Crime Conspiracy

In "The Westbourne Enigma," Professor John Castellanos returns to the seemingly idyllic village of Westbourne seeking refuge from his traumatic past and the dangers posed by the Illuminés of Paris. However, his quest for peace quickly unravels as he discovers hidden symbols and cryptic clues woven into the very fabric of his familiar surroundings. A carved knot on the mantelpiece, a precisely arranged garden, and an unsettling pub sign hint at a deeper, darker meaning beneath the village's charming façade. As John navigates this quaint locale, his instincts, sharpened by years of studying...

MIND FORCE is a gripping action-adventure special forces thriller crammed full of twists, turns, espionage and military combat (411 pages). Join 22nd Special Air Service Regiment Captain Kirkland Finn as he battles an East German crime lord and his squad of ex-KSK mercenaries across multiple European countries. A fiction novel with covert military action, thrilling car and motorbike chases, helicopters, and fight scenes, written in a refreshing cinematic style without long-winded descriptions and meaningless dialogue. MIND FORCE is the third instalment of the Kirkland Finn military action-...

Jack Reacher reunites with the survivors of his old Army investigative team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. In a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe - a mission worth dying for. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Until he finds what she left behind.

Extreme sport, a beautiful woman and the Australian outback. Private detective Jack Hamma, the manic Manooka and the beautiful Breanna Amore are climbing a sheer cliff 2,000 feet high. Breanna a seasoned climber is leading. Jack is hanging on to a wafer thin ledge. Breanna moves up, the cliff face gives way. Breanna falls Jack grabs her arm, they are dangling helpless form the cliff. Manooka their only hope, is knocked senseless by the debris. Jack is not having a good day! 'What an emotional rollercoaster of a book.’ ‘Thorogood has done a great job of channeling his inner “fatal ...

2024 Finalist - American Legacy Book Award for Medical Thrillers 2023 Winner - American Fiction Award for Medical Thrillers 2023 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, Medical Mystery/Thriller Reedsy Discovery calls An Inch from Oblivion, "a must read." "...Sam Polakoff hits a home run with this engrossing...thriller." - The Book Commentary After being suspended from his job as a police detective, Dave Ostrinsky, needing a respite from his stress-filled life, rides his bike along a mountain trail and accidentally goes over a dangerous cliff. During emergency surgery, Dr. Ivy McDermott ...

Suspicious deaths. Shadowy experiments. Can Chicago’s bloodhound PI expose a desperate and deeply-rooted enterprise before more witnesses die? Private Investigator Lila Piper struggles to keep her demons buried. Plagued by the trauma and recklessness of her early years, she relies on electromagnetic brain therapy to stay focused on the job. But it stretches her mind to the limit when she takes on a suspicious high-rise fatality. As Lila scours for clues, she begins to suspect possible connections to international drug cartels and covert CIA operations that strike alarmingly close to home....

When you're an outlaw hoping for a pardon, and the emperor personally sends a note requesting that your team kidnap him, you make plans to comply, even if it'll involve infiltrating a train full of soldiers, bodyguards, and spies loyal to a nefarious business coalition that has numerous reasons to hate you.

Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution, and inspired the word “sadism,” which came to mean receiving pleasure from pain. Despite all his crimes, Sade considered this work to be his greatest transgression.

For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside orphanages. The survivors have been trying to tell their astonishing stories for a long time, but disbelief, secrecy, and trauma have kept them from breaking through. For ten years, Christine Kenneally has been on a quest to uncover the harrowing truth.

Former FBI Agent Sam Schlap investigates the JFK Assassination, MK-Ultra, 9/11, and other clandestine cult serial killer secrets. Ike was right about the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). Sam needs your help in solving these murders most foul.

Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control, as well as certain personality traits.

Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Vladimir Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and heart, and though nobody knows why he was killed, everybody - the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves - has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan.

Thirty-two-year-old, fourth-generation St. Paul Homicide Detective Michael “Mac” McRyan thought his day was going to be less stressful. His day would involve paper work, coffee, and maybe even an early trip to the pub. Then his cell phone tells him his day is about to change. A body has been found in a high-end condominium between Summit and Grand Avenues; and it's not just anyone.

A fully-loaded supertanker anchored sixty miles off the Texas coast suddenly begins hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, and FBI Special Agents Pete Cortez and Teri Barnhart quickly determine the vessel has been deliberately sabotaged. There are strong indications that whoever was behind the first attack is planning another—and soon—as Cortez and Barnhart navigate the treacherous world of oil, politics and environmentalism in hopes of unraveling the mystery of who sabotaged the supertanker, why they put the marine habitat of the entire Gulf ...

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 Mafia Boss is dead and his thugs want revenge. It's night, pitch black, the rains is pouring down, a woman screams. Private Detective Jack Hamma comes to the rescue. A desperate fight ensues, a mafia boss is dead and Jack is blinded. The Mafia want revenge! A Mafia hit man, a beautiful nurse and a blind hero, all the ingredients of a page turner. ‘A rip roaring adventure.’ ‘Like all Jack Hamma's it has a brilliant opening scene.'

A small boy and a young girl make a contract to kill. A school girl and her young brother arrive at private detective Jack Hamma's office. They scatter coins over Jacks desk, the contents of their piggy bank, and ask Jack to shoot dead two men. They want to save a forest and take revenge for the murder of their parents. Murder, revenge and retribution combine with Jacks wry humor to make this a great read. ‘The same fast paced action we've come to expect from a Jack Hamma story.’ ‘Flows well as we travel with Jack across the world, from the wilds of Yorkshire to the depths of the ...

Fighting the fentanyl epidemic in the United States is a top priority for President Alexander Hammond, and there’s only one man he trusts—however begrudgingly—to lead the task force: former Secret Service agent and soon-to-be son-in-law Clayton White.

In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina’s victory in the Falkland’s War thanks to their development of “psychopigments.” Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from Blackberry Purple (which causes terror) to Sunshine Yellow (which delivers happiness).