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By Danica Winters. 2022
A rogue grizzly leads them to a confounding mystery Game warden Amber Daniels is tracking a bear on AJ Spade&’s…
ranch when he finds a hand wearing a sapphire ring—one he recognizes. In his line of work, trust can be deadly, but Amber demands the truth. A desperate search for truth makes them forget their reservations. The rogue bear points to a bigger threat, but which of STEALTH's enemies is out to destroy them? And will they have time to save themselves from the predators closing in? From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the STEALTH: Shadow Team series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: A Loaded QuestionBook 2: Rescue Mission: Secret ChildBook 3: A Judge's SecretsBook 4: K-9 RecoveryBook 5: Lone Wolf Bounty HunterBook 6: Montana Wilderness PursuitBy Jussi Adler-Olsen. 2022
THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR27 MILLION BOOKS SOLDWINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD'Quirky, tense and delightfully unpredictable' Sunday TimesOn…
her 60th birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems to be clear. But his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is not in fact a suicide, but a murder related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988.At Marcus' behest, Carl and the Department Q gang-Rose, Assad, and Gordon-reluctantly begin to investigate. However, they quickly discover that Marcus is on to something: Every two years for the past three decades, there have been unusual, impeccably timed deaths with connections between them that cannot be ignored. As they dig deeper, it transpires that these "accidents" are in fact murders by a very cunning and violent criminal.Faced with their toughest case yet, made only more difficult with COVID-19 restrictions and the challenges of their own personal lives, the Department Q team must race to find the culprit before the next murder is committed, as it is becoming increasingly clear that the killer is far from finished.Praise for Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series:'Everything you could possibly want from a thriller and much, much more' Kirkus'Department Q is a must read' 5* reader review'Adler-Olsen is the new "it" boy of Nordic Noir' The Times'Impossible to put down' 5* reader review'Engrossing' Sunday Express'Heart-stopping!' 5* reader review'Gripping storytelling' Guardian'Brilliant as always - these books keep getting better and better' 5* reader review'As impressive as it is unnerving' IndependentBy Jussi Adler-Olsen. 2022
In the exhilarating penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must…
hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades.On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck&’s desk, he can&’t imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen&’s cold cases division since the cause of death seems apparent. However, his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988. At Marcus's behest, Carl and the Department Q gang—Rose, Assad, and Gordon—reluctantly begin to investigate. And they quickly discover that Marcus is onto something: Every two years for the past three decades, there have been unusual, impeccably timed deaths with connections between them that cannot be ignored, including mysterious piles of salt at the scenes. As the investigation goes deeper, it emerges that these "accidents" are in fact part of a sinister murder scheme. Faced with their toughest case yet, made only more difficult by COVID-19 restrictions and the challenges of their personal lives, the Department Q team must race to find the culprit before the next murder is committed, as it is becoming increasingly clear that the killer is far from finished.By Elliott Colla. 2014
Baghdad Central is a noir debut novel set in Baghdad in September 2003 The US occupation of Iraq is…
a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba athification of Iraqi society Tales of hubris and reality-denial abound culminating in Washington hailing the mess a glorious mission accomplished Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted his post back in April Khafaji has lived long enough in pre- and post-Saddam Iraq to know that clinging on to anything but poetry and his daughter Mrouj is asking for trouble Nabbed by the Americans and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib Khafaji is offered one way out-work for the CPA to rebuild the Iraqi Police Services But it s only after United States forces take Mrouj that he figures out a way to make his collaboration palatable and even rewarding Soon he is investigating the disappearance of young women translators working for the US Army The bloody trail leads Khafaji through battles bars and brothels then finally back to the Green Zone where it all began This is a first novel by Elliott Colla an American writer totally immersed in Middle Eastern affairs He is a professor of Arabic literature at Georgetown University and a well-known translator from the Arabic of local fiction and poetry He lives between Washington DC and the Middle EastJeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs…
and Lucky on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford's got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched into her back. In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings the passion and stylistic bravado of an Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed.By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2018
In the newest Women's Murder Club thriller, a killer who chooses victims personally is stalking San Francisco--and getting too close…
to Detective Lindsay Boxer. A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets inside Lindsay in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical symptoms, and her friends and confidantes in the Women's Murder Club warn Lindsay against taking the crimes too much to heart. With lives at stake, the detective can't help but follow the case into ever more terrifying terrain. A decorated officer, loving wife, devoted mother, and loyal friend, Lindsay's unwavering integrity has never failed her. But now she is confronting a killer who is determined to undermine it all. A New York Times BestsellerBy Gerard O'Donovan. 2011
From the most riveting writer to come out of Ireland since John Connolly, the first in a series of Dublin-based…
thrillers introducing Inspector Mike Mulcahy, who is pitched into a deadly battle with a religion-obsessed serial killer. Gerard O'Donovan puts Dublin on the map with this gripping tale featuring a diabolical serial killer steeped in Ireland's Catholic history. Struggling to find his feet back in Ireland after a lengthy posting with Europol in Spain, drugs specialist Mike Mulcahy is plunged into unfamiliar territory when the daughter of a politician suffers a horrific sex attack. Dragged into the case against his will, Mulcahy becomes convinced there is more to it than a random frenzied sexual assault, especially when he discovers that the weapon used by the attacker to torture the victim was a crucifix. But know-it-all colleagues and politically motivated bosses, eager for a quick, uncontroversial result, ignore his belief that the attack had religious rather than sexual motivations. Sidelined and overruled, Mulcahy sets about his own investigation, but frustrations abound at every turn--until reporter Siobhan Fallon turns up asking awkward questions. As more young women are attacked and assault turns to murder, Mulcahy and Fallon are drawn into an uneasy alliance, and each step they take hurtles them ever closer to the monstrous killer known only as The Priest and a final showdown that is as explosive as it is unforgettable.By Gerard O Donovan. 2012
Irish detective Mike Mulcahy returns in this suspenseful follow-up to the highly acclaimed international bestseller The Priest--and now he's hot…
on the trail of an international drugs gang. One year later, DI Mike Mulcahy is exactly where he wants to be, coordinating international intelligence for Ireland's National Drugs Unit. But with the economy in meltdown and his department facing tough cutbacks, his dream job is in jeopardy. Then Mulcahy spots a possible link between the murder of a Dublin gangster in Spain and a massive shipment of cocaine abandoned off the south coast of Ireland. Could this be the break he's been praying for? Meanwhile, reporter Siobhan Fallon is still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a sadistic killer. Work is her only refuge, and while she's an emotional basket case, her nose for a story is as sharp as ever. When a suicide turns out to have a bizarre missing-person's angle, she's convinced there is something darker to it. But with a vital piece of evidence beyond her grasp, she has to turn to Mulcahy for help. Mulcahy and Fallon have no idea what deadly ground they're setting out on together, or that their journey will lead them on a twisted trail of terror to the rocky shores and windswept hills of West Cork and a blood-drenched showdown with a remorseless killer.By G. H. Otis. 2012
The ship was a seam-splitting, creaking, leaking, stinking barge.It would get by.The captain was a fat, foul-mouthed, drunken bum.He’d do.The…
crew was cutthroat, cunning, and crooked.It did its work.And the one female passenger was young, lovely, and willing. But she was a lighted torch to the inflamed passions of 19 men - and when she was bored with lusting, she turned her devil’s mind to the biggest thrill of her life . . .She put a match to the cargo: 129,000 tons of high explosive oil.By Louis Charbonneau. 1983
Spilled blood is not easily washed away The People s Revolutionary Committee massacre was no accident The…
annihilation of the PRC--the domestic terrorist organization responsible for a string of deadly attacks in the U S --was orchestrated by a rogue FBI agent operating under the code name Brea After the explosion Brea disappeared and the case lay forgotten except by one man Special Agent Vernon Lippert always felt that there was more to the PRC incident than cited in the official report So months from retirement he launched an inquiry of his own outside official lines Though Lippert finally discovered Brea s real identity the knowledge cost him his life and now his personal file on the case is missing Paul Macimer Special-Agent-in-Charge of the FBI s Washington Field Office is assigned to locate the Brea file Retracing Lippert s steps Macimer is quickly dragged into depths of bureaucratic subterfuge and red tape tracking a cover-up to the top levels of the FBI As Macimer gets closer to exposing the truth someone tries to sabotage the investigation and targets Macimer and his family Finding Brea isn t just a matter of duty anymore it s survivalBy Louis Charbonneau. 1996
Fear is his favorite mediumFBI agent Karen Younger s worst nightmare just came true A vicious serial killer from…
a cold case has struck again--his crimes spanning two different continents eight years apart But he s only getting started and with each young woman brutally beaten to death across San Carlos California he s sending someone a message Glenda Lindstrom is facing a nightmare of her own Her abusive ex-husband Ralph Beringer is back in town--repeatedly calling stalking her kids breaking into their home He doesn t want a reunion he wants revenge Beringer has never forgiven Glenda for taking their son away and remarrying But she can t convince anyone that the man terrorizing her is capable of far worse than misdemeanors Beringer is rapidly losing control over his murderous impulses and he has Glenda and her family exactly where he needs them to complete his grisly scheme With only a handful of clues and gritty instinct Agent Younger is running out of time to solve the case before a madman s rage erupts againBy Chuck Hogan. 1995
A white supremacist barricaded with his family on an isolated Montana mountaintop holding off the cops with assault…
rifles A brilliant hostage negotiator who has failed to come to terms with his personal demons reluctantly taking leadership of the one case he can t afford to lose A virtual army of state and local cops national guardsmen U S Marshals and the FBI s elite hostage rescue team clawing for jurisdiction vowing vengeance for fallen comrades A growing crowd of onlookers sympathizers and troublemakers some willing to turn an isolated battle into an all-out war A mixture as explosive and unstable as nitroglycerineBy R T Wolfe. 2016
Detective Nickie Savage pins the trafficker who abducted her as a child The child trafficking crime ring Detective Nickie Savage…
is chasing--the one responsible for her own childhood abduction--is growing The traffickers have infiltrated the police department the FBI and even her home steeling Nickie s resolve to find the abducted girls and take down the crime ring once and for all But discovering the King Pin s identity the very person who sold her into slavery just might bring Detective Nickie Savage to her knees THE NICKIE SAVAGE SERIES in orderSavage EchoesSavage DeceptionSavage RendezvousSavage DisclosureSavage BetrayalSavage AllianceTHE BLACK CREEK SERIES in orderBlack Creek BurningFlying in ShadowsDark VengeanceBy William Shaw. 2014
London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.The…
police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this is Breen's last chance to prove he's up to the job.Breen is of the generation for whom reaching adulthood meant turning into one's parents and accepting one's place in the world. But the world around him is changing beyond recognition. Nothing illustrates the shift more than Helen Tozer, a brazen and rambunctious young policewoman assisting him with the case. Together they navigate a world on edge, where conservative tradition gives way to frightening new freedoms--and troubling new crimes.By William Shaw. 2015
The earthshaking decade of the 1960s comes to a sweeping and dangerous close, as William Shaw's detective duo battle the…
most powerful members of London society.After being wounded in the line of duty, Detective Sergeant Breen recuperates on the family farm of his former partner, Helen Tozer. To fill the long and empty hours, he reviews the open case file for a murder that has haunted Helen for years: that of her younger sister. Breen discovers that the teenage victim had been having a secret affair with James Fletchet, the son of an affluent local landowner, celebrated for his service in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising.Breen and Tozer return to London's Criminal Investigation Division, where their questions about Fletchet's past are met with resistance and suspicion. The deeper they probe, the more people they implicate in their investigation. New Scotland Yard doesn't look kindly upon breaking rank, and it's only a matter of time before Breen and Tozer make themselves a target.Shaw's stirring, heartfelt and diabolically plotted mystery series is everything a reader looks for: enveloping, invigorating, and wonderfully entertaining.By William Shaw. 2014
In the Swinging Sixties, a battle for the soul of the city is fought between cops and criminals, the corrupt…
and the corruptible.London, November 1968. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his inbox and a mutilated body on his hands. The dead man was the wayward son of a rising politician and everywhere Breen turns to investigate, he finds himself obstructed and increasingly alienated. Breen begins to see that the abuse of power is at every level of society. And when his actions endanger those at the top, he becomes their target. Out in the cold, banished from a corrupt and fracturing system, Breen is finally forced to fight fire with fire. William Shaw paints the real portrait of London's swinging sixties. Authentic, powerful and poignant, The Kings of London reveals the shadow beyond the spotlight and the crimes committed in the name of liberation.By Sophie Hénaff. 2015
Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing one bullet too many Anne Capestan…
is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H Q to learn her fate Instead she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad working on solving old cold cases Though relived to still have a job Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new role Even less so when she meets her new team a crowd of misfits troublemakers and problem cases none of whom are fit for purpose and yet none of whom can be fired But from this inauspicious start investigating the cold cases throws up a number a number of strange mysteries for Capestan and her team was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previouslyBy George Bellairs. 1966
A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village in this tale by…
a master of British mystery Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt But before Savage has the chance to discover her fortune he is struck dead in the cellar of this once grand country house in the strange nearly deserted village of Plumpton Bois The police are baffled and unable to unearth a motive let alone a killer call for the assistance of Scotland Yard Inspector Littlejohn and Inspector Cromwell arrive in Plumpton Bois and find the village the family and the house itself full of secrets The door to a locked room has been bashed open Savage s aunt is not nearly as rich as she seemed to be And now another body has turned up on Littlejohn s watchBy Nicci French. 2018
It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday. Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that…
LOUISE PENNY calls "fabulous, unsettling, and riveting" — and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in summer 2018. Lover of London, gifted psychologist, frequent police consultant — Frieda Klein is many things. And now she's a person of interest in a murder case. A body has been discovered in the most unlikely and horrifying of places: beneath the floorboards of Frieda's house. The corpse is only months old, but the chief suspect appears to have died more than seven years ago. Except as Frieda knows all too well, he's alive and well and living in secret. And it seems he's inspired a copycat... As the days pass and the body count rises, Frieda finds herself caught in a fatal tug-of-war between two killers: one who won't let her go, and another who can't let her live. Crackling with suspense, packed with emotion, Sunday Silence is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of Elizabeth George and Paula Hawkins.By J. T. Ellison. 2011
Rediscover the incomparable, unstoppable Lieutenant Taylor Jackson in this chilling suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison.It’s…
a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back…and he’s got helpers.As The Pretender’s disciples perpetrate their sick homages—stretching police and the FBI dangerously thin—Taylor tries desperately to prepare for their inevitable showdown. And she must do it alone. To be close to her is to be in mortal danger, and she won’t risk losing anyone she loves. But the isolation, the self-doubt and the rising body count are taking their toll—she’s beside herself and ready to snap.The brilliant psychopath who both adores and despises her is drawing close. Close enough to touch…Originally published in 2011