Crime Conspiracy

Chosen by the International Thriller Writers as a finalist for BEST EBOOK OF 2021. A city that’s falling apart, a man who’s falling apart, and a girl with a secret past who's disappeared without a trace. What complicates things — complicates the hell out of them, actually — is that the missing girl is the daughter of one of the most powerful men in America. She just doesn’t know it. Hong Kong is on the verge of anarchy. Violent street battles rage between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. John August is an American ...

Former Legionnaire Jens Schacht is in hiding from the British Government after wiping out a British army unit in Iraq. He covertly enters the United Kingdom, intending to hide out in the Highlands of Scotland until the official heat dies down. But fate has other plans for him. A local woman in the police witness protection program has her cover blown and her gangster husband tries to kill her. When Schacht intervenes, he is rewarded with unwelcome attention by the local police. This in turn brings the SAS to Scotland, on the orders of the Prime Minister, to get revenge for Iraq. Not only ...

A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a 17th-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions.

On the gritty, forgotten streets of Larissa, Galen Tor is more than just a gambler. Once a soldier with a reputation for calculated risk, now he's a man willing to bet it all—even his last route off this desolate rock. But when a high-stakes card game with an old enemy goes sideways, Galen’s life spirals into an underworld of deception, violence, and shady alliances. As the stakes rise and a powerful rival threatens to take what little he has left, Galen finds himself entangled in a job he can’t walk away from—a dangerous rescue operation, led by a corrupt commissioner with his own ...

The phenomenal New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Lowell brilliantly displays her incomparable talents in a story of treachery, greed, conspiracy, and murder that will hold the reader spellbound until the final word.

Wayne Sharp newer expected his life to turn like that. Dishonorably discharged, he tries to build his life from the beginning in Clayton, New Mexico. He never expects to be attracted so deeply to the woman in trouble, in trouble beyond hope… Trying to help her, he becomes involved in the dark secrets of the town. Just what can a man do?

SHE WAS RICH AND BEAUTIFUL, AND ASKED ME TO SAVE HER DYING CHILD! A woman begs Alton Rhode to find the bank-embezzler lover who left her pregnant and in the lurch. She says her waif-like daughter needs the fugitive’s bone marrow to survive. But the trail has been cold for 14 years! That’s the least of Rhode’s problems. Local mobsters have their own agenda. Only a mysterious guardian angel – with an automatic pistol – keeps the private eye alive long enough to find the missing man. Then things really get weird! “DE MARIA HAS WRITTEN A STUNNER OF A PRIVATE EYE MYSTERY, WITH AN ...

Henry Matheson owns the drug trade in East London. To his competitors, he’s feared. To his customers, he’s God. To the police, he’s untouchable. But when the smoldering remains of Henry’s closest competitor are discovered dangling from a lamppost in the middle of his estate, one man decides to take him on: Jake Tanner. But he can’t do it alone. And with The Cabal’s clandestine network of corrupt officers threatening him and his family at every turn, Jake doesn’t know who to trust.

The discovery of a deadly virus being smuggled across the border pits FBI Special Agent James Mason and his strike force against an unknown adversary hell-bent on humanity’s destruction. In a desperate effort to contain the pathogen, they launch a predawn raid, only to find that their enemy knows they’re coming...and it’s not about to be taken alive. An explosion rips through the building, killing the majority of Mason’s team, including his partner and mentor.

Napoleon famously observed that "history is a set of lies agreed upon", and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.

IT WAS A SIMPLE INSURANCE INVESTIGATION -- UNTIL THE LIES AND BODIES STARTED PILING UP! Alton Rhode starts out in a Northern nursing home and winds up in a Southern town, where a military academy may be more soiled than local Civil War statues covered in bird droppings. He uncovers a twisty financial conspiracy involving radioactive isotopes, sex, and murder. "ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES.” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY.” (Florida Weekly); “A ...

DARK SECRETS LINK TWO WOMEN TO A MURDERED BANKER! A security guard apprehends Elizabeth Olsen fleeing a mansion with a revolver in her hand. Inside, John Denton, a prominent banker, lies dead. Elizabeth claims she is innocent. But she acknowledges that Denton was her lover, and her story has more holes in it than the victim. No one believes the sexy, amoral woman. Not even her high-powered lawyer. But her wealthy father does, and wants Alton Rhode to clear her. Then, the case takes an even more tragic turn, sending the private investigator on a journey into the dark past of a Southern town,...

What possessed a woman from the elite of eighteenth-century New England society to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husband at the midpoint of the American Revolution? The story of Bathsheba Spooner has alternately fascinated and baffled residents of Worcester County for centuries. Beyond central Massachusetts, the tale is largely unknown.

Hoax, conspiracy, or secret society? That is the range of responses you might hear when raising the idea of the Priory of Sion. Ostensibly a clandestine order designed to disguise the truth about the children of Jesus Christ, the group have been labeled as either an elaborate concoction or the most powerful secret society in the world. Are they real? What are they hiding? Where did they come from? What impact can they have on the world around us? These are the questions this book will hope to answer.

Some houses never forget what happened inside them. Real estate agent Rebecca Torres specializes in the properties no one else will touch—homes where murders occurred, families died, and darkness lingers in every room. She tells herself she's helping people move on from tragedy. She's wrong. Her clients aren't buying houses. They're collecting crime scenes. When Rebecca discovers her buyers are recreating the original murders with disturbing accuracy, she realizes she's been providing detailed instruction manuals for wealthy psychopaths who pay premium prices for authentic killing ...

Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things can get worse. Drugged, bound, and transported by strange operatives of unknown origin, Hardie awakens to find himself captive in a secret prison that houses the most dangerous criminals on earth.

Two dead teens. One connection to Assistant DA Ben Lovison's childhood home, Fathers House and its proprietor, Mayo Fathers. Fathers had been like, well a father to Ben as well as to other wayward youth in Duraleigh, North Carolina. To Ben and the others, Fathers was a godsend. Now, it appears he may have been a ruthless madman sent from someplace else. A tormented Ben must uncover the painful truth before it's too late and other teens are killed. But in doing so, Ben is forced into unsettling realizations about his long dead mother and the father he'd never known.

As the 21st century marches into its third decade, our understanding of the world, and our place within it, seems to be clearer than ever. Each day brings us more and more miraculous scientific discoveries, while technology has interconnected us to an extent that our ancestors and forefathers could not have conceived. And yet, despite the collective of human knowledge lying at our fingertips, there are still a multitude of unsolved mysteries that stubbornly resist any attempts at solving them.

Finn is contacted by a federal agent who asks for his assistance in a delicate case. A piece of equipment disappears from a government-funded secret lab. The nature of the experimental equipment is so secretive that not even the agent knows what exactly it contains... This is Book 2 of "Orthia" - the second series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

Case brief: The opening of the Kalamazoo City Dome - the world's largest indoor/outdoor amusement complex - has everyone in the city buzzing, especially because it's going to be the shooting site for Chase Mercy's new blockbuster film. But that's when things start to go haywire, and Mayor Saunders suspects foul play. Who would want to sabotage the Dome, and why?