Halloween has arrived in Lantern Ridge, and the whole town is getting ready for the annual parade and trick-or-treat night. But this year, something strange is happening in Town Square.The giant pumpkin at the center of the festivities has started glowing at odd timesThen it disappears.Mallory, Tito, Jasmine, and Reynolds...the Lantern Kids...are on the case. As they follow a trail of clues through Lantern Ridge, they discover that solving the mystery of the missing...

An old map. A trail of clues. A mystery hidden in the heart of Lantern Ridge.When Mallory finds a weathered map tucked inside an old nature book at the Lantern Ridge Library, she knows it is no ordinary drawing. The map is marked with strange symbols - a maple leaf, a lantern, a bridge, a squirrel, and a compass - each one pointing to a different place in town.With the Fall Reading Festival underway and the park glowing with autumn color, the Lantern Kids s...

A missing lantern. A town full of clues. Four friends ready to solve their first mystery.When a special lantern tied to Lantern Ridge's history disappears, Mallory, Tito, Jasmine, and Reynolds set out to find the truth. Together, they follow clues, question what they think they know, and uncover secrets hidden in plain sight.But this mystery is about more than finding what was lost. As the Lantern Kids get closer to the answer, they learn important lessons ...

The school bell is missing. Can the Lantern Kids ring in the answers?It's Open House week at Lantern Ridge Elementary, and excitement is in the air. New classrooms, new teachers, fresh school supplies, and the promise of a brand-new year should make everything feel bright and full of possibility.But when the historic school bell disappears before the first day of school, the excitement quickly turns into confusion.Without the bell, how will Lantern ...

The Fourth of July Festival is Lantern Ridge's biggest celebration of the year, and everyone is excited for the fireworks show.But when boxes of fireworks begin disappearing just days before the festival, the town is left wondering if the celebration will have to be canceled.Determined to solve the mystery, Mallory, Tito, Jasmine, and Reynolds-the Lantern Kids-follow a trail of clues through Founders Park, festival grounds, and hidden corners of town. Along the way, they di...

Palookaville is a blue-collar supervillain antholology set in the shadows of the superheroic world. Second-string criminals, masked mooks and clued-in henchmen leave the stresses of the criminal world behind and live “normal lives” in the sleepy bedroom town of Powell Heights until the outside world muscles its way in. Fortunately, the citizens of Palookaville know all about muscle work. “PALOOKAVILLE is a wonderfully weird, occasionally violent, often funny, deeply twisted revisionist loo...

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: ...

Prepare for heart-racing suspense in this original collection by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing romance suspense today. Bodyguards, vigilantes, stalkers, serial killers, women (and men!) in jeopardy, cops, thieves, P.I.s, killers-these all-new stories will keep you thrilled and chilled late into the night.

Investigative reporter Carmen Cole gets the surprise of her life on her wedding day when she discovers that her fiancé and best friend are sleeping together—and that the two of them are her town's resident superhero and ubervillain. Shocked and hurt, Carmen reveals their secret identities and then decides to devote her life to unmasking every superhero and ubervillain who crosses her path.A series of successful unmaskings lands Carmen a job at The Exposé, one of the biggest newspap...

When Detective Terin O'Brien is assigned to an investigation involving the Gold Vipers, she is blind-sided by the strong attraction she has for their newest member, Cole Davis. Now Terin is caught between wanting Cole behind bars and wanting him as a man, which she knows is wrong, stupid, and above all else... dangerous.This story contains crude language, sexual situations, and violence. Is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. Please do not buy if any of this offends you. ...

Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.Young men in Miami are being abducted and tortured after their drinks are spiked with a cocktail of drugs that leaves them unable to recall their ordeal. Despite this, Detective Carson Ryder knows the predator’s name, height, age, colouring … everything. It’s impossible for the perpetrator to avoid detection. Yet he does.When Carson seeks...

In this thrilling crime novel, homicide detective Gus Ramone is on the case for the potential murder of a local teen in a community garden—but the investigation slowly unearths dark memories of similar decades old cold cases.Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden. T...