Best Selling Books by Jay Black

A steam train, a murder, eight suspects . . . When an old acquaintance invites Ruth Morgan and her grandson to take a working trip on board the Finsbury Flyer-a modern steam train with Victorian charms-Ruth is excited to look over the chef''s menu and give advice where needed. However, before she''s had the chance to step foot inside the kitchen, a murder derails the relaxing getaway and turns it into a tragedy. It''s clear there''s a sinister plan in full swing. With Ruth''s reputation threatening to veer off the tracks, she must use her amateur sleuthing skills to solve several puzzling conundrums: How did the killer reach the victim unseen? Who is the most likely suspect? And why has a seemingly innocent person copped to the crime? A series of light-hearted and absorbing whodunnits with a fun amateur sleuth. For fans of modern British mysteries, cozy settings, and female detectives.

Gone Back Inside Alien Game. NEED HELP! Leo finishes writing about his previous space adventure and is ready to return to the game world. Once inside, he''ll complete a secret mission and convince his grandmother to finally come home. However, Grandpa John goes in alone, and when he doesn''t return in an instant, Leo knows something has gone horribly wrong. Desperate to find a way into the game and ask his friends (the crew of the Last Horizon) for their help, Leo searches Grandpa John''s office. There he discovers a holographic message from Ayesha: "Kraythons have captured your grandparents." To win them back Leo has no choice but to complete a quest against the clock. If he succeeds, he can exchange a Class One artifact for their lives. Therefore, losing is not an option. . .

When someone murders New York''s leading crime boss, despite him being surrounded by advanced security, the event throws the underworld into chaos. Before anyone can figure out how the killer did it, he dies under mysterious circumstances and takes his secret to the grave. Emma''s uncle asks her to investigate. She''s reluctant to get involved, especially after the traumatic events back in London, but with Nightshade''s unique brand of encouragement, they figure out how the killer reached one of the most protected men in the world. However, their lives are complicated when another member of the Syndicate is murdered, seemingly by the hands of the same deceased perpetrator. Emma and Nightshade now find themselves in way over their heads, caught up in a race against time, trying to solve clues and expose a web of deception, but they may not be quick enough to stop a war Book Two in a gripping Crime Thriller Mystery series.

Pubescent short story writer Drew has two dreams: to become a New York Times bestselling novelist and to convince his single, 30-something neighbor Sasha to tutor him in the intimate arts. When an aged, terminally ill neighbor offers Drew the cash fortune stashed in the walls of her house, he enlists Sasha to assist with its post-mortem extraction. Pressed by the looming arrival of the deceased''s estranged adult children, both eager to inherit her estate, Drew and Sasha bank on their shared promise to keep secrets neither can afford to have exposed. Set in a mid-sized Canadian city in 1976, this tragicomic novelette is at once an exercise in implicit metafiction often identified with postmodern prose and a reminiscence of the enthusiasm, sincerity, and hope found in modernist literature. Playful yet serious, Loom in the Loft offers readers a firm push on the metamodern literary swing.

Wildwood Dark : Sombre forêt vierge is a bilingual (English and French) screenplay adapted for short film from a poem written by the author and previously published in the prestigious Parisian literary journal Poésie sur Seine. Ideally suited for film school students on tight budget. Included in the text are the original poem in both languages, its background, the Canadian screenwriter''s cinematic vision, log line and scene-based screenplay.