Authorpreneur Dashboard – Stephen Bentley
Death Among Us
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Who knew death could be so eclectic? Relish this mesmerizing murder mystery mash-up of short stories.
Book Bubbles from Death Among Us
Stop Me if You Can
How many times has she killed? Now she seeks a new identity, a new place to live, The killer and her dog, Annie.
First Comes Lightning
In this short story, Kelly Artieri sets the mood and tone of her four short stories in the collection. They are all set in or near water. What is the end game? Read on and find out.
Eleanor Rigby
My short story with this title is partly set in Liverpool. Owing to my upbringing in that city, I just had to work in some references to Beatles songs.
Goodbye World
The fascinating story continues in a scifi world author Greg Alldredge has created. When both stories are taken together, it's like reading a scifi mini-novella with a large dollop of murder mystery thrown in.
Red Solo Cup
Thanks to fellow contributing author, Kelly Artieri, this Brit now knows what a Red Solo Cup is! This is a great tale about what should have been a fantastic boat trip on Lake Ontario. However, the dark side of human nature intervenes ...
Life On The Road
Great story from Justin Bauer about a rock band and their life on the road. Who says rock n'roll is all about sex, drugs, and ... JUST READ IT!
Monitaur
Go find 'Monitaur' in the dictionary! Don't bother. It's not there. Author Michael Spinelli used his great imagination to coin a word for the title of this short and a truly scary story.
Unknown
This story by Kay Castaneda possesses an aura, an atmosphere, which draws the reader into this mysterious Emily Morales character.Her writing compels the reader to continue waiting for the denouement.
Sales Meeting
Justin Bauer chose hotels as the settings for his murder mystery short stories. A brave choice! But he does a fine job with this, and his second story 'Canceled.'
Stop Me If You Can
This is L. Lee Kane's second story in the collection. One astute reviewer had it right in that some of the stories are a continuance, almost mini-novellas. That's what makes this anthology different. You be the judge,
A Deadly Lady
L. Lee Kane's stories start with 'A Deadly Lady.' It's about a woman who kills. In life, as in fiction, there are many male killers and serial killers. But this author expertly explores how and why the antagonist/protagonist turned into a slick killer.
Lake Ontario
All Kelly Artieri's short stories are set on or near Lake Ontario. It's a place she knows well as an avid boater on those sometimes dangerous waters. Danger lurks in the lake and in her tales of murder mystery.
Emily Morales
Kay Castaneda's short stories have a common thread. They are all about a woman known as Emily Morales. Kay takes the reader through three different stages of Emily's troubled life with an ease of story-telling in a classic literary fiction style.
Behind Robbie Cheadle's Story
All three stories by Robbie Cheadle were inspired by true events. The first, 'Justice is Never Served,' is a fictionalised account of the numerous murders of babies alleged to have been committed by Amelia Dyer, who operated as a baby farmer in Victorian England. Amelia Dyer was found guilty of only one murder, that of Doris Marmon, but is believed likely to have killed between two hundred and four hundred babies and children.
Hello World - Greg Alldredge
Greg introduces the reader immediately into "his world" in his first story 'Hello World.' The setting is the Far Reach Station somewhere out there in deep space. It's a classic science fiction short story and concludes in 'Goodbye World,' Greg's second story. As one astute reviewer said, "It's like some of the short stories in this collection are connected, so making the story as a whole a kind of mini-novella."
No Man's Land
Michael Spinelli's first story 'No Man's Land.' It's set in the Nevada desert and Michael captures the atmosphere, bringing the reader slowly but surely into the story with the help of some clever and witty dialogue. Get ready to be scared as the story reaches its climax!
The Rose Slayer
Why set in LA? I was thinking of writing a new fictional detective series set in LA and based on the LAPD Robbery Homicide Squad. Then I saw the call for submissions from the Support Indie Authors crew. This short story was the result and it won!
Mercy: A Detective Matt Deal Thriller
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
His daughter was taken. He’ll never get her back. Set in the near future, Matt Deal is a British businessman married into a wealthy Florida family. Mercy, his fifteen-year-old daughter, is the glue in his rocky marriage to Lorey. His life is changed forever after Mercy is brutally sexually assaulted on a Destin beach leaving her in a persistent vegetative state. Trusting the local detectives to bring the rapists to justice, mixed martial arts expert Deal concentrates in vain on his Florida gym business, only to have his world further explode on learning the men responsible for his daughter’s injuries may escape justice. Deal is isolated and at his wit's end after his rich father-in-law sends death threats blaming him for all these ills. Who can he turn to? Where can he go? What will he do? Who can he trust? Will he return to a post-Brexit Britain or ultimately will he seek revenge? Fans of Jack Reacher, Barry Eisler, and any vigilante justice novel will love this book.
Book Bubbles from Mercy: A Detective Matt Deal Thriller
The Suspects
Captain Stevenson wastes no time in locating the suspects involved in the brutal attack on Mercy, Matt Deals's 15-year-old daughter.
Detective Matt Deal and Internal Affairs
This is how Detective Matt Deal operates. He's a one-off.
Meet Wolfie Jules
How did I come up with the name Wolfie Jules? The following from the 'Acknowledgements' explains: Firstly, thank you to Wolfie Jules for permitting me to use her Twitter handle in creating the character of the same name. The handle fascinated me. I hope you find the character named after your Twitter persona equally as fascinating. Secondly, thank you to all members of my Facebook fan group, not only for your huge support and encouragement, but also for those who ‘volunteered’ to become a character in the first of the Detective Matt Deal Thriller books. If you died in this novel, I’m sorry. That’s what writers do sometimes.
Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story
Biographies & Memoirs
In a Liverpool night club, the Canadian mobster said, "Are you guys cops?" Steve Jackson heard him. His blood ran cold. Jackson wasn't his real name. He was an undercover cop. Ever wondered about the life of an undercover cop? What it takes to infiltrate a worldwide drugs gang? What it feels like to live a double life? – To ‘live a lie.’ Read this gripping true story of Britain's biggest drug bust.
Book Bubbles from Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story
Christmas 1976
Eric and I had now been embedded for six months but on this occasion Lee asked us to conduct a specific surveillance on Smiles. He was known to have arranged for a handover of 1000's of LSD tablets in a rural Welsh pub.
Plas Llysin
This imposing country house was one of my first surveillance tasks.We were watching Richard Kemp as Lee rightly suspected Kemp was making LSD in the basement of the house. Once we had finished there, a new task awaited me. I was going undercover.
Life-Changing Phone Call
You have no idea how much this call from Dick Lee changed my life completely.
Llanddewi Brefi
This was the first time I had heard of Llanddewi Brefi. We were briefed to infiltrate a community of Welsh locals surrounded by sheep and mountains. No easy task.
The Question
Over the years, the most common question posed to me by folks intrigued with undercover police work was something like: "What goes on inside your head. knowing you are undercover?"
Not Only LSD
Operation Julie smashed two LSD labs and networks supplying over 90% of the world's LSD. But did you know it also uncovered a huge plot to import vast quantities of cocaine into Britain from Bolivia via Miami?
Operation Julie
The biggest drug bust in Britain.
