Category: Short Stories

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

The Delivery by Gregg Hurwitz @gregghurwitzbooks @gregghurwitzbooks.bsky.social @thescottbrick @amazonpublishing #BookSky #TheDelivery

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Rebecca and Mark Higgins are barely keeping it together these days. His job is drowning him in unreasonable deadlines and market pressures, she’s struggling to recover from a devastating miscarriage and both are stressed with managing the challenges of their seven-year old neurodivergent daughter Maddy. Then they’re offered a lifeline in the form… Continue reading The Delivery by Gregg Hurwitz @gregghurwitzbooks @gregghurwitzbooks.bsky.social @thescottbrick @amazonpublishing #BookSky #TheDelivery

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

The Safe Room by Lisa Unger @leheny_leheny @brilliancepublishing #TheSafeRoom

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Rae Donovan is a private investigator in New York City. She’s married with a daughter in college and is sort of estranged from her father, a retired former FBI photographer who lives in Adirondack. But when she gets a call that he may be dying, she rushes to see him, arriving just a… Continue reading The Safe Room by Lisa Unger @leheny_leheny @brilliancepublishing #TheSafeRoom

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

Run for Your Life by Lucinda Berry @lucindaberryauthor #ElenaRey @amazonpublishing @brilliancepublishing #RunForYourLife

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Riley Fletcher is out on her morning run, just starting to enjoy the sensation of her body kicking in and the lovely atmosphere. Suddenly she’s struck in the head from behind and her next memory is waking and finding herself bound, gagged and bleeding in a cabin in the woods. Her abductor is… Continue reading Run for Your Life by Lucinda Berry @lucindaberryauthor #ElenaRey @amazonpublishing @brilliancepublishing #RunForYourLife

Audiobook, Satirical, Short Stories

The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie by Freida McFadden @fmcfaddenauthor @marinireland @dreamscape_media @dreamscape-media.bsky.social #TheWidowsHusbandsSecretLie

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Alice Lockwood is mourning the recent death of her husband Grant. But she’s starting to see his face everywhere. She also just took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. Then a woman shows up at her front door, claiming to be the “other” woman Grant has spent years with and the… Continue reading The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie by Freida McFadden @fmcfaddenauthor @marinireland @dreamscape_media @dreamscape-media.bsky.social #TheWidowsHusbandsSecretLie

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

The Replacement by Liv Constantine @livconstantine2 @suzanneefreeman @racheljnarrates @amazonpublishing @brilliancepublishing #TheReplacement

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Hollywood icon Veronica Van Arden is putting everything into her latest film. She’s counting on it to be her comeback after a series of box office failures and problems with drugs and alcohol. Her young costar is Sienna Vale who is an adoring fan and Veronica decides to take her under her wing,… Continue reading The Replacement by Liv Constantine @livconstantine2 @suzanneefreeman @racheljnarrates @amazonpublishing @brilliancepublishing #TheReplacement

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

The Line by Tim Weaver @timweaverbooks @kristin_athers @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #TheLine

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… It’s 1985 Los Angeles and Hallie Pitney’s dreams of being a journalist with a major byline seem to be fading fast. She’s barely subsisting on tired stories sold to gossip rags, facing eviction from her apartment. Then she receives a tip about a legendary Hollywood actor, one that could put her into the… Continue reading The Line by Tim Weaver @timweaverbooks @kristin_athers @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #TheLine

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown @laurenlingbrown @laurenlingbrown.bsky.social @jessnahikian @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #TheSilentMuse

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Hannah Brennan is a young artist trying to breakthrough the art community in New York City. An influential friend of her late mother is willing to give her a shot but the painting she submits for review doesn’t meet the woman’s expectations. A mysterious woman she meets at an estate sale gives her… Continue reading The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown @laurenlingbrown @laurenlingbrown.bsky.social @jessnahikian @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #TheSilentMuse

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver @lauren_oliver_books @hlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #AFatalDelivery

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Lenora Sforza is a delivery driver, an ideal job for someone who lives her life driven by order and routine. She’s meticulous about following her schedule and patterns so when she arrives at Anne Bridges home, the woman isn’t there to greet her as is her normal behavior. Lenora finds her bludgeoned to… Continue reading A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver @lauren_oliver_books @hlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #AFatalDelivery

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by A. R. Torre @alessandratorre4 @sarahbgoer @eleddielo @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #YoullMissMeWhenImGone

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Rachel Redden is worried that husband Jake is losing his interest in her and their marriage so she devises a plan to “wake up” those dormant feelings. She stages their bedroom and bathroom to appear as if she’d been taken and then disappears. But as she waits to be “rescued,” things don’t even… Continue reading You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by A. R. Torre @alessandratorre4 @sarahbgoer @eleddielo @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbition #YoullMissMeWhenImGone

Audiobook, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Short Stories

The Roommate by Andrea Mara @andreamaraauthor @andreamaraauthor.bsky.social @_heatherosullivan @brilliancepublishing

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

the setup… Elena Sullivan is spending a quiet evening at home with her husband and teenage son. They tune into a new crime drama on TV an as the show progresses, Elena is shocked to see parallels of the show to a horrible event in her life from fifteen years ago. Only one other person… Continue reading The Roommate by Andrea Mara @andreamaraauthor @andreamaraauthor.bsky.social @_heatherosullivan @brilliancepublishing