Police Lives

He stole her life and kept her locked in a basement for four years. He tried to break her with his diabolical games, but he couldn’t. Then she was rescued. That was the day Ellie learned just how much of her life had been stolen. *** Officer Quinn West went down the stairs that led to the basement of the vacant house all because the neighbor complained the man living there stole her plant. He was a rookie cop who got all the crap calls. Instead of a plant, he found a young girl clinging to life. Ten years have passed since the charm bracelet murders. They never caught the guy. The case ...

A police officer, flight attendant, hotel manager, bellhop, nurse, and chaplain have one thing in common- they're awake at night. They navigate the complexities of work and relationships that come with being the people awake while others are asleep. As they all struggle to find themselves, tragedies that befall the city bring the cast of the nightshift together in ways they never expected to solve a mystery and seek justice for a dastardly crime.

"This was no suicide," says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide - except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett. BookShots - lightning-fast stories by James Patterson. Novels you can devour in a few hours, impossible to stop listening, and all original content from James Patterson.

They vanished into shadows, backroads, and thin air. From infamous crime bosses to forgotten criminals who outwitted authorities for decades, True Crime: Outlaws dives deep into 20 astonishing real-world cases of fugitives who defied capture. These aren't stories of quick arrests — they’re tales of double lives, wilderness hideouts, plastic surgery, faked deaths, and narrow escapes that kept law enforcement guessing for years. A train robber escapes prison and hides abroad for nearly 40 years A radical bomber lives undetected in suburbia for decades A notorious mobster strolls the ...

A lighthearted tale that will make you smile & let you believe that dreams really do come true. Abigail Apple is running late to meet her blind date when she’s pulled over for speeding. Unfortunately, the follow-the-rules cop doesn’t care that she’s late, let alone that she’s heartbroken because her favorite dog rescue is in danger of being closed. Now she has to meet her date with mud drying on her heels, dog hair covering her dress, and the smell of a barn perfuming her hair. When she arrives, however, Abigail learns her handsome blind date is none other than the cop who pulled ...

At seventy-five-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, although she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action—much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay with her while he attends university.

This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice.

What do you do when the law wants you behind bars and the New York crime families want you buried? That was the life or death dilemma confronting Andrew DiDonato, who began his criminal career at the age of 14 under the watchful eyes of the local mob. By the time he was 17, the infamous Gambino family made DiDonato an associate of the Nicholas Corozzo crew. For the next 14 years he was a loyal street soldier immersed in dangerous and profitable activities including burglary, extortion, loan sharking, car theft, bank robbery, counterfeiting, drug dealing, witness tampering, weapons ...

~#1 Amazon Bestselling Author~ These standalone stories are sweet, clean romances designed to whisk you away. Jenna Brandt believes in building a world that begins at the very core of what makes romance stories work – faith, hope, and love. This box set includes 4 historical sweet romances by bestselling and award-winning author Jennifer Branson. Discreetly Matched June's Remedy Becca's Lost Love Hard to Please *This book was previously published by my Jenna Brandt pen name under the Border Brides series and has since been republished under my Jennifer Branson pen name under the Second ...

Mac and Tony thought the hard part was over. They’re together openly as a couple, sharing a home and building a life with their two kids. It’s what they dreamed of. But daughter Anna struggles with the changes, Ben is haunted by old secrets, Mac’s job in Homicide still demands too much of his time, and Tony is caught in the middle. It’ll take everything these men can give to create a viable balance between home and work. Especially when life refuses to give them a break.

Jenny Baker desperately needs to find a safe place to hide. After years of hurt at the hands of her now ex-husband, she wants to escape the recent pain in her past and find a fresh start and a new home. He can't find her. She won't let him. He won't hurt her ever again. Brett Rogers is the strictest police officer in the greater Love Springs area. After a tragic incident a few years back, he has absolutely no patience for lawbreakers. So when a petite and pretty brunette comes barreling down the country highway outside his small town, he plans to do exactly what he's always done. One look ...

A Second Chance at Love and a Deadly Mystery in Whispering Pines! Middle-aged witch, Ellie Theren, returns to Whispering Pines after the death of her husband, a man she married for the sake of her family. As she settles back into her home, she stumbles upon a gruesome discovery: a dead body. To make matters worse, the hunky sheriff who arrives at the scene is none other than her high school sweetheart, Reed Mallory—the only man she’s ever truly loved. Reed can’t believe his eyes when Ellie walks back into his life. Anger and love wage a war within him as he grapples with the fact that...

Bad things can happen to very nice people. Two elderly people are murdered in Dorchester, one with a boule and one with a cricket bat. Apart from the use of sports equipment, there seems no connection between the two victims. If the deaths are as random as they seem then Chief Inspector Muga and her team have a serial killer to catch before he or she strikes again. Meanwhile, Tom Flowers and his partners set off to try and catch a gang of thieves who have been attacking race courses around the south of England. This puts the Ash twins in serious danger, James Stonely on the nasty end of a ...

Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations the Burroughs clan has made their home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To distance himself from his family's criminal empire, Clayton takes the job of sheriff in a neighboring community to keep what peace he can.

A female detective, the overlooked Fuller brother, and their small town romance amid a dangerous case. Will their love survive or will the criminal ruin their chance at happily-ever-after? Dahlia Reid is one of the best detectives Brush Creek and the surrounding towns has ever had. She's given up on the idea of marriage—and pleasing her mother—and has dedicated herself fully to her job. Which is great, since one of the most perplexing cases of her career has come to town. Kyler Fuller thinks he's finally ready to move past the woman who ghosted him years ago. He's cut his hair, and he's...

NEW REFORMAT FOR KINDLE I have had the opportunity to review and read THE THIN BLUE LIFELINE and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. This moves policing communication so far beyond "Verbal Judo" and "Tac Com" that those systems cannot even compare (though, to be sure, there are some similar techniques that they utilise in those systems). It is relevant, well-written, operationally-based, and goes to the heart of the matter in dealing with people who are in crisis - not just for dealing with "mentally ill" folks - but virtually everyone with whom police officers come into contact....

The second novel and first quick-listen title from Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author Cathy Glass. My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a life of happiness and security he tells everyone he meets his dad's a policeman. Fast paced and compelling, this short story from Cathy Glass follows the experiences of a Ryan, a small and lonely 12-year-old boy who struggles to fit in.

Doctor Angela Monroe is found dead at the foot of Salisbury Crags on Arthur's Seat. An avid runner, it first appears that she fell to her death. Until the pathologist deems it murder. It's the night of the summer solstice, and people have been celebrating on the famous dormant volcano. DCI Sean Bracken and his team are called in to lead the investigation. Monroe was a well-respected professor, lecturing at a local university, who had no known enemies and was a private person who kept to herself.

Adam Plantinga, author of the acclaimed 400 Things Cops Know and a 17-year veteran sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department, gives an inside view of the police officer's job, from handling evidence and conducting interrogations to coping with danger, violence, and death. Not hesitating to confront controversial issues, Plantinga presents the police officer's views on police shootings, racial profiling, and relationships between police and the community.

At thirty-two, Jillian Parrish finally finds the courage to put herself in the driver’s seat of her life. Pregnant and recently divorced, she and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina—Jillian’s only source of happy childhood memories. Summers spent at her grandmother’s beach house had been Jillian’s sanctuary from indifferent parents—until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found.