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A new edge-of-your-seat mystery with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the very last page! "HS Burney is now added to my all time favorites. Her writing style is modern, engaging, and fresh. I loved her main protagonist. A strong female who solves mysteries." - Danielle UrbanThe Azad-Shah twins are missing. They disappeared after their nineteenth birthday party, a lavish affair at a fancy hotel. Also missing - the shiny new BMW gifted to the twins by their wealthy family.When Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, is called to the scene, she's convinced the twins must have run away. Trapped in a gilded cage, their life paths had been determined for them. Medical school for Nida, the family business for Nadir. Neither was happy. But soon, clues start to emerge that foul play may have been involved.As Fati starts to unravel the secrets lurking within the powerhouse Azad-Shah family, she discovers their lives weren't as perfect as they seemed. Infidelity, betrayal, jealousy, revenge - all roiled under the veneer of perfection. The Azad-Shah twins were surrounded by unsavory characters with hidden agendas. But which one of these spirited them away? Or hurt them?Was it the strange man who drove the twins away from the hotel in his beat-up car that fateful night? Or the owner of the club where they briefly stopped for an unknown reason? Was it the twins' sister, an emotionally stunted young woman competing with the pair for their mother's affection? Or maybe their mother's assistant, a shady character with a designer wardrobe incongruent with his annual salary? Duplicitous characters keep emerging, tossing Fati from left to right, as she gets sucked in deeper and deeper into the conundrum.As Fati traces the path the twins took the night they disappeared, she encounters tension, roadblocks, and bald-faced lies. And then, a lifeless body is found. And the clock starts ticking faster.Will Fati find the twins in time to save their lives?Book 2 in the Fati Rizvi Private Investigator mystery series, The Missing Twins' tightly-won plot and complex characters will keep you turning the page well into the night!

A missing young girl, a shifty professor, a drug house - in an idyllic summer, dark secrets are brewing on a picture-perfect college campus in sunny Vancouver...Monica Lin is missing. Her parents are frantic with worry. But her sister is dismissive and her roommates are unconcerned. After all, Monica has disappeared before. In her bright red convertible that no one knows how she could afford. Maybe she's with a sugar daddy, high as a cloud with glazed eyes and no sense of time. She'll return when she's ready, her roommates say. But why has she switched off her phone?As Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, starts to peel the layers of Monica's life, she discovers a troubled young girl who had become a shell of herself. When Monica first arrived at West Coast College, she was shy, studious, and spent her time at part-time jobs to support herself. Three years in, she barely attended class, floated about in a drug-induced stupor, and charged five hundred dollars per date. Did something happen to Monica to cause this radical transformation?A forbidden love who turned on her? A teacher she trusted who abandoned her? Friends who took advantage of her? Or her own family who had given up on her? And then, the lifeless body is found with vacant eyes staring up at the sky, and things take a dark turn.Fati knows the secret to solving the case is to dig deeper into Monica's past and the events that led her here. Everyone in Monica's inner circle is harboring secrets they are desperate to protect. But Fati is determined that she won't rest until the killer is brought to justice.Praise for HS Burney: This book is full of details and keeps you on the edge of your seat very early on in the book and keeps you there till the end. - Mama Bear's Bookshelf for The Lake Templeton MurdersThe Lake Templeton Murders by HS Burney is an excellent murder mystery that had me guessing til the end. HS Burney spins quite a web of mystery and even when I thought I knew, I second guessed because the mystery was very well written! - Jessica Belmont for The Lake Templeton MurdersI thought this was a suspense filled tale that kept me intrigued and not able to easily predictable what was going to happen next. There were a few twists and turns that I would have never expected. - Amy on Goodreads for The Lake Templeton MurdersGreat Story, every time I thought I knew who did it, I was wrong . The pace of the story if fast enough that it never bogs down and keeps you turning pages to find the answers. The book is a great read. - Donald Puderbaugh for The Missing Twins

A ski accident...a dead entrepreneur...his grieving wife...and his friends dividing the spoils. Lawson Adams flew off a cliff and plunged to his death on a ski trip in Whistler, a luxe resort nestled in the snowy peaks of British Columbia. The police called it an accident. Lawson was drinking heavily while entertaining clients the night before. But Lawson's wife, Jennelle, is convinced he was killed. After all, Lawson was an expert skier who glided effortlessly down double black diamond peaks after several beers.Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, arrives on the scene to find Jennelle's finger pointed firmly in one direction - Lawson's business partners. As Fati gets to know the three young men, she uncovers jealousy and resentment roiling beneath the friendly facade. Lawson was the moneymaker. He took the biggest cut of profits. And treated his partners like employees. Did they conspire to get rid of him? But Jennell herself isn't above suspicion. While building his business, Lawson spent long days away from his family. Did she hate him for it?The answers hide behind the perfect veneer of friendships, family ties, and business relationships. A successful businessman, Lawson was surrounded by yes-people sporting fake smiles and hollow words of praise. Which one of the faces at the dinner table was plotting Lawson's demise?

A marriage of convenience, an enigmatic boss, an old lover...unraveling her knotty relationships is the key to finding this missing woman.She told her husband she was staying with a friend. Her job demanded overnights out of town. Their marriage was solid. They were trying for a baby. When Misha Sinha, a twenty-five-year-old legal assistant goes missing, her husband hires Private Investigator Fati Rizvi to find her. When Fati starts asking questions, she digs out secrets Misha was harboring that her husband had no idea about...or did he?When CCTV footage is unearthed showing Misha with a man at a hotel, and wrapped around another at the office, her husband no longer wants to find her. She has betrayed him. She's a fallen woman. But Fati is insistent upon finding answers. Has something sinister befallen Misha? Or did she run away to escape an unhappy marriage? Clues are confounding, pointing in different directions.And then, the discovery of the dead body upends the case. Suddenly, everyone is singing a different tune. Misha's lovers are all pointing fingers at one another. Which one is lying? Fati knows that the answers lie in the buds of Misha's past, and in tracing her steps on her final days...PRAISE FOR HS BURNEY: "What a whirlwind. The Lake Temptation Murders has everything you ever wanted in a mystery/murder. Love the characters, and the complexity of the storylines are off the chart. If you are one that likes to guess at the culprits, good luck with this one. There are enough twists and turns to keep a roller coaster enthusiast grabbing on to the seat." - Nikcha for The Lake Templeton MurdersThe Lake Templeton Murders by HS Burney is an excellent murder mystery that had me guessing til the end. HS Burney spins quite a web of mystery and even when I thought I knew, I second guessed because the mystery was very well written! - Jessica Belmont for The Lake Templeton MurdersI thought this was a suspense filled tale that kept me intrigued and not able to easily predictable what was going to happen next. There were a few twists and turns that I would have never expected. - Amy on Goodreads for The Lake Templeton MurdersGreat Story, every time I thought I knew who did it, I was wrong . The pace of the story is fast enough that it never bogs down and keeps you turning pages to find the answers. The book is a great read. - Donald Puderbaugh for The Missing Twins