Crime Conspiracy

Antonia Scott is special. Very special. She is not a policewoman or a lawyer. She has never wielded a weapon or carried a badge, and yet, she has solved dozens of crimes. But it's been awhile since Antonia left her attic in Madrid. The things she has lost are much more important to her than the things awaiting her outside. She also doesn't receive visitors. That's why she really, really doesn't like it when she hears unknown footsteps coming up the stairs. Whoever it is, Antonia is sure that they are coming to look for her. And she likes that even less.

An obscure, ramshackle ranch on the southern bank of the Rio Grande turns out to be the secret gateway for major terrorist attacks suddenly breaking out throughout the United States. Pete Cortez, an on-the-outs FBI special agent with the Houston Field Office, is temporarily sent to the border on a make-or-break assignment to salvage his precarious career. Set amid the gritty landscape of south Texas, RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA is the first book in Bill King's Pete Cortez FBI Thriller series. If you enjoy quirky characters from authors like John Sandford, Robert B. Parker, and Elmore Leonard, ...

When a disheveled and desperate man unexpectedly appears on Michael Riley’s doorstep pleading for help finding his missing fiancé, the former CIA analyst finds the man’s frantic appeals impossible to ignore. But when he learns the missing woman disappeared from a commercial jetliner while in flight, he has his doubts about his late night visitor’s state of mind. Despite these doubts, Riley agrees to confirm the man's claim he and his fiancé boarded the same flight. Finding no one matching the woman's name or description on the flight manifest, Riley is about to concede the man is ...

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.

A deadly attack on Maggie leaves her maimed, but the killer wants her dead. Maggie uses her uncanny skills and talents to navigate through the conflicting lies, half-truths, and clues to piece together the seemingly unrelated deaths at a senior center’s staff and residents, real and fake jewelry, a fire, and a near-fatal attack on her. Maggie counts on the killer to underestimate her skills as she narrows her suspect list. The killer intends for her to die.

Dutch Rosen must save a friend from both a cartel and guerilla fighters while also getting entangled in the complicated affairs of the underworld in Europe. He must discover how his cousin was killed in Holland and why someone would want to kill him.. Dutch is left hanging knowing that he must continue to dive deeper into a world he wishes he didn't need to have any connection with but life has given him no choice.

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.

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 ...

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.

He's my rival, a ruthless and arrogant Technology billionaire. Now he's my only hope for survival and my forbidden obsession. I never thought I'd turn to Craig Hunter for help again. Ten years ago, he was my teenage crush, and mentor. Now he's my business rival - infuriating, brilliant, and irresistibly gorgeous. When a cyber attack threatens my company, he's my only hope. Our eyes meet, and suddenly I'm that lovesick girl again. But I'm not the awkward teenager he once knew. I've blossomed into a curvy powerful woman, and I see the predatory gleam in his eyes. One touch from his ...

What is the ultimate horror for an eight-year-old girl? What happens to a family when a daughter disappears? Mississippi investigator Arlan Trahan faces the unthinkable when he takes on the cold case that almost ends his career. The April Giles story is the stuff of nightmares, spawning a legacy of tragedy, and one that might be clipped from today’s news. Snatched from a Gulf Coast beach two decades ago, all hope that she is alive is gone. But out of the twilight of lost time a ransom note arrives, and soon she will be the stuff of Detective Trahan’s dreams, both asleep and awake. His ...

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.

With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and '70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen and counterfeit securities.

A murder. A Kidnapping. And a warrior rising up where you least expect it. Hoping to add some excitement to her small-town life, Gabriela Goza attempts to re-start the family tequila business. But she gets more than she bargained for when she discovers narcos from Mexico’s most notorious drug cartel are using her family’s abandoned factory to move their product. With the cartel’s murder victims piling up and police on the drug dealers’ payroll, Gaby must summon all her street smarts in a desperate bid to rescue her kidnapped brother before time runs out…while the revelation of ...

¿Puede un terrible hecho del pasado seguir teniendo consecuencias devastadoras? Cuando una botella que contiene un mensaje escrito con sangre humana llega al Departamento Q, el subcomisario Carl Mørck y sus asistentes Assad y Rose logran descifrar algunas palabras de lo que fue la última señal de vida de dos chicos desaparecidos en los años noventa. Pero ¿por qué su familia nunca denunció su desaparición? Carl Mørck intuye que no se trata de un caso aislado y que el criminal podría seguir actuando con total impunidad.

Officially, he's on vacation. Unofficially? He’s hunting a Nazi. Dash Westfield. L.A. cop. Vietnam vet. Smart mouth. Heavy fists. When a whispered name from the past resurfaces—Klaus Adler, a sadistic Nazi doctor who vanished in 1945—Dash follows the trail to a sun-drenched village where nothing is what it seems. Old war money. Young zealots. Maids with machine guns. At the center of it all? A mansion in the jungle… and a secret that should’ve stayed buried. The drinks are cold. The air is hot. And the past is armed. DASH: Paradise Burn is a pulp-soaked neo-noir thriller packed ...

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.

A mad neuroscientist’s attempt to extract memories from a murder victim’s dead brain unravels an international conspiracy. Frank Kirk, an Ex-Army Ranger, has settled into his new life as a NJ State Police homicide detective when he encounters a perplexing case of a truck driver’s assassination. The few clues as they are seem to point to a professional hitman with military background. Frank doggedly pursues the case but finds there are far more powerful forces adamant on stopping him at all cost including setting a team of tier one rabid mercenaries on his tail. Frank will need all his...

Alexis Fields thought that moving across state lines would be nothing more than a change of scenery and the start of a new career. But when a shadowy figure murders four men in the dilapidated house next door—her life quickly spirals into a living hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. The City of Lake Park has never seen such murderous evil and is now on edge. Soon, it is learned that a group of rogue and brazen cops will stop at nothing to conceal who they really are and what they’re doing in secret. When a riveting chain of events force Alexis to face off with the group’s ...

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 ...