Showing results by publisher "Yap Kee Chong" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Susan Becker keeps finding herself mixed up in mysteries when she should be busy cooking up something sweet in her bakery in the small tourist town of Lakeside, Missouri. Her best feline friend, Mr. Giles, is one of those curious cats who can't keep away from a fresh crime scene. Detective Kip Fletcher has the unpleasant job of finding out who dug up and stole the corpse of one of the town's leading citizens. A missing body. A mysterious skeleton key. Unexplained lights that could be the town's first ghost....

It's Emmy and Daniel's first wedding anniversary. They're having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. Some people recognize Emmy for being in charge of the biggest change in Sky Valley's police department, courtesy of the sacking of Lena McMahon, the woman who almost destroyed Emmy's life during the past year. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room: a woman has died.

When Anita returns home after months of working on what was for years considered to be an unsolvable case, she quickly learns that her home life is not as it should be. When she discovers her younger brother has gone missing, she is forced to put her personal emotions aside and apply everything she's learned to find out what has happened to him. She soon discovers the existence of a mystery woman who Anita is convinced can lead her to her missing brother.

Emmy takes on the biggest challenge she's ever encountered yet - helping a ghost figure out the truth about the night she was killed.

Almost a year ago, Annabeth Meyer died in front of Emmy and Matthew, Annabeth's husband. They didn't know what happened, and Emmy was thought of as one of the suspects herself until a man named Jimmy came forward and took the blame. But somehow things didn't seem right.

Michael has been hiding his past from everyone, including Dara, who has a few demons in her own closet to worry about. Michael has finally seen the light, but with it comes consequences to his actions. He knows that Frank and Timothy will be threats to his future, so he cuts ties with them.

Michael is a cage fighter who was one of the best, until something happened in the ring that made him walk away from everything he loved. He begins to fall into a bottle and gambling just to get a semblance of the same fix he got when he was in the cage with other fighters. Dara is a young woman of 25 who has been living with a tragedy. She finds herself drawn to competing inside the octagon. Her research brings her to Michael. Soon, they are letting the passion they have for the ring spill into the bedroom.

Scarlett is a young, up-and-coming journalist who sees a chance to get ahead and decides to take it. It will change who she is, alter how she has seen the world so far, and test her strength of character. A gang named Road Warriors has been the subject of many investigations by the press and the police, but no one could find anything that would stick. She will go undercover with very little experience and meet Deacon, the gang's leader.

Emmy has been through the toughest things these past couple of months. First was the death of her old friend, Annabeth Meyer, whom she saw die right in front of her eyes. And then there was the wedding at the resort. It resulted in the death of Edward, the husband of Ruby, who was actually Daniel's ex. When Ruby died, too, Emmy felt even worse than she ever did before. Then she and Daniel broke up, and things haven't been the same since.

Michael is a cage fighter who was one of the best, until something happened in the ring that made him walk away from everything he loved. His relationship with his ex-wife is strained, and he has to go through her in order to see his son Jeremy. He begins to fall into a bottle and gambling just to get a semblance of the same fix that he got when he was in the cage with other fighters. Michael wanted to get back into action, but every time he even begins to think about it, his thoughts go back to that one night five years ago.

After having to deal with the deaths of her old friends, Annabeth and Matthew, Emmy is asked to be the wedding coordinator of a certain Scarlet Levi. Everything seems to be perfect. But there's a catch, of course, there's a catch: Scarlet Levi is not who Emmy thinks she is. And as the day of the wedding approaches, Emmy will get to know a couple of things that will make a big impact on her life - and on the lives of the people around her.

Alex is fresh from prison and eager to change his lifestyle for the better. He is tired of being a member of his father's biker club, which is also a jewelry-stealing cartel. He is on bad terms with his ailing father when his dad asks him to do for him one last job to mend their relationship. He agrees to go to Santa Augusta to steal a bracelet, but when he gets there, he is attracted to the owner of the store, who happens to mistrust bikers. Find out if there is a romance in the offing.

Alex and Diana reconcile after Alex foils the robbery at Diana's jewelry store and she realizes that she was wrong about him. In the process, Alex's father, the leader of the biking club cartel, is locked up in prison and Alex discovers that his father had been holding back things from him such as his inheritance.

Mr. Giles never needs convincing to hunt down a criminal who piques his feline curiosity and threatens the peace of their sleepy town. But if he is on the right track, will the humans in his life be able to follow the trail he leaves for them?

It had been exactly five months, four days, and 16 weddings since the last mishap, and Julia was happy that finally, she got to plan a wedding where nothing terrible happened. This wedding is looking good. So far, no one tried to steal the bride's ring. No one tried to kill the groom.

For once, wedding planner Julia thinks a reception will go smoothly. Then the bride's heirloom diamond and gold engagement ring mysteriously vanish. The police think they know who took it and have closed the investigation. It's up to Julia and her friends to save an innocent man from prison.

Groom Karl Stipple keels over moments after eating a slice of cake at his own wedding reception. Now the police have locked down the resort, and wedding planner Julia is under orders from her boss to solve the crime and clean up the mess in 24 hours - or she's fired.

Emmy thought she had the shock of her life when she learned that the bracelet she found at the backyard was actually Bella's - her trusted babysitter; the person she thought would never do her wrong. But life, as always, had other plans. And those plans are never really what she had in mind. Now's her one last chance to get to know the truth once and for all - and she sure wouldn't let Bella get away with this. Little did she know, something so grave was about to happen - and it could change her whole life if she couldn't fix it right away.

Emmy felt like she knew who was behind all of these, especially after how Wendy attacked Ashley. She knew that something was behind Wendy's anger - and she was determined to figure out what it is. Thrown into the world of Caleb and Ashley, she realizes there are far more dangerous things than what she thought were around - and she doesn't know if she's ready for them. Plus, a grave accident is about to happen - and it's going to change everyone's lives for good.

Will Lucy the ghost be at peace, or will she haunt the paranormal investigators searching for her killer forever? Emmy and her friends, with the help of a psychic named Cassiopeia, find out that Laurel was behind Lucy's death, but find Laurel missing, allegedly in the neighboring town of Tallulah Falls.