In a frost-bitten metropolis where machines outlast their makers, Investigator Esfir Khairova is drawn into a string of gruesome murders known as the Sweet Tooth killings. Each crime feels disturbingly familiar, as if she’s trying to find a part of herself in the killer's mysterious motivations. The deeper she delves into the case, the more she senses something fractured within herself, a dissonance between what she remembers and what she is.

An accident of a couple, a widow and the daughter in Mexico. What happened and what have they done? What do you think?

Raven isn’t the blushing bride she pretends to be. Disguised as “Ari,” she walks down the aisle of a tacky Vegas chapel, bouquet in hand and scam in motion. Her groom, Porter H. Scarsdale III, believes he’s found love in twenty-four hours, but Raven only sees opportunity. With her partner waiting in the wings, the wedding is less about vows and more about payoff. By the time the fog clears, no one remembers what happened—no one except Raven. For her, this wedding isn’t about happily-ever-after, but the perfect con.

Tatiana was just a service technician in downtown Seattle. She hated her job and how she was treated. One day on her way home, she gets a phone call from a complete stranger. Now her life is being turned upside down from this stranger and don’t know who it is or how to stop them.

William Waynes is a man haunted by heartbreak. Once a passionate and devoted lover, he loses himself after Emily the woman he believed was his soulmate leaves him for someone else. Crushed and emotionally shattered, William buries his pain in meaningless sex, emotional detachment, and a reckless lifestyle. Working as a bookstore clerk in a quiet town, he hides behind a hardened exterior, refusing to feel or trust again.

The rain hasn't stopped since the machines took control. It came with a powerful storm that threatened to wash the very essence of the city, a city I have grown to hate. How and why this rain started I have no idea, no one did, and yet the worst had happened... It was even worse than the dreaded rain itself.

Leaving in the Republic of Ireland, I created a story which involves the Magdalene Laundries, which existed in Northern and in the Republic of Ireland. I set the story in the year 1996, so no cell phone etc. existed, as we know it today. It is hardly mentioned what happened at the crime scene, ore what stood in the diary. All persons are fictional, so made up by myself. I do not know, if a similar case once happened, but I think it did not, so also that crime is made up.

A private investigator is forced to investigate the murder of someone he helped get to drug rehab and make something of himself. His investigation leads him to two candidates for mayor, an oil company, a computer tech company, and veterans of the Gulf War.

Two police detectives investigate a murder at a pawn shop.

Mark Culpepper works at Southwestern City College as a tutor. One of his clients graduated but is brutally gunned down in front of his friends and family in the front lawn of their home. Now he becomes a target, and the alleged gunmen are the sons of the owner of a company that makes drones, Terence Rosenbloom, a known racist. Why is he the next target, and is Rosenbloom himself involved?