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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Will the small town of Silver Creek survive the tragedy that has befallen them?Guilt is a powerful thing, and former deputy Jack Collins is mired in it. Unable to forget the events that have taken place in the town he was sworn to protect, he feels as if he is slowly drowning as he tries to cope with the aftermath of a serial killer's reign of terror, as well as his new-and unwanted-job as chief of police.When the body of a young woman, having the...
2) Legacies
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Although a sequel to THE TOMB, the second Repairman Jack novel, stands on its own. If you've never met Repairman Jack, LEGACIES provides an excellent introduction to the character. Its "Santa Jack" fix remains a fan favorite. After nearly a decade and a half of refusing to bring back Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson finally caved in and wrote LEGACIES. Dr. Alicia Clayton has inherited the family home, a place that holds such dark memories for her than...
3) Last Breath
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this electrifying novel of terror and suspense. C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her. Ever since, she has feared his return. Now an LAPD cop, C.J. faces danger every day on the streets of Newton Division - "Shootin' Newton," the city's roughest territory. But the greatest danger lies in C.J.'s own home, where...
4) Empty Place
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
English backpacker, Susan, is on trial for murder in Australia . The tabloids say she killed her lover, fed his body to crocodiles then hid the evidence.She refuses to say what happened. She is trapped within a jail cell and inside her mind in a place of guilt,horror and emptiness. Her only companion is a dark creature, a spirit of an ancient crocodile, which inhabits her dreams.Only one person knows and can help her. But he and his helicopter have...
5) Night Kills
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"On The Trail Of A Bloody Killer. . .Frank Quinn is sure he is hunting for a madman: someone who is shooting young women in the heart, defiling their bodies, leaving only the torsos to be found. Quinn, a former NYPD detective, is called into the case by an ambitious chief of police and mobilizes his team of brilliant law-enforcement misfits. But in the concrete canyons of New York, this shocking serial murder case is turning into something very different....
6) Hot Blooded
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
First One Dead Body. . . A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day's work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two? Then Another. . . A second hooker's corpse turns up. Samantha's ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious claiming...
7) Cold Blooded
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
His Vengeance Will Be Repeated. . . A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. Her killer is certain there were no witnesses, unaware that his every move was seen by a beautiful stranger--from her bed in a bayou cottage on the outskirts of town. . . And Repeated. . . Weeks later, another violent vision shatters Olivia Bechet's sleep. Convinced a serial killer is stalking the city, Olivia turns to the authorities....
Author
Publisher
Bob Moats
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An invitation to speak at a big book convention in New York City entices Jim to cross the country and appear. He and Penny, along with Buck, travel to the Big Apple and they fall into a murder of one of the authors promoting his books. It's not the only murder, Jim's curse seems to be working over-time and there is a second author murdered. Jim is pulled into the crimes along with an old acquaintance from his last trip to the city, Captain Lou Brege,...
Author
Publisher
O'Neil De Noux
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
THE BIG KISS - LaStanza Novel #2This is New Orleans - 1982. In Homicide, you're only as good as your last case. Fresh from solving the Slasher Murders, NOPD Homicide Det. LaStanza must investigate a 'floater' pulled from the Mississippi River. The bloated body with two holes in the head is the son-in-law of the La Cosa Nostra Boss Alphonso Badalamente. Sicilian-American LaStanza's is in the middle of a Mafia slaying. LaStanza's new partner, Paul Snowood,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A man is found dead at home, covered in what the coroner says were bites of the Black Widow Spider. Was he attacked by the spiders or were they put on him with murder in mind? A killer is now stalking Texas Hold-em poker players in the big World Series of Poker Tournament in Las Vegas. Jim Richards is asked to track down the killer by the police & the late man's wife in this 11th book by Bob Moats."--
11) Lipstick Murders
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Who's murdering the runway models of Las Vegas? That's what Jim Richards and Deacon D'Angelo are tasked with finding out. One afternoon the Richard's Investigating and Security office is flooded with beautiful runway models all seeking protection after one of their group was murdered. Jim has Buck take over the body guarding of the babes and then ends up involved with solving the murder. Buck also takes over protecting a famous pop singer from a...
12) Blood Sport
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Book 2 in the Little Town series. At first glance, the small mountain settlement of Mount Big Town, or 'Little Town' as the locals call it, seems to be a pleasant and peaceful rural haven. Senior Constable Tess Fuller and Sergeant Finn Maguire know better though, kept fully occupied trying to maintain some law and order in a town dominated by the huge feral Bycraft family. Can they recapture fugitive Red Bycraft before he makes good on his threat...
Author
Publisher
Piccadilly Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Gusher City, Texas...Two terrorists had seized hostages, demanding an aircraft to take them to Cuba...Then 'Crazy Doc' Christopher had escaped from the penitentiary, hell-bent on vengeance...But when Walter Haddon-one of the FBI's ten most wanted men-strolled into Gusher City, all four men found out what other criminals bad discovered to their cost. Breaking the law in Rockabye County was fraught with peril. For they were up against men like Sheriff...
Author
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Badger's Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up a fuss loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness. In the grand...
Author
Publisher
Falcon Ridge Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas eve day and Constable Marco Trepalli of the Mendenhall Police Department can't wait to be off shift. He's planning a big surprise for his girlfriend, Amanda. Something special. Something romantic.Then a kid doesn't return home after sledding and Trepalli forgets all about his plans in the mad scramble to mobilize search parties and interview the kid's friends. And as hour after hour slips by with no sign of the boy, Trepalli braces...
16) Life for a Life
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Set in the middle of winter in St. Andrews, this Scottish noir mystery is written by one of the UK's best crime writers, T. Frank MuirWhen a young woman's half-naked body is found on Fife's coastal path, frozen and with the remnants of a rope manacle around her wrist, DCI Gilchrist is given the case. But Gilchrist's investigation uncovers a bloody trail of shootings and executions that lead him to the heart of a human trafficking war. Links to Scotland's...
Author
Publisher
Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When your high school classmate shows up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, can your police career get any more interesting? As a favor to a beautiful treasury agent, Prospect, Tennessee's police chief Sam Jenkins handles a cold case robbery-homicide and clears the forty-three year old mystery of THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN BANK JOB.In MURDER IN A WISH-BOOK HOUSE, Sam investigates the most grisly murder of his career. Then, in V IS FOR. . .VITAMIN?,...
19) Can of Worms
Author
Publisher
Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Against his better judgment, Police Chief Sam Jenkins hires Dallas Finchum, nephew of local corrupt politicians.Now, Finchum is accused of a rape that occurred when he attended college three years earlier.The young man claims his innocence, but while investigating, Jenkins uncovers corruption in the local sheriff's department, evidence that detectives mishandled the investigation and the loss of the entire case file. Sam meets one of the most distasteful...
Author
Publisher
Tim Ellis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Novella (23,000-words). All Detective Inspector Cyrus Kane wants is a bit of peace and quiet after the suicide of his wife, so he hires an isolated cottage in Cornwall for the Christmas holidays, but fate has something else in store for him. --Provided by publisher.
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