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In the scorching heat of Alice Springs, where temperatures regularly exceed 40°C, Detective Senior Constable Sarah Reeves is called to investigate when gallery owner Maxwell Reid is found dead among his prized Aboriginal artworks. What begins as an apparent poisoning soon reveals a sophisticated art forgery operation exploiting indigenous artists and their cultural heritage. When evidence points to multiple suspects—from rival gallery owners to exploited Aboriginal artists with legitimate grievances—Sarah must navigate both the brutal summer heat and the closed ranks of a town where ...

A naked man spreadeagled on a bare floor. Pagan symbols. Human sacrifice in suburban London. 'I thought they used virgins,' Sergeant Wendy Gladstone says. She's seen plenty in her career, but this is a first—middle-class affluence meeting ancient ritual murder. 'He might have been,' DI Larry Hill replies flippantly. He's seen worse, but even he's unsettled. When Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook arrives at the suburban house, he takes one look at the body and walks outside. 'It's a murder, that's all we need to know,' he tells his team. But this killing has roots that go deeper than ...

Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Kyle Mills, and Mark Greaney THREE BOOKS. SEVEN COUNCIL MEMBERS. A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY THAT SPANS CONTINENTS. After dismantling the Ridge Line Trust's Appalachian operations, FBI profiler Alex Harlan discovers the truth: the organization he's been hunting is just the operational arm of something far more dangerous. The Trust Council—seven members controlling a global criminal empire—has been operating in the shadows for decades. Their endgame: the Ascension Protocol, a plan to dominate the world's financial systems through technology, corruption, and terror....

Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Michael Crichton A SCIENTIST WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. A WORLD ABOUT TO PAY THE PRICE. STEVE CASE MUST STOP A PANDEMIC BEFORE CIVILIZATION COLLAPSES. Sam Haberman has created the ultimate bioweapon—a genetically engineered virus designed to redress what he sees as injustice in Palestine. But his plan goes catastrophically wrong. The virus doesn't discriminate by religion, politics, or ethnicity. It kills everyone. The field trial in Afghanistan succeeds beyond his darkest imagination. The virus spreads to the West Bank, then Tel Aviv, then Gaza....

Two young lovers take a shortcut through a cemetery. They witness a murder. No struggle. Just a knife to the heart—all the hallmarks of an assassination. But who is the woman standing beside the grave at night, and why was she killed? Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook and his team face a case that appears straightforward until other deaths follow—seemingly unconnected, but tied to the family of one of the young witnesses. What started as a chance encounter in a graveyard becomes something far more sinister. The victim wasn't a random target. The location wasn't coincidental. And the ...

Reverend Charles Hepworth walks into the police station and places a blood-soaked knife on Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook's desk. "I killed the man," he says calmly. The vicar is a good Samaritan, friend to the downtrodden, almost a saint to those who know him. The dead man, Andreas Maybury, was not a man to mourn—but why would a self-professed pacifist commit such a brutal murder? Cook knows something doesn't add up. The confession is too neat, too willing. A man of God doesn't just suddenly kill someone, especially not with a knife. What drove a peaceful man to violence? Before ...

en people dead in a terrorist attack near Downing Street. Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook believes Chief Superintendent Caddick is involved. Cook always thought Caddick was an incompetent fool—but a criminal? Someone who'd organize ten deaths to save Commissioner Davies from censure and dismissal? Has Ibrahim Ali's claim to a lordship been his reward for working with Caddick? Cook senses a rat, but those he looks to for support aren't responding. Then more people die, murdered in their homes. A dead actress from a soap opera might be the key. Cook believes she is, but the Secret ...

No one challenged Joe Foster in life—not if they valued theirs. Now the gangster is dead, and his empire is up for grabs. A power vacuum opens across London. The Foster family fights for control while rival gangs move to poach the lucrative drug trade and carve up the criminal empire Joe built over decades. Terry Foster, the eldest son who should take control, lacks his father's temperament and wisdom. His solution is slash-and-burn—and it's not going to work. People are going to get hurt. Many are going to die. Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook faces a war on London's streets that ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher In the shadow of Queensland's Glasshouse Mountains, Detective Jack Mercer discovers a body hidden for seven years. The victim: Dr. Marcus Webb, a disgraced astronomer who disappeared after making claims about classified satellite activity above Australian territory. Webb's death was ruled a hiking accident. But Mercer finds evidence the body was moved—and someone has been maintaining the cover-up for nearly a decade. When investigative journalist Sarah Chen dies in a car crash hours before meeting Mercer with "proof of ...

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Death at Coombe Farm (Book 4) - An idyllic setting. A violent death! If it hadn’t been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn’t a pleasant sight. Death by a Dead Man’s Hand (Book 5) - Dead Men don't commit ...

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Death Unholy (Book 1) - All that remained were the man’s two legs and a chair full of greasy and fetid ash. Little did DI Keith Tremayne know that it was the beginning of a trip into the murky world of paganism and its ancient rituals. And it was going to get very dangerous ‘Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?’ Detective Inspector Tremayne asked. ‘I haven’t,’ Tremayne replied which did not surprise his young sergeant. In the months they had been together, she had come to ...

Perfect for fans of CJ Box, Brad Thor, and Kyle Mills THREE BOOKS. ONE CONSPIRACY. THIRTY YEARS OF SECRETS. FBI profiler Alex Harlan returns to his Appalachian hometown after a case goes catastrophically wrong, planning to care for his ailing father and escape his guilt. But when a mutilated body appears in the mountains—bearing the same signature as his mother's death thirty years ago—Alex is pulled into an investigation that will expose a conspiracy reaching far beyond Coventry Ridge. BOOK 1: RIDGE LINE Alex discovers the Ridge Line Trust, a ruthless trafficking organization operating...

Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Kyle Mills, and Tom Clancy It started in the Appalachian Mountains thirty years ago. It ends there now. FBI profiler Alex Harlan arrives in Seattle hunting Westfield, a Trust Council member whose quantum computing facility is days from implementing the Ascension Protocol—total control of global financial systems. But the investigation uncovers something Alex never expected: connections to his mother's murder three decades ago. Caroline Harlan's research partner, William Hayes, didn't just steal her environmental methodology—he used it to build the Trust's ...

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, and Elly Griffiths A body buried to look like an ancient grave. A forged academic identity. A heritage fraud ring targeting the elderly across northern England. When retired Cambridge archaeologist Dr. Patricia Henley discovers a disturbed burial site near Grasmere, her expert eye immediately recognizes the deception. This is no Iron Age burial—it's a modern murder disguised to delay discovery. DI Tobias Stone identifies the victim as Margaret Ashworth, a respected manuscript authentication expert who lived quietly in nearby Rose Cottage. ...

The Islamic State is waging war in England, and they're winning. Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook, now a senior member of London's Counter Terrorism Command at Scotland Yard, faces his greatest challenge. He must find the perpetrators—but he's also being forced to commit actions contrary to his mandate as a police officer. The Prime Minister is a pacifist, unwilling to take the hard measures needed. His Deputy, Anne Argento, believes she must take his job if the country is to fight back effectively. Vane and Martin have provided a solution—but it requires Cook and Argento to cross ...

In the remote cattle country of Western Australia's Kimberley, where seasonal flooding transforms the landscape into a vast inland sea, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is summoned when rising waters uncover human remains near Warrigal Creek Station. What begins as the discovery of decades-old bones evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between historical water rights manipulation and powerful interests still operating today. When a station hand researching the same water dispute goes missing in suspiciously similar circumstances, Odie must navigate ...

In the unforgiving heat of Central Australia, where the red earth harbours ancient secrets, Detective Sarah Reeves is called to investigate when the body of Ruby Tilmouth is found wrapped in a canvas swag and bound with wire on a remote access track. What begins as a murder investigation quickly becomes something more complex when a faded photograph found with the body connects Ruby's death to the twenty-year-old disappearance of Aboriginal teenager Jessie Coolwell. As Sarah digs deeper, she discovers Ruby was investigating Jessie's cold case, following leads that powerful local figures had...

Three women vanished. Eight weeks missing. No ransom. No bodies. FBI profiler Reid Harper takes on his first assignment as International Liaison in Berlin—three German women disappeared over two months, all matching a chilling profile. Eva Müller, Sophie Klein, Hannah Schmidt. Abducted from public places. No witnesses. No evidence. The German Federal Criminal Police believe they're facing an organized predator who's holding his victims alive in a secondary location. But time is running out. Every day that passes makes survival less likely. Reid's profile suggests meticulous planning, ...

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, and Elly Griffiths A body preserved in a burning barn using Iron Age bog burial techniques. A second victim smoke-cured inside a hollow oak. And a killer recreating a controversial art exhibition from twenty years ago—one victim at a time. When DI Tobias Stone is called to a barn fire near Coniston Water, he discovers something the flames couldn't destroy: the preserved body of environmental activist Miles Cartwright, with a copper-bound shepherd's crook placed beside him. The preservation method—ancient bog burial—matches one element ...

Perfect for fans of CJ Box, Brad Thor, and Kyle Mills The Ridge Line Trust isn't finished. After exposing the trafficking network in his hometown, FBI profiler Alex Harlan joins a federal task force targeting the organization's regional operations—but the Trust has survived for decades by staying one step ahead of law enforcement. When intelligence identifies three facilities holding victims across the Appalachian corridor, Alex and Sheriff Maggie Blackburn coordinate simultaneous raids with federal agents. But as teams move in, the Trust begins systematically destroying evidence and ...