Northern Crimes

After battling for justice in his first recorded case, Sergeant Caleb Cluff makes a swift return to duty in this book. The story opens one wet and windy night, with the discovery of a young woman's corpse, in a passageway in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw. The deceased is Jane Trundle, an attractive girl who worked as a shop assistant. She yearned for the good life, and Cluff finds more money in her handbag than she would have earned in wages.

Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son, Jake, move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start. But Featherbank has a dark past. Fifteen years ago a twisted serial killer abducted and murdered five young boys. Until he was finally caught, the killer was known as 'The Whisper Man'. Of course, an old crime need not trouble Tom and Jake as they try to settle in to their new home. Except that now another young boy has gone missing, stirring up rumours that the original killer was always known to have an accomplice.

A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition. Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will trust only one person: Li's fiancée, Margaret Campbell. When Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun - and outwit - an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance.

As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search for her, and the case immediately became a national sensation. Bland Simpson, who first heard the tale as an Elizabeth City schoolboy, weaves this true story into a colorful nonfiction account, told in three first-person voices.

Fresh out from under five years of deep cover in New York City’s seamy world of narcotics trafficking, Detective Joe Dante is teamed with the straight-laced Rosa Losada to investigate a series of gruesome serial murders that have all of Manhattan on edge. The mystery killer is clearly obsessed with a type and has the means to strike at will. Motivated by entirely different sets of life experiences, both Dante and Losada are equally obsessed with seeing this string of killings brought to an end and need to discover a means of working together without friction to accomplish that task. “...

Once the brightest star in the legal firmament, Sam Williams has hit rock bottom, with barely a client to his name and a short-term cash problem that's looking longer by the minute. So when he's summoned to Manchester to help a friend crack a case involving the murder of two unarmed police officers and a suspect who won't say a word, he jumps at the chance to resurrect his career.

John Tyler has gone rogue, pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing his brother. But he's lured back by the CIA for one final mission. Simple, for a man like Tyler: journey to an old Soviet-era hotel in the frozen wastes of Siberia to obtain information from a Russian scientist about a double agent within NATO. But strange things are afoot, events related to the hotel's grisly past and the KGB's Cold war experiments into psychic phenomena.

On 26th May 1986, the body of an undercover British agent was found by the side of a muddy lane, with a rope tied around its wrists and tape over each eye. The brutal killing of Frank Hegarty began a decades-long search for justice. In a compulsive blend of investigative journalism and true crime thriller, Henry Hemming exposes the parallel worlds of the IRA and British intelligence through the lives of those inextricably bound up in both.

Sometimes it’s all about making connections…Olivia Osgoode steps off an elevator in a deserted parking garage to witness a masked man stuffing a woman’s body into the trunk of a car. She narrowly escapes the killer but he’s seen her face. When no trace of the car or the body is found—and no one is reported missing—the authorities dismiss Olivia’s claims as an attention-seeking ploy by an unstable young woman. Olivia, however, is anything but. She resorts to her own investigation and uncovers a growing list of elderly widows who have vanished without a trace. With the police ...

What happens when kids on the Naughty List grow up to be really bad? Santa has a list of those, too. And you really, really don’t want to be on that list. Nope, not at all... Gangster Earl Winks is about to pay for his crimes. And will soon discover the Big Guy doesn’t mess around... Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE!

Es wird Abend im Nordseeheilbad Carolinensiel. Ruhe kehrt ein nach einem langen, stürmischen Tag. Doch als ein Krabbenfischer in seinem Schleppnetz eine verstümmelte Leiche entdeckt, ist es mit der Idylle am Hafen ganz plötzlich vorbei.

A small town traumatized by a game of evil. When a woman is murdered and a second victim is discovered, semi-retired FBI agent Timothy Grey is called in to investigate, but has the killer been waiting for him the entire time? Tim must follow the killer's clues to play a wicked game of torture and execution to discover the true identity. A once-great detective is tested to his limits as time runs out. Will he be able to defeat such evil? And at what cost? Author Alex James Eccleston embarks on his most ambitious novel yet in this disturbing, spine-chilling detective story.

Dreams never stay dead in the low country, and for Detective Andy Winslow, those dreams might kill him As he's adjusting to life back home in Charleston, Andy's given a new case. A series of murders has started happening around town. There's no visible tie to them, and Andy can't seem to crack the case. Enter Destiny Reyes. She's from Charleston too, the hottest spa nd comer in country music, and she's been keeping a secret that just might blow the entire case wide open. If it doesn't get them killed first.

A gruesome murder with a strange twist. Supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps has been strangled, stripped to her underwear, her body found straddling one of the cannons of Derry’s city walls. And why has the killer done that with her thumb? For seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin and the ragtag officers of the Major Investigation Team, it’s a homicide they’ve never seen the likes of before. Middle-aged Regina might have kept herself to herself, but she always had a smile for everyone she came across. Who could have wanted to do her harm? Was she just unlucky? But delving deeper into her ...

When a police officer is gunned down in cold blood, DCI Finnegan and his right-hand man, DS Stoker, are in no mood to follow the rule book. With emotions running high, and Finnegan’s brightest officer, DI Kumar, suspended pending an external investigation, the unprovoked shooting is proving baffling. While Finnegan and Stoker lean on old-fashioned methods to solve the case, DI Kumar uses her intuition to uncover a neo-Nazi link leading to stolen WWII relics. The three officers must hunt for the unknown assassin to unravel a mysterious web of lies.

"If you have stumbled across this page and haven't read the whole series from the start, then you don't know what you are missing, drop everything, download all five books in the series and settle in for some serious laughter to help keep you warm this winter! Looking forward to the next book and still wondering why this series hasn't been scooped up for the movie rights!!!"--MarlaB, Amazon reviewer When an armed robbery at Final Spinz, the dry cleaners where hardened matriarch Fionnuala Flood works, leads to the death of beloved pensioner Mrs. Ming, the ensuing investigation unleashes dark...

Priscila, una joven criminóloga en paro, tiene una abuela muy especial. Librada, una mujer con una fuerte ideología de izquierdas está cansada de la hipocresía de su ciudad, Oviedo. Sin saberlo envolverá a su nieta en un caso que casi le cuesta la vida, pero que permitirá a Priscila cortar con su novio y dedicarse a investigar.

Lizzy and her family arrive at Pemberley to allow Fitzwilliam a chance to court her. Things are off to a splendid start until Lady Catherine invites herself, and Caroline Bingley is clearly intent on causing trouble between ODC. Someone is targeting Fitzwilliam and Pemberley for harassment, but is it the same person who murders the stablemaster during Lizzy’s stay? She and Darcy find themselves at odds over theories of the crime, but will that disagreement keep them from building a future together?

Priscila, una joven criminóloga en paro, tiene una abuela muy especial. Librada, una mujer con una fuerte ideología de izquierdas está cansada de la hipocresía de su ciudad, Oviedo. Sin saberlo envolverá a su nieta en un caso que casi le cuesta la vida, pero que permitirá a Priscila cortar con su novio y dedicarse a investigar. Tras la investigación sobre la desaparición de Sor Inés y los turbios casos de pederastia del Principado de Asturias, ahora abuela y nieta, buscarán el oscuro pasado del mundo del carbón, el sindicalismo y la reconversión industrial.

Es ist Hochsaison in Wyk auf Föhr. Nur der beliebte Barbesitzer Harald Königsberger verpasst den Trubel. Denn er liegt tot in seinem Haus am Strand.