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LIES CAN SINK A U-BOAT, AN EMPIRE, OR A FAMILYA MISSING U-BOAT, A NAZI COVER-UP, AND A SON DETERMINED TO DISCOVER THE TRUTHJanuary, 1942-U-112 lurks off the east coast of the United States, planning to wreak havoc on U.S. shipping. When the U-boat disappears, the captain's wife is told her husband is dead. But can she trust the Nazi regime to tell the truth?1972-Ernst Möller, the captain's son, begins a quest to learn his father's true fate. He's told that not only did U-112 never exist, but that his father was executed for war crimes!Follow Ernst through a maze of deception -- and subterfuge!
Time and luck seem to be running out for The Purple Heart Detective Agency. Violence has a toll. Running afoul of the law has its limits.But for Clayton Grace, there is a woman involved-- the one who got away. His first love, Linda, the woman who chose another man over him. And now that man is missing. One week into retirement, Grace takes Linda's case against Roddy O'Malley's objections. The path is never easy when the heart is leading the way.Grace is soon chasing ghosts-- and bank robbers! Later, we see a full contingent of foes: abusive husbands, blackmailers, Russian mobsters, crazy rock 'n' rollers, rapists, and the worst L.A. and Austin, Texas can muster.Roddy and the crew come to the aid of their brother-in-arms in their relentless way. Things look dire. Can they survive? Is this goodbye?In Anagram for Goodbye, we find out there is no anagram for goodbye.
At long last! A new caper from the Purple Heart Detective Agency!The Big Jangle is a new collection of case files from our two favorite vets turned detectives who risk life and limb for Los Angeles' quirkiest clients.It is 2019. Things are looking up for Roddy O'Malley, one-half of the defunct Purple Heart Detective Agency. His family is happy and healthy, and life as a security consultant is easy. However, Roddy misses the action with his partner. Clayton Grace, though, is still on the run-trying to find the men who want him dead.Fans of the Purple Heart gang know the band is going to get back together, and when they do, mayhem ensues! Soon, the detectives are knee-deep in trouble. Trouble has a name, and that name is Jerry.Yes, the client this time around is a rowdy monkey named Jerry. The imp needs the detectives to save his ornery butt from the mob.The Big Jangle is The Purple Heart Detectives' funniest, most outrageous book. Prepare to laugh! This is the book you'll be telling your friends about when it rocks your ever-lovin' world.
Two thousand years ago, a crucifixion took place on a hill outside Jerusalem. The question is: who, exactly, died on that cross?This fast-paced thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning everything you know about the most famous story in history.
In 1980, RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge were plagued by UFO sightings that were never solved. Now a resident of Suffolk has died of fright during a new UFO encounter. On holiday in London, Sherlock Holmes and Skye Chadwick-Holmes are called upon by Her Majesty's Secret Service to investigate the death. What is the UFO? Why does Skye find it familiar? Who - or what - killed McFarlane? And how can the pair do what even Her Majesty's Secret Service could not? The Case of the Cosmological Killer: The Rendlesham Incident is the third book in an exciting and popular science fiction and mystery series.
After the revelations in The Rendlesham Incident, Holmes and Skye find they have not one, but two, very serious problems facing them. Not only did their "UFO victim" most emphatically NOT die from a close encounter, he was dying twice over - from completely unrelated causes. Holmes must now find the murderers before they find the secret of the McFarlane farm. And to add to their problems, another continuum - containing another Skye and Holmes - has approached Skye for help to stop the collapse of their own spacetime, a collapse that could take Skye with it, should she happen to be in their tesseract core when it occurs.The Case of the Cosmological Killer: Endings and Beginnings is the fourth book in an exciting and popular science fiction and mystery series.
After a freak car accident, Professor Robert Madigan suffers impairment of his short-term memory. Suddenly, moments that have just occurred are impossible for him to recall. His family and friends struggle to help him, but, as time goes by, it appears to be more than a temporary condition. His job, his marriage, and his life suffer, but nothing he tries to do works. On his way home from work one evening, Robert stands over a battered, dead body. His hands are covered in blood. He has no recollection of what transpired before that very moment. The police arrive on the scene and take the professor in for questioning as their lead suspect. As the police investigate the murder and sort out the details, Robert and his family question the professor's lost memory. Had he been under enough stress to have snapped? Or did he witness a crime he cannot remember the details of? And if he were a witness, what would a murderer do to keep his only witness quiet? To uncover the truth, Robert must work with the detectives to piece together what happened that evening, no matter what the cost. But will he remember anything, and will it be too late? Ages 18+ Crime Thriller Fiction
Price MacCann grew up in a family of vigilantes. Trained as an assassin, her kill rate was matched only by the Reaper himself until she witnesses a death which hits too close to home. After a year of trying to put it all behind her and live a nine to five life, she soon finds it may be more difficult than she realized. With her family pushing her to return to the fold, a tall, dark and handsome stranger coming to town and a series of mysterious notes demanding her expertise, Price is faced with the decision to define normal for herself.
For the small town of Watkins Forge, the worst thing to happen is a heavy snowfall. That is, until widower Cory Keller visits for an annual hunting trip. When he witnesses a murder in the nearby forest, no one believes him. With no corpse, and as the only witness, he is faced with convincing the towns sceptical sheriff before the killer tracks him down to silence him. As he develops a friendship with an attractive waitress, Keller discovers that he is up against much more than a killer and he must not only save himself but the whole town. Mick Williams is the author of Amazon Top Ten title A Reason To Grieve, and the page turning adventure A Guy Walks Into A Bar.
With Halloween rapidly approaching, retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum would like nothing more than for his least favorite holiday to skip his adopted hometown of Folly Beach, South Carolina. The hopes of a quiet October drifts away on the tide when Chris's friend, Charles Fowler, stumbles upon the dead body of a curiously dressed woman with a hatchet firmly placed in her back.Along with a former successful stock market analyst, the keyword being former and an obnoxious ex-Marine, Chris is dragged into helping Charles search for the killer. A masquerade party unlike anything the beach town has seen brings out a hodgepodge of suspects and potential victims, all hiding behind masks. The amateur detectives must find the killer or killers before the dreaded spooky holiday becomes their last.
Welcome to another collection of three novels from the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel, with SEA FPG cowritten by award-winning Angelica Cruz.TIPPING POINTA peaceful kayak trip through the marsh suddenly turns terrifying for Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler when a single-engine airplane plummets toward their watercraft. After coming inches from certain death, the kayakers' heroic efforts save two of the plane's occupants but failed to save the other two passengers. Learning the pilot had been poisoned and three of the plane's passengers live on Folly Beach, Chris and Charles decide it's up to the two retirees to catch the killer.Chris and his cast of quirky characters are challenged to solve a crime before lives are lost, possibly their own.SEA FOGcoauthored with Angelica CruzHalloween is traditionally filled with ghosts, goblins, and ghouls but this year the holiday brings something more sinister to Folly Beach. The popular fall holiday has never been a favorite of retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum but that didn't stop his friend Charles Fowler from convincing him to tour a haunted house. In addition to being faced with the scary scenes that appear in most haunted houses, they stumble across a dead body.Stir into the cauldron a Wiccan family, a Christian minister, an egotistical dentist, a ghost-hunting couple, and a dog the size of a Fiat and you have the makings of a mystery that Chris and Charles must solve before their bodies are added into the haunted house.MOSQUITO BEACHAn early-morning phone call from a friend asking Chris Landrum if he'd heard anything about a skeleton discovered on Mosquito Beach, an African American enclave fewer than a handful of miles from Chris's home on Folly Beach, soon embroils Chris and a few of his friends into trying to solve a mystery dating back sixty plus years. Chris and his friend Charles's quest for answers takes on life or death proportions when two more of Chris's acquaintances are killed and his friend Al Washington is next in the killer's sights.A FOLLY BEACH MYSTERY COLLECTION IVAuthor BiosBill Noel is the best-selling author of twenty-four novels in the popular Folly Beach Mystery series. The award-winning novelist is also a fine arts photographer and lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Susan, and his off-kilter imagination.Angelica Cruz is the award-winning coauthor of Sea Fog: A Folly Beach Halloween Mystery and Pretty Paper: A Folly Beach Christmas Mystery. Ms. Cruz lives near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with her husband Hector, two dogs, a bird, two cats, and four chickens.
There were numerous better ways for retiree Chris Landrum to begin his day than to listen to a traumatized friend Virgil DeBonnet telling him how he found a body with a knife sticking out his back and floating in a small boat less than a half mile from Chris's cottage. Landrum's day on Folly Beach, the small barrier island in the shadows of Charleston, South Carolina, turns even darker when Virgil convinces him and his best friend and self-anointed private detective Charles Fowler that it was up to them to find the person who ended the man's life.The three friends twist, turn, and stumble their way among an increasing number of suspects including a former professional baseball player, the dead man's alleged partner in a con game, a wealthy businessman who'd fallen for the con, and more. The amateur detectives think they have the murder solved until their prime suspect becomes the second victim of the knife wielding killer. Unless they uncover the truth, and do it quickly, one of them will be the next murder victim.
Three more novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one collection. NO JOKEFour aging comedians deliver anything but laughs when they descend upon Folly Beach, a small, laid-back barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina. Chris Landrum''s introduction to the newcomers is when he averts disaster by escorting one of them out of the center of Folly''s busiest street, a task made even more difficult since the jokester, wearing a long, wool coat over red swim trunks, and black patent leather shoes, is flailing a fishing rod at anything that moves, be it vehicle or human.RELICOn an early-morning walk through the nature preserve on the east end of Folly Beach on their way to photograph the iconic Morris Island Lighthouse, Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler''s peaceful morning takes an abrupt turn. They encounter a woman who tells them she got separated from her husband during a storm, then claims they''d been relic hunting. Her husband can''t verify what he and his wife were doing. He''s dead-murdered.With the horrific death on everyone''s mind, Theo Stoll, another of Chris''s friends learns his recently widowed daughter-in-law is moving to Folly saying she wants to be near her only living relative. But, what does the woman Theo has never met really want? A family connection or to con the wealthy retiree.Lies, contradictions, stories of ghosts, pirates, Civil War relics, and buried treasure, combine with no shortage of murder suspects to challenge Chris and his friends to solve the crime that''s stumped the police. Not only solve it but solve it before more are killed.FAITHChristmas on South Carolina''s Folly Beach is a time for festivities, families, friendship, fellowship, and reflection. When a fire ruled intentionally set leaves residents of five apartments homeless days before the holiday, retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler take it upon themselves to not only make sure the displaced residents have somewhere to live but are determined to learn who was responsible for the massive conflagration.The burned-out residents include an aspiring novelist, two people who''d recently been accused of killing a bookie, and Police Chief Cindy LaMond''s sister and nephew, family members Cindy''s closest friends didn''t know existed. Finding who set the fire is compounded when Chris discovers each resident knows one or more people who may''ve had reason to torch the building. And, who''s to say one of the residents didn''t set it.With more suspects than days until Christmas, can Chris and his cadre of quirky friends restore the Christmas spirit to the small barrier island?
In a remote village of northwestern post-Revolution Romania, Ovidiu Todoran, a poor subsistence farmer, is murdered. His 19-year old pregnant daughter, Tatiana, is missing. Whisked away to Bucharest by her wealthy American lover, Kenton Farraday, Tatiana dreams of a future full of the love and riches she has seen on American television. Instead, Tatiana is kept a virtual prisoner in the Farraday family's large, but hostile Bucharest home. A search for her and her father is conducted in her village, but the case eventually goes cold. From the quiet country roads of poverty-stricken 1991 Romania to the bustling streets of St. Louis, Missouri, in 2016, this story takes you on a journey in which deception, manipulation, bribery, and corruption are woven into a page-turning mystery that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
Once again, three novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one collection. Enjoy. DISCORDChris Landrum's trip to Nashville to visit his best friend Charles hits a sour note when they learn of the death of the agent who had persuaded Heather, Charles's girlfriend, to move to Music City to seek fame and fortune as a singer. The visit sinks from bad to horrible when instead of finding stardom, Heather, is charged with the agent's murder. Chris must rely on his quick wits to solve the murder before the killer adds him to the growing list of victims.DARK HORSEAn accidental drug overdose is ruled the cause of the death of the daughter of Chris's neighbor, a retired police detective who had accused Chris of murder days after he'd arrived on Folly Beach a decade ago. So, why get involved and question the cause of death? Could it be because the daughter was dating a man on the path to unseating Chris's good friend as mayor of the small barrier-island? The political race heats up, and so does the retired executive's search for proof of a crime-a crime the police are certain never took place.JOY: A Folly Beach Christmas MysteryChris and his friend Barbara Deanelli's search for shark teeth abruptly changes directions when they discover a woman at water's edge clinging to a surfboard. How she got there was a mystery-a mystery compounded when she doesn't remember her name, her past, or who abducted her and nearly sent her to her death in the mid-December waters off the South Carolina
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