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This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie...Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzard-and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective to teach her the ropes and loses what she changed jobs to keep: peace in her family.Together, estranged detective and sheriff stand uneasily over the frozen body of Dale Hansen, operations manager at the local meat-packing plant. The intriguing words "White Out" are carved into one bare arm, the raw wrist chained to a barbed-wire fence. What does the message mean? Is it racial-as Dale wasn't popular with his Hispanic workers-or merely a weather report, done in understated Dakota style?Both Karen and Marek doubt their ability to give the victim justice. Karen is a former police dispatcher without a shred of investigative experience. Marek has enough experience for both of them, but he'd rather dust off his carpenter's license to save the last takeout restaurant in town from hooligans. Besides, saving his half-Hispanic, motherless daughter from starvation is a higher priority for him than arguing with a hard-headed sheriff. They'll both be out in the cold, though, if they can't put aside their differences to find a killer.Neither cozy nor hardboiled, DEAD WHITE is a character-driven police procedural of a rural bent. Word Count: 115,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.REVIEWDEAD WHITE's characters seemed to walk right out of a familiar Dakota town, bickering with every step. I couldn't stop reading! -Linda M. Hasselstrom, Author of No Place Like Home

Detective Quin Butler is the new guy in the Homicide Division of Foley's 8th District. He isn't in town long when he and his partner, Senior Detective John Filcher, draw their first case together.A man is found bludgeoned to death and his motel room ransacked. Nothing at the scene suggests what the killer was after. To add to the mystery, his body is riddled with odd-shaped markings. As they work the investigation, new evidence in a cold case comes to light and makes life even more hectic for the pair.Trouble abounds for Quin in his personal life when he meets a beautiful woman, who happens to be an old friend (old flame?) of John's. Why is John so protective of her? What circumstances caused her to leave Foley in the first place?When the answers come, will Quin second guess his decision to pursue her against John's wishes?

A BRUTAL MASS MURDER...With the murders of the entire Hennley family, Sheriff Suzan Clay is left with a crime scene unlike any she has ever dealt with. The savagery of the killer is something the small community of Kodiak Basin, Alaska has never seen before. With nowhere else to turn, the Sheriff is forced to enlist the help of the FBI. A SPECIAL AGENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS PAST...Special Agent Mickey Parsons of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit receives the Sheriff's request and flies to Alaska to help in the investigation. Parsons has the most closed cases of any special agent in Behavioral Science's history, but the mental and physical scars of the last case he handled in the field nearly six years ago has left him tired and contemplating retirement. Uncertain if he has the strength to follow a killer into the darkness again, Parsons may need the Sheriff as much as she needs him. A MONSTER IN THE MAKING...Parsons believes the Hennleys to be the killer's first victims. But the sheer brutality has him convinced he's dealing with someone more monster than man. Someone that is escalating in their sadism, and if left free, will bring terror into the community on a scale they could never imagine...

Once upon a midnight dreary, Poe sang to me quiet and eerie...After the events in March, IMPD partners; Lieutenant Jonathan Greene and Detective Courtney Shields know they cannot stop until they find the man Aeron named before he died. But when a series of murders, which look vaguely like ritual killings directly out of Edgar Allan Poe's works, take place, Courtney and Jon know they are dealing with the same madman as before and they are no closer to figuring out his true identity. The only thing they have to go on is a name; Rob.Past Present and Future collide when they realize that the man guiding Aeron a month ago, and the one pulling the strings this time, is not finished yet and he is setting his sights on someone close to Jon. CIA Special Agent Steven Anderson joins them and together they use Poe's works to find a killer.Ripping open old wounds and reopening the cold case of Jon's dead wife; Carol, seems like the only way to figure out what this man wants. But when the case becomes far too personal, Jon is faced with his worst nightmare that again threatens to take someone he loves.

Her name was Jeni Johnson, but only he knew that. He had plans for her-just like he'd had plans for the other three. They'd each enjoyed their last night in their quest to move to the top of the social ladder. He gave them a taste, but that was all. They had to die. And there would be more. He was on a mission. His plan was flawless. He'd designed and thought out every detail, down to the black rose-the living symbol of death in a relationship. This time of the year, Revere Beach Boulevard was quiet. The beach crowd who would bake in the sand by day and party by night were still a couple months away from inhabiting the area where the body of a young girl was found carefully placed behind the seawall next to the bathhouse across from the Do-Drop-In Lounge. Detective Mike Mastro and his partner, Detective Sal Petruca, out of the Revere Police Department were assigned to the case. There were no visible signs of violence, no blood and no identification. Two months earlier, a girl posed the same way was found on a beach in Hull, Massachusetts. And, eight months before that, two girls cut from the same mold were found in two beach locations in Quincy. Fingerprints, DNA and a search of the missing persons' bank didn't bring the detectives any closer to putting names to the bodies. Tensions mounted. With everything working against them, Detectives Mastro and Petruca, had to step up their investigation and nail the killer before he strikes again.

AN UPLIFTING ROMANCE WITH MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE Logan's Way Detective Series On the Way Logan McKenzie is a police detective sergeant who does things his way with his own way, Logan's way. In Out of My Way, Logan met Samantha Farley when she was a DEA special agent. They clashed at first but finally, they worked together to take a drug lord down. Logan is back and so is Sam but now he's the captain and she's retired from the DEA and is one of his sergeants. Lakeland PD will never be the same with the two of them working as partners in the detective bureau. Will Logan continue to try to do things "Logan's Way" even when Sam disagrees with him? On the first day in their new positions, they hit the floor running. A congressional candidate is murdered at his kick-off rally. Political pressure to solve the case quickly starts on them immediately. Did one of the four high-profile political suspects do it or is there another suspect? Complications occur when a waiter is found shot. Was this death associated with the first murder? Will Logan and Sam be able to work together as partners to solve both murders? This book will keep you in suspense as to who the "real" murderer is and why the candidate was killed.

With a population of just twelve thousand, Creek City is a sleepy rural town in Central Florida. Folks live there because life is simple and peaceful; but once dead bodies start turning up, Creek City is anything but. Underprepared and undermanned, the county sheriff's office scrambles to stop the bloodshed, but the killer is always one step ahead. Sheriff J. D. Pickens, usually a steady hand, loses patience as clue after clue results in a dead end and another corpse turns up. When Pickens gets close to the truth, the killer threatens Pickens's own family, making this murder investigation personal. Anger, terror, and tenacious police work clash in a surprise ending that will leave readers breathless.Descent into Hell is a thriller that will make you lock your doors and bar your windows. Big cities may be filled with crime, but it's easier to get away with murder in rural areas. The silence of the countryside is not always comforting; it can also be a reminder of how alone you are-and how unlikely it is that anyone will hear you scream.

Jack is a retired cop who knows and respects firearms. A recent victim of gun violence, she is confined to a wheelchair, getting physical therapy in a rehab facility, and teaching handgun safety and Second Amendment history to the elderly residents.A thousand miles away, a very disturbed individual with a modified 9mm pistol, a thousand rounds of ammo, and a singular obsession-to make history as the biggest mass murderer ever-decides to make that fantasy a reality. It has been said the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Jack is about to find out if that's true. SHOT GIRL by J.A. KonrathAmerica has 300 million guns. This is the story of one of them. 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. SHOT GIRLBad Language - 7Scary - 7Violent - 8Funny - 4Sexy - 2Crossovers - Features Jack Daniels, Phineas Troutt, Harry McGlade, and includes characters from the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, the Codename: Chandler series, and the Timecaster series.

A high-flying young lawyer is murdered in her own home. The killer takes her body with him, but leaves behind a photo of her corpse.A retired judge dies of a massive stroke. A surgeon's girlfriend goes missing.Another female is murdered, her corpse taken away and a photo left behind for the police to find. They are connected...but how?A Priest has the answer...but he can't reveal it.Miller and his team fight against the odds to track down a killer who has no intention of stopping and who has a knack for hiding in plain sight...

This story takes place in glamorous, yet crime-ridden, New York City. Jackson Fires is the Lead Detective of the Hate Crimes Squad. His team are close and friendly, creating a sense of almost being a family. The reader gets to know a little bit about each member of the squad. You will also learn about their personal lives and affairs, reminding us that detectives are just as human as we are. They will become like old friends, you've known for years. While not the only focus, the romantic and passionate relationship between Fires and his girlfriend will keep the girls dreaming. The story deals with such serious issues as homicide, kidnapping and the results of grudges kept too long. Yet the story still manages to be light and at times humorous. It is the perfect combination for a great evening read. It keeps you on your toes and makes you flip page after page, yet it will not give you night terrors afterwards. The story opens with a missing college student. He is not a native of New York, his parent's frustration have them reaching out to the NYPD. The case is brushed aside until it reaches Jackson's squad. He personally takes on this case along with his partner, Joe Conrad. Time is not on their side on this one, but they won't give up. Will they find him alive or will this case become a murder investigation? This book is the second in The Burning Intensity Series. Fires Fever is the first.

'The Rest Area Murder' is the second book in the 'RV Mysteries Series' featuring Hank and Helen Moran. Hank, a recently retired robbery/homicide detective, and his wife Helen have just purchased a new motorhome and are once again ready to take a two-month-long tour to see the country. The investigation of the Leviticus murders during their trial run to Biloxi, Mississippi had put their tour temporarily on hold. In this sequel to 'The Leviticus Mission', Hank decides to stop at an Indiana rest area for a state map to add to his collection. His decision to stop leads to a series of events that endangers both Hank's and Helen's lives.

It's not just the sun's rays beaming down...After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. Marek hopes to reunite with his old homicide partner in Albuquerque, while Karen looks to resume her former career as a dispatcher. But when Marek's young daughter goes unexpectedly mute when their plane lands in the city of her mother's death, all plans are put on hold.Dispirited, they'd barely arrived at their motel when a man dies on their doorstep, proclaiming himself the victim of radiation poisoning. Crazy? Perhaps. But with his last words, the man snares their attention: he asks them to tell Karen's father back in South Dakota that he's sorry... but for what?Fated for a busman's holiday, Karen and Marek find themselves entangled in a case hotter than the New Mexico sun. DEAD HOT is a character-driven police procedural. Sixth in series. Word Count: 70,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.

Seattle has seen it's fair share of serial killers over the years. Now a new demographic needs to watch their backs...successful white males are losing their lives in shockingly public venues.Detective Spencer Thomas and his task force are 12 murders deep and no closer to finding the Dismember Killer than they were when the first body appeared. The killer is taunting them without leaving any useful evidence.With a pregnant wife on bed rest, brass that strips his resources, and the FBI breathing down his neck...the last thing Spence needs is a dead body at an exclusive boarding school, floating in their pool no less...

THE SUBURBAN SAGA SOME SECRETS CAN NEVER STAY BURIED ... Keeping one step ahead of an investigation isn't easy for Detective Sergeant Adam Kent ... because he's the culprit. And it doesn't help that an ambitious new detective on the team is snapping at his heels. Not only does Adam have to keep looking over his shoulder, he has a murderer to catch. Someone with a decades-old grudge has decided to exact revenge on the people who shattered his childhood and has begun to dispatch them one at a time. As the victims start to fall, Adam has to stop a killer for whom he feels the greatest empathy and try to save the lives of the guilty.

First published in 1913, Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories. Author William Hope Hodgson relates his stories in fine Edwardian style. An unnamed narrator is part of a group of gentlemen (Dodgson, Arkright, Jessop and Taylor) who assemble when summoned to the London home of their ghost hunter friend Thomas Carnacki. These assemblies take place every time this one returns from an adventure. Carnacki is a very forthright man. He is very set in his ways and can come across as curt in many instances but his friends keep coming back for more. The evenings follow the same pattern. Carnacki lets his guests in but doesn't speak to them initially. They settle down to dinner for about an hour then follow Carnacki to the fireside where he tells them about his latest "case". The minute his story ends he exclaims "Out you go" and they leave.

The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is convicted and executed for the crime. Many years later, "a woman in purple" shows up at the house of Ostrander, the respected judge who had sentenced the inn-keeper to be executed. This mysterious woman turns out to be the wife of the convicted man, but she does not believe he was guilty. She visits the Judge, to challenge him on his verdict. He listens to her plea, but reaffirms his belief in her husbands guilt. Having nowhere to go, Deborah is given the position of maid, which she secretly uses to obtain proof of her husband's innocence and the identity of the real killer. However, the initial evidence that Deborah collects points in troubling new directions.

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 Stream of Death, the first Ed McAvoy Mystery, the famed Isabela Pendant disappears amid a hail of machine-pistol bullets during the closing days of WWII in Sicily. When it temporarily resurfaces in Detroit after over a half century, six people are murdered. Now, four years later, a dog has dug it up in the woods near McAvoy's peaceful Catskill village of Peekamoose Heights.

A murder is committed - victim and murderer unknown.A building society executive dies, apparently of suicide.Five dismembered body parts are discovered in widespread locations throughout Yorkshire. Five different police forces are investigating.Newly promoted Chief Superintendent Jonny Jackson and his Leeds based Murder Investigation Team are called in to liaise and assist with the inquiries and soon discover that the apparent suicide was faked and a murder had been committed. The dismembered corpse is identified and a connection between the two victims established.Once again, Jackson finds that the whole scenario has been constructed by the mysterious "Simon" who became an arch-enemy of his in a previous case. Simon has the ability to enter the minds of the actual perpetrators of the crimes and, as yet, remains undiscovered. For this is only a game for Simon; he cares not for the victims or his 'helpers', only his own self-satisfaction on outwitting the police.

A report of a body sends Homicide Detective Peter Brandt to a murder scene in one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. Without realizing it, he has just stepped into the case of his life.It will take all his experience and skill to find a killer unlike anyone he's encountered. Is he in over his head? Has he stumbled into a case that could cost him everything?Follow the clues as the detective struggles to solve a case of DALLAS HOMICIDE. ************** (THIS SERIES CAN BE READ IN ANY ORDER)

St. Patrick's Day is generally a quiet affair in the conservative university town of London, Ontario. For Detectives Tee Pepper and his partner, Rupert Wallace, the assignment to locate a missing coed takes a quick turn when the young girl's murdered body is found--all signs pointing to the work of a serial killer.In a case like they've never had before, a series of clues that seem to be directed towards them lead the two detectives deeper and deeper into the twisted psyche of a clever opponent--a cold-blooded killer intent on testing them.Pepper and Wallace use all their ingenuity as they probe deeper into the sick mind of their taunting adversary, discovering a shocking subculture they never knew existed in their quiet city. Can they solve the riddles and put an end to the killing spree before it's too late?

Charles Trenet of the Gendarmerie Nationale has just arrived on St. Barthelemy for three years in paradise. The exclusive island in the French West Indies lives up to its jet-setters' reputation as a beautiful and peaceful retreat for models, moguls and movie stars. However, Trenet's life is suddenly thrown into turmoil when he is assigned to solve the murder of Bobbi Freon, a rich and eccentric American fashion designer who has been found stabbed to death in his pricey villa. Murder on St. Barthelemy is nearly unheard of, and Trenet's superiors are eager to protect the island's thriving tourist industry by discreetly and swiftly handling this mounting crisis. The inexperienced young gendarme's investigation into the fashion designer's life uncovers a dark world of decadence and unsavory business practices, with the victim's former business partners quickly scrambling to take control of the multimillion dollar company he created. Bobbi Freon clearly was disliked by many people who all stand to gain by his death and Gendarme Trenet must sort through the seemingly endless list of suspects... First in a series, Murder In St. Barts introduces the likeable and boyish Gendarme Charles Trenet in this entertaining tale of murder and redemption.

This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.

The autobiography of Cass Pennant is packed with amazing stories of a life lived on the edge of the law. In this thrilling book, he tells of how he saved World Boxing Champion Frank Bruno from a potentially vicious attack; how he was shot three times in the chest and still kept on fighting, and how he was alleged to be the leader of the notorious West Ham 'InterCity Firm'.This is the astonishing account of a boy abandoned by his mother and brought up by adoptive parents (who were white) - a boy who triumphed against all the odds.A bestseller on its publication, Cass is also a major film directed by Jon S. Baird, starring Nonso Anozie in the title role, and Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya as Young Cass.

Written by her daughter Ruth and rich in social history, this is the story of a real-life woman police sergeant at the top of her game, guiding her WPCs through the immense societal changes of the early 1960s.

On January 6, 1986, Barry and Louise Berman set out for a stroll and never returned. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal authorities, the double homicide of the Kahlua heir and his wife remains unsolved.

No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation ¿Paesan Blues¿¿this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy.