A vampire in an asylum? Like that is going to end well... Something demonic is infecting humans-and spreading to vampires when they feed. When Mercy contracts the infection her brother, whose consciousness is now bound to hers, takes over and goes on a rampage through the French Quarter. Now Mercy is locked up in the Vilokan Asylum for the Magically and Mentally Deranged. And she's not happy about it. Back in control of her own body she plots her escape-but finds out there might be more going on in the Asylum than she thought, something connected to the Order of the Morning Dawn and a demonic scheme to infect humans, possess vampires, and dominate the world. To escape, and combat the monstrous threat that emerges within the Asylum, Mercy must not only get in touch with the darker side of her vampirism, but also the witchcraft she'd learned in her human life. Bloody Mad is the second book in Theophilus Monroe's The Legacy of a Vampire Witch series. Vampires, witches, and werewolves. Not to mention demons. You'll encounter them all in the second part of Monroe's dark and deranged urban fantasy horror series.

* Pre-order GUILTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2024. * She's done the time, now she wants revenge. 'The Queen of Crime' Woman & Home 'The undisputed queen of British crime thrillers' Heat 'She's a total one-off' Guardian A gripping novel of one woman's revenge, Faceless by the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole takes a dark and honest look at what life is really like on the inside. Marie Carter lost everything the day she went to prison for a double murder she doesn't remember committing. Her parents abandoned her, her friends disappeared. Even her children didn't want to know. Twelve long years later, Marie is out and she's back to settle some scores... For more compelling novels about life on the inside, be sure to read Martina Cole's Two Women, The Jump and The Good Life.

The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942.

A police veteran with a laid-back attitude had to face the shooting of five children at a day care center. A chain reaction of events leads to the investigation of people with their own dark secret in the world of crime, with casualties along the way.

Bruce Hastie, a young, naive Scottish engineer, comes to live in a London flat while he works as a graduate apprentice in a turbine factory. It is 1958. He has two contrasting flat-mates, selected by a special agency, a disillusioned actor, Benjamin Garrick, and a rough, crude washing machine salesman, Edward Flunk, also known as Skunk. Bruce starts work at General Turbines Limited in the smoke, grime and heat of the foundry. One lunch-break he finds his chargehand boss, a huge, strong, Yorkshireman nicknamed Heavy, reading and enjoying some Dylan Thomas poetry. This is a paradox that mystifies the class-conscious Bruce whom Heavy brands as an intellectual snob. Heavy expounds on his soapbox that the arts have been kept away from the working class, that they and society at large need saving from rampant materialism and its attendant viciousness by a good dose of the spiritual values that only poetry, art, theatre and classical music can offer. Then follows two chapters that develop the character of Skunk and Benjamin. Skunk, a self-appointed sexual conqueror of women, has the tables turned on him when he encounters an educated, beautiful but unbalanced seductress when called to fix her washing machine that supposedly has electrocuted her dog. Benjamin is sent home sick from rehearsal, accompanied by fellow actor Sally Frinton-Jones. His malaise is psychological for he is disillusioned by the theatre and his performance in it. By this time, Heavy has Bruce believing in his ideas about the need to educate the common masses in the arts. Benjamin, also a convert to Heavy’s “renaissance” through Bruce’s dogmatism, cannot persuade Sally of the practicality of those ideas. Bruce goes into action by piping Beethoven’s 5th Symphony into the motor assembly shop at General Turbines where 300 women work. The music is well received but when his report on allowing the foundryworkers time off to listen to writers, actors and poets is read by the crass managing director, Mr. Crumhorn, Bruce is fired on the spot. Undaunted, Bruce, Benjamin and fifteen members of the arts world are smuggled into the factory and, along with Heavy, begin teaching the foundryworkers the elements and meaning of theatre, music and poetry. At a de-briefing after this first experiment it is deemed a total failure by all except Heavy who urges continuance and patience with what has been started. Bruce runs out of money and needs a job so he buys a taxi and pumps beer in a local pub. By now he is friendly with Sally, and one night, while driving her to rehearsal, they make a detour to track Skunk around Soho. He makes a subterranean disappearance into a strip joint. Bruce and Sally follow but only find Monique of the Louvre doing her erotic show. Bruce, as expected, registers his disgust but follows Monique to the dressing area and there finds Skunk who turns out to be the proprietor of the establishment. Bruce unbends a little and ends up taking Monique, real name Penelope Scragg, back to her seedy flat. As when he first found Heavy reading poetry in the foundry, he is surprised again when Monique plays him her favorite piece of music, Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Bruce begins to see Penelope with different eyes and he and Heavy take her to a concert at the Royal Festival Hall. She learns of the Renaissance Group’s activities and is highly amused until Bruce wants her to join the group. He wants her and Skunk to soften the degrading aspects of the strip joint by requiring its customers to enter an adjoining room after the performance and receive “spiritual” renewal in the guise of poetry, music and art. Penelope laughs her head off but Skunk smells money in it and gives it a try. Love blooms between Sally and Benjamin, and they decide to get married. Bruce’s relationship with Penelope deepens, and all is going well with the artistic education of

The IRS is on his tail, so Tony Cassella is on the run . . . Facing prison for tax violations, private detective Tony Cassella flees the IRS and heads for the Alps, where he becomes the owner of the only Laundromat in a chic Austrian ski town. A few weeks after his French lover gives birth to a baby girl, Cassella the laundry-magnate gets a job offer that could finally set things right back home. An American teen and a Japanese businessman have been killed in a freak avalanche, and the dead girl’s mother wants Cassella to find out why her daughter died. The Japanese man was carrying a disk whose contents are of great interest to the CIA, and returning it to Langley could mean the end of Cassella’s IRS headache. To find the disk, he must confront a global network of killers, thieves, and retired spies. Quickly in over his head, Cassella realizes that to survive in this world of international intrigue, he will have to do much more than wash, fold, and ski. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Larry Beinhart including rare images from the author’s personal collection.