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  Ferris Wheel Fiasco The: A Cozy...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  🎡 The annual Summer Solstice Carnival in the small town of Pleasant Valley is a highlight of the year, filled with bright lights, cotton candy, and joyful screams. But the fun turns to horror when the carnival's owner, a man as beloved as he was secretly resented, is found dead at the base of the iconic Ferris wheel. The police initially rule it a tragic accident, but local bakery owner and part-time ride operator, Penny Frost, notices the safety harness has been subtly tampered with. When the victim's ledger—a cryptic record of everyone in town who owed him money—goes missing, Penny becomes a target herself. With help from her mischievous terrier, Sprinkles, and the carnival's charming, mysterious new electrician, Penny uncovers a web of secrets under the glittering lights. From rigged game stalls and financial blackmail to a decades-old feud between carnival families, every clue points to a killer who knows the carnival inside and out. As the final night of the carnival approaches, Penny must piece together the puzzle before the killer decides to shut down her investigation for good.

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  The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the eleventh of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in May 1892.A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham, makes a loan of £50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves a beryl coronet—one of the most valuable public possessions in existence—as collateral. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewellery in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awakened in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands, apparently trying to bend it. Holder's niece Mary comes at the sound of all the shouting and, seeing the damaged coronet, faints dead away. Three beryls are missing from it. In a panic, Mr. Holder travels to see Holmes, who agrees to take the case.The case against Arthur seems rather damning, yet Holmes is not convinced of his guilt. Why is Arthur refusing to give a statement of any kind? How could Arthur have broken the coronet (even Holmes, who has exceptionally strong hands, cannot do it) and without making any noise? Could any other people in the household be involved, such as the servants, or Mary? Could some visitor, such as the maid's wooden-legged suitor, or Arthur's rakish friend Sir George Burnwell, have something to do with what happened to the coronet? The failure to resolve the case will result in Mr. Holder's dishonour, and a national scandal.Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle's: "A Study in Scarlet", "Silver Blaze", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Yellow Face", "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Speckled Band", "The Engineer's Thumb", "The Noble Bachelor", "The Beryl Coronet", "The Copper Beeches" and many more.

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  A Measure of Menace

  Jennifer Ashley

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  October 1883 
  When cook Kat Holloway and the kitchen staff maintain the empty Mayfair house while the family resides in the country, Lord Clifford, Lady Cynthia’s confidence-trickster father, arrives in London and asks Kat and Daniel McAdam for help. Lord Clifford might be accused of murder but won't go to the police because his involvement with the victim will implicate him in another crime. 
   Kat and Daniel must pool their resources and unravel this tricky situation before Lord Clifford is arrested. Kat will do anything to spare her friend Lady Cynthia disgrace and ruin, even when the investigation leads her into grave peril.

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  Fallen Mangrove - A Jesse...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  A Spanish treasure ship is driven by a hurricane onto the rocky shoreline of Elbow Cay in September of 1566. Few of the crew survive, but they manage to salvage most of the treasure and bury it on the island, leaving a clue to its location in a chest placed in the boughs of a young mangrove tree. Four hundred forty years later, Jesse McDermitt and his friends solve the riddle that was hidden inside a chest found encased in the now-ancient mangrove. 
  When the head of the Miami-based Croatian mob learns about the treasure he goes to great lengths and expense, in an attempt to relieve Jesse and his friends of the riches. A demented, hyper-sexed island woman also wants it for her own, as does a hot-shot Miami attorney and his son, who is married to Jesse's estranged daughter. 
  As the body count grows, will the crew of Gaspar's Revenge find the treasure or become one of the island's statistics?

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  Deathdeal

  Garry Disher

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  Patient, exacting and not particularly lucky, Wyatt is a criminal's criminal and this series is one of the most compelling in Australian fiction. 
  After the heists gone wrong in Kickback and Paydirt, Wyatt is further down on his luck and deeper in with the Outfit, a network of organised criminals whose attention he's tried hard to avoid. A risky job in a Brisbane bank and the return of a femme fatale add further complications to Wyatt's increasingly desperate situation and force him to decide who he is and who he cares about. 
  ‘Disher writes with all the compassion of a well-placed bullet in the back of the head."  J.R. Carroll 
  ‘Real books, not junk fiction.’ Booklist 
  ‘Wyatt's as hard-boiled as a hubcap.’ Weekend Australian

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  Rapid Pursuit - 14 Short...

  Joslyn Chase

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  Jump in, hold tight, and don’t look back. 
   Welcome to a world where every ticking second brings danger or heart-thumping suspense and no mystery remains unsolved for long. In Rapid Pursuit, acclaimed author Joslyn Chase delivers a riveting collection of fourteen tales that dive straight into high-stakes intrigue and unexpected twists. 
   From hurricane-threatened beachfronts to blizzard-blasted back alleys, Chase’s signature blend of tension and thrilling suspense captures readers at every turn. Whether evading the law in the dead of night, tracking down an elusive killer, or navigating treacherous alliances, these stories walk the line between good and evil like a tightrope artist on a dare. 
   Featuring tales that have gripped readers in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem, and Thrill Ride, this collection brings Chase’s best in the genre. Each story is crafted to keep you breathless and turning pages late into the night as her characters plunge into situations where every choice could be their last. 
   Get ready for Rapid Pursuit—where justice, revenge, and survival intersect in a relentless race against time.

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