Fiction - Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery

In the near future, neuroprosthetics are evolving, with the possibility of neural transplants being used to restore damaged cognitive functions. Nina-a young journalist-receives a hippocampal implant after a devastating accident destroyed her ability to create long term memories. All seems well until memories of...

The Lunar colony's fate will be decided by one man's actions - and he wants nothing to do with it.Joe Drive is done being a spacejet pilot, done fighting the Resistance. Living a quiet life on the far side of the Moon. Then an...

When corruption surrounds her, she can either give in...or fight. One hundred years ago, a galactic cataclysm decimated the Centaurus galaxy, leaving only the planet Bersama unscathed-a world now divided into five struggling sectors. Captain Caldera Keane, an explorer for the Vanguard, is growing...

Fourth Volume in the acclaimed mystery series!For years Connor Whiteley has written plenty of compelling, suspenseful, best-selling mystery short stories spanning multiple subgenres and selling to top magazines like Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. For the first time ever, Connor Whiteley collects 100 mystery short stories...

When a man is murdered in a quiet leafy suburb of North London, DCI Jones, the first black policeman to rise to any rank in the Met, comes calmly to investigate. Through serendipity, he and his team quickly identify the assassin. But then, through...

Meet Fran and Ken Stein - a private investigator duo who refuse to let a little thing like being not entirely human stop them from doing their jobs. "Twisty and bonkers and fun" Multi award-winning author Catriona McPherson After losing their parents when they...

Crimes of some form will be with us as long as there are laws to break. Technology helps solve those crimes. But those solutions will always be found by the ones who get down and dirty-the detectives. Come see what the future holds for...

When Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade agreed to step in as director of SierraCon, he thought the job under control.Until a snowstorm traps all the fannish attendees inside. Then the con gets really interesting...But when fen start falling one by one...

When daregivers pay, oddsbreakers play.Pretending is all too easy for oddsbreaker Deja Ortega. As the daughter of a carnie troupe performer and a professional chef who traveled from planet to planet, Deja draws on a lifetime of skills to help her survive even the...

They'll kill to get more time. She'll die to stop them.In a world where each person's life span is limited by law, time is a lucrative commodity that some people will do anything to get more of.Fourth-dimension physicist, Dr Varya Galanos, invented the technology...

An exotic trip to a foreign land is interrupted by a crash into a mountain. Mark Stockdale and four friends are afraid they will die alone and freezing as they await help. Then they are terrified to discover they aren't alone. What begins as...

Fifteen tales set in modern, metropolitan locales, featuring a diverse cast of characters struggling to eke out an existence amid gleaming, opulent towers and sprawling cityscapes.Timely, unsparing and satirical, Electric Castles employs a variety of genres--including dark fantasy, magic realism and crime fiction--to take...

Part noir science-fiction and part twisted new-take on Greek myth, Genesys X is a page-turning police procedural featuring an unforgettable haunted detective.Los Angeles, 2041. Derma ads have replaced skin tattoos; the Nike Swoosh is projected onto the full moon, and digital sponsor logos run...

The death sentence has returned to the UK. The cost of housing killers during their life time has become far too costly for the government. Only one place was willing to house the final prison the murderers will ever attend. Callington Island is what...

Betty Falconen: the most overqualified low-rent geneticist in Atlanta.Overwhelmed by old insecurities and struggles to pay the rent.Her dreams of cutting-edge research withering on life-support.Betty wanted more from life and work.Will a stranger in a coffee shop bring the change she craves?Or prove her...

Spaceport Himalaya may at first seem like any other ordinary action sci-fi thriller, but don't be so judgmental, it's far from it. The September the 11th twin tower attacks where no foreign entity based on what I as the author believe to be reality,...

If you liked Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, you'll love the MAZE...Sunny Grimm found her son with a strap around his head.An infamous symbol is embossed between his eyes, one that people only whisper about--the mark of awareness leaping. Where players...

"Exceptional worldbuilding and non-stop action combined with heart and compelling characters make Bland's debut a must-read sci-fi book."-Jennifer Brody, award-winning author of The 13th ContinuumBy 2047, no crime in America goes unsolved. No wrongdoing goes unseen.When Dray Quintero learns his nineteen-year-old daughter Raven committed...

In 1778, 14-year-old Kate Dibble wrote diaries chronicling an alien visitation on a remote plantation on the banks of the James River.For two hundred years, those diaries remained hidden.Until now. A mysterious elderly stranger offers Colin Brayton, a bookstore owner, the job of appraising...

In a remote wilderness, mysterious secrets and sinister forces are unleashed in this heart-pounding literary thriller. Colin Tugdale is scheduled to die. His beloved wife, Ruby, already has. He took the government money and enjoyed his last twenty years in perfect health, never aging...

What would you give up if you could live forever?In Orbital Burn, a seriously down on her luck unlicensed Stalktown Private Investigator named Louise "Lou" Meagher ekes out a sparse living solving petty crimes. She is chronically broke, clinically dead, and nervous about being...

Philip had always dreamed of being a detective, much to his father's disappointment, as he naturally thought he would join the family business. True to his word he joined the police and was based in Newquay, a very busy seaside resort. He soon showed...

Things have been looking up for Jericho Hansen since he joined Force Majeure. He's got his own apartment in the Spire in Utopia City, and he's even been assigned a robotic sidekick. But not everything's coming up roses.Events spiral together, connecting in ways he...

Self-assured Kati risked everything to help Dylan Cox return home. But she made a big mistake-unbeknownst to Dylan, she followed him and now can't get back. Kati will need to find her bearings and decide whether to reconnect with Dylan or stay hidden. Her...

"The Call of Cthulhu" is a terrifying trilogy of horror stories by American writer H. P. Lovecraft and has influenced writers like William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti and Stephen King.Author: H. P. LovecraftISBN-10: 939492485XISBN-13: 9789394924857Publisher: Sanage Publishing HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2022Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The intriguing prequel to The Human.2415 AD. 300 years after the second coming of Joshua.17 year old Adam Kinde is in training to become a pastor, but he fears he has already committed the unforgivable sin. He may be doomed to live his life...

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When...

Have you ever wished you could be in two places at once?Gia's second trip into the fantasy portal of Literatia involves the murder of Dr. Manette, a key character from the classic book, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Charles Dickens. Gia's goal is...

In the powerful conclusion to the sci-fi noir Water City trilogy, faith, power, and tech clash when our nameless protagonist passes the responsibility of saving the world to his teenage daughter. For fans of Phillip K. Dick and The Last of Us. Year 2160:...

George Oliver Smith (1911-1981) was an American electronics engineer who parlayed his technical expertise into detailed, extrapolative science fiction with short stories he first contributed (and later collected as Venus Equilateral) to the sci-fi magazine Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science...

There should be a restriction on how many enemies you're allowed to have. Five years after Alexis became a vampire she's come back to Seattle for a fresh start complete with a new apartment, potentially a new job and a new set of problems...

With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals. Erebus Resort, occupying...

Nothing stays static for long. In a world where everyone can channel supercharged energy, its people are struggling to find their balance. However, for Morgan, every day is the same. Get out of bed, go to work, stare at the wall, make bad choices...

Every moment can be our last. Therefore, every breath we take is a miracle. But when death stalks you from a tender age to your adulthood, you might need more than a miracle to at least keep your sanity. Christy once had a happy...

Lasadi doesn't know how anyone manages to survive out here in the black, given that the collection of space stations, asteroid colonies, dwarf planets, and mining claims in Durga's Belt is less a society and more a community of uneasy, suspicious neighbors. Belt drifters...

The subject of this novel is a 45-year-old introvert named Allen Meyers. For reasons unknown to him, he was separated from his parents as an infant and the subsequent years of his childhood were turbulent. Running away from a foster home at the age...

Advanced Copy -- PREVIEW Fiction blended with reality. Menacing, threats, intimidation, retaliation and overcoming based on in-depth research, first-hand accounts with apocalyptic overtones. Right in the cross hairs, on the move. IN THE CROSS HAIRS-- EYE OF THE STORM--CREEPING AND ESCAPING THE DANGER ZONEAuthor:...

In Dissonance, the debut mystery novel by author Adam Thomas Applebaum, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a world where furries and humans coexist in a precarious balance. Our protagonist, a silver blue fox who transforms from nurse to forensic anthropologist, finds...

A wedding. A murder. A 200-year-old curse: Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation when he answers an old friend's call for help. Although he hasn't seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls...

Would you sell your hand for a million dollars? Regan "Roz" Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won't take no for an answer, and no one is taking her art work seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from...

Beneath the Maize is a sci-fi crime mystery with a tantalizing mix of magical realism, fantasy, and Native American folklore.It is the summer of 1999. A little girl mysteriously vanishes in a Wisconsin cornfield during a friendly game of hide-and-seek. Over the next sixteen...

A 2023 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Medal WinnerA 2023 IPPY Award Bronze Medal WinnerA 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist"A journey with twists and heart." --Marni MacRae, international bestselling author"It was everything I hoped it would be and more." --Kristy Gardner, author...

A collection of thrilling Sci-fi detective tales! Company Man, by Kit Sun Cheah When space pirates raid an asteroid mine in Saturn's orbit, Seder-Krupp hires a bounty hunter to run them down. Caught between ruthless killers and corporate intrigue, he must find a way...

When technology creates a perfect world, count on humans to make a mess of it...A machine-engineered perfect society meant to liberate humans from problems has instead made them unnecessary. But a bright, young policeman is about to change all that in this appealing, inspired...

"If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor."--Sarah Pinsker "A short, laser-focused packet of fun."--Wall Street JournalEmergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee...

Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of...

Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels. Called the 'Ennoia, ' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking...

On a cold rainy day Jack Darring, a rookie beat cop finds his dad, Rick Darring a homicide detective dead in an alleyway, hacked up by an axe. Now it's up to him to find his father's killer with the aid of his supernatural...

Crime Is Not Bound by GravityTurns out, greed and passion are universal truths, and leaving Earth does not mean leaving behind humanity. Spaceships, other planets, even Virtual Reality: all carry the taint of human desires.Androids and robots fight for equal rights. The poor struggle...

Sylvia Stryker wants to explore the galaxy. A family scandal kept her from leaving home. Can a white lie help her change her future?Sylvia Stryker used to help run her parents' dry ice farm, until her dad's arrest nearly left them bankrupt. But after...