Mystery Stories

Before the silence, there were voices. Before the voices, there was pain. Before the pain, there was a fall — sudden, cruel, and irreversible. Stella could not have known then how her world would change, how her mind would stretch into places it had never belonged.

The award-winning story of Don Campbell and Lanh Nguyen continues as Don and Lanh marry and celebrate their love with friends and family, then it's off to tour the world with the United States Air Force. Don is first sent to Germany, where Lanh panics over the loss of friends and family, but their love carries them through, and they head home with joyful news. Their angels continue to follow them.

A centuries-old witch who has flown above cities finds herself grounded, discovering that even freedom can be strange, painful, and human.

A Winter's Universe Story
Ripped from today's headlines! Well, cribbed. At first, I thought it would be that old standby - Davey v. Goliath. Move over Batman, Winter Jennings is taking on Big Pharma. Yes ... but. Everything started with a patent for a neuron blocker that showed some early promise in treating PTSD. Then things began turning dark. Oh, did I mention intracranial meningioma? Clitorides: Awards -- 2018.

John Taylor
A National Guard armory has been destroyed in west Texas, and all eyes turn to a possible terrorist attack by a missing soldier. The agents in charge of the investigation refuse to listen to soldier's mother, forcing her to turn to Taylor to clear her son's name. As he digs up clues of a frame-up and hints of a much more sinister motive behind the explosion, Taylor races to stop an even greater tragedy. (Story is complete and posts every Wed)

A Seattle Noir Cyber Mysteries Story
Deb Riley is on the case again, this time with a dead woman and a house full of computers. Hacking into the computers could start a deadly game when the neighbors, and the dead woman, aren't what they appear to be. This story takes up immediately following "Municipal Blondes". Reading them in order is not necessary, but helpful.

A story in the Angels Universe
In the dry and unforgiving Namib Desert, on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, Ashwin Windsor need to recover and fly out an old DC-3 aircraft. But what is the connection between the aircraft, the red head fire eater Angelique Rothman, her uncle, and "blood diamonds" out of Angola? And who else is involved?

A Romance of The Rails Story
Part of the Romance of the Rails universe
George and Jill are back for another story. They are doomed to be on the Sunset Limited that was sabotaged near Palo Verde, Arizona in 1995... was it terrorism or something else? And there are new friends: Akilah is a palestinian girl; Josh is a Jew from queens; both are nerds going to CalTech; will they fall in love on this trip? Stranger things happen with Romance of the Rails...

The wise say that when you seek revenge, first go dig two graves, but is this preparation unnecessary if you can find a fast speedboat? A tale of loss and perhaps redemption, the first of a new series. Not many codes in this story, and they're mostly used incidentally. Lots of gunporn and gratuitous violence!

Transgender detective Julie Sanderson is teamed with detective Tommy Lomax to solve the murder of young trans prostitute Stephanie Carter and the investigation becomes complicated when the victim is identified as the daughter of a US senator. The case is a political time bomb full of intrigue, deception, lies and deceit but the clock is ticking to get it solved before the media gets hold of the story. A three-part thriller and whodunit with plenty of sex.