Thou shalt not Suffer a Witch to Live

Harry Bridges is entering the dark world of witchcraft, a journey he might not survive.

He was a detective inspector in the police force until he retired, then a store detective. Now, he considers ending his own purposeless life, there is no need for him to be here anymore.

A chance meeting with an old colleague from the police force, Jack Cooper, sees him re-engaging with his beloved detective days, involving him in a series of baffling murders.

However, all is not as it seems, and he soon becomes embroiled in a centuries old quest for vengeance by those condemned to die as witches by the infamous Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, during Oliver Cromwell’s reign as Lord Protector of Britain in the seventeenth century.

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What's the most dangerous gift a fan could send to an author?
And if that fan was a professional assassin?

New York-based writer Nic Stiles receives a strange package in the mail. It's not long before he realises what it represents will change his life… with deadly consequences. Others want the package's contents too, including a high-tech Intelligence agency who will stop at nothing to obtain it.
…and the sender wants it back!

This fast-paced SUSPENSE THRILLER from Eric J. Gates will make YOU question your Destiny!

A Superior Crime and other stories

Before the novel, there was the short story, told around the campfire or the table, to children and adults: myths, fables, and fairy tales.

Five of these short stories feature paediatrician and amateur genealogist Anne McPhail. Her travels plunge her into murder investigations from Vancouver to Quebec City.

In other stories, some journeys are external and take us to locations from Dubai to England's West Country to rural Ontario and some, like The Decision, on deeply personal and internal voyages.

What Hides Beneath

Hidden beneath a lump of clay and dirt is a very rare art work crafted by a Japanese artist known as a warrior. Two museum curators, who specialize in Asian art say it is valuable but renowned appraiser, Annette Williams claims it is worthless and her words carry weight in the art world. So which is it?

Pete White, an insurance investigator disappears from the museum where he is researching the treasure. Did he uncover its true value or find it’s a fake?

Lieutenant Detective Philip Samyn wonders why he is assigned to investigate a low priority robbery from a museum. Is his boss trying to push him to retire?

Secret Keepers and Skinny Shadows

In the stillness of the night the tree branches were full of noise from birds, squirrels and insects. Then all went silent. A slight jerk of Lee's head angled off to one side, signaled that he should leave. His nose still stung from the thick gun smoke hanging in the air.

When Bert Grayson is murdered, it sets off a chain of events to apprehend a relentless killer who would not be stopped.
Don't trust anyone, Lee and Miranda were warned!

But, they risked their own lives in this heart stopping race against time.

Lillian Grace, a woman with her own secrets, had loved Bert.

Death by Revenge

The residents in a sleepy English market town are shocked at the discovery of a decomposing body wrapped in black plastic, found in a nearby cave. Is it one of their own?

Once forensics identify the corpse, DI Helen Cooke who is already investigating the recent disappearance of three local women can start piecing together some connections between the women.

But what is that connection, and will it help to reveal the killer?

One man stands out in DI Cooke’s mind as the murderer, but without any evidence against him, she is powerless to make an arrest.

Murder Will Out

LOGAN IS THE FIRST PERSON YOU’D CALL FOR TWO-FISTED DETECTIVE ACTION!

And three times Logan means three times the adventure.

1930s Hollywood wasn’t just moving picture stars and backlots. It was also a petri dish crawling with crime. Power breeding corruption, wealth motivating robbery, and revenge leading to murder. In these three tales, Private Investigator, Tom Logan uses his brains, fists, and caustic wit, to first, take on a mysterious organization called ‘The Syndicate,’ which is usurping territory from other mobs and has placed a target on him, and the female witness he’s protecting. In a second story, Tom rescues a fair maiden from the clutches of a racketeer running a gambling boat.

Spark Out

HARD MAN Big Mo rules family and friends with a rod of iron.

From his base on a rundown London council estate, he is driven by a desire to emerge from the shadow of his career criminal father and make a name for himself.

When a warehouse raid turns up more than he bargains for, Big Mo finds himself in possession of the weapons he needs to transform himself from petty criminal to big-time armed robber.

But as he plans the ultimate raid, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher orders British troops – including Mo’s younger brother Clive – to fight a war in the Falklands.

None Righteous

Pastor Owen Marshall Jennings is spending a sabbatical year in his fictional hometown of Coolidge, Iowa, following the death of his wife. He soon finds himself intrigued by the curious circumstances surrounding the return to Coolidge of a man who has served seven years in prison for the murder of his wife. Leland Walker has claimed innocence from the beginning.

Walker’s return splits the small rural community with some believing him innocent but the majority believing him guilty and justly convicted. Feelings run strong and occasional persecution and harassment are directed at Walker. Even the church attended by Walker’s mother has reservations about accepting Walker into their fellowship.

Dark Secret

John lives the life that most men dream of. He is young, has his own law firm, making lots of money, a big house, and a beautiful wife and kid. For the past five years he has been living the dream. But a family secret from someone close turns his world upside down, and the once perfect world take a turn down a road that leads to lies, deception, incarceration, murder and kidnapping. Will he discover the secret before it's too late, or will he fall victim to their plan?

The Dancing Boy

Treat Mikkelson is not exactly a burnt-out case but he’s grown tired of his life as a criminologist, weary of memories of a marriage gone wrong and of his time in Vietnam. Trying to burn the bridges to his past, he finds and remodels a cabin on a small Pacific Northwest Island, settles down to enjoy fishing, setting his crab pot, digging for clams and documenting the lives of his island neighbors.

When an elderly woman in the nearby tourist town of La Conner is found dead however, the victim of what appears to be an accidental fall, Mikkelson is persuaded to look into her death. The discovery that it was murder leads to something even more shocking: the human trafficking of young boys brought into the US and Canada.

Death on Canvas

While painting on location in one of her family's hayfields, Jessie absentmindedly brushes a note of turquoise onto the canvas. Curious about what added the lovely spot of color, the artist walks over to discover a tennis shoe. The mate is still on the foot of a dying Native American girl crammed between the hay bales.

The story becomes more personal when old flame, Sheriff Russell Bonham, reveals that Amber Reynolds, a grad student writing a thesis for her art history major, was attacked while on her way to speak to Jessie's family about two missing Thomas Moran masterpieces worth millions. The paintings disappeared nearly a hundred years ago from St. Benedict's Mission School. Right after the unsolved murder of Jessie's great aunt Kate.

Endangered Species

Connecticut private investigator Brenda Corrino’s sixteen-year-old niece Madison has gone missing in Arizona. Known for bringing the DVD Murderer to justice during her stint as a Fairfield County homicide detective, her unacquainted sister Faith Brenna requests her help from Arizona.

Brenda recently went through a tough time herself, recovering from being raped and almost murdered by the DVD Murderer while working undercover. She broke ties with her boyfriend and wanted nothing to do with him, even though he helped to rescue her. She was labeled as having PTSD. After months of therapy, she has recovered to the point that she was able to resume her relationship with her boyfriend and now business partner, Dr. Darren Crowe.

Gretchen

16 year old Gretchen Russell is student at Martin high school who spends most of time with her friends, Linda, Tara, and Debbie. The girls decide one afternoon they would take a trip to the old Martin Cemetery to visit a gravesite of witch. Gretchen at the last moment decides she does not want to go the witch’s grave site, because she has a fear of the unknown. Linda and Tara insist she goes along with them.

They go to the cemetery and they find the witches gravesite. The girls stand around the grave and they talk about the witch and her past and the curse written on the headstone.

Bosom Bodies

Italian-born Mina Calvi has a way of finding trouble, but when she offers to help a friend by moonlighting at Bosom Bodies restaurant, it’s trouble that finds her. The body of the restaurant manager is discovered on the beach, a hit and run victim, and Mina’s VW Bug is impounded as the vehicle used in the crime. Stunned beyond belief, Mina is suddenly up to her ears in assault, betrayal, smuggling and murder.

Now the police are watching her. The mob is targeting her. And who comes riding to her rescue on a metal steed—none other than the cook at Bosom Bodies, the mysterious Diego. Is he more than a bad cook and a good lover? Is he protecting her, or setting her up?

Bishop's War

This fast-paced and action-packed suspense thriller introduces us to Special Forces Sergeant John Bishop, decorated war hero, and nephew of crime boss, Gonzalo Valdez. After returning home from Afghanistan John’s hopes for a peaceful future are quickly shattered when he is catapulted back into the global war on terror through a succession of life-threatening events and corrupt intrigue.

He battles against terrorist operatives in New York, a powerful Afghan warlord, and a psychopathic billionaire with powerful White House connections. When John’s uncle gets involved, he proceeds to treat John’s enemies to a bitter taste of mob vengeance.

Succubus

2003: The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has taken place. The hunt for Saddam Hussein and the search for his weapons of mass destruction is underway.

Meanwhile in North Korea, a nuclear research scientist wants to defect.

The “Org” is tasked to bring her out.

…. If possible ….

Author_Bio: A native of Pittsburgh and a resident of Northern Virginia, the author is a former Special Agent of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), U.S. State Department.

Curse of the Ottawa

A Frenchman drowned an Algonquin Indian 200 years ago in a fraudulent land dispute.

A sorceress's curse? A family member of his will die in the river for 10 generations.

He didn’t buy it. Ten of his family members died.

Find out how and why.

GOT meets The Twilight Zone!