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Ethan Mitchell, old for his years after seventeen years in prison, knew the exact amount of time since his arrest for murder: eighteen years, five months and three days. After so long in prison, many things confused him on his release, but one thing he was sure of was that people do not come back from the dead. However, one month before his release from prison for the murder of a man, he had received a letter. It had only two sentences. Time will not save you. St Mark's Church, three in the afternoon, the first Wednesday after your release.He had recognised the writing. After all, hadn't they grown up together. The signature was unmistakable: it was his brother Martin's. But that's not possible, Mitchell thought. I killed him, spent seventeen years in prison for his murder.A voice echoed through the church; Ethan felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. 'Martin, it can't be, ' Ethan said. 'You're dead. I killed you.''You'll see me soon enough, ' the man said. At ten feet from Ethan, he stopped and reached into his right-hand jacket pocket.'No, don't.''It's only right, ' the man said. He levelled the gun that he taken from the pocket and emptied three bullets into Ethan, the noise echoing around the church. The man then put the gun into his pocket and walked out of the church and onto the busy street.

Detective Joe Erickson is called to investigate a burned-out pickup truck containing the charred bodies of two individuals. The truck's license plate helps identify the victims as a young man and his cousin, who were living in a house owned by the man's father. But when a suspicious area in the backyard is excavated, and skeletal remains are found, the case grows increasingly complicated. Who would burn the two victims beyond recognition? And could the skeletal remains have anything to do with it?

On SAC Ellie Iverson's plate: birthday prep for her twins; an attempted abduction; pressure from her husband to retire from the FBI; a missing accountant, and an American company with a nefarious off-shore agenda that could devastate the world. Within hours of trying to contact a whistle-blower, she discovers a murdered British scientist and is in the crosshairs of an assassin. A confidential informant from the scientific community reaches out and twists the emerging situation in a worrisome way. Ellie hauls together a partial plan but in a world littered with intrigue, contract killers, in-fighting intelligence agencies, and suspect connections, can they work together to prevent catastrophe?

Truck hijackings, missing families, stolen chemicals, distinctive photographs, cryptic text messages, an unimaginable hobby, and a friend with a curious dilemma. Life is never straightforward for FBI Special Agent Ellie Iverson and the Delta teams. Juggling twin toddlers and a new position as Special Agent in Charge of Delta, Ellie answers a request for help from a Missouri police officer which calls into play her extraordinary skill set and arrant determination to find the truth and protect the vulnerable.

Flu season is in full swing, surrounded by germs and illness, SSA Ellie Iverson reacts like any new mom, with hand sanitizer at the ready and a desire to keep away from anti-vaxers. Her newly hatched germaphobia escalates when Delta A is asked to investigate animal rights activists and a missing laboratory monkey. An incident in Lexington, Virginia leaves the Director of the FBI fighting for her life. A sudden violent death of a colleague in Washington, the discovery of a spate of deaths linked to the Intelligence Community, herald the arrival of an old friend from the UK with news of a potential global disaster. With biker gangs, drugs, grudges, and a plethora of 'accidental' deaths in the mix, this is no ordinary flu season.

Another day, another death, might not be unusual in FBI Agent Ellie Conway's world but a baffling series of naked, bloodless, blondes in pristine showers makes her wonder if she is dealing with a genuine vampire. Investigating the deaths of these women, Ellie is surprised when clairsentience is added to her remarkable armory of psycho-prophetic talents. Secrets emerge as she races to find a killer with a particular and gruesome agenda. Mounting bodies, escalating pressure, a sinister connection between the art world, the Darknet and the FBI, an impending wedding, peculiar liaisons, and a personal shock challenge Ellie and the Delta A team.

When information becomes misinformation, how much of what you see should you believe? Wanted for a murder she didn't commit and on the run from the FBI and Metro, Special Agent Ellie Conway has to protect an actor with close ties to Delta A from a serious threat as well as trying to clear her name. Unwittingly, whilst staying off the grid, Ellie stumbles upon a syndicate which has alarming connections to her daughter's death - and which abducts her team, with the intent of killing them, and Ellie.

If it hadn't been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn't a pleasant sight.'What happened?' Tremayne asked. He was a cantankerous man, he knew that, and he wasn't in a good mood on account of the biting wind and the squelching mud underfoot.'I found him when I came up here to check on the livestock, ' the farmhand said.'At what time?' Tremayne moved away from the body, attempting to find somewhere drier. The condition of the track up to the site was so bad that the vehicle sent to transport the dead man to the mortuary could not make it up. Even Tremayne and Clare had had to hang onto a tractor to get up the slope, and now the weather looked as if it were about to worsen.Tremayne had never been keen on farms, and especially horses, although Clare loved them. Tremayne assumed she wouldn't be so fond of the one that trampled Claude Selwood to death.'At what time?' Tremayne moved away from the body, attempting to find somewhere drier. The condition of the track up to the site was so bad that the vehicle sent to transport the dead man to the mortuary could not make it up. Even Tremayne and Clare had had to hang onto a tractor to get up the slope, and now the weather looked as if it were about to worsen.Tremayne had never been keen on farms, and especially horses, although Clare loved them. Tremayne assumed she wouldn't be so fond of the one that trampled Claude Selwood to death.

The man was not meant to die; the daggers were only theatrical props, plastic and harmless. A summer's night, a production of Julius Caesar among the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon fort. Detective Inspector Tremayne is there with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood. The assassination scene, the man collapses to the ground, Brutus defending his actions; Mark Antony's rebuke.It was meant to be high drama, not murder, but someone's switched the daggers.The man's death, in plain view of two serving police officers.They're a disparate group, the amateur actors. One's an estate agent, another, an accountant. And then there is the teenage man, the gay, the funeral director. And what about the women? They could be involved.They've all got a secret, but which of those on the stage wanted Gordon Mason, the actor who had portrayed Caesar, dead?

Grands amateurs de jeux à sensations fortes, plusieurs femmes et hommes se réjouissent de participer à une Murder Party d'un nouveau genre. D'abord excités par cette aventure inédite et perverse, l'angoisse et la peur les rattrapent peu à peu. Jusqu'au dénouement final qui ne se passe pas comme prévu. Dès lors, les principaux candidats vont se retrouver entraînés dans un jeu de dupes diabolique, dont ils risquent de ne pas sortir indemnes.

A TOTALLY GRIPPING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR JANICE FROST.It begins as a Halloween prank. It ends in cold-blooded murder.Halloween. One of the busiest nights of the year for Lincolnshire police. Special Constable Jane Bell is called out to reports of someone in a Dracula mask terrorising the residents of a nearby estate with a replica knife. She races to the scene - but the man in the mask flees into the night.The next morning, Detective Steph Warwick turns up on Jane's doorstep. There's been a murder. Dracula went on to attack two women, retired schoolteacher Susan Gedney and her daughter Gina. Susan died at the scene, Gina survived. The knife turned out to be all too real.Then another young woman disappears from the picturesque village where Susan and Gina lived. She was last seen out on a country walk - but she never returned.Three woman targeted from the same small village. This is no coincidence.Detectives Steph and Jane are faced with the most baffling case of their careers.This unputdownable mystery full of twists is the perfect read for fans of Angela Marsons, Helen H. Durrant, Rachel McLean and Michael Hambling.

MEET DETECTIVE HEDLEY SHARPE IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS.A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish.Day 1. Chloe Todd believes her baby daughter is sleeping peacefully in her pram in the back garden. She lifts away the blanket to check on her - and gasps in shock.Chloe's neighbour calls the police. But all is not as it seems . . .Day 2. Superintendent Hedley Sharpe is called to a murder scene in the city centre. A body is discovered in a cellar beneath an empty shop. A single shot to the head. The victim has been dead at least a year.Day 3. A second body is found in the cellar next door. Again a single bullet wound in the head. But this time the body is fresh.Hedley Sharpe doesn't believe in coincidence. The two murders must be linked. Then he uncovers a connection to young mother Chloe Todd - and the case takes an extraordinary twist.Hedley's investigations will unearth a series of dark secrets. Secrets that reach back into his own troubled past.Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean, Joy Ellis, J.D. Kirk, Rachel Abbott, Elly Griffiths or J.M. Dalgliesh.

Guardando la sua amica trascinata via in manette, Josie non riuscì a credere nemmeno per un secondo che Gretchen avesse ucciso quel povero ragazzo. Confessione o no, qualcun altro era coinvolto. Avrebbe scoperto chi... Quando il corpo di un giovane studente viene trovato sul vialetto di una casa di Denton, con una fotografia appuntata al colletto, la Detective Josie Quinn è la prima ad arrivare sul posto. La casa appartiene a Gretchen Palmer, un importante membro della squadra di Josie, scomparsa da ventiquattro ore. Lavorando 24 ore su 24, Josie si ritrova bloccata quando Gretchen si consegna alla polizia. Sa che è impossibile che Gretchen sia un'assassina, quindi perché dovrebbe confessare un omicidio che non ha commesso? Scavando a fondo nella vita segreta di Gretchen, Josie scopre un legame tra il ragazzo, la fotografia e un caso devastante nel passato di Gretchen. Ma proprio quando Josie pensa di aver capito tutto, i corpi di una giovane coppia affiorano dall'altra parte della città. Riuscirà Josie a scoprire la verità in tempo per salvare la sua amica da una vita in prigione o da una morte certa? Assolutamente avvincente, questo imperdibile thriller di un'autrice bestseller di USA Today e Wall Street Journal vi lascerà senza fiato. Una lettura perfetta per i fan di Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni e Rachel Caine. Cosa dicono i lettori di La confessione finale: "Avvincente ed emozionante... Mi ha catturato immediatamente... Ne ero ossessionato, non riuscivo a smettere di leggere... quando pensi di aver capito tutto, arriva un'altra palla curva dritta su di te. È stata una lettura incredibile... Altamente consigliato a tutti gli amanti dei thriller crimini, ti prometto che amerai questa serie." Recensore di Goodreads, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Questa serie migliora sempre di più... Josie Quinn deve essere uno dei miei personaggi principali femminili preferiti... una storia eccellente... Ho adorato questo libro. Inutile dire che La confessione finale merita cinque stelle su cinque." Recensore di Goodreads, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Ho letto oltre l'orario di andare a letto per finire questo libro perché non riuscivo a smettere. Questa serie continua a migliorare sempre di più. Non vedo l'ora del prossimo caso di Josie." Recensore di Goodreads, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Oh mio Dio! Questo libro è stato il modo perfetto per trascorrere una domenica pomeriggio. Lisa Regan diventa sempre migliore (il che è incredibile perché pensavo che i suoi ultimi due libri fossero fenomenali)... la trama/mistero è coinvolgente. Così tanti colpi di scena lungo il cammino... Sicuramente uno dei miei libri preferiti dell'anno." Annette Thornton, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Coinvolgente... fa girare la testa... Uno che non vorrete perdere... Sono completamente dipendente da questa serie." The Book Nurse, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

She can hear the faint lapping of waves nearby as she tries to open her swollen blue eyes. But all she can see is darkness, there is nothing but the suffocating sand that surrounds her. As her consciousness fades, she wishes she had never trusted him... When Ruby Evans is abducted on her way home from volunteering at a nursing home in North Carolina's Outer Banks, Detective Casey White's heart breaks for the inconsolable mother. Terrible memories flood back of when her own darling daughter was taken twenty years ago. Pushing her own pain aside, Casey vows to find Ruby and bring her home. After desperately searching the road where Ruby was last seen, Casey receives a letter from someone claiming to be the kidnapper. In cursive red letters, she is warned that she has less than twenty-four hours to find Ruby alive. And when forensics reveal the letter was written in blood, Casey knows this isn't a hoax. Working around the clock, Casey is devastated when her team hit another dead end, and she's shattered when Ruby's body is discovered buried on the beach-she's too late. Now looking for a twisted killer, Casey is shocked when she receives a call from an evil predator she put behind bars ten years ago. He says he knows who the killer is, and will help Casey in exchange for his freedom. Casey refuses, but when she receives another letter, she is forced to reconsider. Because the killer promises the next victim will be someone much closer to her, and the clock is ticking.With only hours left, Casey has to decide if she's prepared to free one evil monster to catch another, and if she doesn't, will her loved ones pay the ultimate price? An absolutely addictive crime thriller that will have you racing through the pages! Fans of Robert Dugoni, Lisa Regan and Kendra Elliot will be totally hooked. Read what everyone's saying about B.R. Spangler: "Oh my God what a read!!!! I devoured this book in one sitting and finally turned the last page in the wee hours. Oh yes this book is that good!!!!... Heart-stopping... had me holding my breath. A nail-biting read that is full of twists and turns." Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The woman falls. Her body begins to shake. Her brown eyes turn upwards, showing a mix of panic and desperate hope. She takes a deep breath and says one word: "Blake." Then her eyes close, her face pales, and she goes still forever...The victim: Shannon, a woman who went out of her way to help the lost and hopeless, left abandoned to die by the side of the road. Where was she in those last few days before her death, and why was she so frightened?The avenger: Blake Claremont, who knows only too well how it feels to be alone on the streets of a big city. Blake survived, thanks to Shannon. She's determined to find out who killed her friend, and why.Before she died, Shannon was searching for answers. She knew that people were going missing... never to be seen again. Now, with the help of Detective John Byron, Blake must take up Shannon's investigation. She knows these streets and the predators who walk in the darkness. She will follow in Shannon's footsteps until she finds her target: the ruthless men and women who steal people's lives and will do anything to protect their secrets.And then, they will pay.Prepare to be gripped by this unputdownable crime thriller, the second in the brilliant new series from the bestselling author of the Charlie Fox books. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Kendra Elliot and Cara Hunter won't be able to put this down.Readers are hooked by the Blake and Byron Thrillers: 'Oh My GOD. What is this book I could not put it down!... Kept me up until the wee hours! Read this!' LauraReviews88, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Wow!! Just wow!!... This book is brilliant! More than brilliant, amazing!!!... Absolutely gripping, addictive and captivating... I was absolutely hooked from the first page to the last. I had a complete shock at the twists... Love, love, loved all the characters!!!' NetGalley reviewer'Incredible...It blew my socks off... Full of tension and suspense, I couldn't think about putting it down, I had to know what happened.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, vie to rescue plane crash survivors from a Colorado mountain--and contend with a hijacker determined to stop them. For fans of harder-edged crime fiction by authors like Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot, Iris Johansen, and Robert Krais. As long as there's hope of finding life, no mission is too dangerous for Meg Jennings and her colleagues in the FBI K-9 unit. But locating the wreckage of a hijacked private plane high in the Elk Mountains of Colorado is treacherous in a multitude of ways--some of them impossible for even a seasoned team to predict. The plane, carrying the board of directors of Barron Pharmaceuticals, crashed on a rocky peak and was cleaved in two. Perilous weather means the rescuers have to ascend on foot, with their dogs unleashed in case of falls. It takes hours to locate the wreckage, but miraculously, Meg and Hawk find half a dozen passengers and crew still alive. The hijacker also survived, and has fled into the wilderness with the CEO's son in pursuit. As soon as day breaks, the K-9 teams set out to find both men, and the dogs quickly pick up a scent trail. Meg has used her connections with an investigative reporter to learn as much as she can about the hijacker, hoping to use it when they apprehend him. But first, they must contend with the mountain's savage fury, and an adversary who will destroy as many lives as possible rather than face justice . . .

Sgt.Garland Flowers, a homicide detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff´s Department, has a dilemma. He loves his wife and he loves his job, but his two loves are not compatible. This conflict is causing the breakup of his marriage and any hopes for a normal home life. The long hours, constant demands of the job, and Garland´s preoccupation with his cases have caused the couple to separate. The turmoil in his personal life, though, does not compare with what is in store for him in his latest case. Garland and his partner, Archie Penner, are called to investigate a murder in a ghetto community adjacent to the city of Los Angeles. The scene they encounter resembles a disaster area. "The place looks like a cyclone went through it" is how the deputy at the scene describes it. A triple murder, including a pre-adolescent girl, has been perpetrated. The apartment has been left in shambles, with furniture thrown about as if by a raging storm. Two of the victims, a man and a woman, are in the master bedroom. The man´s neck is broken and the woman has been strangled. Both appear to have been dispatched by an incredibly powerful assailant. In the other bedroom is their child, the product of a racially mixed marriage. The body of the child is neatly laid out in repose. She has been smothered. No items in the room have been displaced ... quite a contrast from the other rooms. Further assessment of the crime scene rules out robbery as a motive. Could this crime have been racially motivated? The crime has all the earmarks of an act of personal rage. With little to go on, no fingerprints, no witnesses or other clues as to the perpetrator´s identity or motive, the detectives have no place to turn. That is, until another multiple homicide two weeks later gives Flowers his first break. A thumbprint has been lifted from the second crime scene. The fingerprint identifies the suspect as a man by the name of B.C. Jones, a recent parolee from Soledad Prison. Jones is six feet six inches in height and weighs 280 pounds, and none of it is fat. His chest and arms are massive. For six years he has been lifting weights in prison, where he was sent for killing his father. He committed the crime with his bare hands. Jones is a mulatto, the product of a black father and a white mother. He is also simple-minded, having endured a childhood of constant physical abuse. He is a social outcast, and is extremely bitter about his racially mixed blood. In his mind, his lack of racial identity is the root of all of his problems, and he feels compelled to do something about it. During the course of the investigation Sgt. Flowers pieces together the psychological puzzle that motivates Jones to commit these murders. Meanwhile, Jones discovers that he has been named as the suspect in these crimes and flees to the home of his only known relative, an aunt who lives in Gulfport, Mississippi. While staying with her he is arrested for a minor offense. A routine record check is made, and the Gulfport Police Department learns that Jones is wanted for murder in Los Angeles. The L. A. County Sheriff´s Department is immediately notified. Sgt. Flowers is assigned the task of traveling to Mississippi to pick up the prisoner and return him to Los Angeles for trial. The Deep South is not a place Flowers has ever given any thought of visiting. After all, this is 1969, and desegregation is still new to these parts ... and Garland Flowers happens to be black. Born and reared in California, he has heard horrifying stories of how blacks are treated in the South, and is concerned about the kind of cooperation and assistance he will receive from the Southern law enforcement officers. But his reception is not what he expects. The absence of racial prejudice that he encounters upon

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Two detectives: one human, one AI. And a case that will test them both. Detective Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her intuition, honed through years of on-the-beat police work. Picked to lead a pilot program that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, a hologram that is activated by a device on Kat's wrist, Kat's gut reactions about people and motives come up against Lock's statistical calculations and data analysis that can be done in seconds. But as the two missing persons cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help when the case begins to target Kat personally. AI versus human experience. Logic versus instinct. With lives on the line can the pair work together to solve the mystery in time? In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human.

In the shadow of picket fences and beneath the facade of suburban normalcy, the events on the 12600 block of 33rd Avenue South in Burnsville, Minnesota, tore through the veneer, revealing a tapestry of pain, threats, and fatal consequences. In 'Unveiling Shadows: A Suburban Tragedy, ' the raw and poignant narrative unfolds, laying bare the complexities of domestic turmoil, mental health struggles, and the high-stakes challenges faced by law enforcement in the heart of a seemingly idyllic community. As we go into the lives of Gooden and Torres, a troubled couple whose private struggles led to a fateful Sunday morning, the reader is drawn into a narrative that transcends the boundaries of a suburban neighborhood. The tension, explicit threats, and heartbreaking consequences resonate beyond the pages, leaving an indelible mark on the collective consciousness. 'Unveiling Shadows' goes beyond the headlines, offering an unfiltered look into the warning signs ignored, the law enforcement strategies employed, and the aftermath that reverberated through the community. It's a story of resilience, empathy, and the collective journey toward healing in the aftermath of tragedy. As you turn the pages, you'll find yourself immersed in a narrative that challenges preconceptions, prompts reflection, and ignites a conversation about the hidden struggles within our communities. 'Unveiling Shadows' is not just a book; it's a mirror reflecting the complexities of suburban life, a call to empathy, and a catalyst for change. Join us on this journey of understanding, compassion, and healing. Because in the unveiling of shadows, we find the strength to confront the darkness that lingers behind closed doors. Let this be more than a story; let it be a call to action." Order your copy today and be part of the conversation that transcends tragedy, sparks empathy, and fosters a community where support, understanding, and resilience thrive. Together, we can unveil the shadows and create a brighter, more compassionate future.

Octogenarian former sheriff Bill Gastner and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigate a puzzling double murder in this twisty, page-turning instalment in the critically acclaimed Posadas County mystery series "If you haven't yet discovered these wonderful mysteries, you are in for a treat!" Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author The morning after his eighty-seventh birthday bash, former Posadas County sheriff Bill Gastner drives past a couple of vehicles stopped on the highway shoulder. It's not an unusual sight: a sheriff's patrol unit, emergency lights ablaze, pulled in behind a pickup truck. The female deputy hasn't radioed for backup. But there's something about the scene that makes him feel uneasy. The next day, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is called to a rather more dramatic and disturbing roadside scene, with the same truck the star of the show. But this time, its occupant is in no fit state to talk - his dead body stabbed through the chest with a Ka-Bar, a second corpse in the ditch beside the car. What happened to the two men? And what were the dead man and the deputy discussing in the quiet of pre-dawn the previous day? The truth is more twisty and complex than even Estelle and her long-standing friend and former colleague Bill are ready for, and it will take all their combined years of experience to untangle the sorry tale and ensure justice is served. Fans of CJ Box, Anne Hillerman and Terry Shames will love this thrilling, small-town Western mystery set in New Mexico, as will readers who love strong female protagonists and retired sleuthing heroes.

A young woman is missing, but has she run away - or been captured? A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that's still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that was found in a lonely wood, dismissed as a down and out by her superiors. Caplan connects the case to other victims left to die in the bleak Scottish forests, injured and unable to escape. As the scent grows stronger, the cold cases seem suddenly dangerously hot. In this thrilling hunt for the missing girl, Caplan must trace where love and control get out of hand, and question where power lies in any relationship. Meanwhile, the dark nights of Scotland conceal a terrifying game of cat and mouse . . . This gripping Scottish police procedural meets twisted psychological thriller, featuring a complex and fascinating female protagonist, is a perfect choice for fans of tartan noir and authors Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and William McIlvanney.

An amateur female sheriff tries to fill her late father's boots and be the sheriff her small Washington State mountain town needs as a deadly snow storm engulfs the town, in this dark, twisty mystery. The world felt pure. Nature made the location pristine again, hiding the scene from prying eyes. As if no one had died there at all. In the months since Bet Rivers solved her first murder investigation and secured the sheriff's seat in Collier, she's remained determined to keep her town safe. With a massive snowstorm looming, it's more important than ever that she stay vigilant. When Bet gets a call that a family of tourists has stumbled across a teen injured in a snowmobile accident on a mountain ridge, she braves the mounting storm to investigate. However, once she arrives at the scene of the accident it's clear to Bet that the teen is not injured; he's dead. And has been for some time . . . Investigating a possible homicide is hard enough, but with the worst snowstorm the valley has seen in years threatening the safety of her town, not to mention the integrity of her crime scenes - as they seem to be mounting up as well - Bet has to move fast to uncover the complicated truth and prove that she's worthy of keeping her father's badge.

When the body of young Ben Harris is found after a Colorado snowstorm, Detective Nick Severs is drawn into a missing child case that went cold twenty years ago. As he and his hacker girlfriend Claire begin the investigation, every dark turn takes them deeper into the underworld of child trafficking and cybercrime, where danger is real, stakes are high, and where they each must decide what lines they are willing to cross in order to find justice.

THE MURDERS CONTINUE TO HAUNT ANASTACIA "CHOOK" BABCHUK, A COP OUT FOR REVENGE...She'll stop at nothing to even the score, even if it means becoming a murderer herself. After Anastacia hunts down the old man responsible for the deaths of Evelyn and Polly, she seeks refuge with her friend, Harry Becker, on his farm near Wagga Wagga.But Harry is wrestling with his own ghosts, including helping Angelina Cosco deal with the fallout from the death of her mafia boss father.When Chook's past tracks her down, and Angelina Cosco once again finds herself on the wrong side of the Griffith mafia, Harry and Chook must work together to overcome the dangers that pursue them both.Corruption and danger insist on intruding on their professional and personal lives as Harry and Chook find themselves pulled deeper into the corruption of Griffith's mafia.Is there ever a way out?This third instalment of the Harry Becker series offers the danger and emotional heart readers have come to expect from Gordon Reid's thrilling investigative novel series."The Becker series is perfect crime thriller material to enthral and engage lovers of Australian rural crime fiction... great work!" Dennis, Readalot reviewer

A discovery of bones on a windswept beach, the disappearance of a young woman, and a detective whose secrets are about to come out... Summoned to a crime scene swarming with people, Detective Billie Ann Wilde is devastated to find a woman's broken bones abandoned in a suitcase on the sand of a popular Florida beach. And Billie's blood runs cold when she reads the name "Danni" handwritten on the luggage tag in black ink: the name of Billie's own best friend. Rushing over to Danni's home, Billie is relieved to find her alive, preparing dinner for her two young daughters. So whose bones are in the suitcase? And why was Danni's name at the scene? For years, Billie has worried that the dark secrets in her past might put her loved ones in danger, and soon her connection to the case is confirmed. Another set of bones is found at a busy local mall. With shaking hands Billie reaches out to read the luggage tag where another name is written in black ink: but this time, it's Billie's own name. And now, Danni has gone missing... Can Billie face up to the past and unravel her connection to this twisted killer? Or, with two young women already gone, is it too late for Billie to save Danni's life? A twisty, heart-stopping new crime thriller in the Billie Ann Wilde series, from international bestseller Willow Rose. Readers of Lisa Regan, Mary Stone and Kendra Elliot won't be able to stop turning the pages. What readers are saying about Willow Rose: "Wow! Wow! Wow!... keeps you in suspense from page one all the way to the end, GENIUS! My jaw literally hit the floor at the end! I cannot wait to start the next book, so I'm not going to. Bye! Cuz I have another amazing thrill ride to go on!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Omg I could not put this book down... my heart was in my mouth most of the time." Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wow just wow!... I literally pictured it in my head like an episode of CSI... phenomenal. It sucked me in, I couldn't stop reading. And the plot twist WOW." Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Oh my gosh! This book is amazing! Willow Rose is now my favorite author! I have never read a book as good as this one or as shocking... I am now actually reading every book she has written! I'm not reading another author until I read everything I can that she has written. Willow Rose you are truly an amazing author!!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Completely blew me away. I never saw the ending turning out the way it did... thrilling and captivating... Once I started reading, I couldn't stop... A definite must-read." "Wow what a compelling and attention grabbing story that was full of action!!!!!... incredible heart-wrenching suspenseful thriller... had me completely drawn in from the start of the book to the final pages... one unexpected turn after another... The ending was totally mind-blowing and left me in total shock!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This was an AWESOME READ!!... very hard to put down... never miss out on a Willow Rose book!!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Family ties... Buried lies... A life on the line. Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen. Time's running out. This long-lost son isn't just a missing puzzle piece, he's the last hope for a life-saving kidney transplant for his dying half-brother. The stakes couldn't be higher. With the Charing family's reputation on the line, Clifford and Birdie must operate under the radar, cutting through years of concealed truths. As the deadline approaches, they race to find the missing son and persuade him to make a life-altering choice. Can they solve the case and save a life before time runs out? Dive into a world of hidden identities and urgent choices in Wake The Past. What readers are saying about this series: 'I hadn't come across Sally Rigby before - my loss! I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the plot. I read the whole book in two sittings as I had difficulty putting it down.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Another brilliant crime book by Sally Rigby. Kept me engaged throughout and once started I could not put it down (I literally read this book in 1 day). Lots of twists and turns throughout the book to keep the reading guessing and engaged.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A great page-turner! Loved this book as it's well written, would also make a great TV series... So looking forward to reading the next book in the series.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love Sally's writing style. It's fast-paced and exciting. The twists and turns keep you guessing until the end. The characters are likeable and complex and, more importantly, believable.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book helped me to get out of my "funk". I really missed reading and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's easy to read and engaging.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I have loved all of Sally Rigby's books - the Cavendish & Walker series is amazing and wondered if the new one, featuring the new character Sebastian Clifford, would match up to it. YES IT DOES! Loved the book so much and now can't wait for the follow-up! Sally does it again! Brilliant.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

They weren't supposed to cross the border. But they did it anyway. Twice. L.A. Sheriff's Homicide Detective Josefina Sanchez cannot turn her back on a former colleague and friend, even when he is suspected of murder and has fled the country. Jerry Townsend's wife was gunned down a decade earlier when the couple arrived home from a night on the town and surprised an intruder. When the investigation failed to identify a suspect or even a motive, some of Townsend's colleagues speculated that he had been part of a scheme to kill her. As rumors of his guilt abounded, Townsend quietly retired from law enforcement and disappeared. Ten years later, Townsend reaches out to Josie and asks for her help. Josie ventures into Mexico on an unauthorized mission to find answers to the unsolved mystery. Her partner, Dickie Jones, warned her against going, convinced that the trip south could leave her career in peril and her life in imminent danger. Of course, he was right.As the truth begins to unravel, Josie is drawn into a tangled web of crooked cops and their cartel connections, and she scrambles to make it out alive.The First Felony is the eighth novel in the highly acclaimed, best-selling, and award-winning Dickie Floyd Detective series. If you enjoy authentic police procedurals written by someone who lived the life, you'll love this riveting crime series by Danny R. Smith.

Detective Ida Mae Rollins searches for the identity of a homicide victim who was dismembered and dumped along a road in southeastern Wisconsin. Her subsequent search for the killer leads the diminutive, spiky-haired blonde investigator on a body strewn trail that stretches from Wisconsin into Iowa and ultimately into southern Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri. Ida, as she prefers to be called, gets a lucky break while grocery shopping during a visit to her mother's farm. She spots a man she had believed to be murdered and follows him across the state line. What follows is a fast-paced discovery of drug dealing involving the man and his partner, a strikingly pretty pathological liar of a woman who detests men and her own mother. But is there anything linking the woman to men who were murdered in Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri? Ida digs deep for physical evidence even as her own boss, Sheriff Peter Clark, wants action taken against the man who reported what he believed to be mere littering.

From an Edgar Award-nominated author, a small-town chief of police is pushed to his limits while going up against a local crime syndicate. The near-fatal stabbing of Armand "Fat Manny" Manditti, a numbers runner working for the local mob boss, has chief of police Mario Balzic in a bind. Neither Fat Manny nor his brother Tullio are talking, probably because they are putting together a revenge plan that will soon turn the small rust-belt town of Rocksburg into a morgue. Unless Balzic can come up with the perp before they do. It's the kind of fix that can get even the most conscientious cop in trouble. . . . "Constantine is a marvelous writer. May Mario Balzic thrive." --The New York Times "K.C. Constantine is one of the most talked about mystery writers on the American scene. Constantine has a smooth style, and his plots are loaded with unexpected twists and turns." ―Boston Globe "Constantine writes a terrific mystery." ―Providence Journal

News of a missing Instagram celebrity brings Senior Investigator Shana Merchant to a frozen island community of just eight people. When the visit turns deadly, her hunt for a killer collides with a cold case she'll never forget . . . It's February in the Thousand Islands and, cut off from civilization by endless ice, eight people are overwintering on tiny, remote Running Pine. Six year-rounders, used to the hard work, isolation and freezing temperatures . . . and two newcomers: social-media stars Cary and Sylvie, whose account documenting their year on the island is garnering thousands of followers, and thousands of dollars' worth of luxury gifts. The long-term islanders will tell you Running Pine can be perilous - especially for city slickers who'll do anything to get the perfect shot. So when Cary doesn't return from ice fishing one morning, his neighbors fear the worst. With the clock ticking to find the missing influencer, a police team are dispatched to take the dangerous journey to the island . . . but Sylvie, his hysterical partner, will only talk to one person: newlywed Senior Investigator Shana Merchant. Where is Cary - and what is it that Sylvie's not sharing? With aspects of the case reminding Shana of an unsolved homicide from her past that haunts her still, she risks her own safety to help. But little does she know that a storm is coming - and if she doesn't solve both crimes soon, she may become the island's next victim . . .The latest taut, thrilling small-town mystery featuring New York State senior investigator Shana Merchant, and set against the beautiful backdrop of the Thousand Islands, is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Ruth Ware.