Gunfire. Murder. Terrifying emotions flood Alan Meyer’s psyche after he becomes involved with a captain in a major Mexican drug cartel. Rico Coronado is a ruthless psychopath who entices customers and women with his charms, then uses them as is necessary to reach his goal: more money, more drugs, and more power. Alan’s nightmare begins when a routine appointment becomes a scene of cold blooded murder in March 1988. Witnessing Coronado’s kidnapping of a woman and child and killing of an inn...

Founded by Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal features inspirational poetry, no matter the topic.In issue 3: Poems by Doug Croft, Liz McGrath, Jimmy Pappas, Elaine Fields Smith, Peter H. Dietrich, Elizabeth Spencer Spragins, Paul Edward Costa, Linda Imbler, LA Felleman, and Mike Dailey.New: Children's Poetry Section!In addition, this issue features social media tips and useful writing tools. Readers are also challenged to w...

Zoo was just the beginning. Now, the last humans on Earth are fighting for their lives in a dystopia where humans are prey in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that could save civilization ... or end it.BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James Patterson,...

A woman must uncover the secrets of her dead husband’s past in this electrifying thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Zone.An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of eighteen ye...

“Quick, cutting wit . . . a keen ear.”—The New York Times Book ReviewHollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure.His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third-biggest filmmaker in A...

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annal...

The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con—gunned down on his mother's doorstep—seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is involved in her own confidential investigation. Registered sex offenders from all over Washington State are dying at an alarming rate—and not all due to natural causes.A metropolis the size of Seattle holds it...

A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death from the New York Times bestselling author of Long Time Gone.All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman. An all-around punk, Joey deserves neither pity nor tears—until he is murdered by a bullet fired from Beaumont's gun. Someone...

A gripping tale of hatred, lies, and deadly tradition featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.The blood at the scene belies any suggestion of an “honorable death.” Yet, to the eyes of the Seattle police, a successful Japanese software magnate died exactly as he wished—and by his own hand, according to the ancient rite of seppuku. Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont can’t dismiss what he sees as an elaborate suicide, however, not when something about it make...

In Murder in Vegas, the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour.Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its doubtful that anyone knows...

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son Conner were found dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay on April 18, 2003.Her husband, Scott, was eventually arrested and charge...

The unrivaled master of crime’s first collection of noir stories. . . . “If you thought you knew all the places Elmore Leonard could take you, think again.”—Mike LupicaIn more than 30 books spanning half a century, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions as few writers can. A literary icon praised by the New York Times Book Review as “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever, ” he has influenced many contemporary writers and is known for both the quality ...