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HUNTING THE HUNTERS is retired Fish and Wildlife Detective Todd Vandivert’s seventh book of his Wildlife Justice Series. In this book, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Officers of Okanogan County join forces to apprehend the poachers responsible for killing endangered species. The entire group of dedicated game wardens works tirelessly to identify the persons responsible for the poaching incidents and bring them to justice, but at a very high cost, as one of their own fights for his life. While the game wardens are busy hunting down the poachers, someone is killing hunters seemingly at ...

When a chilling murder rocks the tranquil shores of the Virgin Islands, Kurt Hunter, a seasoned Special Agent, finds himself thrust into the heart of paradise with a mission that goes deeper than the azure waters surrounding him. Assigned to the Virgin Islands National Park on a temporary basis, Hunter must untangle the threads of a sinister plot that weaves through the idyllic landscape, turning paradise into a perilous labyrinth.

Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters.

Deputy Sheriff John Cronin and his granddaughter, Jesse, are preparing for Jesse’s upcoming wedding to her Marine when the Cartel decides to murder some South Texas cops as a payback for arresting their drug smugglers. They send a hit squad to kill Cronin, Jesse, and everyone close to the family. The only problem? They missed the old man.

No Safe Harbor In the high-stakes world of the Florida Keys, no one is safe—not even in paradise. Cam Derringer thought he could protect those he loved, but as cartel forces close in, escape seems impossible. After a desperate attempt to flee with Diane, Stacy, and Barbie, they find themselves racing across the open seas toward Nassau, chased by El Tiburón’s heavily armed yacht. With danger lurking at every turn and the odds stacked against them, Cam must outwit his enemies to survive. As allies like Kailey, Afon, and Jesse join the fight, the battle intensifies. Gunfire erupts, and ...

Il nuovo romanzo di Marco Vichi è anche una nuova, sorprendente avventura. Una storia che racconta come il passato non è qualcosa di immutabile e irrimediabilmente concluso, ma è anzi materia viva. Una dimensione in movimento, che chiede ancora di essere descritta, definita, capace com’è di ribaltarsi sul presente sgretolando convinzioni che si credevano immodificabili. A un tratto, nel modo più inatteso, tutto può cambiare: quando meno ce lo aspettiamo, una svolta improvvisa ci porta dove non avremmo mai immaginato di poterci spingere.

Sheltered by the Catholic church for over 40 years, Pierre Brossard suddenly finds himself on the run when a new police investigation is opened. But someone else is after him too, and Brossard finds himself out-witting his many persuers while figuring out who they are - and whether they want him dead or alive.

Donny was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. His life has been nothing but perfect. Until that day when a stranger walks into his life and turns it upside down. In a few weeks, Donny's life transforms to be chaotic and unpredictable. What is the secret his sister had been carrying on her shoulders? Why was his mother murdered? A shocking twist throws everything into question.

A SIMPLE, DEADLY SCAM—GETTING RICH IN THE REHAB BIZ… In his riveting fourth adventure, intrepid reporter Will Harper faces a deadly scam thriving in the rehab business. Living the dream on his yacht with his love, Callie, a rehab center social worker, Harper's perfect life shatters when Callie discovers shady sober homes entangled in a dangerous game of lives for kickbacks. As Will delves into the dark secrets, he uncovers a sinister underworld of Miami gangs, sex trafficking, and murder. When Callie disappears, Harper's personal and professional worlds collide, thrusting him into the ...

After a tragic car accident shatters her body and mind, Cassandra struggles to piece together her life as a respected psychiatrist and devoted mother. But the accident has changed her. Her eyes have been opened to horrors she never knew existed. Is her family really under attack, or is it all in her mind? While Cassandra tries to prove the feeling of being stalked, her police-investigator husband, Daniel, hunts a killer of his own. As both the body count and Cassandra's hysteria rise, Daniel becomes obsessed with the case and suspicious of Cassandra's part in it.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Grey Ghost by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell, read by Scott Brick. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence.

Harry Bosch, detective de la Policía de Los Ángeles, ha sido siempre un solitario. Hijo de una prostituta asesinada, fue criado en orfanatos y quedó luego marcado por la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso rutinario de muerte por sobredosis le devuelve a su pasado. La víctima, Billy Meadows, había servido en su misma unidad. Ambos eran "ratas de túnel", ambos combatieron en los túneles del Viet Cong y ambos habían experimentado el horror del "eco negro".

In this exciting new novel by wildlife biologist, guide, and writer Robin Barefield, Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Dan Patterson flies to a remote area of Kodiak Island to investigate the massacre of eight people at a small lodge, where he encounters the worst murder scene he has ever investigated. How did someone kill eight people in the middle of the wilderness and then disappear? Patterson takes a hard look at those closest to the lodge owners. Did estranged siblings Brian or Deb Bartlett murder their parents and the six guests at the lodge?

Chloe Bennett AL LÍMITE De las etapas tranquilas siempre debes desconfiar. No son más que una trampa. Podría decirse que a Chloe Bennett le va bien. Al fin ha encontrado la calma que tanto ansiaba tras la pérdida de Sarah dos años atrás. Su relación con Colin va viento en popa, han renovado para una temporada más su programa de radio, tiene una idea para un próximo libro, está más unida a su madre que nunca, y Jon, que ha conocido a alguien especial, vuelve a ser su mejor amigo.

Blossom -- My life is about as complicated as it can get. To fulfill his political aspirations, my stepfather has decided to sell me to a man who can take him to the governor’s seat. He’s always been abusive, demanding I be perfect in public, silent in private, and obey him in all things. After we moved to Evansville, Indiana, I spent months trying to find the perfect protector, looking for the biggest, bravest, meanest man I could find. Then I meet Walker from the motorcycle club, Iron Tzars.

In a forgotten town on the wrong side of Texas, James Hawker stumbles into a fetid dive bar. The most dangerous vigilante in America is blind drunk, and stinks of mescal. He begs the bartender for help getting back across the border, and the man obliges - for a fee. He introduces Hawker to a pair of toughs, who chain him up in the back of a truck and begin the long trip north. Hawker has been captured by a modern-day slaving outfit - and it's exactly what he had in mind.

In retired Fish and Wildlife Detective Todd Vandivert’s fourth book of the Wildlife Justice series, Washington Fish and Wildlife Officer Lisa Bennington struggles to determine why several Washington Fish and Wildlife employees have been killed in what appears to be a series of freak accidents. If Lisa is right, and these deaths were the work of a murderer, she must quickly capture the murderer before any other Washington Fish and Wildlife employees lose their lives.What readers have said about the author’s books: Well, Todd has cranked out another winner. “Lethal Removal” is the ...

In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold.

A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust?

When Texas Deputy Sheriff John Cronin thwarts the Cartel’s plan to get paid to smuggle Muslims across the border, he becomes the target of the Cartel once again. One try fails, but the cartel isn’t about to give up. With his granddaughter, Jesse, still recovering from her last run-in with the Cartel and now far away with her Marine husband on a military base, Cronin only has to worry about the innocents around him.

5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have read all the True Blue Detective series, a reviewer said. I couldn’t put it down! A page-turner. If you are from New Orleans or have visited, you will enjoy this immensely. Mario DeLuca, drugged and unable to respond, is unsure if he's living through a reality or one of his recurring nightmares in which an unknown man is chasing him. Chief Parks sends Mario to Las Vegas for a convention but has other motives—she has received news that her sister in Las Vegas thinks she's spotted her missing daughter, Sophia, who disappeared over six years ago. Mario decides to ...