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This story follows the exploits of a mature anti-criminal team. The team members, whose personalities range from easygoing to neurotic, are led by rich, sensuous, and alcoholic Mary Coldgrave. Full of quirky characters and dark humor, this book should...

"Poignant and funny, studded with characters who haunt your imagination long after you've read the final page." -Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author of Cave of BonesWhen everyone would prefer to look the other way, can one man cut...

San Diego Private Investigator, Brig Ellis, is hired by a wealthy industrialist to help him acquire the final horse in a set of twelve palomino miniatures that once belonged to the last Emperor of China. What begins as a seemingly reasonable assignment...

In Hollywood, five people in the movie industry agree to participate in a devious and ingenious lottery to commit murder. The lottery is designed so that four of the five will have no way of knowing who the actual killer is. Their intended victim is Abel...

<i> "We have a dead child, and a crime scene that has been remarkably well kept for us."</i> <br><br>A young child lies mummified in a barrel. His hands, cable-tied, appear to be locked in prayer. As forensic officers remove the...

Reporter Mark Freer learns that the body of an old girlfriend has been found, beaten to death, in the county where he now lives and works south of Atlanta. He left the girl, Amelia, years before due to her drug addiction but feels guilty because he...

<i>Three criminals on the run, not just from the law but from other criminals. Two of them are lovers, the third her former lover. Where does love lie, except in the grave? </i> <br><br>Deria is the psychotic woman who prefers to...

Miles Jacoby is torn between a career in the ring and his new ticket as a private investigator. When his sleuth mentor is murdered, it's bad enough that Miles's brother is charged. Worse, Miles finds himself in love with his brother's wife...

A shut-and-opened case?The beautiful heiress had done a foolproof job on herself. After a large dose of sleeping pills, she'd slashed her wrists, then climbed into the tub and drowned.Only her fiance said suicide was impossible and begged Mac to help, at...

Enzo Noto has been underground hiding in the Chatham Colony where psychics live in peace. Although confirmed dead by the world, secret agencies and cults would like to find Enzo and use his psychic ability to access radio waves. When he learns that...

Joseph Gallo and Artie Adler are old friends, so when Joseph's grandson Chris seems to be getting into trouble, Artie tails him. The news isn't good. It looks like Chris is in with the mob. It's bad enough that Chris' dad was killed in a collateral...

Miller thought it was the perfect heist: Five minutes to hit the cash room of an amusement park, then another two minutes to the getaway car, then gone. As a professional thief, he'd done jobs like that dozens of times. But Miller's partners had other...

 EVE Clive Thurston is living a lie. Having claimed a dying playwright’s masterwork as his own, he is hailed as a brilliant, new author. Thurston is now living the good life in Hollywood. He has a house in the country, a manservant, a...

"Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers gives Diane Capri and her NEW Hunt for Jack Reache Series Two Thumbs Up!Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy?It’s been a...

Reacher’s long gone. His enemies aren’t.“Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” Lee Child, #1 World-Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher ThrillersFBI Special Agent Kim Otto’s search for Reacher takes a deadly...

IN BOOK 7 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:With foes in high places, what's a girl to do to put food on the table—let alone stay alive? If you're housewife assassin Donna Stone, you accept a Hollywood producer's offer to turn your life...

"Exceptional characterization, strong and vigorous prose, and a glimpse into a place and time that has long since disappeared." Mystery Scene Magazine"Dennis may not have made literature of Hardman, but he damn sure touched on it more than a time or...

A cop targets those who shatter the innocence of the young in this novel by the author of The Magpie, finalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction.DSI Billie Wilde is back at work after a shocking case that saw her life thrown into utter turmoil...

In Manchester, vigilantes are setting traps online to expose sexual predators and once they have a suspect in their sights they're taking the law into their own hands, acting as judge, jury and executioner.When the suicide of a troubled woman near to...

Hunting a killer, a female detective is drawn into the abyss...Liverpool is in the grip of a serial killer. He suffocates his victims using a bin bag, and discards them like refuse on the streets.After tricking her way through a psychological evaluation,...

She glances around as she locks the café door behind her. It's growing dark and the quiet street is deserted. Tired, she starts on her short walk home. She thinks she'll be safe inside within minutes, but the person watching from the shadows has other...

Writing about crime is a lot more fun than being caught up in it...After former crime journalist Joe Sheldon is forced to resign from one of the nation's leading newspapers, he finds solace in sipping his vodka cranberries, listening to vinyl records...

DELAMAR, NEVADA, 1907THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IS OVER BUT A NEW CONFLICT IS RAGINGacross the western United States. Wealthy mine owners and their political allies in CrippleCreek, Colorado, and Butte, Montana, have paid for state and private armies to...

Detective Sam Lawson heads to Martha's Vineyard for another entertaining and suspenseful page-turner. He had hoped his impromptu trip the island would be a chance to take some time off and rekindle his relationship with Carla Davenport. But when a...

Los Angeles, 2039. Alex Krieg is a Death Enforcement Officer for the Los Angeles Department of Decongestion, an entity tasked with reducing traffic density by “subtracting” drivers—part of the city’s War on Traffic.This is his...

Ryan Carpenter is an underground relocation specialist who helps people escape the danger and traumas of their life and start over. After agreeing to help the young wife of a Texas oil baron relocate her stepson to escape criminal prosecution, Ryan...

Mac McKenzie is rich. So rich that he’s left his job as a Twin Cities police officer and spends his time doing favors large and small for friends. So when an old Marine buddy of his father’s calls with a request Mac takes the time to help him...

<i>A missing woman. A suitcase full of drug money. An ex-cop with nothing to lose.</i> <br><br>A roadside shooting ended both his career and his marriage and sent ex-state trooper Henry Malone back to his childhood home in...

J.T., a down on his luck street person, stumbles across a vicious murder occurring before his eyes. His decision to follow the killer takes him on a danger filled journey that eventually leads to his hope for redemption and a better life. Veronica...

Eddie Collins, private eye and part-time Hollywood actor, is hired by ageing actor, Sam Roth, to locate his disowned son, Jack Callahan. Roth hopes to reconcile their relationship before his “Martini Shot” last scene of the day, as he is in...

<p>On the eve of the U.S. Bicentennial, newsman Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real...

Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disasterMarybeth met Jamie at the Horn & Whistle, a neighborhood pub warm enough to keep out the chill on a bleak January day. Over a pint of stout, he won her heart...

Philadelphia, 2018. Uber driver Steve Piasecki picks up an exotic dancer at a topless club in Philadelphia and transports her home.But he becomes a suspected drug dealer when she's found dead the next morning of an apparent fentanyl overdose.The autopsy...

Two rival gangs. Four dead innocents.One beleaguered city caught in the crossfire. Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence. She's convinced, however, that...

Briar County is in Southern Ohio - the gateway to Appalachia. People there move at their own pace. They hunt, they fish, they farm - but their secrets run deeper than the fishing holes that dot the countryside. And Dalton Edwards, DEA agent, is about to...

Uma história de amor e luta pela sobrevivênciaSinopse: Ricardo, um rapaz português, decide fazer o Caminho de Santiago sozinho. Aí, ele conhece Valeria, uma jovem paulista que, após terminar um namoro, busca iniciar uma nova vida. Os dois conhecem-se,...

If the crime is challenging and tangled, it's a proper crime.When Sherry Proper latches onto a crime, begins digging deep, she doesn't let go—not until she knows what is going on. Some people don't like that, especially the power...

Um cozinheiro sinistro, um bolo amaldiçoado e um jantar casual entre vizinhos que dá errado.Essa coleção de contos sombrios e receitas de Karmen Špiljak alcança ápices culinários que você ansiou por explorar, mas nunca encontrou nos mapas. Enquanto os...

Es geht um die Mafia, Geldwäsche, Russen, Osteuropäer, Aussiedler aus dem Ostblock. Die Mafia hat sich diese Menschen ausgesucht, weil sie hier schon etwas länger leben, Gegebenheiten und ungestörte Plätze kennen, um diese Art von Geschäften abzuwickeln...

Ein Millionenerbe, körperlich und psychisch labil, kommt gewaltsam zu Tode. Peter Tischler verdächtigt seinen Bruder, den kauf- und fresssüchtigen Jay, nimmt aber die Entsorgung der Leiche auf sich. Ein Berliner Geschäftsmann macht sich auf die Suche...

BACK COUNTRYEx-G.I. Brad Dolan is traveling through central Florida, trying to forget his past, when his car breaks down. While waiting for a repair, he checks out the town and finds that everyone here in Carter County is afraid of a guy named Rand Ringo...

WOMAN HUNTERMarty Doyle was supposed to throw the fight, and now Angie is looking for him, wanting to take his betting loss out in a serious beating. Marty's manager, Chuffy, figures the only way he can keep Marty alive and healthy is to pay back Angie,...

CRIME COPDetective Jeff Flavin gets assigned to head the Burglary detail when a rich guy named Sturgis is beaten and his beautiful wife murdered during a robbery of their safe. He and his partner, George Gilman, interview the murder victim's best friend...

THE LYING LADIESA rich woman's maid is brutally murdered. What do you do if you believe that the young man who has been arrested for the crime is innocent? What do you do when you can see that the sheriff and the prosecutor want to close this case...

Murder and peaceful spirituality don’t mix…. or at least, they shouldn’t.Valerie Inglewood and her partner Charlene Brockworth travel deep into the Northern New Mexico mountains to investigate a mysterious murder at the EdenCloud...