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From award-winning author Peter Godwin, an “eloquent” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life. Peter Godwin’s mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now...

When a stranger breaks into Kate’s mother’s studio and is killed in self defense, Kate takes the investigation into her own hands. The attack feels personal, especially when her mother is clearly hiding something. Then Kate discovers a secret cell phone hidden in the studio with only one number in the call log. Enlisting her sister’s help to track the number, Kate embarks on a dangerous journey through her mother’s secret past, where she can no longer trust anything she knows about the woman who raised her.

Detective Veranda Cruz’s single-minded mission to destroy the Villalobos crime family has cost her more than she ever would have imagined, both professionally and personally. And put her squarely in their sights. A brutal enforcer has agreed to turn state’s evidence, offering vital information that will end the Villalobos dynasty’s thirty-year reign of terror. But when an extradition operation crashes and burns, a new series of murders terrorizes the city.

Dominic was not where he wanted to be in life... Struggling to be a good father and a man his children could look up to some day, he works hard to turn things around! But he fails miserably. He gets sent to prison. And there he meets Harmonie, the woman of his dreams! But Harmonie has a secret... A devastating reality that she lived with from birth. Something about herself that if revealed, could destroy him... them... her! A secret that eventually shatters his world until her doctors reveal the exlplosive truth to the shock of everyone! Read along in this passionate, deep and romantically ...

Sheriff Joanna Brady seeks an elusive and chillingly brutal killer whose crimes run deep into the past in the next New York Times bestseller from the author of Partner in...

In the chilling finale Exit Wounds, the manipulator is no longer orchestrating the world around him—he’s walking through its ruins. Haunted by the wreckage of lives shaped and shattered by his influence, he must now confront the ultimate consequence of psychological control: irrelevance. The episode traces the slow emotional disintegration of a boy who once mastered cognitive psychology, nlp techniques, and social manipulation, only to discover that his blueprint has outlived him. Whispers of offshore accounts, archived conversations, and an emerging generation mimicking his tactics reveal...

In Exit Wounds, Peter Godwin considers the life of migrants, exiles and refugees, and grieves the many losses that make life both magnificent and unbearable. With generations of history behind him, he brings us into the spaces which make us question, suffer and celebrate the lives we have among family and friends, and the healing of our own scars.

When the death of an old friend calls him back to Northern Ireland, Connor Fraser sees it as a way to distract himself from his growing troubles at home in Stirling. He's estranged from his partner, Jen, and can't seem to find a way to bridge the growing gap between them. Meanwhile, his beloved grandmother's health is deteriorating, while all Connor can do is watch on helplessly.

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

Actions have consequences. For Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg, those consequences involve prison. Specifically, an extraterrestrial prison where he and pretty much everyone he cares about are now trapped. Bereft of weapons, magic, or a good lawyer, Frank plots a breakout, but the indigenous convicts and draconian guardians stand in the way. With time running out on Earth and Scarlett battling to control the mess left behind, Frank must find a way home before he ends up serving a life sentence.

On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat.

When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna Brady vowed she would carry on his good work no matter what the cost. With grit, courage, and dogged determination, she challenged the status quo—and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the...

Detective Zoe Grant is called to a body dump—and immediately knows something is wrong when her Captain is already on scene. He never comes out to crime scenes. When the Medical Examiner pulls back the sheet, the sight of the body drags Zoe eleven years into the past, back to a case that altered the course of her life and one she prayed would stay buried. The victim, Chris Tafford, appears to have died from a gunshot wound—at least at first glance. But the truth is far more disturbing. There is no entry wound. Only an exit wound torn through his back, as if something exploded outward ...

In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers.

Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai.... For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down.... 

A book of poetry about the agonies of love and the joy of break ups.

A cop lies dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun—a local lawman who may well have become the next sheriff of Cochise County. The police brass claim that Andy Brady was dirty, and that his shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna Brady, his devoted wife and mother of their nine-year-old...

A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of brutally slaying his estranged wife. No one believes the man is innocent, except the new female sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of her jurisdiction—and possibly in over her...

Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings us another mesmerizing thriller featuring Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady as she searches for the brutal killer of a young girl. Brianna ""Bree"" O'Brien never returned from Skeleton Canyon. Someone brutally murdered the pretty, popular...

This is Volume 2 to the best-selling book Police mental barricade, rated top 100 law enforcement books of all time by Goodreads.com. Police Mental Barricade: A Survivor's Guide to Poor Law Enforcement Leadership is a raw and unfiltered look into what is causing the growing epidemic of suicides within the profession. Last year, Blue Help reported 228 (known) suicides within the law enforcement profession. This is compared to the 147 killed in the line of duty. We are losing more officers at their own hands than we are to deaths on the job. Why? Partially, this is from poor leadership within ...