Crime City

It was one of Kieran’s most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man needed to be locked away. Now, Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches the killer’s methods, and news breaks that the Fireman has escaped prison. Amid a citywide manhunt, Kieran and Craig need to untangle a web of deceit, privilege, and greed. They suspect that those closest to the killer have been drawn into his evil, or else someone is using another man’s madness and cruelty to disguise their crimes.

Sometimes, a cop has to improvise.Like when my partner Richie and I had to respond to a woman claiming a guy in another building was trying to control her brain. Richie questioned her thoroughly, and found out that this guy’s death ray would only work at night and only seemed to be directed toward her bedroom window. "Not a problem,” said Richie, “I’ve seen this before. Follow me and do exactly as I say.” He explained that if she covered the window entirely with aluminum foil, the negative ions that comprised the thought-control function of the gamma ray that this guy was ...

Private eye Sharon McCone receives an email asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half-brother, Darcy Blackhawk, but he fails to reply to her response. As Sharon digs deeper, she discovers that Darcy sent his message from an Internet café in San Francisco, a city he's never been to before. Sensing that Darcy is in terrible danger, McCone begins a search for him throughout the city. The investigation leads her to the body of a woman at the Palace of Fine Arts, where a witness told her Darcy was headed. As her search widens, Sharon uncovers a connection to an unsolved murder....

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. It was a place, neighbors felt, that was plagued by spiritual cancer.

From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York.

A pregnant woman has been murdered in a brutal, ritualistic way: burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. When Unai “Kraken” Lopez de Ayala discovers the victim is his first love, Ana Belén Liaño, memories of their time together come flooding back, and with them reminders of a dark secret long buried.

Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City’s renowned scientist and anointed “God,” the nameless antihero who tracked down Akira’s killer, is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the city’s police department, he raises his daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter. His domestic bliss is threatened when Ascalon’s Scar—the mark left by Akira’s destruction of Sessho-seki—vanishes from the sky and a familiar face thought dead returns from the ocean depths to exact revenge on humanity.

Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was 18. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did Leah inherit from her parents? Leah was left to put together her own future, and now in her memoir she explores the mystery of her parents' lives through interviews and police records.

It's August in New York, and the steaming garbage littering the streets isn't the only thing that stinks. Civilian investigator Leonard Mitchell can keep his job as the new head of the Department to Investigate Misconduct and Corruption only by successfully prosecuting veteran cop Ralph Mulino.

The dead body of a young college student reignites an investigation into a series of bizarre murders that remain unsolved and a killer who has returned with a vengeance. In the career of every detective, there is that one case that haunts them. For some investigators, it's an unsolved murder. For others, it's the victims and the suffering they endured. For Vince Wills, it's a combination of the two, but at least he believed the killings had stopped. Now, he knows he was wrong. Everything is on the line as he attempts to solve his biggest case of New Orleans homicide.

Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor in the fifties and sixties—until he wasn’t. A costar on Broadway, a member of Lucille Ball’s historic Desilu workshop, and finally a primetime TV actor, Dick had hustled to get his big break. But just as soon as his star began to rise, his roles began to dry up and he faded from the spotlight, his name out of tabloids and newspapers until his sensational murder in 1980.

Death in Central Park by Harper Stanwick, Sr. is a gripping mystery novel set in New York City during the early 20th century. When a young woman is found dead on a park bench, two high society individuals, Stephanie Orton and Carlos Collins, find themselves entangled in a complex web of intrigue and secrets. Stephanie Orton, a practical and independent heiress, refuses to marry the charming yet idle Steve Collins until he proves himself capable of achieving something meaningful. Their lives take an unexpected turn when they discover the lifeless body of a beautiful, unidentified girl in ...

A young woman awakens in a jungle prison with no idea how she go there. She's been beaten and tortured and is being held inside a walled compound by a man who won't speak to her. Is he insane, a sadist, or is this whole experience a figment of her imagination? After all, her mind is filled with horrifying images, none of which make any sense, but that leave her with one inescapable conclusion--something terrifying exists outside the walls of her compound. So is this compound her prison, or her salvation?

Those dark and terrible things from your nightmares are very real. They walk among us, masquerading as your neighbor, your lover, even your friend. You see, Empire City is full of them...if you only know where to look. How do I know this? Well, for starters the name is Detective Tom Holliday. I work homicide for Special Crimes. My friends, what few I have, call me Doc. And the other reason? I’ve got magic of my own. Welcome to Empire City, where magic and technology co-exist, and humanity endures behind walls of stone and spell-forged steel.

Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years. Sociologist Patrick Sharkey gathered data from across the country to understand why this happened. Sharkey puts forth an entirely new approach to confronting violence and urban poverty. At a time when inequality, complacency, and conflict all threaten a new rise in violent crime, and the old methods of policing are unacceptable, the ideas in this book are indispensable.

In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by an acquaintance of Sito’s. The two murders merited a few local news stories, and then the rest of the world moved on. But for Laurence Ralph, Sito’s murder forced him to revisit the subject in a profoundly different way.

Step into an exhilarating adventure with *The Moore Boys: City of Sin *, where you join identical twin brothers, Benjamin and Dimitri Moore, on the vacation of a lifetime that quickly spirals into a gripping mystery. As they soak up the sun in a stunning tropical paradise, their idyllic getaway is abruptly interrupted by a call from Caribbean authorities, beckoning them to lend their expertise in a baffling case that has the local law enforcement on edge. At the heart of this enigma is Dr. Henry Brown, a beloved dentist admired for his gentle spirit and unwavering commitment to his community.

These stories are about the violent crime in New York City that has been in the headlines over the last year; see why many people are scared to ride the subway or go out late at night. These varied crime stories flesh out the violence that is occurring in America's largest city. All of these crime stories are set in present day Manhattan. Murder, betrayal, robbery, random acts of violence and greed. (This is book two in the series.)

David Robbins continues the proud tradition of Ralph Compton's Western novels with enough hardscrabble heroes, blazing gun fights, and twisted villains to fill a corral. Bluff City is a booming silver mining town full of pigeons to pluck. When two of its wealthiest citizens devise plans to rob their neighbors legally and illegally, only Clay Adams stands in their way.