Simon Wood

In this collection of four short stories, Peter Crestfallen is a San Francisco private investigator who has a penchant for attracting problem clients. He's the kind of gumshoe who'll always give a hundred percent, even if it's for a ten percent return.In CRESTFALLEN's V.I.P., Crestfallen has to track down a stolen teddy bear for a senior citizen and he'll have to go up against the White House to retrieve it.In CRESTFALLEN's GETAWAY, Crestfallen has...

The workplace is a dangerous place. The unscrupulous are primed and ready to take advantage of the innocent and naïve. A slight indiscretion can cost the employee everything. A new position can turn a person into someone they are not. Those at the top can be toppled and those at the bottom can be crushed.Until now, Vincent's father has kept one side of the business a secret from his son. Vincent is about to learn the family business. On the most...

James Straley peut bien penser que son existence est maudite, mais elle n'a rien de comparable avec ce qui l'attend sur l'autoroute de la vie. Il est en fuite avec le butin d'un vol de banque loupé. C'est tout ce qu'il possède. Ses acolytes sont morts et sa voiture vient de tomber en panne. Il est à pied, avec l'argent, quand il aperçoit deux voitures impliquées dans un carambolage. Il lui est impossible de sauver les conducteurs, mais il peut...

Todd Collins has failed in every job he's ever undertaken, but that all changes when he backs his jalopy in a shiny, new Porsche belonging to a drug dealer. When the police stop the drug dealer for a broken taillight that Todd has caused and discover a cocaine shipment, a West Coast kingpin holds Todd responsible. On the run from organized crime, Todd discovers his true calling.Praise for The Fall Guy:"Elmore Leonard would be proud to have written...

Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short. Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009), edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler. In this Thriller Short, bestselling author Simon Wood brings his thirst for risk into play with an unusual tale of love. Nick, stubbornly love struck, is getting ready to take his relationship with Melanie Lassen to the next level by proposing to her. But when Melanie's brother,...

Crime happens in a moment and so do the stories in the Fast Crimes collection. These short mysteries start in the moment and build to a climax in a snap. Murders are plotted and carried out. Heists are planned and foiled. Investigators hunt and apprehend criminals. And it all happens in a handful of pages.It's a smash and grab experience…so strap in.

A husband, trying to rekindle his marriage in a lonely seaside village, meets a strange young woman from his forgotten past; a man taking a garden gnome to a museum gets an unwelcome surprise; a lonely widow encounters an enigmatic character from an embryonic pop group; a group of scientists make an horrific discovery at a big cat conservation centre; and a baby hare comes of age with a momentous idea.Continuing in the spirit of To Cut a Short Story...

"Graduate students Zoé and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoé sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoé flees with her life, changed forever. A year later and still tortured with guilt, Zoé latches on to a police investigation where the crime eerily resembles her abduction. Along with a zealous detective, she retraces...

Our 95th issue has a lot of fun stuff-starting off with a pair of original mysteries by Robert Lopresti and Mindy Quigley (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken an Barb Goffman). Also on the mystery side, we have a pair of classic novels by Hulbert Footner R. Austin Freeman, plus a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. On the fantastic side of things, A.R. Morlan has a modern tale of clones, Alfred Coppel has a scientific monster, Seabury...