Crime Conspiracy

Embarking on a supposedly straightforward assassination mission becomes a tangled web of intrigue when covert government agencies violently collide with nefarious crime lords spilling secrets. Tia Cooper, a top Enforcer, pursues a low-life crime boss on the galaxy's most extravagant space liner. Luxuriating in the lap of agency-sponsored luxury, she believes something is off. Has she lost her touch or is her assignment not what she was led to believe? Strap in for a high-octane, fast-paced science fiction escapade. In this short story, experience the whirlwind of Tia's hunt as she navigates...

Bryce’s fellow attorney and partner in their firm, Tom Middleton, experience the death of his son who is found out to be a mule for a drug cartel trading arms for drugs. The boy is killed in a violent way, and Middleton finds out that one of the firm’s biggest clients is involved. Middleton confronts the owner and later is accused of his murder. Tom asks Bryce to be a part of his legal team. Bryce begins to investigate the murder. As he investigates, he discovers that lots of other people had the motivation to kill the deceased. Bryce finds out that Mrs. Juarez was more involved than ...

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 ...

There is no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice! Tom Ashdown, an unlikely hero, owns a betting shop in Brighton and gambles with his life when he stumbles across an attempted kidnapping, which leaves him entangled in a dangerous chain of events involving the IRA, a sister seeking revenge for the death of her brother and an informer in MI5 with a secret in his past. Revenge is a fast paced thriller, with twists and turns at every step. In a thrilling and violent climax everyone is intent on some form of revenge.

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.

"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 ...

From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers Behind History-Changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths.

They traded Seoul's underworld for quiet nights. But the past never stays buried. Two years after the explosive events of Shadows of Seoul, Kwon Ji-hoon—former ruthless ruler of the Black Lotus syndicate—and Seo Min-ji—the brilliant ex-undercover cop who cracked his defenses and captured his heart—have built a fragile peace. Running the sophisticated jazz bar 'Nocturne,' they've swapped gunfire for smooth melodies, shadows for amber light. They thought they'd finally escaped the ghosts of their violent past. But a frantic, untraceable voicemail shatters their carefully constructed ...

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...

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!

A genius invention. A man pushed to the edge. Big mistake. From the genius mind of a Swiss scientist comes the omega algorithm – an algorithm that can instantly identify anyone, anywhere on the planet and a Hugo Xavier nemesis, the Shadow Council, has it in their sights. And when Novus is attacked and its boss gravely injured, Hugo and his team must protect Novus at all cost. Will Hugo and his team be able to protect Novus at the same time one of the greatest creations of all time is stolen? Hugo and his team must race all over the world in an international conspiracy where nothing is as ...