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He's the one man she never forgot And the only man who can keep her safe When her newly sober sister goes missing, Nicole Homes turns to former lover PI Dean Beaumont. Though she left him when he needed her most, she knows he'll help and protect her from forces determined to keep her quiet. As she joins Dean's search, clues lead them straight to life-threatening attacks. But even if they find the missing single mom, can they also find their way...

Working as a team Can they stop a killer targeting their hometown? Child psychologist Hannah Maddox's father once helped send the man she loved to prison. Now Jed Swain is free and back on Dead Falls Island to clear his name. Until his accuser is murdered and Jed again becomes the prime suspect. Hannah knows Jed is innocent, and before long, so do the locals. But when another single mother is found dead, Hannah must convince Jed to trust her before...

Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd returns in the fourth installment of James Paavola's Murder In Memphis series. Two bodies are discovered within a mile of one another, one a teenage prostitute, the other an investment counselor. Julia's investigations lead her in two directions: Mexican cartels and Ponzi Schemes. The two inquiries intersect at a common theme--the multi-billion dollar business of money laundering, a business that perpetuates global...

What I am going to write here is exactly as I remember things. The most incredible story that has happened to me, and I have spent over thirty years in the Gendarmerie Nationale (French police), mind. Some people might think that I am exaggerating, but in order not to miss out any details I have based my account on my notebook, which I always carry with me when I am participating in any official police investigation. Although my current post at Interpol...

Young girls are coming through a small Upstate New York village, but...they aren't all coming out--alive! Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt Davis takes early retirement, and accepts what appears to be a cushy position as Chief of Police of a three-man department in a small, rural Upstate New York village. While out fly-fishing on his favorite stream on the opening day of trout season, Matt stumbles across the murdered...

In a quiet London street, a gunman holds his little child as hostage until, after a dramatic police siege, the smoke clears to reveal a sickening outcome. Firearms Officer Abi Wilde is suspended. As if that wasn't bad enough, her CO19 work partner Tom Fortune learns that, across town the very same day, his own daughter has been kidnapped. He had already lost her, in a way, because when his ex-wife shacked up with Andrei Kashirin, a dodgy Russian billionaire,...

Husbands and wives, secrets and lies . . . The brilliant new Milt Kovak mystery-When Mary Hudson is discovered on her kitchen floor, bludgeoned to death with a meat tenderizer, Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, and his psychiatrist wife Dr. Jean McDonnell are drawn into a murder investigation that is as intriguing as it is chilling. It soon emerges that Mary's husband, Jerry, is a polygamist, and the family belong to a church called...

Sweet Vines & Bitter Fruit is a 32,000-word cozy mystery, the second novella in a trilogy featuring Ben and Francesca Hamilton, who now with two-year old Sarah, become involved in the investigation of a series of murders while visiting their best friends, Kate and Derek, in Pleasant Valley, South Australia. On the flight from London, Ben, a professor of anthropology, reads a novel about two valley families who have been feuding for the past one-hundred...

FBI Special Agent Angus Green and his art-loving boyfriend are drawn into the Miami museum scene, where hipsters and grifters lurk in the shadows of the bright Florida sunshine.

Another murder mystery for the ever surfing detective of the Marin County Sheriff's Department."This installment continues the themes of the series, embracing the culture and geography of the San Francisco Bay Area while delving into its seedier elements and graphically describing the actions of "evil doers." (Kirkus Reviews)Just returned from a lengthy "leave"Detective Pat Nolan is called to a bizarre crime scene in West Marin. Nolan, the unflappable...