Crime Conspiracy

'Fast Paced Action Packed & 100% Funny Dark Satirical Parody.' Miss Marple Struts her Stuff: This is a relentless and, dare I say it, humorous thriller where every move is a false start and every clue is a red herring. Private eye, Jack Hamma, faces the Hong Kong Mafia, better known as the Triad, and gets mixed up in a deadly turf war where knives and cleavers are the order of the day. Engaged to protect a beautiful Chinese girl, daughter of the Triad Dragon Master, February Ling, Jack fouls up big time, can he pull everything together and sort out the mystery or will the Triad’s ...

Alex returns to Wyndley Farm, her childhood home in Virginia, to await the birth of her baby. An urgent call from Crescent City Medical Center compels her to return to New Orleans to investigate cruel, questionable incidents and heinous patient deaths. Digger Stildove returns from Yemen where he has searched for Jacob Stark. Michaela McPherson travels from Richmond with police dog Angel to consult with Commander Francoise in his search for St. Germaine. Events unfold as the evil continues and the hospital attempts to safeguard patients and staff.Updated 10.9.2020

"What I love about Steven F. Freeman’s writing is that he keeps you guessing; just when you think you’ve figured it all out, he throws another curveball at you. This clever style of writing keeps the reader on their toes throughout. The action in When the Killing Starts begins on page one and never lets up. This novel can be read as a stand-alone story. Action/thriller readers will love this book as much as I did." - Readers' Favorite The Winter Olympics: the perfect time for competition, sportsmanship…and mayhem Days before the Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin, host country ...

What if you found your father living with your mother’s murderer? Burnt out from death, mayhem and relationships gone sour, former special forces operative Rayna Tan returns home to Vancouver to recharge, only to discover her father is hiding the illegal Mexican student who killed Rayna’s mom. The principal of a Canadian private school duped the teenager and her friends from an impoverished village with promises of free education and living expenses. But if it’s too good to be true… Deception and lies were the real price. The school is a front for a drug operation. Rayna’s mother ...

Named the ghost agent by the jihadists he hunts, Rowan Milani’s identity is a closely guarded secret, known only by a handful of people, including the President of the United States. A decorated Iranian-American FBI Special Agent who doubles as an assassin, Rowan has dedicated his life to eliminating terrorists around the globe. Betrayed by a man he trusts, his identity revealed, Rowan descends into an ever deepening world of darkness, rife with treachery and deceit. He is forced to exist in the shadows, only a whisper from discovery by those who wish him dead. Muusa Shemal, a Muslim ...

A mystery novel set in France during the early 20th century. In "The Brandy Bandits," readers are transported to the picturesque French countryside, where Marlin Bostick, a diligent English wine merchant, finds himself ensnared in an unexpected web of intrigue and peril. What begins as a simple business trip quickly spirals into a dangerous investigation that blurs the lines between trade and treachery. After a chance encounter with the enigmatic Madeleine Slaton at her father’s sawmill, Marlin notices oddities that suggest a darker underbelly beneath the serene facade of their world. His...

On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessful attempted abduction. Using his attacker's cell phone, he learns that another person, a woman named Danica Ellis, is also being targeted. Dryden arrives just in time to save Danica from the assault team sent after her. But neither of them recognizes the other or has any idea why they are being targeted. The only clue is a heavily redacted, official-looking document given to Danica by her stepfather before he was killed.

Corruption using nonprofit assets! The Foundation Game Deceptions is Book 2 in the political and financial suspense series. Margo Maxwell and Jonathan Ross cross paths once again as the disgraced Zenkon Foundation is reorganized into a more complex Global Trust Foundation in order to continue its activities. The nonprofit is drawn into financial and cybercrime activities involving money laundering, and fraud. The dangerous crime ring reveals the involvement of drug cartels and political powerbrokers.

Ein brutaler Mord, ein verschwundenes Meisterwerk und ein Geheimnis, das nur Gabriel Allon lösen kann Der Kunstrestaurator und legendäre Spion Gabriel Allon ist heimlich nach London gereist, um an einem Empfang in der Courtauld Gallery teilzunehmen, bei dem die Rückgabe eines gestohlenen Selbstporträts von Vincent van Gogh gefeiert wird. Doch als ein alter Freund der Polizei von Devon und Cornwall ihn um Hilfe bei einer rätselhaften Mordermittlung bittet, sieht er sich mit einem mächtigen und gefährlichen neuen Gegner konfrontiert.

Semi-finalist, Publisher's Weekly Booklife Prize Can a conspiracy be uncovered before the Death Count rises? Forensic accountant Kat Munro fights corporate fraud during the day and kickboxes her demons at night while trying to ignore the nightmares that have plagued her since a car accident changed her life forever. DS Adam Jackson is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of a friend two years ago. When the partner of a successful London Investment fund dies in suspicious circumstances, Kat joins forces with Adam to investigate the firm. As they gather evidence of a crime with ...

No one escapes Dante’s villa. Not alive. From Kenneth R. Overman, award-winning author of A Lion in Spring, comes another gripping standalone thriller of espionage, vengeance, and survival, in which a college professor is the only thing standing between a brutal trafficker and mass murder. While leading a student trip through Spain, Professor Nathan Radcliff stumbles into a nightmare. A terrified Romanian girl begs for help, and Nathan, without knowing it, disrupts one of the largest human trafficking networks in Europe. Mistaken for an undercover agent, he’s abducted and taken to the ...

Two babies disappear from the White House. The president has no clue…Reeling from the tragic death of her husband, Alex fights to save his legendary architectural firm and expose his ex, Vivien, who nearly destroyed it. With Vivien and her accomplices behind bars, Alex believes the nightmare is finally over. She marries Perry, a successful entrepreneur and a rising political star. Balancing motherhood to newborn twins with her demanding new roles in business and politics, Alex feels secure, certain the criminals she helped incarcerate can no longer harm her family. But vengeance never ...

Me in the suburbs! Only a client like this one could get me out of the city and into a suburb. But her mother got killed when someone heaved a concrete block off an overpass and through her windshield. The police are settling for calling it a tragic accident. My client doesn’t by it. Newland is a suburb, a small, tight-knit community that pays the police well and discourages inconvenient investigations and having unflattering things brought into the light. I’m not a huge fan of the light myself, but my client is paying me good money to find out the truth, and I do enjoy bringing down ...

The turning point in history came with the exposure of the government's betrayal of basic freedoms. The spy agency BIM cloaked itself behind the computers, cell phones, and postal service communication systems of World Aid organizations. Albert, a simple, honest accountant, exposed the truth behind the illusion of freedom for all the world to see. The day the world stopped being a secure place began like any normal day. Albert Bach enjoyed his job and loved the thought of providing a needed service. He viewed himself as a loyal citizen. He believed in the country's policies until he saw ...

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.

A park ranger is haunted by the memory of the woman, left for dead, whose life he’d saved 20 years ago. He is haunted by the rape and attempted murder of a young woman, who was left for dead in a national park .She survived, but police were unable to solve the case and eventually stopped looking for the perpetrator. Shlomki, the park ranger’searnest and naïve demeanor leads him into conflict with the local security forces, who are used to bending the rules. He is determined to pursue the investigation, discovering much more than he’d imagined about the people who control the area. ...

A photograph is worth a thousand words, but is a photograph worth killing for? Caught on Camera is the story of a thirty-year-old photograph discovered amongst a dead man's belongings. Innocent as the picture looks, it holds a dark secret that someone will stop at nothing to preserve. Following the death of his mysterious tenant, landlord George persuades his friend, journalist Tony Vercoe, to trace the family of the deceased man. Together they discover hidden documents. Among them is a thirty-year-old press cutting, as well as a roll of 35mm negatives plus two black and white photographs. ...

Arriving at his friend’s funeral, Bryce had in his pocket the envelope with a single key delivered to his office the day before, send by dead now James. A random act of violence; his friend was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Shot as he was driving across the Potomac. Bryce tries to understand what happened to James and his own role in this story. He finds more and more data about what his dead friend was involved in and clearly sees that his life is now in danger too. Unwillingly he pulling into this story his new girlfriend. This is the time to confront the situation. This is book...

After barely avoiding becoming a casualty of his boss’s financial fraud at National Airlines and the break-up of his second marriage, Lonny Jones passes on a promotion to Vice President and relocates to Austin, where he’d attended college twenty years ago, to recharge and figure out his future. By chance, he rents a house owned by a politically active couple and is unwittingly drawn into a down-and-dirty mayoral primary election campaign where the powerful, charming and corrupt mayor uses his office to dispense favors to developers. The challenger is an upstart political novice with an ...

The rulers of the empire are being replaced. And no one has noticed. Elise Durnham has spent years hiding in plain sight, living a double life as Davis Ellis, a gifted engineer in the Emperor’s court. But when she uncovers a terrifying secret, a conspiracy to replace the empire’s leaders with mechanical replicas, her carefully constructed disguise becomes the least of her worries. With only the cryptic notes left behind by her missing father and the uneasy alliance of a cunning rogue spy, Elise must race against time to unravel a coup that has already begun. The machines are perfect. ...