Police procedural Books

"Ron Franscell's 'Deaf Row' tells a darkly engrossing story with masterful, easy-flowingprose and a cleverinfusion of humor. The tension builds incrementally to a chilling five-star climax in which Franscellputshis well-honed skill as a true crime author...

The magic that defines us...Kayla has finally settled into her life as an FBI agent and a witch. Still, when a day off leads her to magical explosion, she feels the pressure to be a hero, like her mentor.Digging into the explosion leads her to a second...

The discovery of human bones on the idyllic shores of Echo Lake forces Detective Jake Cashen to expose long buried truths.Worthington County's coldest case heats up when ground-breaking on a new luxury subdivision comes with a grisly surprise. In full...

Cops and Robbers to Magic and Monsters. The world just became a lot more complicated for Detective Ray Bradley!When a mysterious drug hits the streets of Miami, Ray, a vice narcotics detective is assigned to work with an uptight DEA agent. Their...

A string of recent abductions takes a turn for the worse when the investigating agent joins an ever-expanding list of casualties. Fortunately, an unexpected informant knows who's responsible, but he'll only talk to one person.Detective Ray Bradley,...

Detective Sergeant Jake Goodwin receives a call to head up the A15 to investigate a suspicious death near Hibaldstow. He discovers 29-year-old Rachel Barnard dead in an old rusty sheep trough.  Rachel Barnard is a popular columnist on a local weekly...

Death stalks MextonWhen a spate of poisonings hits the town of Mexton, DC Mel Cotton and her colleagues are left perplexed. All the deaths seem to be ingeniously planned and the police cannot see anything obvious to connect the victims.Is a vigilante at...

Will the killing never stop?An elderly widow is found dead in her London home, a white mouse placed inside her mouth.It falls to Detective Inspector Benedict Paige to unmask this murderer with the cruel signature. He soon finds himself drawn back to 1982...

Dark gripping debut crime novel"PERFECT FOR MURDER-MYSTERY FANS!""Parr is adept at portraying his fictional world's most unpleasant characters" - Kirkus Reviews"An impressive debut that leaves the reader wanting more." - Reedsy ReviewIn Parr's debut...

Two children clutch each other tight, huddled together on a tiny raft and shivering in the ocean wind. Fear fills their matching hazel eyes. Slowly, little Tommy whispers: "We saw them kill Mommy and Daddy." Detective Casey White's heart shatters...

The woman's bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood. Her words silenced forever....

She wakes to the dawn light streaming through the window and rolls over to whisper good morning to her fiancé. But panic floods her veins. His side of the bed is empty and cold. Blood trails towards the open door. All trace of him is gone... It's...

Ein vermisster Künstler oder ein Mörder auf der Flucht? Tara Thorpe ermittelt in ihrem neuen Fall! Als ein Künstler aus Cambridge plötzlich wie vom Erdboden verschluckt verschwindet, bittet der verzweifelte Bruder des Opfers Detective Tara Thorpe um...

Aus ihrem Gesicht, das selbst im Tod noch schön war, starrten offene Augen in den azurblauen Himmel. Ihr braunes, seidiges Haar wehte um ihren Kopf und betonte die Blässe ihrer Haut. Ihre Lippen waren leicht geöffnet, als würde sie noch atmen, als würde...

The young woman lay among the rocks next to the creek like a broken doll, strands of her long dark hair covering her face. Her body was the kind of cold that only the dead can be...A body lies beside Kettlewell Creek, the waters rushing and churning next...

Color explodes in the night sky, every boom and spray of lights getting louder cheers from the happy crowd. But two little girls are hiding in fear. "I want my mommy," Abby whispers. A tear falls down her cheek as she clutches her sister's hand and...

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Rain hammers the earth and a vicious wind rattles the trees. Then lightning strikes, the flash illuminating a young girl staggering out of the woods, her brown eyes wide with fright, a silent scream on her lips... There's a storm approaching the...

The little girl fidgets in her seat, wringing the ends of her scarf in a rush of panic. She tugs at the car door handle but it doesn't open. Tears well in her eyes. "I want my mommy." Four years ago, six young girls were snatched from the streets of...

She stumbles into the street in a thin cotton nightdress, tripping in her haste to get away from her house. Her feet are bare, her movements frantic. "I have to get out of here," she pleads. "He's killing me." For weeks, Carolyn Tate's suspicions...

They are picture perfect. A young, happy family sat around the kitchen table. But no one moves as wisps of smoke filter into the room and the house becomes a burning grave around them... When reports come in of a family trapped in a burning house,...

In a world of lies, one truth remains. Dead men tell no tales...When the body of an unidentified man is found at the foot of Sheringham cliffs with injuries inconsistent with a fall, DI Tom Janssen must piece together his final days to determine how he...

What would you do to keep your past a secret?When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fishermen, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her there. Joined on the case by his new...

A secret worth dying for is a secret worth killing...When a violent storm uncovers the remains of an unknown young woman, long buried among the sand dunes, DI Tom Janssen must piece together fragmentary evidence to determine how she came to be there.In...

The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight...When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled by the hands of an unknown killer, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his fledgling...

When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to?The celebration of the Viking Festival of Fire ensures that thousands descend annually on the the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it...

All murder is wrong.Yet some murders are just more immoral than others.When an innocent young woman is murdered in her own bed in the dead of night, it shocks the whole of Glasgow. When it emerges that the murderer climbed three storeys high to enter the...

During the reign of the Dragon Emperor, an ancient curse falls over the princess. Two generals and a young thief sacrifice everything to escort her to safety, but time is running out.In a parallel universe 2000 years later, three agents and a pickpocket...

A NARCOTICS PICK-UP AT SEA GOES HORRIBLY WRONG. A MAN IS LOST OVERBOARD. A DANGEROUS SERIES OF EVENTS SENDS SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.On a wintery day a young woman is found dead at a local beach. Sergeant Bill Granger, the local policeman,...

It was supposed to be a milk run - your routine teenaged runaway case. But when the trail led Detective Emmaline Sullivan to the steps of Fernsby Manor, she found herself buried in the hidden secrets and dark lies of Ashwood's oldest, richest family...

From Suspect to Sleuth!When Rhode Island Attorney General Preston Knox is brutally murdered in his home,just weeks before getting elected Governor, the state police immediately pull in JuliusHaddock for questioning.After all, Julius, the now-retired...

East Texas private detective Sam Lawson is in a race against time when his fiancé, Carla Davenport, is abducted by a notorious serial killer bent on revenge.  Taunting Sam and the FBI, the killer reveals the exact time he will murder Carla. Sam...

When Karol Novak takes over a scandal-ridden police force, he has two murders to solve and years of corruption to clean up. The last thing he needs is to reopen a closed murder case.But that's the birthday wish of a nine-year-old girl, making it...

It's Christmas, and Marine Lieutenant Oliver Wright wants two things--to duck a medical discharge and to be a homicide detective again if World War II ever ends. Neither will happen if he can't evade the Navy surgeon who wants to cut off his leg. He's...

Two police officers that did stints in detectives decided they wanted to go back to a front line/first responder status in the department. There is a notable age difference between them but due to similar attitudes and motivations they became friends...

When Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Nick Reyes answers a call from his estranged wife who's in Mexico and in need of help finding her kidnapped brother, he enlists the help of his partner, Detective Meredith Ryan.Together, they fly out to Mexico where...

"Tightly plotted with break-neck pacing, Leahy's immersive historical crime drama, Enemies of All, is a winner!" -James L'Etoile, award-winning author of Black Label, Dead Drop, and the Detective Penley seriesIn the early 1940s, NYPD Dan Brady, an Irish...

Jack LeClere is a cop dodging bullets in what could best be described as friendly fire. He took out the serial killer who murdered his parents, and half of New Rhodes paid the price. Not to mention the rioting that gripped the city over the Julia Mae...

While stuck in traffic, Birch considers just how far he has come in life, at least in between interruptions from his fan-boy limousine driver.  He takes pride in the fact that the President of the United States has requested a one-on-one meeting...

A severed thumb leads an eccentric Mexican homicide detective to the Mafia, Russian mobsters, diamond smuggling, murder, and a lady in a red hat.

The luxurious lifestyle of a Los Angeles lawyer and his family is about to be turned upside down by one of the most powerful mafia families in New York City.Warrent, a corrupt, philandering New York senator, is playing dirty games with Hollywood lawyer,...

When Special Agent Dick Hartmann is invited to enjoy a free vacation on a cruise hosted by an insurance company, he jumps at the chance. After inviting his friend and fellow agent, Coleen Ryan, to come along, Hartmann boards the Pacific Wonder without...

The final confrontation between sibling and sibling in Abstreuse is about to begin...Kyra finally has a straight line to her brother's location. She can finally see the end of her journey when she may be able to bring him out of this dark city. If only...

Will an older small-town cop make it in the high-crime big city?After laterally transferring from the sleepy bedroom hamlet of the Town of Camillus Police Department, Officer Patrick MacKenna has a whole different learning curve to contend with...he...

Pride is in full swing in the Royal City. Colour, visitors and music crowd the streets as people come to enjoy the festivities. Perhaps the only thing that could bring down the mood is a dead body. When a member of the local LGBT community turns up dead...

Lost Highway:It's a Halloween dance, how bad can it be?This story comes after Exacerbyte and before Flashbyte. Dead Flowers:A clean up guy, an assassin, and a senator's wife.We let SSA Sam Jackson take the wheel and this is the result: Come a Little Bit...

On SAC Ellie Iverson's plate: birthday prep for her twins; an attempted abduction; pressure from her husband to retire from the FBI; a missing accountant, and an American company with a nefarious off-shore agenda that could devastate the world. Within...