Police Detective

The police are desperate for information on the triple homicide. Detective Joona Linna enlists the help of hypnotist Erik Maria Bark. But when Bark unlocks the secrets in the boy’s memory, he triggers a terrifying chain of events that will put all their lives in jeopardy.

Jon Talbot is a history professor who makes sense of the past by examining facts. He also knows how to speculate about the what-ifs. Jon’s doing both following the death of his wife, Pax. Driving home late from a volunteer assignment, she plunged off a mountain highway and died. The police find nothing suspicious about the facts: a deer in the road, a blown tire, a broken neck. But the what-ifs are leading Jon down a twisting trail of secrets. After five years of marriage, he is finally getting to know his wife.

Why would a wealthy businesswoman in the prime of her life, do the unthinkable? When Detective Sergeant Nick Vada’s girlfriend calls him with the devastating news that her best friend, high-powered lawyer, Emily Hartford, is dead, they are left in shock, unable to understand how this could happen. Emily's husband, Spencer, a rising star in Australian politics, working his way towards the top job, struggles with the loss and asks Nick what he can find out. But Nick thinks Spencer is hiding something and wonders does he have a connection to another murder from 20 years earlier?

Have you ever wanted to work an actual murder investigation? Ever wish you could spend a week working alongside real homicide detectives? The Honorable is a glimpse inside how real detective work gets done, with unexpected twists and an ending you will not see coming! For fans of tight plots and a heart-pounding pace, along with a lead detective that will bring Harry Bosch to mind, welcome to The Honorable, the fourth book in the Riley Scott detective series. Every detective knows it usually comes down to luck—whether or not they clear their case—and that luck is usually found hidden ...

Isabella joins a coven... But there are no witches in it. When Isabella's friend Emma changes her religion, Isabella is happy she's found something she can believe in. Until she learns Emma thinks she's a witch. Magic doesn't work that way and now she's worried her friend is being taken advantage of. Isabella is desperate to find out who is killing members of the coven - desperate enough to hunt him down on her own. What will it take for her to capture a witch older and stronger than her, and is she willing to pay that price? *** For fans of Amanda M. Lee, Annabel Chase, and Leighann Dobbs,...

In this breathless mystery thriller, John Jordan races to save the life of the woman he loves in a single night beneath a Blood Moon. A daring escape. A race against time. Locked in with a vicious, relentless killer. The stakes have never been higher. Success seems impossible. Failure unimaginable. All in a single night beneath a Blood Moon! "John Jordan is one of crime fiction's most original heroes, and his creator, Michael Lister is one of the genre's freshest voices" - PJ Parish.

When Victoria Marsh disappears from her family’s exclusive resort in Cougar Point, Washington, her family is devastated. A charity worker and pillar of the local community, how could she just vanish without a trace? Though not officially her case, Detective Megan Carpenter races to the scene for a very personal reason. Victoria is Ronnie’s mother and Megan will do anything to help her when she has sacrificed so much.

Panama City PIs Burke and Blade are back! When Brooklyn Hill goes missing while on a pub crawl during her bachelorette weekend on Panama City Beach, Burke and Blade are called in to do what no one else has been able to—find her. Or at least figure out what happened to her. The seeming impossible vanishing has everyone baffled—Brook walked into Jungle Jim’s and never walked out again. Every entrance and exit is covered by surveillance cameras and the hundreds of people in the club saw her enter but never exit. And extensive searches, including both scent and cadaver dogs, prove she’s...

The betrayal of those closest burns most of all.... Hoping for a fresh start, an English family moves to the remote Shetland islands, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husband spread like wildfire. As suspicion and resentment of the family blazes in the community, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. He knows it will mean his boss, Willow Reeves, returning to run the investigation, and confronting their complex relationship.

What happens when your past catches up with you? A chilling mystery that will haunt you long after you finish reading it. A man is found dead with no identification, not even a mobile phone. Who was he? Why was he there? And who saw him dying in Tersel Woods, near a small town of Faukon Abbey in Devon, England? Jimmy Carter, a journalist with The Abbey Chronicle is chasing Detective Inspector Peter Greene to find the killer. What they find is a gripping tale of deep hidden secrets of so-called love. But some secrets are better left buried... A traditional detective story, a classic whodunit...

When a friend needs help... you drop everything for them. Isabella's apartment building has suffered because she lives there. In one year, her landlord has put up iron railings on the windows, revamped the entire security system, and refurbished the entire inside because someone tried to burn her out of the building. When he needed her to prove his son was innocent she agreed without needing to know any of the details. Once she started digging into the case, she started to have second thoughts. Add in the tensions between the witches in the Sorority of Brigid all aimed at her, and she's got...

When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Detective Harriet Foster is on the case, even though she’s still grieving the sudden death of her partner. As a Black woman in a male-dominated department, Foster anticipates a rocky road ahead acclimating to a new team—and building trust with her new partner isn’t coming easily. After another victim turns up with the same lipstick markings, Foster suspects she’s looking for a serial killer.

When secretary Annie Parkes is snatched from the street outside of her workplace, David Kane is tasked with finding her. Strong, highly skilled, and secretive, he’s a loner and an outsider; the only man the military trust to find Annie before her kidnappers make good on their promise to kill her. But as Kane pulls Annie from a derelict building, gunshots ringing through the deserted streets around them, he realizes rescuing her is just the beginning. He needs to keep her close to find out who is behind her capture, and to keep her safe.

It's Spring, and Oliver Cole is still finding his feet as a recently promoted Detective Sergeant. But that’s not the most important thing on his mind right now, it’s making sure he’s on time for the wedding of his friend and colleague, Debbie Swan. But one important person does not make the wedding. Called away when a body is discovered in Seaton Delaval, a small village 10 miles north of Newcastle, DCI Jack Collier must start the investigation without Oliver by his side. Oliver eventually joins him, and the investigation starts into the murder of Paul Tate, a seemingly innocent ...

All I wanted was a piece of cake. After the last two years, I earned a piece of chocolate torte, damn it. But I owe a friend a favor. And he’s withholding my chocolate until I find a missing key. Easy peasy. How hard can it be? Well, it would have been easy if that key didn’t open a huge can of worms. And by worms, I mean mur-der. Now, I might be married off to the highest bidder. Tatiana is missing. And a giant, sparkly drag queen will strangle me with a feather boa if I don't find his wife. You thought your last Thursday was bad. My name is Wysdom Ward. These are my case files. The ...

DI Marnie Rome knows this better than most. Five years ago, her family home was the scene of a shocking and bloody crime that left her parents dead and her foster brother in prison. Marnie doesn't talk much about her personal life - not even her partner, DS Noah Jake, knows much about Marnie's past. Now Marnie and Noah are tackling a case of domestic violence and a different brand of victim. Hope Proctor stabbed her husband in desperate self-defense. A crowd of witnesses in the domestic violence shelter where she's staying saw it happen, but none of them are telling quite the same story.

Detective Claudia Nunn’s colleague DS Dominic Harrison has been leading the case against a dangerous serial killer, who hunts his victims using a dating app. But now his own wife has gone missing. Then a large pool of blood is discovered in their garage. And Dominic is the prime suspect. Is Dominic being framed by a serial killer, or will Claudia expose an even uglier truth?

Two more cases for Philip Bryce 1. In the City of London, a well-respected barrister is murdered in his chambers.The City Police ask for the help of Scotland Yard, and Detective Chief Superintendent Bryce investigates. 2. The Board of a large pharmaceutical company is meeting. One of the directors dies suddenly. The cause is clearly cyanide poisoning. But was it self-administered, or could it be murder? The local police inspector believes it was a case of suicide, but when he is taken seriously ill and admitted to hospital, and his sergeant almost simultaneously has a mental breakdown, ...

Everyone has secrets. And many people do a good job hiding them. So when an unknown killer assassinates Jasmine Carter, a renowned abstinence speaker and upstanding citizen, and posts scandalous photos of her online, detectives Otto Haines and Serena Grimm are baffled. When it happens a second time, it is clear a serial killer is on the loose.

In the early morning hours of October 10, 2000 a young girl left her home in the middle of a stormy night with only a backpack and was never seen again. What happened to ten-year-old Leah Harrison? At sometime between midnight and two a.m., Leah Harrison snuck out of her family’s condo on Panama City Beach and ventured out into a severe tropical storm and vanished forever. Why did this young girl who was frightened of storms get up in the middle of the night and go out into such a deadly one? What was so important that it couldn’t wait until morning? And what happened to her once she ...