Hero for a Day
When Mother Nature meets a young, dashing Kris Kringle at the annual Mythic Creatures convention she falls head over roots in love. And when Kris and she encounter a mystery of a missing magical key they start off on an adventure to find the key and save mythology for all time.
A tale of adventure with a legendary hero worthy of Indiana Jones, if he were a magical elf.
More info →The Eliminators
Partners can make strange bedfellows, especially when they're your mother.
James thought he had seen it all after he and his partner started The Eliminators Paranormal Investigative Service. When the ghost of his estranged mother shows up asking him to kill her things go from strange to downright weird.
A strange tale of a ghost seeking closure, and the son who must decide to help.
More info →The Great Bicycle Race
Phillip Host, alchemist and inventor, builds the first nuclear fusion steam driven cycle and his employer tells him the Royal Family expect him to win the Great Bicycle Race from London to South Hampton or the British Empire will fall and the future of Europe will be forever changed. Phillip discovers he must defeat the German champion disgraced, evil, alchemist, Samuel Gesture.
Will Britain rule the road just as it once did the waves or will the sun set on the empire?
An alternate history story where alchemy and steam come together in Victorian times to decide the fate of nations, and one man is responsible for the future.
More info →Unnatural Immortal
In 1865 the Confederate States of America won the civil war. They won because they had a supernatural ally in a vampire named Argos and his undead slave army.
Today more than hundred and fifty years later Amy Selkirk, driven by avenging the transformation of her sister into one of the undead, leads a rebellion to not only destroy Argos but to end the Confederate States of America, and thus end slavery, forever.
But she needs an allies, those willing to follow her example.
A dark alternate history where good struggles to triumph over evil to save humanity.
More info →Parrot Of Doom
A Razor and Edge Mystery.
Razor discovers his partner, Morton Edge, has accepted a case to hide a key witness to a murder at their headquarters (Edge's parents basement). And he is none too happy about it. Especially when the witness is a wise ass talking parrot.
Sometimes having a partner in the private investigator business has its unique challenges.
More info →Boomerang
After completing a job a hit man slips into a bar to blend in until the heat subsides. Here he meets a small time stick up artist who invites him on a job. Seeing his opportunity the hit man agrees.
When things spiral out of control he must make a choice, his survival depends on being right.
Some days a guy can't get a break...
More info →The Grand Central Mystery
Morton Edge, brilliant detective, reader of romance novels, and lover of sugary breakfast cereal has been kidnapped by the Russian mob. His partner, Goth kid, Razor must deliver crucial information on a flash drive to Grand Central Station by the designated hour or Edge will die.
Razor and Edge return in a pulse pounding tale of suspense where life and death hang in the balance.
More info →Adventures in Urban Fantasy
Join Russ Crossley on a journey to five worlds of urban fantasy together in one collection.
Tales where people turn into frogs, a woman travels to an alternate reality, in a fairytale world a newspaper reporter is accused of murder, a young wizard competes on a TV reality show, and in the far future the last vampire becomes the prey.
Welcome to adventures into the weird and the wonderful.
More info →In Search of the Perfect Cup
Trevor Watkins writes coffee table books, but now he faces his biggest project yet. A coffee table book about coffee!
Problem: everyone he talks to has a different opinion of the perfect cup. Finally he discovers Almost, Oregon, a mysterious town where rumor has it there exists the best coffee in the world.
Trevor journeys to Almost and discovers more than the perfect cup. Much more.
More info →The Family Line
When disaster strikes it ends more than a life, it ends a family.
In the year 2389 deep space explorer, Paul Bellamo receives terrible news.
He begins to recall the stories his father told him of his famous ancestors who made history come alive when he was a boy.
These are the tales of those intrepid men who made a difference to our possible future.
More info →Angel on my Shoulder
Jimmy Sax has a guardian angel whose help he refuses to accept when he's bullied at school. Jimmy fears standing up to the bullies is social suicide so he decides to stay quiet hoping the bullies will give up. When they don't, and the situation grows more desperate, Jimmy realizes he needs help, but is it too late?
Based upon a series of actual events this story deals with a very serious issue affecting all age groups and segments of society. Bullying.
More info →It’s A Small Galaxy
In the future cloning becomes child's play. When his father brings home a science e kit from an alien world when he was ten years old, young Bernie Culpepper clones a Bigfoot which he names Shakespeare.
Now forty years later Shakespeare may hold the secret to change lives and save a father's life. But before he can Bernie and Shakespear must find a man presumed missing long ago.
A tale of the future where the galaxy itself is smaller than ever.
More info →The Legend Of Trixie Pug – Part 1
In the novel, Attack of the Lushites we first met Trixie Pug, CEO of the second most powerful fast food corporation in the galaxy. But how did she rise to control such a powerful and greasy corporation?
More info →Cape Disappointment
A new short novel.
Affairs are best left in the past.
A young woman's corpse washes up at Cape Disappointment. Twenty years ago two men loved her. Today, one's a big city cop on the hunt for her killer. The other's a small town cop with a domineering wife.
Both harbour dark secrets that a calculating murderer will use to ensure the guilty goes free Less
More info →The Last Serial Killer
In the not-too-distant future, medical advances rid the world of serial killers forever — all except one, The Last Serial Killer. And that killer is about to wreak havoc.
A story of suspense blending murder and justice with a dash of science fiction unlike anything you've ever read.
"A suspenseful page turner about a killer who enjoys his grisly work." — R.S. Meger, Author of The Scarlet Curse
More info →Adventures Into the Unknown
By Russ Crossley
You are invited on ten adventures along side detectives fighting for justice in alternate realities, spies confronting the deadly forces of evil, heroes battling impossible odds risking everything to save the world.In these stories you will travel through time and space, span galaxies, and battle the forces of evil with adventurers from the past, the present, and the future.
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