The bullets fired into the cafe changed his life forever.1943 — Cole Miller, a young Chinese-American OSS agent, returns from a mission. His boss (and friend) is murdered during a terror attack on a cafe. Are they related?Japanese occupation forces control the country, but the Vichy administration running the colony turns a blind eye to OSS operations. When the Minister of Security learns of Cole's affair with his wife, he decides to pin the murder on Cole....

Martin’s brother is in jail in Venezuela—charged with murder.Proving his innocence means dealing with the police, a mysterious and gorgeous woman lawyer, a vicious gringo, a seemingly affable drug lord, and a guy named Raul.And every one of them would much rather Martin just turned around and went home.It’s a good thing Ugly Bill is on his way.Follow Martin’s fast-paced adventures in the Caribbean.Get a copy now!...

Tina’s best friend is in a bit of trouble.A drug deal went south, and several people got killed, including Beryl’s boyfriend. Now she is being stalked by his biker gang—and the cops. Tina Clarke wants to help, but her only real skills are very specific—those of a professional, government-trained assassin.Army Intelligence prefers that the assassin disappear. Someone betrayed Tina’s special ops unit, leaving her the sole survivor, kicked out on a medical dis...

It’s time to take a break from the world you think you know and to step through into another one. These five stories offer a guided tour of new possibilities and different places. They rely on magic, science, and sleight of hand, and will betray your trust at every opportunity. But just because they are fantastic, doesn’t mean they aren’t real (somewhere).You can stay tucked away on a safe perch and let this book unveil the genre-bending consequences of rather mino...

What do you do when things go surreal?When things blow up on Matt Cramer, they can be messy. This time the mess might be blood. Whatever it is, right now that bloody mess is all over the walls.A newly minted private investigator, Matt returned to Silver City, New Mexico to open his office. This isn’t a good start.Josh, the office painter, is missing and that’s not a good sign. Nor is the ominous attitude of Officer Ravenwalk, or the fact that the lo...

She steps into a dark world of crime.A legal researcher with a compulsion to dig beneath the surface. When Sherry Proper starts digging into a seemingly routine assault case at a local strip club, she quickly discovers a web of corruption and deceit that reaches deep into the halls of power. A disturbing connection between the strip club and a powerful group of business moguls and government officials would warn most people off.But not Sherry.If you...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence.Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anythin...

This issue, we have 7 original stories (which I believe is our most ever), starting with a science fiction/mystery mashup from H.K. Slade (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), as well as Viviana De Cecco, Kate Bergquist, Maureen Bowden, Ed Teja, and John Gregory Betancourt (me!). Our solve-it-yourself mystery is an original, too.For our reprints, Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman has a great modern mystery from William Ade, and a pair of mystery classics by Jeffery Farnol and S...

A private investigator visite the secluded mining town of Stillwell, Colorado, to find a missing miner named Randall Cook. The trail leads to a tangled mystery when the investigator learns that Cook is dead, buried under a rockfall in the mine. As the PI digs deeper, he suspects that the story behind the death isn't as simple as it seems. With the tight-knit town hiding secrets and the mine's dangers looming, the investigator must navigate a delicate balance between truth and survival.

This is our third Halloween issue of the month, with ghoulishly fun (and seasonally appropriate) tales from John Shepphird (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), father-and-daughter writing team Harding McFadden & Eleanor Hawkins, and British master John S. Glasby.We also feature mysteries by N.M. Cedeño (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Ed Teja, plus a vintage 1908 Holmes short-short by Wex Jones that I recently turned up in my pulp research. Our novel is a clas...

Games are a thing for children; a pastime for those with nothing better to do…or are they?At the most basic level, games are competitions that are conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Sometimes those goals are mutual, but most of the time, not so much. Games are a part of every culture and go back further than human records. Take the simple marble which has been found in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, in the ashes in Pompeii, and in North Ameri...

Vehicles define eras and are a means for advancing economies from traditional to high mass-consumption. They can also play diverse roles within amazing stories.A train was the setting for Agatha Christie's famed Murder on the Orient Express. A river boat then took center stage on Death on the Nile. Stephan King's Christine showed us a blood thirsty side, while in real life, the disappearance of Emelia Earhart and her plane continues to tease imaginations. Cars have been prominently...