Títulos em Mistério, Intriga e Suspense

These are short mysteries featuring US Grant during the Civil War. These previously published stories have appeared in a variety of book-length anthologies, and both on-line and print magazines. Each of the stories takes place prior to the first US Grant mystery novel, The Ambush of My Name.

This compilation consists of two Cooper short stories, Matt Cooper, L.A.P.D. and Last Door on the Right.

After a horrific car crash, best-selling crime novelist Garth Wainwright has no memory of how he ended up at UCLA Medical Center with a wired jaw, a broken arm, and other serious injuries. In fact, he has no memories at all. Following a month-long hospital stay, he's released with the clothes he wore on admission, some keys, and a wallet. These are the tools he has to recover his life. A taxi drops Wainwright off at the address on his driver's license. One of his keys fits the lock, but as he stands in the kitchen, he feels like a burglar in another man's home.

After waking up with amnesia from a six-year coma, Jake Bronson's past is lost to him. But that doesn't mean the past hasn't been looking for him, or that it will let him live when it finally catches up. Jake's placid life in Italy is shattered by the arrival of an assassination squad hell-bent on eliminating him, and he has no idea why he's in their crosshairs. He's saved only when an American scientist intervenes, wielding technology that reactivates Jake's dormant memories and deadly skills.

Get an in-depth look into the probing investigations of some of history's most complicated criminals and cold cases. Learn about murders, kidnappings, unsolved disappearances, and more that took years before the culprits were finally brought to justice. Get a behind-the-scenes peek at these notorious cases and find out how they were cracked!

Raven LeClaire is still reeling from the murder of a young woman who turned out to be a reading client when there's another disappearance. On top of her connection to the victims, she's grappling with some newly discovered psychic abilities that have appeared, seemingly, from nowhere.

Kurt Khoury and his wife Marla have a good marriage. In fact, they have a great marriage. Marla is the most kind, loving, and supportive person Kurt has ever met. To Marla, Kurt is the most caring, supportive, and honest man that she knows. But Kurt hasn't been honest about one thing. And it's something big. It also is part of his new job. The tension settles in when Marla confronts Kurt and realizes that there is something he isn't telling her. But she doesn't realize just how deeply involved Kurt truly is. He has done the unthinkable. Something unfathomable.

The safest place they know is about to become the most dangerous… Marcella's husband, Quinn "Black Eagle" Hollister, severed ties to his family and friends on the Seneca reservation years ago. He rarely mentions his past-until his young cousin Kitty collapses on the couple's doorstep in the dead of a rainswept night. After two Seneca men break into their home with intent to kill, the Hollisters flee with the mute and injured girl to Tall Pines, their cabin in the Adirondacks.

Luke Winters has spent his whole life straddling two worlds, Lakota and White, belonging in neither. He isn't complaining. He feels richer for the twin heritages and for the struggle to be an authentic human being. He has learned to accept himself whether or not he is accepted by anyone else.

Gary Halvorson discovers an old photo of his grandfather with the late James Dean, but the problem is the photo was taken in Dalton, Georgia, back in 1965! A whole decade after Dean was killed in a tragic car accident in 1955, in Cholame, California, after which he was laid to rest in his native Fairmount, Indiana - or was he? Getting more and more curious over this, Gary decides to go to Dalton, Georgia, and discover the truth over whether or not James Dean could possibly still be alive.

In a Los Angeles that is something like ours - but in which magic has become an integral part of society - P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural being. Does it have anything to do with the fact that zombies looking like him are turning up all over town?

In the time of mercury poisoning, loving someone enough to let them go is for cowards. An epileptic black ballerina and a whistleblower Powwow dancer meet in the Montreal Airport. They are both scheduled to perform in Berlin, 1973 Cold War Berlin. During the transatlantic crossing, their love evolves. On a long lay over in Zurich, he stuns her by depositing many hundreds of thousands of dollars into his Swiss bank account, to which he adds her name with no true explanation. Is she an accomplice or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning?

Some secrets should never be revealed.... Brylee Branson begrudgingly made the excruciating move with her family from the warm, sandy beaches of California to small-town living in New Jersey. As if she wasn't miserable enough, they've moved into a creepy, old house that everyone in the area claims is haunted. Brylee dismisses the idea of ghosts and hauntings until she begins to see and hear things that can't be explained....

Professor/sleuth Susan Lombardi is back with two mysteries to solve: Who is playing the cruel pranks on the new teacher - a twisted student or a jealous colleague? And what has become of the teacher whose wife's body was found in their cellar?

Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger. He was Paul Liggett, who hid his true nature behind a mask of mystery. Martin Karpp was in the nation's top maximum security prison, convicted of assassinating a presidential candidate. That should have been the last the world would ever have to fear from this madman and his many personalities.

A tragic accident ends Laura Nelson's career as a surgeon. After accepting a position as Vice President of Research at a large pharmaceutical company, Laura works to finalize the imminent approval of the company's groundbreaking new drug. But Jake Harter, a malicious Food and Drug Administration employee, cannot let that happen. He is obsessed with Adawia Abdul, the beautiful Iraqi scientist who discovered the drug. As soon as the drug is approved, Adawia will collect a substantial bonus and reluctantly return home.

Detroit homicide detective Russ Baker has been sent to work the Cold Case Division due to a screwup he committed on a case. He was all alone in the basement office until he was visited by an unlikely partner. A dead former detective who was now an annoying ghost. Would the ghost help him solve the cold cases, allowing the murdered victims to go on to the hereafter?

It is the fall of 1896, and Miss Concordia Wells is hip-deep in the usual tumult of a lady professor's life: classes, clubs, student pranks, and the unending drama generated by the girls she lives with on campus. Events take a grave turn, however, when an ancient Egyptian amulet donated to the college mysteriously disappears, the donor is found murdered, and his daughter - Concordia's best friend - confesses to killing him.

In a stunning twist of events, Addison Riley is launched from the halls of academia to the spotlight of Supreme Court nomination. She's not entirely sure she wants the job, but the opportunity to make history ultimately trumps the trouble of having every aspect of her life examined by friends and enemies alike. Committed to the process, she's determined not to let her attraction to a beautiful woman or the threats on her life deter her from becoming the first female Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Charles Boeckman's Johnny Nickel returns to a familiar groove in a new adventure involving maidens, mobsters, and music in a situation that could lead to a permanent premature curtain call for our hero with the horn! Because, if there's one thing you should know by now, wherever Johnny Nickel goes, trouble follows!