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cw: stories may contain upsetting content such as killing, abuse, stalking, mentions of sexual violence, and more.Behind every face there could lie a killer...and anyone looking at them could be their next victim. Collected here are a selection of standalone short tales of chilling suspense and deadly thrills.Synopsis:"SEE YOU SOON" -- how could a woman recieve a threatening message from her ex despite knowing it's impossible for him to even do so in the first place?"THE EXECUTIONERS" -- what happens when two men who were involved with the same murder victim meet for the first time? Which one of them is lying -- and which one of them could be the killer?"DEVICES" -- a woman takes a mysterious young boarder into her home, who has more connection to her life than she knows."THE TIMEPIECE" -- after moving to the suburbs, a couple has their tranquility broken when they begin to suspect someone living nearby of being a serial killer."BAD INNOCENTS" -- a woman planning a murder finds herself with a whole new problem when she's suspected of a death she had nothing to do with."THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE" -- a bestselling crime author suddenly finds herself in one of her stories when her ex-husband shows up seeking some kind of revenge."JAMIE RUNAWAY" -- a young man runs away from home to be with his older lover, but when he does begins to discover the terrible secrets that have been manipulating his life.…

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"I've known a lot of people with worse lives than you. It's part of the business I'm in -- I get to see all kinds of human privilege, human weakness, human strangeness...and human trouble."Holden Burke has better things to do than run around in the messy love life of a rich kid who wants to find his runaway fling. But that was before a body turned up in a lake, and someone who has a connection to it seemed to have gone missing. Someone who everyone is searching for...(cw: violence, homophobic language)…

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**first runner-up at the 5th Ohana Awards (Mystery/Thriller)**"I've given a lot up, sure. We all give things up to different degrees." "How different?" "Depends. We're all different. We all have different things to give up." Holden Burke is a lot of things -- ex-football star, current private investigator, problem solver, and professional smart-ass. In The Big Run-Off, the seemingly simple case of a rich but morally bankrupt petrol tycoon and his wild runaway son gives way to a dark secret spanning forty years and a complex web of lies, blackmail, and murder.(cw: suicide, homophobic language, discussion of homophobic violence)…

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An alcoholic, a loner, a police detective on suspension: Max Hendricks is busy hitting his lowest point when he agrees takes on a favour in his spare time to track down a young ex-con who's disappeared with some money that doesn't belong to him and a lot of secrets along with it. But there are other people looking for him, too -- people with murder on their minds and a bitter, tangled past at their heels...…

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**short stories**The life of a working private detective doesn't leave a whole lot of downtime, and nobody knows this better than Holden Burke. Collected here are a series of his professional adventures, exploits, and other odd tales from the depths of his motley case files.…