Crime Conspiracy

From the Author: Don’t read this if you can’t handle finishing a book in one sitting, horrific crime scenes, or questions that mess with your morals. BUT The Izard County Incubus is a rural mystery thriller packed with fast-paced action, brutally vivid crime scenes, and psychological mayhem dripping with vigilante justice. Beta Readers Say: “It’s not as weird as you think!” and “How do you come up with this stuff?” Synopsis: Detective Dakota Diaz and Hilrey Higgins are back to investigate a twisted crime wave in the Arkansas Ozarks. A family is butchered, and one girl survives...

On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessful attempted abduction. Using his attacker's cell phone, he learns that another person, a woman named Danica Ellis, is also being targeted. Dryden arrives just in time to save Danica from the assault team sent after her. But neither of them recognizes the other or has any idea why they are being targeted. The only clue is a heavily redacted, official-looking document given to Danica by her stepfather before he was killed.

A killer new standalone from USA Today and International Bestselling Author, J.C. Valentine... A dissatisfied housewife. A gun for hire. He’s not looking to fall for his client…then again, he never had much choice. Wife. Daughter. Murderer? Faith He was supposed to be my knight in shining armor. He was supposed to be my deliverance. But looks can be deceiving, and now he’s just in my way. After all of the lies, all of the deceptions, I need him gone, but despite my best efforts, he’s still here and I’m out of ideas. It’s time to call in a professional. I just wasn’t expecting ...

Enjoy this exciting 2 book series by mystery thriller author Michelle Files. Madison's bedroom was eerily quiet when the kidnapper lifted her from her crib. The moon filtered through the curtain, illuminating the baby's face in a cold, blue light. The next morning, Madison's parents awoke to an empty crib and police officers knocking at the door. Her disappearance sent shockwaves throughout the town. Determined to find out what happened that night in her bedroom, Madison began digging deeper and uncovered a web of secrets and deception that threatened both her safety and sanity. With each ...

There are rogue government agents hunting supernatural creatures all over Charlotte. There's a bloodbath in the parking lot of a demon bar and a massacre at a shopping mall. There are protests and tear gas and riot cops and somehow Quincy F'n Harker is the one stuck in the middle of cops, monsters, and demon agents trying to keep them from tearing his city apart. And now there seems to be a traitor in their midst.

A collection of adult tales. Madam – A woman and her brothers run a lucrative human-trafficking business in the Caribbean. This is a tale of abductions, murder, pirates, sociopaths, general wickedness, and of course sex. Shanghaied – A mother and daughter are kidnapped while on vacation in San Francisco. When the mom learns they are to be sold overseas for a half-million dollars, she offers a million to buy back their freedom. Unfortunately she doesn't have it. Intruder – An estranged housewife is assaulted and abducted, her husband, murdered, and their house burned down. A conspiracy...

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.

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... This is Book 2 of "Orthia" - the second series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

Jack, the owner of a failing bookshop in a picture-postcard country town near London, is embezzling from a client. Thea is a philosophy lecturer with a taste for pinching cash. There's something amiss with their marriage, but an occasional spot of larceny provides the frisson to keep it going, as well as the funds for the kids' school fees. But things start to go badly wrong when an old lover turns up demanding a slice of the action. Could you live with a would-be murderer? This is the question for Thea and Jack in this fast-moving psychological drama with an undercurrent of black comedy.

"While some of his followers clearly understand it's satire, many others seem not to." -PBS Newshour "Young is trolling the media, too, getting his opinions into mainstream publications." -The Huffington Post Can finding a woman's head in a box help solve one of history's most infamous murders? Just drifting through life, Thom Wilson sells computer software, has no future, is a manic depressive, and ponders his meaningless existence. He finds a woman's head in a box which puts him on a mission to solve the mystery. Mental Illness has never been this much fun.

harles II is well established at White Hall Palace, his mistress at hand in rooms over the Holbein bridge, the heads of some of the regicides on public display. London seethes with new energy, freed from the strictures of the protectorate, but many of its inhabitants have lost their livelihoods. One is Thomas Chaloner, a reluctant spy for the feared secretary of state, John Thurloe, and now returned from Holland in desperate need of employment.

In the South African veld poaching gangs are resorting to extreme levels of violence to hunt down valuable rhino horns. Battling to defend the dwindling rhino population, a veteran anti-apartheid freedom fighter is forced to break his lifetime loyalty to the ANC as he confronts corruption at the very highest level.

'A tightly plotted and highly enjoyable action thriller series.' - BestThrillers.com Tom Wiseman struggles with a conundrum: How to find meaning after a life shaped as an old-school FBI investigator and military man? Surrounded now, by high-tech gizmos and waffling teenagers. Dark forces, power hungry and driven by revenge, stalk him to home soil, intent on shattering his already imperfect picture of soon-to-be domesticated life. Pitted against enemies foreign and domestic, Tom must utilize every skill and nuance, dusting off old tradecraft. Combined with finding newer, tech savvy methods ...

An anniversary explosion on the London Underground causes concern for the mysterious Dawn Group, a powerful global organization that have existed for a thousand years. The organization's chief recruiter, Mr Hughes, once again turns toward DC Ray Dexter and his East Midlands British Transport Police colleagues for answers and help in retrieving an ancient artifact. Will Dexter give in to their demands. Can he and his team survive this ruthless organization whose motto is No Witnesses. This is the final chapter in the Police procedural involving DC Dexter and Sergeant Manders.

Historical Crime Collection - Two Novels by M. G. Scarsbrook POISON IN THE BLOOD: THE MEMOIRS OF LUCREZIA BORGIA 1497, Renaissance Rome: As the teenage daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and sister to the fearsome Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia is a young noblewoman immersed in all the glamor of the Vatican Palace. Yet after a brutal killing shocks the city, Lucrezia learns that a dangerous truth lies beneath the surface of the Papal Court: in their ruthless quest for power, her family will stop at nothing to eliminate their rivals. Her father and brother are poisoners. After discovering that her new ...

"In a small town, every secret has its price—and someone is ready to collect." From bestselling author Chris Witt comes The Unmasked Villain, a spellbinding thriller mystery novel that will leave readers breathless. Known for crafting stories that delve deep into the human psyche, Witt delivers yet another masterpiece, blending crime thriller intensity with the layered details of a psychological thriller. Follow the compelling journey of Detective Sarah Miller and Professor Zachary Barnes as they unravel a web of deceit, peril, and murder. An Unlikely Alliance When heinous crimes grip ...

A sacred artifact. A burned-out detective. A trail of bodies from Brentwood to Boyle Heights... The murder of a popular university professor unearths a mystery involving a 2,000-year-old religious relic stolen by the Nazis during World War II. The object, secretly referred to as THE ANTIQUITY, is rumored to possess supernatural powers. LAPD homicide detective Jack Sheridan is skeptical... until his hunt for the killer leads him deep into a world of dark forces, shadowy characters and unexplainable incidents. For Sheridan, the most startling coincidence is personal: this case is inextricably...

"Murder in a Small English Town," a mystery-thriller book set in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, during the late 19th to early 20th century, we follow the epic tale of a young man, Hugh Rogers, who becomes inextricably caught in a labyrinth of betrayal and homicide. This happens when a enigmatic boarder, James Cooper, steps into his tranquil existence, setting off a chain of events that irrevocably change life in this typically serene town. Unraveling the Conspiracy Within these suspenseful pages, Hugh is enmeshed in a sinister plot thick with undisclosed identities and concealed family ...

He’s An Undercover Operative, Called In To Take Down A Criminal Syndicate When undercover operative, Shane Beckett, is contracted by the Carson City Sheriff to investigate a crime family syndicate, and the syndicate’s links to drug cartels and politicians, he is quickly swept up in two murders. To complicate matters further, he falls deeply in love with the woman of his dreams, in the middle of the investigation. ˃˃˃ Assassination, Family Secrets, And The Criminal Underground Just as he comes to realize that The Case is far more complex than he could have imagined, he himself becomes...

Book #9 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series Jab’s town turns against him after his student trackers discover twenty dead girls were—drug-lord daughters of the Huerta Cartel! Soon the School Board fires Jab which splits the town wide open. But Jab isn’t convinced the Cartel is responsible for the subsequent reprisals. He feels the town—and the FBI are locked with tunnel vision. Jab’s determined to find the truth—and clear his name!