Crime Conspiracy

The rulers of the empire are being replaced. And no one has noticed. Elise Durnham has spent years hiding in plain sight, living a double life as Davis Ellis, a gifted engineer in the Emperor’s court. But when she uncovers a terrifying secret, a conspiracy to replace the empire’s leaders with mechanical replicas, her carefully constructed disguise becomes the least of her worries. With only the cryptic notes left behind by her missing father and the uneasy alliance of a cunning rogue spy, Elise must race against time to unravel a coup that has already begun. The machines are perfect. ...

Before the Lies Unfold A Gripping Psychological Thriller Investigative journalist Maya Patel was about to expose a conspiracy that could shake the world—until she vanished. Liam Carter refuses to believe his wife simply disappeared. The chilling warning left in her office, the encrypted files she hid, and the dangerous secrets she uncovered all point to something far more sinister. His search for the truth pulls him into a dark web of corporate corruption, human experimentation, and artificial intelligence with terrifying capabilities. Every step closer to finding Maya puts Liam in the ...

Lynn has been rescued from deep within the heart of a night runner lair. The answer to why she was taken remains a mystery. Sandra lies in a pool of her own blood, ending her desperate measures to draw Jack to her. As Red Team celebrates their joy of Lynn's freedom, they are unaware that a sight is centered on them from afar. A bullet tears through the air, streaking their way.

Today's world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere - rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives - are turning away from traditional police, lawyers, and government regulators toward a new champion: the private investigator.

Mouthpiece is a brutally told biographical sketch of an incarcerated pimp in prison for human trafficking. Raw boasts and brazen inner-city tales litter the story’s violent, unrepentant landscape. Like a marked man, Mouthpiece keeps after the listener with a cold perspective. Money is the aim, and young women are the product.

Arabelle's beloved town matriarch, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, is snatched from her car, held for ransom, and propped up to the sympathy of thousands online. Her leaked ransom video might have been enough to placate the headline-starved, but for the endlessly bored detective, Robert Ellery, the ticking time-bomb, Alice Daniels, and for Mrs. Thomas herself, a simple headline could never unfurl the secrets they keep from the lies they tell. There is far more to this story than meets the eye. There is more to the dueling towns of affluent, picturesque Arabelle and impoverished, crime-riddled Wood's...

The Lake Effect A Novella Terry Pellman A man naked and near death on a narrow, rocky outcropping on the shoreline of Norris Lake in Tennessee............ Fingerprints have been sliced off......... And when he regains consciousness after many hours of surgery......he has no memory of his life or identity. Without a past, absent the capacity for emotions, the man must try to begin anew with the help and care of a pair of physical therapists who take him in to live during his recovery. As time passes, fleeting images make him wonder if they m are simply thoughts, or true memories. And then he...

How far would you run to escape your past? Hal and Clunk fly halfway across the galaxy, putting their earlier mishaps, disasters and angry customers behind them. It's a chance to start anew. To rebuild their reputation. To actually complete a cargo job without destroying the lot. Unfortunately, they chose the wrong planet ... The Hal Spacejock series features humorous science fiction, adventure and action. They're clean books with very occasional swearing (mild).

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor This is another horny, HOT, and DEEP deposit into the Hot Wife Wrecked Entry series. In this 8,000-word paranormal action mystery, a scorned married woman named Donna is taken on a hard and harrowing journey into the esoteric orifices of human consciousness. Now it is apparent that the biggest monsters of all aren't mafiosos, criminals, killers, and assassins... no. There's a bigger, beastly, and hungry alpha male on the block, ...

Detective Senior Constable Riley Murphy thought Lightning Ridge was career exile—a remote opal mining town where the biggest crimes were petty theft and neighbourly disputes. Then respected opal dealer Elena Kozlov is found brutally murdered in her ransacked workshop, and Riley's routine investigation spirals into something far more dangerous. Elena wasn't killed for her valuable stones—she was eliminated for asking the wrong questions about suspicious corporate activity. As Riley digs deeper, she uncovers Asset Beta, a covert operative who's been surveilling Lightning Ridge residents ...

A maniacal gold mining boss. The baddest of good guys. And the fight of their lives. Evil lurks in the Guyanese jungles. A maniacal gold mining boss seeks power, using slave labor to feed his greed. Only Michael Falau stands against him. In this fight, Falau grapples with the darkness, pushing his limits to expose the true face of malevolence. Will he emerge unscathed, or lose himself in the process? Piranha: Dive into 3rd book of The Fixer series for sharp dialogue, deep characters, and relentless action, unveiling Jack Walker's electrifying quest for justice.

Retired… A word—many people spend their entire professional lives hoping to say; an opportunity to leave the rat race behind—while finally having the freedom to engage in their true passions—whatever those may be. In the cases of Floyd Atwater and Joe Reddy, two black ops agents who have spent a lifetime teetering on the edge, retirement has a totally different connotation altogether. Unlike them, the former third member of their triumvirate, Sam Wesley, chose to continue making his bones in the world of espionage. At his advancing age, the skills that once made Wesley untouchable ...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A Gripping Mystery Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing Until The Final, Shocking Twist. A prominent Grosse Pointe doctor is found dead, in his car, in an abandoned section of Detroit with a rope around his neck. Private Investigator John Rockne knows the victim, and soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation that blows the lid off Grosse Pointe’s glamorous façade. Soon, Rockne becomes the target of a killer whose depraved sadism knows no bounds. The trail of his friend’s brutal murder takes him into Detroit’s darkest and most dangerous ...

Mitch thought he would just be training under his mantracking mentor in the North Woods—until a killing spree began outside of a small town. When a botched heist goes horribly wrong, three thieves are forced to flee into the rugged wilderness in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Soon, Mitch, along with his mentor and a fellow classmate, are thrust into a federal manhunt to track down the murderous trio before they can escape. Using all of their fieldcraft and tactical experience, the elite team soon discovers that the killers are skilled survivalists who plan to turn the tables on their ...

If you dig too deep, you might find skeletons! JAfter Cole Sage’s newspaper career ends abruptly, he’s left questioning his future. The world of academia beckons, offering the chance for Cole to teach Journalism and stand up for the underdogs once again. But it doesn’t take long for him to realize that narrow-mindedness and bullying run just as deep in the ivory towers of academia as in the newsroom. Seeking solace and inspiration, Cole returns to the quiet town of Orvin, where he plans to transform his Cole Dust journals into a novel. But peace is hard to find when the past has a way...

After a fierce storm hits Scotland, a mysterious cargo ship is discovered in the Orkney Isles. Boarding the vessel uncovers three bodies, recently deceased and in violent circumstances. Forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod’s study of the crime scene suggests that a sinister game was being played on board, but who were the hunters? And who the hunted? Meanwhile in Glasgow DS Michael McNab is called to a horrific incident where a young woman has been set on fire. Or did she spark the flames herself?

Gabriel has dealt with mysterious medical issues his whole life. Just when he finally thought that they had all of the answers and he was on the road to good health, he is apprehended by DFS on the grounds of medical neglect. At first, he thought that he would be back home in a few days, once the misunderstanding was cleared up. But when Renata tells Gabriel her crazy conspiracy theories, Gabriel feels the first pangs of doubt. Is there really a conspiracy? Will he ever be able to get well and go back to his mother, or is he doomed to be another guinea pig for Doctor De Klerk? ⭐️⭐️...

Ranna Abramson wants to disappear. But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa. Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her - the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect of three murders. To the press she’s the serial killer Black Widow.

The pope is dead. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican to select his replacement, but one has fled for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the fourth century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is in Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that could rewrite history. But someone else is after the same letters, and when Malone obtains and then loses them, he's plunged into a hunt that draws the attention of the legendary Knights of Malta.

A woman’s body washes ashore. A scar on her skull matches one Dr. Evelyn Reed has seen before—on her missing sister. Forensic artist Evelyn Reed is used to speaking for the dead. But when a grotesquely staged crime scene reveals a pattern too precise to ignore, she finds herself caught in a game she never agreed to play. Someone is sending a message—written in bone. And Evelyn is the only one who can read it. As she peels back layers of deception, encryption, and buried trauma, she realizes the truth is more disturbing than any murder: someone is rewriting reality—one mind at a time...