Voted "Best of Anthology 2016" - Suspense MagazineCatherine Lea and Brakelight Press are thrilled to bring together New York Times and USA TodayBestsellers Russell Blake and Diane Capri, Amazon #1 Bestseller Joe Konrath, Edgar nominee and Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller Austin Camacho, short story award-winning author Arthur Kerns, plus Cat Connor, J.H. Bogran, Mark Bastable, Helen Hanson, Jerry Hatchett and Ken Isaacson in a collection of rivet...

NINE BOOKS FOR ONE GREAT PRICENine great crime stories to keep you up at night. Nine ways to be thrilled by nine award-winning and acclaimed crime fiction authors!Get to know each author and solve the mystery with their sleuths.TITLES INCLUDE the following crime fiction books by award-winning and notable authors interviewed on the Crime Cafe podcast:RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Austin CamachoAN ALL-CONSUMING FIRE by Donna Fletcher CrowSAVAGE NIGHTS by W...

Skye is a disciplined assassin who hunts predators the law cannot touch, delivering lethal justice with precision and rules of her own. After executing a child molester for a group of desperate mothers, she draws the attention of a billionaire power broker who hires her for a covert protection job. The mission spirals when Skye learns an equally talented assassin has been deployed against the same target. Forced into a deadly contest of skill, patience, and deception, Skye must outthink a ...

Washington D.C.'s professional troubleshooter, Hannibal Jones, is enraged when he is forced to take a case at gunpoint. His client is a Russian assassin who will kill Hannibal's beloved, Cindy Santiago, if Hannibal refuses to help him. With no choice, Hannibal agrees to investigate the smooth, wealthy Algerian who has stolen the heart of the woman his new client loves. At first the case looks simple, but Hannibal's view quickly changes when evidence surfaces connecting the Algerian to Russ...

When retired basketball star Xander Brown goes missing his wife calls in Hannibal Jones, Washington DC private eye and self-described troubleshooter. Jones soon learns that rich former athletes have offbeat friends including the flashy entrepreneur Xander' s been financing and the has-been soul singer with underworld connections. But has Xander just run away, or has one of his friends orchestrated a kidnapping? Hannibal Jones follows the clues from Xander' s palatial Northern Virginia esta...

Skye Maddox is a ruthless yet principled professional assassin who lives by a single rule: the target must deserve it. When a wealthy shipping magnate hires her to avenge his son's death at the hands of a brutal gang, Skye takes on a contract unlike any other-a ladder of escalating targets leading to the mysterious kingpin known only as Hetman.From seedy motel rooms to high-end hotels and lavish suburban estates, Skye infiltrates, disguises, and strikes with lethal precision. Her f...

Retired jewel thief Felicity O'Brian travels to her native Ireland to defend her uncle's Catholic parish. With her is her partner, Morgan Stark, a retired mercenary soldier. The job looks easy until they meet Ian O'Ryan, an IRA terrorist who believes he is the reincarnation of Orion the ancient hunter. He is determined to keep the violence alive in Ireland and to spread it throughout the island.To avoid bullets, bombs and beatings, Morgan and Felicity rely on a special gift, a psychic link...

Taking on a case that sounded simple, Morgan Stark and Felicity O'Brien are tasked to retrieve two high-value paintings but it quickly becomes more complicated. Using past connections, the ex-mercenary and the former jewel thief go undercover as part of J.J. Slash's growing crime empire. Slash, a 17-year-old gangster with some unique ideas about crime and capitalism is at the center of a war to reshape the criminal system of New York City. To stop the battle, Stark and O'Brien are relying ...

Private Eye Hannibal Jones takes on the most important client of his life: Cindy Santiago, the woman he loves. Cindy has been betrayed by a close friend and taken in a scam that has left her almost penniless. The swindler has not only taken her money, he has stolen her confidence and robbed her of her will to live.Hannibal's only lead is Irene, the woman who got Cindy's friend involved and wants to run away with him. She may hold the key to Cindy's problem...until she is gunned dow...

Morgan Stark is stranded in the Central American nation of Belize after a raid goes wrong. Felicity O'Brien is stranded in the jungle south of Mexico after doing a job for an American client. When these two meet, they learn that they have been double-crossed by the same person: Adrian Seagrave, a ruthless businessman maintaining his respectability by having others do his dirty work. Morgan and Felicity become friends and partners while following their common enemy's trail. They become even...

Anita Cooper was three times a victim. Her father's death crushed her dreams of college and a better life. Then her purity was drowned in powerless anxiety and her gentle fantasies displaced by unspeakable humiliation, all because of a hard man who knew the way of the world. Rod Mantooth stole both her innocence and her father's legacy, a secret that could have rebuilt her life. Anita was lost until she encountered another hard man who knew the way of the world-the urban paladin and profes...

Bea Collins is desperate. Her fiancé, Dean has disappeared and Bea is sure that he didn't just walk out on her. In comes the troubleshooter, Hannibal Jones who is skeptical until he finds the missing man who is dazed, confused, and accused of a coworker's bloody murder. Suddenly, Hannibal has a new mission: to prove Dean's innocence. All evidence points to Dean but he can't seem to remember what happened. To find the truth, Hannibal travels through Dean's past where he stumbles on evidence...