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On balance, retired trial lawyer turned-beach bum Matt Royal is a pretty laid-back fellow. But when Laurence Wyatt, one of Matt's best friends, is murdered, Matt trades in his easygoing ways for a hard-hitting quest for revenge. Matt knows the Longboat Key police will do their job in investigating. But for Matt, finding Wyatt's killer isn't a job; it's personal. Determined to do whatever it takes to solve Wyatt's murder, Matt takes matters into his own hands and embarks on a clandestine investigation.

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. ...

Scrimple gets involved in the Hong Kong democracy protests. Back in Yorkshire, former Hong Kong Police Inspector Scrimple is at a loose end after his mother’s funeral and having recently lost his job in Thailand. A mysterious meeting results in a job offer to go back to Hong Kong and to work for a wealthy American who is financing the democracy protesters. But when Scrimple arrives in Hong Kong it is not long before he bumps into his old nemesis, the Triad boss William. Very soon Scrimple is in the middle of death and violence and he is running for cover. Will his old mates from the ...

ORIGINAL STORY, WRITTEN BY A HUMAN Get ready for the thrilling conclusion to P.G. Robertson's Saltwater Crimes Trilogy and the return of the captivating Detective Ange Watson. After the messy Gold Coast affair, Ange is certain that the syndicate has eyes and ears everywhere, thwarting her every move. Forced south to Sydney, Ange soon picks up the trail of her deadly nemesis. It seems that drug trafficking isn’t the only game in town… With the help of her colleagues and an unlikely ally, Ange dives into the murky world of cryptocurrency and NFTs, exploring the dangerous waters where ...

A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine’s Day - each with an arrow through the heart - something more sinister becomes clear. A "calendar killer" is on the loose. Detective Mark "Heck" Heckenburg is up against it. With a rising body count and the public’s eyes on him, Heck must find the killer before he executes more victims....

ORGINAL STORY - WRITTEN BY A HUMAN This intriguing prequel novella introduces Detective Ange Watson, tracing her first steps into the world of crime-solving and revealing how she became the tenacious investigator readers will grow to love. A Routine Case… or the Start of Something Deadly? Constable Ange Watson’s policing career is fast unravelling. After calling out a superior for recklessly putting her life at risk, she’s been sidelined, labelled as a whinger, left questioning whether she even belongs in the force. With her resignation email drafted and her finger hovering over "send...

Lieutenant Bradley Heap has gone AWOL and taken along his wife and son. They’re managing to cope just fine until an encounter with a gang of drug dealers turns their world upside down. Detective John Locke of Police Scotland joins forces with the Navy police in the search for Heap on a trail that will take them from the middle of Scotland to the edge of England’s Lake District. The Shallows explores the limits of human endurance and examines how far people will go to protect the ones they love.

In a small Adirondack Mountain town, secrets are closely guarded. And outsiders with crazy ideas are not welcome. So Police Chief Frank Bennett has his hands full when a group of environmental activists shows up in Trout Run, New York, trying to close down Raging Rapids, a popular tourist attraction. Frank thinks they're all noise. Until their leader turns up with a bullet in his heart. Now Frank must figure out why this group targeted Trout Run. And how they're connected to a feral family who lives off the grid.

Bad things happen to those who lurk in the shadows In a last-ditch attempt to secure passage out of Europe, James Stone finds himself on the coast of France, with the only thing standing between him and a trip back to England is a quiet evening dockyard, And a dead body. What starts as a straightforward task quickly descends into a long and bloody night. With more attention turning his way, Stone knows the clock is ticking on his freedom. He could walk away, but doing so will seal the terrible fate of an innocent family searching for a second chance, and let the monsters who stole ...

He just wants to be left alone but his enemies have other plans Jens Schacht - also known as The Scorpion - is on the run. The French Government want him for murder and deserting from the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, the British Government also want him for wiping out one of their special forces units. Despite this, he secretly returns to Paris, hoping to settle down and live quietly with the love of his life. However, fate has decreed otherwise. A deadly encounter with the French Mafia puts Schacht and his fugitive partner, Siegfried Ritter, into the line of fire once more. In a relentless ...

When a woman in Bel Air dies of a rattlesnake bite, the case doesn’t seem to fit the usual purview of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit. But Carrie Holder was no ordinary LA woman. She was a member of the city's latest cult, the Church of the Gate, which counts Hollywood's movers and shakers among its devotees. Investigating the cult's secrets takes Detective Michael Gideon, his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, and pit bull rescue Emily across Los Angeles's canyons, neighborhoods, and movie studio lots - but all the while, an even darker threat looms closer.

A orillas de la represa del Sisga se ha producido un hecho atroz: el empalamiento de un hombre de unos cincuenta y cinco años de edad.

This is a SHORT STORY set within the ongoing THE UNSEEN franchise. Potential spoilers ahead! This short story stars the youngest character in the intense THE UNSEEN franchise, Hope Diaz. Her survival is one of heartache, terror, and perseverance, an event that occurs during book two of the main series, DESOLATION.

A wedding reception is coming to a close in the Hollywood Hills when the blissful day is shattered by the death of one of the newlyweds. Though the incident appears to be an accident, Homeland Security Investigations agent Carmen Sanchez and her partner, security expert Jake Heron, discover that the tragedy is the third in a series of similar deaths and conclude something far more sinister is at play. The two uncover chilling evidence pointing to a serial killer who has taken evil to the next level.

Jimmy Johnson’s body appeared in his neighbor’s backyard long after he was dead. Can the detectives bring a joyful holiday to a mourning community? Peyton Anderson was a feisty young detective in the Police Department of Moscow, Idaho. When a half decomposed body was discovered by a long absent city home owner in his backyard as he returned home, Peyton became one of the investigators. Peyton felt helpless as it took a long time to establish the identity of the victim. Peyton spent restless nights thinking that the murderer could escape before the identity of the victim was confirmed. ...

I never expected a random package to change my life forever. A free plane ticket, a sponsored vacation to the Hawaiian Islands—how could I resist the chance for a fresh start with my mom after everything we've been through? The invitation was signed by a complete stranger, but something told me to take the leap. Arriving in paradise, something felt off. The mansion we were staying in seemed too perfect, too calculated. Little did I know, our dream vacation was about to turn into a waking nightmare. Our sense of safety was shattered as we realized there was a killer among us. Panic set in ...

"You're listening to the heart of Classic Rock here on KRHM..." These are the last words Jeff Davis would ever speak before he gets strangled on air. When a second disk jockey meets the same suffocating end, it gives dead air a whole new meaning. A serial killer is on the loose in Rohm. The rules have changed suddenly, and Max Harmon is on a high-stakes race against time to solve a spine-chilling mystery—one that might break him. If you love fast-paced, clean detective mysteries, then you would love Micheal Maxwell's latest addition to the nail-biting Max Harmon Mystery series.

“But, but, I read it on the Internet. It must be true! Right?” Do the crazies on the internet push people to violence and the edge of madness? With countless conspiracy theories at every turn, the web is a veritable smorgasbord of reasons for anyone with prejudice and envy to strike out at the focus of these insane ideas why the world is against them. In the dead of night, a soybean silo erupts into a violent fireball — and starts Detective Max Harmon’s next case off with a bang. Any hope Max has of catching up on sleep flies out the window when the deceptively sleepy Midwestern ...

After a week away, Matt Royal's ready to get back to the Longboat Key good life - good fishing, good food, good beer, and more good fishing. But Matt comes back to bad news: while he was away, a sniper tried to kill one of his best friends. Even worse, now that Matt's back, someone's trying to kill him. And whoever is trying to kill him is trying hard. With no clue who's after him or why, Matt soon finds he's at the center of a mystery involving a lawyer's murder, a tourist left for dead, a biker gang, a billionaire, and an ancient document.

Welcome to the Lives of Five Naughty Wives! The long-awaited parody of the TV series is here, naughtier and nastier than the series…Delicious Housewives is the hottest book ever by #1 Best-Selling International Author Tamarias Tyree. Secrets, mystery-suspense and sexual shenanigans! One critic called it a “trashy, fun read!” ~ Names and personalities have been changed/altered in keeping with the parody, but the novel and its characters are still fun and sexy like their TV counterparts. These hot ladies enjoy lots of sexual adventures and an assortment of misadventures including ...