Serial Wars

For decades, America has been considered to be the natural home of serial killers. Infamous names like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are internationally known and feared, and rightly so. But what if, just south of the border, there was a far more active network of serial killers? What if the...

What do you do when the killers come out to play? When it's hunt or be hunted? You sharpen your knives and prepare to get bloody because nobody does it better than a woman scorned with something to prove. Welcome to the 23rd annual serial killer war games, where the adrenaline runs high, the blood is fresh, and the revenge is best served cold.

Set against the backdrop of East Texas in February 1994, this true-crime account begins with the disappearance of seventeen-year-old Lilli Anne, a responsible Lindale High School junior whose late-night shift at Sonic ended like any other until she never returned home. Her mother’s horrifying discovery the next morning launched an intense search involving local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers, but Lilli seemed to vanish without a trace.

This book explores thirteen bizarre “murder” stories that have taken place in Tennessee over the past two centuries. The first story related here takes place around 1798 and the last takes place in 1998. These stories span the breadth of Tennessee from the Smoky Mountains, to the Mississippi River and most points between. Some of these stories are about famous persons and others are about powerful persons. Some are about persons that are unknown to all but a few. One story is about an abused animal.

Someone is murdering high-ranking Vietnamese government officials, so the head of Saigon's homicide division, Captain Chyang Fang, a troubled Chinese Vietnamese man, is given the task of finding the killer. Hated by almost everyone in Saigon and an outcast in both Chinese and Vietnamese circles, Fang has to rely on his wit, biting sarcasm, and not-so-capable assistant, Sergeant Phan - a man who would rather play on his smartphone than work - to find the killer who leaves toy cobras on the bodies of his victims.

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A dead man in a schoolyard. A diamond in his mouth. A Mystery that goes back decades. Two rival crime gangs—the Shiners and the Travellers—are already on the brink of war when a body is found hanging from a schoolyard fence. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate and immediately identifies the dead man. It’s Agustus Morrissy, leader of the Shiners. In retaliation, the Shiners soon murder a high-ranking Traveller and kidnap the twelve-year-old granddaughter of the ...

ONE NIGHT. It was only supposed to be one night... How did it turn into so much more? Emma Waterhouse doesn't have time for guys. College classes and fun with her roommates are more than enough to keep her busy. But when her roommates drag her out for a night of drinking and dancing, she's ready to let loose for one night and break all her own rules. Lorenzo Romano is the hottest guy Emma has ever seen and he seems to only have eyes for her. Is he too good to be true? What can one night hurt? One night of hot, mind-blowing action with Lorenzo will be enough, right? Things take a turn when ...

A propulsive, relentless page-turner filled with conspiracies, hope, and resilience, from a bestselling author. "Inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last." —Scott Turow, #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise...

Don't miss Neil Lancaster's brand-new espionage thriller series! No Mercy available to buy now. ‘Grabbed me from the first page’ Ian Rankin ‘The best police procedural I’ve read in years’ Jane Casey This grave can never be opened. The head of Scotland’s most powerful crime family is...

This pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything. September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from...

The "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times Book Review When seventeen-year-old Meaghan McKenna's mother drowns in the Springfield River, police call it an accident. Meaghan knows better. So does Detective Frank Yakabuski. The suspicious death pulls Yakabuski and his partner, Donna Griffin, into something far more dangerous than a tragic drowning. It's murder. And the killer has been hiding in plain sight for decades. Their investigation soon reveals a dark corner of the Northern Divide — a place where colonial-era land disputes, ...

When Cronan captures the daughter of his greatest enemy, he plans to ransom her and change the fate of his clan. Though the young woman seems weak, he discovers a strength in her that he admires—and his body reacts to her in undeniable ways. When Cronan's anger and Ixiana's frustration ignite a new kind of fire, it could burn both his people and hers . . . or light the way to a brighter future.

Some women meet at book clubs. Elle and Erin met over a corpse. It was the beginning of a beautiful, vile friendship. Elle's affair with Nate ends in blood when she discovers he's married—to Erin, a woman with perfectly manicured nails and a talent for making bodies disappear. Instead of fighting over a cheating husband, they stage his murder scene, forging an unlikely partnership. Starting fresh in a new city, they become vigilantes targeting abusive men while Elle tends bar and grows increasingly pregnant with her dead lover's child. When Jax, a dangerous member of the War Reapers MC, ...

Dave Robicheaux battles the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in this atmospheric thriller. Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of...

Expanded Edition: Now with a brand-new bonus epilogue… In the tense months following 9/11, a chance encounter sparks an unlikely connection between two strangers—a young college student and a marine on his way to Afghanistan. Mark has no interest in romance, especially just a week before he deploys. But when he sees a man follow a pretty waitress from a Providence hotspot, his gut tells him she’s in danger. He feels compelled to intervene. Amanda hoped to learn the restaurant business when she took the waitressing job, but so far all she’s learned is how to fend off handsy guys. ...

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker separates fact from fiction in the first new biography in decades of Black Bart, the Wild West’s most mysterious gentleman bandit. Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of...

Sex offenders who molest and rape children inflict damage upon them for life. Many victims become drug addicts and criminals who were never defended. In The Art of War: A Prison Memoir, best-selling author Glenn Langohr takes you inside a California prison where a guard worked with the inmates to have a notorious child molester stabbed. He furnished them with the court paperwork that exposed 44 convictions of rape. Where mobsters, serial killers, and gangs are all fighting to survive, this is The Art of War.

“Look at it this way, Sarge . . . Three ex-Marines are worth about ten regular agents.” The war is over. For ex-Marine Sergeant Gina Wilcox, that means using her powers outside the military for a change. Wilcox is an electronic telepath, and when Naval Investigations is dissolved she’s recruited into AOJ, the Republic’s top civilian law enforcement agency. AOJ has a reputation for being corrupt to the core. And to make matters worse, crime spikes out of control right before election season. Wilcox does her part, rounding up terrorists and assassins. But the criminal underworld ...

The first colonial ships left our solar system 200 years ago. The closer they approach the speed of light, the more supernatural disturbances seem to occur... Something has attacked one of the earliest colonials, leaving mass casualties. The Navy sends in a Marine Emergency Response Team and one Q officer to investigate. Crystal Keller will uncover the ship's mysteries. Or die trying. Because even in death questions must be answered... Earthbound Spirits contains the first 44 episodes of the Kindle Vella story ParaDiv Ops. Two time Kindle Scout winner Jaxon Reed presents an epic tale of ...