Publisher: Wildside Press
When successful businessman Cyrus Darling abruptly sells his business, then is found dead apparently of suicide, Mrs. Darling summons Nick Carter to investigate.
On the list of ways to die, drowning in maple syrup has got to be the worst… Milly Pepper has two loves: solving murder cases, and her pet bunny, Waffle. But life in the small town, Star Lake, Iowa, involves only one of those things--Waffle. The rest of her time is dedicated to running the failing Starlight Café. Still Milly’s determined to make the café a success for the sake of her father’s legacy, even though it means setting her aspirations aside. To take her detective’s test and solve cases in the big city. But when she wakes up one morning and finds her neighbor dead in front of the waffle station, Milly has to choose: investigate the case or lose the café for good. With a not-so-well-meaning sheriff breathing down her neck, Milly’s got to watch her step. Join Milly as she figures out whodunit in the first in this brand new cozy mystery series and see if you can solve the case before she does. Grab your copy now!Show book
Hillary Greene returns to Thames Valley Police HQ, acting as a consultant for the Crime Review Team, looking into murders which the police have never been able to solve. She wasn’t sure she wanted to go back. But solving crimes is irresistible for Hillary Greene. And it doesn’t hurt that her new boss is devastatingly handsome. Twenty years ago, mother-of-three Anna McRae was found beaten to death in her kitchen with a rolling pin. She’d been having an affair with her brother-in-law, so the prime suspect was Anna’s sister Debbie. But the evidence never added up. However as Hillary digs deeper, more secrets and betrayals emerge. Who wanted Anna dead and can Hillary finally bring her justice? Meanwhile, Hillary is distracted by an unknown admirer, who quickly seems to be going from suitor to stalker. Can Hillary solve a fiendishly complex case from the past while fending off unwanted attention?Show book
What if every vote you cast, every political movement you believed in, every democratic choice you made was nothing more than calculated output from an algorithm designed to maintain the illusion of freedom? Investigative journalist Maya Lennox stumbles upon the truth behind PULSE—an AI-driven system so sophisticated it doesn't just predict elections, it orchestrates them. From manufactured candidates to engineered crises, from social media manipulation to the very fabric of political discourse, nothing is real. Everything is code. As Maya delves deeper into the conspiracy, she discovers a shadowy network of power brokers led by the enigmatic Xander Cole, a mastermind who has perfected the art of democratic manipulation. From Swiss Alps boardrooms to Silicon Valley server farms, from Capitol Hill to digital underground resistance movements, the battle for humanity's free will reaches a breaking point. But in a world where reality itself is programmable, can truth still prevail? Or has democracy already been deleted from existence? STEALING DEMOCRACY is a metafictional techno-political thriller that blurs the lines between narrative and reality, challenging listeners to question: In the age of AI and algorithmic control, was your choice ever truly yours? Narrated by Bradford Sinclair with a full voice cast featuring Adeline Harper, Samuel Cross, Grant Wyatt, and more.Show book
Charity’s escapades have only been between the pages of books, Seth is a man with a temper. Together, they just might discover the love they’ve been looking for. Charity found the ad to become a Pinkerton detective and knew it was her chance to break out of the pages of the books she read and live a life of adventure. She knew all about being a detective. She’d read countless books about it. After all, how hard could it be? Seth is a good Pinkerton detective. A little rough on the outlaws that he brings in. It’s his temper. When lead detective, Archie Gordon, demands his agents are to be paired with new recruits, Seth is disgusted. When he finds out they’re women, he’s ready to quit. Except he’s broke. And then when he finds out he has to marry her. Well, there just aren’t any words just the hope she’ll quit. Thrown together on a case with a secretive client, a mysterious stranger, and mail order brides present a harrowing adventure with surprises. A sweet historical romance.Show book
London, 1888. A Ms. Mary Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street with a case for Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr. John Watson. Some ten years prior, her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, returned to London while on leave from his post in India—only to go missing. Adding another layer to the mystery are six pearls in her possession, having received one per year since 1882. The sixth and most recently received pearl was accompanied by a letter asking for a meeting, claiming Ms. Morstan is a wronged woman. Holmes and Watson's deductive skills are put to the test in a thrilling adventure involving a map of a fortress bearing four names, poison darts, and high-speed boat chases. The second of the four Sherlock Holmes novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four follows Holmes and Watson's debut in A Study In Scarlet. Originally commissioned by Lippincott's Monthly, the novel was published in the magazine in 1890. In the summer of 2024, Doyle's original handwritten manuscript sold for over $900,000 at auction.Show book
A bride-to-be's discovery of long-lost wedding rings at an estate sale reveals the key to a decades-old cold case in a small-town mystery. 2024. Recently-engaged city girl Cora is new to the small town of Hickory Falls. Still adjusting to the change in pace, she's delighted when she stumbles upon a quaint estate sale. Drawn in by the knickknacks, she buys a jar of colorful baubles and is surprised to find two rings at the bottom of the jar. When she innocently sets out to find the original owner of the rings, she instead stumbles upon a decades-old mystery. 1953. Clarity Grey should've known better than to get involved with a married man, but their connection went too deep to ignore. When he divorces his wife for her, they marry, and she gets the family life she's always dreamed of, with a new stepdaughter and a child of her own. But just as suddenly, her new life slips out of her hands when she simply vanishes, never to be seen or heard of again. Clarity is labeled as flaky and a homewrecker, so nobody in town takes her disappearance seriously—until Cora, seventy years later. This engrossing novel exposes one family's secrets and the twisted lies that are hidden in small towns.Show book
