Corruption Thriller

Investigating stolen art is not a pretty picture… Nikki’s dream job becomes a reality when a New York antique art dealer hires her for a covert mission aboard a cruise ship. Her task is to gather evidence on two passengers suspected of stealing art from the New York dealer. The presumed thieves, posing as art experts, quickly befriend Nikki, plunging her into a moral quandary. Can she remain impartial? As her investigation intensifies, she identifies a third suspect and breaks into his cabin. The situation escalates when he arrives unexpectedly and finds her rummaging through his ...

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns - it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer, a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat", and the heat's coming from all sides.

When survival demands darkness, heroes and monsters become one. Uncover the birth of a legend in the fifth electrifying installment of the Black Ghost Thriller series. Many decades before the Black Ghost became the elusive predator feared by all, he was simply Bic Green—a boy trapped in the unforgiving heart of Chicago's Robert Taylor Housing Project, where violence, addiction, and poverty loom large over every breath. In Assassin's Origins, readers are plunged into the raw story of a fragile young giant teetering on the edge of survival. With a father’s murderous legacy haunting his ...

When the love of his life is left in a life-threatening coma after a home invasion, Ben Johnson, one of the most successful black entrepreneurs in the country, is accidentally drawn into a sinister plot to shift the balance of power on the United States Supreme Court. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists his longtime friend and former homicide detective, Dimase Augustin, to find who is responsible... and why. After a similar attack results in the death of an elite Washington DC escort, Augustin uncovers a widespread conspiracy within the highest levels of government and law enforcement. ...

All Ethan Baines wants is to get on with his life and find a farm where he can operate an organic co-op farm. Little does he know that when he is looking at the perfect property to purchase, he is going to get caught up in a police investigation and then arrested as the primary—no, the only—suspect. Ethan's possible salvation is when he reconnects with someone from his past - Jack Nelson. Jack is a retired police officer who mentored Ethan when he was a teenager. Along with Jack comes Toby, our famous detective cat. Of course, Toby is on Ethan's side. Throw in crooked cops, an alcoholic...

Orphaned at 13, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law, lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once.

A missing quantum laptop with a world changing secret. A ruthless agent desperate to win... A hero who won’t lose! The world is desperately driven by the skyrocketing demand for Rare Earth Metals. The location of the world’s largest deposit sits inside an encrypted, quantum laptop. Only a tiny key can correctly unlock the coordinates to the vast lode. Russian, Chinese and Americans are desperate to find the tiny key and reveal the location. But time is running out. Attack after murderous attack reveal another leak in the American CIA and result in a horrific battle where it all began. ...

How do you play fair when everything you care about is on the line? Jelani “Hendrix” Obi is a former hotshot NYPD Detective, fired for doing his last job too well but not playing police politics well enough. Life after the job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and when an opportunity for reinstatement is dangled in front of him, Hendrix jumps at the chance to prove himself. He just has seventy-two hours to solve the murder case. But as he pulls on threads in search of the killer, he stumbles upon a powerful organization that has infiltrated and corrupted parts of the NYPD, maybe even ...

My family’s empire is crumbling as the feds close in. And the woman I can’t let go of might be our greatest betrayal. I'm caught in a web of lies and betrayal. Every move I make could be my last. Trust is a luxury I can't afford. But the truth? The truth might destroy us all. There's a rat in our family. The feds are closing in. And a secret that could change everything. I have to choose: Loyalty to my blood, Or a chance at redemption. The clock is ticking. The stakes have never been higher. And I'm running out of time. Who will survive when the dust settles? Only one way to find out.

In this first book in a new series by Carol Roberts she explores the adventures of a young investigative reporter who began an independent series of articles after the magazine of which she was editor closed unexpectedly. With a one year severance package and full medical care for the year she felt herself free of the bounds of corporate journalism to investigate and report in the vein of the Watergate journalists. Little did she know the hornets nest she would be turning over!

Book 2 In a world where shadows linger and secrets fester, Victoria and Gwen have carved out a fragile sanctuary along the rugged coastline, far from the chaos of their past. Their days are woven with the warmth of morning light spilling across pine floorboards and the scent of salt air mingling with the aroma of freshly whisked eggs. Here, in their quaint kitchen, they savor stolen moments of normalcy—until the arrival of Sophia Moriarty shatters their peace. Sophia, the estranged daughter of Victoria's infamous ex-husband Carmen, brings chilling news that threatens to unravel everything...

“Caldwell's strong and charismatic protagonist Jake Clearwater is the new Perry Mason, and I can't wait to read the next entry in the series. Highly recommended!” — Eric Petersen, The Internet Review of Books A gripping legal thriller where the pursuit of justice comes at a deadly cost. When a former prosecutor agrees to represent a death-row inmate, he expects a tough legal fight. What Jake Clearwater doesn't expect is the case of his career—one that threatens his life. Duane Durgeon has been convicted of brutally murdering a young couple, and the evidence against him seems damning...

Dr. Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back in the townhouse of Dr. James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practice medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out.

They took her mother 23 years ago. Now they want Ava. Forced home at Rosegate Farm by fragmented memories, Ava Cade learns her mother didn't abandon her but was murdered by a criminal network hiding secrets in plain sight. From hidden cellars to powerful men and corrupt officials, Ava unearths a conspiracy tied to land, money, and blood. With allies she barely knows and enemies lurking in the shadows, she's in a race against time. Justice is a long shot in the bayou... unless you fight for it!

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover.

Maine cast a good luck spell to save the love of her life from prison, but at what cost? Magic is controlled by chaos, and with every instance of magically enhanced good luck comes some corresponding bad luck. Sage is free, but so is the Demon who created the Mantle. The Demon has escaped from his celestial prison. He is gathering his minions and is gunning for the Mantle. But the Mantle isn't the only weapon the Demon wants. There are other, more powerful items around . . . and none more so than Father Time's Clock.

In Albion Minor, riots rule & soldiers shoot to order. A dead body is decaying in Ben Jackman’s patch and he’s suspect Number 1. Proving his innocence in a dystopian hell is problematic because justice is auctioned to the highest bidder and Ben Jackman has no coins to jingle in his pockets. The story begins with Marvin, Ben’s last best friend, being in deep trouble with the Black Hat cartel. He has stolen and they want the theft punished. Marvin asks Ben to deliver a bag, the stolen booty, to his mother, pleading with Ben to honour a childhood pact, a promise to help each other in ...

In a South American jungle, perched precariously above a raging river, the secret detonator for a WW2 Nazi nuclear weapon lies undisturbed inside a long lost airplane. Its discovery ignites a race to grab the bomb and cover up another terrible secret: a written accord giving Europe to Hitler. A treaty that would tear apart the NATO Alliance. The CIA recruits salvage expert Morgan Fox to recover the pilot, the plane and the bomb. But a rogue CIA operative threatens to expose everything, sell the treaty, destabilize the region and all of NATO. Will Morgan and his team recover the plane in ...

What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into 70 years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colleagues brought their terrible discovery to the President and were met with a hail of automatic gunfire after leaving the White House. Only Paige survived.

Dans Le pire de nous, les architectes et nouveaux mariés Timo et Nia fuient la scène d’un meurtre, déclenchant ainsi une réaction en chaîne de mensonges et de traîtrises qui menacent d’anéantir tout ce qu’ils ont construit ensemble.