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When a man's dismembered body is discovered at an abandoned quarry on the north Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must wade through his secretive life to figure out how he met his end.The victim was a quiet man, well respected by those who knew him, and someone often willing to help local charities with his free time.

She was taken against her will. On her fifteenth birthday, trafficking victim Affi Smith goes for a run and never returns. With a new identity and secure home in the Scottish Highlands, she was supposed to be safe. She escaped once. With personal ties to Affi’s case, DS Max Craigie joins the investigation. When he discovers other trafficking victims have disappeared in exactly the same circumstances, he knows one thing for certain – there’s a leak somewhere within law-enforcement.

My life turned upside down when I uncovered my bosses’ criminal activities and needed protection. Instead of the type of safehouse I expected, I was sent to a historic townhouse to live with Dom, a scarred former assassin who rarely talks and wishes I wasn't there.

Still battling each other and the blue wall, NYPD detectives Chiara Corelli and P. J. Parker catch a new murder case. The victim, a gay man, is posed with a rosary in his hands, the smell of incense in the air, and Gregorian chants playing in the background. While Corelli and Parker search for leads, Kate Burke, the lesbian speaker of the city council, asks for an update on the investigation. Thinking Burke is playing politics, Corelli ignores the request. In the meantime, two more bodies are found, both laid out in the same way.

In the shadow of the Pentland Hills, a man has been callously struck down in front of his home. Tyre marks suggest it was no accidental hit-and-run. Somebody wanted him dead and as the man fights for every breath, they might still get their wish. Grappling with the demons he thought he could leave behind after months away on enforced leave, D.S. Malkie McCulloch resists pressure from his superiors to pass the case on to the road policing unit, convinced that whoever was behind the wheel will be waiting for the chance to finish the job.

Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. 

When Nigel Baxter, a middle-aged married banker with an unremarkable past, is found dead in the bath of a plush hotel suite, his wrists slit, it looks as if he's taken his own life. At first. But when Detective Inspector Daniel Riley is assigned to the case, he soon realises all isn't as it first appears to be. When a postmortem shows Baxter was poisoned, Riley suspects foul play. And then there's the odd addition of a teddy bear left at the crime scene....

 Blood Runs Coal comes at a time of resurgent labor movements in the United States and the current administration's attempts to bolster the fossil-fuel industry. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written, it sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day. 

In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders. Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Like fleeing...

Samantha Moon desperately needs a vacation—and boy does she get one! Told from multiple points of views, everyone’s favorite supernatural family travels from Tybee Island to Seagull Point to New Orleans, all while their vacation plans become increasingly entangled with client interviews, disgruntled spirits, and even the sea goddess, Yemaya, who would like to send New Orleans beneath the waves. But that’s not all. There’s the information desk ghost, a vampire in the cemetery, lady TamTam’s big surprise, and, of course, the Indigo ghosts. Samantha Moon is going to need a vacation ...

Kidnap and murder collide in Alex Barclay’s heart-stopping new thriller featuring FBI Agent Ren Bryce. The only way to reach the end is to turn back… When the body of FBI agent Jean Transom is found on the frozen slopes of Quandary Peak, the nearby town of Breckenridge, Colorado, becomes the...

When a young vampire, Alexei Romanov, is abducted by a deranged lunatic, the members of Immortal Council are forced to reveal their existence to Samantha Moon. The grief of losing one of their own members, coupled with their frustration at the careless behavior of new immortals, forces Julia Agrippina to employ Samantha Moon to find out who took Alexei, find him, and bring him home safely. Sam quickly discovers it’s an offer she can’t refuse. It seems the Council have been very active in the background of Los Angeles, ensuring locals don’t find out too much about the various creatures...

Tom Novak is a troubled soul with a dark and bloody past. A former refugee, Royal Marine and member of the elite Special Reconnaissance Regiment, he now finds himself struggling with the deadening routine of day-to-day policing. When he is deployed undercover to infiltrate a gang of people traffickers, things go badly wrong. Faced with an impossible choice, his cover is blown, and he finds himself on the run from the Serbian mafia and even his fellow police colleagues. 

The silver didn’t kill him. But the cold might. Caleb is a ghost, walking the dark edges of America to keep the beast inside him hidden. But his last fight left him broken. Poisoned by toxic buckshot and stripped of his healing, Caleb needs a place to recover. He takes an off-the-books job at Ironridge, an isolated, high-altitude mining outpost shutting down for the season. The grueling work and absolute isolation are exactly what he needs. Then the storm of the century hits. Trapped in a historic blizzard miles from civilization, the skeleton crew loses radio contact, power, and their ...

The complete collection of the bestselling “The Chronicles of the Immortal Council,” starring vampire private eye, Samantha Moon, including: VAMPIRE ABDUCTION (Book 1) When a young vampire, Alexei Romanov, is abducted by a deranged lunatic, the members of Immortal Council are forced to reveal their existence to Samantha Moon. The grief of losing one of their own members, coupled with their frustration at the careless behavior of new immortals, forces Julia Agrippina to employ Samantha Moon to find out who took Alexei, find him, and bring him home safely. Sam quickly discovers it’s an ...

Erik Amdahl and his spirited daughter, Sofia, have embarked on a long-promised cross-country ski trip deep into Norway's arctic circle. For Erik, it's the chance to bond properly with his remaining daughter following a tragic accident. For Sofia, it's the proof she needs that her father does care. Then, far from home in this snowbound wilderness, with night falling and the mercury plummeting, an accident sends them in search of help - and shelter. Nearby is the home of a couple - members of Norway's indigenous Sami people - who they've met before and who welcome them in. 

Samantha Moon finds herself the target of an ancient and sinister creature. At first, Sam has no way of knowing how dangerous the 'dead witch' really is...until it’s almost too late. Now, with a little help from her friends, some old and some new, Sam launches an all-out attack against the newest addition to L.A.'s supernatural scene. In the process, she comes to new realizations about the role she plays in the city's preternatural underground. The bond between friends grows, and new friends are made as Sam and the council defend Southern California against one of the vilest beasts to ...

Step into the world of the mega-rich… and the mega-bitches. For anyone who loves watching The Hills or reading Katie Price, here’s the book that takes the blockbusting beach read and upgrades it to first class. Brad Masters is rich. Very, very rich. CEO of the Perfect Cut record label, he...

A gripping, action-packed Thriller. Detective Story. Her past created a deadly psychic killer. Now, she tries to exit the assassination guild with devastating consequences. My name is Judith Elizabeth Morante. The first time I saw Lee was when I was still an active assassin. But now, I'm helping in a SWAT team raid that Michael and I are involved in. I must thank Captain Lee Bryce for keeping me on the straight and narrow after Michael went missing. Thankfully, Bryce had insisted that I train with his swat team in one of the FBI's HRT elite tactical units. This significantly improved my ...

As of late, Samantha Moon has been feeling the evil influence of the demoness living inside her more and more. The idea of succumbing to the spirit's depravities isn’t something she’s ready to grapple with—and it isn’t something she can allow either. On a late night flight over Monterey, CA, Sam is attacked by an unidentified ball of light and disappears; indeed, her friends, Allison, Veronica, and Julia Agrippina are unable to locate her. It isn’t until a normally silent person begins talking that all three begin to get very worried. Empress Dowager Tzu-Hsi has encountered the ...