When acclaimed writer Silas Thorne is found dead beneath the cliffs outside his secluded cottage in Bishop's Cove, the death appears to be a tragic kayaking accident.Detective Mara Keene isn't convinced.The evidence doesn't fit as neatly as it should. A burned laptop. Missing notebooks. A manuscript that revisits a decades-old tragedy the town has long considered settled. As Mara follows the threads through old newspapers, forgotten intervi...

By the Time I Got to BogotáWhen Elena disappears, months pass without explanation. Then her sister calls: Elena was in Bogotá. She left again. No one knows why.Thomas travels to the city on his last night there, chasing an address he doesn’t fully understand. As the streets narrow and detour without warning, memory intrudes—particularly one phone call he let ring a little too long.A private investigator by trade, Thomas has spent his life arriving a...

A burglary.An accidental death.Four giant jars of peanut butter.What could possibly go wrong?In the fading Appalachian town of Pine Hollow, opportunities have become as scarce as coal. The mine is gone. Jobs have disappeared. Outsiders are buying up riverfront property. The people who built the town feel like strangers in their own home.For brothers Mike and Danny Caldwell, desperation has become a w...

Los Caballeros: The Palmira Night WatchIn the cane fields and back roads of Colombia’s Valle del Cauca, some traditions never sleep.Maribel’s life is ordinary by design. She runs a small salon in Palmira, worries about her friends, feeds her cats, and avoids unnecessary complications.Then her best friend is murdered.The police call it a tragic crime. A random act of violence. Something terrible, but explainable.Don Malu and Don Parid...

Secrets buried in the past have a way of resurfacing.When a man is found murdered during a pagan ceremony at an ancient clootie well in the Moray countryside, Detective Inspector Fiona MacLeod believes she is investigating an isolated killing.At the same time, an investigative journalist disappears while pursuing a drug-smuggling operation operating along the Moray coast. The two cases appear unrelated. One is rooted in local superstition. The other in orga...

The future doesn't arrive all at once.It begins quietly.An office is emptied. A prisoner asks the wrong questions. Two minds discover that freedom may lie beyond the world that created them.Set in a shared near-future shaped by artificial intelligence, A Triptych presents three interconnected novellas that explore the same transformation from different perspectives.The Last Technician follows Ernest, one of the last workers employed dismant...

In the Wild FieldsSome towns bury their secrets. Others grow them.Journalist Griffin Cole hasn’t set foot in Crawford’s Mill for eighteen years.He left after his father’s death.After the first love turned into heartbreak.After deciding there was nothing left worth coming home for.Now a set of human remains has been discovered near the abandoned mill beside the Tarkio River.The town believes the myster...

Based on a true story, When I Grow Rich, Say the Bells at Shoreditch is a deeply moving portrait of a working-class mother’s endurance, love, and sacrifice in turn-of-the-century London.Born in Shoreditch in 1866, Rosa Marie Twitchett grows up in the shadow of the Industrial Revolution, where coal smoke, illness, and poverty shape the lives of East London’s poor. Raised by a resilient father and haunted by the early death of her mother in an asylum, Rosa is no stranger to ...

The Darién Gap—a lawless strip of jungle between Panama and Colombia—has swallowed countless travelers. Few who enter ever make it out.When a small charter plane crashes in the heart of this untamed wilderness, four survivors are left with no rescue, no supplies beyond what they can carry, and no choice but to trek through one of the most dangerous places on earth.Lena, a battle-hardened pilot, and her son Noah, an ambitious young co-pilot, were supposed to be running a rou...

Every Verdict Has a Victim.James Stratton has built a career defending the people no one else will.Brilliant, relentless, and undefeated in the courtroom, he believes the law is simple: everyone deserves a defense. Justice isn’t his responsibility. Winning is.Then someone begins murdering defense attorneys.Each victim is abducted, executed, and left inside a church with a parchment nailed to their chest.Verdict: Guilty.

Some questions never announce themselves.A pigeon on a distant ledge.A mind that begins to drift away from itself.The lingering scent of lavender that refuses to let the past remain buried.In these three quietly unsettling stories, E.B. Harding explores the fragile space between ordinary moments and the profound questions they awaken.In The Pigeon, an ordinary morning becomes the beginning of an unexpected existentia...

The forest remembers.For decades, the forests surrounding the remote Northern Ontario town of Kasapakee have kept their secrets.Now they are taking them back.When a series of brutal killings leaves victims torn apart in ways no wolf or bear could explain, fear spreads through the isolated mill town. As daylight fades earlier with each passing autumn evening, rumors of an ancient predator begin to replace reason.The Ontario Provincial Police ...