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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 ...

A flawed heist of forty gold bars from a security van late at night. One of the perpetrators is killed by his brother as they argue over what they have stolen. Eighteen years later, the murderer, released after serving his sentence for his brother's murder, waits in a church for a man purporting to be the brother he killed. The threads stretch back a long way, and now more people are dying in the search for the missing gold bars.

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Burial Mound (Book 7) - A Bronze-Age burial mound close to Stonehenge, an archaeological excavation. The anticipation from those conducting the dig: an ancient body, historical artefacts, a deeper understanding of those who lived when Stonehenge was in its infancy. They did not expect to find a recent burial there as well. It’s another case for Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Yarwood. The more recent of the two bodies, the brother of the mayor of Salisbury. The person responsible keeps ...

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....

She was sent to sign off on an accident. She uncovered an outback noir murder worth $200,000. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes — a female detective with a reputation for cutting through lies — arrives in Andamooka expecting routine paperwork. A miner has died in a tunnel collapse, common in opal country where fortunes are clawed from unstable shafts beneath the South Australian desert. But Barry Mitchell’s death wasn’t bad luck. Someone set charges to bury him. And Kate knows why: an opal strike worth $200,000, hidden for twenty‑five years. Mitchell’s former partner and ex‑...

Six gripping Australian outback mysteries. One determined detective. Justice that comes at a cost. Detective Maya Thorne has built her career solving crimes in the harsh Australian outback, where secrets run as deep as the ancient aquifers and justice doesn't always mean resolution. This complete collection brings together six standalone mysteries that can be read in any order—each a self-contained investigation, each revealing new depths of rural noir. HARDENED EVIDENCE (Book 13) Drought-hardened clay preserves a decades-old crime scene, forcing Maya to uncover truths that powerful ...

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 ...

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, ...

Three cases. Three corners of Sydney. One detective who won't let go. Sergeant Natalie Campbell is new to Homicide, paired with veteran Detective Gary Haddock — a man who's seen everything and trusts nothing. Together they work the cases Sydney would rather forget: the bodies that surface where wealth meets water, where the city's bright facade hides something rotten underneath. Dark Streets (Book 1) A homeless man dies on Darlinghurst Road — no surprise, until the autopsy says murder. Then a socialite is found with her throat cut in the exclusive Point Piper. Then another body. And ...

Two boys exploring an abandoned house find a body. It's been there for six years. Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook faces the questions immediately: Why was Marcus Matthews in that room? And why did he share a bottle of wine with his killer? Matthews hadn't amounted to much in life—except he was the son-in-law of Hamish McIntyre, one of London's most feared gangsters. McIntyre valued family above everything, especially his daughter Samantha, though he never cared for her husband Marcus. When Marcus disappeared six years ago, everyone assumed he'd run. Now they know he was murdered—...

A decade of drought reveals what water once hid. A family's darkest secret surfaces with the bones. When the eastern dam on Kanyaka Station dries completely after ten years of unprecedented drought, station hand Jack Morrison discovers human remains in the mud. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes is called to investigate what appears to be a decades-old murder in one of South Australia's most remote regions. The skeleton belongs to Tom Brennan, the youngest son of the powerful Brennan pastoral dynasty, who disappeared without a trace in March 1998. His family reported him missing, his car was ...

A corpse in the fireplace of an old house. It's been there for thirty years, but who is it? The main suspects are all old and dying, or already dead. There's a motive, but what is it? Isaac Cook and his team have their work cut out trying to put the pieces together. Those who know are not talking out of an old-fashioned belief that a family's dirty laundry is not to be aired in public, and certainly not to a policeman—even if that means the murderer is never brought to justice!

On the bed, the naked bodies of a man and a woman. "Bullet in the head's not the way to go," Larry Hill, Isaac Cook's detective inspector, said. "Do you recognize him?" Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook said. "James Holden, from what I can see." "Rent by the hour?" "Not according to her handbag. There's a business card. She worked for the man." "You know this will be all over the media within the hour," Isaac said. "James Holden, a proponent of the sanctity of the marital bed, man and wife. It's bound to be."

A dismembered corpse floats in a canal in London. Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it's there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more? Whatever the reason, it's clearly a warning, and Isaac and his team are sure it's not the last body that they'll have to deal with.

An Old Fort in Sydney Harbour – The body of a woman missing for seventeen years. It’s murder, but after so long, can it be solved? Sergeant Natalie Campbell and Inspector Haddock are resolute that it can. But then, there’s the complication of the murdered woman’s father, the bombastic, bullying Bernie Cornell. One of Australia’s richest men, but he’s closing in on death due to old age and ill health. There’s no shortage of intrigue, no shortage of potential murderers. Another gripping thriller, Natalie Campbell and Inspector Haddock at their very best.

The plane crashed forty years ago. The body inside died yesterday. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes — a female detective with a reputation for unearthing the truth — is called to a remote crash site near Coober Pedy. She expects wreckage and old bones. What she finds is a fresh corpse — a man in a 1980s RAAF flight suit, carrying ID for a pilot declared dead in 1984. The plane’s been buried in red dust for decades. The victim was alive until now. Someone kept him that way. As Kate digs into military records and classified files, she uncovers buried secrets tied to a Cold War programme ...

What begins as a staged suicide quickly reveals itself as calculated murder, exposing the desperate measures Warragulla's founding families will take to maintain their authority. When Maya discovers Marshall was killed immediately after losing his council seat to newcomer James Wilson, she uncovers a conspiracy rooted in historical land fraud and manipulated boundaries dating back to the devastating 1950s drought. As Maya navigates the community's complex loyalties, she finds that Marshall had discovered ledgers documenting how Warragulla's cornerstone families consolidated their control ...

The death of Old Joe, a homeless man on Darlinghurst Road, seemed inevitable—until the autopsy revealed it was murder. Darlinghurst Road, once the beating heart of Sydney's red-light district, is where the past lingers in the shadows. However, the city's Eastern Suburbs are not known for bloodshed. When a second victim, an affluent woman from exclusive Point Piper, is found with her throat cut, the divide between Sydney's elite and its outcasts grows more sinister. Detective Gary Haddock has seen it all in Homicide, but even he is baffled by the lack of connection between the murders. ...

A Bronze-Age burial mound close to Stonehenge, an archaeological excavation. What they were looking for was an ancient body, historical artifacts. When they found a modern-day body, it was then that the police became interested. It's another case for Detective Inspector Tremayne and Sergeant Yarwood. The more recent of the two bodies, the brother of the mayor of Salisbury. The person responsible keeps leading back to the brother, the upright and serious-minded Clive Grantley. Tremayne's sure that it's him, but Clare Yarwood's not so sure. But is her belief based on evidence or personal hope?