Showing results by publisher "Next Chapter Audio Ltd." in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A private investigator - a stranger in a strange land - searches for a missing girl in Tokyo. Two brothers have a lifelong pact. But what happens when a deal goes wrong? A homeless man gives up his drug and alcohol-fueled life. But, is the good life all it's supposed to be? Stopped by police one night, a group of friends runs into trouble. Soon, one of them must confront his past.

My name is Eva McRayne, and you don't know me yet, but you will. I am the cohost of a paranormal documentary show called Grave Messages. I am also the Sibyl. What's the Sibyl? Apollo's messenger for the dead. Yeah, that Apollo. The same god from the Greek mythology stories we were all forced to read in high school. Except, the stories aren't stories. The gods are real. The ghosts are real. And my choice is a simple one: Use my new immortality to bring followers to Apollo, or commit the suicide I had so desperately wanted before the gods and ghosts invaded my life.

Dirty pictures, secret wars, and human beasts. Detective Maier is back to investigate the politics of murder. When award-winning German conflict photographer Martin Ritter disappears in a boating accident in Thailand, the nation mourns the loss of a cultural icon. A few weeks later, Detective Maier’s agency in Hamburg gets a call from Ritter’s wife. Her husband has been seen alive on the streets of Bangkok.

In this audiobook, Sergeant Watters finds himself overwhelmed with three simultaneous cases. With a case of poisoning, a series of child kidnappings, and somebody with a seeming dislike of clocks and watches, Watters and his team are stretched thin. Things become even more complicated when a circus comes to Dundee, and Watters has to help raid an illegal gambling den. Fortunately, Dr. Beaton is there to help. But who is the mysterious man who crosses his path in Dundee, and why would anyone wish to kidnap boys from impoverished backgrounds?

After the events of Under a Dark Sky, Asher Perez has been hunting and killing immortals for years. Then one day, they contact him with a proposition. They need his help. An agent has gone missing on the Goliath homeworld, Nifelheim. Baseline humans are not welcome on the icy moon, and the only way for the team to get clearance is for Perez to talk to his old friend, Thorfinn Wagner: the heir to the Throne of Shields.

Murder. Robbery. Kidnapping. Welcome to Napa Valley, California. To lawmen and bad men alike, the "Low Man" is a ghost story. The most feared bounty hunter to ever walk the territories. Whispered to be a Native American shapeshifter, a renegade Pinkerton detective, or the Bible-quoting son of a mad preacher. No one knows for sure. He’s a spectre outlaws scare each other with around campfires.

Murders are not common in Mountainview, a sleepy North Carolina town. But when a librarian finds a dead body on her morning walk, Assistant District Attorney Greg is sent to assist in the police investigation. The victim turns out to be a prominent lawyer, and soon another victim is found, along with connections to unsavory agreements with the legal department. Clues in the case are few and far between. Together with homicide detective Brian, the two race against time to find the killer. But as the plot becomes even more tangled, can they solve the case before another life is lost?

An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings. For five centuries, the satchel—containing sketches and writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and many others—is pursued by kings, popes, princes, and scavengers. The Paletti notebook lives on through rumor and legend, which also suggest that it contains the infamous Gospel of Matthias, thought to be lost forever.

Social drama meets rite of passage and the supernatural in Guilt, a riveting psychological thriller set in 1962 small-town England. It's a time of class consciousness and jobs for life, where a man is defined by his work and the Aldermaston march is imminent. After a night of heavy rain, four teenage boys meet in the Roman camp: middle-class Brock; Red, whose working-class family has upwardly-mobile aspirations; Mouth, the scraplad; and Raggy, the deaf simpleton. They decide to go down the flooded riverside fields to see what they can shoot.

Que ferons-nous quand notre planète en aura assez? Le monde se meurt. Face à la pollution galopante, à la surpopulation et à l'élévation du niveau de la mer, l'élite dirigeante élabore un plan audacieux, mais terrible. Lorsque le cerveau de ce plan fait marche arrière et cache au monde entier ce plan ingénieux, sa vie est soudainement menacée par un facteur des plus inattendus.

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth’s plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero or back out as a coward and avoid an unforgiveable sin? We know about Mary Surratt, “the Conspirator” who helped John Wilkes Booth launch his insane plot to assassinate President Lincoln. But Mary wasn’t the only conspirator in the Surratt family. Her son John is a mere footnote in history, but he was also one of John Wilkes Booth’s most trusted followers.

What happens when a gang of vicious drug dealers hit the sleepy Canadian town of Serendipity? After waking up to the sound of gunshots, Annie rushes over to Ben "The Butcher" Rough's meat shop, only to find out the man has been shot and killed. Digging deeper, she discovers disturbing connection with the now-deceased butcher and the Canadian criminal underworld. Struggling with schizophrenia, Annie attempts to piece together the clues.