Crime Conspiracy

Detective Carl Morck has received a bottle that holds an old and decayed message written in blood. It's a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. After floating in the ocean for years before turning up, the bottle sat forgotten, unopened, on a police department windowsill, before the seal was cracked and the gruesome message, written in Danish, was analyzed. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and why weren't they reported missing? Could they possibly still be alive?

London, 1924. Following several months abroad, Judge Dee Ren Jie has returned to the city to intercept a transaction between a Russian diplomat and a Japanese mercenary. Aided by Lao She—the Watson to his Holmes—along with several other colorful characters, Dee stops the illicit sale of an extremely valuable “dragon-taming” mace. The mace’s owner is a lovely Chinese businesswoman who thanks Dee for its retrieval by throwing a lavish dinner party. In attendance is British banking official A. G. Stephen, who argues with the group about the tenuous state of Chinese nationalism.

SWORD OF KINGS. SLAYER OF ARMIES. BLADE OF DESTINY.Legend holds that whoever wields this mighty, ancient weapon is invincible, able to vanquish all enemies and rule entire lands. But more than a thousand years after the mythical kingdom of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, tales of Excalibur and its exploits have long been considered only that: legend. That is, until an astonishing archaeological find in France convinces former secret agent Sean Wyatt and his sidekick, Tommy Schultz, that even this unlikeliest of myths is rooted in a truth that now threatens the modern world. ...

Varangantua is in turmoil. After the district of Korsk is obliterated in a fiery cataclysm, the city’s enforcers must pick up the pieces. As sanctioner teams comb the wreckage for survivors, dogged probators such as Agusto Zidarov and Lycia Calix seek to uncover the truth about what happened. Their stories become intertwined with those of petty criminals and desperate citizens, even drawing the vaunted attention of agents beyond Alecto itself, painting a picture of sprawling conspiracy.

Robert Bellamy, an American naval intelligence officer, is called in on a special undercover assignment by the NSA: investigate the mysterious crash of an experimental meteorological balloon in the Swiss Alps and locate the ten known witnesses to the incident. As he crisscrosses the world searching for clues, Bellamy uncovers a murderous governmental plot and a powerful international cabal of corporate CEOs. After narrowly escaping death, he goes into hiding, hunted by an unknown lethal force.

A missing informant. A dead woman. And a secret worth killing for... Detective Joe Hogarth’s most trusted informant vanishes without a trace, leaving behind whispers of an impending gang war. Then, a young woman is found dead by the railway tracks—a suspected suicide that feels all wrong. Hogarth doesn’t buy it. The deeper he digs, the darker it gets. A terrified criminal is on the run. A former Met officer makes a cryptic phone call—hinting at unfinished business from a 2012 London operation—and disappears before revealing more. Someone is cleaning house, eliminating anyone who ...

A missing reporter. A city of secrets. A race against time in the heart of New Orleans. When fearless investigative journalist Carmen Williams vanishes from her French Quarter apartment, FBI Special Agent Briana Song knows this is no ordinary missing person’s case. Carmen was on the verge of exposing deep-rooted political corruption—now, she’s disappeared without a trace. With just 24 hours to unravel the mystery, Briana and her partner James Buckley plunge into New Orleans’ criminal underworld. Every clue leads to more danger, and every answer raises new questions. The deeper ...

Seventeen years after the tragic death of his father, Darius Anderson is walking directly in his father's footsteps as a member of the Ebbsworth Police Department. Just as he begins to ascend within the department, a series of shocking events unfold, leaving Darius to question everything - and everyone - around him. Meanwhile, Bennie Santos, a prominent member with the rival Muerte Lenta Cartel, finds himself in the middle of a power struggle that puts the safety of his wife and daughter at risk. As they search for solutions, dark forces at play behind the scenes threaten to take everything...

Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at 12 and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona's crew would cross into the United States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, kill whomever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. Martin Corona played a key role in the downfall of the cartel when he turned state's evidence.

Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis waiting for him. Her ex-husband has just been killed. She’s about to be arrested for his murder. And she wants Bo to represent her. There’s a lot working against them. Just before his death, Helen’s ex-husband threatened to reveal a dark secret from her past. Bo has been in a tailspin since his wife’s death.

Where Was Skip? is an informative and thrilling guide to the life of JFK Assassination suspect and a potential D.B. Cooper person of interest (POI), Loran “Skip” Hall. The author, John Limbach, goes back to Hall’s birth in 1930 to detail an entire life of covert activity, crime, love affairs, and the conspiracies that surrounded this self-described jackal for the CIA until his death in 1995. While never suspected by the FBI for the only unsolved hijacking in United States history, Limbach paints a picture with facts, circumstances, and profiling that puts Hall right in the center of ...

"Rogue Agent is an exceptional series debut..." BestThrillers This 'Agent' series opener follows Tom Wiseman's Criminal Investigative Division investigation into a missing UN Helicopter, as it spirals into territory where dark, secretive, and powerful forces collude. Pitted against brutal contract killers and a lethal double agent from his past, Tom quickly discovers that going rogue and uncovering the truth at all cost, is a death sentence. “Fast-paced and packed with hard-hitting action, Dan J. Ford mixes conspiracies and suspense to serve up a fun, unique reading experience that hits ...

Jonah Parish, recently retired from the Royal Marine Commandos and working in the security industry wakes up on the lawn of a house in Exeter having been drugged. The lawyer he was hired to guard is missing. In tracking down the missing lawyer Jonah is embroiled in a game of cat and mouse with a ruthless gang looking for a rare flawed 1964 West German postage stamp bearing the image of John F Kennedy and worth a million dollars. As Jonah delves deeper into the mystery of the 'Assassin Flaw' stamp and the life of the last man to own it, a dead American diplomat Rory Shapter, he uncovers the ...

Finn is contacted by a federal agent who asks for his assistance in a delicate case. A piece of equipment disappears from a government-funded secret lab. The nature of the experimental equipment is so secretive that not even the agent knows what exactly it contains. Recommended reading first "Project Orthia" series. This is Book 1 of "Orthia" - the secod series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy heralded a chain of events that are still being felt today, fifty years after that fateful shooting. In Murder Tales: The JFK Conspiracies, H. N. Lloyd takes us step by step through that fateful day in Dallas. Taking the minutia of each official investigation, and holding it to account, to see its inconsistencies, flaws and mistruths. He examines the lives of the men who died that day, the contributions they made to the world around them, and asks what might they have gone on to achieve. Most importantly he examines the conspiracies that have ...

How is it possible for a beautiful, independent woman to simply vanish into thin air? Discover the chilling mystery behind the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence, a case that has baffled detectives and captivated the whole of Britain since she vanished on 18th March 2009. In this series of Missing books, we delve deep into the evidence, backgrounds of the victims, and suspects to try and piece together what really happened. If you're a true crime enthusiast or just starting out on your journey, these cases might be right up your alley. However, if you've already read and watched everything ...

Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson’s vigilante hero first seen in the New York Times best seller The Tomb, returns in a thriller that thrusts Jack back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler, Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorists. It’s a place where aliens are real, the government is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good versus evil incarnate. Jack finds that nobody can be trusted - and that few people are what they seem.

A boating accident has left one teenager dead and three others traumatized. Charleston attorney Leland Munroe is determined to prove his client wasn’t responsible, but prosecutor Patrick Ludlow will stop at nothing to keep his own son out of trouble. Even if it means sending an innocent person to jail….

Meet Pudge — a floppy-eared, highly trained search-and-rescue beagle with a secret that not even his closest allies fully understand: he’s been through time, he's been through fire, and he’s come back with a mission that only a dog like him could carry. When Calvin Hartwell, a reclusive former cyber-operative, is pulled back into a world he thought he’d left behind, it’s not the agency that comes calling — it’s Pudge. Together, they uncover a conspiracy so deeply buried in the American Southwest that it defies logic, history, and even reality. What begins as a tactical ...

She thought she was chasing a killer. She didn’t realize the case would chase her back. FBI agent Briana can’t let the past rest—especially when it refuses to stay buried. Assigned to a reopened case alongside her partner, Buck, she dives into the mysterious death of Terry Russo, a case once closed under suspicious circumstances. Terry’s father had powerful ties to the Bureau’s Director, and now Briana finds herself sifting through dusty files, questionable autopsies, and a widow who’s hiding more than grief. A pizza delivery boy confessed… then disappeared. Anonymous tips ...