Crime Thriller California

NEWLY EDITED AS OF 7/8/19!!!! An unstable beautiful woman is accused of murdering her wealthy husband. She claims she didn't do it. She is not to be trusted. Aidan Collins has his very first large case when his client, Marina Vasiliev, a drop-dead gorgeous mental patient, is accused of killing her wealthy husband. Marina insists that she didn't do it, but Aidan can't trust her. He knows Marina well, too well. After all, he met Marina in the mental hospital - he originally obtained her as a client when she was involuntarily committed, and he assisted her with getting out. Diagnosed with ...

Los Angeles, 1992. What began as a second chance has turned into a dangerous game played on multiple fronts. A religious cult under federal investigation. Dirty money moving through real estate and shell deals. Russian crime figures testing boundaries. Police officers who won't lift a finger unless it benefits them. Every decision Alex makes draws him further into a city where power means everything, favors come at a price, and mistakes can cost him dearly. It's a place that remembers every misstep and demands a toll. There are no alliances without hidden motives. No reliable witnesses. And...

Editorial Review CABIN 28 is a relentless, edge-of-your-seat thriller that transforms a real 1981 nightmare into a gripping, claustrophobic descent into fear. Ted Lazaris delivers sustained tension, emotional realism, and chilling authenticity, proving once again why he is known as the Master of Documented Terror. Fans of true-crime suspense and home-invasion horror in the tradition of The Strangers will find this story impossible to put down and unforgettable long after the final page. CABIN 28 A True Documented Terror — The Keddie Cabin Murders (California, 1981), The Case That Inspired...

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Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a...

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter. ​ Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former star athlete turned deputy coroner is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King). Natural causes or foul play? That’s the...

A letter throws Detective Kaitlyn Carr’s life into turmoil… Settling into a new routine, Kaitlyn believes that her troubles are behind her. But then she receives a letter from a retired FBI agent, which states that everything she knows about her father’s death is a lie. The FBI agent says that her father was murdered and promises to tell her what really happened, but only if she helps him first. To find out the truth, Kaitlyn must travel to a place with a near-constant cover of clouds and rain and investigate a series of cold cases that the FBI agent believes are connected to the same...

New York Times Bestselling Author “Brilliant...impressive...superb.” —Washington Post Book World “A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” —Detroit News The classic New York Times bestseller that introduced...

From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me , which AudioFile called "thoroughly engaging from beginning to end," comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers. This program features an author's note and acknowledgments read by the author. In the glow of their children’s...

Dean Mercer was the kind of detective prosecutors asked for by name. At the Woodland Police Department, his cases were clean, his testimony held, and his reputation for excellence reached from courtroom to command. So when the LAPD recruits him into an elite lateral detective role handling the city's most sensitive investigations, it feels like the reward he's earned. Bigger cases. More money. More prestige. The job of a lifetime. Then a woman vanishes from one of LA's most powerful political families. A witness dies under convenient circumstances. A report changes after Dean signs it. And ...

From the world's #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties—young women missing in San Francisco. SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder...

Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the west coast-and out on a limb-in this "stylish whodunit" (Detroit News) filled with romance and murder. Stone's trip to Venice -with a fiery Mafia princess- is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A...

The sensational killings that have rocked San Francisco appear to be unrelated except in their brutality. But detective Lindsay Boxer senses there's some thread connecting them all. She calls her friends in the Women's Murder Club together to see if they can discover what it is. Working with...

Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him...

This tragic, Hamlet-esque noir tells the stirring and brutal coming of age story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Perfect for readers of S.A. Cosby and Don Winslow. Luke’s father is serving time for a...

Detective Lindsay Boxer chases an elusive, possibly very dangerous suspect...her husband, Joe. Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful baby daughter and a husband she loves unconditionally. She'd always been too focused on her career as a San Francisco police detective to wonder what domestic bliss might...

Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner...

etective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An...