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A BILLIONAIRE MURDERED . . . The homicide of a prominent Las Vegas couple sends shock waves through the community. With no active leads, the LVPD Homicide Unit is growing desperate. A DETECTIVE WITH A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE . . . Brought in as a consultant, Detective Jon Stanton discovers that there's more to this case than anyone is revealing to him. The trail is leading him down a dark path, one that many in the Las Vegas PD don't want him to uncover. A KILLER WITH NO CONSCIENCE . . . In a city full of moral decadence, Stanton combs the underbelly in search of a killer so brazen he commits his crimes in full public view. Hindered at every turn by a police department unwilling to help him, Stanton is left alone to make a chilling discovery: the killer may be one of their own.

My name is Ashley Williams and my husband is dead.When the brutalized corpse of an unidentified man is found off the shoulder of a Georgia highway, Detective Ryan Quinn and FBI Agent Donovan Navito team up to catch the madman working his way across the southeast, choosing victims at random.I thought we had the perfect life, quiet andserene, but that was a charade.Each man or woman is brutally tortured before being granted mercy in death.The only thing linking the victims? The murderer's calling card-a bite labeling the kills as his own.A chance discovery draws me down anever-spiraling path of destruction.Something about their newest victim sets him apart from the rest.Is this man the key to unraveling the mystery and ending this horrifying spree?In a race for answers, their stories will intertwine and test the limits of the human spirit.Could you turn your back once the truth is staringyou in the face? I don't know if I can...Author's Note: This book is intended for adult audiences.It contains mature language, depictions of violence, and sexual scenarios.Check out Amanda's other titles!Pruitt County Mysteries: 1. Endless Evil1.5. The Ride-Along (Short Story)2. White River3. The Last Cut4. Cries in the Night

Who's more dangerous? The serial killer you're hunting, or the one you never knew existed?DI Frank Miller is about to find out.Every year, thousands of women go missing in the UK, some of them never to be seen again. A killer stalks the streets of Edinburgh, trawling through the thousands of tourists during the Edinburgh International Festival, looking for prey.He finds his target, and she disappears, and despite a missing persons report, she's never seen again. This time he's made a mistake; the American female isn't a tourist.She's a local.And there was a witness. But shortly after seeing the woman die, the witness is incarcerated for an unconnected crime. When he's released, instead of going to the police, he decides to profit from the American's death.The killer is taking out anybody he thinks might be connected to her, but soon, the witness, the killer and Miller will clash in an explosive showdown...but not before more lives are taken...and somebody close to Miller is on the list...

Es una novela llena de acción desde el principio y hasta el electrizante final. Del mismo autor de Mansión Belnord, La dama del avión, La boda de Klaus y Cuando la Muerte quiso ser bella. En Balas y flores en el fango, el famoso detective Pablo Morles enfrenta un caso que personalmente lo afecta: El secuestro de una bella niña de pocos meses de edad, como parte de una sangrienta trama que tiene su origen en ancestrales odios y ambiciones.Con su característico estilo de diálogos breves, directos, amenos y divertidos, el autor, paralelamente al tema principal, describe la vida de un niño de la calle, de solo 13 años de edad, que con "su esposa", conquista a los lectores.Además de las novelas independientes que integran su Colección detective Morles, Itriago es también autor de la novela futurista Amarte en Marte, y de varios cuentos, como El Postre de Dios (traducido al inglés bajo el título 'The dessert of God'), El misterio de la calle 14, El sensual cuerpo de Cristina, La increíble historia de miss Ester, Cuando Bolívar entrevistó a Chungapoma, La serpiente de plata, La princesa y El mejor economista, entre otros.

"From Amazon bestselling author Steve Gannon, thrillers that will keep you up all night . . . but make sure to lock your doors and windows first."Allison Kane, a journalism student at UCLA, takes a summer job as a TV news intern, soon becoming involved in a scandalous murder investigation and the media firestorm that follows -- a position that pits her squarely against her iron-fisted police detective father.Exploring the secrets that lie at the core of every family, Allison tells a story of growth and sexual awakening, of betrayal and reconciliation, and most of all, of the abiding strength of the family spirit.

Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story is a fast-paced and thrilling journey into the mind of a reluctant fugitive brought down by his own insatiable greed. This is investigative journalism at its most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the relentless global manhunt for fugitive Irish lawyer Michael Lynn and his stolen millions, and the trials that saw him finally brought to justice. Facing accusations of massive fraud in 2007, Lynn secretly boards a flight at Dublin Airport and vanishes. With him goes all trace of the millions he secured from Irish banks and clients. Millions more, entrusted to Lynn by everyday investors for dream holiday homes abroad, is also missing. A month later, dogged investigative journalist Michael O'Farrell is on his tail, tasked with tracking Lynn down. From the Algarve to the Black Sea and beyond, O'Farrell pursues his prey until he finally corners Lynn, who agrees to speak to him. However, Lynn continues to avoid the Irish authorities, even spending five years in a hellish Brazilian prison fighting extradition. Now, sixteen years after he first went on the run, he is finally being brought to justice. This is a truly extraordinary tale of tension-filled encounters involving shadowy fixers, violent Mafia villains, international law organisations, suited, corporate crooks, and the man who thought he could outsmart them all, Michael Lynn.

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.

The profession of intelligence and those delivering intelligence education share a common aim of developing intelligence as a discipline. However, this shared interest must also navigate the existence of an academic-practitioner divide. This bookprovides a range of international approaches to navigate the academic-practitioner divide.

In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible.

Michael Calvey is a pioneering US-born financier, who made his fortune in post-Communist Russia. This is the story of how his life was turned upside down in 2019, when he was unjustly incarcerated in the country's most notorious prison, awaiting trial for fraud.

Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut¿s history of organized crime is often overlooked. Here¿s the untold story of New Haven¿s illegal past.

Vegas Concierge is the story of how the biggest sex trafficking investigation in Las Vegas history came crashing down, ending law enforcement careers, harming scores of vulnerable women, and resulting in its primary target recently receiving only 33 months in prison.

Truly Criminal showcases a group of highly regarded writers who all share a special passion for crime, reflected in this superb collection of essays re-examining some of the most notorious cases from British criminal history.

A rare and detailed insight behind the curtains of a Major Crime Department, which includes the hunt for notorious criminal Kenneth Noye

The dramatic story of one of the earliest successes of the British Civil Rights Movement, Black Yanks re-examines the UK and USA's 'special relationship' in the build up to D-Day. This is the story of how an African American soldier from Missouri ended up on death row in D-Day Britain - and the extraordinary campaign that set him free. The drama played out over a tumultuous six weeks, set against a backdrop of the most audacious sea-borne invasion ever attempted. As the build-up to D-Day escalates, Leroy Henry's story unfolds, allowing us to view a pivotal point in history with an entirely new perspective, making race, the 'special relationship' and the British peoples' collective power key considerations. The fascinating, alternative timeline reveals an edgier wartime society, hidden tensions in Anglo-American relations and the moment the British tabloid press learned to roar. Ultimately this court martial - and everything it stood for - provoked mind-blowing decision-making at the highest military level. Kate Werran unearths archival material to reveal the story behind the first significant - if uncelebrated - win in the civil rights movement, a story that has been overlooked for nearly eight decades. Until now.

The true story of an outlandish murder that shocked the British Raj in 1930s Calcutta

Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman-using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm--to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men. Paroled felon. Rich doctor's wife. Famous clairvoyant. The best con artists know how to reinvent themselves, time and time again. Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of the trade. Over the course of fifteen years, she swept from town to town, assuming new identities and running new swindles at each railroad stop. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, years after the robber barons had amassed their fortunes, she was amassing her own. Then came the Carnegie con. Using her wits and a series of forged documents, Cassie convinced prominent men from Cleveland to New York City that she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. Blinded by the name of the most powerful man in the world, businessmen lined up to loan her hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time. The con made her impossibly rich. The crash shattered banks and bankers alike. Her sensational trial drew the eyes of a nation that couldn't get enough of the woman, who newspapers called the Queen of Swindlers, the Duchess of Diamonds, the High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance. Indeed, when Charles Ponzi's infamous scheme collapsed in 1920, reporters scoffed that "Ponzi is a piker compared to Cassie."Interspersing Cassie's crimes with stories of an unsuspecting Andrew Carnegie, author Annie Reed spins an enthralling, page turning tale of true crime. Could the rumors be true? Can Cassie's money last? Will she escape the electric chair? Told with a gossip columnists' charm and wit, The Impostor Heiress, is a rollicky trickster's tale that will appeal to history buffs and true crime aficionados alike to bring one of the greatest swindlers of all time back into the public eye.

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture; their treatment was such that one of the group died in Lancaster Castle's dungeons, while awaiting trial. Today, a thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we know about the case originates from a single source: Thomas Potts' Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, hurriedly published in 1613 and distinctly skewed in favour of the prosecution. Until now...Sunday Times bestselling author Carol Ann Lee brings an entirely fresh perspective to the story by approaching it as true crime. Having worked in the genre for more than a decade, her research leads to revelatory discoveries, transforming our knowledge of those shadowy figures behind ill-famed names, and the terrible events that befell them. After four centuries of superstition and surmise, the two central, warring families - each headed by a fiercely independent widow working as 'cunning women' - emerge fully formed, as the book uncovers the reality of their lives and their alleged crimes before exploring the trial and executions. Along the way, we uncover the truth behind some of the story's most enduring mysteries: the legend of Malkin Tower and the final resting place of the Pendle witches. This is a ground-breaking book that will take the reader on a spellbinding journey into the dark heart of England's largest and most notorious witch trial.

This remarkable book tells the engrossing story of a small, highly organised criminal gang who ruled supreme in the South-West of the Netherlands in the 1990s, and were never caught. The gang members came from all over Europe, and all stratas of society. They each had specialist skills and spoke at least three languages. Their audacious targets, meticulous planning, and ruthless execution gave them legendary status. They never killed, but struck fear into their enemies. It was not until 2022 that a gang member approached the author and told his story for the first time. It is a fascinating account, and as he readily admits, they would not get away with it today.