Mysteries

Mysteries

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Definition of "Mystery Genre": Fiction in which a detective resolves a crime or series of crimes.  This genre can also be referred to as detective or crime novels.  The plot of a mystery ebook focuses on the crime that needs to be solved, and the detective that will solve it.  Typical elements include the detective being in danger, a host of suspects with their own motives, and clues, motives and alibis.  The genre can vary greatly dependent on the time in which the mystery is set, as that will drive what tools the detective has at his/her disposal.

 

Some examples of the best mysteries of all-time include Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), Caleb Carr (The Alienist), Lyndsay Faye (Dust and Shadow), James Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice).  Of course, many of these are the best mystery ebooks of all time, as well as classics.  We try to bring you free and discounted mystery ebooks on their way to being the tops in their genre.

Depraved Difference (A Detective Shakespeare Mystery, Book #1) (Detective Shakespeare Mysteries)

by J. Robert Kennedy


*** FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY ***

Would you help, would you run, or would you just watch? When a young woman is brutally assaulted by two men on the subway, her cries for help fall on the deaf ears of onlookers too terrified to get involved, her misery ended with the crushing stomp of a steel-toed boot. A cell phone video of her vicious murder, callously released on the Internet, its popularity a testament to today’s depraved society, serves as a trigger, pulled a year later, for a killer.

Emailed a video documenting the final moments of a woman’s life, entertainment reporter Aynslee Kai, rather than ask why the killer chose her to tell the story, decides to capitalize on the opportunity to further her career. Assigned to the case is Hayden Eldridge, a detective left to learn the ropes by a disgraced partner, and as videos continue to follow victims, he discovers they were all witnesses to the vicious subway murder a year earlier, proving sometimes just watching is fatal.

From USA Today bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy comes Depraved Difference, a fast-paced murder suspense novel with enough laughs, heartbreak, terror and twists to keep you on the edge of your seat, then knock you flat on the floor with an ending so shocking, you’ll read it again just to pick up the clues.


Available Detective Shakespeare Mysteries:

Depraved Difference, Tick Tock,The Redeemer

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Kate Benedict Series 1-3

by Carrie Bedford

A PARANORMAL PUZZLER MEETS SCOTLAND YARD—at a smashing 3-in-1 price!

Kate Benedict is a London architect turned psychic detective. She’s competent, reasonable... and somehow able to see a death-predicting aura over the people around her—from the new prime minister to her oldest, closest friends—through the posh streets of London to the beautiful Tuscan countryside. And she can’t help but help others avoid the unthinkable at all costs.

Fans of traditional British (but not too cozy) mystery, savvy female sleuths, and suspense with a metaphysical twist will love this paranormal trilogy —now available for a killer price!

 

THE AURA

Life spins out of control for London architect Kate Benedict when she sees a dancing aura above certain people’s heads that seems to signal death. Suddenly she’s psychic. But that can't be! Psychic’s not acceptable in her circle, where the supernatural is strictly for the superstitious. And yet…people are dying. People close to her.

Kate's tentative attempts to talk about her new-found metaphysical gift are met with eye rolls, so much so that she can’t even tell the nice Scotland Yard detective who's investigating the death of a close friend, Rebecca Williams. And now Rebecca’s neighbor has an aura.

So what's Kate to do but try to save him by turning detective herself? A break-in and attack on her boyfriend confirm that the murderer’s catching on that Kate knows too much. But he (or maybe she) has no idea that what Kate knows is a little on the paranormal side.

 

DOUBLE BLIND

Two politicians and her best friend have the death-predicting auras London architect Kate Benedict can see despite her most fervent wishes. She’s had the dubious gift for a year now, and suddenly there’s no longer any ignoring it.

But the only way to get to the two pols is via her old friend, DCI Clarke; yet her warnings go unheeded. Her frustration builds when her best friend, Anita, refuses to believe in their existence as well — even when one appears over Anita’s boss in the hospital where she works. And then Anita develops her own aura.

 

THE FLORENTINE CYPHER

London architect Kate Benedict’s weekend begins with “Follow that cab!” and takes us off and running on an international adventure, ticking off picturesque locales from London to a Venetian palace and the Tuscan countryside, pausing just long enough for a quick tour of Florence’s Duomo, with danger dogging every step.

What began as a quiet Friday night dinner date with an old childhood friend turns into a manhunt when Kate arrives at the rendezvous just in time to find her friend Ethan leaving in a taxi. Kate is alarmed to see the distinctive swirling pattern above his head that only she can see, and that she has come to recognize as a portent of imminent and mortal danger. When Ethan’s disappearance is followed by a series of cryptic text messages, Kate goes looking for him at his sister’s house in Florence, Italy, but it’s immediately clear that whatever danger threatened Ethan in London has followed Kate to Italy--his sister Claire has a matching aura! Soon Kate and Claire are on the run, constantly watched and followed, repeatedly threatened and attacked … never knowing who they can trust. Apparently not even the carabinieri, who are now following them also!

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Dead Man (Black Magic Outlaw Book 1)

by Domino Finn


I'm Cisco Suarez: necromancer, shadow charmer, black magic outlaw. Sounds kinda cool, doesn't it? It was, right until I woke up half dead in a dumpster.

Did I say half dead? Because I meant 100% dead. Full on. I don't do things halfway.

So here I am, alive for some reason, just another sunny day in Miami. It's a perfect paradise, except I'm into something bad. Wanted by police, drenched in the stink of dark magic, nether creatures coming out of the woodwork, and don't get me started on the Haitian voodoo gang. Trust me, it's all fun and games until there's a zombie pit bull on your tail.

I'm Cisco Suarez: necromancer, shadow charmer, black magic outlaw, and totally screwed.

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Ollie Stratford Cozy Mysteries: 5 Book Box Set: An Ollie Stratford Cozy Mystery

by N.C. Lewis

 

Cozy Mystery Fan Looking For Something Different?


Grab this Cozy Mystery five Book Box Set from Author N.C. Lewis's popular Ollie Stratford Cozy Mysteries series. Enjoy hour upon hour of good, clean, humorous, reading with characters you will grow to love!

BOOK1: TEXAS TROUBLES
Middle-aged Professor Ollie Stratford's been hounded by a psycho realtor, outrun by a bunch of grandma’s, taken advice from sock puppets, stuck in a brimming toilet bowl, and almost run out of college by a drunken professor. How is that for her first few days in a quiet little Texas town she never wanted to live in?

BOOK 2: CREEK CRISIS
When a mysterious Portuguese film producer hires Ollie Stratford's event center she thinks it is going to be fun and games... until the brawling and fisticuffs amongst the Divas break out followed by Murder!

BOOK 3: BITTER BONES
When the bones of beloved local, Garrick Markovich, turn up buried by the oil well, Ollie's dreams of financial stability are put in danger. Now, Ollie must uncover the secrets of tight lipped locals to find the killer and obtain justice for Garrick.

BOOK 4: MAGIC MUMBLES
Doctor Ollie Stratford loves a good mystery. But the last thing she ever expected was to stumble into one while relaxing at Mysterious Malcolm's Magical Masquerade show. When a body shows up during the show, and the Magician leaps from the stage and disappears, Ollie gets sucked into a world where everyone has a grudge, and no one is talking.

BOOK 5: TEDDY TUMPIN
Ollie is trying to live a normal life, in a normal Texas Hill Country town, with a normal event center business. All that changes when the high school homecoming brings a local hero back to town. Then strange things happen—including to Ollie—and a body appears unexpectedly in a most unusual place. As Ollie follows a twisted trail, she does not understand the terrible consequences that will result. Will Ollie and the gang be able to track down the killer before the next victim or is it already too late?


Pick up this TOTALLY ABSORBING COZY MYSTERY BOXSET FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS AND TURNS.

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I Am Watching You

by Teresa Driscoll


An Amazon Charts bestseller.

What would it take to make you intervene?

When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared.

A year later, Anna is still missing. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she’s not the only one who can’t forget. Someone is sending her threatening letters—letters that make her fear for her life.

Then an anniversary appeal reveals that Anna’s friends and family might have something to hide. Anna’s best friend, Sarah, hasn’t been telling the whole truth about what really happened that night—and her parents have been keeping secrets of their own.

Someone knows where Anna is—and they’re not telling. But they are watching Ella.

 

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Reduced Ransom! (Hotshot Book 1)

by Mike Faricy


Reduced Ransom! The first book in the Hotshot series from Mike Faricy. FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

Mickey and Dell, two long suffering halfwits come up with the idea of kidnapping at a bargain basement price. What could possibly go wrong? Well, maybe a victim who doesn't want to be returned, another with a husband who doesn't want her back, one who's tougher than her kidnappers, and another who's entirely the wrong person. Not to mention local thug Huey Evans who is looking to settle a score. Reduced Ransom! Faricy at his hilarious best. Check it out...

He's done it again, Reduced Ransom!, don't miss it! Irish Gazette

The first in this new series, hurry up and get the next one out! Crime Scene

A wonderfully entertaining read! Bookish Review

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Forever Road (Peri Jean Mace Ghost Thrillers Book 1)

by Catie Rhodes


Book 1 in the Peri Jean Mace Ghost Thriller series.

A world full of ghosts. A reluctant psychic medium. Destiny only knocks once—then it kicks down the door.

Peri Jean Mace thinks seeing ghosts is a curse, but her murdered trailer trash cousin doesn’t care. She wants Peri Jean to expose her killer.

Peri Jean figures out everyone in her one-stoplight East Texas town has something to hide. And one of them will kill to hide the truth. In over her head, Peri Jean has to face her curse or end up the next victim.

Forever Road is the first book in the Peri Jean Mace Ghost Thriller series. If you like your urban fantasy served up with a heavy dose of goose bumps, a side of gut-busting laughs, and a fist-swinging heroine who will steal your heart, you’ll love Forever Road.

Download Forever Road now and start your journey with Peri Jean Mace today!

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Dark Sacred Night (A Ballard and Bosch Novel Book 1)

by Michael Connelly


Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat--known in LAPD slang as "the late show"--and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.

 

 

Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift--and she wants in.

 

 

The murder, unsolved, was of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.

 

 

Dark Sacred Night for the first time brings together these two powerhouse detectives in a riveting story that unfolds with furious momentum. And it shows once more why "there's no doubt Connelly is a master of crime fiction" (Associated Press).

 

 

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Mystic: Teton County

by Robert R. Perkinson


Trevor Howard, the sheriff of Teton County Wyoming, is contemplating an explosion of cocaine addiction, four structure fires and the murder of a six-year-old boy in his jurisdiction. The boy had a wooden cross penetrating his heart indicating a possible religious connection. Trevor has the idea of hiring a young woman deputy with experience in an undercover narcotics investigation. Simultaneously, Doctor Abe Anderson, Trevor’s best friend, meets Heather Cutler, acting in a play as the red-headed demon of seduction. Abe falls in love with her and even more with his first experience with cocaine. Trevor is usually a confident police officer but these crimes, coming all at once, leave him feeling deeply troubled. Before it’s done his whole life, friendships and family will show him how he has underestimated his greatest fears.

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The Silver Wolf (James Ryker Book 3)

by Rob Sinclair

 

A fast-paced and unmissable thriller from the international bestselling James Ryker series

Ryker wants blood, and one way or another he’ll get it...

Still tormented by the disappearance of his wife, ex-intelligence agent James Ryker sets out on a personal mission of revenge, prepared to go to any lengths in search of the truth.

The trail takes him from the crystal waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, back to a place he thought he would never set foot again - his country of birth, England. But there he discovers more than even he bargained for. Stumbling across a terrorist attack targeted against his old employers - the secretive Joint Intelligence Agency -the faint clues to many events in his recent past are all seemingly linked to one mysterious character; The Silver Wolf.

But just who is the Silver Wolf, and why is he hell bent on punishing not just Ryker, but his closest allies at the JIA too?

Has Ryker finally met his match?

The Silver Wolf is a globe-trotting thriller that sees James Ryker at his hard-nosed best as he fights the ghosts of his past. As skilled as Jason Bourne, as no-nonsense as Jack Reacher, James Ryker delivers in another heart-pounding thriller.

What readers are saying:

"He is a man on a mission and I love his passion and tenacity! He is my total action man!!" Claire Knight - Crimebookjunkie

"With the build-up to the finale, it is a gritty read with an enthralling ending." Alexina Golding - Bookstormer

"The Silver Wolf is an exciting and thrilling read that sent my heart racing." Sarah Hardy - By The Letter Book Reviews

"Sinclair has generated a lovable, yet deeply flawed, character who readers instantly champion." Lisa Harrison - Segnalibro

"If you love The Bourne series then you absolutely have to read The James Ryker series. I promise you won’t be disappointed!" Joanne Robertson - My Chestnut Reading Tree

"There’s just something about the writing that makes a film play in my head so I can see the action playing out, it’s quite brilliant!" Kate Noble - The Quiet Knitter

"The Silver Wolf offers everything you could need in a thriller, it’s dark and heavy hitting which gives it an edge..." David Baird - David's Book Blurg

"It has everything you’d want in an espionage thriller – a tight twisty plot, great characters, horrible villains and surprise twists." Cathy Ryan - Between The Lines

"Another absolutely brilliant read from an author that never disappoints." Jill Burkinshaw - Books n All

"OMG what a story….. Once again the author draws you in straight from the start and doesn't let you go until the very last page." Shell Baker - Chelle's Book Reviews

***the content of this book has been updated to address some editorial issues raised by some reviewers***

 

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Secrets Girls Keep (Michael Gresham Legal Thrillers Book 2)

by John Ellsworth


FROM USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH

Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney whose priest has fathered a son. The boy is now seventeen, acting-out, and arrested for first-degree murder. The priest asks Michael to take his son into his home so he can be released on bail. Michael and his wife agree and the boy, with his snake and mice, moves in.

One young client who looks more guilty with each new death...
The new houseguest gets questioned by the police for yet a second murder. Michael Gresham and his wife become uneasy and, when the young man begins acting out, they finally move him out. The snake and mice move out with him.
 

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Cold Press: A Gripping British Mystery Thriller - Anna Burgin Book 1

by David Bradwell


London. 1993. Investigative journalist Clare Woodbrook goes missing on the brink of unveiling her biggest-ever story. Is it kidnap? Murder?

Worse still, the police investigation into her disappearance is being headed up by a corrupt DCI - himself the subject of one of Clare's current investigations.

Clare's researcher Danny Churchill sets out to find her, and enlists the help of his flatmate - feisty fashion photographer Anna Burgin. But they soon realise that nobody can be trusted. And as the search becomes ever more desperate, suddenly their own lives are very much on the line.

Packed with intrigue, twists, conspiracies, and dark humour, Cold Press is a hugely entertaining British thriller, with a sting in the tail.



Cold Press is the gripping debut thriller by British writer David Bradwell - former winner of the PPA British Magazine Writer of the Year Award and writer for for publications as diverse as Smash Hits and the Sunday Times.

It's book one in the Anna Burgin mystery series.

Read the reviews on Amazon:

"I loved this book right from the very first chapter. The style of writing gets you involved very quickly and draws you in, so much so that you feel the excitement, the tense tingling sensation of mystery and the shock at 'I didn't see that coming'. A great read and one I would highly recommend."

"A very good read, many twists, both leading and misleading - but the surprise ending is a masterpiece."

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Murder and the Museum: A High Desert Cozy Mystery (High Desert Cozy Mystery Series Book 7)

by Dianne Harman


All Camille wanted to do was build a museum in the desert. Too bad someone didn’t agree, and she was murdered. But was it for the land or her millions?

That property was prime desert land. A lot of people wanted it. The Tortoise Lady, the Mafia investors, and the Indian tribe. Camille’s son and daughter-in-law wanted her millions. Makes for a lot of motives and suspects.

Detective Jeff’s busy with two other murders, and definitely needs his wife’s help. Good thing Marty has a psychic sister and a psychic dog to help!

This is the seventh book in the popular High Desert Cozy Mystery Series by two-time USA Today Bestselling Author, Dianne Harman.

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Arabian Collusion: A Pat Walsh Thriller

by James Lawrence

A shadow group of powerful men combine forces and hatch a plan to make a ruthless power play to control the Middle East.   United by a common foe in the Saudi Government, the secret cabal manipulates social media and a newly discovered religious artifact to create a revolution.
In Arabian Collusion, Pat Walsh and his band of CIA backed mercenaries face their most formidable adversary yet.  The former special operator and his elite team of warriors race the clock to solve a mystery and save the region from descending into anarchy.
Lawrence's latest military thriller is filled with political intrigue, espionage, action and adventure.

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The Kimberley Secret

by Gabriel Farago

When celebrated war correspondent Jack Rogan receives a phone call during a bloody battle in Afghanistan, he knows something is wrong; his father is dying. With his last breath, Rogan’s father makes a disturbing revelation that rocks his son to the core and leaves him pondering who he really is, and where he came from.  With his world turned upside down, Rogan soon finds himself irresistibly drawn into a desperate search to find his true identity, and turns to an old friend for help.

On a dangerous journey of discovery that takes him around the globe and the remote wilderness of outback Australia, Rogan follows clues hidden in unexpected places to uncover the truth. Will Rogan succeed? Will the truth – if and when he finally finds it – crush him, or will lifting the curtain of uncertainty and doubt be liberating, and finally bring peace by showing him who he really is?

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Death Down Under (A Cozy Mystery) (Ruby Bay Mystery Book 1)

by Samantha Silver


Miki is used to sliding headfirst on a sled at a hundred miles an hour, but this might just be the craziest thing she's ever done...

When World Champion skeleton athlete Miki King fails a doping test after taking the wrong flu medication, she's exiled to Australia, to run her aunt's cafe in a small beachside resort town until all the media attention blows over back home in America.

Expecting a break from her hectic life, Miki never expects to find a body on her second day in Ruby Bay. And to make matters worse, she was seen having an argument with the man the day before.

With the local police chief convinced she's the culprit, Miki - with the help of her new coworker Emily and a rather crazy old woman named Mary - has to find the murderer before she's arrested and makes the headlines again, destroying any chance she might have of reviving her career.

**Includes a recipe for lamingtons, a popular Australian desert***

Death Down Under is a full-length, humorous cozy mystery and the first book in the Ruby Bay mystery series set in Australia.

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Killing Edge of Justice: A Gripping Suspense Novella (An Argentina Saga Book 1)

by William Jack Stephens


Ramon Banu Lasso de la Vega was born into Spanish nobility. 

 
He chose the life of a killer instead... 
 
 Trained in the deadliest arts, he cultivated his talent for killing as a military assassin in the trenches of the first World War. When there was no one left to kill, he fled to South America to build his own little empire in the criminal underworld of La Paz.

Juan Carlos was abandoned as a child and living on the cobblestone streets when Ramon pulled him into his world of corruption and murder. He trained him, controlled him, and used him. 
 
Being a feared street soldier was all he ever knew, until Ramon bought the beautiful young Gisele from the Franciscans. To Ramon, she's property. To Juan Carlos, she is magical. She brings him a vision of love and family, and a life that Juan Carlos could have never imagined. 
 
But to have that life, they will have to betray Ramon, and risk everything in a thrilling escape. It sets the stage for revenge, and a deadly variety of justice that exists outside the boundaries of law and order. A place where only the vigilante brings balance to the world.

But this story doesn't end here for the young lovers. Their desperate escape will take them a thousand miles away to the far reaches of Argentina, and dreams of a new life. A life of home and family, and living in the great expanse of the Patagonian Andes. 
 
Can they, and their children, escape the sins of their past? Or will the world hunt them down and collect the heavy debt they ran so far to leave behind? 
 
 This is a must-read tale that spans several generations in one of the most romantic destinations of the world. Click the Buy button Now.


>>> Previously published as Andalusian Legacy

 

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Professor K: The Final Quest: A medical mystery (Jack Rogan Mysteries Book 4)

by Gabriel Farago


A desperate plea from the Vatican. A kidnapped chef. An ambitious mob boss. One perilous game.

When Professor Alexandra Delacroix is called in to find a cure for the dying pope, she follows clues left by her mentor and friend, the late Professor K, which lead her on a breathtaking search through historical secrets, some of them deadly.

Her old friend Jack Rogan must step in to assist while also searching for kidnapped Top Chef Europe winner Lorenza da Baggio.

He joins forces with his young friend and gifted psychic, Tristan, a dedicated mafia hunting prosecutor, a fearless young police officer, and an enigmatic Egyptian detective on a perilous hunt for a notorious IS terrorist.

Together, they stand off with the head of a powerful Mafia family in Florence and uncover a network of corruption and heinous crimes reaching to the very top.

Will Rogan and his friends succeed in finding Lorenza and curing the pope, or will the dark forces swirling around them prevail in their sinister plots?
 

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Blue Flower Red Thorns (Vincent Malone Book 2)

by Ted Clifton


The high-end contemporary art scene drops into Santa Fe, New Mexico with ugly feuds, temperamental egos, sexual entanglements and murder.

Vincent Malone, one-time attorney and legal investigator, now down-on-his-luck shuttle driver, is right in the middle of all of the action. His employer, the Blue Door Inn, is hosting a big international artist in Santa Fe for her U.S. debut, and nothing is going smoothly.

Before long there is one dead body and plenty of suspects. Malone dusts off his investigating skills to solve this classic whodunit.

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Heaven's Peak: A Gripping Suspense Novel

by Miguel Estrada


The beautiful resort town of Heaven's Peak is home to gorgeous landscapes and terrifying secrets.

After the tragic death of his mother, teenage photographer Kevin Miller moves to a new town with his alcoholic father and eight-year-old sister with the hope of bringing the family together and starting over. However, everything changes when Kevin witnesses his sister being kidnapped by a bizarre creature. The police are skeptical, so he decides to unveil the mysteries that surround the town by himself.

On the other side of the investigation, FBI agent Norman James is willing to do anything to solve the baffling case, except believe the nonsense of a traumatized teenager.

Meanwhile, newscasts predict a blizzard approaching in the next couple of days, as people in the town begin to behave in strange ways.

Heaven's Peak is the first full-length horror-thriller novel from author Miguel Estrada. If you like suspense, mystery and dread, prepare for a ride you won't forget.

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