Black Opal Books

No one liked Drusilla Isaacs. She spent a lifetime alienating people. Now she's dead. Shot, stabbed, and her neck broken. It's up to Maggie Blaine-former friend and one-time victim of Drusilla-and...

It' 1967. John Griffin is an angry man. He's angry that he married Raylene-a woman he doesn't love-because she got pregnant, although he loves his daughter Miki; he's furious with his landlords for...

Charlottesville, Virginia, Police Detective Luke McGinty has a closet filled with demons, along with a few skeletons; a steady job, but no steady partner or girlfriend; and is still married to his...

Phase Two...The time you've always wanted. The slogan from a magnetic Heron Company advertisement piques college student Avery Jenson's interest. She innocently selects Heron and their mysterious...

In 2006, a Jackson Pollock painting purportedly sold for one hundred and forty million dollars. The private sale was never confirmed and the precise whereabouts of the Pollock remains shrouded in...

Los Angeles attorney, Alex Carreras, has it all--a position with a prestigious law firm, an engagement to the boss's daughter, and a budding political career--until the night he stops to help a...

Martha Lavery Chance is a woman with a dark secret-a wild-hearted, amoral, alter personality, Serena, created to save her sanity as a child in danger. At present, living with a wonderful man, Martha...

To find yourself, you must be lost.Pike Graves, a former boxer who suffers thanatophobia-fear of death-has done everything right. Degree from an Ivy League university, respectable job with a...

Cast loosely in the mold of such hard-boiled detectives as Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, Joe Gold is an old-fashioned kind of guy, adrift in a modern world he doesn't fully understand, full of...

In a hospital, young residents are the princes of night. It's their magic kingdom, full of terrors, tall stories, and urban legends. But night is always a wild card, and now at College Hospital in...

Morgan Kenworthy--a Berkeley student studying abroad and a guest of the de Carduzacs, family friends who have a chateau in St. milion in France--uncovers a coup against the government of France. Soon...

For Elizabeth Campbell, disguised as Elena Martin, life isn't about walking away from the man who had imprisoned her for half a decade. Not anymore. Now it's about running. It's about searching. It's...

Kingsley Ward survived two vicious attacks, only to be targeted by the perpetrator's partner. She should be safe--with the psychopath in prison, awaiting trial for her young husband's murder--and by...

Author: Jim HaberkornPublisher: Black Opal BooksPublication Date: April 03, 2021Number of Pages: 494 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1953434258ISBN-13: 9781953434258

Wise's first collection of short stories, the award-winning Night Train, Cold Beer, was blunt, honest, cinematic. This collection, Resume Speed, is also visually keen, and each story gives you the...

Flynn Steven¿s cousin Suzy, once married to Marshall Beckett, reveals details of her awful marriage to a tyrant. She begs Flynn to see if the son she left behind is okay and locate her hidden diary,...

Kate Rokov's grades are plummeting. She needs to get the voice out of her head, or she will flunk her finals. Matthias Zrin, a three centuries old immortal, born into an aristocratic family as Miles...

Everyone's favorite amateur sleuth, Philomela Nightingale, and her husband, Brent Lark, plan to move to the seaside town of Saltaire. Realtors show them many houses, trying to find one that suits...

K9 Officer Daniel Deacon gets an unwelcome call ordering him back to work. Deacon and his K9 partner, a German Shepherd named Justice, return for a long overtime swing shift in the heat of Central...

Having barely survived a fight for his life with an international terrorist, former covert operative Jon Morton is now plunged into a nerve-wracking quest for a killer who knows everything about him,...

Scorpio obsessed, with a mind as strong as twisted steel, Henry Slater, suave, sophisticated, sexy, intelligent, and wealthy is the perfect man--except to women who tell him what he doesn't want to...

Jason and Philip have just celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary. They have a four-year old daughter and the perfect marriage. Then Philip is tragically killed in an automobile accident. As...

What are the odds of hitting the national lottery for $330.0 million dollars? The odds are 270 million to one. What are the odds of hitting it twice? The odds are four in ten billion. What are the...

San Francisco attorney Clara Quillen is contacted by SFPD Detective Roy Travis again, this time because Vivian Hall, a beautiful young professor who went to the same law school as Clara, has been...

Samuel, a secret agent angel on Earth, sometimes has to improvise when things go badly wrong. Over forty years of angelic missions come to a head in a fire at a snowbound truck stop when a fire demon...

When Sedna, Raven Woman, and her clan of Inuit people discover a Viking ship wrecked on the shores of their Arctic island in the spring of 975 AD, Sedna is warned by the Raven Mother not to let her...

Max Maxwell is working on a stalking case, involving the unhappily married lady he has been seeing, when he gets a call from an old army buddy, Bill Hart, who is now running an off-the-books...

What makes a marriage of two decades begin to unravel? There are no simple answers. Alex and Miriam met-cute at the famous Strand bookstore in Manhattan. It was love at first sight for both of them...

Everyone's favorite amateur sleuth, Philomela Nightingale, visits her sister in the town of Saltaire. While coping with a thieving museum volunteer and a charlatan psychic, the two women become...