Fiction - Crime

A new generation of elite American warriors faces off against an enemy unlike any other.Sons of valor ...Navy SEAL Keith Chunk Redman has been one of the military's top doorkickers since the day he pinned on his trident: loyal, single-minded, lethal. Tasked to lead...

Going home sucks, especially when it's for your best friend's funeral. Tom left Chicago thinking he was just going to go to a funeral, little did he know his past was going to come to haunt him and possibly take him down a dangerous...

What happens when a gang of vicious drug dealers hit the sleepy Canadian town of Serendipity?After waking up to the sound of gunshots, Annie rushes over to Ben 'The Butcher' Rough's meat shop, only to find out the man has been shot and killed....

At the book launch of his father's biography, the stilted footage of Holocaust survivors is projected behind Benjamin Hoefer. As the video comes to an end, it closes in on Eli Hoefer's gaunt face, four red words scratched across the last frame: Nazi. Jew...

From the day her five-year-old was abducted, Abigail Fisher vowed never to stop looking until her daughter was safely back home.But despite multiple searches, twenty-three years have passed without a trace of Becky Ann. When Abigail learns that death row inmate Megan Winnaker is...

The Maze in the English Park, a historical crime novella, spans two centuries, and ties two worlds of people who will be unknowingly brought together in an unexpected drama of lost identities, love, and death.It is in 19th century Prague where the path of...

My enemy murdered my parents, now I'm going to ruin his daughter...I was beaten, starved, but never defeated.I watched. I learned.Until I was the one in power.This is a merciless world.Hunt or be prey.I am the one in charge now.I show no mercy.I only...

Temperatures are dropping as winter takes Burgundy into a tight grip, but the crime rate shows no sign of freezing, and Inspector Pel and his team of detectives are as busy as ever. A well-known fraudster is found dead in an alleyway - could...

For underworld enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders, it seemed like an ordinary job: retrieve his gangster boss's stolen goods, and teach the person responsible a lesson.But the chase quickly goes sideways and takes Rico from the mean streets of Chicago to sunny Honolulu. There, the...

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss.A lawyer and an enforcer forge an uneasy alliance to protect the girl from a hit man with an agenda of his own. Soon after, Paul Elliott...

The Four Just Men (1905) is a political thriller by Edgar Wallace. The book that launched Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Four Just Men was released in conjunction with a newspaper competition allowing readers to guess the truth...

It began with The Cove. Now the suspense continues in the second book of the Devil's Cove trilogy.Devil's Cove used to be a safe place to live. Until a serial killer was caught hiding behind a familiar face.As the Cornish community reels in shock,...

The desert spares no souls. Set in the scorched and unforgiving deserts of the American Southwest, A Place for Snakes to Breed follows Weldon Holt's desperate search for his daughter Tammy, who is lost in the vicious landscape of interstate truck stop prostitution and...

It started when the boss announced: "You guys can fight in the alley, you can fight in the truck yard, but stop fighting in the customers' fucking houses..." This changes everything for Johnny and the rest of the crew, who were accustomed to a...

"... the book is full of delightful twists and reversals;""... as a bit of escapism, it does its job." - Kirkus Reviews"Kronwith has written a magnificent, comedic crime caper..."Author Kronwith creates characters who are riotous, intelligent, and, in their own ways, relatable and often...

FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES A NEW KIND OF MISSION...Domestic terrorism. The worst kind.A tiny US town on the Mexican border. Remote. A big day for this minuscule rural community. The president and First Lady are in town...

FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES CODY'S WAR This time it's personal Sara Durell is missing. Sara was the best friend of Carol, Jack Cody's late wife who died with their children at the hands of Islamic terrorists....

FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES CODY'S MOST DANGEROUS MISSION YET...Jack Cody is on a healing path, recovering from the personal trauma of loss that left this top American agent with the nickname "Suicide." But Cody's recovery, his...

This story points to human nature. Its seeming repetitive side relative to the use of violence and bad behavior. Change appears through centuries out of reach despite the presence of good people. In this story, a solid Navy father-daughter family crime war is the...

A wedding. A murder. A 200-year-old curse: Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation when he answers an old friend's call for help. Although he hasn't seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls...

When crowds flock to purchase bread from a cut-price franchise bakery just down the street from Earthly Delights, baker Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, her lover Daniel's old friend Georgiana Hope has set up residence in his house. She's tall, blonde, and gorgeous,...

Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: head-butted by a horse as she protested against the local Devon hunt. The official verdict? It was a freak accident. But when another hunt saboteur is found dead in a ditch on the day of Nina's funeral, local...

A cop watches your hands; a magician shows you the wrong one.New Year's Eve is a time for new beginnings, but it's business as usual for Detective Erin O'Reilly and her K-9, Rolf. A midnight magic show on Broadway goes horribly wrong and a...

It could just be coincidence. It also could be revenge.But hardened cop Frank Zimmerman doesn't believe in coincidences. Neither does FBI profiler Nathan Thomas.A drowned lawyer, a fatal car accident, a heart attack and a socialite's lethal fall in front of a huge crowd...

Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, this cozy detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick listen for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor,...

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WORK FRIENDS? HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. We follow the love story of a couple who are madly in love with each other. Their love knows no...

The head of the biggest NYC crime family, Carmine Miceli, Jr., is taken in on racketeering charges. His life-long friend, Gino Ranno, is forced to become the head of the family he has so desperately tried to keep at arm's length in this 3rd...

"As slick as a switchblade with a pearl handle."-- Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author Los Angeles bodyguard/bouncer Caleb Rush (Crush) is back in this second Crush novel. When Rachel Fury, a con-artist friend who'd vanished for a couple of years after a...

Choice was born into a life of crime. Growing up in an inner city this became his norm. His mother moved the family to a suburban area when he was young, but Choice was already addicted to a life of crime. Through all the...

Murdered corpses aren't an everyday occurrence in the Midlands cathedral city of Lichfield. When Detective Inspector Jean Mason is called to view the bodyof a young girl found on the banks of Stowe Pool, a few minutes' walk from the centre of the city,...

"George Wharton said he hoped I'd have a nice murder for you."Ludovic Travers and his wife choose to spend part of their honeymoon in the quiet town of Edensthorpe--one place where they can be sure of peace and quiet, and where an eminent author...

Courtney du Persse was beautiful but that was no help in changing a flat tire in the middle of a thunder storm. The knight in shinning armor that came to her rescue changed more than her flat tire, he changed her life. From a...

'I'm not saying the internet made me kill, but it certainly helped.' Is there someone online who really grates on you? That friend who's always bragging about their awesome life and endlessly sharing tired memes, and who just doesn't get jokes? Look at your...

There is always room in the world for more gripping tales about the exploits of the inimitable Sherlock Holmes and the redoubtable Dr Watson. Here is a collection of five previously unknown cases from the astonishing career of the consulting detective and his ever-loyal...

Sherlock Holmes's investigations were not always the neat and self-contained stories that were presented for publication. As Watson writes in his "Foreword" Holmes's cases overlapped one another considerably, often with the next beginning while the current was still in motion. Some moved linearly from...

An action-packed Southern mystery adventure that will have you laughing and guessing until the very end! The whole town thinks Willem has already committed two murders. Why shouldn't they believe he's committed more?For the past year and a half, Willem has been an outcast...

What begins as a ploy to claim an inheritance ends with the impostor's life hanging in the balance. In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's...

Through the process of an unusual murder investigation, the rural Tennessee Homicide detective, Ron McCarthy, confronted not only many colorful characters, who seemed to have reason to commit the crime, but also learned the effects of fast-changing times, resulting in generation clash and personal...

After Dark combines elements of a thrilling detective story and a modern romance tale. Unforgettable characters come to grips with critical issues in their personal lives. Noteworthy are the connections between the local news media and the global village, between the pleasant community and...

Tollie Erasmus, an unsavory bank robber on the run, is hung from the neck until dead. Unfortunately, execution was administered without the benefit of South African judge or jury. Somewhere there's a killer who knows far too much about the hangman's craft, and Lieutenant...

His midlife crisis seemed to peak when Harlan Holmes, an ex-cop turned private eye, lost the son of his only client somewhere along the Leelanau coast-about 45 N.The job initially seemed simple, more like babysitting than private investigation. Harlan was hired to look after...

When Victoria Miller and her backing band, Wheat, broke out with a string of gold records in the sixties, the sultry chanteuse seemed shy of crowds, refusing to perform in public. Years after her last success, Victoria makes her stage debut, but the magic...

Who Killed the Girls? is based on a true story. In April 1967, the murders of two young women in the back room of an ice cream store shocked the quiet rural town of Staunton, Virginia. No one witnessed the crime, heard the shots,...

An unabridged edition to include updated typeface and layout -Author: Upton SinclairISBN-10: 1603864059ISBN-13: 9781603864053Publisher: Watchmaker PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2011Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Sofia I didn't know Raphael Amado when he turned up on our doorstep demanding restitution for an old debt. My grandfather knew him well, though, and he quickly conceded. That restitution? Me. Six months later, on my birthday, Raphael came to claim me. He...

Laurel Dane was no angel. She'd changed men as often as she'd changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she'd like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn't believe that...

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was...

Author: Kathryn HillISBN-10: 1483617866ISBN-13: 9781483617862Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2013Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d

The dead woman looked strangely like Dolores Kennedy, only child of wealthy parents. But it was Dolores herself who stumbled over the body outside the exclusive Philadelphia girls' school she attended. And Inspector Davis could find nothing but coincidence to tie the two together....

A broken cable, a useless speaker, darkness. Five frightened people huddled in a crippled elevator about to take its final plunge. And the old games are played out.A novel of shattering human revelation. It hurls five strangers - an aggressive businessman, a neurotic housewife,...