Western Police

As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from - an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison. Blakeley has been trying to wreck their operation for a long time.

"The dog came back." "This is a joke, right?" "No, it isn't.... So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey.

Private investigator Jim Knighthorse takes on his most dangerous case yet. An animal rights activist has disappeared and his girlfriend fears the worst. The twisty clues eventually lead Knighthorse onto the high seas and deep into Mexico’s shark-infested waters―and straight into the sordid underbelly of the illegal shark-fin market. The ex-football player turned private eye soon becomes the man who knows too much... and what he knows could get him killed. But not before Knighthorse does what he does best―take the bad guys down and burn the whole damn thing to the ground. Hail Mary is ...

The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of willful murder, sexual assault and rape. But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key....

Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times best-selling series - now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick, Melrose Plant....

It’s all change at Mill Street Station. The old hierarchy has been retired and a new broom has swept its last vestiges away. As a consequence Fiona Madden has been promoted to detective inspector and now heads up the CID unit. Sean Tracy has taken her post as detective sergeant. Their first case under the new regime comes quickly. A man has been shot in the back outside the holiday village of Letterfrack. The dead man is not a local but has a connection to a past that the villagers would like to forget. The victim is identified be a for former member of the Society of Christian Brothers ...

Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague. The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead.... And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford Colleges....

The once-charismatic Billy Maples was last seen in a club named Dust, before his murder in a trendy London hotel. Proving as inscrutable - and challenging - to Jury as the case is the beautiful chief inspecting officer. Before his death, Maples was a patron of London's finest art galleries and caretaker of author Henry James' house in Rye. It's there where Jury installs Melrose Plant, who takes his job to heart, as Jury closes in on the dark secrets behind Maples' friends and family.

By the 16th of July, the Master of Lonsdale was concerned but not yet worried. Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since. Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder....

In a town where magic stirs the air, a fiery blacksmith must forge her destiny, fight for her family, and gamble on love as boundless as the Sedona scenery. Single mom and badass blacksmith, Abby Carson, has spent years hammering out a life on her own terms, raising her daughter, and avoiding trouble — especially the masculine kind that comes wrapped in a flannel shirt and a spellbinding smile. But in Sedona, where vortexes hum with mystical energy, trouble is as persistent as the visions that color her dreams. When the famed vortexes start misbehaving, the town buzzes with talk of energy...

Holly wants a P.I licence so she can actually help the police alongside her fiancé Dan. Just because Holly is planning for a wedding doesn't mean she's completely out of the picture when it comes to intrigue and danger. Eric a new and very young client of Holly’s, who has suddenly become wealthy at a very young age after inventing an eBay-like website, brings new issues and complexity to Holly’s well-ordered life, wanting Holly's services to decide how to invest his wealth and requesting a personal service, somehow rang a warning bell in Holly’s investigative mind. Worry some ...

A new identity. A new job. A new life. But the past is never far behind. Ewe Bohn, a man who thought he had buried his former self, is lured back into the shadows of his old profession. In post-war Germany, where loyalties are as fragile as the crumbling walls around him, Bohn's skills are once again in high demand by the CIA. The Gehlen Organization, a covert network of former Nazi operatives now serving the West, is expanding rapidly to counter the rising threats from the Soviet Union and the newly minted East Germany. As Bohn plunges deeper into this dangerous world, he must decide how ...

When vacationing Chicago detectives Nick and Norm witness a tragic accident involving a famous entertainer, the local police chief asks for their help. The duo's investigation uncovers crime and corruption in paradise as they come face-to-face with a ruthless killer...as homegrown eccentrics, drag queens, and dwarves rush to their aid in this heart-pounding thriller!

Anne Scott's address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse's smartest suit. He turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 3rd October. He hadn't planned a second visit. But he was back later the same day - as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation....

In 1946, a powerful freight train storms across West Virginia. Half a century later, police learn the terrible truth about that night. The railway mystery sets off a bizarre series of present-day crimes that threaten to derail State Police detective Josh Draper and his alluring assistant, Annie McBride. The two race to unravel the past while an environmental disaster looms and dangerous criminals from New York prepare to clash with the inhabitants of a tranquil valley called Briar Fork. Enjoy this tour-de-force Henry D. Smith classic, complete with his trademark humor, colorful characters, ...

Sheriff Gus knows it’s going to be a bad week when he sees Sedric Hedgecock’s breathalyzer score. With a blood alcohol level of 0.62 percent, Hedgecock should be dead. If the breathalyzer’s isn’t on the fritz, Hedgecock’s superhuman. Either way, he’s blind drunk, so off to the county jail he goes. Joining the wannabe Bacchus in Gus’s cells is Jennifer Louis Bachman, awaiting extradition to Kansas on a murder charge. The victim in question is Jennifer’s unborn child, and the murder weapon is an illegal Mexican abortion. With the governor vacillating on whether to extradite, ...

TAKING LOVE AND LAW SERIOUSLY... Aiden O'Connell is a decorated and dedicated K-9 handler, teamed with a dynamic faithful partner, Cooper. Lindsay is a compassionate social worker who cares deeply for the displaced children she helps. These two public servants decide to adopt a little boy and get married to raise him together. Share in their engagement, training to foster-to-adopt, his job as a police officer, her work as a social worker, their wedding, honeymoon, and many other surprises along the way. But a huge obstacle threatens the home they built together when the little boy's abusive...

Pick up a glass of fine wine and join West Virginia police detective Josh Draper and his spunky sidekick Annie McBride in another puzzling murder mystery, this involving a treasure from the past. When an Italian diplomat turns up dead at a rambling estate in the Allegheny Mountains, the U.S. Government calls on Josh and his subtle people skills to ferret out the killer without ruffling diplomatic feathers. He’s locked in the mansion without weapon or police resources until he can work out which of the smooth European negotiators is behind the brutal death and why. You won’t rest a ...

In the early 1970’s Detective Marc Anthony Bryant is responsible for the investigation of all deaths in his suburban Dallas department. The discovery of two Dallas men, tied up and shot gangland-style in his town puts him on the trail of a veteran organized crime figure who has a love for pit dog fighting and a penchant for using car bombs against his enemies. Bryant must hide Lynne, the widow of one of the slain men, while he learns all he can from her about the old Dallas gangster. Lynne is a beautiful young hippy girl who looks like she is straight out of central casting and draws ...

It’s a misty night on Puckachee Mountain high in the Alleghenies. A violent storm has cut power and left roads nearly impassable. Then a young professor’s body is found under a fallen power line…with bite wounds in her skull. This is another fascinating West Virginia mystery, testing the wits of detectiveJosh Draper and his alluring assistant Annie McBride.What caused the death? Was she electrocuted? Was she a victim of the famed eastern cougar, thought to be extinct?Surrounded by a host of characters, all with a vested interest in the case, Josh and Annie must sort through clues and ...