly in love with Jean-Jacques, an artist who laughs at danger. Then the Germans take Paris, and Jean-Jacques is arrested. Only one man can set him free: SS General Dieter von Stein. Inside 84 Avenue Foch, Océane must smile, heal and lie while the general draws her deeper into his world, and takes her further from Paris than she ever imagined...

The locals warned them. The science couldn't explain it. Now, the hunt is on—and they are the prey. In the deep, isolated woods of Appalachia, a patch of land lies sick and silent. They call it Hemlock Hollow, a place where technology fails and nature itself seems to hold its breath. For research scientist Dr. Alistair Finch and his team, it’s the perfect place to study a mysterious ecological blight. They believe in data, in observation, in rational explanations. But the hollow doesn't care about reason. The warnings from the tight-lipped townspeople were just folklore. The strange ...

"She could not hear the world. She learned to read it." For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz, and The Nightingale. Berlin, October 1942. Seventeen-year-old Leah Adler has been deaf since the day she was born. In a quiet flat above her father's tailor shop, she has learned to listen with her hands, her cheekbones, the bones behind her eyes — to read a world that has never spoken to her. Then a brick comes through the front window. Then comes the yellow star. Then comes the knock at the door at half past five in the morning. When the cattle car opens at the ...

I WAS WATCHING YOU is a fast-paced psychological suspense thriller that will have you turning the pages well into the night. When city girls Faye, Zara and Heidi book a weekend away at a remote cottage in rural Wales, it is intended to be the perfect detox from their hectic lives. But they let a stranger into the cottage…and they return home with a dark secret they don’t want exposed. Five months later and their lives have returned to normal. They think they have gotten away with it. And then a hand-delivered photograph drops through each of their letterboxes. They were watched. But who...

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

Survival on Shell Mountain A Shell Mountain Apocalypse Novel — Book One How do you hold on to faith when the world starts to fall apart? When whispers of economic collapse begin to echo across the nation, the Miller family doesn’t wait for permission—they pack up their lives and head for the hills. Trading modern comforts for a cabin in the Smoky Mountains, they commit to living off-grid, off the radar, and on their own terms. But life on Shell Mountain isn’t easy. The land is unforgiving, neighbors are suspicious, and the tension in town is rising fast. While Erin clings to faith ...