Crime Kidnap

It’s the hottest heat wave of the summer and Gus’s air conditioner has decided to give up the ghost. It’s not the heat keeping Gus awake at night, though, but a nighttime visit from Father Xavier. He couldn’t sleep either due to the heat and decided it would be best that they didn’t sleep together. While the father was bothering Gus by telling him all about his recent visit to Italy, a welcome phone call came. Someone is going to be murdered at Deimos Technology. It doesn’t matter that the someone that is about to die is only an AI computer infected with a fatal computer virus. ...

Meet Claire. Your average, broke, mid-20s millennial who’s sick of the way her life is going. All she has keeping her afloat is her longtime boyfriend, Corey. She wants nothing more than to escape this frustrating, New Jersey life together. So, Claire comes up with an idea: fake her own kidnapping with Corey to extort Claire's parents out of 2 million dollars, in ransom money, and to start a new life together. Perfect, right? Well, meet Corey - the average, broke, mid-20s millennial who's sick of the way his life is going and especially sick of his girlfriend, Claire.

Ivy Sinclair knew the job offer was too good to be true. But she was desperate. She’d lost her father, her job, her apartment, and her best friend all in one fell swoop. She’d no choice but to hope this was a turning point. She thought things couldn’t get any worse. How wrong she had been. Abducted and thrust into a world of violence, trapped alone with a captor who had been stalking her for years, Ivy must find a way to survive his darkness without losing herself completely as he forces her to become his, in body, mind, and soul.

In the follow-up to KIDNAP.org, Robin and her gang take on an unscrupulous pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Neil Preston, who lives on a fortress-like estate and is a big fan of Josef Stalin. As their plan for making Preston change his dishonest ways develops, Robin runs into an old lover. Seeing Darin again makes her question her future. Should she leave crime-fighting behind and try to return to normal life?

Gus has the unfortunate task of judging the local art show at the Tannehill Ranch. The only thing Gus knows about art is you shouldn’t eat the macaroni after your child has glued to their artwork. Given the art show is displaying art from the daughters of most of the wealthier members of society in his state, Gus could hardly have said no to the request to be a judge. Things heat up at the art show when one of the teenage contestants ends up missing. It is the sort of news that isn’t exactly easy to tell parents with large bank accounts. Worse, it turns out she’s likely run away with ...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS pull off a daring prison break and escape from Communist-run Ethiopia alive? In 1975 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, recently deposed in a Communist revolution, is declared dead. In the hands of the brutal army officer Mengitsu Haile Mariam, the country has descended into chaos and bloodshed. Then an astonishing truth emerges. The emperor is being kept alive in prison by Mengitsu, but only until he reveals the location of his billion-pound fortune.

Detective CW McCoy surrenders her gun, her badge her and confidence after shooting a fellow police officer. Moving to Southwest Florida to recover and care for her ailing grandfather, CW swears off violence until a fugitive kidnaps her family and she’s forced to decide which side of the law she’s on. Set in the tony beach town of Spanish Point during the height of the tourist rush, Peak Season marks the debut of an investigator confronting the most dangerous enemy of all . . . her own fears. Revised edition features expanded content and the first chapter of the author's newest novel.

Marrying into a family with wealth, power and connections, Bree now has the perfect life: an adoring lawyer husband, two talented teenage daughters and a baby boy. But that perfect life is about to break. Watching from the balcony as her daughter rehearses for her school play, Bree’s baby vanishes. And then her phone rings.... To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime.

38 Years Later covers two periods in Brian’s life: before prison and life in prison. The before-prison story takes the listener through Brian’s upbringing and early-life choices while living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The before-prison story also covers in detail the extraordinary play-by-play of Brian’s 1980 commitment offense, an offense for which he remains in prison today. The life-in-prison story reveals how time does not stop when men face the world in shackles.

Gus suspected Father Xavier asked him out for Thanksgiving dinner for more than just the friendly company. When you’re the sheriff of a small county you learn quickly that people only put on airs of wanting to be with you out of friendship. Typically instead these people think they’ve spotted a crime that they want you to deal with. The father suspects something rotten is in the air concerning a holiday family reunion involving the daughter of a once rich rancher, her famous author older brother, and her less than famous younger brother, the loan writer from Santa Fe. Gus isn’t one to...

All Gus wanted to do was take a day trip up to the big city to get away from his constituents. However, some constituents are harder to avoid than others. He inadvertently bumps into Father Xavier while at an antique show. Neither this chance meeting or Gus’s appraisal are the worst thing to happen to the sheriff while out of town, because the other thing that’s hard for him to avoid is getting involved in a murder case. When one of the big winners at the antique show turns up dead it’s up to Gus to figure out who the murderer is. With the Father’s help, can Gus sort out the clues ...

The normally quiet Dutch town of Leiden is horrified when the chairman of the local Masonic lodge is brutally killed. Almost simultaneously, an old manuscript is discovered in which an anonymous author tells the hidden history of the Pilgrims – the Founding Fathers of the United States. From 1609 to 1620 they lived in Leiden, after which some of them left for America. University teacher Peter de Haan is drawn into the mystery. Why did so many of the Pilgrims stay behind in Leiden? What involvement do the Freemasons have?

Fiendishly clever, unique, and replete with twists and turns that keep readers glued to the pages, Imposter is a fast-paced unpredictable hardboiled crime thriller in the vein of Blake Pierce, Tana French, and Frieda McFadden. Imposter is the eighth book in the Ash Park series, though all novels in the Ash Park world can be read as standalones. A kidnapped child. A detective on the edge. And a suicide that’s anything but. “Little Greggie” Boyle was the amazing reappearing child—a boy kidnapped and returned to his parents after five years in captivity. So what would make him take his...

Here are Deborah’s new adventures. Her previous crime fighting thrillers can be found in the anthology “Undercover Actress” which can be found at your favorite online bookstore. Double Agent Disaster Deborah Barnes is an undercover agent tracking terrorist in Las Vegas. Using her alias, Page Turner, she is embedded in an Iranian terrorist cell when she is tasked with a routine extraction of another terrorist whose cover has been blown. Evading the FBI dragnet, she plots their escape into Mexico. When elements from Deborah’s past expose her, the trouble begins. The Girl Dives In ...

It should've been the happiest time of Lee Barnett's life. She was married to a man she loved and trusted, Harris Todd, and she was pregnant with her first child. But things quickly turned from dream to nightmare when Harris demanded a divorce. Rich, powerful and well-connected in their hometown of Charleston, USA, he was able to spin the court proceedings in his favour, leaving Lee emotionally and financially devastated. And then came the final blow: she lost custody of her beautiful daughter, Savanna, who was only 11 months old.

Money Can't Buy You Love, and it Sure as Hell Can't Save Your Life! When PI Jack Marconi is approached by a handsome, wealthy couple to find their daughter now that she's gone missing moments after being stood up at the altar during her lavish white wedding, the veteran gumshoe is feeling apprehensive about taking on the case. After all, the missing girl is probably just hanging with her friends and crying her eyes out. But when the father of the would-be bride is found killed inside his expensive Mercedes, suddenly Jack smells a rat. From NY Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award ...

I took them to foreverland, where they could be children until the end of days.

It was like thick darkness during the day; not an eclipse that is predicted months and days ahead, but an unexpected event, very unexpected. The fact that one serves God Almighty does not exempt him from problems, suffering etc. Job in the Bible was a righteous man, yet, he had his own share of tribulations. It is in such situations that God demonstrates his power. Such situations can lead one to an extreme: either to adhere more closely to God, or to have doubts about God and his ability to perform.

When Thea Paris' flight is hijacked over the Libyan Desert, her first priority is the two former child soldiers she is escorting to a new life in London. As an international kidnap specialist, Thea Paris negotiates for hostage release as part of her job. She knows one wrong move could lead to deadly consequences. After she is forcibly separated from the boys and the other passengers, Thea and her tactical team quickly regroup.

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Bella Love-Wins comes a dark and gripping second chance, secret baby romance standalone. Ilsa Madden-Mills, Wall Street Journal, NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author. "A brilliant read, packed with heat and passion!" Bookalicious Babes Blog. "Mac and Angel are absolutely perfect together!" Erika Wilde, New York Times Bestselling Author. Angel I should know to keep my guard up when this dark, damaged stranger saves me. But I don't. His tortured soul draws me in for one hot, sinful Vegas night. Then I learn what he is. An irresistible ...