Collection: Mystery, Thrillers, & Crime

To stop a terrorist plot, she must track down the FBI's Most Wanted.

Bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is hot on the heels of a fugitive murderer involved with White Nation, a militant organization stoking the fires of prejudice and violence in Phoenix, Arizona.

But her efforts to bring the man to justice backfires, putting those she loves most in harm's way.

As the city erupts in bigotry and bloodshed, Jinx's world unravels, pushing her to the breaking point and forcing her to choose between seeking justice and saving lives.

Fans of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and Sara Paretsky won't want to skip this white-knuckle roller coaster of a novel.

"Dharma Kelleher has created one of the most unique characters in crime fiction. Bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is a creation of contrasting parts. She's tough but compassionate, profane but sensitive, butch but feminine-and there's no dark alley she won't walk down."

-Renee James, author of the Bobbi Logan mystery series

"Jinx Ballou is the best thing to happen to crime fiction since V. I. Warshawski."

-Greg Barth, author of the Selena thriller series

"Kelleher's intriguing character Jinx Ballou, a bounty hunter who operates in the gritty world of the criminals she hunts, is tough, yet vulnerable."

-Catherine Maiorisi, The Chiara Corelli Mystery Series

Jinx Ballou is a fugitive's worst nightmare.

In the sun-scorched urban sprawl of Phoenix, Arizona, bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is a singular female figure in a sea of macho men. She'll take on anyone, no matter how big, how well-armed, or how well-connected. From murderers and drug gangs to Chechen gangsters and domestic terrorists.

At the same time, Jinx has a nerdy side. She's crazy into comic books and cosplays as Wonder Woman in her spare time. She also happens to be transgender.

Each book in this three-volume boxset is a balls-to-the-wall, white-knuckle action thriller that will keep you turning the pages until the very last.

She faces an impossible choice:
Become a snitch or go back to prison. Shea Stevens thought she'd shut the door on the chaos and violence of her past. She just wants to build custom motorcycles and spend time with her girlfriend and orphaned niece.
But when people start dying from a club drug laced with strychnine, a deal she made with the cops comes back to haunt her. She must either infiltrate the Athena Sisterhood, a women's biker club suspected of dealing the drug, or she'll be sent back to prison.

As if becoming a rat isn't bad enough, Shea learns that the Athena Sisterhood is caught in a turf war with the Confederate Thunder, her father's old outlaw biker gang. Shea's loyalties are tested as the violence between the clubs escalates and the truth about the deadly drugs is revealed.

Fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Sons of Anarchy will fall in love with this raw, action-packed thriller about a woman willing to risk everything for the people she loves.

How far would you go to save someone you never met?

Eight years after getting out of prison, Shea Stevens has her own business building custom motorcycles. But when her niece is kidnapped, Shea launches herself back into the criminal underworld of Arizona's high desert.

She's determined to rescue the frightened girl, even if she has to join forces with her father's outlaw biker gang to do it. Meanwhile, the local sheriff is looking for any reason to send her back to prison.

But not everything is as it appears. Shea finds herself torn between competing loyalties and forced to confront an ugly truth that nearly destroyed her when she was a teenager.

To free her niece and bring those responsible to justice, Shea must follow her own rules no matter what. Even if it means risking her freedom and her life.

In her debut novel, Dharma Kelleher delivers a groundbreaking thriller that is equal parts Sons of Anarchy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Iron Goddess takes readers on a gritty, high-speed adventure that will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Some secrets are deadly.

When approached by a troubled woman, Shea Stevens offers the protection of the Athena Sisterhood Motorcycle Club. But the powerful politician this woman is running from will do anything to conceal a dark secret. After Shea and the Sisterhood tell him to back off, the situation quickly turns deadly.

Meanwhile, a rival biker gang that the Athena Sisterhood help put in prison has been released, and they are out for payback. The Sisterhood finds itself fighting a war on two fronts. Shea calls in some old favors, but will it be enough to keep the high desert streets of Cortes County, Arizona, from running red with blood?

In the long-awaited third installment of the Shea Stevens Outlaw Biker series, author Dharma Kelleher gives readers another high octane, action crime thriller where the twists come as fast as the punches.

Blood Sisters is a must-read for fans of gritty crime fiction about strong, diverse women who kick ass in the name of justice.

How Do You Save Someone Who Doesn't Want To Be Saved?

After a minor motorcycle accident, lesbian biker Shea Stevens wants to recuperate at home with her girlfriend and work on a design for a new custom motorcycle.

But when Megan, the adult daughter of a friend, disappears into a suspected cult in Sedona, Arizona, Shea goes undercover as a prospective recruit to bring the young woman home.

Upon her arrival at the compound, Megan assures Shea she's in no danger, that the allegations of the group being a cult are bitter lies told by ex-members. But Shea isn't so easily convinced.

When Shea discovers what's really going on, her suspicions turn to outrage. But saving Megan could send Shea back to prison for decades.

Does she save the girl? Or does she choose family and freedom?

Road Rash is the fourth novel in the Shea Stevens Outlaw Biker series, although each book in the series can be read as a standalone.

Curl up with Road Rash and join Shea on a white-knuckle roller coaster ride that dives deep into the murky waters of freedom and choice, keeping you turning the pages into the wee hours.

Who's Running the Human Chop Shop Known as Red Market?

For bounty hunter Jinx Ballou, work has taken a turn for the macabre. Among the fugitives she's been hired to apprehend is a man wanted for illegally selling cadavers.

When the body broker himself turns up dead, Jinx finds herself behind the eight ball as the prime suspect in his murder. Desperate to clear her name, Jinx dives deep into her fugitive's morbid business dealings. What she discovers is far more gruesome-a site on the dark web where body parts are harvested from the vulnerable and sold to the privileged.

Will Jinx bring down this black market of body parts, or end up carved like a jack-o'-lantern, her organs sold to the highest bidder?

As one of the few openly transgender authors in the mystery/thriller genre, Dharma Kelleher delivers yet another heartfelt crime novel that delves deep into the issues of freedom, power, and accountability.

Red Market is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed Jinx Ballou Bounty Hunter crime thriller series. If you enjoy heart-pounding suspense, page-turning plot twists, and queer women who kick ass, you'll love Dharma Kelleher's chilling adventure that cuts to the heart of privilege.

Curl up with Red Market and join Jinx on an action-packed thrill ride that will leave you cheering for more.

A series of bizarre events lands Rozanne Rayvern in the emergency room. Gage Auburn, her lifelong best friend, steps up and pays a debt to help Rozanne. A headline in the local paper the following morning unravels a lead connecting Rozanne to a century old cold case. And by nightfall, they find themselves at the center of small town gossip and immersed in a search for a missing girl. But to everyone's surprise it all circles back to another case that was marked solved and sentenced.

Can they find the root of all the chaos before it ends an already broken Rozanne?

The follow-up to "Death Drop," the second book in our drag queen "Killer Queen" mystery series. Having graduated now from drag school, Jem is thrilled when he's hired to help out Miss Queer Mississippi at the Miss Queer America pageant. The only problem? The pageant is being held in Florida, the "don't say gay" state, as an act of political defiance! But once Jem--accompanied by friends Kyle and Ellis--arrives in St. Petersburg, it's soon apparent a lot of the chaos surrounding the pageant is more than just the usual backstage backstabbing and politics, but part of a bigger plan . . . and when a contestant disappears and is presumed dead, Jem and company have to put on their sleuthing caps, find the missing contestant and save the pageant!

After landing in the hospital after a bad breakup and an ensuing drug-and-alcohol binge, college student Jake Chapman is given two options: rehab, or spend the summer at his dying grandmother's decaying home in rural Alabama. The choice is obvious.

His grandmother's land has been in Jake's family since the early nineteenth century; the ruins of the old plantation house are a short walk through the woods behind her home. An archaeological team is excavating the ruins, looking for evidence to prove an old family legend--and there's a meth lab just over the ridge.

Once Jake is there, he begins having strange experiences--flashes of memory, inexplicable emotions--that he can't explain, and he keeps seeing something strange out in the woods. As he explores his family history, he uncovers some dark secrets someone --or something--is willing to kill to keep hidden.

It's been a year since Ashlynn's brothers' "transformation." Now married to Jack and with a successful network television show, she still has questions that need answers. And with new horrifying stories coming out of Lake Minnetaha, Washington, Ashlynn knows she has to go back. But her quest for those answers may just put her in the crosshairs of something that has been waiting for her to return.

Ashlynn Amuso is a thirty-year-old woman having the time of her life. She works for a great company in New York with her brother, Glen, and her two amazing friends, Kaden and Roman. Every year they get a two-month vacation from work where they go wherever they want. One year they went to Mexico. Another year was Florida. Another was the Caribbean. And now, Ashlynn takes them to her family's cabin in Lake Minnetaha, Washington.

It is the perfect place. Peaceful and quiet. No one around to bother them, a large forest in the backyard to walk around, and a small town not too far away for shopping and drinking. They couldn't have asked for a better vacation spot.

But one day, Roman, Kaden, and Glen start leaving Ashlynn alone in the cabin with no word of where they're going or what they're doing. They continue to do so until they leave the cabin for good. Ashlynn is distraught. She doesn't understand why they left, but she wasn't about to leave them behind. She stays, searching for them, waiting for them to come back. Unfortunately, while waiting, something finds her.

With the help from her friend, Jack, she learns that she is not going insane. That whatever she saw was not a figment of her imagination. But what is it? Who is it?

Have you ever woken in the middle of a dream only to find it isn't over?

For Taren Evans, it's reality. He's stricken with an unnerving disorder that forces him wide awake in the middle of his dreams, in the middle of his nightmares.

Unable to move or speak, Taren can only lie in bed, helpless, while the cruel dream world melds with the real world around him. A place where reality and fantasy become blurred.

When sleep becomes torment, could you close your eyes?

Dalton Summers is living the American dream. He has a beautiful wife, two kids, a great job, a high-end sports car and a spacious home. But he also has his secrets.

On Halloween night Dalton finds himself forced to face those secrets when one phone call threatens to throw his world upside down. The voice is young but raspy as it taunts him, a voice that will stick with Dalton through eternity.

"Hurry home Dalton... Before I kill them all."

EVERY SIN HAS A PRICE

Someone knows Vicki Dean's secret and they want her to pay - with her life!

When Victor got the first letter, it held a veiled threat. The second one demanded money. When the third arrived with a deadly threat to those he loves of those she loves.

Who's discovered that Victor is actually famous mystery novelist, Vicki dean? Can she discover their identity before they follow through with their threats?

How far will they go to destroy her?

Victor's not safe. With his ex-boyfriend showing up in town to supposedly make amends, his world is thrown upside down. Victor's hunky boyfriend, Sheriff Hottie and his best friend Cory do everything to protect him, but how can you protect anyone when you may be the next victim?

It's 1948 and magic has entered the world but it's not the magic of fairy godmothers and pixie dust. While magic exists alongside more mundane modern conveniences, it has a darker edge to it and, often, even darker intentions. This is the dangerous world New York City private eye Alex Crowley has to navigate when a rich widow blows into his office with a voodoo curse hanging over her head. The Edge of Evil is a noir detective tale of murder, madness, and Lovecraftian-cults.