Thunder Valley Press focuses on quality fiction of every length in a variety of genres.
What can you expect from a Thunder Valley Press publication?
Great fiction. Novels. Short stories. Collections. Mystery, fantasy, science fiction, romance, and every now and then, a dash of erotic romance or suspense just to keep things spicy.
An empty, rundown house. An unlocked door. Two kids with a stolen lighter and a need to watch something burn.
Award-winning writer Annie Reed's deadly tale of what happens when best friends, out for a little fun, take their new game one step too far.
Rory drives a cab in The Shadows, a neighborhood where anything illegal with a magical bent can be bought or sold, and even worse crimes go on behind closed doors. Rory's searching for answers in the only place he believes he can find it - among the changelings who work the streets in The Shadows. Changelings who will become anyone for a price. Even Rory's murdered wife.
Every mother's nightmare hits home for private investigator Abby Maxon. An old college friend hires Abby to investigate the disappearance of a pretty teenage girl--a girl the exact same age as Abby's daughter. The girl's disappearance shatters an innocent family and plunges Abby into a deadly scheme of payback and revenge.
Before Abby Maxon was a private investigator, she was a victim of crime. When campus security shows no interest in finding the man who stole her purse, college student Abby embarks on her first investigation. But tracking down the thief who's made the campus his hunting ground is dangerous business for an amateur sleuth who's on the trail of someone far more dangerous than she realizes.
In this five-story collection, award-winning writer Annie Reed takes us on a bone-chilling tour down the mean streets of The Shadows, a place where dark magic and crime rule the night.
Stories in this collection include "Changeling," "Famous," "Iris & Ivy," "Don't Touch," and "Ties That Bind."
The first murder investigation of Sheriff Jill Jordan's career might well be her last.
Engaged in a hard-fought election against her own chief deputy, Jill finds herself faced with the first murder in rural Cumberland, Nevada, in over a decade. The bludgeoned body of Nora Corbitt dredges up a past that more than one person in town would do anything to keep secret.
What's a stick-in-the-mud Scrooge to do when he discovers he actually wants to celebrate Christmas? Ollie always hated his company's yearly holiday gift exchange. This Christmas the office matchmaker rigs Secret Santa so that Ollie gets the name of the guy he's been secretly crushing on for months. The same guy who just happens to be the protégé (and some say boy toy) of Ollie's boss.
Even with the world coming to an end, the Strip's still in business and people in Las Vegas still need a ride. With his daddy's cab and his long-time buddy riding shotgun, Jefty's happy to oblige. He's managed to avoid the worst of the end times insanity so far – right up until a naked woman lands on the hood of his cab.
When Miriam's son tries to defend himself against schoolyard bullies, he's victimized a second time by a school system that punishes the victim as well as the bully.
Miriam must overcome the trauma of her own past in order to help her son learn to be strong. For bullies exist in every walk of life, and she's tired of being a victim.
The best spell reclamation wizard in the business, Amelia's never run into a spell she couldn't fix. Until now. And worst of all, the spell is one of her own, pirated by a shady online wizarding school out to bilk unsuspecting wannabe wizards and ruin Amelia in the process.
Ever since she joined the police department, Willie wanted to work undercover. Pit herself against criminals who abuse women and children for their own personal gain. But she never dreamed her first undercover assignment would have her facing off against the city’s most powerful warlock. A master of dark magic that no mere mortal could ever hope to defeat.
She doesn’t even have her gun.
Carla hated blind dates.
Hard enough trying to fit in with people who didn’t know she was a werewolf.
Why didn’t anyone believe she liked being single? No attachments? No commitments? No one to accidentally disembowel when the moon was full and she wolfed out during a particularly vivid dream?
This blind date, though, might be too good to be true.
Until the lights go out, and it all goes to hell.
When you’re a private detective with an unreliable ability to see the future, a secret crush on your hunky elf partner, and a dog who’s not really a dog, life can get complicated. Add to the mix a masseuse whose mojo’s gone missing, and the complications—not to mention the twists and turns—are off the charts!
Freshman Murders
on Jan. 16, 2012
I'll admit it. Math is not my strong point, but I love a good mystery. Gerald Weinberg delivers exactly that with "The Freshman Murders."
Professor Josh Rosemont not only teaches theoretical mathematics at a small college in upstate New York, he's the go-to man when his friend, the President of the United States, needs impossible encryptions cracked. To help him with his work, Rosemont's put together an international team of crackerjack graduate students who call themselves the "Residue Class."
What would distract a man like Rosemont from working on decrypting documents vital to the government's case against a corporation accused of funding terrorists? An equally important case that strikes closer to home -- a serial killer who's murdering freshman girls on the college campus where Rosemont teaches.
A killer who leaves mathematical clues behind.
A killer who has his sights set on the newest member of the Residue Class -- brilliant fifteen-year-old freshman Libby Myers.
"The Freshman Murders" skillfully weaves the threads of the two cases tighter and tighter together even as Rosemont feels himself pulled in two directions at once. The kids in the Residue Class are all stars in their own right, especially Libby, who's no one's easy victim. While mathematical riddles and clues play an important part to the mystery, Weinberg provides his readers with just the right amount of information to carry us theoretical math-challenged mystery lovers along for the ride. And what a ride it is!
Annie Reed