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One murderer, two bodies, two locations, and the murders have been committed within an hour of the other. There's a connection, but what is it? They're separated by a couple of miles, and neither woman has anything in common with the other. Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Police Station are baffled as to why. One of the women is young and wealthy, the daughter of a famous man; the other is poor and hardworking and unknown.

Wool is currency. Silence is tradition. And a man lies dead with his own blades in his chest. In a Warragulla shearing shed, a body is found splayed across the board — a wool classer who knew too much about how fleeces get graded and whose pockets they fill. Detective Maya Thorne arrives expecting a rural homicide. What she finds is an industry rotten to the core. Fraudulent classifications. Rigged auctions. Land siphoned from desperate farmers into the hands of two people who've controlled the district's wool trade for decades: Sarah Kingsley, a landowner with a legacy to protect, and ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer When volunteer firefighter Nathan Caldwell's body is discovered in an area that should have been cleared before a controlled burn, Detective Jodi Brennan's routine observation transforms into murder investigation. Nathan was alive when the fire reached him. Desperately trying to escape. And evidence shows he was deliberately left to burn. The investigation leads to respected brigade member Gavin Pierce, whose specialized fire training and quiet competence provided the perfect cover for murder. Gavin's expertise in fire behavior ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 secluded valley of Hermit's Hollow, where property boundaries are measured to the centimetre and neighbours watch each other's every move, the disappearance of Malcolm Tierney breaks the community's fragile equilibrium. When Constable Jodi receives the call—from a community that never invites outsiders in—she knows something disturbing has occurred. Malcolm, a meticulous man who documented his neighbours' every transgression, has vanished without feeding his only companion: his dog. As Jodi and her partner Fletch investigate, they discover Malcolm's house filled with journals ...

In the scorched heart of Alice Springs, where unrelenting heat bakes the empty Todd River to dust, Detective Senior Constable Sarah Reeves is called to investigate a death at the town's most bizarre sporting event—the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, a boat race without water. What begins as an apparent tragic accident during the quirky desert festival soon reveals something far darker lurking beneath the surface of this isolated community. When the victim is identified as mining CEO Richard Hargrove, and evidence suggests his "accident" was meticulously staged, Sarah must navigate both the ...

Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Kyle Mills, and Tom Clancy The Ridge Line Trust was never just about trafficking. It was always about control. FBI profiler Alex Harlan joins a specialized task force hunting the Trust's governing Council—seven members controlling a global criminal empire. Their endgame: the Ascension Protocol, a three-part strategy to dominate the world's financial systems through regulatory capture, hidden banking networks, and quantum encryption technology. Target one: Philippe Rousseau, European banking specialist operating from Paris. Target two: Westfield, technology ...

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 ...

He poured their drinks. He heard their secrets. He wrote them all down. Albert Whitcombe had run the Warragulla pub for thirty years. He knew which marriages were failing, which deals were dirty, and which families had blood on their hands. He was weeks away from publishing a memoir that would expose it all. Then someone poisoned him. Detective Maya Thorne finds a manuscript with chapters missing and a town full of people with reason to want Albert silent. But one secret stands out — a hit-and-run fifteen years ago that killed a teenage boy. The driver was never found. Albert knew who it ...

Three women dead. One pattern emerging. Time is running out. FBI profiler Reid Harper arrives in Prague haunted by his Amsterdam failure—six women murdered, only one saved. The guilt nearly destroyed him. But when Czech police identify a serial killer targeting brunettes in their twenties, Reid can't refuse the call. The pattern is unmistakable. Tomáš Král, a charismatic tour guide, selects his victims with terrifying precision. Three women are already dead. Victim four has been chosen. Prague's narrow medieval streets become a hunting ground as Reid races to identify the next target ...

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 ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer When a savage winter storm batters the South Australian coast, Detective Jodi Brennan expects the usual aftermath—damaged boats, blocked roads, power outages. What she doesn't expect is for the tempest to expose human remains embedded in Wirramurra Bay's protective breakwater. Forensic examination reveals the victim as Melissa Hartley, a young woman who disappeared in 1987. What was dismissed as a missing person case becomes murder—and the investigation threatens to destroy Jodi's life in the coastal community she's come to ...

The town needed a doctor. They got one who killed patients. They protected him anyway. When Dr Henry Lawson is found murdered, Warragulla loses the only physician within a two-hour drive. Detective Maya Thorne is supposed to find his killer. Instead, she finds a town that's been burying secrets along with bodies. Lawson was an addict. His hands shook. His judgment failed. Patients died — deaths ruled natural, signed off by a doctor too impaired to know the difference. And the town's leadership knew. They protected him because the alternative was no doctor at all. Now, Councillor James ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer SIX BOOKS. ONE DETECTIVE. A COASTAL TOWN THAT WILL TEST EVERYTHING SHE BELIEVES ABOUT JUSTICE. Detective Jodi Brennan thought her transfer to Wirramurra Bay was punishment. After exposing corruption in Adelaide, she's been exiled to a windswept coastal town where limestone cliffs meet the Southern Ocean and secrets run deeper than the ancient aquifers beneath. She discovered it was destiny. POISONED GROUND Environmental conspiracy and corporate corruption threaten vulnerable farming families. When veterinarian Dr. Sarah ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher When journalist Ellie Kaplan inherits a cottage in Khancoban from a great-uncle she never knew existed, her father's immediate demand to sell it sight unseen triggers her investigative instincts. What is he so desperate to hide? Inside the cottage beneath the celebrated Snowy Mountains Scheme, Ellie discovers decades of hidden documentation: journals, photographs, and scientific samples. Her great-uncle Nikolai Popov spent his life gathering evidence of a deadly secret—the deliberate exposure of migrant workers to uranium ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer Detective Jodi Brennan's transfer to the isolated coastal town of Wirramurra Bay was meant to be punishment. After exposing corruption in Adelaide, she's been exiled to a place where limestone cliffs meet the Southern Ocean and everyone knows everyone's business. When veterinarian Dr. Sarah Kellerman is found dead in what appears to be suicide, Jodi's instincts tell her otherwise. Sarah had been investigating livestock poisoning across the region—and her notes reveal a pattern of deliberate environmental contamination ...