Private Police

A park ranger is haunted by the memory of the woman, left for dead, whose life he’d saved 20 years ago. He is haunted by the rape and attempted murder of a young woman, who was left for dead in a national park .She survived, but police were unable to solve the case and eventually stopped looking for the perpetrator. Shlomki, the park ranger’searnest and naïve demeanor leads him into conflict with the local security forces, who are used to bending the rules. He is determined to pursue the investigation, discovering much more than he’d imagined about the people who control the area. ...

Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow is doing his best to ignore the madness of York's annual Viking Festival when duty calls. The body of a wealthy businessman, who was playing the role of the Viking king, is found slain by his own ancient sword. The murder scene looks staged, but before Shadow can compile a list of people to question a second body is found. Shadow doesn't have to look far for suspects-the victims were by no means model citizens.

Stella DeSoto has had it with Vegas and her life. She's experienced the worst of people, and now a sailboat in the Florida Keys is calling Stella's name. All she needs is the cash to buy it. And she's got an idea. It’s reckless, risky, and downright illegal. But big risks can mean big rewards…if you don’t get caught.

Two nights ago a young woman brought her husband into the emergency room of the Sriphat Hospital in Thailand, where he passed away. A guard thinks she remembers her coming in before but with a different husband - one who also died. Ladarat Patalung, for one, would have been happier without a serial murderer - if there is one - loose in her hospital. Then again, she never expected to be a detective in the first place.

Private Detective Tony Crow is hired to investigate the strange happenings in Grand Rock Lake, a small Northern Minnesota town. Disappearances, deaths, drug deals in broad daylight, arrests but no convictions, and residents’ distrust of their new police officers have turned life in the idyllic lake town into a nightmare.While the nation is focused on the southern border, Tony, his partner, Don Hanson, and receptionist-turned-investigator, Denise Richardson, learn first-hand how Mexican cartel drug trafficking has infiltrated the northern border. Quiet little Grand Rock Lake could become a...

There is nothing unusual about a young Catholic girl from the Bronx winding up raped, beaten, strangled, and decapitated—unless she winds up that way in Lefthand Canyon, in the Colorado Rockies, where there hasn’t been a murder since 1922. Then it’s unusual enough to become a problem for the sheriff of Lee County. And when he finds no blood at the scene and no physical evidence, it becomes more than a problem. It becomes a headache—for five long years. That’s when he bats it back to the Bronx, to the 43rd precinct, and right onto Detectives Stone and Dehan’s desk.

In 1959, a family of four were brutally murdered in Holcomb, Kansas. Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were convicted and executed for the crime, and the murders and their investigation and solution became the subject of Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. But what if there was a third killer, who remained unknown? What if there was another family, also murdered, who crossed paths with this band of killers, though their murder remains unsolved? And what if Dick Hickok left a written confession, explaining everything?

"With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel", goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, beneath the old stone flooring. Professor Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at nearby St. Malo, is asked to examine the bones.

When a 75-year-old woman is killed in an apparently random car accident, it looks like a simple hit-and-run - until the car is linked to an Asian organized crime syndicate. Undercover operative Jack Taggart, who is called in to investigate, quickly identifies a top crime boss as the perpetrator, but he must still figure out how to infiltrate the man's inner circle. Taggart approaches a young Chinese woman on the fringes of the syndicate and tries to coerce her into becoming his informant.

The final story of the Gemini & Flowers mysteries. Ego quoque in tempore vitae meae. It is three years since we last visited Rilton Castle and “times they are a changing”. Lady Greta Hollander has died and Mike Ash has become the seventeenth Duke of Bloxworth. He and Tom are moving to Hollander Hall, leaving the village in the safe hands of Finn and Fade, now a happy couple. Patrick is going to join the police and is starting work as a trainee Special Constable with Regina Muga’s team before going to Hendon Police College.However, this is Rilton Castle after all, so things are never ...

DARK SECRETS LINK TWO WOMEN TO A MURDERED BANKER! A security guard apprehends Elizabeth Olsen fleeing a mansion with a revolver in her hand. Inside, John Denton, a prominent banker, lies dead. Elizabeth claims she is innocent. But she acknowledges that Denton was her lover, and her story has more holes in it than the victim. No one believes the sexy, amoral woman. Not even her high-powered lawyer. But her wealthy father does, and wants Alton Rhode to clear her. Then, the case takes an even more tragic turn, sending the private investigator on a journey into the dark past of a Southern town,...

AN ENGAGING MURDER MYSTERY DETECTIVE THRILLER; SET IN ITALY, WITH UNEXPECTED TWISTS. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Enigma of the Missionary is a roller coaster of betrayal, secrets, murder, mystery, and loss... I could not turn the pages fast enough to find out what would happen next... The plot was masterfully planned and executed." - Readers' Favorite (5-Star Review) A woman’s disappearance hides a terrible truth. After years of lies, a dark secret emerges—not seeking justice, but demanding revenge. Called to investigate a suspicious death, Inspector Massimo Nardi must delve into the past of a...

A mentally unbalanced former student exacts revenge, killing thirty and wounding sixty others. He takes perverse delight in taunting the police about his next victims. He leads Jab and his friends in a manhunt throughout Northern California. Will Jab stop this maniac? Or will the nightmare continue?

A Mexican assassin, known as La Culebra, or The Snake, has taken his trade north of the border. He injects an incurable toxin called ricin through a spring-loaded umbrella tip. The FBI discovers one of his future victims is Jab Boone! Against his wishes, Jab and his wife, Tippy, are placed in witness protection. But, when it is La Culebra vs. Jab Boone, the outcome is not what Jab – or anyone else – expected!

Book #4 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series Jab Boone is lured out of retirement to track the missing brother of a fellow orphan. Jab’s involvement leads to the dismissal of the recently orphaned FBI Special Agent Astrid Lundquist. Reluctantly, Jab joins forces again with the FBI. Little did he know that his tracking expertise would lead to gold smugglers and dark secrets under a carefully constructed lake!

A hard-boiled PI. A murdered heiress. A conspiracy worth killing for. Book 1 in the internationally bestselling Maldonado Crime Series ★★★★★ “Addictive suspense that keeps you guessing until the end.” ★★★★★ “Poveda stands alongside the bestselling masters of crime fiction.” FROM TWO-TIME AMAZON STORYTELLER PRIZE FINALIST, PABLO POVEDA Madrid has a new kind of justice. His name is Maldonado. When ex-cop turned private investigator Javier Maldonado takes what looks like a routine surveillance case in Madrid’s elite Salamanca district, he expects easy money. What ...

Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible hit. Now a police detective, Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try to catch the monster who killed his family.

When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rainforest town of Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear. But nowhere is safe from Claire's devastated father. Dale Bingley has a brutal revenge plan all worked out—and if Ted doesn't help find the real abductor, he'll be its first casualty.

Vivienne Lane thought she left the drama behind when she traded big-city chaos for the quiet charm of Foxwick Harbor. Now, she spends her days running Lane & Co. Antiques, sipping lattes at Bean & Bloom, and avoiding her nosy neighbor’s unsolicited opinions. But when she stumbles upon the town’s most scandalous socialite dead in a wedding dress—and in a very inconvenient place—Vivi suddenly finds herself at the center of a mystery far messier than her shop’s storage room. Gwendolyn Fairchild wasn’t just any bride-to-be; she was a journalist with a reputation for unearthing ...

In ‘Guardian Angel,’ the sequel to ‘BOONE’, Boone reluctantly allows Marianne, his office assistant, to work with him on a fraud case that seems routine. Things go well, Marianne captures incriminating photographs of the target which wraps up the case. Her accomplishment however results in catastrophic consequences for her. While the effects of the fraud case have yet to unravel, a friendly confidential informant from Boone’s days with the New York State Police turns to him for help after being fleeced by a crooked cop. The informant’s body is discovered the following morning. ...