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With American interests increasingly under threat, the FBI must turn to an unlikely collaborator... On routine business in Russia, Silicon Valley tech executive Hanna Arnol overhears two men discussing an espionage plot in a Moscow café. From what she can make out, an influential piece of United States AI is in danger of being stolen — and Hanna’s expertise makes her uniquely qualified to identify the target. And the FBI is convinced she’s the woman for the job. Determined to avoid a security breach and its ensuing uproar, Hanna follows one of the men to CyberStena, one of two ...

When two vacationers arrive in Las Vegas, they never expect to be caught up in a murder mystery. Ella Hunt and Luke Falconer have come to the Cosmos Hotel so Ella can advise the hotel on its interior design, but soon they're assisting a homicide detective in the investigation of a bride who has fallen from the 17th floor of her honeymoon suite. With the groom downstairs drinking with his Army Ranger friends, and secrets of blackmail and affairs coming to light, Ella and Luke have to dig deep to find out who wanted the bride dead. But when the bride's sister is murdered, the stakes are ...

New Orleans fixer Burleigh Drummond is hired to find a missing heiress. What Drummond discovers is deceit, fraud, and a plan to rob the woman of the estate. As usual Drummond takes over. This story was originally published in Blue Murder magazine and subsequently in Tangled Web magazine. It was selected by Otto Penzler as one of the fifty best mystery short stories published that year.

Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers found out small-town life meant adjusting to two things - gossips and Laney Cavanaugh. And neither was much help in solving a bridal shower murder. Some days it appeared like everyone in Whitehorse had a secret - including their new lawman. And falling for Laney wasn’t a good way to maintain a low profile. Nick might have been new to Whitehorse, but he wasn’t above getting his hands dirty.

Jonathan Woods, author of the award-winning Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem, returns with a new collection of seventeen crazed and corrosively funny noir tales. Combining the offbeat humor of the Coen brothers with the madness of Jim Thompson, these stories will keep you up ’til the wee hours. And you won’t go to sleep without a loaded pistol under your pillow.

Whether you know it as the ‘succulent Chinese meal’ video, or ‘democracy manifest’, chances are you have seen the video of baritone larrikin Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1991. The Guardian called it ‘perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years’. When Karlson called crime writer Mark Dapin out of the blue, though, Dapin hadn’t heard of him. But there was enough that intrigued him about this theatrical outlaw to continue the conversation. Over the following months emerged a dark and complex past.

Hope Brown’s mundane life is turned upside down when:-she unexpectedly loses the job she loves; runs into big trouble with the police when she’s implicated in an unexplained death; finds herself the target of a notorious local drug gang - out for revenge; and discovers dark secrets about her past that she is determined to uncover. Hope takes flight from the dreary London council flat that she shares with her slovenly stepfather Charlie, and stepbrother Joel, looking for a fresh start in Northumberland, in the peaceful, coastal town of Amble, where she was born. She's determined to ...

A mysterious woman with dark secrets rocks Oyster Island to the core Embark on an exhilarating journey to the Big Easy with lighthouse keeper Jack Wiesinski and the last Atakapa Indian Grogan ‘Chief’ la Tortue as they indulge in their favorite pastime at Rockie’s strip club. When an alluring stripper named Vixen takes the stage, their wild night takes an unexpected twist. Vixen is an enigma—a mysterious woman living in squalor behind the club. With nothing but a duffel bag and a few meager possessions to her name, she captivates Chief with her otherworldly dance moves. When she ...

When a mysterious client asks former Delta Force operator Case Lee to investigate a massive New Guinea gold discovery, the job quickly unravels into an incredible world of spies, terrorists, and tribal headhunters. Case, with a sense he's being played, walks away from the entire mess. Until life-threatening events pull him back in. This time, he's not taking any prisoners.

Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son’s suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue, Cameron is sure it’s another case closed. But the body laid out on the slab isn’t the man he’s looking for. And it isn’t a stranger. Suddenly, a routine investigation becomes a desperate fight for survival.

Rocky Hebert walks into his death at quarter to midnight one New Orleans night. His son Gabe cannot accept the official verdict of suicide and enlists the help of the Burke Broussard Private Investigation Agency to discover the real cause of death. PI Molly Sutton knows what it's like to lose a father in tragic circumstances and will go to any lengths to crack the investigation, as she tries to fight off her growing feelings for Gabe.

Kimberley is endowed with supernatural powers that often make her life seem more of a curse than a blessing. Kimberley's strange gift, leads her to be drafted into occasionally helping the police, though all she wants is to not be noticed except when doing her day job. She is an Airline Purser and she is very good at her job. Jake is a pilot for the same airline, he is dashing, quite good looking and he has just noticed Kimberley. Kimberley looks stunning with luscious brown hair and Jake wondered where she had been all his life. Kimberly decides she cannot share her secret with anyone ...

Penny Küfer's past unexpectedly collides with the present when an old acquaintance reappears in her life, offering her a unique assignment: At the de-luxe mountain hideaway of a controversial space magnate Penny is supposed to reinforce the security team. This time, will she be able to stop a cold-blooded murderer before he strikes?

Penrose and Pyke’s honeymoon takes a dangerous turn when they investigate the most notorious robbery in Central Otago history. Grace and Charlie had been looking forward to a blissful break away from their hectic lives. Instead, watchful eyes follow their every move from the moment they step off the stagecoach in Clyde. Rumour has it that the Pyke family knows more about the robbery than they are telling. With a fortune in gold still missing, and destitute miners on the prowl, the tranquillity of their honeymoon is about to be shattered. But greed is not the only sin in town. Behind the ...

Need the perfect man? No problem—simply create him! Ivy wanted nothing more for Christmas than to have someone to come home to, a companion to chat about her day with, and someone to show off at her family holiday celebrations. Instead of wishing on a star, she takes matters into her own hands. Ivy creates her perfect companion at Dream Droids, the premier robotics company specializing in sentient humanoids. She spends weeks with Dr. Pierce, creating her dream man. Every detail is worked out, from his appearance, personality, and even his knowledge of her life. This will be the best ...

Six linked short stories of the American Southwest. A Regular Evening at Eddie C's The Cold Hard Facts of Life The Proper Ritual Two Cowboys Standing With Horses in a Small Indian Village Ten Shots Quick The Katsina Cool, funny, sympathetic, and gritty. The dialogue in these stories is pitch-perfect.

From esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos comes four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity. When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift.

Un aire de misterio envuelve a una de las nuevas alumnas de un exclusivo colegio privado en Suiza. Se trata de una hermosa chica de lustrosa melena azabache que llega todas las mañanas escoltada por una caravana digna de un jefe de estado. Se dice que es hija de un poderoso empresario, pero es en realidad hija del príncipe heredero de Arabia Saudí. Cuando la joven es despiadadamente secuestrada, el príncipe acude al único capaz de rescatarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde: Gabriel Allon.

Truman Capote’s best-selling book In Cold Blood has captivated worldwide audiences for over 50 years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas. But what if robbery was not the motive at all but something more sinister? And why would the Kansas Bureau of Investigation press the attorney general to launch a ruthless four-year legal battle to prevent fresh details of the state’s most famous crime from being made public, so many years after the case had been solved?

Maybe the youngest son of a violent criminal named Hoggy Thompson was born a beast. Maybe rage was beaten into him. One thing was certain, by the time he reached manhood, Jerry Thompson was a savage killer. He had no conscience about rape, child molestation, or thrashing a dozen men in a prison fight. Once he got his hands on a gun, any target would do. He didn't leave witnesses. When he terrorized an entire courtroom and offered to rip deputy prosecutor Larry Sells apart, people wondered if there would ever be a way to stop his viciousness.