Police Action

A new horror is stalking New Orleans. He is the "Queen of Hearts" killer, removing the hearts of his young male victims. He is savage. He is unstoppable. And the New Orleans Police commissioner has requested - by name - the aid of Dr. Jessica Coran. But another horror is stalking Jessica. The man known as "The Vampire Killer" has escaped from prison, leaving a trail of blood-drained bodies in his wake. No one knows where he is - but they do know that he's coming for Jessica, the woman that put him behind bars.

Love, fear, and impossible choices have her charging to his rescue, but will it be in time… As a Federal agent assigned to the Special Crimes Unit, Casey Anderson is a chameleon, who could blend in with her surroundings, be anyone or anything she chose to be. As a Federal agent, she’s taken an oath to protect and serve her country. Even if it means seducing the enemy. She’s not going to let anyone down. Failure isn’t an option. It’s up to her to bring down the man who killed her brother. Sentenced to death for crimes he didn’t commit, former undercover police officer Ashton ...

Jake Crosby has traded in a stockbroker's suit and tie for a standard-issue uniform. As a newly minted Mississippi game warden, he has two tough cases to cut his teeth on - the ongoing robbery of wealthy hunters and the ruthless search for a rumored hidden fortune.

The fragile ecosystem of Biscayne National Park is at risk. The only person standing between its pristine waters and the irreversible harm caused by being located in Miami’s shadow is Special Agent Kurt Hunter. Stuck in the middle of a war being fought between those who just want to enjoy the park and those who want to preserve it, Kurt is working in an unwinnable situation. When the dialogue turns violent, Kurt’s forced to face off against both groups.

A pop icon is found dead aboard a lavish yacht that happens to be anchored in Biscayne National Park. Murder knows no boundaries, and with the yacht in his jurisdiction, Special Agent Kurt Hunter becomes entangled in a world he knows nothing about. While Kurt is no stranger to high-profile cases, he’s not looking for the spotlight or notoriety-he’s had both with disastrous results. Hounded by the media, promoters, and an Internal Affairs investigator, Kurt is forced to face his own inner demons to solve the case.

When ex-cop Dennis Milne, now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines, hears that his old friend Asif Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home and hunt down the murderer.

When DCI Anna Tate is called to the gruesome discovery of a dead woman found on Barnes Common, she is plunged into a high‐profile investigation involving a prominent MP. London is baying for blood - but is there more to Holly’s death than at first meets the eye? Meanwhile, the hunt is on for Anna’s missing daughter Chloe, who vanished 10 years ago when her ex‐husband kidnapped her. The case has been cold for what feels like forever - but a phone call brings a brand-new lead....

When sixteen-year-old Jenny James goes missing, and the local police are unable to find her, the girl’s frantic mother hires private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to search for her daughter. When the body of Jenny’s boyfriend is discovered, the mystery of her disappearance deepens. Shaken out of their comfort zone of Internet searches and poring over public records, the couple soon find themselves facing the frightening possibility they are looking for the latest victim of a serial killer. As more bodies pile up, the town is gripped with fear. ...

Picardie, France, 1964, the exclusive Clos du Lac sanitarium: A man is discovered standing in the therapy pool. But he's not there for his health; someone has chained him to the bottom and left him to die very, very slowly. Inspector Lucas Rocco believes it's an unusual and elaborate method of execution. But nobody seems to have heard or seen anything, the staff are resolutely unhelpful - or dead - and ministry officials sent from Paris to 'assist' attempt to impede Rocco's efforts to find answers.

Sunset Nominated for the Edgar Award for best Mystery of 2012. Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife, a five-year old daughter and a job he loved...but all of that changed in the blink of an eye. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime, Bekker got a little too close to mob boss Eddie Crist. As a message to back off, Bekker's home is invaded, his wife murdered and all this witnessed by his five-year-old daughter. A decade later Bekker, a drunk with an institutionalized daughter, comes face to face with Eddie Crist, now near death from cancer with a ...

The Squandered propels Bruno into an emotionally charged high-speed chase as he and Marie leave their rescued kids in Costa Rica and risk returning to the US at the request of Bruno’s terminally ill father. Bruno’s estranged and incarcerated brother needs Bruno to help rescue his abducted young grandchildren, children Bruno hadn’t known existed.

Jarron Rourke returns in the fifth installment of The Apostle. He is settled into a daily life with girlfriend Jane Diaz, his niece Pepper and her pregnant friend Jill, when an assignment comes down from his boss, Bennington, The Attorney General for New York that has devastating consequences for all involved. A dying, Irish mobster that disappeared in Ireland, contacted Bennington and requested that Rourke meets with him before he dies. Rourke flies to Ireland where the dying mobster gives him a tell-all journal naming all the Irish and Italian mobsters in New York and outlines their long ...

Retired on a disability pension after being shot in the hip, FBI agent Duncan Wyatt is bored to tears after making a full recovery. His hum-drum existence comes to an abrupt end when he is recruited by ATF to work undercover in the Florida Keys. A Keys native, Wyatt not only knows the territory, but the target of their investigation, his high school sweetheart of twenty-five years ago, Katherine Wolfe. Wealthy Miami based industrialist Xavier Estes, a first generation born Cuban has long been suspected of gun smuggling to Cuban rebels by ATF. His suspected accomplice is Keys resident ...

Winner of the 2017 Nero Award for best mystery. Wally Sample is a degenerate gambler who owes money to every major casino and loan sharks everywhere. He is also the youngest heir to the Sample Iced Tea Corporation and upon his fortieth birthday, if he can prove to the courts that he is cured of his gambling addiction, will take his place as the sixth controlling member of the iced-tea giant. Problem is, a month short of turning forty, Wally’s gambling habit is worse than ever. In desperation, he turns to Frank Kagan, the family attorney who decades ago prepared the will for Wally’s ...

Rourke is a gifted investigator. He is also a gifted killer, having worked for his Irish Mafia brother as a street enforcer. After his brother is arrested, Rourke goes down with him and spends four years in prison before he is given a second chance at life as a free man. Recruited by the Justice Department to act as an investigator, Rourke’s freedom depends upon his willingness to investigate crimes for the Federal Prosecutor. In exchange for his talents, Rourke is allowed to keep his Central Park West condo and whatever money he had squirreled away in various banks, a considerable amount...

From Edgar and Nero Award Nominee Al Lamanda. John Bekker is called back to action when his close friend Sheriff Jane Morgan seeks his help with a perplexing mystery. Norman Felton, a resident of Midnight Island, drove his car to the mainland county high school and, in an out-of-control rage, beat an exchange student nearly to death with a baseball bat before being shot by sheriff's deputies. Felton's fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda is missing, and with each passing day the odds of finding her grow slimmer. Bekker works around the clock ferreting out details until slowly the puzzle comes ...

The book "Echoes in the Storm: A Redemption" is an engrossing story that takes the reader into the seedy neighborhoods of Chicago, a city that is mired in the muck of bribery, treachery, and murder. The experienced Detective Lucas Morgan is at the center of the story. He is a guy who is committed to upholding justice, but he is also tortured by his own personal issues. The events of the narrative begin with the strange disappearance of the daughter of a powerful senator. Lucas enters the dangerous underground of Chicago in an attempt to locate her, but all he ends up doing is uncovering a ...

Take one slightly insane and extremely violent mobster named Joey Grant. Joey’s goal in life is to one day command his own crime family and he will stop at nothing to achieve that goal. Add Robert Grant, Joey’s older and more subdued brother. Also a member of the crime family, Robert is a dreamer and dreams about the one thing he doesn’t have, love. Stir in Gisela, a beautiful and seductive barmaid who works at the Grant’s nightclub who Robert falls in love with, but who Joey suspects is a gold-digger after Robert’s money. Toss in a Federal Task Force investigating the crime ...

Nate knows how to solve crimes. He's dedicated his entire life to the force, sacrificing everything in his desperate attempt to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over his own mother's unsolved death. Sally loves Nate, but three years of waiting for him has proven one thing: his career will always come first. Not her. Frustrated by his constant absence, Sally does the unthinkable. She walks away.

Top Texas Ranger investigator Jake Morgan heads home to wait out an administrative leave of absence from the Rangers, but Jake’s return to his Midwest town turns perilous when he asks probing questions about the bizarre death of his best friend, Gage Burnell. Morgan’s return home fans the embers of his first love, Pam Mitchell, whose family members are the most likely suspects in the murder of Burnell.