FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR C. TYLERBook one in the Infernals seriesYou have to feed your darker side.Raquel is forced to confront a remnant of her past when her ex, Ray, a member of the Infernal motorcycle club, returns. Feelings she thought she’d buried threaten to resurface and throw her already-hectic life into chaos.

This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of vexing conundrums and reality-defying puzzles. A murder has been comm...

His latest novel is going nowhere, a mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle, a diminutive but determined individual who claims to enjoy neither the company of writers nor literature of any sort. But however bad things look, they can always get worse, as Ethelred discovers when his ex-wife, Geraldine, vanishes close to his Sussex home. When the disappearance becomes a murder enquiry, the police quickly decide that Geraldine ...

In this mystery by the author of Crooked Herring, a lawyer in Cromwell's England receives dangerous info that could stop a murder—or get him killed.John Grey is a newly minted lawyer and would-be ladies' man with a bad habit of poking his nose into other people's business and getting tangled up in intrigue. That's unfortunate, because a mis-delivered letter from royalists has left Grey with more information about a murderous plot than it's entirely safe to ...

A politically sensitive murder is detected amid the chaos of a deadly plague in this "stellar . . . well-crafted" mystery set in Restoration London ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).It's 1665, and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. It's bad news for everyone . . . almost. For a mysterious killer, it presents an opportunity to hide a dead body among a city full of them. But as corpses are collected and brought to the burial pit, one of the b...

FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHORS ANGELA ADDAMS, C. TYLER, HANNAH MURRAY AND WENDI ZWADUKNaughty or Nice: A Box SetWicked Christmas by Angela AddamsWhat’s Christmas without sugar cookies, stuffed stockings, mistletoe and three men to unwrap?Hard as Stone by C. TylerBlackmail only works if you can stay in control, and Alice has no intention of relinquishing that to someone li...

At 28, Nick's life is going nowhere. Homeless and addicted to speed, he spends his days dealing drugs and his nights couch surfing...until the day he meets the woman of his dreams, a woman who shares his interest in getting high. At 34, Trisha is a meth addict who once had a loving husband and a promising career. But her never-ending quest for her next fix has landed her with a part-time job she can barely manage and shared custody of her daughter.After a fateful meeting, Nick and ...

An awkward visit to a nude beach. A bike-pedaling angel careening through rush-hour traffic. The mystery of a sandwich found in a bathroom stall. A lyric, rainy-day ramble through the East Village. With the personal essays (and three other entertainments) in this debut collection, Tyler C. Gore reveals the artistic secrets of his life of crime: a charming wit, compassionate observation, perfection of style, and, over all, a winsomely colorful light tinged with just enough despair. Whether ...

By day, Sable Knight publishes crime books.By night, they're brought to life.Sable Knight, owner and Commissioning Editor at the London publishing house Day & Knight, knows a thing or two about crime fiction. But behind the glossy covers and gripping blurbs lies a darker enterprise. Her 'special editorial services' are far more lucrative than the average publishing deal. Some clients - let's call them authors - need a little help plotting their entirely fic...

FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR C. TYLERFrom the Naughty or Nice? collectionBlackmail only works if you can stay in control, and Alice has no intention of relinquishing that to someone like him.Bullied into spending Christmas with some family friends, Alice Stone does her best to cope until the bane of her youth finds out about her dark little secret.Asher Montgomery, an arrogant playboy who does whatever he wants, dec...

The first John Grey historical mysteryThe theatres are padlocked.Christmas has been cancelled.It is 1657 and the unloved English Republic is eight years old. Though Cromwell's joyless grip on power appears immovable, many still look to Charles Stuart's dissolute and threadbare court-in-exile, and some are prepared to risk their lives plotting a restoration.For the officers of the Republic, constant vigilance is needed. So, when the bloody corp...

FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR TANITH DAVENPORTBook four in the Rock My World seriesHe wants her. She wants him—but she’s going to make it hard for him.Vlogger Angel Metzler likes to create content on her two favourite things—rock music and classic cars. So when lead guitarist Judah Kallam approaches her at a car show and asks her to do some promotions work for him, she accepts—and when she notices someone filming them as he’...