What makes a hero?In these ten riveting tales of crime and suspense, take a thrilling journey from the backstreets of Chicago to the windy bluffs of the Oregon coast exploring that very question. Discover good guys, bad guys, and everything in between. Some stories are dark and brooding, others light and quirky, and some defy categorization altogether. This collection is sure to please fans of crime fiction as well as those who enjoy well-crafted short stories.

Everybody dies. Nobody leaves ... Award-winning author Scott William Carter returns with his tenth novel, a spellbinding tale of a man who bridges both sides of the great divide.After narrowly surviving a near-fatal shooting, Portland detective Myron Vale wakes with a bullet still lodged in his brain, a headache to end all headaches, and a terrible side effect that radically transforms his world for the worse: He sees ghosts. Lots of them.By some estimates,...

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood…Years later, a headmistress is found strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. But when human remains are discovered at a former children’s home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed.Detect...