Vigilante Justice Thrillers

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member.

Outside the cabana, an assassin waits for James Hawker, the country's most dangerous vigilante. Hawker's nationwide crusade against organized crime has led him to the Fister Corporation - one of the most corrupt businesses on the planet - and for that, he has been targeted for death. The assassin draws a .38 and screws on a silencer, planning a quick and quiet kill. But it won't be so easy. He bursts into Hawker's room, gun drawn, but Hawker is waiting. The gunman is dead within seconds, and Hawker is safe - for now.

The ambush is in place, he takes aim, and shots ring out. Chicago is officially on notice, and a siege is underway on the city’s men and women in blue. Assigned to the task force investigating the shootings, Jesse McCord and 20 of Chicago’s top-notch detectives work day and night to track down the sniper whose agenda is apparent—to kill as many police officers as possible.

There are few reasons for a mermaid to leave the sea. The murder of my sister tops my list. Shifting from mermaid to human is easy for some, but not for me. Legs are clumsy things, lacking the grace of my fishtail. The gift of the merfolk, our songs, has been taken from me. And the human world? I’m looking for a killer in a strange city of plastic and metal, composed of nearly 900,000 individuals - a city where I don’t belong - a city with inhabitants that have other uses for my kind… some worse than death. Sharkbait is a mermaid tale that will take you both over the land and under ...

Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy - an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service - a team of flying medics - Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business in rural Montana, where his mother, a former soldier and vigilante, aids the locals.

Rogue Policemen. Soulless Gangsters. Lethal Drugs. Samantha Townsend appears to have a perfect life. Married to her loving husband Michael Townsend, Q.C., and living in a $25 million mansion, life has never been better… until Michael is murdered in cold blood by the Hong Kong Triad. She. Vows. Revenge. Still, it won’t be so easy. The Triad is a highly dangerous organization that stretches across the world. Drug smuggling, trafficking, and blackmailing are in the mob’s DNA, but Samantha’s coming to serve them justice…her style of justice. Karma.Is.Revenge If you like intrigue, high...

In our dangerous world, offenders cannot always be brought down by the justice system. When a different kind of justice is needed—swift, effective, and personal—a new type of avenger must take action. In Vengeance, best-selling author Lee Child, “a superb craftsman of suspense” ( Entertainment Weekly), presents 21 riveting stories from some of today’s top crime writers.

The morning after a wedding reception at a beautiful suburban home in Sheffield, the bride’s entire family are stabbed to death—in a frenzied attack more violent than anything DCI Matilda Darke could have imagined. Forensics point to a burglar on the run across the country. But cracks are starting to appear in Matilda’s team, someone is playing games with the evidence—and the killer might be closer to home than they thought....

When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman’s photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown. August’s good friend Elena recognizes the woman immediately. Her story is one the authorities don’t want getting around - and she’s not the only young woman to have disappeared during an ICE raid only to turn up dead a few weeks later.

Levon Cade uncovers more of the conspiracy that cost him the life of a beloved family member. All he wants is to be left alone to raise his daughters, but he can’t walk away from finding the men responsible for the death of his young cousin. His journey into the dark world of child trafficking takes him into a twisted world lying just out of sight. One thing is certain—Levon’s hunt will end in blood.

A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.

Protecting him was just to supposed to be another job. Until it wasn’t. Two years after surviving a brutal attack from members of his own unit, former Special Forces soldier Cruz de la Vega has found new purpose working for an underground vigilante group that offers justice when the law can’t. When he’s assigned to figure out who attacked a local gay rights activist, Cruz expects it to be just another job. But when it comes to protecting Elliot Wittier, he soon learns that the last thing he wants is for the intriguing young man to be just another job.

Faces from his past and doubts about his future compel Adrian to pick up his guns once more and do what he does best. But when he finds himself in the middle of a large-scale conspiracy that threatens everyone’s freedom, he realizes his will to do the right thing might not be enough....

If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE. Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive Likes kids and animals more than people Often goes off the grid and hides under a fake identity Sophie never, ever gives up on a case. Paradise is filled with deadly secrets. What would you do if you were a killer's loose end?

Fellow orphans, amateur vigilantes, and members of the Santitos, Loup Garron-the fugitive daughter of a genetically engineered "wolf-man"-and Pilar Ecchevarria spent their entire lives under military occupation in a cordoned off Texas no-man's-land that used to be called Santa Olivia, now known as Outpost 12.But now they're free, and they want to help the rest of the Santitos escape.

Engaged to be married, mysterious journalist Dylan Hunter and CIA officer Annie Woods are eager to put their violent past behind them for good. But then an intrepid investigative reporter is brutally, mysteriously murdered. A visionary presidential candidate is targeted for destruction. And a horrific day of unspeakable terrorism rocks Washington, DC. Soon, Hunter's investigation puts him in the crosshairs of a power-hungry billionaire and a cold-blooded assassin.

Mind Games: Montreal is plagued by a string of vicious sex slayings... Captain Dave McCall and his Special Homicide Task Force are in a frustrated frenzy as they try to bring an end to the savage butchery... Assisting officially is noted psychiatrist, Doctor Samuel Bowman and unofficially, computer genius and multi-millionaire, Chris Barry... With each passing day, McCall works his way closer to the truth... Unaware that they are heading deep into the deadly core of... Mind Games... The Homeless Killer: The homeless of Montreal are dying at the hand of 'Allan', a serial killer set on ...

Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic hatch swing open, and a masked figure drops to the floor. Thirty seconds later, Anya is dead. Across town, Anya's old school friend, Julia, sees an online video of a masked figure climbing out of an attic. She suddenly realises why the footage is eerily familiar: it was filmed inside her house in a luxury gated community, designed to keep intruders out. Why would a stranger target Julia? Unless of course, it's not a stranger at all.

Wer andern eine Grube gräbt. Amtsrichter Siggi Buckmann sitzt in der Klemme: Während er seiner Lebensgefährtin und Journalistin Robin Bukowsky über seine Kontakte zu Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft bei ihren Recherchen in einem Mordfall hilft und der Wahrheit gefährlich nahe kommt, wird er plötzlich verhaftet. Unverhofft findet er sich hinter Gittern wieder. Der Vorwurf: Beihilfe in einem längst aufgeklärten Mord. Offenbar will ihn jemand ausschalten, das belastbare Material stammt ausgerechnet von Robin. Jetzt muss Buckmann sich selbst retten.

Every day in the Sixth World people die in a thousand different ways. Every day blood is spilled. Every place that rain falls, it washes away some of the red that stains the streets.