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Charly Bloom's life took a wrong turn that has left her alone and frustrated. When she gets a call from an old flame, she returns to her hometown to investigate the disappearances of four children. The abductions are eerily similar to a set of previous crimes.Two decades ago, Charly and her three friends decided to play amateur detectives and help find a girl who was stolen from her home. Then, another girl went missing. Clues overlooked by the inept sheriff left only one child to survive: Charly. She managed to fight back and kill the Snatcher. Or so everyone thought...Is the Snatcher back, or is there a copycat? Charly must face her past and her own personal demons in a race against time to save the latest victim.

Displayed in a bizarre setting, the body of a missing little girl is discovered. Law enforcement in Fairfax, County, Virginia, requests assistance from the Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI. A satellite facility under the direction of SAC Simon Dubuclet, assigns Special Agent Charley Faraday, an experienced behavioral analyst. Directed to work the case with Special Agent Sean Murphy, Charley sets aside previous professional grievances, finding a child killer supersedes her personal opinions. After predicting Robin Senters death will not be the last, Charley takes a clandestine trip to the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. Convinced the murder links to a criminal organization in Europe, desperate, she turns to Special Agent Murphy for help outside the scope of the investigation.

La vida de Gabriel Caballero corre peligro: alguien ha puesto precio a su cabeza.Tras unos años fuera, Caballero regresa a la ciudad de Alicante durante la noche de San Juan. De forma accidental, será testigo de un cruel asesinato y no podrá evitar verse involucrado en él. Allí conocerá a una misteriosa mujer de la que no podrá deshacerse. Lo que en un principio parecerá accidental, se convertirá en toda una pesadilla para el periodista.Descubre de la mano de Gabriel Caballero y el oficial Rojo, el episodio final de una trilogía que ha cautivado a miles de lectores por todo el mundo. De una vez por todas, Caballero pondrá rostro a la persona que ha jugado con ellos todos esos años.Los amantes de las series como 'True Detective', 'The Mentalist' o 'Castle' y la literatura de Paula Hawkins, Michael Connelly o James Patterson, disfrutarán con este thriller policial con dosis de romance y sexo. Esta novela incluye: acción y aventura; crimen, humor y altas dosis de lectura.Una vez que empieces, no podrás parar de leer. Otros libros del autor: El Profesor, Motel Malibu, La chica de las canciones, La Maldición del Cangrejo, El Aprendiz, Sangre de Pepperoni, El Maestro, La isla del silencio.

Small town detective Tony Petrocelli's college age daughter, Brianna, has been abducted by escaped felon, Frank Scarpello. The ransom demand is simple. Tony must refuse to testify in the upcoming RICO case against Frankie's father. But Tony would never violate his moral code to do what Frankie wants. Tony, and his partner, Sergeant Michelle Baxter, follow lead after lead in their search for Bri, but every clue takes them to the same place -- nowhere. To save his daughter, Tony must come up with a daring plan that puts him at odds with police policy and the advice of his colleagues. The chase ends in a confrontation where Tony's own life may be the price for Bri's freedom. Tony's only edge, a thin, single chance, a trick card he has to play without a mistake. Tricks. Frankie has one more up his sleeve. And it's going to be a killer....

"Be prepared for a long night. Guttridge combines period mystery, police procedure and noir in a fascinating tale whose only blemish is that you'll have to wait for the next in the series in its resolution" ― Kirkus Reviews, (Starred Review)The first gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy. July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's lost luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary...July 2009. Ambitious radio journalist Kate Simpson hopes to solve the notorious Brighton Trunk Murder, and she enlists the help of ex-Chief Constable Robert Watts, whose role in the recent botched armed-police operation in Milldean, Brighton's notorious no-go area, cost him his job. But it's only a matter of time before past and present collide...

The Central Montana State community has waited a year to learn whether Syclone Systems, a maker of self-driving car technology, will enter into a long-term R&D partnership with the university. At a live demo on campus, where the company is expected to announce its decision, its man on campus, Bryan Orville, is run down by one of his experimental cars. Whoever altered the car's computer code to kill him also erased all the forensic evidence. Because Orville had some nasty habits-fooling around with grad students, stealing promising research ideas, and publicly humiliating professors who didn't meet his standards-Seagate and Miner are swamped with suspects. When a second body turns up, and then someone hacks Syclone and threatens to put them out of business, the detectives devise a plan to lure the killer out of hiding with a phony reward for solving the hack. But the killer knows there is much more money to be made selling the company's trade secrets on the dark web. Besides, the killer is quite busy planning one last murder.

Alone. Afraid. At risk.Operation Killjoy has a simple premise: get close enough to, and gather enough intelligence on, a known alt-right organiser to send him down.In the fourth novel in the Raglan's Streets crime fiction series, PC Tony Raglan finds that lines and morality can both become dangerously blurred.

Twenty years ago, a young cop named Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels arrested one of the most sadistic killers she'd ever encountered. She has since retired from the Chicago Police Department in order to raise her toddler daughter. But old grudges never die. They fester until the right opportunity comes along. While on vacation in the Wisconsin north woods, Jack learns--too late--that her old adversary is out of prison. He has revenge on his mind. And he's bringing an army with him. Outnumbered, outgunned, and cut off from the outside world, Jack Daniels is about to learn the meaning of last stand. RUM RUNNER by J.A. KonrathThat which does not kill you, keeps trying... If you are a more sensitive (or adventurous) reader, this handy scale rates specific categories from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to give you some idea if this is your kind of book. RUM RUNNERBad Language - 6Scary - 5Violent - 7Funny - 8Sexy - 7Crossovers - Features characters from the Timecaster series, Jack Daniels and Associates Mystery series, the Codename: Chandler series, and the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective series

... Quoi de plus banal, d'avoir 20 ans, dans une petite ville huppée sur la côte Landaise, pourtant: « ...le tam tam de la ville a déjà propagé la nouvelle, tous connaissent l'histoire, la rumeur s'est amplifiée; quand Paul s'accoude au bar, il commande un demi de bière, le patron hésite à le servir... ses copains s'écartent. Sur tous ces visages familiers, il voit ici un point d'interrogation, là un point d'exclamation, là des points de suspension - après la voiture volée, ce sera quoi ? - nulle part il aperçoit de point de compréhension, c'est vrai, le point de compréhension, ça n'existe pas !... ». Une bêtise qu'on ne lui pardonne pas et c'est le chômage, la solitude, une mauvaise rencontre, un travail hasardeux, la dérive, la fuite, la prison. Une porte de sortie s'ouvre, l'amitié, le grand amour. Paul va-t-il s'y engouffrer ? Ou laisser passer sa chance ?

Madrid, 2005. Un grupo de terroristas islamistas y unos guardia civiles corruptos traficantes de armas deciden expandir su negocio mediante el tráfico de drogas a media escala. Una familia gitana colabora con los islamistas en la venta de hachís. Cuando su contacto muere, aparece un nuevo miembro para sustituirle y les ofrece la posibilidad de vender armas y munición. El patriarca gitano se opone y, tras una reunión con los miembros de la familia, se disponen a averiguar quiénes son los responsables y la procedencia del material. Una serie de asesinatos y atracos hacen sospechar a la Guardia Civil de que tras las acciones se encuentra una banda organizada. Las similitudes no dejan de crecer cuando descubren que varios casos están interconectados por un denominador común. El peor delito es aquel cometido por quienes se dedican a la supuesta protección de los ciudadanos. Los malos son peores cuando los buenos se vuelven malos.Islamistas luchando por su causa, gitanos justicieros, guardia civiles corruptos, prostitutas que ansían su libertad. Una combinación explosiva llena de acción y ficción, o de realidad, quién sabe.

Even with a left leg shattered by a drug dealer's bullet and a medical retirement from the Detroit Police Force, former homicide captain Ed McAvoy feels he's too young to be put out to pasture.With the slower pace in the Catskills, being Chief of Police in Peekamoose Heights will be sort of like running a country club, or so he thinks. After all, how much crime can there be?McAvoy soon discovers that his skills as a homicide detective will not atrophy from lack of use in Peekamoose Heights. Murder, as it turns out, is an equal-opportunity crime that not only resides in large bustling cities like Detroit, but in sleepy little Catskill villages like Peekamoose Heights as well.In the fifth book of the series, the ex-wife of a prominent U.S. Senator, her Country/Western singer lover, and the driver of the limousine in which they had been riding are all killed in a tragic traffic accident while trying to shake off a cadre of reporters and photographers. The sole survivor, the singer's bodyguard Darren Corbett, has been left with total amnesia about the crash and the events leading up to it. But Darren's memory is starting to return in disjointed bits and pieces, and attempts have been made on his life. Even when he visits his old Air Force buddy Porky Jarvis in Peekamoose Heights in an effort to escape from public view, the attempts continue. Now it's up to McAvoy to try and discover who wants Darren dead, and why.

Russian gangs are taking over the River City underworld. The men and women of the police department are the last line of defense against the former Soviet bloc criminals. But both groups will soon learn how far the other will go to win this battle. They'll learn that the price of victory can be high. They'll learn that sometimes blood flows...And Every Man Has to Die.

El policía nacional Moisés Guzmán, destinado en la Oficina de Denuncias de la Comisaría de Huesca, es contratado por un misterioso médico de Zaragoza, para que averigüe un crimen cometido en Barcelona trece años atrás. En el año 1996 fueron cruelmente asesinados un matrimonio de oncólogos de la ciudad Condal en su piso de la calle Verdi. El crimen no se investigó, al coincidir el traspaso de competencias entre la Policía Nacional, la Guardia Civil y los Mossos d'Esquadra. Ahora, el médico de Zaragoza, amigo del matrimonio asesinado, contrata los servicios de un veterano policía para que investigue sobre lo que ocurrió entonces y halle el paradero de la hija del matrimonio, que cuando desapareció contaba tres años, ya que el médico está convencido de que vive en la actualidad y ha cumplido los dieciséis años. Guzmán acepta el reto y solicita una excedencia en la policía y se desplaza hasta Barcelona a investigar el crimen. Allí descubre que no es el primer detective contratado, sino que antes hubo tres más y que todos fueron asesinados cincuenta días después de comenzar a investigar. Novela de uno de los autores más leídos en todo el mundo, cuyas intrigas policíacas y de misterio apasionan a miles de lectores y lectoras.

From the author of After the Crash comes a gripping new thriller about one woman's descent into grief and madness after her ten-year-old son disappears without a trace.Maddi Libéri is a successful doctor living an idyllic life in the South of France. On the morning of her son's tenth birthday, they walk to the beach together. The boy presses for a quick swim, but when the surf is too rough, she sends him off to buy a baguette instead.He never returns.Ten years later, Maddi stands at the spot where she last saw her son. A pilgrimage of sorts. And she can't believe her eyes. There, standing at the water's edge, is a young boy--and he looks exactly like her son. Same face, same suit...even the same birthmark.Rattled, Maddi becomes obsessed with the boy. She upends her life to get closer to him. And the more she learns about her son's doppelgänger, the more unhinged she becomes. Dangerous secrets brought to light put people's lives at risk, and plot twists reveal truths you'll never see coming.This book contains a few occurrences of upside-down text.

The body of 10 year-old kidnap victim Terry White is found in a derelict house, three years after his disappearance. This is a second chance for DI Frank Miller, whose detective wife was killed when the ransom drop went bad.There's a vicious gang of armed thieves who have been robbing banks in Edinburgh and their violence has escalated to murder. As Miller and his team investigate, they find a link between Terry's kidnapping and the robberies. Two members of the gang are now dead, leaving behind clues that the gang are planning one last heist before going their separate ways.Miller only has a few days to catch them before they disappear forever...and with them, they'll take the key to solving Terry's murder...

What happened to Vanessa Finch? The only thing Detective Kathryn Lincoln has to go on is a name. When another child vanishes into the creeping fog around a bus station, Kathryn and her partner, Selena Marrenger, embark on a mission to find the truth behind the disappearances. What they uncover is a hidden secret far more sinister than they could have imagined. As suspects begin to pile up, Selena is forced to leave the case for the FBI. Alone, and desperate for answers, can Kathryn find who's responsible before it's too late?

Sinopsis: Marina, una mujer de 38 años con un matrimonio desgastado, se enamora de un compañero de trabajo, casado y con un hijo. Los dos mantienen una relación tórrida. Uno de ellos comete un asesinato. Oscar, un policía especializado en homicidios, está al cargo del caso. Es un hombre astuto, dedicado al trabajo y a su familia, que bromea con las típicas series policíacas norteamericanas. "No conseguía parar de leer, tal era el interés en saber como terminaría la historia. Me gustó ... la historia, ... la forma como fue contada (con dos narradores), ... la simplicidad de la escrita, ... del tema, muy pertinente....... de los personajes, a pesar de no estar de acuerdo con " el fin justifica los medios", simpaticé con los villanos" - Goodreads

Even with a left leg shattered by a drug dealer's bullet and a medical retirement from the Detroit Police Force, former homicide captain Ed McAvoy feels he's too young to be put out to pasture.With the slower pace in the Catskills, being Chief of Police in Peekamoose Heights will be sort of like running a country club, or so he thinks. After all, how much crime can there be?McAvoy soon discovers that his skills as a homicide detective will not atrophy from lack of use in Peekamoose Heights. Murder, as it turns out, is an equal-opportunity crime that not only resides in large bustling cities like Detroit, but in sleepy little Catskill villages like Peekamoose Heights as well.In the fourth book of the series, a bank teller and owner of a small Catskill print shop is killed by a known mob hit-man who, in turn, is killed by Heather Larrabee, a Peekamoose Heights Police Officer. Now Heather's house and car have been searched, as well as the teller's aunt's house. McAvoy must find what the mob is looking for before someone else gets killed in the process.

Limestone County Sheriff John Carter investigates a twenty-year-old murder first investigated by his grandfather. Memories are long in small-town Texas. Working with his grandfather's former deputy, new evidence may mean more than it seems. Will Carter's legacy be enough to solve the past, protect the town he loves and get justice for friends from the past. Carter solves a crime but the mysteries surrounding his family may prove to be more than a grandson bargain for.

When a retreat becomes a nightmare... When Cherie Marshall catches her fiancé and best friend in a compromising position, she cancels her upcoming wedding and jumps at the chance to escape to quiet Klondike, Pennsylvania to care for her elderly aunt. She thought her biggest issue would be adapting to life in the middle of a National Forest, so very different from her upbringing in the deserts of Arizona. But that was before she met State Trooper Fire Marshall Jamison "Jazz" Maddox at the scene of a mysterious fire. As they both become acquainted with the close-knit Klondike residents, things get complicated as Cherie and Jazz find themselves in the middle of a local crime wave where arson, kidnapping, embezzlement and a decades old murder are just the tip of the iceberg.

In Chicago, to attend a Behavioral Science symposium at Northwestern University, on her way to her suite after dinner, FBI Special Agent Charley Faraday is abducted. She survives repeated drugging, and awakens in a cold, damp basement. Her location and kidnapper are unknown. Determined to escape, Charley will stop at nothing for freedom. Special Agent Sean Murphy and the team work twenty-four hours a day to locate Charley. She leaves behind crumbs to mark her route. However, by the time the clues are found, from hours to days, it's too late. Murphy, distraught and heartbroken maintains control determined to bring Charley home.

In a tiny Hamlet in North Wales, a female recruit is murdered whilst on Christmas home leave. Detective Inspector Yvonne Giles is asked to cut short her own leave, to investigate. She is devastated that this will mean missing spending time with her mother, whom she hasn't seen in many years - not since Yvonne's father took his own life.Why was the young soldier killed? And is her death related to several alleged suicides at her army base? D.I. Giles thinks it is, and that someone powerful has a dark secret they will do anything to hide.

When a blow by a cleaver ends stockbroker Bernie Tollson's life and many ambitions, Vancouver detective Andrew Wachter takes the case. Little does he know that it will lead him into the underworld of government operatives, criminals, secret agents, and Chinese gangsters. At the center of the web is Eugenie, a troubled woman hiding a huge secret. As a Chinese Canadian, Andrew has some influence with the Chinese population of Vancouver. He soon discovers that the city is about to turn into a political war zone. The Triads, the Communist Party of China, and the Canadian government all begin eyeing each other with distrust, and Andrew feels the pressure to solve the case. His quest will set him on a collision course with the enigmatic Eugenie. Is the woman the key? Andrew isn't sure he can trust the answer to save him in the battle about to begin.

Homicide Detective Leigh Paske is facing enormous pressure from his bosses and the community to solve the murder of Brian, the very much adored television celebrity. Paske is also the lead investigator on a series of unexplained deaths where the victims are members of the notorious teen gang, The Crescent Hood. When investigative journalist Jennifer Longo is unsuccessful in gaining any information from Detective Paske, she submits a controversial post on her website The Longo Files. This post sets off a chain reaction of unusual events including Longo receiving a reply email from the killer himself, Jacob Howse. At the same time, Longo's boyfriend, Malcolm mysteriously ends their relationship. To stop the killings and appease the community's concerns of gang violence, Jennifer attempts to infiltrate The Crescent Hood. By doing so, she finds herself right in the hands of bad boy Peter Lee, the handsome leader of the gang. Will Jennifer survive her second dangerous mission of her aspiring career by courageously throwing herself right in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse? Dean's books are loved by readers who enjoy crime drama, murder suspense, psychological thrillers and mystery romance. The Longo Files is about a female investigative news reporter by the name of Jennifer Longo. She is an inquisitive individual who thrives on getting the real story. To achieve this, she will do whatever it takes! With 5 Star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and BookBub, I am sure these books will have you captivated until the very end. Join the thousands of people across the world who are reading this exciting brand new crime series today!

FBI Agent Jo Pullinger is tasked to solve a baffling new case, one that will affect someone close to her. As the sun sets on a quiet highway, a routine traffic stop takes a deadly turn. When Special Agent Jo Pullinger arrives on the scene, she finds a man dead in the back of a semi-truck and the driver in custody, charged with murder. But as she delves deeper into the case, she realizes that the driver is the older brother of a fellow agent, and she must navigate the complex personal and professional ties as she searches for the truth. Meanwhile, Detective Bryan Ford is tasked with investigating what appears to be a suicide. But as he pieces together the clues, he suspects suspects that there may be more to the death than meets the eye. As he digs deeper, he uncovers a decades-old mystery that will lead him to a shocking conclusion. When Jo and Ford's cases intersect, they must join forces to solve the puzzle and find out who is behind all these murders. Fans of James Patterson, David Baldacci, and Harlan Coben will love this new series!

From the author of the star-reviewed Garden State Gangland comes the story of the notorious East Harlem Purple Gang, a group of freelance hitmen who flourished on the Mafiäs payroll and the mediäs front page.

With an introduction by Rory StewartWinner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews.Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of all time, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history, an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda's decimation. As riveting as it is moving, it is a profound reckoning with humanity's betrayal and its perseverance.

Luckily, one last guest house on the island has room... The couple is glad to reach the safety of The Loch House, especially with little George asleep in the back, but their relief is short-lived when they are given strange rules 'for their own good' and start to hear whispers of the house's dark past.

When Laurence Harford, a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly. After barely starting his investigation, uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled employees, a second killing occurs.Meanwhile, Laurence's nephew, Nicholas Harford, has his certainties in life shaken when he becomes a suspect in his uncle's death, and receives a mysterious gold locket that starts a chain of events unravelling his family's dark truths.