thriller

Alkala Nakula, seorang mahasiswa jurusan hukum, harus menjadi saksi mata sebuah kasus pembunuhan karena Kala –nama panggilannya- tak sengaja menemukan korban sekarat. Di tengah investigasi mencari pelakunya, Kala yang memiliki kemampuan aneh, yakni dapat mendeteksi kebohongan justru dihadapkan pada kenyataan membingungkan bahwa korban berbohong tentang pelakunya. Siapa yang sebenarnya berbohong? Korban? Pelaku? Atau justru, Kala sendiri?

Kota Manhattan gempar. Di musim semi yang cerah, mayat seorang gadis ditemukan dalam kondisi mengenaskan. Tangan dan kakinya terikat, sepasang kakinya yang dibungkus sepatu berwarna merah hancur tak berbentuk menyisakan tulang kaki yang remuk. Tak terbayangkan betapa besar rasa dendam yang dimiliki pelaku terhadap korban hingga ia berbuat sebrutal itu. Sebuah misteri terpahat di tungkai yang tersisa, berupa angka tiga yang dibuat dari darah. Tidak ada yang bisa mengerti makna angka yang tertulis itu. Apakah korban ke-3? Atau ... tanggal pelaku membunuh korban? Atau ... sebuah isyarat akan ada korban berikutnya dalam waktu tiga hari? Kent Bigael, detektif dari unit pembunuhan langsung turun ke TKP. Pria yang terkenal temperamental itu tidak bisa menyembunyikan rasa kagetnya. Dalam 20 tahun karirnya sebagai polisi, baru kali ini ia melihat korban dengan kondisi begitu. Korban yang dibakar ada, yang tusuk dan dimutilasi pun banyak. Namun, korban dengan kaki remuk baru kali ini ia temukan. Bersama partnernya, detektif Joey, Kent berusaha menemukan pelaku. Ia mengumpulkan bukti-bukti lalu menyusuri satu persatu jejak yang ditinggalkan korban. Namun, baru saja memasuki hari ke tiga, korban yang lain kembali ditemukan. Ciri-cirinya persis sama. Kent terdiam, udara di sekitarnya terasa membeku. Ia sadar saat ini sedang berhadapan dengan seorang psycho, pembunuh berantai yang saat ini sedang melakukan permainan yang menantang penegak hukum kota Manhattan bermain adu tangkas. Lewat sikap brutal yang ia tujukan pada pemakai sepatu merah, ia ingin menunjukkan bahwa gaya hidupmu bisa membawamu pada kematian. Lewat angka-angka yang terukir ia berkata, jika kalian pintar temukanlah aku dalam waktu yang kutuliskan. Ada apa dengan sepatu merah? Mengapa pelaku hanya mengincar korban yang memakai sepatu merah?

Furqon kembali terjaga dengan keringat yang sebesar biji jagung bercucuran membasahi tubuhnya. Ingatan bagaimana ibunya meregang nyawa ditangan seorang pria yang dengan membabi buta menghujam pisau ketubuh ibunya beberapa tahun lalu menjadi mimpi buruk yang selalu menghantui Furqon. Seorang pria tua, yang dengan jelas diingatan Furqon menghujam pisau dapur ke tubuh ibunya, dan pria yang sama yang menyerang ayahnya. Hingga ayahnya ditemukan tewas didalam kamar. Kakeknya juga ditemukan tewas didalam kamar. Furqon sempat melihat seorang pria yang berdiri dalam sang kakek, namun Furqon tidak bisa melihat dengan jelas karena pria itu membelakanginya. ‘Apakah dia adalah pria yang sama? Kenapa dia membunuh semua keluargaku?’ batin Furqon sebelum akhirnya ia pingsan tepat setelah seseorang memukulnya dari belakang.

Miles Landry is trying to put violence behind him when he takes up work as a private detective focused on humdrum adultery cases. But when a Tibetan monk hires him to find a missing person, things get weird fast. Charged with tracking down the reincarnation of a man possessed by a demonic guardian from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Miles is plunged into a world of fortune-tellers, gangsters, and tantric rituals. The year is 1991 and a series of grisly murders has rocked New York City in the run up to a visit from the Dalai Lama. The police attribute the killings to Chinatown gang warfare. Miles–skeptical of the supernatural–is inclined to agree. But what if the monster he's hunting is more than a myth? ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Hazel shouldn't have crossed the line. Her meeting with the suspect in the murder of a billionaire makes Hazel get terror from Calvin after the man escapes from prison. Calvin holds Hazel hostage to create a public uproar and eventually the prosecutors will drop their charges for the murder case they are accused of. But without them expecting the hostage-taking to turn into a forbidden love story that should not have happened between a judge and a suspect in a crime. Can Hazel and Calvin resist the temptation of love that is so strong that it ensnares them?

Rio is an orphan, wandering alone in hunger on the phenomenal street of Mexico. A theif. Not when adolescence hit her, and so the cruel world becomes her den. A night angle that captures many hearts, allure men in dark suits, and havoc on Adam's blood. A mask woman on a pole. But when she is offered by a mysterious gentleman to be his seductress in a month for a million dollar and more, is she prepared for the private dance he is asking for? A multi-billionaire glorifying her existence. A price pool that no one can take down. A steamy nights they could have shared. But like her, he is a mask man who had her on his mercy. Rio is bounded, but is she willing to tie the knot with the man whom she never had the chance to get a flicker of himself? A man who thinks he can see through her, when he couldn't. For Rio isn't just a seductress. She is an asset, and all were plans set to capture the merciless killer wandering in Mexico for so long. By hook or by crook, it's either love or…. death. A happy-ever-after that never exist. @cycy

A girl who can see the death of whomever she touches or touches her. A boy who she cannot see his death even when he touches her. Meet each other's world and make it dysfunctional. Eight years ago, Roux Briony Besmonte's parents died after they save her from the kidnappers. Since that day, she discovered something strange about her. She has the ability to know how and when will be the death of whomever she touches and who touches her. And that is the reason why since that day, she isolates herself from the world. On her way home, she was about to hit by a car when a boy grabs her arms and saved her. Roux was shocked and confused because she did not see anything about the death of the boy who just touched her. Out of her curiosity, she wants to know who was that boy and thinks that maybe he is the answer to her curse ability.

one night will change the lives for those involved forever, and they will never ever be the same again and solve the mystery...

What if you were held captive by your own family? Emma Rawlins has spent the last year a prisoner. The months following her mother's death dragged her father into a paranoid spiral of conspiracy theories and doomsday premonitions. Obsessing him, controlling him, they now whisper the end days are finally at hand. And he doesn’t intend to face them alone. Emma finds herself drugged and dragged to a secluded cabin, the last refuge from a society supposedly due to collapse. Their cabin a snowbound fortress, her every move controlled, but even that isn't enough to weather the end of the world. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing Everything she knows is out of reach, lost beyond a haze of white. There is no choice but to play her father's game while she plans her escape. But there is a force far colder than the freezing drifts. Ancient, ravenous, it knows no mercy. And it's already had a taste...

Young Attracta is thrown out alongside her parents and has to live with her aunt to further her almost done education. During her stay, she faces many challenges and uncovers some secrets, it turns out the Peters aren't the picture perfect family they portray. Enjoy the intriguing story of Attracta.