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The Fugitive
A micro thriller full of mystery and intrigue. Flash Fiction!
Illusion
A micro thriller full of mystery and intrigue. Flash Fiction!
Nosy Neighbour
A micro thriller full of mystery and intrigue. Flash Fiction!
Stalked
A micro thriller full of mystery and intrigue. Flash Fiction!
Strange Disappearance
When a shop assistant disappears from the strip mall where she works it triggers a major crime investigation. But there are no leads and the strange case remains unsolved. Then a friend takes over the missing girl’s job and begins to unravel the mystery, thereby putting her own life at risk. A grim sense of foreboding permeates the story as threateningly as its landscape – a dark mile of derelict buildings where vagrants live.
Abandoned
Evelyn’s dream vacation turns into a nightmare when her husband disappears, and she’s left abandoned in a strange country. The action never stops in this taut thriller. Nor in the other suspense stories, which are included in this volume: BLIND PANIC NOT REALLY MURDER THE CELLAR DOOR THE RESPECTABLE RECLUSE THE FLYING DUTCHMAN They will keep you guessing until the last exciting page.
Reviewer: Booklover
Review: Aug 15, 2011
Karen Lewis' book "Abandoned" is a suspense thriller to keep you guessing what will happen next. As you try to "figure out what will happen" you will be shocked at the end results. The story starts out with a woman named Evelyn and her husband set out on their dream vacation. They travel in a RV and get to a campground which turns into a nightmare when her husband disappears, and she's left abandoned in a
Murder at Midnight
MURDER AT MIDNIGHT Twenty years have passed since Lisa Craig was found murdered in a park at midnight. Her killer was never found. When the case is re-opened, reporter Scott Preston falls increasingly under Lisa's spell. Her spirit seems to reach out to possess him. Scott’s quest to find out what really happened to the murdered girl, takes him down a perilous road. And the answer when it finally comes lies too shockingly close to home for comfort.
Reviewer: DawnColclasure
Review: Jul 11, 2011
Who killed Lisa Craig? Was it Alec Webb, her swim instructor who seemed to have something more than a teacher-student relationship with her? Was it Garrick Boyd, the jealous boyfriend known for violence? Or was it Victor Kenny, the quiet, reclusive man so infatuated by LIsa? The twentieth anniversary of Lisa Craig's murder is coming up and Scott Preston, a reporter at the Morning Herald who has covered the ca
Deception
The action never stops in this fast paced thriller about the disappearance of a young woman during the Vancouver Olympic Games. The police pull out all stops to find her. But when a detective suddenly vanishes as well, they begin to suspect there is more to the case than meets the eye. Fasten your seatbelts for a shocker of an ending.
Reviewer: Stesha
Review: Aug 8, 2011
Almost twenty year old Megan Keyes has left home for the very first time. Her destination: The Vancouver Olympic Games. But soon something goes awfully awry and Megan has vanished. Her mother insists she dropped her daughter off at the airport and has never heard from her since. Glenda Keyes insists her daughter is a normal, well-adjusted girl who would never vanish on purpose. Glenda insists her daughter ha
The Private Garden
Word Count: 40,000
Constructed over two centuries ago, the Private Garden now sits in the middle of a busy intersection, beneath a gigantic statue of a British Statesman. The last thing Vivien Hall expects when she visits the garden is to be transported back in time to the nineteen-forties––in the midst of an Air Raid, to boot.
While there, she meets an Air Force Officer, named Curtis Matthews. They have an erotic encounter. But as soon as Vivien falls asleep she finds herself back in the twenty-first century again.
Her subsequent time travels to visit her lover, and her attempts to validate his existence––her friend believes she hallucinated the whole episode––make up an erotic and romantically haunting story about love and loss, and trying to hang onto the divine if only for a moment.
But Vivien’s time travels do not always end in erotic bliss. She is arrested on suspicion of espionage, and subjected to days of gruelling interrogation. And she cannot escape back to her own time, because they will not let her sleep.
Reviewer: CYD
Review: Apr 11, 2011
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance, Time-Travel
Canadian, Vivien Hall is swept back in time to 1940's Scotland when she visits a neglected garden near the hotel she is staying in while on holiday. For a while she is not sure if she is having an intense hallucination, but sitting in an air-raid shelter during bombing and talking to handsome flight lieutenant Curtis Mathews, its becomes clear that somehow she's been thrown back in time.
Vivien and Curtis q
The Stalker
Waiting in the silent darkness to kill a man he has never met…so begins THE STALKER…a sensual suspense story about a bureaucrat whose kinky extramarital affair plunges him into a nightmare world of murder, deceit and blackmail. It begins with a cold-blooded murder in an apartment right out of the 1940s, and ends in a terrifying conflict in a bizarrely furnished mansion.
Reviewer: PennyAsh
Review: Aug 25, 2010
I found The Stalker by Karen Lewis difficult to stay interested in. There seemed to be far more telling than showing, which made the suspense minimal. As well as being unsure just where the story was set, I didn't feel any sympathy for the characters who seemed wooden and clichéd. All in all, the book left me with many questions. Suspense should have the reader on the edge of their seat, hanging on the
Nightmare
When her husband is arrested as a serial killer Kyla thinks it’s as bad as it gets. But there’s much more in store. Set in the frenzy of Olympic games Vancouver, Kyla swings from believing in his innocence to the utter conviction of his guilt, and then back again. And discovers, in the process, that nothing is ever as it seems.
Reviewer: Lisa
Review: May 29, 2010
On what seemed liked a typical morning, Kyla McLean turned on her television only to see a photo of husband, Dudley, on the screen and a reporter announcing that he had been arrested for the murder of two women. Shocked by this statement, suddenly Kyla’s life is spinning out of control. Police soon arrive with a search warrant and she is told Dudley is not only suspected of killing t
Gangster Moll
Around 90 pages
Police Officer’s Affair with Gangster Moll Jeopardizes Case. The headline blazed from the newspaper lying on Cheryl Richards’ front doorstep. When she realizes this is her husband, Brian, they’re talking about, she reels and spills her morning coffee. Devastated that her marriage was thrown away for a slut, a gangster moll, who’s been passed around by gang members and even done donkey sex shows, Cheryl walks out. But to make matters worse, she must now be isolated in a police safe house, which turns her world upside down.
While in protective custody, Nicky, the gangster moll, finds her rescuer in Brian. Their affair produces what he wants most in life, and hasn’t been able to have with Cheryl, a child. Nicky sees this as a way out of her gangster life and lures him into her web of deceit. When Brian, bored with his wife and enticed by Nicky, makes a life altering decision the results are not only catastrophic but potentially deadly.
Fiend
Approx. Word Count: 173 pages
Life has been a bumpy ride for Lily Foyle. Orphaned at six, she is adopted by an uncle later convicted of the sex slayings of three women. Detective Neil Slater believes there are more victims. He is convinced that Lily, now a young woman, addicted to drugs and employed in the sex trade, is harbouring terrible knowledge of the crimes. Slater sets out with the aid of a psychologist to find out. But Lily doesn't want to remember. And someone else doesn't want her to either, as an attempt on her life proves. Slater is dragged ever deeper into the abyss of depraved sexual practices and brutal murder in this fast moving, gritty and violent tale. Nothing, he learns, is, as it seems. And his own value system is shaken to the roots by his growing infatuation with Lily, her terrifying past and sordid present.
Reviewer: Lisa
Review: Jun 29, 2010
To say Lily Foyle has had a troubled life is an understatement. When she was six years old, her parents died, leaving her in the care of her aunt and uncle. When she was nine, her uncle was incarcerated for the murders of three prostitutes. Now 25, Lily is addicted to drugs and working in a seedy sex club.
Detective Neil Slater suspects there may be more victims and that Lily may have witnessed something t
Scarlet Woman
SCARLET WOMAN is an eerie tale about an unsolved murder, and an unlikely killer who strikes again and again…The sprawling new development lay half-finished and deserted in the lonely darkness of a storm-lashed Sunday afternoon. In the Show Home, an opulent house with pillars and cathedral ceiling, the real estate agent chatted to a friend on her cell phone, hanging up abruptly when she heard footsteps approaching the door. "I’ll call you back as soon as they’ve left," she promised, but never did. For whoever it was had smashed her skull in, leaving her to die in front of the massive stone fireplace with its empty grate. Ten years later the murder still remained unsolved.
Reviewer: Vee
Review: Apr 7, 2009
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
When Lieutenant Neil Slater asks Morning Herald reporter, Scott Preston, to run a story about the unsolved murder of a realtor from ten years prior, Scott begins to do his own investigating.
All leads point to the realtor's husband, a man who seems guilty but appears to have an airtight alibi.
As Scott digs into the case, he begins to wonder if the murder is somehow related to another murder
Lisa
It has been twenty years since Lisa Craig was found murdered in a park at midnight. Her killer was never found. When the case is re-opened, reporter Scott Preston falls increasingly under Lisa's spell. Uncovering disturbing evidence of an inefficient police investigation, Scott decides to put his reporter skills to work and find out what really happened to Lisa Craig. Surprisingly the answer is closer to home than he thought.
Reviewer: Edie
Review: Nov 12, 2008
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
Crime reporter Scott Preston joined the task force as police reopened a 20-year-old murder case. Over the years, Scott had become obsessed with the murder of Lisa Craig and he had written an update several years prior to try to garner clues, to no avail.
The twenty-three-year-old single woman, who had lived with her mother and aunt, was murdered in Roanoke Park around midnight. No one was ever arrest
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