Crime Heist

"OH No! How could this happen?" Meggie gets off the phone with the Museum. "The heirloom has vanished without a trace." Meggie, owner of the Willow Inn, was thrilled when Ms. Wren of the Museum asked to display her family's cherished heirloom. But now this! "I don't understand?" Meggie thought out loud, just as she and her loyal beagle, Bentley, were gearing up for the Harvest Festival. Now, Meggie must navigate a tangled web of deceit, suspense, and intrigue to find her family's lost heirloom. Little does she know this heirloom holds the key to a puzzling mystery. As Willow Creek's past ...

Ructions trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees—known as a "tiger" kidnapping—in order to force them to help Ructions and his crew get into the bank's vault. But keeping the plan—and the money—from the IRA is another plan entirely, one requiring all Ructions's cunning and skill.

His protection has a price. And I'll pay for it in bed. A night out with my best friend turns into something deadly. And I wind up in the crossfire of two rival MC’s. Preacher saves me. He's a soldier for the Wayward Kings Motorcycle Club. He’s brutal. A killer. And he's in town for a little payback. Preacher’s six feet and change of tattooed terror and he's got his sights set on me. I know he’s trouble. I know he’s dangerous. I should run away and never look back. But his voice sets my body on fire. His touch makes me beg for more. He acts like he owns me. I can’t walk away. ...

London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive—and unique—responsibility.

It was the most audacious crime of the 1970’s; a gang of villains tunnelled their way into the safety deposit box vault of Lloyds Bank on Baker Street, London. The ‘walkie-talkie’ robbery (as it became known) was later immortalised in the hit 2008 film ‘The Bank Job’ starring Jason Statham. Dan Shaw, Author of ‘The Krays: Their Life and Crimes’ and ‘The Great Train Robbery’ presents the explosive true account of one of the most daring and ingenious heists in British criminal history. It’s a story packed with suspense and intrigue, near misses, and edge of the seat plot ...

A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize - for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind the elegance and glamour of the art world, anything goes - theft, forgery, betrayal, and maybe even murder....

Texas Crime Stories: Riding Herd on the Lawless is an unflinching exploration of the most perplexing and chilling crimes that have scarred the vast landscape of the Lone Star State. In this gripping anthology, Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Riggs takes listeners on a journey through the dark underbelly of Texas, where the shadows of oil, cowboys, and cattle loom large, but the specter of crime looms even larger.

🔥 Murder, Mayhem, and Mixtapes—The Darkest Crimes of the Neon Decade 🔥 The 1980s weren’t just about big hair, neon lights, and arcade games—they were also home to some of the wildest, strangest, and most shocking true crime cases in history. From bizarre burglaries and con artists to unsolved mysteries and brutal murders, 80’s True Crime dives into 25 unforgettable cases that could only have happened in the decade of VHS tapes, Walkmans, and Miami Vice.Inside, you’ll find: ✅ The VHS Bandit – A thief obsessed with horror movies and late fees. ✅ The Miami Vice Heist – ...

A body is spotted bobbing in the tide close to the shore at Canvey Island Marina. But this doesn't look like a typical drowning... When Inspector Hogarth and DS Palmer are called to the scene, they discover that the body is wearing ‘concrete boots.' Jim Maddox was a local estate agent who earned good money by helping the town’s less reputable characters. Questions soon mount. Was Maddox murdered in a gangland execution? Or is Hogarth looking at signs of something else?As Hogarth investigates, the body count rises, and his world falls apart. And all the while, the Shadows are closing in....

Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery, forgery, and even murder. Once found, the masterpiece will disappear again without anyone ever knowing it surfaced and sold for billions of dollars of profit at a secret auction attended by only the wealthiest of the art world’s patrons.

Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable … Except three. Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales have up their sleeves.

She's the one I never knew I needed. And I'll raise hell to claim her. I'm cold, calculating, ruthless. My loyalty belongs to my brothers in the MC. I defend my club with bullets and blood. And then a woman in need turns my life upside down. Violet doesn't want to be mixed up in the MC life. She's a good woman with a troubled past looking to start over, All she wants is to run her bar in peace. But when she winds up in the cross hairs of another MC, I'm the only man dangerous enough to keep her safe. Protecting her could start a war. But I can't ignore the heat in her eyes when she looks to...

The are no guarantees in life—not for any of us... Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Seller L. Wilder brings you a new addition to the Ruthless Sinners series. I had one rule... One non-negotiable demand. It seemed simple enough. But, nothing about Raelyn was simple. She was complicated beyond reason. Impulsive. Reckless. A rule breaker. She tested every limit—especially mine. She was the kind of woman my brothers warned me about... But that only made me want her more. Lynch’s Rule is a standalone MC romance with no cliffhanger and NO CHEATING. These sexy bikers are foul-mouthed,...

Here is a glittering true-crime tale unlike any you have ever encountered. Glittering because the take involved rubies, emeralds, diamonds, sapphires. The thieves were two men from Yonkers, Dominick Latella and Pete Salerno, who hit the East Coast mansions of the wealthy enclaves of Westchester and Palm Beach. Over 20 years they became known as the most successful jewel thieves in American history...until one bleak night when they got careless.

Two mysterious shootings. Two club employees dead. A war's about to start, and the only witness is running scared. I have to find her before the killers do, make her talk, and then dispense some MC justice. There's just one problem: I want to make her mine. And she wants me dead. Emma has a painful past in the MC life. A past that’s left her with anger at anyone in a cut. A past that has her fighting the lust that makes her tremble when we touch. She’d rather run than talk to a beast like me. But one look at her and I turn into a protective animal. I won’t stop until she’s safe. ...

Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's protégé. But when her mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years Nora's been playing at normal. But she needs to dust off the skills she ditched because she has three problems.

Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate threat to his lifestyle. Macarthur hastily conceived a plan: He would commit bank robbery, of the kind that had become frightfully common in Dublin at the time. But his plan spun swiftly out of control, and he needlessly killed two innocent civilians.

On a Sunday evening in December 2004, two young men were at home with their families. Both worked for the Northern Bank’s cash centre in Belfast. They heard knocks on their front doors. Within a few minutes, masked men invaded their homes, overpowered their loved ones and disabled their electronic devices. It was made clear to the two bank officials that they had a choice: do what they were told or their families would die. In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of this bizarre robbery, Glenn Patterson builds on his popular BBC podcast to shed new light on the story of the infamous heist.

Every four years, the criminal underworld engages in a game. The Game. The challenges range from the impossible to the deadly to the truly insane. Things that only a crazy person would tackle. I’ve won the game five times. This time will be no different. I’m at the top of my field now, the best of the world’s thieves. There’s nothing I can’t steal, and this time, the game is all about theft, subterfuge, and sleight of hand. Starting with a legendary painting of poppy flowers.

Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets the hit Netflix series Lupin in this captivating true-crime caper. A skilled con artist and perhaps one of the most charming, audacious burglars in history, Arthur Barry slipped in and out of the bedrooms of New York’s wealthiest residents, even as his victims slept only inches away. He befriended luminaries such as the Prince of Wales and Harry Houdini and became a folk hero, touted in the press as “the greatest jewel thief who ever lived” and an “Aristocrat of Crime.”