Russ Crossley: 177 books

A collection of tales where detectives solve crimes but the love, hate, corruption, and greed of life conspire to stop them. Included are stories that demonstrate how these volatile aspects of the human psyche fight to make us stray onto the dark side of our nature and too often bring out the...

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...

n this alternate history story the royal families of Europe's unyielding power continued into the 21st century. Now Tsar Nicholas Romanov's Russian Empire faces annihilation at the hands of a rebel army. A tale where power becomes the greatest aphrodisiac. Includes the bonus story, Until We Meet Again.

A princess. A dragon. A Nun. Cheerleaders. What do they all have in common? Ambition! One yearns to be head cheerleader. One yearns for freedom. One yearns for revenge. One yearns for true love. But who wants what? A twisted tale of ambition where everything is on the line. 

PI Jazz Stiletto returns after the events of A Day Without Sunshine. He travels under the nom de plume, Allan Harper, a wandering man for hire. A friend asks to help the owner of the Skull Inn on the coast of Massachusetts. Jazz accepts. A guy's gotta eat. He soon discovers dark secrets,...

Mr. Kenniphaas watches Wayburn Street from his favorite seat in his favorite coffee shop. Each day he watches the world outside the window change. Stores he has known for thrity years close. Crime has come to Wayburn Street. But he does nothing. He just watches. Until today. Today Mr. Kenniphaas' world and the world of Wayburn Street will intersect. And today both worlds will change.

Big Pete Rustica, Tiny Murdoch, and Maurice “The Leech” Lévesque are perfect thieves. They have never been caught. A rich industrialist hires them to use alien technology to commit the perfect crime. A tale set in the near future world where cunning and skill can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. Unless you fail.

The mob muscles the past, but which past? When wise guy, Little Frank Valachi goes to the washroom at Sam's Tavern he finds himself transported to a strange reality filled with blood thirsty pirates. He soon discovers all is not what it seems and decides the mob must take over the past.

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.

Robots locked in deadly civil war, explorers faced with impossible secrets, a continent-sized asteroid about to destroy the Earth...these are some of the stories in this volume of fantastic fiction. Welcome to the 21st century.

Four incredible tales of adventure and intrigue on the high seas and beyond. A woman cursed by an evil witch to spend her days as a parrot, a paranormal investigator tasked with helping a pirate clear his family name, and a woman accused of murder fleeing to sea with a swashbuckling pirate. Untold tales of the Ladies of the Jolly Roger when women ruled the seas.

On a world orbiting a distant star war rages. A war to decide the fate of creation. Mid-Level Trooper Judah begins to doubt the cause of their battle when his men and women begin to die all around him. Will they win this fight and is it true to God's justice on this distant world? Join the fight and discover the truth.

A collection of science fiction stories by the International selling author of Attack of the Lushites. In the not too distant future meet a cloned Bigfoot in It’s A Small Galaxy, survive the apocalypse with the Neighborhood Watch, meet an extraordinary woman who might be the savior of the...

From Trafalgar to deep space the family survives. 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.