Table Of ContentsWhite Mice by Keiko O’LearyPeek inside the story lab as the head researcher trains a new assistant. But be careful–there’s a reason for that narrative hazard warning on the sealed, blast-proof door.Project RD by Michelle E. LoweWhen Alex Wiesel is bitten by the undead, he’s taken to a facility where scientists and doctors are aiming to find a cure. Alex goes through stages of rehab and undergoes a step-by-step program striving to become the pe...

In this psychological thriller following Die Smiling, an apparent suicide draws a detective toward a demented killer who likes to play games.His doctors are the best in the world, his father one of the most powerful men in the state. But they couldn’t stop Mikey from succumbing to his darkest demons—the ones inside his head. The ones who told him it was time to end it all . . .It should have been an open-and-shut case, especially since detective Cl...

The third graphic novel adventure featuring Dean Koontz’s hugely popular character, Odd Thomas – the small-town fry-cook who can see the dead.Odd Thomas’s bestselling author friend, Ozzie Boone, asks Odd to pay a call on an old friend: Hollywood producer Nedra Nolan, who has just bought a dilapidated mansion in Pico Mundo and hopes to make it her retirement hideaway.However, mysterious occurrences – windows opening of their own accord, rooms going cold, and chandeliers cras...

An exposé... or just exposed?Anything for the sake of the story. That explains why journalist Emma Gideon is participating in a large–scale nude photo shoot. Yeah, it's a stretch for a girl with an old–fashioned side. Worse, sporting only green body paint, she's on display for Kyle Hadley–the office flirt and her rival at the paper. These unique circumstances are creating a sizzling complication to their rivalry...Despite her boss's rule of “no hanky–panky,...

CAN YOU TAKE THE HEAT?From street-smart kid to respected cop, Killian "Chili Pepper" Cray had left her old life behind eight years ago and never looked back. But after an attempted murder left her foster father in a coma, Killian was forced to wade through the bitter memories back home in Syracuse and dig up evidence that would bring down the killer. Facing her past had never been easy, but it was reuniting with the man who'd loved and betrayed her that really shoo...

Five diverse stories of crime and punishment.A man on a road trip faces a mysterious killer, two oddball detectives meet the parrot of doom, in the not too distant future a group of thieves plan the perfect crime, an unlikely friendship leads to murder, and a serial killer takes an apprentice.No matter bent, broken or twisted, crime does not pay.

Akiko's back! No longer simply a shy fourth-grade girl, she's become an intergalactic leader, taking her band of would-be heroes on a quest to find a kidnapped prince!Armed with a map showing the way to Alia Rellapor's castle, Akiko, Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, Gax, and Poog are nearing the end of their mission. But first they have to scale the Great Wall of Trudd. Like the Great Wall of China only bigger, the Great Wall of Trudd stretches across the landscape -- there's no way a...

Richard Trench finds himself with no arms and no legs, reduced to a torso in the trunk of a car. There is a reason. It all makes sense. The point is there somewhere . . .Imperfections elucidates the private lives of supermodels and circus freaks, sheiks and designer dominatrixes and the metamorphosis of the body chic. These are lives where the importance of vehicular mephitis-cide, a charity lobster boil for burn victims, a grilled-cheese sandwich with the face of the Virg...

Two well-heeled citizens are planning a serial killing spree here in the wild 1960s in San Francisco. The trigger man in this City-by-the-Bay demented duo will find out that justice can come in Paranormal ways too. His partner will escape justice for many years until it gets him too, as it captures all of us in the end.

Do you dare open the Crime Files? Can you handle a forensic examination of some of the best authors being published today?In this, the second of two ebook samplers from the Crime Files team to be published this year, you will find exclusive opening chapters from some of Headline's very best crime and thriller authors being publishing between July and December 2014.From talented new crime writers Yannick Murphy and Jenny Blackhurst, to the phenomenon that is Lisa Gardner and...

What started as an ode to Quindlen's aging black Labrador in her Newsweek column has become a life-affirming short book about happiness, in the tradition of A SHORT GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE and BEING PERFECT.In this wise little book, Anna Quindlen writes: "The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter, more compressed." Quindlen continues, with her trademark wonderful writing, sound wisdom and humor, to explain how her life has unfolded in tandem with...

When the source of a plague must be kept secret, journalists become the enemy of the state.Journalist Hunter Morgan comes face-to-face with terrible truths, both personal and political. Visiting a local hospital, he discovers firsthand that zombies aren’t being treated there. Instead, they’re being sent to a more sinister fate in a program organized by the government. Fearing he’ll be identified by the helicopters and drones flying constantly over the house where h...