Locked Room Mystery is dead! Can you work out the culprit in this witty short story?

Historical Novel.

Sent to Serbia to investigate the murder of a colleague, a British secret agent is caught in a life-and-death struggle between the Communists and a band of underground Royalists called the White Eagles. A 1950s spy novel from the author of The Alexandria Quartet.

A first encounter with an alien race goes a little... oddly.As a recent graduate, Ryan Johnson is on the fast track to having a prestigious career and prosperous life. Then Ryan wakes up one spring morning and everything he cherishes becomes jeopardized. He finds himself left with only fragments of the prior night's events and covering his body are numerous strange injuries that he cannot rationally explain. As he learns of the painful experiences that took place the night his memory was deleted, his world is exterminated of all purpose and is instead replaced with abundant chaos. Did his destructive habits finally ruin his family or is someone else hiding in the dark? In search of answers, he begins peeling back the layers that surround his tragic demise. But answers are hard to come by, and the murder that turned his life into a nightmare takes an unexpected turn. His search leads him to the rediscovery of a piece of family history, the tale of an event his own ancestors buried, so that their family could move on from the past by hiding any remembrance of the lost "Gate's Fortune" from the public.Who does a person trust, when he can't even trust himself or his family? While excavating the corrosive details from his wrecked world, he uncovers a hidden relationship that brings him clarity. A relationship that removes the carnage from his mind and breaths life into his heart. But to find any true peace, he himself must not only protect himself and those he loves, but also avenge those he has lost, thus hopefully repudiating his own transgressions within his distraught reality. But, all hidden truth comes with a price. Some of these truths can take a person into a bottomless pit of despair, where things are best left untouched and forgotten. While other times, the only way to survive a life of trauma and pain is to engage the truths that the mind tries to hide. For Ryan, this struggle for regeneration will either lead him into the light or banish him to a bleak life of darkness inside his twisted mind. Because there is but one way to decipher the events surrounding that horrid night, he must dive head first into the raging hurricane within his subconscious, in search of the buried truth.

Myra Bailey is living the dream she’s had for years—opening her coffee shop bakery, Dessert First, and leaving her good for nothing husband in the dust. She couldn’t be happier to finally be on her own and proving her success one scone at a time.Myra Bailey is living the dream she’s had for years—opening her coffee shop bakery, Dessert First, and leaving her good for nothing husband in the dust. She couldn’t be happier to finally be on her own and proving her success one scone at a time.But that dream is short lived when it’s suddenly morphed into a nightmare. Barbara, the owner of Dessert First’s biggest competitor in the small town of Fish Creek Falls, is found dead, and Myra is top on the list of suspects thanks to her famous Death by Chocolate cake at the scene of the crime—poisoned and half eaten. She refuses to idly sit by and let the hunky Detective David Bentley run the show, so she and best friend Lizzy do some of their own investigative work.Armed with their smart phones and natural wits, Myra feels the heat and knows she has to clear her name to keep her bakery operational to save her future. She can’t let the hunky detective distract her from her mission, or she could be behind bars instead of the real killer.== > Death by Chocolate is approx. 30K words and is volume 1 in the A Dessert First Cozy Mystery Series.

See how a life can change after just one bite.Because of one fateful night, Nathaniel Riley loses his girl, his family, and life as he knows it. His world has been turned upside down. One day, a normal teen living in the 1890's, the next a mythical creature he didn't know existed. How can he live with himself with deadly urges he can't control?See how a life can change after just one bite.Because of one fateful night, Nathaniel Riley loses his girl, his family, and life as he knows it. His world has been turned upside down. One day, a normal teen living in the 1890's, the next a mythical creature he didn't know existed. How can he live with himself with deadly urges he can't control?He's a monster with a conscience who wants to make up for all the pain he's caused, but how can he do that when a fellow monster wants to take everything in his life away from him.Nathaniel Riley has lived for a long time. Before he met Megan, he had a family, another girl he loved and a world in which he was happy. Find out how it all changed in just one moment.

Short story about meeting the new guy at work. Thinking somewhat about turning it into a book, just not sure how many chapters I'll get out of it, so - at least for now - this is it.Eva tells her granddaughter as an old wise tale, why the manor uptop of the hill is haunted. Nobody had ever been to the manor in years. Ever since it's Lord to be was stabbed by his bride. And left to rot in the west wing. But the legend was that he still lives and waits for the 'one' to pull he cursed blade from his wounded and broken heart.And heal the land once more.

Something strange is going on at this corporation. Secret encrypted pathways connect to drives that shouldn't exist, to systems that defy location, and even to entire alternate Internets filled with news, information, and conversations that reference historical and cultural events that never happened. One timid and tucked-away off-hours network manager is faced with uncovering a horrifying truth.Something strange is going on at this corporation - the organization's network extends much further than it should. Secret encrypted pathways connect to drives that shouldn't exist, to systems that defy location, and even to entire alternate Internets filled with news, information, and conversations that reference historical and cultural events that never happened. The off-hours network manager, a glorified button pusher by his own admission, has nothing to do all night except browse the Internet. His own curiosity and desire to help lead him through a slow process of discovery; not only do these other networks and Internets really exist, they're being used by real people… living and breathing people in desperate need of help. It seems that something is happening on a grand scale out there - something horrible- and a great many scattered individuals have been left to face it alone… …until now. Can one timid and tucked-away off-hours network manager even manage a sliver of aid against the coming darkness? Or will his efforts to help these lonely guardians only bring him the same doom?

Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting.Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life. Everyday reality slips a little more between her fingers as she struggles to break free from her memories. She must look deeper into her past as well as the present to discover truth of her husband's homicide. A string of uncanny events takes place and practical explanations run thin as Ella follows the terrifying road to closure. As the past and present come to a head, Ella must decipher who or what the murderer is before it takes her as well.

Ashlyn: A lonely society princess living in New York City.Daddy hired you to be my bodyguard.Colin: Childhood enemy, now her protector.Daddy thought I'd be safe. He thought I'd never fall in love. He thought he could keep me forever.Charles: obsessed with keeping her safe, keeping her his, he hires the one person he knows she could never fall in love with: Colin.Daddy was wrong.

The godmother has never fitted in and no-one really wanted her at Dawn's christening. But all she wanted was to show her that there's more to life than pink...Harry, an air conditioning repairman, and his son Frank have journeyed to a fishing bungalow on the Rio Mayo, fulfilling a prior promise Harry made to his son. Frank has returned to Arizona from Chicago where he worked at a Naval hospital during World War Two. Their early-morning encounter with a Mayo Indian brings the father and son into conflict when Frank refuses to believe the man's story. Will they resolve their differences or remain at odds?

Ed Valenti is stuck in a loop of booze and gambling, constantly losing track of time and happily numbing his memories whenever possible. One night he wins a car at a game of poker. That car will bring to his doorstep a worried father looking for his son and from that moment on Ed's life won't be the same.Changing your life for the better is never an easy task, but most of the time, it's the only way to make sense of it all.Set during the Prohibition Era - more precisely, in the winter of 1927 - on the backdrop of Maverick City, a fictional city akin to Chicago, this story will take you to dark places but not without also giving you meaningful rays of light to look forward to in the distance.Ed Valenti is stuck in a loop of booze and gambling, constantly losing track of time and happily numbing his memories whenever possible. One night he wins a car at a game of poker. That car will bring to his doorstep a worried father looking for his son and from that moment on Ed's life won't be the same.

"Goodbye, Hello," a short story about King Jung Hwan and Sung Deok Sun, based on the Korean drama series "Reply 1988," which originally aired in October 2015 and completed in January 2016.1988. Ssangmundong. Seoul. South Korea. In a little neighborhood in Seoul, Kim Jung Hwan and Sung Deok Sun grew up side by side. Their personalities as different as night and day, it seemed almost both impossible and inevitable that one day, one would fall in love with the other. Or, maybe, even both, separately and simultaneously. There was only one problem: someone else was also in love with Deok Sun, and he happened to be one of Jung Hwan's best friends. Torn between loyalty and affection, Jung Hwan stayed silent, marking the beginning of his unrequited love. 1994. Years after they left high school, Jung Hwan has moved on, but not forward. In one moment of clarity he tells Deok Sun how he feels. He finally bids her, and his first love, farewell. For him, it was the end. But for her, it was only the beginning. What happens when friendship turns into love?Can the most painful of goodbyes become the most welcome of hellos?Can someone you've known all your life transform into the love you've been waiting for all along?From the writer of "A Moment's Choice" and "A Leap of Faith" comes "Goodbye, Hello," a short story based on the Korean drama series "Reply 1988," which originally aired in October 2015 and completed in January 2016.

Oscar Scheller lives in the small farming town of Jevoya, where his family holds major influence. He plans to marry his childhood love Alexandria within the month, but first he must embark on a journey to the mountainside city of Shantaram to deliver his bride's dowry. If you like heartfelt, substantial writing about medieval worlds, this short story is your cup of tea.It’s just an ordinary day for octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover—until her yardman discovers a dead body planted in her backyard. This death isn’t cut and dried—the victim was bashed in the head with one of Myrtle’s garden gnomes. Myrtle’s friend Miles recognizes the body and identifies him as Charles Clayborne… reluctantly admitting he’s a cousin. Charles wasn’t the sort of relative you bragged about—he was a garden variety sleaze, which is very likely why he ended up murdered. As Myrtle starts digging up dirt to nip the killings in the bud, someone’s focused on scaring her off the case. Myrtle vows to find the murderer…before she’s pushing up daisies, herself.

A beautiful forensic engineer hiding a tragic past reluctantly teams up with a troubled cop to stop a serial arsonist targeting churches.A beautiful forensic engineer hiding a tragic past reluctantly teams up with a troubled cop to stop a serial arsonist targeting churches. Dr. Anja Toussaint believes that her own dreadful youth foretells who the arsonist is and the shocking motive behind the fires. But Detective Gil Dolan stubbornly sets his sights on a white supremacist previously convicted of arson and just released from prison. Unfortunately, when Anja blocks his efforts the arrogant cop sets his own plan into motion that leads them both into a fiery trap.* Please note: Fire Sign is a novella and about one quarter the length of regular novel.For more info on upcoming books in this series check out https://www.mapetterson.com

Keira had always loved Jude and Jude had always loved Keira. It had always been as simple as that , until they got married. That was when life, work and Majid got in the way! Can they ever find their way back to each other or was this the end of the road for them?This is a short, poetic story about a mysterious object and the journey it takes through the hands of some cruel and obsessive men, men who will do anything to own it.

‘Who am I?’ Viviana wonders when – after seeing whales during the school swimming competition – a weird new boy causes her to suffer bizarre recollections of an alternative life of outlandish landscapes and experiences. And when her parents vanish, with no trace of them ever having existed, Viviana is left wondering all the more: Who am I?Helle's parents were evacuated with the rest of Pripyat when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down. Left behind, she was raised by wolves and remained unnoticed by the world until an internet video brought her to the attention of Louisiana State University anthropology PhD candidate Janice Grayson. Aggressive but insecure, Janice wins a grant to study Wild Girl of Chernobyl and moves quickly to capture the feral girl. Through a series of bold, and expensive, maneuvers, she manages to smuggle Helle back to the university, where the study itself melts in directions she never could have predicted.

The thoughts and feeling I had when I was in prison wrongly convicted of attempted murder. The environment of prison is a strange place when you are not of that world. The ups and downs of a 12 year sentence in poetic rhyme. Written in prison when the emotion was alive. Now it seams a life time away. Read this book and look into a world you don't want to go into.What saved me from going mad in prison was my music and my pen. The words I believe were given to me by God at times when I needed them the most. Let the words of this book tell you the story of a man who is in a place he never should have been. By the grace of God go we. If you want to walk in my darkness then read this book. Out of that darkness came light. I met my now wife in prison and we now live and work for Jesus in Bulgaria where the people need the hope we both got from being in prison, me in the UK Rita in Bangkok. Only God could bring us together in an impossible place, prison I a prisoner,Rita a Chaplin.

Three gifted children: boy genius Eldred, acrobat Lulubelle and disabled visionary Keith are all learning to survive in a world that puts pressure on them to be normal. But, beyond their unusualness, is there another link between them that nobody knows about?A story of ordinary uniqueness. Eldred Jones taught himself to read at the age of five. This would not have qualified him as a child genius, except for three significant facts: Eldred had spent all five years of his life in an oxygen tent, he had not spoken a single word since birth, and the book he was reading was a medical textbook.Three gifted children: boy genius Eldred, acrobat Lulubelle and disabled visionary Keith are all learning to survive in a world that expects them to be normal. Eldred’s parents, baffled by a child who dabbles in complex mathematical equations and designs potentially lucrative recycling systems, wish he could be more ordinary.Lulubelle’s ambition for stardom is compromised by having to be the adult in the relationship with her unpredictable mother. And Keith needs his family to accept that surgeons’ attempts to correct his physical disabilities may not be improving his life.Their stories weave in and out until the three of them finally meet. Despite their differences they find common ground in their unusualness and form a strong friendship.But, in the threads running through their life stories, is there a link between them that nobody knows about?

An Ancient Alien artifact falls into the hands of a sociopathic Nazi bent on world domination. Callously cruel and depraved he will stop at nothing to find the source of its power. Jack Cage is equally determined to stop him and in doing so rescue the women he loves and avenge the death of his mentor. In this epic battle of good and evil neither side can imagine the horrifying truth awaiting them.An Ancient Alien artifact falls into the hands of a sociopathic Nazi bent on world domination. To find the source of its power he must follow the clues left behind by a long dead legendary explorer. Callously cruel and depraved he will stop at nothing to reach his goal. Jack Cage is equally determined to stop him and in doing so rescue the women he loves and avenge the death of his mentor. To accomplish this task he must first survive demonic cannibalistic Indians, cut throat bandits, ferocious beasts, and the lethal Amazon jungle. In this epic battle of good and evil neither side can imagine the horrifying truths they will discover at the end of their journey. Chasing El Dorado is a thrilling ride. Its unique characters discover ancient mythical cities hiding truths that will change humanity forever. Follow along as they also discover personal truths that forever mold their future.

Nathan Foster's life has been turned upside down and he wants answers. Now he is face to face with the only one who has the answers; Jesus Christ himself. A mix of fantasy and reality force him to choose his way or a new way. But will he apply what he has learned to his own life or was it just a meaningless illusion?How many of us wouldn't want the opportunity to ask God why he took a loved one or what is the meaning of life? What if you got your answers and realized that they are far simpler than you ever imagined. How would you use that information? For one man, Nathan Foster, his anger, depression and frustration have lead him on a miraculous journey to find out who he is and who he is meant to be; by getting face to face with the only one with the answers he needs. He will have to leave his old life behind and begin a new one, but that means learning to let go of his depression and anger. American author, K.T.Martina has resisted tired old cliche's by taking a new look at his own beliefs which has birthed a new novel about being more than who you thought you were, and becoming the kind of person that doesn't just survive life, but finally begins to live with a purpose. I do not recommend for readers under 16 due to some violence.