Police Adventures

A severed finger. A missing person. Are they linked? Detective Amber Cooper believed in resolving cases fast. When visitors picked up a severed finger in a national monument, Detective Cooper felt that the leads were just like needles in a haystack. In addition, Amber found out that a man had gone into thin air. Amber felt that the vanished man was the key to saving lives. She risked almost everything in her pursuit of solving the mystery, though time was not on her side. Could she bring the perpetrators to justice? Just a Finger is the second book in the American Small Town Mysteries ...

Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he’s ever been part of. The President’s son and daughter have been abducted from their school – an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn’t want Cross too close.

Detective Alex Cross and Bree’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most hated public figures: a corrupt congressman and an underhanded lobbyist. As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots, public opinion is divided - is the marksman a vigilante or a hero?Media coverage of the case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation.

When a bridge collapses and kills six people, National Park Service Special Agent Kurt Hunter is drawn into a tangled web of political machinations. With the bridge debris scheduled to be turned into an artificial reef in the park, Kurt and Justine are in a race against time to find the party responsible. But things are not as simple as they appear, and soon powerful political figures turn the case into a power struggle to save one of the country's biggest universities.

A squad of elite and reckless narcotics officers discover a group of retired cops are killing criminals in their city. These vigilantes leave little evidence of their crimes and are spreading into new areas of activity. Their behavior is metastasizing into the ranks of sworn officers and has been discovered by the police administration. A corrupt Chief is using this activity to cover his misconduct. Meanwhile a rogue Phantom is using the chaos as an opportunity to assault and maim white supremist. The officers of the narcotics squad and their supervisors face personal decisions about their ...

Jimmy Johnson’s body appeared in his neighbor’s backyard long after he was dead. Can the detectives bring a joyful holiday to a mourning community? Peyton Anderson was a feisty young detective in the Police Department of Moscow, Idaho. When a half decomposed body was discovered by a long absent city home owner in his backyard as he returned home, Peyton became one of the investigators. Peyton felt helpless as it took a long time to establish the identity of the victim. Peyton spent restless nights thinking that the murderer could escape before the identity of the victim was confirmed. ...

The world has always been a battlefield—a place where power, ambition, and greed clash in the shadows. But amid the chaos, there are those who dare to fight back, driven by ideals greater than themselves. This is the story of such a fight, and the people who risk everything in the name of love, loyalty, and justice. Alina, a seasoned intelligence operative, thought she had seen it all. From undercover missions in war zones to political intrigue in high offices, her life had been a whirlwind of danger and deception. But nothing prepared her for the storm that was about to unravel her ...

What would happen if an almost one thousand strong terrorist force conducted coordinated attacks on a major American city and those attacks lasted for almost a month? Join the men and women of the Houston Police Department, Texas Rangers, Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy as they fight against a well armed and determined force of ruthless men from the Middle East whose mission is to achieve a high body count, destroy the city and bring our country to its knees.

Be cruel to your enemy and they will dread the very notion of you.While the hunt for the former SAS trio continues across Britain, a wave of pro-vigilantism is whipped up by the duplicitous UK media. Detective Inspector Jim Brannigan's world is thrown into turmoil when his partner is inexplicably shot by one of the ex soldiers. As she clings to life, the vengeful copper learns that the elite killers have spread their net to include resurgent terrorists, a strategy that leads to mayhem on the streets of The UK. Unknown to even his comrades, the unit leader plans one final devastating act of ...

Lieutenant Bradley Heap has gone AWOL and taken along his wife and son. They’re managing to cope just fine until an encounter with a gang of drug dealers turns their world upside down. Detective John Locke of Police Scotland joins forces with the Navy police in the search for Heap on a trail that will take them from the middle of Scotland to the edge of England’s Lake District. The Shallows explores the limits of human endurance and examines how far people will go to protect the ones they love.

He just wants to be left alone but his enemies have other plans Jens Schacht - also known as The Scorpion - is on the run. The French Government want him for murder and deserting from the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, the British Government also want him for wiping out one of their special forces units. Despite this, he secretly returns to Paris, hoping to settle down and live quietly with the love of his life. However, fate has decreed otherwise. A deadly encounter with the French Mafia puts Schacht and his fugitive partner, Siegfried Ritter, into the line of fire once more. In a relentless ...

A woman’s plea to find her missing husband sends Special Agent Kurt Hunter down a road he doesn’t want to go. For all its pristine beauty, Biscayne National Park can be deadly for those lost and unprepared. Open water and inhospitable islands are the most obvious obstacles in a life or death battle, but there is something even more dangerous than nature—man. The search leads to the mangrove-lined shores of the barrier islands, where smugglers and pirates have lurked for centuries. With the clock ticking, Kurt and his team take to the backwaters of Biscayne Bay to find him.

A orillas de la represa del Sisga se ha producido un hecho atroz: el empalamiento de un hombre de unos cincuenta y cinco años de edad.

When the father he never knew shows up at his house in the middle of the night, beaten and his body mutilated, with only a vague explanation of what happened to him, Somerton County Deputy John Lee Quarrels suspects there's more to the story than he is being told. And when his father just as mysteriously disappears two days later, John Lee knows there is trouble in store for him.

All brokenhearted Sarah Bennett needed was a new room mate. She wasn't expecting ex-biker Ethan Collier to turn up at her door and take the room. She also didn't expect to find herself falling for him so quickly. Ethan Collier is running from his dark past. Taking a room in the same apartment as the sweet Sarah will help him do just that. Except that she's hard to resist. Just as things heat up between them, Ethan's past comes smashing firmly back into his present and threatens to drag them both down.

Written by a real-life, A-list celebrity bodyguard - Someone is murdering Hollywood's elite. Only professional bodyguard Michael Beckett can make them stop. Ex–New York City cop Michael Beckett has seen the worst humanity has to offer. But nothing has quite prepared him for his role as a celebrity bodyguard: shepherding TV-reality star Tata Andolini through throngs of fans and hyper-charged celebrity photographers: stalkerazzi. And when he takes on a new client—the beautiful A-list celebrity Victoria Carrington—the chaos only gets more chaotic. Heroin has made its way into the ...

After saving a woman from an armed robber at a truck stop, former soldier John Lucky is more than happy to take her number, even if she does print it out on a lottery ticket. He's even more happy when that ticket wins the lottery and he can take himself and his Army bud Davey down to Florida so they can live the good life in the paradise that is the Gulf Coast.

Violent death of a veteran resident in the neighborhood shook everyone. Can Detective Harper Bush find the killer before anyone else is harmed? Detective Harper Bush is a meticulous detective with the Department of Police, Plano, Texas. Murder of Mrs. Tammy Jones appeared to her as a personal blow to her childhood memory of treasure hunting during Halloween for the candies in the neighborhood where she grew up with her sisters. The mystery deepens as another member of the community went missing. The missing person was Harper's English teacher. Harper’s sisters, Alice and Joan, started an ...

Echoes of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island: Publisher's Weekly. Readers will receive two shocks; the spin from mystery-suspense to sci fi, and then the identity of the killer. : The Mystery Gazette Isolated during a severe winter storm in 1959, the small community of Dunston Falls in northern Maine is completely cut off from the rest of the state. When town residents begin to experience strange occurrences such as unexplained migraines and hallucinations, the stage is set for a brutal killer to begin his handiwork. When Sheriff David Peck investigates the murders of two women, he slowly ...

Bringing together six short stories - two of which are previously unpublished - One Last Dram Before Midnight is perfect for fans of Denzil Meyrick. These tales take us from Jim Daley's early days pounding the beat in Glasgow as a young constable to a lighthearted whisky smuggling romp involving Hamish and some ghostly pipers.