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The reporter suspects a missing senator was cremated in the colossal oil shale smelter, and the murderer is the operator of the plant. The reporter vanishes, captured by one-world zoning advocates. The chief zoner is the son of the missing senator, on the scene to get at the truth.
82) Cracker Bling
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A contemporary New York noir coming-of-age story - Nineteen-year-old Hootie has been in trouble all his life. An outsider, his father was Crow Indian; his mother is black; but Hootie is neither black, nor white, nor Latino, nor Asian. When he meets Bubba Yablonsky, the biggest white man he's ever seen, at a subway station in Harlem, he knows something's up. Then Bubba opens fire at an innocent rat before offering Hootie money and a place to live....
83) Glass House
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A novel inspired by the true story of a lone policeman who was killed at the edge of one of the most dangerous housing projects in New Orleans. Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest. Burgess Monroe...
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Nadie la oyó gritar…
El cadáver decapitado y mutilado de una mujer es encontrado en el barrio de Chinatown en Boston.
Las únicas pistas que tienen la detective de homicidios Jane Rizzoli y su compañera, la médico forense Maura Isles, son dos hebras de pelo gris plateado -no humano- que se han adherido al cuerpo. Pero pronto descubrirán que esa muerte violenta ha tenido una escalofriante precuela.
Diecinueve años antes un brutal asesinato,...
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At a small art gallery in Los Angeles, the recently acquired portrait of a scarred young woman draws attention more for its' foul odor than artistic accolades. Detectives from the Art Theft Detail immediately recognize the smell as human decomposition and the signature on the painting has many art lovers shocked. Could this grisly piece of art really be the work of former child prodigy, Alexander Dimitroff?
Detective Horne of the ATD asks her old...
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Megan Raines, a dreamy young FBI agent, is thrust into the middle of an investigation of a horrific serial murderer. When it appears that the suspect may be a dear friend, she doesn't know what to believe in anymore. While fighting her own feelings for her handsome partner and maintaining an uncomfortable closeness to all her other obsessive heartthrobs, will she able to stay safe when the killer begins to target her?
87) Empty Trust
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Walker is pushed to the max as he deals with people of authority who disrespect the trust placed in them. When he pulls back the curtain of darkness he is soon disgusted by children suffering at the hands of adults."Walker finds the truth and wishes he hadn't, good story."
88) The Dead Times
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Four years ago, Jack Temple was a homicide detective. He asked one too many questions and found himself out of a job. Now he is a reporter for the Garden City Times, writing about cops and still asking too many questions. When the mutilated body of Temple's former girlfriend - the Mayors daughter - is found frozen in a local park, Temple dusts off his detective skills to uncover the truth behind the grisly murder. As he digs for clues, Temple finds...
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When his source is murdered, Harker knows he's on the right track. Finally, Harker has a break in the nuclear story. There is a vast conspiracy inside the government to keep the dangers of nuclear energy from the public, and now he has a source on the inside. Anna Alexander, an employee at a nuclear firm, has documents that will blow the industry wide open, if she can make it to her rendezvous with Harker alive. Her employers are poisoning her with...
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Monroy ha vuelto a meterse en un lío. Y puede que esta vez sí le cueste el pellejo, porque se desangra lentamente en un lujoso chalé del sur de Gran Canaria mientras intenta comprender cómo ha podido acabar así.
En el origen del asunto están la extraña pareja formada por Melania Escudero y el abogado Alfredo Suárez Smith, una cajita de supuesto valor sentimental, la amante de un millonario difunto y un hombre peligroso que lleva siempre consigo...
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John Verra is a young man moving to a much bigger stage. He arrives with a love and belief in the founding principles of our country. He is not in Washington, DC, but living in another shinning city on a hill, or so he believes, Boston, Massachusetts, a town where he attended college and falls in love.
As a member of the city council, a seat in Boston's governing body, attained because of the sacrifice of a new friend, he eventually realizes he...
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Mein Name ist Uwe Jörgensen. Ich bin Kriminalhauptkommissar in Hamburg und gehöre einer Spezialabteilung des BKA an, die sich vor allem um das organisierte Verbrechen kümmert. Zusammen mit meinem Kollegen Roy Müller bin ich in dieser Hinsicht seit Jahren aktiv. Viel Freizeit bleibt da nicht. Das ist einfach so.
Kommissar Jörgensen und der Hacker
Er ist einer der berüchtigten Hacker aller Zeiten. Und er versucht den Coup seines Lebens zu machen,...
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What line would you cross for a friend? Alison is missing. Sam, her brother comes to see his old friends, Raph and Mac, fearing the worse. After the search begins they find that there is more to her missing than they would have imagined. There are more lives at stake than just the one, maybe even their own.
94) The Steel Deal
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The Steel Deal-At 55, big city sleuth Sonny Busco is, sinking deep into debt and distrust when suddenly he's thrown a lifeline. The chief assistant to a prominent university professor offers $2500 for safe delivery of a confidential briefcase to Santa Fe, NM. Sonny accepts, thinking it's easy money. That is until he learns of the case's contents: an amazing alloy called sentient steel. Soon, Sonny risks life, liberty, and property to keep the revolutionary...
95) California Twist
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Being dumped sucks. Big time. So when Harry Rhimes helps Lindsey Fairfax walk into his office, and she drops a runaway fiancé case in front of him, Harry knows exactly what's driving her to look for Preston Llyle.
And that's where the problems start.
What should have been a simple hide-and-go-seek missing persons case explodes into a rolling life and death situation as Harry becomes more and more involved with murders - old, new, and...
96) El Juego Suicida
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"El Juego Suicida es una diversión oscura, retorcida y sin restricciones". - Jason Starr, autor de Bust, Slide y The Max
Todos juegan un ángulo en la Ciudad de los Ángeles. El Juego Suicida cuenta las historias de un asesino a sueldo de color que hace las veces de profesor universitario, un sacerdote católico que anhela ser un gángster, un posible autor de Kansas, un operador de sexo telefónico gay que afirma que es heterosexual, un grupo de...
97) Ring Game
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To save a friend's daughter from a bad marriage, Joe Crow confronts cultists, carnies, and cocaine wackos Poker-playing ex-cop Joe Crow has been dealt some rotten hands in his life, but he's survived them all. When Axel Speeter starts begging for help, Crow suspects his luck is about to run out. A taco-dealing former poker pro, Speeter's worried about his girlfriend's daughter Carmen. She's the sexiest trouble magnet the state of Omaha has ever seen,...
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Detective Mike Anderson must rely on the insights of sexy English Professor Suzanne Kelly to help him solve the mystery when the dismembered body of a murder victim is found with a note from a classic work of literature. Drained of blood and chopped into pieces the note is his only clue. He is desperate for her direction but she keeps him in suspense when she warns this may not be the last. Although impressed with her knowledge, her resemblance to...
100) Devil's Gate
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Carpenter and Kaminska continue their search for Dragor. To complicate things, the remains of Dragor's daughter are found in Ramsgate. He is involved in a plot to assassinate members of the British Establishment. The stress on Dragor is immense -- will he survive it: Will Carpenter and Kaminska solve the murders and stop the assassination that will surely bring the World to its knees? They start in Kent and end up in Scotland, but the strings are...
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